{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2943", "width": "1797", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^CQ,\\n.N^^\\nx^^\\nJ\u00e2\u0080\u0094t\\nx* i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J-..\\n^N^\\nv\\nV~v\\ni-\\nt-C*\\nv\\n-J\\no5 -Cl.\\n.0 C)^\\nV\\n0\\nS^\\n-1-31 \\\\0 c;\\nt\\n0-\\ni r\\n^^m^A\\\\ ^/r^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0:\\n-f\\ns* *^^^0^\\n-TV c^\\nO 0^\\n.^.^:~:4^\\nv..\\no-\\n-^Ir, ..N^\\n:v^", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ":z:.\\na\\\\\\no\\naV-^^..", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\noh^\\nJBergen County\\nNkav Jersev ^fh\\nI r^T^lTSTR ATTi: D\\nJ. M. Van^ VAi^Risr\\nNew Jersey I UBLISHI^G and Engraving Company\\nNew York\\n1", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "S 17.\\nBinvKKs Pkintint. Comi-anv\\nPmi.AIlKI.l HIA\\nly(it)", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nThe History of Ik-rg-yn County is now suliUiitted to tho reader\\nfor his criticism. The book has been written by a number of ])ersons.\\nall of them being old residents of the county and abundantly able to\\nwrite on the subjects assigned them. It is for this reason the imblishers\\nsomewhat confidently send the \\\\-olume forth, defective though it may be\\nin some minor particulars.\\nThe compilation of the worfc covers a period of more than two\\ncenturies. In securing facts recourse has been had to divers authorities,\\nincluding histories and historical collecticms, implying almost an endless\\narray of papers and documents, public, private, social and ecclesiastical.\\nThat so much matter could he gathered from so many original sources\\nand then sifted and assimilated for the production of one volume, with-\\nout incurring a modicum of errors and inaccuracies, would be too much to\\nexpect; but it is believed, nevertheless, the historical value of the work\\nhas not been impaired therebv. Much credit is due to Hon. J. M. Van\\nValen for his editorial review, his revision having been of incalculal)le\\nbenefit.\\nAs to the biographical department, the work has been prepared\\nsomewhat in accordance with the idea entertained by England s greatest\\nof historians, Macaulay, who said the history of a country is best told\\nin the lives of the people. For this reason we have published personal\\nsketches by the hundred, because of their historical worth, making that\\npart of the work as exhaustive as possible.\\nAs to the general history, due credit has been give in most cases tor\\nthe borrowed matter. Particular mention, however, should be made ot\\nthe following authorities: Whitehead s Work on East Jersey, Everts\\nPeck s History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, Rutherford Illus-\\ntrated, Things Old and New. Hackensack Illustrated, The\\nBergen County Democrat s History of Hackensack, C. H. Dunn s\\nPicturesque Ridgewood and other works, among which might be mem-\\ntioned those by Dr. Edward H. Dixon and Dr. Thomas Dunn English,\\non the history of Fort Lee. all of which ha\\\\ e furnished valuable\\nmaterial, and the same, whenever needed, has been uns])aringly utilized.\\nAmong those who have written for the work, and, in several instances,\\nhave done so somewhat extensively, may be eninnerated by the following\\ncontributors and their contributions: Ridgewood, Cornelius Doremus;\\nUpper and Ivower Saddle River Boroughs, John (1. Esler; Union Town-\\nshij), W. H. Castles; Rutherford. Addison Ely and others; Reminiscences\\nof Lodi, Henry Kipp; In Ye Olden Time, and other sketches, J. J.\\nHaring, M. D.; Ridgeticld Park, John E. Hoey; Early Settlement of\\nKinderkamack. and other sketches. Hiram Loxier. Newburgh. N. Y.;\\nHasbrouck Heights. W. S. Laurence; Coloni. il Buildings. Ernst Bil-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 PKEFACE.\\nhuber, Maywood; Revolutionary Reminiscences and other data on Fort\\nLee, James F. Tracey; Org-aniiiation of the City Government of Engle-\\nwood, Robert Jamieson; History of Borough Organizations, George Cook.\\nAllendale; Bernard Koster, Wallingtou, Frederic L. Colver, Tenafly; and\\na number of borough and township clerks, whose valuable contributions\\nof this kind have been graciously given and thankfully received; Church\\nhistory of Hackensack, Rev. H. Vanderwart; Church history of Ruther-\\nford and vicinity. Rev. Edwin A. Bulkley, D. D., and this list should\\ninclude the names of Revs. Allan McNeil, of Ridgefield Park; Rev. C.\\nMondorf, Carlstadt; Rev. Artemas Dean, D. D., Englewood Cliffs; Rev.\\nJoseph Dally, Englewood; Rev. A. Van Neste, of Ridgewood, and J. J.\\nIlaring, M. D., Tenafly, each of whom wrote special articles on church\\nhistory. Due credit is also accorded to Professor R. S. Maugham, of\\nTenafly, for sketches on the various societies and organizations of Tena-\\nfly; to Dr. David St. John, for a well-written pen description of Hacken-\\nsack, including its sanitary history, and tn James E. Church, for the\\nhistory of Hackensack Hospital.\\nIn the illustration of certain chapters of the work, we are in-\\ndebte l to Ernst Bilhuber, of Maywood; Superintendent John Terhune\\nand to Dr. David St. John, both of Hackensack; and to Mr. W. O. Alli-\\nson, of Englewood Cliffs, for cuts of different kinds; and to other parties\\nall over the county, including the secular press, in particular, for the\\nvaluable assistanee rendered in the comjiilation of this work, the kindest\\nthanks are extended by\\nThk Publisheks.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^-J ty C- i*\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab^^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nGenekai, History.\\nChapter I\\nIndian History.\\nChai-tkr II\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0In Ye Olden Time.\\nChai Tek VIII.\\nCivil (Jriranization of the Cininty of Berg-en.\\nChapter IX.\\nCivil List of Berg-en County.\\nChapter X.\\nCity. Viij.ac.e. Township and BouorCH History.\\nChaiTER XV\\n11\\nDiscovery and Occupati(jn of the New Netherlands.\\nChapter III\\nEarly Settlement and Land Patents.\\nChapter IV i\\nLand Patents in Berg^en County.\\nChapter V 24\\nOld Bergen Town and Township.\\nChapter VI\\nThe Old Township of Hackensack.\\nChapter VII\\n32\\n38\\n41\\n48\\nCourts and Court Houses.\\nChapter XI\\nBergen County in Time of War.\\nChapter XII\\nSocieties and Incorporated C ompanies.\\nChapter XIII\\nInternal Improvements.\\nChapter XIV 89\\nSchools.\\n92\\nNew Barbadoes Hackensack.\\nChapter XVI 62\\nSaddle Kivtr Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B.)roMgh of (iarfield.\\nChapter XVII 1?**\\nFranklin Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Oakland. Wyckoff. Wortendyke.\\nChapter XVIII 1*^7\\nHohokus Kamseys, Mahwah.\\nChapter XIX 209\\nOrvil Towii.ship- Hohokus. Waldwick, New Prospect.\\nCaapter XX 219\\nBoroughs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Allendale. Upper and Lower Saddle Kiver.\\nChapter XXI 238\\nRidgewood Borouglis (.f (ilcii Rock and Midland Park.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCllAl TKK XXII J\\nWa^hinirtoii Townsluii- Boroiiy-Iis of Ridsc Park, Muiitvale Wood-\\nclilV, Westwood: the Township of Hill.sdale. Pascack.\\nChai TKk XXIII -^l^*\\nMidlaiui To\\\\vnshii)--Borou -hs of Uelford. Riverside and Maywood:\\nVilhiijes of Oradell, New Milford. Cherry Hill, and Spring Valley.\\nClIAl TKR XXIV\\nLodi Township Boroiig-hs of Lodi. WallinH-fon. Carlstadt. Wood-\\nrid.ye. Hasbrouck Heig-hts, Little Ferry and the Township of\\nliers en.\\nCiiAi TKK XXV -tlJ!\\nUnion Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kingslaiid, Lyndhurst, and the IJorouirh of\\nNorth Arling-ton.\\nCllAl TKK XXVI 42M\\nBorou ,rhs of Rutherford and East Rutherford\\nChapTKk XXVII 49+\\nThe Township of Rid^elield\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -Fort Lee. Ridsrefield Park.\\nCh A I TKK XXVIII .^.^2\\nBorou!;hs of Ridgefield Leoiiai, Fairview, tindercliff. Palisades\\nPark, and Bog-ota.\\nCli A I THK XXIX .=^85\\nEnglewood Township-City if Knglewood and Englewood CliR s.\\nChaptkk XXX 6,?\\nTeaneck Township\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Villa Grange.\\nCm Ai TKK XXXI h,^l\\nPalisades Township Boroughs of TenaHy. Cresskill. DunKint and\\nBergen field.\\nChai TKk XXXII 6S0\\nHarrington Township Northvale. Closter. Ueniarest. and Boroiig-h\\nof Tappan.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "LLUSTRATIONS\\nI ACK\\nAvfis. Dr. M. S 551\\nAlison, Edward M 410\\nAtwood. Georg^e H 12.?\\nAckerman, Abraham H 217\\nAckerman, Peter 255\\nAckerman, Residence of Peter 25?\\nAllison, W. 538\\nAllison, Residence of \\\\V. U. and\\nPalisade Avenue. 638\\nvenue, May wood 322\\nHauer, Jacob 153\\nKechtel, Herman 17\\nRechtel Hotel 177\\nBilhuher, Ernst 330\\nBilhuber, Residence of Ernst 331\\nHog-ert, Andrew D i29\\nHog ert, Residence of Andrew D. fi32\\nBog-ert, Isaac D 29(\\nRobert, John \\\\V 218\\nHeniiett, William \\\\V 648\\nBulkley, Edwin A 451\\nBell, John M 449\\nBanta, William S 118\\nBrinkman, Dr. Max. R 160\\nBridgman, R. M 281\\nBarrett. David L 636\\nRush. David C 193\\nHhike, J. J 456\\nCastles, W. H 226\\nCass, Alexander 618\\nCarrigan, Residence of J. F 284\\nC iok, Georg-e 224\\nChurch, t liion 518\\nCrouter, C. P 268\\nCumming. Thomas H 142\\nCane, F. W ,S81\\nChristie, Cornelius 521\\nChristie, Residence of C-ornelius 525\\nChristie Homestead 523\\nColver, F. E b77\\nChristie, Cornelius [Leonia] 563\\nDemarest, Garret Z 687\\nDemarest, Daniel 1 346\\nDemarest, C. V. B 1^4\\nDemarest, Clayton 144\\nDemarest School 583\\nDupuy, J. J 481\\nDoremus, Cornelius 265\\nDoremus, Residence of Cornelius 266\\nDoGroot. Samuel E... 539\\nDe Rondo, .Vbram 621\\nDarlington School 207\\nEdsall. J. G 556\\nEaston, Edward D 332\\nEaston, ResideiKTe of Edward D 334\\nEsler. John (i 2.%\\nFeitner, John F 3i)9\\nFeitiier, Residence of John F 370\\nGarrison, Aaron G 191\\nGlcncourt 109\\nGramlich, Alfred 4011\\nGramlich, Residence of Alfred 401\\nHariiig, Dr. J. J 674\\nHackensack Hospital 106\\nEast Rutherford .School 475\\nHigh School, Ridgewood 239\\nHales, H. W 279\\nHales, Residence of H. W 271\\nHome, Rethmore 662\\nHudson River and Palisades 637\\nHutton, Isaac E 277\\nHotel. Overpeck 531\\nHose Company, Maywood 326\\nHaa.s, Nelson ISO\\nIvLson. David B 454\\nIviswold 453\\nJaeger, Gustav L 32S\\nJaeger, Residence of Gustav L. 329\\nJacobus, Nicholas 543\\nJohn.son. W. M 121\\nJones, J. Wyman 605\\nKohbertz, Mansion of F 397\\nKohbertz, Residence of F 401\\nKoch. Louis 424\\nLydecker, Garret A 6U9\\nLydecker, Thomas W 613\\nLydecker, Residence of Thos. W bl5\\nLaurence, William S 407\\nEozier, John B 3.vS\\nLozier, Residence of John B 340\\nLozier, John B., Dining Room. 341\\nEozier. John H.. Winter (Juarters 342\\nI,ozier, John B., Stock Barns 343\\nEozier, Hiram 344\\nEa Fetra, Daniel W 2til\\nLa Fetra. Residence of Daniel W 26,!\\nEibrary Hall 6.S6\\nMarsellus, Henry 172", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nILLUSTKATIONS.\\nPAGE\\nMcMaiiLs, William\\n.Moliiiari, Anton 398\\nMolinari, Residence of Anton 402\\nMoeuch, A\\nMittag, Frank O ^03\\nMittag Volger. Offices of 305\\nMovverson, J. E 1^5\\nMercer, George C 384\\nMondorf Rev. C 374\\nMcKenzie, William 477\\nMountain House, Ruins of 590\\nMoore, J. Vreeland 5/1\\nMoore, Stephen H. V -is\\nMoore, Residence of J. V. and\\nS. V. H 567\\nMaywood Avenue 322\\nMay vf cod School House 325\\nMaywood Art Tile Works 324\\nMaywood Hose Company 327\\nOsborne, John H., Residence of.. 234\\nOckf ord, George M 273\\nPhelps, William Walter 641\\nParamus Church 251\\nPalisades and Hudson River,\\nView of h52\\nPost, Peter J 482\\nQuackenbush, John 208\\nRoehrs, Julius 389\\nRoehrs, Residence and Flower\\nHouses of 389\\nResidence, Colonial 327\\nRidgefield School 533\\nRavekes, Albert 527\\nRoraeyn, Rev James Campen. 127\\nRomeyn, Rev. Theodore Bayard 131\\nRomevn, Rev. James 129\\nP.\\\\GE\\nRomeyn, James A 133\\nRutherford School 433\\nRouclere House 282\\nRidgewood High School 239\\nRidgewood Reformed Church 249\\nRichter, Paul 668\\nRichter, Dr. August 372\\nSpringer, Moses E 625\\nSnyder, A. V. D 285\\nSt. John, Dr. David 124\\nShuart, James 204\\nStagg, Peter 135\\nShafer, Luther 447\\nSullivan. A. D 395\\nSt. John, Residence of Dr. D 97\\nTallman, Abram 634\\nTerhune, John 148\\nTracey, James F 512\\nVan Bussura, John 408\\nVan Buskirk, Jacob 336\\nView of Hackensack 96\\nVon Hartz, Carl 458\\nVolger, Theodore G 306\\nVogel, Charles 509\\nVan Dien, John B 259\\nWheeler, George W 146\\nWallington School 386\\nWenger, Chas. L,. A 67I\\nWestervelt, Jasper 645\\nWinton, Henry D 140\\nZabriskie, David D 275\\nZabriskie, Andrew C 158\\nZabriskie, Peter L 279\\nZabriskie, Peter G 348\\nZinimermann, George 367", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "History of Bergen County\\nCHAPTER I\\nINDIAN HISTORY\\n\\\\Vithout the histdry of the Indians who inhabited this section of the\\nState the history of Bergen County would be incomplete. But neither\\nhistory nor tradition can tell from whence these savag-e tribes came, nor\\nhow long- they had dwelt on these shores. A few statements, however,\\nrelative to them may not be without interest.\\nIt does not appear that the Indians inhabiting New Jersey were very\\nnumerous. An old publication, entitled A Description of New Albion\\nand dated A. D. 1648, states that the Indians inhabiting New Jersey were\\ngoverned by about twenty kings, but the insignificance of the power of these\\nkings may be inferred from the fact that only twelve hundred of these\\npeople were under the two Raritan kings on the north side next to the\\nHudson River. Whitehead, in his East Jersey Under the Proprietary\\nCiovernment, says there were not more than two thousand Indians\\nwithin the province while it was under the Dutch. The Indians inhab-\\niting the Lower Hudson and East Jersey country as far south as the\\nKaritan are considered by most writers as belonging to the Delaware or\\nLenni-Lenape nation. Lenni-Lenape in the Indian tongue signifies\\nOriginal People. The tribes who occupied this section of New Jersey\\nwere called Raritans, Hackensacks, Pomptons and Tappeans.\\nThat Wicked Nation, as DeLaet calls the Manhattans, dwelt on\\nthe island of Manhattan. Before the white man took up his residence in\\nthis country the Lenape nation was subjugated by the powerful Iroquois.\\nThe conquered nations, however, were permitted to remain on their\\nformer hunting grounds by the payments of tribute, which as an acknow-\\nledgment of their vassalage was exacted of them annually.\\nDuring the year 1630 the first hostility of the Indians against the\\nDutch was directed against their plantation on the Delaware, which was\\ntotally destroyed and thirty-two men killed. In 1641 an expedition was\\nfitted out against the Indians on the Raritan, they having been accused,\\nthough wnmgfully, of trespassing and committing theft. Various\\ncauses led to the outbreak of UAX One cause was the exacting of a\\ntribute from the Indians by Kieft, the Director-General, in 1639; another\\nwas the killing of a white man by an Indian in 1641 in retaliation for\\nthe r.)l)bery and murder of (me of his tribe many years before.\\nIn 1655 trouble again arose among the Indians during the absence\\nof (xovernor Stuyvesant at which time they sought safety by flight to\\nthe West side of the river and at which time Staten Island was laid\\nwaste and Pav.mia was burned. The Pomptons and Minsies removed", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 HISTORY OK BKKtiEN COX^NTY\\nfrom New Jerse}- about 1730 and in the treat} of 1758 the entire remain-\\ning- claim of the Delawares to lands in New Jerse}-, was relinquished\\nexcept that there was reserved the rig-ht to fish in all the rivers and bays\\nsouth of the Raritan and to hunt in all uninclosed lands A tract of\\nthree thousand acres of land was also purchased at Edge PiHock, in\\nBurling-ton County, New Jersey, and on this the remaining Delawares\\nof New Jersey, about sixty in number, were collected and settled. They\\nremained there until the year 1802 when they removed to New Stock-\\nbridge near Oneida Lake, New York, becoming there the Stockbridge\\ntribe. In 1832 there remained about forty of the Delawares, among whom\\nwas still kept alive the tradition that they were the owners of the hunt-\\ning and fishing privileges of New Jersey. They resolved to lay their\\nclaims before the Legislature of this State and request that a moderate\\nsum of ($2,000) might be paid them for its relinquishment. The person\\nselected to act for them in presenting the matter before the Legislature\\nwas one of their own number whom they called Shawuskukhkung, mean-\\ning Wilted Grass but who was known among the white people as\\nBartholomew S. Calvin. He was born in 1756 and was educated at the\\nexpense of the Scotch Missionary Society. At the breaking out of the\\nRevolution he left his studies to join the patriotic army under Wash-\\nington, serving with credit during that struggle At the time he placed\\nthis matter before the Legislature he was seventy-six years old, and\\nwhen the Legislature granted the request Mr. Calvin addressed to that\\ndistinguished body a letter of thanks which was read before both houses\\nin joint session and was received with repeated rounds of enthusiastic\\napplause", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "History of Bergen County\\nCHAPTER II\\nDISC( )VKRY AND OCCUPATION OF NKW\\nNETHERLANDS\\nThe harbor or hay of New York was discovered b_y Estevan Gomez\\nin 1( 25. Gomez was sent out b\\\\ the Emperor Charles V. of Spain, who\\nhad fitted out the expedition for the purpose of discovering- a shorter\\npassage to the East through the continent of North America. From\\nWinfield s History- we find that all the country extending from New\\nJersey to Rhode Island was named Estevan Gomez at that time. It\\nwas from Gomez the natives obtained the maize, or Spanish wheat.\\nIt is possible that Verrazzano in his voyage from the Cape of the\\nBreti.n Southwest to Florida sailed into the harbor of New York in 1524,\\nas the charter of Henrj- IV of France was granted to De Monts, in 1603\\nby .irtue of that claim. The Charter of Acadia embraced all that por-\\ntion of the country- lying between the fortieth and forty-sixth degrees\\nnorth latitude and consequently included the greater part of New Jersey.\\nThe grant of the French King, however, was ignored by the English,\\nand in 1()07 Henry Hudson was sent out by the East India merchants in\\npursuit of northwest passage to East India, but he was unsuccessful in\\nhis search. The Dutch East India Company with unshaken faith in the\\nbold Englishman as they termed Hudson, put him in command of a\\nyacht or Vlie boat of thirty tons burden called De Halve Mann, Half\\nMoon to make search for that much sought after northwest passage to\\nIndia. Hudson left port on April 1()09 for New Foundland, his boat\\nbeing manned by a crew of twenty, partly English and partly Dutch.\\nBy his agreement with the Company, dated January 8, 1609, he\\nwas to sail about the first of April in search of a passage to the north of\\nNova Zembla, and to continue along that parallel until he was able to\\nsail south to the latitude of sixty degrees, and then hasten back to report\\nto his employers. For this service he was to receive eight hundred guil-\\nders, and, in case he did not come back within a year, they were to give\\nhis wife two hundred guilders more. In case he found the passage, the\\nCompany were to reward him for his dangers, troubles and knowledge,\\nin their discretion.\\nHudson s anxiety to discover his favorite passage led him to dis-\\nregard his orders, and he coasted southward as far as Chesapeake Bay,\\nand, returning, cast anchor inside of Sand} Hook on the 3d of Seji-\\nteinber. The scenery around delighted him, and he pronounced it a\\nvery good land to fall in with, and a pleasant land to see.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ju.-l-.. .loinnal .,1 IIuiKoirs V.ivairc. (History .)f lii-ifiii aii.l I assaic Coumii s.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 HISTOKY OF BEKGEX COUXTV\\nHero Hudson mot the natives for the first time. The journal says.\\nThe people of the country came aboard of us, seeming very glad of our\\ncoming, and brought green tobacco and gave us of it for knives and\\nbeads. Thev go in deer-skins loose, well dressed. They have yellow\\ncopper. Thev desire clothes, and are very civil. On the 6th of Sep-\\ntemljer, John Coleman, an Englishman of the crew, with four men. was\\nsent to sound the river opening to the north, the Narrows. They\\nsailed through and found a very good riding for ships. They found\\nalso a narrow river to the westward between two islands, the Kill\\nVanKull. Passing through these two leagues they came to an open sea,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Newark Bay. The Dutch called it Achter Cull\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that is, the after\\nbay, because it lay behind the Bay of New York. It was called by the\\nEnglish After Coll, and sometimes, corrupting the word, they called it\\nArthur Cull. It is sometimes applied to the territory bordering on the\\nItav. as well as to the bay itself. On their return they were attacked l y\\na hostile party of twenty-six Indians in two canoes Coleman was killed\\nbv an arrow which struck him in the throat, and two more were\\nwounded. It is th mght that these Indians came from Staten Island, as\\nthe Jersey- Indians visited the ship the next da}- and were ignorant of\\nwhat occurred. The next day the body of Coleman was buried on Sandy\\nHook, and the place where it was interred still bears the name of Cole-\\nman s Point.\\nReturning again through the Narrows, Hudson cast anchor on the\\n11th of September in the Harbor of New York, and saw that it was a\\nvery good harbor for all winds.\\nThe report of Hudson s discovery caused a new field of trade to be\\nopened which the East India Company, becoming eager to monopolize,\\nsent out another ship in 1610 for the purpose of trading in furs. Five\\nyears afterwards a company of merchants who had procured from the\\nStates-General of Holland a patent for the exclusive trade on the Hud-\\nson River, had built forts and established trading posts at New Amster-\\ndam (New York), Albany and the mouth of the Rondout Kill. The\\nfort at New York on account of the fierce Manhattans was erected on\\nwhat is now the Battery.\\nMay 11th, 1647 Petrus Stuyvesant succeeded the reckless Kieft as\\nDirector General, under whose ordinances villages and communities on\\nthe west side of the Hudson began to spring into existence.\\nLords and Patrons of New Netherlands now supplied the Schouts\\nand Schepens for Bergen County and until the surrender of the Dutch to\\nthe English in 1664 this change of government was followed bv a grant\\nor charter from Charles II to his brother James, Duke of York, of the\\nterritory from the western side of the Connecticut River to the Eastern\\nside of the Delaware River including New York and New Jersev. In\\nthe same year James, Duke of York by indenture of lease and release,\\ngranted and sold to John, Lord Berkely, Baron of Stratton, and Sir\\n(k orge Carteret, of Saltrum, the territory of Nova Ca?sarea, of New Jer-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF HKK(;i COrXTY 1,1\\nst v. Under their charter from the Duke of York, Berkeley and Carteret\\n])r iccede(l to establish civil g-overnment in New Jersey. For this pur-\\njiosl thev had a constitution drawn up in Eng-land, entitled Tlu t on-\\ncessions and Ag-reement of the Li rds Proprietors of the Province of\\nNew Cttsarea or New Jersey to and with all and every the x\\\\dventin ers.\\nand all such as shall settle or plant there. This instrument was en-\\nL;riisst l iin parchment, and signed by ttu ni on the 10th of February.\\n\\\\hh4. Philip Carteret was appointed (iovermir of the province, but did\\nUcit arrive thither till August, 1665. In the mean time New Jersey was\\nplaced under the jurisdiction of Col. Richanl Nic(dl. (iovernor of New\\nYork. During the interval a legislative council or assembly convened\\nat Flizabethtown on the loth of A])ril, l i(i4. Bergen was represented\\nin this Assembly the first e\\\\er held in the province by Engelbert\\nSteenhuysen and Herman Smeeman. This government was continued\\nover the Province of New Jersey until the estaljlishment of the separate\\nPro])rietary governments after the division into East and West Jersey.\\nOn the 1st of July, 1()7(). jiartition was madeof New Jersey by deed,\\nso that the eastern part, known as East Jersey, was allotted to Sir\\n(Jeorge Carteret. Sir (ieorge, by his last will and testament, dated De-\\ncember S. 1()7S, devised the same to John, Earl of Bath, and others, as\\ntrustees, to sell the same, and ap]iiiinteil IClizabeth Carteret sole execu-\\ntrix and she, with other trustees, by deed nf lease and release, dated 1st\\nand 2d of February, IdSO, s(dd and conx eved all East Jersey to William\\nPenn and eleven others, which twelve persons were known by the name\\nid the Twelve Proprietors of East Jersey. These twelve proprietors,\\nby twelve separate deeds, in 1682, conveyed each one-half of their re-\\nspective interests in East Jersey to James. Earl of Perth, and eleven\\nothers, whereby East Jersey became held by twenty-four General Pro-\\nprietors, each holding in fee one-twenty-fourth part or propriety of the\\nsame. Thus from these proprietors ha\\\\e issued from time to time their\\ndeeds for tlie jmrtions of territnry sold bv them in East Jersey, their\\noffice being at I erth Amboy, where all such conveyances and other\\nrecords have been kept.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "History of Bergen County\\nCHAPTER III\\nEARLY SETTLEMENTS AND LAND PATENTS\\nAert Tunisson an Putten was the first white resident in Hoboken.\\nWinfielrt sa3-s, that On Kebruarj- 15, l(i40, Van Putten leased a farm\\nat this place on which was a farm-house and a brew-hoitse, but no set-\\ntlement as yet had been made north of Hoboken. Jan Evertse Bout\\nhad settled at Cummunipaw in 1( .^4, which was one of the first settle-\\nments on the west banks of the Hudson. The first ferrj across the\\nHudson connecting- the Jersey shore with Manhattan Island was estab-\\nlished at this point in 1661 and William Jansen was the legalized ferry-\\nman. In 1()S(), Cummunipaw was a village of twenty families.\\nThe peninsular of Paulus Hook on which Jersey City is now situ-\\nated belonged from a very remote period to the Van Vorst family. Jer-\\ns. y City was a township in Bergen County from 1838 to 1840. On the\\n2Sth of July 1()85, live hundred acres of laud in Monmouth County, N. J.,\\nwas granted to George Scott, by the East Jersey proprietors. Scott\\nwrote a book in which he gives a general view of the plantations and\\nsettlements in East Jersey in part as follows\\nThere are other plantations upon Hackensack River, whicli goes a jrreat way\\nlip the country, almost northwest others, also, on the east side of another creek or\\nriver at Hackensack River.\\nA larg-e neck or tract of land for which one Mrs. Sarah Kirstead. of New\\nYork, had a patent fiven by an old Indian .sachem in recompen.se for interpretinfr\\nthe Indian lanffiiatfe into Dutch, as there was occasion there are some little families\\nthereon.\\nTwo or three miles up. a f, reat plantation settled by Capt. John Berry, whereon\\nhe now lives.\\n.\\\\nother plantation adjoining-, belonging- to his son-in-law, Michael Smith\\nanother to Mr. Baker.- This neck of land is in breath from Capt. Berry s new plant-\\nation on the west side, where he lives, over to his old plantations, to the east at\\nHud.son s River side, about three miles, which distance serves to Constable s Hook,\\nupwards of ten miles.\\nTo go back to the .south part of Bergen Neck, that is opposite to Staten Island,\\nwhere is but a narrow passage of water, which ebbs and flows between the said\\nisland and Bergen Point, called Constable s Hook. There is a considerable plant-\\nation on that side of Constable s Hook, extending inland about a mile over from the\\nbay on the east side of the neck that leads to New York, to that on the west that\\ngoes to Hacken.sack and Snake Hill, the neck running up between both, from the\\ns lUth to the north of Hudson s River, to the utmost e.vtent of their bounds. It was\\nHrst settled by Samuel Edsall in Col. Nichol s time, and bv him sold for ;^t 00.\\nOther small plantations along the Neck, to the east are named.\\nAmong them one\\nbelonging to George Iliupane (Gomouneepan) which is over against New York,\\nwhere there is about forty families, within which, about the middle of the neck,\\nwhich is here about three miles over, stands the town of Bergen, which gives name\\nto that neck. Then, again, northward to the water s side, going up Hudson s River,\\nthere lies out a point of land where is a plantation and a water (mill) belonging to a\\nmerchant in New York.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK liKKCKX CcirxTV ]r\\nSouthward there is a stnall village, of about five of six families, which is cutr.-\\nmoiilv called the Duke s Farm. Further up is a ^ood plantation in a neck of land\\nalmost an island, called Hobuck it did Ijelonif to a Dutch merchant, who formerly\\nin the Indian war had his wife, children, and servants massacred by the Indians,\\nand his house, cattle, and stock destroyed by them. It is now settled aijain, and a\\nmill erected there by one dwelling- at New York.\\nUp northward along- the river side are the lands near to Mr. William Lawrence,\\nwhich is si.x or seven miles further. Opposite thereto there is a plantation of Mr.\\nEd.sall. and above-that Capt. Rienfield s plantation this last is almost opposite the\\nnorthwest of Manhatta s Island.\\nHere are the utmost extent of the northern bounds of East Jersev, as alwavs\\ncontemplated.\\nNear the mouth of the bay, upnn the side of Overpeck s Creek, adjacent to\\nHacken ack River, several of the rich valleys were settled by the Dutcli and near\\nSnake Hill is a fine plantation owned by Pin horne A- Eickbe. for half of which Pin-\\nhorne is said to have paid ^500\\nThe plantations on both sides of the neck to its utmost extent, as alsc. tlio^e at\\nHackensack, are under the jurisdiction of Berg-en Town, sitnate about the middle\\nof the neck.\\nSoon after the settlements above described Ca])tain William Sand-\\nford in 1668 acquired title to lands kno-wn as New Barbodoes Neck com-\\nprisino- 15,30S acres. Sandford was presiding judge of the court at Ber-\\ngen in 1673. In 17(1M, his widow Sarah Sanford conveyed to her friend,\\nKatherine Van Emburgh a portion of this estate between the Hacken-\\nsack and Passaic rivers. In Idd Captain John Berry and his associates\\nacquired title to lands north of the Sandford tract embracing a large ex-\\ntent of country in and about Hackensack. Judge Sandford sold a large\\ntract also, to Nathaniel Kingsland the ancestor of the Kingsland family\\nof New Barbodoes. William Kingsland son of Nathaniel, was the first\\nto settle on it about 16 )(i. John Richards who was connected 1)V mar-\\nriage with the Kingsland r.-unily, owned a large tract of land a part id\\nwhich is now Rutherford, Richards was murdered in the Bergen woods\\nby refugees during the Revolutionary war. The Schuyler Copper Mines\\na part of the Kingsland tracts was purchased by Arent Schuyler about\\nthe year 1700. John, son of Arent Schuyler, 1)y his second wife, built\\nthe old Schuyler mansion which stood on the east bank of tlie Pas-\\nsaic below Belleville. This house was visited and frei|uentlv violated\\nl)y the British during the Revolution.\\nIn 1700 there were some ten families all living in the northwestern\\npart of Bergen County, in the neighborhood of Ponds Church. Arent\\nSchuyler, and Anthony Brojkholst lived here in 1() )7. The tlarretsons,\\nan Alens, who owned six hundred acres on the pond flats) the Berdan\\nl)rothers, John Stek (now Stagg) Van Romaine, who purchased of Wil-\\nlocks an l Johnstone six hundred acres. May 1724, Simon Van Win-\\nkle who is said to have been the owner of the first wagon in the countrv\\nand who came here in 173,3, were among the early settlers. I ^ive hun-\\ndred and fifty acres of land lying at Wikehoff, Saddle River, on wliieli\\nthe church at Wikehoff stands was purchased (d John IJarln tie, IVter\\nFauconicr and Andrew Barbetie, August, 17, 1720, by John and Williinn\\nVan Voor Haze; and for some reason they repurchased this tract Ap.ril 2,\\n1745 of John Hamilton, Andrew Johnstone, and John Burnet. William\\nan oor Haze Van oorhis i was twice married. He died Julv 17,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1(, HISTORY OK BEKOEN COUNTY\\n1744. A tract near Paraimis of tiYe hundred and lifty acres was boujjht\\nAugust 17, 1720, by the Albertises who also leased i f the same live hun-\\ndred and tiftY acres adjoining-, the rent for every one hundred acres be-\\ning- two fat fowls on or before the feast of St. Michael, the Archangel.\\nVan Blarconi, Van Voorhis, Winters, Couriers, Young-s, Storms, Acker-\\nmans, yuackenbushes, Van (^elders, Pulisfelts mow Pulis) and Bogerts\\nwere also among the early families in this part of the county. The fol-\\nlowing sketch on land patents in Bergen County taken from Clayton\\nNelson s Historv is worth v of record.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV\\nLAND PATENTS IN BERGEN COUNTY\\nAmong the original land-owners in the Countv of Bergen we name\\nthe foll .)wing\\nAbraham Isaacsen Plank purchased Paulus Hook of the Dutch West\\nIndia C(mipany Ma^- 1, 1()38. The deed was confirmed by Philip Carte-\\nret May 12, lf)68. Martzn Andriesen obtained a patent for Weehawken\\nfrom William Kieft, Director-General of New Xetherland, May 11, 1()47;\\nconfirmed by Philip Carteret, April 18, 1670. Andriesen was a free-\\nbooter and a desperate character, and was chieilv responsible for the\\nterrible massacre of the Indians in 1643. Being charged with this re-\\nsponsibility by Governor Kieft, he attempted to shoot the Governor, for\\nwhich he was arrested and sent in inms to Holland for trial. He re-\\nturned to New Amsterdam, and purchased Weehawken in 1()47.\\nHe was born in Holland in 1600, and came first to this country in 1()31.\\nNicholas Varlet obtained a patent of Hoboken of Petrus Stuvvesant,\\nFebruary 5, 1()63; C(mfirmed by Philip Carteret, May 12, 1( )S. Mr.\\nVarlet was one of the noted men of his times. His second wife was\\nAnna, sister of Governor Stuyvesant, and widow of Samuel Bavard.\\nIn 1657 he was appointed commissary of imports and exports, and in\\n1()58 became farmer of duties on e.xports and imports to and from New\\nEngland and Virginia; was admitted to the right of Great Burger,\\nand appointed searcher, inspector, and commissary of the West India\\nCompany stores; in 1660 was sent with Brian Newton and ambassador\\nto the Colony of Virginia; in 1664 was appointed one of the commissioners\\nto agree upon terms of capitulation to the English; in 1665 was com-\\nmissioned captain of the militia of Bergen, Communipaw, Ahasimus, and\\nHoboken; same day was made a member of the court at Bergen, and\\nthe vear following a member of Governor Carteret s Council. He died\\nin lfi75.\\nIde Cornelison Van Vorst received of Governor vStuyvesant a grant\\nof land at Ahasimus, April 5, 1664; confirmed, with an additional grant,\\nby Philip Carteret, March 13, 16()8. This property was inherited l)y his\\nonly son Cornelius, and from him descended to Cornelius n{ the seventh\\ngeneration. It is now the finest part of Jersey City.\\nJan Evertse Bout obtaine l of the Governor and Council of New\\nNetherland a tract of land at Communipaw, of which the following is a\\ncopy of the deed:\\nWe, William Kieft, Governor-General and Council muler llie IIif, h and Mighty\\nLords States-(;eneral of the United Netherlands, His Highness of Orange and the\\nHonorable the Directors of the authorized W^est India Conipanj residing in New", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 HISTOKV OF BERCiEN COUXTV\\nNetherlands, make known and declare that on this daj- underwritten, we have g-iven\\nand granted Jan Evertse Bout a piece of land lying: the North River westward\\nfrom Kort Amsterdam, before then pastured and tilled by Jan Evertse, named\\n(iamochepaen and Jan de Lacher s Houck, with the meadows as the same lay with-\\nin the post-and-rail fence, containing eightj -four morg-ans.\\nIn testimony whereof is these by us signed and with ovir Seal confirmed in\\nFort Amsterdam in New Netherlands, the which land Jan Evertse took possession\\nof Anno 1638, and began then to plow and sow it.\\nThis farm was sold to Michael Jansen by Bout for eight thousand\\nHorins, Sei)tember 9, l().Sf), and, Jausen dying, part of it was confirmed\\nto his widow, Fitje Hartman, by Philip Carteret, May 12, 1668.\\nCaspar Steinmets purchased of Philip Carteret, May 12, 1668, two\\ntracts of land and meadow near the town of Bergen. He resided at\\nAhasimiis, and during the Indian troubles of 1655 retired to New Ams-\\nterdam, where he was licensed in 1656 to tap beer and wine for the\\naccommodation of the Burghery and Strangers. In September, 1657,\\nhe was made lieutenant of the Bergen militia, and in 1673 was promoted\\nto captain. He was deputy from Bergen in the Council of New Orange\\n(after the Dutch had retaken New York), 1674, and a representative\\nfrom Bergen in the first and second General Assemblies of New Jersey.\\nHe died in 1702. His descendants at one time were quite numerous, but\\nhave long since died out.\\nAdrian Post obtained a patent of (lovernor Carteret dated May 12,\\n1668. for sundry parcels of land lying in and abotit the Town of Ber-\\ngen. He was the ancestor of the Post family in Bergen County, and\\nhad numerous descendants. The first we hear of him he was agent for\\nthe Baron van derCapelleu, and in charge of his colony on Staten Island\\nwhen the place was destroyed by the Indians in 1665. In October of\\nthat year he was appointed to treat with the Hackensack Indians for the\\nrelease of prisoners. He was ensign of the Bergen militia in 1673, and\\nwas the keeper of the first prison in East Jersey, the house of John\\nBerry in Bergen being used for that purpose. He died February 28, 1677.\\nEnglebert Steinhuysen received a deed of sundry parcels of land\\nin and about the Town of Bergen, from Philip Carteret, Julv 22. l()7(t.\\nThis land comprised seven lots, amounting in all to one hundred and\\nfifty acres.* This patentee was a tailor by trade, and came from Soest.\\nthe second city in Westphalia. He arrived at New Amsterdam in the\\nship Moesman, April 25, 1659. He was licensed by the Director-Gen-\\neral the first schoolmaster in Bergen, October 6, 1662. He was commis-\\nsioned schepen in the Bergen Court, October 13. Ifi62; and with Harman\\nvSmeeman re])resented Bergen in the Landtag in 1664. t\\nHarman Edward purchased of Petriis Stuyvesant sundry parcels\\nof land lying in and about the Town of Bergen, September 14, 1662. He\\nwas one of the commissioners to fortify Bergen in 1663; and with Joost\\nVan der Linde, Hendrick Jans Spier, and Hendrick dc Backer, June 15.\\nWiiilield s Land TUK-s. iU.\\nt Hrodlu ad. i. 729.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Land Titli s. il.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY (IK KKkGEX COTNTY V)\\n1()74, petitioned the g-overnment for land on Staten Island at the mouth\\nof the Kill Van Kull.t\\nBalthazer Bayard obtained, with Nichnjas arlot, a grant of land\\nfrom Philip Carteret, dated August Id, 1()71, lying in and about the Town\\nof Bergen. Bayard was a brewer and a l)rother of Nicholas. He was\\nappointed schepen in Bergen, December 17, l()( ,i, and March 17, l()fi4; repre-\\nsented Bergen in the first and second (ieneral Assembly of New Jersey,\\n1()( .S. Shortly after this he became a resident of New York, where he\\nwas schepen under the Dutch (New Orange) in 1 73, and alderman in\\n1( )1. Of the lands in Bergen the patentees held as joint-tenants. Var-\\nlet died before any division was made, whereupon Bayard took the land\\nbv right of survivorship. S\\nTielman Van Vleck obtained by patent from Philip Carteret, (kited\\nMarch 25, 1( 70, a grant of sundry parcels of land near the Town of\\nBergen. Van Vleck was a lawj-er. He studied under a notary in Ams-\\nterdam, came to this countr}^ in 1658, and was admitted to practice the\\nsame vear.|| He has the honor of having been the founder of Bergen,\\nand was made the first schout and president of the court, September 5,\\nK.I.I.\\nHans Diedrick was granted by Philij) Carteret sundry parcels of\\nland lying in and about the Town of Bergen, May 12, K.f.S. Hans kept\\nthe second hotel in Bergen, licensed February 1.^, 1( 71, and was appointed\\nlieutenant of the Bergen militia, September 4, lr 7. He was one of the\\npatentees of Aquacknonck, May 28, 1679, and died September 30, 1( 8. He\\nprobably left his land to his son Wander, who died intestate, August 13,\\n1732. His children Johannes, Garret, Cornelius, Abraham, Antje, wife\\n(if Johannes Vreeland, and Margaret Van Rypen, widow, sold to their\\nbrother Daniel, February 17, 1764, a lot called Smiths land. seven mor-\\ngans, also a lot of meadow, also tlie Steenhuvseii lot, and lot 114. They\\npartitioned in 1755.\\n(ierrit Gerritse was granted by Philij) Carteret a p.itent for sundry\\nparcels of land lying in and about the Town of Bergen, May 12, H H.\\nThis patentee was the ancestor of the Van Wagenen family. By his\\nwill, dated October 13, 1708, he gave all the land included in this patent,\\nand a preceding patent, to his eldest S(m Johannes. By the will of\\nJohannes, dated July 24, 1752, proved November 8, 1759, he gave all his\\nlands in Bergen to his son Johannes, who was the owner in 17()4.\\nThe Secaucus jiatent was granted by Petrus Stuyvesant to Nicholas\\nVarlet and Nicholas Bayard, December 10, 1663, and confirmed by Philip\\nCarteret, October 30, 1667. In the deed of Carteret it is recited: The\\nsaid plantation or parcel of land is esteemed and valued, according to\\nthe survey and agreement made, to contain both of upland and meadow,\\nthe sum of two thousand acres English measure. It coni])rise(l all tlic\\nland between Penhorn s Creek and the Cromahill on the east and the\\nCol. Hist. N. Y., ii. 731. -Land Till.-s. Ir.\\nS Land Titles, l(l\\nN. v. Col. MSS..viii. 132. Xolf to l.-.uu] Till.-s. 114.\\nLand Titles, 118.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 HISTOKY OF BEKC.EX COUNTY\\nHackensack on the west. The Indians, in lf)74, claimed that their right\\nto this hind was not inchided in their deed to Stuyvesant of 1658, that\\nthe said deed included only Espatingh and its dependencies, and that\\nthey were, therefore, still owners of Secaucus. The Dutch Council at\\nFort William Hendrick settled the controversy with them by making\\nthem a present of an anker of rum. Nicholas Varlet died while the\\ntract was in the possession of the patentees, and his administrators,\\nSamuel Edsall and Peter Stoutenburgh, joined Bayard in selling it to\\nEdward Earle, Jr., of Maryland, April 24, 1676. Earle sold to Judge\\nWilliam Piiihorne, March 26, 1679, for five hundred pounds, one indi-\\nvidual half iif the tract, also one-half of all the stock, Christian and\\nnegro servants. The following schedule of property was annexed to\\nthe deed: One dwelling house, containing two lower rooms and a\\nlean-to lielow stairs, and a loft above five tobacco houses one horse,\\nme marc and two colts, eight oxen, ten cows, one bull, four yearlings,\\nand seven calves; between thirty and forty hogs, four negro men, five\\nChristian servants. This was the Pinhorne plantation referred to by\\nGeorge Scott in his Model of the Government of East Jersey.\\nIn 16f 8 Capt. William Sandford obtained of the Indians a deed for\\nNew Barbadoes Neck, extending northward seven miles and containing\\nfifteen thousand three hundred and eight acres of upland and meadow.\\nA considerable portion of this land Capt. Sandford devised in his will to\\nhis wife Sarah, who on the 7th of December, 1709, gave by deed about\\nfi\\\\-e hundred acres, including one hundred and fifty acres of meadow on\\nthe Passaic, to her dear friend Katherine Van Eml)urg. Apart of\\nSandford s tract, soon after his purchase from the Indians, was bought\\nby Nathaniel Kingsland, who had been an officer in the island of Bar-\\nbadoes, and from this circumstance it received the name of New Bar-\\nbadoes.\\nCapt. William Sandford was presiding judge of the Bergen courts\\nin 1676, and a member of the first Council of East Jersey, under Gover-\\nnor Rudyard, in 1682.\\nIsaac Kingsland, son of Nathaniel, of New Barbadoes, was a mem-\\nber of Governor Neill Campbell s Council in 1( 86.\\nCAFT. .lOHX berry s PATENT.\\nIn 1669, Capt. John Berrj- and associates obtained a grant for lands\\nlying northward of Sandford s, six miles in the country. This grant\\nextended from the Hackensack River to what is now Saddle River, and\\nprobably included the site of the present village of Hackensack. In the\\nsame year a grant was made to Capt. Berry of land lying between Hack-\\nensack River and Overpeck (now English) Creek, bounded on the south\\nby lands of William Pardons, and running north, containing about two\\nthousand acres. This must have inckaded a large portion of what are\\nnow Ridgefield, Englewood, and Palisade townships, that portion of\\nthem, at least lying between the creek and the Hackensack River.\\nLand Titles, 130.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HTSTOKV OK BEKGKN COrxTV 21\\nJohn Berry was a large land-owner. He resided at Berg-en, where\\nlie also owned six meadow-lols and six upland lots, besides two lots in\\nthe town purchased of Philip Carteret. .July 2(i, 16f J. Most of Ihis\\nhind was in the Newkirk familr in 17()4. when the land were surv yed\\nby the comissioners. John Berry was i residing judge of the courts at\\nBergen, and one of the magistrates before whom Thomas Rud^ ard, the\\nDeputy-Governor of East Jersey under Barclay, was sworn into offije, De-\\ncember 20, 1082. His house in Bergen on the 19th of July, 1()73, was made\\nthe prison for ye province until a house cimld be built for that pur-\\npose, and Adrian Post, constable, was made keeper. t\\nThe oldest deed on record in the county clerk s office at Hackensack\\nis one from John Berrv to Zuarian Westervelt. dated Jan. 1.^, l(iS7, con-\\nveying a portion of his estate in the old township of Hackensack.\\nMarch 20, 1687, he conveyed another piece of land to Walling Jacobs.\\nof the county of Essex.\\nDEMAREST PATENT.\\nAnother early patent was one for tliree thousand .acres of land in\\nthe old township of Hackensack, extending along the easterly side of\\nthe river fnmi New Bridge to a point beyond Old Bridge, and easterly\\nas far as the line of the Northern Railroad. This was granted to David\\nDemarias (Desmeretz) and others, by Philip Carteret, June 8, l()77.t\\nThe patentee was a Huguenot, and came from France to this country\\nwith his three sons, Dayid, John, and Samuel, about the year 167( He\\nwas the ancestor of the numerous family of Demarests in this country.\\nIt is said that, as far back as 1820, one interested in the family found\\nby search seven thousand names connected with it, -branches of the\\noriginal stalk.;;\\nAccording to tradition, Mr. Demarias lirst settled at Manhattan\\nIsland, where he purchased the whole of Harlem but he soon after-\\nwards disposed of that property and removed to the Hackensack. where\\nhe made the purchase above mentioned, his design being to establish a\\ncolony of some thirty or forty lamilies. to be transported from Europe.\\nIt was probably in view of this declared purjKJse that the patent was\\ngranted him for it must have been known by the Governor or the land-\\nofRce that the grant was already covered, in large part at least, by the\\nprior patent of two thousand acres given to John Berry. It is stated\\nthat Mr. Demarias and his associates were so harassed l)y the claims ol\\ndifferent persons during half a century that the land was purchased by\\nthem no less than four times. Berry, however, at the request of the\\nCiovernor, waived his claim for a time in view of the prospective settle-\\nment, and, in case of its failure, was promised a like grant in some other\\nlocality. On the 1st of July, 17(\u00c2\u00bb Demarias having failed to fultill his\\nstipulati(m in regard to the settlement. Berry petitioned the Captain-\\n(leueral and Governor-in-Cbiel of the Provinces of New Jersey and New\\nt BoDk 3 \u00c2\u00bbf Deeds, W, Trenu.ii.\\nDifii i n record al Penh Amlx.v.\\n5 Riv. T. U. Ronievirs Historic.il IJiscoui^e.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGEN COUNTY\\nYork, etc., to listen to ;i demonstration of the invalidity of a pretense of\\nJohn Deniarest Company to three thousand acres of land which they\\nreceived from the Indians. 1| The Governor subsequently withdrew the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jrant from the sons of David Demarest, according to Berry s represen-\\ntation, and g-ave them a smaller grant, which included a part of the two\\nthousand acres of Berry.* This latter grant was known as the French\\nPatent, probably because the Demarests came from France.\\nWILLOCKS AND JOUXSTOX s PATENT.\\nCeorge Willocks and Andrew Johnston were the patentees of a large\\ntract of land in what are now Ridgewood and Franklin townships. It\\nextended from the Big Rock at Small Lots now called Glen Rock\\nnorthward to the Ramapo River, about one mile in width, and has been\\nknown as the Wilcox and Johnson Patent, both names, however,\\nbeing erroneously spelled.\\nGeorge Willocks was born in Scotland, and came to this country in\\n1()S4. He is said to have been a brother of Dr. James Willocks, of\\nKennerv, Scotland, from which he inherited a large estate. He was the\\nagent of the East Jersey proprietors for the collecticm of the quit rents,\\nand obtained various grants of land from them. Upon the issuing of\\nthe writ of quo warranto by James II. with the view to vacating the\\nproprietary government of New Jersey and placing the whole North\\nAmerican colonies under one tiovernor-General, in lf 8(), Willocks and\\nLewis Morris took strong ground in favor of the proprietors. Through-\\nout that memorable contest between the proprietors and the king, which\\nwas not finally settled till 1702, when the proprietors surrendered their\\nclaim to the civil jurisdiction of the province to Queen Anne, Willocks\\nand Morris were staunch adherents to the rights of the proprietors. In\\n1() Willocks was their representative in the Assembly, and was dis-\\nmissed from that body by the famous act of the opposition excluding\\nfrom the Assembly any proprietor or representative of one. The\\npeople of Amboy elected Lewis Morris in his stead, and the historians\\ntell us there were serious apprehensions of an insurrection under the\\nleadership of Willocks and Morris. Willocks never settled on his patent\\nin this county he resided chief!} at Perth Amboy, where he died in 1729.\\nAndrew Johnson Jonstone), the other patentee, was born December\\n20, 1694. When a voungmanhe was a merchant in New York. Hesubse-\\nsequently became associated with the proprietors of East Jersey, and was\\nchosen i)resident of the Proprietary Board. He was also a member of\\nthe Provincial Assembly, and for several years Speaker of the House;\\nand was one of the commissioners for runninu: the Lawrence line between\\nLand F;\\nIIXM\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0s, New York.\\nII Purclia-\\nilTS\\nof proprielar.\\ny Ian\\nids al Uiat li\\nme.\\nan.l\\near\\nlier. h;\\nlid I.\\noextin.j-u\\nlisll\\n1 the Illd\\niaii claim\\nIS\\nfor theiiiselvt S\\non\\nthe best term\\ns thi\\n.luUI nia\\nlie.\\nSo\\nmet\\ninies 1\\nhey\\ndid ilin\\nail\\nvane- by\\nbuyiili^\\nf\\ntlie Iiiriians tirt\\nu ai\\nlid then trenin\\n._ 111.\\nfir 1\\n:nriian d.\\ni-eds\\ncoil\\nilini\\nned, ail\\nid s\\n1 mutinies\\nby\\nirettin^r\\ntheir deed\\nIk\\nliiM of Ihc 0\\\\\\nern\\nnient and ext\\nMiL -u\\nishii\\nHIT the I\\nnclia\\nin c:\\nlain\\n1 after\\nwanls. Tho!\\n*es\\nshrewd i\\nn the bus\\ni\\niless could u*u:\\nIlly\\ndo il for a ver\\ny sn\\ni.iH\\nin He, OS\\npeci\\nally\\nif 1\\nnixed\\nivell\\nwith the\\nim\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0vitable\\n-troiiir bei\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r\\ntn- brandy. In\\nn\\nca^f was an Ii\\nidiai\\n1 d.-i\\n.(I held\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0aliil\\n1 un\\nless\\nconliri\\nrued\\nhy the\\nov,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0rnmenl.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK bi:k( ,I :n COT NTY 23\\nEast and West Jersey in 1743. For some time he was treasurer of the\\nCollege of New Jerse}-. He died at Perth Amboy, June 24, 17()2.t\\nThe lands south of this tract on the Passaic, including a portion of\\ntire site of Paterson, were purchased of the Indians in 170 by George\\nRverson and Uric Westervelt. The original deed was in the possession\\nof the late John J. Zabriskie, of Hohokus, and is among the papers left\\nin the hands of his widow, now living in Paterson. In this deed an ex-\\nception is made of Sicomac, which was an Indian burving-ground.\\nt Wliitt head s New Jersey under the Proprietors.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nOLD BERGKN TOWN AND TOWNSHIP.\\nBv an act of the General Assemblj-, in 1662, East Jerse}- was divided\\ninto lour counties, viz: Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth.\\nThe territory between the Hudson and Hackensack rivers extending\\nfrom Constable Hook to the Providence Line constituted the county of\\nBergen, it being a narrow strip of land in no place over five or six miles\\nwide, but from twenty-five to thirty miles in length. The old township\\nof Bergen was constituted in 1658 twenty-four years prior to that time,\\nand it comprised the southern portion of this strip of territory as far up\\nas the present northern boundary of Hudson county. In 1693 an act\\ndefining the boundaries of townships was passed by the General Assembly\\nand from that act we obtain the boundaries of Hackensack Township as\\nfollows That the Township of Hackensack shall include all the land\\nbetween the Hackensack and Hudson rivers that extends from the Cor-\\nporation Town Bounds of Bergen to the Partition of the Province.\\nBy an act passed Jauuar}- 21, 1709, the territory of the county was\\nextended and comprised the Hudson county and part of Passaic. The\\nboundary line was as follows: Beginning at Constable Hook so up\\nalong the bay and Hudson River to the partition point between New\\nJersey and the Province of New York along this line, and the line\\nbetween East and West Jersey to the Pequanock river down the Pequa-\\nnock and Passaic rivers to the Sound and so following the Sound to\\nConstable Hook, the place of beginning. In 1837 thecount}- of Passaic\\nwas set off and in 1840 the county of Hudson was constituted, leaving\\nthe county of Bergen with an area of 230 square miles or 147,622 acres.\\nThe township of Union again became a part of Bergen Count} in 1653.\\nThe township of New Barbadoes in 1693 comprised all the land between\\nthe Hackensack and Passaic rivers from Newark Bay on the Southeast\\nto the present boundary line of Sussex County. This territory, a part\\nof Essex County, was annexed to Bergen County in 1709, out of which\\ncame the townships of Hohokus, Franklin, Washington, Midland, Lodi,\\nUnion, and the present township of New Barbadoes, while Englewo(jd\\nand its neighboring townships on the north and south of it were consti-\\ntuted out of the township of Hackensack in 1871.\\nThe territory now comprising Hudson County, then known as Ber-\\nge;i Town was piurchascd from the Indians by the Director-General and\\nCounsellor of New Netherlands for Michael Pauw, Burgomaster of\\nAmsterdam and Lord of Achticnhoven, near Utrecht, August 10, 18()0.\\nPauw also obtained a deed from the Indians for Staten Island and on\\nthe 22nd of November following, a deed for the western shore of the\\nHudson between Communipaw and Weehawken where Jersey City is now\\nsituated. This purchase on the Jersey shore of the Hudson was namod", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HISTOUY OK BKKCiEN COUNTY 25\\nPavonia, the name being derived from Latanizing- the name of Mr.\\nPauw, the purchaser and was applied to the general colony on the west\\nbank of the Hudson for a number of years. Mr. Pauw by an agreement\\nwas obliged to plant a colony of fifty souls, upwards of fifteen years old\\nwithin the bounds of his purchase within four years from the date of\\nhis contract, but that project evidently failed. In l( 3 3 there was a col-\\nony in Pavonia under the charge of Michael Paulusen or Paulaz, and\\nthe West India Company appears at this time to have had an agent there\\nin the interest of the proprietor or patroon Difficulties arising finally\\nbetween the Patroon and Mr. Pauw and the Directors of the Company,\\nthe latter finally succeeded in purchasing Pavonia for 26,000florins. Part\\nof it Ahasimus) became known as the West India C mpanv s Farm and\\nwas leased by Jan Evertsen Bout.\\nIn 1638 the Indians became troublesome and the county, on this\\naccount, was kept in an unorganized condition for many years resulting\\nfinally in the Ordinance of 1656 creating a fortified town and the pur-\\nchase of Bergen Township from the Indians in 1658. This latter deed\\nconveyed all that part of Old Bergen east of the Hackensack river and\\nNewark Bay now known as Hudson County. The hill on which Bergen\\nwas built is now called Jersey Cit}- Heights. The town was laid out in\\na square, the sides of which were eight hundred feet long. Around this\\nsquare run a street flanked on the exterior by Palisades enclosing the\\nwhole town. The town was divided into four quarters by two streets\\ncrossing each other at right angles. Gates were on the four sides to\\nlead through the Palisades. The village having grown so rapidl}- on\\nthe 5th of September. 1651 an ordinance was passed erecting a Court of\\nJustice at Bergen, by Petrus Stuyvesant on behalf of the High and\\nMighty Lords States General of the United Netherlands, etc., etc. The\\nfirst officers of the court appointed under the Directors of the West India\\nCompany were Tielman Van Vleck, Schout (Sheriff^); Hermanius\\nSmeeman and Casparus Stuymets Schepens, (Magistrates). These\\nofficers were held until the surrender ui New Netherlands to the Crown\\nof Great Britain in 1664 which resulted in the new charter of Bergen on\\nthe 22nd of September 1668 confirmatory of the rights under the Dutch\\nCharter of 1658. Under this charter the Government of the township\\nwas maintained until January 14, 1714 when an act was passed in the\\nreign of Oueen Anne giving the township still more extensive powers,\\nand this Government of the town continued until necessities resulted in\\nthe erection of the territory into a county\\nThe name Bergen was given to the village and subsequently ajjplied\\nto the township and county. Smith, Whitehead and some others think\\nthe name is derived from Bergen in Norway, but Dr. Taylor, Mr. Win-\\ntield and others reasonably conclude it was a Dutch name. In speaking\\nif the origin of this name Mr. Winfield says\\nIJerfjen in Norway received its name from the hills which almost surnjiind it.\\nHerffen op Zoom, eig hteen miles north of Antwerp, stands on a hill surrounded 1)V\\nlow marshj- ground, which, with its fortifications, afforded great security. Thus it", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "2( HISTOKV OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nwill be seen that the two supposed g-odfathers of our Bergen received their name\\nfrom local circumstances. Are not the same circumstances existing here to give\\nthe same name to the new village On two sides of the hill was marsh, and the\\nonlj other place for settlement was along the river. To the eye of the Hollander,\\naccustomed to look upon marshes or lowland redeemed from the see, the ridge grow-\\ning in height as it extended north from the Kill Van Kull, was no mean affair. To\\nhim it was Bergen, the Hill, and, like the places of the same name in Europe, it\\ntook its name from the hill on which it was built. This I believe to be the true\\norigin of the name.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nTHE OLD TOWNSHIP OF HACKEXSACK.\\nIn 1682 Bergen County embraced only the territory between the\\nHackensack and Hudson Rivers, from Constable s Hook up to the prov-\\nince line a narrow strip of land along the west side of the Hudson, at\\nno place over five or six miles wide, and from twentj -five to thirty miles\\nin leng-th. The old township of Bergen, from the date of its charter, in\\n1658, comprised the southern portion of this strip of territory, as far up\\nas the present northern boundary of Hudson County and the settlements\\nabove that, being regarded as outlaying plantations, were attached\\nto Bergen for judicial purposes, and so remained until 1693, when an act\\ndefining the boundaries of townships was passed bv the General Assem-\\nbly. That act recites as follows\\nThat the Township of Hacksack* shall include all the land between Hackin-\\nsack and Hudson s River that extends to the Corporation Town Bounds of Bergen\\nto the Partition line of the Province.\\n*Si) spelled in the act.\\nIt appears from this act that the township of Hackensack was bound-\\ned on the north by the province line of New York, on the east by the\\nHudson River, on the south bj- the corporation line of Bergen, and on\\nthe west by the Hackensack River. It covered nearly the whole table-\\nland of the Palisades Mountains, and the beautiful valley of the Hack-\\nensack on its eastern side from the New York State line to the northern\\nboundary of Hudson County. The scenery of this region, including the\\nPalisades and the views of the Hudson and its valley from their summits,\\nis among the most picturesque and romantic in America. Here the In-\\ndians loved to roam before the advent of the white man, and their bark\\ncanoes glided down the smooth waters of the Hackensack to their summer\\nresort on Staten Island. This was their avenue from Tapaan to the Kill\\nvan Kull. and out among the bays and inlets around New York.\\n(;i .\\\\NTS OF I.ANIJ.\\nAmotig the early purchasers of land from the Indians in this town-\\nship were Casper and Alattvs Jansen. We find the following allusion to\\nthem and their lands in 1684, in the records of the Governor and Council\\nof East Jersey\\nThe petition of Casper Jansen and Alattys Jansen, setting- forth that about\\nseven years since II677) the petitioners obtained by gift from the Indians a parcel of\\nLand lying at Hackinsack, on the North side of the creek, which gift was then also\\nacknowleilged by the said Indians before the late Governor Carteret, who promised\\nthe petitioners a Confirmation of the sanie, only delayed the full grant or the patent\\ntill the adjoining lands should be purchased from the Indians aijd laid out into I^ots,\\nand that since one Jacques Le Kow hath entered upon tile said lands and taken pos-\\nsesion of the same without having any Indian deed of gift. The petitioners jiray-\\ning a warrant to lay out the same directed to the surveyor-General in order for a\\npatent, which being read and the petitioners called in, wlio brought with them ttvo\\nIndians that had formerly given the said land to the petitioners, and the Indians\\nbeing examined concerning the premises, declared that they never made any deed\\nto Jacques Le Row of the said land, but that the same did belong to the petitioners,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nwhereupon it was ordered that both parties attend this board the 27th 9ber next,\\nthat they bring- with them the Indians concerned, and that Jacques Le Row have\\nnotice thereof.\\nFrom the History of Bergen and Passaic Counties.\\nThis extract from the authentic records carries us back to lf 77,\\nwhen lands were purchased from the Indians by Casper and Alattys\\nJansen. They show that the Indians are still residents of the township,\\nand were ordered broug-ht before the Governor and council at Elizabeth-\\ntown. The creek referred to in the Indian g-rant, on the north\\nof which lay the lands in dispute, was probably that of English Neig-h-\\nborhood. One Jacques Le Row was then a settler in that vicinity, for he\\nIS complained of as having taken possession without grant or warrant\\nfrom the Indians.\\nThe name of the township and that of the river which formed its\\nwestern boundary had been derived from the Indians, who had lived\\nalong its banks and had fished in its waters from time immemorial\\nMost of the early purchases of lands from the Indians and grants\\nfrom the g-overnment within the bounds of the township are referred to\\nin another portion of this work, and need not be repeated here. The\\nearly settlers were of the same class as those who colonized the township\\nof Bergen and gradually extended themselves from the Neck northward\\nbetween the two rivers.\\nTR.\\\\DITIONS OF VAN DEK HOKST AND OTHEKS.\\nThere can be little doubt that the lands between the Hudson and\\nthe Hackensack were selected in the early days of New Netherland\\nsettlement as the manors of some wealthy patroon from Holland. Myn-\\ndert Myndertsen Van der Horst, of Utrecht, was one of these, and in\\n1641 he had a plantation, purchased of the Indians, extending from\\nAchter Kull, or Newark Bay, far up the valley of the Hackensack. It\\nis said that he selected for his town site the beautiful situation on the\\nHackensack now known as Little Ferry, and that, in consequence of the\\nintroduction of strong- drink among- the Indians, he and his settlement\\nwere doomed to destruction. The house of Van der Horst was burned\\nonthenightof SeptemberlT, 164.^, andhisplantationmadedesolate. This\\nstory is not wholly traditional there are enoug-h historical facts to war-\\nrant the conclusion that Von der Horst was an actual resident of the\\nvicinity, althoug-h it is difficult to tell precisely where his house was\\nlocated, or what his plans were with reference to the establishment of a\\ntown. On the oldest map of New Netherland, that of Vanderdonck,\\npublished in 1656, we find the colony of Van der Horst laid down. It is\\ncalled the Colonie van der Heer Neder Horst, and is situated on the\\nHackensack, as described above.\\nThe Baron Van der Capellon also essayed to establish a colony in the\\nold township of Hackensack. He had purchased Staten Island of the\\nIndians, and founded a colony there, which was destroyed in 1655. He\\nthen, throug-h his agent, concluded a treaty with the Indians, with\\nsubmission to the courts of justice at Hospating. upon Wearkamius-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY Ol BKKC.KN COUNTY 2\\nConnie, near Hdckensack. This was in 1657. The place Hospatinuf\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Espatin, a hill was on Union Hill, between the Hudson and the\\nHackensack, and on the boundary line between the old townships of\\nHackensack and Bergen. This attempt to establish a settlement and\\ncourts of justice was temporary. If it existed till the conquest of 1( 64,\\nit was probably g-iven up at that time. Traces of the foundations of\\nbuildings were known to exist in that locality not more than half a cen-\\ntury ago.\\nTHK PATENT OK JOHN DEMAKEST,\\nlocated in this township, is thus referred to in the records of the flovernor\\nand Council of East Jersey. May 30, 1684, page 109\\nThe petition of John De Maris for licence to purchase 2 0 acres of land of the\\nIndians at Kinderkamacke, at Hackensacke, ahove the mill, in order to patetitinf;\\nthereof. Ordered that he have licence g^ranted him to purchase, making- use of such\\npersons as the Governor shall appoint for Nicholas De Vow and others, who pre-\\nsented their petitions yesterday.\\nIn the same records, on page 30, it appears that David De Maris\\npresented a petition, and was asked by the council\\nwhat lands he had purchased of the Indians for the supply of his saw-mill,\\nalthough the land is not patented to him and his son. The land purchased is about\\ntwo miles in breadth, and coming to a point, and six miles in length. Agreed that\\nDavid De Maris have patents for the lands which is surveyed to him and his sons at\\ntwo shillings an acre. But that we cannot see reason to grant liberty to cut the\\ntimber from the land he takes not up until further matters appear than what is yet\\nmanifested, and that our purpose is to view the same.\\nIt is of record that Peter Fanconier purchased of William Davis 2424\\nacres of land on the east side of the Hackensack in 1709\\nCIVIL ORG.\\\\NIZ.A.TION OK THE TOWN.SHIP.\\nAfter 1() 3 the township had its local court for the trial of small\\ncauses. We hnd this several times referred to in different records, but\\nin no instance in such a manner as to indicate where in the township the\\ncourt was held. Probably English Neighborhood was the chief place,\\nas that was one of the most important early settlements.\\nThe minutes of the board of justices and freeholders from 1715 i the\\nearliest extant in the clerk s office at Hackensack to May 10, 1769, while\\nthey give the meetings and transactions of the board, do not indicate the\\nrepresentatives from the particular townships. At the meeting. May\\n111, 1769. Martin Rowleson appeared for Hackensack township, and was\\nfreeholder in 1770, 71, 72, 73, 75, and in the May meeting of 1776\\nJacob Demot, 1769, 70, 71, 72. 73, and 75. They were also freeholders\\nin 176S, and Demot in 1767 Jnhn Benson in 1773. 74. 75, 76, and Yost\\nZabriskie in 1774.\\nThere was no meeting of the board from Mav 15. 1776, ti May 13,\\n177S. The last entry in 1776 is, Ordered that this book lie kept in the\\ncharge of W^illiam Serrell, clerk. Serrell had been clerk of the board\\nfrom May 10, 1769. The stormy times of 1776 admonished them of the\\nuncertainty of their next meeting, and so they made this order. When\\nthey met again a new order had superseded the old provincial system,\\nand New Jersey had been nearly two years a State. Hence on the 13th", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "?.0 HISTORY OK BEKGKN COUNTY\\nday lit May, 177S. when they assembled again, the first entry in the\\nhook, in round, bokl letters, is,\\nState ok New Jek.skv.\\nSome of the members of the board just before and during the Revo-\\nlution had suffered loss of property and life in maintaining the cause,\\nwhich in 1778 was still one of doubt and uncertaint3% although the cam-\\npaign in New Jersey had ended in defeat to the British, and the au-\\nthority- of the latter had been superseded by a republican form of gov-\\nernment.\\nFrom 1794 the following were freeholders of the township:\\n1794. 1800-2, John Demott 1794, John Huyler; 1795-96, ISly, John G. Benson;\\n1795, Nicholas Westervelt 1-96-97, Dawes Westervelt 1797-99, 1802-15, John P.\\nDiirie: 1798-99, Isaac Nicoll 1800, Cornelius Banta; 1801, Cornelius Westervelt,\\nJames Westervelt: 1803, Henry Demott; 1804-5, Albert A. Westervelt; 1806-7, Geo.\\nBrinkerhoff; 1808-15. Richard Powels 1813, Isaiah Johnson 1816-18, John Wester-\\nvelt. Jr. Peter C. Westervelt 1817, .S. Brinkerhoff 1819, 1821-24, 1827-28, Peter C.\\nWestervelt; 1819-24. 1827-28, John Westervelt, Jr.; 1820-26, 1829-33, William Elv\\n1820. John Edsall 182.5-2b, Richard Paulison 1829-33, Jacob C. Terhune 1834-3 6.\\nJohn I. Demarest, Jr. 1834-36, 1848-.50, John R. Paulison 1837-39, Peter C. Wester-\\nvelt 18.37-38, Garret Westervelt 1839-41, 1846, Abraham Elv 1840-42, 1849-51, Jacob\\nH. Brinkerhoff 1842-44, Peter R. Bogert 1843-45-John C. Westervelt; 1845-47, Jacob\\nP. Westervelt 1847-48. John W. Westervelt 1851-53, James Elv 1852-54, Thomas\\nW. Demarest 1854-56. John J. Bertholf 1856. John A. V. Terhune; 1857-60, Paul R.\\nPaulison 1857-59. David I. Westervelt; 1860-62, Peter Bogert, Jr. 18bI-63, Samuel\\nDegroot 1863-64, 1866, George Huvler 1864-6f), Albert J. Bogert 1867 68, Garret A.\\nLv decker; 1868-69. Perer P. Westervelt; I869-7O, Jo.seph Stagg 1870, Samuel S.\\nDemarest.\\nThis old township during the Revolution was the theatre of some\\nbattles and of many e.xciting scenes and raids b}- the British and Tory\\nrefugees. At every accessible point along the Hudson from Weehawken\\nto Tappan the British soldiery penetrated to the interior, driving off\\ncattle, seizing and destroying the property of the settlers, burning\\nbuildings, and often slaughtering in cold blood men, women, and de-\\nfenseless citizens, whose only crime was their patriotism and hatred of\\nBritish opprcssi m. In this township stood Fort Lee and the old block-\\nhouse, so famous as the place of refuge for a band of the most unscrup-\\nulous Tories of the Revolution. We will only give one extract here\\nfrom the records of that period. It is c(mtained in a letter dated Clos-\\ntcr. May 10. 1779:\\nThis day about one hundred of the enemy came by the wav of\\nNew Dock, attacked the place, and carried off Cornelius Tallman, Samuel\\nDtmarest, Jacob Cole, and George Buskirk killed Cornelius Demarest\\nwounded Htndrick Demarest, Jeremiah Westervelt, Dow Tallman, etc.\\nThey burnt the houses of Cornelius Demarest, Matthias Bogert, Cornel-\\nius Huyler, Samuel Demaresfs house and barn, John Banta s house and\\nbarn, and Cornelius Bogert s and John Westervelt s barns, Thev at-\\ntempted to burn every building they entered, but the fire was in some\\nplaces extinguished. They destroyed all the furniture, etc., in manv\\nhouses and abused many of the women: In their retreat they were so\\nclosely pursued by the militia and a few Continental troops that thev\\ntook off no cattle. They were of Buskirk s corjjs, some of our Closter", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY or KEKGEN COrNTY 31\\nand old Tappan neig-hbors, joined by a parlv of negroes. I should have\\nmentioned the negroes first, in order to grace the British arms.\\nHendrick and Cornelius and Samuel Deniarest were probably des-\\ncendants of the old proprietor of Hackensack of that name. Their\\nneighbors had turned Tories, and in that awful contest for their fire-\\nsides and their homes, brother may have fought against brother and\\nfather against son.\\nNearly four years before these calamities at Closter, New Jersey\\nhad declared herself independent of the British crown, and nearly three\\nyears before all the American colonies had joined in the same patriotic\\ndeclaration. The burning dwellings and barns and the insults to their\\nW(mien only served to tire the hearts and nerve the arms of the people of\\nHackensack in defending their country.\\nThe town.ihip in 1840 was ten miles long and from three to five\\nmiles wide. It then largely supplied the New York markets with gar-\\nden vegetables. Its annual sales of these products amounted to near\\nS42,000, a large township income at that day, more than doubling that\\nof any other township in the county. Its four bridges crossed the Hack-\\nensack River, viz., at Hackensack Village, New Milford, Old Bridge,\\nand New Bridge. At these places and at Schraalenburgh, Closter, and\\nMount Clinton were a few dwellings, scarcely enough even then to call\\nany of them a hamlet. English Neighborhood, in the southern part of\\nthe township, was thickly settled, and had one Reformed and one Chris-\\ntian Church. The township then c(mtained five stores, nine grist-mills,\\nsix saw-mills, six schools, and two hundred and eighty -one scholars. It\\nhad a population of 2631.\\nBy the census of 1865 the old township of Hackensack had a popu-\\nlation of 7112, and by the census of 1870, which was the last enumer-\\nation before the division and linal cessation of the township, it had a\\npopulation of 8039.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nIN YE OLDEN TIME.\\nA few years ago there appeared in the columns of The Record.\\nTenafly, a series of articles bearing upf)n the former customs and habits\\nof the people of the Old Township of Hackensack, which at the time\\ncreated more than passing interest. The easy fluent style of the writer,\\nJ. J. Haring, M. D., under the pseudonym of the Whittler makes it\\nexceedingly difficult to abridge his articles without impairing his sen-\\ntence structure; yet his treatment of the varit)us subjects which fell\\nunder his notice was so elaborate that of necessity, we are obliged to\\ndiscard much interesting matter simply because it is less historical than\\notherwise. We haye therefore taken wholly such paragraphs from his\\nwritings as bear directly upon our subject, and in so doing haye, we\\nthink, placed upon record much valuable matter which should be pre-\\nseryed. In speaking of the people of colonial and later times who took\\nup their abode on the east side of the county, the writer says, nearly\\nall of them to the manor born had descended from good, honest, in-\\ndustrious Holland and Huguenot stock. Although within sound al-\\nmost of the hum of the great metropolis they had become known only\\nto the tourist and occasional stranger pedestrian, and so had escaped its\\ndistracting, disturbing and disintegrating influences.\\nTheir perserying industry had not only rendered the broad acres of\\nthe valley productive, but had cleared and tilled the slopes well on to\\nthe high plateau west of the Palisades. The immense walls resulting\\nfrom freeing these slopes of stones and which scarce]} suggest a retro-\\nspective thought to the modern dweller, are monuments to their pluck\\nand industry.\\nThe cattle roamed through the farmers broad fields and the silence\\nof nature, through many a quiet afternoon, w^as only broken by the\\ntinkling of the bell attached to the leader of the herd and by the lowing\\nof the kine saluting and answering each other from adjacent farms.\\nOuaint houses and commodious barns dotted the valley from the\\nSloat (Pierraont), to English Neighborhood (Englewood) and beyond.\\nHere and there through the valley still stands one of the old time dwell-\\nings answering to the following description\\nThe main building was constructed of stone, for the most part\\nsmall, irregular, and pointed with white mortar, making the walls pe-\\nculiarly conspicuous.\\nThe roof was broad and angulated about ten feet from the peak.\\nFrom the angle the roof sloped more abruptly till near the eaves where\\nit curved gracefully, extending usually about six feet beyond the wall.\\nThese stone houses had usuall} a broad hall running midway through\\nfrom the front to rear. The inside walls were plastered but the ceilings", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF HKKdKN COVXTY\\nover head were formed by the bare beams often of extravagant dinien-\\nsions and the upper floor board, Ixith unpainted but smoothly plaiud\\nand kept scrupulously clean by the periodic use of soap and brush. JMie\\nouter doors were cut in two laterally and designated as the upper and\\nunder door. In moderate weather the former was nearly always opened\\nduring the day and often during the evening affording fine ventilation,\\nwhile the latter served to exclude curious eyes and prevent the exit of\\nthe baby and the two frecjuent intrusion of the house dog and other do-\\nmestic animals.\\nThe peculiar customs and manners of the toilers of the Northern\\nRailroad Valley a half century ago were largely due to the cmditions\\nfavoring if not compelling the exercise of frugality.\\nThe soil of the Northern Valley and slopes owing to geological\\ncauses and conditions a description of which would, if time permitted,\\nmake an interesting paper of this series, was not noted for its natural\\nfertilitv. Its productiveness was in proportion to the care and labor be-\\nstowed upon it, and its adaptation to certain staple crops needed the\\nfarmer s careful consideration. Rye being grown much more success-\\nfullv than wheat, naturally- became the leading cereal. Ground into\\nflour by the local miller it found its way into the bread tray and by the\\nskillful manipulation of the wife or daughter it furnished bread for the\\nfamily sweet, nutritious and wholesome. This spread with golden\\nbutter and overlaid with wholesome home-jnade cheese was the combi-\\nnation associated with almost every man s meal.\\nCornmeal supplied material for cornbread and mush, the latter\\nusually eaten with milk. A bushel of choice corn was occasionally sent\\nto the miller who, soaking it for a few hours in cold water then passed\\nit coarseh through his burr stones, removing the shell and breaking it\\ninto coarse grains. This called samp cooked as it was by the farm-\\ners wives was equal if not superior to the best modern hominy. Corn\\nand oats were relied upon for the farm stock. Potatoes, vegetables and\\nfruits were of course at hand in their season and preserved with care\\nand judgment for winter use. No canning of fruit was known but the\\nfarmer s wife always provided a good stock of sweetmeats in the form\\nof preserved peaches, quinces, plums, pears and other small fruits. One\\nof these was upon the table at almost every meal. Concerning their use\\nthere was however an unwritten law emphasized b}- an occasional pa-\\nrental hint that they were to be spread thinly over the buttered bread\\nand not eaten by the saucerful with a spoon as the occasional city is-\\nitor did, much to the amazement and consternation of the family.\\nThe apple crop was one of the most important of the farmer s pro-\\nducts. Three or four score dollars found their way into his exchequer\\nfrom the sale of his choice fruit. The dropped apples were gathered\\nfor the pigs, the sweet ones usually given to the colt. Upon almost\\nevery farm there was a frostproof apple cellar built of stone, partially\\nunder ground and thatched with straw. Into these the winter apples", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF BEKfVKN COl NTV\\nwere placed and the door barred not to be opened till earl} spring when\\nthe market price suited the owner, and the apples were then quickly\\nshipped to the New York market. From one to four barrels of u;ood\\ncider were annually made by the average farmer. In large families\\nnearly an entire barrel was utilized in the making of apple butter which,\\nwholesome and satisfactory to the palate was rarely absent from the\\nfarmer s table for months following. The vinegar barrel was always\\nkept well tilled. So fast as used it was replenished from the stock of\\nhard cider. A good share of at least one barrel of the best cider was\\nkept for table use and for evening gatherings. In these olden times a\\nload or two of apples from the larger growers found their way to the\\ndistillery at so much per bushel. Candor compels the admission that\\noccasionallv in preference to hard cash the farmer received in return for\\nhis apples a certain number of gallons of apple whiskev mutually agreed\\nupon. This was alwa^ s convenient for external use and considered by\\nsome of the old timers conducive to the comfort of the inner man.\\nTemperance and total abstinence, to the mind of the latter were not\\nsynonymous terms.\\nEvery large farmer under the good olden calendar from which these\\nchips are whittled produced and packed his own pork and beef. The\\nsurplus buttermilk and the odds and ends from the kitchen were utilized\\nin the pork production, and a horned animal bought at a low price in\\nthe summer or raised perhaps on the farm was turned to pasture and\\ncornfed for a month or two in the autumn. About the last week in No-\\nvember usually on Tuesday from one to four fat dressed porkers were\\nseen hanging in a row in the farmer s back yard. A week or two later\\nthe dressed carcass of beef would be hanging in the farmer s barn.\\nThe clothing of the farmer s family presented questions which\\nnecessarily found their solution along the same practical lines as those\\ngrowing out of the subsistence department. There are in the older\\nranks of the farmers to-day those who to the period of earlv manhood\\nwere clothed almost entirely in home-made fabrics from domestic ma-\\nterial. Their fathers and grandfathers were flax and wool growers and\\npassed their raw material through the various stages and processes till\\nit came from the local looms and shops in substantial fabrics adapted to\\nthe farmers wants, and were made into needed garments chieflv bv the\\nwives and daughters.\\nIn the Dutch homesteads of to-day through the valley there are still\\ntreasures in the shape of home made linen sheetings, wtiolen blankets,\\nc., which are highly prized by the owners as the work of their worth v\\nand industrious grandfathers and grandmothers.\\nThe farmer s wardrobe was not elaborate. All ordinary garments\\nwere made at home in the family, the tailor being only employed by the\\nday occasionally to l;iy out the work. The best suit of the farmer as\\nwell as that of the wife and daughter was expected to last for several\\nj-ears and the expectation was rarely disap]iointed.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BKK(;KN COUNTY\\nA wuolen cloak of r()o(l quality i t those days was placed away each\\nsprinsr and Iiroug-ht out in the fall aud worn for a dozen years affordinir\\nto the wearer the most genuine satisfaction during the entire period.\\nWoolen underg-arments were not considered necessarv as a rule.\\nStockings ^vere knit during the long winter evenings, linen ones for\\nwarm and woolen ones for cold weather.\\nWorking clothes were made in the most sim])le manner, comfort and\\ndural.)ility I)eing the governing considerations.\\nThe furniture in the old homesteads of the valley was simple and\\ninexpensive. A good jiroportion of it was home made including the\\ntables, stands, chairs and cupboards. The last named were for various\\nuses and very capacious. The bureaus in which were kept the linen,\\nwere usually more pretentious. In every family there were one or two\\nlarge chests in which to pack winter clothing. These were made if pos-\\nsible from cedar wood supposed to afford protection against moth and\\ninsects generally.\\nThe long clock found in many homesteads was the one article of\\nextravagance and luxury in which the olden time fathers indulged.\\nAt the period from which these chips are whittled stoves were\\nluiknown, and broad fire places and brick ovens furnished the ways and\\nmeans for warming and cooking.\\nThe capacious chimney, the wide tire places, and the and-irons the\\nback log, the fore stick, and the intervening wood, the last three\\nall ignited, the blazing lire leaping upward changing each moment in\\nshape and form, throwing darker and lighter shadows upon the walls,\\nall made up a picture which the eye tired not in watching, and which\\npossessed an attractive force and mellowing influence which have been\\nsadl} missed since modern ideas and requirements made the scene\\ndescribed only a memory of happy hours long gone never to return.\\nFifty years ago matches had not been invented and the flint :in(l\\nsteel with the accompanying tinder box were upon the mantel ol\\nevery kitchen. The light for this room was furnished for the most ])art\\nby the blazing wood, and that of the sitting room l)y the tallow candle\\nmade by the dipping process in the outer kitchen.\\nThe servant girl question in these hap])y times was almost wholly\\neliminated from the ])rol)]em of domestic life. The wife and daughter\\nwere eijual to all emergencies and the idea of delegating any jtart of\\ntheir home duties to a menial was as unnatural to them as it was pri-ju-\\ndicial to the family finances.\\nAt certain seasons the farmer s life was indeed a busy one, bringing\\nhim at five o clock in the morning to the work of feeding his stock and\\npre])aring for the work of the day. At six or before, breakfast was in\\nreadiness, and before seven he was at the axe, scythe, or plow, and after\\nten or twelve hours in the field there still remained the chores and even-\\nintr work in the barn.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^f HISTOKV OF BEKGEX COTNTV\\nThe farmer s wifes and daug-hters did their household work\\nthoroughly. Cleanliness was the almost invariable rule and the tables\\nand floors even in the kitchen must on at least cme day of each week be.\\nmade spotless by soap and brush. In addition to regular indoor work\\nincluding- all the work of the dairy, they were ready to help in any out-\\ndoor emergency. But for their cheerful presence and help many a load of\\nwaiting- hay safely housed would have been injured by the approaching\\nafternoon shower or ruined by the coming storm.\\nThe man doing faithful and valuable work for his employer expected\\nto sit down with the latter to his usual meals, aud it was not expected\\nthat either would lose his self-respect or forfeit the respect of the other.\\nAt these meals if an outer garment was uncomfortable or cvunber-\\nsome, it was simply discarded on common sense principles\\nAt the table the knife or fork was brought into requisition according\\nas either seemed best adapted to the work to be done. If the morsel of\\npumpkin pie was considered to be in less danger on the knife while being\\nconveyed to its intended destination, the pie was g-iven the benefit of the\\ntheory and the onlookers were never known to have received a hopeless\\nor dangerous shock.\\nThe country district schoolhouse was usually about eighteen feet\\nsquare, and painted red if painted at all. It was usually built at the\\nintersection of two roads, as near the corner as possible, or in the edge\\nof a woods and as near as possible in many cases to a pond of stagnant\\nwater. This latter plan has not been altogether given up at the present\\ntime judging from recent occurrences. The school furniture was not\\nluxurious. The desks were arranged on three sides of the room with\\ntheir backs permanently fastened to the wall and the long scats over\\nwhich both girls and boys had to climb were made of slabs.\\nThe curriculum of study was not especially comprehensive. It usu-\\nally comprised spelling, reading, writing and ciphering. Occasion-\\nally a little grammar was thrown in by way of ornamentation.\\nThe teacher s salary varied from fifteen to twenty-five dcdlars a\\nmonth. Under the salary first name he was expected to broad around\\nthrough the district in the more substantial or liberal families, changing\\nhis boarding place about every two weeks. If the pedagogue was old,\\nconservative, and stern, this arrangement was very unpopular with the\\nchildren. If young, sympathetic and socially inclined, these changes of\\nboarding places were anticipated with the keenest pleasure.\\nOf the moral and religious condition of the valley community a half\\ncentury ago it may be said that it was fully up to the average standard.\\nThe churches were simply furnished, poorly ventilated, and imper-\\nfectly heated. Notwithstanding, on Sabbath mornings the roads leading\\nto the churches were dotted with vehicles and predestrians from miles\\naround. Stormy weather was not considered a valid excuse for absence\\nfrom church.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV OK BKUC.KN COUNTY 37\\nTliL vehicles were of every description. Not a few were the farm\\nwagons which conveyed the siiri)lus ])r(i(hicts to market. Some of the\\nworshipers came on horseback.\\nIt was an old time habit to reach church early. The horses having\\nlieen hitched the worshipers collected in groups under the trees or about\\nthe church doors where greetings all around were in order and inipiirics\\nmade about absent relatives and acquaintances.\\nIt cannot be denied that the state of crops, the condition of the mar-\\nkets, and the aspect of jxilitics were occasional features of these peculiar\\ngatherings.\\nA voluntary or paid choir was an institution unknown in these\\nchurches fifty years ago. The chorister a professing member receiving\\nand holding his position by the formal action of the officers, read all the\\nverses of the first hymn usually one of his own selection, then led the\\nsinging in a slow and sometimes nasal tone. Before the first line was\\nfinished the discovery was not unfrequently made the line was pitched\\nseveral notes too high or low, when of course a fresh start became\\nnecessary. This naturally diverted attention somewhat from the\\nsentiment of the sacred poem usually by Watts, Dodridge or Toplady,\\nbut the system had its compensating advantage by rendering impossible\\nthe complications incident to the modern methods.\\nOf instumental music it may be said that any attempt to introduce\\nit fifty years ago would have been regarded as an innovation incompat-\\nible with religious orthodoxy or church harmony.\\nThe dutj of reading the Scripture selections devolved upon the\\nchorister called also the voorleeser or head reader. This exercise\\nwas grave, measured and slow, with inflections not always thoughtless.\\nThe prayers were earnest, fervent and loud. The sermons long,\\ndoctrinal and of numerous headings. They were rarely delivered from\\nnotes. Written sermons being regarded with disfavor and not considered\\nedifying.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nCIVIL ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY oF BERGEN\\n.Ki-(pin the Hi.storv of Bi rf, fii and Passaic Counticsi.\\nIn Ueceml)er, 1( 82. the Asscmbl}- f East Jersey passed an act divid-\\ning- the province into four counties, viz. Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and\\nMonmouth. Bergen included all the settlements between the Hudson\\nand Hackensack Rivers, and extended to the northern boundary of the\\nprovince. Bergen and its outlying plantations comprised about sixt}-\\nthousand acres of land. In the act of January 21, 1700, for determin-\\ning the bounds of the several counties, those of Bergen were extended\\nas follows Beginning at Constable s Hook, so along the bay and Hud-\\nson s River to the partition point between New Jersey and the province\\nof New York; along this line and the line between East and West\\nJersey t to the Pequaneck River down the Pequaneck and Passaic\\nRivers to the sound and so following the sound to Constable s Hook,\\nthe place of beginning.\\nIn 16 )3 the counties were divided into townships. But those of\\nBergen County viz the townships of Bergen and Hackensack had\\nexisted for many j ears and been organized municipalities, the former\\nunder the Dutch government of the New Netherlands, and the latter\\nvuider the proprietary government of East Jersey, No court existed at\\nHackensack in 1682. Smith says, in his History of New Jersey, under\\n(late of this vear The plantations on both sides of the Neck, as also\\nthose at Hackensack, were under the jurisdiction of Bergen Town, situ-\\nated about the middle of the Neck. The act of organization established\\nthe countv courts at Bergen, where they remained until the enlargement\\nof the county in 1709.\\nBergen, in 1680, is thus described by George Scott, of Edinburg, who\\npultlished a book entitled The Model of the Government of the Prov-\\nince of East Jersey in America\\nHero is a Town Court held by Select Men or Overseers, who used to be four or\\nnmre as they please to choose annually to try small causes, as in all the rest of the\\nTowns; and two Courts of Sessions in the year, from which, if the cause\\ne.xceed twenty pounds, they may appeal to the Governor and Council and Court of\\nDeputies in their Assembly, who meet once a year. The town is compact, and hath\\nlieen fortified against the Indians. There are not above seventy families in it. The\\nacres taken up by the town may be about 10,000, and for the Out Plantations, 50,000,\\nand the number of Inhabitants are computed to be 350, but many more abroad. The\\n111 order to raise fifty pounds, the le^isK^lure convened in lfi^:t laid assessments to be raised in\\nUie four counties as follows Berfren, All; Middlesex, iUl Essex, i:i4; Monmuuth, fl i.\\nIn U. .M the sum of jClt Us. id. was .issessed for IJergen County JSerjfen. \u00c2\u00a37 .is. d., Hackensack.\\ni.^ is Id.\\nT Tile Tine between East and West Jersey, liere referred to. is not the line finally adopted and\\nl.nown as the Lawrence line, which was run by John Lawrencein Septemberand October, 174; It was\\ntile compromise line agreed upon between Governors Coxe and Barclay in 1082, which ran a little north\\nol .Morristown to the Passaic River thence up the Peiiuancck to forty-one dc f rees of north latitude\\niii.l ihence by a straisrht line due east to the New York Slate line. This line bain;, afterward objected\\nl4\u00c2\u00bb by the East Jersey proprietors, the latter procured the runniii r of the Lawrence line.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0The D.ilcli iiovernnient formed no counties in N ew .Xelherlands.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OF 1{1-;km-.I-.X CofNTV\\npart of the Inhabitants which ure in this jurisdiction are Dutcli.nf wliich sonic have\\nsettled here upwards of forty years ag-o.\\nHackensack Villag-c, it is well known was in Essox Counlv till ITo i,\\nand only upon the enlaro;ement of Ber -eu County in that year was made\\nthe county-seat of the same. This was done because it was a (hrivino-\\nvillage more centrally located than any other in the enlarsred county.\\nCounty officials in the reign of George II had to subscribe to certain\\noaths which sound strange to their descendants of these days in Repub-\\nlican America. We give a list found attached to an old parchment roll\\nin the clerk s oflice, dated 1755, wherein the names are subscribed in the\\nfollowing oaths:\\nAl.I.liC.IAXCli To THli Kl.NC.\\nI do heartily and sincerelj- acknowledge, profess, testify, anil declare, in niv\\nconscience, before God and the world, that our sovereiyn lord. Kiny George the\\nSecond, is lawful and rig-htful king of Great Britain and all other his Majesty s\\nd(.niinions and countries thereunto belonging-, and I do solemnly and sincerely\\ndeclare, and I do believe in my conscience, that the person pretendino- to be the\\nPrince of Wales during- the life of the late King James, or since his decease, pre-\\ntending to assume to himself the title of King of England, by the name of James\\nthe Third, or James the Eighth, or the full title of the King of Great Britain, or by\\nany right or title whatever to the crown of Great Britain, or any other dominions\\nthereunto belonging and I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any and all allegiance\\nor obedience to him and I do swear that I bear faithful and true allegiance to his\\nMajesty King George the Second, and him will defend to the utmost of my\\npower against all traitorous conspiracies or attempts whatsoever to be made\\nagainst his person, crown, or dignity, and I will lo my utmost endeavors to disclose\\nand make known to his Majesty and his successors all treasons and traitorous con-\\nspiracies which I shall know to be against him or them and I do faithfully promi.se\\nt(j the utmost of my power to uphold and defend the sacredness of the crown against\\nhim, the said James, under any title whatsoever; which succession, by an act enti-\\ntled An act for the succession of the crown and the better securing the rights and\\nliberties of the subjects, is limited to the Princess Sophia, electress and duchess\\ndawager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. And all these\\nthings I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the express\\nwords by me spoken, and according to the plain sense and understanding of the\\nsame, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or .secret reservation whatsoever.\\nAnd I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and\\nIjromise heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian.\\nSo help me God.\\nAhJIRATION (M- I HK I .M vev.\\nI do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and\\nheretical that damnable doctrine and position that princes excommunicate 1 by the\\nPope or any authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or unu-dercd by their sub-\\njects or any- other Catholics and I do promise that no foreign prince, person, jire-\\nlate, or potentate shall or ought to take any jurisdiction, superiority, pre-eminence,\\nor authority, either ecclesiastical or civil, within the realm of (ireat Britain.\\nSo help me God.\\nWilliam Kingsland, Arent Schuyler. Johannes Van Houten. Michael Vree-\\nlandt [his(M. V.) mark], John Cardan, Isaac Kingsland, Jost Van Boskirk. Walingh\\nVan Winkel, Johannes Bougart, Philip Schuyler, Jan Van Orden, Jacobus Wyn-\\nkoop, Pieter Bogert, (Jeorge Keyorse, Jr., Riieletf Van Der render, Theunis Day,\\nSiimm Vreeland, Albert Zabriskie, Jacobus Van Buskirk, Abraham Leydecker,\\nJacob Home |his (X) mark]. Theodore Vallou, Robert Van Houten. Helmage Van\\nHome, Jacob Van Nostrand, Jr. ]his (Cl mark], Ivukc Reyerse, Albert Berdan,\\nJacob Sitson, Ardsen Kersoris, Garret HoUcnbeck, John Schuyler, William J. Kint -s-\\nlaiul, Jacob, his son, Isaac Kingsland, Jacob Van Buskirk, Helmage Van Houte,\\n.\\\\braham (iouveuier, Isaac .Schuyler. Jacobus Van Winkel. Johannes Vreelandt |lus\\niJ.V.) mark], George Vreelandt, Jan Terhuyn, Hendrick Doreunis. Johannes Rey-\\nerse. Johannes Bougart, Pieter Demarest, Sorens Jan Van Buskirk, David Van Bus-\\nkirk, Henry Van Dalinda. Cornelius Wynkoop. Roelef an Bouten, Derick Cuyper,\\nGeorge Reyerse. Johannes Post, Rejof Lvndaker. .*\\\\braham Ackerman. Michael\\nXoorland ]iiis CM.) mark]. David Demarest. Timothy Ward, Henry Van De Linda.\\nJacoben Wyckoff. Pieter Post. David Terhuyn. Sanniel Bogert. James Hoard.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 UISTOKV Ol- BERGEX COUXTV\\nPeter Schuyler, John Berdan. Jacob Mag-el, Johannes Van Houten, Johannes Wag--\\nner [his (V.W.) mark], Roelef Westervelt, Hendrick Yeshopp, Abraham Dirick |his\\n(A. D.) mark], Dirick Guysen. Peter Marsetin. Jansen Post. Jacobus Buck. Rej-nier\\nV. (iiere. Timothy Moore, Jr., Jacob Mead, Johannes Reyerse, Dirick Cuyper.\\nSamuel Moore, Jacob Dobson, Cornelius Bog^ert, Housens Van Biiskirk, Casparus\\nSchuyler, Simon Juland, William Van Emburg-h, Johannes Demarest, Ephanus Van\\nHome, Wabigh Van Buskirk, Peter Bog^ert. Rydsley Jecken, Jacobus Jeter, Isaac\\nKingsland.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Qualitied as Vendue master this 22d May. 1755, before me.\\nJohn .Scihylek.\\n*Thiii piDbaWy refers lo the last person named. Is.iac Kiiiifsland. The followin(r note fron] the\\nrecords will throw some li^hl upon the office of vendue master\\nIt IK ordered by the Board of Justices and Freebtdders of the County of Bergen that Jacob Titshort\\nshall be vendue master to sell armsand accoutrements, and to receive for his trouble pence per pound.\\nOct. 4. l7o;i.\\nThese were arms and accoutrements used in the French war. They were s(\u00c2\u00bbki at the court-house in\\nHackensack on Monday, Oct. 17, 17f,:!.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nCIVIL LIST OF BERCtEN COUNTY.\\nAt the hoad of this list wc give the buard of justices and freeholders\\nfrom 1715 the date of the earliest records to be found to )4, when\\nthe justices ceased to act in the board with the freeholders, and the\\nboard from that time forward was composed only of the latter. The\\nfreeholders will be found named, so far as data could be obtained, in\\ntheir respective town histories\\njrSTICKS AMI l-KEEHOLDERS.\\nI7I.5. Justices. Thomas Lawrence. George Rversoii, John Berdan. Martin Powlson.\\nFreeholaers, John Fla^;- Kyer Ryer-;on, Riitt Van Home. Cornelius Blinkerhof,\\nV-i^icholas Lazier. John Bogart. l7lb. Justices, David Provost, Thomas Lawrence,\\nThomas Van Buskirk, George Ryerson, John Flagg. David Demarest. Freeholders,\\nHendrick Cooper. Cor. elius Blinkerhof, Miholes Lasire. Jacob Blinkerhof, Ryer\\nKyerson, David Danjelse. Peter Garretson. Cornelius Van Vorst, John Van Houte,\\nJohn DeMott, John Huyler, Isaac Van Der Beck, Jr., Arent .Schuyler, Jacob Berdan,\\nAbraham Haring. Abraham G. Haring. 1717, Justices. David Provost, Thos. Law-\\nrence, Thos. Van Buskirk. Geo. Ryer.son. Jno. Flagg. Freeholders. Andries Van Bus-\\nkirk, Riilt Van Home, Jacob Bantaw, Jacobus Blinkerhof, Dsrvid Ackerman, Harp Gar-\\nrabrantse, Peter Garretson, Thos. Garretson. I72O, Justices, David Provost, Thos.\\nLawrence. Thomas Van Buskirk, George Ryerson. John Berdan. Freeholders. David\\nAckerman, Lucas Kinstud. Lawrence Van Buskirk. Rutt Van Home, Ruelef Bogert.\\nRoelef Westervelt. 1721, Justices. Thomas Lawrence. Thomas Van Buskirk. Geo.\\nRyerson. John Berdan. John Flagg. Freeholders. Hendrick Cooper, Kutt Van\\nHome, Charles Lazier. David Demarest. Michael Van Winkle. David Ackerman.\\nWilliam Flagg, Arent Turce. 1722. Justices, Thomas Lawrence. Thomas Van Bus-\\nkirk, George Ryerson. John Flagg. Freeholders. Hendrick Cooper, Garret Tury-\\nance, David Demarest. Andriese Van (Jrden, Thomas Fredrickson, Johannes Nefie,\\nJohannes Walingson. 1723. Justices, Thomas Lawrence. Thomas Van Buskirk.\\nGeorge Ryerson, John Berdan, John Flag^g, Wander Deadrick. Freeh(jlders. John\\nWright, iigbert Ackerson. Andriese Van (Jrden, William Dey, Cornelius Blinkerhof,\\nDavid Danjelson, John H(jpper, Peter Tebou. 1724, Justices, Thomas Lawrence,\\nThomas Van Buskirk. John Berdan. Ryer Rverson. P reeholders, Philip Schuyler.\\nGarrett Garretsmi, Martin Powlson. John Loats. Cornelius Blinkerhof, Johannes\\nGarret.s on, Johannes Ackerman. 1725, Justices, Thomas Van Buskirk. Isaac Van\\nGeren, John Berdan. Freeholders, Philip Schuyler. Garret Garretson, Martin\\nPowl.son, John Loats, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Johannes (iarretson, Jrihannes Acker-\\nman. 1/26, Justices. Thomas Van Buskirk, Thomas Lawrence, Isaac Van Gesen.\\nJohn Berdan. Thomas Oldwater. Freeholders. Cornelius Blinkerhof, Johannes Van\\nWagen, John Bogert, Jacobus Blinkerhof, Michael Van Winkle, Egbert Ackerman,\\nJohannes (iarretson. 1 727, Justices, Thomas Van Buskirk, John Berdan, George\\nRyerson. Freeholders, Henry Brockholst, Derrick Barentson, John Guest, Egbert\\nAckerman. Claes Lazier, John Bogert, Johannes Garretson, Cornelius Blinkerhof.\\nI72K, Justices, Thomas Van Buskirk, (ieorge Ryenson, Isaac Van Geren, Ryer Ryer-\\nson. Freeholders, Philip Schuyler, Derrick Barentson, Abraham Ackerman, Tury\\nWestervelt, Johannes Van Wagene, Claes Lazier. John Zabriskie. I729, Justices,\\nThomas Van Buskirk. Thomas Lawrence, Isaac Van tiesen. Freeholdsrs, Mathias\\nDe Mott. Hendrick Kuyper, Johannes Van Wagene. John Zabriskie, Arie Banta,\\nHendrick Van Der Linde. Egbert Ackerman. l73(). Justices, Thomas Van Buskirk,\\nI.saac Van (iesen. Thomas Oldwater, (Jeorge Ryer.son, Roelef Van H iuten. Free-\\nholders. Hendrick K. Kuyfer, Corneleius Blinkerhof, Arie Banta. Derrick Van\\nHoute, Derrick Blinkerhof, Hendrick V^an Der Linde. 1731, Justices, William Pro-\\nvoost, George Ryerson, Isaac Van (ie.scn, Ryer Ryerson, John Flagg, Henry Van\\nDer Linde. Derrick Kuyper. Mathias De Mott. Richard Edsall, Benjamin Demarest.\\nFreeholders, Hery Van Der Linde, Hendrick Kuyper, Cornelius Blinkerhof, Arie\\nBanta, Thomas Fredericks. I732, Justices. William Prov jost, Ryer Ryerson, Henry\\nVan Der Linde, Benjamin Demarest, Derrick Kuyper. Freeholders, Egbert Acker-\\nman, Hendrick Kuyper. Hendrick Van Winkle, Jacob Hendrickse Banta.John Chris-\\ntian. I733, Justices, William Provoost, George Ryerson, Ryer Ryerson, Henry Van\\nDer Linde, Derrick Kuyper, Benjamin Demarest, Mathias Dc Mott. Freeholders.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 HISTOKV Ol- BEKC.EX COrXTY\\nJohn Rmiiine, Reynier Van Gesen, Hendrick Kuyper, Martin Powlson. Jan Duryea,\\nHendrick Van Winkle. Johannes Garretse, Garret (iarretse. I734, Justices, William\\nPro\\\\ oo.st. David Provoiist, Isaac Van Gesen. Freeholders. Martin Powlson, Jacob\\nHey, John Roniine, Rynier Van Gesen, Philip S-huyler, John Garietson, Henry\\nCooper. Henry Van Winkle. IjoS, Justices. William Provoost, David. Provoost.\\nHenry Van Der Linda, Poulus Van Der Beck. Freeholders, Martin Powlson, Yost\\nZabriskie, Derrick Dey, John Garretson. John Van Orden, John Van Home, Henry\\nVan Winkle. Garret Hopper. 173b, Justices, William Provoost, John Flaffg. David\\nProvoorst, Paul Van Der Beck. Freeholders. John Garretson, Yost Zabriskie,\\nJacob Day, John Van Home, Henry Van Winkle. Derrick Dey. 1737, Justices.\\nWilliam Provoost, David Provoost, Paul Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der Lindie\\nJames Duncan. Freeholders, John Garretson. Jacob Dey. John Post. Garret Van\\nenbeck, Eden Sipp, John Van Home, Egbert Aekerm^-n. 1/38. Justices. David De-\\nmarest. Paul Van Der Beck. Henry Van Der Linda. James Duncan. Benjamin De-\\nmarest. Garrett Halenbeck. Freeholders. John Romine, Cornelius Wynkoop, Henry\\nKipp, Arie Siebe Banta, Jacobus Pick. 1/4^., Justices, Paul Van Der Beck, John\\nBerdan, jacobus Bertholf. Freeholders, Michael Van Winkle, Jacob Dey, Derrick\\nDey, Rynier Van Gesen, John Duryea. Derrick Van Gesen. I742, Justices, David\\nProvoost; Paul Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der Beck, Henry Van Der Linde. Free-\\nholders, Cornelius Van Hoss, Derrick De_v, Derrick Van Gesen, Cornelius Lydeker,\\nCornelius Wynkoop, Michael Vreeland, Jacobus Blinkerho. John Duryea, Cornelius\\nVan Horst, John Van Horn. Derrick Van Gesen. Jacob Oldwater. Jactibus Bertholf.\\nRynier Van Ge.sen, Jacobus B^tholfV 1743, Justices, Paul Van Der Beck. Henry\\nVan DerLin :le. John Berdan. Freeholders, Luke Ryerson, Garret Garretse, Jacobus.\\nBertholf, Cornelius Van Horst, Cornelius Wynkoop, Cornelius Leydeker. 1-44.\\nJustices. David Demarest, Hendrick Van Der Linde, Cornelius Wynkoop. Free-\\nholders, Jacobus Bertholf;.- Cornelius Leydeker, Jacobus Blinkerhof. Abraham\\nAckerman, Garret Garretson, Luke Ryerson. Cornelius Van Horst, Derrick Cadmus.\\n1745, Justices. Hendrick Van Der Linde, Abraham Ackerman, Lawrence Van Bus-\\nkirk. Freeholders, Jacobus Blinkerhof, John Berdan. Cornelius Leydeker. Derrick\\nDey. Garret Garretson. Derrick Cadmus. Cornelius Van Vorst. I746. Justices, Gar-\\nret Halenbeck, John Vad Norde, Derrick Leydeker, John Bog-ert. Freeholders.\\nDerrick Cadmus, Cornelius Van Vorst. Jacobus Blinkerhof. Cornelius Lej deker,\\nDerrick Dey. Garret Garretson, Jacob Bertholf.-. 174/, Justices, Derrick Kuyper,\\nGarret Halenbeck, Jacob Oldwater. Freeholders, Derrick Dey, Jacobus Blinkerhof.\\nCornelius Van Vorst. John Van Home, Cornelius Leydeker, Gairet Garretson.\\nJacobus Bertholf( John JJerdan. 1748, Justices, Derrick Kuyper, Garret Halenbe-k,\\nJacob Titsort. Freeholders, Jacobus Bertholf ^Jacobus Blinkerhof, John Berdan,\\nJohn Van Horn, Derrick Dej-, Garret Garret.son, Cornelius Van Vorst. 1749. Jus-\\ntices, Jacobus Peck, Jacob Titsort, Garret Halenbeck. 1750. Justices, Georg-e\\nRyerson. Derrick Kuyper, Garret Halenbeck, Jacobus Peck. Freeholders. John\\nVan Horn. John Durie. Cornelius Van Vorst. Cornelius Leydecker, Derrick Geisen,\\nCiarret Van Waj ene. lyJl. Justices, Derrick Kuyper. Reynier Van Geisen, Abra-\\nham Van Buskirk. Freeholders, John Van Horn, Cornelius Van Vorst, Cornelius\\nLeydecker. John Darje (Duryea?). Derrick Van Geisen. Garret Van Wagene, Jacob\\nTitsort, John Zabriskie. 1-52. Justices. Derrick Kuyper. Jacobus Peck. Jacob Tit-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0sort. Freeholders, Isaac Kingslarid. Garret Garretse, Hendrick Van Winkle, Der-\\nrick Van Gei.sen, John Van Horn, Johannes Bogert, Lawrence Van Buskirk. 1753,\\nJustices, Jacobus Peck, .Samuel Moore, Reynier Van Geisen. Freeholders, Garret\\nGarretse, Derrick Van Geisen, Isaac Kingsland, Cornelius Leydocker, Barent Cool,\\nHendrick Van Winkle, John Van Horn. 1754, Justices, Jacobus Peck, Jacob Tit-\\nsort, Samuel Moore. Freeholders, Peter Zabriskie, Hendrick Van Geisen, Barent\\nCool, Cornelius Leydocker, John Van Horn, George Vreeland, Derrick Van\\nGei.sen. 1755. Justices, Jacobus Peck, John Demarest, Jacob Titsort. Freeholders.\\nPeter Zabriskie. Jacob Oldwater, John Van Horn, George Vreeland, Derrick Van\\nGeisen. Turja Pieterse. Lawrence Van Bu.skirk, Johannes Bogert. 1756. Justices,\\nLawrence Van Buskirk. Jacobus Peck. Johannes Demarest. Freeholders, John\\nVan Horn, Hendrick Kuyper, Jacob Oldwater, Lawrence Ackerman, Barent Cool.\\nCornelius Leydocker, Turja Pieterse. Derrick Van Geisen. 1/57, Justices, Jacobus\\nPeck, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Johannes Demarest. Freeholders, Cornelius Ley-\\ndocker, Barent Cool, John Van Horn, Hendrick Kuyper, Lawrence Ackerman, Jacob\\nOldwater, Turie Pieter.se, Derrick Van Geisen. 1758. Justices, Jacobus Peck, Rey-\\nnier Van (Jei.sen. Lawrence Van Bu.skirk. Freeholders, Jacob Oldwater, Lawrence\\nAckerman, Henarick Kuyper, Cornelius Leydocker, Michael De Mott. Barent Cool.\\nTheunis Dey. Derrick Van Geisen. 1759. Justices, Reynier Van Gei.sen, Jacob Tit-\\nshort, Johannes Demarest, Lawrence Van Buskirk. Freeholders,, Cornelius Ley-\\ndocker, Barent Cole, Hendrick Kuyper, Michael De Mott. Tennis Dey, Alberttis\\nTerhune. John Zabriskie. I760. Justices. Reynier Van Geisen. Lawrence Van\\nBuskirk, Jacob Titshort. Freeholders. Cornelius Leydocker. Barent Cole. Tennis", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK HICKCIKN COCNTY 43\\nDey, Derrick Van Gei.sen, Lawrence Ackenn.in. I7iil. Justices, Jacobus Peck. Rev-\\nnier Van Geisen, Lawrence an Ruskirk. Jacol) Titshort. Hartman Hlinkerhof.\\nDaniel Harinjf, Derrick Van Geisen. Rnelcf Westervelt, Cornelius Van Vorst. Hen-\\ndrick Kuyper. 1762, Justices, Revnier Van Geisen, Lawrence Van Buskirk. Jacob\\nTitshort. Freeholders, Derrick Van Gci.--cn, Roelef Westervelt. Peter Zabriskie.\\nLawrence Ackeruian, Hartman Rlinkerhof, Daniel Hariuf^, Cornelius Van Vorst,\\nHendrick Kuyper. 1763. Justices, Reynicr Van Geisen, Roelef Westervelt, Jacob\\nTitshort. Freehnlders, Peter Eabriskie, Lawrence Ackcrnian, Jacobus Berio, Edo\\nMarcelese, Michael De .\\\\Iott, George Cadnnis, Johannes Demarest, John Duryca.\\n17h4, Justices, Reynier Van Geisen, Jacob Titshort. John Berry. Freeholders, Peter\\n/iabriskie, Lawrence Ackerman, Jacobus Berio, Kdo Marceles, Johannes Demarest,\\nJohn Duryea, Michael De Mott, Toi-es Cadmus. 176.5. Justices, Lawrence Van Bus-\\nkirk, Jacob Titshort, George Vreeland. Freeholders, Hendrick Blinkerhof, Cor-\\nnelius Gari abrantse, Geori;e Blinkerhof, Peter Zamhriskie, John Zanibriskie, Arent\\nSchuyjer, Edo Marceles. 17()6. Justices, Reynier Van Geisen, Peter Zanibriskie,\\nHendr ck Kuyper, Roelef Westervelt. Freeholders, Cornelius Van Vorst, Cornelius\\nGarrabrantse, Jr., Abraham Van Buskirk, Derrick Terhiiiie. Georg-e Blinkerhof,\\nJohn Demarest, Arent Schuyler. Edo Marceles. I767, Justic s. Reynier Van Geisen,\\nLawrence Van Bu.skirk, Jacob Titshort. Freeholders, Arent Schuyler, Edo Marce-\\nlese. Abraham Van Buskirk. John Terhune. Jacob De Mott, John Demarest, Hen-\\ndrick Brinkerhof. 1768. Justices, Reynier Van (ieisen, Lawrence L. Van Buskirk.\\nPeter Zabriskie. Freeholders. John Demarest, Jacob De Mott, Hendrick Blinker-\\nhof, Cornelius (Jarrabrante, John Terhune. Edo Marcelese. 1769, Justices. Reynier\\nVan (Jsisen, Peter Zabriskie, Lawrence Van Buskirk. Freeholders, John Terhune,\\nIsaac Van Der Beck, Idumus Marcelese, John Ryerson, Martin Pauli.son, Jacob De\\nMott, Helmer Van Houten, Abraham Prior. 1770, Ju.stices, Reynier Van Geisen,\\nPeter Zabriskie, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Roelef Westervelt, Thomas Moore. Free-\\nholders, John Terhune.- Samuel Berry.* Hendrick Van Houten.* Abraham Prior, t\\nJacob De ;\\\\Iott, Mathias Roulse, Edo Marcelese.;; 1/71, Justices, Reynier Van\\nGeisen, Lawrence Van Buskirk, John Tell, Roelef Westervelt, Thomas Moore. Free-\\nholders, John Terhune, Sanniel Berry, Abraham Prior. Hendrick Kuyper. Jacob De-\\nMott, Mathias Roulse, Jacob Post, Edo Marcelese. 1772, Justices. Reynier Van\\nGeisen, Peter Zabriskie, Roelef Westervelt. Freeholders, Samuel Berry,* Hendricus\\nCooper.} Albert Banta.J: Mathias Roulese.J: Edo Marcelese,;; Hendrick Doremus.;:\\n1773, Justices, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Peter Zabriskie, Roelef Westervelt. Free-\\nholders, Georg-e De Mott, Mathias Roulese.J John Benson,^ Isaac Van Der Beck,*\\nNicause Terhune, Edo Marceles, Hendrick Doremus. Albert Ackerson,|| James\\nBoard. I 1774. Justices, Lawrence Van Buskirk. Peter Zabri.-vkie, Roelef W^ester-\\nvelt. Freeholders, Isaac Van Der Beck, Nicause Terhune, Hendrick Kuyper,f John\\nVan Hornet John Benson, Yost Zabri.skie, Albert Ackerman. James Board, Edo\\nMarceles, Hendrick Doremus. 1775, Justices, Lawrence Van Buskirk, Peter Zabris-\\nkie, Roelef Westervelt, Thomas Moore, Abraham Montayne. Freeholders, Hen-\\ndrick Kuyper, John Van Home, John Benson, Marten Roulese, Isaac Van Der Beck.\\nNicause Terhune. Edo Marceles, Hendrick Doremus, Jacot)us Bertholf, Cornelius\\nLazier. 177b. Justices, Peter Zabriskie, Thomas Moore, Stephen Baldwin, Abraham\\nMontayne. Freeholders, Hartman Brinkerhoif, Job Smith, John Benson, Martin\\nRoulese. John Richards. Cornelius Cooper, Hendrick Dorennis, Garrabrante Van\\nHouten, Garret Hopper, David Board, John Van Boskirk, Jacb Cole.*\\nThere is no tneetino- of the ho;iril recorded for 1777. Tlie first meet-\\ning under the State of New Jersey was held at the house of Stephen\\nBogert, at Haring s Phiin (Harrington township?). May l.^, 17Si). The\\nmembers of the board were\\nJustices, Roelef Westervelt, Jacob Ream, .\\\\hraluim .Vckerman. Freeholders.\\nJohn Ryerson, Edo Marceles, David Board, Lawrence Ackerman.\\nNo business was transacted, except the appointment of Abraham\\nWestervelt as county collector, in the place of Jacob J. Demarest.\\nThe next meeting was on the 12th of September. 177S, at Carrel\\nHopper s house in Paramus, the board being\\nJustices, Roelef Westervelt, Hendrick Kuyper, Abraham Ackerman. Peter Har-\\ning. Freeholders, John Ryerson, Edo Marceles, David Board, Lawrence Ackerman.\\nNew BarbadoL-s. t Bc-rccii. f Hackeiisack. S Saddle River.\\nI! Franklin Township, first representod in ilie board.\\nHarrin(jt in Township first represented.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 HISTOKY OK BEKGEX COUNTY\\nThe former collector, Jacf)b J. Demarest, at this meeting rendered\\nan account of ;^142 17s., being part of a tax raised in the county by order\\nof the Continental Congress in 1776, and ;i{^357 8s. 9d., received for\\nthe county arms sold out of the court-house at New Barbadoes. He\\nalso turned over the balance of the sinking fund in his hands, amount-\\ning to ^95 lis. 9d.\\nAbraham Westervelt was ordered to take charge of the reord-book\\nof the board.\\n1779*, Justices, Hendrick Kuyper. Peter Hariiiif, Garret Lyndaker, Abraham\\nAckermaii, Jacob Terhiine. Freeholders, William Christie, David Banta. David\\nTerhune. Jacob Zabriskie, Edo Marcelese, Adrian Post, David Board, Lawrence\\nAckerman. Daniel Haring-. 1780, Justices, Hendrick Kuyper. Peter Harin^f, Garret\\nLeydacker, Isaac Van Der Beck. David B. Demarest, Jacob Terhune. Kreeholdera.\\nWilliam Christie, David Banta, David Terhune, Martin Ryerson, Daniel Ilarinjr.\\n\\\\yilliam Najfal, Jacob Zabriskie, Lawrence Ackerman. l 7Sl. Justices, HeTidrick\\nKuyper. Abraham Ackerman, Henry Mead, David Demarest. Freeholders. Ivaw-\\nrence Ackerson, Andrew Hopper. Garret Van Houten, Peter Demarest, Jacob De-\\nmarest, John Kuyper. Albert Banta. l782,t Justices, Abraham Ackerman. Peter\\nHarinif, Yost Beam, Henry Mead, David Demarest, John Benson. Freeholders,\\nGarrebrant Van Houten. Edo Marceles. Lawrence Ackerman. Andrew Hopper, Peter\\nDemarest, Th(5mas Blanch, Peter Boyert, Jacob Zabriskie, John T\\\\:rhune, Samuel\\nDemarest. 1783,j: Justices, Abraham Ackei-man, Peter Haring, Isaac Van Der Beck.\\nJacob Terhune, John Benson, David Demarest, Daniel Van Riper. Freeholder-,\\nJob .Smith, M. Garrabrant. Garret Leydacker, Jost Zabriskie. Jacob Zabriskie, E lo\\nMarceles, Lawrence Ackerman, Thomas Blanch, Abraham Haring. l~8-l,t Justices,\\nPeter Haring, Isaac Van Der Beck, Jacob Terhune. Freeholders, Job Smith, Nich-\\nolas Toers, Jost Zabriskie. Garret Leydacker. David Terhune. E;ien Merselis. John\\nMead, Lawrence Ackerman, Abraham Haring. Ij ^S.t Justices, Peter Haring.\\nJacob Beam. John Benson, Jacob Terhune, Isaac Van Der Beck, Daniel Van Reipen,\\nIsaac Blanch, Isaac Van Der Beck, Jr. Freeholders, Nicholas Toers, Daniel Van\\nWinkle, Jacob Zabriskie, John Berdan, Garret Leydacker, John Mauritius Goet-\\nshius, David Haring, Abraham Blauvelt. I785. j; Justices. Peter Haring. Jost Beam.\\nJohn Benson, Isaac Van Der Beck. Isaac Blanch, Garret Leydacker. Albert Van\\nVoorhis. Freeholders, Nicholas Toers. Garret Van Reipen, John Cutwater, Abra-\\nham Huysman, Abraham Westervelt, Cornelius Haring, William Christie. J. Mauri-\\ntius Goetshius. 1787. Justices, Peter Haring. John Benson. Isaac Blanch. Garret\\nLydecker, Jacob Terhune, Isaac Van Der Beck, Henry .Spier. Albert Van Voorhi.\\nFreeholders, Job Smith, Cornelius Garrebrant, John Dev, Mauritius Goets;hiiis,\\nCornelius Hinsman, Garret Durvea, Abraham T. Blauvelt. I788, Justices, Peter\\nHaring, Isaac Van Der Beck, Isaac Blanch, Jacob Terhune. Freeholders, Job\\nSmith, Cornelius Garrebrant. J. M. Goetshius, John Dey, Peter Zabri.skie, Nicausie\\nVan Voorhis, Samuel Van Zaen, George Doremus. Abraham Westervelt. Peter\\nWard, Abraham T. Blauvelt. Albert Bogert. 1789. Justices. Peter Haring, Garret\\nLydecker, Daniel Van Riper, Albert Van Voorhis, Henry Spier. Freeholders.\\nHclmigh Van Houten, Garret Van Geisen, John Dev, Albert C. Zabriskie, Samuel\\nVan Zaen, George L. Ryenson, Garret Ackerman, John W. Hopper. Albert Bogert.\\nJacob Vlauvelt. 1790, Justices, Peter Haring, Jacob Terhune. Albert Van Voorhis.\\nFreeholders, Garret Van Geisen, John Van Horn, Jr., Albert C. Zabriskie. Isaac\\nKipp, Nicausie Van Voorhis, Henry Kingsland, Samuel Van Zaen. George L. Rver-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0son, John Haring, Jacob Blauvelt, John H. Camp. 1791. Justices. Peter Haring.\\nJacob Terhune, John Cutwater, Abraham Westervelt, Daniel Van Revpe. Garret\\nLydecker, Garret Durvea. Freeholders. Garret Van Geisen. John Van Home. Nic-\\nausie Van Voorhis, Henry Kingsland, David Board, Albert Zabriskie, Isaac Kipp.\\nSamuel Van Zaen, Jacob Blauvelt, John Hogan Camp. 1792. Justices, John Benson.\\nJacob Terhune, Daniel Van Revpe. Abraham Westervelt. Freeholders, Cornelius\\nVan Vorst, John Van Houte, Isaac Nicoll, John I. Westervelt, Christian Zabriskie,\\nNicausie Van Voorhis, George L. Ryerson, Peter Dev, Peter Ward, Abraham De-\\nmarest. David Durvea. 1793, Justices. John Benson, Jacob Terhune. Abraham\\nWestervelt, William Davis. Freeholders, Cornelius Van Vorst, John Van Houte.\\nJohn Westervelt, Christian Zabriskie, George L. Ryerson, Peter Dev. Peter Ward,\\nJohn Hagan, Abraham Demarest, David Durvea. 1794, Justices, Peter Haring.\\nJohn Cutwater, Jacob Terhune, Abraham Westervelt. Adam Boyd. William Davis,\\nPeter Dey.\\nMet this year at Pompton.\\nt Met in Paraous, at the house of Capt. John Kverson.\\nt Met at the house of Archibald Campbell, in New Barbadoes villas-e of Hackeusack;.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKKC.EX COUNTY\\nFKEEHOI.DKKS OV BKKC.KN TOWNSHIP.\\n1794, Cornelius Van Vorst 1794-95. John Van Houte :795. Garret Van Geisen\\n1796-1K15. John Van Home I796, Garret Van Revlanil l7 )7-18i 0. John Smith:\\nI797. Jasper Zabriskie 1798-99, 1807, Garret Freeland ISO), Cornelius Van Vorst.\\nJr.; 18111-2, 1805-5, 1803-9, Cornelius Doremus; 1801-4, Ja^ob Van \\\\Vd-.foiu r; H0.1,\\nCasparus Cadmus 1804-13. Richard Cadnuis 1800-11. 1816, Peter Sipp lslO-12.\\nThomas Dickerson 1812, Elias Binfrer 1813-14. Rvnier Van Geisen 1814-1^. Jo .iii\\nGoodman 1815. James Van Buskirk 1816, Cornelius Van Riper; I8I7-I8, Casparus\\nPrior 1817-18, Adrian Post; 1819-20, 1822. Casparus Prior; 1819-20. .\\\\d-ian P)st;\\n1821-26 1828-29. 1831, P.-t^r Sipp 1821, Stephen V.-e.-l:ind; lS22-2o, 1831, Cornelius\\n,Van Winkle; 1823-25, I827, 1833-35. 1839. Hartman Van Waffoner 1827-28. 1830.\\n1832-34, Abel I. Smith; 1829. Cornelius Van Vorst; 1830, Jacob D. Van Winkle;\\nl-;32, Merselis Merselis 1835. Garret Vreeland 1836. Asa Wrisrht 1835. Mitchel\\nSaunier; 1837, Dudley S. Greg-ory; 1837-38, Garret Sipp; 1838-39, William C. Vreeland.\\nJIDGES OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.\\nEdmund W. Kintcslaiid 1789. Petrus Haring- 89, Garret Lydecker 89. Daniel\\nVan Reyan 90, Petrus Haring 91, John Benson 91, Jacob Terhune 97. William\\nColfax 1800, John Cutwater I tOO, Abraham Westervelt 1800, William Davis I8OI1.\\nAbraham Rverson 1800. Martin Rverson 1800. John Hipper 1801. Daniel Van Rvan\\n1801. Adam Boyd 1803. Isaac Nicoll 1803. BenjaraTn Rlacklidii^e 1803, Henry Van Dal-\\nsom 1803, Lewis Moses 1804. Jacob Terhune 1804. Garret Durie 1804. Mirtin I. Rver-\\nson 1805, Abraham Westervelt 1805. David P. Haring- 1805, Adam Bovd 1 05, Abra-\\nham Rverson 1805. John Hopper 1805. William Colfax 1803. Dmiel Van R-van 180).\\nWilliam Davis 1806. Samuel Reach 1807. B-njamin Blacklidi^e 1803. John Cassidv\\n1808, John Westervelt 1808, Peter Ward 1808, Jacob C. Terhune 1809. Lewis Moore\\n1809. Garret Durie 1809, Martin I. Rverson 1809, John Cutwater 10. David P. Har-\\ning 10. Abraham Westervelt 10, Garret Van Houten 11, John A. Berrv 11, Daniel\\nVan Reyan 11, John D. Haring 12, Christian Zabriskie 12, Elias Brevoort 12.\\nDower Westervelt 12, Cornelius Merselis 12. John Al. Voorhis 12. John Hopper 12.\\nWilliam Colfax 12. Jacob C. Terhune 13, Adam Boyd 13, Jacob Banter 13. Jo m\\nWestervelt 13. Lewis Moore 14. Jacob C. Terhune 14. Martin I. Rverson 14. Wil-\\nliam Colfax 14, John T. Banta 15, R. H. Haring 15, Simon Mead 15, Garret Van\\nHouten 16, Garret Durie 16, John D. Haring 17, John Cutwater 17, Christian Za-\\nt)riskie I7, Elias Brevoort 17, John Al. Voorhis I7, Dower Westervelt 17, John\\nHi2pe,-j 17, Adam B vd 18, Peter Sipp 18, Cornelius Van Winkle 19, Cornelius\\nMerselis 19, Henrv W. Kingsland 19. Jacob Banta 19, William Colfax 20, John T.\\nBanta 20, Garret Van Houten 21, John D. Haring 21, Peter I. Terhune 21, David\\nI. Christie 21. Dower Westervelt 21. John Cutwater 21. Elias Brevoort 21. Cornel-\\nius Van Winkle 21. Christian Zabriskie 21. John Al. Voorhis 21. Henry B. Ha-er-\\nman 22, John A. Westervelt 22, Adam Boyd 22, Charles Board 22, John Cassidv\\n23. Peter Sipp 23, Jacob Banta 2-,. Henry W. Kingslani 23. Garret P. Hopper 2t,\\nDavid I. Christie 24. Garret Ackerson 25. Garret Van Houten 25. Marcus B. Doug-\\nlass 25. William Colfax 26. Christian Zabriskie 26. John D. Harinar 26. Peter I.\\nTerhune 26. Nathan-el Board 26; John Al. Voorhi-i 26. Henry B. Hagerman 27,\\nAlbert G Doremus 27, John D. Groot 27, Adam Bjvl 27, John A. Westervelt 27.\\nCornelius Van Winkle 27, J. Wells 27. Charles Board 27. Henry W. Kingsland 28,\\nPete 1. Terhune 2i. John Cassidv 28, John A, Berry 28, Peter Sipp 28. Cornelius\\nVan Winkle 29. Herr*- B. Banta 29. Richard Ackerman 29. Garret P. Hjpper 19,\\nJf hn G. Ackerman 30. Charles Kinsey 30, Peter D. Westervelt 30, Girret Van\\nHouten 30, Garret Ackerson 30. Mir:us B. Douglass 30. James R. Mullanv 30,\\nCornelius Van Winkle 30. William Colfax 31. Perriguin Sandford 31. Peter I. Ter-\\nhune 31. Nathaniel Board 31, John Al Voorhis 31. A lam Bovd 32. Ch-^rles Board\\nJ. Wells 32. Henrv B. Hagerman 3i. William H. Rathbone 3?. Albert G Doremus\\nM. John De Groot i3 John A. Westervelt 83. Albert Van Beuren 33. Samuel H.\\nBerrv 3.^, John Cassidv 33, C. B. Zabriskie 33, Peter Sipp ji. Cornelius I. Wester-\\nvelt 33, John H. Zabriskie 33, David H. Keen Davifi D. Van Bus.sum -ii. Cor-\\nnelius Van Winkle 34, Garret P. Hopper 34, John H. Hopper 54, Joseph Post 34,\\nThomas M. Gahagan 34, William Jenner 34, Henrv I. Spear 35, Jacob Berdan 35,\\nCornelius Van Revpen 35, Charles Kinsey 35, (iarret Ackerson 35, Francis Price\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23(1, William Colfax 36, Perreguin Sandford 36, Peter I. Terhune 37. Stephen H.\\nSutkins 37. Peter I. Ackerman 37. Abraham Westervelt 37. Chandler Dayton 37.\\nAndrew H. Hopper 37. Martin Van Houten 37, Henrv W. Kingsland 37, John A.\\nBerrv .^7. David~L Christie 38. John R. Hlauvclt 38. William P. Rathbone 38.\\nHenrv H. Banta 38, H. Southmavd 38, Cornelius Van Winkle .W, Peter Sipp 39,\\nJe(^rge C. De Kav 39, Robert S. Gould 40, Charles Kinsey 40, Abraham Wester-\\nvelt 40, (ieorge Zabriskie 41, Henry H. Hagerman 41, Albert G. Doremus 42, An-\\nThis list ciituaiiis the- names and years nf service of llie chosen freeholders of IJerircn town-\\nship, which became the county of Hudson in l.s4ll. They aret iven f|- ini the clo^e of the above list\\n17! 4i until the township ceased to exist as such.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "4() HISTOKV or BEKGEX COUNTY\\ndrew H. Hopper 42. Abraham Westervelt 43, John A. Blauvelt 43, David I. Chris-\\ntie 43, Abraham I. Ackerman 43, Peter I. Ackerman 43, Henry H. Banta 43, Mar-\\nfin Van Houten, Jr. 43, Samuel H. Kerry 43, Abraham Carlock 43, John G. Acker-\\nman 43, Peter I). Westervelt 43, Garret Ackerson 43, Isaac I. Haring 43. Peter I.\\nTerhune 43, Abraham J. Terhune 43, James Van Houten 43, John H. Hopper 43,\\nDavid D. Van Hnssnm 43, Garret P. Hopper 43, Joseph Post 43, Garret A. Za-\\nbriskie 44. Christian De Baun 44. John H. Zabriskie 44, Stephen Berdan 44, Gar-\\nret S. Demarest 45, James Rennie 4.S, James P. Demarest 46, Andrew H. Hopper\\n47, Peter I. Ackerman 48, Abraham J. Ackerman 44. Garret S. Demarest (1.\\nJacob I. Zabriskie .-1. Samuel H. Berry 82. Albert J. Terhune 53, Jacob J. Brink-\\nerhof .S4, Henry H. Voorhis 57. Albert J. Terhune 58. Peter I. Ackerman .S9, John\\nH. Zabriskie 62, Albert J. Terhune 63, John R. Post 64, Thomas Gumming- (.7.\\nWilliam Grei^: 67, Richard R. Paulison 68, Charles H. Voorhis 68, John R. Post\\n69. A^hbel Green 69, William S. Banta 72-77, Peter I. Ackerman 72-77. Nehamiali\\nMillard 74-79. Garret G. Ackerson 77-82, William E. Skinner 78-83, William S.\\nBanta 79-84, William Skinner 84-88. James M. Van Valen 88-98, David D. Za-\\nbriskie 98.\\nSHEKIFFS.\\nAdam Bovd 1789; William M. Betz 91 Albert C. Zabriskie 98; Lawrence Ack-\\nerman 1800 Casparus Bogert l!-01 John T. Banta 10; Samuel H. Berrv 13 James\\nH. Brinkerhoii 16; Samuel H. Ber -y 19; Andrew P. Hopper 21 AndVew H. Hop-\\nper 24; John R. Blauvelt 27; Garret Van Dien 30; John G. Ackerson 33; Jacob\\nC. Terhune 36; Georg-e H. Brinkerhoff ,W David D. Demarest 41; Peter Van\\nPimburgh 44; John A. Hopper 47; John V. H. Terhune 50; Abraham B Haring\\n53; Cornelius L. Blauvelt 55; James J. Brinkerhoff 59; Henrv A. Hopper 62;\\nJohn H. Banta 65 Jacob C. Van Blarum 68 David A. Pell 71 Garret R. Hering\\n74; David A. Pell 78; Isaac A. Hopper 82; Nicholas Demarest 87 Albert Bogert 92:\\nJames B. Brinkerhoff 84; Tennis A. Haring 89; William C. Hering 95; Jacob L.\\nVan Buskirk ^W.\\nSI U WdiVATKS.\\nJohn A. Boyd 1803; David I. Christie 28; Abrahim Z-ibriskie 38; Richard\\nR. Paulison 48 Isaaj Wortendvke 68-72; John M. Knapp 77; David A. Pell 82:\\nTennis A. Haring 93; David A Pell 98.\\nPHOSEcrxoRS OF THK i\u00c2\u00bbi,f;as.\\nLewis D. Harden burg- 1836 Abraham O. Zabriskie 42 Manning M. Knapp\\n51; William S. Banta 61; Garret G. Ackerson 69; Abraham D. Canipbell 70-80;\\nPeter W. Stagg 95.\\nei.RKKS.\\nPeter Stoutenburg I728 Nemiah Wade 89: Henry Van Dalsem 1804 Abraham\\nWestervelt 11 Abraham Westervelt Samuel H. Berry 35; John H. Berry 40\\n(iarret G. Ackerson. 45; Cornelius L. Blauvelt 60; Thomas W. Demarest 70\\nThomas W. Demarest 75 Samuel Taylor 80 Samuel Taylor 95 John M. Ramsey\\n95-19(10.\\nJIEMKKKS OF THE CorNCII,.\\nPeter Haring 1792- 96; John Outwater 1796- 1807; Peter Ward 1807: Adrian\\nPost 15: John b. Haring 16; Martin I. Ryerson I7 Adrian Post 18; John D.\\nHaring. 19- 22; Christian Zabriskie 22- 24 Charles Board 24- 27 Nathaniel Board\\n2-/- ?,0; Charles Board .lO Jaco^) M. Ryerson 31 Charles Board 32- 34 Christian\\nZabriskie .?4- 36 Samuel R. Demarest 36- 38 Francis Price 38 Albert G. Doremus\\n40 John Cassedv 41-43 John H. Zabriskie 43- 44.\\nST.\\\\TE SEN.\\\\TOHS.\\nRichard R. Paulison 1m44- 47 Isaac I. Haring- 47-49 John Van Hrufit 49 John\\nVan Brunt ,50- 51 Abraham Hopper f 51. Daniel D. Depew .53- 56 Thomas H.\\nHaring 56- 59: Ralph S. Demarest 59- 62 Daniel Holsman 62- 65 John Y. Dater\\n65- 68; James J. Blinkerhoff 68- 7l Cornelius Lydecker 7l- 74 George Dayton\\n74- 77 Cornelius S. Cooper 77- 80 Isaac Wortendvke 80- 83 Ezra Miller bSi\\nJohn W. Bogert 86- 89; Henry W. Winton 90- 95 William M. Johnson 9j- 99\\nMEJIBEKS OF .\\\\SSRMBLV.\\n1792, Henry Berry, lacob Terhune, Peter Ward. 93 Peter Ward, Henry Berry,\\nAdam Boyd. 94. Adam Bovd, Peter Ward, Benjamin Blackledge. 9? Adam\\nBoyd. Benjamin Blackledge, John Haring. 96, John Haring. Henrv Berry. William\\nC. Kingsland. 97, Thomas Blanch. Robert Campbell, Peter Wayd. 98, Peter\\nWard, Robert Campbell, Benjamin Blackledge. I799-I8OI. Peter Ward, Thomas\\nBlanch. John Dey. 1802. Thomas Blanch. Peter Ward, Isaac Kipp. 1803, Thomas\\nTo (in |)1ai: ..1 Isa.-ic I. Hjriuf. ilecc-a-;..il.\\n1 T (ill plac- (.r .1. Vail inuii. ri-sitrnt-d.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Blanch. Isaac Kipp, Martin I. KY rs..n. lsil4- o5. Vru-r Ward. I Tin. ma- I lan.-h.\\nAdrian Post. ISdo. I aac Kipp, Adrian l t, William (.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0..If.ix. l.soj, John Van\\nHorn. Abraham Koreshoe, William C nlfax. IS(l Adrian Post, William Cidfax.J(]hn\\nHopper. 15. Martin Van Heuten. John Ontwati-r. William Colfa.x. Id. Peti-rKipj).\\nJacob Banta, Cornelius Marselis. l-, Albert C. /iabrisUio. Cornelius Marselis.\\nJacob Banta. 1\u00c2\u00ab. Casparus Prior. Nathaniel Board. John Hopper. 1 Cornelius\\nVan Winkle. Casparus Bog-ert, Seba Brinkerhoff. 20. Seba Brinkerhoff, Cornelius\\nan Winkle. Charles Board. 21. Peter Kipj). John Westervelt. Jr.. Charles Board.\\n22. Peter Kipp. John Westervelt. Jr.. David I. Christie. 23. (iarret .\\\\ckerson, John\\nWestervelt. Jr.. David I. Christie. 24, (iarret Acker.son, John Van Wa^enen.\\nNathaniel Board. 25. Cornelius Van W inkle. Henry B. Ha.trt rnian. David I. Chris-\\ntie. 26, Cornelius Van Winkle, Charles Kinscv, David I. Christie. 2-. David I.\\nChristie, Peter I. Terhune. Cornelius D. Van Kiper. 2^, Cornelius Van Winkle.\\nJohn Ward, Andrew P. Hopper. 0. Pet^r I. Terhune. Samuel R. Deniarest. John\\nWard. 31. tJaret Kipp. Andrew H. Hopper, John R. Blauvelt. 32- 3,-. J diii .M.Cor-\\nnelius, Samuel R. Demarest. Garret P. Hopper. 34. Abraham Lydecker, John H.\\nHopper, Peter I. Ackerman. 35, Abraham Lydecker. Micliael Sauiiier. John H.\\nHopper. 36, Michael Saunier, Henry Doremus. Peter R. Riif-^s. \u00e2\u0096\u00a037- 3S. John\\nCassedy, Albert G. Lydecker, David D. Van Kussum. 40. John G. Ackerson. Albert\\nJ. Terhune. \u00e2\u0096\u00a041- 42, James I. Deniarest, John H. Zabriskie. 43- 44, William (i.\\nHopper. Jacob C. Terhune. 45- 46. John G. Banta, Jacob J. Brinkerhoff. \u00e2\u0096\u00a047- 4s.\\nJohn Ackerman. Jr.. Henry H. Voorhis, Jr. 49- 50, John Huyler, John H. Hopper.\\n.^1. John Huyler. John H. Zabriskie. 52- .xi. Jacob 1. Demarest. Abraham Van\\nHorn. .S4- 55. Thomas W. Demarest. Ralph S. Demarest. 56- 57. Daniel Holsman.\\nAaron H. Westervelt. Enoch Hrinkerhoff, Andrew C. Cadmus. 59. Enoch\\nBrinkerhoff, John H. Hopper. 60. Abraham Carlock, John R. Post. 61, Thomas\\nWard, John R. Post. \u00e2\u0080\u00a262- 63. Thomas Dunn English. John Y. Dater. \u00e2\u0080\u00a264- 65. Isaac\\nDemarest. Abraham B. Haring-. 66. Abraham Van Emburg^. Cornelius Christie.\\nHenrv G. Hering-. 68. Eben Winton, Henry G. Herinf^-. 69, Henry A. Hopper.\\nEhen Winton. 7O, Jacob G. Van Riper. Henry A. Hopper. 7I, Jacob G. Van\\nRiper. Georg-e J. Hopper. 72, Georg-e J. Hopper. John J. Anderson. 7.^4, Henry\\nC. Hering. John W. Bogert. 75- 76. John H. Winant, Barney N. Eredon. 77, M.\\nCorson Gillam. Southv S. Parramore. 78. John A. Demarest, Southv S. Parranuire.\\n79, John A. Demarest, Oliver Drake Smith. S0- 81, Johti Van Bu ssum. Elias H.\\nSisson. 84. Peter Ackerman. 8.5, Eben Winton, Peter Ackerman. 86, Eben\\nWinton, John Van Bussum. 87, Anderson Bloomer, Peter Ackerman. 88. Ander-\\nson Bloomer, Charles F. Harrington. 89, Abram De Ronde. Charles F. Harrington.\\n90, Abram De Ronde, George Zimmermann. 91, George H. Huyler, George Zim-\\nmermann. 92, Samuel G. H. Wright, John J. Dupuv. 93, Samiiel G. H. Wright,\\nJohn J. Dupuv. 94, Walter Dewsnap, David I). Zabriskie. 9.5, David D. Zabris-\\nkie, Frederick L. Voorhees. 96, Jacob H. Ullmann. Frederick L. Voorhees. 97.\\nJacob H. Ullmann. Abram C. Hoklruui. 98, John M.Bell. Abram C. Hoklruni.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a099, John M. Bell, Edmund W. Wakelee.\\nMEMBERS OF THE I KOVINCIAI. COXGKESS OK .NEW JEKSEV I-KOM BEKC.EN COINTV.\\nJune and Aug ust. 177.5. John Fell, John Demarest, Hendrick Kuyper, Abra-\\nham Van Boskirk, Edo Marseles. October. 177-^, John Demarest, Jacobu.s P ist,\\n.\\\\braham Van Boskirk.\\nMEMBERS OE THE CONSTrriTIO.V AI. CONVE.NTIONS.\\nI776, John Demarest, Jacobus Post. Ji hn Van Boskirk. Jacob Ouackenbush.\\nDaniel Isaac Brown. 1844, Abraham Westervelt, John Cassedy. ..f Bergen County;\\nElias B. D. Ogden, Andrew Parsons.\\nMEMBERS OF CONGRESS.\\nH jn. Adam Boyd 1803-5; to fill vacancy 1809 and in Twelfth Congress 1811-13:\\nHon. John Huyler 1857- .59; Hon. William Walter Phelps 187.3-75; Hon. Charles H.\\nVoorhis 1879-81 Hon. William Walter Phelps 1885-86.\\n(lOVERNOR.\\nHon. Rodman M. Price 1854-57.\\nJISTICE OF Sri KEME COl KT.\\nHon. Manning .M. I\\\\ini))p 187.5-82.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nTHE COURT AND COURT HOUSES,\\nThe province of East Jersey was not divided into counties until 1()S2.\\nAlthouj -h the Gerieral Assembly of the whole colony by an Act jiassed on\\nthe 3()th of November, 1( 75 had declared Berg-en and the plantations and\\nsettlements in its vicinity to be a county, in name Berg-en county,\\nthough the Act does not say so in so many words.\\nOld traditions have located a county court in the present village of\\nHackensack as far back as 1()()S. The sessions of the court were on the\\nfirst Tuesday in March, June, September and December. By the above\\nAct provision was made for the trial of small causes; also tax cases were\\nto be tried by three persons without a jury having jurisdiction in all\\nmatters of forty shillings and under with right to appeal to either party\\niqxin the request and at his cost. Criminal jurisdiction was confined to\\nthe county court.\\nIn 17(IS Bergen county was ealtirged taking in all the territory on\\nthe west side of the Hackensack to the Passaic River, northward to the\\nboundarv of the province and southward to Constable Hook. The vil-\\nlage of Hackensack in New Barbadoes then became a part of Bergen\\ncounty.\\nThe Act of l(i.S2 provided for a Supreme Court then designated as\\nthe t ourt of Common Right. This court sat at Elizabethtown, then\\ncapital of tlie province.\\nTo the end that British sovereignty should be recognized and main-\\ntained, all warrants with process and attachments were issued in the\\nname f the king of England. In Ki.SS the court for the trial of small\\ncauses was to be held monthly at the house of Lawrence Andriss, of\\nNew Hackensack. and also at the house of Dr. Johannes, on the Hack-\\nensack River, then in the county of Essex, and for the inhabitants of\\nNew Barbadoes and Acquickanick.\\nProfane swearing or cursing in lt)82 cost the offender one shilling.\\nOne of the early laws enacted was as follows:\\nConcerning that beastly vice, drunkenness, it is hereby enacted that\\nif any person found to l)e drunk he shall jiay one shilling fine for the\\nfirst time, two shillings for the second, and for the third time, and for\\nevery time after, two shillings and six jience; and such as have nothing\\nto pay sh;ill suffer ciiri)oreal punishment; and for those that are unruly\\nand disturbers of the peace, they shall be jnit in the stocks until they are\\nsober, or during tin- i)leasure of the officer in chief in the ])lace where he\\nwas drunk.\\nNew Jersey remained partitioned into East and West Jersey under\\ntwo co-ordinate governments until 17(12. When Oueen Anne ascended\\nthe throne, in 17(i2, the two ])ro\\\\-inces were consolidated into one govern-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "lUSTOKV Ol HICKCICN COINTV 4\\nnie-.il ;i;i(l tluis roiiiainod uikIli- royal aiiihoritv until the Kt volutiou of\\n177:). The Ciovcriior and oiincil were emixiwerod to ereet. constitute\\nand establish such courts as they should deem proper; and to a])point\\nand to commission judy-es and other oflici rs without limitation of time\\nin these commissions.\\nA Court of Chancery was early reco -uized. Hv an ordinance of\\nLord Cornhury, the {governor or the Lieutenant-liovernor, or any three\\nof the Council, could constitute a ccmrt to hear and determine causes in\\nequity, as in the English Court of Chancery.\\n(iovernors Hunter and Franklin exercised chancery powers under the\\ncolonial system, and so that court was presided over lonji^ after the Revo-\\nlution, and until a chancellor was provided for under the State constitu-\\nti iu. Pjcclesiastical jurisdication was exercised over the province bv the\\nBishop of Fvoiidou, excepting- the coll.atiny to beneiices, i^rantint;-\\nlicenses of marriage, and probate of wills, which were confined to\\nthe Goveriior. The Bishop London thus became the ordinarv and\\nmetropolitan of the I rerogative Court. But surrogates were soon\\n:il)pointed, but vested only with the clerical powers they now have; and\\n)rphans Court were established in the several counties in 17S4. I^he\\noriginal jurisdiction of the ordinary remained unchanged till 1820. Sur-\\nrogates were appointed in joint legislative meeting till 1822, and after-\\nwards were elected by the people, as at present. The Supreme Court\\nalways had ])lenary jurisdiction, civil and criminal. There were also\\nspecial conmiissions for terms of the Oyer and Terminer, Init to be held\\nat the regular circuits. They were presided over, as now bv a justice of\\nthe Supreme C()urt and the associate judges of the Common Pleas in\\neach county. Before the county org-anizations were established special\\nterms of the Oyer and Terminer were sometimes ai)])ointed to fie held at\\nWoodbridge, and frequently at the capital (d tlu ])rovince. A judge of\\nthe Sujireme Court and special judges were then ajjpointed tt hold that\\ncourt.\\nIn connnon with other colonies slavery came to the province of New\\nJersey at a very early day. In existence of this institution called for\\njieculiar laws, one of which was passed in the twelfth year of the reign\\nof (Jueen Anne il71. entitled An Act for regulating slaves. This\\nAct forbade any traffic with any indian, negro or mulatto slave without\\nthe consent of the owner. The necessity which called for such laws\\n1 volved sulisecpient enactments, manifestly very unjust to the colored\\nIK-ople.\\nIn the minutes of the Justices and Freeholders for the county of\\nliergen, in 17.^5, is found the following entry of a trial of a negro slave\\nNew Jersey, Bergen County, the 15 of August. 1735. Upon infor-\\nmation made to William provoost, Kstjr that the negro man of peter\\nKipp called Jack, having beaten his sd master and threatened Several\\nTimes tr) murder him, his said master and his son and Also to Burn down\\nhis House Whereupon the Said \\\\Vni. ])rov iost I .sqr Cranted a Warrant", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "5t) HISTOKV OF BEKGHN COUXTV\\nDirected ti) the Constable to take the said Negro Jack Into Custody and\\nWas Committed by the vSaid Wm. provoost Esqr to (ioal.\\nThis Is In His Majestyes Name to Will and Require you to Sum-\\nmonds Thre or more Justices and five principal freeholders lor Said\\nCounty to appear at the Court House for the said County on friday\\nmorning at Nine of the clock. Being- the fifteenth Day of this Instant\\nAugust to try the Negro of petre Kipp named Jack, for having Beaten\\nhis Said Master and Threatened several times to murder him and his son\\nand Also to Burn Down his House on Wednesday the Thirteenth day of\\nthis Instant and in this you Are Not to fail.\\nGiven Under my Hand this fourteenth Day of August In the\\nNinth Year of our Reign 17, 5\\n(sd) William Pkovoost.\\nTo David Ackeman, High Constable\\nThis Is In his Majesties name to \\\\yill and Require you to Sum-\\nmond these Under Named to Appear at the Court House on Friday\\nthe 15 day of this Instant to Give Evidence In the Behalf of Our Lord\\nthe King Against the Negro of Peter Kijip called Jack In this you are\\nNot to fail. Given Under my Hand this 14 day of August, 1735 and In\\nthe Ninth year of our Reign.\\nTo David Ackeman, High Constable. Peter Kipp, Elshe Kipp,\\nTheir Son, Henry Kipp, Derrech Terhune, Jacobus Housman, Isaac Kipp.\\nNevi Jersey, Bergen Cty. Whereas William provoost Esqr Being\\nInformed that the Negro of peter Kipp Called Jack having Beaten his\\nSd Master and often times threatened the Lifes of his Sd master and his\\nSon Likewise to burn his Sd Masters House and then Destroy himself on\\nWednesday the 13 day of August 1735 for which We here Under Subscrib-\\ned was Summond by the Justices to appear at the Court House of the Said\\nCounty the 15 Day of the Sd Instant to Try the Said Negro Jack Ac-\\ncording to the Direction of Act of General Assembly Entitled an Act for\\nRegulating Slaves Whereupon having Duily Examined the Evidence\\nAccording to ye direction of the Aforesaid Act found the Aforesaid\\nNegro Jack Guilty of the Said Crime Alledged Against him\\n(Sd) Wm. Provoost, Isaac Van Gesen, John Stagg, Henry Van-\\ndelenda, Paulies Van Derbeek, Justices, present.\\nAbraham Vack, Abraham Ackerman, Egbert Ackerman, Lawrence\\nAckerman, Garret Hoppe, Freeholders, present.\\nNew Jersey, Bergen County Att a meeting of the Justices free-\\nholders for the Trying of the Negro Man of Peter Kipp Called Jack at\\nthe Court House for the said County (m friday the 15 Day of August\\n1735. Present the above Named Justices and freeholders, the freeholders\\nBeing Sworn proceeded to Tryal.\\nDavid Provoost Esqr Being appointed by the justices to Prosecute\\nthe said Negro Man of Peter Kipp called Jack. Gentlemen I am ap-\\nl)ointed by the Justices to Prosecute the Negro Man of Peter Kipp Called\\nJack for having on the 13 Day of this Instant August struck his Said\\nMaster Severall (Idowsi and offered to kill him With an Ax and often", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol Hl .K-C.lCN COINTY 51\\nlimes Said that he would kill liis Said Master, and Master Son, Hurn his\\nMaster s House and then Destroy himself Which I am Keady to Make\\nAppear hv Good and Lawful Evidences that the abovesaid Negro Jack\\nIs Guilty of Both Striking- his Master Several IJlows and Attempting- to\\nKill him With an Ax and Likewise of Threateninif Several times to\\nKill his Said Master and his Master s Son and Sett lire to his Masters\\nHouse and then Destroy himself For WHiich Reason I Desire Your hon-\\nours that the Above Said Neijro May Be tryed as the Law Directs that\\nthe King May have Justice Done, which was (iranted by the Jus-\\ntices and freeholders and Did proceed Accordingly.\\nTHE K\\\\-ir)i;NCKS DICCI.AKATION.\\nPeter Kipp Declared upon the Holy Evangelist rhat he was going\\nto one of his tields with his Negro Man Jack and on the Road he Cave\\nthe Said Negro a Blow which at the Said Negro Risisted fought with\\nhis Master, Striking him Several Blows and Afterwards taking up an Ax\\nthreatened to kill him his Said Master and his Son ;ind then Destroy\\nhimself. Upon \\\\Vhicli his Said Master Ran away for assistance and\\nsomtime after he Was Tyed he Said that he would In the Night When\\nhis Master Slept Sett his house on tire.\\nHenry Kipp Declared Ui)oii tlu- Holy Evangelist that he being one\\nof the Assistance at the Taking and Tying of the Said Negro that when\\nthey came to the Said Negro they found two Axes by him and after h;i v-\\ning tved him he said that when his Master Slept he would Sett his\\nHouse a tire.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Then Isaac Kipp and Jacobus huysman declared likewise with\\nHenry Kipp. Then Henry Kipp declares that his father gave the negro\\na blow at which the negro resisted and fought his father: striking him\\nSeveral blows and taking up an ax and threatening to kill him and then\\nde.strov himself: and then the record proceeds as follows: Then the prisoner\\nWith-Drew and the justices and the freeholders proceeded. The justices\\nand freeholders having taken the matter into Consideration and Did (live\\nSentence of Death Upon him as followelh:\\nThat is to say that ye Said Ni gro Jack Shall be brought from\\nhence to the place from Whence ht came, and there to Continue untill\\nthe 1(. day of This Instant August till Ten of TheClockof the Morning,\\nand then to Be Burut Untill he Is Dead, at some Convenient ])lace on the\\nRoad between the Court TIous^- and Ouacksack.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2This Is therer. re to Will and Recpiir you to take ye Body of the\\nNegro Jack Into vour Custody See him Executed According to the\\nSentence givi ii, and for your so Doing this Shall be your Sufficient W ar-\\nrant. Given Under our hands this 1.^ day of August. In the Year of\\nhis Majesties Reign, Annoy Domini S.\\nTo PKUCI.U.S p.M .MKKTo.\\\\, High Sheriff of the County of Bergen,\\nand signed by the Justices and Free holders, whose names are mentioned\\nat the beginning of this procei ding.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "HISTORY Of BEKGKN COTNTY\\nBy a l rief analysis nf this proceediiiif it will W seen ihat when the\\nnegTo, Jack, was ti^oin^r to the field with his master, on Wednesday.\\nAug iist 13, 17. that the master gave Jack a hlnw. He was, therefore,\\nthe first assailant, though, as a master, he deemed himself empowered\\nto chastise his slave that the negro struck back, and made, in his anger,\\nsundry threats that all the f(.)rmal proceedings were done and the matter\\ndisposed of Friday following, and sentence passed directing the Sheriff\\nof the county to burn the negro on Saturday morning, August U). 1735.\\ntil he is dead.\\nOn Wednesday the African offended, and on Saturday morning he\\nwas burned to ashes, and all this was done lawfully and under the\\nBritish Constitution in 1735, less than a century and a half ago.\\nIn 1741 two negroes, charged on suspicion of having set seven barns\\non tire, were convicted and burned to death at Yellow Point, m the east\\nside of the Hackensack River, near the house of Dierech Van Horn.\\nThis act, as appears from the records, was frequently invoked, and con-\\ntinued even down to the Revolution. During this period the stocks, the\\nwhipping post and the pillory, at convenient places in different parts\\nof Bergen County, performed their part also in punishing petty crimes.\\nand misdemeanors also of greater magnitude. At the Octoljer term of\\nthe General Quarter Sessions, sitting at Hackensack, in 17() i, we have\\nthe following record, showing how the prisoner was imnished. The\\ncase is entitled\\nThe King agst Uiuick, a Negro Man beU)nging to Mary Terhune.\\nThe prisoner arraigned on his Indictment pleaded guilty, and submits\\nhimself to the niercv of the Court. On motion of Mr. Brown for the\\nLord for judgment, the Court ordered that as in the Warrant.\\nTo the Sheriff of the County of Bergen:\\nThomas Ouack, a Negro Man, belonging to Mary Terhune. was\\nthis day indicted before us, (ieorge Ryerson, Rynear Van Gieson, Law-\\nrence L. Van Boskirk, Peter Zabriskie, John Fell and RulilT Westervelt.\\nEsqrs., His Majesty s Justices of the Peace in and for the County of\\nBergen, one whereof bin of the Ouorum of the Court of General Quarter\\nSessions of the peace, holden this dav in and for the County of Bergen.\\nfor leloniously stealing, taking and carrying away from the dwelling-\\nhouse of Isaac Kipp, Junior, certain goods, and has pleaded guilty to\\nhis said Indict. Therefore, in His Majesty s name, you are hereby com-\\nmanded forthwith to take the said Negro Quack from this Bar to the\\npublic Whipping Post, at the Court House, and there cause the said\\nQuack to receive fifteen lashes, well laid on his bare back, and from\\nthence you are to take him tyed at a Cart s tail to the corner of the Lane\\nopposite Renier Van (xieson, P^sqr., and then cause the said Quack to\\nreceive fifteen hishes more as aforesaid, and innn thence, at the Cart s\\ntail, take him to the corner of the Lane opposite to J. Isaac Ryerson.\\nand there cause said Quack to receive nine lashes more, in manner afore-\\nsaid, and on Friday next, at 3 o clock in the afternoon, you are again to\\ntake the s.-iid Quack to the Whipping-Post aforesaid, ;ind cause him", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY l)l- TiKKC.liN CorXTY -\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^.i\\nto roceive lifteeu lashes more, in manner aforesaid, and from thenee\\nto the Street facintj Mr. William I rovoost. and there eau ;e said\\n(Juack to receive fifteen laslu-s m )re, in nruin^r a afores:u l, and\\nfrom thence to the lane oi)posite to Mr. Isaac Kipp s, and cause him !o\\nreceive nine lashes more in manner aforesaid, and on Monday next you\\nare again to take the said Oiiack to the Whipjiinn Post aforesaid, and\\ncause him to receive fifteen lashes more in manner aforesaid, and from\\nthence over the Bridj^e, opposite to Mr. (leorsre Camijhell s House, and\\nthere cause him, said Uuack, to receive lifteen lashes more, in manner\\naforesaid, and from opposite Mr. Jacob Zahriskey s dwelliiif^-House. and\\ncause the said Ouack to receive nine lashes more, in manner aforesaid,\\nand the several constables of this County of Hers,^ -n are hereby com-\\nmanded to attend and assist you. (liven under our hands and seals this\\nTwentv-fifth Day of October. Anno Domini 17() i.\\nI Signed I George Ryerse, Peter Zabriskie, Lawrence L. Bos-\\nkirk. John Fell.\\nWithin a week the negro, in nine whii)i)ings on three several days,\\nand at the whipping-post and other pul)lic places in and about the village\\nof Hackensack, was scourged one hundred and seventeen lashes. It is\\nsaid that two slaves, named Ned and Pero, in attempting to rob in the\\nnight, had broken a man s skull in an atrocious assault, whereby his lite\\nwas endangered, and on conviction they were sentenced to receive five\\nhundred lashes each, one hundred lashes to be inflicted on each succeed-\\ning Saturdav till the punishment was C(miplcte. These several whip-\\npings were to be imposed in different public places in the county. One\\nof the slaves survived the five hundred lashes, but the other died on the\\nfourth Saturday, after having received four hundred lashes. Xo record\\nof this affair has been found. It is stated, however, on information\\nwhich is deemed reliable. The wlii].i)ing-post. stocks and pillory con-\\ntinued long after the Revolution, but llir awful scenes of l)urning at the\\nstake, let us hope, were too abhorrent to have been of fre.pient occur-\\nrence long before 177(\\nC()tKT-H()rs)-;s. ci.ickk s .xxn siKKcjcA rK s oi-i-icK.\\nNo coui-t-house could have l)een built in Hackensack for the County\\nof Bergen earlier than about 17(l i to 171ii. then the first court-house was\\nbuilt on the (Ireen, fronting on Main Street. That structure ccmiprised\\na jail and court-house built together. It was destroyed by the British\\nin 17S(I.\\nThe second court-house and jail were built in Vougli])ough. in the\\ntownship of Franklin, during the Revolution, and the c.mrts were held\\nthere for a few years, as deliberative Justice during that stormy period\\nfound itself too near the British lines and British invasion in attempting\\nto sit statedly at Hackensack. Of ccmrse, Ycmghpough (pronounced in\\nmodern times Yoppo) was only the county-seat mi interim, and until\\nJustice could resume her more ancient seat in i)eace and safety at Hack-\\nensack. There was a log jail built at Youghpougli. but the courts seem", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "S4 rrisTOKS of BEKc7iiN catrNTr\\nti havo bofii held there either in the Pond Reformed Church or even at\\nprivate houses in the vicinity, to such judical extremities had the British\\ndriven us during the Kevolutixm. It is related that Noah Collington, or\\nKellingham, a Tory, was hung- near the log jail at Youghpough. He\\nhad been indicted for murder and robbery in this county. In attempting\\nto escape in disguise across the Hudson near Fort Lee, in order to get\\nwithin the British lines, he was cajitured near that place and brought to-\\nthis jail.*\\nThe third court-house, and first after the Revolution, was built at\\nHackensack, near Main Street, now the brick storehouse of Richard Paul\\nTerhune. The land for that purpose was conveyed to the county by-\\nPeter Zabriskie as grantor. His deed is dated October 27, 17S4.\\nOn May 18th, 1785, Peter Zabriskie executed another deed to the\\ncountv in consideration of eighty-two pounds lawful currency of New\\nJersey for another lot, and on May Jtli, 1793, deeded to the county an\\nadditional piece of land adjoining the east side of the Court House lot,\\nfour feet wide, extending the whole length of that lot.\\nTwo hundred pounds was ordered to be raised by county tax to build\\nthe Court House. Nehemiah Wade deeded the land on which the former\\nClerk s office stood, July 3d, 1786. The Clerk s ()ffice w^as built between\\n1812 and 181 a little north of the Midland Railroad, on the west side\\nof the street. There it remained until 1853.\\nAn effort was made by the up-town people to locate the Court House\\nthere, but the offer by Robert Campbell was accepted, and in 1819 the\\nbuilding so familiar to the people of the county, was erected, with the\\nGreen in front, and the Clerk s and Surrogate s Offices near it.\\nTielman Van Vleck was the presiding judge of the first court pro-\\nl)ablv ever held within the present territory of New Jersey. The early\\nlist of lawyers in this county down to 1776, as fully as can be obtained\\nare given with their dates of admission as follows:\\nIddl, Tielman Van Vleck, admitted as attorney in 1( 6(I.\\n1( |)4 to 1678, Claes Arentse Toers, Balthazar Bayard, and William\\nPinhorne, admitted f probably attornevs about 16()1. The latter was\\nalso a merchant.\\n1707, John Pinhorne, .idmitted as attorney in 1707.\\n172H to 1750, David Ogden, Mr. Duane, and Mr. Lodge, admission as\\nattorneys unknown.\\n1750 to 1756, Rt)bert Morris and John De Hart, admission as attor-\\nneys unknown.\\n1756 to 17()1. Mr. Legromsie, Mr. Nicoll. and Dr. Isaac Brown,\\nadmission as attorneys unknown.\\nElisha Boudinot, appointed sergeant-at-law in 1792.\\nCortlandt Skinner, ajipointcd attorney-general July 10, 1754.\\ntieorge Ross, Lewis ()g(len. A. Moore, and Isaac Ogden. admission\\nas attorneys unknown.\\n1776, John Chetwood and Abraham Ogden, admission as attorneys\\nunknown.\\nSc- sli.-lch 1.11 Uk- HUl.ny .it OaUl:iiul.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Willi.iin Pinhnrne, who oaiiio to this coiiiitrv from Eiiyhmd in i7H,\\n^v;^s second jiidufo of the Supreme (.lourt of New Jersey in 1704, jndg-e of\\nthe Berg en County Common Pleas in 17U5, and of the Bergen Oyer and\\nTerminer in 170 l, and of the Common Pleas in 17(1 He had previously\\nbeen judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and at one time presi-\\ndent i)f its Council, and commander-in-chief or (xovernor. He died in\\n171 His son John was clerk of this county in 17(15, and was admitted\\nto the bar June 17(l7, and practiced in this county, and probably resided\\nat Hackensack or Hoboken. His sister Martha married Roger Mompes-\\nsim. who was chief justice of New York and Pennsvlvania, and in 1704\\nwas also chief justice of New Jersey.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nber(;en county in time of war.\\nTill-: i-:i-;\\\\ ()i,u ri()NAKv struggle. tiiic wai ok the rebellion. the\\nRAILROAD STRIKE. -THE WAR WITH SPAIN.\\nPho niilitarv history of the L-ounty of Berj^en extends over the whole\\nperiod of its OL cupation bv the white man. Upon the arrival of the first\\nsettler he was obliged to place himself on the defensive, and stand ready\\nfor eoniliat. The Indian, of course, resented the intrusion of white men\\nui)on the domains which he considered his by right of possession, and\\nenjoying the right of priority, was happy in his simple and indolent life,\\nand desired no other kind of existance. The astute Dutch settler saw\\nbefore him wealth, independence and consequently- a cause for even fight-\\ning for a name and place in the New World. After many conflicts and\\nmany sad disasters to both the civilized and uncivilized participants, the\\npoor ignorant savage was obliged to yield to the wiser and more enlight-\\nened adversary. This was the only outcome possible in such a conflict-\\npathetic as it is to contemplate. The first Indian war having ended in\\n1()4S, and a treaty of peace concluded, quiet prevailed for a time.\\nIt was not until 1774, the beginning of the Revolution, that a point\\nwas reached in the methods used by the mother country, to force the\\nj)avment of ta.xes by her subjects on this side, without the privilege of\\nsending representatives to look after their interests, which brought out\\nthe necessity for a decisive step. A military force must now be organ-\\nized to meet an enemy of equal intelligence and of greater numerical\\nstrength, for the purpose of defending the rights of those who had braved\\nall sorts of hardships in their effort to build up homes in this country.\\nAccordingly a local Committee of Safety was organized in Bergen\\ncounty, a measure probably hastened by the closing of the port of Boston\\nin the Spring of that year, 1774). T^^c Freeholders and people of Ber-\\ngen C(_)unty held a meeting at the court house on the 25th of June and\\nwith Peter Zabriski* as chairman adopted the following preamljle an l\\nresolutions\\nThis meeting lieing deeply affected with the calamitous condition of\\nthe inhabitants of Boston in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in con-\\nseiiuence of the late Act of Parliament for blocking up the port of Boston,\\nand considering the alarming tendency of the Act of the British Parlia-\\nment for the purpose of raising a revenue in America.\\nDo Resolve, 1st, That they think it their greatest happiness to live\\nun ler the government of the illustrious H nise of Hanover, and that\\nthev will steadfastly and uniformly bear true and faithful allegiance to", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol DKKdKN COUNTY\\nHis Majesty Kinu; Georgo the Third undi-r tlu onjovineiit of their eonsti-\\ntutidiial riifhts and privilejfes.\\n2(1. That we conceive it to v mn in(lul)itahle pri\\\\ ilc ^e to be taxed\\nonly hy our own consent, t;-iven by ourselves or by our representatives;\\nand that we consider the Acts of Parliament declarative of their rig-ht\\nto impose internal taxes on the subjects of America as manifest encroacli-\\nments on our naticmal rights and privileges as British subjects, and as\\ninconsistent with the idea id an American Asseml)lv or House of Repre-\\nsentatives.\\n.mI. That we will heartily unite with this Colonv in choosing dele-\\ngate to attend at a general congress from the several provinces of Ame-\\nrica in order to consult on and determine some effectual method to be\\nl ursued for obtaining a repeal of the said Acts of Parliament, which\\nappear to us evidently calculated to destroy that mutual harmony and\\ndependence between (ireat Britain and hiT colonies which are the basis\\nand support of both.\\nAnd we do appoint Theunis Dey. John Demarest. Peter Zabriskie,\\nt ornelius Van Vorst, and John Zabriskie, Jr., Esquires, to be a commit-\\ntee for corresponding with the committees of the other counties in this\\nProvince, and particularly to meet with the other count} committees at\\nNew Brunswick, or such other place as shall be agreed upon, in order to\\nelect delegates to attend the general congress of delegates of the Ameri-\\ncan Colonies for the purpose aforesaid.\\nAfter these resolutions were signed hv three hundred and twenty-\\neig-ht citizens of Bergen Countv. a local Committee of Safety was organ-\\nized of which John Fell, a devoted ])ai:ri.)t of Paratnus was made chair-\\nman. Nothing of a startling n.ature, however, occurred until in 177ii\\nwhen it became known that Lord Howe was on his way to New York.\\nLord Stirling was then in conunand of the militia in this part of Jersey\\nwhen he made an attempt to build fortifications on the eastern side of\\nhe C( untv, along the Hud^(^n and also at Bergen Point opposite Staten\\nIsland. Three companies were now organized in Bergen County and\\njoined in Battalion with three from Kssex and two from Burlington,\\nwhile the regular militia id IJergen was organized in one regiment.\\nThis order came from the Pro\\\\incial Congress in session in Burlington\\nOrdered that Cornelius A an Vorst be Lieutenant Colonel, Richard Day\\nFirst Major, and John Martinius Cloetschius, Secimd Major of the battal-\\nlion of foot militia in the County of Bergen. Lord Stirling, in order to\\nbe prepared for defending Bergen, set several hundred of the militia to\\nwork in the construction of roads, one from Weehawken to Hackensack\\nFerry and the other from Paulus Hook to Brown s, and before (ieneral\\nWasiiington arrived he had both these and the forts at Paulus Hook and\\nBergen Neck well underway. Ceneral Washingtim ordered the work\\nto proceed at Paulus Hook, and upon its completicm was garrisimed, but\\nthe British were occupying Staten Island before the work could be finish-\\ned at Bergen Point. On the 4th of July 177(., General Washington\\nordered General Mercer to station live hundred men at Bergen Neck,\\nand to guard the ferries over the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, ])rom-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUN TV\\nising to send an eng ineer from New York on the followin f day for the\\npurpose of erecting works for the safety of those places. Fort De\\nLancev was erected at that time at a point a little below the present\\ncanal at Bayonne and General Wadsworth s brigade was sent to Ber-\\ngen and there joined by a battalion of Jersey troops.\\nThe records were removed from Perth Amboy to Burlington early\\nin the year of 1776 by order of the Provincial Congress. No attack was\\nmade by either side, nor was any active movement made, although Gen-\\neral Mercer had planned an attack, which was foiled by bad weather.\\nThe British were concentrating their forces, until about 30,000 men\\nhad gathered within the harbor and upon Staten Island. The first firing\\nwas by the patriots on the 12th of July, when the two British men-of-\\nwar the Phoenix and the Rose, sailed up the habor, the first a\\nvessel of forty guns and the second of twenty guns. The firing was\\nfrom Palus Hook, but did little harm to the vessels, as their sides were\\nprotected by sand bags. As Lord Howe sailed up the harbor on that\\nevening he was greeted with cheers and booming of cannon from the\\nBritish, who, on the 15th of July, took possession of New York.\\nBergen was headquarters until October 5th, 1776. when Washington\\nbegan his retreat to the Delaware. Removing first to Fort Constitution\\nnow Fort Lee which in turn was evacuated on November 20th, leaving\\nEast Jersey to the enemy, who no doubt felt that they had gained a\\ngreat victory. Lieutenant Colonel Van Buskirk, of Saddle River, who\\nhad joined the British, was placed in command of the post of Paulus\\nHook, while the fort at Bergen Neck was occupied almost wholly by\\nrefugees. This was named Fort DeLancey, in honor of Oliver De\\nI^ancev, of Westchester, who had also joined the British.\\nThe following account of the evacuation of Fort I^ee was written\\nbv Thomas Paine, author of The American Crisis:\\nAs I was with the troops at Fort Lee, and marched with them to\\nthe edge of Pennsj-lvania, I am well acquainted with many circumstances\\nwhich those who lived at a distance knew little or nothing of. Our situ-\\nation there was exceedingly cramped, the place being on a narrow neck\\nof land between the North River and Hackensack. Our force was in-\\nconsiderable, being not one-fourth as great as Howe could bring against\\nus. We had no army at hand to have relieved the garrison had we shut\\nourselves up and stood on the defense. Our ammunition, light artillery\\nand the best part of our stores had been removed upon the apprehension\\nthat Howe would endeavor to penetrate the Jerseys, in which case Fort\\nLee could be of no use to us, for it must occur to every thinking man,\\nwhether in the army or not, that these kind of field-forts are only for\\ntemporary purposes, and last in use no longer than the enem}- directs\\nhis force against the particular objects which forts are raised to defend.\\nSuch was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the morning\\nof the 20th of November, when an officer arrived with information that\\nthe enemy, with two hundred boats, had landed about seven or eight\\nmiles above. Major General Greene, who commanded the garrison.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OI- BICKOEN COUNTY 5\\nimmediately ordered them under arms, and sent an express to His Ex-\\neellencv General Washington, at the town of Ilackensaek. distant bv\\nthe way of the ferry six miles. Our lirst object was to secure the bridg-e\\nover the Hackensack, which laid uj) the river, between the enemy and\\nus about six miles from us and three irom them. General Washinj^ton\\narrived in about three-quarters of an hour, and marched at the head of his\\ntroops towards the bridge, at which place I expected we should have a\\nl)rush. However, they did not choose to dispute it with us, and the\\ngreatest part of our troops went over the bridge, the rest over the ferrv,\\nexcept some which passed at a mill on a small creek between the bridge\\nand the ferry, and made their way through some marshy ground up\\nto the town of Hackensack, and there passed the riv.r. We brought off\\nas much baggage as the wagons could contain, the rest was lost. The\\nsimple object was to bring of? the garrison and to march them on until\\nthey could be strengthened by the Pennsylvania or Jersey- militia, so as\\nto be enabled to make a stand. We stayed four days at Newark, col-\\nlected in our outposts, with some of the Jersey militia, and marched out\\ntwice to meet the enenn- on information of their being advancing, though\\nour tumibers were greatly inferior to theirs.\\nAn eye-witness has given the following statement:\\nIt was about dusk when the head of the troops entered Hacken-\\nsack. The night was dark, cold and rainy, but I had a fair view of them\\nfrom the light of the windows as they passed on our side of the street.\\nThey marched two abreast, looked ragged, some without a shoe to their\\nfeet, and most of them wrapped up in their blankets. Washington\\nthen, and for some time previous, had his headquarters at the residence\\nof Mr. Peter Zabriskie, a private house, now called The Mansion\\nHouse, the supplies for the General s table being furnished b Mr.\\nArchibald Campbell, the tavern-keeper. The next evening after the\\nAmericans had passed through the British encamped on the opposite\\nside of the river. We cf)uld see their fires, about one hundred yards\\napart, gleaming brilliant]}- in the gloom of night, extending some dis-\\ntance below the town and more than a mile up towards New Bridge.\\nWashington was still at his quarters, and had with him his suite, life-\\nguard, a companv of foot, a regiment of cavalry, and some soldiers from\\nthe rear of the army. In the morning, before the (ieneral left, he rode\\ndown to the dock, where the bridge now is, viewed the enemy s encamp-\\nment about ten or fifteen minutes, and then returned to Mr. Campbell s\\ndoor and called for some wine and water. After he had drank, and Mr.\\nCampbell had taken the glass from him, the latter, with tears streaming-\\ndown his face, said, (ieneral, what shall I do? I have a family of\\nsmall children and a little proi)erty here; shall I leave them? Washing-\\nton kindly took his hand, and re])lied, Mr. Campbell, stay by your\\nfamily and k-ccp iini/ra/: then bidding him good-by, rode off.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2About noon the next day the British tt)ok possession of the town,\\nand in the afternoon the Green was covered with Hessians, a horrid,\\nfrightful sight to the inhabitants. There were between three and four", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "f)0 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ntlidusand, with llu-ir whiskers, brass caps and kettles or base drums. A\\npart of these troops were taken prisoners two months after at Trenton.\\nThe British made raids in New Jersey from time to time devastat-\\nint^ the county bv these foraging- expeditions. It was during one of\\nthese raids that Colonel Aaron Burr distinguished himself by surprising\\nthe enemy s men on picket duty and afterward calling upon the people\\nto rally the country. His attack had so encouraged the people that they\\nturned out and put themselves under his command, when the enemy im-\\nmediately fled leaving the greater part of the plunder behind.\\nWhat was called Clinton s Raid occurred in 1777, and was planned\\nbv Sir Henry Clinton who divided his force into four columns, the gen-\\neral point of rendevous being New Bridge above Hackensack. One\\ncolumn, under General Campbell, entered New Jersey bj- way of Eliza-\\nbethtown; one, under Captain Drummond, by Schuyler s Ferry; one,\\nunder General Vaug-hn, by way of Fort Lee, and the other, under Lieu-\\ntenant Colonel Campbell, by way of Tappan. It was on September 12,\\nthe expedition set out, Clinton following, going to Schuyler s Landing\\non the Hackensack, (Dow s Ferry), and going by the Belleville turn-\\npike to Schuyler s house he found Captain Drummond with two hundred\\nand fifty men. General Campbell arrived with his men during the\\nnight bringing the cattle they had collected by the way. The ccdumns\\nmet on the ISth, as before arranged. On the Kith (leneral Campbell\\nmarched his force over to Staten Island, from the English Neighbor-\\nhood. From the people of Essex and Bergen Counties they took four\\nhundred cattle, four hundred sheep, and a few horses, but they had\\neight men killed, eighteen wounded, ten missing and live taken prisoners.\\nThe most interesting episode in this portion of our history is the\\nattempt to capture the fort at Paulus Hook by Major Henry Lee. This\\ngallant and dashing officer, who had frequently been employed by\\nWashington as a scout along the west bank of the Hudson, had dis-\\ncovered that the British fort at Paulus Hook, although a strong place,\\nwas negligently guarded, and he conceived the idea of its capture by a\\nnight march and a sudden surprise. By permission from Washington,\\nLee moved from his encampment at New Bridge about four o clock in\\nthe afternoon of August IS. 1779, following what is known as the lower\\nroad which intersects the present Hackensack road, near the English\\nNeighborhood church, having taken the precaution to send forward\\nboats in charge of Captain Peyton, with instructions to have them at\\nDow s Ferry at a certain hour of the night, for the purpose of taking\\nhis troops over the Hackensack; he also detached patrols of horse to\\nwatch the communications with North River, and posted Lord Stirling\\nat New Bridge to cover his retreat, if necessary. The whole movement\\nwas conducted with such secrecy that they arrived at the fort without\\nbeing discovered, notwithstanding the fact that, on account of the ignor-\\nance or the treachery- of their guide, they were compelled to wander three\\nhours in the woods between LTnion Hill and the fort, and the still more\\nremarkable fact that they were in danger of encountering Colonel Van Bus-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV 01-~ Bi:k(-,KN- COl NTY 1\\nkirk, \\\\vh, had left the fi rt at I aulus ILx.k ahdut the time tliat Major\\nJvee started, with a fi ree of one hundred and tliirlv men mi a r.iid to the\\nEng-Hsh Neig-hborhood. That these two forees. one of them at le.ist\\nstraggliii f and flounderini idou a niisdireeteil course tlirouy-h the wil-\\nderness and in the darkness of nijj^ht. should entirely escape each other\\nseems i lcredible. liut such is the well-attested fact. Pi rhaps their\\n,!,rettini,r lo t and m,irchinL;- out of the direct course mav have I)een the\\nvery means of their escape. He this as it niav. Major Ijce reached\\nPrior s Mill at three o clock ..n the morninii of the I Hh. The dav was\\nnear at hand, and the tide that would till the ditch .and overflow the ro.id\\nbetween Warren and (iro\\\\e Streets Jer--ev Citv was risin-^-. Not a\\nmoment was to be lost. They reached the ditch at the intersection of\\nNewark Avenue and Warren Street at half-past three o clock on Thurs-\\nday mornin}^. The guards were either asleep or took the a])])roachinii\\nforce to be Colonel Van Busk-irk s men returnin from their raid. Thev\\nwere not undeceived until the ;id\\\\-ance had pluntjed into the ditch. Im-\\nmediately a firiiiif beg-an. The block-hcnise sjfuards ran out to see what\\nwas the matter, and were seized. The forlorn hope, sn-pijorted bv Major\\nClarke, broke throug h all o])position. and soon became masters cd the\\nniaia work, with the cannon, etc. So ra])id were thev in their move-\\nments that the fort was gained before a piece of .irtillerv \\\\v;is tired.\\nThe troops came pouring through the abati and in a few minutes were\\nvictorious. Unfortunately, in crossing the ditch thi. ammunition was\\ndestroyed, and tlius their tirearms were useless. As soon as Major\\nSotitherland. then in command of the fort, comjirehended tlie situation,\\nhe threw himself into a small redoubt, with a i-ajitain. subaltern, and\\nforty Hessians. Major I^c-e had no time to dislodge him or to remove or\\ndestroy property. Daylight was at h.md, :ind he had some anxiety\\nabout the boats at Uow s Ferry. besides this, the firing had aroused\\nthe British in New York, who could in a few minutes throw a large\\nbody of troops across the ri\\\\er. He therefore ordered an immediate re-\\ntreat, and -sent Ca])tain Forsyth to Prior s Mill to collect such men as were\\nmost tit for the action anfl tal e a ])osition on Bergen Heights to cover\\nthe retreat. Major Clarke was in the advance with most of the pris-\\noners; Lieutenants Armstrong and Reed formed the rear-guard. Lee now\\nrode forward to lo(d after the boats at the ferry. To his dismay not a\\nboat was there to receive them. Captain Peyton, owing to the lateness of\\nthe hour, had removed them to Newark. I^ee immediately counter-\\nmarched liis troo])s to the Bergen road en mute for New Bridge, com-\\nmunicated with I.,ord Stirling, and returned to the rear-guard at Prior s\\nMill. His ])rospects were now discmtraging. With troops worn down,\\namnumition destroyed, encumbered with prisoners, fourteen miles (d re-\\ntreat before him on a route lial)le to be intercepted by troops from New\\nYork, with no way of escai)e to the left, he could only depend upon the\\ninvincible courage of liis men. On reaching the heights opposite Wee-\\nhock, Captain Handy moved on the main road to facilitate the retreat.\\nT[ere Cajjtain Catlett came U]) willi lifty men and good ammunition. )nc", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "(,\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 H\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r.sTal of bekcen couxtv\\npartv was; then detiiched in the rear of Major Clarke on the Bergen road,\\nand I me to move along the bank of the river. In this manner a sudden\\nattack was prevented. At the Fort Lee road Colonel Ball, who had been\\nforwarded to Lee s assistance, met him with two hundred fresh men.\\nShortly afterwards a b(Kly of the enemy appeared upon the right and\\nopened fire on the retreating Americans. Lieutenant Reed immediately\\nforced them, and Lieutenant Rudolph threw himself into a store-house\\nwhich commanded the road. This disposition checked the enemy and gave\\nthe force time to cross the English Neighborhood creek at the Liberty\\npole, now Englewood. Just at that moment Major Southerland, who\\nhad followed Lee, came up, but halted, and finally fell back without\\nventuring an attack. Major Lee arrived safely at New Bridge about\\none o clock in the afterncxm. He had captured one hundred and fifty-\\nnine of the garrison, including officers, and lost two killed and three\\nwounded.\\nThe principal actirrs concerne l in the affair were honored by con-\\ngratulatory resolutions passed by Congress, September 24, 177\\nCongress also placed in the hands of Major Lee fifteen thousand\\ndollar^ to be distributed among the soldiers engaged in the attack.\\nThe massacre at Old Tappan occurred in 177S, the year of unpre-\\ncedented suffering in the continental army at Valley Forge, the noted\\nbattle at Monmouth, and of the two other terrible massacres of Wyoming\\nand of Cherrj Valley.\\nThe old block-house which stood on Block-House Point above Bull s\\nFerry was probably built by the Tories as a shelter while they were se-\\ncuring wood from the hill in that vicinity to supply the British in New\\nYork, (luring the years 177 SO. This block-house was placed on the\\nliigh point above the ravine which extended back of the river on the\\nnorth side of Guttenberg. It was protected on two sides by perpendicu-\\nlar rocks which rise from tlie shore and the ravine, and surrounded on\\nthe other sides by abatis and stockades, with a ditch and parapet. It\\nhid but one entrance, which was a covere 1 way large enough to admit\\nliut one person at a time.\\nUnder the Act passed Uecem .ier 2 177S, an order was issued to\\nraise eight hundred and twenty men to serve two years. One hundred\\n;ind twenty men, the quota for Bergen County, were organized into two\\ncompanies.\\nThe first was under the following ofti:ers: John Outwater, Captain;\\n.Joseph Catterline, Lieutenant; Abraham Hoagland, Ensign. The\\nsecond company was under Captain Blanch I^ieutenant, David Demar-\\nest and Ensign, Jacobus Boggart. On December 29th, 1871 another\\ncall was made for men to serve one year, when four hundred and twenty-\\ntwo n;en were placed in command of Major Samuel Hayes. The officers\\nof the Bergen Company were Peter Ward, Captain; Joseph Catterline,\\nLieutenant Samuel Verbyke, Ensign.\\nBergen County had one companv of niililia and four companies of\\nminute men in the service. The minute men were enlisted for four", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "mSTOKY (M- Hl .KCl A Cl t ;TV h.i\\nmonths, and were always ready to yfo when called and had precedence\\nnf rank over the militia (iF the i)r ivinco. The C(inii)anies from each\\n\u00c2\u00ab.-()unty fornied a battalion, ten in all.\\nIn 177( three cotiipanies from Bergen were joined in battalion with\\nthree from Essex and two from Burlington, under Col. Philip Van Port-\\nland. Lieutenant-Colonel David Brearley, and Major Richard Dev. The\\nreg-ular militia of Berg-en County was organized in one regiment, as\\nfollows:\\nTennis Dey, Cohmel J(din Zabrislcie. Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius\\nan oorst, Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Fell, Lieutenant-Colonel Rich-\\nard Dey, Captain. First Major John Mauritius Gcjeschius, Captain,\\nSecond Major George Ryerson, Adjutant Abr;. lam Van Boskirlc.\\nSurgeon.\\nCaptains. Crynes Bartholf. Thomas Blanch, Joseph Board. James\\nChristi, Samuel Demarest. Abraham Harring-, Cornelius Harring. Abra-\\nham A. P. Harring-. John Hopper, Jonathan Hopper, (murdered bv\\nTories at New Barbadoes, Berg-en County, April 2L 17^)9 Adam Huyler.\\nJohn Huyler, twice a prisoner of war), Jacobus Jaraloman, Henricus\\nKuyper, David Marinus. Henry Obest wounded near Hackensack, March\\n17, 1780), John Outwater (wounded March, 1780), Elias Romine, Jucol)\\nTerhune, Nicausa Terhune, David Van Hossum, Coriner Van Honten.\\nJohn Vreeland. Peter Ward, John Willis.\\nLieutenants. Henrv Bardan, Thomas lihiir. David Dnffe. William\\nDenniston. David Doremus, John D. Haring, David a!i Busse, Peter\\nS. Van Order.\\nFirst Lieutenants.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius D. B]au\\\\-eli. (ieorg-e Brinkerhoff.\\nPeter Sanford.\\nSecond Lieutenants. (iilliam Bogfart, John Uriancy.\\nSergeants. Anthony Beam. Cooms, John F. Harring, Carpen-\\nter Kelly, James Riker, Benjamin Romine, John Hasbrook. Cornelius\\nP. Westervelt, Epson Van Winkle, Albert Wilson.\\nCorporals, etc. Abram Vreeland .\\\\l)raham King, drummer Wil-\\nliam Blair, drummer Garrett Post, farrier, Lee s Leg-ion, Coiitineiit.il\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\rmv Jacob anderpool, bombardier. Continental Army.\\nSCK-MC (II MAJdlv ANDKIv s KATIC.\\nThe little villag-e of Tajjpan, X. Y., although not a part of Bergen\\nCounty, is nevertheless, incidentally conn. cted with the Revolutionary\\npart of it. The villag-e is but a few rods over the State line, and is the\\nplace where Major Andre, the British sjiy met his fate October 2. 1780,\\nan incident of the Revolution which will ever hold its own for interest\\nwith any eng;agement in that stirring struggle.\\nIn 1821 the remains of Major Andre were disinterred by order .d the\\nDuke of York and taken to Westminster Abbey, where they now rest.\\nWhen Dean Stanley was in this country, in October. 1878, he and Mr.\\nCyrus W. Field, his host, visited the spot where Andre was executed\\nand originallv buried. The cedar trees which originally marked the s])ot\\nhad lieeii dug up and removed with the reiiKiins in 1S21. and two wild", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 HISTOKY or- BEKCIEX COr NTV\\nliirrrv trees planted in their place. A curious fact in this connection is\\nthat a peach-tree which had sprung up on the f^rave was found to have\\nwraj ipcd its roots around Major Andre s skulL\\nWASHINC.TON AT HACKKXSACK.\\nTlie follovvin account of Washington s march and brief sojourn at\\nHackensack was written l)y Rev. Theodore B. Koneyn, and is as follows:\\nWashinjj;ton, at the head of his army, consisting only of about ?,Qiii\\nmen, having sent on his baggage to Acquackenouch, crossed the new\\nbridge into the town. This crossing was made at a point now called\\nOld Bridge, about four miles north of Hackensack village. It was about\\ndusic when the head of the troojjs entered Hackensack. The night was\\ndark, colil and rainy, but I had a fair view of them from the light of the\\nvvind( \\\\v as they passed on our side of the street. They marched two\\nabreast, looked ragged, some without a shoe to their feet, and most of\\nihem wrapped up in their blankets. Washington then, and for some\\ntime jjrevious, had his headrjuarters at the residence of Mr. Peter Zabris-\\nkie, a private house, now called The Mansion House, the su])plies for\\nthe General s table being furnished by Mr. Archibald Campbell, the\\ntavern-keeper. The next evening after the Americans had passed\\nthrottgh, the British encamped on the opposite side of the river. We\\ncould see their tires about one hundred yards apart gleaming brilliantly\\nill the gloom of the night, extending some distance below the town, and\\nmore than a mile up toward the New Bridge. Washington was still at\\nhis quarters, and had with him his suite, life-guard, a company of foot,\\na regiment of cavalry, and some soldiers from the rear of the army.\\nIn the morning before the (leneral left, he rode down to the dock\\nwhere the bridge now is, viewed the enemv s encampment about ten or\\nfifteen minutes, and then returned to Mr. Campbell s door and called for\\nsome wine and water. After he had drank and Mr. Campbell had taken\\nthe glass from him, tlie latter, with tears streaming down his face, said,\\n(xeneral, what shall I do? I have a family of small children and a little\\n])roperty here shall I leave them? Washington kindly took his hand\\nand re])lied, Mr. Campljell. stav bv vour familv and keep neutral then\\nbidding him good-bye, rode off.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2About noon the next dav the British took possession of the town,\\nand in the afternoon the (Ireen was covered with Hessians, a horrible\\nsight to the inhabitants. There were between ^OOD and 4000, with their\\nwhiskers, brass caps and kettles, or brass drums. A part of these troops\\nwere taken prisoners two months after at Trenton.\\nA picrrKic oi Tine pati^iots.\\nTliey marched two al)reast, looked ragged, some without a shoe\\nto their feet, and most of them wrapped up in their blankets. What a\\n]iicture these words suggest of the condition of that struggling band of\\nliatri ts as tluy marclud 1hr(aigh our streets that cold and rainy night.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF ni .KCKN COTNTY\\nTOKY AM) HKITISH K AIDS.\\nThe accounts of these r;ii ls. tr.-mscrihed below, are taken from The\\nState Historical Collections: also ,]uote l l)v F. IJ. Konieyn.\\nWW H^SKII^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0K S RAID.\\nNorthward from Ilackensack a few miles some of the most serious\\ndepredations were made. Amonjr these was a Torv raid of a hundred\\nmen, led by Colonel Van Buskirk, who on the Itlth of Mav, 177 entered\\nby way of Closter, and carried off a number i inhabitants; firin;, build-\\ning-s, as well as destroyin,i life. Another detachment swept desolation\\non the 17th, and not a house of a Whiij- escaped. In the first of these\\nraids Cornelius Tallman. Samuel Uemarest. Jacob Cole, (leorsre p.us-\\nkirk, were cajjtured. Cornelius Demarest was killed, and Henderick\\nDemarest, .leremiah Westeryelt and Dow Westervelt were wourdec\\nThe buildings of Peter Demarest, Matthew Bogert, Cornelius Hyler and\\nSamuel Demarest were burned. In the latter Abram Allen and Ceorge\\nCampbell were murdered. Jacob Zabriskie was stabbed in fifteen ])laces,\\nand t^yo negro women were shot down.\\nIt is doubtless to these yery same raids that reference is made in a\\nletter from Closter dated Iay 1(1, 177 and (|uote I in the History of\\nBergen Coxinty, page 77. That letter ^adds some details not giyen in\\nthe preceding account and is therefore transcribed This day about\\nme hundred of the enemy came by the way of the New Dock, attacked\\nthe place, and carried off Cornelius Tallman, Samuel Demarest. Jacob\\nCole and George Buskirk; killed Cornelius DeTuarest wounded Hen-\\nderick Demarest, Jeremiah Westeryelt, Dow Tallman, etc. They burnt\\nthe houses of Cornelius Demarest, Matthias Ilogert and Cornelius Huv-\\nler, Samuel Demarest s house and barn, J(din llanta s house and barn,\\nand Cornelius Bogert s and John \\\\Vester\\\\-ell s barns. They attempted\\nto burn eyery building they entered, but the lire was in some ])Iaces ex-\\ntinguished. They destroyed all the lurniture. etc., in many houses ar.d\\nabused many of the women. In their retreat they were so closely pur-\\nsued by the Militia and a few Continental troo])s that thev took off no\\ncattle. They were of Buskirk s corjjs some of our Closter and old\\nTa])])an neighbors, joined by a ])art\\\\ of negroes. I should haw men-\\ntioned the negroes first in order to grace tlu liritish arms.\\ntiKiTisn AM) ui;ssi\\\\x raid rroN iiacki:.\\\\S-VCK.\\nAnother these raids is described as f(dlows: In the latter part\\nof March, 17 S0, a party of about four hundred British Hessians and\\nrefugees passed through Hackeiisack on their way to attack some Penn-\\nsyh-ania troo])s at Paramus. It was about three o clock in the night\\nvyhen they entered the lower ])art of the town. .\\\\11 was |uiet. A small\\ncompany of twenty or thirty Militia, under Cai)lain John Outwater, had\\nretired for the night to the barracks, barns and outhouses, where those\\nfriendly to the American cause generally resorted to rest. One-half of\\nthe enemy marched quietly through, when the rear, consisting mostly\\nof Hessians, arriyed, they l)roke open the doors and windows, robbed\\nand hiiider d and took jjrisoners a few peaceable inhabitants, among", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "f,6 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nwhom was Mr. Archibald Campbell. This gentleman, who had been\\nfor several weeks confined to his l)ed with the rheumatism, they forced\\ninto the street and compelled to follow them. Often in their rear, they\\nthreatened to shoot him if he did not hasten his pace. In the subse-\\nquent confusion he escaped and hid in the cellar of a house opposite\\nNew Bridge. He lived until 179iS, and never experienced a return of the\\nrheumatism.\\nMr. Romeyn gives another version of that incident to this effect:\\nHe is said to have escaped at New Bridge by hiding under the bridge,\\nand standing, as one version of the affair has it, for some time in two\\nfeet of water, which hydropathic treatment may account for the fact\\nthat he was cured of his painful disease, unless we may suppose that\\nvigorous bodily exercise at the point of a bayonet, or a good thorough\\nfright, could serve as a curative.\\nThe first narrative continues The Hessians burnt two dwellings\\nand the Court House. The latter stood on the west side of the green,\\neight or ten rods from Campbell s tavern. Fortunately the wind was\\nfrom the west, and drove the flames and sparks over the green, and the\\ntavern was saved by the family throwing water over the roof. At this\\nthose in the outhouses were aroused, and the militia hastened across the\\nfields, mounted horses, and alarmed the troops at Paramus. By the time\\nthe enemy had arrived at what is now Red Mills, four miles from Hack-\\nensack, they ascertained the Americans were on the way to meet them.\\nDisappointed, they retraced their steps, and when near Hackensack\\nturned off to the north, on the road leading to New Bridge Old Bridge\\nto the left of which there is a range about half a mile distant from the\\nroad, the intervening ground being level. Here the Continentals and\\nMilitia were hurrying over, kept, however, at a distance by large flanking\\nparties of the enemy, who, on arriving at the bridge, were detained about\\ntwo hours in replacing the plank torn up by the Americans. In the\\nmeantime their parties were skirmishing with our people. Having\\ncrt)ssed over, they marched down the east side of the Hackensack through\\nthe English neighborhood, being pursued twelve miles to a considerable\\ndistance within their lines, down to Bergen Woods. They lost many\\nkilled and wounded. There were none killed im our side. A young man\\nof the town was wounded by a spent ball, which cut his upper lip, knocked\\nout four teeth, and was caught in his mouth. Captain Outwater received\\na ball below the knee that was never extracted. He carried it for many\\nyears, and it was buried with him.\\nTHE ATTACK I!Y M AJOK-C.ENEKAL HE.\\\\TH.\\nThe account of another raid is to this effect: In December, ]77(i, it\\nwas reported that there were at Hackensack about one thousand of the\\nenemy, and the suggestion of Huntington to Major-General Heath was\\nto intercept them in their foragings. The latter on the 14th expressed\\nhis purpose to sweep the village, which he did the next day. Making a\\nforced march by way of Tappan, he came upon the inhabitants by sur-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV )1- BKKtiH.N COrNTY f)7\\n])risc; but the enemy had k-l t. He says. -The enemy had left the hiwer\\ntown some (hiys since, except live, whom we took, two of them heinj;-\\nsick. We had taken about hfty .d tlie disalTected, and about lifty or\\nsixty muskets, the greater ])art of which had been taken from the Whiffs,\\nit is supposed, and stored. At the ihick we found me sloop k)adcd with\\nhay, house furniture, and some sjjirits. etc.. which we have this dav un-\\nh)aded, etc. A brig-, loaded, ran down the river about seven miles and\\ngrounded. I am afraid we shall not be able to secure the effects. A\\nschooner loaded with hay. furniture, etc., wliich had sailed from tin-\\ndock, ran on the banks ^)i the river, the wind being- verv fresh, and in\\nthe nig-ht overset, by which the goods are damaged, if not lost. Two\\nor three companies have been raising here and ther in the vicinitv, and\\nfield-ofiicers appointed: one Van Buskirk, Colonel. At his home we\\nfound lifty barrels of flour, a number of hogsheads (d rum. and at one\\nBrown s, who is Lieutenant-Colonel, about one thousand pounds of\\ncheese. One Tenpenny is Major. They are all gone to New York to\\nhave matters properly- settled, get ammunition, arms, etc.. and were to\\nhave returned yesterday. I believe we have luckily disconcerted them.\\nSuch inhabitants as are friendly, received us with joy, but are almost\\nafraid to s_),iak their sentiments, and indeed, little or no intelligence can\\nlie got from the inhabitants. In referring to the brig that ran aground\\nseven miles l)elow, Mr. Romeyn writes: The brigantine w-hich\\ngrounded just below the village was subsequently boarded, but was re-\\ntaken by the eneni}-. Among other articles taken from her was a large\\nchest of plate, said to belong to a Mr. Yates, but it had been ])ut in his\\npossession for safety at Hackensack by Mr. William Wallace^ It was\\nworth about fifteen hundred pounds.\\nKEVOLl TI().N.\\\\KV KKMINI.SCKNCK.\\nl om the History of Hackensack published in the Bergen County\\nUemocrat we copy the following:\\nIt is related by our worthy citizen, Mr. Henry anderbeck. of Kiver\\nStreet, that in lis7S, a party of British soldiers came up the Hackensack\\nRiver and burned the Court House and raided the neighboring farm-\\nhouses.\\nAmong the ])laces visited was the house of his grandfather. I aul\\nVanderbeck, situated near the present home of the grandson. At the\\ntime of this raid, Paul an(lerl)ick was in camp with Captain Outwater,\\nthen staticmed near Paramus. ,\\\\Irs. Vanderbeck was at home alone,\\nand tried by every possible means to hide away some few things in the\\ncellar, among which she unfortunately stored away three or four geese.\\nWhen the British had stolen all the pigs and geese and almost every\\neatable thing, including a batch of hot bread just from the oven, together\\nwith all the butter in the house, and were about to retire with their\\nbooty, one of tlie imprisoned ganders, with goose-like simplicity, gave a\\nloud cry which called attention to their hiding place, and resulted in\\ntheir being taken along with the ,,ther iihnider. These raiders ])laced", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 ursToKV 01- bkkgex cointv\\nthe lii)t l)rca(l in the same bag with the rolls of butter, already stowed\\naway. ai;(l Mrs. Vaiiuerbeck rejoiced greatly when watching them depart\\nali.iig the lane to note the melted butter running down the backs of the\\nred coati; of the Britishers who bore that part of the forage.\\nSome two hours later, two British officers rode up and asked Mrs.\\nVanderbeck if she could furnish them with something to eat, and she\\nirifdinied them that their Hessian troopers had stolen eyerything she\\nhad to eat. except a loaf of bread which she had hidden and the cream\\nwhich she was just almut to churn when the raid took place. They told\\nher to i lace the cream in the churn and they would do the churning for\\nher. which tliey did. When they obseryed Mrs. Vanderbeck working\\nthe liutter with a wooden ladle, they expressed surprise and commented\\non the superiority of this method oyer that of working it with the hand,\\nsuch as i)revailed in their country. After being supplied with the re-\\nmaining loaf, and the new butter, and a liberal quantity of fresh milk,\\nthey each gave her a guinea to compensate her for her loss and took\\ntheir departure.\\nrilKKl COMMAXDEKS COLON EI. AAKON BTKIv COLOXEI. CEOKGK BAyLOK,\\nkki(;adiek-(;i;.vekal exuch pook.\\nThev find place ;ind mention here, for a reason previously given,\\nand that has governed in the selection of the subject matter of this\\nportion of the work, viz., their relation to .)ur local history.\\nMr. Komjvn wrote of Colonel Aaron Burr as follows It was just\\nabove the village of Hackensack, aljout two miles, in September, 1777.\\nthat Colonel Burr i Aaron Burr played a very active part which gave him\\nhis rirst military reputation. Hearing, at the point where his regiment\\nwas lying, that the British had marched out of New York, and were\\ndevasting the country, and were within thirty miles of him, he started\\nto meet them with his small force. About ten o clock in the evening,\\nwhen within three miles of Hackensack, he received information that\\nthe most advanced of the enemy pickets were cmly a mile distant. His\\nmen having marched thirty miles since breaking camp, and being ex-\\ntremely fatigued, he ordered them to lie down and keep silent until he\\nreturne l. In a few moments they were all asleep.\\nIn the meanwhile, Colonel Burr went forward alone to reconnoitre,\\nslealthilv he felt his way toward the picket, and found them lying on\\nthe ground guarded bv the sentinels. He was near enough to hear their\\nwatchword. He ascertained by making a wide detour that this picket\\nwas so far in advance of the main body as to be out of hearing. In\\ngaining this information, so much time was spent, that it was within an\\nhour of daybreak before he returned to his regiment. Quietly and\\nquickly waking his men, lie informed them of his purpose to attack the\\nenemy s picket, and ordered them to follow a certain distance, and for-\\nbade any man to si)eak on pain of instant death. So accurately had the\\nColonel noted the locality and calculated the position of the senti-\\nnels, that he was al)le to lead his men between those two unsus-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV OK BKKC.liN COI NTY (i\\npjcliny individuals at the in )11umU when thev wcro farthest apart;\\nand he was ahnost upon the sleepinj;- picket In fore a man of it bef^an to\\ntir. When at a distance of ten yards, Burr was challenged bv a sentinel,\\nwhom he immediately shot dead, and thon s -ave the word of attack.\\nOne officer, a sergeant, a corjioral .ind twenty-seven privates fell into\\ntheir hands, on this occasion. Only one of the pickets besides the sen-\\ntinel, made any resistance, and he was overpowered after he had received\\ntwo bayonet wounds. He attempted to march awav with his comrades,\\nbut after going a short distance was comi)elled to lie down exhausted\\nand fainting from loss of l lood. (io a little further niv g-ood fellow.\\nsaid Burr, and we will get a surgeon for vou. Ah I gasped the\\ndying veteran, all the doctors in America can do me no service, for I\\nam a dying man; but it grieves me sore to the heart that I have served\\nmy King upward of twenty years, and at length must die with a charged\\nnuisket in my hand.\\nFrom the more extended account, found in the history of Bergen\\nand Passaic Counties, we extract the f )llowing statements concerning\\nColonel George Baylor Sir Henry Clinton, the British Commander, to\\ndivert attention from some )f his projected military movements, ordered\\nIvord Cornwallis, Major-General Charles (Irey, and General Knyphausen,\\nto undertake a foraging expedition into Kast New Jersey. General\\nWashington, in order to check this movement of the British up the Hud-\\nson, ordered Colonel Baylor with the Third Regiment Light Dragocms\\nof Virginia, to move frimi their stati(m at Paramus, a small hamlet on\\nSaddle River about six miles northwest from Hackensack, and post them-\\nselves on the Hackensack River to watch the movements northward of\\nthe force under Lord Cornwallis. Colonel Baylor had up to this time\\nproved himself a very gallant officer.\\nIt was just at twilight, September 27. 177S, when Colonel Baylor\\nand his troopers came to the little stream of the Hackensack, somewhat\\nover three miles scmthwest from Tappan Village. Here he learned that\\nBrigadier General Anthony Wayne was Imt a short distance north of\\nTappan with a body of militia. So fearing, perhaps, the superior rank\\nof Wayne, and not wishing to lose his detached authority, he halted bis\\nmen on the Overkill Neighborhood Road, and (juartered his dragoons in\\nthe barns r)f thrifty farmers. His force consisted of twelve officers and\\none hundred and four enlisted men. Colonel Baylor, with his regimental\\nstaff officers, knocked at the farm house of Cornelius A. Haring, and\\nhis son Ralph, who had just been married, opened the door for them.\\nThey told Mr. Haring of their desire to spend the night there, and he\\nreceived them willingly, although he informed them that he understood\\nthe British were lying at New Bridge and might at any time come upon\\nthem. Cohmel Baylor ilid not ai)])ear alarmed at this statement, but\\nafter seeing that his men were well provided for, and after posting a\\nguard of sergeant and twelve men at the bridge over the Hackensack\\nabout half a mile south of Mr. Haring s house, with strict orders to", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COX XTY\\nkec]) a patrol (if two men oil each road to watch them a mile below and\\nto he relieved ever} hour, he retired to sleep in fancied security.\\nMeanwhile Major General Grey known as No flint General,\\nfrom his habit of ordering his troops to take the flints from their i^uns.\\nand depend on their bayonets advanced to make the ordered attack\\nui)on C ohmel Baylor. The remainder of the stor_v is soon told. The\\ntroo])s (British) just before midnig-ht, September 27th, marched on the\\nroad on the west bank of the Hackensack River silently and in perfect\\norder until thev arrived withiri half a mile of the patrol on th.il mail.\\nHere thev halted, and, guided by some Tories who knew the ground, a\\nparty of picked men made a detour to the left through the\\nfields, and then passed to the rear of the sergeants guard at the bridge\\nand the patrol on the river road, and without the slightest difiiculty\\nma 1, them prisoners. O.ij, at least, however, escaped. The sentinel who\\nliatl escaped from the sergeants guard at the Bridge awoke Ralph Haring.\\nwho aroused his father. The warning, however, came too late, as the\\nLritish soldiers were upon the heels of the sentinel, and burst into the\\nhouse with the cry of no quarter to the rebels. Then the brutal sol-\\ndiers began to bayonet the inmates. Lieutenant John Smith and his\\ncompany, quartered in the barn, were quickly surrounded, and, although\\nthev surrendered, were inhumanly treated and wounded, and but few\\nescaped. Other houses and barns in the neighborhood, where the\\nAmerican soldiers had been quartered, were visited by the British troops\\nand the scenes of cruelty and bloodshed repeated. The cries for mercy\\nof the defenseless soldiers were answered only by acts of savage cruelty.\\nThe dragoons, stirprised, incapable of successful defense, with no pros-\\npect of inflicting injury on their f ve, could only sue for pitv. But the\\nbayonet was still at its bloody work, and thrust after thrust was given\\nwhenever any sign of life ajjpeared.\\nTile result of this slaughter was that out of the one hundred and\\nsixteen men of the regiment, eleven were instantly bayoneted to death,\\nseventeen left behind covered with bayonet wounds and expected to die,\\nand thirtv-niiie were taken prisoners, eight of wh(mi were severely\\nwounded. The rest of the troopers escaped in the darkness. All the\\narms and seventy horses were i)art of the booty captured.\\nA strong feeling of indignation spread over the country when\\nthis cruel massacre was announced. The affair, while it seemed so\\nvery brutal, was also certainly very impolitic, as the killing a few de-\\nfenceless men in the night would hardly reward the enemy for the bitter\\nhaired engendered in the hearts and openly expressed in the homes of\\nthe patriots. Congress, bv s])ecial resolution, directed an investiga-\\ntion of tlie affair bv Governor Livingston, and when he had secured the\\ndesired infornialioil. his re])ort of the barb.irous action was ])ublished to\\nthe world, and served to keep alivt for two generations thereafter, the\\nfeelings of hatred cherished bv Americans toward their former foes.\\nWhile great sviii])atliv was expressed for Ccdonel Baylor, his care-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HI.S 1X)KY OK BKKCKN COINTY 71\\nJcssness and unsoldierly conduct und.-r the oircum^t.inces brou ^ht iDu-i\\nliini severe and merited eondonination.\\nIn September, 17iS0. the American Army lay at Kimlerhamack, in\\nwhat is now Washington Townslii]). InT ;vn County. While here, on\\ntlie Stli of SepteJnber, occurred the death ol Hrii;-adier (General Knoeh\\nI oor.\\nA military journal ol Se])tember Kith, 17S((, records the followinsr:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2We are now lamentinjr the loss of Brii-adier (General Poor, who died\\nlast niu^ht of putrid fever. His funeral solemnities have been atten led\\nthis afternoon. The corpse was brousrht this morninij from Paramus.\\nand left at a house ab mt a mile frtmi the burying vard at Hackensack.\\nwhence it was attende l to the place of interment b\\\\ the following \\\\)V\\ncession: A regiment (d light infantry in uniform with arms reversed;\\nf mr field pieces; Major Lee s regiment of light horse; General Hand\\nand his brigade; the Major on horseback; two chaplains; the horse (d the\\nlecease(U with his boots and spurs suspended from the saddle, led bv a\\nservant; the corpse borne by ftmr sergeants, and the pall su])ported l)v\\nsix general officers. The coffin was of mahogany, and a pair pistols,\\nand two swords crossing each other, and tied with black cra])e, wtre\\n])laced on the top. The corpse was followed by the officers of the New\\nHampshire brigade, the officers of the brigade of light infantry which the\\ndeceased had lately commanded. Other officers fell in promiscuously, and\\nwere followed by His Excellency. General Washington, and other general\\nofficers. Having arrived at the burying-yard the troops opened to the right\\nand left, resting on their arms reversed; and the j)r )cessiou passed to the\\ngrave i in the yard of the First Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack i\\nwhere a short eulogy was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Evans. A band of\\nmusic with a number of drums and fifes pl.iyed a funeral dirge, the\\ndrums were muffled witli black crajie, and tlu oflicers in the procession\\nwore crape around the left arm.\\nThe regiment of light infantry were in handsome uniform, ami\\nwore in their caps long feathers of black and red. The elegant regiment\\nof horse, commanded by Major Lee, in comi)lete uniform and well dis-\\nci])lined, exhibited a martial and nolde a])])earance.\\nOn the tablet covering his remains this inscrii)tion may l e found:\\nIn memorv of Hon. Brigadier GeniT.-il i ^noch Poor, of the State of\\nNew Hampshire, who departed this life on tile Sth of September, 17S(i,\\naged 44 years, Washington, Lafayette and a jiortion of the iVnurican\\nArmy attended the funeral of (ieneral Poor.\\nIn 1.S24 Lafayette revisited this grave, and. turning away much\\nmuch affected, exclaimed: Ahl that was one of my (ienerals,\\nIJrigadiiT (General Poor, who was a native of New IIami)shire. re-\\nceixed that titK in 1777, and was one of the most competent and re-\\nspected ifticers uf the Continental Army, antl serve l throughout his\\ncareer, in which he rose rajjidly through the ranks, from Colonel to\\nGeneral, with distinction and honor.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "/2 HISTORY OF BEKCJIJN COUNTY\\nTHE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\nUpon the breaking- (uit of the War of the Rebellion in 1861, when\\ncall was issued by the President for seYenty-tive thousand men, the quota\\nfor the State of New Jersey was three thousand, one hundred and twenty\\nmen, or four regiments of seYen hundred and eig-hty each, to be detached\\nfrom the four general military diYisions of the State. The War Depart-\\nment also required that in addition to the reg-iments called for, the reserYe\\nmilitia in the seYeral states should be organized as rapidly as possible.\\n(ioYcrnor Olden received the requisition of the War Department on\\nthe 17th of April, and immediately issued a proclamation directing all\\nindividuals or organizations willing to respond to the call, to report\\nthemselves within twenty days. On the same day he notified the War\\nDepartment that the call for troops would be attended to as rapidly as\\npossible, and issued orders to Major-Generals of the several military\\ndivisions of the State, to detail, each one regiment of ten companies,\\nand also to organize immediatelv the reserve militia in their respective\\nbrigades. The Major-Generals in detailing the regiments required,\\nwere directed to accept the services of volunteers, but if the requisite\\nnumber did not offer, they were required to draft from the reserve\\nmilitia to make up the deficiency.\\nNew Jersey s quota under the first call was filled in a few days.\\nAt Hackensack a meeting was held on April 22, 1S()1, presided over\\n1)Y Hon. J. A. Zabriskie, when a committee was appt inted to draft reso-\\nlutions, and after remarks by William S. Banta, Esq., the following were\\ndrafted\\nWhereas, The union of the States is in danger, and the Consti-\\ntution, framed at so great a cost by our fathers, which contains within\\nitself all needful provisions for the necessities of the government, has\\nbeen set at defiance and whereas our national flag has been insulted\\nand government property invaded and seized by armed traitors, therefore\\nResolved, That the Union shall be preserved at all hazards, the\\nConstitution upheld, the right of the government vindicated, and the\\nDeclaration of Independence maintained in its full spirit and power.\\nResolved, That for the defense and maintenance of (mr country\\nand its institutions we are prepared, if need be, to sacrifice our wealth,\\nshed our blood, and lay down our lives.\\nResolved that our country is the l)est country in the world, and\\nthat we are not prepared to witness its destruction without first exerting\\nall the means at our command for its perpetuation.\\nResolved, That Bergen County will stand by our national banner\\nin the eventful crisis, and those who go out from among us to the tented\\nfield to uphold that sacred banner merit and will receive our warmest\\nsympathy and aid.\\nResolved, That a committee of six be appointed by this meeting\\nto provide means for the sup])ort of those left destitute by the absence of\\ntheir husbands or fathers who may volunteer in the defense of their\\ncountrv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK Bi;Kt;HN CorNTV\\nThe fnlln\\\\\\\\in r gentleiiien were appointed such committee D. A.\\nBerry, (iarret C. Ackerson, W. S. I .anta. John L. Harle, John H. Banta.\\nand John J. Anderson. A book heinj.;- then opened tor volunteer:,, a\\nlarge number of names were enrolled.\\nUnder an Act of Congress ai)proved July 22. ISdl, the Twenty-sec-\\nond Regiment was organized, and on September 22. 1S()2, was mustered\\ninto the United States service, for nine months. This regiment, the\\nTwenty-secimd Infantry, was the contribution of Bergen County, and\\nconsisted of nine hundred and thirty-nine men. including officers. These\\nmen consisted chiefly of men from the agricultural districts, robust and\\nsoldierly in appearance. The regiment started to Washingtcm. I). C.\\non the 2 th f)f September, lSh2, and upon their arri.il were ordered into\\nCamp at Georgetown, having been assigned to a provisional brigade\\nCasey s defenses of Washington. After remaining until the lust of\\nDecember they were sent to Aquia Creek, a., and assigned to Patrick s\\nbridge, ])rov()st-guard Army of the Potomac, their duties being the\\nguarding of the railroad, transferring of wounded, prisoners, etc. Thev\\nwere next placed in the Third Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps,\\nTheir only imjiortant engagement was that of Chancellorsville, Virginia,\\non the 2nd and 3rd of May, 1S(),^. Upon the expiration of their term of\\nenlistment the regiment was ordered to return to New Jersey for its dis-\\ncharge, and was mustered out of service at Trenton on the 25th of June.\\nl.S()3, their term of service having expired on the l.sth of that month.\\nPrevious to being mustered out at Trenton they were given amagni-\\nlicent reception by the ladies and citizens, Maj. I Vank Mills, of that city,\\ndelivering an appropriate address on the occasion. The companies\\nreturning to Hackensack were also received with warm congratulations,\\nand a collation was served at the Mansion House.\\nThe original field, staff and line officers of the regiment, were.\\nField and Staff Cornelius Fornett. Colonel; Alexander Douglas, Lieu-\\ntenant-Colonel; Abraham (I. Demarest. Major; Jidin 1 Satterthwaite,\\nAdjutant; Ural B. Titus, (Juartermaster Jacob B. Ouick, Surgeon;\\nSamuel A. Jones, Assistant Surgeon John iv Cary, Second Assistant\\nSurgeon; Abraham G. Kverson, Chaplain.\\nThe non-Commissioned Staff were John Ferdon, Sergeant-Major;\\nJames T. (lunnelly, yuartermaster-Sergeant i re lerick P. Van Kiper.\\nCommissary-Sergeant Benjamin S. Mennier. Hospital-Steward. Line\\nofficers- Company A.. Robert \\\\V. Berry. Cai)tain Jacob Post, b irst\\n[.rieutenant Jacob S. Lozier. Second Lieutenant. Company B.. Abra-\\nham Van Kmburgh, Captain Jacob Z. Van Blarcom, First Lieutenant;\\nBenjamin Z. Van Kmburg, Second Lieutenant. Company C. Samuel\\nD. Demarest, Captain; William J. Demarest, First Lieutenant; Joseph\\nP. Vreeland, Second Lieutenant. Com])any D.. John C. Westervelt,\\nCaptain; Walter H. Rumsey, First Lieutenant; Nicholas Collingnon,\\nSec md Lieutenant. Ccmipany F., William Chippendale, Captain Wil-\\nliam Drem, First Lieutenant; John (lilham, Second Lieutenant. Com-\\njjany F.. James M. Avers, Cajitain Jacob Titus, First Lieutenant;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nGeorge W. Cubberlev. Second I^ieutenant. Company G.. John H. Mar-\\ngerum, Captain; Richard H. Ivory, First Lieutenant; William C. Van-\\nderwater. Second Lieutenant. Company H., Daniel D. Blauvelt, Cap-\\ntain; Thomas G. T. Paterson, First Lietitenant George Kingsland,\\nSecond Lieutenant. Company L, Thomas H. Swenarton, Captain;\\nJoseph A. Blauvelt, First Lieutenant; David C. Blauvelt, Second Lieu-\\ntenant. Company K., Richard C. Dey, Captain Garret J. Christie,\\nFirst Lieutenant James Christie. Second Lieutenant.\\nEarly in January, 1863, the Twenty-second Regiment was removed\\nto Belle Plains and attached to the left wing of General Franklin s di-\\nvision, brigade of General Paul. On February 1st, 186.3, Lieutenant-\\nColonel Alexander Douglas resigned his commission, and Major A. G.\\nDemarest was afterward promoted to the Colonelcy.\\nPromotions were Major Abraham G. Demarest, promoted to Col-\\nonel January 26, 18()3 Captain Abraham Van Emburg, promoted to\\nLieutenant-Colonel, vice Alexander Douglass, resigned, February 20,\\n1863; Captain Samuel D. Demarest, promoted to Major February 2(1,\\n1863 First Lieutenant Jacob Post, promoted to Adjutant January 1,\\n1863 Assistant-Surgeon William S. Janney, promoted to Surgeon March\\n27, 1863, died of typhoid feyer in camp near White Oak Church, Va.,\\nJune 1, 1863; Second Lieutenant Jacob S. Lozier, promoted to Captain\\nJanuary 16, 1863 First Lieutenant Joseph A. Blauvelt, promoted to\\nCaptain May 18, 1863 Second Lieutenant George Kingsland, promoted\\nto First Lieutenant November 20, 1862 Second Lieutenant James Chris-\\ntie, promoted to Captain May 18, 1863 Second Lieutenant Benjamin Z.\\nVan Emburg, promoted to Captain February 21, 1863; Second Lieuten-\\nant Joseph Vreeland, promoted to Captain February 22, 1863; Sergeant\\nStephen G. Hopper, promoted to First Lieutenant March 11, 1863 First\\nSergeant Garret M. Campbell, promoted to Second Lieutenant January\\n16, 1863 Corporal Richard A. Terhune, promoted to Second Lieutenant\\nMarch 11, 1863 Sergeant Milton Birley, promoted to First Sergeant\\nSeptember 1, 1862; First Sergeant John A. Van Buskirk, promoted to\\nFirst Lieutenant September 2, 1862 First Sergeant Albert F(5rbush,\\npromoted to First Lieutenant May 18, 1863 First Sergeant (iilbert T.\\nBogert, promoted to Second Lieutenant November 20, 1862, and to First\\nLieutenant May 18, 1863 Sergeant George A. Ward, promoted to First\\nSergeant January 1, 1863; First Sergeant Andrew Van Emburg, pro-\\nmoted to First Lieutenant February 21, 1863, and to Captain May 18,\\n1863 Sergeant Charles Van Riper, promoted to First Lieutenant May\\n18, 1863 Sergeaat Thomas Eckerson, promoted to First Sergeant March\\n8, 1863; Corporal John S. Townsend, promoted to Sergeant June 1, 1863;\\nCorporal William Cowperthwaite, promoted to Sergeant January 1, 1863\\nCorporal Nicholas P. Royce, promoted to Sergeant February 4, 18()3\\nCorporal Cornelius Van Horn, promoted to Sergeant March 11, 1863;\\nCorporal George A. Brinkerhoff, promoted to Sergeant March 11, 1863;\\nCor])oral Aaron Vanderbeck, promoted to Sergeant March 18, 1863;\\nCor])oral Al)raham H. Hopper, promotCMl to Sergeant March 18, 1863;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV OK BKKC.ICN COTNTY\\nCorporal David J. Blacklcds^ -e, promotod to Scrj^eant April 7, ISd.^ Pri-\\nvate Peter L. Conklin, promoted to Second Lieutenant Februarv 22,\\n18f)3; Corporal Isaac D. Bo-fert, ])roinoted to Seru-eant March 1, 1S(\\nPrivate Cornelius Koert, promoted to Coriioral March 1, ISf),^.\\nTin-; iv Aii.K OAi) s l ix iKi;.\\nThe famous railroad strike in ls77 readied New Jersey, New York,\\nPennsylvania, Maryland, West iryinia and ei ihtof the Western States.\\nThe extent of the movement was so yreat that the United States Gov-\\nernment was called upon for assistance. New Jersey bein^ the East-\\nern terminus of the two great trunk lines of railroad, with their im-\\nmense railroad property and interests subject to he communistic and\\ncriminal elements of the two great cities, rendered ihe jjosition in this\\nState critical.\\nTo quell these riots the militia of nearly a dozen States was called\\ninto service. In the afternoon of the 23d of July the Second Battalion,\\nunder Major James Vreeland Moore, wasordered to report to Colonel Hart,\\nat Hoboken, and were quartered there on a barge in the river with the\\nNinth Regiment. C)n the 27th the command accompanied Battery A to\\nJersey Cit}-, but the next day rejoined the Ninth Regiment at Hoboken.\\nThere being disorders and obstructions at Port Morris, Major Moore re-\\nceived instructions from the Governor to re])ort to (General Sewell, and\\nat that point to aid the authorities there in ])utting down all lawless-\\nness, or if they fail from any cause, do it vourself, using your best\\njudgment.\\nThe battalion reached Port Morris at 12.4ii A. M. July 2 tth. On\\nMonday, the M)th of July, General Sewell reported trains running. On\\nthe 3d of August a force of United States troops having reached Easton,\\nPa., the Second Battalion and regiments of National Guard were re-\\nlieved. During this strife the Second Battalion. under Major Moore,\\naccording to General Sewell s rejjort, was a credit to any man in either\\n])eace or war.\\nTHK WAK WITH SPAIN.\\nDuring the Spanish-American War four cotn])anies from Bergen\\nCounty were mustered into the United States service at Sea Girt, N. J.,\\nMay 2, 1898. Their destination was Cuba. On June 1st the regiment\\nleft Sea (iirt for Cuba Libre, Jacksotix ille. i ^Iorida, and was attached to\\nthe Second Brigade, First Division, Seventh Army Corps, (reneral Fitz-\\nhugh Ivee Commander. It returned home September 24th, and was\\nmustered out of the United States service November 1 7th, 18 )8. at\\nPaterson, N. J. The history of each -of these comj)anies is given in the\\nchapters to which they severally belong.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nSOCIETIES AND INCORPORATED COMPANIES OF\\nBERGEN COUNTY.\\nTHE BEKC .KN COItnTY BIBI.K SOCIKTV.\\nAt a meeting held in the Reformed Dutch Church of Haekensack,\\nJune l()th, 1S47, for the purpose of considering- the practicability\\nof forming a Bible Society- for the County of Bergen, Rev. H.\\nH. Warren was called to the chair, and Cornelius Blauvelt was\\nchosen Secretary. The meeting adjourned to the first day of\\nJuly, at which date an organization was effected and the follow-\\ning officers chosen: Rev. W. Elting, D. D., President; Revs. Bar-\\nbanas V. Collins and John Manley, Vice Presidents; Christian De Baun,\\nSecretary, and A. Zabriskie, Treasurer. Executive Committee, Rev.\\nA. H. Warner, Henry H. Banta, Peter Vestervelt, Jr., Jacob Van Bus-\\nkirk, Andrew H. Hopper. Edward B. Force, Robert Rennie.\\nThe society has been from its organization an effective auxiliary uf\\nthe American Bible Society, and has worked in co-operation with the\\nparent institution.\\nThe first anniversary of the society was held at the North Dutch\\nChurch in Schraalenburgh, March 14, 1848. Dr. Elting was re-elected\\nPresident, and Christian De Baun, Secretary. Agents were appointed\\nto canvass the different townships, and Bibles were obtained from the\\nparent Bojiety. The colpDrteurs reported the first year 1859 families\\nvisited, S300.7-5 worth of books sold, S26 worth gratuitously distributed,\\nS102..^() collected from contributions, 7.^ destitute families supjjlied and\\nS.i 2.75 paid for Bibles and Testaments.\\nAt the second anniversary, held in Haekensack, February 6th, 184\\nRev. John M. McAuley preached the occasional sermon. Rev. S. Iritmus\\nPrime, one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society, was present\\nand delivered an able address. Rev. Dr. Elting was re-elected Presi-\\ndent and Christian De Baun, Secretary. For the year ending October\\n1st, 1899, 330 Bibles and Testaments were donated and 95 sold/\\nThe present officers are Rev. Edward Lode wick. President: Revs.\\nIsaac Thomas and W. Williams, Vice Presidents; Rev. David W. Tal-\\nmadg. Secretary; Mr. A. S. D. Demarest, Treasurer.\\nKKKGKN COUNTY SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.\\nThis organization was formed in 1867, and has been largely par-\\nticipated in by clergymen and Sunday-school workers throughout the\\ncounty.\\nWilliam Williams was elected the first president. He remained in\\noffice two vears, and was succeeded by Judge Thomas Cumming, who\\nwas elected Se])tember 12, 1870. The county is divided into three dis-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY Ol-- Hi;i ,KX COVNTY\\ntricts, the vieo-presidi-nts of the associ;itin;i heiuji ex-offioio i)i-esi(lenls\\nIII their respective dislricts. Each towiiship lias a secretary wlinse duv\\nit is t(i furnish statistics in a rejiort each vear tn tlie county secretary.\\n.AS AM) MI.IX TK IC COMPA.Xy IM UlCKl K\\\\ corxTY.\\nThe tirst lightinu- company established in Hackensack \\\\yas in ISd\\nwhen by special Act of the Leg-islature. th- H;i:kensack (iasli jht C rn-\\npany was incorporated, a meetino^ for the purjiose havinif been held on\\nJuly loth, of that year. The tirst directors were: L. J. Van Bod;erck.\\nJohn J. Ward, M, M. Knapp, Garrett Ackerson, Jr., R, Terliune.\\nJohn J. Anderson and N. S. Banta. The first ofticers were Pri sident,\\nM. M. Knapp; Treasurer, N. S. Banta; Secreta-^-, K. P. Terliune.\\nThe g-as company in these days had the tield to tiiemselves. reai in i-\\nlarge profits, with gas at five dollars per thousand feet, and sjiending\\nonly so much money as the necessities of the case demanded. Business\\nwas profitable and good dividends were i)aid for about twenty years, the\\ntown being obliged to pay at the r.ite of thirty seven dollars and fifty\\ncents per annum, for each light. On moonlight nights lami) were not\\nlighted. The only reason why greater revenues were not realiznl, lav\\nin the fact that fewer lamps were used on a street, and a less number of\\nstreets lighted than at present.\\nWhen electricity came into use, howexer, all this was changed. \\\\u\\nelectric plant was put in by another company, when the income of the\\ngas company fell off, and they soon found that .a new order of things\\nmust be instituted in order to save themselves from banlcrui)tcy. The\\nnew company found greater obstacles to overcome than had lieen .antici-\\npated, and to add to their troubles, their generating plant was Imrneil,\\nin November, 1S I4. The gas company which in l.S \u00c2\u00bb2, ha d come under\\nnew control, now m.ide radical changes realizing that more modern\\nmethods must be used, and that impro\\\\-ements were necessary. In 1S\\na completion of the jil.ins culminateil in the purchase of tlu electric\\nplant, both comjianies coming under one control.\\nThe stockholders were all persons interested in the growth and de-\\nvelopment of the town, and fully cotivinci d of thi- fact that in the near\\nfuture not only gas but electricity also would be largely used for cook-\\ning purposes as well as lighting.\\nThe present gas generator has a capacity of something over a ipiar-\\ntiT of a million cubic feet i)er day, and storage of about seventy-five\\nthousand cubic feet, using over thirty miles of mains. The electric light-\\ning power of the resent ])lant being about twelve thousand lights with\\nover fifty miles of ])ole line, and about three hundred miles of wire.\\nThis plant is now a ])art of the new gas and Klectric Comi),iny ot\\nBergen County, a consolidation of the old Hackensack (ias and\\nElectric Company, the Kidgewood IClectric onipany, the E iglewood\\n(ias and Electric C(m:])any. the Rutherford (ias Company, and the Ru-\\ntherford Electric Com])any.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "IlISTOKV OF BHKGEX COl NTV\\nExtensive enlargements to the g^enerating- plant in Hackensack are\\nnow under way with a view to shutting down all of the smaller outlying\\nplants and supplying the entire C(.unty from the one station, gas to be\\nsupplied from the same point.\\nThis is a progressive cc^rporation quickly adopting the latest im-\\nprovements and keeping to the front in all matters upon which depend\\nthe maintenance of a first class service. In 1S )8 the company spent one\\nhundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in improvements, and expect\\nto spend a quarter of a million in the present year, 1899 i.\\nThe new company starts out with an authorized capital of two mil-\\nlions of dollars and an authorized bonded issus of one million five hundred\\nthousand dollars, the same interests controlling as heretofore, with\\nFrank B. Poor, President; Arthur B. Sturges, Vice-President; W. C.\\nThomas, Treasurer and Ivemuel Lozier, Secretary. The Board of\\nDirectors will number fifteen, all well known men of the county. They\\nare Frank B. Poor, (ieorge W. Conklin, David St. John, E. A. Pearce,\\nLemuel Lozier, W. C. Thomas, and Samuel Taylor of Hackensack; E.\\nA. Waltim, Ridgewood F. A. E. Cott, Englewood William McKenzie,\\nAddis(m Ely, Rutherford Hamilton F. Kean, Elizalieth T. N. McCartor,\\nNewark and Arthur B. Sturges, New York.\\nbkkc;kn county medical society.\\nIn \\\\h40 Harvard College was established followed in 1701 by Yale\\nPrinceton in 1746; King s College in 1754, and Oueen s in 1770. These\\ninstitutions were for the promotion and maintenance of a high grade of\\nc! .olarship, but with no especial object in view.\\nHolland sent thoroughly trained theologians to look after the spirit-\\nual interests of the Colonists. She sent also able lawyers, as did boih\\nEngland and Scotland, to attend to the legal interests of those who had\\ncome to the new world, but the physical ailments incident to man were\\nnut tlinught of, to the extent of making- a special study of medicine.\\nThe universitv at Leyden was noted for its interest in the study of\\nsciences, especially the science of chemistry, but chemicals were then\\nbut little used as curatives, herb constituting a large proportion of the\\nnatirial used in the healing of diseases.\\nThe lirst medical school in America was founded in Philadelj)hia in\\n17( 5, in which Drs. Shippen and Morgan were Professors. Two years\\nlater New York established her first school of medicine in connection\\nwith King- s College. But few students entei-ed upon the work, however,\\nas is proven by the records which show that only eleven degrees were\\nconferred prior to the war of the Revidution, when studies in that depart-\\nment were suspended until 1784. From 1792 to 1816, a Medical Depart-\\nment of Uueen s College, New Brunswick, was located in New York.\\nIts location in the city is explained by the fact that the founders, D.\\nNicholas Romaine and associates having failed to place in New York,\\nwith the institution they desired, applied and secured authority under\\nthe charter of (Jueen s College to perfect their organizati m. In 1S25", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK HKKC.KN COVNTY 7\\nPrincctiin undertook a Medical l)e])artnient. in which Ur. a^ iove. a\\nlistiug uished physician took an active interest, I nt his death caused a\\ndelay in its establishment.\\nNew Jersey claims to have been the first of the colonies to ortran-\\nize a Medical Association. The Medical Society of New Jersey have in\\ntheir possession, the well preserved oriifinal Ixiok of minutes of that or-\\ng anization. The first meeting was held at the house of a Mr. DulT in\\nNew Brimswick, wliere sixteen ])hysicians met nn the 23rd day of Julv\\n17( and formed themselves into a Standiuir Society and Voluiitary\\nIncorporatiim, and sijrned the Instruments of Association arid Consti\\ntution of the Medical Society of Ne\\\\y Jersey. The names ni thos who\\nsigned these instruments were Robert McKean, Liiris. Manlove. John\\nCochran, Moses Bhxmifield, James (iilliland, William Burnet. Jmia.\\nUayton, Thomas Wig-gins, Williams Adams. Bern. Budd, Lawrence\\nDeryeer, John Griffith. Isaac Harris and Joseph Sackett. Jr. The meet-\\nings of the Society were hold semi-annually, uninterruptedly unlil 177.^.\\nwhen the Reyolution interfered and no meeting was again held until\\n17S2. Again from 1795 until 1S(I7 a cessation occured.\\nIn 1790 another society was forme i in East Jersey known as the\\nMedical Society of the Eastern District of New Jersey.\\nDr. Micheau, of Klizabethtown, was the prime mover in this n/w\\nsociety which, for a time, dre\\\\y chielly fr.mi East Jersey, be:ause of the\\nmajority of the physicians being located on that side. In time, howe\\\\-er,\\nthe tirst society gained control, which it has ever afterwards held.\\nIn 1771 the Medical Society of New Jersey petitioned the Assembly\\nfor an act Regulating the practice of medicine, and restdved That\\nmembers of the society get petitions signed by the res])ectable inhabi-\\ntants of their neighborhoods, and send these to the care of the com-\\nmittee d the society charged with the prosecution of the measure be-\\nfore the Legislature. This act wa-. adopted in Septemlier. 1772 A\\ntable of rates and fees was now arranged, which was ])ractically the\\nbasis of charges until 17S4, when it was unanimously adopted. It i a\\npiece of interesting reading. Medicine, as a science, is of comi)arative]y\\nrecent date. It was not until 1754 that lectures to students was first in-\\ntroduced. Dr. William Hunter, of Newport. R. I.. In-ing the first to\\nuse them as a means of instruction, the lirst instruction in dissection\\nhaving been given prior to that time by Dr. Bard of Middletown, in\\nNew York City.\\nThe Provincial or State Society exerted a healthful influence, and\\nsoon district societies began to spring up in dilTerent parts of the State.\\nBergen County, owing ])robably to its close proximity to New York.\\nNewark and Elizabethtown. had few physicians until a later date than\\nmany other ccmnties. Joseph Sackett. Jr., who racticed at Paranius\\nduring the Rey(dution. is the mly member from Bergen County whose\\nname is on the ndl of the society until 179(\\nThe earliest physician of whom we can lind any record, in Bergen\\nCounty, was Dr. Van Kmburgh. He lived prior to 17u i, as is attested", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "^O HISTOKV OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nI)y the deed to his widow, u^iven by her friend Sarah Sandford dated De-\\ncember 7, 170 The land so i^iveii was probably bestowed purely out\\nof friendship, and consisted in all of ahoui six hundred acres of land.\\nDr. Abraham Van Boskirk was a surgeon in the First Militia of\\nEero-en County, and (m May I2th, 1775, was one of the committee of\\ncorrespondence for Bergen County of which John Fell was chairman.\\nDr. .loseph Sackett was Ijorn Febru;iry 1(), 1733, O. S., and was one of\\nthe original charter members of the New Jersey Medical Society, taking\\nan actiye part until 1772 when he remoyed to Newton, I^. I. Dr. John\\nCampbell, who was a physician in Hackensack after the I ^evolution,\\nwas a son of Archibald Campbell, wlio was adyised by Washington to\\nkee]) neutral and stay by his family. Dr. Campbell was born Febru-\\nMry 1.^, 1770. He spent his life in Hackensack. He died in 1814, and\\nis buried in Hackensack by the side of his wife w ho died in 1853. Jo-\\nsiah Hornblower. a brother of Chief Justice Joseph C. Hornbhrn-er, of\\nthe vSupreme Court of New Jersey, practiced medicine in Bergen County\\nin 17s Dr. Hornblower was born at Belleyille May 23, 1767. He\\nstudied medicine with Dr. Thomas Steele of Belleyille, and began prac-\\nfice in the town of Bergen in 178 His practice extended over a large\\nexpanse of country- covering- Hudson County, including the old Town-\\nslii]! of Hackensack, Fort Lee, with a considerable practice in Staten\\nIsland. He was appointed surgeon in the War of 1812, and was assigned\\nto duty at the old arsenal on the heights. He was twice married, his\\nlirst wife being Annetje Merselis, who became the mother of six chil-\\ndren. His second wife, Hannah Town, had two children. He died at\\nth.e good old age of eighty-one years, having been in active practice in\\nBergen County for a period of fifty-five years. Two of his sons, Wil-\\nliam and Josiali became physicians, and three of his sons-in-law, Doctors\\nDeWitt, (iautier and Zabriskie were also physicians .as were two of his\\ngrandsons, the sons of William. The family was thus widely repre-\\nsented in the profession. Cornelius Blauvelt was a practitioner in Hack-\\nensack in ISl\\nIt was not until 1854 that the District Medical Society of Bergen\\nCounty, was organized. A meeting for this purpose was held in the\\nWashington Institute Building, in Hackensack, on February 28, where\\nthe licensed physicians and surgeons met by authority of the Medical\\nSociety of New Jersey, through a conimissi(jn issued for that purpose.\\nThose present ^ve^e Drs. William H. Day. Charles Hasbrouck, George\\nB. Brown, Henry A. Hopper and DuBois Hasbrouck. The meeting was\\norganized by making W^. H. Day, M. D., President, and Dr. Henry A.\\nHopper, Secretary. William H. Day was elected the first president of\\nthe Society and Charles Hasbrouck secretary.\\nThe Society held no meetings from 1858 to 1S()S, when a re-organi-\\nzation took place and the by-laws were revised.\\nKOLI, OF .MEMDl .KS A D.M FrTl-; 1) V TO lS7ll.\\nA. Hopper, 1854; W. H. Day, 1854; C. Hasbrouck. 1854; H. A.\\nIlopier. 1S44; (1. B. Fh-own, 1854; D. Hasbrouck, 1S54 A. S. Burdett,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF lUvKl.lCX COINTV 81\\n1854; B. Oblenis. 1855; J. J. Harin-r, ISSh; I. J. Well, lSf.8; W. II.\\nHall, 18(.S: J. T. Dvimiiid; Isr.S; H. Noer, 18( 8; F. M. Wrig-ht,\\n1S()8; J. M. Simpson, 1S(, R. Stewart. 1S(, S. J. Zabriskie, 1870;\\nA. P. Williams, 187U; H. A. Crary, 1871; W. Fr.incis. 1,S71: I). A.\\nCurrie, 1872; M. S. Avers, 1872; I). C. C .irr. 1874; (i. K. Simi)s..ii,\\n1874; F. A. Davis, 1874; A. Clendinen, 1875.\\nPRESENT MEIIBEKS AM) SCHOOLS AT WHICH THI\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 KMCCKIVKD THEIK DKf. NiaC.\\nHenry A. Hopper, Colleg-e Physicians and Surgeons, New York.\\n1847; A. S. Burdett, College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1S52:\\nH. C. Neer, Berkshire Medical College, 1860; D. Augustus Currie, Uni-\\nversity of Buffalo, 1864; University of Kdinburgh. 18f 7; M. S. Avers,\\nLong Island College, 1871; G. C. Terhune, New York Medical College,\\n1853; Charles H. Hasbrouck, College Physicians and Surgeons, Fair-\\nfield, New York, 1839; D. St. John, Bellevue, 1875; Alexander Clendinen,\\nUniversity of Maryland, 1859; Milton Terhune, Kentucky School of\\nMedicine, lf)76; J. M. Simpson, Bellevue; 186f S. J. Zabriskie, Uni-\\nversity Medical College, New York, 185f); J. J. Haring, Jefferson Medi-\\ncal College, 1855; A. P. Williams, College Physicians and Surgeons.\\nNew York, 18f 0; E. M. Garton, University Medical College, 1878; G. R.\\nBrown, College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1875; C. L.\\nDemarest, Bellevue, 1876; Thomas Reid, University Medical College,\\nNew York, 1876.\\nPresidents: 1854, William H. Dav; 1855- 56, Abraham Hopj)er;\\n1857, William H. Day; 1858, I. J. Wells; 18()8, Charles Hasbrouck;\\n1869-70, A. S. Burdett; 1871-72, John .1. Ilaring; 1873, F. Marc\\nWright; 1874, H. C. Neer; 1875, A. S. liurdett 187(), D. Augustus\\nCurrie; i877, Henry A. Hopper; 1878, A. S. Burdett; i879, S. J. Za-\\nbriskie; i880, Milton Turmure; i88i. Henry A. Hopper; i882, II. A.\\nHopper; i883, D. St. John i884, M. S. Ayers i885, Milton Turnnn-e;\\n1 886, John W. Hopper i8S7, J. W. Terry iS88, Wni. II. O. Tayli r\\n1 889, Lewis Parsells i89(l, John A. Willis; i8 \u00c2\u00bbi, M.S. Ayers; rS92.\\nH. C. Neer Samuel A. Armstrong i8 M, .1. W. B. Lansing i8 \u00c2\u00bb5, \\\\V.\\nL. Vroom i896. Hardy M. Banks: i8 \u00c2\u00bb7, L. B. Parsells: i8 )8, Howard\\nMcFadden; i899, Chas. Calhoun.\\nSecretaries: i854-58, Charles Hasbrouck; i868, I.J.Wells; i8(.9.\\nJ. T. DeMund 1 870-76, Charles Hasbrouck; iS77- 78. A. S. Burdett;\\n1879, Henrv A. Hoi)])er i880, Alexander CK udinen i88i- 9 t inclusive,\\n1). A. Currie i8S2- 9 Dr. David St. John, i reasurer.\\nTHE BEKCEN CorNTV I A KM IsNS MrTl AI. KIKE INSURANCE COiVIPANV.\\nThis institution is located at Oradell, Bergen county. N. J. It was\\nincorporated May i, i849, by the following named persons: Jacob\\nVan Buskirk, Nicholas C. Durie, Charles Hasbrouck, Benjamin Z. Van\\nEmburgh, David A. (J. Demarest, John G. Demarest, Isaac D. Demarest.\\nGarret S. Demarest, Henry N. Voorhis, George T. Brickeli, (Barrett A.\\nEckerson, Henry H. Voorhis. .Ir.. John Ackcrman, Jr.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe Compan}- was org anized wtih Garret S. Demarest as president,\\nand Henry H. Voorhis as secretary. These g-entlemen occupied these\\npositions respectively many years. The company insures farm and other\\nproperty for cash premiums only. The present officers of the company\\nare as follows: Abram C. Holdrum, President: John T. Haring, Vice-\\nPresident: Elmer Blauvelt, Secretary: Ilaniel I. Demarest, Treasurer.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nINTERNAL IMPK( )VEMENTS.\\nDOKOrCHS.\\nBergen county is diviiK-d into fifteen townships, thirty-five V)or-\\noughs and has one city and one incorporated villag-e. The fxiroiigh\\nformation comes under the law of iS7S, having for its object the secur-\\ning of certain improvements in water, lights, sewerage, roads, etc.\\nUnder this law each borough thus formed had the right of electing free-\\nholders to the County Council. Subsequent enactments, however, an-\\nnulled the right, but, nevertheless, boroughs formed parts of different\\ntownships, and had a right to elect freeholders until the law of May.\\n1894, annulled this privilege only under certain cases. Under the old\\nlaw of 1878, citizens of municipalities secured the formation of their\\nIjorough by petiticm, a certain number representing the taxable list of\\nthe community having the right to petition. Under the present regime\\nthe Legislature creates a borough.\\nFollowing we have a list of the boroughs of the county, the sjiecial\\nhistory of each being found in the respective localities in which the\\nborough exists:\\nNorth Arlington, Rutherford, East Rutherford. Wallington, Carl-\\nstadt, Woodridge, Hasbrouck Heights, Lodi, Little Ferry, Ridgetield.\\nLeonia, Undercliff, Palisade Park, Fairview, Bogota, Englewood Cliffs,\\nTenafly, Cresskill, Bergentiekls, Schraalenlnirgh, Old Tappan, May-\\nwood, Uelford, Riverside, Westwood, Woodcliff, Parkridge, Montvale,\\nAllendale, Midland, Upper Saddle River, Lower Saddle River. Midland\\nPark, (ilen Rock and (iarfield.\\nKOADS.\\nThe first Commissioners of Highways for Bergen county, and tin-\\nfirst known to have been appointed in the State were John Berry, Law-\\nrence Andries (Van Boskirk), Enoch Micliielsen i reeland i, Hans\\nDiedricks, Michael Smith, Hendrick Van Ostruni and Claes.lans en\\nVan Purmerendt. They were appointed by an act of the General As-\\nsembly, and it is doubtful if there exists anywhere i record of their pro-\\nceedings. They apjiear to have held office a long time, for in ff. M (ler-\\nbrand Claesen was apjjointed in the place of Van Purmeren lt.\\nHv resolution of the (ieneral Assembly, ado])ted Sei)teml)er 17(i4.\\nthe (irand Jurv nf each and every county was authorized to ap])oint\\nyearly at the February and March terms of court, with the approval of\\nthe bench, two persons in each county. ])recinc t, district or township, to\\nlav out all necessary cross-roads and l)y-roads, which were to be four rods\\nwide, and -also to settle other matters pertaining to the highways.\\nBeginning with the old-lime wagon roads, the first in the county of\\nBerx-en was the one leading from Comnuinipaw In the village ol liergen.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe road was probably laid about the year l*i()(i. On the d of June,\\ni7i8, a road was laid out from Cromkili to Weehawken Ferry, which Mr.\\nWintield is of the opinion was part of the present Hackensack turnpike.\\nThe road from Berg en to Bergen Point was the old King s High-\\nway, but the date of its construction is unknown. In 1743 James Alex-\\nander, of the Council, reported a bill for continuing the King s High-\\nway to some convenient point on the Hudson, but the bill was not passed.\\nOn October 10. 1764, a King s highway was laid out from Hendrick\\nSickles barn to a point opposite the Dutch Church, on Staten Island,\\nand the old road was abandoned. The new road became a part of the\\ngreat stage roiite from New York to Philadelphia. The Hackensack\\nturnpike was constructed in 1S04 by the Bergen Turnpike Company,\\nincorporated November M). 1S(I2, to build this road from Hoboken to\\nHackensack.\\nThe road from Paulis Hook to Newark over the Hackensack and\\nPassaic Rivers was built in 17b5, and was the only thoroughfare from the\\nHudson to Essex county for nearly thirty years. The road first known\\nas the New Barbadoes turnpike, but subsequently as the New York and\\nPaterson turnpike, was surveyed and constructed in 1816. This road ori-\\nginally divided the township of Union from Lodi, and passed through\\nPassaic, and objective points being Paterson and Hoboken.\\nThe Belleville turnpike though not one of the oldest roads in the\\ncounty, is a much travelled one, and is the boundary between Hudson\\nand Bergen counties. The old Pollifly road was one of the tirst in the\\ncounty, also, and was opened over two hundred years ago. It runs irom\\nHudson county through the old townships of Union and Lodi. The\\nPaterson and Jerse}- City plank road was completed about 1S20; the\\nHackensack and Paterson road in 1826, and soon after, the road leading\\nfrom Hackensack to Little Ferry was constructed. About the year IS.^o\\nthe road from Lodi village to the Polliily road was opened. The road\\nfollowing the course of the Passaic River, now designated as the Passaic\\nValley road, was an early highway opened long before the war of the\\nRevolution. The Indians called the northern portion of this highway\\nthe Wagara road and the southern division as Slauter Dam road.\\nThe Paramus road running from Pompton to Hoboken was asso-\\nciated with the historic days of the Revolution. It was the thoroughfare\\nof the old Goshen and Hoboken stage line, and created a demand for the\\nnumerous taverns which lined its course. This road came through New-\\nburgh. N. Y., to Closter, and passed through Old Hook to Westwood and\\nfrom thence southwest to Paramus.\\nThe Stone Arabia road beginning at Hackensack and following a\\nnortheastly, then a northerly direction to Rockland county, N. Y., was\\nan imjjortant thoroughfare during the early part of the present century,\\nas was also the Spring Valley road, which was opened about the sam\\ntime, and run through the central part of Midland township, north.\\nThe Wieremus road, so christened by the Indians who in early times\\nfollowed it as a trail, ran throusih Pascack Ridgfe to New York State", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "mSTOUY ()1- BKKC.KN COl-NTY }S5\\n-and was also cuii of llu- iiiiinirtain roads in tlic norllu-rn ])ortion of Hvi-\\nufcn County.\\nThosL aro a ffw of thv earliest roadways in In r^^on Conntv import-\\nant iu this onnLx-tion only because of ilu ir use in colonial and Kevolu-\\ntionary days.\\nThat New Jersey is a friend to yood roads is shown liv the report of\\nState Commissioner lUuld. During the last year eif^ditv-l ive miles of\\nnew roads have been built under State aid. makini;- three hundred and\\ncitrhty-tive miles, since the State made ajipropriations for the ]iur] ose in\\n1S \u00c2\u00bb3, at total cost beino- 3.s().s.82(\\nBerji^en County excels in its roadways, in fact thev constitute an\\ninteresting- feature \u00c2\u00bbf the county, the irives bein^ -iiual to the shell roads\\nof the South and West.\\nThe various trolley lines running through Jiergen Countv are fast\\nchanging not only the old m idc of tTa\\\\-el. but .ire ,ilso o])ening up new\\nfields for country homes which steam car lines fail to reach.\\nThe Bergen County Traction Coni])any was formed M.arch d, IS W,.\\nThe President of this road is William T. Harrows. The road runs from\\nUndercliff to Englewood. A branch line from Leonia to Hackens.ack is\\nnow in operatiim.\\nThe Hudson County Railway was built in IS then known as the\\nPalisade Railroad. This trolley line enters the countv at Hudson\\nHeights and extends as far north as Covtes\\\\-ille. David S oung is its\\nPresident.\\nThe Rutherford an l Hackensack trolley line was built in 1S )7. It\\nbegins at Arlington and is built as far as Woodridge. )n .January 27.\\n1894, this road was sold to William C. Ciles for the lN!e-organization\\nCommittee representing j)er cent, of the bond holders. It is intended\\nnow to build the road to Hackensack. The Hoboken. Passaic and I at-\\nerson trolley line was built recently. It runs through the places named\\nits title and is an im])ortant ro.ad and does a large Imsiness.\\nI l: K kTIiS.\\nThe ferries which connect the old iiortion of Bergen County with\\nNew York City are numerous. There are f 1 the Comnninipaw. 2 the\\nWeehawken, (3) the Jersey City, i4i the Hoboken, i .s the I avonia.\\nBesides these, are still in operation, there were several others ol an early\\ndate which have long ceased to exist. These latter were Bndil s Dock,\\nin HarsimusCove to New York, establislu d in 1S02. and contimied a few\\nyears Bull s Ferry, at the u] per line of the jM-eseut e onntv of Hudson,\\nwell known during th^ Revolution, which took its name from a f.imilv\\nby the name of Hull residing there-. Wintield gives the names of the\\nlessees of this ferry as follows Cornelius Huyley, 177S- *2: Plu odore\\nBrower, 17 t2-180.s (iarret Neefie, ISO.S; L.-wisConcklin, 1S(I(, Abraham\\nHuyler, 18(18.\\nDe Klyn s Ferry was started by John Towne and Harnet I )e Klyn,\\nfrom the wharf south and north) of the State Prison to Hoboken in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nI i H,. No record is found of this ferry later than ISOh.\\nF ir many years the farmers and others in the northern i)art of Ber-\\ngen County reached New York by means of the Weehawken Ferry\\nestablished by Samuel Bayard about the year 1700. The charter for\\nthis ferry was g-ranted by George II in 1752 to Stephen Bayard.\\nThe Hoboken Ferry was established to connect the Corporation\\nDock at the Bear Market, in New York with Hoboken in 1774, and\\nwas leased to H. Tallman for /^5( a year. During the Revolution this\\nferry was subject to the army occupying New York. In 1789, the ferry\\nWas owned by John Stevens, the proprietor of the Hoboken. In 1811\\nMr. Stevens completed a boat, which he put on trial in September,\\nannouncing the trial trip of the first steam ferry boat in the world.\\nThe Pavonia Ferry was established by letters patent from King\\n(leorge II, January 17, 17.^, to Archibald Kennedy his heirs and assigns.\\nDows Ferry over the Hackensack, a little north of the New Jersey\\nRailroad was a noted place during the Revolution. Mr. Winiield thinks\\nit was constructed about the time that Colonel John Schuyler constructed\\nBelleville turnpike, during the French War, and that it remained in\\noperation until superseded by the bridge erected in 1794. It received its\\nname from John Douw, a friend of Colonel Schuyler. The ferry and\\nDouw s tavern were on the west side of the Hackensack. It was at this\\nferry that boats had been provided on the night of Major Lee s attack\\non Paulus Hook to facilitate the retreat of his forces. The ferry Jersey\\nCit3- was established June IS. 1S( 4.\\nKAII.KOADS.\\nThe first railroad in America was laid in old Bergen County. Mr.\\nL. y. C. Elmer, of Bridgeton, N. J., says in the Springfield Republican.\\nReading the very interesting account of the Hoosic Tunnel in your\\npaper of November 28th, I find a new illustration of the difficulty of ob-\\ntaining correct historical data. The writer states that in 182( Dr.\\nPhelps presented the first proposition ever made for a railroad before\\nany legislative body in the United States. This is a mistake. About\\nApril, 1811, Colonel John Stevens, of Hoboken, N. J., presented a mem-\\norial to the Legislature to authorize a railroad in New Jersey, and in\\nFebruary, 1815, a law was passed incorporating The New Jersey Rail-\\nroa l Company, authorizing a road from Trenton to New Brunswick.\\nThis road was not built. In 1S2(I I saw at Hoboken Colonel Stevens\\nshort railroad, laid as an experiment. Locomotive steam-engines had\\nnot been perfected, and the best engineers did not sujjpose there would\\nbe sufficient traction in plain wheels to draw a heavy weight. The\\nrailway put uj) by Stevens was pro\\\\ ided with a middle rail having teeth\\nfor a driving-track. This gentleman was father oi the Messrs. Stevens\\nwho built the tirst railroad in New- Jersey by virtue of the Act of 1842.\\nHe entered into competition with Fulton to run the tirst steamboat on\\nthe waters of the Hudson, and thus obtained the mcraopoly granted by\\nthe law of Nt-w York, but falling a little behind in time, he sent his", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "HisToin oi- 1!i;k(; i:n corxTv 87\\nboat round to the Delaware, and I was carried hv her in 1S12. The\\nfamily maintained a line of boats on the Delaware individually or bv the\\neompany until their death.\\nThe Paterson and Hudson Kiver Railroad Company \\\\vas incorpor-\\nated January 21, 18,il. The road went into ojieration between Paterson\\nand Aquackanonk (now Passaic) June 22, 1S, 2. The rollin^--stock at\\nthat time consisted of three splendid and commodious cars, each caj)-\\nable of accommodating thirty passengers, which were drawn by fleet\\nand gentle horses. It was thought to bj a rapid and delightful m le\\nof trayeling. The trial-trip oyer that part of the road was June 7,\\n1832. It connected with the New Jersey Railroad at West End. The\\nroad was leased to the Union Railroad Company September IS.^2.\\nThis lease was assigned to the Erie Railway Company, and the road is\\nnow part of the main line of the New York, Lake Erie and Western\\nRailroad. The assignment and transfer (d the road was conlirmed by\\nthe Legislature March 14, 1.S53.\\nThe Erie Railway Company was first recognized by the laws of New\\nJersey, March 14, 1853, as the Ne\\\\y York and Erie Railroad Company,\\nthen as the Erie Railway Company. After leasing the Paterson and\\nHudson Riyer Railroad and the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad, which\\ntwo roads formed a direct line from Jersey City to Sufferns, Piermont\\nwas abandoned as a terminus, and the cars were run to the depot of the\\nNew^ Jersey Railroad Company in Jersey City until May, 18(i2. The\\nLong Dock Company, incorporated February 2( 185(), in the iiiterLst\\nof the Erie Railway Company, completed the Bergen Tunnel January\\n28, 1861. The first passenger train ])assed through it May 1, 1S(,1. at\\nwhich date the Erie traffic was transferred to its present termiinis at\\nLtmg Dock. In 1865 the Erie Company C(mstructed a telegrajjh line\\nthrough the Bergen Tunnel, so that managers of signals at either end\\ncould be duly warned of approaching trains, and collision thus ayoided.\\nThe interior of the Bergen Tunnel was arched over in 18( 7.\\nThe New York and Oswego Midland Railroad C()in])any was incor-\\nporated January 1, 186(.. Construction began June 2 t. ISdS. The first\\ntrain ran over the western end of the road November 5, 1S( and the\\nfirst through train August 18, 1873.\\nOn M mday, December 19, 1871, the first locomotive was put on the\\nNew Jersey Midland at Hawthorne, a station on the ICrie. one mile from\\nPaterson. The locomotive was built at the Roger- Locomotive Works\\nin the City of Paterson, and was named the Passaic. Another loco-\\nmotive put up(m the road the following July was named Bergen. this\\nplan of naming the locomotives after the counties traversed l)y the road\\nbeing ado])ted by the company.\\nThe New Jersey Midland Comi)any was incorporated March IS.\\n1867. March 18, 1870, it was announced that S75,(MKI had been sub-\\nscribed by those interested in having the road go through Hackcnsack.\\nAdditional sums .were subsequently raised, increasing the amount to\\nS100,0(MI, the sum required to lie raised by Hackcnsack and vicinity.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "S8 r-IISTOKY OI- BI-KGUX COTXTY\\nOther liberal sums were contributed along the entire route. On Mon-\\nday-, March 18, 1872, the first passenger train ran through between\\nHackensack and Paterson, at 8.30 a. ni., carrying about thirty passen-\\ngers. After thaftrains ran regularly.\\nThe Hackensack and New York Railroad Company was incorporated\\nMarch 14, 1856. Work was begun on the road in the spring of 18(i J. It\\nwas opened northward to Hillsdale, twenty-one miles from New York,\\nand the first excursion train ran over it on Saturday, the 4th of March,\\nlS7i). The officers of the n^ad at that time were D. P. Patterson, Presi-\\ndent; G. S. Demarest, Vice President; H. G. Herring, Secretary, and\\nJ. D. Demarest, Treasurer. The extension of the road to Grassy Point,\\nabout two miles above Haverstraw, on the Hudson, was chartered by\\nthe New York Legislature in the spring of 1870, and during the fall was\\nput under contract to Messrs. Ward e^ Lary for construction. From\\na report made in January, 1872, we learn that through the untiring ex-\\nertions of Mr. J. A. Bogert, at Xanuet. S Ml.tKH) had been subscribed, over\\nS4(), of which had been paiil in. Subscripti(ms also to the am mnt of\\nS230,(\u00c2\u00bb0() had been secured by Mr. Patterson, the President of the com-\\npany, and of this sum S130,()(H) had been i)ai(l in. At the northern ter-\\nminus at (irassj^ Point the company received a donation of 250(1 feet of\\nriver frontage from Mr. David Munro. The eastern terminus of this\\nroad is in the Erie depot, at I., ing Dock, and it is under the same man-\\nagement as the Erie.\\nThe Northern Railroad Com])any of New .lersey was chartered\\nFebruary 1854, and the road was completed October 1st, 185\\nIn 18( it was leased to the Erie Railway Company. This road\\nasses through the eastern part of Bergen County, along the table-\\nland of the Palisades, many porti(ms of which it has been the\\nmeans nf redeeming from forests and converting- into beautiful parks\\nand villas. Englewood, on this road, one of the most delightful suburbs\\nof New York, has been entirely l)uilt up since the road was opened.\\nThe Jersey City and Albany Railroad was opened to Tappan July\\nOth, 1873. This road passes thnmgh Bergen County from the Midland,\\nat Ridgefield Park, in a directiuu nearly parallel with the Northern\\nroad.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nKDUCATIONAL KKPOKT.\\nThe first apportionment of the school fund of the State was made\\nto Berg-en county by the trustees in 1S31 and consisting- of one thousand,\\ntwo hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninet3--two cents. Benjamin\\nZabriskie and Cornelius Van Winkle were appointed a committee of the\\nboard of Chosen Freeholders to apportion the am junt among the several\\ntownships which resulted as follows: Bergen, S214.56; Lodi, Sl()8.38;\\nSaddle River, S168.19; New Barbadoes, S t4.10; Hackensack, S142. )4;\\nHarrington, S226.55 Franklin, S181.55; Pompton, S163.65.\\nThe Legislature of New Jersey passed an Act in 1837 appropriating\\nthe surplus revenues of the general government for school purposes in\\nthe several counties of the State, placing the several amounts appor-\\ntioned to the counties under the management of the respective hoards of\\nChosen Freeholders.\\nA report made to the board on the 2d day of May, 1838, showed that\\nthe sum of $41,182.14, surplus revenue, had been recsived from the State\\ntreasurer, and that the same had been loaned out in various sums through\\nthe county. The interest on this money has been collected annually on\\nthe 1st of May and devoted to the support of public schools.\\nUpon the division of the county the following adjustment was made\\nof the surplus revenue\\nTOWNSHIPS. STATE TAX. COUNTY TAX. TOTAL.\\nBergen, including Jersey City S()(.4.75 S1047.44 S1712.K.\\nLodi. 252.40 (.58.()5 )11.(I5\\nSaddle River 324.34 875.57 ll i. \u00c2\u00bbl\\nHackensack 2(.7. S3().(.5 l(i 8.55\\nHarrington 34(..12 1127.44 1473. 5(,\\nP anklin. 2 t2.57 874.18 11(.(..75\\nNew Barbadoes 201.82 457.80 (.5 ).(i2\\nPompton. 142.84 381.54 524.\u00c2\u00bb.8\\nWest Milford. 147.35 370.43 523.78\\nS2f)40.()() Sf)f)30.()0 S )270.()r.\\nBefore the division ot the surplus revenue took place the towns of\\nWest Milford, Pomjjton and a part of Saddle River was annexed to\\nPassaic County, leaving the sums from these towns to be deducted there\\nfrom. The County of Hudson having been erected February 22, 1840,\\nthe sums allotted to the towns of Bergen and Jersey City, and a part of\\nLodi, under the names of Harrison were also to be deducted.\\nAfter the division of the county in 1840 the amount apportioned\\nfrom the school fund was SIOOO.. 50, divided among the townships as fol-\\nl iws, and so remained until the new school ajjpropriation was made:", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "0 HISTOKV OF BEKGEX COUXTY\\nNewBarbadoes, S13S.( Lodi, S()f).45 Saddle River, S52. 41 Hack-\\nensack. S334,09 Franklin. ?21i). 02 Washington. 8174.19 Harrington.\\nSI IS. 7.^.\\nThe interest on the surj)lus revenue began to be available for school\\npurpi)ses May 1. IS.^S. The sum of S140;i had then ac:rued, and was\\ndivided among the townships as follows:\\nLodi. Sl( 4.40 Hackensack, S174.50 Franklin Sl 5ft Saddle Kiver.\\nSSO. Harrington, S225.3ft NewBarbadoes, \u00c2\u00a7131.40 Bergen. S2 )S.70;\\nJersey City, S134.12. In 1839 the interest on the fund amounted to S2-.\\nft.^5.38. In 1840 the interest was S3, 112.05.\\nContinuing the history, John Terhune. Superintendent of Bergen\\nCounty Schools, says\\nPrior to 18ft7 the schools of Bergen County were in ])art free.\\nThey were under township superyisi m, and the buildings in rural dis-\\ntricts were of a yery primitive type.\\nThe report of the State Board of Education for 18ft( which was the\\nlast year of the township method of Superintendents, gives the total\\npopulation in the nine townships 21,ftiy, and the school census ft, 888.\\nThe total amount of money to be expended was twenty-five thousand,\\nseven hundred, forty dollars and seventy-four cents, received from the\\nfollowing sources Raised by tax, eleven thousand, twenty-nine dollars\\nand eighty-one cents from State three thousand, fifteen dollars and\\nthirty-nine cents other sources one thousand, six hundred, twenty-two\\ndollars and forty-two cents; raised for building and repairing two thousand,\\nseven hundred, seventy dollars and ninety-nine cents from tuiticm fees,\\nseven thousand, five hundred, forty-six dollars and seventeen cents.\\nThere were thirty-seven male teachers at an average salary of forty-\\nthree dollars per month, and thirty-eight female teachers at an average\\nsalary of thirty-two dollars per month. There were fifty-five schools,\\nseven of which were free.\\nThe office of County Superintendent was created by Act of the Leg-\\nislature, approved March 21st, 18ft7. Under this syetem the number of\\nschools in 1899 is one hundred and four with three hundred and niaeteen\\nteachej-s, of which sixty-two are males at an average monthly salary of\\nninetj -three dollars and sixty-four cents, and two hundred and fifty-seven\\nfemales with an average salary of fifty-two dollars and sixty-one cents.\\nThe total amount of monies lo be expended the present year is as follows\\nBalances, S53,Sftft. 57 apportioned by County Superintendent, S130.-\\n984.89; raised by district tax 5232,143.59 from State for Manual train-\\ning 33,200.00, making a total of 8420,195.05. The school census for\\n1898 was 88,028. The- school buildings with but few exceptions are\\nscientifically lighted, heated, ventilated and decorated and the grounds\\nas a rule are planted with shade trees and flower beds, due to Arbor Day.\\nThis day was set apart by law in 1884, and has caused much improve-\\nment in school surroundings. The Arbor Day programmes issued by\\nthe present Superintendent, John Terhune, have become popular,- and are\\nused in nearly every county in the state.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol liKKT.lCN COTNTV Jl\\nAt the last anniversary, held April 2Sth. there were 4271 visitors in\\nattendance in the several schools of this county.\\nThe school library question has also iinproved under his administra-\\ntion, and the number of books taken out increased from .^5(il in ISSS. to\\nf)5.421 in 18 )9. They are now an indispensable factor in the education\\nof the children.\\nBergen County was the first to establish a rofessiunal library for\\nteachers, which now c intains 140(1 \\\\-(ilumes uf peda^-o ,rical books. It\\nwas the first county to secure an office which now is an educational\\ncentre, and contains numerous cabinets of school work for ins])ection. a\\nmodel school library, a teachers library, and. besicbs, is ;ui object lesson\\nin school decoration. Copies o{ tlie most important school periodicals\\nand school devices are found at this office, known as Educational Hall,\\nand it is constantly visited by teachers and educators.\\nA uniform course of study for primary and grammar gr.ades has\\nbeen in operation since 18 ^)5, and the work in general is being done sys-\\ntematically and progressively. There are now fifty-five school districts,\\nof which eighteen are t ;iwnshi])s. thirty-four ari boroughs, two are\\nspecial charters and one a citv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nNKW BARBADOES.\\nANCIENT AND MODEKN BOUNDAKIES EARLY SETTLEMENT CIVIL OKGAN-\\nIZATION FKEEHOLDERS HACKENSACK ITS SCHOOLS, CHURCHES,\\nNEWSPAPERS, HOSPITAL, IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION, SOCI-\\nETIES, LODGES AND CLUBS, BANKS, MILITARY, MANI-\\nFACTUKES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nIn 1() )3, two centuries ago, New Barbadoes was a township in Essex\\nCounty, and comprised the territory lying between the Hackensack\\nand Passaic Rivers, from Newark Bay on the southeast to the present\\nboundary line of Sussex County. The present boundaries are limited to\\nNew Bridge on the north and Little Ferry on the south, with an average\\nwidth of about two miles on the west side of the Hackensack River, the\\nwhole length being only about iive miles. Along the Hackensack the\\nland is generally level, in some places below high tide, rising to a greater\\nelevation in the western portion. There are some marsh lands, but they\\nare mostly capable of cultivatit)n. The clay lands are valuable from\\ntheir proximity to the Hackensack River, and much of this land is under\\na high state of cultivation, while the clay is extensively used in the\\nmanufacture of brick.\\nThe Hackensack River, which is navigable to New Bridge, is well\\nccmfined within its banks, varying in width from one hundred to five\\nhundred feet. The origin of the name New Barbadoes is more a matter\\nof conjecture than of history. It is supposed, however, that the earliest\\nproprietors of the township, who emigrated from the islands of Barba-\\ndoes, gave the name by prefixing New to the name of their former\\nhome. In 1868 Captain William Sandford secured a title to 15,308 acres\\nof land running northward from the junction of the Hackensack and\\nPassaic Rivers. Captain John Berry, and others associated with him,\\nsecured a title to all the land north of the Sandford possessions, compris-\\ning the territory within the limits of Hackensack and the present town-\\nship of New Barbadoes. It is not known at what date Captain Berry\\ncame to the province, although he became possessor of the land in lf\\nThere are deeds recorded in the Clerk s Ofi ce in Hackensack giving by\\nhim and dated 1696, showing that he was living and able to transact\\nbusiness at that time. Captain Berry s son-in-law, Michael Smith, who\\nwas the first Sheriff of Bergen County, 1683, owned a plantation adjoin-\\ning that of Captain Berry, and it is probable that these were the first\\nlands in the township which had any considerable improvements, espe-\\ncially since these are prominently mentioned in a historical and descrip-\\ntive account published in Edinburgh in 1685, by George Scott.\\nThe island of Barbadoes became an English possession in 1()25.\\nBoth Captain Sandford and Captain Berry were Englishmen, and both", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKCKN COl N TY J3\\ncame from the West Indies. Ciiptain Berry may Ii.ivc iHcn. assdiiie mi]!-\\nposed. captain of a merchant vessel, hut it is a matter of reeurd that h^\\nwas a Captain of Militia in Berg^en t ountv.\\nCaptain Sandford lived in Newark in loVS, and was a meinher of the\\nProvincial Council from 1681-84. He died in 1(. \u00c2\u00bb2, havinf^ requested to\\nhe huried on his own plantation. His children were Ardinah, who mar-\\nried Richard Berry, Constable of New Barhadoes in 16 )5; Pereiifrine,\\nwho married Fytje, daug-hter of Enoch Michielse Vreeland i; William,\\nGrace and Elizabeth, who married Captain James Davis.\\nCUII. ORGANIZATION.\\nThe civil organization of this township was effected in l()K,s. when\\nthe (ieneral Assembly at Perth Amboy passed an act empowering the\\ninhabitants of Hackensack and New Barhadoes ti. build pounds, the\\ncharge whereof to be paid by the inhaliitants of each of the respective\\nout plantations. This was in the fourth year of the reign of James H.\\nIn 1() \u00c2\u00bb2 the fourth year of the reign of William and Mary, an act was\\npassed bv the General Assembly at Perth Amboy, dividing the counties\\nof East Jersey into townships. This act was so defective in its provis-\\nions as to become inoperative, and a supplementary act was passed in\\n169, by which the Townships of Acquikanick and New Barhadoes.\\nwere know for the first time in legislation, having apparent] v l)een\\nunited to form one township. The boundaries included all the land\\non Pissiack River above the third river, Yantacaw i and fr mi the mouth\\nof the said third river, northward, to the partiti m line of the province,\\nincluding also all the land in New Barhadoes Neck, between Hackinsack\\nand Pissiack Rivers, and thence to the partition line of the province.\\nFrom this it would appear that Acquackanonk was included in the orig-\\ninal township with that of all the territory lying between the Hacken-\\nsack and Passaic Rivers to the northern boundary of the province. If\\nthis be true, the township then comprised all the present organizations\\nof Hohokus, Washington, Franklin, Saddle River, Midland, Union, Lodi\\nand the present New Barhadoes, besides Acquackanonk including the\\nsite of the present City of Passaic. Other proofs that Acquackanonk\\nand New Barhadoes were united in one township are to be found, in a\\nrecord of Decembers, 1683, when the inhabitants o( Aquaninoncke,\\nare authorized to join with those of New Barhadoes Neck in the\\nchoyce of a Constable. At another date Major William Sandford of\\nNew Barhadoes Neck was ordered to appoint an officer to exercise the\\ninhabitants of Aquaninoncke. During the following two liundred\\nyears, the one ancient township was divided and subdivided until the\\npresent boundaries cover the small space, before noted.\\nThe g-overnment of a county at that time differed greatly from that\\nof the present forms. Each township or plantation was then governed\\nby a Board of Selectmen, exercising judicial and legislative powers of a\\nrestrictive kind, confined to the local affairs of their respective planta-\\ntions, and limited in their jurisdictitm to small causes. On May 1st,\\n1688, a hill was drawn u]) bv the Provincial Secretary to constitute a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 HISTOKY OF BEKGEiST eOflNTV\\nCourt of small Causes for the out plantations of Berg-en County, and\\nfor Aiiuackiuick and New Barhadoes in Essex County. This was sent\\nto the House of Deputies by Major John Berry of the Council, was\\nsigned b} the Governor, and became a law May 22d, of the same year.\\nNo records of these courts were kept and all we find is an occasional\\nallusion to them. They granted licenses to sell liquors and keep ordin-\\naries, fixing the rates for man and beast, in detail, and also super-\\n\\\\ise l the roads and bridg es. Sometimes these judges of the Court of\\nsmall Causes, overstepped their authority, when an appeal could be\\ncarried to the Governor and Council, or even to the King and Parliament\\nif necessary.\\nIn the Provincial Council, William Sandford, John Berry, and Isaac\\nKingsland were Legislators for New Barbadoes and vicinity, Sandford\\nfrom 1682 to 1703; Berry from 1682 to lf) \u00c2\u00bb2, and Kingsland from 16S4\\nto The following is a list of the chosen Freeholders of the town-\\nsliip from 17 t4 to 1899 inclusive.\\n1794-95, 1802, Isaac Vanderbeck, Jr.; 1794-95, Arendt Schuyler;\\n179()-99, Chris. A. Zabriskie 1796-97, Abraham W. DePeyster 1798-\\n1805, lidmund Wm. Kingsland; 1800-1, Garret G. Lansing; 1802, Joost\\nBogert; 1803-6, Luke Van Zaen 1806-8, John I. Hopper; 1807-8, Cas-\\nperus Bogert 1809-14, Henry I. Zabriskie 18(f \u00c2\u00bb-ll, Henry Van Dolsem\\n1812, John Berry; 1813-16, Henry P. Kipp; 1815-1(., John D. Romeyn;\\n1817, John A. Schuyler; 1817-18, Jacob J. C. Zabriskie; 1818, Philip\\nBerry; 1819-21, John J. Hopper, Peter A. Terhune; 1822, John T. Banta;\\n1822-23, 1825-27, John A. Boyd; 1823-27, Albert G. Hopper; 1824, Jacob\\nJ. Brinkerhoff 1828-33, John Zabriskie; 1828-32, Henry W. Banta; 1833,\\nDavid I. Christie; 1834-35, Andrew Zabriskie; 1834-35, John D. Romevn;\\nlS3()-+2. Albert A. Brinkerhoff; 18, 6-37, Andrew Demarest; 1837-3\\nAlbert (i. Doremus; 1838-40, John J. \\\\^an Saun; 1841-43, George Voor-\\nhis; 1843-45, Ralph Westervelt; 1844-4(,, Richard T. Cooper; 1846-48,\\n1852, William Winant; 1847-49, Jacob I. Zabriskie; 1849-51, Christian\\nDe Baun; 18,50-52, John A. Zabriskie; 1853-54, 1856, Richard R. Hawkey;\\n185.^-54, William Blair; 1856-58, Peter A. Terhune; 1857-59, Wilhelmus\\nBerry; 1859-61, Abraham I. Demarest; 1860-62, Abraham A. Banta;\\n18f,2-( 4, Lucas A. Voorhis; 186. -r)4, 18f.( Garret G. Ackerson; 18()( -()7,\\n(;arret A. Hopper; 18!,7-f 9, William D.- Wolfe; 1868-70, Nicholas A.\\nDemarest; 1870, Henry C. Harring; 1871, Garret G. Ackerson; 1872-74,\\nJacob Yercance; 1875-78, Wm. Huyler; 1879, Frederick Steinle; 1880-89,\\nJohn O. (;rode; 1889-92, Jacob L. Van Buskirk; 1892-94, Jacob H. Fank;\\nlS94- Jacol) L. Van Buskirk; 189f)-99, W. W. Curry; 1899, Charles\\nCutikliu and Cornelius K. Eckerson.\\nIt is not deliniiely known at what date the first settlement was made\\nin tliis townshi]). According to traiiition. Dr. Van Imburg erected the first\\ndwelling house in Hackensack. This house, it is said, stood on the\\ncreek just back of the site of the ])resent ctmrthouse. Another of the\\nvery old houses is said to have stood on what was formerly known as the\\narick- jirojji rty. Among the first families to settle in this locality were", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK KKK{ .i:N COI NTV\\nAlbert Zabriskic, and Ivawrince in l )ii2; I.ouric in l(iS5; llousi-man in\\nId iS. while Kijip came a little earlier an Buskirk 1 )7; aii (iiosen.\\nlliS i; Disniario. 1( (5. Pne rej r ls uf the t hureh on the (Ireen. note in\\nli i4. the reception ii lto membership of Martin I owelse. Jan. Christyn\\nand Lena, also Maria Etsal and Rachel .lackse. In the Tollowini;- six\\nyears there were more than sixtv meml ers added, showing an increase in\\nthe number of inhalntants.\\nHACKKN.SACK.\\nHackensack, as a place of residence, is unsurjiassed bv anv other\\nsuburb of New York City.\\nBeautifully situated on the west bank of the Hackensack Ri\\\\er, from\\nthe commanding- heigfhts on its western border can l^o seen the river wind-\\ning- throug-h the valley, with the rang-e of the Palisades beyond and New\\nYork twelve miles in the distance. A i)o])ulation of Id, (too covers an\\narea of 2,000 acres, thus affording wide streets, ainjjle grounds and\\nabundance of air and sunshine to the inhabitants.\\nThe sandy, porous soil has a substrata of gravel and is well drained\\nby the most approved system of sewerage. The outlet sewers are large\\nand C(instructed of brick with pipe laterals, furnishing means for good\\ndrainage to buildings, as well as the soil. In all there are about 20 miles\\nif sewers, thoroughly flushed twice daih by tide water. The compara-\\ntivelv few cesspoyls are required to be laid u\\\\ with cemeflt and made\\nwater tight. They are emptied by scavengers and the odorless excavat-\\ning company.\\nThe streets and wahks are well kept under the su])ervision of a com-\\n]ietent street superintendent, (ias and electricity Edison s system i are\\nused for street and general lighting purposes. There are about oil miles\\nof llagg-ed walks .and 40 miles of macadam, which work the Improvement\\nCommission is e.xtending as rapidly as the ai)])ropriations will allow.\\nThe water supply, furnished by the Hackensack Water Company, is\\nshown by careful analyses from time to time to be of excellent quality.\\nIt is obtained from the Hackensack River at New Milford, far above the\\ninfluence of tide and sewerage or other containinating matter. The reser-\\nvoir is at an elevation of 110 feet, with sufficient ]\u00c2\u00bbressure to bi- ut liz mI\\nbv the fire department in throwing a stream over tlu highest I)uilding.\\nIt is .to be regretted that few of our wells ari free from organic matter;\\nand as this is a possible source of disease, it is de-irable that the river\\nwater should entirely su])plant the use of wtdls.\\nThe climate is mild yet variable. The snowfall is usually light\\nrarely sufficient for lengthened sleighing. The health of the town will\\ncompare favorably with that of any other in the State. Statistics of bs 7\\nand IS KS, showing it to !)e lirst in ])oi nt of health, with the county rank-\\ning second among the counties of the state.\\n.Malaria prevails to some extent. Ih.iugh many of the oldest inhal)i-\\ntants have never been affected l)y it. Typhoid fever and diptluria, the\\ngreat terrors in many localities, are ery rare here.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": ")b\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nllvW UK HACKEXSACK FKOM (JKOINDS OF C. E. ECKEKSON.\\nEpidemics are not common, and as they areg-enerally of a mild type,\\nare readily controlled by the vig-ilance of the local physicians and effi-\\nciency of the Health Board. Each case of contagious disease is reported\\nto the B(5ard by the attending- physician as soon as he learns its charac-\\nter. It is endeavored to isolate such patients, and none of the children\\nlit the famih- are allowed to attend school while any danger of contagion\\nexists. A certain sum is appropriated each year for the use of the Board\\nof health, which is doing a good work. A very noticeable feature is\\nthe general cleanliness of the town, it being absolutely without the\\nusual dirty quarters.\\nThe dwellings are chiefly built of wood, many of them surrounded\\nby large lawns pleasantly shaded. There are no crowded tenement\\nhouses. The markets are clean and free from any evil influence to\\nHealth. The public school buildings are the pride of the community.\\nIn their ventilating, heating and plumbing a careful regard has been\\ngiven to sanitary laws. The other public buildings, including the Hos-\\nI)ital, Court House and Jail are also in good condition. The Health\\nBoard is composed of intelligent, progressive men, representing several\\nprofessions.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe word Hackensack has been so variously spelled and defined it\\nmav be an open question to-day as its orthography and signification.\\nFrom Hackensack or Ackensack, either of which is spelled probably\\ncorrect according to the original Indian, pronunciation, it has wandered\\nthrough Aackingsack, Ackinghassack, Akkingsakke, Ackenkishacky,\\nAckenkeshacky, Hagensack, Haghkinsack, Hackensacky, Hackingke-\\nshacky, Hackingkasacky, Hackinsack, Hackquinhacq, Hackquinhacq,\\nHacquinkacy, Hackinsagh\u00e2\u0080\u009eHaghkingsack, Hackkensak.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nThe township of New Barbadoes is divided into four districts known\\nas Nos. 10, comprising Fairmont and Cherry Hill, and a portion of\\nMidland township; 31, all the township between the commission line or\\nboundary -between Fairmont and the New York Susquehanna and West-\\nern Railway, and 32, all the territory of the township south of the last\\nnamed line, to Kansas Street and the southern commission line, while\\n33, contains the remaining territory in the township to Little Ferry.\\n31, and 32, are largest and most deserving of notice.\\nIn 1825. Cornelius C. Bogert, Dr. Abraham Hopper, and Archibald\\nCampbell were appointed trustees to take steps toward the establishment\\nof a school in which all the branches of a classical education could be\\nobtained. They first secured ground upon which to erect a building,\\nand for this purpose purchased a lot fbrmerlj^ owned bv James Hill, on\\nthe west side of Main Street, and north of the lands of Henry Berdan.\\nThis was to be held in trust for the use of stockholders for the proposed\\nnew academy. Lafayette, having not long before passad through on his\\nvisit to the scenes of his earlier years when he fought side by side with\\nWashington, the patriotic and grateful people named the new institu-\\ntion, Lafayette Academy, in his honor. The building was erected by\\nBenjamin Oldis, twentj- feet on Main Street and forty- live feet deep,\\nwith an upper story for lectures and religious purposes. This was sur-\\nmounted by a cupola and bell from the old Passaic Church. The first\\nteacher was John Wash, Professor of Languages, from New York, fol-\\nlowed by William Lynn, Michael Doyle, Simon Z\u00c2\u00abibriskie, M. S. Wick-\\nman, Jacob Vanderbilt, Hugh Norton. William C. Smith and J. G.\\nWilliams.\\nThe old academy was sold in 1853, when a new and more commodi-\\nous brick building was erected on the northwest corner of State and\\nBerry Streets. J. G. Williams was the first teacher (1853), followed by\\nJames B. Burlew, Isaac J. Willis, Thomas H. Gimmel, B. F. Shaffer,\\nA. Rider and G. T. Probst, followed by S. G. Lippincott. This house\\nwas forty b} fifty feet, with an addition of twenty by forty feet, and\\nwith accommodations for five or six hundred scholars. The whole was\\nvalued at $10,000. In 1877, a new three-story building was erected on\\nthe same site.\\nIn early colonial days a law was passed rating the inhabitants for\\npublic instructiem in the various towns of the province.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK Br-:i\\\\ GEN COl^NTV 99\\nA mooting- was hold in Hackonsack in 17f 7 at whioh was disoussed\\nthe locating- of Queen s (now Rutg-or si College, the two places be fore\\nthe meeting- being Hackensack and New Brunswick. After it was de-\\ncided to locate at New Brunswick, the jieopleof Hackensack wore aroused\\nto a greater interest in the cause of education.\\nTwo years later (1769) Reinen Van (iiesse, an (dd aiul extensive\\nland owner, gave a site to the old Washington Academy, on the north-\\nwest corner of Main and Warren streets. Upon this site was erected a\\nlarge stone building, seventy-live by thirty-live feet and two-stories\\nhigh, with a belfry in the centre. In this belfry was hung the bell\\nwhich became famous, .ind on which was the inscription, Presented to\\nWashington Academy by William Bayard, 1776. This institution be-\\ncame famous through a line of able instructors of that day, Dr. Peter\\nWilson being the first on the list. He was a distinguished Scotchman,\\nwho came to this country in 1763. Next came Henry Traphagen, John\\nTraphagen, Bayard Bayard, Thomas Geaghan, Christian Zabriskie,\\nJohn Hayward, Henry Blackman, William Howell, John Bogart, Henry\\nHowell and John Vanderbilt. The first trustees elected (1790), were\\nSolomon Frcieligh, scholar and theologian; John Van Buren, Isaac Van-\\nderbeck, Jr., and the two able lawyers, Robert Campbell and Nehemiah\\nWade. The building was remodeled in 1846, and again in 1858. In 1865\\nthe school was made free, and in 1869, the necessary books and papers\\nwere supplied free of charge to all scholars. In 1873 a story was added\\nto the building, but, the number of pupils increasing, it became neces-\\nsary to have greater accommodations, and, in 1878, the building at the\\ncorner of Union and Meyers streets, was erected, and first occupied on\\nDecember 2d of that year. Dr. Nelson Haas, j)receded by a list of emi-\\nnent educators, became principal of this school in 1871, and continued\\nin the work for a period of nearly a quarter of a century. In 1895, up(m\\nthe establishment of a separate high school, he was made its principal,\\nand in 1897 was made Superintending Principal of all the schools in the\\ntownship, and is at this time holding these two offices.\\nThe Hackensack Academy was erected about the year 1S() but was\\nnever a prosperous enterprise, financially. This building was located\\non State Street, near Centra! Avenue. Dr. John B. Hague was its first\\nprincipal. He was followed by Professor Charles Hasbrouck, he in\\nturn by Professor W. W. Richards, and next came Stephen Brooks,\\nwho was succeeded by Charles W. Boyd. About 1S82 the academy was\\nclosed.\\nThe Fairmont school house was built in 189(1, and for some time\\nwas utilized for both Fairmont and Cherry Hill, but this was not found\\nto be satisfactory, and the Board of Education was authorized to sell\\nthe property and build a house for Fairmont.\\nThe Hudson Street school was enlarged and newly furnished in\\n18 )3.\\nThe High School, formerly conducted as a separate department in\\nthe Union and State Streets schools, was. from 1895 to 1896, pl;iced in\\nL ofC.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe State Street school, but later in the Union Street house, awaiting-\\nthe construction of the new High School building, which was opened on\\nThanksgiving Day, 1897. The High School prepares for admission to\\nthe Freshman class in college, or to the second year in the State Nor-\\nmal School.\\nThe Board of Education consists of nine members, and by the school\\nlaw enacted in 1866, all the schools of the township are placed under\\nthe supervision of this board. A uniform course of study has been\\nadopted requiring eight years of work, beginning with the kindergarten.\\nThis includes a course of manual training and preparation for entrance\\nto the High School.\\nIn addition to these, there are two private kindergarten schools in\\nthe village, and also one parochial school, established in 1871 by Rev.\\nJ. Rolands, in connection with the parish of Holy Trinity. The present\\nCounty Superintendent of Schools, Mr. John Terhune, is doing a good\\nwork in the county. The city owns school property to the amount of\\nnearly $10(1,000.\\nHACKENSACK CHUKCHES.\\nNo histor}- of Bergen County would be complete without a record\\nof the First Reformed Church of Hackensack. She claims to be the fruit-\\nful mother of all the English speaking Reformed Churches of the county,\\nand the benevolent step-mother of all the other Protestant Evangelical\\nchurches. She survives to-day after the storms and vicissitudes of over\\ntwo hundred years, one of the oldest and staunchest of the denomination\\nin America. Like an old, gnarled oak she has sent her roots all through\\nthe religious soil of the county and nourished the ecclesiastical growth\\nin all her hamlets.\\nTwo earliest records give the date of the organization as 1686, when\\nunder the ministry of Dominie Petrus Taschemaker, thirty-three persons\\nunited to lay the foundation of this ancient church. The original officers\\nof the organization were Hendrick Jorense and Albert Stevense, elders\\nand Hendrick Banta and Volkert Hansen, deacons. Dominie Tasche-\\nmaker was settled at New Amstel (now New Castle), on the Delaware\\nRiver, serving the feeble congregation at Hackensack, with a good deal\\nof sacrifice and devotion. He came four times a year to administer the\\nLord s Supper and baptize the children. Never their settled pastor, he\\ndid however excellent service.\\nThe first settled pastor was Guilliam Bertholf. a very pious man\\nwho acted as voorleer, in the absence of a regular pastor. He was\\nsent to Holland by the people at their expense, where he fitted himself\\nfor pastoral work and came back a regularl}- ordained minister. For\\nnearly thirty years this first pastor labored incessantly among his own\\npeople, and cared for the scattered colonies of Dutch settlers in New\\nJersey and New York States, laying the foundation of the present Home\\nMissionary work of the Reformed Church. In 1696, ten years after the\\norganization of the church, a building was erected on the spot where the\\npresent venerable sanctuar}- stands. Having been altered and enlarged", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKC.EX COUNTY 101\\nseveral times, it is still known to-day as the old clnirch on the j^reen.\\nAfter Dominie Bertholf died in 1724, there came several i)astors, all of\\nthem to the Dutch manor born and bred. Time forbids to enter into\\nparticulars, put the work of Curtenius and Goets.hius, Errickson and\\nCoens abides in its influence until the present time. The congfregation\\nwhich was scattered over a large territory erected another house of wor-\\nship at Schraalenburg-h where the pastor preached every other Sabbath\\nto accommodate the worshippers in that part of the county. In common\\nwith all the other Dutch congregations of that time, the church passed\\nthrough the disturbing waters of ecclesiastical strife which weakened\\nand rent in twain elements that needed all adhesion possible in order to\\nflourish.\\nAt the beginning of the Revolutinnarv War, after the death of\\nDominie Goetschius, Rev. Theodorick Romeyn t usually shortened into\\nDirck Romeyn), came as pastor, when peace and prosperity returned.\\nHe did not stay long however, leaving to settle in the old Dutch Church\\nof Schenectady, N. Y., where he became instrumental in founding Union\\nCollege. In 1799 the church called Rev. James V. C. Romevn as col-\\nleague with Rev. Dr. Solomon Froeligh. The progress of theological\\nthought in New England had begun to be felt in these staid old Dutch\\nChurches. The younger men felt the impulse of the new doctrines and\\nantagonized the older preachers. In 182.^ this same Dr. Froeligh started\\nin the old church a secession, partly from disappointed ambition and\\npartly from aversion to new methods which were coming in vogue.\\nSeveral other ministers took umbrage at the preaching of the new views,\\nalleging that it was a departure from the good old ways. These seced-\\ning parties were suspended by their respective classes for insubordina-\\ntion and schism. For the time being, it engendered a good deal of\\nstrife and bad feeling; families were divided and churches broken up.\\nBut being a conservative and combative secession it did not make much\\nheadway, and to-day it is passing into oblivion. Dominie Romeyn lab-\\nored in the church over thirty years, repairing the breaches of the seces-\\nsion and strengthening the church work. He was followed by his son\\nJames who continued the work for the short period of three years.\\nThen followed the fruitful ministry of Dominie Alexander Warner who\\nlabored with his flock for over twenty-eight years and was succeeded by\\nRev. Dr. Theodore B. Romeyn, a grandson of Rev. James V. C.\\nRomeyn. This church has had what no other church, as far as is\\nknown, has ever had, viz., a succession of three generations of preachers\\nof one name and family. Dr. Theodore B. Romeyn continued as pastor\\nfor eighteen years when he died and left as his monument, a strong\\nunited church. In IS-SO the present pastor. Rev. H. Vanderwart assumed\\ncharge. For over thirteen years he has labored to keep this venerable\\nold church true to her record and she stands to-day foremost in the\\ncounty, having a large and growing membership, a flourishing combi-\\nnation of several societies, large congregations both morning and even-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nins;-, verifying the promise of (iod that instead of the fathers shall be\\nthe children.\\nTHE SECOND KliKOKMED CHURCH\\nwas a swarm out of the old hive, settling in the upper part of Hacken-\\nsack, on State Street. It was organized in October, 1855, and has had\\na stead_y, vigorous growth ever since. Its first pastor was Rev. James\\nDemarest, Jr., who was followed by Rev. G. H. Fisher, under whose\\npastorate the church developed in every department of activity. Failing\\nhealth compelled him to resign and liand the reins to Rev. C. B. Durand,\\nwho continued for twelve years, when he changed his ecclesiastical\\nviews and entered the Episcopal ministry. The present incumVjent is\\nRev. Arthur Johnson, who has labored with much success in this im-\\nportant field, since December 12th, 1884. He was graduated from Prrnce-\\ntcm College in 1872, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1875.\\nA building site having been donated by Mrs. Maria Berry, the corner-\\nstone of the new church-house was laid on July 30tli, 1856, by Rev. John\\nKnox, D. D. The church edifice was erected in 1850, at a cost of S3000.\\nTHE THIRD GERMAN REFORMED CHUKCH\\n\\\\yas organized, as its name imports, by our German citizens, in Jan-\\nuaf y, 1858, in that part of Hackensack known as the Plank Road, in\\norder to supply the religious needs of the increasing number of Ger-\\nmans in our midst. During the forty years of its existence, owing to\\nweakness, it has been served by eleven pastors. At the present time it\\nis not strong, oviring to the death of many of its old supporters. Its\\npresent pastor. Rev. John Bombin, a scholarly man and an earnest and\\ndevoted worker, has under his care about eighty members.\\nCHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH.\\nThe Christian Reformed Church formerly known as the True Re-\\nformed Dutch Church) has a history dating back to 1822,. when differ-\\nences in doctrine and practice, caused eleven (11) congregations to with-\\ndraw from the judicature of the Dutch Reformed Church, and organized\\nas the Claseis of Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch Church.\\nSix of these congregations are entitled to recognition in the history\\nof Bergen County, and are situated at Ramseys, (formerly Ramapo),\\nSchraalenburg, (now Bergen Fields), English Neighborhood, (now\\nLeonia), Paramus, (now Ridgewood), Englewood and Hackensack. In\\nthe 3-ear ,1890 after ah acquaintance of several years the two branches\\nof the True Reformed Dutch Church, east and west, united, and for the\\nsake of ecclesiastical, uniformity and compatibility with the Mother\\nChurch in the Netherlands, they assumed the name. Christian Reformed\\nChurch, still retaining their corporate title, observing the same form of\\nchurch government and doctrinal standards, worshipped for a time in\\nprivate houses, barns and halls, under the pastorate of Rev. Solomon\\nFroeligh, D. D., until 1830, when Rev. C. T. Demarest served the church\\nfor one year, and Rev. Christian Z. Paulison was installed pastor. In\\n183 Rev. C. T. Demarest was again called to Hackensack, and served", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OV BEKGEN COUNTY 103\\nthe church jdiiitly with Leonia, until 1S52, Re\\\\-. Cornelius J. lauvelt\\nsucceeding to the pastorate in 1SS4, remaining until his death in l.S()il.\\nRev. John Y. De Bauu was with the congregation for twentv-seven\\n3-ears. The first church edifice was erected in 1S33 on Hud-jon Street,\\nenlarged in 1861, and again in 18()7. In the year 1S a new edifice in\\nmodern style, was built on State Street to rei)lace the old one. The new\\nchurch is called the Town Clock Church.\\nRev. John C. Voorhis, who is the sixth incumbent since the secession,\\nwas called to this pastorate in 1887, since doing a good work, both in\\nhis church and in educational affairs, being a member and for several\\nyears President of the Board of Education. He was ordained in 1875,\\nand became pastor of the church at Englewood where he remained\\ntwelve years, just ])rior to coming to Hackensack.\\nKIKST PRESBYTHKIAN CHURCH.\\nThe Church known as the First Presbyterian Church was originally\\nthe result of a secession, owing to a dispute of Rev. C. Z. PauHson with\\nthe Claseis of the True Reformed Church. Thinking himself and his\\nfollowing aggrieved, they organized a church similar to the Seccder\\nChurch but entirely independent of it. Finally in 1S71 the Consistory\\napplied to the Presbytery of Jersey City for admission to the Presby-\\nterian Church which was granted. Thus this church, organized in\\n1832 as an independent True Reformed Cliurch, came eventually into the\\nPresbyterian fold. There has been a succession of short i)astorates\\nuntil in 18 Jl Rev. R. Kuebler was called who continues to the present\\ntime. He was graduated from Union Theological Seminary in IS d.\\nThe church has recently been enlarged and is in a prosperous condition.\\nTHK FIKST METHODIST CHUKCH.\\nIn 1837 an organization was effected by the Protestant Methodists,\\nbut disbanded after six or seven years. It was not until 184*), that the\\nfirst class was established, and shortly afterward the First Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church was built on the rear of the same lot, upon which\\nstands the present church and parsonage. The front was on Warren\\nStreet. The present church was begun in April 1874, the lecture room\\nbeing dedicated in January 1875 and four years later the work was again\\ntaken up and the church completed.\\nASBUKY METHODIST KPISCOP.M. CHUKCH\\nwas organized in 1868, when thirty-six members were transferred from\\nthe First M. E. Church, and on New Year s Day 1871, they dedicated\\ntheir new church. One month later it was burned down. It was not\\nuntil nearly ten years had elajjsed, that the present church was built.\\nThey have now a membershii) of nearly 15(1, and church jjroperty worth\\nprobably SI 2,1)00.\\nHOI.V TRINITY WOMAN CATIIOIJC CHUKCH.\\nNot until 1863 did the Roman Catholics of Hackensack have a church\\nof their own. Both the foreign and native born Catholic element is\\nlarge and the congregation worships in a commodious edifice on Majile", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nAvenue under the pastorate of Rev. J. J. Cunnelly. Already a new\\nchurch has sprung out of the old one and worships in a sanctuary of its\\nown on reeland Avenue.\\nThe Rev. Dr. Brann purchased the site of the present church from\\nthe late John C. Myers on March 31, 1867. The Rev. P. Corrig-an the\\nfirst resident pastor preceded Dr. Braun and officiated at Hackensack and\\nFort Lee, from September, 1863, to May, 1866.\\nTHE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH\\nwas organized in 1832 by Elder Griffiths, but for various reasons the\\nmembership dropped off until Deacon De Woff, his wife and daughter\\nalone remained. It was not until 1870 that an effort was made to again\\nestablish a church of this creed, and in July of that year, eleven mem-\\nbers united to form the First Baptist Church. Mr. George H. Atwood\\nalone secured S1500 toward a fund for the erection of a suitable house of\\nworship. At the completion of the building the first pastor Rev. Zelotes\\nGrenell, senior, was installed on the day of dedication December 30, 1870.\\nThe pastorates have in no case covered a long period but have for the\\nmost part been vigorous and fruitful of much good.\\nCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH.\\nAbout seventy members withdrew from the First Baptist Church,\\nand organized temporarily on May 5, 1896, at the house of Mr. William\\nE. Taylor. On December 3, 18 K the church incorporated under the\\nname of the Calvary Baptist Church of Hackensack, Bergen County,\\nNew Jersey.\\nThe membership is now about eighty. The church property at\\nUnion Street and Central Avenue is valuable and the financial atfairs,\\ngenerally, in a flourishing condition. The various church helps, Sunday\\nSchool, Young Peoples Societies, etc., are active and grt)wing.\\nCHKIST CHUKCH.\\nThe Protestant Episcopal Church known as Christ Church, dates back\\nto 1861, and has attracted a large number of people. The noble edifice on\\nState Street, with its rectory, tells of the zeal and labors of the present\\npastor. Rev. Dr. William Welles Holley, who has labored with his present\\ncharge for more than twenty-eight years. There are now about 6U0\\nmembers zealously working in their especial field. In its short\\nlife this church organization has given nearly a quarter of a million\\ndollars for the spread of the gospel.\\nDr Holley is a native of Geneva. N. Y., and a graduate of Trinity\\nCollege. He was ordained tf) the ministry in 18()5.\\nTHE l XITAKIAXS\\nestablished a church organization in February-, 1898, and incorporated\\nsoon after under the name of the First Unitarian Congregational\\nChurch of Hackensack. They worship in Odd Fellows Hall. This\\nsociety has many prominent financial people of the city among its sup-\\nporters, and is doing a successful work in the broad field covered by the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV OF lilCKdHN corxTV 1(15\\nLove to God and Love to Man, which they recognize as practical\\nrelis -ii)n.\\nMorxT ()i.i\\\\ i r liAi Tisr ciukch.\\nThe colored people are quite weak, hut succeed in keepinjr uji the\\ninterest of two conjj reg ations of the Methodist and Baptist denomina-\\ntions. There are about tifty-four members in this org anization, but\\nthey ha\\\\e church property valued at S25t(U. The work of orsfanizin a\\ncong-regation was commenced on Sundav. July 2(1, ISS i. The Mission\\nwas rcorg-anized and recoofnized in 1S 2, when the lot for the ])resent\\nchurch building- was purchased and paid for at a cost of S2\\nZIOX M. IC. CHI KCll\\nwas org-anizee in l.S()5, and Mr. L. H. Sagfe douijted the lot on which\\nthe church stands, the building having been erected some three years\\nlater.\\nn ;wsp.\\\\i ]:ks.\\nThe first news]):iper published in Hackeiisack was the Bergen Coun-\\nty Joui-nal, with Mr. Joseph Baldwin as its edit(jr until 1S( 1 w^hen he\\nenlisted in the Civil War. About this time Mr. C. C. Burr began pub-\\nlishing the Bergen County Democrat and Rockland County Journal. In\\nthe meantime Mr. Eben Winton having boug-ht the plant of the lately\\nsuspended Journal, formed a partnership with Mr. Burr in piiblishing\\nthe Bergen County Dcmcjcrat, and at the same time discontinued the\\nRockland County edition. In less than a year, however, Mr. Burr with-\\ndrew, and Mr. Winton remained alone in the publication until 1S7(\\nwhen he took his s m Henry into the businos, and the firm became\\nknown as E. Winton Son. One year later Mr. Henry Winton became\\nsole owner.\\nIn politics the paper is Democratic, and is on a good financial oasis,\\nbiing i ne of the best paying newspapers in the State.\\nTHK HACKKNS.VCK KEPUHI.IC.\\\\N,\\nthe only permanent Republican pa])er of general circulation in Bergen\\nCounty, was established in 1870 under the editorship of Arnold B. John-\\nson, as The New Jersey Republican.\\nMr. Johnson remained with the iiajier until 1.S74, when he was suc-\\nceeded by Hugh M. Herrick of the Paterson tiuardian. Mr. Herrick\\nreturned to the Guardian a year later and was succeeded on the New\\nJersey Republican Isy William H. Bleecker and Thomas II. Rhodes.\\n.Mr. Rhodes, however, retired after a few months leaying Mr. Bleecker\\nsole proprietor until 1S78. Thomas H. Chrystal then purchased the\\nplant, and changed the name of the paper to that of The Hackensack\\nRepublican, at the same time enlarging the sheet and improving its\\nmechanical department, while adding to its attractiveness by his hu-\\nmorous writings.\\nIn 1882 Hon. William .M. Johnson purchased the pajjcr, ])lacing\\nEugene K. Bird at the head of its editorial department. Mr. Bird is of\\nrecognized al)ility and has been with this paper since 1877.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn 1889 Mr. Herrick, former owner, again took charg-e, where he\\nstill continues, with Mr. Bird as local editor and business manager.\\nThis paper is progressive and independent, devoted to local interests as\\nwell as to State questions. It is on a solid business basis.\\nTHE EVENINC RECORD,\\njiublished in Hackensack, is the only daily paper in Bergen County.\\nIn June, 1895, some young men of enterprise undertook this publi-\\ncation, which they continued until January following, when The\\nEvening Record Publishing Compan}, incorporated and purchased the\\nbusiness.\\nHerbert W. Collingwood, the president of the company, became\\neditor-in-chief, James A. Romeyn, treasurer and manager, with James\\nSmith as local editor.\\nIn September Mr. Collingwood retired when Mr. E. G. Runner was\\nmade president, and James A. Romeyn became editor, in addition to his\\noffices of secretary and treasurer.\\nIn politics this paper is independent and aggressive, always loyal\\nto local interests, while maintaining a courteous demeanor toward its\\ncontemporaries. The circulation is large and increasing, promising a\\nbright future.\\nTHE HACKENSACK HOSPITAL.\\n[Contribution of the Secretary of the Board.]\\nIn the early spring of 1888 Dr. David St. John, who had then already\\nbecome prominent in this section and whose extended practice brought\\nhim into contact with many cases which could be so much more success-\\ntuUy treated in a hospital, under took the organization of such an insti-\\ntution in town. His efforts met with a ready response and resulted in a\\npreliminary meeting which was held at the office of Hon. William M.\\nJohnson on April 23rd, 1888. This meeting was attended by a goodly\\nnumber of representative citizens and it was then decided to proceed to\\norganize and a committee on permanent organization was appointed. At\\na second meeting held at the same place on May 1st, of that year, the\\ncommittee on permanent organization reported in favor of an organiza-\\ntion dual in form viz The Hackensack Hospital Company to be managed\\nby a board of eleven directors which might consist of seven gentlemen\\nand four ladies, said company to acquire and hold title to the Hospital\\nproperty. Second, The Hackensack Hospital Association to be directed\\nby a board of twenty-four governors, the last named organii.ation to\\nlease the property from the company at a nominal annual rental and to\\nequip and manage the hospital. This report was adopted as was also\\nthe constitution and by-laws reported by the same committee, provision\\nbeing made for the appointment of a ladies auxiliary board by the board\\nof Governors. Permanent organization was then effected by the election\\nof the following named Board of Directors for the Company: Hon. Wil-\\nliam M. Johnson, Hon. William S. Banta, Edward H. Dougherty,\\nNicholas Mehrhof, Sr., John C. Van Saun, Adonijah S. Boyd, William", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "insTOKY OF Hi;iu;n.\\\\ coi nty l(i7\\nP. Ellory, Mrs. Frederick Jacnhson, Sr.. Mrs. Kli/. ibjtli F. Chrvstal.\\nMrs. Theodore B. Romeyn, and Mrs. E. M. Moses.\\nFor Governors of the Association Nicholas Mehrhof. Sr., David\\nTerhune, Charles H. H. Harris, Peter L. Conklin. William T. E. Wells\\nEdwin Ackerman, (leorg-e W. Conklin, William V-. illiams, Edward Poor,\\nSr., Lewis Perrot, John (rrode, (ieor ;-e M. Fairchild. Jr., James A.\\nRomeyn, Lemuel Lozier. John Hilyer. Cornelius A. Herriny;, Weslev\\nStoney. Abraham (i. Munn, Jr., M.-ilthew E. Clarendon, James E.\\nChurch. Abrahams. Burdette, I\\\\L D.. David St. Jidm, M. D., James\\n.^L Van Valen, and Nicholas C. Demarest. The B lard of (iovcrnors\\nmet at once with Hon. James ]SL Van Valen jri.sidinfif and James A.\\nRomeyn as Secretary. A committee on nomination of officers was a]i-\\npointed, consisting of Nicholas Mjhrhof, Sr., Dr. D. St. John, and\\nWilliam Williams. That ccmimittce reported for President, David Ter-\\nhune Vice-Presidents, James AL Van Valen and M. E. Clarendon Sec-\\nretary, James E. Church and Treasurer, Charles H. Harris, which\\nreport was adopted. At a subsecpient meeting of the board on Mav 7tli,\\nJohn O. Hilyer, P. L. Conklin, and N. C. Demarest declined to serve as\\n(rovernors and were rejilaced l)y Alvah Towbridt^e, and William M.\\n.lohnson. Mr. Charles H. Harris als declined the treasurership and\\nJames A. Romeyn was unanimously chosen in his stead. The President\\na]ipointed a large and rejjresentative auxiliary board, the various com-\\nmittees of which are to be presided over by the following: Visiting\\nCommittee, Mrs. William Williams, (Camden Street); Finance Comr\\nmittee, Mrs. William T. Wells Supply C mimittee, Mrs. William Wil-\\nliams, (State Street: Nurses xVid Committee, Mrs. Dr. Hollev Ward-\\nrobe Committee, Mrs. J. S. Moses: Special Needs Ccmimittee, Miss. A.\\nBarling. Want of space forbids naming the entire Auxiliary Board, but\\nvery largely to the ladies of that board and to Dr. St. John, David Ter-\\nhune, and Cornelius A. Herring belongs the credit of the speedy and\\nsuccessful opening of this much needed institution. The first Medical\\nBoard were Dr. D. St. John, President Dr. Altram S. Burdette.\\nSecretary; with Fordyce Barker, M. D., Edward C. Janeway. .M. D..\\nand Abin Jacobi, M. D., as consulting physicians. Lewis H. Sayre, ,NL\\nD., consulting surgeon W. (rill Wylie. M. D., consulting gynecologist;\\nDavid Webster, M. D., consulting occulist; Visiting physicians and\\nsurgeons, Dr. D. St. John and Dr. Abraham S. Burdette. Homeopathic\\nward, Chas. V. Adams, M. D., attending physician Dr. G. Howard\\nMcFadden, interne; and Miss Mary E. Livingston, matron. Later on\\na Nurses Training School was organized, whose graduates now minister\\nto the sick and injured in many States.\\nIn additi(m to the names already mentioned as prominent in its orga-\\nnization and early management, the name of Mrs. Theodore B. Romeyn\\nshould also be mentioned.\\nFnmi its incei)tion there has been most worthy, consistent an l\\nenthusiastic efforts ])ut forth by its promotors and man;igers, each sue-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "108 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nceeding annual report showing- increased facilities, a more and more sat-\\nisfactory financial standing, a better corp of trained nurses, additions to\\nand improvements of the hospital property and buildings and most skill-\\nful treatment on the part of its physicians and nurses until it is to-day\\nrecognized everywhere as a strictly first-class institution of its kind as\\nshown by the fact that its last annual report shows $3826.40 received\\nduring the year from patients and nurses earnings, in a total receipts for\\nthe year of $6486.84 while the expenses were $5544.83, leaving a balance\\nof $942.01. The last year (1899) the institution has been taxed to its\\nutmost capacity and though 519 cases were treated during the year\\nsome had to be turned away for want of room, and the board of govern-\\nors are now considering plans to enlarge and otherwise increase its\\nusefulness. The present board of officers are Albert V. Moore, Presi-\\ndent M. E. Clarendon and Alvah Trowbridge, Vice Presidents John\\nDunlap, Treasurer and James E. Church, Secretary. The associates of\\n-Dr. St. John on the medical board, are Doctors A. L. Van De Water,\\nFrank H. White, E. K. Conrad, and G. Howard McFadden. Dr. N. A.\\nHarris is attending physician to the Homeopathic ward. Dr. Elmer W.\\nScott is the present house physician and Miss Emma F. Crum, supervis-\\ning nurse. The hospital has been peculiarly fortunate in having the\\nhearty assistance of many of the most prominent medical men in New\\nYork City, on its consulting staff. Among these are such eminent names\\nas Edward G. Janeway, M. D., Abin Jacobi, M. D., consulting physicians\\nJoseph D. Bryant, M. D., and George F. Shrady, M. D., consulting sur-\\ngeons, W. Gill Wylie, M. D., and Roberf H. Wylie, M. D., con-\\nsulting gynecologists; David Webster, M. D., consulting opthalmic\\nsurgeon; J. Le(mard Corning, M. D., consulting neurologist; Rob-\\nert Newman, M. D., consultant in genito-urinary diseases; Regi-\\nnald H. Sayre, M. D., consultant in diseases of spine and gen-\\neral deformities, Charles W. Allen, M. D., consulting dermatologist,\\nand S. M. Payne, M. D., consultant in diseases of the eye, ear,\\nnose and throat. The present Hospital Governors are Dr. D. St.\\nJohn, M. E. Clarendon, Alvah Trowbridge, Major John Dunlap, James\\nE. Church, J. O. Grode, A. G. Munn, Jr., C. E. Breckinridge, E. H.\\nDougherty, C. E. Eckerson, Chas. Henderson, Edward E. Moore, J. A.\\nRomeyn, Lemuel Lozier, Hon. William M. Johnson, E. M. Barnes, Cap-\\ntain i. J. Phelps, A. V. Moore, William T. Knapp, L. Perrot, E. E.\\nPoor, Sr., G. L. Jaeger, Charles H. Harris and George W. Conklin.\\nAfter due credit has been given to all others, more than to any one\\nelse the chief credit for organization and most successful management of\\nthis admiral)le and worthy institution belongs to Dr. David St. John.\\nJames E. Chukch.\\nthe hackensx\\\\ck impkovement commission.\\nThis Commission was created by act of the State Legislature of\\nNew Jersey in 1868, supplemented in April, 1871 by a provision em-\\npowering the Commission to organize a Fire Department. On June 1,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "no HISTORY OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nfollowing, two coinparics were org-anized, Bergen Hook and Ladder\\nCompany, Xo. 1, and Relief Hook and Ladder Company, No. 2. Two\\ntrucks were purchased, but not being- of equal value, in order to make\\na satisfactory adjustment of numbers and awarding- of trucks, the.conir\\nmittee agreed to give choice of trucks to one and choice of numbers to\\nthe other. It thus came that Bergen became No. 1, but received the\\ninterior apparatus.\\nTheir truck was first kept in a little building now made into a\\ndwelling house) on State Street, near the Susquehanna Track. Soon\\nafter .this, however, thev moved into the new house on Bergen Street,\\nand for more than a quarter of a century have done active service, with\\nbut one interruption. Their enrollment at present twenty-seven. Relief\\nHook and Ladder Company, No. 2, was organized at the old Park Hotel-\\non Passaic Street. They first kept their truck in the old D^Baun black\\nsmith shop on Union Street, and afterwards used La Favorita boat house\\non Anderson s dock. In March, 189(), they took possession of their State\\nStreet fire house.\\nThe first Chief of the Fire Department, John J Ward, was from\\nthis company. The company was organized \\\\yith eleven members, but\\nhave now twice that number. Their truck was used twenty years with-\\nout repair, except jiainting. A new truck was furnished them in 1S ).S\\nat a c(jst of 81,^50.\\nProtection Engine Companv, No. 1, was organized in November of\\nthe same year, and in 1884 James Conklin, of this company, was elected\\nChief. In 1S )5 a new house was erected for them at a cost of S3500,\\nand the same year the fine La France steam fire engine was furnished\\nthem. This company now has twentv-seven members.\\nLiberty Hose Companv, No. 1, now known as Liberty Steamer\\nCompany, No. 1, wa? the first lios2 co:npany in the department, and was\\norganized September, I J, 1882, but did not incorporate until 1885. They\\nare a prosperous company, and in ISSS pur.ihased a new hose carriage,\\nof which thev are sole owners. This they turned over to the Commis-\\nmission, and subsequently invested in a new steam engine, which cost\\nS.^dOd. It also was accepted on April 14, ISy.l, and was the first steamer\\nin town. They now l)ought one of (ileasou Bailey s improved hose\\ncarts, at the same time disposing of the old carriage to the Maywood\\nFire Department. This brought about the change of name to that of\\nLiberty Steamer Company, No. 1. They tuunber twenty on the roll.\\nThese, with the Fire Patrol, which had been organized in 187( with ten\\nmembers, comprised the Department.\\nTin- next company to come into existence was the Alert Hose Com-\\npany No. 2, March 22, 1883. Their place of organization was the cigar\\nstore of Jacob H. Fank, at 70 Main Street. Mr. Fank was made head\\nof the Department in June, 1889, and in 1893 John Weickert was elected\\nassistant engineer. This company now has seventeen members. Six\\nyears later Hudson Hose Company No. 3 was org-anized in the old Third\\nDistrict of Hackensack, (afterwards tlie I irst i at the Franklin House", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COVNTY 111\\non Hudson Street. Tliey have twenty-one members. Union Hose Com-\\npany No. 4, followed ill May, 1S )5, and was accepted on June 1. They\\nhad twelve members and still keep that nvimbiT. The duties of the Fire\\nPatrol were more specilically defined by an Act of the Letfislature March\\n14, 1S7 which made the company to number twenty men. In Aug-ust,\\n1887, a wagon for carr^-intr canvas covers, stretchers, ropes, lanterns,\\netc., was furnished and placed in the Innise of the Relief Engine Com-\\n{lany, where it was kept until their removal to their new house m Mer-\\ncer Street. The total number of men in the Department is 1()\\nThe Exempt Firemen s Association was organized February l\\n1890, at the rooms of Liberty Hose Company No. 1. The aims of the\\norganization are both social and beneficial. There are numy e.xenipt\\nfiremen who are still in active service. They nuinl)er at this time ino\\nmembers.\\nThe Firemen s Insurance Association of Ilackensack. is another\\ncommendable institution, having in view the payment of an insurance\\nfee of one dollar per member, upon the death of a fireman connected\\nwith the organization. The (jnly expense connected with this is that\\nof stationery and printing. The only persons eligible to membership\\nare local firemen. There are now 168 enrolled.\\nThe Firemen s Relief Association is intended to benefit members\\nwho are injured while on duty. The companies have equal rights by\\nrepresentatives and trustees. The Association has now about S7.(l(;(\\ninvested in first class bond and mortgage security.\\nTHE H.\\\\CKENS.\\\\CK \\\\V.\\\\TER COMPANY.\\nThis is a private enterprise operated by a stock com))any incorporated\\nMarch 12, 1869. The incorporators were Richard R. Hawkey, John H.\\nBanta, Garrett, Ackerson, Jr., Eben Win ton and Samuel Sneeden. After\\nten years, the finances of the company running low, a receiver was ap-\\n])ointed in the person of the Hon. Augustus A. Harden burg, of Jersey\\nCity. The following year, under new conditi(ms, it was reorganized\\nand named The Hackensack Water Company Reorganized.\\nThe source of water supjdy is the Hackensack River, from which\\nthe water is taken at New Mil ford, about five miles above Hackensack.\\nThere are probably 200 miles of force mains, with three high service\\npumps of ten, five and three million gallons daily capacity, respec-\\ntively. The two reservoirs at Weehawken Heights have a capacity\\nof eighteen and forty-live million galhms each, while the average\\ndaily consumption is about 8,000,000 gallons. This water is com-\\nparatively pure, the source being Rockland Lake, which is fed from\\nmountain springs. A new pumping service is soon to l)e in operation,\\nwith a capacity of 13,000,000 gallons daily.\\nSOCIETIES, LODGES AND CI.tlBS.\\nThe man who does not belong to a club or a lodge, is the exception\\nand not the rule. Hackensack has its share of these institutions for the\\nbenefit, amusement or entertainment of its many citizens who may\\nchoose to become members.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112 HISTOKV OF BRKGEN COUNTY\\nThe oldest secret order in Hackensack, is that of Berg-en County\\nL di;e, No. 73, I. O. O. F., which was instituted in 1845, and held its\\nfirst meeting s in a small room over the ball-room of the Washington\\nMansion House. This proving inadequate the lodge sought more suit-\\nable rooms in which to meet until a permanent home could be secured.\\nA building association was subsequentl}- formed, a site purchased, and\\nOdd Fellows Hall built. This house which they had occupied many\\nyears, was burned in 1897, but their present hall was in process of erec-\\ntion prior to the destruction of the old one. In addition to the parent\\nlodge, is Hope Encampment, No. 3.^, and Uhland Lodge, No. 177, a\\nGerman Lodge instituted in 1874, with thirteen charter members. This\\nis a prosperous organization holding its meetings in Odd Fellows Hall,\\na line building recently finished.\\nTHE OKITANI KIHLD CLfB\\n(if Hackensack, is the leading athletic organization of Bergen County.\\nTo Mr. F. A. Anthony is due the honor of suggesting the idea of\\nsuch a club, associating afterwards with him as founders, Messrs. J. S. C.\\nWells, John R. Bogert, William P. EHery, George M. Fairchild, Jr., C.\\nJulian Wood, E. E. Poor, Jr.. Asa W. Dickinson and William Welles\\nHolley, Rector of Christ Church.\\nSoon after the first public meeting, which was held in Library Hall,\\non the 8tli of November, 1887, the club was organized. Mr. F. A. An-\\nthony was elected President, with I. B. Bogert, First Vice President; G.\\nM. Fairchild, Jr., Second Vice President C. Julian Wood, Secretar^^ E.\\nE. Poor, Jr., Treasurer; J. S. C. Wells, Captain. The Governors were\\nMessrs W. P. EHery. R. S. Jacobson, B. J. Richardson, A. W. Dickin-\\nson. A*. B. Banta, C. W. Berdan, Rev. W. W. Holley, Rev. Arthur John-\\nson and A. Trowbridge.\\nThe club at once incorporated with an enrollment of ninety-seven\\nmembers. Soon after this, the Anderson homestead was purchased and\\nnecessary alterations and improvements made. The house and toljoggan\\nslide were opened to members on the 26th day of December, 1887. The\\nclub was a popular organii,ation from the first, and at the end of this\\nyear the membership numbered 234. The formal opening of the grounds\\ntook place on July 4th, 1888, with an appropriate programme. No\\nless than 5000 people assembled to witness the game of base ball and\\ntennis matches, and to hear the fine music by Drake s Military Band.\\nA drill of Company C, was an interesting feature, the whole closing\\nwith a display of fireworks in the evening. The house and grounds\\nhave now become valuable property. The ball field has been enlarged,\\nfine bowling alleys adjoin the club house, and some of the members\\nbeing expert bowlers, tfiese alleys are in great deihand. A reading\\nroom, billiard and pool room, excellent tennis courts and a boat house,\\nare all open to the members. They have also a fine hall equipped\\nfor entertainments and dances. Tlie family of each member is al-\\nlowed all the benefits and privileges which he enjoys, except that of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OV HKh CiHN COUNTY ll.i\\nvoting- and liDldinsj;- office. This has been a hcnelit to the chih linan-\\ncially, since the women have hehl alTairs, which have netted a neat sum\\neach time.\\nThe present oflicers are F. A. Anthony, President I. F. Hinds.\\nFirst Vice-President; C. M. Horton. Second Vice-President; Dr. A. C\\nHevd(m, Correspondin Secretary; H. De Mott, Recording- Secretary; I.\\nH. Labag-h, Treasurer.\\n(Governors: .T. P. Chirendon, \\\\V. J. Fisher, F. \\\\V. Beattie, A. T.\\nHolley, J. J. Phelps, (t. W. Conklin, H. (I. Terluuie, W. P. Ellerv R.,\\nS. Bruns.\\nTHK OKDEK OF AMKKICAN ,M ICCII AXICS\\nwliich was founded in Phihidelphia, July Sth, l^-S, had as its chief ob-\\njects, the advocacy of free schools, and tlie non-union of church and\\nstate. Columbia C(amcil Ko. of this order, was organi/xnl in Hacken-\\nsack September 5, 1S71 with seventeen members, but has passed out of\\nexistence.\\nI lOXKlCK LODCIv\\nNo 70 F. and A. M. was instituted April 4th, 1S()5, under dispensation,\\nthe first meeting- being- held in Odd Fellows Hall, Hackensack. Its\\nofficers were William H. De Wolfe, W. M. Dr. William H. Hall, S. W.\\nRobert W. Goslee, J. W. Richard A. Terhune, S. D. acting treasurer)\\nIsaac E. Bigert, Sjjretary Thoinis Picker, J. D. a id David M. Hall,\\nacting as Tvler. In the Fall of 18( 5 the meeting place was changed from\\nOdd Fellows Hall to Anderson Hall, a room in the third story having\\nbeen fitted up specially for the lodge. Its first regular meeting was held\\nunder charter or warrant, from the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, Febru-\\nary 12, 1866. After passing through some adverse experiences the lodge\\nsettled again in Anderson Hall where it remained until its reni ival to\\nthe Bank Building. The present membership is about one hundred.\\nBKKCIiX ClIAPTICK\\nNo 4(1 K. A. M. was instituted in l.S with eighteen members and now\\nhas forty-three.\\nThe Junior Order United American Mechanics, was organized Aug-\\nust 4, IS H, and has an enrollment of about 2(10. Having no home of\\nits own, this lodge meets at Odd Fellows Hall every Friday night.\\nThe objects of the organization are such as to interest all true Ameri-\\ncans. Hackensack Lodge No. 64, Ancient Order United Workmen,\\nmeets in Odd Fellows Hall the first and third Thursdays of each\\nmonth. This organization has a limit of twenty annual assessments of\\none dollar eacli, with a benefit at death of S2000, and in addition to\\nthis they have a sick benefit class, ])aying a weekly sick benefit of six\\ndollars to its members.\\nBergen Ltxlge 14.\\\\ Knights and Ladies of the (iolden Star, was\\norganized in March, 1897. This fraternal insurance organization, as\\nits name implies, admits both sexes. Any member of the family over\\ntwelve years of age is eligible to membershi]).", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe Hackensack Wheelmen en February 11th, 1895, organized with\\n111 charter members. The}- have a home which they have occupied\\nsince May, 1896, having prior to that time occupied the old Bank Build-\\ning, now owned and occupied by C. A. Bogert. The enrollment is now\\n250 active members, while Mr. E. C. Humphrey is the only honorary\\nmember.\\nBesides these, the Woman s Christian Temperance Union was org-\\nanized in 1883, and the Hackensack branch of the Children s Home So-\\nciety, a national organization, for the placing of homeless children, was\\norganized March 23, 1895.\\nThere are also many societies for musical and dramatic culture.\\nAmong this number we lind the Gunod Society founded for the purpose\\nof promoting the study of choral music and also for developing a taste\\nfor the music of the great masters. The Hackensack Dramatic Associa-\\ntion has been fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Alfred Young,\\nstage manager of the Brooklyn Amaranth. To his training, is largely\\ndue no doubt, the success achieved by the members. They now enjoy\\nthe services of Mr. George G. Ackerman of the late Schubert Club, who\\ncomes with a commission to form the Dramatic Association Orchestra.\\nand in which he will act as musical director.\\nThe Deutscher Kriegerbund of Bergen County, is an association for\\nthe relief or assistance of regular army veterans and was organized July\\n11, 1S94.\\nTHE t;EKM.\\\\N SCHUTZENBUNDICS WASHINCTON RIFLES,\\nState of New Jersey, organized March, ISSl, and the Bruderliebe So-\\nciety, organized in 1kS()4, are both fraternal institutions.\\nTHE HACKENSACK CORNET B.\\\\ND\\nis a creditable band of twenty-one instruments.\\nTHE KALAMAZOO BAND\\nwas formed in 1892, and is a social organizaticm of about eighty mem-\\nbers. There are also the German Dramatic Harmonic, the Liedertafel\\nGerman Singing Society and the Court Hackensack, No. 47, F. of A.;\\nHackingshackey Tribe, No. 189, Improved Order of Red Men; Order of\\nUnited PMends, Royal Council, No. 1151, Royal Arcanum, National\\nUnion, with many others of a fraternal, beneficiary or social nature.\\nBANKINC; INSTITLTTIONS.\\nThere have been several banking institutions in Hackensack during\\nthe last sixty years, but none of them are now in operation. The first\\nbanking institution of any importance was the Washington Banking\\nCompany, which came here from Hoboken, where it had been previously\\norganized under a State law. It transacted business here about seventy\\nyears ago, but after a few years met with financial failure. John De\\nGrott was President and George Y. Allaire Cashier. It was first located\\nin the present southwest parlor of the Mansion House, and subsequently\\nmoved to its banking house, erected by the company on the north side of\\nMansion Street, near Main.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "lusTdKV OF lu Kci-N c\u00e2\u0096\u00a0()^^ 115\\nThe Hank ol BerirL-n County was ostahlislu d .lanuarv 2(1, 1S72, with\\na capital of 000, and in January, 1S74. incroasnl to Sl(iil,oO(i, and in\\nthe same year a spacious and substantial liankiny house was built on\\nMain Street, on the site of the old Campbell tavern, of Kevolutioiiary\\nmemory.\\nBergen County Savings Bank was chartered in 1S70. and commenced\\nbusiness in iS72. Its business was mainly carried on bv the officers of\\nthe Bank of Bergen County.\\nThe First National Bank of Hackensack was organized October 2:\\n1871, and commenced business the following .lanuary, with a capital of\\n3100,000.\\nThe Hackensack Savings Bank was incorporaU d April 4, 1S7.^, and\\ncommenced business the following Mav. This bank was managed by\\nthe officers generally of the First National Bank. All of these f(.ur\\nfinancial institutions continued in business till about Iwinity years ago.\\nTin-: llACKKXSACK KAXK,\\nnow carrying a capital of 350,000, was incorporated in ISS t, when iJavid\\nA. Pell was made President; M. E. Clarendon, ice-Presi(lent, and H.\\nD. Terhune, Cashier. These officials still continue to hold their positions.\\nThe directors are David A. Pell, William M. Johnson, F. A. .\\\\n-\\nthony, James \\\\V. Gillies, Samuel Taylor, M. E. Clarendon, David St.\\nJohn, M. D., C. J. Cadmus. John J. Phelps, Frank B. Poor, II. D.\\nTerhune.\\nThe bank has added to its capital 350,000, a surplus of 350,000 and\\nundivided profit of 325,000, and carries about half a million dollars in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2leposits.\\nIn proportion to its c;ii)ital and vidume if !)usiness it is one of the\\nwealthiest banks in the State.\\nMir.ITAKV C )MPAMi:S O).- 11 ACK I lN S \\\\CK.\\nThe organization of the Hackensack Continental (luard, as a military\\ncompany was effected in 1.S55. Later it formed a union with the\\nBergen C mnty Rifles and then l)ecame known as the Bergen County\\nBattalion. It was then officered as follows: Colonel A. (j. Ackerman;\\nMajor. David A. Barry; Adjutant, John J, Anderson: Ouartermaster,\\nK. 1 Terhune. The battalion was disbanded in 1 S( 1.\\nCompany (i, Sec(md Regiment X. (t. N. J., was organized by Hon.\\nJ. M. Van Valen, October Sth, 1.S72. Through the instrumentality of\\nMr. Van Valen, who had removed to the town, a number of persons\\nhad become interested in the formation of this company, which w.is\\norganized as Company C. and in which the people of the county have\\nalways taken a pardonable pride. The officers elected at the above date\\nwere Garret Ackerman, Jr., Ca])tain; James M. Van Valen, First Lieu-\\ntenant; Nicholas C. Demarest, Second lyieutenant; (leorge T. Haring.\\nSergeant. To Lieutenant Van Valen is due the credit of not only organ-\\nizing this company but also of perfecting a discijiline in drills, which\\nmade it a name, and ij-ave it ;i perinanencv in the popular o])inion of the\\npeopl..", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "116 HISTOKV OF BKKGEN COUNTY\\nIn l.S7() chang-es were madt- in the oryfanization (if the company.\\nIn March of that year Captain Ackerson resii\u00c2\u00bb-ue(l. and soon after.\\nLieutenant Van Valen was appointed quartermaster of the battalion.\\nLieutenant Demarest also having- resigned.\\nThe new officers were elected March 7, 1S7( and were as follows: A\\nD. Campbell, formerly Uuartermaster was elected Captain; John Eng-el,\\nFirst Lieutenant; and John E. Huyler, Second Lieutenant May .lOth,\\nls7(i. In i S77 the company was called out in the railroad strike, and ujjon\\nreturning was presented a purse of three hundred and fiftv dollars.\\nIn January i8 h Captain A. D. Campbell retired with the brevet rank of\\nMajor, and John Eng-el was elected Captain. (ieorg-e E. Wells was\\npromoted to fill the place of Lieutenant Freeman, ^vho had removed\\nfrom town. Upon the retirement of Judg-e Ackerman he was appointed\\nJudge Advocate, becoming in time Judge Advocate General (d the\\nState. June 15th, 18 I6, Lieutenant Van Valen resigned the office of\\nUuartermaster of tlie Second Battalicm. On February 2()th, ISS.v he\\nwas made Captain and inspector of rifle practice of the battalion, follow-\\ning -which, on June Sth, 1SS(), he was made Colonel and Assistant In-\\nspector of rifle pratice, after which he was retired as Brevet Brigadier-\\n(xeneral. On May .^Ist, 1S S3, Company C became Company (1, in the\\nSecond Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, and took part with that\\nregiment in its movements in the war with Spain, as will be seen else-\\nwhere. The company left Hackensack with a full complement of officers\\nand one hundred and three men, and in the regiment with them Major\\nJohn Engle, Major Charles F. Adams, Surgeon of the reg-iment, and\\nAdjutant A. T. Hollcy. Officers of the com])any were as follows:\\nCaptain (ieorge E. Wells; First Lieutenant, Garret H. Sturr;\\nSecond Lieutenant, Irving R. Pierson; First Sergeant, Walter Bur-\\nroughs; Ouartermaster Sergeant, Charles H. Mabie; Sergeants, Edward\\nA. Burdett, Addison B. Burroughs, James H. Russel, Edgar Vreeland;\\nCorporals, Fred V. Bates, James A. Van Valen, George M. Edsall\\nWard G. Berry, Harrv Fosdick, Uncas E. Richter; Musicians, William\\nCampl)elt, (barrel Robertson; Artificer, William D. Newman, Wagoner,\\nI aul T. Scoskie.\\njA-vncs li. sTpiiJiKSON POST, NO. .52, c. a. k.\\nPost ,52, Department of New Jersey, (irand .\\\\rniy of the Republic,\\nwas mustered in on the evening of July 13, ISSL by Mustering Officer\\nCommander Rodrigo. Delegates from Post 7, 17 and .i5 were present.\\nDetails from the visiting comrades filled the different chairs. The fid-\\nlowing veterans were mustered in as charter members: (George M. Hun-\\nter, James H. Russell, John Engel, Simeon Van Wetering, William H.\\nDe Wolfe, John Si yri, John G. l- eam, William H. Harper, Albert C.\\nBogert, Conrad Hoffman, T. K. Lonergan, Frederick Zeeb, William\\nBrant, Daniel W. Demarest. Frank W. Hover, Josejdi Scott, Aaron E.\\nAckerman, Lewis C. Cotte.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol UEKC.ICN COUNTY 117\\nCdiiimandor Sjtroiil of Post Xu. 7 of Passaii. at the same incetin.i;\\ninstalled the foll()\\\\vin r comrades as the first officers of the post Com-\\nmander. Gec^rye M. Hunter; Senior ice-C- )mman ier, William J. Brant:\\nJunior Vice-Commander, James H. Russell Uuartermastor, John Enu;el\\nSurg eon, John G. Kream Chaplain, William 11. Harper; Officer Day.\\nFrank W. Hover; Officer (iuird. Alb?rt C. Boirert Adjutant, Daniel\\nW. Demarest Serg eant Major. Simeon an Weterintr Ouartermaster\\nSergeant, A. E. Ackerman.\\nThe officers of the post for IS ts are Comm.-inder, Janics H. Russell\\nSenior Vice-Commander, William P. Amerman Junior Vice-C(mimander,\\nWilliam O. Labagh Adjutant, L. S. Marsh Ouartermaster, Aaron K.\\nAckerman; Surgeon, Evcradus Warner; Chaplain, Jasper Westervelt;\\nOfficer of the Day, David J. Myers; Officer of the (iuard, John Kngel\\nSergeant Major. A. McKinney Ouartermaster Sergeant, Alber Cr.\\nSmith.\\nOn the evening of July 2 1881, the name of James U. McPherson\\nwas adopted as the name of Post No. .S2, after Major General James\\nMcPherson, who was killed July 22, 18()4, in a rebel ambuscade at Atlanta.\\nGa. We have in our possession his dressing gown and the leather case\\ncoutaing the field order book used by him. They were sent us by his\\nmother in gratitude for having adopted the name of her son.\\nThis post, aided by the citizens of Hackensack. erected a tine monu-\\nment in the Hackensack Cemetery, at a cost of over one thousand dollars.\\nThere, too, provision is made for the interment of all Bergen County\\ncomrades.\\nTlIK SII.K iWII.L\\nowned by (iivenaud Brothers Comi)any, of West Hoboken, was erected\\nin 1S7 J. They began with about (me hundred and eighty looms ;ind\\ntliree hundred and fifty employees The new building wHl contain two\\nhundred and thirty looms and five hundred employees. The Silk\\nWeavers Union for the mutual protecticm of its members, has for offi-\\ncers A. Bunger, President; John Grass, Secretary.\\nKKONE BKOTlIIvKS\\nare publishers of educational work and make a specialty of penmanshi])\\nand drawing books, in addition to a great variety of school stationery.\\nMany of their publications are their own copyrights. Herman Krone. Jr..\\neldest son of the senior member of the tirni, is in charge of the New-\\nYork salesrooms and offices, and H. Martini, son-in-law of the senior\\nmember, has the su])erintendcy of the factory.\\nHlx lCK MA K INC,\\nis another im])ortant industry. This ])lant was established about hall\\na century ago by Moses and Andrew^ Sears who were followed by Philip\\nShafer and he in turn by John Sjhnniltz and Mr. Brunsey. The same\\nyard is now operated by the (Tardner firms and J. W. (iillies.\\nTHK H.VCKKXSACK Ml TFAI. lUII.DINC AND I.().\\\\N ASSDCI.XTION,\\norganized in 1887, has been a great jjower in the develojiment of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ntown. Its officers consist of: William A. Linn, President; Georg-e W.\\nConklin, Vice President; Frank Pitcher, Secretary; A. S. D. Demarest,\\nTreasurer and Abram DeBaun, Counsel.\\nTHE HACKENSACK KEALTY COMPANY,\\norg-anized in 18 )7 with W. A. Linn, President; W. C. Thomas, Secretary\\nand Lemuel Lozier, Treasurer, is improving a section of the city, by ex-\\ntending Clinton Place to the top of the hill, \\\\vhere they have graded the\\nstreets and made other improvements.\\nTHE HACKENSACK HEICHTS ASSOCIATION\\nis an incorporated company that purchased the old Red Hill. This is a\\ntract of ninety acres of land, which the company so improved as to make\\nof it a desirable residence section. Water, gas and electric lighting\\nhave all been secured, streets laid out and a railroad station house built,\\nknown as Prospect Avenue Staticm. So beautiful is the location, and\\nso substantial the improvements that the enterprise is proving a finan-\\ncial success.\\nWILLIAM SICKLES BANTA.\\nWilliam Sickles Banta. is a lineal descendant of Epke Jacob Banta\\nwho emigrated to this country in 16S9, coming from Amsterdam in the\\nship De Trow. This emigrant was born at Harlengen West Friesland,\\nHolland. Upon his arrival in America he settled at English Neighbor-\\nhood, now Fairview, and in 1679 was a Judge of the Court of Oyer and\\nTerminer. The Banta family remained in this part of Bergen County\\nuntil about 1750, when Yan Banta, the great-grandfather of William S.\\nremoved to Pascack, Washington Township, where he died. His large\\nlanded estate was divided among his children. Hendrick his eldest son\\nwho was born May 27, 1749, succeeding his father in the old homestead.\\nIn l!^03 Hendfick died leaving 500 acres of land to be divided among his\\nfive sons, one of whom was Henry H., the father of William S. In those\\nearly days it was a custom, born of necessity, for young men to learn\\nsome useful trade. Of the five sons of Hendrick Banta, but one left\\nhome to engage in mercantile pursuits. Henry H., the father of Judge\\nBanta, learned the trade of shoemaker, but the real business of his life\\nwas merchandise and farming. In 1833, he removed to Hackensack and\\nformed a partnership with his brother Teunis, under the firm name of\\nH. H. T. Banta, in which he continued until his death in 1849. Mr.\\nBanta was for some years postmaster of Hackensack, receiving his ap-\\npointment from General Francis Granger, and was a member of the\\nNew Jersey State Militia, with the rank of Adjutant.\\nHe was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, serving\\nthree terms, from 1829 to 1834, from 1838 to 1843, and 1843 to 1848.\\nPublic spirited, active and alive to the best interests of both church\\nand state, he wielded an influence for good, commanding the confidence\\nand respect of his fellow men.\\nThe maternal ancestry of Judge Banta are of good stock, his\\nmother being Jane, daughter of William Sickles of Rockland County,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OI- BEHGEX COl NTY 119\\nN. Y., born January V), 17 )2, and died September 2, 1870. She was a\\ndescendant if Zacharias Sickles, who was born, in Vienna, Austria,\\ngoing- to Holland and from there to Curacoa, one of the Dutch West\\nIndies, serving in the military rank of cadet. It was here he met\\n(Governor Peter Stuyvesant, and came to New York with him in 1655,\\nsoon after becoming attached to the garrison at Fort Orange (Albany),\\nreturning to New York in 1( )3.\\nJudge William S. Banta was born at Pascack, December 12, 1S24,\\nand was educated in the public schools, finishing his preparatory course\\nfor college, in the private classical school of Rev. John S. Mabon at\\nHackensack. After being graduated from Rutg-rs College in 1844, he\\nbegan the stud}- of law in the office of Abram O. Zabriskie, of Hacken-\\nsack, afterward Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. Mr. Banta\\nwas admitted to the Bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 1847, and as a\\ncounsellor in 1S51. Soon after his admission to the Bar, Judge Banta\\nwas appointed Master and Examiner in Chancery, later being made\\nspecial Master in Chancery and Supreme Court Commissioner.\\nAfter acting as Superintendent of Schools in the Township of New\\nBarbadoes (under the old law), he was appointed by the Board of Free-\\nholders to act with Rev. Albert Amerman on the Board of Examiners, a\\nplace which he filled with efficiency for several years. In 1860 he was\\nappointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County, and reappointed in\\n1865. A Republican in politics, he held the office of Deputy Internal Col-\\nlector from 1862 to 1865. The Judge was President and Treasurer of\\nthe Hackensack Gas Light Company for many years, and also Secretary\\nand Treasurer of the Bergen County Mutual Fire Assurance Associa-\\ntion, and was one of the first members of the Hackensack Improvement\\nCommission. In 1872 he was appointed to fill out the unexpired term\\nof Judge Ashbel Green, Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,\\nand in 1873 was reappointed to the same place for five years. In 1879\\nJudge Banta was appointed Associate Judge of the same court. He was\\nfor several years one of the managers of the Morris Plains Asylum.\\nIn 1850 Judge Banta was married to Sarah, daughter of John and\\nKaty Ann Hopper Zabriskie, of Hohokus, who died in 185.^, leaving a\\nson, who died in infancy. His second wife was Adelia, a sister of his\\nfirst wife, who died in 1869. His present wife is Jane Anne, daughter\\nof Abram H. and Maria (Anderson) Berry, a lineal descendant of John\\nHerry, one of the original patentees of IJergen County.\\nABKA.M I!. liANTA\\nAbram B. Banta who for forty ^-ears has been identiiied with the\\ngrocery trade in Hackensack, is a son of John H. Banta and grandson\\nof Henry W. Banta both of whom were life long residents of Hacken-\\nsack. The father established the grocery trade on Main and Bridge\\nStreets in 1846, and was identified with that stand until his death thirty-\\neight years afterward. In 1830 he was married to Lydia Bartholf, who\\nis still living at the age or eighty-one years. Their children were.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "120 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nHenry, Jane T., wife of Thomas H. Cumming-; Abram B., John, and\\nCornelius T.\\nMr. John H. Banta was at one time Sheriff of Berg-en County.\\nAbram B. Banta was born in 1842 and when seventeen years of age\\nwent into the grocery business, which he has followed ever since. In\\n1S82, the Banta Brothers started their branch store at Passaic Avenue\\nand Main Street. In 1860, Mr. Banta was married to Miss Rebecca\\nWestervelt and five chihlren have been born of this union.\\nJAMKS M. VAN VALEX.\\nAmong- the lineal descendants of David Van Valen. who came to\\nAmerica from Holland in lr)52. followed by his father Johannes Van\\nValen five years later, is James M. Van Valen, ex-Judg-e of Berg-en\\nCounty, whom the writer of this sketch knows from personal contact\\nwith the people to be regarded as one of the most useful and important\\ncitizens of the county.\\nFor a brief period of time the ancestors of this family in Bergen\\nCounty lived in New York City, then removed to Harlem where Johan-\\nnes became one of the original patentees of the Harlem Grants, and the\\nlast survivor of them. In course of time his descendants removed to\\nBergen County, N. J., where they became extensive land owners. Deeds\\nbearing date of 1701 record the purchase of 2600 acres of land by Jo-\\nhannes, Bernardus. Gideon and Rynier Van Valen, from Lancastar\\nSyms, comprising all the Palisade lands from the Jay Line, extending\\nfrom the Hudson on the east to Overpeck on the west. Bernardus Van\\nValen was the great-grandfather of James M. He was a member of the\\nmilitia serving as militiaman, in the Revolutionary War, when he was\\ntaken prisoner and confined in the Old Sugar House in New York City.\\nA stone house built by him is still standing near the railroad depot at\\nCloster. He lived to the age of eighty years and died in 1820, leaving\\nlive children, James, Andrew, Cornelius, Isaac and Jane. James, the\\ngrandfather of James M., was for a time a farmer at Closter, but re-\\nmoved to Clarkstown, Rockland County, N. Y., where he died in Aug-\\nust. 1786, at the age of twenty-six years. He left three children Barney,\\nSarah, who became the wife of Henr} Westervelt; and Cornelius. Cor-\\nnelius was born at Clarkstown May 21, 1786. He married first Elizabeth\\nKlackledge, and lived for s mie years in New York City. In 1832 he\\nbought a farm at Englewood, then Hackensack Township, where he\\nlived seven years, when he sold that farm and purchased another at\\nTcaneck, where his wife died soon after.\\nCaroline, wife of David Lamberson, and Cornelius were children of\\nthis marriage. His second wife was Jane, daughter of Abram Zabris-\\nkie of Paramus. Of this marriage there were three children, Eliza, wife\\nof Edward Barr, who died in 1867; James M. and Sarah A., wife\\nof Cornelius D. Schor, of T^eimia.\\nJames M. Van Valen was born at Teaneck, July 21st, 1842. When\\nthe War of the Rebellion broke out he left school to enlist in Company", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "z i^/ji^frtxSSr-o. My.\\n^u^ h T^^^-^^o^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "HisToKV oi- iu :k(;i;n cotntv 121\\nI. (if the TwL iity-SLVond Ktoiiiuiu. Now .Krsev Volunteers, and served\\nten months in the Army ()1 the Potomae. Upon his return he ensfa-red\\nin tile book trade in New York eity until 1S(\u00e2\u0080\u009eS. when he betrau teachini\u00c2\u00bb-\\nin Bergen county, continuing in that profession for five years. He\\ntaught, among other places, at I arannis Church, New Bridge and Hack-\\nensack. Subsequently he entered the law office of Garret Ackerson,\\nand, under his direction, pursued a course of study, being admitted as\\nattorney in 1S75, and as a counsellor in ISTS. Immediately after his\\nadmission to the bar he formed a partnership with Mr. Ackerson, which\\ncontinued for eleven years, terminating with the death of Mr. Ackerson\\nin December, 1 SS(). In 1887, Governor Robert S. Green appointed Mr.\\nan Valen Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bergen\\ncounty. At the close of this term he was reappointed for a like term\\nby (iovernor Werts, his term expiring in April, 1898.\\nIn 1872, Judge Van Valen, havingbecome interested in thi National\\n(iuard, organized Company C, Second New Jersey Regiment, and l)e-\\ncame first lieutenant. He was afterwards made quartermaster of the\\nbattalion. Soon after this he was made Inspector of Riile Practice,\\nwith rank of captain, and subsequently was appointed Assistant Ins])ec-\\ntor General of the State of New Jersey, with the rank of colonel. At\\nhis own request he was retired on July 5, 1893, with rank of IJrevet\\nBrigadier General, and still holds that commission.\\nJudge Van Valen, always interested in educational matters, was\\nchairman of the Board of Educatitm of Hackensack for a period of\\neighteen years, declining a re-election on account of pressure of business.\\nHe is first Vice President of the Bergen County Bar Association, and is\\nice President of the Holland Society of New York, of which he has\\nbeen a member since its organization. He is also a prominent Mason,\\nmember of Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, and has been Master of that Order.\\nJudge Van Valen has been signally successful in the various lines in\\nwhich he has been engaged. As soldier, teacher, lawyer and judge, he\\nhas made an enviable reputation, and. as a jurist, his opinions have stood\\nwithout reversal, except in two cases. Socially, Judge Van alen stands\\nwithout a ])eer.\\nMe was married in 1S74 U Miss ^Vnna Augusta Smith. daui;liter of\\nriu odore Smith. They ha\\\\e nine children, seven boys and two girls.\\nWII.I.IAM .M. IDli.NSON.\\nWilliam M. Johnson, President oi Hackensack Trust ComiJany,\\nwell-known lawyer and legislator, was born in 1S47. in Newton, Siisse.\\\\\\ncounty, N. J., and is the son d Wliitlield S. Juhnscn. who served as\\nSecretary of State for the State of New Jersey fri m 18(,1 to 1S(,.S.\\nMr. Johns(m was educated at Princeton Cnllege, and subset|ucntly\\nentered the office of the late Judge ScuiUKr. of Trenton, under whose\\ndirection he jjursued the study of law. Inin- admitted to the bar as an\\nattorney in 1.S7(). After practicing lour years at Trenton, he removed to\\nHackensack. and located jjermanentlv. iiis ability as a lawyer soon", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "122 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nbrought to him a large and growinif clieutaiJ-e. and he became a recog;-\\nnized legal light in that part of the State in the various departments\\nof the profession.\\nPolitically Mr. Johnson is a Rejniblican. He has served on the Re-\\npul)lican State Committee, aud was a delegate in 1888 to the Nationa\\nRepublican Convention that nominated Harrison for the Presidency.\\nHe was elected Senator from Bergen count}- in 1895, and took an active\\npart in legislation. In the session of 1898, and also in the session of\\n1899, he was the leader of his party in the Senate. He has been con-\\nspicuous for many years in all enterprises tending to a healthy and per-\\nmanent growth of his town. He served four years as a member of the\\nHackensack Improvement Commission, and is a member of the Board\\nof Governors of the Hackensack Hospital, which institution he greatly\\naided in establishing, and continues to support. He has also been a\\nmember of the Hackensack Board of School Trustees ana a director of\\nthe Washington Institute. He is a member of the Oritani Field Club,\\nthe Hamilton Club of Paterson, the Princeton Club, the Lake Hopatcong\\nClub and other societies.\\nIn 1872, Mr. Johnson married Miss White, of Trenton. Of this mar-\\nriage there are two children, George W., the elder, a graduate of\\nPrinceton College, class of 1898, and William Kempton. Mr. Johnson\\noccupies offices in the Hackensack Bank Building.\\n;hok(;k h. atwood.\\nIn full view of the White Hills of Mount Washington stands Sugar\\nHill, in the town of Lisbon, N. H., where (ieorge H. Atwood was born,\\non November 9th, 1838. He was the seventh son of Moses K. Atwood,\\na wheelwright and maker of fine sleighs and carriages. The familv\\nancestors came from England at an early period, and both father and\\nmother were pious and devoted Christians.\\nrpon the death of his father, the mother was left with nine chil-\\ndren, and shortly after this, George H., then hut eight _years of age,\\nwent t i live with Joseph Clark, who owned a good-sized farm at Carroll,\\nN. H. .Mr. Clark had no children, and young Atwood worked on the\\nfarm, and during the winter and school terms did the chores and at-\\ntended the village school. He spent the evenings in reading, and fre-\\nquently engaged in the village debating society. At the age of thirteen\\nhe jjrofessed ctmversion. and was baptized in a pond, fed by mountain\\nsjjrings, at Whitetield, N. H., and united with the Baptist Church.\\nIn 18.=57, Mr. Atwood s real business career began when he became a\\nclerk in his uncle s jewelry store, at Littleton, N. H., continuing in that\\nbusiness until he came to New York, in IHh?,, where he engaged with the\\nold linen collar and cuff house of Bennett. Strickland P^ellows, as\\nentry clerk, and was rapidly advanced to bookkeeper, then to cashier,\\nand, in 18f 8, to the position of manager and credit man of the New York\\nhouse, a place he has occupied with honor to the house for the past\\nthirtv-six years. During these years he has managed the credits of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "GEOKliK H. ATWOOD", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BKKdEN COUNTY 12.\\nNew York house, had charg-e of the salesmen and directed the affairs of\\nthis extensive business throuj^h successive changes of firms, the present\\nfirm of FeHows Company beinj^ really the oldest collar and cuff manu-\\nfacturers in the United States, havinjr been established in Troy, N. Y.,\\nin 1834. In all his transactions he enjoys the confidence of his emplov-\\ners in the highest degree.\\nIn 1SI)4 Mr. Atwood was made a Mason in Sagamore Lodge No. .^71.\\nNew York Citv. and became Senior Deacon, Senior Warden and Wor-\\nshipful Master in rapid succession, the lodge greatlv prospering- under\\nhis brilliant administration. The lodge presented him with a gold\\nwatch and chain upon his retiring from the mastership. He was made\\na Royal Arch Mason in 1865, in Phcxniix Chapter No. 2, New York, and\\nwas immediately elected Principal Sojourner of the Chapter. He was\\nalso made a Knights Templar in Palestine Commandary No. 18, New\\nYork, in 1865, under a dispensation of the Grand Commander, being\\ngiven all the degrees at one conclave, and was at the next conclave\\nelected Prelate of the Commandary, tilling the office with marked ability\\nfor years. During 1865-6-7, while visiting Hackensack and when Pion-\\neer Lodge was young, he attended the lodge meeting, conferred de-\\ngrees, installed officers and gave valuable counsel. His membership is\\nnow with Pioneer Lodge No. 7(). F. A. M. of Hackensack as a Past\\nMaster.\\nIn 18()5 he became a l)oarder at the Hackensack House, kept by A.\\nVan Saun, and on December 22nd, 1866, was married to Miss Lucy Shel-\\ndrake, eldest daughter of the late (ieorge H. Burt of Hackensack, where\\nhe has since resided. Six children have been born of this marriage,\\nthree boys and three girls, all living.\\nEarly identifying himself with the interests of the town, he became\\none of the founders of the Public rvil rary and Reading Room and one\\nof its first trustees. Taking the lead he arranged for a course of po])ular\\nlectures for its benefit, which netlerl them S.^SO. So anxious was Mr.\\nAtwood for the financial success i f this cause that he personally sold\\nlecture tickets on the trains.\\nHe 18i) he was a nu inlier ni the choir in the Second Reformed\\nChurch. Dr. George H. Fisher. ])asti r. Being a Baptist, in May, 187(t,\\nhe started a subscription to build a Baptist Church, and personally\\nsecured S15(t(l before any one else had raised a dollar, and on the third\\nof July a church was organized with eleven members who received the\\nright hand of fellowshij) by Deacon DeWolfc and his wife, the only\\nsurviving members of a church that existed in Hackensack about thirty-\\nfive years prior to that time, Mr. Atwood being one of the eleven\\norganiy.ers. Ground was broken on September \u00c2\u00bbth of that year and on\\nDecember ^Oth following the present church edifice was dedicated. He\\nhas labored zealously in both church and Sunday school ever since,\\nholding the various offices of trustees, clerk and deacon in the church\\nwhile he has been a teacher in the Sundav school for twenty-nine years,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "124 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nand three times elected superintendent, which position he now holds.\\nIn 1873 he was President of the New Jersey Sunday School Convention,\\ncomprising- thirty-live schools.\\nMr. Atwood has been a liberal and cheerful giver to Home and\\nForeign Missions, and to every good and benevolent work.\\nDK. DAVID ST. JOHN.\\nDr. David St. John is descended from Matthias St. John (Sention)\\nwho came from England in 1( 35, settling in New England. His grand-\\nfather, Noah St. John, removed to New York State upon his marriage\\nwith Elizabeth Waterbury, of Waterbury, Conn. Dr. St. John was born\\nin Berne, Albany County, New York, in 1850, his father being David\\nSt. John and his mother, Mary Johnson of Scotch ancestry.\\nAfter pursuing a preparatory course in the Albany Schools, he com-\\nmenced the study of medicine with Dr. H. W. Bell of Berne, N. Y.,\\nafterward entering the office of Professor James H. Armsby, of Albany,\\nN. Y., then the leading surgeon in that part of the state. He took\\ncourses of lectures at the Albany Medical College, Buffalo Medical Col-\\nlege, and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating from the latter\\ninstitution in 1875. He located in Hackensack where he has become\\nprominent in his profession; and has been closely and prominently iden-\\ntilie l with all matters of town interest.\\nIn 1888, realizing the great advantages that a hospital would offer\\ntor the better treatment of a class of medical and surgical cases. Dr. St.\\nJohn conceived the idea of organizing the Hackensack Hospital, and\\nwhile his energetic and untiring efforts in its behalf have been ably\\nseconded by all classes of citizens, his indefatigable labors have been\\nthe primary cause of its great success. He is President of the Medical\\nBoard, and visiting physician and surgeon to this institution, ex-Presi-\\ndent and member of the Bergen County Medical Society; a member of\\nthe New Jersey State Medical Society; New York State Medical Associ-\\nation and the American Medical Association. He was appointed by\\nGovernor Griggs one of the managers of the State Hospital for the In-\\nsane, Morris Plains, and is surgeon for the Erie Railroad. He also per-\\nforms a good share of the surgical work in the western portion of the\\ncounty outside of his hospital practice. Associated with him as assist-\\nant is Dr. A. A. Swayze, graduate of the College of Physicians and\\nSurgeons, Baltimore, Md.\\nThe doctor is First Vice President of the Hackensack Trust Com-\\npany, a director of the Hackensack Bank and of the Gas and Electric\\nCompany of Bergen County, and President of the Hackensack Heights\\nAssociation, owners of a large track of valuable real estate on Hacken-\\nsack Heights.\\nDr. St. John is a courteous and dignified gentleman. Sympathetic\\nand thoughtful, he gains the confidence of his patients as he does of\\nothers with whom he comes in contact.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "^^ss^.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BKKGEN COVNTY 125\\nHe was married in 1879 to Miss Jennie Angle, of Hope, New Jersey.\\nThey have three chilnren Olive Graham, Fordj ce Barker and Florence\\nAn rk THE ROMEYN KAMII.V.\\nPrior to the middle of the thirteenth century, Giacomode Ferentino,\\nan Italian gentleman, settled at Rongham Manor, Norfolk, England,\\nmarried Isabella de Rucham, a lady of that place, by whom there were\\ntwo sons. Peter and Richard (or Thomas). Thev were sent to Rome to\\nbe educated. After their return, Peter, at least, took surname of Rom-\\naeyn (Peter the Roman). Although educated for the priesthood, he\\nmarried the daughter of Thomas de Leicester. Her mother s name was\\nAgatha de Cringleford, of Norfolk. Peter Romaeyn devised property,\\nmade out leases, granted charters, many of which still exist over the\\nname assumed by him. His widow sold the property at Rongham in\\nthat name. In the third year of Edward II, A. D., 1387, Thomas\\nRomayn was Lord Mayor of London. His arms (foreign) not granted\\nin England. Described in the register Argent (white) on a fesse\\ngules (red) three crosses pater, or- crest, a deer s head Erased. Soon\\nafter the above date, troubles broke out between the king and the house\\nof Leicester (see History of England and many of the Leicester family\\nand adherents were forced to flee the kingdom, and it is probable, though\\nnot a part of family history, that some of the Romayns went to the\\nlow countries at that time. There is a claim made that the name in\\nFrance is spelled Romaine, in England, Romain, and in Holland, Romeyn\\nthe latter we know to be a fact. Jan Romeyn, of Amsterdam, Holland,\\nwas a descendant of the Romeyns who went from England to the low\\ncountries, he had three sons, Simon Janse, Christoffel and Claasor Klass.\\n(Note In Valentine s Manual, 1803, is the facsimile signature of Simon\\nJansen Romeyn, 1661, in the Dutch Church records of New York is the\\nmarriage, 1()68, of Simon Jansen Romeyn, young man from Amster-\\ndam and Sophie Jans, maiden from the Hague. Christoffel and Claus\\nsailed from Rotterdam for Brazil with the expedition of Prince Maurice.\\nWhen Brazil was ceded to Portugal, they sailed for New Netherlands,\\nand settled (m Long Island (there is a dispute as to the date, some claim-\\ning 1654, others 1661), then removed to Hackensack, N. J., remaining\\nabout ten years, and later to Greenwich, on the island of New York. Claus\\nmarried Christianje or Styntie Albertse T ;rhune, May 2, UtHO, of Ams-\\nfort now (Gravesend, N. Y. and died at (Ireeuwich, N. Y. His children\\nwere Garrebregt, (a) John, Elizabeth, Lydia, Albert, Cora and Daniel.\\nDaniel married in Hackensack, May 17, 1716, Martie (Mary) Westervelt.\\nJOHN KOMEYN,\\n(a) John Romeyn (of Holland) married Lammatje Bougeart at\\nHackensack, in 1699. Of this union there were also seven children, (b)\\nNicholas, Roelif, Isaac, Aquietjin (David), Rachael (Berdan), Asseltjin\\nVan Voorheest). At this point it may be opportune to produce the names\\nthat belong under this head, as they are found in the records of the Dutch\\nChurch at Hackensack. Garrebreght Klas Romeyn, Elizabeth Romeyn,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "126 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nLydia Romeyn, Jans Clasen Romeyn, Clara Romeyn, Daniel Romeyn,\\nRachael Janse Romeyn, Klaes Romeyn, Jan Romeyn, Geisjan Romein,\\nAnnastjen Romeyn, David Romayn, Isack Romeyn, Ang^uietjin Romeyn,\\nLeude Romein, Cristyntjen Romein, Claes Romeyn, Roelif Romeyn,\\nNicholas Romein, Antje Romein, Guetje Romeyn, Eyntje Romeyn, Jan\\nRomeyn, John Romeyn, Nikase Romeyn, Eliza Romeyn, Sarah Romeyn.\\nNICHOLAS ROMEYN.\\nb) Nicholas Romeyn was born in 1700, died in 1763, married Eliza-\\nbeth Outwater 1726, who died 1732. His second wife 1733) was Rachel\\nVreelandt, who died in 1761. The issue by his first wife was (c) Rev.\\nThomas Romeyn. By his second wife, John, born 1734. The latter first\\nmarried Julia and second Lady Mary Watts. Issue Eliza (Simmons),\\nJohn and the Rev. Theodoric (Dirk) Romeyn, D. D., born 1744, died\\n1804, who married Elizabeth Broadhead. The latter was pastor of the\\nDutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh about ten years.\\nThe pastorate beginning- May, 1776. He is largely quoted, and in the\\nlist of names of distinguished personages, he is considered one of\\nthe prominent American theologians.\\nREV. THOMAS ROMEYN.\\n(e Rev. Thomas Romeyn see Corwin s Manual was born at Pomp-\\nton, March 20th, 1729, and died October 22d, 1794. He graduated from the\\nCollege of New Jersey, 1750. Studied theology. After preaching a few\\ntimes on Long Island, he went to Holland in 1752 for ordination, and was\\nsettled at Jamaica, Long Island, until 1760. It is said that the spelling of\\nthe name Romeyn was adopted in this form from his researches in Hol-\\nland. Prior to that the name was spelled in several ways; but his informa-\\ntion obtained in Holland led him to a certaint} that Romeyn was the\\nproper spelling, and it is in that form to-day in Holland. He married twice,\\nfirst a Margarita Freelinghuysen, June 29th, 1756, who died at Jamaica,\\nDecember 13th, 1757, leaving a son, Rev. Theodore F., who died at Somer-\\nville, N. J., in 1785. Secondly, Susanna Van Campen, whose ashes rest\\nin the graveyard of the old Church on the Green, in Hackensack. He\\ndied at Fonda, N. Y., October 22d, 1794, and was buried under the pulpit\\nof his church. The issue was (Rev.) Thomas, Nicholas, Abraham, Eesf.\\nJohn Broad-bead, at one time pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian\\nChurch in New York (Dr. Hall s), Benjamin and Rev. James Van Campen.\\nREV. JAMES VAN CAMPEN ROMEYN.\\nRev. James Van Campen Romeyn was born at Minsink, Sussex\\nCounty, N. J., November 15th, 1765, died at Hackensack, June 27th,\\n1840, and was buried in the old churchyard on the Green, by the side of\\nhis first wife. He attended the Schenectady Academy, 1784. Studied\\ntheology under Rev. Theodoric (Dirk) Romeyn, his uncle. He was a\\ntrustee of Rutgers College. He had several charges, the last of which\\nwas the Reformed Churches of Schraalenburg and Hackensack from 1799", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "KKV. JAiMKS VAN CAiMPKN K OMKVN\\nDcceasi-d.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "128 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nto 1833. Without ever having seen or heard him, he was called to the\\ndistracted churches of Berg-en County, N. J., on the ground of his repu-\\ntation as a man of forbearance, discretion and piety. (Taylor s An-\\nnals, Sprague s Annals). He married twice, Susanna, a daughter of\\nMaus Van Vranken, of Schenectady, and Mrs. Elizabeth Pell, who sur-\\nvived him. There was a family of two sons and seven daughters, Susan\\n(Zabriskie) born 1790, died 1868; Harriet (Stafford) born 1792, died 1849,\\nAnna Maria (Varick) born 1794, died 1855; Rev. James Romeyn, D. D.\\nborn 1797, died 1859; Anna (Taylor) born 1801), died 1868; Eliza Berry\\nborn 1803, died 1849; Caroline (Danforth) born 1807, died 1845; Theodore,\\nborn 1810, died 1885 (Lawyer, Detroit, Mich.; Sarah (Hornblower) born\\n1814, died 1874. They resided on the property now owned by the Oritani\\nField Club, in Hackensack-. About 1827 he lived in the homestead now\\noccupied by Hon. William S. Banta, Main Street, where most of his daugh-\\nters were married. In 1833 he erected the house just north of the latter,\\non Main steet, now the property of Mr. O. O. Shackleton, where he died.\\nREV. JAMES KOMEYN.\\nRev. James Romeyn was born at Blooming Grove, N. Y., Septem-\\nber 30, 1797. He graduated from Columbia College in ISlb, and from\\nthe Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1819. He de-\\nclined the title of Doctor of Divinity bestowed on him by Columbia Col-\\nlege. He was settled at several places was pastor of the First Re-\\nformed Church of Hackensack from 1833 to 1836 was elected a trustee\\nof Rutgers College in 1842. He married Joanna Bayard Rodgers, daugh-\\nter of John Richardson Bayard Rodgers, M. D., a leading physician and\\nprofessor in Columbia College, New York. There were two sons, James\\nRodgers and Theodore Bayard Romeyn. Mr. Romeyn was a man who\\nthrew his whole energy into his labor. He was a student and very pre-\\ncise in his work an exceedingly rapid speaker and there are those who\\nremember him to-day who rapturcmsly speak of him as a wonderfully\\npowerful preacher. His nature was exceedingly sensitive but his phy-\\nsical strength was not equal to the mental strain, always at a high ten-\\nsion. His manner of writing his sermons was most. remarkable a few\\nare in existence the manuscripts are written so fine and condensed that\\nthey cannot be read without the aid of a strong magnifying glass.\\nWhile in Hackensack he resided part of the time in the parsonage of the\\nFirst Church, on Essex Street, and part of the time on the southeast\\ncorner of Main and Ward Streets. He died at New Brunswick, N. J., in\\n1862, and his ashes mingle with his kindred dust.\\nREV. THEODOKP: B.\\\\YAKD ROMEYN. D. D.\\nRev. Theodore Bayard Romeyn, D. D., was the second son of Rev.\\nJames Romeyn. He was born at Nassau, N. Y., October 22, 1827. He\\nattended school at Hackensack and other places. He graduated from\\nRutgers College with the distinction of the Honorary Oration in 1846,\\nand from the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick. N. J., three\\nyears later. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "KKV. JAMIiS KOMKYN\\nDeceased.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "130 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nby Rutgers College. He was called to preach Christ at Blawenburgh,\\nN. J., near Princeton, immediately after his graduation, where he lab-\\nored with a united people who reverence his memor}- and treasure his\\nministrations among them. He responded to a call from the church of\\nFathers the First Reformed at Hackensack in 1865, where for twent}\\nyears he labored faithful unto death. He was a man whose retiring\\ntendencies were predominant. He despised shams, and when once his\\nmind was made up there was no compromise. He inherited a keen sen-\\nsitiveness from his father. He carried the joys and the sorrows of his\\ncongregation, sharing with each member, especially in their sorrows.\\nHe was exceedinglj- sympathetic and his charity was a marked feature\\nof his life, though the left hand knew not the gifts of the right. He\\nwas the embodiment of faithfulness, never shirking duty, but many\\nwere the occasions when, phj-sically incapacitated, he responded to the\\ncalls of his parishioners, and was present at the post of duty, in the\\nvineyard of his Master, which was always his pleasure. He was a close\\nand persistent student, a deep thinker, eloquent in his discourses, fer-\\nvent in his labors and ardent in effort to lead the erring into the paths\\nof rectitude and to the Throne of Grace. Dr. Romeyn had been on a\\nlonger vacation than he usually indulged in and among the scenes of his\\nboyhood, near Catskill, N. Y. He came home upon a Friday evening,\\nthe following morning the Master called he was stricken with paraly-\\nsis. His illness was of but brief duration, in a few hours he had passed\\ninto the holy atmosphere of the Delectable Mountains, August 18, 1885.\\nHis body was laid in God s acre, hard by the old Church on the Green,\\nfrom which pulpit with an unfaltering zeal he had proclaimed the un-\\nspeakable truths of his Redeemer. The following is quoted from a bio-\\ngraphical sketch in the memorial volume published by the consistory.\\nIt is also worth a passing notice to observe the large ministerial circle\\nof which he was a member by family ties. His maternal great-grand-\\nfather was Rev. John Rodgers, forty-four years pastor of the Wall\\nStreet Presbyterian Church, New York City. His paternal\\ngrandmother was a sister of Rev. Nicholas Van Vranken. In these\\nseveral branches of relationship there are found nearly or quite forty\\nnames of those who have devoted themselves to the ministry of the\\nGospel, and of this number, three-quarters belong to the Romeyn fam-\\nily. Dr. Romeyn married Amelia A. Letson, daughter of Johnson Let-\\nson, Esq., of New Brunswick, N. J. Mrs. Romeyn survived her husband\\na few years and was called home October 22, 1897. The issue was Mary\\nLetson Romeyn, who died in infancy, and James A. Romeyn, surviving.\\nJAMES A. ROMEY N.\\nThe subject of this sketch was born at Blawenburgh, Somerset\\nCounty, New Jersey, 1853. He is the only son of Rev. Theodore Bayard\\nRomeyn, D. D. and Amelia (Letson) Romeyn. His mother was the\\ndaughter of Johnson Letson and Eliza Shaddle, of New Brunswick, N.\\nJ. Mr. Letson was a trustee oi Rutgers College and a liberal contributor", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "KKW TIllCODOKE HAVAKl) KOMEYN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "132 HISTOKY OF BEKCEN COUNTY\\nto its support and endowment. He was President of the Norfolk and\\nNew Brunswick Hosiery Company and the New Brunswick Rubber\\nCompany. Br. and Mrs. Ronieyn settled at Blawenburg-h in 1850, where\\nJames A. attended the public school, until IbdS, when his father was\\nsettled as Pastor of the First Reformed Church at Hackensack, N. J.,\\nthe Old Church on the Green. He was prepared for college at the\\nacademy at Lawrenceville, N. J., and at the Rutgers Grammar School\\nat New Brunswick. In 1872 he entered Rutgers College and was\\ngraduated in 1876. He entered the law office of Bedle, Muirheid\\nMcGee in Jersey City, in 187(), took a course of study of Columbia Law\\nSchool and was admitted to practice law at the New Jersey State Bar in\\n1879. He practiced law in Jersey City until 18M0. part of which time\\nwas a partner in the firm of Romeyn Griffin. The practice of law\\nbecoming distasteful to him, he abandoned it ISVO.\\nIn 1894 he became editor of The Evening Record, an independent\\ndail\\\\- newspaper, published in Hackensack, the only daily in Bergen\\nCounty. He entered upon the work of journalism, as he would upon the\\nhigh professions with a firm conviction that it was equal, if not of more\\nimportance than the profession of theology, law or medicine. He has\\ncontinued this work with great energy and success until his paper\\nhas become an important vehicle of news and thought, and a necessary\\ninstitution of the city.\\nHis whole thought and discussions have been on the side of good\\nmorals and the public welfare. No questionable paragraphs have ever\\nfound place in the columns of his paper. His, has been a successful\\neffort to make the Evening Record one of the most influential papers in\\nthis locality, an with a very flattering circulation, he has made an envi-\\nable reputation throughout the whole State.\\nMr. Romeyn has never taken any active part in politics, though his\\npolitical principles are p.QSitive and fixed. He has been called to fill\\nplaces in local boards and was treasurer of the Hackensack Hospital for\\nseven years.\\nHe married Miss Flora M. Cochran of Lancaster, Pa., in 1884, who\\ndied in 1891. From this marriage he has two children, Theodore Bay-\\nard and Katharine Cochran. He again married, Miss Susie B. Conover\\nof Newark, N. J., in 1894.\\nMK. JACOB H. FANK.\\nMr. Jacob H. Fank, the present postmaster of Hackensack, was\\nIxirn in that city August I7th, 1855, and was educated in the public\\nschools of his native place. When but fifteen years of age he became\\ntelegraph operator for the New York and New Jersey Railroad Com-\\npany. Afterward he filled similar positions with the New York, On-\\ntario and Western, and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Rail-\\nroad, returning in 1875, to Hackensack.\\nIn 1879 Mr. Fank began the manufacture of cigars at 71 Main\\nStreet, but in 188. disposed of this business and resumed that of tele-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "J. Mies A. KOMl .VN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "134 HISTOKV OF BKKC.EN COUNTY\\ngraphy, accepting a position with the West Shore Railroad Company,\\nsubsequently becoming- operator for the Long Island Railroad at Brook-\\nlyn, N. Y. In 1885, upon his return to Hackensack, he opened a gro-\\ncery store, in which he did a good business until 1896, when he was\\nappointed postmaster by President Cleveland, a position which he con-\\ntinues to hold.\\nIn 1887 Mr. Fank was elected chief engineer of the Hackensack\\nFire Department, and re-elected to the same office in 1888. He served\\nfour years as tax collector for New Barbadoes township.\\nMr. Fank is a member of many lodges: Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, F.,\\nA. M.; Uhland Lodge, No. 177. I. O. O. F.; and Hope Encampment;\\nHackingeshacky Tribe, No. 189, I. O. R. M.; Court Hackensack F. of\\nA.; the A. O. U. W. and Exempt Firemen Association. He is also\\nsecretary of the Hackensack Firemen Insurance Association; vice pres-\\nident of the State Exempt Firemen Association of New Jersey; Master\\nWorkmen of Hackensack Lodge, No. 64, A. O. U. W. He is a member\\nof the Kalamazoo Band; Alert Hose Association, and is L. A. W. Local\\nConsul.\\nMr. Fank was married December 7, 1879, to Miss Thresa Mattjets-\\ncheck. They have two children living, a son and a daughter. In\\npolitics Mr. Fank is a Democrat.\\nPETKK STAGG.\\nPeter W. Stagg, a prominent lawyer of Hackensack, was born in\\nNew York city October 24th, 185(1. His childhood and early life, how-\\never, were spent in Cresskill, N. J., where he attended the public school.\\nIn 1875 Mr. Stagg went to Jersey City where he became a student of\\nlaw in the office of the late Charles Scholfield, and where he remained\\ntwo years, after which he came to Hackensack, and entered the office of\\nAckerson Van Valea, continuing with them until 1879, when he was\\nadmitted to the bar, at the June term. Immediately after being admit-\\nted, he opened an office for the practice of his profession in which he\\nrapidly built up a good business.\\nAt the June term of 1883 he was made a counsellor-at-law. He\\nserved as assistant clerk to the House of the State Assembly at the\\nsessions of 1891-2, and in 1895 was appointed by Governor Werts, as\\nProsecutor of Bergen county, for a term of five years.\\nPrior to the time at which Mr. Stagg became prosecutor, this coun-\\nty had been infested with pool room and green-goods gangs. These\\nthe new prosecutor drove out, in addition to conducting the ordinary\\ncriminal business\\nMr. Stagg is a member of the I. O. O. F., Bergen County Lodge,\\nand has been Grand Master of the State of New Jersey, having in 18 \u00c2\u00bb7\\nthe care and jurisdiction of 249 lodges in different parts of the state,\\ncomprising a membership of 25,000 Odd Fellows. He is also a member\\nof the Fire Patrol. He was a member of the Second Regiment New\\nJersey Volunteers in the late Spanish War.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "PE IKK W. .STACKJ", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "1,^() HISTOKV OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nMr. Stagg was married on January 14, 1875, to Miss Jennie E.\\nWestervelt, of Bergenfields. The oldest of their five children, Arthur\\nA., is in his father s office.\\nHON. WILLIAM I). SNOW.\\nH(in. William D. Snow, son of Josiah Snow, founder of the Detroit\\nTribune, was born in Massachusetts February 2d, 1832. He was educated\\nat Romeo, Michigan, afterwards studying law at Dixon, Illinois, under\\nthe late Attorney General Edson, of that state. For several years he\\nwas associate editor of the Tribune. He was a strong advocate\\nof anti-slavery doctrine, and was a frequent contributor to the\\nmagazines and journals of that day, and also a hymn writer of some\\nnote.\\nMr. Snow settled at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1860, and aferwards\\nrepresented Jefferson county in the Constitutional Convention of Arkan-\\nsas. The convention resulted in the establishment of a Free State\\nConstitution, the first in any seceding state.\\nMr. Snow was elected in 1865 for the long term to the United States\\nSenate from Arkansas. At the close of his term he declined a re-elec-\\ntion, coming to New York city for the purpose of studying law. In\\n1871, however, Mr. Snow went to Paris, where he spent two years in\\nthe study of civil law. In 1875 he was admitted to the New York Bar,\\nreceiving, the same year, the degree of L.L. B. from Columbia College.\\nIn 1882 he became secretary and counsel to one of the New York Trust\\ncompanies, but resigned in 1888 to take up general practice. He acted\\nas volunteer Aide to General Powell Clayton and Major General Steele\\nduring the Civil War, and was instrumental in the enlistment and organ-\\nization of three regiments in the state of Arkansas. Governor Murphy\\nafterward tendered him an appointment as Brigadier General of Volun-\\nteers. This he declined.\\nMr. Snow is of retiring and studious habits, and in religion a Uni-\\ntarian, president of the Unitarian Congregational Society of Hacken-\\nsack. He belongs to the Lawyers Club, the Bullion Club of New York\\nand the Oritani of Hackensack.\\nSeveral of his iuventines have proved successful, his Thermostat\\nbeing regarded as the most reliable and sensitive of its class.\\nMr. Snow is now a member of the bar in three states, having been\\nadmitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1894. After residing in the northern\\npart of Bergen county for more than twenty years, while practicing in\\nNew York city, he gave up his city practice in 1896 and removed to\\nHackensack, where he hopes to spend the remainder of his life among\\nhis New Jersey friends.\\nEKNEST HENKY KOESTEK.\\nErnest Henry Koester, one of the leading lawyers of Bergen county,\\nis a native of Norristown, Pennsylvania, and was born April 28th, 1855.\\nAfter receiving a preparatory education in the High School of Philadel-\\nphia, he went to Heidelberg, Germany, remaining in that insitution", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKKGEN COUNTY l.i7\\ntlircc years, and subsequently took a three years ciiurse of itistruelioii\\nill AUeg heny College, at Meadville, I ennsylvania, taking his degree ol\\nA. B. in 187 He now began the study of law in the office of M. L.\\nRichmond Son, of Meadville, and was admitted to the bar in iS,S2.\\nHe immediately began the practice of his profession in McKean county.\\nPennsylvania, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of his\\nstate in ISSd, in the meantime tilling the office of District Attorney of\\nhis county for three years. In i.S )4 he located in HackensAck. and in\\nJune of the same year was admitted to practice in all the courts of New\\n.1 erse y\\nMr. Koester has a large clientage in Bergen county, and is known\\nin the state as an able criminal lawyer. He defended Ryan in the\\nfamous green-goods affair of New York, winning the case after it had\\nbeen carried against him in both the ujjper and lower courts.\\nMr. Koester is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, having taken\\nthe thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Hackensack\\nLodge of Odd Fellows, and of other societies.\\nJOHN J. .VNDICKSON.\\nJolin J. Anderson, a representative of one of the old families of\\nHackensack, resides at tlie Anderson homestead, corner of Passaic\\nAvenue and Main Street, where his grandfather, John Anderson,\\nlocated about the year r8(W. The grandfather was of Scotch-Irish de-\\nscent. He came tirst to New Bridge, Bergen county, and after his\\nmarriage to Catharine Zabriskie, located in Hackensack. where he pur-\\nchased the propertvTiow owned by the Oritani Field Club. He was ex-\\ntensively engaged in mercantile pursuits, and operated a store at the\\noirner of Passaic and Main Streets for many years, but the business was\\nlatterly put into the hands of his sons John C, and David. John died\\nin IS.^f) at thirty-four years of age, and John, his father, died in 1S4(),\\neightv-two years of age. In 18().S Mr. Jolin J. .-\\\\nderson tore down the\\nold building and erected Anderson Hall, placing in the wall a corner-\\nstone of the (dd house, on which was subscribed: W. C. W., 1711.\\nFron; this it is sui)pose(l the building was erected by W. C. Waldron in\\n1711. The store on the other corner of the street, now owned by the\\nheirs of John II. T. Banla, was then operated by H^U. T. I!anta, and\\nlafore him bv Mr. Doremus, subsequently Judge Doremus. There were\\na few other lumses at intervals along the road, now Main Street, then\\nfenced in with rails.\\n.\\\\l)out the vear IS.SS the .Morton (louse was built by Mrs. Abram\\nI .errv. the daughter of John Andi-rsou. Judge Banta married a\\ndaughter of Mrs. Berry. John C. Z. Anderson married Harriet Meyers,\\nof Knglish Neighborhood, and had live children, (iarret Meyers, who\\nmarried Leah I^ouis Sl )pe in 1S4 and then Mary (lalloway in I.S54;\\nCatherine C. who married Lucas J. Van Bnskirk in i,S48;Jane, who\\nmarried \\\\V. C. Smith in 18.s2; .Maria, who married Leveret H. Sage in\\n18.=^4, and J din J., who was born in iSM), and married Jane Ann Deni-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "138 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\narest in i853. The wife of John J. died in i883. Their children were\\nMartha, Catharine Z., Pauline and Cornelius H.\\nMr. John J. Anderson was one of the prominent merchants of Hack-\\nensack until his retirement in i878. He was Collector, and held other\\noffices in the town of New Barbadoes, and was the first Republican\\nelected to the State Legislature for tifty-four years.\\niMATTHEW E. CLAKENDON.\\nMatthew E. Clarendon, a leading leather merchant of New York\\ncity, was born in i835, and formerly lived in Brooklyn, N. Y.\\nUpon bis removal to Hackensack, in i87(), he immediately began to\\ndevise means of improving the roads. Hackensack had been slow to see\\nits own needs in this regard, or the advantages to arise from a better\\nC(mdition of things. In i890 he was elected a member of the Hacken-\\nsack Improvement Commission. He soon found those who were willing\\nto aid in the matter of macadamizing the streets, and during the seven\\nyears he has served on this board, much has been done in the way of\\nadvancement.\\nMr. Clarendon has been governor and also vice president of the\\nOritani Field Club, and has also been vice president of both the Hack-\\nensack Bank and the Hackensack Hospital Association since their organ-\\nization.\\nCHARLES EK.\\\\NCIS ADAM.S, M. D.\\nOccasionally we find an American born with royal lineage, but\\nvery seldom do we find that lineage traceable through both the English\\nand P^rench royalties to the earliest rulers of the Norman-French\\ndynasties.\\nThe sul)jcct of this sketch furnishes such an instance. From\\nCharles Martel to Charlemagne, touching the English line in Matilda,\\nthe wife of William the Conqueror, and again in the Welsh line, in the\\nmarriage of Sir John Ap. Adam to Elizabeth De Gournai and from\\nthere to Sir William Adams, Lord Mayor of London in 1630, whose\\nbrother Henry, the immediate ancestor of John and Samuel Adams, the\\nline continuesiin unbroken links to the present Dr. Adams. Still fur-\\nther. Ruth Wadsworth, a descendant of John Alden and daughter of the\\nfirst president of Harvard College, was the great-grandmother of the\\ndoctor. Thus allied with royal blood on the other side of the water,\\nthis family of such honored distinction in American statesmanship and\\nliterature, gains for itself a greater renown where there are no thrones\\nto mount or titles to augment the name.\\nRev. John Uuincv Adams, the father of Dr. Adams, was a distin-\\ng\\\\iishe(l clergyman of the Baptist church in the city of New York. It\\nwas here Charles Francis Adams was born March IH, i857. A course\\nin the public schools of New York was followed by a three years course\\nin Mount Washington Institute.\\nlie then engaged in business, in which he cioitiinud three years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERC.EN COUNTY 139\\nIn 1S74 he entered the Hudson River Institute at Chiverack. N. Y.,\\nand in 1S77 was graduated from the schiiiil with honors. Knterinj^\\nBrown University immediately after this, he was srraduated noii lainlc\\nin the class of 1881.\\nHis medical studies were bei^^un in the New York Hom(t i)athic Col-\\nleg e, from which he was graduated with high honors in the class of\\n1884. Upon the completion of his medical studies Dr. Adams settled in\\nHackensack, where he has not only attained to eminence in his profes-\\nsion, but, during the fourteen years residence here, has also maintained\\nthe honor and dignity of the family name.\\nUpon the declaration of war with Spain, Dr. Adams, who was one\\noi the assistant surgeons of the Second Regiment, N. G. N. J., at\\nonce went out with his regiment. He was soon promoted to be regi-\\nmental surgeon, with the rank of major, and served with distinction\\nuntil the close of the war.\\nJOHN RATHBONE RAMSl .Y.\\nJohn Rathlione Ramsey, clerk of Berg en county, was born in Wyck-\\notT, Bergen county. New Jersey, April 25th, lSf 2, and is a son of John\\nP. and Martha (Rathbone) Ramsey. He was educated at. the private\\nschool of Professor John C. Nash, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, after\\nwhich he read law in Hackensack with the late George H. Coffey and\\nAbraham D. Campbell, being admitted to the bar in 1883 as an attorney\\nand in 1887 as counsellor, after which he beg an the practice of his pro-\\nfession in Hackensack. Being a successful lawyer and a popular Re-\\npublican, he was put in nomination for the office of County Clerk of\\nBergen count} in 1890, but was defeated by a small majority. In 1895,\\nhowever, he was again nominated for the same office and was elected.\\nHe has successfullv filled the office ever since.\\nHKNKV D. WINTON.\\nHenry I). Winton, editor and proj)rietor of The Bergen county\\nDemocrat, the .oldest newspaper published in Bergen county, is the son\\nof Eben Winton, the first publisher of this paper.\\nMr. Winton was born February 14. 1848, and has been a resident of\\nHackensack since 18f)l. He entered his father s office at the ag-c of\\nfifteen years, and after si.x years close application to business, was made\\na partner in the concern, the firm being known as E. Winton Son.\\nIn 1870 Mr. Winton, Sr., retired, the Son becoming sole jiroprietor.\\nUnder his manag-ement the paper has -g-rown iu popularity and value\\nboth financially and as an exponent of the party which it represents.\\nMr. Winton keeps pace with all political questions and party move-\\nments. He was made a delegate from the Fifth Congressional District\\nto the National Democratic Convention which met at Cincinnati in 188(1,\\nand nominated General Hancock and again acted in the same capacity\\nin 18 )f), at the Nati(mal Conventicm which nominated Mr. Bryan. He\\nwas a member of the committee of five, of which ex-Governor Russel of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "HENKV L). WIXTUN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF RERGEN COUNTY 141\\nMassachusetts was the chairman, representing the gold states in\\nopposition to the silverites of the party. Mr. Winton acted as chair-\\nman of the state committee of the sound Democracy during- the cam-\\npaign, the Bergen County Democrat espousing the cause of Palmer\\nBuckner.\\nIn ISSO, Mr. Winton was elected to the Legislature of New Jersey,\\nand re-elected in 1884, for a term of three years, being the only case of\\na re-election of a senator from this county. In 1884 he was clerk of\\nthe House of Assembly, and at the same time was one of the members\\nof the board of managers of the New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, at Morris\\nPlains. It was through him, in connection with the late Theodore\\nVarick of Jersey City, that the medical and business departments of this\\ninstitution were separated. This has thus far proved a successful\\nchange. Other institutions of the kind have followed the example of\\nthis one, to the entire satisfaction of all.\\nJACOB L. V.\\\\N BU.SKIKK.\\nJacob L. Van Buskirk, Sheriff of Bergen county, is probably one\\nof the most popular officials to be found in the state. He was born in\\nSaddle River, N. J., in 1851, and worked at his trade of blacksmithing for\\nnine years. In 1852 his father came to Hackensack, where he resided\\nfor forty-seven years. In 1890 he was elected a member of the Board of\\nFreeholders, and re-elected in 1893. In 1892 he was elected director of\\nthe board and held that position three years, and in Novetnber 1S98,\\nwas elected sheriff by a majority of 709 votes, he being the only suc-\\ncessful Democrat on his ticket, which is proof sufficient that the people,\\nnot the party, elected him to the office.\\nMr. Van Buskirk has always taken a lively ititerest in everything\\nof a public nature, and is also prominent in social and fraternal organ-\\nizations.\\n.\\\\KK.\\\\M DH B.Al N.\\nThe i)arents(if Ahram De Baun were Kev. John Y. and Margaret\\nIserman De Baun, and his grandparents Isaac De Baun and Abram\\nIserman. His father was for twenty-six years pastor of the True Re-\\nformed Church at Hackensack. During his pastorate here he was editor\\nof the Banner of Truth, a monthly magazine of the True Refi.rnud\\nChurch. The De Bauns are of French Huguenot descent.\\nMr. De Baun studied law under A. D. Campbell, and was admitted\\nto the bar as attorney-at-law in 1877, and as counsellor in 1880. He was\\na partner of Mr. Campbell for a period of seventeen years, but is now\\nof the firm of Demarest De Baun. He was clerk of the Board of\\nFreeholders from 1878 to 1895, and member of the Hackensack Improve-\\nment Commission three years, during two of which he was its treasurer.\\nFor twelve years he has been counsel for the Building and Loan Asso-\\nciatiun of Hackensack. He is a director of the Old Ladies Home.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "142\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nTHOMAS H. GUMMING.\\nThomas H. Cummiag. Justice of the Peace, and a well-known busi-\\nness man of Hackensack, was born in New York city November 6th,\\n1839. He received his education in his native city, and, after leaving-\\nschool, became an employe in a large dry goods store, where he re-\\nmained three years. A partnership was now entered into with his\\nfather in the business of contracting, which was carried on chiefly in\\nNew York and New Jersey. Among other large contracts secured was\\nthat for the construction of the Lodi branch of the New Jersey and\\nJUSTICE THOM.\\\\S H. CUMMING\\nNew York Railroad, and also for the line running from Essex street to\\nWoodridge. In New York their business was mostly in the line of\\nbuilding large sewers. Beginning in 1861, Mr. Gumming conducted a\\nbusiness for two years in the oil trade in Greenwich street, following\\nwhich, he was in the leather business for a period of sis years. At the\\nexpiration of this time he removed to Hackensack, again engaging in\\ncontracting. In connection with his present business of insurance and\\nreal estate, he is Commissioner of Deeds and a Notary Public, holding\\nthe office of Justice of the Peace since 1885.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY 143\\nHe has always been interested in the Fire Department, and was an\\nactive member of Hook and Ladder Company, No. 2, for twenty-six\\nyears, part of this time its Foreman, and is at present an honorary\\nmember of that organization. For a number of years he has been\\nPresident of the Hackensack Relief Association, and has also been Col-\\nlector of License for the Hackensack Commission for the past twelve\\nyears.\\nMr. Cumrning- is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a charter\\nmember of the National Union. He is an active Republican, and\\nhis father, Thomas Cumming-, Sr., was for years a lay judge of\\nBergen county.\\nMr. Cumming s wife was the only daughter of the late John H.\\nBanta, of Hackensack. They have three sons.\\nCL.VYTON DEM.A.REST.\\nOne of the fullest and most interesting of the numerous records of\\nthe Demarest family, is that of the branch descending from David des\\nMarie, whose date of landing in America is taken from an entry in\\nEmigrants Account Book, reading as follows:\\nDavid des Marie from Picardie, for passage and board when he came\\nhere on board the Bontekoe. the l )th of Apr. 1()63. ;\u00c2\u00a339\\nfor his wife 39\\n4 children of 18, 11, 1 yr 97.10\\nfl. 17.^.1(1\\nDavid des Marie (son of Jean) was born at Beauchamp, in Picardie\\nabout the year 1()20, and married Marie, daughter of Francois Sohier,\\nJul}- 24, 1643. Of their six children, three married and reared families,\\nJean, born April 1645, David, Jr., born 1652, and Samuel, born 1656.\\nClayton Demarest, the subject of this sketch, is a lineal descendant of\\nDavid, Jr., second son of the first David des Marest.\\nDavid, Jr.. married Rachel, daughter of Pierre Cresson, April 4,\\n1665. The} had twelve children. Jacobus being the fifth, and through\\nhim the line descends. He married Leah, daughter of Peter DeGroot,\\nMarch 8, 1707, and after her death married Margrietie Cozine Herring\\nSeptember 26, 1719. In all, his family numbered seventeen, the line\\ncoming down through Daniel the sixteenth child, who was born Sep-\\ntember 11, 1738. Daniel Demarest had two sons, James D., and Ralph,\\nthe lines coming through James D., the eldest, who was born March 20,\\n1763, and married Rachel Demarest. Of their five children Abram J.,\\nborn October 4, 1793, was the grandfather of Clayton. He married\\nRachel Blauvelt, April 8, 1815, and the youngest of their seven children,\\nDavid Demarest, was born February 1, 1832, and married Christina De\\nBaun September 8, 1853. They had six children the youngest, and only\\nson, being Clayton who was born December IS, 1865.\\nDavid Demarest now resides on the farm at Schraalenburgh where\\nthe Demarests have lived for over two hundred vears. The old house", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "144\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEX COUNTY\\nhas passed throufrh so many changes and has so often been remodelled\\nthat but little remains of its orig-inal construction. The barn has two\\nlarge overhead beams hewn from red gum trees, and are marked 1721.\\nAbram J. Deraarest was a Captain in the National Guard until he\\nwas thirty-five years of age. His commission papers from the Governor\\nof New Jersey, are now in the hands of the family. David Demarest\\nenlisted as a volunteer in the Civil War, September 1, l.S(i2, and was\\nhonorably discharged June 25, 1863.\\nClayton, his son, was educated in the public school in Schraalen-\\nburgh, afterwards taking a course of instruction in Thompson s Busi-\\nness College in New York city. Having accepted a position with the\\nCLAYTON DEMAREST\\nChemical National Bank, December 1, 1S82, Mr. Demarest has continued\\nwith that institution to the present time, the past ten years in the ca-\\npacity of Assistant Paying Teller.\\nIn Hackensack, the home of Mr. Demarest, he has taken an active\\ninterest in the Fire Department, having become a member of Relief\\nHook Ladder Company No. 2, in December 1841. in which he has\\nserved two years as secretary and four years as foreman, being now\\nassistant engineer, and is justly proud of his work in the department.\\nSocially Mr. Demarest is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Fire-\\nman s Relief Association, Exempt Firemen and Hackensack Debating\\nSociety. He is an active member and teacher in the Sunday School of\\nthe Second Reformed Church, of which he has been a member the past\\ntwelve years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 145\\nMr. Demurest married Miss Marie Kipp, daug-hter of Nicholas R.\\nVoorhis (and irranddau!rhter of Ralph Voorhis of River Edge) on Sep-\\ntember 18, 18S They liave three sons.\\nA. S. I). DEM A K EST.\\nA. S. D. Demarest, the well-known undertaker, of Hackensack, is a\\nson of David S. and Marg-aret Durie Demarest. and was born at Ber-\\ngenlields in 1834. His father was born at Schraalenburgh in 17 \u00c2\u00bb5, and\\nspent his life there, dying in 1877. He was a farmer, and was a de-\\nscendant of David Demarest, who settled at River Edge over 200 years\\nago. Mr. Demarest s mother was a daughter of David Durie, of Tenafly-\\nHe spent his early years amid the scenes of his childhood, subse-\\nquently removing to Newburgh, N. Y., where he engaged in business,\\nbut in 187() returned to New Jersey, and located in Hackensack, where\\nhe has since resided.\\nUpon coming to Hackensack he was interested in the book and\\nstationery business for a time, but in 1886 established his present busi-\\nness of undertaking. He is strictly a business man, has been Treasurer\\nof the First Reformed Church for nine years and chorister of the same\\nchurch for ten years, and treasurer of Hackensack Mutual Building and\\nLoan Association for over seven years.\\nMr. Demarest was married in 1861 to Miss Lavinia Blauvelt, (laui;li-\\nter of John D. M. Blauvelt, of Bergen county. They have two daugh-\\nters, both married.\\nCHAKLES CONKLIN.\\nCharles Conklin, the well known real estate man and President of\\nthe Board of Health is a native of Hackensack and was born thirty-four\\nyears ago. His father Robert Conkliu was a dry goods merchant and\\nheld the agency of the county for the Singer Sewing Machine Company,\\nfor which he sold over 1000 machines in Bergen county- alone. He died\\nin 1877. Mr. Charles Conklin was in the dry goods, business during the\\nearlier years of his life, and later was Secretary of The Conklin Bros.\\nCompany. In 1894 he established himself in the real estate business,\\nwhich with that of insurance, yielded him in the aggregate hand-\\nsome results.\\nMr. Conklin had l)ecn President of the iJoard of Health seven years,\\nand was serving as a member of the Board of Freeholders of the county.\\nHe was a member of the First Reformed Church of Hackensack, and was\\ndeacon in that body eight years, and also its treasurer. Wv was a mem-\\nber of the Odd pVllows, O. U. A. M., Red Mem. Wheelmen and of the\\nOnit.ini Field Club. Mr. Conklin died in is i\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.i;OK(;i WAKICMAN WIlJvEI.liK.\\n(icorge Wakeman Wheeler, son of Charles and Jeruslia ilr.idley)\\nWheeler, was born at Eastern, Fairfield County, Connecticut, October\\n15th, 1831. The name Wheeler is one well known in judicial and legis-\\nlative circles in the State of Connecticut. Ste])lu ii Wheeler, grand-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "F\\nGEORGE WAKEMAN WHEELEK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 147\\nfather of Georg-e W., served with distinction for some years as county\\nJudg-e of Fairfield county. His father, Charles Wheeler, was member\\nof Assembly of his state, servin f also as Probate Judge of his county.\\nMr. Wheeler s only brother was a member of the State Senate and a\\njudge in Louisiana, and continuing down the line, his son George W.\\nWheeler. Jr., is a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut. Mr.\\nWheeler was graduated from Amherst College in lH5(^, having taken his\\npreparatory course at Dudley School, Northamptcm, Mass. After grad-\\nuation he taught school for a short period after which he located at\\nHackensack, and conducted classes in Greek and Latin for two years,\\nand following this, in 185* became principal of McGee s Institute at\\nWoodville, Miss., continuing in this position ten years. He was county\\nsuperintendent during three years of this time, and also a member of\\nthe board of aldermen. Here also he assisted in organizing a local\\ncavalry company of which he served as a member with the rank of\\nmajor. In the Masonic order he was a prominent member being High\\nPriest of Royal Arch Chapter. Mr. Wheeler has resided in Hackensack\\nC(mtinuously since 18f)4, and where he for a time was associated with\\nJames M. Van Valen and Peter Bogert. Jr.. as judge of the Common\\nPleas Court. For the past thirty years he has occupied his present\\noffices, where he is engaged in the management of estates and as a\\nbroker in stocks and bonds. Interested in various institutions and or-\\nganizations, he has been president and director of Hall and Armory\\nAssociation since its organization, was a director of the Bank of Bergen\\nCounty, and the Hackensack Savings Bank; is treasurer and director\\nof the Hackensack Cemetery Company; is a member of the State Geo-\\nlogical Board, and was for ten years president of the Bergen Turnpike\\nCompany, and later its vice president. For a long period he was a di-\\nrector of the Hackensack Gas Company, and for twenty-seven years rep-\\nresented the Home Insurance Company for Bergen County, but resigned\\nin 1897, at which time the company as a proof of their appreciation of\\nhis service, tendered him a letter of thanks accompanied with the pre-\\nsentation of a fine gold headed cane. In his religious relations he is an\\nEpiscopalian and in politics a Democrat.\\nMr. Wheeler was married in 1859 to Miss Lucy Dowie, of Andes,\\nDelaware County, N. Y. Their only children are Judge George W.\\nWheeler, Jr., of Connecticut, and Harry D., who resides in Hackensack,\\ndoing a commission business in New York City.\\nMr. Wheeler is a man of culture and refinement; has been an ex-\\ntensive traveller, and is a thorough and capable busines-; mm.\\nWILI.IAiM K.\\\\IK.\\nWilliam Fair was a native of Scotland, emigrated to America with\\nhis wife. Mary Hume, and three children. Mary. John and Jane, and\\nsettled in New Barbadoes, now Hackensack, aljout 178.S.\\nHe was a cabinet-maker by trade, and carried (m his business (m the\\nsite of the Fair Homestead, in Hackensack, until his death, which oc-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "148 HISTOKV OF BERGEN COUNTV\\ncurred February 24, 1 S3 dying- at the age of eighty-three years. His\\nwife died at the age of severity years, September 23, 1824. Mary died\\nunmarried, October 12, 1852, and Jane died unmarried, July I J, 1848.\\nJohn was a successful merchant in New York for many years, and died\\nJanuary 6, 1854, aged seventy-six years.\\nGeorge Fair, fourth child of William and Mary Hume Fair, was\\nborn in Hackensack, on the homestead, November 27, 1785. He received\\nduring his boyhood only a common school education, but the rigid home\\ndiscipline of his Scotch parents early impressed him with habits of in-\\ndustry, economy, and self-reliance.\\nAt the age of fifteen young Fair became a clerk in a dry -goods\\nstore in New York city, where he continued for many years, and until\\nhe had saved enough money from his earnings to establish business for\\nhimself. With his elder brother, John, he engagfed in the dry-goods\\ntrade on his own account in Vesey Street, New York city, where for\\nmany years they continued a successful trade. They invested of their\\nsurplus means in city real estate, which increased in value on their hands\\nand gave both a large competency.\\nIn 1859 Mr. Fair completed the homestead formerly occupied by his\\nfather, a substantial residence on Essex Street, where he resided until\\nhis death, which occurred October 16, 1868.\\nsri T. JOHN \u00e2\u0080\u00a2ri;KiirN i-:\\nMr. John Terhune, the popular and efticient superintendent of tht?\\nschools of Bergen county, was born at Midland Park, this county, Au-\\ngust 4th, 1846. He was educated there in a district school. Later he\\nattended the New Jersey State Normal School, and subsequently East-\\nman s Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After being engaged\\nfor some time as an accountant and in mercantile pursuits, he took\\ncharge of the Midland Park Public School. He held this position for\\nabout nine years, until appointed to his present oftice, thirteen years ago.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BERGEN COUNTY 149\\nTo Mr. Terhime belongs the credit of having- i)oi)ularize(l the ob-\\nservance of Arbor Day in the schools of the state. He has given a\\ngreat amount of labor, time and money for this purpose. The fine Arbor\\nDay programmes which he prepared and printed at his owh expense for\\na number of ^-ears, have been widely distributed throughout the country\\nand have received the highest commendation from teachers and school\\nofficers everywhere.\\nMr. Terhune is also the author of the Teachers Library Act for\\nthe establishment of professional libraries in each county, securing\\nstate aid to the amount of SlOO the first year and $50 each subsequent\\nyear. The profit derived from the sale of his Arbor Day publications\\nhe donates to the Teachers Library; he raised by subscription and dona-\\ntions sufficient money to purchase 900 volumes for the library, which,\\nwith the cost of cases, printing, etc., has cost over SIOOO. This was the\\nbeginning of what has since proved to be a valuable library. In the\\n1 ibrary are to be found many valuable works on the history, theory and\\npractice of education. When, in 1891 and 92, the Legislature of New\\nJersey made a special appropriation of SIOOO for school library purposes,\\nMr. Terhune secured S810 of the money for Bergen county.\\nThe teachers of Bergen county appreciate Mr. Terhune s labors for\\ntheir advancement. A piece of beautiful silver service with which they\\npresented him at his wedding anniversary, in 1892, bears the following\\ninscription: From the teachers of Bergen county to their County Su-\\nperintendent, John Terhune, as a token of respect and esteem, and of\\ntheir appreciation of his faithful services and eminent achievements in\\nthe cause of public school education.\\nRecently the teachers of the county presented him a \\\\aluable gold\\nwatch, very finely engraved.\\nEducational Hall has a complete teachers library, from which\\nthe teachers are furnished with books free of cost.\\nDK. NELSON HAAS.\\nDr. Nelson Haas, the efficient principal of the High School at\\nHackensack, is a son of Mathias Haas and Melinda Holgate, and was\\nborn at Chestnut Hill, city of Philadelphia, August 3d, 1838. His father\\nwas of German descent, a business man of strict integrity, who was, for\\nsixteen years, a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia. His\\nmother was of Welsh origin, the daughter of a prominent and success-\\nful business man of the city, and for seveenteen years .i niember of the\\nState Legislature of Pennsylvania.\\nTwo of Dr. Haas s brothers founded the Hightstown Classical and\\nScientific Institute and the New Jersey Collegiaie Institute at Borden-\\ntown, situated on a part of the old Bonaparte property. Mr. Haas be-\\ngan teaching at the age of seventeen, having been educated in the\\nschools of his native city. In 1859 he went to Port (iibson, Mississippi,\\nas teacher of mathematics and physics in the academy at that place,\\nbut returned North after two years, when he was ajipointed Deputy", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "150\\nHISTORY OF BERGEX COUNTY\\nProvost Marshal of the Ninth District of Pennsylvania, under A. W.\\nBolenius, who was succeded as Marshal by Thaddeus Stevens, Jr.. dur-\\ning Mr. Haas s term of service. In the spring of 1865 he joined Com-\\npany B, Ninth Union League Regiment, Philadelphia, as First Lieu-\\ntenant. After a few weeks he was made commissary of the brigade,\\nand remained in the service until the close of the war.\\nUpon his return, Mr. Haas began the study of law in Harrisburg,\\nPennsylvania, in the office of General William H. Miller, and was ad-\\nmitted as attorney in 1868. After a few months practice at Harrisburg\\nhe removed to California, and opened a law office at Stockton, where,\\nhowever, he had remained only a short time, when the death of his\\nfather caused his return East.\\nIn 1871 he was tendered the position of principal of Washington\\nInstitute, District No. 32, at Hackensack. N. J., and continued in that\\nIN HAAS. PH. D.\\nplace twenty-four years. Upon the organization in 18 i5 of a High\\nSchool for the entire town. Dr. Haas was made its principal, and, in\\n1897, the additional duties of supervising principal of all the schools in\\nthe township were assigned him, which two positions he still holds.\\nMANNING M. KNAPP.\\nManning M. Knapp is a native of Newton, Sussex Count}-, N. J.,\\nand was born June 7th, 1825. He studied law in the office and under the\\ndirection of the late Colonel Robert Hamilton, being a^lmitted to prac-\\ntice as attorney in 1846, when he began practice in Hackensack, and was\\nmade a counsellor in 1850. The late Chancellor Zabriskie, at that time\\nProsecutor of the Pleas for Bergen county, resigned his office in 1850.\\nbecause of his removal to Jersey City. Chief Justice Green, then pre-\\nsiding at the Bergen Circuit, appointed Mr. Knapp to prosecute for the\\nState until the office should be filled under the constitution. Governor", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK HEKCIKX COl N TY 151\\nFort appointed him in February, lSr l, for a full term and by follciw-\\ninof appointments he held the office until 18()1. During- these years, he\\n^vas building- up a profitable practice in the county and state, taking\\nhigh rank in his profession. In 1875, when Judge Bedle was elected\\nGovernor, he appointed- Mr. Knapp his successor on the bench of the\\nSupreme Court, his Judicial District covering the counties of Hudson,\\nBergen and Passaic. Huds(m being made a district alone. Judge Knajip\\n\\\\vas assigned to this new field where he continued until his death which\\noccurred on January 26, 1892. The Bar of the State in suitable resolu-\\ntions expressed to the Supreme Court, the universal sorrow felt at the\\npathetic death of Mr. Justice Knapp while in the discharge of his pub-\\nlic official duties, and they further desired to bear witness to his\\nvirtues, his learning, and the beauty of his character.\\nJudge Knapp was married in 1850 to Anna Mattison, a daughter of\\nthe late Captain Joseph Mattison of the United States Navy. Mrs.\\nKnapp continued to make her home in Hackensack after the death of\\nher husband, surviving both her children the daughter, Anna M., wife\\nof Walter V. Clark, of Hackensack, and their son, Joseph M. Knapp,\\nboth having died since the death of their father, and she herself, the\\nlast of the family, died in 18 )8.\\nJOSEPH M. KNAPP.\\nJoseph M. Knapp was born at Hackensack October 2t), 1856. He\\nwent to Colorado immediately after his graduation from Columbia Col-\\nlege in June 1878, hoping to overcome pulmonary disease, which was\\napparently making inroads upon his health. He was admitted to the\\nbar and practiced law, residing in Colorado thirteen years. Believing\\nhimself restored to permanent health he returned to New Jersey, but\\nnot long after he declined and died on May 2, 1895. He was a man of\\nItriifht intellect, hiirh attainments and fine character.\\nDK. AliKAM HOPPICK.\\nDr. Abram Hopper was the son of a farmer at Hohokus, and was born\\nApril 26th, 1797. After taking an academic course of study in New\\nYork city, he entered the office of Dr. John Rosencrantz, at Hohokus,\\nwith whom he studied medicine one year, when he returned to New\\nYf)rk, and continued his medical studies with Dr. Valentine Mott, at-\\ntending lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgetms, from which\\ninstitution he was graduated at the age of twenty-one. The following\\nyear he began the practice of medicine, continuing to reside here the\\ngreater part of his life. He died December 14th, 1872. Making surgery\\na specialty, he was the onlj- operating surgeon in Bergen county for\\nmany years, and gained an enviable rejjutation in that department of\\nhis profession. His wife was Euphemia DeWolf. They had five sons\\nand two daughters.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "152 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nDK. HENRY A. HOPPER,\\nDr. Henry A. Hopper, who was born August 8th, 1824, was gradu-\\nated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City in\\n1847. His life was spent in Hackensack, where he became a prominent\\npractitioner, and also identified himself with the best interests of the town.\\nLike his father, he began practice when young, being only twenty-three\\nyears of age. He was one of the organizers and the first secretary of the\\nBergen County Medical Society, and was the organizer and president\\nof the Hackensack Board of Health.\\nDr. Hopper married Maria Colfax Ward, and three children survived\\nhim, one son and two daughters.\\nHe was a member of the Second Reformed Church, to which he was\\ngreatly devoted. He died at the age of fifty-eight years.\\nDR. JOHN WARD HOPPER.\\nDr. John Ward Hopper, only son of Dr. Henry A., was born Novem-\\nber 10th, 1856, and choosing the profession of his fathers, was graduated\\nfrom the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1879, having been grad-\\nuated from the College of the City of New York in 1876. While in the\\nMedical College, he took a special course in microscopy, afterwards, and\\nfor sometime making microscopic tests in the office of Dr. Alonzo Clark.\\nIt was his intention to eventually devote his time to surgery in which he\\nwas particularly interested. He was for eighteen months on the Surgical\\nStafi of Roosevelt Hospital immediately after his graduation. Dr.\\nHenry Sands now asked him to take his Ouiz-class, which he did for one\\nwinter, the first time it had ever been given to another. The following\\nyear he spent in Europe, principally at the Hospitals of Vienna and\\nPrague, and during special work under Doctors Virchow, Schroeder and\\nothers. After his return he began practice here but died three years\\nlater, on June 30th, 1890, ending a line of physicians holding high place\\nnot only in the medical profession but in other walks of life.\\nPETER WARD.\\nPeter Ward was a member of the State Council when he died, and\\nwas captain of a company of militia during the Revolutionary War.\\nHis wife died in 1806 at the age of forty-six. Their children were Peter,\\nJohn, Jane, Catherine, Thomas, James, William, and Mary. Peter was\\nborn at Campgaw, and married Maria, daughter of Robert Colfax, niece\\nof General William Colfax, and second cousin of the late ex-Vice Presi-\\ndent Schuyler Colfax. The children born of this union were Captain\\nRobert C. A., Peter H., Sally Ann, wife of Harden Burgess; Harriet,\\nwife of Chauncey Gooderich; Jane, wife of Abram Willis; Mary, wife\\nof Anthony E. Fatin; Catherine, died young; Lucy, was first the wife\\nof John Hall, and after his death, of Charles Bennett; John; Peryna,\\nwife of Henry A. Berry; Maria, wife of Dr. Henry A. Hopper, of Hack-\\nensack; and Elizabeth, wife of John R. Lydecker.\\nPeter Ward was a Brigade Major under General William Colfax in\\nthe War of 1812, stationed at Bergen Heights and afterwards at Sandy", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "JACOB BAIIKR\\nCommissioner iif the !,l W.ml ll.uktnra. k. I.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "154 HISTOKY OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nHook. He was a tanner and currier, a farmer and distiller at Campg-aw.\\nIn 1812 he beg an to speculate, was unfortunate, and lost his property.\\nHe afterwards removed to Booneville, N. Y., where he engaged in farm-\\ning, and died on Long Island. His wife died at the advanced age of\\nninety years, about 1877.\\nCaptain Robert C. A. Ward spent his early life on the farm. In\\n1827 he came to Hackensack, and was employed by D. J. Anderson,\\nmerchants, where he remained until the death of one member of the\\nfirm, John C. Z. Anderson, in 1836. He was employed by the Ander-\\nsons in the coasting trade between New York and Virginia, dealing in\\nwood and lumber. As early as 1832 he became interested with the firm\\nin the purchase of some 3000 acres of land in Virginia, known as the\\nGreen Spring- Plantation, the residence of the Governor of the State,\\nwhen Jamestown was its capital. Upon the decease of John Anderson,\\nCaptain Ward became a joint owner of the business and lands, by pur-\\nchase, with the remaining partner, David Anderson, and the firm was\\nAnderson Ward until 1840, when Anderson disposed of his interest\\nto Captain Ward, and John Ward, his brother, became a partner, under\\nthe firm-name of R. J. Ward. This plantation has supplied large\\nquantities of wood for the New York market, and especially before\\nsteamboats began to use coal was the demand considerable, also supply-\\ning large timber for other purposes, besides having several hundred\\nacres under good state of cultivation. John Ward died in September,\\n1871, leaving a. widow and one daughter, who reside in Hackensack.\\nCaptain Ward usually made two trips per month between New York\\nand Virginia until the connection of his brother with the business,\\nwhen he gave up the duties of the coasting trade to him. During the\\nsame year, 1840, Captain Ward purchased fifty acres of land in Hacken-\\nsack, upon which he resided, having his house located on the corner of\\nMain and Passaic streets, and where he carried on agricultural pursuits.\\nCaptain Ward was one of the stockholders upon the rebuilding of\\nthe Washington Academy, was one of the Directors of the Bergen\\nCounty Turnpike Company in 1852, when it was converted into a plank-\\nroad, and for several years was president of the road, and a stockholder\\nof the New Jersey and New York and of the New Jersey Midland\\nRailroads.\\nCaptain Ward was united in marriage, September 2, 1841, to Har-\\nriet, daughter of Garret Myer, and widow of John C. Z. Anderson, who\\nwas born June, 1803, and died October 23, 1873.\\nCAPTAIN JOHN WAKD.\\nCaptain John Ward was born at Campgaw, X. J., February 4th.\\n181 Having become a resident of Hackensack in 1857, he did much\\nfor the good of the villag-e. Energetic and public spirited he became\\none of the organizers of the volunteer fire department and was its first\\nchief. He was also one of the originators of the Hackensack Librarv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY 15S\\nand since his death a liandsome bookcase to his memory was phiccd in\\nthe library especially for books of reference.\\nThe Second Reformed Church owes much to his untiring efforts in\\nsolicitinif aid for the liquidation of its debts and to his subsequent sup-\\nport. Captain Ward was associated for some years with his brother\\nCaptain Robert Colfax A. Ward in the transportation of lumber from\\ntheir Virginia plantation.\\nHe married Leah Maria Uuackenbush. They had two children,\\none of whom, a daughter, lives in Hackensack. He died September Id,\\n1872, and his widow died January 18, 1898.\\nCAKKET ACKEKSOX.\\nIt is not known at what date the Ackerscm family was first lepre-\\nsented in America, but it was many years prior to the Revolution. The\\nlirst of the name was Garret, the great-grandfather of Colonel Garret\\nG., who came from Holland, and settled at Old Tappan, in Bergen\\ncounty, but subsequently bought a large tract of land at Pascack, up( n\\nwhich he placed his eldest son, John. The other two sons, Cornelius\\nand Abram, at his death, became the possessors of the old homestead at\\nTappan. The name was then as now, often spelled Eckerson. John\\nwas born in 1743, and died at ninety-four years of age at Pascack. He\\nmarried Garritje Hogencamp. Their children were Garret and Hannah,\\nwho became the wife of Nicholas Zabriskie. Garret was born in\\nHe married Hannah, daughter of John Hogencamp, originally, from\\nRockland county, N. Y. Garret was something of a politicim, was\\ntwice elected to the Legislature, and was a major in the old State Militia,\\nand, with his command, was stationed at Sandy Hook during the War\\nof 1812. He was afterwards a major general of the Northern Militia\\nof the State of New Jersey, Bergen, Essex and Morris being then the\\nonly three counties in the northern part of the state. He had four\\nchildren, John, Cornelius, Garret G. and James. Garret G. was born at\\nPascack, April 9, 1810, and educated in the common schools. George\\nAchenbach was one of his teachers. He was a schoolmate of Jacob R.\\nWortendyke. Like many of the farmers of that day he engaged in other\\nlines of business, having a cotton mill, a distillery and a store on the\\nfarm. The son took charge of these under the general superintendence\\nof his father, until 1840, when he took a farm and established a woolen\\nmill of his own.\\nThe first political experience Mr. Ackerson had, was when he was\\nelected Assessor. When but fifteen years old he became captain of a\\ncompany of uniformed militia, and held the office for ten years. In 189.=^\\nhe was elected county clerk over John N. Berry, the first clerk elected\\nunder the new c(mstitution. This necessitated his removal to Hacken-\\nsack. He remained in the office three terms, gradually becoming the\\nleader of his party. He became counsellor and banker to many of the\\nold people of thatday, the vault of the clerk s office sometimes containing\\nthousands of dollars in gold and silver awaiting investment. Soon after", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "15() HISTORY OF BKKGEN COUXTY\\nj^oing- to Hackensack he was made chairman of the Democratic Execu-\\ntive Committee in place of Judge Garret Hopper, who -had held the\\nposition almost ever since the organization of the Democratic party.\\nDuring the time that he was county clerk he raised a company of\\nContinentals, becoming the captain, afterward being elected lieutenant-\\ncolonel of an independent battalion which had been organized by special\\nAct of the Legislature. It remained in existence until 18( 1, when most\\nof the men volunteered to form the Twent3--second State Regiment for\\nservice in the war. In 1858 and 59, Hackensack being without a rail-\\nroad. Mr. Ackerson and others subscribed a sufficient amount of mone^-\\nto build a road from this point to intersect with the Erie Railroad. The\\nnew road was known as the Hackensack Railroad. When Mr. Ander-\\nson resigned the presidency of the road before its completion, Mr. Ack-\\nerson was unanimously elected to fill his place and although sinking\\nS10,000 each year for the first three years, it eventually became a pay-\\ning institution. He and Judge Zabriskie at one time assumed the per-\\nsonal responsibility of about S()0,000.\\nColonel Ackerson was active in 1872, in organizing the Bergen\\nCounty Bank which had George Achenbach for its first president, and\\nat his death was succeeded by the Colonel who remained in office until\\nthe bank closed. April 1st, 1877, he took his seat as a Judge of the\\nCourt of Common Pleas, having been appointed in the winter of 1S7()-\\n77, by Governor Bedle.\\nJudge Ackerson married in 1837, Sophia, daughter of James I.\\nBlauvelt and Martha Wortendyke, of Washington township, who was\\nborn July 4th, 1821. They had two children Colonel Garret, Jr., de-\\nceased, and Martha, wife of B. F. Randall of Hackensack. Colonel\\nAckerson died December 12, 1891.\\nCOLONEL CrAKKET ACKERSON, JR.\\nColonel Garret Ackerson. Jr., son of Colonel Garret G., was born at\\nPascack, N. J., September 15, 1840. He was educated in the public and\\nprivate schools of Hackensack, and in a private school at Claverack, N.\\nY., at that time conducted by the well known Alonzo Flack. In 1859\\nhe began the study of law in the office of Hon. Jacob R. Wortendyke of\\nJersey City, and was admitted as attorney at the June term of the Su-\\npreme Court in 1863. He immediately opened an office in Hackensack\\nfor the practice of his profession, and in 1878 was made counsellor-at-\\nlaw, having been appointed prosecutor of Pleas for Bergen County in\\n18(.f\\nIn 18t 7 he was apjiointed judge advocate of a battalion of Militia\\nin the county, and in IS72 was elected Captain of Company C, of the\\nSecond Battalion National Guards, resigning the office in 1875. He was\\nappointed Judge Advocate General of the State of New Jersey, with\\nrank of colonel by Governor George B. McClellan in 187 At this time\\nhe was appointed President of the Hackensack Railroad. He was also\\nfor a time on the Board of the Hackensack Improvement Commission,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY Ol UEKGEX COUNTY 157\\nand was secretary and treasurer of the Bertren County Mutual Assur-\\nance Association from 18()3 to lS(i7.\\nColonel Ackcrson was a delegate in 187() to the Democratic National\\nConvention that nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the Presidency.\\nHe was married July 18f)3, to Ann Elizabeth, daug liter of John\\nA. Zabriskie and Mary Anderson, and is survived by three sons, John\\nZabriskie, James B., and Garret (t. Ackerson, Jr.\\nCAPTAIN ANDREW C. ZABKISKII-;.\\nCaptain Andrew C. Zabriskie, son of Christian A. Zabriskie and\\nSarah J. Titus, was born in New York city May 30th, 18,53. His g-rand-\\nfather, Andrew C. Zabriskie, was born at Paranius, N. J., at the ances-\\ntral homestead. His fortune, however, was made in business in New\\nYork, after which he retired to enjoy his declining years in the old home at\\nParamus. His four children consisted of three sons. Christian, A., Martin,\\nJohn, John Jacob and one daughter, Matilda Mary, who became the\\nwife of Martin E. Greene. John Jacob owned a cotton mill atHohokus, and\\nwas well known throughout Bergen County. Martin changed his name\\nto the original Polish, Zborowski. He was by profession a lawyer, but\\nabandoning practice, he devoted his time to real estate investments, which\\nhave proved to be of immense value. He has two children, Anna, wife\\nof the Comte de Montsaulpin, and Eliott. Christian A. Zabriskie was\\nalso well known and highly esteemed in Bergen County, and was greatly\\nlamented at his death, especially in church circles, being a strong sup-\\nporter of the Episcopal Church at Paramus, where he spent much of\\nhis time. His wife was Sarah Jane Titus, daughter of Captain William\\nM. Titus and Maria Gardner, the daughter of Thomas (Gardner, a\\nwealthy resident of Paramus, and who was somewhat eccentric in dispo-\\nsition. Captain and Mrs. Titus frequently drove from New York in\\ntheir carriage to spend the day with Mr. Gardner, often starting early\\nenough to see the sunrise from Weehawken Hill. Mrs. Zabriskie was\\nthen a little girl, and the Bergen Turnpike, over which she drove, has\\nnow as its president and controlling stockholder her son, Andrew C.\\nCaptain Zabriskie is well known in Hackensack partly through his\\npresidency of this ancient turnpike which was incorporated in 1802,\\nwith Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken as its first president, and partly\\nby his large real estate interests in the vicinity.\\nAndrew C. Zabriskie, grandfather of Captain Andrew, was adjutant\\nof the squadron of horse of the county of Bergen, and his maternal\\ngrandfather, William M. Titus, served in the War of 1812, afterwards\\nbecoming captain in the Eleventh Regiment New York Artillery.\\nWhen but twenty years of age he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Regi-\\nment N. G. N. Y.. in which he served more than seven y-ears and was\\nthen elected captain of Company C, Seventy-first Regiment N. G. N. Y.\\nStill later he was appointed inspector of rifle ])ractice on the staff of\\nthis regiment, and upon resigning in 1890, was elected to his old com-\\nmand soon after bringing his company up to such an efficient state, as", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "CAPTAIX ANDKEW C. ZABKISKIE", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 159\\nto inspect one hundred per cent; but after a military experience of near-\\nly twenty-five years he resigned in 1897.\\nThe captain is a member of man}- clubs, the Metropolitan, City,\\nArmy and Navy, National Arts and Church Clubs, and to the Holland\\nSociety, the Military Society of the War of 1812, and the Veterans of\\nthe Seventh Regiment. He is also a devoted and active Episcopalian, a\\nmember of the Church of the Incarnation, and a delegate to the Diocesan\\nConvention from that church, a manager of St. Luke s Hospital, a trus-\\ntee of the Sheltering Arms, the Children s Fold and the Archdeaconry\\nof New York, in addition to which he is treasurer of the American\\nChurch Missionary Society and the House of Rest for Consumptives.\\nInterested in the collection of coins and medals since boyhood, he is\\npresident of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society.\\nCaptain Zabriskie was married in 1895 to Frances Hunter, youngest\\ndaughter of the late Charles F. Hunter, president of the Peoples Bank,\\nNew York, and Juliana M. W. Zabriskie. Her grandfather passed m(\u00c2\u00abt\\nof his time in New York, although a native of Hackensack, and was for\\nsome years one of the lay judges of Bergen County. Mrs. Zabriskie s\\ngrandmother was Susannah Van Campen Romeyn, a daughter of the\\nRev. James Romeyn, well known in the vicinity, early in the century.\\nMrs. Zabriskie is interested in many charities and has a large circle of\\nfriends. She is a skilled pianist and possesses marked musical talent.\\nCaptain and Mrs. Zabriskie reside at No. 2 West Fifty-Sixth Street,\\nNew York, and have a fine country home at Lake Memphramagog, just\\nover the Canadian line, where they own Province Island comprising over\\n100 acres. They also own and occupy, a portion of each year, a large\\nestate called Blithewood at Annandale on the Hudson. They have\\ntwo children, Julia Romeyn Zabriskie and Christian Andrew Zabriskie.\\nMAJOR JOHN ENGEL.\\nMajor John Engel, son of Charles and Augusta (Kuhn) Engel, was\\nborn at Bunde, Prussia, April 16, 1845. After completing his course at\\nthe Prussian Military School at Schloss Annaburg, in the Province of\\nSachsen, he came to America in the month of October, 1860. Upon\\ncoming to this country he became identified with its interests, adapting\\nhimself to the habits and customs by which he became surrounded. A\\nmere lad in years, he was a man in mental vigor and high aspirations.\\nHis military training was soon to be put to use in his new home.\\nIn August, 1862, two years after landing in America, he enlisted in\\nthe famous Duryea s Zouaves, 165th New York Volunteers, serving until\\nOctober, 1865. Major Engel served in the Nineteenth Army Corps, in\\nthe Department of the Gulf, taking part in all the battles of that corps.\\nHe was in the battles of Cedar Creek and Winchester in 1864, and was\\nwounded in the Red River expedition at Cane River Crossing in the\\nsame year.\\nOctobers, 1872, uiK n the formation of Company C, which became\\n:i i)art of the Second Hattalion N. Y. N. G., Mr. Engel enlisted as a pri-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "160 HISTOKY OF BEKOEN COUNTY\\nvate, and on the 18th of the same month was elected Serg-eant. On May\\n30, 1876, Sergeant Engel was elected First Lieutenant, and under his\\nefficient drill, continued with untiring energy and self-devotion, the com-\\npany has ever sustained an enviable reputation. On January 27, 18 \u00c2\u00bb1,\\nLieutenant Kngel was elected Captain.\\nThe reorganization of the National Guard of New Jersey in 1892\\nmade this battalion a part of the Seccmd Regiment, and December 7, 1898,\\nthe Captain was made Major. Upon the breaking out of the late Spanish-\\nAmerican War, this regiment, on May 2, 1898, entered the service as the\\nSecond Regiment N. J. Volunteers, U. S. A., Major Engel going to the\\nfront in his official capacity. His military career covers in all a period\\nof about thirty-three years.\\nIn private life the Major has engaged in the hotel business, and\\nwas for eight years manager of the Hackensack Opera House. He was\\npostmaster of Hackensack from 1888 to 1892 and has twice been elected\\nJustice of the Peace. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., the\\nRed Men, Wheelmens Club, Hasbrouck Heights Field Club, Pioneer\\nClub, and a member of James McPherson Post, G. A. R., of which he\\nis a charter member.\\nHe married Miss Mathilda H. (xcrrels at Charlestown, S. C, October\\n30, 18()7.\\nMAJOR ABRAHAM D. CAMPBELL.\\nMajor Abraham D. Campbell, deceased, was a great-grandson of\\nJohn, who settled in Closter, and at the close of the Revolution located\\nin Washington Township, at Pascack.\\nAbraham D., son of David A. Campbell was born October 10, 1842.\\nHe was educated in the public schools of his native place and at Hack-\\nensack, and after teaching for a short period, during which time he was\\nelected school superintendent of his township, he resigned and entered\\nthe State Normal School at Trenton, from which he was graduated in\\n1863. After leaving school he engaged in teaching until 1865, when he\\nentered the office of Colonel Garret Ackerson, Jr., at Hackensack as a\\nlaw student, being admitted as attorney at the June term in 1869, and\\nas counsellor in 1875. A few months after his admission as attorney,\\nhe opened an office in Hackensack, and on August 7, 1870, was appoint-\\ned Prosecutor of Pleas to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of\\nColonel Ackerson, and September 1, of the same year was appointed by\\nGovernor Randolph to fill that office until the close of the next session\\nof the Legislature. April 5, i87i he was appointed for the full term,\\nand by subsequent appointments held the office for twenty-five years.\\nHaving enlisted in Company C, Second Battalion, N. (t. N. J., Oc-\\ntober 8, 1 872, he was commissioned quartermaster of the battalion with\\nrank of first lieutenant, January i4, i873, and on March i5, i876, re-\\nceived the commission of captain. He served during the railroad strike\\nof 1 877. and retired with the rank of brevet-major, December i6, i890.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "..Vc..^;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKOKN COrNTY 161\\nMr. Campbell \\\\vas married September 22, i8 to Ann E. Hopper.\\nlaiighter of Jacob Hopper and Lydia Botfert, of Hackensack. They\\nhad five children, Luther A., Eva, David (deceased), Harry (deceased),\\nan l N. Deraarest Campbell.\\nI.l THKK A. C. \\\\MPBKI.I..\\nLuther A., son of the late Abraham D., and Ann E. (Hopper)\\nCampbell, was born at Hackensack, November 28, 1872. He was edu-\\ncated in the public schools and was graduated vvith honors from the\\nUnion Street High School, of which Dr. Nelson Haas was principal.\\nImmediately after leaving- school he began the study of law in his\\nfather s office, and in June 18 H was admitted to the bar as attorney,\\nsubsequently becoming associated with his father under the firm name\\nof A. D. L. A. Campbell. In 1S )5 at the organization of the Improve-\\nment Commission, Mr. Campbell became counsel and clerk of that board.\\nand was also for several terms clerk to the Grand Jury by appointment\\nof Judge Dixon, but was forced to give up this position because of grow-\\ning business in general practice. He has also been chosen counsellor in\\nseveral townships and boroughs in Bergen county.\\nMr. Campbell is a member of Bergen County Lodge No. 7.% and of\\nHope Encampment No. 33, I. O. O. F.\\nHe was married April 22, 1896, to Miss Mae E., daughter of Richard\\nI*. Paiilison of Hackensack.\\nCOKNKT.Il S W. BERDAN.\\nCornelius W. Berdan, lawyer, was l)orn in the City of New York\\nDecember 24, 1850. A few years afterwards his father, the late James\\nBerdan, moved with his family to Maywood, N. J., where he died in 1862.\\nThe widowed mother then removed to Hackensack, where Cornelius\\ncontinued his studies in the public schools and at Williams private\\nacademy. At the age of seventeen he took a mercantile position in\\nNew York, but, when twenty-three years of age, left that to study\\nlaw in the office of the late Manning M. Knapp, continuing his studies\\nsubsequently with the late Garret Ackerson, Jr., being admitted to the\\nbar in 1878. He has folk)wed his chosen profession ever since. He is\\na member of the Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, F. and A. M.. and of the\\nRoyal Arcanum.\\nOn October i5, i870. he married .Miss Mary 1 daughler of John\\nC. O Connor, a prominent citizen of .MiH ord, Conn. One daughter was\\nborn of this union.\\nMr. Berdan is a man of strong convictions, and has done much to\\npromote the cause of good government in his cit}- and county.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nSADDLE RIVER.\\nDESCRIPTION AND EARLY SETTLEMENT CIVIL LIST GARFIELD ITS\\nCHURCHES AND MANUFACTURING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nThis township is one of the oldest in the county. It was formerly\\na part of New Barbadoes, and was then embraced in Essex county but\\nbecame a portion of Bergen, in ilO K\\nWhen first set off it comprised all the former territory of New Bar-\\nbadoes lying- between Saddle River and the Passaic River to the prov-\\nince line, embracing nearly half the territory of that township. About\\n1 772 Franklin township was erected, its boundary including the present\\ntownships of Hohokus, Ridgewood and Franklin. The following des-\\ncription given of the township at that time may be of interest:\\nIt is centrally distant northwest from Hackensack Town eight\\nmiles, its greatest length east and west being ten miles, its breadth\\nnorth and south eight miles, its area 4i,000 acres, of which about i7,-\\n000 are improved. The surface is generally hilly, the First and Second\\nMountains of Essex county crossing the Passaic and continuing\\nthrough it. On the east, however, between the Passaic and Saddle\\nRivers, there is a neck of low and level land, the soil red shale and loam\\nthe valleys fertile and well cultivated, and the hills well wooded.\\nThrough the valleys flow several small brooks, such as Singack, Preak-\\nness, Krokaevall, Gofifle, and Ackerman s Brooks.\\nGoffle and New Manchester, a part of Paterson, are the chief vil-\\nlages of the township. The population in 1830 was 3397. In 1832\\nthere were 741 taxables, 4 householders whose ratables did not exceed\\nS30 in value, 80 single men, 7 stores, 8 grist-mills, 1 cotton manufactory,\\n1 furnace, 10 saw-mills, 13 tan-vats, 2 distilleries, 1 wool-factory, 506\\nhorses and mules, and 1324 neat cattle over three years of age. The\\ntownship paid a State tax of S364.10, and a county tax of $690.26.\\nSaddle River township is bounded on the north by Ridgewood,\\nsouth by Lodi, east by Saddle river, and west by Passaic river. Aside\\nfrom Garfield which is of recent origin, there are no villages in the\\ntownship, and until recently none but agricultural pursuits have been\\nengaged in, the soil and climate not only being adapted to the raising\\nof all kinds of grain, but also to the culture of fruit and vegetables.\\nThe New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad passes through\\nthe Township from east to west, with stations at Rochelle Park and\\nDundee Lake. The Bergen county Short Cut, a branch of the Erie\\nRoad, runs through the entire length of the township from north to\\nsouth, C(mnecting Ridgewood with Rutherford. Of the highways in\\nBergen county that of Slaughter Dam, now designated as the Passaic\\nVallev road, is one of the oldest. This thoroughfare was in use long", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 163\\nbefore the Revolutionary War, and was constantly travelled at that\\nperiod. It was. in fact, the Indian trail formerly on the east side of the\\nriver. The township has now twenty-seven miles of road, and in i893\\nit was bonded in the sum of S )0,000 for the improvement of its high-\\nways.\\nThe names of many of the early settlers of this township, because\\nof the removal of their descendants to other places, have been quite\\nforg-otten. Lands entered by these pioneers, in many cases, have\\nchanged hands, their homes having been transferred to the stranger.\\nAmong those whose heritage have been assumed by others may be\\nmentioned the Post and Home families in particular.\\nAmong the earliest settlers in Saddle River was the Doremus family,\\nthe progenitor of whom was John Doremus, who in i74() purchased the\\noriginal property near Areola. He was in i747 united in marriage to\\nMiss Maria Lutkins, and on his death in i784 left a son and daughter. Mr.\\nDoremus was during the Revolutionary war taken prisoner by the\\nBritish, and confined in the old Sugar House prison in New York city.\\nOn .his release he returned to his home, where the remainder of his life\\nwas spent. His son George occupied the homestead until his death in\\n1 830, leaving live sons, Richard, Albert, George, John B. and Pe .er,\\nand one daughter, who became the wife of Andrew H. Hopper, well\\nknown as a General of the Bergen County militia. John B. occupied\\nthe farm for a period of half a century after the death of his father,\\nand subsequently removed to Paterson. His son Jacob occupied the\\nhomestead afterwards.\\nTwo brothers of this family. Cornelius and Henry, on their arrival\\nin America, first repaired S(juth, but not being favorably impressed with\\nthe land repaired to New Jersey, one having located in Passaic and the\\nother in Morris county. Cornelius died in the latter county, leaving a\\ngrandson, Henry, who removed to Saddle River, on the homestead after-\\nwards occupied by William Doremus, the deed of conveyance bearing\\ndate July i2, i782. Among his large family of children was Peter, who\\ninherited the farm and was united in marriage to a Miss Berry, of Carl-\\nstadt, to whom were born children, Henry, William and Cornelius, all\\nof whom located in the townshi]).\\nGeorge, onl} son of John Doremus. succeeded to the home i)roperly.\\nand married, in 1777, Anna, daugher of John and Catharine Berdan, by\\nwhom he had the following children: John, born July, 177 died May\\n9, 17 )f Maria, born November 12, 1783, and became the wife of General\\nAndrew H. Hopper; Richard, born June 16, 1786, was a farmer at\\nPreakness, N. J.; Albert, born April 25, 17 H), spent most of his business\\nlife in stage-driving and carrying the mail between Hoboken and Hack-\\nensack and on the Albany mail route; George, born, November 13, 17 \u00c2\u00bb4,\\nwas a blacksmith, farmer, and inn-keeper: John B. born June 26, 17 W;\\nand Peter, born 1801, was a blacksmith by occupation, for many years\\nwas a teacher, served as justice of the peace in Saddle River township\\nfor several terms.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "1()4 HISTOKY OF BERC.EN COUNTY\\nThe Berdan family are of Holland extraction, the first member uf\\nwhom was Rinear. He emigrated from his native land at a very earh\\ndate, and choosing Bergen county as a favorable point of location made\\nHaclvensack his residence. His sons were six in number of whom two\\nJohn and Rinear, settled on farms, afterwards owned by Rinear J.,\\nand G. V. H. Berdan respectively. The former was married to\\nMiss Ann Romaine, and had one son, John, whose wife was Miss Hen-\\nrietta Van Dien. Their son, Rinear, was united in marriage to Charity\\nRyerson, and became the parent of two children, John and a daughter\\nAnn. The former married Miss Mary Van Houten, and had two sons\\nRinear and Garrabrant and a daughter, Mrs. Daniel Romaine.\\nJohn, the second son of the first Rinear, the progenitor of\\nthe family, had three sons John, Richard and Stephen and one daugh-\\nter. John, who served with credit in the war of iSi2, is represented bj-\\na son, Cornelius Z.\\nJohn Berdan, died August 22, iS7i, at the age of eighty-one years;\\nand his grandfather, Rinear, also lived to be eighty years of age, dying\\nJanuary 28, i843.\\nCharity Ryerson, his grandmother, was born in i7()0 and died in\\n1 848. She was a descendant of Joris Ryerson, a native of Amsterdam,\\nwho settled first on Long Island, and afterwards, in i70i, in Bergen\\ncounty, with his two sons. The children of Rinear and Charity Berdan\\nwere John R. and Ann, wife of Richard Berdan.\\nMary Van Houten, born June 22, i79i, was the wife of John R. Ber-\\ndan, and died January 12, 1862, leaving three children Rinear, G. V. H.,\\nand Ann, the wife of Daniel Romaine, of Lodi.\\nRinear J. Berdan was born on the homestead June 28, 1809, and\\nmarried March 7, 1833, Catharine, daughter of General Andrew H.\\nHopper and Maria Doremus, of Saddle River township. Both the\\nHoppers and Dt)remuses were among the earliest settled families in\\nBergen county.\\nMrs. Berdan was born December 22, 184(), and by this union the^-\\nhave one son and one daughter, viz.: John, married Christina M. Berry;\\nboth are dead. The former died July 20, i87(), the latter February 19,\\n1 88 1, leaving one son Walter H. Berdan. The daughter Mary Ann,\\nbecame the wife of William H. Cadmus, of Saddle River township.\\nThe Hopper family are also among the oldest families in Saddle\\nRiver. One branch is descended from Andrew Hopper, who emigrated\\nfrom Holland and had children, among whom were Peter and Andrew.\\nAndrew joined the army during the Revolutionary conflict, and fell in\\none of the engagements. Peter settled in the township on land still in\\nthe family and had three sons, Ciarret, Andrew, and Henry, all of whom\\nremained in Saddle River. Andrew married and became the father of\\ntwelve children, of whom two, John A., and Henry A., located in the\\ntownship, the latter on the homestead which was the birthplace of his\\nfather. Another representative of this family was Henry Hopper, who\\nresided in the j resent Franklin township and had four children, two", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKC.EN COUNTY 1()5\\nsons and two daughters. The sons were John H., and Andrew H., the\\nlatter of whom married Maria Doremus and had seven children, of\\nwhom Henry A., occiii)ied the homestead, and a daughter. Mrs. Rinear\\nJ. Berdan.\\nPeter Hopper, owned some 300 acres of land, and was the first of\\nthe family that settled the homestead where Sheriff Hopper now resides.\\nHe died in 1818, at an advanced age. His wife was Anna Doremus,\\nwho died at the age of eighty-eight, and bore him the following chil-\\ndren: Keziah, wife of Jacob Demarest; Mrs. Voorhis, Garret, Andrew\\nP., and Henry; all were married and reared families, excepting Garret.\\nOf these children Andrew P. Hopper was born on the homestead in\\n1777, which he afterwards inherited, and resided there during his life,\\nengaged in farming. He also took part in politics, representing his\\ntownship in the board of chosen freeholders, and for two terms served\\nas county collector. He served as sheriff of Bergen county for one term,\\nand for one term represented his Assembly district in the State\\nLegislature.\\nHenry A., son of Andrew P. Hopper was born August 3, 1819. He\\nwas sheriff of Bergen county and member of State Legislature one term.\\nThe ancestor of the Garretsons (the name being spelled Garretson\\nor Garrison by members of the same family) was Peter, a native of\\nHolland, who left his native land in 1664 and settled in Bergen county,\\nwhere he purchased an extensive tract of land. Among his sons was\\nJohn P., who married a Miss Ryerson and had children, John, Jacob,\\nGarret, and one daughter. John P., spent his life upon the homestead,\\nand here his death occurred. His sons John and Garret remained in\\nthe township, the latter having married a daughter of Ralph Romaine\\nand had eight children, among whom were three sons, John (i., Ralph,\\nand Abram.\\nTwo branches of the Van Riper family claim Saddle River as their\\nresidence. Jeremiah resided on the Passaic river, above the Dundee\\nbridge, and early purchased land of a very old resident named Van\\nHorn. His sons were Simeon, Stephen and Nicholas, all of whom\\nremained in the township. The latter branch is represented by John\\nN. Van Riper.\\nThe Zabriskie family in Saddle Kiver are descended frorn Andrew\\nZabriskie, whose son Christian had three scms, Andrew, Cornelius and\\nAbram. Abram married Maria Zabriskie, of New Bridge, and had one\\nson. Christian A., who took up his residence in Saddle River townshij).\\nThe daughters were Mrs. Cornelius Van Houten and Mrs. Henry Demarest.\\nJohannes Berdan was the pioneer of the family by that name in\\nthis township. He had two children, John and Anna, and was grand-\\nfather of John, Jr., Richard, Ste])hen and Mary and great-grandfather\\nof Cornelius Z. Berdan.\\nThe Terhunes, Ackermans and Romaines and a branch of the Dem-\\narest family were also settlers in the township, some of them coming\\nhere before the Revolution.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "lf)6 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nPhilip Van Bussom early settled in Saddle River, having- purchased\\nland of Dominie Marinus. He had children John, Andrew, Peter, and\\ntwo daughters. The sons located in Saddle River, Peter having- retained\\nthe homestead and married. He had three children.\\nOKGAXIZATION.\\nIt is difficult to learn the exact date ot the erection of Saddle River\\nas an independent township. In the list of freeholders immediately\\nfollowing, the first of these officials served in the year i794. It may,\\ntherefore, be assumed that Saddle River was erected as an independent\\ntownship either in that or the previous year.\\ncivil. LIST.\\nThe list of freeholders it is possible to give complete since 1794.\\nThe remainimg more important township offices cannot be secured for\\nthe period prior to 1862, as the records are not obtainable. The free-\\nholders are as follows\\n1794, Jacob Berdan, Martin Ryerson 179b, Samuel Van Zaen, John\\nC. Bogert; 1797-1801, 1809-15, George Doremus; 1797, John Benson, Jr.:\\n1798-1801, John Dey; 1802-6, Henry Mead, John Garrison; 1807-11, Jacob\\nAckerman; 1807, Richard Degray; 1808, William Colfax; 1812, Isaac\\nVan Saun; 13-14, Robert Van Houten; 15-18, Martimus Hogencamp;\\n16-18, John J. Berdan; 19-20, Isaac Van Saun; 20-25, Garret P. Hop-\\nper; 22-25, 30-31. Martimus Hogencamp; 26, Jacob Berdan; 56-27,\\nRichard Ackerman; 27, Adrian R. Van Houten; 28-29, Andrew H.\\nHopper, Richard Doremus; 30- 34, Samuel C. Demarest; 32-35, 43-45,\\nAndrew P. Hopper; 35-36, Perigan Sanford; 35, Henry Doremus; 37-39,\\nHenry P. Hopper; 37-38, Turnier Van Iderstine; 39-42, Henry C. Van\\nHouten; 40-42, Cornelius Post, Jr.; 43, 45-46, Andrew B. Van Bussum;\\n44, Henry P. Doremus; 46-48, John B. Doremus; 47-48, Henry Cole;\\n49-51, Peter A. Hopper; 49-51, 57-61, Andrew C. Cadmus; 52, Simeon\\nG. Garrison; 52-54, William Doremus; 53-54, John A. Hopper; 56,\\nCornelius p. Doremus; 56-57, David Alyea; 58-61, Peter I. Demarest;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a262-64, Richard Van Winkle; 62-67, 68, Henry A. Hopper; ()3-64, 66,\\nJohn Vreeland; 66-67, James G. Cadmus; 68-70, Cornelius R. an\\nHouten; 69-71, John G. Garrison; 72-74, J. W. Doremus; 75-77, John\\nB. Schoonmaker; 78, James V. Joralemon; 79-81, 82, Martin Romaine;\\n82-92, Albert Bogert; 93-96, William Readio; 96-98, William H. Fair-\\nchild; 98-99, C. V. B. Demarest, who died in August 1899 and the va-\\ncancy filled by appointment of Tunis W. Vreeland.\\nThe remaining important officers are\\n1862. Township Clerk, James V. Joralemon; Collector, James C.\\nPost; Assessor, Jacob W. Doremus; Township Committee, Augustus\\nHasbrouck, William P. Doremus, A. C. Cadmus, George Doremus, John\\nA. Hopper.\\n1863. Township Clerk, James V. Joralemon; Collector, Gustavus\\nA. De Groot; Township Committee, Andrew C. Cadmus, Augustus\\nHasbrouck, George Doremus, Wm. P. Doremus, Wm. A. Van Houten;\\nAssessor, Jacob W. Doremus.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 1 f)7\\n1864. Township Clerk, James V. J iralenion; Cdllcctor, (iustavus\\nA. De Groot; Assessor, Jacob W. Doremus; Township Committoe, An-\\ndrew C. Cadmus, Augustus Hasbrouck, Cieorg e Doremus, \\\\Vm. Dore-\\nmus, Wm. A, Van Houten.\\n1865. Township Clerk, Isaac A. Hopper; Collector, (iustavus A.\\nDc Groot; Township Committee, Augustus Masl)r()uek, Wm. Doremus,\\nHenry P. Doremus, John A. Hopper, John C. Post.\\n1866. Township Clerk, Isaac A. Hopper; Collector, John C. Post;\\nAssessor, Jacob W. Doremus; Township Committee, Henry P. Dore-\\nmus, C. C. Post, John B. Schoonmaker, Garret H. Ho])per, Andrew C.\\nCadmus.\\n1867. Township Clerk, Isaac A. Hopper; Collector, Ahdrew C.\\nCadmus; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, Henry\\nP. Doremus, C. C. Post. J. B. Schoonmaker, Garret H. Hopper, G. V.\\nH. Berdan.\\n1868. Township Clerk, John B. Schoonmaker; Collector, Cornelius\\nZ. Berdan; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, Wil-\\nliam Doremus, G. H. Hopper, Henry P. Doremus, G. V. H. Berdan,\\nCornelius C. Post.\\n1869. Township Clerk, John B. Schoonmaker; Collector, Cornelius\\nZ. Berdan; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee. Wm.\\nDoremus, G. V. H. Berdan. Andrew Cadmus. Henry A. Hopper, Frank\\nHenry.\\n1870. Township Clerk, John B. Schoonmaker; Collector, Cornelius\\nZ. Berdan; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, Wm.\\nDoremus, Kinear J. Berdan. Peter H. Doremus. Albert Alyea. Frank\\nHenry.\\n1871. Township Clerk. David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, Cornelius G.\\nCadmus, John F. Barclay. Ral])li G. Garrison. Albert Alyea. Frank\\nAlyea.\\n1872.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, James V. Joralemon; Township Committee, C. G. Cad-\\nmus, Ralph G. Garrison, Wm. Doremus, R. T. Snyder, Frederick Baker.\\n1873.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, David 1 Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hoi)])er; Township Committee, Cornelius G.\\nCadmus, R. G. Garrison, Wm. Doremus, Richard T. Snyder, Frederick\\nBaker.\\n1H74.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector. Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hojjper; Township Committee, A. E. Miller. R.\\n(J. Garrison, WilliamT)oremus, R. T. Snyder.\\n1875. Township Clerk, David P. Alyea; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committer, Tunis W. Vree-\\nland, John Madden, R. T. Snyder. John G. Garrison, George Hubschmitt.\\n1876.- -Township Clerk, John E. Kipp; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, Tunis W. Vree-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "168 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nland, John Madden, John G. Garrison, George Hubschmitt, P. H. Van\\nIderstine.\\n1877. Township Clerk, John E. Kipp; Collector, James G. Cadmus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, John G. Garretson.\\nGeorge Hubschmitt, T. W. Vreeland, Adam Hopper, John W. Doremus.\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, John E. Kipp; Collector, J. H. Van Saun;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, Adam Hopper, John\\nW. Doremus, Andrew W. Ochs, John G. Garretson, William H. Gill.\\n1879.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, William H. Cadmus; Collector, J. H. Van\\nSaun; Assessor, J. H. Kipp; Townihip Committee, Adam Hopper, John\\nW. Doremus, William H. Gill.\\n1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, William H. Cadmus; Collector, John B.\\nCaldwell; Assessor, John E. Kipp; Township Committee, William H.\\nGill, Henry Stiehl, John B. Schoonmaker.\\n1881.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Caldwell;\\nAssessor, John E. Kipp; Township Committee, John B. Schoonmaker,\\nHenry Stiehl, William H. Gill.\\n1882.- Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Caldwell;\\nAssessor, John B. Kipp; Township Committee, Albert Alyea, Gilbert\\nB. Ackerman, Richard L. Snyder.\\n1883.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Caldwell;\\nAssessor, John E. Kipp; Township Committee, Richard L. Snyder, Gil-\\nbert B. Ackerman, Albert Alyea.\\n1884.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, John B. Caldwell;\\nAssessor, John E. Kipp; W. H. Doremus on Committee.\\n1885. Township Clerk, John B. Shoonmaker; Collector, John B.\\nCaldwell; Assessor, Tunis W. Vreeland; Gilbert B. Ackerman on Com-\\nmittee.\\n1886.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, John B. Shoonmaker; Collector, Jacob W.\\nDoremus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Richard L. Snyder on Committee.\\n1887.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; W. H. Doremus on Committee.\\n1888.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, Jacob W. Dore-\\nmus; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Gilbert B. Ackerman on Committee.\\n1889. Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, Jacob Doremus;\\nAssessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Township Committee, Peter Alyea, elected\\nfor three years, and Henry A. Hopper for two years.\\n1890.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, C. V. B. Demar-\\nest; Assessor, Isaac H. Hopper; Albert Conklin on Committee.\\n1891.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, C. V. B. Demar-\\nest; Isaac A. Hopper; Henry A. Hopper on Committee.\\n1892.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, C. V. B. Dem -vr-\\nest; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Peter Alyea on Committee.\\n1893.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, Herman Bechtel; Collector, C. V. B. Demar-\\nest; Assessor, Isaac A. Hopper; Richard L. Snyder on Town Committee.\\n1894.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, Herman Bechtel; Collector, C. V. B. Dem-\\narcst; Assessor, Peter J. Smith; Gerritsen on Committee.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEX COUNTY 1,6\\n1805.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk. Herman Bechtel; Collector. C. N. B. Dema-\\nrest; Assessor. Peter J. Smith; Township Committee, Peter Alyea\\nelected for three years, W. H. A. Mavnard for one vear.\\n189f..\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, Herman Bechtel; Collector, C. V. B. Dem-\\narest; Assessor, Township Committee, Charles E. Martin,\\nGeorge MacDonald.\\n1897.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector, Herman Bechtel:\\nAssessor, Smith Chittenden; George MacDonald on Committee.\\n1898.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, W. H. Cadmus; Collector. Herman Bechtel;\\nAssessor, Smith Chittenden; Sela Doremus on Committee.\\nGAKFIELD.\\nThe village of Garfield is properly an adjunct of Passaic and lies\\neast of that city, just across the river. The land was originally owned\\nby the Cadmus and VanWinkle estates. About the year 188. Gilbert\\nD. Bogart, and Henry Marcellus. began improvements in the place.\\nBogart bought lands of James G. Cadmus and his property was laid off\\ninto town plots. He was the founder of the East Passaic Land Com-\\npany and in this way became instrumental in building up (iarfield. As-\\nsociations began to be formed, buildings were erected, the B.-rgen Cduu-\\nty Short Cut Railroad was built, a depot given to the village, and a\\npost-office for the people was established. With these accommodations\\nfor the general public, stores were built, two churches erected and two\\nvery important manufacturing industries are now in operation. The\\nMr. G. Cadmus above mentioned is of Holland lineage.\\nJohn Cadmus, the first to locate on this site had two sons, Andrew\\nand Cornelius, and five daughters. The sons fell heir to the homestead.\\nAndrew married Katrina Doremus and has no descendants now residing\\nin the township. Cornelius was united to Jane VanRiper and had six-\\nsons, John, (iarret, David, Andrew, James and Cornelius, all of whom\\nwith the exception of Cornelius settled in Saddle River. David located\\non the homestead, and his son James (i. Cadmus was the one above\\nmentioned.\\nJohn Cadmus suffered much during the Revolution. His home was\\nexposed to the depredations of the British, and he himself was finally\\ncaptured, taken a prisoner to the old Sugar House in New York, where\\nhis health became so impaired by confinement that he only lived two\\nweeks after being released. In May i898 the village was organized in-\\nto a borough, and William O. Bush elected Mayor.\\nM.\\\\NliK.\\\\CTfKIN(;.\\nFritzsche Brothers established their chemic.il works inlS \u00c2\u00bb2. They\\nmanufacture essential oils, chemical preparations, etc., and deal in fine\\ndrugs. Their store is in New York. They employ fourteen men, have\\none seventy-five horse power engine and consume some 3(K\u00c2\u00bb,()fl() pounds\\nof cloves annually in the manufacture of the oil of clo\\\\ es alone. Their\\nmain works are in (iermanv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "170 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe Haminersclilag ISIanufacttiring Company is also located in this\\ntown and has had an existence here since 18y(). They employ about fifty\\nmen, and manufacture wax paper. It is a New York enterprise.\\nCHUKCHKS OF. GAUFIELD.\\nThe Presbyterian Society of Gariield was org-anized in February,\\n188S, and soon after presented with lots upon which to build. A church\\nof fourteen members was organized in May, and work began on the\\nbuilding in June. Mr. James Hall was ordained and installed. He saw\\nthe edifice completed, but his pastorate terminated in November 1889,\\nbefore its occupancy. For a time the church was supplied with students.\\nA call was extended to Mr. James S. Young, and he was ordained and\\ninstalled in June, 1890.\\nThe church then enrolled nineteen members. The property was\\nmortgaged for S1500; all its furniture, save 100 chairs, was borrowed.\\nToward the new pastor s salary a grant was made from Synod s Fund of\\nS.^UO. Soon the church was properly furnished and a library procured\\nfor the Sunday School. The close of the first year saw the membership\\nincreased to sixty-four, with 205 on the roll of the Sunday School. Cer-\\ntain special helps toward the salary were relinquished after the first\\nyear, and later the requests for aid from Synod s Fund were diminished.\\nOn the fifth anniversarv of Mr. Young s pastorate the cancelled\\nmortgage was publiclv burned. The membership grew from nineteen in\\n1890 to 141 in 189f). During the past six years over S9000 has been raised\\nfor all purposes. Of this sum $978 has been given to benevolences of\\nthe church at large.\\nTHK KEFOKJIED CHUKCH.\\nThe Reformed church in Garfield was organized in January, 1891-\\nRev. Seibert its first pastor was installed in October, 1891, and died in\\n1892. His son, the Rev. George S. Seibert, succeeded, remaining until\\nthe month of September, 1896, when the present pastor, the Rev. W. C. G.\\nMyles, took charge. The members of the cotisistory are C. Terhune,\\nC. Miller, O. Kevit, F. (iarrctson and G. Schooley.\\nTHE CIU KCHES.\\nThe Passaic Valley Union Chapel was the first organization for\\nreligious worship in the township. It originated in a small gathering\\nfor religious instruction at the house of Mrs. Henry Van Riper. It num-\\nbered at first but three scholars, but gradually increased until it was\\nthought expedient to secure a building. For this purpose Ralph G.\\nGarrison, Henry A. Hopper and Peter D. Henderson were elected as a\\nboard of trustees and subscriptions were solicited for the building of the\\nchurch. The land was donated by Henry Van Riper to be devoted for\\nforty years to the uses of a union chapel. The edifice was erected in\\n187.1, the building dedicated in December of that year, and in which\\nservices have been held ever since.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK 1!ER(;EX COUNTY 171\\nHENKY IMAKSEI.I.X-S ESQ., OK GAKEIEI.D.\\nHenry Marsellus. the well known real estate agent of former years\\nin Passaic, and one of the two promoters of Garfield, is a native of the\\ncity of Paterson, N. J., born April Id, 1S2(.. Mr. Marsellus speaks of\\nhimself as coming from Holland, French extraction, and can show a\\nlong and honored ancestry. The progenitor of the Marsellus stock was\\nPieter Van Marselis who had been in the di])lomatic service of Denmark,\\nand was made a member of the knightly order of the Danebrog, by\\nFrederick HI, King of Denmark and Norway, September I7th, i( 4.^.\\nHe arrived in the Province of New Netherlands in the ship Beaver with\\nhis wife, four children, and two servants in the month of May, ibf.i.\\nand settled in the Dutch out-post colony of Bergen, now part of Jersey\\nCity. In August 1673, he was appointed a Schepen of Bergen, but\\nthe Dutch Government about this time traded the Province of New\\nNetherlands for Surinam, when he was thrown upon his own resources.\\nPieter Van Marselis died September 4th, 1681, and as a mark of special\\nhonor was buried under the old Dutch Church on Bergen Hill. A\\ngrandson of Pieter Van Marselis named Edo, bought two large tracts\\nof land in what was then the wilderness of North Jersey, one at Preak-\\nness, and the other extending from Dundee Lake through Paterson to\\nthe Great Falls of the Passaic. These estates were divided among his\\nfive sons, and one of these sons, whose lands were near the Great Falls,\\nwas the grandfather of Henry Marsellus the subject of this sketch.\\nPeter E. Marsellus the father of Henry was born in Paterson in ISlXt,\\nbut in 1836 he moved t,o Passaic where he died in 1882. He was a\\nbuilder by trade and erected a number of houses still standing in the\\ncity of Paterson.\\nTo Peter E. Marsellus were born five sons and two daughters, but\\nof these only Henry and his youngest sister Helen, are alive. Henry\\nwas raised a farmer, and talks to-da\\\\% with a good deal of just pride of\\nthe straight furrow he could draw in his youth. Having a taste for\\nbusiness Mr. Marsellus in 1868 moved to Passaic where he became one\\nof the most successful business men in real estate, in the state of New\\nJersey, handling, some years, close upon half a million dollars. His\\noffice in Washington Place was popularly known as the Eel Pot, and\\nwas the centre for the leading business men of the neighborhood. In\\nthose days, Mr. Marsellus became the recognized leader in real estate,\\nand was then, as he is now, familiarly known as Boss i or as Judge\\nBarkalow insists on spelling it Baas. i\\nOn November Hh 1S4.S. Mr. Marsellus was married to Miss Cather-\\nine Van Winkle, a daughter of Jacob and Annie Van Winkle, and\\ngranddaughter of James Van Winkle, by whom Mrs. Marsellus possesses\\nher wealth, being his only issue Mr. James Van Winkle, who was a\\nremarkable man in his way, was a justice of the jjeace for over twenty-\\nfive years, and died widely rcspectc;!, in l.S )4. Marines Van Winkle\\nthe -randfather of James Van Winkle was a chair maker, and a full si t", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "HKNKV MAKSKI.I.US", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEHGEN COUNTY 173\\nof his chairs of the mist ex:[uisite w irknianship, manufactured over 175\\nyears ago, are now in use in the commodious parlors of Mrs. MarseUus.\\nMr. Marsellns is full of joke and reminiscence, and can tell of\\nhappy acquaintance with such men as Daniel Webster, Robert Collier,\\nVice President Hobart and Attorney General Grig-gs. The following\\nincident is worthy of preservation: When Mr. Marsellus and his wife\\nwere returning from Boston on their honeymoon, and had boarded a\\ntrain for New York, there came into the same car a stranger, who took\\nhis seat immediately behind them, and the young husband seeing the\\nstranger laden with papers and periodicals, which he carelessly threw\\ninto the seat he intended to occupy, whispered to his wife, We evi-\\ndently are to have the company of a book peddkr. The seeming book\\npeddler turned out to be the famous orator and statesman, Daniel Web-\\nster. An acquaintanceship thus sprang up in this casual way. The\\ngreat man asked the young farmer and his wife to accompany him to his\\nhotel, where they all dined together, and in the evening all three at-\\ntended theatre in company.\\nMr. and Mrs. Marsellus have but two children living, Herbert and\\nAnnie (Mrs. C. Demerest), out of a family of seven. There home is\\nbeautifully situatecTat the upper end of Garfield, and Mr. Marsellus\\nsays their diamond jubilee is just twenty-years ahead, which he and his\\nworthy consort are looking forward to enjoying.\\nCORNELIUS V. B. DEMAKEST.\\nCornelius V. B. Demarest was born at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester,\\ncounty, N. Y., June 11th, 1854, and is the eldest son of Daniel Demarest\\nand Mary Cordelia Garrison. When he was one year old they located\\nat Hackensack, N. J., residing there about two years, when they became\\ninfected with the western fever and removed to Michigan. After s])end-\\ning several j-ears in the West and South, the family returned to New\\nYork city in 1863, and inlSOf) settled at Passaic, N. J., where for more\\nthan thirty years the name of Daniel Demarest has been prominently\\nbefore the public as a reliable Architect and Builder. In holding differ-\\nent positions of trust, by his integrity and fair dealing he has earned\\nthe respect and esteem of all.\\nCornelius V. B., the subject of this sketch, after leaving the public\\nschool, entered the private Academy of Professor John A. Monroe, at\\nPassaic, afterwards taking a course in Packards Business College, in\\nNew York city. Being inclined to mechanics, he then served an appren-\\nticeship with the New York Steam Engine Works then located at Pas-\\nsaic. After working at his trade of machinist, for a time he was em-\\nployed as master mechanic in the New York Belting and I acking\\nCompany works at Passaic. Afterwards he entered the employ of the\\nStandard Oil Works at Philadelphia and later at the Garfield Pumping\\nStation at Garfild, Bergen county, now the national pipe line, where he\\ncontinues in charge of the largest and most powerful oil i)uin])s in the\\nsection, if not in the United States.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "CORNELIUS V. B. DEMAKEST\\n(Deceased)", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BERGEN COUNTY 175\\nHe was married in May 1881, to Miss Belle, daughter of William\\nand Rachel Christie of Passaic. Their children are two sons, Daniel,\\nand David Van Buskirk, and one daughter, Hilda Rae.\\nThe Demarest family are of French origin, and honorably trace\\ntheir line of descent from the Huguenots, who were driven from France,\\nby religious persecution. They first sought homes in Holland and\\nafterwards in Long Island in counties bordering on the Hudson and\\naccording to the oldest records appear to have been among the first\\nsettlers in Bergen county. From actual data the connecting links have\\nbeen established through eight generations between the subject of this\\nsketch and David Demarest the first of that name to settle in Bergen\\ncounty and who emigrated in the year 1663. Cornelius V. B. Demarest\\npurchased a home in Garfield, Saddle River township, in 1888. In 1891\\nhe was elected Tax collector of Saddle River township and re-elected in\\n1895, having served with entire satisfaction in that capacity for seven\\nyears. His constituency elected him in 1897, to the county board of\\nChosen Freeholders. He was defeated for Assembly a few years since\\nwhen the party failed to elect, the successful candidate being David Za-\\nbriskie the present county Judge. Mr. Demarest was a member of the\\ncitizens committee who rganized the Borough of Garfield in 1898. He\\ndied in August 1899.\\nHEKMAN BECHTEL.\\nHerman Bechtel, proprietor of the Dundee Lake Hotel, Dundee\\nLake, and Collector for the township of Saddle River, is a native of\\nNew York citv, and was born January 29, 1867. He is the son of Albert\\nand Adelia Blauvelt Bechtel, his mother being the daughter of Abram\\nDow and Jane E. Blauvelt, representatives of old families of New York.\\nAlbert Bechtel, the father of Herman, is a native of Stuttart, Germany,\\nand is a brother of August, who was private secretary to the king of\\nthat province. Albert Bechtel came to this country when nineteen years\\nof age, locating in the city of New York, where he served in the capacity\\nof expert bookkeeper for many years, for an old standard firm. Subse-\\nquently he came to New Jersey and built up the coal and fertilizing\\nbusiness where he is now. He is also postmaster and station agent of\\nDundee Lake. When five years of age Mr. Herman Bechtel was sent\\nto the Hoboken Academy, N. J., and subsequently to Rockland College,\\nNyack, N. Y., where he remained with his grandmother, going to school\\nthere until fourteen years of age. He then came to New Jersey, but after-\\nwards spent five years in the city of New York in the capacity of mes-\\nsenger boy. Life was thus begun at the foot of the ladder, but advance-\\nment was rapid, and, in 1885, he found himself ])artner with his father in\\nthe coal and fertilizing business at Dundee Lake. In 1894 he gave up the\\ncoal business and took the hotel which he still conducts. In 1892 land was\\npurchased of Gillian Zabriskie, and aycaror so later the hotel was erected.\\nMr. Bechtel is a representative man of his town, and as necessity\\nrequires is advanced to public positions of trust and honor. He was\\nelected first a member of the Board of Education, and served as clerk of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "HKKMAX BECHTKL", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKOKN COUNTY\\nBKCHTKL S HOrHI,. DINDKK LAKK\\nthis Board two years. He was elected Township Clerk in lS i3 and re-\\nelected in 1896, but resigned that position in 18 )7 to accept the collector-\\nship of the town, which position he still holds. He has also been a\\nprominent member of the County Committee of the Democratic party.\\nMr. Bechtel was married to Miss Claire Cornet in 1889, and has two\\nchildren.\\nJACOB DKMAKIvST.\\nJacob Demarest who located (m land in the vicinity of Fairlawn\\nin Revolutionary times, was the father of Peter J. Demarest, who died\\nMarch 19, 1888 at the advanced age of eighty years.\\nThe children of Peter J., were: Margaret, Jacob, Maria, Janus J.\\nCiarret H. and John H.\\nJames J. Demarest occujnes the homestead when he erected a house\\nin 1890. On January 2.Sth, 18()9 he was married to Miss Charity Banta,\\ndaughter of John H. Banta, of Orvil. Mr. Demarest is a successful far-\\nmer. He is a descendant of the Demarests who came to America to find\\nan asylum, from religious persecuticm. They were French Huguenots,\\nfirst going to Holland and thence to America, where they settled on\\nL(mg Island, afterward removing to Bergen County. The family which\\nis numerous, were am()ng the earliest settlers of this part of New Jersey-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVIII.\\nFRANKLIN.\\nDESCKIPTION CIVIL LIST EARLY SETTLEMENTS INDIANS VILLAGES\\nWORTENDVKE WYCKOFF CAMPGAW OAKLAND RAILROAD\\nMANUFACTURING JAIL AND COURT HOUSE CHURCHES\\nSCHOOLS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nFranklin is one of the oldest townships in Berg-en County. It took\\nits name from Governor William Franklin, the natural son of Dr. Benja-\\nmin Franklin. He was born about 1730. Who his mother was is not\\nknown. In 1762 he was appointed by Lord Bute Governor of the prov-\\nince of New Jersey. He entered upon the duties of his office February\\n28, 1763.\\nThe township is in the northwesterly corner of the county, and is\\nbounded on the north by Passaic County, on the east by the townships\\nof Hohokus and Ridgewood in Bergen County, and south by Ridgewood,\\nMidland Borough, and on the west b} Passaic County. The southern\\npart of the township is hilly, and the northern is mountainous. It is\\nwell watered with lakes and streams, and the Ramapo River runs\\nthrough its entire width near the northern boundary. The hills, val-\\nleys and mountains afford some of the most picturesque views in the\\ncounty. The Ramapo Valley from Pompton, near the line of Franklin\\ntownship, to Hohokus township, and for miles beyond, flanked as it is\\nby the Ramapo Mountains on the north and long- stretches of meadow-\\nland and the undulating hills on the south, afford some of the most de-\\nlightful views to be found in the State. Some of the old residences\\nhere go back to a period before the Revolution. Rodman M. Price, one\\nof the honored ex-Governors of New Jersey, had a beautiful and spacious\\nresidence in this valley, in Franklin township, near the Hohokus line.\\nVisitors from .Europe to this retired spot have often admired the rare\\nbeauty of the mountains with the river running at their foot. Farther\\nup this valley was once the country residence of that famous lawyer,\\nHugh Maxwell, district attorney of New York City, and still farther up\\nthe valley the wealth and refinement of the great metropolis still find\\ndesirable places for country residence.\\nJudge Garrison of Oakland fully describes the scenery of the beau-\\ntiful valley of Ramapo in verse as follows:\\nHere the Ramapo River passes along.\\nAnd the birds in the trees enchant us with song.\\nWhile lilies and tulips the meadows adorn,\\nAnd fields sparkle bright with rich dews of the morn.\\nThis beautiful valley is encircled around\\nBy forests and mountains where pure springs abound;\\nAnd the elms, oaks and maples are shading the rills,\\nMeanderinar with music between the green hills.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 179\\nHere groves of tall pine trees can also be seen,\\nArrayed in their robes of perennial green;\\nAnd thousands of fruit trees, when in their full hluoin\\nEmit sweet odors the air to perfume.\\ncivil, OKGANIZATION.\\nP^ranklin became a township separate from Saddle River township\\nabout 1772. May 13th of that year it is named in the book of the board\\nof freeholders as the township of Franklin, and for the first time is rep-\\nresented in that body by Jacobus Bertolf only, though most of the\\nother townships were represented by two freeholders at that time. At\\nthe January session of the Court of Sessions for that year, David Van\\nNorden, Isaac Bogert, and Abraham Rutan were appointed constables\\nfor Franklin township. Before 1772 Franklin belonged to Saddle River\\ntownship, and before that township was organized it belonged to the\\nancient township of New Barbadoes.\\nWe give below a list of the chosen freeholders of the township since\\n1794, the date at which the freeholders became a board separate from\\nthe justices. The justices and freeholders who preceded the change\\nmade in 1794 are named in the general county history, as they are not\\nfound in the records identified with the townships which they respec-\\ntively represent:\\n1794, Joseph Board; 1794, Peter Slutt; 1795, Henry Wanmaker; 17 \u00c2\u00bbS.\\nGarret W. Hopper; 1796-97, Peter Wend; 179()-1800, Andrew Hopper;\\n1798-1813, Garret Lydecker; 1801, 1803, 1806. 1812, John Hopper; 1801-2,\\nDavid P. Harring; 1802-4, Abram A. Quackenbush; 1803, Albert Wilson;\\n1804-13-18, Abram Forshee; 1805, John Van Blarcom; 1805-12-14. C.\\nStor; 1806-8, Abrm. Harring; 1807-11, Peter Ward; 1809-11, Henry an\\nEmburgh; 1815-18, Daniel Gero, Jr.; 1819-20, John A. Van Voorhis; 181\\nJohn Hopper; 1820-24, 1826-27, William Hopper; 1821-24, Henry Van\\nEmburgh; 1825, David I. Christie; 1825-27, 1834-35, John Ward; 182S-\\n30, Martin Van Houten; 1828-30, John Mandijo; 1831, 1833, John Wil-\\nlis; 1831, Christian A. Wanmaker; 1832, David I. Ackerman; 1832-.V%\\nIsaac I. Bogert; 1834-35, Garret Van Dien; 18.%-.38, William G. Hopper;\\n1836-38, John H. Hopper; 1839-40, Henry B. Hagerman; 1839-41, Henry\\nA. Hopper; 1841-43, Simeon Van Winkle; 1842-44, Henry I. Spear;\\n1844-4(,, Anthony Crowter; 1845, 1849-51, John R. Post; 1846-48, Wil-\\nliam P. Van Blarcom; 1847-48, James S. Wanmaker; 1849, 1853-.54.\\nJames Van Houten; 1850-52, Stei)hen D. Bartholf; 1852-54, Abram\\nWortendyke; 1856, Garret Hopper; 1857-60, John D. Marinus; 185 (-61,\\nJohn Halsted; 1861-63, (kirret D. Ackerman; 1862-64, David C. Bush;\\n1864, Daniel Ackerman; 1866-67, 1871, Garret J. Hoi)per; 186 )-67,\\nSamuel P. Demarest; 1868-70, Garret A. Hopper, John H. Speer; 1872-\\n75, Peter H. Pulis; 1876, Daniel D. Depew; 1877-78, Charles White;\\n1879-80, Abram C. Wortendyke; 1880-85. Abram C. Wortendyke; 1S85-\\n86, David H. Spear; 1886-88, John R. Carlough; 1889-94. David H.\\nSpear; 1894- \u00c2\u00bb7, John H. Post; 1897-1900, Thomas Post.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "ISO HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nEARLY SETTLEMENTS.\\nCornelius Schuyler, son of Arent Schuyler, was one of the first set-\\ntlers in Franklin township in 1730. The Carretson from Bergen Town\\ncame and settled near where the Ponds Church now stands. The Van\\nAliens owned six hundred acres on the Pond Flats. George Ryerson and\\nUrie Westervelt (1709) purchased an extensive tract of the Indians, ex-\\ncepting the land at Sicamac and land on the present farm of Isaac D.\\nVan Blarcom, as it was an Indian burial-ground. The Berdan family\\nsettled at Preakness, in this vicinity, in 1720. John Stek, now Stagg.\\nsettled back of Knickies Pond in 1711. This is undoubtedly part of\\nthe Judge Millard farm at Sicamac. Stagg and his descendants lived on\\nthis farm till about sixty years ago. Yan Romaine, yeoman of Hackeu-\\nsack, purchased 600 acres, located in the vicinity, from the Willcox\\nJohnson patent. May 19, 1724, and sold 200 acres to Rulef C. Van Houten,\\nMarch 17, 1737, for seventy pounds. This property in modern times has\\nbeen occupied by John V. Hennion, William De Baun, and John Acker-\\nman. Simeon Van Winkle came in i733 and settled on the property\\nlately belonging to Tennis Van Slyke. For four or five generations the\\nVan Winkles honored the consistory of the Ponds Church. August i7,\\n1 720, found John and William Van Voor Haze, yeomen of the county of\\nBergen, buying of John Barberie, Peter Fauconiere, and Andrew Fres-\\nnear, merchants of New York City, 550 acres of land at Wikhoof so\\nspelled and said to be of Indian origin), present Wyckoff, The tif ty odd\\nacres were allowed for roads. William Van Voor Haze was married first\\nSusanah Larne, May i7, i7i7, and second to Maria Van Gildee, January\\n2, 1728, and died July i7, i744, leaving five sons and four daughters.\\nAn extract from his will says, I give and bequeat unto my eldest son.\\nJacobus Van Voorhees, the big bybel, for his first birthright, as being\\nmy heir-at-law. I will that my youngest dater, which I have by myn\\ndear beloving wife, which is named Marytie Van Voor Haze, that she\\nshall have for her poorshon the sum of ^iV. To his other daughters,\\nhe gave twelve pounds each. His son entered the king s service and\\ndied in i767. His son Albert lived on the present Uriah (Juackinbush\\nfarm, and Abraham lived on the Lewis Oouman s farm. He died Feb-\\nruary 5, 1 830, aged ninety-four. Near his dwelling, at twilight, shortly\\nbefore his death, seeing a light upon the knoll, he chose that spot as his\\nresting place, and there he slumbers; and beside him sleeps his wife,\\nMargaret Hinter, who followed him to the grave in the May following\\nhis own death. John lived on the Henry Blauvelt farm.\\nThe Alburtises were also early settlers here, near the Van Voor\\nHaze property. The Winters, Courtins, Youngs, Storms, Ackermans,\\nand (Juackenbushes all came before i760, and the Van Gilders about\\n1 730. The Pulisfelts (now Pulis) lived on the Peter Ward farm, and\\nthe Bogerts on the Henry Vandenhoff property, going into Yaupitugh\\nValley. VandenhoiT is said to have lived in a cave for some time about\\n1 760. These are the names of many of the early settlers in what is now", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGKN COUNTY 181\\nFranklin township. Many more there may have been, but their names\\nare lost or forg-otten.\\nEarly in the eighteenth century purchases were made of the Indians\\nof tracts of land lying to the southward of the Wilcox and Ji)hnson\\npatent. Arent Schuyler, of Albany, and Anthony Brockholst, of New\\nYork City, were interested in these lands. The Garretsons from Bergen,\\nthe Van Aliens, the Berdans, the Staggs, the Romaines, the Van Wink-\\nles, and the Van Voorhises were purchasers of extensive tracts in this\\nsection forty, fifty, or sixty years before the Revolution. lOO years ago\\nin the present township of Franklin the lands were generally taken up,\\nalthough the territory was sparsely inhabited. Extensive tracts were\\nunder limited cultivation. Then there was scarcely a manufacturer in\\nthe township. Cornelius Wortendyke, it is true, was manufacturing\\nabout 1 00 years ago at Newtown, but nearly all the industry was con-\\nrined to the raising of corn, wheat, and potatoes. These same abundant\\ncrops to-day at present jirices would make any economical farmer rich\\nin a few vears.\\nThis township in the Revolutionary period became important as a\\nplace of refuge and retreat. The courts of Bergen County were driven\\nhither from Hackensack. Washington and his army were hovering in\\nthe vicinity, keeping an eye on the British invader; a British Tory was\\nhung by Sheriff Manning near Oakland, in this township, as is recited\\nelsewhere in this history. Cornelius Schuyler, son of Arent Schuyler,\\nwas one of the earliest settlers in Franklin township in i730. The\\n(iarretsons from Bergen Town were also early settlers.\\nVII.LAOJvS AM) HAMI.ETS.\\nThere are no large villages in this township; the people generally\\nare devoted to agricultural pursuits. Abundant crops of grapes, both\\nwild and cultivated, are grown in this township, the apple crop is also\\nabundant. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, for-\\nmerly the Midland, and before that the New Jersey Western, which had\\nits first inception in this township through the energy and enterprise of\\nCornelius A. Wortendyke some years since, gave a sudden impetus\\nand excited the highest hopes for the future growth of the township.\\nThis road enters F ranklin from Ridgewood township, about one mile\\nbelow Midland I ark, and passing nearly midway through it till con-\\nfronted by the Ramapo Mountains. In crossing the river near Oakland\\nit runs along the foot-hills of these mountains, leaving the township for\\nPompton about one mile from Oakland. Thus it runs about ten miles\\nthrough this township.\\nThe villages and hamlets locally named as such in the townsliip are\\nWortendyke, Wyckoff, Campgaw, Oakland.\\nThe Ramapo Indians sometimes visited the settlements in the town-\\nship. The^ were known formerly as the Hackensacky Indians but are\\nmore properly the race described as the Jackson Whites. They bear\\nlittle resemblance to the Indians, vet as tradition gives it they are des-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "182 HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY\\ncendants of Hessians, Indians and negroes but know nothing of their\\nancestry, so ignorant have they become. Thej dwell in huts or caves in\\nthe sides of the mountains, and subsist on fish and game, principally.\\nWhen Judge Garrison was a bo3\\\\ one of these people, an old man, Uncle\\nRich De Groate by name, would often leave his home for a visit to the\\nvillagers, coming among the people without hat, or covering for his feet\\nand legs to his knees. When asked whether or not his lower limbs did\\nnot suffer from excessive cold he would reply by asking the same ques-\\ntion concerning the exposure of the face. He died probably sixty years\\nof age.\\nWOKTENDYKE.\\nThe village of Wortendyke, formerly called Newtown, was founded\\nby Cornelius Wortendyke in the year 179(). Tradition says two brothers\\nof this family located at Pascack, and from thence Cornelius removed to\\nthis place where in 1812 a wool carding mill was erected for the immed-\\niate county trade. Abraham Wortendyke, his son, succeeded him and\\nin 1832 changed the business from wool to cotton. Subsequently this\\nwas changed to a silk mill. A few years since the village was called\\nGodwinville. Another silk mill was added later on and since then these\\nmills have been enlarged and re-enlarged giving employment to hun-\\ndreds of hands. The mills are now operated by Francis H. Mayhew.\\nCornelius H. Wortendyke procured the original charter of the New\\nJersey Western Railroad, and in 1867 was elected its president. In 1870\\nthis road was consolidated with the New Jersey, Hudson and Delaware,\\nand the Sussex Valley Railroad, under the name of the New Jersey\\nMidland Railway Company, of which Mr. Wortendyke also held the\\noffice of President. When the railroad was built through this place a\\nstation, a hotel, and other houses were erected, the supposition being\\nthat Wortendyke would rapidly increase in population. The hotel is\\nowned by John T. Ramsey, and the store by H. T. Lawrence, who came\\ninto possession of this property in 1881, and has operated it successfully\\never since. Mr. Lawrence has also been postmaster since 1888.\\nThe mills of Wortendyke, and the railroad shops have called hither\\nmany native Hollanders, nearly all of whom are professing Christians\\nand members of the old Holland Reformed Church.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nIn 1811 Cornelius Wortendyke leased for school purposes a small lot\\nnear where the Methodist Church now stands. Isaac Blauvelt and\\nJacob Quackenbush, owned this ground for twenty-five years, which was\\nleased and on which a schoolhouse was erected, probably the first in the\\nlocality. In 1822 this structure was burned, when a new one was built\\nthis in turn being abandoned probably forty years ago, for another. It\\nwas a brick structure which stood at the foot of the hill on the road to\\nRidgewood and was erected in 1859. This was next abandoned for the\\nnew school house, built in 1880 at a cost of $2500. In the old school of\\n1 822, Henry Westervelt, Tunis Crum, Isaac Sherr, Richard Ellsworth,\\nAshbel Abbott, John Turner, Rev. Matthew Mallinson, Amos B. How-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 183\\nland and Asa W. Roath, are mentioned as the teachers. The Methodists\\nhave a church at Wortendj-ke, which was organized December 14, 1S05.\\nMark McCraken, Aaron Ackerman, James Dods, John Van Blarcom,\\nCornelius Lozier, James Stagg-, Morris Sharpenstine, William Van Blar-\\ncom, and Alexander McCall were its first trustees. John Morrow, de-\\nceased, a worthly and most saintly man, during a long and useful life\\nwas most active and efficient in the erection of a new Methodist Church\\nhere in iS30. In iS68 another church was erected and the old one re-\\nmovefl. This edifice, was greatly aided in erection through the means\\nand efforts of Cornelius A. Wortendyke, but Mr. Morrow never ceased to\\nbe an active and efficient supporter of this church according to his\\nmeans, and was a most exemplary member of this Methodist Church to\\nthe day of his death. The Methodists also have a prosperous society at\\nCampgaw, and a church edifice erected in 1856.\\nRev. Thomas Hall is now pastor of the church. Rev. H. Luback is\\npastor of one of the Reformed churches, the other churches not having\\na pastor at this time.\\nWVCKOFF.\\nWyckoff, is a beautiful little village in this township on the Sus-\\nquehanna railroad, twenty-eight miles from the city of New York, and\\nowes its existence to the railroad.\\nAbram Van Vorhis probably built the first house in the place. He\\nowned a store, cider mill, distillery and blacksmith shop on grounds\\nnow occupied by Samuel Winters residence. He afterwards removed to\\nWortendyke where he bought property in Midland Park.\\nAmong the early settlers at Wyckoff and vicinity should be men-\\ntioned Abram Van Voorhis, James Van Blarcom, William Winters,\\nJacob Stur and David Folley. The sons of William Winters were Henry,\\nWilliam, Cornelius, John, Barney, Abram and Peter, all of whom settled\\nin this vicinity. Henry, son of Henry, now eighty-three years of age, and\\nSamuel Winters, his grandson, still live here. Cornelius Ackerman\\nand Andrew Ackerman lived here in an early day. John P. Ramsey,\\none of the original owners of the village, rebuilt the hotel now leased\\nto Benjamin Coleman. At an early day a cotton mill stood below the\\nhotel on the Van Blarcon estate. No manufacturing is now in the place\\nsave a cider mill erected about 18 )0 by Daniel Winters.\\nDaniel DePew was the first agent of the railroad and the post office\\nwas kept in the depot. After Mr. DePew came, one or two changes were\\nmade, when the present agent, Mr. Peter S. Pulis, took charge of the\\nstaticm July 1, 1883.\\nStoat Board, Samuel I ulis, the De Pews and Mr. J. E. Mowerson\\nhave all been merchants in the place. Mr. Mowerson, present owner of\\nthe store and also postmaster, has done a large business here since 1877.\\nCAMPCJAW.\\nThis hamlet has a store, post office, saw mill, grist mill and a shoj)\\nor two all under the name of Peter H. Pulis Son. Mr. Pullis was the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "184 HISTUKV OF BEKC EN COUNTY\\nfirst agent of the road here, and under his management business always\\nkept on the increase. His son, Samuel Pulis, and grandson, William\\nG. Pulis, are now in charge.\\nTHE REFOKMED CHURCH AT WYCKOFF.\\nIn 1803 a movement was made for a new church, and out of this\\ngrew the building of a church at W^xkoff. Many of the members of\\nthe Ponds Church lived near Wyckoff.\\nThe Reformed (Dutch) Church at Wjckotf was established about\\nninety-two years ago. It has a large and convenient structure, bfiilt of\\nstone on foundations solid enough to last for centuries.\\nThe old church had stood for sixty years, and a new edifice seemed\\nnecessary. Judge J. A. Van Voorhees, A. Stevenson, and others of\\nWyckoff and vicinity prevailed, when the old church was partly taken\\ndown and a new one erected, but in 1840 to 1845 the old hexagonal\\nchurch was restored and reconstructed, much in the shape it is at pres-\\nent, a parallelogram or oblong square. The deed for the Wyckoff\\nChurch is dated September 27, 1805, to William Pulisfelt, Conrad Stur,\\nLawrence Ackerman, and James L. Ackerman, the consistory of the\\nPonds Church, with Judge Van Voorhees as treasurer and general ad-\\nviser or director. The steeple was struck by lightning in 1829. In\\n1811, Rev. John Demarest became pastor of the church or society at the\\nPonds and of the Wyckoff Church. Mr. Demarest was born and edu-\\ncated in Hackensack, at the famous school of Dr. Wilson, and studied\\ntheology under Dr. Froeligh. Mr. Demarest subsequently became a\\nmember of the True Reformed Dutch Church, and at one time owned\\nthe farm on which Major Andre was executed at Tappan. He died\\nApril 8, 1837. The two congregations at the Ponds and Wyckoff were\\ndivided May 10, 1822, and the Ponds Church was reorganized. The\\ntwo churches were incorporated in 1824. The division line between\\nthem commenced at the house of Garret Post, near High Mountain,\\nthence to John Ackerman s house, thence to Abraham Winter s house,\\nand thence to Yaupough. Rev. Zachariah H. Kuypers, son of the pas-\\ntor of that name at Hackensack, in April, 1825, became pastor of the\\nPonds and Wyckoff Churches. He also was educated under Dr. Wilson.\\nHe was succeeded by Rev. W. J. Thompson in 1842. Thompsoi was a\\ngraduate of Rutgers in 1834, and appointed tutor of ancient languages\\nthere in 1838, and filled that position with great credit. These churches\\nnow entered upon a new and brighter day of activity and success. He\\nremained pastor till 1845. From this time they have had separate pas-\\ntors. Rev. B. V. Collins became pastor of the Ponds Church, Novem-\\nber, 1845, and remained there to January, 1868. Rev. A. G. Ryerson\\nbecame pastor of the Wyckoff Church April 7, 1846, and remained till\\nMay 24, 1864, the church prospering under his ministry. He was suc-\\nceeded by. Rev. William B. Van Benschoten, April 11, 1865. Van Ben-\\nschoten was a graduate of Rutgers College and Theological Seminary.\\nHe remained there about six years, and died while pastor of a Reformed\\nChurch at Ephrata, in the State of New York. He was succeeded at", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 185\\nWyckoff by Rev. S. T. Searles 1872, who was pastor many years. The\\nRev. A. Westeveer, successor of the Rev. William Faulker, is the\\npresent pastor.\\nThe church has a memliership of l( persons, and has for its officers\\nat the present time the following: Riders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel D. Winters, Thomas\\nH. Winters, Daniel Snyder, James E. Mowerson; Deacons Charles F.\\nHopper, Charles Duryea, John J. Vanderbeck, John W. May.\\n0.\\\\KL.\\\\ND.\\nThe little village of Oakland is situated on the Susquehanna rail-\\nroad near the border line of Franklin township, about thirty-three miles\\nfrom New York city. It is one of the beautiful and picturesque places\\nin the county. The Ramapo Mountains on its western side give it that\\npeculiar charm which a mountain only can give little villages, when\\nnestled along its side under its sheltering protection. The village has\\na reputation worthy of an enterprising people, and with its railroad,\\nhotel and stores, and two prominent manufacturing enterprises, it is on\\nthe progressive.\\nThe place was known l.SO years ago by the name Youghpaugh\\nYoppo and was the seat of government of the county for three or four\\nyears, dating from the year 178(t. It was known also as the Ponds,\\nthat name coming from the Church, one of the oldest in the township.\\nThere was a small pond of water in this vicinity, and a grist mill stand-\\ning near the church, served the people long before the Revolution. The\\nRev. Guilliam Bertholf probably preached here as early as 1710, and for\\ntwenjy years thereafter. The worshippers in that old church, whoever\\nthey were, formed the first settlement at the Ponds. The Garretsons\\nfrom Bergen Town came here as early as 17()0. The Van Aliens owned\\n600 acres on the Pond flats, and the Bogerts and others, as will be seen\\nin the general sketch, were early on this land. At a later day, Aaron\\nGarrison and his brother Abram, who was drowned in the Hudson\\nRiver in 1804, settled in the upper end id the valley. Martin Van\\nHouten early occupied the ground upon which the residence of (ieorge\\nCalder now stands. A stone house was first built on that site. Still\\nlater, the Hoppers, Judge (Harrison, John Bush and David C. Bush with\\nothers came into the place. The Ponds, however, assumed no im-\\nportance until after the building of the railroad in 1870, when the depot\\nwas erected, a post office was estalilished, and H. W. Bush started a store\\nwhere Lloyd McNomes are now. Henry Bush was the first postmaster\\nin the village, after which David C. Bush, to whose enterprising spirit\\nprincipally, the village owes the office, succeeded to the position, which\\nhe held from time to time, for sixteen years. The hotel was built in\\n1882.\\nTHK KAII.KOAD.\\nDavid C. Bush, at the instance of C. A. Wortendyke, became a\\nprominent factor in the building of the railroad through Oakland.\\nThese two men probably secured more stock for the enteri)rise and diil", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "18t HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nmore to insure success in that undertaking than any other two men in the\\ncompany Land for the yard and depot and the right of way through\\nthe place was given by Mr. Bush, who was also one of the largest con-\\ntributors to the present depot built by the citizens. Upon the comple-\\ntion of the road, in March, 1869, five or six hundred people gathered,\\nand under the inspiration of a couple of barrels of apple-jack and good\\ncider, with the booming of cannon, the event was properly chronicled in\\nthe hearts and minds of the people. The opening exercises began at\\none o clock. Beginnihg at two o clock, speeches were made by ex-Gov-\\nPrice, Judge Garrison, Isaac Wortendyke, Dr. William Colfax, cousin of\\nVice President Colfax, and others, and at six o clock refreshments were\\nfurnished, which terminated the gala exercises of the day.\\nThis part of the Ramapo Valley in an early day went by the roman-\\ntic name the Indians gave it. It was subsequently the Ponds, then called\\nScrub Oaks, and perforce of family influence was known still later as\\nBushville. Upon the completion of the road, there was a meeting of the\\ncitizens to select a new name, some preferring that of Breakcliff, some\\nPleasant Valley, some Bushville, and so on. The meeting was held at\\nthe store of Henry Bush. J. P. Storms was elected Chairman, and Z.\\nH. Post, secretary. Different names were offered by different parties,\\nand after all disscussions were over, Mr. David C. Bush arose and pro-\\nposed the name Oakland, which was chosen, and which name it now\\nbears.\\nTHE AMERICAN E. C. SHULTZ POWDER COMPANY.\\nThis concern began operations in Oakland in i890, for the manufac-\\nture of smokeless powder, for sporting purposes purely. They purcjiased\\n1 20 acres of land from Judge Garrison. David C. Bush, James Van\\nBlarcom and Jacob A. Terhune, and began the erection of a number of\\nbuildings, the largest of whieh is thirty by 300 feet. They employ\\nthirty men and have a capacity of 2000 pounds daily. Captain A. W.\\nMoney is the managing director and treasurer of the company.\\nO. VKLAND HAIK WORKS.\\nA. D. Bogert was manufacturing fillings for mattresses, chairs, etc.,\\nunder the name of the Wood Type Manufacturing Company, in and before\\n1 876. He made his product from wood fibre, weeds, etc., and carried on\\nthe business for many years. This industry was largely increased b}-\\nthe Wilkens Brothers, who came to the village in i894, and purchased\\nfrom S. P. Demarest forty acres of land, upon which they erected a\\nnumber of buildings. They ship fibres, hogs hair, and various pro-\\nducts from every known country on the globe, by train load, and do a\\nbusiness in curled hair and in materials for brushes, mattresses, etc.,\\nworld wide. Thev employ abont lOO men.\\nJAIL AND COURT HOUSE.\\nThe first Court House and Jail on the public Green, Hackensack,\\nwas burned in 1780.\\nThe second Court House and Jail was built at Youghpaugh (Oak\\nland) in the township of F^ranklin, where the courts of the count}- were", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 187\\nheld for a fe\\\\v years. Youg-hpaugh Yoppo was only the County Seat\\nad-interum, and courts seem to have been held there, or in the Ponds\\nReformed Church during- those troublous days, to such judicial extrem-\\nities had the British driven us during the Revolution. The Jail was\\nbuilt near the Sheriff s dwelling- about three hundred yards north of the\\nstation, where the foundations are still to be seen.\\nAbraham Manning was Sheriff of the county and resided near the\\nOakland station. Among others confined in the Jail, was a notorious\\ntraitor, named Noah Collington, or Kellingham, who was hung on gal-\\nlows erected on a little mound near by which bears the traitor s name to\\nthis day. He had been indicted for murder and robbery in the county,\\nand while attempting to escape in disguise acrob the Hudson near Fort\\nLee, in order to get within the British lines, he was captured near that\\nplace and brought to the Jail. Upon trial and conviction he was sen-\\ntenced to be hung. During the inclement winter he was allowed a fire,\\nwhereupon he attempted one night to burn down his prison house and\\nmake his escape. Vanderhoff, the miller, while watching his dam dur-\\ning a freshet, discovered the threatened conflagration and giving the\\nalarm the fire was soon extinguished, and Collington was manacled and\\nsubjected to much closer confinement. Upon Manning s return he was\\ninfuriated and beat his prisoner most severely with a club. A physician\\ncame to alleviate the sufferings of the poor man, who was hung early\\nthe next morning.\\nAn old Englishman named Rench was teaching school opposite\\nthe Ponds Church. At the time the Jail and Court House was destroyed\\nhe left this school and joined the refugees at Hopperstown now Ho-\\nhokus. Sheriff Manning hearing the noise of guns, there, together\\nwith a few neighbors hastened to New Prospect where they saw a com-\\npany of Refugees or Tories, coming from Hopperstown towards New\\nProspect. Concealing themselves behind a stone wall they waited\\nwhile the enemy approached. The old teacher was recognized by the\\nsheriff who deliberately aimed at his head, but the bullet only passed\\nthrough his hat, and hid itself in a tree. After peace was declared the\\nold teacher ventured to the Ponds but the sheriff was too patriotic to\\nallow him to remain.\\nFrom a discourse delivered in the Oakland church, November .^Oth,\\n1 876, we take the following historical notes of the old church in early\\ndays, known in connection with the old Paramus church as the Panne\\n(Ponds). There is no record of the first church, and all the informa-\\nti m in regard to its early history must be found with that of other\\nchurches, with which it was connected.\\nThe Rev. Guilliam Bertholf returned from Holland, alter his ordi-\\nnation, if) M, and became the pastor of Hackensack and Acjuackanonk\\nchurches. He was registered at Second River, now Belleville, in about\\n1700 and at Ponds i710. This was the first public worship of (lod in\\nthis place. Here Rev. Bertholf remained over twenty years. He was\\nalso the first minister at Ta])pan, and besides, ordained elders and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "188 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ndeacons at Raritan, and administered the sacraments. He was for many\\nyears the only Dutch pastor in New Jersey. The old Log Church was\\nlocated east of the new cemetery, near the public road, and was the first\\nreligious structure north of the Passaic River, but there is not a vestige\\nof it left to mark the spot.\\nRev. Henricus Coens succeeded Mr. Bertholf in the Log Church in\\n1725, ministering at the same time in the churches of Belleville and\\nPompton.\\nThe Rev. Johannes Van Driessen, the next minister, was settled in\\nAquackanonk in 1735, and was pastor of Pompton and the Ponds in con-\\nnection with Aquackanonk. Mr. Van Driessen was the last preacher in\\nthe Log Church.\\nThe plot of land upon which stands the present (1876), church was\\ngiven by John Romaine and Jacob Garrison, a part of which was appro-\\npriated for a graveyard.\\nThe edifice was built of stone, hexangular in style, the roof converg-\\ning to a point. The materials were provided by the congregation. The\\ninterior of the church was furnished with chairs. There was a high\\npulpit and a short gallery, all very plain but substantial. As near as\\ncan be determined it was built about 1745.\\nRev. Benjamin Vanderlinde, the next pastor, was a native of Bergen\\ncounty, born at Pollifly in 1719, and was called to this church in connec-\\ntion with Paramus on August 21st, 1748. This is the first record in the\\nold Dutch Book. The Elders at this time were Albert Van Dien, Steve\\nTerhune, Yan Romaine, Barbent Van Hoorn, Hendrick Van Aele, Roe-\\nlof Van Houten, The deacons were Johannes Stek, Kleet Zabriskie,\\nAlbert Bogert, Simeon Vanwinkle, Cornelius Van Houten, and Steve\\nBogert. The Ponds Church belonged to the Classis of Hackensack\\nuntil the year i800, to the Classis of Bergen until iS39, and is at this\\ntime, (1876), connected with the Classis of Passaic. The Rev. Peter\\nLeydt was licensed and became pastor at the Ponds about 1788, and died\\nin 1793, and the Rev. Peter Dewitt was called to this pastorate in 1798.\\nThe Hexangular Church had now been in use fifty years and the Consists\\nory decided to furnish a new roof, a new pulpit, and to substitute pew-\\nfor the chairs. All improvements that were made, added to the value of\\nthe property. Mr. Dewitt extended his labors to Wyckoff on the east\\nand to Preakness on the south.\\nThe people of Wyckoff now built a new church. Judge Van Voorhees\\nacting as treasurer and general manager. The work of building began\\nin 1806, and the same Fall the pews were sold. Mr. Dewitt died in 1809,\\nand was laid to rest under the old church. The Rev. Demarest was next\\ninstalled as pastor on November 11th, 1811. There were no stoves in\\nthe church, but this did not deter people from going to the services.\\nMr. Demarest s ministry closed about i820. He always signed his name,\\nJohn Demarest, V. D. M. (Minister of the Word of God.) The elders\\nat this time were Joseph Van Cleve, Conrad Sturr, Nicholas Romeyn,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COl NTY 1 8 J\\nand William Pulis. The deacons were George Snyder, Simeon Van\\nWinkle, Samuel Romeyn and John A. Van Voorhees.\\nUpon coming to the Ponds, the people honored Mr. Demarest with\\na large deception, This was his last regular charge. His daughter,\\nMrs. Jacobus Blauvelt, of Paterson, has given some facts in regard to\\nher father. He was born at New Bridge, N. J., in i763. He moved\\nfrom Tappan where he owned the farm upon which Major Andre was\\nexecuted and buried. Mrs. Blauvelt relates that she was at that time a\\nyoung lady, and stood by when the body was exhumed by the British\\nConsul Buchanan and Captain Park. She further says: Two cedar trees\\ngrew on his grave, fastening their roots into his coffin. The grave was\\nprotected by a stone wall. The trees entire were transported with the\\ncoffin to England and converted into snuff boxes. One box, says Mrs.\\nBlauvelt, was elegantly finished, being lined with satin and velvet,\\ncovered with red morocco, bound with gold, and sent to my father, bear-\\ning this beautiful inscription: From his Royal Highness, the Duke of\\nYork, to mark his sense of the Rev. John Demarest s liberal attention\\nupon the occasion of the removal of the remains of the late Major John\\nAndre at Tappan, on the 10th of August, 1821. Each line was written\\nin a different style of letters. We examined it and pronounced it a rare\\nand costly present.\\nAt the close of his ministry, Mr. Demarest returned to his farm at\\nTappan. The seal of this church was bought by Simon Van Winkle,\\nand cost Si. 75. The church was incorporated October 25, 1824, as the\\nFirst Reformed Dutch Church at Ponds. Prior to this, however, is\\nthe following record: Ponds, May 10th, 1822. According to the grant\\nof the Classis of Bergen, the members in full communion of the Church\\nat Ponds, assembled for the purpose of having their congregation regu-\\nlarly organized. Petitions for every necessary aid and assistance were\\noffered at the throne of grace. They then proceeded to the election of\\nelders and deacons. The elders chosen were: Joseph Van Cleve and\\nGeorge Snyder, the deacons Benjamin Bartholf and Simeon Van Winkle.\\nWhereas there are but few members, it is judged best to ordain two elders\\nand two deacons at this present time, to serve as consistory.\\nIt is agreed that next spring one elder and one deacon shall be\\nchosen in the room of George Snyder and Benjamin Bartholf, and if\\npracticable add four to the present number. The line agreed upon ver-\\nbally between the two congregations, by the consistory, is the following:\\nBeginning at the house of Garret Post, from thence to James Acker-\\nman s; from thence to Abraham Winter s; and from thence to Garret\\nGarrison s. A sermon was preached by the minister named by the presi-\\ndent of the Classis, and after the sermon the consistory chosen were\\nordained to their office.\\nRev. Zachariah H. Kuypers, licensed by the Classis of Hackensack,\\nwas called to this church, the call being dated February 24, 1825. The\\nelders then were: Benjamin Bartholf, Samuel Romaine, Simeon Van\\nWinkle and Jacob Garrison, Jr. The deacons: Samuel P. Demarest,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "190 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nHenry I. Spear, William H. Winters, David N. Romaine. One-third of\\nMr. Kuj-pers time was given to this congregation, preaching every third\\nSabbath, twice a day in summer and once in winter.\\nThe Hexangular Church which had then been in use about eighty\\n3 ears, was considered unfit for use, and the entire structure was re-\\nmoved, and a new house erected on the same spot. The trustees at this\\ntime were: Martin Van Houten, William H. Winters, Peter C. Bogert\\nand John S. Post, Jr. The builder was Cornelius Demarest and the\\nprincipal mason, William Winters of Paramus. It was several years\\nbefore the front was finished, when Mr. Nicholas D. Romaine and his\\ncousin put on the white wall of cement.\\nThe work of building began in 1829 and the pews were offered for\\nsale on the 17th of November. During this season the church service\\nwas held in the barn of Peter S. Demarest. Mrs. Maria Garrison, wife\\nof Samuel P. Demarest, presented a hymn book, baptismal cup and table\\ncloth to the new church. Black velvet bags attached to long poles were\\nused for collections. It is said that in some churches a little bell was\\nplaced at the bottom of these bags to wake up the sleepers. Mr. Ku}--\\npers ministry closed in 1841. On July 20th 1S42 the Consistory of the\\nChurch of Ponds met at the house of Mr. Albert Bartholf and prepared\\na call for William J. Thompson and upon his signifying his acceptance,\\nthe Classis convened at the Church on August 23, for the purpose of\\nordination and installation. One-half of Mr. Thompson s time was\\ngiven to the Ponds and one-half to the Church of Wyckoff, which had\\nunited in the call. The pastoral relations were dissolved July 12, 1845,\\nand thereafter these churches became independent, each calling a pastor\\nof its own. The Wyckoff church called Rev. Abram G. Ryerson, whose\\nsuccessor was Rev. William B. Van Bcnschoten, and the next (1876),\\nSamuel T. Earle.\\nOn November 13, 1845, Rev. Barnabas V. Collins was installed at\\nthe Ponds. The congregation provided a suitable home for the pastor\\nwith thirty acres of ground attached. This was the first time in their\\nhistory that a parsonage had been provided. Among other resolutions\\nadopted for the good of the church was this: Resolved, that any per-\\nson not paying salary shall pa} two dollars for a funeral sermon, and\\nfifty cents for a baptism. Mr. Collins remained until 1867 when he re-\\nsigned and was followed in 1869 by Rev. Alburtus Vandewater, whose\\npastorate extended over the short period of three years, when the church\\ncalled Rev. Theodore F. Chambers the same year (1872), and in 1876 he\\nreceived a call which he accepted.\\nThe Pompton Church was founded in 1815. The first Sabbath\\nschool at the Ponds was organized in 1883, with some -opposition.\\nPleasant Valley organized a Sabbath school in 1867, in the old tavern\\nof Stephen Bartholf. Chrystal Lake organized a school in January\\n187(), using the depot as a place of meeting.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "AAKON G. t .AKKISON", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY 191\\nKOD.MAN M. PKICE.\\nRodman M. Price, fornior (luvernor of New Jersey, was horn in\\nSussex county, N. J., November ISIS, and was the son of l rancis\\nPrice, who subsequent!}- remo\\\\ed to New York city.\\nHere, in the Hig-h School, and l.ater in Lawrenceville i N. J. i Aca-\\ndemy, Rodman M. prepared for college, but after a brief period spent in\\nthe class of 18, i4, in Princeton, he was oblig-ed to give up his studies on\\naccount of ill health. After studying- law for a short term he became\\ninterested in politics, and in the interest of the Democratic party he\\naddressed large assemblages when but eighteen years of age. He was\\nsent as a deleg-ate to the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore in\\n1840. After his marriage to the daughter of Captain Edward Trenchard,\\nUnited States Navy, he applied to President Van Buren for the appoint-\\nment of purser in the navy. Mr. Price was first ordered to the ste.im\\nfrigate Fulton, Captain Newton. After a year s service. Captain\\nNewtcm and Mr. Price were ordered to the new steam frigate Missouri,\\nwhicli, with her sister ship, the Mississippi, were the largest in the\\nworld, carrj-ing at that time the heaviest guns, and considered the finest\\nspecimens of steam naval architecture. This was in 1842. In 184.^ the\\nMissouri was ordered to take Caleb Cushing, minister to China, to\\nAlexandria, and the night after her arrival in the harbor of (libraltar\\nshe was destroyed by fire. After Mr. Price s return he did special duty,\\ndisbursing- for the Allegheny, the first iron steamship built by the\\ngovernment. He was next ordered to the slooi of-war Cyane, which\\neventually sailed for Monterey, where it arrived on July .^d, and on the\\n7th of July, 1846. formal possession was taken of Upper CaliforniM, Mr.\\nPrice being one of those who manned the halliards that run up the tlag.\\nwhich still floats over California. In 18,^0 he was elected member of the\\nThirty-second Congress. On Jimuary 17th, 18S4, he was inaugurated\\n(Governor of the State of New Jersey for a term of three years, and after\\nretiring from this office, he established the Weehawken Ferry, which he\\nmanaged for a number of years. His last public work of im])ortatice was\\nas representati\\\\-e of the Peace Congress at Washington.\\n.\\\\.\\\\K()N C. K-|SI)N.\\nAmong the old residents of Bergen county no life, perhaps, is more\\ninteresting in detail than that if Aaron (1. (iarrison, whose Imme is in\\nthe Rama])o Valley. (Jarret (iarrison and Kli/..-ilieth Hop])er were the\\nparents of five children, Mary Ann, Kliza, .\\\\aron, Sally .-ind Peter of\\nwhom Mary Ann, Aaron and Sallv ;ire now living.\\nAaron (i., the snl)ject of this sketch ;nid the eld sl son, w:is born\\nSe])tembi-r 21. ISl t. He became the chief hel] of his fatlu-r. who w.-is :i\\nfarmer, and a man of sound judgment and independent thouglil. although\\nof limited education. I^he son inherited his father s intellect, i-arly\\nacquiring a ])ractical knowledgeof general business transactions, which\\nwas recognized by the connnunity. .\\\\t twenty-oni- yi-ars of age he was\\nelected town clerk of tlu original townshi]i of j- ranklin. serving the full", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "192 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nterm of three years. Upon declining a re-election to this office, he was\\nimmediately elected member of the town committee for the following\\nthree years. At the expiration of this term he was again elected town\\nclerk, and has sin:e served a number of terms in this office. Prior to the\\ncreation of the office of School Superintendent, Mr. Garrison was made\\nmember of the school committee, and, as chairman, discharged the\\nduties of that office for a period of three years.\\nAn advocate of the cause of education, he established a new schotd\\ndistrict, and contributed largely toward the building of two new school\\nhouses, one at Riverdale and one at Oakland.\\nFor more than forty years of his life he was justice of the peace,\\nand has drawn up deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, and all sorts of docu-\\nments, agreements, contracts, etc., for many people in both Passaic and\\nBergen counties.\\nIn the spring of 1S()S, Judge A. Garrison was elected County Collector\\nof Bergen county, and during his incumbency (to 187.^), received and\\ndisbursed over $1,000,000. He was foreman of the Grand Jury several\\nterms of court, and was judge of the Court of Common Pleas two terms,\\nof five years each. In the spring of the present year ilS t he was\\nagain elected justice of the peace by both i olitical ])arties, and has\\naccepted, being now established in that office.\\nIn private life he has often been called upon to act as executor of\\nestates. Being something of a musician, the Judge has been chorister\\nof the Reformed Church of Ponds, has composed sacred music, and, in\\nhis younger days, taught singing school. Remarkably versatile, he\\ncan invoke the muses and indite his thoughts in rhyme, which he often\\ndoes for friends on both sides of the Atlantic.\\nJudge Garrison was one of the first directors of the New Jersey\\nWestern Railroad for five years, and contributed liberally towards its\\nccmstruction. In summing up his various avocations the Judge has\\napth said:\\nAt ten years old I drove a team.\\nAt twelve I grain did sow.\\nFor fifty years I fished the stream\\nAnd walked behind the plough.\\nDAVID CHU ISTIK Bl SII.\\nThe first train of cars on the Midland Railroad through the village\\nof Oakland was run on Mav 1, 1 S70. This important event was due\\nmainlv to the foresight and public spirit of David C. Bush, who was\\none of the leaders in a movement which has built up this place to a\\nj)ros])erous village, which, with its stores and manufacturing industries,\\nis ecpuil to any other place of its age and size in the county.\\nDavid C. Bush is the grandson of Samuel Bush, who came to Mah-\\nwali from Holland in colonial times. He was a blacksmith and manu-\\nfacturer of cowbells, in which industry he was an expert. His son.\\nPeter S. Hush, was a \u00e2\u0096\u00a0soldier in the war of the Revolution. Peter S.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "n.wii) c. lusii", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY OF BEKCIEN COUNTY\\nBush and his wife Bridget Christie were the parents of Samuel, John,\\nMary, Magdalene, Elizabeth Ann, David C, Rachel and Peter. The\\nfather died eighty-four years of age, soon after the late war. David C.\\nBush was born on the old homestead at Mahwah in 1827. In 1848 he\\nmarried Miss Anna Van Blarcom, and in 1852, he located at Oakland,\\nwhere he has resided since that time. His business has been farming\\nand following various callings and pursuits, looking to his own material\\ninterests and the growth of the village. As one of the sponsors for the\\nsuccess of the railroad he took stock in that company, and helped in\\npart to build it. In 1869 he erected his present residence, and upon the\\ncompletion of the railroad, used one room of his new house for a few\\nmonths as a ticket office, and subsequently became agent for the com\\npany, where he served for seventeen years. He was postmaster of the\\nvillage sixteen years; was on the Township Committee seven years; a\\nFreeholder during the troublous times of the late war, and has held\\nvarious other offices and positions of trust when necessity so required.\\nIn 1887 he built a store and did merchandizing until recently when he\\nretired from active business.\\nHe was married to his present wife Jemima Van Houghten, daugh-\\nter of Martin Van Houghten, May 7th, 1867, and his son David C. Bush,\\nJr., and her son, W. H. Shuart, by a former marriage, now own and\\noperate the store.\\nJ. E. MOWEKSON.\\nJ. E. Mowerson, of Wyckoff, is a son of John J. and Mary Ann\\n(Pulis) Mowerson, of Bergen county. At an early age he learned the\\ntrade of carpenter, and later followed the business of trucking in New\\nYork for a period of three years. In 1878 he located in Wyckoff,\\nembarking in the business of general merchandise, now dealing in all\\nkinds of groceries, provisions and hardware, with marked success. Mr.\\nMowerson was born at Saddle River, December, 9th, 1846. In 1867 he\\nmarried Miss Lettie C. Ackerman, of Westwood. They have had five\\nchildren. Anna, now deceased, was the wife of John G. DeBaun; James\\nA. (now deceased), Ida and Archie J., who assist in their father s\\nstore, and George.\\nMr. Mowerson is a Republican, and has been for many years post-\\nmaster of Wyckoff. He is a member of the Reformed Church.\\nPETEK S. PT LIS.\\nMr. Pulis Ijccame an employee of the New York, Susquehanna\\nWestern Railroad Company at Wyckoff, when a Imy, and although en-\\ngaged in other l)usiness, still retains his place at the head of the office,\\nwhere he has had charge since his twentieth year. In addition to the\\nresponsibilities devolving upon him as an employee, Mr. Pulis carries on\\nan extensive ice trade, from which he realizes a handsome profit, while\\nbeing the owner and ])roi)rietor of what is known as Spring Lake\\nFarm, on which poultry raising is the chief industry, bringing in\\nnjTous incomi:.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "J. K. M()\\\\V) :i\\\\ S()N", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "19(\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nMr Pulis was born Decembei 9, 1863, in Bergen County where he\\nreceived a limited education in the common schools. His father Samuel\\nPulis, is a native of Bergen county, carrying on farming and also doing\\na good business in the grocery trade.\\nMr. Pulis was married in 1885 to Miss Jennie Demarest, daughter of\\nJohn C. Demarest of Bergen county. They have two children Charles\\nS., and Ida. In politics Mr. Pulis is a Republican. He is a member ot\\nthe Junior Order, United American Mechanics.\\nH. T. LAWKENCE.\\nH T Lawrence is the s :.n of Thomas Lawrence, formerly State\\nSenator f^om Sussex county and an honored and highly respected\\ncitizen Mr. Lawrence was born at Sparta, a village of bus-\\nsex countv, in i846. He is a well-known citizen of Wortendyke, where\\nhe has conducted a business in general merchandise covering a period of\\nseventeen years. His industry and economical business methods have\\nestablished him as a reliable business man. In P^^^^ics Mr Lawrence\\nis independent, voting for the candidate who seems best fitted for the\\nplace, while he never seeks office himself. His time and energies have\\nbeen devoted to his business, in which he has been successful.\\nHe has a delightful home, and is a man of means and influence m\\nthe county.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nHOHOKUS.\\nTHE OLD TOWNSHIP OF HOHOKUS CIVIL LIST ITS ENTERPRISES\\nORGANIZATION RAMSEY S COUNTRY SEATS MAHWAH INDUS-\\nTRIES SCHOOLS CHURCHES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nThe township of Hohokus presents alternately valleys and ridges,\\npicturesque as to scenery and of great fertility. The town is well\\nwatered, rich in meadow lands, and is very beautiful. The abundance\\nof water furnishes excellent power which is utiliiied along- the streams\\nfor manufacturing purposes, and the numerous grist and saw mills en-\\njoy home patronage.\\nThe name Hohokus is an In lian word signifying Cleft in the\\nrock, which name of itself is indicative of the abode of the Red Man at\\nsome former period. For successive generations much of the land in\\nthis township, has been held by its original owners and their descendants,\\nother portions of it having been taken up by city purchasers who have\\nerected elegant mansions of architectural beauty for their homes. In\\npoint of enterprise the town is fortunate. The Ramapo and Paterson\\nnow the Erie railroad, passes through the township and has since its\\nadvent, assisted greatly in the development of the place.\\nAmong the early names in the township of Hohokus are those of\\nBogert, Ackerman, Hopper, Voorhis, Zabriskie, Rosencrantz, De Baun,\\nWannamaker, Christie, Conklin, Ramsey, Van Gelder, Garrison, May,\\n(roetschius, Valentine, Vauderbeck, Quackenbush, Storms, and Powell.\\nOf these families a full account is given in our biographical department.\\nHOHOKUS.\\nThe township of Hohokus was taken from the township of Franklin\\nas shall appear and since its formation, has been divided and subdivided\\nuntil but a portion of its original area is comprised within its former\\nboundary lines. Originally the township was made to include Upper\\nand Lower Saddle River Borough, Allendale Borough and Orvil town-\\nship, all of which have since been taken off leaving simply- the villages\\nof Ramsey and Mahwah, and their vicinities as a relic of the old town-\\nship.\\nOKGANIZATION.\\nThe act organizing the old township of Hohokus reads as follows:\\nAn act to set off from the township of Franklin, in the county of\\nBergen, a new township, to be called the township of Hohokus.\\nBe it enacted by the Senate and (xeneral Assembly of the State of\\nNew Jersey, That all that part of the township of Franklin, in the\\ncounty of Bergen that lies north of the following line beginning at the\\nSaddle River Creek, at the U])])er end of Daniel Perry s mill-pond opposite\\nthe course of the road leading from the Saddle River road to Fairfield", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "1 S HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY\\nthence a staiglit course to said road thence along the middle of said\\nroad until it intersects the road leading from new Prospect to Paramus;\\nthence across said road, the course of the aforementioned road, direct to\\nthe Paterson and Ramapo Railroad thence along said railroad northerly\\nto the Hohokus Brook thence along said Hohokus Brook westerly until\\nit crosses the public road leading from Campgaw to Paterson, at the\\nupper end of John Halsted s mill-pond thence westerly along the line,\\nbetween the lands of Andrew G. Ackerman, Abram J. Hopper, Henry\\nSturr, Conrad Sturr, and Peter H. Pulis on the north and Lewis You-\\nmans and others on the south, to the middle of the road leading from\\nWyckoff to Campgaw, at the southeasterly corner of lands of Peter H.\\nPulis thence westerly along the middle of said road to the division line\\nbetween lands of Henry B. Winter and Daniel Thomas; thence a straight\\ncourse to the middle of the Youpoh road, north of the house of David\\nBertholf, at the intersection of the mountain road leading from Wynockie;\\nthence a northerly course through the Ramapo Mountain, parallel with\\nthe New York State line, to the line between the counties of Bergen and\\nPassaic, shall be and the same is hereby set off into a separate township,\\nto be called and known by the name of the township of Hohokus. in the\\ncounty of Bergen.\\nIt was also enacted that the township of Hohokus should hold its\\ntirst annual meeting on the day appointed by law for holding the annual\\ntownship meetings in other townships in the county of Bergvrn, at the\\nhouse of John W. Ramsev. at Mount Prospect, in said township of Ho-\\nhokus.\\nThis act was approved February 5. 1849.\\nCn^IL LIST.\\nThe following is a list of the principal township officers since 184\\nFreeholders, 1849. James S. Wanamaker; 1850-52. Elijah Conklin;\\n1849, John G. Ackerman; 1850-51. Abraham Van Horn; 1852, Jacob I.\\nDe Baun; 1853-54, 1861-64. Peter P. Ramsey; 1853, John W. Ramsey;\\n1854, Abraham Ackerman; 1856-58, 1868-70, Aaron Ackerman; 1856-58.\\nJohn A. Winter; 1859-60, Andrew Van Buskirk, David P. Ramsey; 1861-\\n63, Andrew N. Hopper; 1864-66, Thomas Henyon; 1866-67, Jacob H.\\nBamper; 1.S67-69, Garret H. Van Horn; 1870-71. 1873-75, Aaron H.\\nWestervelt; 1872, Henry P. Wannamaker; 1876-78, Cornelius Folly;\\n1879-81, John E. Hopper; 1882-83, W. H. Packer; 1884-85, Andrew H.\\nAckerman; 1886-89, Martin M. Henion; 1890-93, A. A. Ackerman; 1894-\\n97, Daniel S. Wanamaker; 1898, Albert A. King.\\nTownship Clerks, 1849-51, Peter P. Ramsey; 1850-52, Peter Ward;\\n1853, Richard H. Wanamaker; 1854-56, Isaac J. Storms; i855, Henry R.\\nWanamaker; 1857-59, Jacob P. Herring; 1860, Abram H. Ackerman;\\n1861-6,3-75-77, John A. Garrison. Jr.; 1864-66, John W. Bogert; 1867-69-\\n79-81, John Q. Voorhees; 1870, Andrew J. Winter; 1871-73. John G.\\nEsler; 1874, Albert W. Conklin; 1878, Daniel S. Wanamaker; 1881-83.\\nJohn y. Voorhees; 1884-89, Richard Wanamaker; 1890-92. John Acker-\\nman; TsgS, W. J. Thurston; 1899, W. Van Horn.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 19\\nAssessors, 1849-51, Abram H. Lydecker; 5(t, Edward Salver; 52-34,\\nJohn Young 55, Abram A. an Riper; 5()-5S, John W. House; 59.\\nChristian W. Christie; 00, Albert G. Lydecker; 61, George W. Whitley;\\n()2, Abram Garrison, 63-05; Isaac J. Storms; 66-68, John E. Hopper;\\n69, Albert A. Lydecker; 70, John W. Bogert; 71, David A. Pell; 72-73,\\nMatthew D. White; 74-75, Stephen J. Terhune; 76-78, James Shuart;\\n79-81, William H. Murray; 84, Lewis H. May; 81, Albert W. Conklin*\\n86-94, W. H. Murray; 94-99, John Ackerman.\\nCollectors, 1849-51, George Esler; 52-54, Richard Christie; 55-57,\\nJohn W. Ramsey; 58-60, Elijah Conklin; 60-1)2-63, Andrew Winter; 64-\\n()6, Garret H. Van Horn; 67-69, John H. Henion; 70, John O. Voorhees;\\n71-73, Levi Hopper; 74-76, John V. B. Henion; 77-79, George L Ryer-\\nson; 80-81, W. E. Conklin; 83, W. H. Youmans; \u00e2\u0080\u00a2,s4-8(); A. A. Acker-\\nman; 87-99, Garret alentine.\\nVILI.AClliS.\\nThe most important \\\\-illage iu the township is Ramsey, so named\\nfrom Peter J. Ramsey, the original owner of the land. It was sold after\\nhis decease, about the year 1854, at Commissioner s sale, to William J.\\nPulis, the tract disposed of embracing sixty acres. Mr. Pulis resold\\ntwent-two acres to John Y. Dater, of Hohokus township, with whose\\nadvent an era of enterprise dawned upon the locality. Mr. Dater at once\\nbegan the erection of buildings, and opened a store of general merchan-\\ndise, adding to this an extensive suppl}- of coal and building materials.\\nThe earliest structure was of brick. About the same time a hotel was\\nerected by David W. alentine, which was burned, and the Fowier\\nHouse since built vipon the site. Mr. August Schroder has owned this\\nproperty since 1885. Mr. Dater next erected a building for the manu-\\nfacture of sleighs, and for a long period did a thriving business, finally\\nleasing to M. B. Deyoe. William J. Pulis then built a store of which\\nhis son subsequently became the propretor, he dying in 1895. His son,\\nJ. W. Pulis, and his grandson, W. H. Pulis, the present postmaster, each\\nhave stores in this place. A station had been established on the com-\\npletion of the Ramapo and Paterson (now the Erie) Railroad, which\\nwas called Ramsey, and a post office was located here by the Govern-\\nment with Albert G. Lydecker as the first postmaster, and John Y. Dater\\nas his successor. As the location became more favorably known, capital\\nflowed into the embryo village, residences were erected, business in-\\ncreased and Ramsey took a place among the growing towns of the county.\\nThe Reformed Dutch C hurch at Ramseys was erected in 1876, the\\nground on which it stands having been donated by Mrs. William\\nHalstead.\\nWilliam Slack has been a prominent merchant in the place for about\\nforty years. He first came to Ramsey s in 1849 and at that time there\\nwere but two or three houses in the place. He followed the cabinet\\nbusiness, and after a few years in Haverstraw, N. Y., pursuing his\\ntrade, he returned in 1S6(\u00c2\u00bb and since that time has been the i)rincip:il", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "200\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nundertaker not only for Ramseys but for a large portion of this part of\\nBergen county. Mr. Slack still has the old hearse he himself made\\nmany years ago. In 1869 he built his present store, in which he carries\\na fuilline of hardware and furniture, also a full equipment of stock for\\ncaskets and funeral supplies. When Mr. Slack first came to Ramseys\\nhe was honored with the office of Constable, and one of the tirst duties\\nthat fell to his lot was the arrest of Ben. Moore, a notorious character,\\nfor stabbing a man in Fowlers Hotel, taking him to Hackensack Jail.\\nMoore was a bully, and Slack was a slight young man not particularly\\nskilled in ruffianism, but he succeeded finally in landing his man, though\\nit was a herculean task. The yictim of the affray died nine days after\\nthe sad eyent and Moore got ten years in the penitentiary.\\nIn 1870, James Shuart, a man well known in Bergen county, came\\nto Rimsey s where he built his house in 1871, and subsequently built a\\nhalf dozen other houses. Mr. Shuart has been in the meat business\\nduring all this time and is one of the prominent butchers m the county-\\nIt has not been an unusual thing for him in former years to kill a 100\\nsheep in a week and a half do.en steers. He bought and sold only the\\nbest and his trade was phenominal. On the 17th of Noyember 1888 he\\ncelebrated the election of Harrison oyer Cleyeland by treating the people\\nof Ramseys and of the surrounding country to a barbacue. For that\\noccasSn he roasted an ox that weighed 750 pounds, provided three ba\\nreTof the Cream of Ale, and 400 loaves of bread, and fully loOO people\\npartook of that banquet, the like of which had never been seen before.\\nin this part of the State.\\nThe Dater Building is one of the attractive features of^Ramsey s.\\nIt was commenced by J. Y. Dater on Thanksgiving D^^-^ l^.. and com-\\npleted in May 1898. It is seventy-five by eighty-nine feet front, con\\nSins four stores, Lodge rooms for the J. O. A. M.; Mahwah Counc 1\\nNr45; Ramsey Council No. 26; Ramapo Valley Counci No. 1..9;\\nRoyal Arcanum and also offices for the Ramseys Journal. It is a sub-\\nstantial brick building and does credit to the place.\\nLODGE NO. 178, I. O. O. F.\\nTwo members of Amity Lodge of Spring Valley, N- J-, located iri\\nRamseys and the Lodge was finally instituted on March 19, 1874 Her\\ngeTcounty Lodge No 73 had charge of the work and the\\nmen constituted the Charter Members: D. S. Wanamaker John H. ler\\nHune W H. Murray, Thomas H. Howard, William Slack and John\\nIZch The lodge was named Hohokus. The first meeting was held m\\nthetilding afterwards occupied by Murray s Meat Market. The nine\\nmembers of the Lodge struggled on and in the fourth fiscal year^ they\\nexperienced their darkest period. No new members -re added, bu^\\nfour were dropped from the roll, and two withdrew. The Lodge then\\nwithdrew to the Dater Building. The first death occurred after the\\nLodge had been instituted fifteen years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 201\\nXKWSI APKKS.\\nThe people of North Berg-en. centre their financial interests natur-\\nally at Ramseys, and thus followed, as- a consequence, the Ramseys\\nJournal, to give the news of the week. This paper was established bv\\nJ. Y. Dater who issued Volume I No. 1. Thursday May 26, 1892. It\\nwas the successor of the Courier, a previous publication by Mr. Dater,\\nbut as a monthly it did not prove a financial success. Mr. Dater not de-\\nspairing, however, established the weekly, taking care to equip it as it\\nshould be, as the official organ of Hohokus township, and then success\\ncame to him. There are probably no better equipped offices in Bergen\\ncounty, not only for newspaper printing but for pamphlet work, than\\nthose in the Dater Building at Ramsey. There is also a bindery con-\\nnected with the Journal. J. Y. Dater is proprietor.\\nk.\\\\msey s fire comp.\\\\xy.\\nProvision against fire was made in 18 )5, by the organizatian of a\\ncompany November 18th of that year, consisting of forty-six members,\\nleading men of Ramsey s, The officers elected were J. Y. Dater, Presi-\\ndent A. C. Zabriskie,_Yi e::Ptesident W. H. Pulis, Treasurer; W. P.\\nHalstead, Recording Secretary C. G. Sargent, Financial Secretary A.\\n(i. Sherwood, Foreman C. Rose, Engineer. .Tames Shuart is President\\nof the Board of Trustees.\\nThe Department owns a four wheeled apparatus on which are\\nmounted two forty-gallon copper cylinders which are charged with chem-\\nicals; and it is claimed that one gallon of this acid is equal in effect to\\nforty gallons of water.\\nSCHOOL.S.\\nIn 184(t the people of this district erected a wooden structure sixteen\\nby twenty feet in size which was used for a school building unril 1874.\\nThe building was then condemned by the County Superintendent, when\\na more commodious edifice was erected in its stead. This house was\\ntwenty-five by forty-five feet in dimentions one story high with belfry;\\nattractive in appearance and well furnished. It cost S500U. The present\\nbuilding was erected in 1892 at a cost of Slti.dOO. James Shuart is pre-\\nsident of the Board of Trustees, and W. S. Stowell is principal of the\\nschool. There are 257 scholars in attendance and five teachers employed.\\nThe True Reformed Church at Ramsey s was organized on the 24th\\nof May, 1824, and was the outgrowth of a separation from the Reformed\\n(Dutch Church. The causes of this departure from the parent church\\nwill not be deemed of essential importance in a history of this character,\\nand are therefore not given. The following persons who left the orig-\\ninal body placed themselves under the jurisdiction of the True Reformed\\nChurch of America: Rev. James D. Demarest, V.D.M., David Valen-\\ntine and wife, David Christie and wife, Peter S. Bush and wife, Henry\\nF. Forte and wife, John I. Post and wife. Peter Haring and wife. John\\nJ. Post and wife. John A. Ackerman and wife. William Kmmit and wife.\\nDavid C. Christie and wife, Matthew Dougherty, Jacob Mitchel and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "202 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nwife. Widow Jemima Van Rhoder, Widow Margaret Wanamaker, Wid-\\now Isabella Donaldson, David Meyers and wife, Jacob Valentine, Eliza-\\nbeth Christie, James P. Ramsey, Mrs. Abram Van Roda, Mrs. Charles\\nTownsend, making a total of thirty-six members.\\nDuring- the year 1826 a church building was erected one mile from\\nRamsey s Station, on the road leading to Darlington. Here regular\\nworship was maintained until 1868 (a period of forty-two years), when\\nthe inconvenience of the location caused a change to be suggested,\\n(iround was partly purchased, and the remainder donated in the village\\nof Ramsey s, and an edifice erected which, together with furniture, cost\\n$5000. This was dedicated in the year of its completion. During the\\nyear 1875 the walls were frescoed, a new and effective heating apparatus\\nadded, and a new chandelier and an organ presented by Mrs. John Y.\\nDater. Several gentlemen in the congregation contributed liberally\\ntowards beautifying the edifice, which is now free of debt. It has a\\nseating capacity of 250 persons. The Rev. James D. Demarest, the first\\npastor, labored alternately between this church and the one at Monsey\\nuntil 1855 or 1856, and at a ripe old age retired from the ministry. Rev.\\nJohn Y. De Baun next reeeived a call from the same churches, and con-\\ntinued pastor during a period of four years and six months, when a\\nlarger field was opened to him at Hackensack. The church was then\\nserved by supply and by stated supph-, the Rev. Isaac J. De Baun offi-\\nciating until 1875. In April 1875 Rev. Samuel I. Vanderbeck received\\nand accepted a call, continuing his ministrations here fourteen years,\\nwhen the present pastor. Rev. Jacob N. Trompen, then a young gradu-\\nate from Princeton, accepted a call, taking charge in the Spring of 1891.\\nThe church is now in a very flourishing condition. The elders of the\\nchurch are Abram A. Ackerman, David Tracy, Jacob Halstead. Dea-\\ncons: John Y. Dater, John Terwilliger, Peter Winter.\\nThe Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, at Ramsey s,\\nwas organized under the auspices of Rev. E. De Yoe, on the 1st of Feb-\\nruary, 1867. Soon after a committee consisting of James N. Bogert,\\nGeorge Hosey, Heney R. Wanamaker, J. W. Valentine, Martin Litch-\\nhult, David Carlough, and Charles A. May were appointed to secure a\\nbuilding lot and erect thereon a church edifice. In the fall of 1867 a lot\\nwas secured of David Valentine, and the plan of the church having been\\ndrawn by Henry Rehling, work was begun by excavating for the found-\\nation and basement. The contract for the erection and completion of\\nthe building was awarded in March, 1868, to Mr. Rehling, but, owing to\\ndelay in securing the lumber, operations were not begun until the fall of\\nthat year.\\nThe corner-stone was laid September 12, 18()8, with appropiate ser-\\nvices, Rev. Henry A. Pohlman, D.D. of Albany having preached the\\nsermon in the house of David Valentine. In 1869 services were held in\\nthe basement in the new church, and on the 25th of March, the following\\nofficers were elected. Martin Litchhult, James N. Bogert. David Car-\\nlough and Thomas Ackerman, elders; Richard C. Straut, William S.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF lilCKC.HN COUNTY 20.^\\nalentinc, John A. Slraut, .ind C. Ouackciibush, Deacons. The church\\nwas dedicated September 1871, Rev. E. lielfour of Easton, I a., preach-\\nin^i.;- the sermon. Kev. E. De Yoe, who was from the bei^inniny the\\npastor of this little flock, continued in that relation until February 1878.\\nKev. L. A. Burrell became pastor in October of that same year. He was\\nsucceeded shortly after that by Rev. J. W. I^ake. The present i)astor,\\nthe Rev. Carlton Bannister, succeeded the Rev. S. H. Weaver in 18 )2.\\nThe church now has a membership of sixty-nine and a flourishing- Sab-\\nbath school, under the superintendency of William Slack. The elders\\nare George F. Hosey, W. H. Pulis, (ieorge Shuart, A. J. Bloomer. The\\ndeacons are Abram Pulis, James Hopper, Everet Pulis, William Ro-\\nmaine. j.vmks .sihi.\\\\kt.\\nIn Bergen county are many of the descendants of soldiers of thi\\nWar of the Revolution, an honor to which they mav well refer with\\n].ride. Among these we iind James Shuart, of Ramseys, whose grand-\\nfather, Adolphus Shuart, fought in the war of Independence, while his\\nmaternal grandfather, John Sutherland, was in the war of 1 S12, and re-\\nceived a pension of twelve dollars per month up to the time of his death.\\nThe Shuarts are of German ancestry, but have made their home in Ber-\\ngen county since coming to America.\\nOur subject, a son of Henry A. Shuart, and grandson of Adolphus,\\nwas born in Hohokus township, August 19, 1844. After receiving a\\nlimited education in the common schools, he began business in the dr^-\\ngoods and grocery trade in Orange county. This proved successful,\\nand in 1870 he came to Ramseys, where he opened a meat market. This\\nalso became a profitable business, and in i8*)6 he retired.\\nMr. Shuart was married at the age of seventeen years to Susan Jane\\nHunter, a daughter of David Hunter of Orange county. By this union\\nthere was one son, Franklin Shuart, who now lives in Ramseys. Mr.\\nShuart s first wife died in 1S()8, and he married in 1872, Miss Eleanor\\nN. Litchult of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have had four children. Eliza-\\nbeth, who married Albert G. May, of Ramseys; Eva R., who married S.\\nG. Conklin, of Newburg, N. Y., and died at the age of twenty and one-\\nhalf years; Harry now in I eddie Institute, ])reparing for the studv ol\\nlaw; and Edna at home.\\nMr. Shuart is a Free Mason and also a prominent Odd l ellow. He\\nserved three years as a member and president of the Board of Education,\\nand was recently elected to serve three years more in the same cajiacity.\\nHe has also served as assessor and road commissioner of Hohokus lown-\\nsh.ip for three years. In politics he is a Democrat. He was christi ued\\nJames K. Polkj. He and family attend the F/utheran Church.\\nJ.VMKS W. PUT. IS.\\nAbout the year 18.=;4 Mr. William J. Pulis bought a tract of sixty\\nacres of land, re-selling twenty-two acres to John Y. Daters who soon\\nafter built and opened a store of general merchandise. Subsecpientl v\\nMr. Pulis built another store which he conducted for some years, and to\\nwhich his son, James W. succeeded in 1874. lie still continues in the\\nbusiness where he has been for more than thirty years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "JAMES SHUAKT", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 205\\nJames W. was educated in the common schools and in Rutgers Col-\\nlege, from which he was graduated in the class of 1862 having com-\\npleted the classical course.\\nHe is a Republican and was postmaster of Ramseys for a period of\\nmore than thirty years. Mr. Pulis first wife died in early life, leaving\\nhim one son, William H., who married in i88( when the business was\\ndivided, William H. opening a grocery. He is also the present post-\\nmaster.\\nJames W., married in 1870, Miss Onderdonk of New York state.\\nThev have two sons, James Everet, attending a business college, and\\nArthur G., attending Hashrouck Institute. James W. still conducts the\\nEmporium. Mr. Pulis father, William J. Pulis. died in 1895 at the\\nage of ninety-three years.\\nW. H. Pulis, son of James W., was l)orn in Ramseys December 7,\\n1S( 4. After leaving the public school he was employed in his father s\\nstore until 1886, when he went into business for himself, building up a\\ngood trade. He is engaged in general merchandise, and is postmaster\\nof the village. Mr. Pulis was married in 1886 to Miss Jennie Acker-\\nman, daughter of Abram Ackerman. They have two children. Luella\\nand James Wilbur. In politics Mr. Pulis is a Republican. He belongs\\nto the Hohokus Lodge of Odd Fellows. With his family he attends the\\nLutheran Church.\\nWII.I.IA.M SLACK.\\nSeth Slack, a native of Canada removed to New York going finally\\nto Ulster county, N. Y., and from there to Stonington, Conn., where he\\ndied and where his son, William, was born August 15, 1824. In the\\nfamily were Mary .\\\\nn, who married a Mr. Valentine, oi Bergen county;\\nWilliam, Jane, who lives in New York state; Thomas, deceased; and\\nSarah, wife of Charles Corey, of the State of New York.\\nIn his boyhood days Mr. Slack was apprenticed to the trade of cab-\\ninet making and upholstering. This was to continue until he reached\\nthe age of twenty-one, which would be in seven years, four months and\\neighteen days. His master died, however, at the end of four years.\\nHe afterwards lived in Stonington for a short time working at his\\ntrade. From there he shipped aboard a whaling vessel, the voyage con-\\ntinuing four years. Upon returning he went to Haxerstraw where he\\nspent seven years, working at his trade.\\nHe has been a resident of Ramseys for many years and is success-\\nfullv carrying on a general hardware- trade, in addition to a complete\\nundertaking establishment, which is fully e |uip])ed with all modern\\nap])liances.\\nMr. Slack is a Democrat in politics, and has been justice of the peace\\nfor eighteen years. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, in which\\nhe is an active worker, having been sui)erinten(Ient of the Sunday scIkkiI\\nfor manv vcars.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "206 HISTOKY OK BERGEN COUNTY\\nHe was married in 1845 to Miss Matilda Valentine. They had\\nthree children, all of whom died in early life. His wife died in 1894.\\nMW. GKOKOE WELCH.\\nMr. George Welch, a florist living near Ramseys, came here in 1844\\nand purchased a small tract of land, which he improved by the erection\\nof buildings and otherwise equip] ingfor the purpose of growing plants\\nand flowers for market. In his enterprise he has succeeded admirably,\\nfinding a liberal patronage in New York and Paterson. Mr. Welch\\nserved an apprenticeship of seven years as gardener in England, coming\\nto America in 1868, where he has since followed his trade.\\nHe was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, June 2 1843. In\\n1 870 he married Miss Louisa Adams, a daughter of Mr. Richard Adams,\\na farmer of Stafford, England, of which place Mrs. Welch is a native.\\nThey have two children, daughters.\\nIn politics Mr. Welch is inde])endent.\\nMAHWAH.\\nThe hamlet of Mahwah is the last station in Bergen county on the\\nErie Railroad. Aside from the old church, a hotel and Owena,\\nthere is nothing of importance in the place. The land was originally\\nowned by John Winter. Andrew J. Winter now owns the only store in\\nthe place. Andrew Hagerman built the hotel a number of years ago.\\nIt was bought by John Petry in 1891, who owns and runs it now. The\\nOwena was built by Colonel Ezra Miller in iS76 at a very great cost.\\nIt is an elegant mansion situated on a beautiful and commanding site.\\nThe property is now owned by his son, Ezra W. Miller, who preserves the\\ngrounds, the fish ponds and other attractions in keeping with the tastes\\nof its original owner.\\nAndrew H. Hagerman. son of Andrew, has been station agent for\\ntwenty-seven years, and postmaster most of that time.\\nTHE RAMAPO KEFORMEl) DUTCH CHURCH.\\nThe Ramapo Reformed Dutch Church was doubtless established as\\nearly as the begining of the present century, or possibly before, and\\nhas been the place of worship of successive generations, having formerly\\nbeen familiarly known as the Island Church. The old cemetery adjoin-\\ning the church is of equal antiquity, and is the ])lace of sepulture of\\nmany of the old families in the congregation. A. A. King, the present\\npastor, succeeded Rev. W. W. Letson in 1892. The church has a mem-\\nbership of 125. Its eJder are David Hopper, Henry Van Gilder, R. V.\\nValentine. M. M. Henion, A. J. Winter and R. Wannaker.\\nThe Havemeyer estate cDnsisting of ^SOO acres of land is in this\\ntownship. In 1881 the estate of Jacob W. DeCostra, consisting of 500\\nacres of land was purchased by F. O. Havemeyer, and the erecticm of a\\nlarge barn and other extensive buildings were made. Subsequently\\nother lands were purchased until all this portion of the township with\\nthe manv homesteads represented, were swallowed uj) in the one estate.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEK(.;EN COUNTY\\n207\\nFdlldwing- this came im])r vonients of roads, the buildiiiir of other\\nstables, chicken _yar(ls, calf sheds, bull barns, piggeries, for the hous-\\ning of which and in the taking care of stock a large compan}- of men is\\nconstantly emploTed. Ramapo River runs back of the place but water\\nis supplied from large reservoirs especially constructed.\\nTHE DAKLINC, KAH^M.\\nThe Darling Farm is an addition to this township in a wav. He-\\nsides being a private affair the people take an interest in it also; for\\nthe love they have for the man. For they remember him not onlv as\\na broad minded and charitable gentleman, but one who did not com.\\namong them, wholelv for his selfish interest and only for luxurious gain.\\nConsequently, ^Ir. Darling s extensive establishment the largest struct-\\nures he once erected his piggeries and bull-pens, his full blooded stock\\nof fine brood-mares, his imported cattle and rare chickens etc., etc.,\\nhave broujjfht credit to him.\\nDARLINGTON HCHOOI,\\nThe hamlet of Darlington, the creation of Mr. A. B. Darling, the\\nproprietor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, N. Y., is the country-seat of a\\nvery fine estate. Mr. Darling came to this part of the county probablv\\nabout the time of the Centennial Year and having made his selection be-\\ngan impr(jving the place. The spirit of progress siezed at once upon\\nthe people. The Hopkins Dickinson bronze works, where some 2(tO\\nhands were employed, before its removal to Newark, being one of the\\nresults.\\nJtDCE JOHN yiACKKNBUSH.\\nThe tirst ancestor of the Ouackenbush family in this vicinitv was\\nRynier, who descended the Hudson River in 17(tO from Albany, where\\nthe original family had been settled since 1626, and settled near Nyack.\\nHe had a family of nine children, one of whom was Abraham, the great-\\ngrandfather of the judge. His grandfather, John yuackenbush, was a\\nnative of Tappan, New York. His father was John, also, and married\\nMary Ann Van Sise, a relative of the Demarest family, and resided at\\nOakland, N. J., where our subject was born ()ctoi)er 1, 1S27.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "jrl)(;F. JOHX OfACKKNBl SH", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK KKK(;EN COUNTY 200\\nThe Judge is of pure Holland ancestry, speaking- the original\\nHolland dialect fluently, and taking great interest in the history of the\\nHolland people. He was educated in the common schools and after-\\nward received an academic training, taking his law course in the\\nUniversity of New York, from which he was graduated in 1S56. In\\n1857, when thirty years of age, he was elected Police Justice in New\\nYork city and was President of the Board of Police Justices for six\\nyears, being the youngest member of the Board. Upon his retirement\\nfrom this position, he practiced law in New York, in the firm of Ouack-\\nenbush, Dusenbury Briggs. In 1865 he was appointed to a position\\nin the Custom House and later was made Deputy Collector of Customs,\\nand has held that position ever since; he has charge of the Second\\nDivision in which assessments of custom duties are levied.\\nJudge Ouackenbush was married in 1846 to Miss Harriet A.\\nChristopher, daughter of Joseph Christopher, of Allendale, N. J. The\\nJudge is a Republican, but does not take an active part in politics. He\\nis a Free Mason and belongs to the Holland Society of New York,\\nbeing Vice President of the organization. He attends the Reformed\\nChurch and contributes liberally to the support of charitable enterprises.\\nCOLONKL KZKA MII.LKK.\\nAmong those who were interested in the railroads of our country\\nwhen first put in operation, was Colonel Ezra Miller, who became widely\\nknown as the inventor of what is known as the Miller Platform\\nCoupler and Buffer.\\nHe was born May 12, 1812, in Bergen county, opposite Fort Wash-\\nington, his parents removing to New York city a few years later, even-\\ntually becoming residents of Flushing, L. I. Here Mr. Miller spent his\\nboyhood days, receiving a thorough English education. In September\\n1833, he enlisted in a company of horse artillery belonging to the Second\\nRegiment, First Brigade, New York Militia, in which he was promoted\\nto the Colonency in 1842. In 1848, Colonel Miller removed with his fam-\\nily to Rock county, Wisconsin, and engaged in surveying United States\\nand state lands. Having become identified with the interests of the\\nstate, he was appointed in 1851, by (iovcrnor Dewey, to the Colonelcy of\\nthe Eighth Wisconsin Regiment, an office he continued to hold during\\nhis residence in the state. The following year he was elected to the\\nState Senate, serving one term, but declining a second nomination. About\\nthis time, his attention being called to defects in the matter of car couj)-\\nling, which was causing accidents resulting in great loss of life, he\\nbegan investigations looking toward a remedy. His great Platform\\nCoupler and Buffer was the result of his perseverance. At the time\\nof his death, Colonel Miller was representing Bergen county as senator.\\nColonel Miller was married in May, 1841, to Miss Amanda, daugh-\\nter of Captain Seth Miller, of New York. They had five children,\\nAmanda J., wife of Marshall L. Hinman, of Dunkirk, N. Y.; Ezra W.,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "210 HISTOKY OK BEKGEX COUNTY\\n(Hir subject; Harriet M., wife of John H. Van Kirk, of New York;\\nJordan G., and Dr. Frank P.\\nEzra W. Miller was born May 2( 1S4S, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y.\\nHis early life was spent in Wisconsin, where his classical studies were\\nprosecuted at Racine Colleufe, from which institution he was graduated\\nin the class of 18()5.\\nReturning- to the East, he was for some time engaged in the whole-\\nsale drug trade, subsequently becoming associated with his father in\\nNew York, in connection with the business of his inventions. In 1874,\\nhe removed with his father to Mahwah, N. J., where they erected a\\nmansion known as the Owena, a fine establishment which Mr. Miller\\nis at present conducting as a hotel with good success. This is a beau-\\ntiful place, commanding a line view of the surrounding country.\\nHe was married in 1870 to Caroline I. Rollins, daughter of True W.\\nRollins, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have one daughter, Adele R. In\\npolitics Mr. Miller is a Democrat. He is a member of the Episcopal\\nChurch, and of the Royal Arcanum.\\nMr. Miller s mother died in 1S81, and his father in 1885.\\nJOHN PKTKV.\\nJohn Petrv, of Mahwah, is of French ancestry, a son of George\\nPetry, who was a harness maker by trade, and a native of Canada.\\nThe family lived near Paterson, N. J., where John was born August\\n24, 1824. The first experience of young Petry as a wage earner was in\\nPaterson, when he was employed for a number of years in the various\\ncott(m mills. In 1853 he went to California, taking the route by the\\nIsthmus of Panama. After an absence of two years he returned, and sub-\\nsequently engaged in the retail liquor trade for a number of years in\\nNew York city. Having accumulated a considerable fortune, he pur-\\nchased a tract of near land Mahwah in 1864, which he improved at a great\\nexpense. Afterward, however, meeting with financial loss, he sold this\\nfarm to Mr. Havemeyer. Mr. Petry then removed to the village of\\nMahwah, where he opened a hotel, which has proved a profitable busi-\\nness, and where he continues to reside.\\nMr. Petry has been twice married, first to Miss Jemima Gerll. By\\nthis marriage were two children, Jesse and John. After the death of\\nhis first wife he married Miss Ruth De Fau. Four children were born\\nof this union, Harry, Herbert, Milred and Howard.\\nMr. Petry is a Democrat, and held the office of postmaster under\\nCleveland s last administration. He is a member of the Order of F ree\\nMasons.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XX.\\nORVIL TOWNSHIP.\\nITS OKOAXIZATION X lI.LAGES HISTORIC A I. RESIDENCES MANUFACTUR-\\nING INTERESTS CHURCHES BIOGRAPHY.\\nThis township was incorpor.ited in 1885, and was formed out of the\\nsoutherly part of Hohokus and the westerly part of Washington. In\\n1894, owing to troubles growing out of the school law, three boroughs,\\nnamely. Saddle Riyer, Upper Saddle Riyer and Allendale, were taken\\noff the township. The borough of Saddle Riyer was taken off the\\neastern part of Orvil; Upper Saddle Riyer was formed out of part of\\nOrvil and part of Washington, and Allendale borough comprised the\\nnorthwest part of Oryil, part of Hohokus and part of Franklin town-\\nship. The township was named in honor of Oryille Victor, whose\\nsketch is giyen in this chapter of the work.\\nThe prime moyers in the formation of the township of CJrvil were\\nMartin M. Smith, Abram H. Ackerman and John G. Esler. The first\\nofficers of the township were: Township Committee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dr. B. Oblenis,\\nElijah Rosencrantz, Nathaniel Orr. Collector Albert De Baun. As-\\nsessor Abram H. Ackerman. Freeholder -Dr. B. Oblenis. Town\\nClerk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Nelson Woodruff.\\nThe officers for i899 are: Township Committee A. S. D. Dcmarest,\\nJohn W. (Juackenbush, Haryey Springstead. Freeholder \u00e2\u0080\u0094Abram H.\\nAckerman. Collector John Magee. Assessor J. B. VerNooy. Town-\\nship Clerk I. B. Keiser.\\nyil.I.AGKS.\\nThere are two yillages in Orvil Township. Hohokus, former] v known\\nby the name of Hoppertown is on the Erie railroad, with Uudercliff\\nas one of its stations, and is situated in the extreme part of the township.\\nThe land covering the site of this yillage was taken up by Abram Hopper\\nbmg before the war of the Revolution. This influential family lived\\nhere many years, and from them the place aptly received it name Ho])-\\npertown.\\nThe American Pegamoid Company s works, also the Brookdale\\nBleachcry, are located here, besides, there are stores, a hotel a school and\\na post office.\\nThe old Mansi(m House still occupied as a hotel, is one of the indeli-\\nble landmarks. Both the Bleachery and the Pegamoid w irks of very\\nrecent origin, (i. J. B. Keiser has been postmaster in the village since\\niS76, and virtually since i8()4. The two store are kei)t Ijy .1. E. .Miller\\nand E. W. Learj- respectively.\\nThe old school house in this district, was a rude affair but nothing\\nin particular is known at this late day, concerning its erection. The\\nIlnhokus District embraced territory both in Hohokus and l- rankliii", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "212 HisTOKY OF bekgp;n county\\nTownship. In 1856 another house was erected by subscription, and this\\nin turn gave place to a better one erected in the village on the avenue\\nleading to the Paramus Church. Until i87() the school was maintained\\nby a tuition fee of one dollar per quarter, but it is now entirely free.\\nIn the village of Hohokus are three very old houses, dating back to\\ncolonial times. They were built by the Hoppers and are known as the\\nold Stone Building South of the Brook the old Stone House and the\\nMansion House. The first narhed is probably the oldest. A cannon\\nball was shot into it during the war of the Revolution, and still remains\\nas a relic of that struggle for our independence.* On June i3, 1803,\\nthis property was sold by John A. Hopper to William Bell, who sold it\\nto Andrew J. Zabriskie, in 1827. Mr. Zabriskie owned a cotton mill and\\na saw mill in the town at that time. About 1857 John J. Zabriskie, son\\nof Andrew, came into possession of the property, and the whole Hopper\\nestate is now in the possession of McCaiferty Buckley, including, of\\ncourse, the old Mansion House. This is the famous old tavern on the\\nold stage route from Albany to New York, when the stage coach was\\nthe chief means of travel.\\nThe old Ouackenbush estate, subsequently known as the John A.\\nBogert Hotel, was also used for a tavern in Hohokus before the railroad\\ndiverted travel. This tavern was on the road about half way from\\nHohokus to Paramus.\\nWaldwick, another enterprising little town of the township, where\\nthe Post silk mill is located, is on the Erie railroad. Waldwick is a\\nSaxon word, which means beautiful grove, and the old village was well\\nnamed. Besides the manufacturing interests, there are several stores,\\ntwo hotels, a church and a fine school. The village proper is of recent\\norigin. Henry L. Hopper was the first postmaster, and took the ofBce\\nin i890. George Oughten, the present postmaster, started the first\\ngrocery store in the village in 1881. His commission as postmaster\\ndates back to 1892. The next store was opened by George Tonkin. F.\\nF. Wagner, proprietor of the Waldwick Hotel, began business in i84i.\\nThe Orvil House was built in 1894. The school house also built in\\n1 894, is a well constructed, commodious structure with departments for\\nthree teachers. William McKenzie is the principal at the present time.\\nA portion of the agitation that led to the good roads, for which Ber-\\ngen county is now noted, began in Orvil Township. The leaders in the\\nmovement were John G. Esler, Alfred P. Smith, Martin M. Smith, and\\nAbramW. Ackerman of Saddle River, and Garret H. Bamper of Hohokus.\\nThe first appropriation for Macadam was ma de in March 1891 and with\\na portion of this money the first Macadam on the Paterson road was put\\ndown in the Fall of that year. Ridgewood Township and Saddle River\\nTownship quickly followed the example set by Orvil.\\nIn June 1882 Alfred P. Smith, a lame and invalid colored man\\nstarted at his home in Saddle River, The Landscape, which is prob-\\nablv the smallest paper in the Unite l States. It is x8 inches and has", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV (Jl- BKKl .KN COUNTY 213\\nbeen published every month since the initial issue. It is a sheet that\\nreflects the ability of its editor in ever\\\\- line, and by many is retained as\\nand encyclopaedia of events in Saddle River borough, both past and\\npresent. The influence of The Lan lsca])e in securing- g-ood roads was\\nan important factor in IS U.\\nHISTOKICAL KESIDKNCKS.\\nAmong places of historic interest, that of the beautiful Theodosia\\nProvost, afterwards the wife of Colonel Aaron Burr, is worthy of n ite.\\nIt was once, in ante-Revolutionary days, the residence of a wealthy\\nEnglish family, and, during the war, at different times, the stopping\\nplace or headquarters of Washington. At that time it was called the\\nLittle Hermitage, and many of Mrs. Provost s letters to Burr were\\ndated here. It was while residing here that she became acquainted\\nwith the Colonel, who was then stationed at Ramapo.\\nOnly a part of the original building, which was a substantial, tirst-\\nclass country house, now remains. It is not known by whom, or when,\\nthe original buildings were erected. The principal structure has on one\\nof the stones in the front of the house. Masonic emblems inscribed, and\\nthere was one room in the building that could be entered only by a trap\\ndoor. These facts led to the conjecture that the house was erected at\\nan early date by the Masonic fraternity. Elijah Rosencranz, Jr., father\\nof William Rosencranz, the present owner, had a door cut into this room.\\nMrs. Provost was a sister of De Wisum, a French nobleman, who\\nowned the property at the time of the war of the Revolution. In 1812\\nit was rebuilt by William Ranlett, Esq., for Dr. Elijah Rosencranz, and\\nhas been in the possession of that family ever since.\\nThe design of the house is of the old English style, and is finished\\ninside and out in the most substantial manner. The walls are con-\\nstructed of hammer dressed brownstone from quarries in the vicinity.\\nThe timber is of oak and chestnut and the roof of cedar. The original\\nhouse had a piazza on the western side. Mr. William Rosencranz is of\\nthe opinion that Burr was married in the dining room of this house,\\nThe general belief is that the marriage took place in the Paramus\\nchurch, but there is no record in the church books to that effect.\\nTiiK nAMPi ;w iionsic.\\nThe Hamper House was a fjiinous tavern in ante Revolutionary\\ntimes. It is not knwon by whom nor at what time this building was\\nerected. The house was built for a tavern, and did duty in that capa-\\ncity, from timeout of mind, until the railroad was built. It was known\\nformerly as the Old hi Rue tavern, and came into the i)i)ssesion of\\nCaptain Damper, probably about the time of the war of the Revolution.\\nHis son, G. H. Bamper, the last of a long line of proprietors, who en-\\ntertained stage drivers with their passengers, on the way from Albany\\nto New York, owned four, four horse stage coaches. He died soon after\\nthe war of the Rebellion, aged eighty six year. The j roperty is now\\nowned by the widow of G. H. Bamper, Jr.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "214 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COITNTV\\nThe beautiful, picturesque residence and grounds, now the property\\nof John B. Miller, but formerly owned by Joseph Jefferson, the famous\\nactor, are also in Orvil township. The grounds are kept under the\\nhighest state of improvement and with the antique buildings the stately\\ntrees of shade, the fish ponds and other attractions, the place never\\nceases to be an object of general interest.\\nMANUF.\\\\CTUKING INTERESTS.\\nOn the Hohokus Brook are located the paper mill of White Co.;\\nthe Brookdale Bleachery, formerly Rosencrantz Cotton Mills the Saw\\nMills of M. D. White the Paper Mill of C. S. White, and the Silk Mills\\nof John A. Post. C. A. and J. B. Wortendyke also owned a cotton mill\\non this brook, for the manufacture of warp and 3 arn.\\nJohn Rosencrantz, the founder of these cotton mills, came to Hohokus\\nin 1787. In 1812 his brother Dr. Elijah Rosencrantz came. Klijah\\nRosencrantz was both a preacher and a physician, and became a partner\\nwith his brother in the mill interests, which they carried on for many\\nyears together. In 1853 John Rosencrantz, Jr., became sole owner. The\\nmills were run for the manufacture of cotton warps, the product being\\nsold in Philadelphia. The brothers employed as many as forty and fifty\\nhands at times, and the business was continued up to recent times when\\nall was sold to\\nTHE BKOOKDALE BLEACHEKV.\\nThis business was inaugurated in 18 J8. It is a stock company\\norganized for the bleaching of goods.\\nE. White, president; Thomas A. Deery, vice-])resident J. L. an\\nSant, secretary Isaac T. Johnson, treasurer.\\nOn the site now owned by C. S. White, John White, his father,\\nestablished the original mill in 18,^7. He came here from Milburn, New\\nYork, where he had been conducting a paper mill. He continued the\\nbusness here until his death in 1848. After that his widow kept the mill\\nin operation until 1876, when she died and her son, C. S. White took\\ncharge, and for some time manufactured paper twine, but recently manu-\\nfactures toilet paper. He employs a number of men continously.\\nTHE WAI^DWICK SAW MILL.\\nThe Wakhvick saw mill was built in 1850 for a paper mill and during\\nthe war, from fifteen to twenty barrels of paper twine was made, daily.\\nAbout twenty years ago it was burned, and was rebuilt by Matthew D.\\nWhite, for a saw mill, having been used for that purpose since that time,\\nsawing and shipping hard wood. Mr. White keeps a force of sixteen\\nmen and four teams employed, and furnishes lumber to the New York\\nand Paterson markets, principally.\\nTHE PO.ST SILK MILL COMPANV.\\nThe Post Silk Mill Company is located at Waldwick, and was estab-\\nlished in 18 n, by John A. Post, where he engaged in silk throwing,\\nexclusively, doing a strictly commission business. H\u00c2\u00bb began with but\\ntwelve hands but increased until he had a force of eighty men employed,\\nand on February 1, 18 (9, the concern was incorporated, wifh John A.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "HrSTOKV OK BEKGEN COUNTY 215\\nPost, president; F. C. Streckfuss, treasurer and secretary. Thev nnw\\nemploy about one hundred men. preparing thread from the raw silk, for\\nthe loom.\\nTHE AJIEKICAN PECAMOID COMPANY,\\nThe American Pegamoid Company \\\\vas incorporated December 17.\\n1897, with the capital stock of Hve million dollars. The incorporators\\nand those interested are John R. Bartlet and many others of New York\\nand Boston, it being a foreign company though the works are at Under-\\ncliflF. The certificate of incorporation says: that the company is organ-\\nized to import, deal in, and manufacture paper materials and paper sub-\\nstitutes of all kinds of raw substances, pulps preparatimis and all articles\\nto be made from paper or paper substitutes.\\nNEW PKOSPICCT Jl. i;. ClIUKCH.\\nThe New Prospect M. E. Church, now better known as the Wald-\\nwick M. E. Church, was the first society of that denomination in Bergen\\nCounty. No records remain of its first organization, nor any earlier\\nthan 1797; but the tenor of those existing seems to imply that the society\\nhad been in existence for some time.\\nThese quaint old records are interesting, showing the conti ast\\nbetween those days and the present. Accounts were kept in pounds,\\nshillings and pence; the building was illuminated at night, first by\\ntallow candles, then by oil, then by camphene, and not till compara-\\ntively recent times by kerosene. The curious archaic spelling, the\\nsignatures of men of note in their day as pastors, presiding elders and\\nas private members, make the faded lines and age-yellowed pages\\ninteresting.\\nRev. J. Fountain was pastor in 1797; Barnabas Mathias associate\\npastor. The circuit to which this appointment was attached\\nextended then from Haverstraw, Rockland County, N. Y., to Belville,\\nN. J.\\nRevs. Manning Force, J. Mallinson and George Banghart, all nun\\nof mark in their day, were among its lirst pastors. In fact the roll of\\nNew Prospect s ministers in charge includes none but honored names.\\nThose still living are Rev. W. A. Dickinson, Rev. J. E. Switzer, Rev.\\nJ. R. Daniels. Rev. H. D. Opdyke, Rev. E. Clement, Kev. E. V. King,\\nRev. J. E. Gilbert, Rev. J. Tyndall, Rev. J. A. Piper and Rev. A. J.\\nConklin, now serving his second term as pastor liere.\\nA church building was first erected near where the Erie Railroad\\nnow runs, within the bounds of Waldwick. This growing too small for\\ntheir needs was replaced by another, a neat frame structure near the\\nl)resent building, and now altered into an l used as a dwelling ht)use.\\nThe present edifice, a handsome white frame building, was erected\\nduring the pastorate of Rev. J. E. Switzer i8f 5-18( 7) and is a taste-\\nfully furnished and well planned church, with belfry and bell.\\nBy the untiring diligence of the Ladies Aid Society, from 1S91 lo\\n1894, a convenient and pleasant new parsonage and a large hall fur", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "216 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nSunday School, business and social uses were erected upon lots adjoining\\nthe church.\\nMany are the chang-es that have taken place in this hundred years.\\nMany are the good men and good women, noble and true, who have gone\\nto their reward from this church. They are no longer with us, but are not\\nforgotten. The names of Whitman Phillips, Abraham Ackerman and\\nwife, Aaron Ackerman and wife, John A. Storms, Peter U. Bush, Stephen\\nHammond and many others will long be remembered in the annals of\\nthis church.\\nFrom this old mother church of Bergen Methodism have gone out\\nother societies, who have built beautiful churches in Allendale, Camp-\\ngaw, Wortendyke, Little Zion. Sloatsburg and Suffern the last two in\\nRockland County-, N. Y.\\nThe trustees are as follows: Matthew D. White, George Storms, E.\\nD. Lear3% D. Van Blarcom, Andrew Storms, Abram Storms, G. Winters,\\nJ. Terwilliger and G. Simmons.\\nThe Catholic Church in Hohokus is a branch of the Lady Mount of\\nCarmel, Ridgewood, and is under the pastorate of Father E. A. Kelly.\\nGround for this building was given by Jacob Zabriskie in 1864. The\\nsociety was organized and the building erected under the pastorate of\\nleather McNulty.\\nABKAH.XM H. .\\\\.CKKK:\\\\1AN.\\nDuring the reign of King George IH, the ancestor of the Acker-\\nman family of Orvil township, found a home in this part of Bergen\\ncounty, where several generations of his descendants have continued\\nto reside.\\nIn the year 1763, Johana Arie Ackerman came to New Jersey and\\nin 1773 began purchasing land, subsequently continuing these transac-\\ntions until large portions of this part of the old township of Franklin,\\nnow Orvil, came into his possession. His son Abraham I. Ackerman\\nwas born October 10, 1766. Abraham I. married Sarah Cooper who was\\nborn November 5, 1766. They were married May 12, 1784. Their son\\nHenry A., was born November 28, 1787, and his wife, Elizabeth Hopper\\nwas born May 28, 1799. Henry and his wife were married January 16,\\n1819. He died May 18, 1879. She died December 29, 1881. Their\\nchildren were Abraham H., the subject of this sketch, who was\\nborn May 22, 1820, and Nicholas H., born September 17, 1837. died,\\nOctober 23, 1892. Abraham resided on the old homestead until his death\\nwhich occurred December 8, 1891. He married Mary Van Riper,\\ndaughter of Harmon Van Riper, November 1, 1838. At the time of this\\nmarriage his father, Henry A., built a house on the farm on the Pater-\\nson road and with his wife and younger son, Nicholas H., removed\\nthere, leaving Abraham H., to care for his grandfather and grandmother,\\nwhich he did for five years, his grandfather dying November 22, 1843.\\nAbraham H. Ackerman began life as a farmer. He received his early\\neducation in the school at the Paramus Church, which was at that time", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "AKKAHAM II. ACKKIOIAN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 217\\na small structure, furnished with Ihul;- wdnden l)enches fur seating pur-\\nposes. School opened at nine and closed at four o clock. The teachers\\nwere exacting, and made full use of the rod as a means of discipline.\\nMr. Ackernian received a very good common school education, however,\\nand began farming for himself in the spring of ls,^ on this farm of\\nsixty acres. He had no money to start with, but he and his wife worked\\nfaithfully for a few years, and accumulated enough means to purchase\\nmore land. In 1SS5 he bought thirty acres from Mr. Andrew Zabriskie,\\nsubsequently buying more from other i)arties.\\nIn his younger da3s he was a somewhat extensive strawberry grower,\\nselling his berries in New York. In order to be ready for the morning\\ntrade, he would go at night and return, a fter making his sales, to prepare\\nfor the following day. His berries brought good prices for those times.\\nIn addition to his trade in this line, he was also in the milk business for\\na period of about ten years, furnishing milk during all this time to one\\ndealer in Jersey City, receiving two and one-half and three cents per\\nquart. To these two commodities Mr. Ackernian attributed a good\\nshare of his success in money making. He was a successful farmer,\\nand his crops were well tended; they yielded well, and when disposed\\nof, the money was safely invested in farms, until about lS().s, when he\\nbegan purchasing real estate in Paterson. Tliis was simplv as an\\ninvestment, for he never sold any land, and at the time of his death he\\nowned a large number of houses. In 1852 he and his wife became mem-\\nbers of the Reformed Church, at Paramus, where they had attended all\\ntheir lives, and from that time he was closely identified with all the\\ninterests of that church, serxing as deacon .md elder a greater ])art of\\nthe time until his death.\\nTwo children were l orn to them, one of whom died in infancy, and\\nthe other, Elizabeth M., now the wife of Mr. A. A. Blauvelt, resides on\\nthe old homestead, being the lifth generation who have occu]jied this\\n]jlace as ;i residence. Mr. Ackernian was a R itublican in i)olitics,\\nserving often in townshij) offices.\\nai!K a:\\\\i a. Hi.Ar\\\\ i-;i.T.\\nThe Blauxelt family in this ])art of Bergen county are descendants\\nof Henry Blauvelt, who settled on a considera1)le tract of land early in\\nthe present century, and lived there until he died, Deci inbi-r 27, 1897,\\naged ninety-three years. He was born Junt 22, 1S()3. Ilis wife, Chris-\\ntina Baldwin, was born January 1 1807. Slie died .M.irch l.\\\\ IS.Sl.\\nTheir children were Garret H., Thomas H. and .lolm Henry, who is\\nliving in Michigan, and David A., who jives on the old t.irm.\\n(larretB. Hlauvet was born Sej)teniber 20, 1824. He married\\nJemima Ackernian, who was born February l.i, 182.^, and died Sejitem-\\nber 2. 1S )S. He died September 24, 18 ;8. They at lirst lived on u liirni\\nat .\\\\rcola. About thirty years before they died tlie\\\\- retiri d, taking u])\\ntheir residence at Paramus.\\nAbram A. Blauvelt. the subject of this sketch, was their son. Ho\\nwas born August 20, 1.S44. His life has been s]nnt on a farm in the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "218 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nquiet pursuit of an avocation that has always been congenial to his\\ntastes. He cares nothing for political preferments, but is an official in\\nthe church, and has identitied himself with the Paramus Society for over\\ntwenty-five years. He is now serving his third term as elder of that\\nchurch. Mr. Blauvelt was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Ackerman\\nOctober 17, 1S( She was born April 2, 1848. The^ have no children.\\nThev live on the old Ackerman homestead, and have a delightful home.\\nHON. JOHN W. BOGEKT.\\nHon. John W. Bogert, the well-known Judge of the Court of Errors\\nand Appeals, whose appointment first by Leon Abbett, the Democratic\\nGovernor of New Jersey, in 18 U, and again by Governor Griggs in 1897,\\nproclaims both his efficiency and popularity. As a representative of the\\nBogert family, which came to this country from Holland several genera-\\ntions ago and settled in Bergen county, the Judge inherits many of the\\nadmirable traits and characteristics of this sturdy race. Born Septem-\\nber 3, 1839. and reared within the precincts of the home of his immedi-\\nate ancestry, he has been called to numerous positions of trust and con-\\nfidence which he has filled to his own credit and to the satisfaction of\\nhis constituents. The great grandfather of John W. was Stephen, and\\nhis grandparents were James S. and Sarah Westervelt) Bogert, whose\\nson, Stephen J., was born April 3, 1813. His wife was Catharine Hop-\\nper, the daughter of Albert G. Hopper, late of Ridgewood. John W.\\nwas their only child. He now owns and occupies the farm upon which\\nhis father passed his life, dying February 3, 1854. The Judge was\\neducated in the public schools of Hohokus. He was elected township\\nclerk when but twenty-one years of age, has held the office of township\\nassessor, and was for fourteen years county collector. In 1874-1875 he\\nwas a member of the New Jersey State Assembly, and served as State\\nSenator for four years, 188(), 1887, 1888 and 188 and as Judge of the\\ncourt he has filled the office with distinction and to the general satis-\\nfaction of the public.\\nJudge Bogert s wife was Miss Etta Ackerman. daughter of Daniel\\nand Mariah Snyder Ackerman. She died in January, 189(), leaving two\\nchildren. Sarah C, wife of Stephen L. Van Emburgh and Daniel A.,\\nunmarried.\\nN. B. KirKTCK.\\nN. B. Kukuck is a native of New York city, born August 1827.\\nHe was for years associated with John Anderson Company, tobaccon-\\nists, of New York, and after a successful business career retired in i872.\\nHaving purchased the old Ackerman homestead in 18\u00c2\u00ab. t. he has con-\\ntinued to reside there to the present time.\\nIn politics Mr. Kukuck is independent He is a member of the\\nMasonic fraternity.\\nPETER O. TEKHEUN.\\nPeter Terlieun is of the numerous family of that name in Bergen\\ncounty. His grandfather was Peter I. Terheun, of Hackensack, whose\\nson, John R., married Miss Mary A. Achenbach, and became the father", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "Jl Df.K JOHN W. BIMIKKT", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGKN COUNTY 2V)\\nof our subject. Mr. Torheun was born in the earlv forties, on the old\\nhomestead near Ilohokus, and still resides there. After receiving a com-\\nmon school education he entered Hartwick Seminary, near Cooperstown,\\nN. Y., where he took a course of instruction, which finished his school\\ncareer. Upon leaving school, he immediately began learning the trade\\nof wood turning, with his father who was then conducting a profitable\\nbusiness in general wood work. After the war the business increased,\\nassuming proportions of considerable magnitude. When the revenue\\nwas placed upon the product of their factory it reached at one time the\\nsum of sixty dollars per month to the government.\\nMr. Terheun is a Republican, and has held the offices of Townshij)\\nCollector and of Freeholder, and was also one of the Commissioners to\\ndetermine and fix the Boundry Line between Passaic and Bergen counties.\\nOKVn.I.K J. 1CT()K.\\nMr. Orville J. Victor, a well known resident of Hohokus in this\\ncounty, was born and bred in Ohio, educated for the law, but in his early\\nmanhood taking a turn toward literary ])ursuits, he secured an interest\\nin The Sandusky (O.) Register as co-editor with the late Henry B.\\nCooke, the Washington banker.\\nIn 1858, Mr. Victor removed to New York city to edit The Cosino-\\npoliton Art Journal. He also assumed editorial control of The United\\nStates Journal, in 185 t. He wrote his \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Hist iry of American Cons])ira-\\ncies, one vol., octavo, 18W)-()1, and contributed much to the New York\\npress and magazines of that period. From 1862 to 1867 Mr. Victor was\\ndevoted to the production of his History of the Southern Rebellion,\\ncompleted in four royal octave volumes a herculean task. It gave the\\nauthor great prominence.\\nMr. ictor has been a life-long student of Ann-rican historv and\\naffairs, and has gathered a unique collection of books and ])a]X rs. of\\nwhich he has made am])Ie use in his own contrihutiniis to our historical\\nand political literature. His very extensive collection of books and doc-\\numents on the civil war he has sui)plemented with scissorings from\\nthe press, until now, it may be said, his data is unicpie and complete.\\nThis careful gathering has been with reference to a total rei)roduction\\nof his voluminous history bringing it within the compass of two octavo\\nvolumes, and making it what he believes is now possible a clear, im-\\npartial and permanent library record of the great struggle.\\nJOHN A. I OST.\\nJohn A. Post, one of the enterprising and successful men of Wald-\\nwick, is termed a self-made man, or in other words he has built up, and\\ncarried on business, unaided, to a successful issue. Mr. Post is the son\\nof Abram Q. and Jane (Valentine) Post and was born June 14, 1856.\\nHis father was a carpenter, the son learning the same trade, which he\\nfollowed for four years. He then became employed by tiie Wortendyke\\nManufacturing Com])anv, in the manufacture of silk, where he learned", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "220 HISTOKY OK BHKf.KX COUNTY\\nthe trade of throwing and weaving-. In 1891, he began business for\\nhimself at his present location in Waldwick, in the work of silk throwing-\\ning, doing a strictly commission business. Beginning in a small way,\\nwith onlv twelve hands, he has steadily increased his capacity by\\nextending the buildings and machinery, as the case demanded, until the\\nestablishment is now equipped with the latest modern appliances,\\nkeeping eightv hands employed. His custom is almost wholly in New\\nYork.\\nHe has under c(mtemplation a reorganization, as a stock company\\nin order to further extend and enlarge his business, offering special\\ninducements for a safe investment of capital.\\nMr. Post is a member of the F. and A. M. at Ridgewood, and in\\npolitics is independent. He was married in iS S.^ to Miss Anna Acker-\\nman, daughter of Abram A. Ackerman, of Bergen county. They have\\none son, Abram J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXI.\\nBOROUGHS.\\nALLENDALE UPPEK AND LOWER SADDLE KIVEK OKOANIZATION- INUIS-\\nTKIES SCHOOLS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CHURCHE.S OLD HOTELS BIOGRAPHICAL.\\nThe enterprising little villag e of Allendale is of comparativlv\\nmodern growth, but is fast assuming- proportions worthy of a more dig-\\nnified name. The place was named for Colonel Allen, one of the engin-\\neers engaged in the construction of the Erie Railroad. It has now sev-\\neral stores, a hotel and two flourishing churches.\\nThe land was first owned by John Lawbaugh and Paul Van Houten,\\nand descended to their heirs, among whom were Joseph and Henry Mal-\\nlinson. Paul Van Houten was killed in the war of 1812. Johq Van Hou-\\nten, his brother, married Margaret Nickler, June 28, 1794 and settled\\nsubsequently f probably in a few years) in a little house near where John\\nYoumans lived and died. He was born January 30, 176.^ and died May\\n7, 1848. His wife died October in, 185.^. Their children were Paul and\\nMargaret. Paul was born March 14, 1795, and died March 11, 1870.\\nHe was married May 30, 1835 to Miss Rebecca Demarest (born 1819,\\ndied June 5, 1881 daughter of James Demarest, of Oakland. Margaret\\nmarried John Lawbaugh who was the father of Joseph Mallinson s first\\nwife.\\nMargaret, daughter of Paul, and Rebecca Demarest, was born\\nAugust 3i, 1835. She married John Youmans May 25, 1855, and in 1807\\nmoved from Wyckoff to Allendale where she still resides. He died Feb-\\nruary 21, 1885. Anthony Crouter was an early settler here also. Henry\\nMallinson, his son-in-law owned the old homestead subsequently pur-\\nchased by O. P. Archer, who came to the place thirty years ago from\\nDutchess county, N. Y. Smith Roswell began working on the Erie rail-\\nroad here in 1848, at which time (ieorge Brady, an Irishman, was carry-\\ning the mail from Ramsey s to Allendale, making the trip on foot, Mr.\\nRoswell became postmaster in 1857 or 1858, securing his ap])ointment\\nfrom President Buchanan. He kept the office without interruption unti\\n1884, receiving the munificent income of twelve dollars a year, for the first\\ntwelve years of his official life. He was succeeded by R. V. Ackerman\\nwho in turn was followed by Mr. Roswell who had the office the second\\ntime. Mr. A. F. Krause, the station agent, is postmaster now.\\nWhen thirty-two years old Mr. Roswell became connected with the\\nErie railroad and was their station agent at this jilace over thirty years.\\nIn 1805 he built his house. When he became postinasler of AlUiidale\\nthe following perstms lived in the vicinity\\nJohn G. Ackerman, Paul Van Houten. Anthony Crouter. John A.\\n(iarrison. PeterG. Powell, Daniel Anthtmy, Joseph and Henry Mallinson\\nJohn L. Youmans, (i. A. Smith, A. h. Zabriskie, all of whom except (i.\\nA. Smith, Joseph Mallinson and Albert L. Zabriskie are now dead.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ZZZ HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nBOKOUGH OF ALLENDALE.\\nDuring the latter part of the year 1894. the residents of Allendale,\\nfearing- that the neighboring towns would incorporate under the Borough\\nAct, and, by including a portion or the whole of Allendale, would thus\\ndivert its taxes to the improvement and maintenance of the other towns,\\ndetermined, in order to protect themselves, to also incorporate. The\\nsurvey was made to include about four square miles of territory, and\\nthe incorporation effected at the time mentioned. The population of\\nthe territory included within the boundries of the Borough is about 650.\\nAt its first election the following officers were installed: Peter D.\\nRapelje, Mayor; Walter Dewsnap, E. E. Burtis, H. C). Doty, George W.\\nHatch, Charles Parrigot, C. A. Ouackenbush, Council; R. L. Ximmu,\\nClerk.\\nIn the regular spring election of l.S S, they were re-elected for a\\nsecond term.\\nIn spring election of 1897 the following officers were elected:\\n(rcorge Cook, Mayor; Walter Dewsnap, J. J. Pulis, C. A. Hopper, Jesse\\nBrown. John A. Mallinson, J. J. an(lerbeck, Council; G. G. Smith,\\nClerk.\\nIn the spring of 18 i, the above officers were elected for a second\\nterm.\\nThe Board of Education now consists of W. C. Tallman, President;\\nG. C;. Smith, Treasurer; H. J. Appjrt, S. J. Van Blarcum, S. T. Van\\nHouten, C. A. Ouackenbush, John Ackerman. J. J. Van Horn, C. W.\\nStocker.\\nThe Board of Health consists of M. H. Blauvelt, President; G. G.\\nSmith, Secretary; P. D. Rapelje, J. A. Mallinson, S. D. Brainard, R. R.\\nLetts.\\nAllendale proper is made up entirely of residences, mostly of those\\npersons who have removed from New York, Brooklyn, and other\\nadjacent cities. Since its incorporation as a Borough, the village has\\nconstantly expanded, and the income from its taxes having been devoted\\nto the improvement of its streets, avenues, roads, school buildings, etc.,\\nand being entireh- devoid of all manufacturing plants, factories, etc..\\nIt is rapidly becoming one of the favored spots for those seeking suburban\\nhomes.\\nSCIIOCLS.\\nIn lS2i) the little old red scho(d house a (me story frame building,\\nsixteen by twenty four feet in dimensions, was built a half mile below\\nthe Allendale depot. Previous to this, two buildings had been erected\\nfor school purposes, but nothing definite has been learned concerning\\nthem. In this old school house, desks were arranged around the room\\non which the luckless urchins were doomed to sit from nine in the morn-\\ning until four in the afternoon. The first board of trustees was com-\\nposed of John G. Ackerman, John Ackerson and Albert A. Garrison,\\nwho employed Isaac Demarest as their earliest teacher. James Alfred", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGKX COUNTY 223\\nAckerman now seventy six years of aye taug ht his first schoul in this\\nbuiklinLT, fifty eight years ago. Henry II. an(lerbeck, James A. Acker-\\nman, John Binder, son of the former Governor (ieneral of the ishind of\\nAntiqua, and ISIiss Mary (ieroe, afterwards Mrs. Jacob Oatmaii of Pater-\\nson, were all teachers here at different times. In 1S( 2 the old building\\nwas removed to John Wilson s farm where it now does duty as a gran-\\nary, and a new building twenty live by thirty five feet in dimensions,\\nadorned with belfry and blinds, was erected at a cost of S2 l(iil, to take\\nits place. Mr. James Alfred Ackcrman was a teacher also in this l)uild-\\niug and his nephew. J. J. Ackerman, is principal of the school al the\\npresent time. The house, which is an eleg-ant one, with new systems\\nof improvement, was erected in IS U) at a cost of S.-^(i(i. A kindergarten\\nschool is also maintained in connection wiili it and an excellent vourse\\nof instruction secured.\\nSTOKKS.\\nThe Borough of Allendale carries on no manufacturing industry\\nbut its commercial and mercantile enterprises are worthy of a name and\\nhelps to give support to a good hotel. Smith Roswell was the first to\\ndivert trade from adjoining towns to Allendale, by opening up a little\\nstore just opposite the depot, soon after he became identified with the\\nvillag e, and the venture proved a profitable one to him for about eight\\nyears. A business centre having now become established, Morris S.\\nAckerman began selling goods in a part of the hotel and in iS72 A. G.\\nAckerman began a business which he has kept going to the present\\ntime.\\nTwelve years ago Smith Ilenion succeeded Winter, Leaman\\nCo., and in iS M, Smith Cliristo])her succeeded Smith Henion.\\nThese gentlemen with an extensive atronage add elements of strength\\nto the village of Allendale.\\nTHE MISSION CHAPKI, OI Till lU I THAN V.\\nAllendale, is the fruit of good seed planted by gentle and faithful\\nhands. In January, 1872, Mrs. Stephen Cable, moved with compassion\\nfor the lambs without a shepherd, opened her house f(jr a Sunday school.\\nOn Epiphany Sunday, the good work was begun, fifteen scholars and six\\nteachers being present. The^names of the teachers were Mrs. James\\nReading, a communicant of Christ Church, Ridgewood, and a daughter\\nof St. Mary s Hall, Burlington, N. J., Mr. J. Reading. Mr. and Mrs.\\nHarris, Miss Powell, and Miss Southwick. The school soon increased\\nto seventy scholars, and other teachers enlisted, Mr. C. Conner and Miss\\nConner among the first. The enterprise enlisted the sui)])ort of all\\nChristian people, and friends aided the good work.\\nThe following summer a barn was fitted n\\\\t comfortably, and tlie\\nschool increased in favor. The ccmtributions for the Sunday school\\namounted in two years to S104, and from 1S72 to 1S7( nearly S70() were\\nraised.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "224 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn September, 1873, public worship was held by the Rev. L. R.\\nDickinson. These services were continued at first monthly, and after-\\nwards on alternate Sundays, and Hope Chapel, as it was then called, en-\\njoyed the full service of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The mission\\nwas placed in charge of the rector of Christ Church, Ridgewood, and\\nduring- two years the faithful missionary horse did Sunday duty, driving\\nto Ridgewood and returning, and then back again, a round of sixteen\\nmiles, that the flock may be fed. Afterwards the Erie Railroad re-\\nlieved him of this labor, and he rested, as a good Christian, from work.\\nPeace to his ashes.\\nIn 1874 Daniel A. Smith became superintendent and the school flour-\\nished under his care. He was the first warden, then T. Calloway. E.\\nG. Washburne is the present warden, while A. L. Zabriskie has been\\ntreasurer from the beginning.\\nJune 10th, 1876, the chapel was opened bv the minister in charge,\\nfor divine service, and on the 25 th of June Bishop Odenheimer laid, the\\ncorner stone and confirmed four persons. Mr. Smith was appointed lay\\nreader, and $972 was contributed for building and furniture. On July\\n4th, 1880 at an early Communion service the chapel bell bought by the\\nclass in charge of Mrs. Harris, was first rung. They are now about to\\nbuild a new edifice. Rev. C. H. S. Hartman was appointed in charge\\nMay 24, 1892; he was here until April 1894. Rev. William Haskel was\\na supply until November 1895, and the Rev. William Allen, the first\\nresident priest, at present in charge, was appointed by the Bishop Sep-\\ntember 6, 1896. Under the faithful and efficient ministry of Rev. Mr.\\nAllen, the number of communicants has increased from thirty-two to\\neighty.\\nTHE AKCHEK MEMORIAL CHI KCH.\\nA chapel was built here by O. P. H. Archer in 1876, and was con-\\nsiderably enlarged by him in 1893, several niem(5rial windows were\\nincluded, the whole cost being about \u00c2\u00a718,000. The church now has a\\nmembership of 150 persons under the pastorate of C. C. Winans, who\\ncame here in April, 1898. Mr. O. H. P. Archer, president of the Board\\nof Trustees, died in May, 1899.\\nGEOROE COOK.\\nGeorge Cook, Allendale s second an(# present Mayor, was born in\\nSt. Ciair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, on the 13th daj of July,\\n1862, and is directly descended from the old English stock of that name.\\nHis father, John Cook, was born in I^ancashire, England, his mother s\\npeople coming from Leicestershire. Emigrating to this country when\\nabout twenty-five years of age, his father took up his residence in\\nSchuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the manufacture\\nof boots and shoes. In 1863 he volunteered as a captain in the Union\\nArmy, and served with distinction until the close of the war, at which\\ntime he removed with his family to Washington, D. C, where he still\\nresides, and at the present time is one of the city s wealthy and leading", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY Ol- HKK(;EN county IZT!\\nfinanciers. George, one of his two living children, attended the public\\nschools until about twelve years of age, when he entered Emerson Insti-\\ntute, and from which he was graduated four years after. He then\\nentered Columbia University, from the law dei)artment of which, at the\\nage of twenty, he was graduated and received his several degrees, sub-\\nsequently being admitted to practice before the Courts of the District of\\nColumbia, and later the Supreme Court of the United States.\\nIn 1885 he removed to New York, where, in the special branch of\\npatent law, he has built up an extensive and lucrative practice, his\\nclientage consisting largely of manufacturing firms and corpi)rations,\\nlocated in New York, Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Connecticut.\\nIn politics Mr. Cook is an ardent Rej^ublican, and at the time of his\\nfirst election as Mayor, was president of the Allendale Republican Club.\\nMr. Cook is a member of several of the leading social clubs of Bergen\\nand Passaic counties. Past Master of the Masonic Lodge in Ridgewood,\\nis a Knight Templar, and a member of Mecca Temple if the Mystic\\nShrine in New York city.\\nIn 1885 he married the daughter of Ex-Governor Charles P. John-\\nson, of Missouri, a grand-daughter of the late Thomas Parker, of\\nWashington, D. C, a short time afterward, about ISS taking up his\\nresidence in Allendale, where he still resides.\\nHe was first elected Mayor in March, IS iT. and re-elected in\\nMarch, 1899.\\nJOSEPH JIAI.IJNSOX.\\nJoseph Mallins m. of Allendale, is a son of Henry C. and Mary\\n(Netherwood) Mallinson. and was born in Yorkshire, England, January\\n17th, 1822. His father, who was a woolen manufacturer, emigrated to\\nAmerica in 1829, locating first at Mill Neck, L(mg Island, where he\\nfollowed wool weaving for a few years, when he removed to Clarkstown,\\nRockland county, N. Y., continuing in the same business. He finally\\nremoved to New Jersey, where he i)assed the remainder of his life, dying\\nat the age of fifty-six years. Of the ten childr^-n in the family, the eld-\\nest, Henry, was a wheelwright, and passed his life in Bergen county.\\nJoseph, the second, Elizabeth, now Mrs. Robert Hamilton, Joshua, of\\nSusquehanna, Pa., Sarah, wife of (reorge Smith, .Mary Jane, wife of\\n(ieorge Harrison, of Kansas, Lydia. now Mrs. Joseph l ishtr. of New\\nYork state, Rachel, who married Martin Seward, of Saver, Pa., .Iuli:i.\\nnow Mrs. Wilkinson, and John James.\\nMr. Mallinson married first, in 1848, Miss Ann Eliza Lawl)augh,\\ndaughter of John Lawbaugh. Tluir children are John Andrew, a\\nfarmer and carriage painter, who is connected with his father in busi-\\nness, William Henry, Sarah Ellen, and Anna Elizabeth, wife of Corne-\\nlius Hopper. Mrs. Mallinson died in 1S(,1. and in lSf). Mr. Mallinson\\nmarried Mary Ann Wcstervelt.\\nMr. Mallinson is now the oldest settler in Allendale-, having loc:i-\\nted here in i84S. With his sons hi- has followed c;irriage i)ainting and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "22t) HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ndecorating- while also conducting a small farm. He and his family be-\\nlong to the Methodist church, and in politics he is independent. Mr.\\nMallinson originally owned a considerable portion of the land now em-\\nbraced in the village of Allendale.\\nGAKKET G. SMITH.\\nGarret G. Smith, merchant, in Allendale, and in various capacities\\nserving the borough officially, is a grandson of Albert G. Smith of\\nHolland origin, who died in this part of Bergen county in 1868, ninety\\nyears of age. The grandmother s name was Hopper, and their children\\nwere. Cornelius A., John A., and Garret A. The homestead is on the\\nroad leading from Allendale to Wyckoff. Garret A. Smith was born in\\n1820, and is still living-. He was formerly a millwright and has been a\\nsuccessful and somewhat extensive farmer. He was married to Miss\\nEliza Jane Lake, daughter of Abraham Lake, who owned large property\\nin Paterson. His garden then covered the site now occupied by the\\nPassaic Hotel. Mr. Lake used to cart molasses from New York to\\nPaterson, but later in life moved to the Pond (Oakland) where he died.\\nEight children were born to Mr. Smith, all of whom are living. Albert\\nG., the oldest son, has been Justice of the Peace fourteen years in Camp-\\ngaw, N. J., and has been re-elected. Garret G. Smith was born in 18(\\nHe was educated in the State Normal School, but when twenty-six j-ears\\nof age came to Allendale where he has followed merchandizing. In\\n1894 when the borough of Allendale was formed he was chosen its first\\ncollector and was also elected Clerk of the Board. He became a member\\nand Treasurer of the Board of Education and was also made secretary\\nof the Board of Health. He is an influential citizen of the Borough\\nand is frequently called to office.\\nHis wife was Miss Matilda Blauvelt. daughter of Abram A. l lau-\\nvelt, who was deputy sheriff of this county for many years.\\nI PPEK AND I.OWEK SADDLE KIVEK BOKGI GHS.\\nBY JOHN G. ESLEK.\\nSaddle River became a borough on December l l,s 4, I)y a \\\\-ote of\\nfiftv-six to six of its inhabitants.\\nIt was prior to its formation as a borough a portion of Orvil town-\\nship. The first officers of the boroug-h were B. Oblenis. mayor; G. A.\\nAckerman, Albert Z. Winters, John G. Esler, Frank Blackledge. and\\nFrederick Demarest, councilmen; Abram H. Ackerman. assessor; and\\nWilliam H. Packer, collector.\\nThere is very little authentic record concerning the early settlers of\\nwhat now constitutes Saddle River Borough, but an old Indian deed\\nconveying the Wearimus Tract to Albert Zaborowsky given in 1702. bv\\nseveral Indian Chiefs, points to the Polish Pretender as probably the\\nearliest land owner of the Saddle River valley. A copy of this deed is\\ngiven in full below.\\nWhereas in the year i( 7.= according to the Christian account,\\nMamshier, the Indian Sachem, as also Metotoch and Checkepowas owners", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKKGEN COUNTY 22/\\nand Natural proprietors of several tracts of land lying on and above the\\nplace where the Eng lish have made Division of the Provinces of York\\nand the Jerseys Did by Having commerce contract, Debts with the\\nSusjects of the King of England our Royal Friend c and particularly\\nwith one Albert Zaborowskv of Hackingsack in the Province of h^asl\\nJersey, and in order to the discharging the same Did give unto the Said\\nAlbert Zaborowsky a certain tract of land by us known by the name of\\nNaracchoug but before the same was Regularly by Deed Conveyed unto\\nthe said Albert Zaborowsky to the end abovess, the above named Sachem\\nand owuerf dyed and the said tract of land intended, was by us his Suc-\\ncessors Made over to other Men and the Debts of the Defunct left un-\\npaid, for the Defraying whereof, and the fulfilling the known Desires of\\nour Dead Brethern, Bee it known unto all people and Nations, Before\\nwhom this testament Shall or may come That we (e) Orachanap\\nalias Metachenah Coorang and Nemeriscon Have given, granted, made\\nover and Confirmed and by these presents Do(e) give grant,\\nmake over Confirm unto the Said Albert Zaborowsky his helpers and\\nAssigns all that tract of land lying on the South East side of Saddle\\nRiver beginning on the North East bounds of a Certain piece of land\\nwhich Cleass Janson Romayn bought of the East Jersey Proprietors,\\nclose to the Said Saddle River, from thence running along the Line of\\nof the Said Class Jasson Romyn until it comes to the utmost Marked\\nblack oak of his said line from thence further beyond said tree until it\\nShall come to a great Rock near about Whom a certain Tree marked on\\nall four sides shall be found, from thence in a straight line to a certain\\nsmall runn Which is Easterly Just below a certain old Indian field or\\nplantation known by the name of Weromens i to a certain marked peach\\nh tree Marked on all four sides from thence in a straight course till it\\ncomes to a certain wild cherries tree or white oak Tree Marked on thr^e\\nsides and from thence quite to the Saddle River and then along the said\\nSaddle River to the place where it began, accounting the said tract of\\nLand to be one thousand and two hundred acres of English Measur.\\nwithin the limits and bounds Mentioned and S])ecified provided that if\\nthe Said number of acres should perhaj)s not ai)])ear within the sai d\\nLimits, and vice versa if, there should hap])en U ap])ear a greater num-\\nber of acres than above specified, we the above named owners shall l)e\\nalso contented with it, grant the same over plus by these present to the\\nSaid Albert Zaborowsky his Heirs and Assigns within the aforesaid limits\\nwith all the Rights, Titles, Priviledges and Apputtenances, of, or to the\\nsaid Tract of land or any part thereof belonging or in any manner ol\\nways appertaining. To Have and to hold the Said Tract of Land and\\npremises with all and every its a])])urtenances unto the Said Albert Zabo-\\nowsky his heirs and Assigns forever. To Be, and Remain to the sole\\nproper use. Benefit and behoof of Him the Said Albert Zaborowsky his\\nHeirs and assigns forever, and Hereby Desire Her Most Sacred Majesty\\nthe Oueen of England, that she will be graciously pleased to Protect the\\nSaid Albert Zaborowskv his Heirs and Assigi.s in the ])eacealile iiosses-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nsion thereof so that we may never be obstructed in our Just Intentions and\\nfair Dealings with her subjects. In witness whereof we have hereunto\\nset our hands and fixed our Scales according- to the English manner this\\nfirst day of June 1702 c in the first yeare of the Reign of the Most\\nSereen Lady Annie Queen of England.\\nSigned sealed Delivered c in the presence of L. B. L. Burgh\\nJohannis Jlyngsrlurd (Slinkerland John Ccmrad Codwere Then follows\\ntheir peculiar signitures.\\nThe title of the deed is Deed of Conveyance from the Indians to\\nAlbert Zaborowsky for Weeromnensa.\\nThe following Memorandum is written on the left hand corner of\\nthis deed:\\nThat on the twenty-third day of May, in the Twelfth year of the\\nReign of our Soverigu Lady Anne by the Grace of God our Great Bri-\\ntain, France, Ireland, Queen Defender of the Faith c Anno Doni 1713\\npersonally appeared before me Peter Soumans Esq of her Majestys Coun-\\ncil for the Province of New Jersey, Johannus, Slingerland within named\\nwho being sworn upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God declared\\nthat he saw the within Named Indians execute the Instrument on the\\nother side as their free and voluntary Act and deed and heard them de-\\nclare their meaning and intention to be as the other side to mentioned\\non the day and year the rein Specified.\\nPetek Soum.yns.\\nOn the reverse of the Indian deed is a conveyance of half of the\\nWeareomensa tract by Albert Zaborowsky to Thomas Van Boskerk.\\nThis deed is dated March 29, 1708, and is signed by Albert Zaborowsky.\\nThis document is at present in the possession of J. Hosey Osborn, of\\nPaterson. It is said that this is the only signature of that famous indi-\\nvidual who was the ancestor of the Zabriskie family of the present day.\\nThere is little doubt but that Thomas Van Boskerk was the first settler\\nof the Saddle River Vallev, and his descendants to-day occupy a con-\\nsiderable portion of the land which Albert Zaborowsky bought from the\\nIndians and conveved to their progenitor. Other early settlers were the\\nAckermans, Ackenbachs, C(mk!ins and Baldwins. John George Achen-\\nbach located on the Eastern hill overlooking the Valley. He was a\\nGerman Shepherd boy who ran away with his employer s daughter, and\\nthe eloping pair never c(mimunicated their whereabouts to their relatives\\nin the Fatherland. The graves of these early settlers are located on a\\n])romontory overlooking the Saddle River Brook a few rods soutli of the\\nland of Thomas Eckerson. A flat stone gathered from their farms,\\nmarks their resting place, but the winds and storms of a century and a\\nhalf have effaced the rude inscriptions that denoted their individual\\ngraves. The only person from Saddle River to actively participate in\\nthe American Revoluti(m was the notorious Lieutenant Colone IVan\\nBuskerk, wlio joined the Royalists and led predatory bands of Tories in\\na number of raids into Bergen county. With one exception the sym-\\npathies of the Van Buskerk family was with the Royalists. The Acker-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKKC.KN COUNTY 229\\nmans wuro li\\\\ i(le(l in their synipathii s, and the Achenbacks were do-\\ncidc lly in favor of the rebels, as was Louis Cc)nklin, whose brother-in-\\nlaw, Henry Esler, of Rockland county, was an officer in the rebel arniv.\\nA portion of Washington s army at one time passed through the vallev\\nand encamped for one night on the farm now belonging to the estate of\\nHenry G. Ackerman. This was supposed to be Colonel Burr s regiment\\non one of its raids.\\nThe war of 1812 found Mrs. Valleau, an estimable and patriotic\\nlady, the occupant of what is at the time of writing the Dewsnap prop-\\nerty. One if her sons, Ming Valleau. enlisted in the American army\\nand was killed. His brother Lieutenant John alleau went to the front\\nto avenge his brother s death and was likewise killed in the gallant\\ncharge on Oueenstown Heights. Valleau Cemetery at Pararaus in later\\nyears, was named for this patriotic mother who sent her sons to do\\nbattle for their country. Foremost among those who made Saddle River\\nfamous in the early days of the nineteenth century was David L Acker-\\nman the proprietor of the works known as the Triphammer.\\nMr. Ackerman, the grandfather of ex-sheriiT and present surrogate\\nDavid A. Pell of Bergen county w^as an energetic business man, a large\\nlanded proprietor, and slaveholder, who was noted for his liberality a nd\\nphilanthropy-. Andrew Esler a millwright and builder was widely known\\nas the builder of the tide water Mills on the Hackensack River, and\\nas the architect and builder of the Lutheran Church at Saddle River.\\nTrade unions w ere unknown in the twenties and Esler and his men\\nshouldered their tools on Monday morning and walked to the Hacken-\\nsack River a distance of ten miles in time to commence work at sunrise,\\n(iarret Zabriskie, a descendant of Albert Zaborowskv, a school teacher\\nand land surveyor, was also widely known. Thomas Van Buskerk. a\\ndescendant of the first settler by the same name, w as noted as a large\\nslaveholder and one of the last to own a slave in the vicintv of Saddle\\nRiver. The last slave owned by the old gentleman was incited to run\\naway Ijv William Osborn, Mr. \\\\an Buskerk s son-in-law. Garret Acker-\\nman, another large Landowner and the ancestor of a great man\\\\ of the\\nAckermans of the northern portion of Bergen county was widely known\\nand Abram Van Riper, Sr., a manufacturer of cotton goods, was one of\\nthe leading spirits of his time. Thomas .Achenbach, father of (ieorge\\nAchenbach the first president of the Hackensack Bank, was, together\\nwith David I, Ackerman one of the founders of the Lutheran Congrega-\\ntion. John Van Buskerk, great grandfather of the ])resent sheriff of\\nBergen county, Jacob an Buskerk, was one of the first mill owners in\\nthe valley and was widely noted for his corporosily, being of such\\nbreadth that he was unable to tie his own shoe laces.\\nThe earliest utilization of the water i)ower of the Saddle River was\\na grist and saw mill owned by Garret Ackerman upon the site of John\\nR. Achenbach s grist mill. In the early years of the nineteenth century\\nthe Triphammer was widely known. The Trijjhammer forged the\\nfarmer s tools in vogue in those days. In llu early fifties it ])assed", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "230 HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\ninto the hands of John Woodruff who ran a foundry and also manufac-\\ntured farmers tools. Parker Terwillig-er succeeded Woodruff and\\nthey in turn were succeeded by W. W. Packer Son, who still manu-\\nfacture tools and also haye added two warehouses, in which a large\\nstock of wagons are stored.\\nIn 1822 John Van Buskirk built a grist mill upon the present site\\nof Thurston Clark s hosiery mill. In 1856 Dr. Oblenis and John\\nDemarest purchased the property and began the manufacture of woolen\\nyarn, under the firm name of Oblenis Demarest. In 1860 Dr. Oblenis\\npurchased the interest of Mr. Demarest continuing the business for\\nnearly twenty 3 ears, when J. Augustus Bogert became the partner of\\nDr. Oblenis, and the new firm manufactured Cardigan Jackets. H.\\nW. Thurston succeeded Oblenis Bogerty and hosiery was manufac-\\ntured until the mill was burned October .^1, 18 )7. Thurston Clark\\nthen erected the present hosiery plant.\\nA mill for the manufacture of cloth, was erected in the early thirties,\\non the present site of Hardy s Ice Houses. In a few years Abram Van\\nRiper became the owner. This mill burned and Mr. Van Riper erected\\na shingle mill, which in the early fifties was turned into a basket\\nfactory, by Abram Van Riper, Jr. In 1863 the basket factory was torn\\ndown and a mill was built for the manufacture of woolen yarn, the\\nowners being Van Riper Blessing. This property in 1868 passed into\\nthe possession of W. W Ward, who for many years manufactured high\\ngrade mechanics tools. In addition to these in the early half of the\\nnineteenth century yarn was manufactured at what was known as the\\nBlue Mill, now the Hamlyn property.\\nA hat factory was run near the Triphammer A tannery was\\noperated on property now owned by Thomas Van Buskirk, and also a shoe\\nfactory. Cigars and tobacco were marufactured by Henry and George\\nEsler, in the early forties. M. M. Smith s basket factory was started in\\n1878, and is still running.\\nThe first school building in the Saddle Riyery Valley was erected\\nbefore the dawn of the ninetweenth century. The exact date of its erec-\\ntion is shrouded in mystery but it seryed as a shelter to those who\\nacquired a knowledge of the rudiments of the three R s until 1825.\\nThe building was of stone, fitted up with rude desks and slab benches,\\nand was heated by a huge fire place, which in summer was used as a place\\nof imprisonment for unruly boys; a fireboard being fitted so as to close\\nthe fire place when not in use. A loose partition was used to make the\\nroom larger or smaller as the attendance required. After this building\\nwas torn down, the then rising generatiim supplied themselyes with slate\\npencils found on the site of the old building, which had been lost by their\\nfathers through the chinks in the floor. The building was located a few\\nyards west of the present residence of William Henry Osborn. In 1825 a\\ntwo story frame school house was erected where the Hall of the Ladies\\nSocial Union now stands. The land was dtmated by Dayid Ackerman,\\nfor school purposes and reyerted to his heirs when the school was moyed", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 2^1\\nto another site in later years. The ground floor of this buihliniJ- was\\nused as a school room and the second story as a lecture and class room\\nfor the Lutheran Sabbath School. The early furniture was slab benches\\nand home made desks, but during the last years of its use it was fitted\\nwith lid desks and neat wooden benches which were arranged around the\\nouter edge of the room with scholars facing the wall. This building\\nwhen too delapidated for school purposes was sold to William Osborn who\\nfor many years thereafter used it as a paint shop. One of the first\\nteachers who taught school in this building was Garret Zabriskie, a\\ndirect descendant of the original Albert Soborowski. He was a local\\ncelebrity who taught the village school, pulled teeth, and surveyed his\\nneig hbors lands besides giving good advice to all who applied. Another\\nteacher was a Mr. Dunspaugh of Columbia county, N. Y., who is still\\nremembered by many for the thorough manner in which he taught the\\nmultiplication table, and the Rev. Matthew Waltemire who having been\\ndiciplined by the Lutheran Conference, and debarred from preaching\\nbecause of confessed immorality, taught school in the old red school house\\nand made a record that drew pupils from neighboring towns. The build-\\ning was abandoned in 1855 for school purposes but before being entirely\\ndiscarded had to be closed in the Winter, because it was impossible to\\nkeep the children warm. The school furniture was moved to a building\\nlocated where Debauns grocery now stands, which had been rented of\\nJohn D. Naugle for school purposes. Here a teacher who was christened\\nby the boys Old Fitch taught for a single Winter. This pedagogue\\nwas noted for his love of ease and it was common for him to fall asleep\\nduring school hours, and while he soared in dreamland his pupils learned\\nmore mischief than arithmetic. In 1855 a brick school house was built\\non the old site. The erection of a school building by taxation was an\\ninnovation and that this building was erected by this method was due to\\nthe persistent efforts of John Demarest, Henry Esler and Henry Achen-\\nbach, three of the most progressive men in the district who were the\\ntrustees and who led the fight. School meeting after School meeting was\\ncalled and time and again they were beaten until at length Abram Van\\nRyper, Senior, who was the proprietor of a basket manufactory espoused\\ntheir cause and with his employees carried the last meeting in favor of\\nthe erecticm of a school house by taxation. This building was remodeled\\n1868 and was used until 188() when the present edifice was erected. John\\nH. Morrow, now a well known citizen of Paterson, N. J., commenced his\\ncareer as a teacher in this building. Cornelius P. Crouter who won the\\ngood will of his scholars and maintained discipline by persuasion mostly,\\nbut by force when necessary wielded the birch for the first time in the\\nbrick school house. John Moore, a graduate of Yale College, here\\nalso acquired his first experience with a district school. His dis-\\ncipline was so strict that the big boys, a la Dewey, planned to lick the\\nteacher but the trustees nip])ed the incipient plot in the bud. Moore\\nafterwards adopted different tactics and won the good will of his scholars.\\nJ. Alfred .Vckerman and .lohn J. .\\\\ckerinan both of whom have taught in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "232 HISTOKV OK BEKGEX COUXTV\\nBerg-en County Schf)ols for the past twent3--five years here commenced\\ntheir careers as instructors of the 3-oung. The present school building\\nwas built in 1886 and enlarged in 1898, when it was fitted with hot air\\nfurnace and latest improved furniture. It is capable of seating one hun-\\ndred scholars and is at the present time under the direction of Miss Elsie\\nStephenson, in the advanced department, and Miss Helen E. Morley in\\nthe primary department. Miss Emma Backster of Hackensack died in\\nthe Spring- of 1891 while in charge of the school. Her untimely death\\nwas universally lamented as she had endeared herself to pupils and par-\\nents alike. J. Hosey Osborn now a Paterson book seller was also a popu-\\nlar teacher and Arthur Ackerraan of local fame also taught the school\\nfor one season. The people of Saddle River Boroug-h are noted for their\\npride in the school and roads, and money for all necessary requirements\\nis voted without hesitation.\\nPrior to 1820 the inhabitants of what now constitutes Saddle River\\nBorough, worshipped in the old Reformed Church at Upper Saddle\\nRiver, or the Reformed Church at Paramus. In 1801 a call was extended to\\nthe Rev. John Frederick Ernst Ijv a small body of Lutherans but for\\nsome reason was not accepted. This movement however led to the\\norganization of a Lutheran cougreg-ation and in 1820 the corner stone\\nof the present Lutheran Church was laid up m land donated by Thomas\\nVan Buskirk. The church was designed and built by Andrew Esler.\\nRev. Henry N. Pahlman was the first pastor. He was succeeded by the\\nRev. David Hendricks and he by the following pastors in the order\\nnamed. Rev. Henry I. Schmidt, Rev. William L. Gibson, Rev. John\\nEisenlord, Rev. J. C. Duy, Rev. George Nepp, Rev. Matthew W.\\nWaldenmeyer, Rev. Nicholas Wert, Rev. Ephraim Deyor, Rev. Laurent\\nD. Wells, Rev. W. A. Julian, Rev. Jnhn E. Switzer, Rev. Peter M.\\nRightmeyer, Rev. David M. Shetler, Rev. J. V. Bodine, Rev. E. Hughes\\nand the Rev. Charles Hutton, the present incumbent. The Rev. Dr.\\nSchmidt after leaving the Saddle River charge became a literary pro-\\nfessor in Columbia College, New York. William Osborn served as sext( n\\nof the church for upwards of forty years after its organization and Henry\\nEsler served as choristor for as many years, before musical accompani-\\nments became fashionable. The grounds for the original cemetery in\\nrear of the church were donated by David I. Ackerman, and afterwards\\nan additional donation of land was made for cemetery- purposes, by Mr.\\nAckerman, with the proviso that the money accruing from the sale of lots\\nshould be used to purchase a bell. This was about the j-ear 1850 and the\\nbell is still in use. The cemetery has recently been enlarged by lan l\\npurchased from Jnhn H. Osborn and ground donated by John I), and\\nGeorge D. Berdan. In 1891 a meeting of the N. Y. and N. J. Lutheran\\nSynod was held in the Saddle River Lutheran Church.\\nThe Saddle River post office was established March 27, i852, at\\nwhich time Henry Esler was appointed postmaster. Prior to that date\\nthe inhabitants received their mail from New Prospect post office (now\\nHohokus) three miles distant. In the P all of i85i John Cole, a resident", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF lilCKGEN COl-NTY 233\\nof Rochester, New York, but a frequent visitor at Saddle River began\\nan agitation for a post office. A meeting was held at the residence of\\nHenry Esler. Prominent among those present were John Cole, Henry\\nAchenbach, John Demarest, William Osborn, Garret A. Osborn, Garret\\nAckerman, John J. Hopper, Colonel Henry G. Ackerman, John U. Ik-r-\\ndan, Henry Esler and (ieorge Esler. The petition, signed by these\\ngentlemen and others, bore fruit the following Spring in the establish-\\nment of the Saddle River post office. John D. Berdan secured the first\\ncontract for carrying the mail, and made the weekly trip on foot on\\nSaturday evenings, and only once in his eight years service as mail\\ncarrier did he fail to deliver the mail promptly, and on that occasion a\\nfreshet had carried away the Hohokus bridge, thereby making it impos-\\nsible for him to reach his destination. Henry Esler served as post-\\nmaster from the time of his appointment in i852, until his death in iSS4,\\nnearly thirty two and one half years. He was succeeded by John (i.\\nEsler who served four years, and he by John N. Leamon who held the\\noffice two years. The next postmaster William F. Barkham served four\\nyears and Frank H. Storms also served a four year term. He was suc-\\nceeded by John G. Debaum, the present incumbent. The mail service\\nduring Henry Esler s term was gradually increased from a weekly mail\\nto a daily mail, and under the regime of Postmaster F^rank H. Storms,\\nthe postal service was increased to a mail twice a day. The mail carrier\\nwho succeeded John D. Berdan was Peter P. Ackerman a blind man,\\nfamiliarly known as Blind Pete, who performed the service on horseljack.\\nDavid Tice was the succeeding c(jntractor but the mail was carried by\\nhis son John J. Tice. He was succeeded by Edward Eckerson, and\\nEckerson by Garret Ackerman and he in turn by (iarret H. Osborn as\\ncontractor although for a long time the actual carrier was his father,\\nWilliam Osborn. Mr. Osborn was succeeded by the present sub-con-\\ntractor Abram H. Ackerman. During the contract of Edward T. Ecker-\\nson the mail route was changed so as to embrace Pascack P. In the\\nearly eighties the mail route was changed to Allendale as a terminus in-\\nstead of Hohokus and since that tiair the mail service lias been by way\\nof Allendale.\\nFrom the earlv thirties to the commencement of the civil war Col-\\nonel Henry G. Ackeman kept a noted hostelrie in the Saddle K\\\\\\\\cr\\nValley. Mr. Ackeman was known far and wide as Old Tij). Tlu\\nsobriquet having been obtained from his ardent advocacy of William II.\\nHarrison, Tippecanoe for president.\\nIn the days when Mr. Ackcman s hotel was in its glory, campmeet-\\ning at Hohokus and Haverstraw was in vogue and this inn being on the\\nline of travel was largely patroniztd by those who attended these con-\\nvocations, as accommodations for man and beast could always be\\nsecured.\\nThe sign of a hotel which was in existence before the Revdlution-\\narv war is in the possession of John R. Achenbach, but where it was\\nlocated is not known.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "234\\nHisTOKv OF bhk(;kn county\\nV\\nm\\nb\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0HA\\n0-%ii^r\\nnil\\njj\\n^^^^^^Q\u00c2\u00bb 1\\nW^^^^^%S\\nSJ\\nKESint:NCK OF JOHN H. OSBOKSE--SArH LK KIVP;k BOROUGH\\nIn 1860 C. S. DeBauu started a hotel on the corner and after a\\nfew years William Christie became the landlord. He was succeeded b_v\\nOwen Rumsey, and he in turn by David Palis. For the past twenty\\nyears there has been no hotel within the territory which now constitutes\\nthe boroug h.\\nI PPKK S.\\\\DDLE KIVKK BOKOUGH.\\nUpper Saddle River Borough was organized a few days before its\\nneighbor, Saddle River Borough, and it comprises the upper portion of\\nthe Saddle River Valley. Its first officers were James D. Carlough,\\nmayor; Samuel J. DeBaun, Peter P. Bush, George Osborn, Jacob Banta,\\nJacob H. Zabriskie and James Hennion, Councilmen; Herman Hopper,\\nassessor; and Herman Terhune, collector. The oldest church in the\\nSaddle River Valley is located near the state line and is known as the\\nSt(me Church. The present edifice was built in 1819 and its prede-\\ncessor, also a stone church, was erected at least fifty years previous.\\nThe first church had no pews and attendants at worship brought chairs\\nor wooden benches upon which to sit. The denomination is Reformed\\nand the Rev. Mr. Van Campen is its present pastor. A Methodist\\nchurch familiarly known as Little Zion was erected in 1849 through\\nthe efforts of Abram Van Riper, James V. B. Terwilliger, Peter Crouter\\nand Herman Tice. Its present pastor is the Rev. Joseph Ware.\\nThe first school house built in the Borough Limits, dates back to\\nthe early da^-s of the ninteenth century, and was located nearly opposite\\nthe present residence of Edgar Terhune. Afterwards a school building\\nwas erected upon the site and was succeeded by the present modern\\nstructure built in iS9(). About sixty years ago a small school building", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 235\\nwas erected in the rear of the Stone Church for the purpose of em-\\nploying- the Rev. Mr. Brough, a Baptist minister to teach. This seced-\\ning- school -w-as run for abont t-wentv years when the school district com-\\nprising- the present Boroug-h was again united.\\nThe cemetarj in the rear of the Reformed Church contains the\\nremains of some of the earliest settlers of the Saddle River Vallev.\\nJOHN H. OSBOKNE.\\nJohn H. Osborne was born at Saddle River, November 1* 1.S.^2, and\\nis the son of William Osborne and Catharine Van Buskirk.\\nAfter being- for thirty-five years in the commission business in New\\nYork city he retired from active life about seven years ago, living since\\nthat time in comparative retirement.\\nMr. Osborne married Miss Catharine Hossey. They have three\\nchildren: William, John Hossey and (iarret.\\nJOHN G. KSI.KK.\\nJohn G. Esler, senior member of the firm of J. G. A. Esler, flor-\\nists of Saddle River, is genial and affable in disposition, pleasing in\\naddress, and judicious in all his dealings. Of German extraction he has\\nthe determination, aggressiveness and continuity of that thrifty race.\\nMr. Esler is descended in direct line from Henry Esler, who with his\\nfather, John Esler, came to America in March 1739, from the village of\\nPlattenburg in the province of Oldenburg, Germany, and settled near\\nSuffern, Rockland county, N. Y. A house now standing, near Suffern,\\nwas erected by Henry in 1765 and is said to be the oldest building in the\\ncounty.\\nHenrv Esler was a Lieutenant in Washington s army during the\\nRevolution. His son Andrew was a millwright and an enterprising man,\\nhaving built a number of mills on the Hackensack river and the Luth-\\neran Church at Saddle River. Andrew had two sons, Henry and George.\\nHenrv who was the father of John (i., was for thirty-five 3 ears post-\\nmaster of Saddle River, and also f(dlowed the occupation of millwright.\\nHis wife, (the mother of John (i., was Miss Jane Snyder, a native of\\nRockland county, N. Y.\\nMr. Esler was born, in the locality in which he now lives, on Sej)-\\ntember 17, 1846. After receiving a common school education, he entered\\nBryant Stratton s Business College in New York from which he was\\ngraduated in March 1866. Immediately thereafter he took a position as\\nbookkeeper in the office of a commission dealer in Barclay street, from\\nwhich he was eventually compelled to retire on account of his eyesight\\nbecoming impaired by the use of gaslight.\\nDuring the following two years Mr. Esler engaged in the cattle\\ntrade, but when his partner was elected sheriff of the county, Mr. Esler\\ntook charge of his father s farm, serving- as clerk of Hohokus township\\nfor three years of this time. He also served as Postmaster from i8,s4 to\\n1888. In 1 873 he built a small greenhouse in which he became so much\\ninterested that in i878 he formed a partnership with his cousin .Andrew\\nEsler, for the growing of plants and flowers, to which they now (le\\\\-ote", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "JOHN G. KSI.KK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BHKOKX COUNTY 237\\nsome 10,000 feet of glass. At present he is the secretary of the Flor-\\nists Hall Association of which he was one of the originators. In iSS7,\\na few men, among them Mr. Esler, met in New York city and completed\\na set of by-laws for the government of this orgiinization and through\\nhis efforts an amendment to the insurance laws of New Jersey, allowed\\nof its incorporation in that state. In this association over l(i,( ()(i,(H)(i\\nsquare feet of glass is now insured.\\nIn addition to his labors in the different societies and other organi-\\nzations connected with his business, he has been president of the Orvil\\nCo-operative Building and Loan Association for ten years and is a mem-\\nber of the School Board and was a member of the Borough Council of\\nSaddle River Borough for five years after its organization. He is now a\\ndirector in the De Lamere Printing and Publishing Co. of New York,\\nand has also been connected with the Hackensack Republican, besides\\ncontributing to various periodicals. Mr. Esler was married in iS7() to\\nMiss Rosea J. C. Ward, daughter of William Ward, of English parent-\\nage. They have three children, Lola W., Nellie J., and Mary U. In\\nreligion he is an agnostic and in politics a Republican, inclining to be\\nindejiendent.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXII.\\nR I D G E W O O D.\\n(lENEKAL DESCKIPTION SCHOOLS MANUFACTURING HIGHWAYS THE\\nVILLAGE OF KIDGEWOOD CIVIL LIST ORGANIZATION\\nNEWSPAPERS CHURCHES BIOGRAPHY.\\nRidgewood (one of the smallest townships in the countv) is remark-\\nable for its natural beauty and the diversity of its scenery. From the\\nridg e tops a magnificent panorama opens to view, in some instances\\nextending miles in all directions, while the fertile valleys between the\\nheights and along the brooks lend an added interest to this charming\\nlocality. The shady roadways and fine drives constitute an interesting\\nfeature of this township, the drives being so fine as to be much used by\\ncyclers during pleasant weather. The town is watered by the Saddle\\nRiver, which forms its Eastern boundary line, and the Hohokus, which\\nruns through the central portion. The chief point of historical inter-\\nest in this township is said to have been the marriage of Aaron Burr to\\nthe widow Provost, in the old Paramus Church.\\nAn Act organizing the township of Ridgewood was approved\\nMarch 30, 1876. The territory of this township was taken from that of\\nFranklin. The township officers for the year 1876, were as follows:\\nFreeholder, Garret G. Van Dien Township Clerk, Nathaniel R. Bunce\\nAssessor, John A. Marinus Collector, James Zabriskie Township\\nCommittee, Cornelius J. Bogert, N. R. Bunce, Peter G. Hopper, Albert\\nP. Hopper, Thomas Terhune. During the following years, the Van\\nDiens, Terhunes, Hoppers, Zabriskies and Ackermans, have principally\\nheld the offices of the township.\\nThe township is bounded on the north by Hohokus, south b}- Saddle\\nRiver township, east by Saddle River, and west by Franklin township,\\nand is traversed by two railroads, the Erie Railroad, with a station at\\nRidgewood, and the Susquehanna, which has a depot at Midland Park.\\nThe names that figure most prominently in the early histor} of\\nRidgewood township were those of Hopper, Van Dien, Van Emburgh,\\nBogert, Zabriskie, Banta. VanDerbeck, VanHouten, DeBaun, and\\nAckerman. The earliest recollected member of the Van Dien family\\nwas Albert, who resided upon the land afterwards inherited and occu-\\npied by Lawrence Snyder. His wife was a Miss Van Buskirk. Andrew,\\nCornelius and Thomas Van Dien were also early settlers in the town-\\nship. The name Hopper is common also, several branches of which\\nfamily are represented by sketches given below. The Ackerman family,\\nare of Holland lineage, and date back to David, one of Ridgewood s\\nearly settlers, who resided on the homestead afterwards occupied by\\nGarret G. Ackerman. Jacob Van Derbeck. husband of Lydia Van\\nBussum, and father of Abram and Harmanis was born in this township", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "HISTOUV OF BEKCEX COUNTY\\n23 J\\non the land afterwards occupied by Jacob Carlock, whose wife was a\\nf rand-daughter of Mr. Van Derbeck.\\nRev. David Marinus, a native of HoHand, located early in Bergen\\ncounty and married in the Du Bois family. He had three children,\\nDavid, John and Hannah. The Van Kmburghs and Terhunes are of\\nHolland ancestry. John, son of Albert Terhune, married Margaret\\nAckerman, and became the father of seven children. A number of\\nsketches of various members of this family may be found in different\\nparts of this book.\\nThe Zabriskie family is also one of prominence in the county.\\nAlbert Zabriskie, the progenitor of the family in America, was of Polish\\ndescent. He was the greatgrandfather of Abram J. Zabriskie and the\\nfather of Henry H. who married a Miss Bogert.\\nKAK LY SCHOOLS.\\nThe scho(jl territory of Ridgewood was formerly embraced in that\\nof Franklin township and was divided into three districts, Ridgewood\\nGrove, No. 44; Paramus Church, No. 45, and Ridgewood, No. f)i. Ridge-\\nwood Grove is located in the southern portion of the township, and in-\\ncludes a part of Saddle River. The original school building in this dis-\\ntrict was constructed of stone, about 1770, and was used until its destruc-\\ntion bv a gale of wind in 1S24. It was located near the division line\\ntill\\nbetween Franklin (at that date i and Saddle River townships, a short\\ndistance south of the residence of Garret I. Hopper. In 1824 aiiotlur\\nschool building was erected upon land of Paul Van Derbeck and used\\nuntil I8f 4, when it was succeeded by a brick structure built at the Grove,\\non lands of Henry P. Hoi)per, at which time also the district was incor-\\nporated.\\nThe e.\\\\act late of the formation of the Paramus Church District is\\nnot known, but evidentlv a school was established there about the time", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "240\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n,f the organisation of the Paramus Church which was m 17.0. There\\nexists a tradition that in the grant of land for Church purposes by Mrs\\nValleau, provision was made for the maintenance of a school here, and\\nenoujrh weight v-as given this tradition to influence the consistory m i8/.\\nto give the tru.tees a free lease in perpetuity on the ground since occu-\\npied for school purposes. i^u.. f^^i\\nAbout the year i785, a small building was erected about hft feet\\nsouth of the present church edifice, and parents of some of the persons\\nstill living attended school there. In 1810 the location seems to have\\nbeen changed and a small stone house was erected for school purposes\\nnear the house lately built for the sexton of the Paramus Churchy A\\nMr Westervelt was one of the early teachers of this school In 18\u00e2\u0080\u009e0 a\\nse ond stone building was erected and that gave way m 1845 to a ram.\\nedifice near the same ground. It was a low building, badly ventUat d\\nfurnished with rude benches, and having the door open from the rear\\nupon the highway. t i\\nThe present building is a commodious structure in keeping with the\\nprogress of the town.\\nRidgewood District No. 61 is located west of the centre of the town-\\nship and embraces the village of Ridgewood. It was formed April 7\\n18 ^7 and formerly included portions of the district of Godwinville,\\nHohokus, and Small Lots. A wooden building two stories high was\\nWit upon the formation of the district. In 1893 the elegant commodi-\\nou High School building was erected, and there are few public sch.u,!\\nbuildings in the State equal to it. It is of buff brick with brownstone\\ntrimmings and is an object of interest to the citizens.\\nBoard of Education 1897-99-D. W. La Fetra, President, H _ U\\nWard Secretary; Rev. E. H. Cleveland. C. P. Crouter, Sylvanus hitc,\\nDr W. L. Vr..om, Dr. J. B. Hopper, Ck.,rge E. Knowlton, J. D. an\\nEmburgh, Jr.\\nMANUFACTUKINCt.\\nThe first -rist mill in Ridgewood stood cm grounds now occupied\\nby The Peerless Manufacturing Company and was used as such\\nZ hllf a century and until burned in February ff ^^^Z\\nthat year a new frame building was put up and leased to J. J. Zabnskie\\nor a cotton mill, and six years later that too was burned. In 18M. ground\\nwL broken for k new frame structure which was leased to Edwin Tay or\\nfor manufacturing purposes, and this too was destroyed by fire m 1873.\\nDurint this year a brick building was erected on these grounds and in\\n1S9 leased to The Peerless Manufacturing Company for the manu-\\nfacture of soft rubber goods, such as hose, mats, springs, etc.\\nThe woolen mills of G. Morrow Son were established in 1853, on\\nthe Midland railroad in the south west corner of Ridgewood They were\\nlu iffor the manufacture of woolen goods exclusively, and good sets of\\nniachinery were put m use. The product of these mills hnds a read,\\nmarket in New York and elsewhere.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Of- i", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "HisToKv OF beki;kn county 241\\nhic;h\\\\vavs,\\nThe road territory of the towuship in the earlier, or Revolutionary\\ndays, gives some interesting- matter worthy of record. The earlist re-\\nmembered road is the Godwinville thoroughfare, which entered the\\ntownship on the west side, made a detour to the north, and again to the\\neast across the township where it intersected the Paramus road. This\\nroad was associated with the historic days of the Revolution. Another\\nroad ran southerly through the southwest part of the township having\\nits rise at the highway described above, and intersecting the old Wagara\\nroad near the Passaic River.\\nThe Paramus road ran from Poinpton to Hohoken and was the\\ndd Goshen and Hoboken stage line. It ran parallel with the east town-\\nship line and curved to the west entering the northeast portion of\\nRidgewood deviating again to the north and then passed into Hohokus.\\nBTKIAI. PI.ACl-:s.\\nThe oldest burial place in the township was given to the consistory\\nof the Paramus Church by Peter Fauconier in 17.^0, and it is probable\\nthat interments took place there soon after, as the church edifice was\\nccmipleted in 1735. Abraham J. Ackerman, born March 8, \u00e2\u0080\u00a21793, died\\nOctober 29, 1801, was buried here. Mary Bogert who died March 24,\\n1793 and Maria Ackerman, wife f)f Cornelius Demara, who died Sep-\\ntember 18, 1803 are among others whose epitaphs can still be deciphered\\nfrom old memorial slabs in this yard, in wiiich many inscriptions are fast\\ngoing to decay.\\nThe land embraced in the Valleau cemetery was given to the con-\\nsistory af the Dutch Reformed Church of Paramus by Magdalen Valleau,\\ndaughter of Peter Pauconier, the deed having been made out the\\nthirteenth day of April, in the twenty-third year of the Reign of our\\nSovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great\\nBritain, F^rauce and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, etc.. Anno\\nDomini, One thousand seven hundred and fifty. Between Magdalen\\nValleau of Hackensack in the county of Bergen, and Eastern Division of\\nthe province of New Jersey, widow, of the one part, and the present\\nElders and Deacons of the Paramus Church of the other ])art witnes-\\nseth etc.\\nThis cemetery was incor])orated in 1S.=.9.\\nThe True Reformed cemetery lies adjacent to the church, its age\\nbeing the same as that of the edilice which was erected in IS.S.S.\\nIv IDGKWOOI).\\nThe only village in this township is Ridgewood, better known in the\\nearlier period of its history as Godwinville named in honor of General\\nGodwin, a Revolutionary hero of Paterstm, New Jersey. In 1853 an\\neffort was made by Samuel Dayton to develop a hamlet at this i)lace bv\\njjurchasing a ])ortion of the Van Emburg estate and soon thereafter plot-\\nting it for a town.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "HISTOHV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe Piterson and Ramapo Railroad \u00c2\u00bb-as surveyed as early as 184(,.\\na\u00e2\u0080\u009ed 2: ffter was cons.ruc.ed. TMs road co.uec.ed ^ne Ra\\nr\u00e2\u0080\u009ead at Suffern, and with the Patetson and Hudson Railroad at l-attr\\nn In 1S59 the residents of the vicinity erected the hrs. statton bmld-\\ntC uS i:;L wh^ htSLod stands helon.ed originally to the\\nHoiJer Van Ei-burg and Wes.ervelt families; and for many years .he\\nstructure in the ficinity \u00c2\u00aba, a house o,ned by George Van Em urg^\\nThe first buildin- erected after this date was occupied by P. J. Hopper\\ndrelUo a\u00c2\u00b0I thou-h its dimensions were limited, room was found\\nS whth ^l/aL a sma-ll stoch of goods. Mr. Hopper, thus own.ng the\\nThrfirst hotel was huilt by John W. Halstead, and in 1*.=. the Epis-\\ncopaTcon^egation built a church on a 7 i\u00c2\u00bbf ^jf f\\nr^fdirrL^Ti-^t-raLtalLrt-irstraigh. line\\nclreuS\u00c2\u00b0ShuaTw ho was the first to purchase a por.i .n o, the\\nWesrell property and lay ,t out .nto j ^^.^f-- LrSt\\n\u00c2\u00b0!:^:.^:r::rrs :a^s: rs mlutd et!; the name of\\na struggle of nearly sixjear ^^^^._^^^\\nthe station to Ridgewood, Mr. ^^ua^t the n\\n^^^^W ie:; r f ^n::X^Z^^ ^oA short tin., then\\nnf r HuVenrneJer was agent for a period of fifteen years. The\\n-^r ?r o^e :::::l^S:: thro.,h the persi^e. e.^s\\nJi/d G. Walton, stiU residing ^n the v^^j^g P-^- ^sln\\nCitizens Insurance Company, New ^or^ ,tief clerk,\\nr^^^rt^;^::^ -:r^st^, a-^-^d e\u00c2\u00abici.tly\\n:;i^^:stti;.isd.th,his^owc^^^^\\ntrip^HX^S thL followTdlor afour years term being succeeded\\nAdolphHvrttenm y present occupant,\\nMr R: M. Brfdgman who tooK the office November 1, 1897. There are\\n^The^rs^ ostL awakening in Ridgewood commenced about 1880.\\nnhlisale of property took place comprising the Kidder\\nt-tte The bous th n belonging to it is now owned and occupied by\\nnr J T DeMu,! The property was purchased by several gentlemen\\nMr Pe^er l^kerman coming into possession of a large part of it; and\\n^i ;!stute7nd enterprising man did not hesitate to improve and place\\n^^^^:^err::-^:ir^?^^^^^^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKKOHN COUNTY 243\\nrtiiin of Uniuti street from the Reformed Church up to and includiiiL;-\\nthe h)t of Mr. Ci. Nickerson, was offered to the pastor of the Kelornvd\\nChurch for S300, and no money required. It was afterwards bouj^ht bv\\nI. E. Hutton and disposed of by him. The boom in real estate had come.\\nLots were offered for sale, and throu rh the efforts of such men as Hut-\\nton, Bogert, Edwards, Crouter. Walton, Godwin, Richardson, Suckert\\nand Hopper, streets were laid out, sidewalks built, and improvements\\nifenerally made. The villag e slowly increased in population and numer-\\nous houses were built until the year 187? when there came a financial\\ndepression resulting in the vacating of many homes and a stagnation in\\nbusiness of every kind. The name Ciodwinville was not satisfactorv,\\nand a change was advocated.\\nA number of New Yorkers came to the hamlet about 1S()(), most of\\nwhom still remain residents. These gentlemen purchased buildings lots\\nand soon thereafter the place began to take upon itself a new appear-\\nance, since with their advent came the constructions of beautiful homes,\\nthe improvement of roads and the general beautifying of the village. It\\nwas through the influence of these gentlemen that the name was changed\\nfrom Godwinville, to that of Ridgewood. This name was suggested l)v\\nMrs. Cornelius Dayton.\\nThe following is a sketch of Ridgewood pulilished by C. H. Dunn,\\nin 1898. It is given entire and is as follows:\\nIn lf)62 Albert Saboroweski, the progenitor of the Zabriskie fami-\\nlies of Bergen County, came from Holland and purchased from the\\nIndians. The New Paramus Patent, a tract of land in this vicinity\\ncontaining nearly 2,000 acres, which was named the Paramus Highlands,\\nthe earliest settlements being near Paramus Church. Subsequently,\\nNewtown was established near the present site of Wortendyke and\\nextended to Lydcckcr s Mills, mar Midland P.irk. The name was\\nchanged to (iodwinville in honor of General Godwin, a Revolutionary\\nhero who lived in Paterson.\\nThe settlement progressed and soon covered all the territi rv between\\nParamus and Wortendyke, (iodwinville becoming a hamlet four miles in\\nlength, the centre being near the Methodist Church, yet standing at\\nMidland Park. The history of tlu Paramus is uneventful, except during\\nthe Revolutionary period, when the armies passed within its limits.\\nThe early settlers were agriculturists and prosjiered by their well-directed\\nlabors. About the beginning of the century manufacturing interests\\nbegan to occupy the residents of Newtown and Hoppertown, but it never\\nextended from these centers. The distance from the city and tlie ])oor\\nroads, prevented much communication with the outer world. The\\nPaterson Ramapo Railroad, the first section of the present ICrie. was\\ncompleted in IH.SO, and instilled new life into the settlement. The Inst\\nstation was located at Hohokus, and soon after a post-office was estab-\\nlished at Godwinville and located a mile west of the village. The mails\\nwere put off at Hohokus and carrie.l over the intervening country on\\nhorseback. The manufacturers at Godwinville asked for ,i station nearer", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "244 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nworks, but were refused, and it was only after a controversy of three\\nyears that one was established. There only freight trains stopped, and it\\nwas two years more before it was made a passenger station, that being\\nonly a platform. The residents of Godwinville erected a depot m lb5).\\nCommutation began a year earlier.\\nIn i860 several New Yorkers settled in the village, erected homes m\\nthe vicinity of the depot, and began a commendable regime of landscape\\no-ardenino-. The name Godwinville did not suit these newcomers, who\\nTmmediately agitated a change. An estimable lady Mrs. Corneha\\nDayton, long since deceased, suggested the name of Ridgewood, wh ch\\nwas adopted. The railroad company was then requested to change the\\nnam* of the station, but consumed six years in doing so, and not until\\nUncle Sam had made them drop mail bags marked Ridgewood for\\na year at this station. A post-ofBce was established in 1865 and the name\\nof the station changed in 1866.\\nThe newcomers to Ridgewood infused metropolitan methods into\\nthe place, and in 1876 induced the Legislature to create the township\\nof Ridgewood. At the time of the change it included territory atout\\nthree miles square and had a population of about twelve hundred. The\\nu-rowth was slow, being influenced by disturbances in the hnancial wor d,\\nbut for the past ten years there has been no interruption in its growth.\\nThe first postmaster was B. F. Robiason, who did faithful service\\nfor the munificent sum of ten dollars per year. The present incumbent\\nis a Presidential appointee, and the expenses aggregate 32^00 per an-\\nnum The citizen swere alive to needed improvements, and sidewalks,\\nlio-his and good roads were soon added to the natural advantage s\\nRid..ewood township was the pioneer of macadamized roads, and in 18 i.\\nthe sum of $30,000 was expended on the roads, making them second to\\nnone in the State. The town progressed steadily until the borough\\ncraze struck the county in 18^4. A large section of the southern portu.n\\nwas first cut off, forming the Borough of Glen Rock; then Midland\\nPark took a section of the western border. The balance of the town-\\nship was then incorporated to prevent further inroads.\\nThe first Board of Trustees elected was: M. T. Richards.m, A Cx.\\nHopper, J. W. Edwards, G. M. Ockford and W. J. Fullerton^ Upon\\norganization, Mr. Richardson was elected President. Mr. Fullerton\\nTreasurer and R. M. Bridgman became Village Clerk. In 18)-, Mr.\\nRichardson resigned. Dr. Ockford being elected his successor as Presi-\\ndent of the Village, and G. E. Knowlton taking his place as Trustee.\\nSince the organization of the Village Board there has been marked im-\\nprovement in the village from several standpoints, while its growth has\\nbeen steady and material. Physicians in New York and Brooklyn\\nlearned that the Paramus Highlands was one of the few places within\\nfifty miles of New York where malaria was unknown. They recom-\\nmended this location to their patients, and they were not the on y ones\\nbenefited by the healtfulness of this location. Its fame for health-giv-\\ning qualities soon spread, and many who came to spend the summer be-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 245\\ncame permanent residents and induced ithers to locate here. There is\\nno spot as near New York that otTers such inducements as Ridg ewooil\\nto prospective residents. Chihlren, particuhirly, acquire a vigor of con-\\nstitution that is unusual, and severe e])idemics are unknown. It is\\nsituated far enouijh from the ocean to escape the dampness incident to\\nmaritime climates, and the air is at all seasons dr^- and pure. Dr. Wil-\\nlard Parker, during his lifetime standing at the head of the medical\\nprofession of New York city, was in the habit of recommending his\\npatients suffering from lung troubles to go to Paramus Plains or High-\\nlands as the most favorable spot east of the Mississi])pi River. The\\ndistance to New York is twenty-one miles and places us within easy\\nreach of the IMetropolis. The train service is excellent, seventy trains\\nstopping daily at the Ridgewood station. In addition to this, Under-\\ncliflF station on the Erie and Midland Park station on the Susquehanna\\nand Western are also within the limits of the village, thus furnishing\\nevery section with frequent and convenient trains.\\nVillage Trustees for 1899 James Cornelius, President. Jos. W.\\nEdwards, John R. Stevens, C. P. Crouter and Wm. J. FuUerton. H.\\nG. Ward, Clerk. Justice of the Peace\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac M. Wall. Town Clerk\\nHudson Campbell. Constables Peter E. Pulis, Garret G. Ackerman,\\nSamuel E. Edsell, Klaus Heerema. Superintendent of Streets J. R.\\nStevens. Superintendent of the Poor Rev. E. H. Cleveland. Fire\\nDe])artnient Protection Hook and Ladder Co., R. M. Bridgman, Presi-\\ndent; H. A. Tice, Vice President; S. F. Lynch, Secretary; W. O. Cruse,\\nRecording Secretary; J. Blauvelt Hopper, Treasurer. Trustees Asa\\nZabriskie, Wm. P. Morgan, J. D. Van Emburgh, Jr. Chief Engineer\\nE. Nickerson. First Assistant Engineer C. Sidney Keyser. Fore-\\nman Daniel Soman. Assistant Foreman J. A. Bogert, Jr. Head-\\nquarters, truck house, Hudson St. Regular meeting, second Tuesday of\\neach month. Board of Health Village Trustees (as above) with\\nHealth Ofticer, Dr. J. T. DeMund. Freeholders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Theodore V. Terhune,\\nChairman. Collector -Peter Terheun. Assessor Thos. Terheun.\\nCommissioners of Appeals Edwin Clark, (ieo. E. Knowlton, R. W\\nTerhune.\\nThe Ridgewood Club was organized in December, i.s \u00c2\u00bb.i, with the\\nfollowing officers and governors: President, Henry S. Patterson; ice-\\nPresident, M. T. Richardson Treasurer, W. J. Fullerton Secretary.\\nPaul Walton; Croverning Committee, Joseph F. Carrigan, Robert T.\\nMaskins, E. F. Hanks, John A. Edwards. Clarenci K. Chapman, Lucius\\nSmith and Thomas Watlington.\\nMr. Patterson served as President of the club for two years, and\\nwas ably succeeded by Robert T. Raskins, who has just completed his sec-\\nond term.\\nUnder the administration of these gentlemen, earnestly seconded\\nby the Chairman of the (ioverning Committee, Joseph F. Carrigan, the\\noriginal plan of the club has been sucessfullv develo])ed and its ])olicv\\ndefined; and. in a great measure owing to their efticiint methods and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "246 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nWise counsel, and it has become one of the leading institutions of the\\nvillao-e and certainly the center of its social life and activity.\\n\u00c2\u00b0l t has been th^ aim of the club from its inception to appeal partic-\\nularly for the interest and support of the ladies, to which tact its growth\\nand success are mainly attributable.\\nTwo days of each week are set apart as Ladies Days, and weeklj\\nentertainments are given throughout the season which are by\\nthe Entertainment Committee, with a view to meeting the wishes of the\\nladies and securing their regular and general attendance\\nDuring the winter season afternoon lectures are held in the club\\nnarlors followed by a 5 o clock tea.\\nThe dub is a member of the Whist League, and the devotees ot\\nthe o-ame have made it one feature of the club life. Several of its mem-\\nbersCe taken part in inter-town and inter-state contests with much\\ncredit to themselves and to the club. i k v^^^\\nThe following gentlemen are the present of cers of the club Pres-\\nident E. LeB. Gardiner; Vice-President, R. M. Wmans; Secretary C.\\nTCayler- Treasurer, C. H. Dickson; Governing Committee, Joseph F\\nCa^rSln, RobeTtT. Haskins, Lucius Smith, Henry A. Dunbar, Joseph\\nW. Edwards, Henry S. Patterson, H. H. Wehrhane\\nThe scenery around Ridgewood is pleasing to the eye, and from\\nthe hei-hts on the western side of the town is spread out a magnificent\\npLrama which extends for miles in all directions. Other points gn.\\nequally charming outlooks. The streets are well shaded and the resi\\ndences pleasant, Comfortable and attractive. Bicycling is much indulged\\nfn and during pleasant weather out-of-town cyclers throng t^e village\\na\u00c2\u00abra td not^only by the fine roads, but by the excellence of the hotel\\nT^^. recognised factor in the many social diversions of the\\ntownspeople. The public schools have long been known as among the\\nbe! nthf State, the new High School ^eing a model o convenience\\nand utility. A corps of teachers, under the able principa ship of Pro\\nfessor B. C. Wooster, have shown much ability in the --^-1 -ted for\\nthem The school is graded from the Kindergarten to the High School.\\nThe last census shows a gain of sixty per cent, m five years.\\nTh Board of Trustees has done much to bring the vUlage up o\\nits present model condition. James Cornelius is the P--lent of the\\nVilla-e and his associate members on the Board are Joseph W. Edwards,\\nW J Fullerton, C. P. Crouter and John R. Stevens. They are gentle-\\nmen of high character and rare executive ability,\\nIn a work of this limited scope many details must necessarily be\\nomitted, but the facts relating to the village herewith presented have\\nbeen -athered from reliable sources and are believed to be accurate\\nThe Ridgewood Building and Loan Association was established m\\n1885 This institution has had fourteen years of successful business and\\nhas been the means of making a good many men and women in this part\\nof the county happy and independent.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK KKKCKN COIINTY 247\\nThe officers for 1S9S are as follows W. J. Fullerton. President M.\\nT. Richardson, Vice-President E. Nickerson, Treasurer O. W. Read.\\nSecretary C. Doremus, Counsel Directors, W. J. Fullerton, II. S. Pat-\\nterson, M. T. Richardson, E. Nickerson, C. P. Crouter, Edwin Clark, P.\\nG. Zabriskie, Frank Wilson, B. C. Wooster, O. W. Reed, J. McCiuinness.\\nThe Co-Operative Building and Loan Association of Ridgewood was\\norg-anized February 1, 18 tl, Officers for 1897- are Georg-e R. Young,\\nPresident; Isaac M. Wall, Treasurer; Hudson Campbell, Secretary;\\nDirectors, Edgar Cromwell, Asa Zabriskie, John J. Storms, William E.\\nMaltbie, George M. Ockford, Andrew V. D. Snyder, Jas. A. Hales\\nCounsel, D. D. Zabriskie.\\nSOCniTV DIIv KCTt KV AND OFFICEKS FOK 18 \u00c2\u00bb8.\\nFidelity Lodge, No. ii3, F. A. M., Ridgewood, was organized\\nfirst at Hohokus Station, under and by virtue of a dispensation granted\\nby M. W. Robert Rusling, Grand Master, dated October 17, A. L. 5870,\\nA. D. 1870 and was set at work by R. W. William E. Pine, D. M.,\\non November 7, A. L. 587o.\\nOfficers for 18 )8:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John R. Stevens, Worshipful Master James\\nCornelius, Senior Warden; Leonard N. Taft, Junior Warden; John F.\\nCruse, Treasurer; John F. Weiss, Secretary; Rev. Edward H. Cleveland,\\nChaplain; William W. Holcomb, Senior Deacon; William Morrison,\\nJunior Deacon; Harry Terhune, Marshal; Alfred A. Stansfield. S. M.\\nof Ceremonies; Isaac M. Wall, J. M. of Ceremonies; George M. Ock-\\nford, Senior Steward; Charles W. Banta, Junior Steward; Charles W.\\nKohler, Tyler; George M. Ockford, Past Master, proxy to the Grand\\nLodge; Henry Hales, Trustee for three years.\\nThe officers were installed by W. Geo. Morrison. Past Master; John\\nP Cruse, Past Master, acting as Grand Marshal.\\nStated Communications second and fourth Fridays at Masonic Hall,\\ncorner of Ridgewood and Rock Avenue.\\nJK. O. r. A. M. ELECT OFFICEKS.\\nOn Monday, January 23, 1899, the Junior (_)rder United American\\nMechanics met and api)ointed the following officers for the current year:\\nJ. D. Van Emburgh, Jr., Councilor; Roger M. Bridgman, Vice-\\nCouncilor; J. H. Christopher, Past Councilor; C. C. Ackerman, Record-\\ning Secretary; John Knowlton, Assistant Secretary; Harvey Terhune,\\nH^inancial Secretary; Chas. Sworn. Conductor; Winfield Terhune,\\nWarden; I. M. Wall, Treasurer; Rev. Franklin Mathiews, Chajjlain;\\nJ. A. Van Emburgh, Orator; T. L. Ackerman, Inside Sentinel; W m. (i.\\nAckerman, Outside Sentinel; Dr. J. B. Hopper, Daniel Soman. I- Jls-\\nworth Pell, Trustees; J. Irving Bogert, Representative to State Council.\\nI.EC.IO.N OF IIO.NOIK, COfNCII. llOO.\\nOfficers for 1898: -Henry Hales, Commander; J. H. Christopher,\\nTreasurer; J. Cruse, Secretary; J. Naugle, Guide; J. H. Zabriskie, Warden;\\nJ. J. Hopper, Sentry; E. D. Leary, Chaplain.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "248 IIISTOKY OF REKGEN COUNTY\\nMeets first Wednesday evening of each month in Masonic Hall.\\nCompanions of other Councils are cordially invited.\\nHALL -VND PARK .AS.SOCLATION.\\nM. T. Richardson, President; E. A. Walton, Vice President; Paul\\nWalton, Secretary and Treasurer; John B. Van Dien, J. F. Carrig-an.\\nMaurice Fornachon. C. P. Crouter, Cornelius Dorenius and N. B. Kukuck.\\nKNICHTS OK HONOK.\\nList of Ofticcrs:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. J. O Neill. Past Dictator; J. D. a^ Emburirh.\\nJr. Dictator; C. Snyder Keyser, ice Dictator; S. Frank Lynch, Assist-\\nant Dictator; C. M. Keyser, Reporter; F. M. Merritt, Financial Re-\\nporter; D. D. Zabriskie. Treasurer; Harvey- G. Ward, Chaplain; Geo.\\nE. Miller, Guide; Chas. L. Jackson, Guardian; Stanley G. Cheel, Sen-\\ntinel; Dr. Harry S. Williard, Medical Examiner.\\nROYAL AKCAXUM.\\nParamus Valley Council, No. 15 \u00c2\u00bb7, meets first and third Tuesday in\\nJr. O. U. A. M. Hall.\\nOfficers for 1898:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. M. Winans, Regent; H. G. White, Vice Re-\\ngent; H. A. Brown, Orator; V. A. Ross, Past Regent; W. A. Cheel,\\nSecretary; John R. Stevens, Treasurer; Arthur White, Chaplain; A. A.\\nFitzhugh, Guide; A. Frank Halsted, Collector; John B. Hopper, War-\\nden; Jacob Ward, Sentry.\\nTHE kid(;e\\\\vood news.\\nThe Ridgewood News was first issued in i890 by W. J. Tonkin, as a\\nmonthly, the mechanical work being done in New York, Mr. Tonkin\\ncarrying his office in a cigar box. Mr. L. N. Taft took charge the sec-\\nond year, putting in presses and type in a room over Eglin s blacksmith\\nshop. About one year later Mr. John A. Ackerman owned the paper for\\na short time, returning it to Mr. Taft in 1892. when he removed it to\\nRidgewood Avenue where it is now located.\\nMr. Frank A. Baxter has made it a nine column quarto. It is the\\nofficial organ of Ridgewood and Orvil Townships and of (ilen Rock and\\nMidland Park boroughs, being non-partisan in politics.\\nKIDCEWOOD KECOKD.\\nThe Ridgewood Record has been regularly issued as a weekly for\\nupwards of a year, and is Republican in politics. It is edited and owned\\nby E. F. Farrell. with W. P. T^Iillar as associate editor.\\nCHT KCH HISTORY.\\nThe old Reformed Dutch Church of Paramus is one of the land\\nmarks in which Ridgewood Township is intensely interested. That the\\nfirst church building was erected in 1735, appears to be well established,\\nfrom writings which have been found bearing upon this subject. On the\\nflyleaf of the baptismal register is a sentence which translated reads:\\nOn the 21st day of April 1735, was the first stone of the church laid.\\nIt is also confidently asserted that on January 15. 1735, a committee was\\nappointed by the assembled consistory and congregati(.n, to consider and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n249\\nmake arrangements for the building- of a church and to formuhite rules for\\nthe promotion of the best interests of the church, Conradus Vanderlieck\\nand Johannes Wynkoop being the persons chosen to superintend and con-\\nduct these important matters. After adojjting seventeen articles for the\\ngovernment of the seating of the members, and for the control nf the\\ncalling of ministers to their pulpit, they pruceeded to erect the house nf\\nworship.\\nIV K\\nKHKOKMliD CHrKClI- ICII)(;i;\\\\VO()l)\\nIn those times all the Dutch churches were built of st mc, and of\\nsimilar style, having an octagonal roof with a steeple in the centre, the\\nchairs, which were used instead of pews such as we have, being marked\\n(m the back with the owner s name. The law of compensation being\\nobserved here as in all things else, Peter Fauconicr was allowed two\\nseats, one each for himself and wife for a continual possession for\\nthemselves and their heirs as an acknowledgement their donation", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "250 HISTORY OF BEKGHN COUNTY\\nof the land on which the church is built. This donation appears to\\nhave been for the church edifice, as Mag-dalen Valleau, in 1750,\\ngave a parsonay;v farm of forty acres. A school is now located on these\\ngrounds, to which the consistory a few years ago gave the trustees a per-\\npetual lease, owing to a tradition extant, to the effect that Mrs. Valleau\\nembodied a provision in her original grant of land that a school should\\nbe maintained on this tract. The church is located in the northeastern\\npart of the township, adjacent to which lies the True Reformed Ceme-\\nterv, the oldest burial-place in the township. In the old church on this\\nspot Aaron Burr married the Widow Provost, an incident always recalled\\nin connection with this time honored place of worship.\\nManv years prior to the building of the church, however, an organi-\\nzation had been effected and the preaching of the Word regularly\\nattended by these pious people. As early as 1725, in a letter written by\\nRev. Reinhart Erickson to a brother-in-law, Henricus Coens, at Acquack-\\nanonk, he speaks of being minister at Hackensack, Schraalenburgh,\\nand Peremus. From this statement we conclude that Paramus at\\nthat time was a recognized congregation. While Rev. Guillam Bert-\\nholf preached to the united societies of Hackensack, Acquackanonk and\\nTappan, from 1( *:I4 to 1724, it gave the people of this vicinity the oppor-\\ntunity to attend his ministrations according to their location; but they\\nwere progressive, and had determined upon independent action as is\\nevidenced by a document in possession of the consistory, dated Decem-\\nber 26, 1730, and signed by Peter Fauconier, in which he pr(miises to\\ngive land on which to build a church.\\nThe lirst building erected stood intact until ISOd, with the excep-\\ntion of repairs made necessary by the injuries sustained during the\\nRevolutionary war, it having been used during that period, for various\\npurposes. From 1731 to 1732, Rev. George W. Mancius ministered to\\nthe two churches of Schraalenburgh and Paramus, but no further evi-\\ndence is given of their having another pastor until sixteen years later,\\nalthough much advancement was made during this time, which if acconi-\\nl)lished without an appointed leader, shows a wonderful devotedness to\\nthe cause, as well as an indomitable will to do needed work. Rev.\\nBenjamin Van Der Linde received a call from the two churches of Para-\\nmus and the Ponds, on August 21, 1748, Rev. Antonius Curtenius of\\nHackensack moderating the call, in which stipulations were made as to\\nthe davs upon which he was to preach and the number of sermons each\\n(lav. This was signed by Elders, Albert Van Dien, Steve Terhuen, Jan\\nRomjm, Barent Van Hocjrn, Hendick Van Aele, Roelof Van Houte;\\nDeacons, Johannes Stek, Klaes Zabriski, Albert Bogart, Simon Van\\nWinkle, Cornelius Van Houte, Steve Bogert. Mr. Van Der Linde is\\ndescribed as a man of muscular strength and quickness of movemeht,\\nqualities which were needed in those times, when long and tiresome\\ntrips had to be taken without opportunity for rest or refreshment. They\\ncould onlv promise sixty pounds a year with parsonage and wood, but\\nlater on, added enough to make ninety pounds. Although these two", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKC.KX COITNTY 251\\nchurches were a tuimber of inik-s apart ho continued to be their pastor\\nfor forty years, until old age ohlij^ed him to have assistance. Rev. Van\\nDer Linde with Elder Stephen Zabriskie, were the representatives of\\nthis church in 1771 in the convention which met to form a constitution\\nof the Reformed Dutcli t hurch (d North America. After the\\nortcanization of the church at Sa(l lle River, which would achl to\\nhis labors, the ccmsistory called Rew (1. Kuyi)ers, a ne\\\\vl\\\\- licensed\\nminister, to assist him. This was in I7.s7, as after .about one \\\\-ear\\nand a half Mr. Kuypers was called to the Colleyiate Church in\\nNew York, leaving- Paramus April 1.^. 17S Rev. Van Der [yiude\\ndied July 8, 178 When \\\\vi consider what liis labor nuist have\\nbeen to attend to the pastoral work oi a tiejd covering an area\\nof tweaty-five miles in length and fifteen in breadth, we co:iclude\\nthat nothing less than an athlete could have borne up under the strain.\\nThat he was loved and appreciated by his people, is proven l^v the fact\\nthat in 1800, when the edifice was erected, his bones were removed and\\nplaced beneath the pulpit. Following Rev. Kuypers, Rev. Isaac Blau-\\nvelt was called in December, 17 )(l, Ponds, not now being connected with\\nthe Paramus Church, which at this time consisted of (mly the original\\ncongregation with that of Saddle River. Rev. Blauvelt was a i)opular\\nman, and it was for him tlie parsonage was built in 17 ll. His ser\\\\-ice\\nhere, however, was discontinued in the summer of 17 2, the Rev. William\\nP. Kaypers being called in May, i7 \u00c2\u00bb.v remaining until May, 17 M\\nDuring the three years following they were witliout pastoral care, after\\nwhich they called Rev. Wilhelmus Eltinge, then but twenty-one years\\nof age, his pastorate extending over this church and that of Saddle\\nRiver. In 1811, the care of Saddle River, in connection with Paramus\\nwas disctmtinued, Mr. Eltinge confining his work to the Paramus\\nChurch, without any formal call until five years later, when a call was\\ntendered him from the joint congregations of Paramus and Totowa,\\nwhich he accepted, continuing these relations until IS.^.i. when Paramus\\nclaimed his sole attention. After a lapse of tifty-one years in cliarge\\nof this church, he was obliged on account of the inlirmities of age to\\nretire from active service, closing his earthly career in June, 1S.=.1.\\nAt this time there were four hundred and thirty conuniuiicants in\\nthe congregation. Rev. Aaron B. Winfield succeeded Rev. Pvltingi be-\\nginning his ministry in January lS.=il, which was continued until his\\ndeath in 18.5( when he was laid beside his predecessor in the ministers\\nplot in Valleau Cemetery. Rev. Edward Tanjore Corwin succeeded to\\nthis place in July of the following year, and was in turn succeeded by\\nRev. Isaac De Mund. During the incumbency of Rev. (ioyn Talamge,\\nD. D. from 1871 to 187 a handsome new parsonage was built and the\\ndd church remodelled, the walls alone remaining of the old structure.\\nKev. J. C. Van Deventer was installed the same year of Dr. Talinage s\\nde])arture.\\nThe present pastor Rev. \\\\V. 11. room has been in charge of this", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "252 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nchurch since iSHl. In 1893 the latest improvements were made bv\\nputting in steam heat, pipe organ, etc.\\nThis congreg-ation now comprises two hundred and eight members\\nwith a flourishing Sunday school of about one hundred and sevent_T-\\ntive scholars.\\nThe officers are as follows: Superintendent, S. T. Van Emburgh,\\nAssistant Superintendent and Secretary, J. A Van Emburgh; Treasurer,\\nA. G. Zabriskie; Librarian. A. H. Vroom, Organist (Juvenile Depart-\\nment Mrs. R. A. Post. There are seventeen teachers: Rev. W. H.\\nVroom and Mrs. room, Mrs. E. Ackerman, Mrs. Vermilye, Mrs. E.\\nNickerson, Mr. C. V. A. Lacour, Mrs. S. T. Van Emburgh, Mrs. J. A.\\nVan Emburgh, Miss F. I. Vroom, Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Hopper, Miss\\nLida Vermilye, Miss Mary Van Dien, Mrs. P. D. Westervelt and Miss\\nL. L. Newcomb.\\nRev. W. H. Vroom conducts a Bible class for men. and Mrs. E.\\nAckerman and Mrs. Vermilye each conduct a Bible class for women.\\nPKKSKXT f)FFICl-:KS.\\nPastor, Rev. Wm. H. Vroom; Elders, A. A. Blauvelt. \\\\Vm. Hard-\\ning, (i. H. winters and (ieo. Demarcst.\\nDeacons, Peter J. Westervelt, Wm. J. Hanham, James W. Mower-\\nson and A. G. Zabriskie.\\n(i. H. Winters. Treasurer; A. (1. Zabriskie, Clerk; W. H. Ackerman,\\nOrganist; Cornelius Banta, Sexton.\\nI.ADIi:s AID socnjTY.\\nMrs. W. F. Palmer, President; Mrs. D. S. Hammond, Vice President;\\nMrs. John T. Ackerman, Treasurer; Miss Mary Van Dien, Secretary.\\nwom,\\\\n s mission.\\\\kv sociicty.\\nMrs. W. H. Vroom, President; Mrs. E. G. Board, Vice President;\\nMrs. J. A.Van Emburgh, Secretary; Miss Irene Van Emburgh, Treasurer.\\nThe First Reformed Church of Ridgewood, N. J., was organized by\\na committee from the Classis of Paramus, consisting of Reverends John\\nH. Duryea, D. D., John Gaston, D. D., W. H. Clark, D. D., and Elder\\nGarret S. Blauvelt at Shuart s Hall, Rock avenue (since burned on May\\n24, 1875. The following persons were received by certificate and organ-\\nized as the First Reformed Church of Ridgewood, N. J., viz: Edward\\nJardine, from Church of Puritans, New York; Mrs. Mary C. Jardine,\\nfrom Reformed Church, Harlem Edward H. Leggett, from Church of\\nPuritans, New York John M. Knapp, from Second Reformed Church,\\nHackensack, N. J.; Cornelius Z. Berdan, from Reformed Church, Para-\\nmus; Margaret R. Ackerman (wife of Cornelius Z. Berdan), Margaret\\nA. Van Orden (wife of Henry A. Hopper), Rachel L. Hopper, also\\nfrom Reformed Church, Paramus; Mrs. Esther Earl, from Second Pres-\\nbyterian Church, Paterson, N. J. Elders, Edwaid Jardine and Cornelius\\nZ. Berdan, and Deacon Edward H. Leggett were constituted the first\\nConsistory by afore-mentioned committee from Classis of Paramus.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKCKN COTXTY 2^3\\nAt the first regular meeting- of the Consistory, June 17, 1S75. pre-\\nsided over by Rev. Govn Talmage, D. 1)., pastor of the Reformed Church\\nof Paramus, N. J., a call to become the first pastor of the Church, was\\nthen formulated, and afterward presented to a student, John Alfred Van\\nNeste, graduated in May 1875. who accepted it and was ordained and\\ninstalled July 12, 1875, as the first pastor of the Ridgewood Church. The\\nRev. J. A. Van Neste has remained the only Pastor during the twenty-\\nfour years since the organization of the Church.\\nFor two years from the genesis of the church the congregation wor-\\nshipped in Shuart s Hall on Rock Avenue. But the place soon became\\ntoo small, the development and future growth depending upon a more\\nsuitable building, it was resolved on August 7, 1877 to secure a location\\nand begin at once the erection of a church. After failures and numerous\\nhindrances a building was partially finished upon a lot donated by Mr.\\nFrederic Kidder. The basement was first used for divine worship\\nNovember 4, 1877. Since that the grr)wth of the church has been con-\\ntinuous. In the meantime the church has been greatly enlarged and\\nbeautified, improved appliances for work and convenience being C(m-\\nstantly added. At date of writing the congregation numbers among\\nits adherents a large proportion of the most influential and intelligent\\nmembers of the community. In addition to the church building, a spa-\\ncious and attractive parsonage located on Prospect Street, and valued at\\nseven thousand dollars, is ownod by the congregation.\\nNotwithstanding that within si.x years practically three other church\\norganizations, viz. the Baptist, Methodist and the Reformed at Glen\\nRock have been organized from the membership of the Ridgewood\\nReformed Church, the congregation is still as large as before the new en-\\nter prises were brought into existence. The following statistical table\\nwill illustrate in brief the ])resent status of the Reformed Church family\\nof Ridgewood.\\nOrganized 1875 with nine members. Received in fellowship in\\ntwenty-three years, 401. Present resident membership 240. Disburse-\\nments during the year 1898 nearly S8000.\\nThere are numerous Christian organizations within tlie church, all\\nprosperous and effective in maintaining and de\\\\elo])ing the general work\\nof the church.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Van Neste is arranging to celebrate the twenty-lifth\\nanniversary of the organization of the church, and his installation as\\npastor at one and the same time on May 25, 1900.\\nRev. J. A. Van Neste, Pastor; W. P. Millar. Isaac A. IIoi)])er. J.\\nF. Cruse, J. C. Wilkinson, Elders; W. J. Fullerton. .1. II. Christuidur.\\nF. A. Ross, R. S. Cortelyou, Deacons.\\nIn 18()0 a committee was ajjiiointed to act in a matter looking\\ntoward the founding of an Episcopal ])arish. ])reliminary organi-\\nzation of Christ Church Parish being effected in 1804, when a meeting\\nhad been called at the house of Captain Samuel Dayton on February\\nof that year. Captain Dayton at this time offered a lot one mile east", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "254 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUXTY\\nof the dei)()t as a site t\\\\)r a church building, which was accepted on\\nFebruary- 17,\\nThe name f the church being- decided upon, Messrs. James Keelv\\nand J. T. Walton were elected wardens, and A. J. Cameron, Samuel\\nDayton, E. Rosencrantz, W. H. Hawlett and E. A. Walton, vestrymen.\\nAfter subscriptions to the amount of eighteen hundred dollars had been\\nsecured, an organ was purchased and placed in the house of B. F.\\nRobinson for the use of the choir. March 28, 18t)5, the corner-stone\\nwas laid by the Bishop of the diocese. Right Rev. W. H. Odenheimer,\\nD. D., who held service the same day in Union Hall, Paramus. On\\nSunday, May 13, 1866, the church was opened for divine service, the\\nRev. J. M. Waite officiating. The pews were rented on May 16, several\\npersons paying a premium for choice of seats. The cost of the build-\\ning, including furniture and sheds, was a little more than S6()00. Rev.\\nLeigh Richmond Dickenson, of Yonkers, N. Y., became the first\\nrector, administering holy communion to twelve communicants. On\\nMay 12, following, a Sunday school was organized with E. A. Walton as\\nsuperintendent and Thomas T. Walton librarian. Twenty-one scholars\\nand seven teachers were present. The congregation increased, until\\nin March, 1869, the question of enlarging the church was agitated and\\na subscription started to assist in accomplishing the work. This was a\\nsuccessful undertaking and the foundation was begun on August 2,\\nand on December 19, the church was reopened for service. A beautiful\\nchancel, three new windows, one of which was presented by the Sunday\\nschool. A vestry room, organ room and ten pews were added at this\\ntime, the whole costing \u00c2\u00a72600, a part of which was paid by the indi-\\nvidual liberality of ^Ir. Christian A. Zabriskie and others. In May,\\n1869, Mrs. C. W. Newton organized a Sunday school in her home which\\nwas continued until 1S70 when a Missitm Snuday school was opened in\\nShuart s Hall in the village of Ridgewood, continuing until September,\\n1875, when it was merged into the Parish School.\\nIn 1873 the vestry resolved to move the church to a central location\\nin the village. A lot was tendered by Mr. Robinson and accepted. This,\\nwith an additi mal plot, purchased for a sum somewhat exceeding eleven\\nhundred dollars became the site of the new church. W^ork began on\\nAugust 4, 1873 and in October the new church was opened for public\\nworship. In 1874 the old site was sold for seven hundred and fifty dol-\\nlars. Mr. E. A. Walton resigned the treasurership, at Easter of this\\nyear after having held the office ten years. The present officers are as\\nfollows: Wardens, E. A. Walton and Henry Hales; Vestrymen, W. E.\\nMaltbie, H. C. Lawrence, F. E. Palmer, H. S. Patten, Alexander Bell, S.\\nM. Orne, Thomas Watlington, E. LeB. Gardiner, John R. Stevens and\\nLagnel de Berier. The Sunday school has a roll call of about fifty\\npupils. The school is superintended by the Rector, Rev. E. H. Cleveland.\\nMr. Cleveland held his first service as Rector on March 4, 1894.\\nThe Baptist church is located on Hope Street and Ridgewood Ave-\\nnue. Phe Society was ort^anized about the year 1890 and named The", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "PKTKK ACKKKMAN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "256 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nEmmanuel Baptist. Mr. Frank White, the present and efficient super-\\nintendent of the Sabbath School, with a few other gentlemen, were in-\\nsti umental in securing a class for religious worship. The work of these\\nmembers eventually led to the formation of the Church Society, and to\\nits present membership of over 109 persons. Elder Shrive was the first\\npastor and under his pastorate the church building was erected, Rev.\\nFrank K. Mathiews, a graduate of Brown University and of Crozier\\nSeminary, is the present pastor. The Deacons are, Sylvanus White,\\nWilliam C. Parker, George E. Ferguson and George Barr. The build-\\ning originally cost S3200.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church of this place was organized in\\n189f). It has a flourishing membership under the pastorate of Rev.\\nFrank Chadwick. They worship in the old schoolhouse on Prospect\\nStreet.\\nThe Unitarians have but recently organized. They hold religious\\nservices at stated intervals in the Town Hall. The Rev. George Badger\\nis the officiating pastor.\\nThe A. M. E. Zion Church worship under the pastorate of the Rev.\\nT. T. B. Reed, A. M., M. D., Pastor.\\nOur Lady of Mt. Carmel is under the pastorate of Rev. Father\\nKilly, graduate of Seton Hall of the class of 1885. The building was\\ndedicated by Bishop Wigger, and the corner stone of the new building\\nwas laid in 1890. The church has about 400 communicants.\\nPETEK ACKEKMAN.\\nPeter Ackerman of Ridgewood belongs to the old Dutch family of\\nAckermans, who came from Holland about the year 1610. Mr. Acker-\\nman was born ip Paterson, September 16, 1831, and is the son of David\\nD., and Martha Stevens Ackerman.\\nWhen but fifteen years of age he left home to try his fortune in\\nnew fields, going to New York, where he found employment in the\\nbusiness of stair building, but only remained a short time in this work.\\nUpon leaving this business he became employed with a firm in this city\\ndoing trucking, and in 1849, started a line of carts and wagons, doing\\nstorage business on his own account. In 1885, he formed a partnership\\nwith his brother who was in the same line of work, and continued under\\nthe firm name of D. P. Ackerman. Business increased until it became\\none of the largest of its kind in New York city.\\nIn 1887 Mr. Ackerman retired with ample means at his command,\\nand has since spent his time in the care of his property. He has served\\nhis state in the Assembly, first in 1885, when he defeated Lydecker by a\\nplurality of forty votes, but the following year was defeated by John\\nVan Bussum by a majority of seventy-nine, and the next year he defeated\\nVan Bussum by a pluralty of seventy-four. In the session of 1885. he\\nwas chairman of the committee on agriculture and a member of com-\\nmittee on incidental expenses and the Soldiers Home.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "258 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn 1892 he was nominated by acclamation, for state senator, but was\\ndefeated by HenrY D. Winton. He has in addition to these, held various\\noffices in his county.\\nMr. Ackerman married Elizabeth Hopper, daughter of John Hojjper\\nof Fairlawn, in 1856.\\nHis wife died December 1894.\\nHe isnowPresident of the First National Bank of Ridg ewood. which\\nwas opened for business July 24, 1899.\\nJOHN B. VAN DIKN.\\nThe family of this name date their residence in Bergen county to an\\nearly period of its history. The Van Diens have owned and occupied\\ntheir present homestead for a period of one hundred and thirty years.\\nGarret Van Dien, the father of John B., was a well known man of his\\ntime, who successfully served his generation in various capacities. At\\nthat time Bergen county comprised a greater scope of territory than it\\ndoes at present, Hudson county then being included within its boundary.\\nMr. Van Dien held prominent offices in his day, those of surveyor\\nand township assessor being among the number. He also held the\\nresponsible office of sheriff for a term of three years. The county was a\\nlarge area to cover, but the population was inconsiderable as compared\\nwith that of the present Bergen.\\nIn politics Mr. Van Dien was an old time Whig. His religi )us\\naffiliations connected him with the old Dutch Church.\\nThe mother of Mr. Van Dien was Jane Demarest of French Hugue-\\nnot extraction. The children were Albert, Rachel, IVtaria, John B.,\\nCatherine, Casper and Garret. Of these, Catherine married Jacob Banta\\nwhile Maria became the wife of Abram Carlock. The great grand-\\nfather of our subject was Harmon Van Dien, the first of the name of\\nwhom we have any definite account, in this country. Harmon s son,\\nAlbert, the grandfather of John B., was always a farmer. Mr. Van\\nDien learned the trade of Carpenter becoming a builder of some note.\\nHe erected the Town Hall, the residences of M. T. Richardson, Peter\\nAckerman, Dr. De Mund, Judge Zabriskie, Isaac Hopper and other build-\\nings.\\nHis first marriage was to Eliza, daughter of John and Margaret\\nDoremus, whose only child was Albert A. After the death of his first\\nwife he married Miss Sarah M. Force, daughter of Edward B. and Lydia\\nForce. The children of this union are Anna, wife of Jonas Stewart,\\nJohn D., Martha, wife of John Taylor, Edward B., and William who\\nmarried Miss Rachel Doremus.\\nMr. Van Dien was born September 12, 1818, and is now living, more\\nthan fourscore j-ears of age, a respected and honored citizeu of his county.\\nDANIKL W. LA FKTKA.\\nDaniel W. La Fetra, member and president of the Board of Educa-\\ntion, Ridgewood, is a man of merit and influence in his locality.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "JOHN B. AN DIl .X", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "260 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nHe is of rugged, as well as versatile extraction, combining the\\nEnglish, Dutch and French blood. His paternal ancestry traces through\\nthe La Fetra name, by his father William P. La Fetra, born in 1803,\\ndied in 1873. to Samuel, son of James, son of James, son of Edmond,\\nson of Edmond who died in 1687. The La Fetras were French Hugue-\\nnots, whose blood mingled with that of the Hollanders through the line\\nof Browers to Bogardus, and that of Jansen to Tryn Jansen about 156S.\\nMr. La Fetra s maternal ancestry may be traced through his mother\\nElizabeth T. Woolley, born in 1807, died in 1862, to Daniel Woolley who\\nmarried Elizabeth Wolcott, daughter of Benjamin Wolcott, son of Ben-\\njamin Wolcott, son of Henry Wolcott, born in 1690 and died 17S0, whose\\nfather was Peter Wolcott. These maternal ancestors were of English\\nbirth, and all the lines of the three names are traced without a break to\\nthe dates given.\\nMr. La Fetra was born at Eaton town, Monmouth county, N. J., on\\nMarch 31, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of his native\\ncounty, supplemented by private study at home. At nineteen years of\\nage he engaged in teaching, and has always taken an active interest in\\npublic school work. President of the Board of Education, he has for\\nthe past twelve years, been influential in educational matters in Ridge-\\nwood, and to his efforts the people are largely indebted for the line com-\\nmodious school building, and a school second to none of its class in the\\nstate.\\nFor some years Mr. La Fetra engaged in mercantile pursuits but\\nduring many past years has filled a responsible position in R. G. Dunn s\\ngreat mercantile agency.\\nAlthough deeply patriotic and devoted to his country s interests, he\\nhas never sought honor or distinction in military circles. This may be\\nto some extent attributed to the fact that he was of Quaker parentage,\\nand that his earlier years were spent under the influence and teachings\\nof that peace-loving sect.\\nExceedingly domestic in his habits, he is yet elastic enough to lend\\nhis aid to all that tends to the advancement of the community, socially\\nor otherwise. He is a member of the Ridgewood Club, an organization\\nfor social entertainment and improvement.\\nMr. La Fetra married Miss Emma Hendrickson of an old Long\\nIsland family of Dutch descent.\\nREV. JOHN A. VAN NESTE.\\nThe earliest ancestors of Mr. Van Neste came to this country from\\nHolland in 1726, and settled near P^latbush on L(mg Island. The father\\nof the three brothers who came first to America was Burgomaster of\\nthe province ot Zeeland in Holland. Abram Van Neste the father of\\nour subject is the great grandson of John G., one of these three brothers,\\nwho subsequently settled in Somerset county, near Somerville, where\\nthe Rev. John A. was born December 25th 1849. He was educated in\\nthe public schools of his native county, and was graduated from Rutgers", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "DANIlil. \\\\V. LA 1-KTK,\\\\", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "262 HISTOKY OF BKKGEN COUNTY\\nCollege in 1.S72, afterwards taking a course in the Theological Seminary\\nat New Brunswick, from which he was graduated in the class of 1875\\nWhile in college he was considered an athlete, taking an active part in\\nall college sports. The much coveted Junior-Oratorship prize, which he\\ndivided with an other, was secured in competition. Almost imme-\\ndiately after leaving the Seminary he located at Ridgewood where he\\nbecame the first pastor of the First Reformed church, and he has re-\\nmained there ever since. He has seen his congregation grow from a\\nmere handful to that of one of the largest and most influential, in\\nBergen county. Although frequently solicited by other congregations,\\nhe prefers to remain at his present post.\\nMr. Van Neste was married in 1875 to Miss Ray C. Wikoff, of\\nGriggstown, N. J., daughter of the late Peter W. Wikoff, who was a\\nhighly respected and useful citizen. Of this union was one son, Alfred\\nWikoff born June 20, 1876, died April 1, 1898. He was a sophomore in\\nthe University of New York at the time of his death, a promising student\\nand a young man of exemplary character. He had intended to pursue a\\n])rofes8ional career. The death of this son was a sad bereavement. Mr.\\nVan Neste s mother was Marie S. French. His sisters are Mrs. Mary T.\\nWilson of Somerset county, the other is Mrs. Emma Sturr of Ridgewood.\\nMr. Van Neste is a charter member of the Junior Order of American\\nMechanics.\\nCOKNELU S DOKEMU.S.\\nThe Doremus family is among the oldest of the settlers of Bergen\\nCounty. The earliest American ancestor of whom we have any definite\\naccount and who resided in that county is John, born September 1, 1720,\\ndied July 22, 1784. He owned and occupied the farm which is yet in the\\nhands of his descendants. He married Maria Lutkins who was born\\nFebruary 25, 1730 and died December 20, 1777. Their two children were\\nMarretje and George. John Doremus died from a disease, contracted\\nwhile in the old Sugar House where he was confined six months, after\\nbeing taken prisoner by the Tories during the Revolutionary War. His\\nson George succeeded to the home property and married Anna, daugh-\\nter of John and Catherine Berdan, in 1777. Among their children was\\nJohn B., the grandfather of Cornelius, who was born June 26, 170\\nHe married Margaret, daughter of Albert A. and Elizabeth Lydecker\\nWestervelt. The old home property came into his possession where he\\ncontinued to reside until 1869, when he retired from active life removing\\nto Paterson. His sou, Jacob W.., succeeded to the old homestead, in\\npart by purchase and partly by inheritance. He was born December\\n1835, and married October 12, 1858, Sophie, only daughter of Corne-\\nlius G. and Susan (Smith) Van Dien. Their son, Cornelius, our sub-\\nject, was born on the old farm at Areola, January 22, 1862.\\nMr. Nelson traces the earlier history of the family back to an\\nancient province in France when the name was spelled De Rhaims.\\nThey left their native home to find a refuge, as other Huguenots did, in\\nHolland, from whence, after many years, they emigrated to America.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "264 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nYoung- Cornelius attended the public schools of Areola until sixteen\\nyears of age, when he entered Stevens Institute at Hoboken spending\\ntwo years there, after which he began the study of his profession in the\\nLaw School of the University of the city of New York from which he\\nwas graduated in May 1883, with the degree of L. L. B. He was ad-\\nmitted to the bar of New York in June of the same year, as Attorney\\nand Counsellor-at-Law, and, in November, i884, was made Attorney-\\nat-Law to the bar of New Jersey and as Counsellor-at-Law in November\\n1889. From that time and ever since he has practiced his profession in\\nNew York city, and in both Hackensack and Ridgewood, having moved\\nto Ridgewood in 1887. In several important suits which he has tried,\\nthe Appellate courts have passed upon new points, raised by him, which\\nhas settled the law in questions involved. Mr. Doremus was coun-\\nsel for Bergen County board of Freeholders from 1892 to 1896; for\\nRidgewood township from 1896 to 1897, and has been counsel for a num-\\nber of years for Saddle River township; for three Building and Loan\\nAssociations, and other organizations, director of Ridgewood Hall and\\nPark Association and other corporations. He is a member of Ridge-\\nwood Club, Hohokus Golf Club, Royal Arcanum and Knights of Honor.\\nHe is a member of the First Reformed Church of Ridgewood. In 1895\\nhe was a candidate for State Senator but was defeated by Hon. W. M.\\nJohnson.\\nMr. Doremus was married in December, 1885 to Miss Jennie M.\\nLake daughter of John D. and Sarah Lake.\\nCORNELIUS p. CKOUTER.\\nMr. Crouter, the oldest dealer in the meat business in Ridgewood, is\\na native of the county and was born on the old homestead July 25, 1844,\\nwhere he remained until twenty-one years of age. In the meantime his\\neducation was advanced as rapidly as circumstances would permit and\\nthe knowledge acquired in this way was put into actual practice as fast\\nas opportunities presented themselves. Mr. Crouter s father was a\\nfarmer of respectability and a man of sound judgment who brought his\\nson up to the same avocation as he himself had followed during his\\nwhole life. Young Crouter, however, was ambitious to master some\\nuseful trade and carry on business other than farming. He, therefore,\\nchose carpentering and served an apprenticeship therein for that pur-\\npose, but after tollowing his trade five years he came to Ridgewood\\nwhere he opened up a meat market in 1874, which business he still con-\\ntinues to follow. The financial success attending Mr. Crouter s enter-\\nprises, during these twenty-five years, have enabled him to invest largely\\nin real estate giving him an additional interest in all that pertains to the\\nwelfare of the village.\\nMr. Crouter is not a politician, nevertheless he is an active man m\\npolitics in all that pertains to the best interests of the village. He is at\\npresent a trustee of the village and also a member of the Board of Edu-\\ncation, and takes an interest in social institutions being a member of\\nRidgewood Lodge, K. H. 2723:", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "COKNELIUS DOKKMUS", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 2f 7\\nAt the beginning- of our Civil War, when the call was made for men\\nti) volunteer for nine months, Mr. Crouter responded, enlisting in Com-\\npany D, 22nd Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, serving his full term of\\nenlistment under Colonel A. D. Demarest, in 1861.\\nMr. Crouter s father is now living on the old homestead, a man full\\nof years and of honors, nearly eighty years of age. The family are of\\nGerman ancestry.\\nMr. Crouter was married in 18( 5 to Miss Sarah Van Saun, daughter\\nof John I. Van Saun of Bergen County. They have two children, Agus-\\ntus P., who is in business in New York city, and one daughter. La Venia.\\nThe family attended the Methodist Church at Ridgewood. In his politi-\\ncal affiliations Mr. Crouter is a Republican and has held a number of\\nlocal offices.\\nHENKY H.\\\\LES.\\nHenry Hales, an Knglishman by birth, was born in the town of\\nYarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, February 3, 1830. He is a son of\\nWilliam Hales, a Shoe Dealer, and who later held the office of coal\\nmeter on the Quay of his native town. Mr. Hales came to America in\\nSeptember 1854, and lived in New York until 1868, following the trade\\nof interior decorater, at which he had served an apprenticeship of six\\nyears, prior to coming to the United States. An expert, showing\\ntaste and originality, he has been successful in this business, which he\\nhas followed continuously.\\nIn 1868, he purchased the tract of land where he now lives, near\\nRidgewood, and began farming and gardening. In addition to farming\\nhe has a collection of fancy poultry, especially Dorkings, of which he\\nhas some fine specimens and is president of the American Dorking\\nClub.\\nEnthusiastically interested in Ornithology and Ethnology, especi-\\nally the former, he has one of the finest collections of warblers, taking\\nspecial delight in local songsters. His many articles written for\\nscientific papers on these subjects are both interesting and instructive.\\nWhile travelling in New Mexico Mr. Hales collected many fine\\npieces of earthern ware, relics of pre-historic dwellers in that land,\\nshowing a superior knowledge of the art of decorating. Part of this\\ncollection was on exhibition at the World s Fair.\\nMr. Hales was married in 1850, in Londcm. They have five chil-\\ndren, Henry, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Caro-\\nline, who resides at home Florence, the widow of Charles D. (iraves,\\nlate of Middletown James who conducts the farm and Alice both\\nat home.\\nIn religion. Mr. Hales is a member of the Episcopal Church. In\\npolitics, a Republican, he holds a number of local offices. He is a\\nmember of the American Legion of Honor, and a member of the\\nMasonic Order at Kidgewood.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "COKNELIUS P. CKOUTEK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BERGEN COUNTY 2(\\nHKNKV W. IIAT.KS.\\nHenry W. Hales, proprietor of the Ridg-ewood Floral Nursery, is\\nthe son of Henry Hales, above mentioned. He was educated at St.\\nAndrews School in New York city, and early evinced an inherited taste\\nfor floriculture. After completing- his studies he was led to travel abroad\\nsomewhat extensively for the purpose of studying the culture of j)hri s\\nand flowers, making England his special field of observation. Much\\nvaluable information and experience was thus obtained, which has\\nproved of great practical benefit in his business. A man of inquii-ing\\nmind and close observation he was not content to simply grow and mir-\\nket the plants and flowers as he found them, but by careful study and\\nexperiment has been able to produce new plants never before placed on\\nsale. Among these have been entirely new specimens of coleus grown\\nfrom seed, the first of the kind in this country. He also introduced a\\nsweet scented chrysanthemum a few years ago which was quite a noveltv.\\nMr. Hales started his present nursery in 1874, which was the first in\\nthe vicinity of Ridgewood, beginning on a comparatively small scale,\\nbut making extensive improvements at the outset, with reference to his\\nespecial business. The establishment is now a well appointed one from\\nwhich the local trade is supplied with palms, ferns, etc., while cut flowers\\nare shipped to the New York market. He is also well known as a writer\\non flowers, and his articles are frequently seen in the horticultural mag-\\nazines and papers.\\nMr. Hales is also an inventor, of considerable note, and has not\\nimly benefitted the public, but has been handsomely remunerated for his\\nwork. Among his horticultural inventions is a mole trap that has had\\na very large sale. Owing to a difficulty he experienced in getting\\nartistic photographs of plants and flowers, he became interested in\\nphotog-raphy and for some years has made a thorough study of the art.\\nmore for pleasure, however, than for profit. Some of his inventions in\\nthis line have come into general use, among which are a photographic\\ncamera; photographic level and finder; photographic flash lamp; photo-\\ngraphic shutter, and also a rollable film camera. In practicing the art\\nof photog-raphy as a means of recreation, he has become so proficient\\nthat his work is very well known, and his pictures have given him the\\nreputation of being an expert. The photograph from which the ac-\\ncompanying view of Floratnere was made is Mr. Hales own work.\\nAs a writer on photographic subjects he has also become well known,\\nand his lantern slides and transparencies are said to be exceedingly fine.\\nMr. Hales was at one time a member of the New York Horticul-\\ntural Society, and in its palmiest days took a great interest therein. He\\nbelieves in doing everything he undertakes in the best possible manner,\\nand his nursery is noted more for the quality of its products than even\\nits large amount. He is a Republican in politics and served on the\\nTownship Committee for some years, and was also Township Treasurer.\\nIn his religious preference he is an Ejnscopalian. His jdace of residence", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "HEXKY W. HALES", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "272 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\non Spring Avenue, is named Floramere and is beautifully located in\\nclose proximity to the greenhouses and nursery.\\nDK. GEORGE M OCKFOKD\\nDr. George M. Ockford is a well-known ph^-sician of Ridgewood in\\nwhich village he has resided since 1891. He has a large and lucrative\\npractice. He made a good record as a public official, having served the\\nvillage in the capacity of Trustee, Health Officer and President of the\\nVillage.\\nHe was born March 2 1845, at London, moving with his family to\\nNothern New York in 1853. His father was Samuel Ockford, a de-\\nscendant of the old Saxons of England, and his mother Sarah Marchant a\\ndescendant of the Huguenots who settled in England on the revocation\\nof the Edict of Nantes in 1665. The father went to the front and lost\\nhis life in the service of the United States in 1864. The doctor spent\\nhis early days in New York State, becoming a member of the National\\nGuard in 1864, and receiving a discharge with the rank of captain in\\n1871. In 1872, he was graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hos-\\npital College, and settled in Hackensack. After leaving Hackensack,\\nhe practiced in Burlington, Vt. and Lexington, Ky., removing from the\\nlatter place to Ridgewood. During his residence in Kentucky, he was\\nelected President of the Southern Homeopathic Association, a society\\nembracing all the territory of the United States south of the Ohio river.\\nHe has been a valuable contributor to medical literature. His papers\\nhave been published in foreign and American journals, and a work on\\nPractice, by him in 1882, reached the dignity of a college text book.\\nHe is a senior member of the American Institute Homeopathy, an\\nactive member of the New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical So-\\nciety, and an honorar}^ member of several State Organizations. He has\\nbeen an active member of the Masonic order, being a Past Master in the\\nLodge and Past Commander of ^nights of Templar. He is also a mem-\\nber of the Royal Arcanum and one of the medical examiners of the\\norder.\\nHe was married, at Hackensack, in 1877, to Miss M. E. L. Home,\\na native of Middletown, Conn. They have three children, Florence,\\nGeorge and John. The religious home of the family is the Episcopal\\nChurch.\\nDAVID D. ZABKISKIE.\\nDavid D. Zabriskie, the present Judge of the Common Pleas Court of\\nBergen county, is a son of John C. and Jane D. Zabriskie. He was born\\nat Paramus, November 27, 1856. After preparing for college at Erasmus\\nHall, Flatbush, Long Island, young Zabriskie entered Rutgers college at\\nNew Brunswick, N. J., and was graduated in the class of 1879. He began\\nthe study of his profession in the office of Collins Colvin in Jersey\\nCity, completing his course in the Law Department of Columbia College.\\nNew York, in 1881. After being addmitted- to the Bar of New Jersey\\nas Attornev-at-Law in November 1882, he continued to practice in his", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "7.\\n.Q", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "274 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nnative State until June 1889, when he was admitted as Counsellor. From\\n1894-1895 Judg-e Zabriskie was a member of Assembly from Bergen\\ncounty and was counsel for his county from 1896 to 1897. Shortly before\\nGovernor Grig-g-s retirement from the Governorship, he appointed Mr.\\nZabriskie Judge of the Common Pleas to succeed Judge Van Valen, his\\ncommission being issued by Governor Voorhees in April 1898. Although\\nhis official duties call him to Hackensack much of the time, yet he\\nmaintains his offices both in Jersey City and Ridgewood.\\nJudge Zabriskie married Miss Lizzie S. Suydan, in October 1883, and\\nresides in Ridgewood.\\nISAAC E. HUTTON.\\nIsaac E. Hutton, the well known lumberman, is a native of New\\nYork and was born in 1853. He started out in his preparation for life\\nwork with the idea of making architecture his profession, but as the\\nyears went by he drifted back to his early business in the lumber trade.\\nHis apprenticeship in this industry was served under his father, Henry\\nO. Hutton of Rockland County, N. Y., who was a member of the firm\\nof Hutton Brothers.\\nMr. Hutton received his academic education in the Spring Valley\\nAcademy of New York State. A short time was then spent at Pough-\\nkeepsie, N. Y., after which he entered Cornell College from which he was\\ngraduated in 1875, having pursued the scientific course making a speci-\\nalty of architecture, which he intended to follow. From a class of one\\nhundred and eighty-five members only forty-five took degrees. Among\\nhis class mates who have risen to positions of prominence are Colonel\\nH. W. Sackett, of New York Frank Hiscock, Judge of Supreme Court\\nof Nev7 York State Professor E. L. Nichols, of Cornell College George\\nH. Fitch, a noted editor, now of San Francisco Charles S. Harmon, a\\nprominent attorney of Chicago, and J. T. Newman, Trustee of Cornell.\\nAfter finishing his course, Mr. Hutton changed his plans, as many col-\\nlege men do, and in 1878 came to Ridgewood, where he went into the\\nlumber business. In this he has been highly successful, at present con-\\nducting the most extensive trade in his line in that vicinity, handling all\\nkinds of building material.\\nMr. Hutton married Miss Nellie Demarest of the same county. They\\nhave two children, Robert Le Roy and Clyde Demarest. Mr. Hutton is\\na Republican.\\nW. I.. VKOOM, M. D.\\nDr. W. L. Vroom, of Ridgewood, is a descendant of the well known\\nfamily of that name in New Jersey. His father is Rev. William Henry\\nVroom, D. D., of Paramus, son of William and grandson of Henry.\\nWilliam was first cousin to Peter D., who was made Governor of New\\nJersey, for five successive terms. Rev. William Henry Vroom, D. D.,\\nwas born February 11, 1840, and was educated in the public schools of\\nSomerset county, and afterwards was graduated from Rutger s College\\nin 1802. In 1865 he finished his course in the Theological Seminary at", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "DAVID D. ZABKISKIE", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "27( HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nNew Brunswick and immediately became pastor of a church in Hoboken,\\nwhere he remained two years. From there he removed to Davenport,\\nIowa, where he resided two ^-ears. His next call was to La Cyg-ne,\\nKansas, at which place he org-anized a congregation, becoming its\\npastcjr for live years. He then returned East, taking pastoral charge of\\na church at High Falls, N. Y., remaining with it thirteen years.\\nFinallv in 1887. he removed to his present location where he has since\\nbeen pastor of the Reformed church of Paramus.\\nHe was married in 18(o, to Miss Marietta Gow, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,\\nand by this union they have three children. Dr. \\\\V. L. being the eldest,\\nand who was born in Hoboken April 1, 1866.\\nDr. Vroom received his education in the University of New York,\\nand was graduated from the medical department in 1888. He at once\\ntook up his residence in Ridgewood, where he is enjoying an extensive\\nand lucrative practice. He is a member of the Bergen county Medical\\nSociety, and in November, i898, was elected to the office of Coroner.\\nDr. Vroom was married in 1895, to Miss Blanche Girard Miller, a\\ndaughter of the late John H. Miller, formerly of Philadelphia. They\\nhave one child Cecilia. They are members of the Reformed church of\\nParamus.\\nPKTEK L. ZAKKI.SKIE.\\nPeter L. Zabriskie, a builder and contractor of Ridgewood and\\none of the enterprising voung men of this section, is a son of Ct. J.\\nG. and Anna Banta Zabriskie. His mother was a daughter of Jacob\\nBanta. Mr. Zabriskie was born IMay f), 1870, and although a young-\\nman, has made a place for himself among the business men of Ridge-\\nw^ood. Associated with him in business is his brother G. J. G. Zabris-\\nkie, Jr. Another brother John A. is a farmer. His sister Kate became\\nthe wife of Peter Pulis. Many of the handsome houses in and around\\nRidgewood were erected by Mr. Zabriskie, among the number being\\nthe residences of O. W. Reed, W. F. Catterfield, R. W. Muns, M. W.\\nWhritenour, A. L. D(m and H. A. Brown, with many others, all of\\nwhich are models of our present beautiful architecture.\\nMr. Zabriskie is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M. In politics he is\\na Republican wath independent tendencies.\\nTHE TEKHfNE F.^MILV.\\nThe Terhune family of New Jersey are descended from three broth-\\ners. Huguenots, who migrated from France to Holland, thence to\\nAmerica, generations ago, one settling at Hackensack, one at Saddle\\nRiver and a third at Raritan River. The name was originally spelled\\nTer Hune, but as in several other like names the second capital has been\\ndropped and a small letter substituted. Albert Terhune the grandfather\\nof Theodore was a native of Bergen county. His children were Richard,\\nLavina, who married Mr. John De Gray, Jemima who married Jacob De\\nBaun of Saddle River, Isaac, who married Margaret Snyder, Qarret, and\\nAndrew who married Margaret Mowcrson. The children of Richard-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "ISAAC K. Hl TTON", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "278 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nwho married Margaret Valentine, were James, who died at the ag-e of\\ntwenty-one years, Lavina who became the wife of Richard Huff, two who\\ndied in childhood and Theodore Valentine who was the youngest and is\\nthe only survivor.\\nMr. Terhune was born in New York city, October 22, 1839. He was\\neducated in the public schools of New York, and of Berg-en county, N.\\nJ., afterwards attending a boarding school in Hackensack, kept by Rev.\\nJohn T. Demarest. On leaving school, he learned the trade of carpen-\\nter and for a time followed farming and carpentering. In 1866 he bought\\na tract of ground in Ridgewood where, in 1867, he erected a dwelling,\\nand in 1872 a store and embarked in general merchandise. He built the\\ntirst house in Ridgewood after the village was laid out in streets. Mr.\\nTerhune has been successful in his undertaking having now a large and\\npaying business.\\nHe married first Miss Martha Ann Zabriskie, daughter of John\\nZabriskie of Paramus, Bergen county. Of this union were born three\\nchildren, Richard W., who married Miss Ida Miller and resides in Ridge-\\nwood, Theodore Leonard, who married Jennie Bogert and lives in Ridge-\\nwood, and Nelson Holmes who died at the age of ten years. After the\\ndeath of his wife, Mr. Terhune married on February 16, 1876, Charlotte\\nAugusta Bills, a native of Tioga county, N. Y., and by this marriage\\ntwo children have been born, Margaret Helena and Ethel May.\\nMr. Terhune was a member of the National Guard of Hohokus\\nseveral years previous to the outbreak of the civil war. In 1862 he volun-\\nteered as sergeant serving nine months in the army of the Potomac,\\nchiefly in the defenses of Washington. He was a member of Company\\nB, 22d N. J. Regiment, and is a Republican has served nine years as\\nJustice of the Peace, when he resigned and is now a chosen Freeholder.\\nIn religion Mr. Terhune is a Methodist Episcopal.\\nROGER M. BRIDGMAN.\\nRoger M. Bridgman, postmaster at Ridgewood, is a son of John\\nand Margaret (Hovell) Bridgman and was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,\\nOctober 26, 1852. His mother was born in New York city, while his\\npaternal ancestry are English, his father being a native of Stone-\\nmarket, England, from whence he emigrated to America when but\\ntwelve years of age. After coming here he learned the trade of baker,\\nwhich he followed through life, passing away in 1895.\\nRoger M. Bridgman was educated in the public schools of New York\\ncity, and at an early age became an employee of the Erie Railroad\\nCompany at Jersey City, remaining in their counting department for a\\ncontinuous period of seventeen years. In 1883 he took up his residence\\nin Ridgewood. Mr. Bridgman is a Republican and held the office of\\nclerk of the town for eight years, and also clerk of the village after its\\norganization. He was appointed postmaster at Ridgewood in October\\n1897, and re-appointed January 12, 1898, the term of office of his pre-\\ndecessor having expired while congress was not in session.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "PHTKK L. ZAHKISKII-;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "280 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn 1882 Mr. Bridgman married Miss Isabella Brown, daughter of\\nNapoleon and Margaret Brown of New York. Of this union, one\\ndaughter was born, Isabella Marguerite, who was graduated from the\\nthe Ridgewood High School in the class of 1898, following which she\\nhas just completed a course of Kindergarten training in New York\\ncity. Mrs. Bridgman s father. Napoleon Brown, lost his life in our\\nlate Civil war.\\nMr. Bridgman and his family attend the Reformed Church. He is\\na member of the Junior O. U. A. M., and president of the Fire\\nDepartment.\\nHAKKY TEKUNE\\nThe proprietor of the Rouclere House in Ridgewood, is Mr. Harry\\nTerhune, son of Abram Terhune. He was born in Paterson, N. J.,\\nJune 3, 1866, and received a common school education in the town of\\nRidgewood. While still a mere lad he showed a marked talent for jug-\\nglery and sleight of hand and at the age of eight years had a local\\nreputation as a boy magician. He entered the profession as a means of\\nlivelihood in 1878, under the name of Harry Rouclere doing a short\\nact of magic and working a troop of dogs. A few years later he\\nbranched out as a gymnast and acrobat but sustaining a severe fall\\nfrom the trapeze he abandoned the gymnast line. He then devoted his\\nentire time to jugglery and in a few years became the recognized\\nAmerican manipulator, appearing with marked success in nearly every\\nlarge city in America.\\nHe was married to Miss Mildred Searing of Brooklyn and shortly\\nafter conceived the idea of a mind reading performance. Assisted by\\nhis wife, their success has been marked in this peculiar line of work\\nattracting the attention of the press and public. This baffled the inves-\\ntigations of the most ingenious scientists and physicians of this country.\\nOn May 22, 1891, they startled the scientific world by producing a new\\nversion of hypnotic mental telegraphy, which they called Psychon-\\notism, and in it demonstrated that one intelligent person can convey\\nideas to another without visible means of communication. This act\\ncreated a sensation in all parts of the United States and so great was\\ntheir success that they were pictured and headlined on all bills and\\nprogrammes.\\nApart from her many accomplishments Mildred Terhune is en-\\ndowed by nature with a marvellous memory. She can not only instantly\\ngive the day of the week that any date falls on, or the cube or\\nsquare root of any number or numbers but on one occasion memorized\\nLongfellow s Hiawatha in two readings. This is most remark-\\nable from the fact that the poem is in blank verse.\\nMr. Terhune besides his hotel business, is owner and proprietor of\\nthe Mildred Novelty Company, (an organization which tours the\\ncities every winter,) is manager of the Opera House at Ridgewood,\\nand is reaping the rewards of his ingenuity and industry.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BHKORN COUNTY 283\\nHe is a member of the B. P. O. Elks, the Masonic Order, the Royal\\nArcanum and the Heptasophs.\\nVAN EMBUKGH Tl^KIirNK.\\nVan Emburgh and Terhune, of Ridgewood, N. J., Funeral Direc-\\ntors and Embalmers, is composed of Messrs. J. D. Van Emburgh. Jr.,\\nand Harvey Terhune, now conducting an extensive business. Mr. Van\\nEmburgh is a son of Jacob D. Van Emburgh, a native of Bergen county.\\nIn his boyhood days he went to school to Judge Van Valen, the editor\\nof this work.\\nMr. Terhune the Junior member of the firm is a son of A. D.\\nTerhune of Bergen county. He received a special education in the\\nU. S. school of Embalming of New York, where he perfected himself\\nin the art, thereby giving the firm a special prestige by being prepared\\nwith all modern appliances in embalming. Both the above gentlemen\\nare members of the Jr. O. U. A. M. Mr. Van Emburgh is a member\\nof the Knights of Honor and Mr. Terhune is a member of the Royal\\nArcanum. The service of this firm is of the highest order, and their\\nterritory extends over a wide area, largely in Bergen county. They\\nalso conduct funerals in and around Brooklyn and New York.\\nWILLIAM F. SCHWKINl UKTH.\\nWilliam F. Schweinfurth is a son P. L. Schweinfurth and was born\\nFebruary 13, 1859 in west Hoboken. His father who was a native of\\nGermany, emigrated to this country about the 3 ear 1848. He was a\\ncooper by trade but in 1865 removed to Hudson county where he en-\\ngaged in the manufacture of vinegar and also in the sale of mineral\\nwater. Young Schweinfurth was educated in the common schools of his\\nnative village, leaving school at the age of fourteen vears.\\nAfter this he was employed in various lloral establishments near\\nhis home.\\nIn 18 .\u00c2\u00bb2 he and his brother began business as florists under the firm\\nname of F. W. Schweinfurth, at Bronx ville, Westchester county, N.\\nY., in which they were successful. Mr. William Schweinfurth, in 1897,\\nsold his interest to his brother, afterward purchasing the establishment\\nof H. E. Forbes, at Ridgewood. This is a plant of three acres in ex-\\ntent and contains nine hundred square feet of glass.\\nMr. Schweinfurth makes a specialty of roses and cut flowers, selling\\nto New York customers almost wholly. His business is prosperous,\\nowing to his ])ersonal energy and industry, having started in l.S )2 with-\\nout capital.\\nHe is a Republican and an attendant uf iIk- Kefornu d Church.\\nJOSICru H. CHKISTOPIII IK.\\nOne f the ablest architects and builders of the county, is Mr. Joseph\\nH. Christopher of Ridgewood. His father was William, son of Joseph\\nChristopher and his mother Rosanna Lake. Joseph H,, was born in the\\nvillage of Allendale, September 17, 18(,3.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "284 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nAfter receiving a common school education he took a special course\\nin scientific drawing in New York, afterward stud^-ing mechanical and\\narchitectural drawing.\\nFor some years he worked as a machinist and mechanical engineer,\\nin New York, becoming an expert in that line. In 1889 without capital,\\nhe established himself in Ridgewood, beginning business necessarily in\\na small way. By industry and perseverance he increased his business,\\nbuilding many of the handsome residences of Ridgewood, a number of\\nthese being models of modern architecture. Being a thoroughly equipped\\narchitect, he is skilled in every department of house building, superin-\\ntending the painting and plumbing as carefully as any other part of the\\nwork.\\nThe public school building attests the thoroughness of his methods.\\nMr. Christopher remodelled the Almshouse, and erected many other\\nprominent structures. He may be truly said to have been the archi-\\ntect of his own fortune.\\nMr. Christopher was married in 1886 to Miss Elizabeth Hopper,\\ndaughter of Peter G. Hopper, a native of Bergen county. They have\\ntwo children, Rachel and Rowena.\\nIn politics, a Democrat, he has never aspired to office is a member\\nof the Legion of Honor and of the Royal Arcanum and a member of the\\nJr. O. U. A. M. He belongs to the Ridgewood Fire Company. Mr.\\nChristopher is a member of the Reformed Church of Ridgewood of which\\nhe has been deacon and has also been treasurer..\\nEDWIN NICKEKSON.\\nEdwin Nickerson is a descendant of French and Irish ancestry, who\\nfor generations back have lived in America. His immediate ancestors\\nresided in New York state, his grandfather Zalraon Nickerson, and his\\nfather George W., who was the eldest of Zalmon s thirteen children\\nliving in Rockland county, where Edwin was born April 2( th, rS59.\\nMr. Nickerson s mother was Amelia (Johnson) Nickerson, a very pious\\nwoman and a devoted member of the Reformed church. She died\\nJanuary 1898, at the age of sixty-nine years.\\nMr. Nickerson was educated in the common schools of his native\\ncounty, and began business for himself when nineteen years of age, by\\ntaking charge of a farm, in the vicinity of his home, which he success-\\nfully managed for three years. He then came to Ridgewood and for\\nsixteen years was associated with I. E. Hutton in the retail lumber\\nbusiness. At present he is in the same line of business, with J. Blau-\\nvelt Hopper and his brother Walter J. Nickerson. He married Miss\\nAnna A., daughter of John R. Westervelt. They have three children.\\nIn their religious relations they are members of the Reformed church.\\nMr. Nickerson is a member of the Junior Order of United American\\nMechanics.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "A. V..B.. SNVDKK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "286 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nGLEN ROCK.\\nThe borough of Glen Rock was formed in 1894, its area to extend\\nfrom a point near John H. Storm s marble shop, on the Paterson road,\\nto a few rods beyond Van Wagoner s Hotel, and from the east side of\\nCherry Lane to Hohokus Brook. Mr. A. V. D. Snyder, David Zabriskie,\\nJohn A. Marinus and a few others were the promoters of the borough\\nscheme, and have from the beginning officiated in its government. It is\\na farming community wholly, has one church, a branch of the Reformed\\nChurch of Ridgewood, but no pastor at present. It comprises one\\nschool district, a new building for which is now being erected at a cost\\nof S5000.\\nA. V. D. Snyder is the present Mayor.\\nANDREW V. D. SNYDER.\\nAndrew V. D. Snyder, Mayor of Glen Rock, son of John R. and\\nSarah (Van Dien Snyder was born March 28, 1856, and is a native of\\nMidland Park. F^or four generations the Snyder family have been resi-\\ndents of this part of the county. In the family of Mr. Snyder s grand-\\nfather were the following; Thomas R., who lives at Midland Park;\\nMaria, who became the wife of Daniel Ackerman Garret R., of\\nMidland Park; John R., the father of our subject and Rachel who mar-\\nried David Van Houten.\\nYoung Snyder, after leaving the common schools, attended the\\nPaterson Seminary from which he took his degree, and afterward took a\\nspecial course in the French and German languages. He was employed\\nfor a short time by A. T. Stewart Co., of New York, and subse-\\nquently by a hardware concern in Paterson. After embarking in the\\nbutchering business in which he was unsuccessful, losing the result of\\nseveral years labor, he took a position with the Metropolitan Steamship\\nCompany of New York, where he remained a short time. In 1886, how-\\never, he began business in Ridgewood as a florist, and has gradually\\nbuilt a thriving trade in that line, making a specialty of importing\\nbulbs from France and Holland, and also dealing in all kinds of farm\\nand garden seeds. Having made extensive improvements in his\\npremises, his buildings and equipments are now new, and modern\\nthroughout. Mr. Snyder is an energetic business man and is self made\\nin every respect. He was married in 1875, to Miss Hopper, daughter of\\nGarret N. Hopper of Paramus, and by this union they have had four\\nchildren: Christina, and Andrew J., now living, Sadie who died at the\\nage of twenty, and Fred who died at the age of ten months. Mr.\\nSnyder is a Democrat in politics. He has been a Freeholder and Town\\nClerk of the town of Ridgewood and has served for five years, as a\\nmember of the Democratic Executive Committee. He is now Mayor of\\nthe Borough of Glen Rock, also Vice President of the Ridgewood\\nCo-operative Building and Loan Association. The family attend the\\nReformed Church.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGKN COUNTY 287\\nTill-; UOKOUGH OF MIDLAND PAKK.\\nThe Borough of Midhmd Park was incorjioratcd September IS M.\\nThe first Mayor was William B. Morrow; Councilmen: H. A.\\nLawrence, C. A. Tillotson, John Klopman, Marcus Young Louis Smith;\\nClerk, Thomas Holt; Freeholder, John R. Carlousfh; Collector, E. M.\\nKrech; Assessor, Will Holt.\\nPresent Mayor, M. B. Wilson: Clerk, Thomas Holt; Councilmen:\\nFrancis H. Mayhew, (Tcorg-e B. Krech, tiarret Klopman, Garret Mul-\\nder, John Beattie, John R. Carloug-h; Collector, William R. Morrow;\\nAssessor, Will Holt. Board of Health, Thomas Holt, president; Jacob\\nLeames, secretary; John Klopman, Henry Deiphauser, John L. Guyre.\\nEDWAKD M. KKKCH.\\nEdward M. Krech, son of George and Hannah (Glasser) Krech\\nwas born in Saxemeiningen, Germany, November 17, 1836. Mr. Krech\\nhad three brothers. Christian was a resident of Hackensack and died\\nthere in iS89. August lives in Milwaukie. and Adolph is still in Ger-\\nmany. Edward M. was educated in his native land, coming to the\\nUnited States in 1854. Immediately after his arrival he became em-\\nployed in the cotton mills of David Perry, at what is now Midland Park,\\ncontinuing in that business for four years. The following twenty-six\\nyears he spent with the Wortendyke Manufacturing Company. This\\nCompany failed in 1884, when Mr. Krech engaged in business on his\\nown account. In 1895 Mr. Krech retired from active life, after a suc-\\ncessful business career covering a period of more than forty-two years.\\nIn politics Mr. Krech is a Democrat. He was the first collector of\\nMidland Park, and is chairman of the school board. He is a charter\\nmember of Wortendyke Lodge, 175, Odd Fellows, which was organized\\ntwenty-six years ago. In his religinus life, Mr. Krech is a member of\\nthe Methodist church.\\nHe was married in 1868 to Miss Theresa Lassman, who is also a\\nnative of Germany. They have had four children, Rosa, wife of John\\nS. Payne, of Wortendyke; George E., married to Jessie, daughter of\\nthe Rev. J. S. Gilbert, former pastor of the Wortendyke Methodist\\nChurch; Dora, who died at the age of thirteen years, and Theresa, who\\nis at home unmarried. George E., is manager of the agency account\\ndepartment of the German American Fire Insurance Company of New\\nYork.\\nJOHN U. I OS I\\nJohn H. Post general merchant and postmaster, of Midland Park, is\\na native of Bergen county born July 22, 1844. His father Henry 1\\nPost, is also a native of Bergen county, and a son of Peter Post of Hol-\\nland ancestry. Mr. I ost had one brother, Peter, who enlisted in the\\n22nd New Jersey volunteers, and died of wounds received in the army.\\nOur subject received a common school education, and afterwards\\nlearned the trade of brick and stone mason, which he followed for a num-\\nber of years. In 1888 he purchased the property where he is n(jw loca-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "288 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nted, and after improving- it, entered into the retail of general merchan-\\ndise, in which industry and honorable business methods have made him\\nsuccessful. In 1863 he married Miss Louisa Coe, daug-hter of Abram\\nCoe, also of Berg-en county. They have two children, both of whom\\nhave received a high school education. Thomas, the son, is assistant in\\nthe store with his father. In politics Mr. Post is a Republican. He has\\nbeen postmaster at Midland Park, for a period of ten years, excepting\\none year, after which he was reinstated. He has also served as town\\ncommitteeman, and as school clerk. Mr. Post and family attend the\\nMethodist church.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIII.\\nWASHINGTON.\\nKAHLY SETTLEMENTS BOKOLGH KKVKK FAMILY IHSTOKY CIVIL LIST\\nWESTWOOD PASCACK \\\\VOODCLIFF BOKOUGH HILLSDALIC TOWN-\\nSHIP PARK KIDGE MONTVALE BIOGKAPHICAL.\\nThe township of Washington was taken from the township of Har-\\nrington by an Act of the Legiskiture passed January 30, 1S40, and\\nwas made to consist of all that territory lying wes of the Hackensack\\nRiver, which belong ed to Harrington, at that time. Its area covered\\n19,525 acres in extent. It was in this part of the old township at a place\\nknown as the Overkill Neighborhood, where occurred the surprise and\\nslaughter of Col. Baylor s light horse on the night of. October 27, 1778.\\nA geographical description of Washington township at the time of its\\nformation is as follows: Bounded on the north by Rockland county, N.\\nY., south b\\\\- Midland and Harrington, east by Harrington and west by\\nHohokusand Ridgewood. The New Jersey and New York Railroad runs\\nthrough the township in nearl\\\\ a northerly direction with stations at\\nEtna, Westwood, Hillsdale Manor, Woodcliif, Park Ridge and at\\nMontvale.\\nThe borough fever attacked this townsliip in hS M, and soon after\\neach of the above named places, with one or two exceptions, became\\nthe capital of a borough formed within its precincts. First came the\\nformation of the boroughs of Westwood, Woodcliff, Park Ridge, Mont-\\nvale and Eastwood leaving Hillsdale for the center of a rather distorted\\narea, for the old township. Eastwood finally- returned to the township\\nhaving become tired of borough life. Hillsdale, looking after its own\\ninterests organized into a township in 189S leaving Old Hook in\\nthe desert waste to look after its own municipality with Etna for its\\ntrading post, and the old romantic name of Kinderkamack for its legacy.\\nEtna, or Aetna, as it was formerly called, is located in the old town-\\nship of Washington. It was originally known as Kinderkamack, the\\nname in accordance with popular tradition being of Indian origin and\\nsignifying the place where the cock crowed. The i)lace was the\\nscene of some of the more important incidents of the Revolutionary\\nperiod. During the time the American army encamped here, occurred\\nthe death of Brigadier General Poor, ime of the bravest generals of the\\nRevolution. His remains were interred in the old cemetery of the\\nReformed Dutch Church at Hackensack, his funeral obsequies having\\nbeen attended by both Washington and Lafayette. His grave is marked\\nby a plain slab bearing the following inscription: In memory of the\\nHon. Brigadier General Enoch Poor, of the State of New Hampshire,\\nwho departed this life on the 8th day of September 1780, aged forty- four\\nYears.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "290 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nEARLY SETTLEMENTS.\\nThe township of Washington in its early history is associated with\\nthe names of Wortendyke, Blauvelt, Eckerson, Hering-, Deraarest, Hol-\\ndrum. Storm, Brickell, Hopper, Westervelt, Bogert, Van Eniburg,\\nCampbell, Banta, Perry, and others. Many if not all of these names are\\nstill represented by later generations, a portion of whom have inherited\\nthe paternal estates. The tradition of the fathers have in a few instan-\\nces been preserved, but with most of these families little of interest is\\nremembered prior to the present century. The Wortendykes are among-\\nthe earliest residents of the township, the progenitor of whom was Jacob,\\nwho came from Holland at the period prior to the Revolution and settled\\nin Harrington township. He had two sons, Rinear and Frederick, both\\nof whom located in Washington. Rinear married, and had as descend-\\nants Cornelius, Rinear, Frederick, Albert, and Jacob. The latter was\\nmarried to Elizabeth Campbell, and had children, Rinear and two\\ndaughters. Frederick, the son of Jacob first mentioned, had sons, Fred-\\nerick, Peter and James.\\nAlbert, the son of the first Rinear, married and had children,\\nDavid, Abram, Rinear, and a daughter, Jane. Abram had two sons,\\nAbram, and Albert A. Frederick F. and Peter Wortendyke each repre-\\nsent other branches of the same family.\\nThe Hopper family are of Holland descent, the earliest one remem-\\nbered in VVashington being Abram, who had among his children one\\nJacob. He resided at Kinderkamack, on property recently occupied by\\nJohn Smith, and which was formerly the homestead. Jacob had one\\nson, Abram, who settled on ancestral land and had children, Abram,\\nGarret, Isaac, John, James, and Jacob, and one daughter. Jacob located\\nupon the farm afterwards occupied by his only son, Richard Hopper, and a\\ndaughter, Mrs. J. C. Westervelt. Another branch was that of Nicholas\\nHopper, who resides in Hohokus, and had three sons, John, Jacob, and\\nAndrew.\\nThe Brickell family were originally from Rockland County, the first\\nmember of whom was probably George, who fell in the Revolutionary\\nconflict. He had two sons, George and Thomas, the latter of whom\\ncame to the township of Washington (then Harrington) and pursued the\\nweaver s craft. He was united in marriage to Altye, daughter of\\nWilliam Bogert, and had twelve children, of whom seven reside in the\\ntownship. The sons were George, John, and David, of whom George\\nand David lived in Washington, and John in Newark. Much of the\\nland now embraced in the village of Westwood belonged to the family.\\nAmong the oldest families in the township is that of Bogert, who\\nare of Holland ancestry, and the pioneer of whom was Isaac. See spec-\\nial sketch.\\nConrad Storms of Holland descent was probably the first of that\\nfamily to come to the township. His children were Henry and a\\ndaughter. Henry married Margaret Holdrom, and their children were\\nConrad, Cornelius and two daughters.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BEKGKN COUNTY 291\\nPeter Perry was an early resident and ijurchasod a lart^e tract in the\\nnorth east corner of the township. lie had sons, Peter, Johannes and\\nJacob. A. P. Perry. Mayor of Park Kidjre, is a descendant of this\\nearly settler.\\nThe Deniarest family in this township descend from Garret who\\nlocated on the mill site but recently occujjied by Robert Yates. His sons\\nwere Tunis, James, Abram, Samuel and John, all of whom became resi-\\ndents of the township. One of his daug-hters became Mrs. John Hopper.\\nAnother branch of the Demarest family was represented bv two\\nbrothers John and Abram who settled in the south east part of the town-\\nship but neither left families. Still another member of this family-\\nJacobus Deniarest was a resident of this township, living- first at Old\\nHook then at Montvale. He had children David, Abram and John and\\ntwo daug-hters. The sons all lived and died in the township.\\nThe Alyea family, none of whom now live in the township, was\\nrepresented by Jacobus, who was buried in the Old Hook cemeterv dur-\\ning the latter part of the last century.\\nThe earliest of the Banta family to settle in Washington township\\nwas John, born October f ri824, who resided at Pascack. He married\\nMargaret Duryea and had children, Henry, John, Jacob, and Agnes.\\nThe Westervelt family are among the earliest settlers in the town-\\nship. Casparus I. had a son John C. who was married to Agnes Van-\\nderbeck, and had children, Casparus I., Sarah and Martyntie. Casparus\\nI. married Maria Van Riper and had one son. Captain J. C. Westervelt\\nof West wood.\\nThe Blauvelt family are of Holland descent, and associated with\\nsome of the most stirring events of the Revolutionary period. Among\\na large family of brothers were Jacobus and Cornelius D.. the former of\\nwhom settled near Mont Vale and had four sons James, John, David,\\nand Tunis and six daughters. Among these sons his land, embracing a\\ntract of two hundred acres, was divided. All but Tunis left descend-\\nants. John I., the son of John, was a resident in the township. Cor-\\nnelius D., a soldier of the Revolutionary war, had a son, David C, who\\nwas the father of James D. and John D. Blauvelt. both residents of\\nWashington.\\nAt the home of Cornelius D. Blauvelt, whose wife was a member of\\nthe Hering family, occurred one of the most heartless massacres of the\\nRevolution the surprise and slaughter of a detachment of Col. Bay-\\nlor s command. The spot upon which the Blauvelt home was located,\\nas described to the historian by one of the descendants of the family,\\nwas at River Vale, on the west side of the river, on the site of the house\\nmore recently occupied by L. Cleveland, the original structure having\\nlong since been demolished. The night was severely cold, and the\\ntroops were quartered in the barn, the officer in command with some of\\nhis subordinates having been more comfortably provided for at the\\nhouse. Guards were stationed about the place, who at three successive\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6From the History of Bereen and Pass.iic Counties.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "292 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ntimes reported to the officer the impossibility of longer enduring the\\nterrible cold. He remarked to the troops that they must protect them-\\nselves as the guards were relieved. A part}- of Hessians surrounded the\\nbuildings, and at once directed their attention to the barn where most\\nof the troops were quartered. The major and surgeon, who were in the\\nhouse, were taken prisoners. The defenseless soldiers found escape\\nimpossible. They were captured and slaughtered without quarter, and\\ntheir bodies thrown into a neighboring tan-vat; but three escaped by\\nfleeing to an adjoining wood and secreting themselves.\\nThe Hering family are of Dutch descent, and intimately associ-\\nated with the early history of the county. Four brothers purchased a\\ntract of one thousand acres in New York State, the deed bearing date\\n172 and subsequently an additional six hundred in Washington (then\\nHarrington) township, upon which three cousins, sons of the original\\nsettlers, and all named Cornelius, located, each of whom was given a\\ntract embracing two hundred acres. One portion of this land was situ-\\nated at Pascack, the descendants of the son who settled here being\\nWilliam, John, Cornelius and James.\\nOne of the four brothers first named was Abram A. F. Hering,\\nwhose son Cornelius Abram, settled upon the farm afterward occupied\\nby Abram C. Hering. The children of Cornelius A. were Ralph, Abram,\\nand four daughters. Both sons located upon the family estate. The\\nchildren of Ralph were Cornelius R. and David. David had two sons,\\nRalph D., and David, the former of whom resided in the township. The\\nearlier members of this family were identified with many of the Revo-\\nlutionery scene which transpired in the township.\\nCIVIL LIST.\\nThe following is the list of freeholders since the organization of\\nthe township:\\n184U-42, Garret I. Demarest; 1341. Thomas Achenbach; 1842-4.\\\\ 1.S45,\\n1853, Henry Blauvelt; 1843, 1845-46, 1851, Cornelius R. Harring; 184(i,\\nJohn Achenbach; 1847-4 J, James I. Demarest; 1847-50, Harmon F. Van\\nRiper; 1850-51, John P. Duryea; 1852-53, John I. Ackerman; 1852,\\nJames D. Van Horn; 1854, 1856, Cornelius G. Ackerson; 1854, Henry\\nH. Kingsland; 1856-58, Andrew M. Hopper; 1857-59, Benjamin Z. Van\\nEmburgh; 1859-61, Peter R. Wortendyke; 1860.62, James L. Ackerman;\\n1862-64, Thomas Van Orden; 18()3-64, 1866, 1870, Jacob D. Van Em-\\nburgh; 1866, Frederick F. Wortendyke; 1867, Abraham Van Emburgh;\\n1867-69, James G. Harring; 1868-69, John Christopher; 1870-72, Nicholas\\nB. Ackerman; 1873-75, Thomas Post; 1876-78, B. S. Demarest; 1879,\\nAbraham C. Holdrum; 1880-81, Thomas Eckerson; 1889-90, Garret Her-\\ning; 1891-97, Isaac D. Bogert; 1898-99, J. A. Eckerson.\\nTownship Clerk, 1840-41, Cornelius R. Haring; 42-43-45, Henry G.\\nBanta; 46-48, P. M. Holdnm; 49-51, John C. Westervelt; 52-54, 56-58;\\n55, Frederick Wortendyke, Jr.; Frederick P. Van Riper; 59-61, Henry G\\nHering; 2-63, Jacob J. Storms, 65-67, Garret R. Haring; 68-70, Gar-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BKKGEN COTNTY 2 J3\\nret J, Lydecker: 71-73. John 1*. Wortendyko; 74-7( James A. Acker-\\nmau; 77-79, John J. Meyers; 80-81, Garret J. Wortendyke; 82 (Garret J.\\nWortendyke; S,V84-S5, Schuyler Bauta; 86-87-88; Garret N. Aekennan;\\n89-91, Edward Sarson; 92-99, John H. Ackerman.\\nAssessors, 1840-42, (iarret S. Detnarest; 1843-4f., John A. D^marest;\\n1847-49, John I. Demarest; 1850-51, James K. Bo-^ert; 1852-54, George\\nT. Brickell; 1855-57, John P. Johnson; 1858-60. James G. Herins^; 18(.l-\\n()3, Garret F. Hering; l864-6( 1873-75. Peter M. Holdron; 1867-(.9, John\\nH. Demarest; 1870-72. Louis M. Plauck; 1876-78, F. F. Wortendyke;\\n1879-81. Henry G. Hering-; 1882-83-84. John P. Wortendyke; 1885-86-87,\\nJohn H. Ackerman; 1888, John H. Wortendyke; 1889-90, John H. Wort-\\nendyke; 1891-96, John G. H. Knoner: 1897-98. John W. Kinmouth; 1899,\\nNicholas Cleveland.\\nCollectors, 40-42, Casparus I. Zabriskie; 43-46, Peter F. Van Kiper;\\n47-49, Henry Achenbach; 50-51, John P. Westervelt; 52, Jacob J. Storms,\\n53, 55-56, 66-()8, Peter R. Wortendyke; 54, Abraham Bergen; 57-59,\\nAbraham Van Emburgh; ()0-62, Cornelius F. Crouter; 63-65, H.-nry (i.\\nHering; 69-71, Albert Z. Ackerman; 72-74, John H. Ackerman; 72-75,\\nJohn H. Ackerman; 75-77, Garret J. Lydecker; 78-81, Jacob M. Myers;\\n82-83-84, Peter R. Wortendyke; 85, Isaac D. Bogert; 86-87-88, Andrew\\nH. Smith; 89-92, Andrew H. Smith; 93-95. John A. Eckerson; 96-98,\\nJohn Heck; 99, John H. Ackerman.\\nTownship Committees, 1840-42, John R. Blauvelt; 40-41, David\\nBogert; 40, Cornelius Ackerman; 40-41, James L Demarest; 40-43, 49-\\n51, John Flearoboam; 41-43, 45, Herman Van Riper; 42-43, 45, 49-51,\\nJ. A. L. Demarest; 42-43, 45, John P. Perry; 43, 45-46, Lawrence Van\\nBuskirk; 45:47, Garret S. Demarest; 46-48, Peter A. Westervelt. J. A.\\nLozier, Isaac Mabie 47-49, Peter Crouter; 48-49, James P. Westervelt\\n49-51, Henrv Pullis; 50, Garret C. Ackerman, Cornelius R. Haring; 51.\\nJ. Z. Van Blarcora, William C. Holdron; 52-53. A. H. Westervelt; 52-\\n54, James L. Ackerman, Garret J. Lydecker 52. J. H. Van Emburgh\\n52-53, James A. Campbell 53-54, 76-78, Thomas Van Orden 54-56.\\n64-66, Albert A. L. Demarest; 54-55, Andrew M. Hopper; 55-56, Benja-\\nmin S. Demarest; 55-57. l-62. Frederick Crouter; 55, James Demarest,\\nJr.; 57-59, Peter J. Banta 56-58, 69-71, Henry Z. Ackerman; 56-,S8, 63-\\n65, John A. Ackerman; 57-59, H. A. L. Demarest; 58-60, Nicholas B.\\nAckerman; 59-60, John P. Johnson; 59-60, Jacob Z. Van Blarcom 60-\\n62, Thomas Post; 60-62, 73-75. Anthony C. Tice 61-63, John I. Blau-\\nvelt. David A. Campbell 6.3-65. William A. Demarest. Garret J. Hopi)er;\\n64-66, Thomas D. Blanch; 66, Nicholas A. Demarest; 66-68, David\\nTice. F. F. Wortendyke. Jr.; 67-69, Garret F. Hering, Daniel J. Post,\\nJacob H. Van Derbeck (.9. John W. Christie; 70-72, John A. Felter,\\nAbram J. Allen. John A. L. Blauvelt. Stephen J. (ioetschius; 72-74,\\nDavid Brickell; 73-75, Richard Van Derbeck; 7.V74, John Messenger;\\n73-75, Abram Si. Van Horn 75-77, Garret D. Van Bussf)m, Isaac\\nOnderdonk 76-78, Samuel B. Demarest, John I). Durie 78-80. Abram\\nA. Campbell; 78-79, Mercelius Post; 79-81. .\\\\1 ram Gurnee: \u00e2\u0096\u00a080-81,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "294 HISTOKY OF BEKCfEN COUNTY\\nSchuyler Banta 81, John Henry Ackerman 82, Schuyler Bauta, John\\nHenry Ackerman, James Alfred Ackerman 83, John Henry Ackerman,\\nJames Alfred Ackerman, Jacob D. Demarest 84, James Alfred Acker-\\nman, John J. Myers, J. H. Wortendyke 85, John J. Myers, J. H. Wort-\\nendyke, Gilbert Bell; 86, Gilbert Bell, J. H. Wortend3-ke, Abram S.\\nVan Horn; 87, Gilbert Bell, Abram S. Van Horn, A. J. House; 88,\\nAbram S. Van Horn, A. J. House, J. C. Blauvelt S W. D. Ackerman;\\n\u00c2\u00bb0, W. D. Ackerman Jl, Daniel O Mara, W. D. Ackerman )2, Daniel\\nO Mara, John H. Ackerman 93, Daniel O Mara, John H. Ackerson,\\nA. B. Van Emburg-h 94, John B. Lozier, John H. Ackerson, A. B. Van\\nEmburgfh; 95, David L. Lwkwood, John B. Lozier, A. B. Van Emburg-h;\\n96, David L. Lockwood, Abram A. Hopper, John B. Lozier; 97, David\\nL. Lockwood, Peter J. Westervelt, Thomas C. Demarest; 98, Daniel\\nO Mara, Peter J. Westervelt, Thomas C. Demarest; 99, John G. H.\\nKnoner, Daniel O Mara, Peter J. Westervelt.\\nWEST WOOD.\\nWestwood, a beautiful village 21.6 miles from New York on the\\nNew Jersey and New York Railroad, has a population of about one thou-\\nsand persons. The land occupying this site was purchased of John Mar-\\nsellus on the 26th of March, 1765, in the fourth year of the reign of\\nGeorge HI, and another tract ajdoining, was bought of Jacob Hopper\\nApril 5, 1780 by Isaac Bogert, of New York, who was the ancestor of\\nIsaac D. Bogert, the present mayor of Westwood. Albert Bogert, son\\nof Isaac, was a carpenter, and having fallen from the roof of a building\\nand broken his leg, his father was induced to move from the cit} to this\\ntownship, where he purchased in all five hundred acres of land, one tract\\nof which nearly covers the site of Westwood.\\nDavid I. Bogert, George T. Brickell and David Brickell were the\\nfirst to cause a survey to be made of the lots for a village at this place.\\nIsaac, grandson of Isaac and grandfather of Isaac D. Bogert\\nlived here fifty years ago. His son David, the father of Isaac, was\\nkilled on the Midland railroad at Central Avenue, Hackensack in 1871.\\nMr. Isaac D. Bogert rebuilt the old house in 1852. The old mill just\\nbelow the house was rebuilt in 1823.\\nIn 1869 Isaac D. Bogert and Z. B. Van Emburgh built the first store\\nin the village. It is now one of the leading stores in the county. Z. B.\\nVan Emburgh was the grandson of Henry and Mary Voorhis Van Em-\\nburgh and son of Albert and Hannah Zabriskie Van Emburgh, and\\nbrother to H. A. and Nicholas Van Emburgh, all of Washington Town-\\nship. He was the father of Albert Van Emburgh, now of the firm of\\nBogert and Van Emburgh.\\nThe Westwood Hotel was built by A. B. Bogert at this time and\\nwas the beginning of the village history of Westwood. In i870 at the\\ntime of the building of the railroad. Dr. S. J. Zabriskie, now the old-\\nest practicing physician in the county located here, at which time there\\nwere only two or three houses in the place. At present there are three", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK RK1\u00c2\u00ab;HN COUNTY 295\\ngrocery stores, one hardware store, two churches and two hotels and\\nother places of importance. The Bsrough of W estwood was formed in\\n1 894, the first officers of the incorporation being: as follow^: Isaac D.\\nBogfert, Mayor; W. W. Voorhis, John C. Kent, J. H. Ackcrson, George\\n\\\\V. CoUignon, Walter Ray, George W. Youmans, Council; James E.\\nDemarest, Clerk. Mr. Bogert was followed by T. G. Brickcll, Mayor,\\nwho held the office four years. The officers for iS99 are: Isaac D.\\nBogert, Mayor; Dr. S. J. Zabriskie, Walter DeBaun, Walter G. Ray.\\nJohn W. Horn, A. B. Bogert, John J. Blauvelt, Council; Charles D.\\nWestervelt, Clerk.\\nThe Borough of Westwoo(l was formed into one school district at\\nthe time of its organisation. The school building was erected at a\\ncost of four thousand dollars. A Union Chapel was built in the place\\nin i878. On August 25, 1886, on Sunday at one o clock p. m. a fearful\\ncyclone tore down the church, and schoolhouse, and damaged other\\nbuildings.\\nCHUKCHES.\\nReligious services were for a period held at a public hall in West-\\nwood, but a building was erected in 1872 at a cost of $4000, and union\\nservices regularl}- conducted by clergymen from Closter, Schraalenburgh\\nand other villages. This house was destroyed, and rebuilt at a cost of\\nS4000, and an elegant school house was also erected. The edifice has\\nsince that time received important additions, and the church is supported\\nby a membership of one hundred and thirteen. It started with twenty-seven\\npersons. The Rev. David Talmage, nephew of Dr. DeWitt Talmage,\\nformerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., was called to the pastorate of this church\\nin 1887, and is still in charge of the congregation. Isaac D. Bogert\\ngave the grounds for the church building, and has been one of the elders\\nsince its organization.\\nA Catholic Church, having a limited membership, was established\\ntwelve or fifteen years ago. It has no resident pastor.\\nThe borough of Westwood is supplied with excellent cool, clear,\\nspring water, for domestic use. Mr. C. S. De Baun first drove a number\\nof wells, which, for a scries of years, suj)plied the people through tanks,\\nbut subsequently an inexhaustable supply of spring water was found,\\nwhich abundantly supplies both the fire de])artment, and the water for\\ndomestic purposes.\\nThe Fire Department of Westwood is under the control of one\\ncapable foreman and thirty-six voluntary assistants, while one marshal\\nand constables look after the peace of the borough.\\nIS. \\\\.\\\\C D. Boc.i;i T,\\nIsaac D. Bogert, Mayor of Westwood and leading merchant of tliat\\nborough, was born on the old Bogert homestead in Westwood in ls.i4.\\nHis great great grandfather Isaac Bogert, had children. Jacobus and\\nAlbert, of whom the first died in the Revolution. Albert inherited the\\nestate in Washington township, and his son Isaac married Margaret", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "ISAAC D. BOGEKT", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 297\\nDurie and had children David and Leah. Hannah Ackerman became the.\\nwife of David and the mother of three chiUlren of whom two, Isaac D.\\nand Mrs. Z. B. Van.Emburg-h reside in the township, the former on the\\nland purchased in 1765.\\nHaving spent his early life in school, Isaac continued on the farm\\nuntil 1869 when he began a mercantile career, and which he has con-\\ntinued from that time having been the head of the firm of Bogert Van\\nEmburgh from the time the business was started. Besides the grocery\\nbusiness he was postmaster for twenty years. The firm maintained a\\nlarge trade in lumber and coal also. Aside from his business career,\\nMr. Bogert has been selected by his fellow townsmen at various times to\\nrepresent their interests in official life. He was Freeholder six years\\nduring a part of which time he was a director of the county board. He\\nalso filled the office of Collector for Washington Township. He was\\nelected the first Mayor of Westwood in 1899.\\nIn conjunction with Richard Hopper, Abram B. Bogert and others\\nhe organized the Reformed Church at Westwood in 1887, of which\\nChurch organization he has filled the office of Elder since that time.\\nMr. Bogert is a member of the G. A. R. fraternity but aside from\\nthis his relations in life are domestic. He is public spirited, and\\nthrough his kindly aid the village has received great help. In 1894\\nhe generously donated for public use two acres of valuable ground in\\nthe center of the borough, for a park, in which are twenty-seven vigor-\\nous sugar trees of his own planting.\\nIn 1852 Mr. Bogert was married to Miss Anna Van Wagoner,\\ndaughter of John Van Wagoner of Oradell, Their beautiful home\\nconstitutes one of the attractions of Westwood. They have no children.\\nDR. S. J. ZABKISKIE.\\nDr. S. J. Zabriskie, the oldest physician in Bergen county, belongs\\nto the old family of that name, who came to New Jersey in the early\\ndays of the country. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Zabriskie)\\nZabriskie, and was born February i830, and brought up on a farm.\\nAfter a primary education in the common schools, he took an academic\\ncourse, followed by his professional studies in the medical department\\nof the University of New York, from which he was graduated in the\\nclass of 1 856.\\nHe first located in Lodi and subsequently practiced his profession in\\nSaddle River for a few years. In iS70 he removed to Westwood where\\nhe built up a lucrative business. In addition to his general practice Dr.\\nZabriskie is physician to the Bergen county Almshouse.\\nHe is a member of the Bergen County Medical Society, member\\nof Odd Fellows Westwood Lodge No. 201, is president of Board of\\nHealth, and has held a number of local offices. In politics the doctor is\\na Democrat.\\nHe was married in i857, to Miss Sarah L. Moore, daughter of\\nBenjamin Moore a native of Bergen county.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "298 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nPASCACK.\\nPascack \\\\Yas the name given to the northern part of the township\\nwhich embraced what are now the villages of Woodcliff. Park Ridge, and\\nMontvale. It is a settlement full of tradition and history antedating by\\na century or more, the beginning of the villages, whose existence were\\nbrought about chiefly by the building of the railroad in 1870. The\\nDemarests, the Perrys, the Ackermaus or Eckersons, the Westervelts,\\nthe Blauvelts, the Herings and others. Garret Ackerson, a native of\\nHolland, settled at Old Tappan in Bergen county a long time prior to the\\nRevolution. His son John born in 1743, settled on a tract of land at Pas-\\ncack. He married Garritje Hogencamp who bore him two children.\\nGarret, and Hannah, afterward Mrs. Nicholas Zabriskie. Garret became\\nthe Major-General of the New Jersey militia and was twice sent to the\\nvState Legislature. He had four sons, John, Cornelius, Garret G., and\\nJames. Hon. John. Ackerson above named not only engaged in farming\\nbut had a store, a cotton mill and a distillery on his premises. He died\\nat Pascack in 1828, ninety-four years of age.\\nThis probably w^as the beginning of the mercantile history of this\\nplace. The store now owned by J. H. Ackerman was built in 1871.\\nThis family trace their descent to Mrs. Elenor Ackerman who came to\\nthe township with a family of children among whom were David, Garret\\nand Johannes. The latter married a daughter of Cornelius Demarest\\nand had four children. Garret, Cornelius and two daughters.\\nJ. H. Ackerman, the present Mayor of Woodcliff, son of Nicholas\\nB. Ackerman, comes of this family. The father of J. H. was a promi-\\nnent man in the Church and was a merchant of this place for a long\\ntime. He built the store in 1871 and had his son J. H., for a partner at\\none time. The store is now in the name of J. H. Ackerman Brothers.\\nThey have a store at Montvale, also,\\nThe first schoolhouse of which mention is made in Pascack, was\\nbuilt in 1808, near the Reformed Church. It was an unpretentious\\nbuilding with an old-fashioned fireplace, and slabs around the room for\\nseats. Colonel Garret G. Ackerson of Hackensack, born in 1816, went\\nto school there under George Ackenbach. A Mr. Leach taught this\\nschool in 1820. In 1855 anew building was erected and the present one\\nwas built at a cost of three thousand dollars.\\nManufacturing at Pascack was begun soon after the Revolution by\\nJohn Campbell who established a Wampum factory conducting an ex-\\ntensive business, supplying the Indian agents and traders of the day\\nwith this commodity. Mr. Campbell had eight children all of whom\\nlocated in the township. The sons of Abraham A., one of these\\nchildren, are John A., James A., David A., and Abrani A., all now\\ndead, the youngest dying in 1899 at the age of eighty-seven years.\\nYears ago the business was conducted by all these brothers, the pro-\\nducts consisting of pipes, beads, moons, etc.. made from conch shells.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGKN COUNTY 29\\nall kiidwn under the general name id wampum. Jnhn Jacob Astnr was\\na large patron of this house.\\nFriendship Lodge No. 102 F. and A. M. is located at Pascack. It\\nwas granted a dispensation October 14, A. D. iS() and was constituted\\na working lodge on the i7th of February. iS7(). The warrant otlicers\\nwere Henry C. Neer, W. M., James C. Hering, S. \\\\V (larret K.\\nHering, J. W.\\nThe inhabitants of Pascack and vicinity desired for many years to\\norganize a church in their neighborhof)d, but were prevented from va-\\nrious causes. Finally the Saddle River Church, being separated from\\nthat of Pararaus, offered to join with the people of Pascack, and to\\nassist them in building a house of worship. It \\\\va agreed to ha\\\\e two\\nchurch buildings, one c insistory, and one congregation, and to hold\\nservices alternately in the two houses of worship.\\nIn the year i8i4, Rev. Stephen (ioetschius was called as pastor.\\nThe building of the church at Pascack was then begun, and was com-\\npleted in one season. In the autumn of the same year (!Si4i it was\\ndedicated, the sermon being preached by the pastor.\\nOn the 2d day of July, i8i4, the committee appointed by the Classis\\nof Paramus met according to the order of the Classis, all the members\\nJohn Yury, Joseph Debaun, Jacob Debaun and John Debaun being\\njiresent. They proceeded to the election of elders and deacons. The\\nfollowing persons were chosen elders: John J. Eckerson, John Gamble,\\n(ierret Duryea, and John Banta; Deacons, Gerret J. Ackerman, Edward\\nEckerson, Hendrie Storms and John J. Demarest. The church was\\norganized with fifty members. Rev. S. Ooetschius continuing pastor of\\nthe two churches, Saddle River and Pascack, from the year i814 to iS.v^.\\nRev. John Manley was called in the year i835, and continued his\\nrelations until i853 or i854. About this time the two churches l)ecame\\nseparate organizations, and the Rev. John Manley remained as pastor\\nof the Saddle River Church. Rev. John T. Demarest, D. D., accepted\\na call from the consistory of the church of Pas:a;k. His ])astorate\\nextended over a period from 1 854 to iSdT. In the year i8().=. land was\\n])urchased and the parsonage erected.\\nIn the year i867 Rev. J. T. Demarest, D. D., resigned his charge,\\nand the following year the Rev. B. A. Bartholf was called to the ])astor-\\nate of the church, where he remained until IsT.v\\nDuring the years 1S7. and 1874 the church and jparsonage were\\nremodeled, at an expense of about four thousand live hundred dollars,\\nafter which Rev. Alexander McKelvy was stated supply for three months.\\nRev. Edward Lodewick, the present jiastor, accepted a call from tlie\\nconsistory in the year 1875.\\nThe present officers of the Church are as follows: Elders H. C.\\nNeer, A. J. Ackerman, Isaac Forshay, J. H. Ackerman; Deacons. J. K.\\nMabie, C. Cronk, I. Donaldson, O. J. Ackerman; Sexton, Josejdi Daw-\\nson.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe old Pascack cemetery, uear the church, is also of great ag-e,\\nseveral of the memorial stones bearing- that date 1745. These are\\nengraved in rude fashion, and are mostly in the Dutch language. Those\\nerected at a later day bear date 1790, 1796, 1800, 1813, etc.\\nThe following is the legend upon the tablet erected to the memory\\nof one of the most eminent of the sons of Washington township:\\nHere rests the remains of Hon. Jacob R. Wortendyke, born in Ber-\\ngen County, N. J., November 27, 1818, died at Jersey City, November 7,\\n1868. After he had served his own generation, by the will of God he\\nfell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers.\\nThe old burying-ground connected with the Pascack Church has\\nbeen in use for years, and is still maintained as the place of interment\\nfor many of the families of the township. Among the inscriptions are\\nthese\\nIn memory of Sarah Peack, wife of Jacobus Demarest, who died\\nMarch 17, 1820, aged 80 years and 8 days.\\nThe voice of this alarming scene.\\nMay every heart obey\\nNor be the heavenly warning vain\\nThat calls to watch and pray.\\nIn memory of Margaret Pulis, wife of Jacob Post, who departed\\nthis life March 31, 1826, aged 25 years, 3 months, and 22 days.\\nIn memory of David Wortendyke, who departed this life August 2,\\n1827, aged 19 years, 6 months, and 29 days.\\nIn memory of Peter Cambell, who departed this life September 15,\\n1819, age 1 year, i month, and 2 days.\\nIn memory of Daniel Peck, who died November, 1819, aged 76 years,\\n9 months, and 2 days.\\nDaniel I. Hering, born November 17, 1775, died January 13. 1815,\\naged 39 years, 7 months, and 29 days.\\nIn memory of Maria Ackerson, wife of Isaac Debaun, born October\\n27, 1730, died April 18, 1817, ag-ed 86 3-ears, 10 months and 12 days.\\nThe Old Hook cemetery lies in the southeastern portion of the town-\\nship, and is intimately connected with the earlier deaths in the town-\\nship. It has been used by many of the prominent families of Washing-\\nton, and carefully maintained since its incorporation by an act of the\\nState Legislatnre. Among the families who have buried here are\\nthe Coopers. Alyeas, Bogerts, Hoppers, etc. There are several other\\nprivate burial-places within the township limits.\\nWoodcliff Borough was organized in 1894. It has a population of\\nabout four hundred. The official vote given in November 1898 was\\neighty-five. The first officers of the borough were: S. B. Read,\\nMayor; J. H. Wortendyke, Assessor; William English, Collector; Martin\\nJ. Meyers, C. A. Felter, F. F. Wortendyke, Garret J. Acuerman, Walter\\nStanton, F. P. Van Riper, Council; Richard Storms, Clerk. Mr. J. H.\\nAckerman was elected Mayor in 1896, and re-elected in March 1899. The\\nremaining ofiicers for this year are J. H. Wortendyke, Assessor; A. J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 301\\nAckerman, Collector; J. H. Post. C. A. Feltcr. C. A. Lowrie, T. H.\\nTice, Georg-e Mudikingf, Garret Cronk, Council (t. J. Wortcndyke.\\nClerk.\\nHILLSDALE TOWNSHIP.\\nThis a township within a township, having the village of Hillsdale\\nfor its central or business location. The village is desirably located on\\nthe New Jersey and New York Railroad, having its mercantile and\\nbusiness interests dating from the building of that road.\\nCHURCHES.\\nThere are two churches at Hillsdale, of which the Methodists were\\nfirst. Religious services were originally conducted under the auspices\\nof the Rev. E. M. Garton, and the society was organized in 1875. The\\nbuilding lot was donated by D. P. Patterson in 1876, upon which an\\nedifice was erected. Services have continued here regularly from the\\ntime of the organization in both pulpit and Sunday school work. Rev.\\nMr. Thomas was pastor in 1899.\\nThere is also an Episcopal Church, of which the Rev. Henry M.\\nLadd was rector until 1895.\\nThere are three schools in the township of Hillsdale, one at the\\nvillage, occupying a two-story four-room building, recently erected.\\nThree teachers are employed in this school. Of the first school houses\\nin the township, there is no definite record. In 1856 a school house one\\nmile west of Hillsdale, on the road from Pascack to Paters(m, was\\nerected. Mr. W. W. Banta, a resident of Hillsdale and now a teacher\\nin Hackensack, taught there.\\nDavid P. Patterson built the first store in the village about the time\\nthe railroad was built, or a little before that time. He let it to H. (i.\\nHering, who conducted it for a number of years. Then came John U.\\nVoorhis, and one or two others. John F. Winters now owns the prop-\\nerty. There are also one or two other places of business in the village\\nand one hotel.\\nHillsdale Township was set off in the Spring of 1S9S. This organi-\\nzation was effected through the interventitm of S. Thrall, J. H.\\nRiley, J. F. Winters, David A. Demarest, Herndon Kohrs, A. C. Hold-\\nman and others. Election for officers held Tuesday, April 19, l,S9S\\nresulted as follows: Arthur J. Stever, Freeholder; Orrin S. Thrall,\\nCollector; John A. Storms, Assessor; Sanford Bogert, George H. Sea-\\nman, Edward L. Greenin, Town Committee; William W. Banta, Town-\\nship Clerk.\\nOfficers elected Tuesday, March 14, 1899, are as follows Freehold-\\ner, John H. Riley; Collector, Orrin S. Thrall; Assessor, Cornelius H.\\nDeVoe Township Committee, George H. Seaman, Sanford Bogert,\\nEdmond L. (Jreenin Township Clerk, William W. Banta.\\nThe Hillsdale Manor, a group of beautiful suburban residences,\\ncalled formerly, Hillsdale Terrace, by F. J. Finlay, its projector, lies", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "302 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nwithin the bounds of the village of Hillsdale. This place contains one\\nsummer hotel and a number of beautiful residences built by the\\nHillsdale Improvement Company, of which Arthur J. Stever is president.\\nPARK RIDGE.\\nPark Ridg-e is situated one mile north of Woodcliff, and is the center\\nof business interest in that part of the township. Here the Mittag\\nVoider Company have their works, a business that reaches out to every\\ncountry on the globe. In a mercantile way the Gurnee family were\\nlong identified with Park Ridge. Abram Gurnee, son of Levi, owned\\nand operated a store here for twenty years. He was murdered in his\\nplace of business about the year of the Centennial. A Mr. Rawitzer\\nnow has the store. G. H. Teimeyer, owner of another store came to\\nthe village in 1880. The hotel at this place was formerly used by- a Mr.\\nBannister for a private school. It finally passed into the hands of Gil-\\nbert Ackerman, who turned it into a hotel. Mr. John Johnson now\\nowns the property.\\nManufacturing of bobbins was begun here by A. Wortendyke many\\nyears ago, but the business has since passed away. Mittag Volger\\ndo a large business the world over in the manufacture of carbon paper,\\nribbons, line inks and other supplies for the type-writer trade. They\\nfirst built a factory in 1889, and again 1895. This was burned down\\nSeptember 9th, 1897, and rebuilt that same fall. They employ now\\nabout forty men, and make shipments to New York, Chicago, San Fran-\\ncisco, Toronto, London, Paris, Cologne, Bombay and Sidney.\\nA good school building in Park Ridge was erected a few years ago,\\nin which are employed four teachers. There is also a Congregational\\nChurch, of recent origin but it is a small congregation and has no pas-\\ntor at the present time.\\nPARK KIDGE BOKOtlGH.\\nThis borough was organized in 1895, but originated in the Park\\nRidge Improvement Association instituted in 1889, by W. B. Smith and\\nothers, for the improvement of that part of old Pascack. Through\\nthe efforts of that society of public spirited gentlemen, avenues were\\nlaid out, trees planted, and lights placed at suitable intervals along the\\nhighways, the public school interests were fostered and cognizance\\ntaken of every public need. The officers were: W. B. Smith, president.\\nDr. E. (iehl, first vice-president; J. E. Brooks, second vice-president; J\\nB. H. Storms, secretary; W. Park, treasurer; J. Freebes, sergeant-at-\\narms.\\nAs time progressed local interest in g-ood roads, taxes for schools\\nand other improvements led to the formation of the borough under\\nlegislative enactment as a better way for the securing of these neces-\\nsities; and accordingly the borough was voted for. May 4, 1894, and the\\nfirst borough meeting held June 2ist, that year, with officers elect as\\nfollows: Mayor, H. C. Neer; Councilmen: Francis Wheaton, Theodore\\nG. Volger, Jacob H. Hall, James A. Heale, James Leach, John J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "FKANK MITTAC.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "304 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nStorms. Election contested and set aside. At new election August 7th\\nJames H. Weild elected Mayor; Councilmen: James A. Heale, Theodore\\nG Volger, Jacob H. Hall, Eugene Gehl, James Leach, John J. Storms.\\nPresent officers are: Mayor, Andrew P. Perry; Council: Geo. Braus-\\ngrove Isaac B. Herring, Alonzo J. House, Arthur Lesoil, James S.\\nMittao- John S. Storms; Assessor, Robert A. Libbald Collector,\\nGeor- e J. Stark; Commissioner of Appeals, William D. Woodly, Peter\\nE Wortendyke, William Denton; Board of Education, William D.\\nWoodly, Theodore F. Granger, William H. Romaine; Borough Clerk.\\nGeorge Ritter.\\nFRANK O. MITTAG.\\nAmong manufacturers in America, who are known to the com-\\nmercial world on both sides of the Atlantic, should be mentioned the\\nname of Frank O. Mittag, inventor and manufacturer of Park Ridge,\\nN J Mr. Mittag is the son of John C. L. and Caroline (Herms)\\nMittao- who are both natives of Prussia, Germany. Mr. Mittag s\\nfather is a landscape gardener, a profession to which the flower-lovmg\\nGerman is so admirably adapted. His mother is a descendant from the\\nHerms and Schillings, who in Prussia, for more than a century have\\nbeen noted manufacturers of tobacco and cotton, and also of Chinaware\\nFrank O. Mittag was born August 1, 1855, at Marshland, Richmond\\ncounty New York. He has, however, been a resident of Park Ridge\\nsince 1886. In i889 he began business with Mr. J. H. W. Maclaghan,\\nunder the firm name of Mittag, Maclaghan Co., manufacturing type-\\nwriter carbon papers, transfer papers, stamping inks, numbering machine\\ninks copying inks for use in connection with typewriter machines, and\\nin fact eVerything in the line of carbon transfer, duplicating and copy-\\ning papers, ribbons and ink for use on the typewriter machine, dating\\nmachines, numbering machines, stamping machines, etc.\\nA chano-e in the firm was made in 189i when Mr. Maclaghan re-\\ntired from the firm, disposing of his interest to Mittag and Volger, the\\nfirm since then being known as Mittag Volger. Mr. Maclaghan then\\nwent to New York city where he has since had the sale of all goods\\nmanufactured by this firm.\\nPrior to 1899 Mr. Mittag was connected with a house in JNew\\nYork, which manufactured the same goods he is now making. In fact he\\nis the original maker, inventor, and perfector of many of the inks used\\nfor making typewriter ribbons, carbon papers, etc, for use on the various\\ntypewriting machines. When the typewriting machine was put on the\\nmarket in 1870 to 75, Mr. Mittag saw that many changes in its con-\\nstruction were necessary in order to make perfect impressions through\\nan inked ribbon, that would be legible, and copy plainly, and also that\\nit mi-ht be possible to make duplicate copies, by alternating the carbon\\nwith^the white paper, making the impressions through the ribbon and\\nhe various carbons at one and the same time. About 1880 the machines\\nhad come to a perfected state, and since that date the sale of all sorts\\nof typewriter supplies has grown to enormous proportion.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGHN COUNTY\\n305\\nCarbon paper invented in Eng-land, fifty, or probably sixty years\\nag-o, and still in use there, is made of lamp black and g-rease, a soft and\\nsmutty production, unsuiled to the uses retpiired in this country. Mr.\\nMittag claims to be the veteran American carbon paper and ribbon\\nmaker for writing machines, transfer, and pen and i)encil work.\\nUnder the new lirm, trade so increased, that after a period of five\\nyears the business had so outgrown the older buildings, as to make it neces-\\nsary to erect a new factory and offices. The new structures were placed\\nnear the railroad stations, and furnished with new and more modern and\\nimproved machinery. These new buildings were burned September\\nlcS97, Init were immediately replaced Ijy the present ones which were\\noccupied in less than three months after the fire, and ever since that\\ntime the business has been carried on more extensively than at any time\\npreceeding\\nThe present office and buildings of the comi)any are sliowii in tin-\\naccompanying views.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "THEODOKE C, VOLOEK.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BHKGKN COUNTY 307\\nKX-MAY()K THICODOK]-: VOI.GEK.\\nEx-mayor Theodore G. Volg-er of Park Ridge is of German origin\\ntracing his ancestry back to 1307, and may be said to belong to a family\\nof mayors. In 1310, Dietrich Volger was Mayor of the city of Hanover,\\nGermany, and more than a century later in 1420 Goedecke Volger\\nheld the same oifice. Following in direct line through a little more\\nthan three centuries, in 1725, we find Otto Johan Volger, mayor of the\\nsame important city.\\nEver since 1420 members of this family have represented, uninter-\\nruptedly, the cit}- of Hanover, in the highest offices, such as Senators\\netc. One of the principal streets in Hanover is named Volger s Way,\\nand one of the family is now General-Adjutant to the Ex-CJueen of Han-\\nover living in Vienna, Austria. The coat-of-arms of the family is now\\nin the Museum of Hanover, being one of the oldest on record.\\nTheodore G. Volger was born in Augusta, Georgia, February 2(i,\\n18f)7, and is the son of Gustavus G. Volger and Sophie Huneken.\\nHaving been educated at Detmold and Lemgo, Germany, where he\\nreceived a high school education, he returned to America and began\\nbusiness in New York city in the dry goods trade where he remained\\nduring the year 1886. The following year he engaged in the export of\\ncotton, succeeding which came three years experience in the dry goods\\nbusiness in Charleston, South Carolina. In August 1891, he returned\\nNorth locating at Park Ridge, N. J., where he has since been associated\\nwith Mr. F. O. Mittag in the manufacture of typewriter supplies.\\nTheir trade is a large one, goods being shipped in great quantities to all\\nparts of the world.\\nMr. Volger is also active in local affairs. In 1S (4 he was elected\\ncouncilman of Park Ridge borough, serving three years and at the\\nclose of this term of office was elected Mayor serving one term. He is\\nalso vice president of the Eureka Building and Loan Association of\\nPark Ridge.\\nMr. Volger s military career covered a period of three years, as a\\nprivate in the F irst Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, from 1888 to\\nl.S U.\\nMr. olger married Miss May Marjorii Smilli.\\nWII.I.IAM BKNJAMIN SMITH.\\nWilliam Benjamin Smith, a prominent figure in the organization of\\nof the Borough of Park Ridge, is a son of Alexander and M ary S.\\nJohnson Smith. His paternal grandparents were William an l ICdnii\\nEtheridge Smith; his great grandfathers on the paternal side 1)eing\\nEnoch Smith and Samuel Etheridge. His maternal grandi)arenls were\\nBenjamin Johnson and Mahala Brickhouse Johnson.\\nMr. Smith s American ancestors were the settlers of Roanoke Is-\\nland, N. C. and back to his great grandparents, all lived and died on\\ntheir own estates in North Carolina and Virginia. Mr. Smith was born", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "308 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\non Knott s Island, Currituck county, N. C, September 15. 1841, and was\\neducated at Cobb s Preparatory Academy, near Murfreesboro, N. C.\\nIn 1858 he edited the Newbern Gazette, but in 18( 0 boug-ht and\\nedited the Tar boro Mercury. Putting aside all business at the call\\nto arms on April 17, 1861, he entered the Confederate service in which\\nhe continued until the close of the Rebellion in 1865, when a surrender\\nof his command was made to General Hartranft at Greensboro, N. C, on\\nMay 1.\\nGoing back into the puljlishing business in this same year, he be-\\ncame owner and publisher of Southern P^ield and Fireside, with\\nsundry other periodicals, in connection with a bookstore at Raleigh,\\nN. C.\\nIn January, 18()8, he came North and entered the emplo^-ment of A.\\nS. Barnes Co., of New York, school book publishers, remaining with\\nthem five years. At the time of leaving their employment Mr. Smith\\nwas receiving a salary of four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars\\nper year, all his living expenses, and three per cent of the firm s annual\\nprofits.\\nIn 1873 Mr. Smith organized and incorporated the Authors Pub-\\nlishing Company, succeeded by W. B. Smith Co., at 27 Bond street.\\nNew York, where he conducted a regular book publishing business until\\n1885.\\nHe moved to Park Ridge in 18S3, and became the founder of the\\nImprovement Association, and this led to the formation of the Borough\\nof Park Ridge, then known as Pascack, where there were at that time\\nonly one hundred population. Here he accidentally drifted into real\\nestate and sold out his publishing business in 1885.\\nMr. Smith, in 1862, at Goldsboro, N. C, married Miss Penelope\\nChurchill, by whom he has one child living, a daughter, now a widow,\\nand through whom he has one granddaughter. He was married a second\\ntime in 1878, at Dover, N. J., to Louise Capsadell.\\nMr. Smith held the office of Justice of the Peace at Park Ridge from\\n1889 to 1898, but declined a re-election. He is a member of Fidelity\\nLodge, F. A. M., No. 1 13, at Ridgewood, and is also a Royal Arch Mason,\\nCouncil Mason and 32d. He was confirmed in the Episcopal Church but\\nis now a Swedenborgian in religion. He still retains on Knotts Island,\\nCurrituck County, N. C, the old homestead where he was born,\\nowned by his forefathers, whereon the dwelling was built in 1799, of\\nimported bricks.\\nMONTVALK.\\nThe land on which the hamlet of Montvale is located, was originally\\nowned by Jacobus Demarest, and was later purchased and buildings\\nerected by various parties from time to time.\\nAmong the early settlers of the upper portion of Bergen county and\\nthe lower portion of Rockland county, N. Y. were a numlier of Low\\nDutch and German families, who were, while in the Fatherland, either", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKOEN COrNTY 309\\nmembers of the Lutheran Church or whose sympathies were strons^iy\\nenlisted in behalf of this cont^TeyHtion. These families were forme(l\\ninto a congregation in 1745, under the pastoral care of Rev. II. M.\\nMuhlenbergh, D.D., and a house of worshi]) built at Ramapo, N. Y. near\\nthe State boundary- line.\\nThe borough of Montvale was organized inlH9(). The lirst officers\\nof the borough were as follows Jacob Terkuile, Mayor; William I.\\nWeller, H. W. Ellsworth, Auguste Avenengo, Fred Steiner, S. S.\\nBarie, John W. Allison, Council; Edward Brown, Clerk; J. D. Van\\nRiper, Assessor; John B. Herring, Collector.\\nThe present officers are Garret F. Herring, Mayor; Rasmus J. San-\\ndall. Garret Van Houten, John F. Hering, Samuc! Rudlun, Arnold J.\\nD. Heins, Council; Jas. D. Van Riper, Assessor; Freeman C. Ackerman,\\nCollector; John B. Herring. Clerk; Garret F. Herring, Sidney Genung,\\nJustices of the Peace.\\nThe Hering family are of Holland ancestry. The progenitor of\\nthis branch was Garret F., who resided at Pascack. He was united in\\nmarriage to Miss Sarah Campbell, to whom was born one daughter,\\nRachel. She was married to David Hering, who had one son, Ralph,\\nborn February 28, 1809, on the homestead in Washington, foiAierly\\nknown as Harrington township. He passed the early portion of his life\\non the farm of his grand-father, whom he succeeded as owner and culti-\\nvator of the family estate. He was married to Gertrude, daughter of\\nJudge John R. Blauvelt, of Old Hook, in the township before men-\\ntioned. They had children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Garret R. and Rachel Ann (Mrs. Aaron\\nRider) of Schraalenburgh. The birth of Garret R. occurred February\\n2( 1831, at Tappan, in Washington township, where his early years\\nwere passed. His education was acquired first at the academy under\\nthe management of David I. Cole, and later at Hackensack, when Jacob\\nWortendyke filled the role of instructor. Being desirous of a career of\\nindependence he engaged in teaching, his earliest field of labor being\\nCumberland county, N. J., where he remained for two years, afterwhich\\nhe repaired to Bergen county and followed the same vocation. The\\ninherited love of agricultural pursuits led him eventually to ad ipt the\\ncalling of farmer. He was, in September, 1842, united in marriage to\\nCatharine A., daughter of Garret A. Eckerson, of Tappan, to whom\\ntwo children were born,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John and Sarah, the latter of whom becanu-\\nMrs. Charles Fornier, of Hackensack.\\nThe tastes of Mr. Hering prompted him in 1874 to embark cm the\\nrestless waters of political life, when he was elected sheriff of Bergen\\ncounty and was re-elected, and serve 1 thre? additional years. B. ing\\nfavorably impressed with the wealth of the ores of North Carolina, he\\nenK-ajred extensively at one time in mining enterprises.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIV.\\nMIDLAND.\\nROADWAYS SCHOOLS EAKLY SETTLEMENTS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ORGANIZATION CIVIL LIST\\nARCOLA DELFORD NEW MILFORD OKADELL RIVERSIDE BOR-\\nOUGH RIVER EDGE AND CHERRY HILL BURIAL PLACES\\nMAYWOOD MANUFACTURING SCHOOLS OR-\\nGANIZATIONS BIOGRAPHY.\\nThe township of Midland was formerly a potion of New Barbadoes,\\nfrom which it was set apart in 1871. It has productiveness in the lands,\\nand has historic associations of great interest. The army of the Revo-\\nlution camfied frequently in this township, and Washington frequently\\nhonored the early settlers here with his presence.\\nMidland has always received close and careful attention to its roads.\\nAmong the historic highways in this township, that of Paramus and the\\nstone Arabia road should be mentioned. Both of those roads were much\\nused in former times before the railroads were built. The Paramus road\\nextended from Hoboken to New Burgh and Goshen, and doubtless was\\nthe thoroughfare for the earliest stage line. Man) taverns were built\\non this road. The Stone Arabia Road, however, was probably the earli-\\nest one in the township. This highway began its course at Hackensack\\nand following a north easterly, then a northerly direction entered Rock-\\nland, N. Y. It ran near the Hackensack River for a distance of several\\nmiles and was the principal thoroughfare for many years.\\nIn its educational interests the township has taken high rank.\\nSchools were established here long prior to the Revolntion, and in these\\nlast years, a high degree of scholarship has been maintained. There\\nwere until recently live school districts in the town, but the formation\\nof the three boroughs within its borders leaves only three school dis-\\ntricts at the present time. They are the Paramus District, the Areola\\nDistrict and the Spring Valley District. The first schoolhouse was\\nerected in the Paramus District, which is in the north-western part of\\nthe township, in the year 172( It was a house built of rough stone and\\nfinished after the old fashion, with slab benches. This house was near\\nthe residence of Peter Board, but over a hundred years ago, probably\\nanother house similar in style, was erected to take its place on the west\\nside of Paramus road, and this in turn was succeeded by one near the\\nmill of David Baldwin. Finally Mr. (iarret A. Hopper erected a frame\\nedifice at his own expense, which for a period of eighteen years was the\\nschoolhouse of the District.\\nThe present school district was formed in 1833, The district event-\\nually leased the land owned by Mr. Hopper for a period of twety-five\\nyears at a nominal cost of one dollar, and the edifice used was erected\\nat a cost of three hundred and fifty-six dollars. This was superseded", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKKOKN COUNTY 311\\nby a new building of modern arohitcclure and furnished with all tho hi lost\\nimprovements, which cost all told, two tlmusand five hundred dollars.\\nAmong the many teachers in this district, the name of .Mr. (leorge\\nAckenbach should be mentioned. He taught for forty dollars a month\\nand board for his labor. Afterward he became cashier of the Merchants\\nBank of New York for many years, and at the time of his death was\\npresident of the Bank of Bergen County.\\nMIDL.Wl).\\nIn the History of Bergen and Passaic Counties we find a sketch of\\nthe early settlement in this town, which we give in full, as follows:\\nAmong the oldest families is that of Zabri.-Aie. the jvrogenitor of\\nwhom was one Albert Saboroweski,t who emigrated to America in the\\nDutch ship Fox during the year lf 2. He was of Polish descent, and\\nwas united in marriage to a Miss Van Der Linde, after which he settled\\nin Bergen county. His five sons were John, Jacob, (leorge, Henry and\\nChristian, one of whom, probably .Jacob, was stolen by the Indians. On\\nhis recovery the red men gave as an apology for the theft the fact that\\nthey wished to instruct him in their language, in which he afterwards\\nbecame proficient. As an evidence of their gwod faith they gave his\\nfather the title to the patent of land known as the New Paramus\\npatent, containing nineteen hundred and seyenty-seven acres. Saboro-\\nweski is said to have studied for the ministry in the Lutheran Church,\\nbut, not being satisfied with his calling, emigrated to America at the\\nage of twenty, and became the ancestor of the large family of Zabris-\\nkies in Bergen county. Three of the five sons of Albert, aboved named,\\nlocated in the northern portion of Midland township, Jacob, Hendrick\\nand Christian, each of \\\\yhom left a numerous descent. The homestead\\nof Christian fell by inheritance to C )rnelius. Among the representatives\\nof Jacob were Jacob J., Thomas V. B., David, John C. and Abram S.\\nAnother branch of the family located at .Areola, and were formerly\\nfrom Paramus. The oldest member of this family recalled is John, who\\nresided upon the land afterward owned by Stephen Berdan. lie had five\\nsons, John, Barney, Albert and (leorge. The death of John Zabriskie\\noccurred many years ago, in Saddle River township. The family of\\nZabriskies is not confined to Midland, but largely represented in other\\nportions of the county.\\nThe pioneer of the Demarest family was David Desinaretz, who\\nemigrated from France about the year 1( 7(., and was one of a large\\nband of Huguenots who left their native land to escape religious per-\\nsecution. With him came three sons-David, John, and Samuel. It is\\nrelated of this gentleman that on his arrival he located on Manhattan\\nIsland, where he purchased the whole of Harlem, but subsecjuently dis-\\nt In an old pappr preserved by Hon. Isaac Wortendyke we And llie f.dlowint\\nAlbert Zaborneski is Geboren den, 17 January Anno ITcW ICn is Ovcrleeden Den 17 January Anno\\n17.=a.\\nThis either refers to a later Albert Zabriskie, ir the statement above iriven is incorrect. I robably\\nit refers to one of the descendants of the oriirinal Albert.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "312 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nposed of this propert}- and secured two thousand acres in Bergen\\nCounty, extending along the easterly- side of the river from New\\nBridge to a point beyond Old Bridge, and easterly so far as the line of\\nthe Northern Railroad. The original deed bears date June 8, 1677.\\nMany parties claimed the land after Mr. Demarius (as the name was\\nlater spelled) had acquired possession, and he was obliged to purchase\\nno less than four times before he became absolute owner. A grant of\\nland was originally made to David Dumarius from the Governor of\\nNew Jersey, in consideration of his forming a colony, the members\\nbeing all French or Hollanders. He was unable to carry out fully his\\nintention, and the grant was withdrawn, but a subsequent grant was\\nmade to his sons. The decendants of these sons are numerous. John\\nlocated at Old Bridge, now River Edge, and erected a mill upon the\\nriver, which has long since gone to decay. A. J. Demarest, a represen\\ntative of this branch of the family, is now living at River Edge, as is\\nalso P. V. B. Demarest. The remaining branches are located in various\\nportions of the county.\\nYost De Baun and his wife, Elizabeth, came about the year 17uO\\nfrom their native Holland, and settled in Bergen County. Very little is\\nknown of them or their, immediate offspring. It is probable they located\\nwithin the boundaries of the present Midland township. Jacob De\\nBaun, a descendant, inherited from Aurt Cooper, before the war of the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Revolution, land now occupied by David W. Christie. He had the\\nhonor of acting as host for three weeks to the General-in-Chief when the\\nFederal army were encamped on the hill above the river. Jacob De\\nBaun had one son, Peter.\\nThe Kipp family made. their advent to the county previous to Ib\\nand but little is known of their early history. John Kipp had sons\\nIsaac, William, John, and Albert and four daughters. Of this num-\\nber William lived in the township, married, and had children, James\\nB., John W., and a daughter. He died at the residence of his son, John\\nW., in 1856.\\nThe Copper family are of Holland extraction, the name having\\noriginally been Kupos, and subsequently Kuypers. Aurt Cooper resided\\nin Midland long before the war of the Revolution, at which period he\\nwas a man of advanced years. He was much annoyed by the depreda-\\ntions of Federal soldiers, who made raids upon his granary and carried\\naway his cattle. He reported the fact to Vv ashington, who gave orders\\nthat the old man should not be further troubled. He resided at River\\nEdge, and left four daughters, but no sons.\\nAnother member of the family was John Cooper. He had a son,\\nRichard, who was the parent of three children, a son and two daughters.\\nThe latter married with the Van Wagoner family.\\nJohn Van Wagoner was the first of the family to settle in Mid-\\nland. His son Jacob resided at New Milford, and lived upon the farm\\nafterward occupied by his son John.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGEX COUNTY 313\\nThe Voiirhis family, orisj-inall y s])elled Van Vdorheyson, have\\nbeen since their early advent into Midland larg-ely represented, and\\nmany branches are still occupvinj^ inherited estates. The piuneer was\\nLucas Voorhis, who resided on the river between New Milford and River\\nEdge. He purchased of the Indians property, which was, by will dated\\nJanuary 5, 1768, devised to his son Necausie, who lived upon the land\\nuntil his death in his ninetieth year, when his son, Henrv N. Voorhis,\\nbecame owner. He also survived until his ninetieth year, when his\\nson, Henry H., became the possessor. Jacob Voorhis removed from\\nRiver Edge to Oradell, and followed milling, having- purchased the\\nmill-site there located. He had three sons, Henry, Albert and Lucas,\\nthe latter of whom left two sons and three daughters. Albert Voorhis,\\nanother member, resided at Areola, and had sons and daughters. His\\nson George died on the homestead, and left children, Albert and Thomas.\\nThe Oldis family are of French descent, the first to settle in Mid-\\nland having been Garret, who before the Revolutionary war located on\\nthe homestead later owned by J. R. Oldis. The original dwelling,\\nwhich was a popular house of entertainment during the Revolution,\\nwas burned by the British and afterwards rebuilt. Among the chil-\\ndren of Garret were John, Benjamin, and Garret, all of whom settled in\\nMidland, then New Barbadoes. The family is now represented by J.\\nOldis and Garret J., a descendent of John.\\nThe Banta family are of Holland extraction, and came to Bergen\\ncounty previous to 1686, John, the earliest to arrive, having owned a\\nlarge tract of land, which he willed to two sons, Cornelius and John.\\nCornelius was father of a son Henry, who had a son Cornelius. His\\nchildren were Henry and two daughters, Elizabeth and Jane. Henry\\nmarried a Miss Timpson, and had children, Cornelius and one daugh-\\nter.\\nAlbert Bogert came about the year 1680, and acquired a large tract\\nof land in the vicinity of Spring Valley. His f(mr sons were David, Cor-\\nnelius, James, and John, all of wh mi located in the township.\\nJohn Van Buskirkmade his advent in the township as early as 1697,\\nand located at Oradell. Among his descendants were John, Luke, and a\\ns(m who became a physician. John remained a resident of Midland.\\nAn early settler at Oradell was named Valleau. He was of French\\ndescent and a large landed proprietor, having at one period owned a tract\\nnine miles in extent. He resided in a spacious mansion, and m his death\\nleft no family. Very little is remembered of his life.\\nPeter Lutkins was one of the pioneers of Paramus, where he pur\\nchased land and followed farming. His children were Peter, John, and\\na daughter Anne, the former of whom settled on the homestead, and his\\nbrother on land adjacent. Washington on one occasion passed the night\\nat the Lutkins homestead, and manifested great interest in the children,\\nwhich was long after remembered by them. The descendants, Andrew,\\nPeter, Richard, and one sister, Mrs. John Devoe, continued to live in\\nMidland.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "314 HI8TOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe Pells are of English descent, and were for a succession of years\\nship builders and sea-captains. Captain William Pell represented the\\nfifth generation in America, and resided in New Yoi k city. He was\\nCaptain of the Columbus, in the Royal Philippine Company, of Mad-\\nrid, Spain. He married into the Bogert family, and during the latter\\nportion of his life retired to Midland, where his death occurred in 1S15.\\nAmong his sons was Casper, who had children, of whom William J.,\\nresides on the homestead.\\nThe Van Diens are Hollanders, Albert having been the first mem-\\nber of the family to arrive. He together with a brother chose a location\\nin Saddle River township. Nearly a century ago one of the desendants,\\nHarmon by name, married into the Zabriskie family, and made Midland\\nhis place of residence. Another branch of the family resided in Para-\\nmus, among whom were Yost and Casparus. both of whom lived and\\ndied there.\\nThe Hoppers are among the oldest families in Midland, as else-\\nwhere in the county. Three bothers one of whom was Garret emigra-\\nted from Amsterdam, Holland, and settled, one at Paramus, another in\\nHohokus, on land of the late John J. Zabriskie, and a third at Small\\nLots, on lands of the late Garret Hopper. The Paramus estate was pur-\\nchased of the Indians for a quart of whiskey and a pound of tobacco.\\nOKt ..\\\\NIZ.\\\\TION.\\nMidland became an independent township by an Act of the Legisla-\\nture approved March 7., 1871. The territory was taken from the town-\\nship of New Barbadoes and included all that part which lies west and\\nmirth of Cole s Will Brook, running from the point where it intersects\\nthe Lodi to^vnship line on the Paterson turnpike northwesterly and east-\\nerly, until it empties into the Hackensack River.\\nApril 10, 1871, the voters of the township met at Spring Vallev\\nChapel and proceeded viva voce to elect officers of the town, the follow-\\ning being the more important ones.\\n1872. Freeholder, David A. Zabriskie Township Clerk, William\\nA. Kipp; Assessor, Abrara S. Zabriskie; Collector, Albert J. Bogert\\nSurveyors of Highways, T. V. B. Zabriskie, J.J. Banta Township\\nCommittee, John Chrystal, Peter Ackerman. William J. Pell, John R.\\nOldis. Stephen Voorhis.\\n1873. Freeholder, David A. Zabriskie; Township Clerk, William\\nA. Kipp; Assessor, A. S. Zabriskie; Collector, Albert J. Bogert; Sur-\\nveyors of Highways, T. V. B. Zabriskie, Albert Berdan Township\\nCommittee, J. R. Oldis, D. D. Baldwin, Abram J. Demarest, John\\nChrystal, J. A. Zabriskie.\\n1874.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis; Township Clerk, William A.\\nKipp; Assessor, Albert Berdan; Collector, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramus);\\nSurveyors of Highways, Isaac A. Voorhis, J. D. Terhune Township\\nCommittee, Abram I. Demarest, D. D. Baldwin. John R. Oldis. Jnhn R.\\nVoorhis, John Chrystal.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY 01-- BKKGKN COUNTY .^15\\n1875. Freeholders, H. H. X norhis; Tdwiishij) Clerk, Lewis Lane;\\nAssessor, Albert Berdaii; Collector, J. C. Zabriskie (Paraimisi; Survey-\\nors of Highways, Jasper D. Terhune, Isaac A. Voorhis; Township Com-\\nmittee, J. G. Zabriskie, U. R. 15rinkerliolT, L. Hague, John K. Voorhis,\\nA. G. Hopper.\\n1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, H. H. X oi.rliis; Township Clerk, N. G. Hopi)jr;\\nAssessor, Albert Berdan; Collector, John C. Zabriskie (Paramusi; Sur-\\nveyors. R. W. Cooper, L A. oorhis; Township Committee, John G.\\nZabriskie, A. G. Hopper, U. R. Brinkerhoff, L. Hague, J. C. Z.ibriskie\\n(Cherry Hill); Justices of Peace, John (L Webb, Wm. J. Pell.\\ni877. Freeholder, H. H. Voorhis: Townshi]) Clerk, IS. (i. Hopper;\\nAssessor, John A. Demarest; Collector, Wm. J.Pel.: Surveyors of High-\\nways, Isaac A. oorhis, R. W. Cooper; Township Committee, J. C.\\nZabriskie (Cherry Hill), D. R. Brinkerhoff, L. Hague, A. G. Hopper,\\nJ. G. Zabriskie.\\n1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, H, H. oorhis: Township Clerk, N. G. Hopi)er;\\nAssessor, J. A. Demarest; Collector, Wm. J. Pell; Surveyors of High-\\nways, Thos. Gardner, Jr., R. W. Cooinr; Township Committee, J. C.\\nZabriskie, John G. Zabriskie, I). R. Brinkerhoff, A. G. Ho])per. Leopold\\nHague.\\n1S79. Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramus); Townshij) Clerk, X.\\n(t. Hopper; Assessor, Jacob (i. Zabriskie; C(dlector, Wm. J. Pell; Sur-\\nveyors of Highways, R. W. Cooper, Thomas Gardaer, Jr.; Township\\nCommittee, J. C. Zabriskie,. J. G. Zabriskie, Peter V. B. Demarest.\\n1880. Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Cherry Hill); Township C^lerk,\\nX. G. Hopper; Assessor, Jacob (i. Zabriskie; Collector, Wm. J. Pell;\\nSurveyor of Highways, Stephen Voorhis, Thomas (iardner. Jr.; Town-\\nship Committee, J. G. Zabriskie, P. V. B. Demarest, Henry C. Herring,\\n1881.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, J. C. Zabriskie (Paramusi; Townshij) Clerk,\\nWm. A. Kipp; Assessor, Jacob G. Zabriskie; Collector, Wm. J, Pell:\\nSurveyors of Highways, Stephen Voorhis, Thomas Gardner, Jr.; Town-\\nship Committee, Henry C. Herring; John G. Zabriskie, Garret II,\\nZabriskie; Justice of Peace. John G, Webb.\\n1882. Freeholder, John C. Zabriskie; Townshi]) Clerk. John II.\\nBlair; Assessor, W. J. Pell; Collector, John W. Van Buskirk; Township\\nCtmimittce. John R. Oldis, Henry C. Herring, Cornelius Anderson.\\n188.^^. Freeholder, John C. Zabriskie; Townshi]) Clerk, John H.\\nBlair, C. H. Storms elected Clerk in July; .Assessor, John C. Van Saun,\\nCollector, John W. Van Buskirk; Townshij) Committee, John R. Oldis.\\nH. C. Herring, Cornelius Anderson.\\n1884.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder. John C. Zabriskie: Townshi]) Clerk. C. H.\\nStorms; Assessor, John C. Van Saun; Collector, John W. Van lUiskirk;\\nTownship Committee, John R. Oldis, II. C. Herring. Cornelius Anderson.\\n1885. -Freeholder, John C. Zabriskie; T )wnshi]) Clerk, C. H.\\nStorms; Assessor, John C. Van Saun; Collector, J. W. Van Buskirk;\\nTownship Committee. J. R. Oldis, II, W. Winters, Cornelius .Xnderson.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "316 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n1,S8(). Freeholder, John C. Zabriskie; Township Clerk, C. H.\\nStorms; Assessor, John Van Saun; Collector, J. W. Van Buskirk; Town-\\nship Committee, H. W. Winters, J. R. Oklis, L. Hague.\\n1887. Freeholder, John G. Zabriskie; Township Clerk, C. J. Van\\nSaun; Assessor, John C. Van Saun; Collector, J. W. Van Buskirk;\\nTownship Committee, H. W. Winters, L. Hague, R. J. Oldis.\\n1888. Freeholder, C. J. Van Saun; Assessor, John C. Van Saun;\\nCollector, J. W. Van Buskirk; Township Committee, H. W. Winters, L.\\nHague, J. R. Oldis.\\n188 Freeholder, Henry Van Buskirk; Township Clerk, J. Edgar\\nWaite; Assessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, P. V. B. Demarest; Town-\\nship Committee, James Taplin, Casper T. Zabriskie, J. R. Oldis.\\ni8 J0. Freeholder, Henry Van Buskirk; Township Clerk, J. Edgar\\nWaite; Assessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, Peter Van Buskirk; Township\\nCommittee, A. J. Bogert, C. T. Zabriskie, James Taplin.\\n1891. Freeholder, Henry Van Buskirk; Township Clerk, Edward\\nP. Veldrame; Assessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, Peter Van Buskirk;\\nTownship Committee, John G. Zabriskie, A. J. Bogert, C. T. Zabriskie.\\n1892. Freeholders, E. D. Howlaud, John C. Van Saun; Township\\nClerk, J. H. Weston; Assessor, N. G. Hoi)])er; Collector, Peter Van\\nBuskirk; Township Committee, John (x. Zabriskie, Caspar Zabriskie,\\nAlbert J. Bogert.\\n1893. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Freeholder, John E. Van Saun; Township Clerk, J. H. Wes-\\nton; Assessor, N. C. Hopper; Collector, Peter Van Buskirk; Township\\nCommittee, John G. Zabriskie, Casper Zabriskie, Albert J. Bogert.\\n1S )4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, E. D. Howland; Township Clerk, J. H. Weston;\\nAssessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, Peter Van Buskirk; Township Com-\\nmittee, J. (i. Zabriskie, D. H. Hopper, C. T. Zabriskie.\\n1895.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, E. D. Howland; Township Clerk, H. Howland;\\nAssessor, N. (t. Hopper; Collector, E. M. Pell; Township Committee, D.\\nH. Hopper, John G. Zabriskie, Peter Ackerman.\\n1896.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, E. D. Howland; Township Clerk, H. Howland;\\nAssessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, E. M. Pell; Township Committee,\\nD. H. Hopper, John G. Zabriskie, Peter Ackerman.\\n1897.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, R. W. Cooper; Township Clerk, H. Howland;\\nAssessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, E. M. Pell; Township Committee,\\nD. H. Hopper, John G. Zabriskie; Peter Ackerman.\\n1898.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeholder, R. W. Cooper; Township Clerk, H. Howland;\\nAssessor, N. G. Hopper; Collector, E. M. Pell; Township Committee,\\nD. H. Hopper, John G. Zabriskie, John W. Winters.\\n1899. Freeholder, R. W. Cooper; Township Committee, H. How-\\nland; Assessor, M.G. Hopper; Collector, E. M. Pell; Township Committee,\\nD. H. H(ipper, John G. Zabriskie, John W. Winters.\\nAKCOLA\\nlocated on Saddle River, was originally known as Red Mill where a\\nsaw and grist mill erected on the river at this point, before the Revolu-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKC.KN COUNTY 317\\ntion, was owned l)y Jacob Zabriskic. i;-cnerally known in the neii^libor-\\nhood as \u00e2\u0080\u00a2King Jacob\\nStephen Slote, followed by Barney Kver were afterwards projjrietors.\\nBenjamin Oldis who afterward owned the property, sold it to Albert A.\\nWestervelt when it was converted into a woolen factory. Edward B.\\nForce, also operated the concern as a woolen mill and sawmill. His\\nheirs afterward sold to (ieorge Graham, and after his death it became\\nthe property of a company. The mills, however, fell to decay years a ;o.\\nThe tirst school in Areola District was established in 1821. The\\nsalary of the teacher Miss Lydia Westervelt, was raised by contributions\\nfrom the patrons of the school. An old stone dwelJing- house served for\\nschool purposes until i824, when an old red scln)()lhouse standing- in dis-\\ntrict twenty-six was purchased and placed on a stonewall so high that\\nfour steps were required to reach the entrance. These steps were con-\\nstructed of four logs hewn square. This house was fourteen by twenty-\\nfour feet, and one story high, the whole costing two hundred dollars.\\nIn 1826 Mr. Andrew Cudihy became the teacher, succeeded in 182* by\\nMr. John W. House, whose salary was thirty-six dollars per quarter.\\nMr. James J. Terhune taught the school in 1831, and Mr. Christian\\nReeder in 1836. These last were paid by the assessment of one lollar\\nand a half per quarter for each child and his proportion of the teacher s\\nwashing bill.\\nAKCOLA METHODIST KPISCOPAI, CHUKCII\\nAreola Methodist Episcopal Church, tlie oldest in the townshi]),\\nwas originally known as the Methodist Episcopal Church of Red Mills,\\nthe name being changed to that of Methodist Episcopal Church of\\nAreola, when the name of the town was changed. The tirst meeting\\nwith a view to the erection of a building was held March 14, 1843, at\\nthe home of Edward H. Force, who was a member of the society, and\\ndonated the land upon which the edifice stands, and for which a deed,\\ndated March 7, 1843, was given. Mr. Force also contributed largely to-\\nward the construction of the building, supplying all deficiencies in ma-\\nterial or means. The first hoard of trustees was composed of the fol-\\nlowing gentlemen: Edward H. Force, James V. Joralemon. William II.\\nPhelps, Andrew Lutkins. Loilowick Youngs and William A. (iurnes.\\nThe present trustees 18 M are Isaac A. Voohris, I). Voorhis, David\\nDunbar, J. Peeple, T. W. Vreeland, 1 1). East m and Joseph Lut-\\nkins.\\nThe pastors in succession have been Rev. Nicholas Van Sant.\\nFletcher Luminis, Dr. A. L. Hrice, A. E. Ballard and Rev. Bush. After\\nMr. Bush, the next of whom is a record, is Rev. Manning F. Decker,\\nwho was followed in time by Revs. S. F. Palmer, J. A. Trimmer, T.\\nT. Hall, T. D. Frazee, E. S. Jamison, 11. J. Hayler and W. M. John-\\nston. The present presiding elder is Kev. J. K. Fright.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "318 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nSPRING VALLEY.\\nThe title, Sprin f Valley, belongs not to a village or settlement but\\nto a region in Midland about three miles in length and two miles in width.\\nA succession of valleys lying between gentle elevations abounding in\\nperennial springs probably gave it the name. Originally the name\\nSluckup was the term used in designating the place. That word\\nhaving once been used by a land owner whose cow had tried to swallow\\nhis coat, after which he always spoke of the place by that name.\\nIn 1832 the more euphonious title. Spring Valley was substituted.\\nOf these springs, one is said to mark the spot near where Washington\\nand his troops encamped one night. Many of the houses in this vicinity\\nhave a colonial appearance, and were built after the old Dutch style of\\narchitecture. The first school building in the Spring Valley district, for-\\nmerly known as Sluckup, was erected before the war of the\\nRevolution, and used for school purposes until 1810. A new building\\nwas then erected in the lower portion of the neighborhood nearly a mile\\ndistant from the old location. In 1852 another house was erected a few\\nhundred yards north of the old site and then a modern structure, in\\n1875. Spring Valley Association was formed during the year 1860 and a\\nbuilding known as the Spring Valley Chapel was erected for the uses\\nspecified in the Constitution of the Association. Clergymen from differ-\\nent Churches have held services in the Chapel until the jiresent time.\\nDELFOKD.\\nThe borough of Delford was made from portions of four townships\\nMidland, Harrington, Palisade and Washington, the corners of these\\nfour portions of the county centering at New Milford. The name was\\nmade from the last syllable of Oradell Del and the last one of New\\nMilford Ford and this compromise settled a contention carried on by\\nthe inhabitants of the two villages above mentioned for the naming of\\nthe borough as each of them wanted it in honor of his own place. The\\norganization was effected in the Spring of 1894, by Mr. Jacob Van Bus-\\nkirk, Mr. R. W. Cooper, D. I. Demarest and others, principally of Mid-\\nland township, in order to secure benefits arising from their own exces-\\nsive taxation for public improvements, for their own use. The first\\nelection for officers resulted in the selection of R. W. Cooper for Mayor;\\nDaniel I. Demarest, Albert J. Bogert, Horton Chapin, Stephen Voornis\\nand James Earl for Council; Arthur Van Buskirk, Clerk; Jacob M.\\nHill, Assessor; Peter Van Buskirk, Collector.\\nMr. Cooper was succeeded b}- Mr. Daniel I. Demarest and he in\\nturn bv the present Mayor.\\nThe officers of the borough for iS are as follows: Aaron A.\\nAckerman, Mayor; Frank T. Barnes, J. Demarest Van Wagoner, Adolph\\nLandmann, Leopold Hague, Charles Winters, Herbert Jones, Council;\\nJ. Edgar Waitc, Clerk; Charles H. Storms, Assessor; Peter W ln Bus-\\nkirk, Collector.\\nThe official vote cast in this Ixirough at the November election of\\n1!S )S was 151.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKKC.KN COUNTY 319\\nNEW MILFOKD.\\nThe villag-e i)f New Milford is on the line of the New Jersey and\\nNew York railroad and on the Hackensack River, where the immense\\npumping stations of the Hackensack Water Company are located. The\\nwater of the Hackensack at this point is pure and clear, and supplies\\nHoboken, North Hudson county and all Berg-en county. Average\\ndaily consumption being- 8,000,000 gallons. Three pumps are in use\\nhere with a capacity of 10,000,000, 5,000,000 and .^,000, 000, and one now\\nin coBstructicQ of 13,000,000 gallons respectively.\\nThe earliest effort with a view to business enteri)rise, was made\\nby one, Wanamaker, who opened a store and cond:.cted it for a consider-\\nable time. He was succeeded by Abram Cole, after whom came Cornel-\\nius Smith, then Jacob R. Demarest, followed by George Derunde.\\nJacob Van Buskirk afterwards controlled the trade. He had the post\\noffice for sixteen years, taking that position about the time of the out-\\nbreak of the Civil War. J. B. H. Voorhis now owns the store.\\nBefore the Revolutionary war there was a sawmill here, which\\nsubsequently became a tannery and a bleaching mill, then a button manu-\\nfactory and later still was converted into a grist-mill by Jacob Van\\nBuskirk. This was in 1830. It remained in the hands of Mr. Van\\nBuskirk and his son Jacob, now diving, until 1882, when the pro])erty\\npassed into the hands of the Hackensack Water Company.\\nA coal and lumber yard in New Milford is owned by Cooper I i\\nDemarest, who formed a partnership in 1890.\\nOradell had no history as a village, until after the building of the\\nrailroad in 1878. when the present hotel was erected and soon after the\\nstore opposite the depot was built. From this time buildings were\\nadded, now it is a beautiful village. In 18 )3 the present commodious\\nchurch edifice was erected, of which congregation the Rev. John T. K.\\nDeWitt has pastoral charge.\\nThe mill now owned by William X eldran occupies the site of an old\\ngrist and saw mill that was burned, and afterwards rebuilt by Albert /i.\\nAckerman. This mill was also consumed by fire. Soon after the late\\nwar it was rebuilt by Mr. Veldran and is now operated by him on a large\\nscale, he buying his grain by the carload from the west.\\nMercantile interests here were begun by Isaac Demarest, who traded\\nfor a time. He built his store two or three years after the railroad was\\nbuilt. Then John Van Buskirk and A. Landmann took it and it is now\\nowned bv the latter, who is carrying on a large trade. A hardware\\nstore was but recently opened. The post office in Oradell has been ke]Jt\\nthe greater part of the past twenty years, by D. I. Demarest, who is the\\npresent incumbent.\\nOKADKI-L.\\nsignifying margin of the valley is attractively located on the Hack-\\nensack River just above tidewater. The New Jersey and New York\\nRailroad passes through it on the west side of the river. It was here on", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "320 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe first ridge west of the river, that Washington s army was camped\\nfor some months.\\nThe earliest families in this vicinity are the Demarests, Voorhis\\nLoziers and Van Buskirks. Mr. John Van Buskirk owned and operated\\nthe original mill at this place, probably as early as the period of the\\nRevolutionary War. His son Luke Van Buskirk, sold it to Jacob Voor-\\nhis, in whose family it remained three generations, first going from\\nJacob Voorhis to his son Henry, and from Henry, to his son Henry, by\\nwhom it was sold to Jacob and John Voorhis\\nThe Oradell School District boasted of a log structure here before\\nthe Revolutionary War. It stood on land owned by Jacob Van Buskirk,\\nSr., and was used until ISlO when a second building was erected on lands\\nof Mr. Henry Voorhis. In 1847 another building, the last one before\\nthe present structure, was erected, Mr. Daniel P, Demarest was a\\nteacher here for a number of years, and in 1819 he was succeeded by\\nMr. Bordeaux. Peter Debaun came in 1826, then William Smith who\\ntaught the classics. The schools of Oradell are now in a flourishing\\ncondition.\\nKIVEKSIDE BOKOUGH.\\nThis borough was organized in the summer of 18 H and includes the\\nvillages of River Edge and Cherry Hill. The circumstances which led\\nto its organization are similar to those which caused its sister borough\\nof Delford to incorporate, both of them having been taken principally\\nfrom the township of Midland. Its first officers were as follows John\\nG. Webb, Mayor A. Z. Bogert, Nicholas R. Voorhis, D. Anderson\\nZabriskie, Nathaniel B. Zabriskie, James D. Christie, Fred. H. Crum,\\nCouncil; Joseph A. Brohel, Clerk; John R. Voorhis, Assessor; J. B.\\nHoldrum, Collector.\\nThe first officers were all re-elected the next year and in 18 7 Joseph\\nA. Brohel was elected Mayor, and is the preserft Mayor of the borough.\\nThe officers for 189 are as follows: Joseph A. Brohel, Mayor; A.\\nZ. Bogert, James B. Christie, Fred. H. Crum, J. Anderson Zabriskie,\\nNathan B. Zabriskie, J. Z. B. Voorhis, Assessor; Joseph A. Weston,\\nCollector.\\nThe official vote in November 1898 was 162.\\nCHEKKY HILL.\\nCherry Hill lies on the Hackensack River less than two miles below\\nRiver Edge on the New Jersey and New York Railroad. It was early\\nsettled by the French, none of whom now remain. It has a post office, a\\nhotel, a church and one or two small stores. The historic building of\\nthe place is the Baron Von Steuben Mansion erected in 1757, and now\\nowned by Captain Zabriskie. David A. Zabriskie moved into this house\\nin 1812. There was a mill on the river here which burned down years\\nago. Formerly the chair making industry was carried on here\\nto some extent. The building of the railroad, however, changed the\\ncentre of trade. The hotel was built in 1871 and other buildings fol-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKRGEN COUNTY 321\\nlowed soon after. The tornado of July 13, lS t5 blew the hotel down\\nand killed Mr. Freideman, the proprietor and also unroofed a number\\nof houses.\\nThe Reformed Church at Cherry Hill, \\\\v;is formed in the Spring; of\\n1858 by John A. Parsons, a devout Christian man of Hackensack, who\\nvisited New Bridge on Sabbath afternoons to instruct the youth. May\\n2, 1852 a Sabbath school was organized with Mr. Parsons as superinten-\\ndent the success attending the school resulting in meetings for praver\\nand praise service Sabbath evenings, the Rev. Dr. Romeyn of Hacken-\\nsack also frequently attending the meetings. This condition of things\\ncontinued down to 1875, when the Church was organized. The ground\\nfor a Church building was donated by John A. Zabriskie of Hacken-\\nsack and the greater part of the building stone for it was taken from\\nan old house that stood opposite, and which was once owned by Usual\\nMeeker, an officer in the British armv, which encamped in the neighbor-\\nhood during the Revolutionary war. It subsequently became the prop-\\nerty of John Lozier, whose widow carried out the wishes of her husband\\nin the building of the church edifice which was dedicated November 1,\\n1886 as The Reformed Church of Cherry Hill and New Bridge. The\\nsermon for the occasion was preached by the Rev. David Inglis of New\\nYork. At first the society had about twentj -five members, over whom\\nMr. Charles Wood officiated as temporary minister for about two years.\\nThe church now has a membership of about fifty persons over whom\\nthe Rev. Abram Duryee officiated as pastor.\\nBUKIAI.-PI.ACES.\\nThe burial-places in Midland are not numerous, and now but little\\nused, many of the inhabitants at the present day having chosen places\\nof interment outside the township limits.\\nThe oldest is probably known as the Spring Valley Cemetery, near\\nthe centre of the township, on the farm of Gilliam Zabriskie. It rej)-\\nresents more than a century of use, some of the memorial tablets\\nbeing of old red sandstone, and much defaced by age. Among the\\nfamilies who have buried here are the Bantas, Demarests, Voorhis,\\nBertholfs, Kipps, Van Sauns, De Bauns, and Huylers. Among the in-\\nscriptions are the following:\\nIn memory of Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Eftie Bogert, who\\ndied on the 12th of December, i807, aged 1 year. 11 months, and\\ndays.\\nWhen I lie buried deep in dust.\\nMy flesh shall by Thy care:\\nThese withered limbs with Thee I trust.\\nTo raise them strong and fair.\\nIn mcmorv of Henry Banta, who departed this life August 12lh,\\n1817, aged sixty-six years, one month, and eighteen days.\\nAlso of Elizabeth Lake, wife of Henry Banta, who died September\\n4, 1817, aged sixty-seven years, eight months, and eighteen days.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGKN COUNTY 323\\nI know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in\\nfaithfulness has afflicted me. See the Lord is good. Blessed is the\\nman that trusteth in him.\\nIn memory of Nicholas Demarest, who was born on the .^rd of Mav,\\n175 and departed this life February dth, ISll. aged liftv-one years.\\nnine months, and three days.\\nHier Leir her Lighaem Van Yacob Brouwer is (iestervende 2(. fr an\\nAugustus in her laer 1784 was our tifty-efght laer.\\nIn memory of Margaret Ackerman, born the lOth of February. 17(i4,\\nand who departed this life September f)th 1805, aged thirty-eight years,\\nsix months, and twenty-four days.\\nA very old burial-place, known as the Voorliis burial-ground, is\\nlocated near New Milford, cm the farm of N. R. Voorhis. It was in use\\nat the time of the Revolutit)nary War, but has since been abandoned.\\nA substantial fence incloses its ancient graves.\\nThe two hamlets of River Edge and Cherry Hill are in the borough\\nof Riverside. Both of these places have been trading centres since a\\nvery early day. At River Edge there were two stores, one on each side\\nof the river, kept by the Demarests. The wagon teams were constantly\\nbusy hauling wood to the place for transportation to New York, the\\nstores there trading salt, sugar and molasses, they being among the\\nproducts of exchange. The Demarests also had a mill on the river,\\nused over two hundred years ago. During the trying scenes of the\\nRevolution it was known as Old Bridge, and prior to the date of its\\npresent christening as New Bridge. Here it was that during the Revolu-\\ntionary War, upon the evacuation of Fort Lee, the troops escaped from\\nthe British bv crossing the bridge at this point and afterwards burning it.\\nThe village is beautifully located on the slope of a ridge overlooking\\nthe depot and railroad, and at the present time is a brisk center of\\ntrade. A. Z. Bogert and J. D. Holdrum, each has a store, the former\\nalso engaging in the coal and lumber trade.\\nB( K )r(;ii oi :\\\\iAVW()()i).\\nThe village of Mavwood is situate i on the Susejuehanna Kailr iad\\nsixteen miles west of New York and two miles west of Hackensack, and\\nis in close touch with both of these cities through numerous trains (hat\\npass to and from them daily at this place.\\nThe lands here were formerly owned by Daniel Ackerman, .lolm\\nRomaine, John R. Olds, Andrew Voorhis, James Berdan, David lierdan,\\nCornelius Van Saun and by Henry, John and Martin Terhune It\\nremained a farming community until Mr. (lustav L. Jaeger and Henry\\nLindenmeyer purchased a large tract of the land and began to plot it off\\nfor a village. In 18 Mr. Jaeger purchased Mr. Lindenmeyer s interests\\nand from that time handsome new buildings began to be erected, roads\\nlaid out and macadamized and other improvements made.\\nThrough Mr. Jaeger s efforts, and his money, the Hackensack Water\\nCom])anv was induced to extend their mains through the streets, the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "324\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COITNTY\\nElectric Liji^ht Company to put up lamps, and these with the internal\\nimprovements incident to the public spirit of the place has made the vil-\\nlag-e a desirable one for a country residence.\\nThe Borough of Maywood was organized in March, 18 4. The offi-\\ncers then elected were Clarence A. Breckinridge, Mayor; Gustav L.\\nJaeger, John H. Voorhis, John H. Cumberland, Charles Lydecker, Philip\\nThoma and David H. Price, Councilmen. Mr. David H. Price was next\\nelected Mayor, and he in turn was succeeded by John C. Van Saun, who\\nis now serving his second term.\\nThe borough was taken out of Midland Township, and is in extent\\nof territory one and three-fourths by one mile. The official vote cast\\nhere in November 1898 was ninety-one.\\nMAYWOOD AKT TILK WOKKS.\\nThe Maywood Art Tile Company whose works and land are situ-\\nated near the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad tracks,\\nwest of the Maywood station, is the chief industrial establishment of\\nthe thriving Borough of Maywood. This company was first organ-\\nized and the works built in the year 1890, under the name of the Elte-\\nrich Art Tile Stove Company with Mr. Gustav L. Jaeger and Henry\\nLindenmeyer as principal stockholders. The object was the manu-\\nfacture of art tile stoves and gratesresembling the ornamental European\\ntile or porcelain stoves, combining with the artistic appearance, the more\\npractical features of the American self-feeding and base-burning stove.\\nThese stoves, however, not meeting with the expected favor and\\nsuccess, it was decided to go more extensively into the manufacture of\\nart tiles for the general market.\\nThe company was reorganized in the winter of 1892-93 and its name\\nchanged to that of Maywood Art Tile Company, when the manufacture", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BKKCtEN COUNTY\\n325\\nof art tiles was beg un at once, under the nianag-ement of Mr. Krnst\\nBilhuber. The tiles produced are the kind used in our modern buildin js\\naround fireplaces and mantels, in bathrooms, vestibules, wainscotinjf, etc.\\nThe artistic product of this factory, has been successfully introduced,\\nis well received by the trade and has been carrying- the name of Ma\\\\--\\nwood Tiles as a synonj m of excellence of quality and beauty all over\\nthe country.\\nThe greater part of the raw material used in this manufacture comes\\nfrom the New Jersey- clay beds, of which there is an abundance in many\\nparts of the state.\\nThe company is gradually increasing its outpir and furnishes steady\\nwork for some tortv to fifty men, a good many of wh mi live in the neat\\nMAvwooi) scHOOi. iiorsic\\ncottages built by the Company for that purpose, in close proximity to\\nthe works.\\nTllK MAVWOOI) UOS1-; COMI AXV, NO 1.\\nThe Maywood Hose Company, No. 1, was organized .May 10, ls \u00c2\u00bb;v\\nan was the first public organization of any kind in .Maywood. The first\\nofficers were William Widnall, President; C. T. Kuchler, Secretary;\\nGeorgia Jaeger. Treasurer; I). A. SpeigKt, Foreman; K. J. Marsh, Jr.,\\nAssistant Foreman. In July, 1S9.S, the organization lost its house and\\napparatus by fire, an l in Sei)tember of the same year secured a new hose\\nwagon, as shown in cut. Through the efforts .)f Mr. (nistav L. Jaeger,\\nErnst Bilhuber the company was materially assisted and the present\\nhose house ori Jlufiter- Av-Pnwe, -er-ected. The comi)any at present has\\ntwenty active members and a number of honorary members.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "^1", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGKN COUNTY\\n327\\nCOLONIAL BX ILDINGS OK MAYWOOD AND VICINITY.\\nMaywood, and the suburbs of the county-seat, Hackensack, can\\npride itself on the possession of a hirge number of substantial old build-\\ning s, being- fine specimens of early colonial architecture, landmarks of\\nthe early settlements with a typical style all their own.\\nThere seems to be three specific types of cohmial architecture in this\\ncountry. The English noblemen and their offspring, who settled in ir-\\nginia and Maryland developed there an ornamental and pretentious style\\nof architecture, while the Puritans in New England, being men of the\\nmost severe simplicity, built houses of a more modest and plain character.\\nIt was the Dutch who settled New Jersey, and more especially Bergen\\nA COI.O.NIAI. KKSIIIK.NCK DI MAVWOOn\\ncounty, and here we find the greatest originality of taste and character\\nin their colonial buildings, which are superior to both the other classes.\\nIf we remember that the Dutch settlers of Bergen county came fnmi a\\ncountry which at the time of their emigration represented the leading\\ncivilization of Europe in industry, commerce and fine arts, being the\\ncountrv of Rembrandt, Van Dyke, and the illustrious Dutch School, we\\nfind it quite natural that these peojjle have shown culture and taste in\\ntheir architecture, as is demonstrated in hundreds of buildings all over\\nBergen count}-. Besides the dwellings, we may mention as fine examples\\nof their style, the churches and especially the First Dutch Reformed\\nChurch of Hackensack and the Paramus Church, of which we show\\nillustrations elsewhere in this work.\\nAccompanying this sketch, we have shown a few ])rints of tlie\\nhouses in j)roximity to the Maywood R.iilroad station.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "328\\nHISTOKY OK BEKCEN COUNTY\\nAll of these houses were built in the last century. The walls are\\nfrom two to three feet in thickness, of domestic red sandstone, and the\\nmortar used is of the best quality greatly superior to that in our modern\\nmasonwork. The interior woodwork is artistic and well finished. The\\ndoors and the necessarily deep window casinffs, are finely paneled, and\\nthe mantel pieces well proportioned and sometimes richly carved. All\\nis harmonious with no inartistic feature. The timbers and roofs are.\\nwithout excepticm, of hewn oak most substantially jointed, and if n(\\nvandalism destroy these monuments of the early Dutch colonial time\\nthey will stand and be admired for centuries to come.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BKKCIKN COUNTY\\n329\\nMK. GUSTAV I,. JAEGER.\\nMr. Gustav L. Jaeg-er is a successful New York business man who\\nhas made Maywood his home, and where he owns a large tract of land.\\nHe is President of the Maywood Land Company and has built an\\neleg-ant residence, the so called Colonial Terrace. He has been in this\\ncountry about forty-six years and has been in active business ever since,\\ngenerally in the line of paper and its manufacture. He is a patnm of\\na number of benevolent institutions in New Jersey and New Y( rk. As\\na practical and active man, he has taken out over seventy Patents, some\\nof which are in world wide use. He was elected a member of the first\\nBorough Council of Maywood and has been Chairman of the Finance\\nCommittee ever since.\\nRI tSlDHNCH\\n.1 r\\\\v I,. iai:i .i:k\\nAs owner of a large tract of land along the New York Southern\\nand Western Railroad running from Hackensack Heights to the Saddle\\nRiver, he has erected a number of houses, and all the modern improve-\\nments in the Borough, such as the water supply, electric lights and gas,\\nas well as the macadamized streets, are due to his energy and liberality.\\nMR. KRNST BII.mrHICK.\\nMr. Uilhuber of Maywood, was born in the south of (Jrermany in the\\nyear 1849. He came to this country at the age of twenty and began\\nwork in New York, in his profession of designing and consulting engin-\\neer. In the year 1876 he served as secretary of the (lerman Commission\\nto the World s Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Through his con-\\ntributions to European technical and industrial papers (luring this time\\nhe has helped considerably to make Europe acejuainted with the high\\nindustrial development and achievements of this country. Later on he\\ndevoted his attention to manufatturing enterjjrises. The large Steel", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "330 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nWire Works of R. H. Wolff Co., of New York, of which concern he is\\na director, were built under his superintendence. In 1892 he interested\\nhimself in the Maywood Art Tile Company, of which he took the\\nmanagement. Since that time he has made Maywood his home, and has\\ntaken an active interest in its development and in all local issues of the\\nborough. He served in the iirst Maywood Board of Education, and was\\nchairman of the Building Committee, during the erection of the model\\nschool house, of which we publish a good view. He has been influential\\nin organizing the first fire company of the borough, and in 1895 was\\nelected to a seat in the Borough Council, and at the expiration of his first\\nthree years term, was re-elected.\\nMr. Bilhuber bought for his home one of the old landmarks, the\\nthe Brinkerhoif homestead, a substantial stone dwelling, next to the\\nKKNST BII,HI:BEK\\npresent railroad station, and has greatly beautified the grounds and\\nimproved the house both in its exterior and interior, keeping strictly to\\nthe spirit and style of its original architecture. His residence has the\\nappearance of a substantial old colonial homestead of which there are\\nmany fine specimens to be found in Bergen county, worthy of preserva-\\ntion and study.\\nJOHN C. VAN .SAUN.\\nJohn C. Van Saun, Mayor of Maywood, represents an old family in\\nthe county who was here before the War of the Revolution. Cornelius\\nVan Saun was the first to locate at Cherry Hill, where his three Sf)ns\\nJohn C, Cornelius and David were born. John C. Van Saun was born\\nin 1774 and died in 1849. He married Sarah Huyler, and moved first to\\nRochelle park and in 18.i3 to Maywood. Cornelius, his s in, b irn in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 331\\n1S12. married Anna Moore of Tenafly. Their children were Sarah\\nAnn, Jane Elizabeth, John C. and Henrietta John C. Van Saun, the\\nsubject of this sketch was born in 183 and was raised a fanner. l)ut has\\nspent most of his life in public office.\\nMany years of his official career has been given to the interest of\\nhig hwavs, as overseer of roads. He has served as Assessor ten years\\nand has also been for two years freeholder of this townshij). In 1S )7 he\\nwas elected Mayor of May wood and re-elected in 18\\nIn 1862 he married Miss Margaret Amelia Moore. Their children\\nare Cornelius J., now the Marshal of Maywood; Lizzie M., Anna Amelia\\nand Peter Edwin.\\nRESIDENCE OF EKNST BII.HUBKK\\nMr. Van Saun built his new h mse in 18 M in which he now resides.\\nKDW.XNl) I). E.\\\\STON.\\nAt Areola, on the banks of the winding Saddle Kiver near the site\\nof the old Red Mill, where it is related the people of the county gave a\\nreception to Colonel Aaron Burr, when, in the days of his youth that\\nimpetuous officer headed an expedition that drove the Hessian troops\\nfrom this region, has risen a stately mansion, which serves both as an\\nadornment to the country and as a monument to the achievements of (me\\nof the men that Bergen Cfninty has reason to be proud of. This is the\\nhome of Mr. Edward D. Easton. It was on this spot his childhood and\\nyouth were spent, and here he returned to make his home, when, still in\\nthe prime of manhood, he had won fortune through an industry and an\\norganizing and creative ability, that overcame every obstacle.\\nMr. Easton s father and mother, who came to New Jersey from\\nHrooklvn in l.Sf.S, lived in a comfortable old house fronting on Paramus", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "EDWAKD D. EASTON", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK KKKGKN COUNTY .?33\\nroad. Mr. Easton grew up hero, attended the district s.hocil, but\\nstarted out to make his own way in the world much younger than most\\nboys do. His first employment was on the Hackensack R?publican\\nwhere he served nearly two years as reporter and editor. Having ac-\\nquired a knowledge of shorthand, he did work in that line for various\\nNew York papers, as well as for his own paper. His shorthand accom-\\nplishment led to his securing an appointment when barel}- eighteen years\\nof age, in the Light House Board in Washington. This took him from\\nAreola, and thenceforward until his return in 1897; he spent only his\\nvacation days in the old home. Mr. Easton retained his position in the\\nLight House Board for several years but meanwhile had been gaining\\nsuch a reputation as a stenographer, that there was a constant demand\\nfor his services in that capacity. This resulted finally in his severing\\nhis cimnection with the Ciovernment, in order to enter the more lucrative\\nfield offered in private work to a stenographer of superior attainments.\\nMr. Easton succeeds in whatever he undertakes, and he succeeded to\\nsuch an extent as a stenographer that he not onh- came to be acknowl-\\nedged by fellow craftsmen one of the greatest of them all, but also, be-\\ncame notable among them for having earned more money with his pen\\nin a given time than any shorthand writer living. Mr. Easton first came\\ninto prominence as a stenographer in the (iuiteau trial at Washington,\\nthe full and accurate repbrt of that celebrated case, having been mostly\\nthe \u00e2\u0096\u00a0vV orkof his pen. His excellent work there brought about his employ-\\nment by the Department of Justice and by other Government Bureaus in\\nfamous and protracted trials, notably the Star Route trials, which occu-\\npied upward of a year. During these busy years Mr. Easton found time\\nto study law. and was enrolled as a member of the bar of the District of\\nColumbia.\\nWhen a little over thirty years of age, Mr. Easton was able to lay\\naside his pen, having accumulated a substantial capital, and devote\\nhimself to what has seemed to be his life work, the development of the\\ntalking machine art. It is an interesting fact that the first men to\\nappreciate the talking machine as a practical invention were steno-\\ngraphers, who saw the incalculable value of an instrument that would\\nperform automatically, tirelessly and accurately, the work for which\\nstenographers required years of training- that is, the recording and\\nrejjroducing of human speech. Soim after the (irapho])hone patents\\nwere issued in 1877, and the talking machine became a practical thing.\\nMr. Easton organized in Washington the Columbia Phonogra])h Com-\\njianv. which at first had for its territory the District of Columbia,\\nMaryland and Delaware. Mr. Easton and his associates were i)ractical\\nmen and began with a thorough knowledge of the instrument they\\nhad to deal with, and an enthusiastic faith in its future as well as a\\ngood stock of business sense. Through lack these, the thirty other\\nc nipanies then organized gradually disappeared while the Columbia\\nCompany was successful in all its undertakings. Its operations soon\\nextended bevond its original territorial limits and becann world-wide.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 335\\nWhen the American (Irapliophone C()m])anv the owner of the patents\\nwas reorganized in 1 S J5, Mr. Easton who had secured practical control\\nof the talking machine market was made first general manager and\\nsoon afterwards President of the Company. At the same time that he\\nentered with characteristic vigor upon the practical business-manage-\\nment of the company, he took charge also, as Counsel, of its local\\naffairs and his wise management in that capacity contributed much to\\nplacing the concern on its present solid footing. A coalition was formed\\nbetween his old company and the Graphophone Company, and Mr.\\nEaston at the head of both came into control not of the market only\\nl)ut of the concern which soon became, under his direction the greatest\\nmanufacturing establishment in the world of talking machines. The\\nremarkable strides made by the American Graphophone Company in\\nthree years under Mr. Easton s capable management are familiar facts\\nto those at all acquainted with the condition of the industry. The\\nestablishment which at the time he took charge required only one end\\nof a leased factory to house it, now occupies the whole of one of the\\nlargest factory plants in Bridgeport, Conn., the company owning the\\nbuildings and additional ground sufficient to duplicate the plant when\\nnecessary.\\nThrough the Columbia Phonograph Company, under Mr. Easton s\\nmanagement, the American (jraphophone Company is represented in\\nmost of the principal cities of this country, as well as in Paris, by\\nhandsome offices and salesrooms, in nearly every case occupying entire\\nbuildings. In the meantime, Mr. Easton having removed his business\\nheadquarters from Washington to New York, and having acquired the\\nmeans to enable him to gratify his wishes, has returned to Areola, the\\nspot he has so long known as home. As a matter of sentiment, he has\\nbuilt his new home on the very site of the old one, and a part of the old\\nhouse has been utilized on the new.\\nMr. Easton has been twice married. His first wife died after a brief\\nwedded life, leaving a daughter. In 1883 he married Miss Helen Morti-\\nmer Jefferis, of Washington, the lady who now presides over the home\\nat Areola. By his second marriage he has four children, three daughters\\nand a son. Mr. Easton is simple in his tastes, affable and approachable.\\nHis straightforward methods, unfailing courtesy and unswering loyalty\\nto his high ideals of right, have gained for him the respect of the com-\\nmercial world and attached his friends and business associates to him\\nwith bonds of the strongest character. Mr. East(m has been a great\\ntraveler on business and pleasure and possesses a varied knowledge of\\nmen and affairs that makes him a most pleasing companion. His home\\nis noted for its hospitality and for the happiness that always dwells in it.\\nThe house is simple but imposing in appearance, the style being\\nColonial. There is a broad veranda in front, spacious and delightful\\nhall, ])arlors and general rooms cm the first Hoor, and many commodious\\nchambers above. The stable is built in corresptmding style. Mr.\\nEaston has about fifty acres of land attached to his residence. That", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OI- BEKC.EN COUNTY 337\\nimmediately adjoining the house has been laid out as a park with strik-\\nintf landscape effects. To illuminate the house and grounds and the\\nroadway between the house and Rochelle Park railway station, elec-\\ntricity has been brought by Mr. Easton by a private line from Hackeij-\\nsack. and a long distance telephone connects the house by ]irivatc line\\nwith Hackensack thence all other telephone posts.\\nJACOB VAN BUSKIKK.\\nThe earliest ancestor of the Van Buskirk famiij- in Bergen county,\\nwas John, who came from Holland, and located at Teaneck, now Engle-\\nwood. He had two children, John and Cornelius. Both settled in Ber-\\ngen county, Cornelius eventually removing to St;iten Island, where his\\ndescendants still reside. John married Miss Rachel Dey and remained\\nat the old homestead spending his life as a farmer. His children were:\\nPeter, who lived on the old farm Elsie, who married John Ackerman\\nJacob, and Elizabeth, wife of John Bogert, and John who also resided at\\nTeaneck. Of these children, Jacob learned the trade of carpenter, but\\nnever made use of it further than to build a saw mill for his own use\\nbeing a farmer all his life.\\nHe married Catharine, daughter of Captain Abram Haring, a Revo-\\nlutionary soldier. Their children were Sarah, wife of Stephen Lozier,\\nJohn, Abram and Jacob. John removed to Staten Island where he spent\\nthe remainder of his life. Abram removed to River Edge, and died there\\na few years later.\\nJacob who was born at Teaneck, July 26, 1807, spent his early years\\nat this place, where for a period of more than twenty years he carried on\\nthe store now owned by J. H. B. Voorhis. Later he and his brother\\nerected the mills afterward owned by his sons. He was active in the\\npromotion of public enterprise, a director of the New Jersey and New\\nYork Railroad, and also a director of the Bergen County Farmers\\nMutual Insurance Company.\\nMr. Van Buskirk married in August 5, 1826, Miss Hannah Voorhis\\nof Kinderkamack. Three children were born of this union, Jacob,\\nHenry and Eliza C, who became the wife of Nicholas R. Voorhis. Mrs.\\nVan Buskirk died September 8, 187\\nJacob, our subject, was born July 23, 1827. He lirst attended the dis-\\ntrict school for a number of years, subsequently bec miing a student in\\nLafayette Academy, Hackensack, where he paid his tuition by acting as\\nassistant teacher. After leaving the Academy, he taught in the district\\nschool at Closter for a short time, and afterwards had charge of the\\nschool at Kinderkamack, from which jjlace he was called to the\\nprincipalship of Washington Institute, where he remained over three\\nyears. This was a iitting close to his short but successful career in the\\nwork of teaching.\\nMr. an Ihiskirk with his brother Henry now bought a half share\\nin the milling business and formed the partnership of J. H. Van Bus-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "3.^8 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nkirk. This tirm eventually sold out to the Hackensack Water C )m])any\\nReorfJ-anized.\\nThe only offices Mr. Van Buskirk could be induced to accept was\\nthat overseer of highways, which he held for a period of twenty years;\\nand the office of postmaster which he held about sixteen years, begin-\\nning- near the time of the War of the Rebellion. He is largely inter-\\nested in public improvements in the Borough of Delford, of which he\\nwas one of the promotors, and to his business sagacity is largely due\\nthe success of that-corporation.\\nMr. Van Buskirk was married Februarry 16, 1853 to Miss Ursula\\nPeack. There children were: Sarah Maria, wife of Jacob Van Wag-\\noner; Hannah Amelia wife of Huyler Voorhis; Catharine Elmira, wife\\nof Francis H. Waite; Jacob Henry, who died in infancy; Peter Edwin\\nand Arthur.\\nMr. Van Buskirk is a strong Republican.\\nTHE LE SUEUK FAMILY.\\nThe Le Sueur Family has been vrell established in Normandy,\\nFrance, for over seven centuries, and are well known in the cities of\\nParis, Dieppe and Rouen, and for four centuries were among the largest\\nmanufacturers of cloth in the latter city, where the business is conducted\\nby their descendants. They were also well known in the liberal arts.\\nEustace Le Sueur the celebrated painter, born in Paris in 1617, and\\nJean F. Le Sueur, the composer of music born in Abbeville in 1763 were\\nrespectively brother and nephew of Francois Le Sueur, the Lozier\\nancestor who was born in Dieppe in 1625, and by profession was a civil\\nengineer and surveyor, his name taking such forms with his descendants\\nas Leseur, Lesier, Lazier and Lozier. He came from Dieppe to New\\nAmsterdam in April, 1657, and was attended by his sister Jeanne,\\nneither being married, but in 1659 Francois married Jannetie daughter\\nof Hildebrandt Pietersen of Amsterdam, Holland. New Amsterdam\\nwas not to be the permanent home of Francois Le Sueur, he with about\\ntwenty others, mostly heads of families and freeholders, desiring to\\ncontinue the language and customs of their mother country applied to\\nthe Director General and Council of New Netherlands for permission to\\npurchase a tract of land adjoining the Great Kill or Harlem river. The\\nnumber of applicants for the land being sufficient for a beginning, the\\nCouncil granted their request. Ground was broken for the new settle-\\nment August 14, 1658, and it was named New Harlem by request of the\\nDutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant.\\nIn 1663 Francois, with several others, becoming dissatislied, owing\\nto the heavy taxation levied by the Dutch authorities, sold their prop-\\nerty, and in the fall of that year went up the Hudson River to Esopus\\n(now known as Kingston), but in the spring of 1669, Francois returned\\nto New Harlem, now known as Harlem, a portion of the city of Greater\\nNew York.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "HisTOKV oy keki;i;n corNTv 339\\nThe issue of his marriage was four children, Jannetie, born in 1660;\\nHillel)rand, born in 1663; John, born in 1()65, and Nicholas, born in 1668.\\nJannatie married John Post, of Kinjifston. N. Y., and after his death,\\nThomas Innis, of New Amsterdam. Hillebrand married Elsie, dau j;hler\\nof Julian Tappen, of Kingston, N. Y., but died soon after, leaving one\\nchild, Jannattie, born in 1689, who married William Elting. John, the\\nsecond son, married Rachel Snedes, of Kingston, N. Y. He had three\\nchildren, Jannattie, born in 1( .S7; John, born in 1689, and Catharine,\\nborn in 1692. Nicholas, the fourth child of Francois, was born in 1668,\\nand whose branch of the family write their name Lozier, married in\\nNew York, May 8, 1691, Tryntie, daughter of Peter Slot, of New York.\\nAfter his marriage he removed to Hackensack, N. J. By this marriage\\nNicholas had eight children, as follows: Hillebrand, born 1695; Petrus,\\nborn 1697; Johannes, born February 26, 1699; Mariti^, born May 11. 17(tl;\\nAntie, born October 31, 1703; Lucas, born March 18, 1705; Jacobus, born\\nOctober 5, 1707, and Benjamin, born October 24, 1708. After the death\\nof his wife Nicholas married in Hackensack Antie Direcksee Banta,\\ndaughter of Derieck Banta.\\nHis children by this union were Trintie, born March 12, 1710; Hester,\\nborn December 16, 1711; Rachel, born May 17, 1714; Jacob, born May 24,\\n1819; Abram, born July 1, 172i; Leya, born September 22, 1723; Mar-\\ngrietje, born April 5, 1726. The genealogical record of the Lozier\\nfamily has been traced for several generations, and in some lines to date.\\nThe descendants of Nicholas Lozier are now living in Bergen county,\\nN. J., and Newburg, Orange county, N. Y.\\nThe records of the Dutch churches at Hackensack and Schraalen-\\nburg, N. J. contain the names of several generations of the Lozier\\nfamily who in their day were quite numerous but are now few in numbers.\\nNicholas Lozier was a man of importance in local and church affairs.\\nIn the records of the Hackensack church we find that he was accepted\\nas a member, on confession of faith, April 4, 1702. He was elected\\nchurchmaster in place of Roelof Westerveldt May 1712, was elected\\ndeac(m in place of Derik Blinckerhof, May 14, 1713, and elected elder in\\nplace of Jacob Banta in May 1723.\\nDuring these years the movement of the people was eastward to-\\nward the Hudscra, lands were cleared and farms were occupied at Schraal-\\nenburg, and as early as 1724 it was ff)und necessary to establish a church\\nat Schraalenburgfor the convenience of the people of that neighborhood\\nwho had been accustomed to worship at Hackensack. Nicholas Lozier\\nwas among those in this forward movement and was elected one o( the\\nfirst elders in the new church and was one of the six elders who called\\nRev. Georgius Wilhelmus Mancius to the pastorate of this church De-\\ncember 23, 17,^0. This was his last church connection, and he was sue.\\nceeded as an officer by his children and grandchildren.\\nIn Ulster county. New York the descendants of Francois I^e Sueur\\nhave been known as Le Suer, Leeshueur, Lashiere and Lasher. Tluy\\nwere loyal to the colonial government. In the documentarv hist()r\\\\ of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "340 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe state of New York we lind the names of Hiklebrant, John and\\nNicholas, sons of Francois among those who in 1689 were supporters of\\nthe local authorities of the county of Ulster. They were an intensely\\npatriotic people and were among the first to oiTer their services to aid the\\ncause of liberty in the war of the Revolution. No less than sixteen of\\nthis family were in the service of the state of New York and New Jersey.\\nDunlap s History of New York, Vol. 2, page 216 published in 1840, gives\\nan account of the organizing of the committee of one hundred and their\\naddress to the Lord Mayor of London stating that the city of New\\nYork is as one man in the cause of liberty, etc. The address is signed\\nby the committee, John Lasher being one of their number. In the arch-\\nives of the state of New York is documentary evidence showing the valu-\\nable services of Colonel John Lasher and others of the family. Bergen\\nCounty, N. J. records, on file in the state archives, also show that there\\nwere several Loziers who did well for themselves and their countr3\\nJOHN B. I.OZIKK.\\nOn a high elevation of land overlooking the fertile valley of the\\nHackensack River on the New Jersey and New York Railroad eighteen\\nmiles from Jersey City, are located the buildings of the Oradell Stock\\nFarm, one of the best horse boarding establishments in America. The\\nfarm is undulating and the eye can roam over the counties of Bergen\\nand Hi dson in New Jersey, and Rockland and Westchester in New\\nYork. 1 he buildings are modern up-to-date structures in which are\\none hundred and fifty box-stalls well ventilated, and all opening into\\nhigh fenced paddocks where the horses are allowed to exercise every\\npleasant day. Excellent water is furnished for the stables from an\\nArtesian well, i45 feet deep and from which 5000 gallons have been\\npumped at one time without lowering the water more than one inch.\\nThis property is owned by Mr. John B. Lozier who conceived the idea\\nof an institution which should surpass all others of its kind and of\\nwhich the American Horse Breeder, March 2, 1895, says: is as nearly\\nperfect as can be made. The land comprising the farm has been\\nowned by the Lozier family since the time of George HI., the present\\nowner having now in his possession the original deed from the King.\\nThe whole farm which has been kept intact consists of three hundred\\nacres nearly one hundred acres of which is virgin forest. The railroad\\nintersects some of the pastures aiTording horses and colts a chance to\\nbecome accustomed to the cars. For horses having tender feet, is a\\nlarge tract of pasture land moist with a blue clay subsoil, and this with\\na foaling barn, blacksmith shop, pharmacy, hospital and a regulation\\nhalf mile track completely equips the establishment as one of the best\\nof the kind.\\nThe Lozier family are French Huguenots who formerly spelled\\ntheir name LeSueurs. They were cloth manufacturers in the cities of\\nParis, Dieppe and Rouen in France.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "^42\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nWINTER QTAKTEKS (IKADKI.I. STofK FARM\\nFrancois Le Sueur, the Lozier ancestor that came to America, was\\nfrom Colmied, Normandy, a town adjoining Dieppe on the south. The\\nfamily was well founded in Caux, and a century previous 1525 had\\nfigured among the cloth manufacturers of Rouen. Francis Le Sueur,\\nlanded on Manhattan Island in April 1657. In 1659 he married Hilde-\\nbrant Pieterson, of Amsterdam, Holland. The issue of this marriage\\nwas Annette, 1660; Hildebrant, 1663; John, 1665 and Nicholas 1668.\\nNicholas on May 8, 1691 married Tryntie Slot, a daughter of Pieter\\nJansan Slot former mayor of New Amsterdam. After marriage Nich-\\nolas settled near Hackensack and the Oradell Stock Farm is part of the\\ntract taken up by him at that time.\\nKICTaVTXC. :^ARX--ORADKI.I. STOCK FAR r", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "344 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nMr. John B. Lozier, the present owner of the estate, is the son of\\nDavid B. Lozier, and Kitty Woodworth Garretson, and was born Novem-\\nber 28, 1865. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, which, prob-\\nably owing to favorable surrounding s contributed largely to his splendid\\nphysique, his courtle}^ bearing, and to a general symmetrical growth pro-\\nducing the broad liberal minded man that he is. A public school educa-\\ntion supplemented by a course of instruction in the Hackensack Academy\\ncompleted his curriculum of studies and these attainments, added to his\\nmany natural endowments gives us the man of practical ideas and of\\nmany accomplishments.\\nMr. Lozier who is an artist of considerable originality and taste has\\nproduced many specimens of his own handiwork, especially in decorated\\nchina and bric-a-brac, and is also an expert in penwork. He is a musi-\\ncian of no mean attainments having made a special study of the violin.\\nAs a sportsman he excels this being verified by the many rare speci-\\nmens he has collected by rod and gun while on various expeditions to\\nFlorida and other shooting resorts.\\nAs might be supposed Mr. Lozier is a royal good fellow and a fine\\nentertainer. As a writer, many interesting articles from his pen have\\nfound their way into sporting papers and periodicals as the Turf, Field\\nand Farm and The American Field. His writings are chiefly\\ndescriptive and from his own experience.\\nOn June 20, 1885, Mr. Lozier married Miss Mary E. Rumsey and by\\nthis union have three children Claire, Grace and Milred. Mr. Lozier\\nis a Republican in politics, independent in local matters especially as to\\nthe welfare of his borough. He takes great pleasure in his home and\\nno great wonder since the celebrated Oradell Stock farm is certainly one\\nof the most interesting spots and his home one of which any man of\\nequal possessions might feel justly proud.\\nHIKAM LOZIEK.\\nAmong the descendants of Nicholas Lozier now residing at New-\\nburgh, N. Y. is Hiram, son of Isaac Van Duzer Lozier and Margaret\\nJam Shay. Mr. Lozier s grandparents were Nicholas and Sarah Barton\\nLozier. His great grandfather Peter married a Miss Brouwer, of Hol-\\nland ancestry, the line continuing unbroken to Nicholas Lozier and\\nTryntie Slot, his wife, who were among the early settlers of Hacken-\\nsack, N. J. This family as noted elsewhere were for more than seven\\ncenturies well known in Normandy, France and are well known in the\\ncities of Paris, Dieppe and Rouen. For more than four centuries they\\nwere large manufacturers of cloth in the city of Rouen, where the busi-\\nness is still carried on by their descendants. They were also well known\\nin the liberal arts. Music and painting being^represented by Jean F. Le\\nSuer, the composer, born in Abbeville in 1763, and by Eustace Le\\nSueur the celebrated painter, born in Paris in 1617. Eustace being a\\nbrother and Jean F., a nephew of Francois Le Seuer, who was by pro-\\nfession a civil engineer and surveyor. The name has passed through", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "HiKAM i.( /.ii:k.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY 345\\nseveral orthographical changes Lesuer, Lesier, Lazier and at present\\nLozier. The tastes and professions of these early ancestors have devel-\\noped in the present generation in no mean degree, as demonstrated in\\nthe persons of both Mr. Hiram Lozier of Newburgh, N. Y. and Mr.\\nJohn B. Lozier of Oradell, N. J. Hiram Lozier was born at Newburgh,\\nN. Y., June 4, 1852, and was educated in the Latin and English\\nbranches, in the Newburgh public schools and Academy, from which\\nhe was graduated in the class of 1868.\\nImmediately after leaving school Mr. Lozier entered the office of the\\nWashington Iron Works, at Newburgh, remaining about one year, sub-\\nsequently taking a position with the Whitehill Engine Works, to learn\\nthe practical workings of the engine business. After several years spent\\nwith this company he formed a connection with the Fishkill Landing\\nMachine Company, (builders of Corliss Engines, Boilers and General\\nMachinery where he still continues. These works are located at P^ish-\\nkill Landing, N. Y., opposite Newburgh.\\nMr. Lozier is active in public and social affairs, was vice-president\\nof the Board of Excise, Newburgh, 18 4-1895, member of Board of Educa-\\ntion, since 1895, and chairman of committee of City Library.\\nSocially he is a member of the Holland Society of New York City;\\nmember of the Empire State Society; Sons of American Revolution, New\\nYork, also member of Newburgh Historical Society, Treasurer of\\nMasonic Veteran Association of Newburg, and Treasurer of Newburgh\\nAcademy Alumni Association. He is a member of Newburgh Lodge\\nNo. 309 F. A. M. and Past Grand of Acme Lodge No. 469, 1. O. F.\\nIn his church relations he is a member of Trinity M. E. Church, being\\na member of the official Board.\\nMr. Lozier married Miss Martha A. Wylie of Newburgh, N. Y.\\nDANIEL I. DEMAKEST.\\nDaniel I. Demarest, Mayor of Delford. son of Isaac D. and Margaret\\n(Van Wagoner) Demarest, traces his descent in a direct line from the\\nearly emigrants of that name who came to America, subsequently\\nsettling in Bergen County. Mr. Demarest was born on the old home-\\nstead near the Hackensack River, March i6, iS36. This property is\\nnow owned by Hugh J. Grant, ex-Mayor of New York city. Previous\\nto its purchase by its present owner, Mr. Demarest had resided on\\nanother part of this farm near Oradell, thirty acres of which he owns\\nand is his home. As an old time resident of the place, fully identified\\nwith its business and other interests he was elected Mayor of Delford\\nB(jrough, and in addition to this for many years he has been postmaster\\nof Oradell treasurer of the Bergen County Building and Loan Asso-\\nciation, and is also treasurer of the Bergen County Farmers Mutual\\nInsurance Company.\\nMr. Demarest is a Christian gentleman, wln) with his family belong\\nto the Reformed church. In olitics he is a Republican. He married", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "hoAA^ul S^-^^^^-^^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 347\\nMiss Ellen A. Demarest, a dau^rhter of John D. Demarest. They have\\none son, Isaac.\\nPETEK G. ZABKISKIE.\\nThe Zabriskie family are numerous in Bergen county, all havinf^\\nsprung- from one common ancestor, Albert, who came from Poland in\\n1(.()2. The maternal ancestor however, being: a Miss Vim der Linde, of\\nHolland stock. In time the children and grandchildren, finding it to\\ntheir advantage to seek homes in other localities, the branch to which\\nPeter G. belongs, came to be residents of the western part of the county,\\nwhere his grandfather, Jacob, and his father Gilliam both continued to\\nreside, and where Peter was born December 24, \\\\8M\\nMr. Zabriskie received a limited education, being obliged to begin\\nearly to prepare for the business of life. Learning the carpenter trade,\\nhe eventually became a builder, after spending a number of years as a\\njourneyman. Success usually follows strict attention to business, when\\nhonest work is done through honorable methods. That Mr. Zabriskie\\nhas been successful, is demonstrated by the character and number of\\nbuildings he has erected in the vicinity of Ridgewood, especially resi-\\ndences of New York business men, among which are those of E. F.\\nHanks, W. J. Fullerton, H. S. Patterson, H. A. Dunbar, A. C. Brooks,\\nC. F. Shultz. W. C. Parker. F. C. White, K. C. Atwood, and C. Atwood of\\nOradcll. These are all palatial residences, specimens of the highest art\\nin modern building.\\nMr. Zabriskie s wife, to whom he was married in 1858, was Miss\\nMary Garrison, daughter of John A. Ciarrison of Allendale. Of their\\ntwo daughters. Minnie is the wife of Louis Nearing, while Maude resides\\nat home.\\nMr. Zabriskie is an independent Republican.\\nA. I.ANDMANN.\\nA. Landmann, merchant in Oradell, born in the city of New York,\\nMarch 6, 1852, is a son of Frederick Landmann, who emigrated from\\nDarmstadt, Germany in IS. ^l, coming to New Jersey in 186 j. Here he\\nengaged in the milling business. He first came to Oradell in 1880,\\nwhen he became associated with John W. Van Buskirk, succeeding\\nCharles E. Van Buskirk of Van Buskirk Bros. They succeeded Mr.\\nIsaac D. Demarest, who had established the business in i8()9. In 1880\\nA. Landmann bought out the interest of Charles E. Van Buskirk,\\nwhen the business was conducted under the firm name of Van Buskirk\\nLandmann until May 4, 18 K), when Mr. Landmann bought the inter-\\nest of J. W. Van Buskirk, continuing under the name of A. Landmann.\\nHe is successfully dealing in the retail of general merchandise.\\nMr. Landmann was married in 1874 to Emma Jane Veldran, daugh-\\nter of William Veldran of Oradell. They have the following children:\\nFlorence E., Margaretta V., Emma A.. William F., and Herbert A.\\nPolitically, Mr. Landmann is a Democrat, holding the office of\\npostmaster under Cleveland s first .Administration. He is a Council-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "PKTER G. ZABKISKIK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY 349\\nman of the boroug ti, and District Clerk of Schools. He is a inemher of\\nthe Royal Arcanum.\\nCHARLES C. BASLKV.\\nCharles C. Basley was born in Elizabeth, X. J., July 27th. lSf)4.\\nHis parents and all his ancestors, however, were natives of Europe.\\nMr. Basley was educated in the public schools of New York city and\\nafter leaving- school spent two years on the sea, stopping at all seaports\\nfrom Maine to the Amazon River. After his return from this voyag^e,\\nhe spent two years in the west, and later was for a time engaged in\\nbusiness in New York city. At present he is occupied in gardening.\\nHe is Justice of the Peace of Midland townshij), and is also a member\\nof the Midland Republican Club.\\nMr. Basley was married on February 25, 18 )1, by J. J. Brower, |)as-\\ntor of the North Baptist Church ia West Eleventh Street, New York\\ncity. Mrs. Basley is a granddaughter of ex-sheriff John Ackerson, who\\nwas a brother of ex-judge (iarret Ackerson. Two children have b-en\\nborn of this marriage one a g-irl of seven years and the other a boy of\\na few months.\\nHKRBKKT S. JONES, M. n.\\nDr. Herbert S. Jones of Oradell is a son of William P. Jones a\\nshoe manufacturer of South Sudbury, Mass., and was born November 5,\\n1851. He was educated at Williston Seminary and at Yale Colleg^e,\\nspending three and one half years in classical work but did not take his\\ndegree. After leaving College he immediately entered upon his profes-\\nsional studies at the Homeopathic Medical College in New York city,\\nand upon the completion of this course, opened an office in Elizabeth,\\nN. J., where he practiced two years. The doctor then spent some time\\nin the west, but returned to Oradell in 1892, where he has continued to\\nreside, building up a lucrative practice. In addition to his general work\\nhe is Medical examiner for the Prudential I^ife Insurance Company,\\nand also for the Ro^-al Arcanum.\\nIn 18S7 Dr. Jones was married to Miss Eveline Wilson, daughter of\\nJames Wils(m of Elizabeth. They attend the Reformed Church.\\nJOHN DEMAREST.\\nJohn Ci. Demarest, son of Garret D. Demarest first learned the\\ntrade of carpenter, afterwards spending (me year in the office of an\\narchitect. In 1890 he formed a partnership with Mr. Richard W. Cooper\\nof New Milford, in the business of building and contracting, under the\\nfirm name of Cooper Demarest. They are Architects and Builders,\\nand have built some fine houses in Bergen county.\\nMr. Demarest is president of the Hackensack Coal and Lumber Co.,\\npresident of the Delford Land Co., and also ])resident of the Delforil\\nSewer Co.\\nHe is a Mason belonging to the Temjjle I^odge of Westwood.\\nMr. Demarest was born Julv 25, ISdS. In 1S )4 he married Miss", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "350 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COINTV\\nLetitia Onderdonk, a daughter of Issac Onderdonk of Westwood. They\\nhave one son, Alfred.\\nTHE COOPEK FAMILY.\\nThe progenitor of this family was Richard Cooper, whose birth\\noccurred in 16 \u00c2\u00bb8, and who emigrated at a later period from his native\\nHolland to America. He became the owner of an extensive tract of land\\nin Bergen county, purchased of the New Jersey proprietors, and por-\\ntions of which are still owned by his descendants, Mrs. H. C. Herring,\\nMrs. Hannah Moore, and Mrs. Eleanor Van Wagoner. He married Miss\\nCatherine Van Pelt, also of Holland descent, whose birth occurred in\\n1700 and her death in 1745, her husband having survived until 1753.\\nAmong their children was John, born July 22, 1731, who served with\\ncredit in the war of the Revolution, as did also his son Richard, both of\\nwhom were taken prisoners and confined on Long Island.\\nJohn Cooper was united in marriage to Anna Maria, daughter of\\nRev. J. H. Goetschius, and had the following children, who grew to\\nmature years: Richard, Mary (Mrs. John Hopper), Catherine (Mrs.\\n(iarret Hopper Sally (Mrs. Abram Ackerman). and Henry, who died\\nin infancy. The death of Mr. Cooper occurred December 29, 1808. His\\nson, Richard J., was born on the ancestral estate October 27; 1757, and\\ndevoted himself to the improvement of the landed property he inher-\\nited. He was united in marriage to Miss Anna Ferdon, to whom were\\nborn three children, John, Eleanor (Mrs. Jacob Van Wagoner), and\\nMar_y (Mrs .John Van Wagoner). Richard J., on his release from im-\\nprisonment during the war for American independence, returned to his\\nhome and followed farming until his death, which occurred April 8.\\n1812. The birth of his son John occurred December 1, 1782, on the\\nhomestead, where his whole life was spent. He was married, February\\n4, 1804, to Miss Sally, daughter of David Campbell, a Revolutionary\\npatriot, who bore through life the scars of many wounds received while\\nin the service of his country. Their children were Anne Mrs. Lucas\\nVan Soun) born September 10, 1805; Hannah Mrs. B. P. Moore), whose\\nbirth occurred March 31, 1815; and Helena (Mrs. H. C. Herring), born\\nFebruary 17, 1818. The children of Mrs. Moore are Sarah Louisa\\nMrs. Dr. S. J. Zabriskie John Cooper, who served with credit as\\nsurgeon during the late civil war, with the brevet rank of lieutenant-\\ncolonel, and died while in service, in 1865, at Clinton, La.; Louis, resid-\\ning at New Milford; Eliza Ann (Mrs. David H. Van Ordan); Mary\\n(Mrs. Henry C. Banta); and Helena (Mrs. George Brickell.\\nJohn Cooper spent his whole life upon the farm, though other busi-\\nness also engaged his attention. The offices of freeholder, justice of\\nthe peace, etc., were frequently filled by him. He espoused with vigor\\nthe principles of the Democracy, and never wavered from these con-\\nvictions. His religious views were in sympathy with the Reformed\\n(Dutch) Church, Mrs. Cooper having been a member of the True Re-\\nformed Church at Schraalenburgh.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKOKN COfNTY .^51\\nThe death of Mr. C.)()])cr took phuc January 15, 1S75, at the\\nancestral home.\\nIvMCIIAK I) \\\\V. COOPKlv\\nRichard W. Cooper, son of William K. Cooper, was born in Pierii-en\\ncounty, November 1st, 1841. His father who was a mason and builder,\\nwas a native of Berg-en county, also. Mr. Cooper was educated in the\\ncommon schools, afterward learninu- the trade of carpenter, at which he\\nhas continued to work ever since. More than thirty years ago, he went\\ninto business for himself and is now the senior member of the firm of\\nCooper Demarest, architects and builders. He is also in the lumber\\nbusiness at New Milford, is treasurer of the Hackensack Lumber Com-\\npanv, and associated with the Delford Land and Improvement Company.\\nHe is a Democrat, is ex-mayor of the Borough of Delford, and is at pres-\\nent a member of the Board of Freeholders.\\nMr. Cooper was married in 1892 to Miss Ella Christie.\\nDANIKI. lIlvKKlNG.\\nDaniel Herring an early settler of Midland Township, married and\\nreared a family of seven children, live sons and two daughters, Henry,\\nDaniel, Jacob, John, Cornelius, Jane, and Tiny. He died September\\n1784, aged eighty years. His wife (Margaret) died October 4, 177\\naged seventy-one years.\\nJacob, third son of Daniel and Margaret Herring, was also a farmer,\\nan l member of the same church as his father. He was twice married,\\nfirst to Wilhelmina Banta, second to Susan Livingstone, by whom he\\nhad three children Wilhelmina, Daniel, and Cornelius.\\nJacob s death occurred June 9, 1809, at the age of seventy-live years,\\nand that of his wife i Susan April 1, 18.^1, at the age if sixty-seven\\nyears.\\nCornelius, son of Jacob and Susan i Livingstone) Herring, was born\\nApril 10, 1797. He was a tailor by trade, l)ut spent the greatest i)orlion\\nof his life as a farmer.\\nHe was married Noveml)er 27, lsl7, to Ann D. Kiker. of New York\\ncitv, who bore him the following children: Henry C, James, Jacob,\\nSusan Ann, wife of John De Voe, of Rutherford; Daniel, John, Harry,\\nMarv Jane, wife of Dr. John Turniure, of Schraalenburgh, N. J., and\\nWilliam.\\nOf these, Henry C. was born Fel)ruarv ISl t. in the city of New\\nYork. During his infancy he removed with his parents to Schraalen-\\nburgh, N. J., and remained at home until his marriage, which occurred\\nJune 19, 1839, to Helena, daughter of Joliii Cooper, Ksii.. of New Mil-\\nford, Bergen county.\\nHe served his townshij) as freeholder, justice of the pe.ice. etc., and\\nwas elected to the State Legislature for the years 1874-7.=.. He was\\nvice-president of the Bergen County Farmers Mutual I irr Insurance\\nC(jmpany, and an active member of the True Reformed Church at\\nSchraalenburirh.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "o.-i2 HISTOKY OF BEKGHN COUNTY\\nCHAKLES E. COLE.\\nCharles E. Cole, Steward of the Berg en County Ahnshouse, and\\nson of W. H. and Anna E. Traver Cole, was born at Stanfordville.\\nDutchess county, N. Y.. June 18()(). His parents are also both natives\\nof Dutchess county where his father, who was a highly respected citi-\\nzen, was an architect and builder.\\nMr. Cole was educated in the common schools of Brooklyn and also\\nat Croton Landing-, N. Y. His business experience has been somewhat\\nvaried, having been for a considerable time engaged in the Fire Arms\\ndepartment of E. Remington Son of New York city, and also with\\ntheir successors. The Alfred Ward Davenport Co. Upon his retirement\\nfrom the employ of this firm, he began the butchering business with his\\nuncle in Brooklyn, continuing two years, subsequently becoming asso-\\nciated for a time with the Metropolitan Insurance Company. He then\\nremoved to Bergen county, N. J., where he became interested in farming\\nand during a period of six years superintended the work of a farm.\\nIn 1895 Mr. Cole received the appointment to his present position,\\nhis amiable disposition, equable temper, together with his experience,\\nmaking him a valuable man for the i)lace. and in which he has given\\nentire satisfaction to the public.\\nHe was married in 1890 to Miss Elnora S. Traver, daughter of\\nEphraim Traver if Brooklyn, N. Y. In politics Mr. Cole is independent,\\ngiving his support to the best man. He and his wife are Congregation-\\nalists.\\nH DGK hi-:n kv h. vookhis.\\nJudge Henrv H. Voorhis became a prominent citizen of Midland\\ntownship and spent his life on the homestead where his father Henry N.,\\nand grandfather Nicholas both resided. For fifty years he was active\\nas an executor and administrator of estates. He was an active sup-\\n])orter of Stephen A. Douglas for the presidency and when the war\\nbroke out in 1801, he became a warm supporter of the Union Cause.\\nIn 1835 he was commissioned by Governor Peter D. Vroom a justice,\\nof the peace, and after serving for five years, he was again commis-\\nsioned a justice of the peace by Governor Daniel Haines in i843, and\\nserved three years, when, by the change in the constitiition of the\\nState requiring that office to be filled by election by the people, he was\\nelected to the same office and served for two years. Judge Voorhis was\\nelected and served in the State Legislature for the years 1848-49; was\\nappointed master in chancery in 1853, and 1857 he was appointed Judge\\nof the Court of Common Pleas of Bergan County, and served one term\\nof five years. In 1874 he was elected freeholder of Midland township,\\nwhich position he creditably filled for five years. Upon the construction\\nof the Midland Railroad he was appointed one of the commissioners for\\nappraising damages to land passed through by the road in forty-five\\ncases, and was one of the incorporators of the Bergen Couaty Farmers\\nMutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was Secretary.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "HISTOK\\\\ OK BEKI;KN COl NTV r.l\\nJOHN H. VOOKHIS.\\nJdhn H. oorhis, son of Andrew A., was born October i, 1802. ;in(l\\nbelonys to another branch of this same faniilv. He married Mariah\\nSaloma Schoonmaker, March 2. 1S3( The result of this union was\\nthree children, Euphemia. wife of Tliomas Voorhis, Elizabeth i de-\\nceased I, and John H. Mr. oorliis was a member of the First Presby-\\nterian Church of Hackensack, as was also his wife. She died March 5.\\n1S74.\\nJohn H. o!)rhis was born March 5, \\\\S.M,. He was married Nov-\\nember 23, 1858, to Anna Mariah daughter of Anna and Samuel Demu-\\nrest. Thev have had three children, Anna, Salome, and Andrew, Jr.\\nCOKNEI.IUS BOAKD.\\nCornelius Board emigrated to America with his wife, Elizabeth and\\ntwo scms, David and James, and settled in Ringwood afterward called\\nBoardville. where he became a large real estate owner. His son David\\nsucceeded to a large part of his father s estate. His son Nathaniel born\\nSeptember 27, 1775, died December 31, 1.S42. He was a participant in\\nwhat was known as the Whiskey War serving as Lieutenant in that\\nferocious escapade against the Whiskey Boys of Kentucky. He was\\nalso in the war of 1812 being stationed for six months at Sandy Hook.\\nHe served in both branches of the New Jersev Legislature and was a\\nman of good judgment and ability.\\nHe was frequently sought after as counsellor amtmg his neighbors\\nand townsmen, and often selected as executor and administrator of es-\\ntates. His wife, Mary Kingsland, a native of Morris county, bore him\\nthe following children, who grew to manhood and womanhood: Edmund\\nK., John F., Mary A., wife of Daniel H. Bull, of Orange county, N. Y.,\\nPeter, Eleanor, (deceased), was the wife of James H. Bull, Harriet,\\nwife of O. E. Maltby, of New Haven, Sarah J., wife of John C. Zabriskie,\\nand David J. Board.\\nPeter; son of Nathaniel Board, was born August 19, 1S0 on the\\nBoard homestead in Pompton township, where he spent his early life\\nand acquired an education, being prepared for college in the Ponijjton\\nAcademy.\\nTurning his attention to business for eight vears he was a clerk in\\ngeneral merchandise stores in the vicinity of his Inrth He married.\\nMay .^0, 1833, Matilda B. Zabriskie. of Midland township, who has borne\\nhim twf children, Cornelius Z. and Mary C, wife of John J. Zabriskie,\\nof Ridge way.\\nMr. Board s])ent most of his active business life as a farmer;\\nwas a man of strcjng force of character, decided in his opinions, and of\\ncorrect habits. He was honored by his townsmen with positions of trust.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "chaptp:r XXV.\\nLODI\\nGENEKAL DESCKIPTION EARLY SETTLEMENTS SCHOOLS EAKLV HIGH-\\nWAYS ORGAXIZATION CIVIL LIST SOCIETIES, ORDEKS, ASSOCIA-\\nTIONS FIRE DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURING INTERESTS\\nCHURCHES BURIAL PLACES HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AND\\nREMINISCENCES BOROUGHS OF CARLSTADT, WAI.L-\\nINGTON, WOODKIDGE, HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, LIT-\\nTLE FERRY LODI VILLAGE AND BERGEN\\nTOWNSHIP BIOGRAPHICAL.\\nThe townshi]) of Lodi was organized in 1825, and at that time con-\\ntained about 22,000 acres of land, but many changes have been made\\nsince then, the first being the setting off of the township of Union in\\n1852. Lodi was named from a flourishing town of Italy, founded by\\nthe Bois, and colonized by the father of Pompeii the Oreat. Hence the\\nname of Laus Pompeia, which was corrupted gradually into the cogno-\\nmen it bears at the present time. Lodi is celebrated for the victory of\\nthe French, under Bonaparte, over the Austrians, in \\\\l )t). It is said\\nthat when Lafayette was at Hackensack, in 1825, that he suggested this\\nname for the town of Lodi that his own might not again be brt)ught\\ninto such common use.\\nThe Poliflv road, so named from the bog meadow along which it\\npasses, is a fine thoroughfare, built over two hundred years ago, and\\nruns through the whole length of the township. At the time of its\\nsettlement, the eastern part of Lodi township was covered with a fine\\ngrowth of cedar timber, where now it is overgrown with a coarse grass,\\nwhich is cut and stacked in the summer, but cannot be removed until\\nthe ground is frozen in the winter, so as to admit of horses and wagons\\nbeing taken out for this purpose.\\nThe early settlers of Lodi township were principally Dutch, many\\nof them coming directly from Holland, while others were descendants\\nof various families located in different parts of New Jersey and New\\nYork. Captain John Berry is said to have been the original owner of\\nall the land in Lodi. This land was obtained by grant from Governor\\nCarteret in \\\\i (i The Kipps or De Kypes, as they then spelled the\\nname, came originally from France, but immediately from Holland in\\n1()35, coming about 1()85 to the township of Lodi, where Hendrick in\\ntime bought a farm of two hundred acres on the Poliflv road. The Van\\nBussum family is known to have lived on the old homestead as early as\\nRevolutionary times, but it is not certain at what date they located\\nthere. Theodore Van Idestine who was the first of the name to\\nemigrate to America, came from Holland in 1700, his son I eter some\\ntime later coming to Lodi, where he purchased a farm of one hundred\\nacres on the Passaic river. The Romaines came from New Barbadoes\\nabout the time of the close of the Revolution, and purchased about one", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 355\\nhundred acres nf land, ^vith mill site and water privileges n the Saddle\\nRiver. The Demarest family came to Lodi township in the last century\\nalthough they had been in New Jersey since about lh76. Upon coming\\nhere, the first of the name, Stephen Demarest. purchased a homestead\\nof about one hundred acres on the Polifly road.\\nThe island of Moonachie was purchased by three men, one of whom\\nwas Thomas Francis Outwater, who came here in the latter part of the\\nseventeenth century, where his descendants still remain. The Terhune\\nfamilv is a prominent one, but it is not known at what time thev located\\nhere. George Briukerhoff the first of this family in Lodi township,\\ncame from Holland in the latter i)art of the seventeenth century. He\\npurchased a farm of two hundred acres, where the village of Woodridge\\nnow stands. Walling Van Winkle, a Hollander, was the owner of a\\nfarm of five hundred acres, near the city of Passaic. His deed granting\\nhim the land, is signed in Holland script, dated 17.34. Ji.o Hopper also\\nbought a farm of five hundred acres, extending from the Pidifly road to\\nthe Saddle River.\\nThe people of Lodi have shown their thrift and enterprise in the\\nbuilding of good roads, the Polifly being the first and also the longest.\\nThe other roads leading into this from Passaic, Saddle River and other\\nadjoining territory, were built at an earh- date and afforded an outlet to\\nthe settlers of this township. The road from Passaic through Carlstadt\\nto Moonachie was completed in or about 181(), while the Paterson and\\nJersev Citv Plank road, was finished about four years later and the\\nHackensack and Paterson road in 182( In IS.^0, the road from the vil-\\nlage of Lodi to the Polifly road was opened. The New Jersey New\\nYork railroad now runs through, connecting it with Jersey City and\\nother parts of the State. The trolley road from Arlington to Carlstadt\\nthrough Rutherford was opened in 1897, and connects Lodi with New-\\nark. The Paterson and Hoboken trolley also touches Carlstadt, thus\\ngiving Lodi the benefit of traffic with important points in all directions.\\nSchools have been organized and utilized in accordance with the\\ntimes. The various districts have been more or less changed from time\\nto time to keep pace with the growth and demands of the localities in\\nwhich thev are situated. As late as ]S4(i. the townshij) had but two\\nschools and about fifty sch(dars. Since that time a great change has\\nbeen effected both in Iniildings and the number of pupils as well as in the\\nefficiency of the schools. Woodridge District erected its first building as\\nearly as 1801 on land owned liy John W. Berry. This house was Imiltof\\nstone, one story high and twenty-five by tv.enty leel. in extent. The\\nfirst teacher was Patrick Dillon, he district was about four and one-\\nhalf miles long by three miles broad. A new housi- was nt edi d in 1S4.^.\\nwhen ground was purchas\u00e2\u0080\u009e d from Philip Berry, Jr., and a l.iry-e l)uilding\\nerected. This was accomjjlished under the supervision of the Mount\\nPleasant New School Association, the district conii)rising Rutherford\\nPark, Carlstadt, Woodridge, Corona, Hasbrouck Heights. Moonachie and\\nEast Passaic. In 1S7. this building gave jflace to a more modern and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "356 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ncommndious structure. From time to time, it became necessary to divide\\nthe districts in order to accommodate the growing number. What\\nbecame known as the Moonachie District opened its tirst school in the\\nkitchen of Peter Allen, where it was conducted during the winter months\\nonly, the first teacher being Thomas Stephenson. The first building\\nwas erected in 1832, and had long desks and slab seats. This house did\\nservice forty years, when it was replaced by a fine modern structure.\\nThe school in the village of Lodi, had a small beginning of only\\ntwelve scholars, in a little house seventeen feet by twenty, and furnished\\nwith long desks and slab seats. Nicholas Terhune was the first teacher.\\nIn 1853. a new house became necessary. The first house was on the farm\\nof Jacob H. Hopper, but the last one was on land donated by Robert\\nRennie. Mr. Merritt was the first teacher.\\nWhen Carlstadt was organized in 1S53, it contained a part of the\\nmost southerly district of the township, and in 1865, it became necessar}-\\nto secure more commodious quarters when they purchased four lots and\\nerected a two story building with a frontage of twenty-five feet and\\nthirty-two feet deep, adding a hall sixteen by ten feet. In 1874 they\\nbuilt an annex to this, sixty-two by thirty-two feet, at a cost of over\\neight thousand dollars. This serves to show how rapidly the township\\ndeveloped in substantial directions.\\nThe Little Ferry District was formed in 1875, when they secured\\nground and built a brick building at a cost of twenty-five hundred dol-\\nlars. The school was opened on November 29, with Miss Brinkerhoff of\\nHackensack as teacher and an enrollment of thirty-two pupils recorded.\\nHISTORICAL INCIDENTS .\\\\ND REMINISCENCES.\\nEarlv in the history of New Jersey Captain John Berry, gentleman;\\nreceived a grant of all the land lying between the Boiling Spring at\\nRutherford, the Passaic River, Saddle River, Cherry Hill, and the\\nHackensack River. This grant included the land within the present\\ntownship of Lodi. It is probable that Captain Berry built the Poli-\\nfly road, the oldest in the township, expecting to sell the land ad-\\njoining it for farms and building lots. He parceled out his land on the\\nwest side of this road into sections, extending back to the Passaic\\nRiver and Saddle River. The buyers of these were the ancestors of\\nmanv of the present leading citizens of Lodi township.\\nThe proximitv of Lodi township to the camping-ground of the\\nHessians during the Revolution rendered the inhabitants subject to\\nmanv depredations on the part of the latter. The district of Moonachie\\nwas nearlv depopulated on account of the ravages of bands of Hes-\\nsians from New York. There is scarcely a representative of an\\nold family in Lodi township who cannot relate harrowing tales of hun-\\nger, flight by night, burying of valuables in the earth, told him by his\\ngrandsire from persimal experience during the struggle for inde])endence\\none hundred years ago.\\nAt the old Hopper homestead on the Polifly road a division of sol-\\nKr.iin Hi-liHA of Hi-ij;eii and Passaic Counties.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGK.V COUNTY 357\\n(Hers made themselves at hume tor a nuinlier of weeks, the officers sleep-\\niiiir in the house, and the eominoii soldiers under the trees in the orchard\\nimmediately back of the house. One nig-ht Mrs. Hopper was awakened\\nfrom her slumbers by a noise among the pigs in the pig-pens. Mrs.\\nHopper at t)nce aroused the officers and requested them to investigate\\nthe causes of the disturbance. They thereupon ran out into the dark-\\nness in the direction of the sounds and discovered one of their own men\\nin the act of carrying off a struggling pig. Considering the miscreant\\nas a poacher on their own preserves, the officers flogged him soseverelv\\nthat neither he nor any of his comrades ever afterwards repeated the\\nexperiment. It is not related whether Mrs. Hopper s pleasure at the\\nrescue was of long duration, but it is probable that His Majesty s officers\\nhad as keen an appetite for pork as their subordinates, and that the pigs\\nwere soon a thing of the past.\\nThe Hessians made many expeditions into Moonachie, and on such\\noccasions were accustomed to fire into dwelling houses regardless of the\\ndanger to the lives of women and cliildren. )n one of their raids thev\\nstabbed in the back and killed old Abraham Allen as he was trying to\\nescape from them. A single incident worthy of note occurred here in\\nthe Revolution. A party of Hessians had stolen all the cows for miles\\naround, and ^j ere driving them to their boat on the Hackensack, followed\\nbv a band of angry farmers. Arriving there they found to their dismay\\nthe tide low and their boat, on which they intended to embark, high and\\ndry. The cattle were at once abandoned. Many of the Hessians were\\nkilled by shots from their pursuers, or drowned in attempting to swim\\nthe river. The ammunition of the farmers gave out after a few shots,\\nor not one of the plunderers would have escaped.\\nWilliam Berry a descendant of John Berry settled near the village\\nof Carlstadt, where he owned considerable real estate, and settled a\\nhomestead, which has been in the family since, a period of about one\\nhundred and fifty years.\\nHis children were John, born in IT.^d; Albert, born in 175 Marv,\\nborn in 17f)l; Jane, born in 17f Albert (2). born in ]7(i(); Elizabeth,\\nborn in 177(1; John W., 1)orn in 1772: Sarah, born in 177.^; and Kleanor.\\nliorn in 1 77(i.\\n)f these children. John W. Herry, of Moonachie, resided ujion the\\nhomestead during his life, dying February 1S5 He lived in the old\\nhouse by theloA lands until 1825, when he built on or near its site a\\nstone house, which was burned in 1873. His wile, whom In- married\\nFebruary 2.^, 17 \u00c2\u00bb4, was Elizabeth Terhune, who was born )ctober I l.\\n177,\\\\ and died May .^l. 1S57. i lie children of this union were I ^liza-\\nbeth, wife of Cornelius Banta, William, Ste])hen, Albert. Sarah, wife of\\nNichidas Terhune, Stephen i2i, Letitia, wife of John II. Ackerman.\\nMary, wife of Enoch BrinkerholT, and J din I.\\nOriginally the area of the townshi]) of Lodi was large but within\\nrecent years one townshi]! and six boroughs hawlieen fornu d from it\\nterritory leaving but a remnant that formerly belonged to it. Like that", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "358 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nof the township of Bergen it has been almost contracted to death. Con-\\ntinual secessions have tinallv forced its area within a small com])ass.\\nThe Moonachie road on the south and that of Calico or Turkey Neck\\non the north togfether with the Hackensack plank road, and line running-\\nparallel with the old Poliflv road about one thousand feet east of the\\nrailroad- stand for its east and west boundary lines, with the Little Ferry\\nboroug-h left out, is all that remains of this once large and important\\ntownship. In justice, however, it must be stated, that Lodi township\\nwith its Philippine Colony of Lodi Park in the vicinity of Garfield,\\nis one of the townships in existence, that has use for a foreign policy.\\nIts official vote of November, 18 )8, was seventy-one.\\nCIVIL LIST.\\nThere are no records of elections previous to 1 8h2, with the excep-\\ntion of freeholders, which are given since the organization of the town-\\nship.\\n1.S27, Henry W. Kingsland, Joseph Budd; 28, William C. Kings-\\nland; 28-29, Samuel H. Berry; 29-30, Henry P. Kipp; 0 Abraham I.\\nBerry; 31-.32, Cornelius G. Brinkerhoff; 31-32, 37, Michael Van\\nWinkle; 33-34, 38-39, (George Kingsland, Peter H. Kipp; 35, John A.\\nBerry; 35-3( Richard Cutwater; 3(), Martin Romeyn; 37, Peter A.\\nKipp; 40-43, David E. Van Bussum; 40-42, Jacob J. Brinkerhoff; 43-45\\n54-56, Richard Berdan; 44-46, Jacob H. Hopper; 46-48, Enoch I ree-\\nland; 47-49, 52-53, John Huyler; 49-.S1, 5()-58. David Ackerman; 50-51,\\nJames L. Van Winkle; 52-54, Enoch Hopper; 57-59, James J. Brink-\\nerhoff; 59-61-64, Daniel Romaine; 60-()2, Abraham K. Ackerman; 62,\\n63, Abraham Kipp; 63, John P. Outwater; 64-(.( Geo. W. Conklin; 6(),\\nRichard Terhune; 67, Walling Kipp; 68, John Richard Vreeland;\\n68-69, Isaac H. Schoonmaker; 69-74, John Van Bussam; 70 Henry\\nKipp; 75-77, Theodore F. Muehling; 78-83, John F eitner; 83-87, Max\\nMathe; 87-93; John H. Outwater; 93-99, John Van Bussam; 9 James\\nW. Mercer.\\nMOON.VCHIE.\\nTo a district of excellent farming land, al)out one mile southeast\\nof Little Ferry, and two miles to the west of Carlstadt, is given the\\nname of Moonachie. It was so named in memory of Moonachie, the\\nchief of a tribe of Indians, a branch of the Six Nations, who occupied\\nthis region. Over two hundred years ago Thomas Francis Outwater, a\\nMr. Brinkerhoff, and a Mr. Kipp bought the so-called island of Moon-\\nachie of Captain John Berry, paying seven hundred pounds for it. This\\nisland was located between Berry s Creek, Indian Path, Losing\\nCreek, and the Hackensack River; The Indians who peopled it at that\\ntime were said to be very friendly to the whites. The land was covered\\nwith valuable cedar timber till within a few years. Moonachie was\\nfor a time known as Peach Island, on account of the large quantities of\\npeaches produced here. This name is no longer applicable, as scarcely\\na peach-tree can now l)e found in this region. Just at the. junction of\\n.Moonachie with the township of Union is located a hotel, known as", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "HISTORY UK BICKCEN COUNTY 3j9\\nthe Half-Way House. It has long marked the point of bisection of the\\nPaterson phiuk-road from Paterson to Jersey City. The people of Moon-\\nachie are generally farmers, their principal production being garden\\nproducts, which they sell in the markets of New York and Jersey City.\\nA Baj)tist chapel was built here in 1871 at a cost of about one\\nthousand dollars. This was during the pastorate of Rev. John A. Mc-\\nKean, in the church at Rutherford Park. After a few years this was\\nabandoned by the Baptists and at present the Presbyterians and Luther-\\nans are occupying the house.\\nTHE VII.I..\\\\GE OF LITTLE KEKKV.\\nThe village of Little Ferry occupies the northeastern portion of\\nthe old township of Lodi. It has always been an isolated part of that\\ntownship, aside from its legislative restrictions and naturally sought\\nindependence through the formation of a borough. Brickmaking is the\\nonly industrv and the facilities for the shipping of this product by water\\nare excellent. The borough has a population of about fifteen hundred\\npeople. Its official vote for November 1898 was one hundred and fifty.\\nJames Pickens one of the promoters of the village came there a few\\nyears before the civil war, and under his influence the private school\\nsystem was changed into the public one. They now have a commodious\\nschool building and employ five teachers. The house was erected about\\n1878, Mr. Pickens also fostered the religious influences of the place,\\nestablishing a flourishing Sabbath school which resulted in the building\\nof a house oi worship, the corner stone of which was laid on Easter day\\nApril 2, 1899. Mr. Pickens kept the tollgate and had the post ofiice\\nfrom 1873 until his death in 1896.\\nThe first brick yards in Little Ferry were owned b}- Shower Cole\\nin 1872. This enterprise, however, did not prove successful, and the\\nbusiness soon passed into the hands of John Thume. He in turn was\\nsucceeded in a short time by the Mehrhofs in 1877. Since then this in-\\ndustry has thriven. The buildings in which the bricks are burned,\\nhave been enlarged, and new appliances have been added until to-day\\nthe industrv is next to the largest of its kind in the United States.\\nFor a term of years the business was carried (m under the name of\\n.Mehrhof Brothers Manufacturing Company, the officers being Nicholas\\n.Mehrhof, president; Peter Mehrhof, treasurer; Philij) Mehrhof, secretary.\\nThe plant went into the hands of a receiver in 1S9.=;, but the i)roperty\\nwas leased from the Hackensack Bank and ojieraled since, under the\\nname of Mehrhof Brick Company. Last year they manufactured two\\nmillion two hundred thousand brick, and eni])loye(l about two hundred\\nmen.\\nThe inii)etus given tliis industry in l^ittle j- erry y the .Mehrhof\\nBrothers brought other manufacturers to the place. James W. (iillies.\\nThe Gardner Brothers, Charles Walsh, Edward Snmlto, I. W. Felter,\\neach of which companies have established plants, the total output\\nbeinuf about one hundred million bricks annually.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "360 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nPhilip Mehrhof started business in 1896 with a ten years lease on a\\nplant formerly owned by B. L. W. Hanfeld. He employs thirty-five\\nmen, and his yard has a capacity of five million annually, N. Mehrhof\\nSon have a capacity of ten million and eni])loy seventy-five men.\\nThey organized in ISSl.\\nI. W. Felter org-anized in 1886. Walsh, Gardner Brother and\\nJames W. (lillies each started their yards in 1884- 85.\\nThe Borough of Little Ferry was organized in the summer of 1894,\\nthe first election of officers having been held in November of that year.\\nThe first officers were James Pickens, Mayor; Samuel Hanson, Charles\\nKiel, (reorge D. Mehrhof, Louis Bausbach, J. Adams Eckel, Jacob Vogt,\\nCouncil; E. M. Mehrhof, Clerk; Silas B. Gardner, Assessor; J. Irvin\\nPickens, Collector. Irvin Felter was the second mayor and was follow-\\ned in March i899 by the present officers J. Adam Eckel, Mayor; Wil-\\nliam Kingsley, Clerk; Samuel Hanson, Charles Kiel, Abram Derunde,\\nJacob Vogt, Louis Bausbach, Hugh H. Eckel, C(nmcil; Abram Woods,\\nAssessor; August Werkhaus, Collector.\\nTHE MEHRHOF BROTHERS.\\nThe Mehrhof Brothers were the founders of the brick making indus-\\ntry of Little Ferry. road minded, comprehensive men, filled with pub-\\nlic spirited motives, it became a matter of easy solution for them tn\\ninaugurate the business they have so successfully carried on in that part\\nof the county.\\nPhilip, the father of this family, left Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in\\n1841, for America, locating at Croton Point where he continued business\\nfor some years as an architect. He finally moved to a farm in Oneida\\ncounty. New York, where he lived until his death, which occurred in\\n1S()9. The three sons, Nicholas, Peter and Philip, were all born in Hesse\\nDarmstadt, Germany, the oldest in 18.^0, Peter in 1836 and Philip in 1839.\\nAt the age of fourteen years, Nicholas and his two brothers in company\\nwith their sister and mother, sailed for America. This was in 1844, and\\nalmost immediately the brothers began their career, the brick making\\nindustry, working for A. Underbill. In 1856 Nicholas Mehrhof became\\nsuperintendent of Mr. Underbill s yard and remained in that ca])acity\\nuntil 1877, when he came here. He married Hester Ann Oakley, of\\nCroton Point, and lives in Hackensack.\\nPeter Mehrhof was the first to come to I^ittle Ferry. While in New\\nYork state he spent i)art of the time with his father on the farm, and\\nupon his arrival here in 1871 purchased one hundred and twenty acres of\\nof land which was the beginning of their business at this place. Mr.\\nPeter Mehrhof has filled several offices in his town, having held that of\\ntown committeeman nine years, and township treasurer seven years. He\\nhas been married twice. His first wife was Miss Eh eline Dodd. His\\n])res^ nt wife was a Miss Dick.\\nrnil.II MKHKHOF\\nPhilip Mehrhof, the well-known brick manufacturer, at Little\\nFerry, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, January 23, 183 When", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKC;EN COUNTY 361\\nfour years old his father, Niehnhis Mehrhof, came to America and lo-\\ncated eventually at Crotou Point, N. Y., f^oing subsequently on a farm\\nin Oneida county, where he died in 1S() He was an architect, formerly,\\nbut au agriculturist in later years. Young Philip attended school until\\nsixteen years of age, working in the summer at the brick making indus-\\ntry. When twenty-one years of age he began the manufacture of staves\\nl\\\\ r barrels for the Syracuse lumber market, but two years thereafter\\nreturned to Crotou Landing, where he managed the brick yard of Harris\\nH. Cox, for nine years. Following this came two years foremanship for\\nOrrin Frost s brick 3 ard in New York city, and two years more in the\\nsame position at Croton Point, and in 1.S75 he came to Little Ferry,\\nwhere he commenced, on a larger scale than ever, with his brothers,\\nand with whom he C(jntinued until 1S )5, when he started business on his\\nown account.\\nOn the 23d of April, 1S()2, Mr. Mehrhof was married to Margaret\\nHare, of Newburg, N. Y., and with whom he lived thirty-two years, when\\nshe died. Two years later he was married to Miss Alice Hunniken,\\ndaughter of John Marshall, of Ridge tield Park, N. J., the well-known\\nflorist and nurseryman, of that place.\\nMr. Mehrhof is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, is also a\\nmember of the Royal Arcanum. He loves a good horse and is fond of\\nyachting. He has a delightful home.\\nBEKGEN TOWNSHIP.\\nThe old township of Bergen was important in territorial area in\\nthis history of the county, and in tradition. The new Bergen town-\\nship is now but a patch of meadow land of very small extent, lying\\nopposite Woodbridge just east of the old P(difly road ha\\\\ing at this\\ntime only dl official votes. It is, therefore, the smallest townshii) in the\\ncounty.\\nOriginally, howerer it was made to include the town of Carlstadt,\\nWoodridge, Wallington and Moonachie, and the voters of the old town-\\nship are still entitled to a freeholder. It was created a turnpike at the\\ntime Mr. (ieorge Zimmermannwas in the Legislature, and was organized\\non March 18, 1893, and in Zimmermann s hotel two days after organiz-\\ning the following officers of the town were elected. Town Clerk, Alfred\\n(iramlich; Assessor, Adolph Kruger; Collector, (ieorge Zimmerniann;\\nFreeholder, Frantz Fritsch; Town Committee, John McMahon, J. F.\\nFeitner, F. Kohbertz. Mr. Fritsch has l)een freeholder of the town six\\nyears.\\nThe i)resent officers are: Chosen Freeholder, Adolph Kruger; Col-\\nlector Charles Beck; Town Committee: Alfred Harry, Peter La Place,\\nJoseph Linden; Assessor, Pius Crueter; Clerk, Ch;irles Link.\\nir,LAGES .\\\\ND HAMLICTS.\\nThe village of Carlstadt is one of the largest in the county, having\\na po])ulation of 2200 based upon the last official vote which was 4S(\u00c2\u00bb. The\\nland on which it stands is laid out in rectangles bounded by streets. l- orm-\\nerlv the village was called Tailor Town from the fact that nianv of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "362 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ninhal)it;ints bntli men and women were engag^ed in sewing- for New York\\ntailors. In 1.S51 the land here, was purchased of John Earl by a society\\nof workmen, knovvti as the German Democratic Land Association. In\\n1855 there were only two stores, now there are more than a score. The\\nvillag-e of Carlstadt is largely engaged in manufacturing, nearly half of\\nits population beingemployed in its various factories. In 1893 Carlstadt\\nbecame a part of Bergen township and in 1894 it was organized into a\\nborough with John Oehler as its first mayor. George Zimmermann was\\nnext elected to that office and by common consent has held that position\\never since. Through interests best calculated to promote the growth of\\nthe village, since its organization into a borough, three annexations\\nhave been made, one of which was the extension of its territory to in-\\nclude that of theMoonachie district. The other addition extends to the\\nshort cut railroad in the other direction, while the third was to present\\nboundary line between this village and that of Woodridge.\\nIn Carlstadt the name of the buildings, the hotel signs and the ad-\\nvertisements are largely in the German language, which is used almost\\nexclusively in the pulpit, the school and the family.\\nThe social spirit of this people is maintained in a variety of asso-\\nciations. About the year 1872 a dramatic club was organized to which\\nthe name Concordia was given. Its membership is large, and it\\nmeets in a hall decorated with emblems appropriate to the character of\\nthe exercises.\\nAbout 1880 an Odd Fellows lodge was organized with Charles Fo-\\nwald as the first N. G. and John Bedenkopf as secretary. It was\\nnamed after the illustrious German poet, Wieland Lodge, and is No.\\n113 in the Odd Fellows Lodge of New Jersey.\\nThe Fire-Department of this village is well equipped with engine.\\ntruck and hose. It was organized in 1872, and is under a governing\\npower of a Board of Commissioners.\\nThe present postmaster of the village is Jacob H. LTllman.\\nFollowing is a sketch of Carlstadt by Hermann Foth, first ])ub-\\nlished in the Illustrated Rutherford, and reprinted here by per-\\nmission.\\nCAKLSTADT.\\nThe village of Carlstadt, known to many readers of the New York\\nDailies as the beautiful little German Village on the hill, is situated\\nupon the ridge of land separating the Hackensack and Passaic valleys,\\nten miles northwest from the post office in New York city, within\\ntwenty minutes ride by the Naw Jersey New York, and New York,\\nLake Erie Western Railroads. Looking from the ridge towards the\\nsouth gives a splendid view of the New York Bay and Statue of Liberty\\nand towards the north, of the beautiful Passaic valleys including the\\ncity of Passaic and the Orange mountains in the back ground.\\nA number of German residents of New York city most of whom\\nemigrated to the United States to exercise political liberty, and who de-\\nsired more healthv and comfortable homes in the country formed in 1851", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 363\\nan association known as the (lerman Duniocratic Land Association.\\nThe urirjinization was perfected A])ril 27, 1.SS3 with the following- offi-\\ncers: President, Carl Klein; Vice-President, Alexander Lang-; Treas-\\nurer, Ignatz Kappner. The latter was a Polish refugee and accom-\\npanied Kossuth from his home to Constantinople and thence to tliis\\ncountry. Other prominent founders were Lewis Foth, John Ructtinger,\\nFrederick Merkel, Charles Treppke, William Maass, Valentine Dietrich,\\nHenry Dechert, John, Jacob and Joseph Fortenbach and Charles\\nTrassbach.\\nThe Association after searching in the vicinity of New York for\\nsuitable property for a village settlement resolved to purchase from John\\nL. Earle, executor of the Abraham L Berry estate, the present site of\\nCarlstadt. They bought 140 acres for S16,0(IU.\\nThe land was divided into three sections, and each section sub-\\ndivided into lots. Each of the 240 members received seven lots bv allot-\\nment, two on the highest part of the ridge, two below the ridge and\\nthree in the lowlands, at a cost of $70.\\nPapers of incorporation were executed February 24, 1S.S4. The\\nprojector of the village was Dr. Carl Klein, and in honor of him the vil-\\nlage was named Carlstadt. After the settlement here numerous other\\norganizations purchased adjoining tracts of land and laid them out in\\nbuilding lots constituting the villages of New Carlstadt, Woodridge,\\nHasbrouck Heights and Boiling Springs, and this has been without\\ndoubt the cause of the prosperity of the present thriving- Borough of\\nRutherford.\\nCarlstadt is compactly built, all parts of it being within tivo minutes\\nwalk of the depot of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, and within\\nfifteen minutes of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad.\\nTwenty-six trains stop at Carlstadt daily on Sundays there are ten\\ntrains, and the accommodations on the N. Y. L. E. and W. R. R. are\\nmore extensive, there being twenty-eight trains each way daily, and six-\\nteen trains each way on Sundays. Monthly commutation tickets are sold\\ntm both railroads at $5.35, and fifty trip family tickets at $7.50.\\nThe growth of the town has been g-radual and steady, its present\\npopulation is between 2500 and 3000. The inhabitants are a progres-\\nsive and industrious class, and the town presents a thriving New-Eng-\\nland-like appearance.\\nIts chief industries in the way of manufacturing are: S. Klaber cSL-\\nCiK. .Marble and Onyx Works. It might be mefitioned here that they\\ndo |uite some of Tiffany Co. s work, and build some of the linest\\n(vnvx and marble church pulpits. Justus Nehler, manufacturer of\\nladies shoes. Watch Case, S])ring Tool Co., are manufacturers of\\nwatch case springs. The Silk Controller Manufacturing Co., Charles\\nH. Levy Herman Schultze, proprietors. This com])any has been\\nrecently organized and has bright prosi)ects for success. The iiK an\\nHardware Co., manufacturers of wire gauges. August (ierecke is presi-\\ndent, (k bhardt Fritsch s wax bleacherv and niainifajturv of lin-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "3( 4 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ndecorated \\\\va.\\\\ candles f(ir church purposes. Theodore Muehlins^ manu-\\nfacturer of seg ars.\\nOther industries are the manufactuie of artificial ffowers and mak-\\ning of ladies white g-oods.\\nIn 1854 only two stores existed, which have since increased to a\\nconsiderable number and now supply the neighboring- smaller towns.-\\nCarlstadt is supplied with water by the Hackensack Water Works,\\nand its streets are lighted by electricity. Negotiations are pending for\\nthe supply of gas from the Rutherford Gas Company. It is protected bv\\nan efficient Fire Department and Police Force.\\nIt possesses a large Public School accommodating 500 children. In\\nit the English and German languages are taught by competent and\\nexperienced teachers. Thirty years ago the only school existing was\\na half a mile above the present village on the Polifly road, which was\\nfrequented by all the children of the neig^hborhood some of whom were\\nobliged to walk two miles. The new settlement of Carlstadt gradually\\nincreased and in 1865 the old building became too limited in its dimen-\\nsions. The villagers then made strenuous efforts to have an edifice\\nerected sufficiently large to supply the demand for comfortable space,\\nbut differences arose in selecting the site and as a consequence the then\\nexisting district was divided leaving Carlstadt a school district bv it-\\nself, to build as it .cht)se. To accomplish this the Trustees, in l.S()5,\\npurchased four lots in the village and received authority to erect a two\\nstory brick building 35 feet front by 32 feet deep with an addition 10 by\\n1() feet to be used as a hallway. On October 4, 18()5, the corner stone\\nwas laid and in 1866, the building was completed at a co.,t of four\\nthousand three hundred and five dollars. The school increased so stead-\\nily in numbers that more space was required and the Trustees were\\nforced to enlarge. An addition was built 62 by 32 feet which was ready\\nfor use in February 1874 and cost eight thousand two hundred and\\nforty three dollars. Six rooms are furnished with modern improve-\\nments and are heated by a hot water apparatus. Through the\\nstrenuous eiTorts of the late principal, Richard Geppert, a Kinder-\\ngarten department was established in 1875, which has become very\\npopular. This in all probability was the first Kindergarten in a public\\nschool of New Jersey and most likely of this country. Specimens of\\nwork of this Kindergarten were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition\\nin 1876 and at the New Orleans Exposition in 1886. Besides this\\ndepartment there is a Primary, an Intermediate and a (Grammar\\ndepartment in which besides the regular course of studies. Manual\\nTraining was introduced in September, 1891. The school ranks as one\\nof the best in the county and its pupils have in many instances\\nattained a high degree of sclKjlarship. Mr. A. F. Schem is the present\\nprincipal and Mr. Jacob Moench the German teacher.\\nThere are three churches, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Catholic. A\\nweekly newspaper the Carlstadt Freie Presse is published in the Ger-\\nman lanyuatre.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol liKKCKN COUNTY .iC).-^\\nThe inhabitants here have manifested a social spirit in the forma-\\ntinn and maintenance of a variety of associations.\\nA trymnastic association, the Carlstadt Turn erein, which is the\\noldest, was organized in i857 and incorporated in February 1S(,4. The\\nmembers meet for exercise once a week and the association entertains a\\ndrawing school and juvenile classes for gvmnastics. From the abdvu it\\nwill be seen that athletics received attention early in the history of Carl-\\nstadt. The association is a link of the North American Turner Bund.\\nTwenty-two years ago a Dramatic Club was organized under the\\nname Concordia Pla3 s by well known authors arc presented semi-\\nmonthly. A choir, the Concordia Mannerchor which is a section meets\\nfor exercise once a week. The latter has participated in several Saen-\\ngerfests and brought laurels for the society.\\nAmong the different beneficial associations Wieland Lodge, No. ii.\\nI. O. F. of New Jersey is the oldest here, having been organized about\\ntwelve years ago and was named after the illustrious German poet.\\nBranches of the Chosen Friends, United Friends, Germania Sterbe-Kasse\\nand other orders exist. TheG. A. R. is represented bj Custer Post No. 17.\\nThe village is governed by. a President and a Board of Trustees. A\\ngreat many of the streets are curbed, guttered, macadamized and lined\\nwith flagged sidewalks which are bordered with shade trees. A resident\\nhere may have in his house all the conveniences which he has in the\\ncity. Ant)ther of Carlstadt s many advantages is a booming Building\\nand Ivoan Association. Herm.an Fotii.\\nM.VNUl ACTUKIXG INTICK IvSTS.\\nJohn B. Fortenbach a native of Germany, born in ISd.;. and now\\nliving at the age of ninety-five years, came to this country in 1S47. and\\nto Carlstadt about ten years later. He became the head of the great\\nWatch Case Manufacturing Co., in Carlstadt. He and his sons Jacob\\nand Joseph Fortenbach operated this plant several years beginning at\\nthe close of the war and at one time employed about four hundred men\\nand manufactured as many as eight hundred silver watch cases daily.\\nThe factory was eventually leased for a term of six years for live thousand\\ndollars per year, after which it went into disuse.\\nThe Cragin Manufacturing Co., are now in charge of this jjlant for\\nthe manufacture of Japanned Cloth, Hatters (ilaze and Specialties,\\nThey have had the business about two years and employ from fifteen\\nto twenty men.\\n(iebhard Fritsch s Wax Bleachery and Manufacturv of line di-coraled\\ncandles for church purposes was established here in lS(i7.\\nIn 1890, the father died and the business was sold to Smith Nicholas\\nof New York. Mr. F ritsch being retained as sujierintendent of the\\nworks. The Company employ about forty men and manufacture about\\n20(1, (MM) candles annually.\\nC.y.KMAS pi\\\\ Ksbvti:ki.\\\\n ciukcii, caki.stadt.\\nThe First German Presbyterian Church of Carlstadt, the first\\nChurch organization of the town was organized on Wednesday even-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "36f) HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\ning Aug-ust 18, 1S()9, with thirty-two members. The first elders of the\\ncongregation were J. H. Boking and J. H. Deppert, the Rev. Albert J.\\nWinterick being the first pastor. His pastorate extended from August\\n19, 1869, until April 16, 1871. The congregation met in Woodridge\\nschoolhouse in the near vicinity until under the pastorate of Rev. F.\\nKern a church building was erected on the border of what was called\\nOld Carlstadt, corner Division avenue and Third street, in the year 1871,\\nthe church being dedicated on the 17th of December 1871, by the Rev. J.\\nU. Guenther of the First German Presbyterian Church of Newark, N.\\nJ. The dedication sermon was from the forty-fifth psalm.\\nCarlstadt and surroundings have always proved to be a poor field\\nfor evangelical work and in consequence of this fact there could only\\nbe expected a very slow growth of the church work. The pastorate\\nof the Rev. F. Kern extended from the year 1872, January 2, until May\\n28, 1876. The following pastors served the church in succession: Revs.\\nF. O. Zesch from July 14, 1876, until April 30, 1883; Emil Hering,\\nDecember i7, 1883 until August 3, 1888; Louis Rymarski, June 28, 1898\\nuntil September 18, 1891; Augustus Lange September 24, 1892 until\\nAugust 25, 1893. The Rev. F. J Kraushaar was installed as the present\\npastor of the church on the 15th of February, 1894. The church has now\\na membership of one hundred scholars, a Sunday school of one hundred\\nand a Ladies Society of about forty members.\\nDirectly north of the Carlstadt cemetery there is a very old private\\nburial-ground, that of the Berry family. There are five stones here with\\nthe following inscription:\\nIn memory of Philip Berry, who departed this life September 25th,\\n1793, aged 72 years, 1 month and 4 days.\\nRemember, man, as thou goes by.\\nAs thou art now so once was I,\\nAs I am now so must thou be:\\nPrepare for death and follow me.\\nIn memory of Catharine Berry, who departed this life August 14,\\n1803, aged 78 years, 2 months, and 6 days.\\nHier Jut, Begraven, Hermanus Vogelsang, Oud:32: Jaar, Gestorven\\n19: December: Aa 1797, Van: Holland.\\nPhilip Berry, born July 4, 1763, died December 22, 18.\u00c2\u00a7,0.\\nIn memory of Eve Van Winkle, wife of Philip Beri^y, who departed\\nthis life April 1(), 1843, aged 70 years, 5 months, and 25 days.\\nTHE C.\\\\KLSTADT MUTUAL LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.\\nThe Carlstadt Mutual Loan and Building Association was founded\\nin May 1890. It is an institution which owes its existence and present\\nunbounded success almost wholly to the untiring efforts of Mr. George\\nZimmermann who was the prime mover and its sole supporter for years.\\nEventually the leading men of Carlstadt took hold of the enterprise and\\nMr. John G. Niederer was elected president Adolph Kruger, secretary,\\nand George Zimmermann, treasurer.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "GKOUGK ZIMMKKMANN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": ",(^g HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe present officers are: John Oehler, president Charles Ziegler,\\nvice-president; George Zimniermann, treasurer; Adolph Kruger, secre-\\ntary and Charles Albertine, recording secretary.\\nThe association is capitalized at $120,800,84, and has a membership\\nof three hundred persons. It is a substantial institution of Carlstadt\\nand is one of the most prominent and useful institutions in this part of\\nthe country.\\nGAKKET HOPPEK.\\nCarret Hopper who was of Holland origin, purchased a large tract\\nof land, extending from the Hackensack River to Slaughter Dam, some\\nfive hundred acres of which became the homestead of the family. He\\nwas a member of the church in Hackensack as early as 1792. His son,\\nJacob Hopper, had his residence on the property on the Pohfly road,\\nleading from the Paterson turnpike to Carlstadt. Jacob Hopper s wife\\nwas Cornelia, who bore him the following children: Katrina, wife of\\nJohn Earle, who died in the beginning of the Revolutionary war; Henry\\nCarret and John I. settled on the homestead, which was divided between\\nthem, the latter occupying the homestead part; and Elizabeth, wife of\\nCornelius Terhune, grandson of John Terhune, the progenitor of the\\nTerhune family, and who settled where Sheriff Jacob C. Terhune resided\\nin 1881, upon coming to this country. Jacob Hopper died about IMS,\\naged eighty-eight.\\nJohn I. Hopper, his grandson was born in 1775, and died m 1833, on\\nthe homestead where he resided during his whole life. His wife was\\nMaria, daughter of Albert Terhune, who died January i 1857, aged\\nseventy-six years. Their children were Cornelia, wife of John Terhune,\\na farmer and miller of New Barbadoes, who died in 1879, aged seventy-\\nnine Altia, widow of Albert A. Brinkerhoff, of Hackensack Catharine,\\nwife of Jonathan Hopper, a merchant of Paterson; Albert died in\\n7833, aged twentv-four Jacob I.; John, a lawyer of Paterson; Ehza;\\nMaria wife of Henry Demarest of New. York; Jane, wife of Dr.\\nWilson, of New York, both of whom are deceased.\\nJohn I. Hopper was drafted to serve the war of 1812 but urnished\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I substitute. He is said to have used springs on his wagon the hrst of\\n^ny one who carried products to a New York market. In 1818 he erected\\nthe elec^ant brownstone house on the premises known subsequently as\\nTerrace Avenue. Jacob I. Hopper, his son, was born on the homestead\\nin 1810. He was united in marriage in 1835 to Ann, daughter of Garret\\nMerselis and Leah DeGray of Preakness.- Passaic c .unty,N J. He was\\nborn December 13, 1812. Their children were John and Ellen.\\nHON. GEORGE ZIMMEKM.\\\\NN.\\nSome years since the New York W..rld published photographs of\\none hundred notables of the State of New Jersey. Among this list we\\nfind the picture of the Hon. George Zimmermann, who because of his\\nprominence in political and official life is entitled to a place among that\\nnumber Mr. Zimmermann has probably been advanced more rapidly", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "JOHN K. KKITNKK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY ?if 9\\nthan ordinarily falls to the lot of young men because of the public spirit\\nhe has always manifested.\\nHe was born in New York city in 1857, the family removinir to\\nCarlstadt the same year. In 18 73 his father purchased of Adam Rut-\\ntenger the property now known as Zimmermann s Hotel, then a farm-\\nhouse, and an old landmark of the locality, probably a hundred years\\nold. Here Mr. Zimmermann has demonstrated his capacity as a busi-\\nness man both in the real estate and insurance business, while showing-\\na public spirited interest in his locality, resulting in his election to yar-\\nious offices of trust.\\nWhen twenty-one years of age Mr. Zimmermann was elected to his\\nfirst office, serying the public in one important capacity or another ever\\nsince. It was in 187 he was made Clerk of the township of Lodi.\\nSubsequently certain irregularities were discoyered in the books of the\\ntownship collector and a change in the office was demanded by a popular\\nuprising of the people, and being preyailed upon to accept the nomin-\\nation he was elected by an overwhelming majority. He was next ap-\\npointed by President Cleveland postmaster in 1885, without opposition,\\nand the able manner in which he conducted this office gave universal\\nsatisfaction.\\nHaving successfully met all official requirements, he was nominated\\nfor Assembly in 188 and elected bv a large majority. He has twice\\nfilled the office of Assemblyman, holding that place when the noted\\nReform Ballot Act was passed, and during the many heated controver-\\nsies he was always found true to the interests of his constituents. In\\n1898 he was again nominated for the Assembly but was snowed under in\\ncommcm with all aspirants of his party almost everywhere. In 1897 he\\nwas elected Mayor of his borough and is discharging the duties of that\\noffice at this time to the entire satisfaction of all.\\nMr. Zimmermann has successfully filled the office of Fire Commis-\\nsioner, president of the Fire Department, and also Chief of the Dc])art-\\nment. He is ft)under of the Carlstadt Mutual Loan and Building Asso-\\nciation, a highly successful institution which particularly owes its exist-\\nsnce to his good judgment and persevering spirit. As a real estate man\\nMr. Zimmermann has been very successful, while socially, there is no\\nLodge or Club in Carlstadt that does not seek his followship as a mem-\\nber of their organization.\\nJOHN l-KANCIS I lUTMCK.\\nSomething over a hundred years ago, John Jacol) .Vstor, John V.\\nFeitner and a Mr. Phillips set sail together from Waldorf, a mountain\\nvillage in (iermany for the shores of America. The name of .\\\\stor is\\nwell known. Phillips died in the jjoor-house, but Feitner left a hand-\\nsome fortune and descendants, who like their ])r()genitor, i ossess many\\nof the sterling qualities of which that name is a synonynin.\\nFeitner purchased a large tract of land extending from the Hloom-\\ningclale road, now Broadway, to the riviT. .\\\\stor urchasi(l on the np-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK bkk ;kn COI NTY 371\\nposite side of the Feitner Lane. The old Feitner homestead was at\\nFortv-sixth street and Broadway.\\nMr. Feitner married Miss Catherine Ann Kellar, and there children\\nwere Peter, George, Charles, Daniel, Catherine, Elizabeth, John,\\nFrancis and Hannah, all of whom are now dead.\\nPeter, the father of the subject of this sketch, married .Marie,\\ndaug hter of John and Sarah Hunt, whose g-rand-father was one of\\nWashing-ton s body guard, and an old naval soldier in the war of 1S12,\\nwith Commodore Decatur on the old Constitution, at Algiers. The\\nhomestead of Peter F. Feitner was on Ninth Avenue and Feitner s Lane.\\nJohn F. Feitner, of Moonachie Avenue, was an only child. He was\\nborn in the city of New York, March 2, 1826. His youth and early man-\\nhood was spent in the city and doubtless had he remained there he would\\nhave become a distinguished factor in the political history of the Great\\nMetropolis of to-day. Born gifted with strenth of mind, and with an\\niron will in an iron frame and possessed with ability to manage political\\nsituations in great emergencies, he was advanced at a somewhat rapid\\nrate in official life. Among other positions he held, in New York, was\\na seven 3-ears service as secretary of the old Volunteer Fire Department,\\nbeing a member of Hudson Engine Company No., 1. Twenty five years\\nago, however, the superintendency of the Twenty-Second Police Pre-\\ncinct, of New York, having been tendered him and foreseeing the turbu-\\nlence of such a political existence he declined the honor and instead was\\ninduced to seek the pleasurable pursuits of a more quiet life in the\\ncountry. Accordingly the farm on Moonachie Avenue, was purchased\\nand the change of reidence made to Bergen county. It is not to be sup-\\nposed, however, that Mr. Feitner has kept aloof wholly from politics in\\nthis county. The acknowledged fitness of the man for official life has\\nof itself brought almost every public trust in the gift of the people with-\\nin his reach, but he has invariably refused all offers. Although of\\nrather a brusque manner he is one of the kindest of men.\\nWhen Mr. Feitner came to his present home his father came with\\nhim and died at the age of eighty-six years. His mother lived four score\\nand four years.\\nThe present Feitner homestead was erected in 187.^. An old stone\\nin the corner of his house taken from the first house built in this\\npart of Bergen county, has on its face three dates, i. e.: 171S, ISld and\\n187.^. The original house having been built by Francis Outwater at tin-\\ndate first named.\\nWithin doors are antique furniture, and a variety nf curiosities.\\nThe Feitner home has in its sacred keejjing a great number of valuable\\nsouvenirs, some of them centuries old, and valuable beyond all commer-\\ncial calculation. Here is a valuable wooden clock at least seventy-live\\nyears of age a handsome cherry bureau and desk combined one hundred\\nand fifty years f)ld rush bottom chairs as solid and comfortable as the\\nday when used by the grand parents and all uni(|uc as anticjue stone", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV )1 HKKC.IvN COl NTV\\ntomahawks and arrow heads used by the Indians were found on his placi\\nases one hundred and sevent^ -five years old stand beside china-\\nware on mantel-pieces just as aged, and all the handiwork of skilled\\nmechanics. At the top of the stair-way is the head of a deer with its\\nbranching antlers, shot on the farm one hundred and seventy-five years\\nago. On the walls hang fine works of art, curious pictures of needle-\\nwork in portrait, woven in silk, gives us the shepherd and shepherdess\\nin two frames.\\nIn 1S4 Mr. f^eitner was married to Miss Mary Kline, whose grand-\\nfather was on the staff of Napoleon Bonaparte, and (lovernor of Straus-\\nburg.\\nTheir children are Peter, John F.. Charles (xLorge W. and\\nMartha Gertrude. Charles O. died when two years old, and John F. is\\na member of the clergy. He graduated at Rutgers College, and is ])as-\\ntor now of a church in Westchester county, New York.\\nDK. At Cl .ST A. KICHTKK.\\nIn the death of Dr. August A. Richter, Carlstadt lost its oldest\\npracticing physician. He was popular among all classes both (unnan\\nand American, and his place cannot soon be filled.\\nDr. Richter was born in the year 1840 in Sackingen, (iermanv, and\\nat the celebrated institutions of Leipzig he received an education and\\nprepared himself for a professional career. Coming to America in 1 S71\\nhe first resided in Hoboken, N. J. He remained there a short time and\\nthen settled permanently in Carlstadt, where he soon built up an exten-\\nsive and successful practice. As time went on his services became in\\nurgent demand by the Germans of Hackensack and he ojjened a branch\\noffice in that city, doubling his practice.\\nDr. Richter was chief medical officer of the Schuetzen Company of\\nHackensack besides being a member and Medical Examiner of Wieland\\nLodge I. C). O. F. of Carlstadt. He was a member of the Palisade\\nLodge of Free Masons at Union Hill. His death occurred December\\n2F 18 iS.\\nJACOH 11. n.l.MAN.N\\nJacob H. Ullmann was born in New York city November 15, 1S()1,\\nand two years later his ])arents removed to Carlstadt, where his father\\ndied in IHH.^.\\nYoung Ullmann s taste for botanical pursuits K-d him to the study ol\\nHowers, and as a florist, he does a successful business, su])]. lying quan-\\ntities of cut flowers both to the New York market and the home trade.\\nHe has held a number of offices in both borough and county. In\\nIH^. he was elected coroner by a large majority, having lu en idected\\ntownship clerk in 1890 and re-elected the following year, still later being\\nmade Township Committeeman. Mr. I llmann lias also been chairman\\nof the Board of Health and in 18 \u00c2\u00bb7 was elected member of Assemblv.\\nHe has been Secretary of the Bergen Hose C!ompany No. 1, and fore-\\nman of Carlstadt Hose Com|)anv. bul rdusrcl to take entire command of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "374\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe borough fire department which was offered him. He was made\\npostmaster of Carlstadt July 15, 18^7, and is serving as collector of taxes\\nfor the borough at present.\\nMr. Ullmann is a member of the Turn Verein and Concordia Dramatic\\nSociety.\\nKEV. CAMILLUS MONDOKF.\\nUndoubtedly every one living in East Rutherford, Carlstadt and vicin-\\nity knows and reveres Rev. C. Mondorf, the charitable Rector of St.\\nJoseph s Roman Catholic Church. As a self sacrificing man and priest\\nof (iod, he enjoys the esteem and hearty good wishes of all denomina-\\ntions.\\nHe was born on the historic banks of the Rhine, near Cologne,\\nOcttiber 21. 1S44. As a student he entered the Prussian Army in 18()(),\\nFATHER MONDOKF\\nand after serving the Statutory term he resumed his studies first in\\nBelgium and afterward in (iermany. He came to America in 1876, and\\nthe following year, January 1, 1877 was ordained a priest by Bishop\\nWadhams of Ogdensburg, N. Y. The Rt. Rev. Bishop Wigger selected\\nhim in August 1885 as Rector of St. Joseph s Church in East Rutherford.\\nThis Church was built in 1873. Father Mondorf also acts as Rector of\\nSt. Francis De Sales Church in the village of Lodi, three and a half\\nmiles distant. The little Catholic Church in Lodi was built in 1854 and\\nwas dedicated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Bailey of Newark on the 2 its of De-\\ncember in the same year.\\nEKNKST F. SICKENBKKGEK.\\nErnest F. Sickenberger Ph. D., Phar. D., M. D. is a highly edu-\\ncated physician, who came to this country in 1881 and to Carlstadt in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "HisTDKv oi hi;k{;en county\\nIS iS, wluTc lu- has luiilt u]) all extensive practice in llu- prdl cssion nl\\nmedicine.\\nHe is a native of tiermany and was borii in 1S5 After receivinji\\na jjood education in the public and hij^-li schouls of his native country,\\nhe studied pharmacy in the University of Freiburg, subsequently spend-\\ning- some years travelling through Europe and the Orient, mastcring\\nseveral languages, which he speaks with fluency.\\nHe was graduated also from the New York College of Pharmacy in\\n1852; the National College, Washington, D. C. 1SS7, and the Columbia\\nCollege Medical Department, in 1.S95.\\nFK.\\\\NZ FKITSCH.\\nFranz Fritsch, a well known business man of Carlstadt, is of (ier-\\nman birth, but came to this country with his parents when but fifteen\\nyears of age. He is the oldest son of the late Joseph and Therese Rail-\\ning Fritsch. His father was born in 181(i at Bergenz, Austria, and\\nresided there until 1S59, the date of his coming to America. Here he\\ncontinued his business of wax bleaching and candle making, in New\\nYork city until 1861, when he removed to Carlstadt and engaged more\\nextensively in the manufacture of candles, a business w hich he carried\\non u]) to the time of his death in is io.\\nMr. Franz Fritsch was born in Hergenz, Austria, Noveml)er 2(\\n1S47. and was educated in the public schools of his native place, after-\\nwards learning the business of wax bleacher and candle maker. Mr.\\nFritsch was for some years projjrietor of a large livery and sales stable,\\nkeeping a well selected stock of animals and enjoying the patr(mage of\\nthe best j^aying customers. At present he is engaged in the liquor busi-\\nness.\\nAlways taking an active interest in his locality, he served as mem-\\nber of the new Carlstadt village board of trustees for a period of eleven\\nyears, member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders from 18 to 18\\nand was one of the original members of the fire department.\\nSocially he belongs to the Carlstadt Turn Verein. Mr. l ritscli\\nmarried Miss Lizzie Mary Burger, Iroiu Carlstadt.\\n(,(itti.ii:h sAfi i.K.\\n(iotllieb Sauter is a repri sentative of one of the old(7crman lamilies\\nof Europe. His grandfather was a teacher in the schodls of i leliiii-\\ngen and Zaisenhausen for fifty years. His father was Titvyn Clerk\\neighteen years. Mayor. lUirgeiiieistiT j nine years and t ollector of Paxes\\nfor twenty years.\\nThe subject of our sketch was born in the town of Flehingen, Baden,\\n(iermany in 1854. In 1871 Mr. Sauter came to the United States, locating\\nfirst in Kockport, Indiana, coming- to Carlstadt in 1S77. In r87 he went\\nto New York city and took a three years course in Mechanical Drawing\\nin Cooper Institute. He tlun returned to Carlstadt settling first on his\\nfarm. After nine yt-ars lie built bis sliii]paii l later erected his residence,\\nsinci then becoming priniiiiuiitl ideiiti linl with all tlie iiiqiorlant move-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "3V()\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nments lookinsr t.. the buikliug: up of the town. He employs twelve or\\nfifteen men the year round and has built many of the fine residences in\\nthis part of the county.\\nMr. Sauter is now serving his third term as councilman; is a mem-\\nber of the Board of Education, was also one of the promoters of the\\nBuildiuif and Loan Association, having; been a director in that institu-\\ntion from the time of its organization. He is a member of Ihe I. O. O.\\nF. and is identified with many other societies in the place.\\nAUCtI ST moench.\\nAuf^ust Moench, editor and proprietor of the Carlstadt Freie\\nPresse is a son of Jacob and Wilhelmina Moench, and was born in\\nAUGUST MOKNCH\\nWurtemberg-, Germany, February 2, 1864. His father who died May 1\\n18 J8, at the^ age of sixty-five years, was teacher of the German language\\nin the Carlstadt public schools for thirty consecutive years. He was re-\\ntired on a pension January 1, 1898, under the Teachers Retirement\\nFund of New Jersey. Mr. Moench was a well known pedagogue,\\nthroughout the county, being the first German teacher to be actually\\nen ^ag^ ed in the county. Young August was but one year old when his\\nparents emigrated to this country, and located in the village of Csrl-\\nstadt where he received his education in the public schools. He is sole\\neditor and proprietor of the Freie Presse, the only German paper\\npublished in Bergen county. After serving an apprenticeship with the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGKN COUNTY 377\\nFreie Presse he bei-ame connected with Puck where he remained\\ntwelve years, returning to take chars^o of this plant.\\nMr. Moench is a public spirited and respected citi;.en, takins;- :i lull\\nshare in the welfare of his village. He is president of the Free Sundav\\nschool, member of the Board of Education, is director of the hical Loan\\nand Huilding Association, president of the Carlstadt Bowling- Club,\\nmember of Turn Verein, Concordia; Fire Department, Dramatic Circle,\\nand member of the Workingman s Association of Woodridge. He is\\nhappily married to Miss Mary Wentzel of Carlstadt.\\nCHRISTOPHER NIEDEKKK.\\nChristopher Niederer, who conducts the Mount Pleasant Park and\\nHotel is a popular man, genial, courteous and obliging. He was born\\nin Amorbach, Bavaria, April 12, 1836, and came to America in 1S53,\\nwhen he settled in New York city and worked at his trade of cabinet\\nmaker.\\nAt the beginning of our Civil War Mr. Niederer, patriotically en-\\nlisted in Company F, 20th Regiment New York Volunteers, serving- two\\nyears and four months. He has always been an enthusiastic G. A. R.\\nman and was one of the originators of Custer Post No. 17 which was\\norganized in his house on July 29th, i878. Capable, as well as popular,\\nMr. Niederer has held all the offices belonging to the Post.\\nUpon coming to Carlstadt in 1S71 he established his present busi-\\nness which he has carried on continuously and -with good success.\\nHis ])lace is made headquarters for the Turn erein, Friendsliij)\\nHowling Club and the Carlstadt Drum Corps.\\n.\\\\LBEKT XIKDEKEK.\\nxVlbert Niederer, son of Christopher and Johanna Niederer, was\\nborn in New York city March 27, 181)8, and was educated in Woodridge\\nand Carlstadt public schools and in New York College of Pharmacv.\\nfrom which he was graduated March 1888, receiving third ])rize. He\\nthen became ccmnected with the Eastern Dispensary of New York city,\\nremaining about two years as assistant pharmacist. After this he was\\nconnected with various pharmacist in the city until IS H, when he opened\\na store on his own account in Carlstadt, N. J. which is proxing suc-\\ncessful.\\nMr. Niederer was married to Miss ICmily Fortt ubach on Octolier 18.\\ni8 4. He is a member of the Alumni .Association of the College of\\nPharmacy of New York city, of New Jersey Pharmaceutical Associa-\\ntion, also a member of the League of American Wheelmen. and the\\nCarlstadt Turn erein of Carlstadt, N. .1.\\nWILLI.^M HMH.VCH.\\nWilliam Uml)ach, manufacturer of soda water, and beer liottler,\\nhas been a resident of Carlstadt since 1892. He is a native of lermany,\\nwhere he attended school until fourteen years of age, after which he\\nspent a year or more in ICngland. When si venteen years of age he", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "378 HISTORY OF BEKGEX COUNTY\\ncame to New York, landing- in the New World without a cent in his\\npockets. This was in 1871. After working some years for Stratton\\nStorm, large cigar manufacturers, he had enough money to enter the\\ngrocery business on his own account. Success followed him in his\\nnew venture and he came into possession of valuable property- in the\\ncitv which he still owns. In 1892 he purchased property in Carlstadt,\\nenlarged and utilized it for the purposes of his plant, two years subse-\\nquentlv putting in machinery for the manufacture of soda water. Mr.\\nUmbach gives employment to several men constantly, and has a well\\nestablished business.\\nWilliam Umbach, Jr., is studing law, and Lituis another s(m, is\\npursuing a business education.\\nAUGUST GERECKE\\nAugust Gerecke, son of Christopher and Friedericke (Volger)\\nGerecke, was born in Braunschweig, Germany, September 22. 184i.\\nAfter coming to America he was educated in the public schools of New\\nYork cit} Upon the completion of his sch(K)l work he learned the trade\\nof machinist and locksmith, in which he has since successfully engaged.\\nMay 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Fifth Regiment, New York\\nMilitia, for three months service, and was discharged at New York city\\nAugust 7, of the same year. On October 5, 1861, he re-enlisted in Com-\\npany H, Fifty-second New York Volunteers, and was made corporal. He\\nwas wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, Sunday, June i, 1862, and was\\ndischarged at Falmouth, Virginia, December iith of that year, Isecause\\nof wounds received in battle.\\nSince that time Mr. Gerecke has become a citizen of Carlstadt, and\\nis president of the Vulcan Hardware Manufactory of Wire Gauges. He\\nis a member of Custer Post, No. i7. G. A. R., and of the Carlstadt\\nBowling Club.\\nMr. (ierecke s wife was Miss Mary A. Oswald of Scotland.\\nJOHN W.AGXEK.\\nJohn Wagner, proprietor of Union Park Hotel, was born in the city\\nof New York in 1855. His father John Wagner. Senior, who was born\\nin Germany in 183.^, came to America in 1850. landing in New York,\\nwhere he followed his trade of baker. He was the first to use the four\\nwheeled single truck in that city, for trucking and moving. In 18()7.\\nMr. Wagner came to Carlstadt and purchased the Dramatic Hall, but\\nlater sold this property, and on May 1, 1869, moved into the hotel which\\nbears his name. In 1892 he built his residence on First Street, where he\\ndied December 5, 1897.\\nJohn Wagner, Jr. came to Carlstadt when a boy and remained with\\nhis father until sixteen years of age, when he went to Newark and\\nworked five years as a butcher, following the same business for a time in\\nPaterson. In 1871 he made a visit to the old country and in 1880 located\\n])ermanently in Carlstadt, remaining since that time iu charge of Union", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 379\\nPark Hotel. This buililinLj when jiurehased oceupied but a small space\\nof ground, but additions have been made until now the grounds cover an\\nentire block. The hotel proper contains thirteen large rooms in addi-\\ntion to which is a large pavillion used for dancing and for large gather-\\nings which are frequently held there. There are also large summer and\\nwinter kitchens with all the appliances for entertaining a large compan v\\nat short notice. As many as two hundred and tiftv people have l)een\\nserved at one time in the dining room.\\nArC.fST KICIIAKD KI.AUSS.\\nAugust Richard Klauss was born in Germany April 2. IS.^f). He\\nwas educated in the public schools of his native place and came to\\nAmerica in 188O, where he spent the first eighteen mcmths in I itts-\\nburgh, Penna., subsequently coming to New York citv and thence to\\nCarlstadt in i882.\\nHe takes a lively interest in ])ublic affairs, and has held various\\nlocal offices, having been a member of the Board of Trustees, Police\\nCommissioner, Chief of the Fire Department, and also Foreman of Fn-\\ngine Company No. i. As a member of the borough council he has\\nserved on some of its most important committees.\\nMr. Klauss is president of the Liquor Dealers Association, .ind con-\\nducts a business of his own, meeting with success.\\nA true German in his love of music and social good cheer, he is a\\nvaluable member of the Carlstadt Schutzen Company, and also belongs\\nto the C(mcordia, a singing association. He is an Odd Fellow and a\\nTurner, in addition to belonging to diiTerent benevolent and beneficial\\norganizations.\\nHis wife was a Miss Maggie Deerhert of Carlstadt, who w.is liorn\\nin New York citv in i8S\\nl l\\\\ KIST.\\nFr. Kist, manufacturer of ladies muslin underwear 7 and Small\\nStreet, is a native of Germ.inv l)orn in the citvof Buclian of Wirtenberg,\\nin 18:w.\\nIn early life he lost l)oth p.irents, and. after recei\\\\ing some educa-\\ntion in the public schools, he learned the trade of tailor. In 1S71,\\nduring the Franco-German war, he came to America, where he worked\\nfor the P^ortenbach Company, in Carlstadt, six years. After residing for\\nfifteen years on the Hoboken Koad. across the Ilackttisack. he moved\\ninto the village in IS8S. to the ])ropertv he now occii])ii s and where he\\nstarted his factorv.\\nMr. Rist and his four daughters began this business first in a small\\nway, but he now employs thirty girls and will soon be under the neces-\\nsity of increasing the capacity of his i)lant. He manufactures soKlv\\nfor Siecher Company, New York, the largest concern in the citv for\\nthe manufacture of uncU rwear.\\nIII .NKN KKIIU.INC.\\nHenry Krieling. for twenty-tive years a prominent Ljrocer in Carl-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "380 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nst;idt, is a native of Germany, born in the province of Hanover, in the\\nyear 1825. When twenty-five years of ag-e he set sail for this country,\\nand for fifteen years was associated with one of the leading- dry goods\\nestablishments in New York. In 1868 he came to Carlstadt when he\\nestablished himself in business, and also became prominently identified\\nwith the Presbyterian Church, having; served as treasurer, and as\\ntrustee for many years.\\nMr. Krieling- has two sons well known in business circles in Carl-\\nstadt. Henry Krieling, Jr., the elder son, is a cutter, and Herman owns\\na dairv. Socially, they have all been prominent in various ways, looking\\nto the welfare of the community.\\nJOHN N. KASMl .S.\\nJohn N, Rasmus one of the oldest merchants and contractors in\\nCarlstadt was born in Holstein, Germany, in 1830. In 1850 he came to\\nNew York and on May 10, of that year, took up his abode in Carlstadt.\\nHe worked at his trade of mason until 1855, when he became manager\\nfor Charles Treppke, with whom he remained in full charge of his store,\\nfor five years, after which he opened a store on his own account.\\nIn 1 854 Mr. Rasmus built a house on Hackensack street for Mr.\\nTrappke, the first in the village of Carlstadt, and in i86S he built the\\nStewart Winslow residence on Orient Way, the first house in Ruther-\\nford. He carried on the business of contractor from i8f 5 to i888, and\\nbuilt the Methodist Protestant church and many other fine structures in\\nRutherford.\\nIn i858 Mr. Rasmus j()ined the Turners Society of Carlstadt, and in\\ni872 became a member of the fire department, holding it s secretaryship\\nthree years, he was foreman two years, and treasurer three years, he\\nwas also on the Board of Trustees of his town fourteen years. Treasurer\\nof the Board three years. Overseer of the Poor two terms and has been\\nCouncilman of his borough since its formation in i882.\\nC;OTTFKIED MEKCKEL.\\nGottfried Merckel, pharamacist and proprietor of the drug store\\nestablished by Otto Frank, many years ago, is a native of (lermany,\\nwhere he was educated in the public schools, and in which country also\\nhe took a thorough pharmaceutical course of instruction, supplementing\\nthat with a three years clerkship, preparatory to going into business for\\nhimself. In 1892 he sailed for America, landing in New York, when he\\ncontinued his chosen field of labor until 1897 when he came to Carlstadt.\\nMr. Merckel has a good trade and enjoys the confidence of the\\npeople.\\nGEOKGE MULLEK.\\nGeorge Muller, proprietor of the Monumental Marl)le Works, and\\nof the Casino, ^Carlstadt, was born in Darmstadt, in the province of\\nHesse, Germany, in 1848. He is the son of Valentine Mueller, a farmer,\\nand was educated in the public schools of his native ])lace. At the age", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKCiKN COUNTY 381\\nof L iyhtCL ti years he came to this eountrv aiiil became apprenticed t Mr.\\nGregx rv. of Hoboken, to learn the trade of stone mason.\\nHe remained with his employer in all, until 1S7S, hayin j;- in the\\nmeantime become his foreman, and a skilled workman at the trade. In\\nls7.^, he came to Carlstadt, purchased twelye lots of t^round and beg an\\nhis career, which has since disting-uished him. in the marble business.\\nThe monuments for Fortenbach, (lro.-,se, Wagner, Otto and the\\nyault for William Werger stand as specimens of his work in Bergen\\ncounty, while in Paterson the colossal m )numents erected to the Rev.\\nJidm C. oorhees, Merhof and others represent his work in that ])lace.\\nADAM ZINK, SK\\nAdam Zink, Sr., i resi(lent of Berrv Lawn Cemetery, and forn.icr\\nCommissioner of Appeals, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in lSo2.\\nFarming was his occupation, and in 1854 he came to this country, locat-\\ning afterwards on the farm of John Ackerman in Lodi township, where\\nhis father died in 1855. In 18()9 he went into business for himself, and\\nhas held, besides, many political offices. In i8 7 he was elected Com-\\nmissioner of Appeals for two years. He was a member for sex en years\\nof the Carlstadt Fire Department which he joined in i872. He was\\nmade president of the Berry Lawn Association in I8 t,^, and still holds\\nthat position.\\nTHK Vil.I.AHE OF LODI.\\nSixty-seyen years ago, Rt)bert Rennie, Esq., left Scotland, the place\\nof his l)irth. for the United States, and arrived here penniless, but as a\\nYankee once expressed it, chock full or work. He brought with him\\npersonal honesty, industry, intelligetice, and a thorough knowledge of a\\ngood trade. His brother. James, who was originally a block printer\\nwas then ccmducting a small manufacturing business on the banks of\\nthe Passaic, on the spot still known as Nightingale s Mills. To this\\n])!ace Robert immediately directed his steps, and became engaged as\\nsuperintendent of the establishment, immediately infusing new life and\\nenergy into tlu business. They soon remii\\\\ed to the present town oi\\nLodi where a small mill had been built for James, by Jacob Ho])per and\\nAbraham C. Zabriskic. This mill was com])letely destroyed by lire in\\n18.^4, and rebuilt on a much larger scale by Robert Renni^-, who suc-\\nceeded his brother as the sciK- pro])rietor, thus laying tlu foundation id\\nthe afterwards famous I^odi Print Worlcs, which atone time stood at\\nthe head of all concerns of the kind in the United States.\\nPrevious to that period Lixli had been .almost a wilderness. In 1S2S\\nthe only houses in the vicinity were tin- unassuming residences of Henry\\nHopper, Richard Stagg and l)a\\\\id I. Ackerman. To-day L xli has a\\nlarge pojniiation, five or si.\\\\ churches, many stores, a district schocd. ])ost\\noffice, and other elements of a good sized city.\\nFor this the inhabitants are nriiiilv. if not altogether indel)ted to\\nRobert Rennie, who out of most un])romising material fashioned com-\\n])aratiye grcritness. Lodi was at lirst called K einiiev\\\\il]e, in opposition", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "382\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nto the wishes cf Mr. Rennie, who finally caused the name to be changed,\\nand still retained the respect and gratitude of the community.\\nThe Rennie brothers were three in number, Robert being tlie\\nvoun crest. Peter Rennie was well known in New York. He had an\\nextensiYe laundry in Bloomingdale, yielding him a large fortune which\\nhe enioved and used with commendable good sense. He remained there\\nuntil hi s death but it mav be said, truly, that Robert Rennie. by his\\nindustry, enterprise, liberality and genuine devotion to business did the\\nmost to make the name celebrated. He always had an extreme aver-\\nsion to being spoken of by the press.\\nThe heavy factories of New England, proved to be too formidable\\nfor competition here and the Lodi Print Works, or -Manufacturing\\nCompany, as the institution, with its stockholders, was subsequently\\ncalled, went by the board.\\nAfter abandoning the print works, Mr. Rennie engaged in the\\nmanufacture of chemicals and dye stuffs and in this pursuit he was not\\nlikely to meet with any serious reverses. He employed about httv\\nworkmen in the chemical works, but during his control ot the print\\nworks he had charge of upwards of five hundred men.\\nHe had a large interest in the Hackensack Railroad. ..t which he\\nwas a prominent director, and built the Lodi Railroad at his own est.\\nand for the convenience of his friends.\\nMr Rennie resided on the west side of Saddle River br,.ok. on a\\nlarge estate which commanded a view of the Print Works and objects\\nof interest in the vincinity.\\nThe grounds were laid out with fine taste, and were a m .del worthy\\nof imitation. He died August 23, 1882.\\nCHUKCHES.\\nIn 1845 was organized the Lodi Congregational Church. Services\\nwere reo-ularly held at various places in the village until the year 18/2\\nwhen a plot of ground was purchased and a church edifice erected at a\\ncost of three thousand dollars. Subsequently a library of several thous-\\nand volumes, formerly belonging to the Lodi Reading Room Association,\\nwas purchased by the church which made a valuable additi.ni to the\\nneeds of the society. l- i\\nThe first ministers in succession since 1871 were Revs. rank A.\\nJohnson, F. Y. Turn, and William H. Broadhead. Subsequently sup-\\nplies from the Theological Seminary New York, filled the pulpit.\\nIn 1878 the founders of the Second Reformed Church of Lodi Village.\\nseceded from the Ccmgregaticmal Church. They were accompanied in\\ntheir movement by the former pastor ,.f the church. Rev. R. M. Ottord.\\nThe secession from the Congregati.mal Church was due to a dispute as\\nto the regularity of the ordinaticm of Mr. Offord. On the 17th of Sep-\\ntember 1878, he was admitted to the Classis of Paramus. and on the\\nlOth of October of the same year was installed pastor of the Second Re-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "HisTOKV or bick(;ex county S83\\nfiirini d Churcli. A hnuse of worship was subsequently erected and ser-\\nvices rei;ularlv held thereafter.\\nThe First i Holland Reformed C hureh was orifanized in i.S5 A\\nhouse of worship was erected in the village of Lodi, at a cost of about\\ntwo thousand five hundred dollars, during the same year. In lSf)S the\\nGeneral Synod of the Holland Reformed Church in America directed\\nthat the term Holland be dropped from the name of the church, or placed\\nin brackets. A majoritv of the members of this church in Lodi, with\\ntheir pastor. Rev. W. C. Wust, disapproved of the chanj, -e, and refused\\nto comply with the directioti. A minority, on the other hand, conceded\\nthe rig ht of the General Synod to modify the name of the church, and\\nwere ready to carry out the direction. A question arose as to which\\nparty should have the church edifice. A long course of litigation fol-\\nlowed, which terminated in favor of the minority. The minister was\\nthe Rev. James Hyssoon, 1 S5 M)4; Rev. \\\\V. C. Wust, l.S(,4-7,=^: Rev. Wil-\\nliam F. Betz, 1875-78. The next pastor of this church was Louis (i.\\nJongeneel, the preaching being in the Holland language. The first\\nofficers were: Deacons, Aart Jonsen Brun, Nicholas Boogartman, P.\\nVande reede; Elders, B. H. Smith, Christian Van Heest, Pieter Van\\nHeest, Cornelius Vande Vreedc, G. W. Burchkeyser.\\nThe body which seceded from the First (Holland) Reff)rmed Church\\nin 18()8 asstimed the name Nethcrland Reformed Church. The pastor.\\nRev. W. C. Wust, under whose leadership the secession was consuma-\\nted, in 1876 gave a plot of ground to the society, on which an edifice was\\nerected at a cost of two thousand dollars. Since that date their pastor\\naccepted a call to preach in his native Holland. He remained there two\\nyears but returned. During his absence the services were conducted by\\none of the leading members, Mr. Daniel Cook. The first officers of this\\nchurch were Daniel Cook. (larret Btiller, Peter Ney, Peter De X ries, M.\\nSacker, and A. Vogleson.\\nSt. Francis de Sales Roman Catludic Church of Ivodi X illage en-\\njoys the distinction of being the oldest Catholic Church in Bergen\\ncounty. It was organized in \\\\Sr 5. The edifice was erected during that\\nyear at a cost of four thousand dollars, and was dedicated by Bishop J.\\nRoosevelt Bayley, late Archbishop of Baltimore. It is .1 mission church,\\nits pulpit having been supplied in turn l)y pastors from I aterson,\\nHackensack, Fort Lee, and Carlstadt. The first jjastor was L. I).\\nSenez.\\nThe African Zion E])iscopal, a small society, was organizi d about\\n1S72. The first pastor was Ileiuy Dumson.\\nlUlv IAI.-lM. ACl .S.\\nThe township of F^odi h.is only two ])ublic burial-grounds, one in\\nLodi and the other in Carlstadt, both of comparatively- recent origin.\\nThe one at Lodi is a Catholic cemetery, and was oi)ened in 1855, when\\nthe Catholic Church was built. It is (juite extensive, having been used\\nfor several years as a burial-ground by all the Catholics in Bergen coun-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "3^4 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nty. The cemetery at Carlstadt was opened soon after the organization\\nof the villag-e in 1S53. The inscriptions are mainly in German.\\nGEORGE C. MEKCEK.\\nGeorg-e Cockburn Mercer was born in Earlston, Scotland, March 17.\\n185h fifs mother s lineage mingles not far back with that of the late\\nLord Chief Justice Cockburn of England, Cockburn being her maiden\\nname. Earlston has historical interests and lies in one of most beautiful\\nsections of Scotland. It was the home of Thomas the Rhymer, the ruins\\nof whose castle are visited by tourists from far and near. These old\\nruins have recently passed into .the hands of the Historical Society of\\nScotland, and will receive the care due them. Seven miles over the hills\\nfrom Earlston is Galashiels, famous for its woolen industries. At much\\nless distance is Melrose with its immortal abbey, also Dryburgh, Abbots-\\nford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, afld other places of world wide\\nrenown The Leader, a picturesque stream, home of the finest trout m\\nScotland, and on which Earlston stan4s, flows into the Tweed, two miles\\nbelow the town. To the beauties of Jiature are added the atmosphere of\\nromance, and here young Mercer not only first saw the light, but received\\nhis principal educational training, passing through a thorough academic\\ncourse.\\nMr. Mercer followed the example of many of his kinsmen and a\\nstill larger number of his countrymen, when in 1873 he left his native\\nshores for America. He reached the land of his adoption October 24th\\nof that year, and at once found a home with relatives in Lodi. After\\na brief engagement with the proprietor of the old Lodi store, he became\\nassociated^with the New Jersey and New York railroad, and managed\\nits Lodi branch, overseeing the disposition of large quantities of freight,\\nwhich passed to and from the Lodi mills. Subsequently he was engaged\\nin a confidential capacity with Messrs. H. J. Libby Co. of New York,\\nthe well known agents of the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery\\nCo with their large mills in New Jersey and New England. Later on\\nhe became a member of the firm of Byrne, Bros. Co., with its cotton\\ncroods finishing mills at Lodi, and was the New York representative and\\nfinancial manager of the concern. After seven years of marked suc-\\ncess the property of the firm was destroyed by fire. It was not rebuilt,\\nand the firm was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Mercer then turned\\nhis attention to the manufacture of woolen shoddies and extracts, and\\nlocated in Garfield. For this purpose he organized in 1894 the Garfield\\nWoolen Company and became its president and treasurer and still holds\\nthese offices, to which he devotes his most assidious attention. He is\\nalso a director of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of Passaic, of\\nwhich concern he has been a stockholder from its inception. Seven\\nyears a-o he organized the Lodi Building and Loan Association and is\\nits president This organization has a high reputation for its conser-\\nvatism It has aided scores of the citizens of Lodi to procure homes\\nof their own, and proved a lucrative form of investment to the stock-\\nholders.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF HKK(;KN COVNTV .iho\\nIn 1890 Mr. Mercer married Miss Isabella Vair Cockburn, a dautfh-\\nter of (icorge Cockburn, of Ludinjjton, Michisran. She is a graduate of\\nthe Boston Conservatory of Music, and a voung lady of marked musical\\ntalent.\\nIn addition to his many business duties, Mr. Mercer was for many\\nyears postmaster of Lodi. As a result of his efforts, the village was\\nincorporated as a borough in 1894, and at the second election for Mayor\\nin 1897, he was elected to that office without opposition. In this t)fficial\\ncapacity he has pushed needed measures for the improvement of its\\nthoroughfares, and has shown a spirit of progress that is proving infec-\\ntious and full of promise for the welfare of the place. In his private\\ncapacity he ensured the locating of the Alexander Dye Works, one of the\\nlargest silk dyeing and finishing mills in the world, in Lodie. He has\\nalso introduced an electric system and is lending his efforts to the move-\\nment, which he practically initiated, to link Passaic and Lodi by means\\nof an electric railway.\\nMr. Mercer is a member of the Washington Club, Passaic, a Oovern-\\nnor of the Passaic General Hospital and a member of its Committee on\\nP^inance. He is a Free Mason of high degree, having some time since\\nbecome a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the St.\\nAndrew s Society of New York and of the Orean Park Club of Passaic.\\nHe was one of the founders of the Second Reformed Church of Passaic,\\nserving for nearly twenty years as deacon and its treasurer. He has\\nbeen one of its most active members and supporters, and its interests are\\ndear to his heart. He is the Superintendent of its Sunday-school and in\\nmany other ways fosters the work and aids the cause. Mr. Mercer is a\\nman of unflagging energy, great executive ability and industry. He is\\na Republican in politics, an intelligent observer of the times, a faithful\\nfriend, and among his fellow men always genial and companionable.\\nHe is benevf)lent without ostentation, and has the respect and hearty\\nesteem of a wide circle of acquaintances.\\nWAIJ.INGTOX.\\nThe liorough of Wallington includes all that territory of land lying\\nbetween the Passaic River, the Short Cut Railroad and the trolley road\\nfrom Passaic to Hoboken. It was organized in March i895.\\nThe officers elected were as follows: Mayor, Jacob Wagner; Presi-\\ndent of Council, Bernard Koster; Councilmen, Bernard Koster, John\\nBaker, Thomas R. Collins, Walter F. Schmitt, Charles R. Stewart, and\\nRobert Engle; Clerk, Conrad Kreger; Assessor, William De Vogel;\\nCollector, Pascal Gardella; President Board of Education, Bernard Kos-\\nter; Board of Health, Menzo Neer, president.\\nMarch, 1899: Mayor, James Van Bussum; President of Council,\\nThomas R. Collins; Councilmen, James Soop, James Ryan, Peter Gly-\\nnis, (ieorge W. Gill, John J. Polmann; Clerk, Christian De Keyser; As-\\nsessor, John McMahon; Collector, Peter De Keyser; Counsel, A. D. Sul-\\nlivan; Chief of Police, Robert Cook; Commissioners of Appeals, Wil-\\nliam De Vogel, Jacob Wagner and Jolin De Keyser; Board of Education,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "386\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COITNTY\\nFrank Wentink, president; Board of Health, Edward Cutting, president.\\nPUBLIC HALL.\\nThe corner-stone of the new Public Hall of \\\\Vallin ^ton was laid on\\nSaturday, November 13, 1897, by appropriate exercises, Mr. A. D. Sulli-\\nvan acting as Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Sullivan was followed by As-\\nserablvman-elect, John M. Bell. Mayor Koster, ex-Mayor Wagner, Coun-\\ncilman James Soop, and others. President Krug of Wallington Hall\\nAssociation, presented Mayor Koster with a handsome silver-plated\\nW.^LLIXGTON SCHOOL\\ntrowel with which he tapped the stone, saying, I herewith dedicate\\nthis hall to the w^elfare of the Borough of Wallington.\\nThe children sang America, and othernational melodies, and each\\nreceived a souvenir.\\nAfter the ceremonies. ex-Mayor Wagner entertained the invited\\nguests at his residence, where the festivities were prolonged until a late\\nhour.\\n\\\\V.\\\\LLIXGTOX PKESBYTEKI. ^N CHURCH.\\nFrom a report of the secretary, Mr. George C. Woolson, to the\\nofficers of the Wallington Presbyterian Church and Sunday School,\\ndated October 17, 1897, we note the following interesting facts relative\\nto its history.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKOKN COUNTY 387\\nMr. WodIsdh s;iys Tho articles of incDrptJration constitutiiiii thr\\nBoard of Trustees of the WallinL^fton Presbyterian Society were drawn\\nup and tiled according to law on May 23d, IS td. Two preliminarv meet-\\nings of the trustees were held (m May 30 and June 11, rcspectivelv, to\\nconsider plans for a church edifice, and to devise ways and means to\\nsecure funds for such a building, as well as to select two lots on which\\nto build, said lots having been previously generously donated by Mr. L.\\nM. Alden, of Passaic. On June T th a meeting was held at the Wal-\\nlington public schoolhouse to decide upon plans for the proposed church\\nedifice, when it was decided to accept that offered by Architect S. B.\\nReid of New York city, and the trustees were empowered to make such\\nalterations as in their judgment were deemed necessary. At the close\\nof the meeting the ladies met and organized the Ladies Aid Society of\\nthe Wallington Presbyterian Church.\\nOn June 22 the trustees met and projjoscd certain changes look-\\ning towards the improvement of the plans, and in the last week in June\\nground was broken for the cellar.\\nThe corner-stone was laid by Rev. Dr. P. F. Leavens on the even-\\ning of July 21st, with appropriate ceremonies and in the presence of\\nseveral hundred persons. Mr. Woolson saj-s This corner-stone was cut\\nand donated by Mr. Daniel Demarest of Passaic, and it may be further\\nstated that nearly all the material and labor used were freely given by\\nthose interested in the promotion of a church in this place.\\nOn October 7th, 8th and )th a very successful fair was held in the\\nbuilding, at which time about $491, no small sum for such a commun-\\nity was cleared, and in June a lawn party was held, at which S75 more\\nwas cleared, this money enabling the ladies to furnish the church.\\nThe Sabbath School was opened at 2.30 o clock on Sunday, October\\n11, and the church was dedicated November 17, Rev. Ame Vcnnema de-\\nlivering the sermon. November 22, Rev. Dr. P. F. Leavens, preached\\nthe first sermon at 3.30 P. M. On April 11, 1S 7. lifteen members were\\nreceived by confession of faith, three joined by letter, and during the\\n])ast year forty-one adults and eight infants were bajjlizcd.\\nThe attendance at the Sunday School from October 11, 1S U\\nOctober 3, 1897, inclusive, averaged sixty-five, a weekly coiitrilmtion nf\\n!?11.21 having been given. The average attendance at church for the\\nsame time was fifty-seven, the weekly contribution amounting to $4.80.\\nThe trustees of the new church are W. A. Wiliard, president; (1.\\nC. Woolson, secretary; Janus Soop, treasurer; J. an Idestine, Charles\\nKuhne. John Kingsland, A. L. S])ringsteen, Adney P. Post and Charles\\nR. Stewart.\\nRegular church services are held every Sabbath evening at 7.30,\\nand besides the Society of Christian Endeavor, which holds regular\\nservices, a weekly j)raycr meeting was started in November 1898, and is\\nheld every Friday evening, at eight o clock. The present pastor is Mr.\\nA. F. Parker of Patcrson and under his earnest and zealous preaching\\ntlu- society is making good and substantial progress.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "3S8 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COIiNTY\\nSTANDARD OIL WORKS.\\nThe Standard Oil Company carry oil from their fields in Pennsylva-\\nnia to the seaboard at Bayoune, in pipes laid under ground to a depth of\\nthirty-sis inches.\\nWere the surface through which these pass, on a level, or nearly so,\\nthe force necessary to carry the oil to its destination would be greatly\\nreduced, but as it is necessarily over hills and along lowlands, it is not\\npossible to use long lines of tubing. To obviate the danger of bursting\\npipes by such great force, pumping stations are arranged at regular\\nintervals of thirty miles where the oil is received in large tanks and\\nagain pumped to the next station. This is the eleventh and last station\\non the line.\\nAt Garfield twenty-four large iron tanks having a capacity of thirty-\\nfive thousand barrels, and several large brick buildings are located.\\nOne of the buildings contains the engines and pumps, while in the others\\nare the telegraph office and steam boilers. The engines are running\\nconstantly day and night throughout the year, egg-anthracite coal being\\nused as fuel. Natural drafts keeps the furnaces running without artifi-\\ncial aid consuming about twenty-five tons of coal in every twenty-four\\nhours. To determine when a break or leak occurs, and also the amount\\nof pressure, each station employs a mercury pressure-gauge, which will\\nindicate a leak of even one barrel per hour. The pipe lines are passed\\nover each day by men who are called line walkers. At the station are\\nemployed four engineers, four fireman, two coal-heavers and four tele-\\ngraph operators.\\nThe Standard Oil Company bought their right of way for a large\\nsum, by which they are entitled to this right for a term of twenty yea-rs\\nmore or less. The station in Garfield is in the south-east corner of\\nthe borough, near Passaic.\\nTHE ANDERSON LUMBER COMPANY.\\nThe Anderson Lumber Company was established in 1812 by David\\nI. Anderson and Major Post, under the firm name of Anderson Post.\\nDavid I. Anderson, the senior member of the firm, was born in 1792 and\\ndied in 1873. His son W. S. Anderson was born in 1827, and after at-\\ntaining his majority, became a clerk in the lumber and coal office of\\nAnderson Post, eventually becoming a partner in the business and\\nfinally succeeding to the sole ownership. In 1876 S. T. Zabriskie came\\ninto the firm. In 1885, S. L. Nickerson, who for twenty-eight years be-\\nfore had been a sea captain, entered into partnership with W. S. Ander-\\nson Company and built the original factory on the Wallington side.\\nThis building afterwards receiving additions, has a one hundred and\\nfifty horse-power engine, while about fifty men find constant employ-\\nment in manufacturing all kinds of packing cases, and everything per-\\ntaining to wood work for a house. In 1887 a stock company was formed.\\nThe present officers are: Simeon T. Zabriskie, President; Edward Phil-\\nlil^s. Secretary and Treasurer; Captain S. L. Nickerson Superintendent.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "Jfl.irS KOKKHS", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n?89\\nThis cnmpaiiy has extensive duck I aeilities. Its water I nnit is iiKire\\nthan half a mile in length.\\nMK. Jfl.irS K()|.;ilKS.\\nJulius Kochrs, proprietor of the Mammoth Flower (xarden, near the\\ncrest of the Showhank ridge, on the Paterson plank road, is a native\\nof Germany, born in the cit v of Hamburg- in the year 1844.\\nAfter leaving school he started as apprentice in the Kiel Botanical\\nGarden at the University of Holstein. He afterward supplemented his\\ntraining by travel through the greenhouses and flower gardens of Ger-\\nmany, Belgium and other countries, until he secured a position with M.\\nSienan. Esq., of Jersey City, to take charge of his extensive collection of\\nOrchids. He came to the United States in 1868, and for six years was\\nassociated with Mr. Sienan. After this he rented the plant, enlarging\\nit subsequently and conducting it as his own in connection with another\\nestablishment, on Jersey Citv Heights.\\nIn 18S4 he formed new plans, and began anew. Hi- sn]il dut his\\ni oi :hks fi.owick iionsics\\ninterests in the citj-, bought fifteen acres of ground and moved his\\neffects to the present site near Carlton Hill where he soon afterward\\nerected his beautiful residence. He now began building his glass\\nhouses and since that time he has added structure to structure until the\\nplace has become, in appearance, a miniature city of greenhouses.\\nMr. Roehrs was married to Miss Magdalene Scliroeder, also a native\\nof Hamburg, Germany, in 1877. They have seven children, live boys\\nand two girls. The eldest son, Julius, is now completing his education\\nin the science of Botany at St. Albans, England, at which place is one\\nof the largest flower gardens in the world. Mr. Koehrs trade is in the\\nwholesale line solely. Following is a description of his gard.-n by one\\nwho has had an intimate knowledge of it from the beginning.\\nThere is no i)art of tile world where the growing of ornamental-\\nleafed plants and cultivation for cut (lowers is more successfull carried", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "399 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\non. than on the grounds of Mr. Julius Koehrs near the crest of the\\nShowhank ridge. In fact there is no part of the old world that can boast\\nof a similar establishment. The growers of Europe are amazed at seeing\\nsuch an immense stock of well-grown plants. Mr. Roehrs himself is\\nwhat may be justly called an intense product. He is Hortits iiia.xinium in\\nthe plant growing world. That he began in a small way is a credit to\\nhis skill, industry and preseverance. Taking a look into his houses we\\nsee specialities grown, to meet the demands of the most critical retail\\ntrade. We find Orchids growing as perfectly and as profusely as in\\ntheir natiye soil. Of these there are 20,000 Catteyas of rare yarieties,\\nand more than 5000 strong clumps of Cypripediums of the standard\\nsorts, as well as the more rare noyelties. His Orchid collectors are in\\nevery field where these beautiful plants are found, India, the Phillipine\\nIsland and South America are constantly contributing to his collection.\\nMr. Roehrs grows 1,000,000 Lily-of-the-valley pips annually, and any\\nday of the year these delicate flowers may be had in reasonable quant-\\nities. But few, if any, of the seed merchants of our country sell, as\\nmany, as he alone grows. Lilacs both white and purple are here forced\\nin such quantities as to supply the market from Christmas until they\\ncan be cut in the open air. 250,000 Tulips, Hyacinths and Narcissus\\nare annually disposed of here, and 20,000 choice Azaleas, large and\\nsmall, are yearly grown for the Easter Trade. In his Palm houses are\\nall the better varieties by the thousand, all in perfect health and\\nbeauty.\\nMr. Roehrs selected this fine location about twelve years ago and\\nimmediately began the work of erecting and preparing his present ideal\\nestablishment, and at this time has sixty greenhouses with an area of\\n125,000 square feet, or about three acres. In addition to all these he\\ngrows roses of only choice varieties and on a large scale, besides any\\nother flowers the trade may demand. The system adopted here, permits\\nof no idle house room or idle houses, the moment one plant has furnished\\nits flowers or perfected its growth, it must make room for another,\\nthus forming a constant succession. There are in all about forty men\\nempkn^ed, and all are kept busy.\\nGKOKCE C. WOOLSON.\\nGeorge C. Woolson, florist, and senior member oi the firm of Wool-\\nson Co., Wallington, N. J., is a native of Massachusetts, born in the\\ntown of Hopkinton, that State, July 20, 1848. His father Levi Wod-\\nscm, now eighty-seven years of age, is a prosperous farmer from which\\noccupation young Woolson, no doubt, learned to love nature in general\\nand living plants in particular. After graduation from the high school\\nof Hopkint(m, in 1807, he entered the Agricultural College at Amherst,\\nMass., from which institution he took the degree of B. S., in 1871.\\nHaving become proficient in a technical knowledge of the studies, which\\nhe had been pursuing he was offered and accepted the Assistant Editor-\\nship of the Hearth and Home, and the American Agriculturist,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKC.KN COUNTY .Vtl\\nunder the management of the well known botanist, the eminent Dr.\\n(ieorire Thurber, to which position he was called in i87(), one year be-\\nfore taking- his degree from the colleg-e. He remained actively engaged\\nin this capacity until 1.S77. In 1885 he was made superintending Gard-\\nener of the department of Public Parks of the city of New York, having\\npassed a very severe Civil Service examination and securing the highest\\nrating of twelve applicants, and for seven years devoted his time to\\nplanting and otherwise adorning the parks from the Battery to the\\nHarlem Kiver. As the homes of Dr. Thurber and Mr. Wf)olson were\\none, they were brought into constant companionship and this gave him\\nthe privilege of making the acquaintance of man^- eminent scientists of\\nboth Europe and this country. Mr. Woolson came to Wallington in\\nDecember i870, and five years later married Miss Sarah Martin Thurber,\\nthe sister of Dr. Thurber. They have ever since resided here.\\nMr. Woolson was the first in this part of the countr3^ to engage in\\nthe cultivation of hardy perennial plants for commercial purposes. In\\n18 S he purchased the seven and one-half acres he now occupies, since\\nwhich time his nursery has steadily kept pace with the demands of the\\ntrade. Mr. Woolson has also been prominent in the borough of Walling-\\nton. He was school trustee and district clerk for nine years, and takes\\nan active interest in all things affecting the welfare of his part of Ber-\\ngen county. He was made a Mason in Passaic Lodge, No. 67, in 1883,\\nand from that time until the present has held some oiBce in his Lodge,\\nserving as Worshipful Master in 1889- He is now and has been for\\nfive years Historian of his Lodge. For six years he was a member of\\nvarious committees in the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. In 1884 he was\\nelected and exalted in Centennial Chapter of P. M. 34, of Royal Arch\\nMasons. For the past six years he has been High Priest of this Chap-\\nter, and has received high honors in the Grand Chapter of this State,\\nnow holding the office of (irand King. In 1S8.S he was knighted in Mor-\\nton Commandery, No. 4, of New York city, and in 1890 joined Mecca\\nTemple and was made an Illustrious Noble of the Mystic Shrine of New\\nYork city. He also holds a membership in the Fraternal Union of\\n.Xnnointed High Priests of New York.\\nDIV. CICOKCIH TIll Klil .lv\\nGeorge Thurl)er. listinguished botanist, author and teacher, and for\\nnearly a (piarter of a century editor of the American Agriculturist,\\nwas a resident of Wallingtcm from 18()8 to 1890, where he died April 2,\\nof that year. He was born on September 2, 1821, at Providence, K. I.,\\nwhere he received an apprenticeship as apothecary, at the termination of\\nwhich he began business for himself in partnership with Joshua Chapin.\\nDuring these years he devoted himself early to the study of chemistry\\nand natural sciences in general, but especially to botany, so that at that\\nearly age he was already well known as one of the most accomplished\\nbotanists of the century. This brought him in close intimacy with Drs.\\nJohn Tcirrev, Asa Gray, Louis Agassi/,, George iMigk nian and other", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "392 HisTOKY OF bek(;en county\\ng eiiial scientists whose warm friendshij) he enjoyed until his death.\\nIn 1850 Dr. Thurber was appointed quartermaster and commissary\\non the United States and Mexico Boundary Suryey, and with the special\\nobject to explore the flora of the hitherto unknown border regions.\\nThis task he accomplished in a most excellent manner, collecting- and\\nbringing home with him s])ecimens of nearly all the native plants of\\nthat territory.\\nIn 185. he received an appointment at the United States Assay\\nOffice, of which he and Dr. Torrey were then the Assayers. Here he\\nremained until 185( when for political reasons he was forced to resiy;n.\\nIn 1859 he was appointed professor of Botany and Horticulture at the\\nMichigan State Agricultural College, which he held four years and only\\nresigned to accept the editorship of the American Agriculturist in 1863.\\nFew men, if any, have exerted so powerful and effective an in-\\nfluence on American Agriculture and Horticulture as has Dr. Thurber\\nthrough the pages of this magazine. The botany of Appleton s Ency-\\nclopedia was contributed entirely by Dr. Thurber. This excellent phar-\\nmacist, splendid botanist, admiral teacher and genial man, died at his\\nhome, at the Beeches, in his sixty-ninth year.\\nHis remains were buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R. I.,\\na locality where a young man he spent many happy hours in collecting\\nand studying the botanical treasures formerly found in such abundance\\nin this portion of the state. His affection for the young was very\\nmarked, and nothing so delighted him as to find a young man who was\\ninterested in his favorite sciences of botany and chemistry, and he was\\nalways ready to give that advice and friendly suggestion which so en-\\ndeared him to those brought into intimate relations with him. For\\nmany years no book was issued by the firm with which he was connected\\nwithout his critical examination, and many of them show his handiwork\\nwhich served to render them more practical and intelligent to the g en-\\neral reader.\\nMR. JACOB WAGNEK.\\nJacob Wagner, the first Mayor of the Borough of Wallington, is a\\nnative of Germany, born in Grasapsach, in the county of Backnaug, in\\nthe year 1835. Christian Wagner, the father, died when Jacob was but\\neleven years of age. His mother lived to the advanced age of eighty-\\nsix years, dying in May 1897. Mr. W^agner attended the schools of his\\nnative town and worked on the farm until nineteen years old, when ac-\\ncompanied by two elder sisters, he sailed for America in the old ship\\nQueen Victoria landing in New York on August 19, 1854, forty-nine\\ndays after leaving the father-land. During the first eighteen months,\\nafter coming here, Mr. Wagner worked as a hired hand for a farmer on\\nLong Island, beginning on a salary of five dollars per month. Follow-\\ning this came six years or more of service for the Erie Railroad Com-\\npany, working as a common laborer. As early as 1861, he found him-\\nself the happy possessor of a few hundred dollars which he immediately", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGKN COUNTY 343\\ninvested in real estate and through other investments in realty his hund-\\nreds were soon converted into thousands. Now he has large interests\\nin Jersey City and elsewhere. In 1858, Mr. Wagner was married to\\nMiss Whilhelmina Brecht and in 1S( 1 he bought a lot and built a house\\nin Jersey City, continuing to live there until 18 tl vhen he removed to\\nWallington, where he now resides. His wife, after bearing him ten\\nchildren, and enjoying the comforts resulting from a well ordered life,\\npassed away in June 1895, leaving the husband and six children to\\nmourn their loss. In 18 Mr. Wagner purchased of George Engle-\\nman fifty acres of the old Theodore Van Idestine estate and since that\\ntime his interests have been centered in this borough. In 1896 he was\\nchosen Mayor of his borough, which position he held till March, 1897.\\nwhen he insisted upon retirement.\\nBEKNAKD KOSTER.\\nBernard Koster, Mayor of Wallington, is a son of Henry Koster and\\nCatharina Weber. He is German by birth and education, born in Atten-\\ndorn, province of Westphalia, Germany, August 8, 1860. His parents\\nearly placed him in the elementary public school, where he remained\\nuntil it became necessary for him to assist his father in the maintenance\\nof a large family. From September i874, he was employed in the chem-\\nical works until October 30, i880, when he sailed for this country. In\\nDecember 1880 he came to Bergen county locating at Englewood. From\\nApril 1883 until September 1887, he was with the late Andrew S. Ful-\\nler of Ridgewood, one of the oldest horticulturists in America. He then\\ntook his family to New York city, returning to Bergen county in Febru-\\nary 1889, and located in Wallington his present home. Since his return\\nto Bergen county he was foreman for a number of years at the nurseries\\nof Woolson Co., hardy plants, the last five years having been spent\\nas superintendent of Mr. Peter Reid s greenhouse and grounds which\\nare the finest in Passaic.\\nMr. Koster is at this time president of the Catholic Benevolent\\nLegion in Passaic, treasurer of the Knights of Columbus in Passaic,\\ntreasurer and one of the directors of the Wallington Savings Loan and\\nBuilding Association, of which he was one of the originators, treasurer\\nof the Wallington Hall Association, and an active member and the\\ntreasurer of Wallington Hose Company, No. 1. In addition to tluse\\nMr. Koster is affiliated with a number of Church societies of the Roman\\nCatholic Church in Passaic. His military record covers a period of\\nnearly nine years having enlisted Aj^ril 28, 1882. in Comi)any B, Second\\nBattalion. Infantry, First Brigade, National Guards of New Jersey, and\\ndischarged from the service March 10, 1891. In his public achievements\\nand offices, Mr. Koster jietitioned the court of Bergen county lor the\\nincorjjoration of the Borough of Wallington in Ueceml)cr, 1894, which\\nwas granted. He was a])pointed President of the Board of Education of\\nWallington. bv the Countv Superintendent in I ^ehruary 1895, remaining\\na member of tlial Imdv cunlinunusl\\\\- since lliat time; 1)V re-eJectiim in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "394 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUI^TY\\n1895, for a term of two years, and again in 1897 for three years. In\\n1895 he was elected councilman for three years, and in 1897 Mayor of\\nthe Boroug-h.\\nMr. Koster s marriage to Bridget Cuoney of New York was solemn-\\nized April S, 1883, at Englewood, by Rev. Father McDonald, of the\\nRoman Catholic Church.\\nJOHN J. POLMAXN.\\nJohn J. Polmann, Recorder of the Borough of Wallington, was born\\nin the old romantic and historic ALoo ALoo, in the Province of Gelder-\\nland, Holland, July 18, 18f)0. At eighteen years of age young Polmann\\nafter a rigorous examination, was found fully competent to enter the\\nprofession of teaching, beginning work in the school room at once, a\\nposition for which he was well fitted both by education and natural\\nability. After teaching one year he was forced into the military ser-\\nvice, where he served his country eighteen months. Upon his return\\nhome, he immediately entered again upon his chosen field of labor and\\ntaught school in Texel for a continuous period of five years. In 1883 he\\nmarried Miss Cornelia Kooiman, and with his wife sailed for America in\\n1887. The struggle for a new home now began and after a trial, first\\nin Chicago, then in Passaic N. J., and subsequently in Staten Island,\\nthey finally came to Wallington in 1894, where they have prospered and\\nfind a congenial home. Mr. Polmann purchased the property where he\\nnow lives, success having followed all his enterprises since coming here.\\nHe is recognized as a leader in public affairs and consequently many\\nhonors have been thrust upon him. He has been Clerk of the Borough,\\nand is now by appointment, serving as Recorder of the Borough; is a\\nmember of the Board of Education and President of the Fire Depart-\\nment. He is also a director of the Wallington Building and Loan Asso-\\nciation, and a director of the Public Hall Associatii)n. In March 18 \u00c2\u00bb.s\\nthe citizens of the borough elected him Justice of the Peace, by a nearly\\nunanimous vote.\\nJAMES SOOP.\\nMr. James Soop. Councilman of Wallington Borough, and for over\\ntwenty-five years engineer on the Pavonia Ferry, was born in Albany.\\nN. Y., October f 1843. At the age of fourteen young Soop was earn-\\ning wages, as a deck hand, on board a steamboat. At sixteen he was\\nmade fireman on the Ohio, and continued in that capacity till twenty-\\none years of age. In 1865 he received license as engineer and served\\nfirst on the Cayuga, a Hudson river boat that plied between Albany\\nand New York.\\nAfter the war he served as oiler for a few years on steamships run-\\nning from New York to Richmond, New Orleans and other places South,\\nbut in 1873 accepted the position he still holds. March 19, 1873, he was\\nmarried to Miss Emma J. Turner, of Albany, N. Y., and two days later\\nthe young couple began housekeeping in Jersey City. In 1888 two lots\\nwere purchased and a house built in Wallington, where they have since\\nresided.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "ADKIKN D. Sn.I.IVAN", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKCKN COUNTY 395\\nMr. Soop was one nf tho ])r(iin( iters of tlie boroug h ^overniiu iit and\\nis at present a member of the council. He is president of the Buildin\\nand Loan Association, of which he was one of the originators, and is\\nnow a director. He is also a trustee and treasurer of the Presbyterian\\nChurch; is a Mason and Past Master of a Lodge in Jersey City and for\\neighteen years he has l)een a member of Pioneer Council No. 22, Royal\\nArcanum.\\nADKIAN Sl LI.IV.VX.\\nAdrian D. Sullivan was l)orn in Saratoga county, New York, not far\\nfrom the spot where was fought one of the decisive battles of the\\nworld s history.\\nHe attended the public school of his native town, and later, the\\nI niversity of Ohio, where he also gained his legal education. Here his\\nkeen, penetrating, judicial mind made him a marked student.\\nIn i89(), he married Miss Lucia Meek MacFaddin, a well known\\nand highly respected young lady of Des Moines, Iowa. Three children,\\ntwo sons and one daughter, have come to bless his home. He moved to\\nPassaic in l.S )4, and was admitted to the bar in New Jersey the follow-\\ning June. The people were not slow to recognize his genius. His\\n])ractice soon became eminent and lucractive, and he now numbers\\namong his clients, many of the most prciminent people of the city.\\nDuring his first year in practice, he gained a wide reputation as a\\njury lawyer. He ever shows a willingness to champion the cause of men\\nunjustly attacked. For justice, he is bold and brave; toward oppression,\\nscornful and tierce. He is free from tlie sordid mercenary motives that\\ncontrol too many men of the present day.\\nLawyer Sullivan, on account of his location among the foreign\\nelement in Passaic, has identified himself in feeling with those oppressed\\npeople, and has frequently defended them without fees, when they were\\nbeing made the victims of injustice. He understands the Slavonians\\nand Hungarians in their virtues and in their vices; in their sufferings\\nand in their wrongs. He is their friend, and they, in return, love him:\\nHis personal manners are unpresuming and unpretending; his in-\\ntercourse with people being marked by cordiality and dignity, and liis\\ndemeanor as simple as his spirit is sincere. His candid, open nianiu-r\\nand high sense of justice h;ive made him universally resjjected. and\\nhis friends are numerous.\\nMK. TIIOM.VS K. C(JI.LINS.\\nTliomas K. C(dlins, the subject of this sketch is a i)roininent con-\\ntractor in the plumbing business with offices in Passaic and Wallington.\\nHe is a native of Canada, born in Toronto, in 18()4, and was educated in\\nthe public schools of that city. When sixteen years of age he came to\\nNew York, where he worked five years for Cassidy Son, chandelier\\nmanufacturers, and the following eleven years was in the employ of J.\\nW. Fiske in his Ornamental Iron Works. In IHS.^. he married .Miss\\nMary Crone, removing to Wallington the foll iwing year. His brother", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "396 HI.STOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nJohn Ctillins, \\\\vhi had carried on the plumbing- business in Canada, came\\nhere in 18 \u00c2\u00bb.i, when a partnership was formed by the brothers, Thomas\\nbeing a silent partner. In 1897, the shop was built in Wallino-ton, while\\nthe oiSce and show-room in Passaic, was opened in December, of the\\nsame year.\\nAs plumbers the Collins Brothers do a large business. They have\\njust completed St. Mary s Hospital, the largest plumbing contract ever\\ngiven out in Passaic. Contracts have also been taken for five or six\\nhotels belonging to the Midland Beach Traction Company, on Staten\\nIsland. Nine practical plumbers are in their employ.\\nMr. Collins is also a member of the firm of DeVogel Co., builders.\\nHe was one of the promotors of the borough system, of Wallington\\nwas elected Councilman, holding the office two years and re-elected for\\nthree years, being made President of the Board. He was made Record-\\ner in March, of this year, while two years ago he was elected Justice of\\nthe Peace. He is Vice-President of the Building and Loan Association.\\nSecretary of the Public Hall Association, and was also one of the\\norganizers of the Wallington Hose Company. He was a member of the\\nSchool Board but resigned. His wife died in 1894, leaving him three\\nchildren.\\nMR. LOUIS DANKHOFF,\\nMr. Louis Dankhoff (1836-1893) was born at Pietz, near Berlin,\\nGermany. He came to America in 1860 with his family settling at\\nPittsfield, Mass. Eventually he became superintendent of Libby s\\nWoolen Mill at Warren, Mass., which position he held for fifteen years.\\nIn 1880 he settled at Passaic, N. J. He was appointed overseer at Am-\\nmidown s Woolen Mill. In 1882, Mr. Dankhoff purchased the well-\\nknown saloon on Passaic Street. In 1887 he bought a large tract of\\nland in Wallington of the Anderson Lumber Company, and in the same\\nyear built a large hotel on the Plank Road. He was one of the first\\nbusiness men to settle here.\\nMr. Dankhoff was also an inventor. He invented a number of\\narticles one of which was his double beer faucet which sold so widely.\\nHis father was known abroad as the inventor of the now lost art of\\npermanently enameling the colors, red, blue and white on ironware. The\\nbook containing the formula was destroyed by fire, and when he died the\\nsecret died with him.\\nMr. Dankhoff was an influential member of a number of lodges:\\nThe Odd Fellows, Red Men, and United Friends. He died in his hotel,\\nleaving a widow and two married daughters.\\nWOODKIDGK.\\nWoodridgc is one of the most beautiful localities in this part of the\\ncounty. The wooded ridge, suggesting the name, runs parallel with\\nthe Palisade from Rutherford to Hackensack at a high elevation, mak-\\niny: a natural drainage of great value.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nyri\\nTHK KOHBEKTZ MANSION FOK SAI.li\\nThe two hundred acres of land covering- this site was taken up l)y\\nGeorg-e Brinkerhoff who came from Holland to America in 1()3S, and to\\nNew Jersey in 1685. This property has remained largely in the family\\nuntil the present time. About the close of the War of the Rebellion,\\nHenry Gerecke purchased a part of this farm with a view of selling it\\nout for building lots, and for which he paid $5,000 but the expectations\\nof Mr. Gerecke were not realized and the land reverted to its former\\nowners.\\nIn the meantime Mr. Frederick Kohbertz became interested in the\\nsuccess of the village and in 1870 the town was laid out and under his\\nguiding hand buildings began to take the place of desert waste.\\nOriginally the Dutch settled here and in this vicinity in the seven-\\nteenth century, locating mostly on the Pt lilly road. Their houses were\\nbuilt one story principall}-, having walls of l)rownstone with a widely\\nI)rojecting roof shading a porch extending around on three sides ot the\\nbuilding.\\nThe borough of Woodridge was organized on tlie I Hh day of Janu-\\nary 1895, at the office of Franz Fritsch. A. Molinari, was the first\\nMayor; the lirst Council consisting of Henry E. Brinkerhoff, Josejih if.\\nSchmitt, Louis A. Eurrard, Franz Fritsch, Isidore Lazard, l red\\nKohl)ertz; Assessor. Emil Pirovano; Collector, .Alfred Gramlich; Clerk.\\n\\\\V. II. White.\\nOn .March 14. l.S t the following officers were elected: Mayor\\n.Molinari; Council, Franz Fritsch, Frank C. Ball; Assessor, Emil II.\\nPirovano; Collector, .Alfred Gramlich; Franz Fritsch, Freeholder; Clerk,\\nW. H. White.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "ANTON MOLINAKI.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 399\\nTHE KOHBEKTZ MANSION. FOR SALE.\\nMr. Frederick Kohbertz, one of the prime movers in the buildin rup\\nof the village of Woodridge, a man of great energy and perseverance,\\ndetermined to use his best efforts to make it a model village of country\\nhomes. In 1870 the town was laid out and buildings began to take the\\nplace of trees and underbrush. Mr. Kohbertz s own residence and\\ngrounds, where he formerly lived, is a place of beauty and an ornament\\nto that part of the country. It is a large and commodious mansion of\\ntwenty rooms, with wide halls. The house is supplied with gas and\\nwater, and all other modern improvements and equipments. Three acres\\nof park laid out in the most artistic manner surround the house, fine\\nstables built in a style of architecture to correspond with that of the\\nhouse all go to make the whole a most beautiful and desirable property\\nas a residence, a club house, or private school. Mr. Kohbertz aban-\\ndoned it as a family residence, only when his family became reduced and\\na small house better suited his convenience. The cost of this beautiful\\nplace, including grounds, was seventy-five thousand dollars, and now it\\ncan be bought for one third of its original value.\\nMr. Kohbertz has expended large sums of money in various ways,\\nfor the benefit of the village, working for the introduction of electric\\nlight, water mains, street grading and other conveniences, at all times\\nendeavoring to preserve a rural appearance. He donated a church plot,\\nused his influence in securing good schools, and also a fire department.\\nHe is still in the Real Estate business, seeking always to attract\\ndesirable settlers to his place by keeping the price of ground at fairly\\nlow prices, taxes being within proper limits.\\nANTON MOLINAKI.\\nAnton Molinari, Mayor of Woodridge, and proprietor of a manu-\\nfactory at that place is an Italian by blood but Polish by birth and\\nAmerican by adoption. His grandfather was a native of Venice,\\nItaly, but being disturbed by the Austrians under the great Napoleon,\\ntook up his residence in Lombardy, France. Julian, his son, father of\\nour subject becoming interested as a Revolutionist in 1863, in the un-\\nsuccessful war Poland waged against Russia, lost his home, fortune and\\nall in the part he took in that unfortunate struggle for liberty. Being\\nproscribed he left the continent to avoid banishment to Siberia, after-\\nwards visiting this country.\\nAnton Mt)linari was born in Poland in 1856. When seven years of\\nage he attended school in Paris, France, and before eighteen years of\\nage sailed for the city of New York, reaching that place July 4, 1874.\\nAfter learning the trade of machinist in Boston he came to New York\\nin 1884, where he worked as a common laborer until 1880, when he\\nestablished a plant and laid the foundations of his jjresent industrv. In\\n1889 he moved his effects to Woodridge, built a house and factory here\\nwhere he has continued to the present time. Mr. Molinari employs", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "Al.l Ki;ii CRAMLICH", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OV HKKOHN COUNTY\\n401\\nthirtv-five hands in the ni.iniifacturo nf all kinds of suri^-ical instru-\\ninonls for the trade.\\nJanuary 15, 1S*\u00c2\u00bb5. Mr. Mdlinari was elected Mayor (d \\\\V(i( drid!:^-e,\\nand has been re-elected to that position three times since. He and his\\npaternal ancestors have been Republicans. He himself takes great\\ninterest in Americanism, but eschews politics as a jjrofession.\\nAI.KKKD CKAMI.ICH.\\nAlfred (iramlich one of the officials of the Borouyh of iodrid!^e,\\nand for a number of years train despatcher on the Erie railroad, Jersey\\nCity, is a native of Carlstadt, and was born June 29th, 1866. At twelve\\nyears of a^e vounsj;- Cramlich left school, since whi^ h time, now a period\\nHKSIDKNCKS OF F. KOHHKKTZ AND ALFRED GR.\\\\MUCH\\nof twenty years, he has been enga \u00c2\u00bb-ed in the railroad business in some\\ncapacity. His father, one of the promoters of Carlstadt, was the lirst\\nailment at that station for the New Jersey and New York Railroad Com-\\npany, and being- in need of a telegraph operator, both of his sons were\\nput into training, in due time becoming experts in the use of the wires.\\nThey were now assigned to positions by this company, and for years\\nsucceeding such appointments, hard work followed in offices at various\\nstations along the line, until not only the needed experience w-as acijuired,\\nbut also the confidence of the company respecting their worthiness and\\nresponsibility, was attained. Then followed better pay with less labor.\\n.\\\\lfred (xramlich was stationed first at Cherry Hill, N. J., in 1S7S. In a\\nyear or so he was i)laced at River Edge, going from there to Hills(lak\\\\ in\\nthe Superintendent s office. In 1887 he left the New Jersey and New", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "402\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nKJ-IMDKNCK OK ANTON MOLINAKI\\nYork road and went to Jersey City, where in IS X) he became train\\ndespatcher for the Erie Railroad, which position he has tilled with\\nmarked ability for the past eight years. In his present position Mr.\\nGramlich has oversight of all freight and passenger trains from Jersey\\nCity to Port Jervis, from eleven in the evening until seven o clock in the\\nmorning, a responsible position, to which he was appointed because of\\nhis peculiar fitness for the place.\\nMr. Gramlich has always taken an active part in politics. He was\\none of the first Republicans elected in the township of Bergen, being\\nelected to the ofi ce of Township Clerk. He was also member of the\\nBoard of Education for the township, resigning both offices when the\\nborough was organized. He is a member of the Republican County\\nCommittee, having been elected first to that office in 1895, and was\\nelected Collector of the borough upon its organization and has held.the\\noffice ever since. Although indifferent to office, he is yet public spirited\\nenough to share in the responsibilities necessary to good government.\\nMr. Gramlich purchased ground and built his residence in 1890, and in\\nthe fall of that year married Miss Anna Kohbertz, cousin of Frederick\\nKohbertz of Woodridge. They have three children.\\nHKNKV E. BKINKEKHOFF.\\nGeorge, the progenitor of the Brinkerhoff family in Bergen county,\\nemigrated to America from Holland in 1().^S. He came to New Jersey", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 403\\nin 1()S5, and purchased a tract of t\\\\vo hundred acres of land which is\\nstill owned and occupied by the family. Of the three other brothers\\nwho came at the same time, one settled in New York, one went West\\nand the other made a home in New Jersey. Two of George s sons,\\nHenry G. and Jacob, settled in Lodi and divided the farm each taking-\\none hundred acres. Henry married Rachel Vreeland, and of this union\\ntwo sons were born. Enoch, the young^er became a leading man in his\\nlocality, taking- an active part in the political interests of his townshij)\\nwhich he represented in the Assembly during one term.\\nHe married Mary Berry, a daughter of John W. Berry, who was one\\nof the early settlers of the county. Enoch and Mary Berry Brinker-\\nhoff were the parents of Henry E., who was born at Polifly near Wood-\\nridge, April 8, 1833, and now resides on the old homestead. He was\\neducated in New York city, at the Boys High School.\\nMr. Brinkerhoff served in the Hackensack Continentals about five\\nyears, until the militia was reorganized in the state under the New\\nJersey Rifle Corps Act, when he was made lieutenant in Company G,\\nand afterwards captain of Company A, when it became a part of the\\nNational Guard of New Jersey. Mr. Brinkerhoff is also prominent in\\nhis town in an official capacity, havingf filled many positions of trust.\\nHe is well known in business being an extensive farmer and a large\\nland owner. His marriag-e to Miss Sarah Terhune connects him with\\nanother of the old families of the county.\\nCHAKM.ICS LINK.\\nCharles Link, present township clerk and Justice of the Peace for\\nBergen township, is a native of Berlin, Germany, and was born in 1848.\\nMr. Link was educated in the public schools of Germany. He came to\\nNew York immediately after leaving school, eng-aging for some time\\nin manufacturing establishments as a common workman. In i88( how-\\never, he went to Philadelphia as foreman for a firm, and followed the\\nI)rofession of Veterinary Surgeon for several years in that city.\\nIn 1891 Mr. Link came to New Jersey and established his bleachery\\nin Jersey City, and in 1895 purchased propert_v, and started a fac-\\ntory in Bergen township, where he chemically treats some .SO.dOO\\nsheepskins annually for the drug trade, employing three and four men\\nconstantly.\\nMr. Link belongs to several clubs and societies, and is well and\\nfavorably known. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 18 \u00c2\u00bbS, and\\nTownship Clerk in 1899.\\nHASHKOrCK HKICIITS.\\nHasbrouck Heights situated about two miles south of Hackensack\\non the Polifly road, has a territory of about one and a half square miles\\nand lies about one hundred and seventy-five feet above tide water.\\nPrevious to 1870 this district was a farming community, comprising\\nsuch families as Enoch Vreeland, Abram A. Ackerman, Christian P.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "404 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nTerhune, John Van Bussum, Henry Ackerman, Richard Berdan, Rich-\\nard Terhune, John H. Berdan, Isaac Gott, Henry Kipp, Robert Williams\\nand Garry Kipp. Since 1870 outside capital has become interested.\\nLord Van Cleeve bought the land known as the Richard Terhune.\\nfarm, Meyer Smith bought part of the Richard Berdan farm, all of\\nthe farm of J. H. Berdan, and an Association known as the Center\\nCorona Land and Building Association bought the Henry Kipp farm.\\nOf all this property purchased, no improvement was made until 1874,\\nthen Henry Kipp foreclosed a mortgage on the property held by the\\nCenter Corona Land and Building Association, and built about eight\\nhouses, which were occupied soon after. During all this time and up to\\n1889 this place was known as Corona and was part of Lodi township.\\nIn 1889 Daniel P. Morse, of New York, bought the farms of Henry\\nAckerman, Chris. Terhune and part of the John Van Bussum farm,\\nwhich he laid out in building plots, making macadamized streets, and\\nbluestone sidewalks, and immediately began the erection of buildings,\\nthus giving the town the first and most substantial start. The follow-\\ning year, Mr. Henry Lemmermann, another New York business man,\\nthen owning the Richard Terhune property, began to improve it by lay-\\ning out streets and building houses. It was owing to the efforts of\\nthese two men, that water and electric lights were first introduced.\\nIn 1894 Hasbrouck Heights separated from the township, holding\\nan election July .^Ist, of the same year. The people by their ballot\\ncarried the election for incorporation, and the Borough was incorpor-\\nated August 12th. The first election for Borough officials was held\\nSeptember 11th with the following results John H. Garrison, Mayor;\\nG. W. Selleck, S. P. Ferdon. R. F. Taggart, John W, Charlton, Andrew\\nMcCabe and -Will D. Crist, Councilmen. These officers served until\\nMarch 12th 1895, when another election was held with the following\\nresults: J. W. Charlton, Mayor; George W, Selleck, W. D. Crist. S. P.\\nFerdon, S. P. Frier, Henry Gross, and John Behrens, Councilmen. The\\npresent officers of the borough are: William S. Laurence, Mayor; John\\nE. Musselman, F. S. Chesebro, John H, Garrison, E. A. Capen, E. W.\\nBiesecker and S. P. Frier, Councilmen. Since the incoi^poration all the\\nofficials have done nobly in building up the borough. It has to-day a\\npopulation of about thirteen hundred, a $14,000 brick school house, five\\nchurches, two social clubs, one weekly newspaper, a Hook and Ladder\\nCompany, Hose Company, Royal Arcanum, and Council besides\\nprosperous stores. The village is situated so high above tide water as\\nto make it a healthy spot, while the magnificent views render it a place\\nif beauty. W. S. Laurence.\\nCHURCHES OF HASBKOUCK HEIGHTS.\\nMETHODIST CHUKCH.\\nThe Methodist church was the first religious organization in Has-\\nbrouk Heights. For a long- time itinerant preachers held service at stated", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV OF BKKi;i:x COTNTY 4().-i\\nperiods, finally succeeding in the organization of a class, a Ladies Aid\\nSociety and Sabbath school, members of other denominations assisting\\nin the work. In 1878, Rev. W. H. Russell, from Brooklyn, N. Y., the\\npresent pastor of the church, came in answer to a call, and through his\\nlabors a chapel was built, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Valentine, Mr. and\\nMrs. J. W. Alexander, Charles Ackerman and others being the prime\\nmovers in this work.\\nThe present church edifice was erected some five or more years ago,\\nand the Rev. Mr. Russell, after an absence of twetity-one years, is again\\nconducting a successful ministry.\\nKKFOKMED CHUKCH.\\nThe Reformed Church was organized February 11th, ls previous\\nmeetings having been held looking toward the establishment of this\\nsociety. Both the Reformed and the Baptist churches had their origin\\nin a Sabbath school, for a long time conducted by W. A. Fisher, in the\\nchapel. On January 5th, 1893, the people, with the Ladies Aid Society,\\nmet to organize a church. A. M. Paulison, W. A. Fisher and W. G.\\nMartin were the first elders ordained, and Henry Lemmermann, Henry\\nKiel and A. K. Goodrich were the first deacons. These officers, with\\none or two changes, remain the same. Mr. Lemmermann and Mr. Kile\\nare now elders, their place as deacons being filled by J. Behrens and\\nFrank O. Peckham. Dr. C. L Shepard has been their only pastor.\\nHe is a native of New York city, was born in 1827, is a graduate of\\nRutger s College, New Jersey, and for a term of twenty-four years was\\npastor of the church at Newtown, L. L Dr. Shepard was president of\\nthe General Synod of 1887, president i)f the Particular Synod of New\\nBrunswick in 1896, and chairman of the committee on Education for\\nAcademics and Colleges, for the Synod of 1897, and president of tlu-\\nBoard of Publication for 189f,. The annex to the old chapel was Iniilt\\nin 189. v\\nTHK BAPTIST CHI KCIl.\\nThe Bai)tist church wasorganized Decemlier 22. 1892, and iiKor])()r-\\nated November 27, 189.^. The church building was begun November\\n21, of the same year, and the corner stone laid January 1, 1894. Rev.\\n(ieorge B. Griffin was the first pastor, and filled the pulpit from Decem-\\nber 25, 1892, to February 4, 1894. He was succeeded by Rev. Charles\\nStanley Pease, who served from April 5, 1894, to April 5, 1896. He left\\nthe church free from debt and was succeeded by the Rev. Ackland Boyle,\\nwho supplied the pulpit for a time on a salary of eight dollars per week\\nand was called to the pastorate. May 22, of that year. He was succeed-\\ned by the ])resent acting pastor. Rev. (ieorgc L. Hunt, D. D. of New\\nYork city.\\nThe first deacons of the church were K. F. Taggart, (George W.\\nDavis, George Kiel Jr., and George W. Selleck.\\nThe church membership has increased and a flourishing Sabbath\\nSchool of over sixty scholars is maintained the year round.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "406 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nV\\nTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.\\nThe Roman Catholic Church is a beautiful structure on Kipp\\nAvenue, built in 1896. This was started by Mrs. Mary A. Murtha,\\nwho, feeling- the need of a place to worship nearer than the church at\\nLodi, visited Bishop Wigger at Newark, and having- received permis-\\nsion and letters from him, set about the work of securing a house and a\\nchurch organization.\\nMrs. Murtha was assisted in the enterprise by her faithful husband,\\nthrough whose untiring efforts the money, amounting to $2700, was\\nraised and the chapel built. Edward M. Anson donated the t-wo lots\\non which the house stands, and Father John A. Sheppard has charg-e\\nof the flock. The church has a membership of about fifty souls and is\\ngrowing.\\nBoth Mr. and Mrs. Murtha are natives of Ireland. They were mar-\\nried Jul}- 14, 1895. Mr. Murtha is a prominent contractor and builder\\nin New York. He erected the Bachelor apartments on Twenty-third\\nstreet, the Progress Club on Howard street and Broadway and other\\nhigh class buildings in the city. They bought their present residence\\nin 1896.\\nCHURCH OF .ST. JOHN THE DIVINE.\\nThe young and growing congregation of the Church of St. John\\nthe Divine, in Hasbrouck Heights deserves more than passing- notice.\\nAlthough but little more than three years since its organization, it\\nhas become a stronghold in the community. Realizing the need of a\\nchurch home for those who were of the Episcopal faith, a meeting was\\ncalled for May 17, 1895, when an organization was effected. The first\\nservice was held about one month later on June 28, in the old school build-\\ning. Afterward the congregation purchased this building, which they\\nremodeled and dedicated, the dedication being conducted by William R.\\nJenvey, assisted by Dr. Holley, of Hackensack, Rev. Ladd, of Ruther-\\nford, and several others of the clergy.\\nThe organization is now under the direction of the Right Reverend\\nThomas A. Starkey, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Newark, the services\\nat present being conducted by lay reader J. Montier DeVoll, of the\\nGeneral Theological Seminary of New York city.\\nThe present board of three trustees hold the property of the diocese\\nare as follows, under appointment by the Bishop: Eugene W. Dunstan,\\nchairman; Richard Berdan, Jr., secretary; John L. Dean, treasurer;\\nEdwin F. Benedict, financial secretary. The congregation and Sun-\\nday school are increasing steadily and the results are thus far gratifying.\\nWILLIAM SUMNER LAURENCE.\\nWilliam Sumner Laurence, the present Mayor of Hasbrouck Heights,\\nwas born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1854, and was educated\\nin the public schools of Newton, Massachusetts. In business he has\\nalways been connected with the wholesale shoe trade, being with one\\nhouse in Boston for a period of eighteen years and is now a stockholder", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "NMI.I.IAM S. I.AfKlCNCl-;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "408\\nHISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nand director in the firm of Morse Roij;ers, 134-140 Duane Street, New\\nYork, the largest shoe, rubber and linding-s jobbers in New York city.\\nHe has been with this house for nine years.\\nHe was elected Mayor of Hasbrouck Heights, March 1897, and was\\nre-elected in 1899. He is also a director of Hasbrouck Heights Building\\nand Loan Association, director of Star Building and Loan Association\\nof New York city, has been two terms president of Hasbrouck Heights\\nField Club; also a member of the executiye committee of Seward League\\nof Hasbrouck Heights. The last named is a Republican organization.\\nMr. Laurence has also been a member of the Hasbrouck Heights Board\\nof Education two terms.\\nMr. Laurence s wife is Lydia A., daughter of Captain Myer Brad-\\nbury, of Machias, Maine.\\nJOHN VAN BUSSX M.\\nThe old homestead of the Van Bussum family at Peck Hook, be-\\ntween Lodi and Passaic, was first occupied by David D. Van Bussum of\\nRevolutionary fame, who settled in this part of Lodi some time before\\nthat vital struggle. Of his three sons, two died in early youth, but\\nDavid D., the father of the subject of this sketch, lived to the advanced\\nage of eighty-eight years. He was a member of the State Legislature\\nfrom 1837 to 184(\u00c2\u00bb, and was for a time Judge of the Court of Common\\nPleas, He died in the year 1879.\\nHis youngest son, John Van Bussum was born at the old homestead\\nFebruary 9th 1837. He has always lived in the immediate vicinity,\\nand now occupies a very pleasant resldenci at Hasbrouck Heights, less\\nthan one mile from the place of his birth. He is a man of sterling\\nworth and one of the leading Democratic politicans of Bergen county;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKKCKN COINTY 4(1\\nhas been Assessor of Lodi township since 187( a member of the County\\nExecutive Committee since 1870; was elected to the State Assembly in\\nISSl, and thrice re-elected. He was Freeholder in 1S()7 and held the\\nposition uninterruptedly for nine years, ag-ain assumin r its duties six\\nyears ago. He has occupied many minor positions of trust, and is\\nalways foremost in every measure promoting- the public weal, In 18r 7\\nhe was married to Miss Katharine .^nna Voorhis, a member of one of\\nthe oldest and best known families of Bergen countv.\\nMr. Van Bussum is possessed of untiring- energv and perseverance,\\nand has overcome obstacles that would have crushed any person of ordi-\\nnary- endurance. Like all men of positive character, he has some\\nenemies, but many strong- personal friends, and is very popular in his\\nlocality. The poor and afflicted know where to find a helper, and they\\nnever leave his doors unaided. Generous to a fault, he scatters his\\nbenefactions on every side.\\nHENRY LEMMKKMANX.\\nHenry Lemmermann, the president of the Mattson Rubber Com-\\npany, New York, is a well known resident of Hasbrouck Heights. He\\nwas born in Germany in 1848, and came to America in 1863. After\\ncoming- to New York he was employed in a grocery store for some years\\nbut eventually embarked in the hotel business, in which he continued\\nuntil 1890, when he became actively engaged in the manufacture of\\nrubber goods. At that time he became president of the Mattson Rub-\\nber Company, and still remains in that office. Previous to this, in\\n1884, he bought a farm of Mr. Terhune at Corcma, N. J. (now Has-\\nbrouck Heights), and in i891 built his present residence. He immedi-\\nately afterward began improving the land and prei)aring it for building,\\nby opening streets, making sidewalks, planting shade trees, introducing\\nwater (The Hackensack Water Company and supplying electric lights.\\nHe then, through the Hasbrouck Heights Land and Im])r()vement\\nComi)an built about thirty cottages. In 18 lie organized the\\nLemmermann Villa Site Company, of which be has been president and\\ntreasurer ever since. He is also president of the Hasbrouck Heights\\nBuilding, Loan and Savings Association an l lias been continuously,\\nsince its organization in .lune 1S\\nMr. Lemmermann is a Past Supreme Representative of the Knights\\nof Pythias, was Grand Chancellor of Knights of Pythias of New York\\nill 1878, and at this time is the treasurer of the Pythian Home of New\\nYork. He is also a member of the Masonic Order and the Koyal\\n-Vrcanum, president of the Pioneer Club of Hasbrouck IKights and a\\nmember of the New Commercial Club of New York. He has been Town-\\nship Committeeman of Lodi township and a councilman of the Borough\\nof Hasbrouck Heights and a member of the Board of Health.\\nMr. Lemmermann was married in ls72, to Miss Willielmina (iross,\\ndaughter of F. C. Gross of Hackensack, N.J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "410\\nHISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nEDWAKD M. ANSON.\\nKdward M. Anson was born at Hyde Park, Dutchess county, New\\nYork, June 4, 185(). His ancestors are English, who for several gener-\\nations have been in America. He was educated in the public schools of\\nLockport, Niagara county, New York, and at the early age of fourteen\\nyears was employed as telegraph operator in the oil regions of Butler\\ncounty, Pennsylvania, later being employed by the Western Union\\nCompany in the cities of Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and\\nNew York. When the St. Louis Convention met, which nominated\\nSamuel J. Tilden for president, Mr. Anson was one of the five operators\\nof Chicago chosen to attend to the telegraphic business of the meeting,\\nand again at the Cincinnati Convention when Rutherford B. Haves was\\nKDWAKD M. ANSON, ESO.\\nnominated he was chosen to act in the same capacity. In 1877, Mr.\\nAnson came to New York as chief operator in the main office, where he\\nremained twelve years. In April 1892, he left the service, to engage in\\nreal estate business, in which he has ever since continued.\\nHasbrouck Heights has a prospei ous Building, Loan and Savings\\nAssociation of which Mr. Anson was one of the organizers and for six\\nyears its secretary. He was the organizer and secretary of Hasbrouck\\nHeights Land and Improvement Company, and also organizer and secre-\\ntary of the Lemmermann Site Company. Since beginning business Mr.\\nAnson has built over one hundred houses and brought out from the city\\nmore than one thousand residents. While devoting time and energy to\\nthe upbuilding of his borough, alth(}ugh not seeking office or self-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGEN COUNTY 411\\ninterest, he was elected postmaster in November IS IJ?, holdinfi^ the office\\nfor a period of four years, and in iH t( was elected Justice of the Peace.\\nSocially he is a member of a number of org anizations at Hasbrouck\\nHeiifhts. the Pioneer Club, Hasbrouck Heights Field Club, and the\\nRoval Arcanum; is also a member of the Old Time Telegraphic Asso-\\nciation. Telegraphers Mutual Benefit Association, and Teleg-\\nra])hers Aid Society.\\nMr. Anson was married to Miss Margaret E. Crawford of New York\\ncity, .\\\\pril 16, 1879. He is a highly esteemed citizen both in his public\\nlife and in his private character.\\njri)t;K HKNKY KIPP.\\nThe following is taken almost wholly from the New York Tri-\\nbune of January 12, 18 *f\\nOne of the most unique characters in Bergen county. New Jersey, is\\nHenry Kipp. He presents a strong type of the early settlers, who in\\n1()4(), ascended the Hackensack River and established a trading post to\\nbarter with the Hackensack Indians who were then masters of the land.\\nMr. Kipp s ancestors were a part of that sturdy Dutch colony which laid\\nthe foundation of so many communities near New York. His name\\ncomes down through a record of three hundred and fifty years, the\\nfamily history going back to the De Kypes of Alencon, France, the first\\nconspicuous member being Boloff De Kype, whose chateau was burned\\nand lands confiscated by the Prince of Conde. Hendrick De Kype, son\\nof Boloff, and progenitor of the American Kips, was born in 1576, com-\\ning to Amsterdam in 1635. In 1657 he was selected by Governor Stuy-\\nvesant as one of twenty families, comprising the aristocracy, and was\\notherwise honored.\\nHenry second moved from New Amsterdam to the western Ixnmdary\\nof New Jersey, on the Delaware River, where he remained a few years,\\nwhen he returned towards New York and settled at Polifly on the King s\\nHighway in 1685. The ne.xt year the name was changed to Ki]), as\\nshown in a deed of that date, a second p being added by a later\\nmember of the family.\\nIn Polifly the direct male descendants of Hendrick were- born in\\nthe order named: Henry Nacasias, Peter, Abraham, Peter A.. Henry and\\nHenry second.\\nThe present Henry Kij^p is a son of Peter A. Kipp and .Maria\\nStuyvesant, a lineal descendant of (lovernor Stuyvesant. No descendant\\nof the first Hendrick has led a more active life or attained to more local\\nnotoriety than this Henry, who was born August ^l. isil. In .Inly,\\n1841, he married Susan A. Howard, a niece of Enoch .Morgan. She\\nbecame the mother of six children, four of whom are still living.\\nJudge Kip was a master of the Cooper s trade but abandoned it to\\nopen a clothing house in (ireenwich Street, New York. This \\\\enture\\nwas attended with fair success and from there he removed to Trenton,\\nwhere he established the largest general store in New Jersey.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "412 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nAt the age of thirty he received the title of Judge by appoint-\\nment as a lav member of the Mercer county bench. He retired from\\nmercantile business in 1846, to take charge of the homstead farm at\\nPolifly, which he managed for about forty years. While a resident of\\nthis town, Mr. Kipp erected two churches and the first school-house for\\nthe village of Corona.\\nThe Judge is rich in reminiscences of early days and recalls vividly\\nthe visit of Lafayette to Hackensack.\\nIn 1873, Judge Kipp purchased the Bergen County Herald at\\nRutherford Park, but after a comparatively brief editorial experience,\\nhe returned to the farm where his wife died. Mr. Kipp served as chosen\\nFreeholder. Justice of the Peace, Town Committeman, Township\\nSuperintendent of Schools and other local offices. He died in 1898.\\nJOHN L. C. GRAVES,\\nJohn L. C. Graves one of the Assemblymen elected in November\\n1899, to the State Legislature and who died a few days afterwards, was\\na contractor, who came into Bergen county from Jersey City, where he\\nwas identified with the Union League Club of Hudson county.\\nOn coming to this county he soon made friends throughout Lodi\\ntownship, before Hasbrouck Heights became a borough.\\nHe was elected president of the Harrison and Reed club of Lodi\\ntownship, afterward the Republican club of Hasbrouck Heights, and\\nremained its president until lcS98.\\nMr. Graves was a tireless worker. He was identified with the Re-\\npublican County Committee for several years, during which he served\\neither as chairman or member of every committee incidental to the life\\nof a convention, whether state, congressional or county. He served as\\nchairman of the Bergen county delegation in the congressional conven-\\ntion of 1898.\\nHe was a volunteer fireman, and had been repeatedly re-elected chief\\nof the department of Hasbrouck Heights. He was also a member of\\nthe Volunteer Fire Department Association of the city of New York,\\nand a charter member of Hasbrouck Heights Council of the Royal\\nArcanum, whose orator he was until he declined re-election in 1899.\\nHe was a ready and forcible talker, and an uncompromising defender\\nof what he believed to be right. His aggressiveness, combined with\\nstraight-forwardness, won for him the respect of his opponents and had\\nhe lived he would have been found an able representative of our county\\nat Trenton.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEK XXVI.\\nUNION T( )WNSHIP.\\nFOKMATION OF THE TOWNSHIP -,ENEKAI. DESCKIPTION THE KINOS-\\nLAN DS AND OTHEK PROMINENT PERSONS THE SWAMP EANDS\\nTHE PPKCHASE OF WILLIAM SANDFOKD THE HOME OK\\nTHE KINGSLANDS THE SCHUVLEK COPPER MINES\\nBIOORAPHICAL.\\nThat portion of Bergen county which included what now constitutes\\nUnion township was originally known as a part of New Barbadoes\\nNeck. In the year 1825 a new township was made from New Barbadoes\\ntownship named Lodi, which included the present townships of Lodi\\nand Union, in Bergen county, and of Kearney and Harrison townshii)s\\nin the county of Hudson. In 1840 Hudson county was formed from the\\ncounty of Bergen, and a new township was made and named Harrison,\\nwhich included Union, Kearney and Harrison, but, because of the long\\ndistance for the farmers to trayel when attending court or doing other\\nbusiness in Hudson county, the township of Union was set off bv an act\\nof the Legislature approved February, i853.\\nThe first town meeting of Union township was held in the school-\\nhouse of Riverside April 6, 1853, the moderator or presiding officer being\\nJoseph K. Hazen. The officers elected were as follows: Aaron Hazen,\\nTown Clerk; John V. S. Van Winkle, Assessor; Henry H. Yearance,\\nCollector of Taxes; Henry Kipp and Cornelius C. Joralemon, F reehold-\\nholders; Joseph K. Hazen, Robert Rutherford, Tunis A. Brown, Joseph\\nM. Roy and John I. Vreeland, Town Committee.\\nThe total amount of taxes raised in Union township for that year\\nwas Sl.WT.DS.\\nBoiling Springs, so called from a powerful and never-failing spring\\nof pure cold water, which flowed in the cross road at the northern\\nextremity of the township, gave a name to that locality. Here the\\nwagon road and the railroad crossed, and here the Depot, a small\\nstructure was built. In 1858 a gentleman from New York bought a\\nsmall farm of twenty-five acres near the Boiling Spring and soon after-\\nward increased his purchase to one hundred acres. In iS()2 the first ma])\\nsuggestive of streets and avenues was published, and business men from\\nthe city were induced to settle in the place and build homes. In 18()()\\nseveral men bought a large farm on the Passaic, founded an Associa-\\nti(m and ])rojected a broad avenue, now Park Avenue, in a direct line\\nfrom their proj)erty to the railroad station, and one year from that time\\nthe name Boiling Springs was dropped and the i)lace called Ruther-\\nford Park, abreviated subsequently to that of Rutherford, its present\\ncoirnomen.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "414 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn 1S()8 the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad was built giving rise\\nto Kingsland village and South Rutherford. In the year 1890 the bor-\\nough of Rutherford and Boiling Springs township were formed and in\\n1895 the borough of North Arlington was set off leaving the territory\\ncomprising Union township that which now lies between the two bor-\\noughs just named, with Berry s Creek on the East and the Passaic River\\non the West, for that organization.\\nThe officers of the town for the year 1898 are Charles R. Searle,\\nChairman of the township committee; David Machette, James McKenna,\\nThomas Buckley, Assessors; Herman Froehlich, Collector; William L.\\nGrant, Clerk.\\nThe following sketch of Union township was taken from a valuable\\npaper prepared for this work by W. H. Castles, of Kingsland. In speak-\\ninu- of the early settlement of the town, Mr. Castles says:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2For over two centuries, since their first settlement the progress of\\nimprovement and colonization of Union township and North Arlington\\nhas been far behind that of any of the other nearby environs of New\\nYork city.\\nThe southeastern point of intersection of the boundary lines of\\nHudson and Bergen counties on the north Arlington border is the\\nnearest point in Bergen county to the first area of settlement of the\\nstate itself.\\nBoth places are within easy distance, view and sound of the great\\nmetropolis, their eastern boundaries being less than five miles away, as\\nthe crow flies. The tall buildings of the city and the statue of liberty\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094in the upper bay\u00e2\u0080\u0094 loom up grandly against the eastern horizon on a\\nclear day and the boom of the sunset gun at Fort Hamilton is not an\\nunusual sound on a quiet day.\\nFaithful search and eager inquiry for historical fact and events\\nbearing upon these places, from their first settlement to the present\\ntime, which might be of interest, has been made with poor satisfaction\\nand meagre results. The field is bare and at this time there seems to\\nbe no documentary evidence or matter among the township or borough\\nrecords, to add anything to their history. Very little can be secured\\nfrom the present resident descendants of those energetic, hardy spirits,\\nwho settled here and by energy, industry and perseverance developed its\\nwilderness into fair, fruitful fields and pastures\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a birthright of great\\nworth and magnitude to be pointed to with pride by their kindred wh.j\\nfollow them.\\nVery few of the descendants of the earlier heroes bearing the old\\nancestral name of Kingsland are now to be found within the confines of\\nthe two places. With but one exception, North Arlington contains the\\nonly descendants of Isaac Kingsland, who settled here in 16(i8. These\\nare the children of Enoch Kingsland, with Mr. William Kingsland an l\\nhis children. The enterprise of the early settlers, transmitted to each\\nsucceeding generation, has manifested itself in new lines, the male", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "lilSTOKV Ol lilvKCHN COINTY 415\\nmembers of the f.imily seekiii r the more active political, financial and\\ncommercial world to be found in the citv.\\nIn time strantifers came to purchase portions of this land and to\\noccupy it as homes. In 1868 the partition of the oritfinal lioldint s was\\npractically completed by a g-cneral jniblic auction sale of the fields lyintr\\nabout the old homestead, made l v the widow and executors of the last\\nowner, (ieneral tieorire Kinsjfsland.\\nThose who invested, have bren dis.ippoinled in the outcome of\\ntheir expectations.\\nAmonif other thiniifs in the way of growth, is the lack of railroad\\naccommodations at hours to suit those who need transportation to and\\nfrom New York citv.\\nThe !i;eo,t Taphical situation of the two places may have contributed\\nsomewhat to their i)resent depressed cimdition, lying- as they do between\\nthe Passaic and Ilackensack rivers, a large portion of the area being\\nthe low, marshy lands bordering- the two streams. These uninhabited,\\nunprt)ductive tracts comprise nearly fifty per cent, of the area of the\\ntownship and boroug-h. Many schemes have been ])roposi d and several\\nattempts made to reclaim the Hackensack Meadows, but no success has\\nvet been achieved within the Berg-en county lines.\\nThe most elaborate scheme ever attempted was that Ijy Spencer\\nB. Driggs, some fifty years ag-o, in which was invested a large amount\\nof capital. He built a series of dikes and canals which by the aid of\\nwindmills was to pump out the water, in the old Dutch fashion at Hol-\\nland. He also intended to supj)lement the wind power with steam to\\nprevent sulimerg-ence when there was a lack of wind.\\nHis first dikes were bored full of holes by muskrats, which abound\\nin great numbers on the meadows and he was forced to insert sheets of\\nperforated iron in the dikes to save them from the ravages of these\\npests.\\nThe following is a brief summary of the cotuiection of Mr. Driggs\\nwith his great enterprise:\\nHe first purchased the whole four thousand acres of swani]) land\\nin Hudson and Bergen counties from the many owners, among them\\nbeing representatives of the oldest families in Bergen county, such as\\nthe Kingslands, Kutherfords, Stuyvesants and many others. The land\\ncost from two to five dollars per acre. A great deal of trouble and\\nexpense was incurred in getting deeds correct, some of them having to\\nbe sent to Europe for signatures, and so varied and complex were the\\nlegal intricacies of these dociunents that when completed, the instru-\\nment covered a space 100 square feet in area and filled a good sized Ijox.\\nThe lawyer, former Judge Lawrence, of New York city, who\\nsearched and passed upon the titles, received the enormous fee of S10,()()0.\\n.Ml real estate men jjreviously had decided that a perfect title was\\nunobtainable, but the Judge set all doubts at rest.\\nAfter this success, Mr. Driggs found a capitalist in the person of\\n.\\\\Ir. S. N. Pike, a millionaire, of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is stated upon", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "416 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ngood authority that within twenty-four hours after his tirst interview,\\nMr. Drig-gs had interested and caused Mr. Pike to comprehend his\\nscheme, with the aid of his patent iron dikes. Within these twenty- four\\nhours a contract was drawn and ch)sed and Mr. Pike had deposited\\nSIOO.OOO to the credit of Mr. Driggs, and the next week work began on\\nthe four thousand acres. Jerome J. Collins, who afterwards died with\\nthe Jeannette expedition of the New York Herald, and was buried\\nwith great honor on the recover}- of his body, was employed by Mr.\\nDriggs as his chief engineer. Many men were given employment and\\nmuch money was spent.\\nA great deal of annoying- criticism was raised and many adverse\\nopinions were circulated as to the result. This did not phase Mr.\\nEriggs, who went on in tlie even tenor of his way undisturbed. His\\ndikes were cut, and his men incited to revolt. Impediments caused by\\nignorance and jeahiusy were placed in his way, but after a time favor-\\nable results were seen. In the lower section in Hudson county the\\ncars and engines of the New Jersey Railroad Company, at high tides\\nno longer ran with their wheels under water. The land rose gradually\\nand after being well drained by a system of cross ditches, ceased to be\\nflooded at the highest tides.\\nThe iron protected dikes prevented the muskrats and crawfish\\nfrom boring holes in the banks and letting in the river water. Then\\nthe hunters of these rodents complained that Mr. Brig-gs was depriving\\nthem of a living, and the contractors tried to force upon the Iron Dike\\nReclamation Co., S. N. Pike, president and S. B. Briggs, manager, the\\nrejected plates and suit was brought for their value.\\nAnother trouble was caused by the men who not having been paid\\nfor two weeks were then incited to riot by enemies of the company.\\nThey quit work and assembled upon the land, threatening to cut the\\ndikes, and sent written communications to Mr. Briggs, denouncing him\\nand endorsing their papers with a skull and cross-bones.\\nWithout fear Mr. Uriggs w^ent to the scene of the disturbance,\\naccompanied by a friend in a carriage, his only protection being a walk-\\ning stick. When he arrived there was at least a thousand excited men\\nawaiting him. Jumping out of the vehicle he advanced toward his\\nemployes shouting loud enough that all could hear: You wanted me,\\nhere I am. This bold action changed the sentiment of the mob, who\\ncheered, while he explained the cause of the delay and pledged himself\\nfor the payment of the men on the following Saturday. The rioting\\nceased, although there were many lawless characters scattered among\\nhis workmen, who were captured by his bravery and daring.\\nHaving thus discovered the class of men wath whom he had to\\ncontend, he deemed it necessary to use caution and protection, and when\\nav day came, his paymaster stood upon a small bridge with two clerks\\ncovering each man with a pistol as he advanced to receive his pay.\\nWhat land was reclaimed became tillable and fertile and the com-\\npany set off a piece, planted it and raised the tinest of vegetables, even", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BERCRN COl^NTY 417\\nt l)acco hcin-i- ij^Tiiwn, as the soil w.-.s very rich. Arrannenu-nts were\\n])en(linu; to build a town on the lower (le\\\\eloi)e(l section, when Mr. Pike s\\nsudden death put an end to the scheme.\\nSo hig-hly did Mr. Pike value his lioldino-s tliat he left them to\\nhis i^randchildren, and when the Pennsvhania Railroad madi a lari^ e\\noffer for the portion of land which they occupied, it was necessary to\\nJi ct permission of the court, before a sale could be eft ected. This sale\\nnetted the company S17,S, f)ther sales jiroduced S2.^,0()il more.\\nTwenty years ag-o Mr. Navarro oi New York offered S1,0(\u00c2\u00bb0,(1U()\\nfor the whole tract but his oft er was refused. Mr. Hrii;- -s obtained from\\nthe Penns3-lvania Railroad Company, throui^h Mr. Cassatt. a bid of\\nS )(lO per acre, which was also refused. More receiulv the prices became\\nmuch hijrher. There are now over three thousand acres of this land\\nleft of the four thousand acres oriijinally bought l)y Mr. Urij;- i; s for\\nSM),000. S.^()(),()00 has been realized by the company, SI, 0(10, 000 was\\nrefused, and it holds what will be one of the most valuable lartje tracts\\nof land in this section of the country, thanks to Mr. Drigo s foresight,\\ninventive g enius and untiring jjerseverence.\\nThe benefits derived fnjm the taxes of the improved portions of\\nthe land, yields a good revenue to the state and to the municipalities in\\nwhich they lie. In the near future it is expected that factories will be\\nbuilt and homes be established along the trolley roads, and in the course\\nof the next twentv-live years a town will i)robably connect the two cities\\nof Jersey City and Newark.\\nAnother effort, and the last attempt to reclaim this great area of\\nwaste land, was made by James R. l);iv, but on a smaller scale. His\\ndikes were built of blocks of peat cut from the meadows but they were\\nnot heavy or substantial enough. The material dried and one spring\\nseason during a freshet the greater jjart if his dike tlo.atcd away on\\nthe tide.\\nThe tirst ;ind original owners of the land grant from the Lord\\nPro])rietors, were two Englishmen, William S.mdford ;md Nathaniel\\nKingsland, the latter being a Sergeant Major in the llritish Army,\\nstationed at Christ Church Parish in the Island of liarbadoes.\\nThe record of their grant is described in New Jersey under the\\nl)roprictors as follows\\nOn July 4th 16f)S, all tlu meaiK ws and ui)l;ind lying south of a\\nline drawn from the Hackensack to the Passaic Rivers, seven niiUs north\\nof their intersection and C()ini)rising 5.i().S acres of upland and 10,0ii()\\nacres of meadow, were granted to Captain William Sandford for twenty\\nl)ounds sterling per annum, in lieu of the liaU penny per acre, per\\nannum, the standard price of the agreement.\\nTo complete the title there remainded the Indian title. The Indi-\\nans hereabouts at this time, we are informed, were very sensiti\\\\e regard-\\ning the title to their lands and actively resented its being taken from\\nthem by the whites without their consent or any consideration or value\\nbeing given for it.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "418 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe Indians were in considerable numbers about the settlement then,\\nbut thev were stronsf in their alliances with neig hboringf tribes by whose\\naid thev could easily annoy the outlying plantations, and previous to\\nthis time, there had been much friction between them and the Dutch\\nsettlers.\\nriie Dutch, who had settled the outlying country, about New York\\nand New Jersey, tirst feared English interference. They supplied the\\nnatives with guns and atiimunition and taught them their use, in order\\nthat they might use the natives to help them dispossess the English\\nwhen the opportunity came.\\nIn order to allay all fears of unjust treatment in the savage mind,\\nregarding their property rights, the Lords Proprietors made provision\\nfor them in their concessions by instructing the Governor and Council to\\npurchase the Indian titles to all lands and look for reimbursement to the\\nsettlers, as the latter made their purchases. In compliance with these\\ninstructions the Governor decreed that the new comers were either to\\npurchase from the Indians themselves, or if the land had been previously\\npurchased bv the Proprietors, thev, the new comers, were to pay their\\nroportion.\\nIt is related that this system of securing equity to the natives had\\nthe desired effect and they parted with their lands with satisfaction,\\nbecoming good neigh tiors, no instance being recorded showing any fric-\\ntion with them in the early davs of the New Jersey settlements.\\nWilliam Sanford purchased the Indian title to the lands aforemen-\\ntioned, on the 20th day of July, 1668, and sixteen days after he received\\nthe land grant from the proprietors, giving for it the following commo-\\ndities:\\n170 fathom l)lack wampum, 2(M) fathom white wampum, l match\\ncoats, supjiosed to be watch coats, 16 guns, U double hands powder, 10\\npairs breeches, (i7 bars lead, 1 anker of brandy, 3 half fat beer, 11\\nblankets, 30 axes, 20 hoes, and 2 cooks of dozens.\\nThe later item seems to have been intended as two coats of Duffils,\\na cloth of that age, suitable for warm climates. It is claimed that\\nNathaniel Kingsland was the principal in this grant, and received con-\\nsideration for it from the crown, as services, although there is no record\\nto establish this claim. Captain Sanford is said to have made the pur-\\nchase in Kingsland s interest. Kingsland gave the new tract the name\\nof New Barbadoes which was afterward localized to New Barbadoes\\nNeck, which name it retained until recently. Previous to its settlement\\nthat location bore the Indian name of Mighgecticook.\\nThere is mention of a patent having been issued for this grant by\\nthe proprieti rs on March, 11.71, to William Sandford in trust for\\nNathaniel Kingsland, forever, for the sum of 200 pounds sterling. This\\n])atent, it is supposed, confirmed possession to the grantees, they having\\nprobably within the time specified in the first document made the\\nrequired settlement and improved and fulfilled the requirements of the\\nconcessions.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKU(;):N COl N TY 4l l\\nThe liind adjoiniuir the Sandftird and K lilies land tract on tlio iiortli\\nand extondinff six miles into tho coiintrv, or from Rutherford tlK-n\\nSandftJrd s Spring s), to Ilackensack was granted, bv the Lords Pro-\\nprietors to Captain John Berry and associates, about a sear after Sand-\\nford s grant was issued.\\nA conveyance was made on the first of Juni liiTl. I)V Nathaniel\\nKingsland and Mary his wife, to William Sandford. of cme-tliird of their\\n])atcnt. the consideration Ijeing 2(10 jxiunds sterling-, and this transfer\\nwas confirmed by the (Governor and Council on the 21st day of March.\\n1()7,^. This it would seem, should conlirm the statement that Sandford\\nacted in the interest of Kingsland throughout.\\nThis latter conveyance appears to have been the linal division of the\\nproperty between Sandford and Kingsland, the line of separation, as\\nnear as one can discover being the northerly boundary of the Van Km-\\nl)urgh estate, in Kearney township, Hudson county, which seems to\\nhave been the first portion deeded away by the Sandft)rds.\\nThe first actual settlers of New Barbadoes were Edwar.l Hall.\\nNathaniel Wheeler and John Bauldwin. who were annmg the first settlers\\nof Newark, (settled in 1()()() by colonists from Connecticut, i These did\\nnot remain long, however, being probably warned by Captain Sandford,\\nthat he and Kingsland had a prior claim to the land.\\nNo record exists to show that Nathaniel Kingsland ever left Bar-\\nbadoes to settle his share of the grant. Isaac Kingsland, supposed to\\nbe a nephew, was the lirst of the f.amily to settle here in l()f S. for at\\nthat date we find an account of the New Colony in New Jersey writti-n\\nbv Secretary Nichols of New York, in which he stales that on the\\nnorth of Milford, or Newark River, is a larger tract of land belonging\\nto Kingsland and Sandford and that higher up the river another tract\\nexists owned by Captain Berry, wlio divided his tract into plantations\\nwhich were soon settled.\\nIt is recorded that when Captain Sandford was tendered a coun-\\ncillor appointment, by Philip Cartaret. the first (losornor of New\\nJersey, in K he was unwilling to accejjt it. or any ollicc in the com-\\nmcmwealth.\\nSome interest as well as mvsterv. is thrown around this name\\nbv the records, for it does not appear from whence he came. Inil he was\\nl)robablv an Englishman, from the West Indies.\\nHis title, Captain (\u00c2\u00bbf .Militia, was conferred ui)on him while resid-\\ning in Newark, in i( 7.^. His scruples respecting his contempt for\\noffice seems to have been overcome, for he subsequently served in the\\nCouncils of Ueputy Governors Rudyard and Lawrie.\\nOn April 24, 1( 77, Sandford transferred to Mrs. Sarah Whartman.\\nin trust for his eldest daughter, Nedemiah and the children born of the\\nsaid Sarah Whartman, viz.: Cather, Peregrine. William and (xrace, one\\nequal third ])art of all his i)roi)erty between the I assaic and Ilacken-\\nsack Rivers, with one-third (d the stock, household stulTs. etc., jjrovided\\nit were im])ro\\\\ed for her inaintenence and the education .d the said chil-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0467.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "420 HISTOKY OF BEKGEX COUNTY\\ndren, the principal not beintr disposed of, in any way, ^yithout his\\nconsent.\\nWhether he left the nei i hborhood after this, is unkjiown, but the\\nnext year on Au fust Idth, Mrs. Wliartman relinquished all she had\\nreceived, re-transferring- it to Sanford having- of her own obstinate will\\nviolated the condition of the conveyance by removing the stock. The\\nhistorian then states that these proceedings assume rather a strange\\naspect when considered with reference to the following facts\\nMajor William Sanford died in 1862, letters of administration of\\nhis estate being granted in September 16()*t. His will was dated Janu-\\nary d, 1() \u00c2\u00bb0, in which he acknowledged Sarah Whartmanto be his lawful\\nNvife. Some considerable reasons having caused them t(j conceal their\\nmrriaage, a certificate of marriage was annexed, signed by Richard\\nVernon, as having occurred on board the Pink Susannah, in the river of\\nSwimam, on the 27th day of March, 1()67.\\nIn his will he desired that his body be buried, if it may be, in his\\nown plantation, without pomp or expensive ceremonies, and he implored\\nhishonorcd friends. Colonel Andrew Hamilton, Mr. James Emott, Gabriel\\nMeudillc and William Nichols, of New York, to assist, and favor the\\nconcerns of a poor ignorant widow and five innocent children (another\\ndaughter, Elizabeth, having been added to those already named) with\\ntheir best advice and counsel, to preserve them from those vultures and\\nharpies, which prey upon the carcasses of widows, and fatten on the\\nblood of orphans.\\nFurther mention is made of his daughters Nedemiah, who married\\nRichard Berry, and Catharine, who married Doctor Van Emburgh, and\\nwho left numerous descendants, and of Elizabeth, who became the wife\\nof Captain James Davies. There seems to be no doubt that Major Wil-\\nliam Sandford, who was one of the council under Governors Hamilton\\nand Lord Cornbury, was his son. He was very prominent, and when but\\ntwenty-eight years of age presided as Chief Justice over the Court of\\nSessions at Elizabethtown, March 12th, 170(1, with four associate Jus-\\ntices, who were said to be all men of standing in their respective com-\\nmunities\\nThe desire of the first Sandford to be buried on his plantation, with-\\nout pomp or expensive ceremony, seems to have been carried out, al-\\nthough nothing definite exists relating thereto, except the existence of\\na very old landmark, a burial plot in which is interred some of the early\\nSandfords. Its location is in Kearney township, Hudson county, about\\ntwo miles south of the North Arlington line, just off vSchuyler Avenue,\\na few yards north of the old Kenton homestead. In this same yard\\nanother quite large stone, broken straight across its middle, lying face\\nupward, bearing the record that Major William Sandford died March\\n2d, 17.^2-33, aged 60 years.\\nThis broken and neglected relic marks a point very near to the\\nburial place of the colonial Major, Judge and Councillor of the proprie-\\ntors of the Jerseys, son of the first William Sandford, the first owner", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0468.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "HisTouN OK bi:k(;kn C(jrN Tv 421\\nof one of the richest land lirants of the United States at the present lav.\\nTHK lUmiv Ol- TH1-; KIN ;SI.AXI)S.\\nThe old Manor House, formerly the home of the Kin ^sland family\\nstill stands as a memento of ye olden time in the illatfe of Kini^sland.\\nAround this house cluster the memories of much Ih.il is historically\\nassociated with this part of Beri^en counlv, and in remembrance of liis\\nforefathers the property is retained in the possession of Mr. Edmund W.\\nKing sland, president of the Provident Saving s Institution, of Jersey\\nCity, N. J. Besides this old land-mark there remains also the olil mill\\n])ond. and the antiquated graves, both reminders of colonial days. The\\nold wheel and the miller s house were both but recently torn down by\\nthe railroad people, but the old homestead with its wide door and iireat\\nknocker, though bereft of its pr()jecting, wooden columned jiorch,\\nwhich for many years shielded it from sun and storm, still stands under\\nits old gambrel roof with an a])pearance as imposing as any domicile\\nerected to-day.\\nThis old house was once the object of attack by the British in Revo-\\nlutionary times. Edmund W. Kingsland then the owner, was dragged\\nfrom his home and after suffering injury, insult and ignominy was incar-\\ncerated in the old sugar house prison in New York city and there con-\\nfmed for a longtime. The silver and household vahial)les were saved by\\nthe ingenuity of the inmates of the house, wlio were not disturbed by\\nthe soldiery.\\nThe late Cliief Justice Joseph Hornblower, who died in .Newark in\\nlS(i4, was born in this house. His father was Josiah IIorni)lower. a\\nyoung man who came from FjUgland in 175.^, to superintend the erection\\nof a steam engine brought from that country to Union township to\\nwork the copi)cr mines then oi)erated by Colonel John Schuyler. Mr.\\nHornblower married Miss Kingsland by whom he became the father of\\nJoseph, afterward the Chief Justice, he being the youngest member (d\\nof his family oi twelve children.\\nIn l.S()K, the .Morris and ICssex Division of the D. I^. and \\\\V. K. R.\\nCompany comj)leted its railroad through this place, and shortly .after-\\nwards the railroad shops were re-erected for the repair and renew.il\\nof its worn out and defective locomoti\\\\is.\\nIn April 1M75, the shop e([ui])nienls of tools and machinery were\\ntaken from the other shops at Iloboken and elsewhere on the road and\\nremoved to this point, wJiere about three hundred and fifty hands find\\nsteady employment.\\nMr. W. H. Lewis, Master Mechanic of this division, has been in\\ncharge of these shops since i87(). In 1.S.S2, the macliine shop or main\\nbuilding was destroyed by fire, but it was immediately rebuilt. The\\ndepot station ;it this point was formerly a dwelling house. I he rail-\\nroad company has another statittn at Lyndlnirst, about oiu- mile from\\nthe station at Kingsland.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0469.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "422 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nTHE SCHUYLKK COPPKN MINES.\\nThe first business venture in this part of the country was the cop-\\nper-mining- industry. These mines are located in the borough of North\\nArlington and were the property of the Schuyler family until a fe^v\\nyears ago, %Yhen they were purchased by Mr. George Bayless.\\nAbout the Year 170(1, Arent SchuYler, son of the celebrated Philip\\nPieterson SchuYler who came from Holland in 1650, bought the tract of\\nland upon which these mines are situated, from William Kingsland. A\\nfew Years later a negro slave, while plowing a field found a stone which\\nfrom its peculiar hardness excited his curiosity-. He carried the stone\\nto his master, who finding in it indications of copper ore, sent it to\\nEngland for examination. This resulted, eventually, in the opening of\\nthe mines. Owing to the find the negro was given his freedom, with a\\nrequest that he make three wishes, which if possible were to be granted.\\nHis first wish was that he might live with his master as long as he\\nlived and to have all the tobacco he could smoke. His second wish was\\nfor a dressing gown with big brass buttons just like massa s. When\\nurged to ask something valuable as a third wish, he thought a moment\\nand scratching his wooly head said, I guess I ll hab a little more\\nbaccy. The mines were not made profitable until about 1753, when\\nColonel John Schuyler, son of Arent, coming into possession, sent to\\nEngland for a steam engine, such as were being used in the Cornwell\\nmines. These engines were built by Joseph Hornblower Sons, manu-\\nfacturers. At the request of Mr. Schuyler that an experienced engineer\\nbe sent to place the engine in successful operation, for that purpose\\ncame young Josiah Hornblower, afterwards the father of Chief Justice\\nJosiah Hornblower. The engines referred to were known as the New-\\ncomer Cornish engines. This one brought over and planned at great\\ncost was burned in 1772. In 1792, work was resumed and carried on for\\nseveral years, but finally ceased. The eastern face of the old mine has\\nbeen operated for some years as a stone quarry- In September, 1899, a\\nSYndicate of Boston copper capitalists commenced operations looking to\\nthe deYeU)pment of the mines, as a first step, pumping out the Victoria\\nshaft on the west side of Schuyler Avenue.\\nColonel John Schuyler was a progressive man and probably it was\\nhe who extended the Belleville turnpike from the Passaic river at Belle-\\nville, to the Hackensack river at Dow s ferry. This road is supposed to\\nhave been finished and the ferry established about the year 1755. Wil-\\nliam Uow was given charge of the ferry, the site of which was at a\\npoint a little north of the present bridge of the northern railroad of New\\nJersey. To this ferry and over this road, it is presumed Schuyler carted\\nhis ore and afterwards loaded it into vessels which conveyed it to Eng-\\nland, the vessels clearing from New York city- The late openings in\\nthese mines disclose veins of the finest ore, while the stone quarried for\\nbuilding purposes is said to contain about three per cent, of ore. Lack\\nof space forbids further description of this interesting locality and its\\nearlY surroundings.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0470.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV Ol BKKf.HN COUXTY 42,^\\nLOUIS KOCH.\\nThe paternal ancestors of Louis were machinists and dealt in iron,\\nsteel and brass, in Saarlouis, their French home. The first practical\\ncoffee mills are said to have been made by them and conveyed to Paris,\\nin big wagons. The father of Louis was Peter, the father of Peter\\nhad seven sons. One of these was Michael a professor of languages in\\nZweibruchen, Bavaria, while his son Victor, was a Colonel in the\\nBavarian array and another son, August, was Court Physician. Mr.\\nKoch s father was born in 18O1, and died in Metz, Germany, in 18 J7,\\naged ninetv-six years. John Koch, a brother of Louis, with six other\\nbrothers gave New York the first successful Symphony Concert in Cen-\\ntral Park Garden, wnth Theodore Thomas. John afterward built the\\nLexington Opera House, and lost it in the great panic which came upon\\nus in the seventies.\\nOn the maternal side Mr. Koch s grandparents were John and Anna\\nRaiser. John Raiser was of an old French family and died at the age of\\nsixty-three, being the last of the name. He had seventeen daughters,\\nand one son, who died at nineteen years of age. Three of these daugh-\\nters married three of the Koch brothers. John Raiser was a captain of\\nArtillery under Napoleon 1, until his surrender in 1815. Peter Koch,\\nthe father of Louis, invented the breech-loading cannon, sending the\\npattern and specifications to Napoleon HI in 1854, who afterward, it is\\nsaid, claimed the invention for himself.\\nLouis Koch was born in Saarlouis, Germany, March 14, 1837, and\\nwas educated in the public schools of his native place. His mother\\nwho had ten boys and six girls, desired that Louis should enter the\\npriesthood, but after her death which occured in 1851, he left school and\\nwent to Nancy, where he learned the trade of confectioner. In 1854 he\\ncame to America, the first of the family to come to this country. The\\nfollowing three years he was employed by a Mr. Schiller a confectioner\\nof Ilonesdale, Pennsylvania. In 1857, he with his brother John started\\nin business in Scranton, in the hotel, restaurant and confectionary trade,\\nat the same time oj)ening places in Easton, Pennsylvania and in Phila-\\ndelphia.\\nAugust lO, 18(,4, Mr. Koch was married to Miss Amelia Weber of\\nScranton, in the Masonic Hall, at which ceremony there were present\\nover two hundred of Scranton s best families. Mr. Koch was a private\\nin the Fifth Pennsylvania Militia during the first invasion of the state\\nby the rebels. He was a member of the Town Committee of Union\\ntownship from 1872 to 187 President of the Kingsland and Sawmill\\nCreek Drainage Company, and President of the Board of Education of\\nUnion township. He became a member of the I. O. O. in 1858, and\\njnined the Free Masons in 185 J and the Knigllt^ Templar in 18t 2,\\nliecoming a .^2d degree Mason in 1887, in Scranton.\\nMr. Koch has four children, Louis, Albert, Frank and .\\\\nna Ida.\\nLouis and Frank both served in the late Spanish war as members of\\nCompany L, Second Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, Louis a sergeant", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0471.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "l.nriS KOCII.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0472.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BlvKClKN CHJINTY 42.-^\\nwhili l ratik was a torjiDral. Anna Ida was lately jiTaduatt-d t nmi the\\nMetropolitan College of Music. She has a dramatie soprano voice, and\\nis preparini, for a professional career.\\nWII.I.IAM II. CASTl.KS.\\nWilliam H. Castles, who is a native of New Jersey, was born in\\nNewark about fifty years ago. His education was received in that city\\nin the public and high schools. He afterwards took a course of mathe-\\nmatical training from Bernard Kearney, one of the ablest mathemati-\\ncians of his day. Mr. Castles first business experience was in the\\ngrocery trade, his father placing him in charge of a store when he was\\nbut sixteen years of age. The business not being congenial to his taste\\nhe entered the employ of the (iould Machine Works Company at New-\\nark, as an apprentice, and by close attention to business and hard study,\\nhe was soon able to begin work as a journeyman machinist. In 18f) t\\nMr. Castles was emplo3 ed as such in the shops of the Delaware, Lacka-\\nwanna W estern Railroad Company, at Hoboken, where he was sub-\\nsequently promoted to the place of time-keeper. His energetic business\\nability was soon noticed and appreciated by President Sloan who\\nappointed him in 1873 chief clerk of the Car and Machinery department\\nwhich comprise all the locomotive and car repair shops of the Dela-\\nware. Lackawanna and Western, as well as the Sussex Railroad, in New\\nJersey. This position he had held for more than a quarter of a\\ncentury, when in April 1899, owing to a change of management, he\\nwas promoted to the position of manager of all the company s holdings\\nof real-estate in Union township.\\nMr. Castles is of Scoth-Irish ancestry of Presbyterian stock. He is\\na member of the Scotch-Irish Society, which has had Dr. John Hall as\\na member and also Robert Bonner, with other eminent men of the\\ncountry. He is also a member of Northern Lodge, No. 25 K. A. M.\\nof Newark and f Kingsland Council, J. U. A. M., :ind of other\\nsocieties.\\nPublic spirited and wide awake he has served in many cajjacities in\\nsociety organizations, among others, was president of the Kureka\\nBoat Club during the Centennial year. He has served one term as\\ncollector for Union township. While doing some real estate business,\\nhe has also acted in the capacity of agent for the (ierman-American\\nInsurance Companv for over twenty years. He is a Commissioner of\\nDeeds, Notary Public and a Pension Attorney.\\nMr. Castles purchased some years ago, the r.ither picturesi|iie old\\n(ieorge Kingsland homestead at Kingsland where he now resides. Four\\nacres of ground surround the house, and some fine old trees adorn the\\nsloping lawn. A fine spring supplies water.\\nMr. Castles is a highly esteemed citizen.\\nJOHN U. MII.I.AIV.\\nRobert Millar, the father of Mr. John K. Millar, of North Arling-\\nton, was a successful scientific gardener in Scotland, the n,iti\\\\, l;inil of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0473.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM H. CASTLES", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0474.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 427\\nthe Millar family. For generations, ij-ardeninf;- on scientific principles,\\nhad been the chief industry of the Millars. In i.S(.7, Mitchell Millar,\\na brother of Robert, died, leaving an estate valued at S50,()0(), represent-\\ning the earnings of forty years, on twenty-six acres of land, which had\\ncost him yearly about fifty dollars an acre for rent.\\nUpon reaching manhood, John R. Millar became manager of a farm\\nknown as Melvin Hall, in Midlothian, in the interest of Margaret\\n(low, heir to this estate. Miss Gow was the eldest of six daughters,\\nand subsequently became the wife of her manager.\\nThey were married in March, 1872, coming to America and settling\\nm land owned by her father in Kingsland. N. J. In 1875 they bought\\nland, built a house and entered upon the business of making a farm out\\nof the forest. It looked a herculean task, but trees and tanglewood\\nwere in due time cleared away, and we now see a fine garden, bringing\\nin a handsome revenue. Of Mr. and Mrs. Millar s four children, three\\nsons and one daughter, John Gow Millar, the eldest son, is a prominent\\nman in the borough, being a member of the school board, and holding\\nseveral oftices in the government. Robert (i. Millar inherited the tastes\\nof his ancestry in the line of gardening, while also being an expert\\nbookkeeper. His death occurred on December 1, 18 \u00c2\u00bb8, at twenty-three\\nvears of age. His father survived him but a few days, dying on the\\nisth of the same month. Mr. Millar was born near Edinburg, Scot-\\nland, in 1S40.\\nJIvSSIC V. JOKAI.KMON\\nThe .loralenion family came to this country in a very early day.\\nJohn and Cornelius Joralenum, with the Westervelts and the Browns\\nrepresented the shipbuilding craft, in the early history of the town of\\nUnion. Cornelius Joralemon who died during the first years of the civil\\nwar built many vessels, mostly two masted and of about thirty or forty\\ntons burden.\\nThe Joralemon homestead was on tln Passaic Ri\\\\er, wliert- John\\nPost now resides, their shipyards also being in that vicinity. Boats in\\nthose days plying between Acquackanonk and New York were the com-\\nmon mode of convevance for excursions or other i)leasure jiarties between\\nthese two places.\\nPeter Joralemon, who has been bridge tender for the last twenty\\nyears at the Lyndhurst bridge, studied the art of shipbuilding and\\nbecame a skilled draughtsman, modeler and designer. During his time,\\nlarger vessels were constructed, some schooners of four hundred tons\\nburden and over, having been built by him and others for several lines\\ndoing business between New York and Charleston, Savannah and\\nother southern seaports.\\nThe last vessel he built was the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Westley Stone. still running into\\nNew York harbor.\\nHe married Miss Margaret Hrown. daughter of .Abraham Brown,\\nand is the father of Jesse P. and Warren H. Joralemon, the well known\\ncoal men of Rutherford.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0475.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "428 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nJesse p. Joralemon, was also engaged for a time in boat building-.\\nHe owned a floating dock, a few years since in Hoboken, but he drifted\\nfrom that to house building and finally placed his capital in the business\\nof trucking, already started by his brother. The large storage house in\\nLyndhurst was built by Jesse P. in 1890, and the present dock about the\\nsame time.\\nTwelve or fifteen teams are constantly in use, and a large business\\nis done, not only in coal and ice, but in the moving business.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0476.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVII.\\nruthp:rf()rd boroughs.\\nVILLA SITES THE MANOK HOUSE KUTHEKKOKD PAKK LAND COMPANIES\\nTHE BOKOl GH SCHOOLS NEWSPAPERS SOCIETIES, ASSOCIA-\\nTIONS, CLUBS AND LODGES BOARD OF TRADE BANKS\\nCOMPANY L CHURCHES EAST RUTHERFORD ORGAN-\\nIZATION OF THE BOROUGH BOROUGH OFFICERS\\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nIn Thing-s Old and New, published in 18 i8, we find a letter writ-\\nten by Mr. Floyd W. Tompkins, the Pioneer of the village of Ruther-\\nford, in which he tells us that on April 2d. 1858, he removed with his\\nfamily to a little farm of twenty-five acres which he had bought, and\\non which stood a small stone house. Shortly after this he purchased\\nseventv-five acres more on what is now Union Avenue, and had it sur-\\nveyed and a map made of Villa sites at Boiling- Springs, New Jersey.\\nThis was the beginning of the village, although a station had been\\nestablished here ever since 1832, when the New York and Paterson Rail-\\nroad was finished. When locomotive power was adopted the never fail-\\ning spring had been utilized by the company as a watering station under\\nthe name of Boiling Springs. Several gentlemen now bought lots,\\nbuilt houses and finally by using some liberality prevailed upon the\\nrailroad company (now the Erie) to erect a passenger depot and ticket\\noffice. This depot was a small triangular shaped brick building, with\\na gable roof. It stood on the east side of the railroad at the corner of\\nUnion Avenue, which was then more a lane than an avenue. At this\\ntime Charles Ingersoll was station agent. About the year 18( 2, this\\nlittle structure gave place to the one which in time has been displaced\\nby the beautiful, new and commodious building completed in 1897.\\nPark Avenue was laid out in 18()f) by the commissitmers. to connect the\\nlands of the Rutherford Park Association with the depot.\\nIn 18( 7 an act was passed by the Legislature authorizing the im-\\nprovement of this street and soon after Ridge Road and Rutherford\\nAvenue were laid out and graded, under an act of the Legislature,\\nother streets following, through the efforts of land cntn])anies or by\\n])ri\\\\Mte individuals.\\nDuring the lifelinu uf Mr. Rutherford his property was known as\\nEdgerston Manor. the name of the family seat in Scotland. The\\nManor House stood on the River Road south of what is now Ruther-\\nford .\\\\venue. After the death of Mr. Rutherford the greatir p:irt of\\nthe estate passed into the hands of Mr. William J. Stewart, who dis-\\nposed of it to the Rutherford Park Association. They laid out sinets,\\ndividing the land into building lots, converting the Manor Housi into a\\nhotel, which after a ]K ri l of some success and later of failure in 1)usi-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0477.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "430 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nness, was eventual!}- destroyed b}- lire and never rebuilt. Another hotel\\nin the early history of the borough, was the Vreeland House, now\\nused by the Salvation Army as Cherry Tree Home.\\nIn 1870 the name Rutherford was adopted on account of much\\nof the land having been a part of the farm of John Rutherford, while\\nPark was attached no doubt as a sort of attraction. This name\\ncontinued until about 1875, when, after much discussion, a request was\\nforwarded to the Postmaster. General to drop Park from the name.\\nThis request was granted, the Erie company soon after changing to the\\nsame name.\\nIn 1882 controlling interest of the Rutherford Heights Association\\npassed into new hands, when it was decided to begin building houses iur\\nsale on easy terms. Three cottages were built on Passaic and Donald-\\nson Avenues, which were rented, because of failure to find purchasers.\\nHowever, under the able management of Mr. A. G. Bell, the treasurer of\\nthe Association, several houses were built and disposed of on liberal\\nterms. This giving an impetus to business, many people availed them-\\nselves of the opportunity to secure a home, and soon more than two hun-\\ndred houses had been disposed of on easy terms. Other land companies\\nwere now organized, Mount Rutherford Land Company claiming\\nprecedence in the matter of organization. The Home Land Company,\\nRutherford Heights Association, Park Land Company, The Ruthei-\\nford Park Association, West Carlstadt Land Verein, and the\\nEast Rutherford Land Association. All these have aided in building\\nup the borough. In the little Souvenir from which we draw largely\\nin this article, we lind this statement Looking westward from the\\ndepot two modest looking hills completely shut out a view of the lands\\nl^-ing beyond. The more southerly one is now dignified by the name of\\nMount Rutherford, the other, a smaller one, arose in a depressed, cone-\\nlike shape directly back of the depot. Between these sister hills was a\\ndeep ravine affording a complete drainage for a large section of back\\nland. Upon laying out and grading the lands around the depot by the\\nMt. Rutherford Company the smaller hill was cut down to fill up this\\nravine, where it was crossed by the Orient Way, and also by the Home\\nLand Company, in forming the plateau through which runs Ames\\nAvenue. A filling at Orient Way, gave opportunity for the forming of\\na picturesque, lake-like pond, called Glen Waters, fed by living springs,\\nand fringed on its southern side by a cluster of fine elms. In its waters\\nwas baptized the first convert in the Baptist church of Rutherford. This\\nlake was given to the town by the Mt. Rutherford Company, but was\\nsubsequently filled up from fear of malaria.\\nThe Rutherford Improvement Association was organized in 18S1.\\nThis organization was the outcome of a meeting called by a few leading\\ncitizens in order to bring before the people a plan by which they might\\nsecure a local government. Major Richard Allison was its first presi-\\ndent. On September 5, a meeting was called over which Mr. David B.\\nIvison presided, when it was decided to call a meeting and take a vote", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0478.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BERGEN COUNTY 431\\non the question of l)oroui^-li ii-overnment. This ok ction was hekl on the\\ntwentieth of the same month, when the question was (kxi(K (l and the\\ncertificate filed the followiuL; day. The first election for horou^-li\\nofficers was held October 4, followini\u00c2\u00bb-. when Alfred Oakley was elected\\nMayor. The final and full separation from the township g-overnment,\\nhowever, took place, when on March 10, 1S a law was enacted by the\\nle ifislature, by which the borough became a distinct municipality, the\\nofficers consisting of a mayor elected annually, with executive responsi-\\nbility and power to veto, with six councilnien serving three years each,\\nwho with the mayor constitute a full local legislative power, the council\\nhaving the power by a two-thirds vote to pass measures over the veto of\\nthe mayor. In addition to these an assessor and collector of taxes serv-\\ning three years, four justices of the peace, who are elected for five years,\\nand also three commissioners of appeal, having power to adjust the\\nassessment laid by the assessor. As many marshals may be appointed\\nas the Mayor and Council deem necessary.\\nPrior to this an Electric Light plant had been placed and put in\\noperation in 189 In 1891, water was introduced by the Hackensack\\nwater system, which supplied pure water taken from the river at New\\nMil ford, above the dams at the lowest point where fresh water can be\\nobtained. The water in the mains as well as in the reservoir, is\\nthoroughly aerated, by forcing fresh air into the mains of the reservoir,\\nby compressors built for that purpose and located at New Milford and\\nW eehawken. Some forty hydrants are distributed throughout the bor-\\nough at convenient localities, about twelve miles of mains being used.\\nA system of sanitary sewers was also voted for, in which is embodied\\nall the advantages of modern science, as applied by Colonel d. E. War-\\ning of Newport, R. I., and other well known engineers. The sewers are\\nof the kind known as the close system, intended to convey sewage\\nonly, instead of receiving surface and subsoil drainage in addition to\\nhousehold sewage. By this system no foul gases are sujjposed to escape;\\nthe conduits are small and the joints hermetically sealed, while the\\nsewers are flushed twice every day to insure against the accumulation\\nof ff)ul gases.\\nThe borough of Kutherford C( \\\\ers an area of something less than\\ntwo square miles, with a population of about 5U()(). The business por-\\ntion of the borough is mostly near the depot and on Park Avenue.\\nBusiness of various kinds is carried on by which the necessaries of life\\nmay be supplied. The sale of intoxicating drinks as a beverage has\\nnever yet been authorized.\\nWhen the railroad was first comi)leted in l.s. 2, and for some time\\nafterward, the coaches were drawn by horses, the flriver sitting com-\\nfortably on top of the coach. Two small locomotives were subse()uently\\nbuilt in Baltimore, which superseded the horses. A pumping station\\nwas built near where Just s Hotel nf)w stands, the water Ijeing drawn\\nfri ni the underground vein of the Boiling Springs. Two l)oys were", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0479.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "432 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nemployed to pump the water into an elevated tank, which supplied\\nwater for the locomotives.\\nWhat is now East Rutherford was then composed of five or six old-\\nfashioned farm houses.\\nThe Rutherford fire department is regularly orj^anized under the\\ncontrol of a Chief and Assistant Chief Engineer. The department com-\\nprises four companies, Truck and Bucket Company organized June\\n1876; Fire Engine Company No. 2 organized March 24, 1886; and West\\nEnd Fire Engine and Hose Company No. 3 organized July 1890. No. 3\\nis equipped with a chemical apparatus furnished for immediate use, and\\nnot wholly dependent upon water. Hose Company No. 4 was organized\\nSeptember 1896. This company is composed of men who are within call\\nduring the day. They are equipped with a modern style of hose cart to\\nbe drawn by hand or horses. No. 1 has a truck drawn by horses also.\\nUnlike the general run of suburbs, Rutherford has a well kept and\\nfinely located cemetery, the property of a local corporation. The Hill-\\nside Cemetery Company was organized May 20, 1882, under the act\\nentitled An act to authorize the incorporation of rural cemetery\\nassociations and regulate cemeteries, approved April 9, 1873. The\\ncemetery is situated between Rutherford and Kingsland, and is easily\\naccessible from Jersey City and Hoboken by either Kingsland or Ruther-\\nford depots. It contains about forty-five acres.\\nThe present officers of the borough of Rutherford are: Mayor,\\nEdward J. Turner; Councilmen, Andrew H. Teeple, President; Joseph N.\\nMileham, Charles L. Crear, Frank P. Newman, David Bosman, Samuel\\nT. Davy; Clerk, Joseph W. Burgess; Collector, Edwin C. Abbot; Asses-\\nsor, Jacob Rohrbach.\\nPl BLIC SCHOOLS.\\nThe Rutherford Public School as it now exists, is practically what\\nwas Old District No. 40, in the township of Union. In 1870 the resi-\\ndents in the vicinity of the Rutherford depot, then Boiling Springs,\\nwere obliged to patronize the only school in the neighborhood, on the\\nMeadow Road. It was a quaint old one-story building said to have\\nbeen built about the year 1850. The school house seated fifty pupils\\nand was like many of the old fashioned school houses, seated with\\nbenches without backs, and with smaller benches for the young children.\\nMany who were teachers in this old building are now alive and it is\\namusing to hear them recount their experiences. At that time before a\\nteacher was permitted to instruct pupils in the public school he had to\\nprocure a license from the town superintendent who together with the\\nboard of school trustees constituted the examining board. Mr. Jacob\\nG. Van Riper, late postmaster of Rutherford, was for many years town\\nsuperintendent and was known as one of the most intelligent who held\\nthe office. The teachers who at various times taught in the Meadow\\nRoad school house are George Brinkerhoff, J. P. Jones, E. E. Vreeland,\\nMr. Gow, George Parcel and G. R. Alyea. A Mr. Mersereau became\\nthe first teacher in the Park Avenue school house. After the erecticm", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0480.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK ri;kc;i-:n county\\n433\\nof the Park Avonuu buildiiii^-, ahuut the war 1S71, the old school hiiild-\\niiig was sold to a man by the name of McClinnis who placed it uixm a\\nstone foundation and occupied it as a residence for n .any years. AIjouI\\nthe year 1886 Mr. Mcdiiinis look the huildini;- down ])iece by piece and\\nmoved it tog-ether with the foundation to Newark where it still stands\\nin much of its former style.\\nThe Park Avenue house when erected, was a model of its kind and\\nits erection by taxation, raised all in one year, showed a spirit of enter-\\nprise and energy that was commendable. This school was first in charge\\nof Mr. Mersereau. then came Mr. \\\\V. F. Morrow, who was succeeded bv\\nt\\nIHHnI\\ni\\nKCTUKKKOKI) .NO.\\nWilliam H. Palmer in 1.S77. In 1.S7S .Mr. Paddock Mersereau\\nhad the school, and in 1X7 Captain Atldison IClv became its principal\\nand held the position for seven years. He was succeeded by Mr. T.\\nB. Hascall who was principal for eight vears. Tie was succeeded by\\nthe present ])rincipal, Mr. William C. Ingalls.\\nIn 1.S76 there was a division of the school district, when a new\\nschool house was built in East Rutherford for the new district formed\\nout of a part of District No. 40 which became known as District No. 40)i.\\nA Miss (iinn was made principal, and Mr. Canfield an old citizen, and\\nschool teacher throughout this section of Bergen county for many years\\nsucceeded her. He was succeeded by Mr. G. R. Alyea, who was a\\nfew years since succeeded bv Mr. Wilcox, the present County Sujjerin-\\ntendent of Passaic Countv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0481.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "434 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe residents nf Rutherford have been noted for their liberality in\\nthe matter of public schools and have expected as a result of their\\nexpenditures, the best schools possible. Rutherford sustained the\\nreputation of being second in the state of New Jersey in the cost of\\neducation per capita, last year. Within a few years the number of\\npupils attending school having become too large to be accommodated\\nlonger in the Park Avenue house, buildings were erected on Sylvan\\nStreet and Union Avenue and at present the Board of Education have\\nan annex building on Park Avenue. The average number of children\\nattending all the Public Schools during the last year is not far from\\nsix hundred.\\nCHURCHES OF KUTHEKFOKD.\\nBY EDWIN BULKLEY.\\nFor several years prior to 1862 a Union Sunday School had been\\nmaintained in what was then known as the Boiling Springs Neighbor-\\nhood, comprising the territory of the present Borough of Rutherford,\\nand that part of the township up to the boundaries of Carlstadt. This\\nNeighborhood was regarded as connected with and under the care of\\nthe Reformed Dutch Church, in Passaic, with which many of the farmers\\nand other residents here were identified. The Union Sunday School\\nwas not, however, an outgrowth of that church, but owed its existence\\nto persons of the immediate vicinity. They united to secure a building\\nand meeting place for purposes of public welfare, the most lasting and\\nbeneficial of which proved to be this Sunday School. The building was\\nerected on high ground, facing the railroad. It still remains, trans-\\nferred to the opposite side of Ames Avenue, as a part of Union Hall, much\\nhaving been added to it since; its frontage being changed and its\\naccessibilit}- increased by taking down the hill on which it stood, and\\nlowering it to its present foundation.\\nAlthough occasional preaching was heard in Union Hall, and some\\nresorted to neighboring places for church services, it soon became\\napparent that this was insufficient provision for the community. No\\nother denomination being prepared to offer this, a Presbyterian organ-\\nization was determined upon, with the concurance of many who felt the\\nneed of church privileges of which they could more easily avail them-\\nselves.\\nPRESBVTEKIAN CnUKCH.\\nWith the fostering care of Rev. Joseph Alden, D.D., L.L.D., who\\nbecame a property owner and resident of Boiling Springs, a Church\\nwas organized by the Presbj tery of Passaic afterward merged into the\\npresent Presbytery of Jersey City, July 26, 1863, with an original mem-\\nbership of fifteen. Dr. Alden continued as its stated supply for nearly\\ntwo years, or until the Spring of 1865. This distinguished man rend-\\nered good service to it by his sound teaching and counsel. He had\\n(Kcupied eminent positions in colleges and other of the higher institu-\\ntions of learninuf, and was the author or editor of several useful books.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0482.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY Ol- BEKOEN COUNTY 435\\nThe Kov. (loorsie L. Smith was the first pastor, from October 25,\\n1S()5, to April 1*J, 1.S71. He was succeeded by Rev. Herman C. KiirtTS,\\n(D. D.,) from November 12, 1871, to March 2( 1S7(.. Rev. Dana M.\\nWalcott was invited to the pastorate May 25, lS7f but was never\\ninstalled in it. His laliors were discontinued June 15, 1S7S. Rev.\\nEdwin A. Bulkley, D. D., was called to be pastor September 1.^, 1.S7.S.\\nand fulfilled the duties of his office until March 27, 18 )8, when on\\naccount of infirm health he asked to be released from them. Retirin jf\\nfrom active service he was unanimously invited bv the conirre .^ati().i to\\nbe Pastor Emeritus, with an annual allowance.\\nHe commemorated October 17, l!S 7, the fiftieth anniversarv of his\\nordination to the ministry, October 11, 1847, when he was but little over\\ntwenty-one years of age. Since that time he had been nearly continu-\\nously in the active pastorate. During the time of his service in Ruther-\\nford 697 had been added to the membership, leaving it at 5()(1, and\\nembracing 716 in its Sabbath schools.\\nAfter the use of Union Hall as a place of worship for several years,\\nthe erection of a proper church building, at the intersection of Park\\nAvenue and Chestnut Street, was undertaken in 18() and on the 25th\\nof December in that year the completed edifice was dedicated to the\\nservice of God, about S12,0()() having been expended. Four years later\\nimportant improvements were made at a cost of ?670(), and subsequently\\nmuch was done for the good condition and adornment of the church.\\nBut the growth of Rutherford caused it to be insufficient, and the build-\\ning of a new edifice upon a new site was begun in 18 S8. The corner-\\nstone was laid May 9, 1889, and the dedication of the finished work took\\nplace March 27, 1890. It stands upon a triangle of nearly an acre in\\nextent, Park and Ridge Avenues intersecting in front, and Passaic\\nAvenue crossing at the rear. Its style is the rural English (Jothic, with\\nlow side walls and high gables of brown Belleville stone, laid in rock-\\nfaced ashlar. The interior is of corresponding finish, the cost of the\\nsite, edifice, and furnishing being al)out S75,0tW).\\nIn 1868 the first manse, or parsonage, was built on C hestmit street.\\nUpon the sale of this, the one on Ridge Avenue was erected, and con-\\ntinued to be occupied by the pastors until the resignation of Dr. Bulkley.\\nIn organic connection with the Rutherford Presbyterian Church,\\nthere are three chapels, Kingsland, Lyndhurst and Emmanuel, at dis-\\ntances of about a mile from the Mother Church, all having sufficient\\nand well-appointed houses of worshi]), and growing Sabbath schools.\\nServices arc regularly maintained by ])astor s assistants.\\nKIMSCOI .M. ClUKCII.\\n(Irace Protestant Episco])al i Church was orgimixed March 4. 18(.9.\\nin the Rutherford Park Hotel.\\nThe building now called the Lyndhurst Chapel, and formerly tlu\\nAcademy, was erected in the same year by the Rutherford Park\\nSchool and Hall Association. The lower rooms were used for a private", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0483.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "436 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nschool, and the upper room was leased for the church services. Rev.\\nW. H. Lord was chosen first rector May 12, 18( and remained with\\nthe parish until July 1871. At that time the church s finances had\\nbecome so embarrassed, and the population so much changed in the\\nvicinity of the Academy, that it was decided to move to the upper\\npart of Union Hall, where the congregation was under charge of Mr.\\nN. R. Boss, as a lay reader, for one year. He was succeeded by\\nRev. E. S. W. Pentreath, a deacon at the time, who remained till April\\n5, 1874. Rev. R. M. Hayden, deacon, accepted charge in 1874, his min-\\nistrations covering a period of about one year. The services were there-\\nafter mainly conducted by lay-readers, till. the spring of 1878, when\\nRev. N. R. Boss was called as rector, and remained in that office till\\nSeptember 25, 1883. The parish was without a rector till February 8,\\n1883, when the Rev. F. J. Clayton began his services, continuing till\\nhis decease December 27, 1894. He was succeeded in May 1895, by the\\npresent rector. Rev. Henry M. Ladd.\\nThe corner-stone of the present church edifice was laid October 14,\\n1872, on a plot of ground (Passaic Avenue) donated by Mr. F. W. Tomp-\\nkins. It was completed at a cost of about $7,000. and opening services\\nwere held October 7, i873. In i887 the remainder of the mortgage,\\nincurred in building the church was paid, and on August 1, i890 the\\ncorner-stone laid of a new chancel and transepts, which were form-\\nally opened on February 5, 189i. The enlargement was designed by\\nW. Halsey Wood, and cost about $12,000.\\nA new organ has this year been placed in the church, and the\\ninterior tastefully decorated all signs of cheering progress.\\nSt. Thomas Mission, in the adjoining township of Union, is under\\nthe care of Grace Church, and is regularly supplied with services and\\nSunday School.\\nBAPTIST CHl KCH.\\nThe earliest Baptist residents of Rutherford participated in the\\nUnion Sunday school until the organization of the the First Baptist\\nChurch, October 1, 1869, with eighteen members. For some time the\\npulpit was occupied on Wednesday evenings by Rev. Franklin Johnson,\\nD. D., the pastor of the Passaic Baptist Church. On October 9, 1870,\\nthe Rev. John A. McKean became the settled pastor, and continued as\\nsuch till July, 1873. He was followed by Rev. A. H. Robinson, Octo-\\nber 10, 1873, who terminated his pastorate November 1, 1874. From\\nearly in i875 to July 28, i876, the Rev. W. E. Wright served the church.\\nIn November of the latter year Rev. A. H. Cornell became pastor, remain-\\ning until July, 1878. At the close of his labors the Rev. J. Huggins\\nand others acted as temporary supplies, until October 19, i884, when a\\ncall was extended to the Rev. P. Franklin Jones, who became the last\\npastor of the First Baptist Church. In September, 1884, in conse-\\nquence of a difference of opinion about church order, ten members with-\\ndrew and formed themselves into the Pilgrim Baptist Church, January\\n22, 1885. In February, 1885, the First church voted to disband on", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0484.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGKN COIINTY 437\\naccount of financial weakness. A new orifanization of the Kutherford\\nBaptist Church was effected October 2S. 18S7, the Pilgrim Baptist\\nChurch transferring its pro])erty to this organization. A council recog-\\nnized this November 4, 1887, and ordained Rev. J. Hewitt to the minis-\\ntry and pastorate November 15, 1887. He continued only till Ajtril 28,\\n1888, and was succeeded by Rev. J. L. Hastie. Jr.. who began his services\\nas Stated Supply May 13, 18S8. and three munths later was settled as\\npastor. He resigned June 16, i8 Rev. W. (uithric Myles was pastor\\nabout a year and a half, from Noveml)er 2, 18 J0. His successor. Rev.\\nE. J. Cooper, served as supply and pastor fur four and a half years.\\nThe present pastor, Rev. W. W. Case, shortly accepted a call to the\\npastorate, and had his public recognition December 22, 189().\\nA house of worship was erected soon after the organii.atinn of the\\nFirst Church on a site at the corner of Park Avenue and Highland\\nCross, by Mr. R. Shugg, at a cost of about S3()0(t. This Iniilding was\\nsold at the time of the disbanding of the church for a sum about cover-\\ning the mortgage upon it. Worship was maintained by the Baptist\\ncongregations in Union and Masonic Halls until the present church edifice\\non Passaic Avenue was erected during the ministry of Mr. Hastie, at a\\ncost of near S6000.\\nIn the pastorate of Mr. McKean a mission chapel was built at Moon-\\nachie, at a cost of SiOOU. The liuilding was fullv paid for, but passed\\ninto the control of the owner of its site. The field, after some years of\\ngood and rewarded work, was abandoned by the Baptists, and is now\\noccupied by the Presbyterians and Lutherans.\\nMETHODI.ST CHURCH.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church entered this field with preliminary\\nmissionary efforts, extending from 18()8 to 1S7(). On December 15th of\\nthe latter year, an organization was effected of the Park M. E. Church\\nof Rutherford Park, under Rev. S. P. Hammond as Preacher in\\nCharge. Services were held in Union Hall until the Society entered a\\nnew church edifice, June I J, 1872. This stood in Orchard Street, north\\nof the railway. The cf)rner-stonc was laid September 25, 1871, the\\nbasement was cf)mpleted, and the building formally dedicated Septem-\\nber 15, 1872. After enjoying the use of it for a season, and turning it\\nto profitable account, the Church became so discouraged by diminishing\\nnumbers and financial burdens, that it was disbanded in the Si)ring of\\n1878, and the building sold by foreclosure.\\nOn March 3, 1880, the church organization was revived. site for\\na chapel was given on Ames Avenue, and the dismantled Park Church\\nwas purchased that its frame and materials might be used in a new\\nbuilding, which was dedicated November 20, 1881.\\nThe first church was served, in the succession, after Mr. Hammond\\n(1870-74), by Rev. J. A. Owen (74-70), Rev. E. Clement (7.5-78) and\\nRev. A. A. King (78-7 (i. The present Church by Rev. Messrs. W. H.\\nKussell i 8(l- 84i, Ostrander. Howard i 84- 87 i, Schuch and I .ower. In", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0485.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "4.48 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n1888 the Rev. C. M. Auderson comnienced his five years ministry, dur-\\ning- which the church grew, and a parsonage was erected on Passaic\\nAvenue. In IS \u00c2\u00bb3 the Rev. W. Tumbower was appointed pastor, suc-\\nceeded in 1894 by Rev. W. Day, who was suddenly removed by death\\nbefore the close of his term. The next incumbent was the present\\npastor Rev. Charles L. Mead. During the ministry of Mr. Day, the\\nold church building on Ames Avenue was sold, and the congregation\\nmet in the Union Club Auditorium, and later in Ivison Hall. The erec-\\ntion of a new edifice on the site adjoining the parsonage, followed in\\ndue course, the corner-stone being laid November 4, 1895, and the\\ndedication occurring April 12, 1896. A fine organ has since been put in\\nplace, and general prosperity crowns the church. The parsonage and\\nits lot are valued at S75()0. The church and its lot at 822,500.\\nCONGKEG.\\\\TION.\\\\L CHURCH.\\nUpon the retirement of Rev. D. M. Walcott from the pulpit of the\\nPresbyterian church in 1878, some eleven of its membership followed\\nhim and associated with others, became the Congregaticmal Church of\\nRutherford, July 15, 1878. For a number of years they met in the brick\\nbuilding, at the corner of Park Avenue and Franklin Place. The small\\nremnant then withdrew to the house of the pastor, in which they c(m-\\ntinued to hold services and enjoy his ministrations.\\nUNITARIAN CHURCH.\\nThe first Unitarian service was held in Rutherford at the residence\\nof H. G. Bell, October 3, 1891. From that time regular services have\\nbeen continued, the Unitarian Society of Rutherford, N. J., being\\nincorporated December 22, 1891. On May 2( 1892, Rev. George H.\\nBadger was called to the pastorate, entering upon his ministry in Ruther-\\nford July 1st. A Sunday school was began immediately. Upon the\\nsettlement of the pastor the church organization, with a simple non-\\ncredal covenant, was effected September 13, 1892, under the name of\\nThe Church of Our Father. A small, but tasteful house of worship,\\nbuilt on Home Avenue at a cost, with furnishings, of $6800, was\\ndedicated December 15, 1892.\\nMT. AKAKAT BAPTIST CIU KCH.\\nThischurch i colored was organized July 14, 1,S9(,, and incorporated\\nMarch 12, 1897. It is under the pastoral care of Rev. \\\\V. II. Howerton,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2md worshijjs at present in Union Hall.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nTHE BERGEN COUNTY HERALD.\\nThe Bergen County Herald, published by the Bergen County\\nHerald Publishing Company, with one exception is the oldest newspaper\\npublished in the county of Bergen. Its first issue came out about i871,\\nand represented a constituency in the neighborhood of Rutherford and\\nCarlstadt. It sixm passed into the hands of a Publishing Company con-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0486.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COl XTY 4.\\nsisting of Charles H. Voorhis, Henry Kipp, John Bartholph and Jacob\\nP. Westervelt. As early as 1873 the Bergen County Herald was nt^t\\nexcelled by any newspaper in the county. In fact its only competitor\\nwas the Hackensack Democrat. It 1875 it was purchased by John Hay-\\nwood and the plant moved to a frame building which then stood opposite\\nthe Rutherford Depot. Mr. Haywood associated with him Mr. James\\nN. Bookstaver, an old newspaperman, and together they made character\\nand reputation for the Herald. It was well and familiarly known by\\nevery body as the Bergen County. Mr. Haywood and Mr. Bookstaver\\nconducted the paper as an independent Democratic sheet and from the\\ndate of their purchase until the present time it has maintained and\\nsu]iportcd with vigor the principles of the Democratic party.\\nOn the death of Mr. John Haywood, Mr. James N. Bookstaver c(m-\\ntinued the publication of the paper for about a year, when the plant\\nbeing disposed of by the Haywood estate, the title and good will of the\\nnewspaper was purchased by ex-Coroner Nelson W. Young and Messrs.\\nFrederick and Nelson W. Wilson, when a new office was fitted up to\\naccommodate the paper. Shortly afterwards the Messrs. Wilson severed\\ntheir connection with the paper, and for many years it was intelligently\\nand effectively conducted by Mr. Young. In 18S J Messrs. Morris and\\nStevens purchased the interest of JNIr. Young. Mr. Morris, having\\nother business in New York state, sold out his interest to Mr. Stevens,\\nwho continued the publication for several years.\\nMr. C. L. Parker succeeded Mr. Stevens, and in 18 5 Captain Addi-\\nson Ely acquired the plant. Under his ownership and influence it has\\nsecured an extensive circulation, and is regarded as one of the leading\\nDemocratic weeklies in the state of New Jersey.\\nIn 1S the County Democratic Committee after inducing Captain\\nEly to move his plant to Hackensack and they constituted his paper the\\nofficial party organ. Many additions and extensions were then made to\\nthe plant and the size of the paper increased to an eight page. The\\ncirculation has rapidly advanced and it is known as an enterprising and\\nfearless Democratic journal.\\nTHK KfTHEKFOKD NEWS.\\nThe Rutherford News was founded by James N. Bookstaver, Sep-\\ntember 1SS5. It was Republican in politics, remaining so while under\\nthe control of its founders, to June 1888, when it passed into the hands\\nof the following gentlemen, taking the name of the Rutherford News\\nPublishing Company: Carl Dannheim, H. N. Bullington, Andrew H.\\nBrinkerhoff, E. N. Edgar. William K. Everdell, Joseph D. Brinkerhoff,\\nJohn J. Dupuy, Carl von Hartz, William H. Smith and Anderson Price.\\nThis corporation passed under the control of John J. Ketchum, Tom\\nStevens and E. A. Fletcher, who made it a Republican paper until\\nDr. Ketchum had a change of heart and became a Democrat. The\\npaper was finally sold to Homer, Farnum Homer, who were succeeded\\nby Homer Farnum and later by Thomas W. Homer. In June 18* 7", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0487.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "440 HISTOKV OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nthe paper was bought by the Rutherford News Publishing- Company\\nwhose owners and officers are, Carl von Hartz, President; Anderson\\nPrice, Treasurer; and William E. Sturm, Secretary.\\nThe Rutherford American was started on June 30, 1892, as a four-\\npag-e, six-column Republican newspaper, to be published every Thursday.\\nAt the end of si.x months an additional column was added to each page,\\nand later the paper was increased to eig^ht pag-es, six columns to a pag-e,\\nat which size it now remains. Its office is in the Shafer Building-,\\nRutherford. It is owned and edited by John E. Tyler.\\nKOV.\\\\L .VKCANl M.\\nThe local Subordinate Council known as Rutherford Council, No.\\n122 was instituted on January 17, IS JO, with nineteen members. Its\\nfirst Regent was S. N. Hig-bie, the subsequent Regents being: J. L.\\nChapman, W. G. Williams, tl. N. Janes. S. T. Davy, A. A. Clark, J.\\nH. Bowne, W. W. Ward, and for the term of 1S \u00c2\u00bbS, J. A. Jesty. The\\nfollowing is the list of the nineteen original members: W. A. Tomp-\\nkins, S. N. Higbie, Dr. S. E. Armstrong, J. W. Burgess, A. A. Clark,\\nJ. L. Chapman, Wm. Fleming, Sr., J. C. Hastie, E. H. A. Habbert, A.\\nO. Jackson, G. N. Janes, F. H. Miller, E. R. S. Saunders, L. T. Savage,\\nC. E. Tolhurst, J. H. Van Harding, W. G. Williams, W. W. Ward, Jr.,\\nC. H. Warner.\\nThe officers elected for the term ending January, 1899, are: Regent,\\nJ. A. Jesty; Vice Regent, .H.J. Ronalds; Orator, George Shrive; Past\\nRegent, W. W. Ward; Secretary, F. T. Doolittle; Collector, W. C.\\nJesty; Treasurer, J. P. Speer; Chaplain, C. E. Conkling; Guide, Thomas\\nHunt; Warden, Edwin Speer; Sentry, E. A. Staehley; Organist, Harry\\nGreen; Representative to the Grand Council, W. \\\\V. Ward; Alternate\\nto the Grand Council, A. O. Jackson; Trustees, S. H. Rhodes, W. M.\\nPetty.\\nTo-day there are one hundred and ninety-six members belonging to\\nthe Rutherford Council.\\nBOILING .SPRING LODGE, OF FREE .\\\\ND ACCEPTED MASONS OF RUTHEK-\\nFORD, N.J.\\nThe present growing and successful lodge of Free Masons at Ruther-\\nford would hardly be recognized as the infant Lodge that on the ninth\\nday of December, 1881, met in the upper room of old Union Hall on\\nAmes Avenue and were officially instituted as a Masonic lodge under\\nthe jurisdiction of the Cirand Lodge of the State of New Jersey. The\\norganization of a Masonic Lodge at Rutherford was long in abeyance.\\nIn 1880 there were but few Masons in Rutherford, and the population of\\nthe whole township of Union was scarcely more than 2500, but a few\\nfaithful Masons among whom may be mentioned Dr. Kenneth K. King,\\nMr. Jacob H. Vreeland, Captain Addison Ely who was then principal\\nof the public school and Abraham B. McKeon from time to time dis-\\ncussed the propriety of organizing a Masonic Lodge, and for this purpose", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0488.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY 441\\nwith other Masons in the nein-hhorhmid they met and for more than a\\nyear continued their meetinj^s in the upper room of Union Hall and\\nexemplified the work, and finally obtained a dispensation from the Grand\\nMaster to institute the Lodg-e provided they were qualified. The appli-\\ncation was referred to the Passaic Lodge and an exemplification of the\\nwork of a Free Mason made before them. This being satisfactory the\\nLodg-e was ordered instituted. The warrant members were: Jacob H.\\nVreeland, Worshipful Master; Dr. Kenneth K. King, Senior Warden;\\nEugene K. Sloat, Junior Warden; William Earle, Secretary; Arbam\\nB. McKeon, Treasurer and Andrew McClaury, Daniel D. Burtis,\\nLouis Kruger, Addison ^ly and Peter Dammers. Addison Ely\\nwas the first Senior Deacon and held the office for several years.\\nPeter Dammers and Louis Kruger were Masters of Ceremonv\\nand Daniel D. Burtis was Tyler. It would be an incomplete his-\\ntory if Past Master William H. Van Houten of Paterson, Orange\\nLodge, were overlooked in this connection for to him the Lodge owes\\nmuch as its first instructor. Of the eleven members who worked so\\ndiligently to establish Boiling Spring Lodge Dr. Kenneth K. King,\\nAbrani B. McKeon and Louis Kruger have gone to that bourne from which\\nno traveler returns. Dr. King s was the first death in the Lodge and\\nhe was buried with Masonic honors in Greenwood Cemetery. From a\\nLodge of eleven members the Rutherford Lodge now has about one\\nhundred members and is in every way a successful and thriving Lodge.\\nThe room in Union Hall proved inadequate and insecure and Mr. Arthur\\nVan Winkle who afterward became a Mason fitted up in this building\\nan excellent lodge which served for many years, and in this room the\\nfirst officers were installed on the 27th day of February, 1882, by William\\nHardacre the Grand Master of the State of New Jersey, six grand\\nofficers being in attendance. Afterward the lodge moved to the Bell-\\nchambers Building where it now has pleasant and spacious quarters.\\nIts membership includes almost all the influential and prominent men of\\nthe borough of Rutherford and surrounding villages. It is fulfilling\\nthe purposes of its organization to a high degree. Since its organiza-\\ntion 129 Masons have joined the lodge and there have been losses from\\ndeaths and demits amounting to 34. The present officers of the lodge\\nare: W. M., James Leyland; S. W., David Taylor; J. W., Frank P.\\nNewman; Treasurer, Theo. Muehling; Secretary, W. A. Tompkins; S.\\nD., H. J. Ronalds; J. D., Charles G. Hyslop; Chaplain. R. P. Klinger;\\nS. M. C, W. F. B. Pratt; J. M. C, J. C^ E. Chambers; Marshal, Charles\\nRehwoldt; Tyler, A. B. Douglas. The lodge now has a membership-of\\nninety-one, and is in a prosperous condition.\\n(^f the original members of the lodge who are still members and\\nattend its meetings are Past Master Jacob H. Vreeland, William Earle,\\nAddison Ely and Peter Dammers.\\nTHE woman s KEADIN(; CH K.\\nThe Woman s Reading Club was originated bv Mrs. Margaret G.\\nRiggs in 18S9, when she invited a fevi- ladies to unite in an association", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0489.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "442 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nfor mutual improvement. Twenty-two women soon after effected an\\norg-anization. with Mrs. Riggs as president. Mrs. Castor, Mrs. Gnade,\\nMrs. Crear, Mrs. A. W. an Winkle and Mrs. Henry G. Bell, succeeding\\nto the presidency in the order named. The membership increased\\nrapidly until a question of limitation was brought up, but that idea was\\nabandoned, and all who sought for admission were received. When it\\nbecame necessarv to have more room, the Field Club kindly offered the\\nuse of their parlors. The offer was accepted and meetings were held\\nin the home at the corner of Chestnut street and Franklin Place, until\\nthe Field Club, after changing its name to that of Union Club. built\\nits new house on Park Avenue. The Reading Club then met here until\\nthe winter of 1896, when they removed to the hall of the Library\\nbuilding. They are now investing a part of each year s income in a\\nbuilding and loan association. They have a choice ctdlection of over\\ntwo hundred volumes and a bookcase, toward the furnishing of the home\\nthey hope to have.\\nThe question of a public library had been agitated to some extent,\\nwhen Mr. H. S. Rhodes took the initial step by holding a concert for\\nthe purpose of starting a fund. This effort netted one hundred and ten\\ndollars, but nothing further was done until 1S \u00c2\u00bb3, when Mrs. Henry G.\\nBell opened the subject in the Reading Club. Mrs. Gnade, then presi-\\ndent, appointed a committee, calling a meeting for February 16, which\\nresulted in a good attendance, Mr. Joseph P. Cooper in the chair. On\\nMarch 10, 1893, The Rutherford Free Library Association was organ-\\nized, the constitution and by-laws, as reported, being adopted March\\n24th. Mr. Cooper as Mayor of the borough, was the first president, the\\nother officers being elected by members of the Association. At a meet-\\ning held on April l7th about six hundred dollars was subscribed. This\\ncalled out a spirit of helpfulness among the members of the Reading\\nClub, when it was proposed that each member contribute a book, the\\nwhole to go as a gift from the Club to the Library. Nearly four hun-\\ndred books were secured by this movement.\\nRev. George H. Badger, who had had some experience in such work,\\nundertook the business of arranging the details, shelving and catalog-\\ning. A room in the Shafer building was taken and furnished, when\\nMiss Anna T. Cooper, who had just finished a course of study in the\\nwork, was engaged as librarian. May 4th, 1894. the library was opened\\nwith about eleven hundred volumes.\\nAt present there are in all about twenty-five hundred volumes in\\nvarious classes of literature. September, 1896, Mr. David B. Ivison\\npresented to the library association the stone building on the corner of\\nPark Avenvie and Chestnut Street, formerly occupied by the Presbyterian\\nChurch. A reference and reading room was now opened and supplied\\nwith more than fifty volumes of cyclopedias, dictionaries, etc., with the\\njjrincipal current literature of the day.\\nThe a])i)ropriati(ms from the borough have been about two hundred\\nand tiftv dollars annually. This with members fees and gifts are the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0490.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY 44.^\\nonly source if support. Kent paid by the Reading- Club for use of the\\nhall has added a little but much more is needed.\\nTHE UNION Cl.Un.\\nM. \\\\V. H.WVES.\\nThe Union Club of Rutherford was organized March 1st, 1S )2, when\\nthe following- officers were elected\\nCharles Burrows, President; E. J. Turner, ice-President; W. H.\\nStevens, Treasurer; C. Danuheim, Recording Secretary; R. H. Beau-\\nmont, Corresponding- Secretar-s The first Board of Governors consisted\\nof H. H. Copeland, T. W. Alyea, W. H. Smith, M. W. Hawes, G. V.\\nSloat and A. h. Watson. The Union Cluli was the successor of the\\nRutherford Field Club, which owned the building on the corner of Frank-\\nlin Place and Chestnut Street, and which was organized by the combi-\\nnation of the Rutherford Wheelmen and the Rutherford Chess Club.\\nThe Union Club in IS O had a membershij) of fifty-nine, which has\\nincreased to one hundred and seventy. The object of the Club is the\\nsocial enjoyment of the members, which is sui)plied by committees ap-\\npointed by the President each year, who arranges stage entertainments,\\nbilliard, j)ool and bowling tournaments, informal dances, recepticms,\\ncard parties, c. The charter of the Club prohibits the sale or use of\\nintoxicating liquors in the club house, and by the rules and reguhitions\\nof the club no gambling is allowed. These features make it a desirable\\nresort for all the members and a place where their wives or parents can\\nfind no objection to their attendance. Friday evening of each week is\\nset aside as ladies night, on which night there is always a bowling\\nmatch, dance, card party or a stage entertainment. The present officers\\nof the Club are: Henry Prentiss, President; H. N. Bulling-ton, ice-\\nPresident; W. H. Stevens, Treasurer; J. E. Spaulding, Recording Sec-\\nretary; J. K. Watson, Corresponding Secretary. Board of Governors,\\nW. Williams, M. W. Hawes, C. A. Goodspeed, (t. T. Hollister, A. I).\\nW bee lock, J. Zahn.\\nKUTHEKFOKD LODCiE NO 240, I. O. K., NEW JEKSKV.\\nThe birth of Odd Fellowship in this country took i)lace (m the 2( th\\nof April, 1S19, butit was not until August IS.i.^, that the Grand Lodge\\nof New Jerse_y was instituted, while Rutherford Lodge No. 240 dates its\\nexistence from the 17th of October, l.S\\nIn ISO 1-42 certain residents of this borough, members of the order but\\naway from home lodges, conceived the idea of forming a subordinate\\nlodge here to which they might attach themselves, thus securing the\\nbenefits of a lodge home, so dear to every member of the order.\\nThe following seventeen members of the lodge were the main ones\\ninstrumental in the organization of the order in this town: James Lev-\\nland. Charles T. Johnson, Wm. J. Singerland, tieorge K. Thomas, Julius\\nJaeger, Horatio N. Fish, David R. MacNeil, John J. Dupuv, C. Henry\\nKotzenberg, William Henkelman, George Ruckstuhl, James H. vSniith,\\n*Froni Thini, Old ainl New.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0491.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "444 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nRensselaer Furman, William W. Butler, Joseph W. Beebe, William\\nGibson, Frank Spitz.\\nForty-five members were taken in nn the nig-ht of institution,\\nmaking a total of sixty-two members to start with.\\nWhile the growth of the order here has been slow, it has been sure,\\nthe present membership being about eighty-five.\\nThe lodge is sustained by the payment by each member of $8.00 per\\nyear dues, the member receiving in case of sickness the sum of S5.00\\nper week, and in case of death his benficiary is entitled to $100.00\\nfuneral benefits, and in case of the death of a member s wife he receives\\nS50.00\\nThe f)rder in this State has increased from SI members in 1833 to\\nabout 30,000 in 1897, while the membership in the country at the present\\ntime is nearly 700,000.\\nThe amount expended for relief of distressed brothers in this State\\nfor 1897 has been nearly SISO.OOO.\\nKNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.\\nThe great American Order of Knights of Pythias was introduced\\nin Rutherford on September 16, 1893, by the organization of Rutherford\\nLodge, No. 150. Among the names of those found on the charter of\\nthis lodge are A. H. Brinkerhoff, J. C. Sares, Dr. J. J. Ketchum, H. R.\\nHarden, S. T. Davy, W. H. Smith, G. Y. Renshaw and John Patrick.\\nAn acti-e interest in the work of the lodge has been taken by nearly all\\nthe charter members, so that at the present time the roster of the lodge\\ncontains the names of considerably over one hundred members, and all\\nare men of good social standing, as well as being fitted physically and\\nmorally for membership in the lodge.\\nThe endowment or life insurance plan in this order is a well con-\\nsidered and admirably conducted business. Members may insure in\\namounts from $500 to $3000, with rates according to age. Payments\\nmonthly, and only one payment per month, or twelve per year required,\\nunder any circumstances. This is made possible by a reserve fund being\\non hand of half a million dollars, which is so invested as to be absolutely\\nsafe, draws good interest, and can be called upon to any amount required\\nin an emergency. Confidence is shown in this by the one fact that about\\n$.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^0,000 of this insurance is being carried by members of the Rutherford\\nLodge.\\nBO.\\\\.KD OF TKADE.\\nKI THEKFOKD .\\\\ND E.\\\\ST KUTHEKFOKD.\\nThis Association was formed for the encouragement of trade and\\ncommerce for the Ruther fords, the certificate of incorporation having\\nbeen taken out and recorded at Hackensack May 18, 1897. The follow-\\ning list of names records the promoters of this business enterprise and\\nare as follows: Joseph P. Cooper, William McKenzie, E. J. Turner,\\nLuther Shafer, Charles Burrows, W. H. Smith, C. R. Soley, John G.\\nNiederer, Frank E. Hatch. Robert M. Watson. A. P. Hackett. I. B.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0492.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKCIEN COUNTY 445\\nNichols, John E. Tyler, Edward A. Jeannerot, William (iramlich.\\nCharles F. Harring-ton, J. L. Chapman.\\nThe officers for 18 \u00c2\u00bbS are as follows: President, William McKenzie;\\nVice President, Joseph P. Cooper; Secretary, Luther Shafer; Treasurer,\\nCharles Burrows; Directors, Edward J. Turner, Charles F. Harring-ton,\\nCharles R. Soley. John (t. Niederer, Robert M. Watson, William H.\\nSmith, Frank E. Hatch, A. P. Hackett.\\nKTTHKKFOKD NATIOXAI. BANK.\\nEstablished May 1895, its career since its inception has been\\ncharacterized by the most gratif^-ing deyfree of prosperity. It has a ])aid\\nup capital of S50,()00, with a surplus and undivided profits of Sl.^UOi),\\nwhich success is attributed to the fidelity with which its officers and\\ndirectors have administered their trusts. The building occupied is\\nowned by the bank, and is a great attraction to the place. It is hand-\\nsomely finished in hardwood, and contains all the latest im])rovements,\\nincluding fire and burglar proof vaults and safes. A legitimate national\\nl)anking business is transacted in loans, deposits, exchange, collections,\\netc., its facilities not being surpassed by any contemporaneous institu-\\ntion in this section. The following well and favorably known gentle-\\nmen comprise its officers and board of directors: President, Henry R.\\nJackson; Vice President, Robert D. Kent; Cashier, Henry R. Harden;\\nDirectors, H. R. Jackson, R. D. Kent, Julius Roehrs, E. J. Turner, Carl\\nVon Hartz, A. W. Van Winkle, Peter H. Kip, J. P. Cooper. William\\nMcKenzie, A. L. Watson and F. B. Poor.\\nCOMPANY I,, SECOND KEGIMENT, NATIONAL CrAKD. N. j.\\nThe military spirit seemed to take possession of the youth of\\nRutherford early in the year 1892 and Robert A. Brunner and Wilkin\\nBookstaver, formerly of Company G, 2nd N. G.,N. J., both of whom\\nafterward became officers of Company L. were active in securing enroll-\\nments for the purpose of organizing the National Guard Company.\\nAfter the enrollment in some measure had been completed the members\\nmet in the upper part of the Shafer Building, ana afterward in the old\\nUnion Hall and were drilled in military tactics by Lieutenant Book-\\nstaver and Mr. George M. Pollard. Early in the Spring of 1893 an\\nelection of officers was held and Addison Ely a prominent lawyer of\\nRutherford was invited to command the Company as its Captain. Cap-\\ntain Ely had formerly belonged to Company C, Third Regiment, N. G.,\\nN. J., commanded by Captain W^. H. DeHart. for many years the crack\\ncompany of the National Guard. Prior to Captain Ely s election there\\nhad been several aj)plications to the State Military Department to muster\\nthe company into the State service, but although much effort and influ-\\nence were used these applications had met with no success.\\nCaptain Ely secured the services of Lieutenant J. M. Poole an\\nexpert tactician, a Lieutenant and afterward Captain of (ine of the\\ncomi)anies of the 9th Regiment N. G., N. J. Lieutenant Poole drilled", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0493.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "44(1 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe company one nigiit a week for several weeks and pronounced them\\nefficient, and they were tinally mustered into State service.\\nThe Fourth Regiment at Jersey City, and the Second with head-\\nquarters at Paterson under Colonel Moore had recently been reorganized,\\nand it was to one of these that the company sought to be assigned.\\nColonel S. V. S. Muzzy who had secured a high reputation as a military\\nofficer, about this time succeeded to the command of the Second Regiment,\\nand Captain Ely applied to him for admission as one of the companies of\\nhis Regiment. After much urging Colonel Muzzy accepted the company\\nand used his influence to secure the desired order, which was finally\\nmade and on the 22nd day of June, 1893, the company was mustered into\\nthe State service. In the fall of 1896 the company undertook the con-\\nstruction of an Armory on Park Avenue, having previously acquired a\\nplot of ground 50 by i50 feet for S6000. The Armory building contains\\na flat for a janitor, a large company room and two stores in the front\\npart, and a drill shed 118 by 50 feet in the rear, fitted up with a stage\\nand equipments for public entertainments. The basement is arranged\\nfor a bowling alley and rifle range.\\nThe company has occupied this Armory since the early Spring of\\n1897. The total cost of building and ground was about S24,000of which\\na large portion has been paid. In April 1897 a fair was held netting a\\nlarge sum of money, the ladies association contributing much to its\\nsuccess.\\nIn April, 1898, when war with Spain was declared and the National\\nGuard called out, Company L responded with the full quota called for.\\nFifty-eight men and three officers of Company L were accepted and\\nmustered into the United States service with twenty-three volunteer\\nr cruits on May 14, 1898. The officers mustered in were: Captain,\\nAddison Ely; First Lieutenant, Joseph J. Blake; Second Lieutenant,\\nRobert A. Brunner.\\nThe company having gone into camp at Sea Girt on May 2d\\nremained there until June 1st, when they were ordered to Jacksonville,\\nFlorida, to await further orders. They were returned to New Jersey in\\nSeptember and on November 17th were mustered out of the United\\nStates service. Under the re-organization of 1899 the company was\\nrelieved from service.\\nGERSHOM MOTT POST.\\nThe Post bearing this name was instituted April 30th, 1891, with\\ntwenty-four members, N. W. Hawes being its first Commander, which\\noffice he held for two years. Then came Robert Leeds, who held the\\noffice for three ^-ears, the members recognizing the fact that it was due\\nsolely to his indefatigable labors that the Post was instituted. Under\\nhis command the Post flourished and added to its membership until it\\nreached the number of fifty-four. Horatio N. Fish then succeeded to\\nthe command, holding the office for one year, and then came John\\nAmery, who died in command. Clifford K. Reece was then elected to\\nserve for the unexpired term, and at the last election was again elected", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0494.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "lAITHEK SHAFEK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0495.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "448 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nCommander. Throug h harmony and wise leadership the Post has\\naccumulated quite a fund for the relief of sick or disabled soldiers or\\nsailors or their wives or orphans.\\nDuring the Spanish-American war the Post was among- the fore-\\nmost in g-iving money to relieve the families of those who had g^one to\\nthe front.\\nI.l THEK SHAFEK.\\nMr. Shafer is one of the substantial and progressive citizens of\\nRutherford. He is a wise counselor, and was one of the leading- public\\nspirited citizens of the place who orig-inated its borough government in\\n1881. Mr. Shafer is a native of New York State and was born in Mont-\\ngomery, Orange county, in 1848. His father was a farmer and the son\\nhad a share of the farm work to perform, attending the district school\\nas his duties would permit. His parents planned to give him a college\\neducation but circumstances changed the course of events. His father\\ndying when young Luther was but twelve years of age, made it neces-\\nsary for him to contribute to his own support. He attended the Mont-\\ngomery Academv for a time, and afterward entered the law office of R.\\nR. Lea in New York city. Later he secured a clerkship in the office of\\nDowning Couert at Flushing, L. L, and although but seventeen years\\nof age, was made assistant postmaster. In 1867 he entered the Albany\\nLaw School, going soon after leaving that institution into the office of\\nDavid Dudley Field, where he filled an important position. From there\\nhe went as managing clerk for Vernam Wilcox, where he remained\\nuntil he began the pratice of law in New York city in 1872. One year\\nlater Mr. Shafer was admitted to practice in New Jersey, and in 187(\\nwas made a counselor. This gave him the legal right to full active\\npractice both in New York and New Jersey. From 1877 until 1889, he\\nwas counsel for Union township, during which time he secured the\\npassage of the Tax Act of 1874. He has always been a Republican.\\nMr. Shafer s services and abilities having been recognized, he was\\nelected Mayor of Rutherford in which office he proved an efficient and\\nworthy incumbent, for a period of several terms. P rom the incorpora-\\ntion of the borough in 1881, until 1890, Mr. Shafer was noted as its coun-\\nsel, absolutely refusing any compensation for his services. He has also\\nbeen counsel for Union and Boiling Springs townships and for the vil-\\nlage of Carlstadt and also solicitor of the Rutherford Mutual Loan and\\nBuilding Association and is now counsel for East Rutherford, Carlstadt\\nand Montvale.\\nJOHN M. BEI.L.\\nWhen John M. Bell came to Rutherford, less than ten years ago.\\nhe immediately set about a preparation for active usefulness in his\\nadopted home. He is a Scotch-Irishman, born at Kells, Ireland, August\\n3, 18()(l.\\nAlthough of foreign birth Mr. Bell is an ideal American citizen,\\nhaving been educated in this country imbibing the tastes and acquiring\\nthe habits of the people. He was six years old when he came to America", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0496.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "JOHN T KKI.I.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0497.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "450 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nwith his parents, who located in Schuylkill county, Pennsylyania.\\nYoung- Bell receiyed his education in the public schools of Schuylkill\\ncounty, and came to Rutherford in 1891\\nAfter studying- law for some time in the office of Addison Ely, Mr.\\nBell entered the office of Luther Shafer where he completed his course\\nand was admitted to the Bar at the November Term, 1894. He lirst\\nopened an office for the practice of his profession, in the Shafer Build-\\nino- in March of the following year, and was almost immediately made\\ncounsel to the Borough of Rutherford, which office he still holds. He\\nhas also been counsel to the Borough of Lodi since March 1807. Mr.\\nBell is at present member of Assembly, elected on the Republican ticket\\nat the last election, 1897.\\nKEY. EDWIN A. BULKLEY, D. D.\\nRev. Edwin A. Bulkley, D. D., who was born in Charleston, S. C,\\nJanuary 25, 1826, is a descendant in direct line from Rev. Peter Bulkley,\\nwhose wife was Lady Grace Chetwode. Became to America in 1(..^4.\\nfrom Odell, England, and was born in 1583.\\nThis man, distinguished among the early colonists, was descended\\nfrom a long line of noble ancestry, easily traceable to Robert de Bulkley\\n(1200), his descendants still holding one of the ancestral seats in Eng-\\nland. He succeeded his father. Rev. Edward Bulkley, D. D., m the\\nrectorship of Odell or Woodhill. His earnest preaching, and resistance\\nto ecclesiastical tyranny compelled his emigration to New England,\\nwhere he became the founder of Concord, Mass., and pastor of its tirst\\nchurch. Cotton Mather in a funeral sermon speaks of his noble birth,\\nand praises his benevolence in spending his wealth, his eminent learn-\\nin.^ and devoted piety. In his old church at Concord, the hrst provin-\\n01^1 Cono-ress was held, and in its assembly were made those stirring\\nspeeches^by Hancock, Adams and other patriots which hastened the\\nevents of the Revolution. Rev. Gershom Bulkley son of Peter married\\nSarah, daughter of Charles Chauncey, D. D., President of Harvard\\nCollege, and their son Edward married Dorothy Prescott. Next m line\\ncomes Charles Bulkley whose wife was Mary Sage, their son Charles\\nbeincr the great grandfather of Dr. Edwin A. This Charles married Mary\\nGriswold. Dr. Bulklev s grandparents were Charles and Eunice\\n(Robbins) Bulkley, whose son Erastus, father of Dr. Edwin A. married\\nMary Walbridge.\\nThe maternal line traces back to Henry Walbridge who came from\\nDorsetshire, England, about 1650. His son Ebenezer married Mary\\nDurkee Their S(m Ebenezer and his wife Elizabeth Stebbms were the\\nparents of Adolphus Walbridge and Mary Deming. the grandparents\\nof Dr. Bulkley, his mother being their daughter Mary. Elizabeth\\nWalbridu-e The Dairyman s Daughter, memoralized by Leigh Rich-\\nmond wis of this family. In Dr. Bulkley s children, early colonial\\nlines of distincti.m unite; through him from Rev. Peter Bulkley;\\nthrou- -h their mother from Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, of whom she", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0498.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "KEV. IIK. HDWIN A. KII.KI.H^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0499.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "452 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nis a lineal descendant. He was the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church\\nin this country, and the father of those men of Revolutionar}- fame,\\nHenry Aug-ustus Muhlenberg-, the first speaker of the first congress in\\nNew York city, and General Peter Muhlenberg, whose statue Pennsyl-\\nvania has placed in the Rotunda of the capitol at Washington.\\nDr. Bulkley pursued his preparatory studies in New York city,\\nentered Yale College in 1841, when not yet fifteen years of ag-e, and was\\ngraduated in 1844, subsequently finishing his professional studies in\\nUnion Theological Seminary in 1847.\\nLast Fall (1897) he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordin-\\nation to the ministry, October 11, 1847, from which time his pastoral\\nwork had been almost unbroken. His first charge was at Geneva, N.\\nY., from 1847 to 1850, then in Groton, Mass., from 1850 to 1864. in\\nPlattsburgh, N. Y., from 1864 to 1878, and in Rutherford, N. J., from\\n1878 to 1898. On March 27, 1898, having labored about twenty years\\nin the last place, and the condition of his health requiring a cessation\\nfrom the active charge of a large congregation, he was released from\\nhis pastorate, and made Pastor Emeritus.\\nThe honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him\\nin 1868, by the University of Vermont. The wisdom of his counsel,\\nwith his executive ability, has often been acknowledged in high official\\nplaces in the gift of the Presbyterian Church. For twenty-five years\\nhe filled the most important Presbyterial office in the Presbyteries of\\nChamplain, and of Jersey City. In 1883-84 he was moderator of the\\nSynod of New Jersey, and had twice previously presided over the Synod\\nof Albany. He was Clerk of the General Assembly of 1879 at Saratoga\\nSprings.\\nSeptember 27. 1848, Dr. Bulkley was married to Miss Catharine F.\\nOakley of Huntington, L. I.\\nJIR. DAVID B. IVISON.\\nDavid B. Ivis m, ex-president of the American Book Company, a\\nprominent figure in the organization and development of the borough of\\nRutherft)rd in Bergen county, is a son of Henry Ivison, one of the\\npioneers in the school book trade of the country. Mr. Ivison is of\\nScotch ancestry, his father coming to this country in 1820, at the age of\\ntwelve years. Soon after completing an apprenticeship with the book-\\nbinding and bookselling house of William Williams, of Auburn, N. Y..\\nMr. Ivis( n become the head of a prosperous business of his own. With\\na keen sense of the business conditions of the country, prevailing at that\\ntime, and with a full knowledge of the needs in his especial line, he\\ndecided to make the metropolis his field of operation. The business\\ngrew and prospered with the name of Ivison at the head of the firm,\\nunder the various names of Ivison Phinney; Ivison, Phinney Com-\\npany; Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman Company; Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor\\nCompany and Ivison, Blakeman Company. Mr. David B. Ivis m\\nbesran his business career with this house, under which he received a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0500.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0501.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "^tx^/^^^^^^ tl", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0502.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BHKCEN COUNTY 455\\nskillful training and had assumed a large share of the interest and all\\nthe responsibilities of his father, Mr. Henry Ivison, before his retire-\\nment in 1881, three years before his death. Mr. Ivistm became a full\\npartner in the business, in 1863, which was then under the name of\\nIvison, Phinney, Blakeman Company. At the time of the retirement\\nof Mr. Henry Ivison, the firm was known as Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor\\nCompany, which continued, until 1887, when ill health caused Mr.\\nTaylor to withdraw, malting- it necessary to again change the name to\\nthat of Ivison, Blakeman Company, which continued until the ccmsoli-\\ndation of the several book concerns, resulting in a new corporation known\\nas the American Book Company, in 1890. In this Mr. Ivison took a\\nleading part, holding positions of the highest responsibility, until 18 )4.\\nHe was then chosen president and held that office two years, when he\\nresig-ned in 1896, with the most cordial relations existing among his as-\\nsociates who became reccmciled to his withdrawal from the fact of his\\nremaining on the board of directors, thus assuring his co-operation and\\ncontinuance of interest in the company and the helpfulness of his large\\nexperience and wise counsel. The business life of these two successful\\nmen, father and son, covered a period of the greatest activity in the\\nschool book trade. The public were passing through an educational\\nperiod in the matter of text books, for use in public school work, and in\\nthis the Ivison house took a leading part in sup])lving good school litera-\\nture. Mr. Ivison is a member of the Union League Club of New York and\\nUnion Club, of Rutherford, N. J. where he now resides. In religion he\\nis a Presbyterian holding the office of ruling elder in the Rutherford\\ncongregation. At present he is traveling abroad for recreation and\\npleasure.\\nMr. Ivison s eldest son, Henr^- Ivison, also formerly a member of the\\noriginal firm, succeeded his father, and was for ten years head of the\\nManufacturing Department of the American Book Company. He re-\\ncently resigned from this position, and is now a member of the New\\nYork Stock Exchange.\\nJOSEPH J. BL.\\\\KK.\\nJoseph J. Blake, formerly proprietor of the well-known Blake Res-\\ntauant and Hotel, was born in New York city July 5, 1857. It was in the\\npublic schools of the city of New York young Blake was given an educa-\\ntional start in life, but as soon as he was old enough to earn his living,\\nnecessity compelled him to relinquish the pursuit of knowledge for food\\nand clothing. His business career was begun in the emploj^ of Justice\\nWilliam Haywood, who was operatingf a factory in New York for the\\nmanufacture of wall paper, and came to Rutherford with him in 1875.\\nUpon returning to New York Mr. Blake was made superintendent of Bar-\\ntholmae Company s factory, having charge of more than two hundred\\nhands. He remained with them until 1891, when he returned on account\\nof failing health, and has been a resident of Rutherford since 1883, at\\nwhich time he built his house at the corner of (irove Street and Erie\\nAvenue.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0503.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "JOSEPH J. BI,AKE.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0504.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF- BEKGEN COUNTY 457\\nMr. Blake has taken an active interest in the affairs of the borougfh,\\nand in 1842 was elected Councilman on both the Democratic and Citi-\\nzens tickets bv a large majority. He has been an active member of the\\nFire Department twelve years, and is a member of Eng ine Company\\nNo. 2, of which he was assistant foreman two years and foreman three\\nyears. He was one of the originators of Company L, Second Regiment,\\nN. J., and elected Second Lieutenant July 5, 18^(5, and First Lieutenant\\nin the winter of 189f).\\nMr. Blake is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,\\nRoyal Aracanum, Order of United Workman, and Business Mens Pro-\\ntective Association. He is also a member of the Rutherford Wheel-\\nmen of which organization he has been a trustee.\\nIn 1891, Mr. Blake began business next door to the large, commo-\\ndious structure he remodeled and occupied until called into the Spanish-\\nCuban war. After which he removed to New York, where he resides\\nnow. Mr. Blake, as the First Lieutenant of Company L, was one of\\nthe most popular officers of the Second Regiment.\\nIn 1891, Mr. Blake began business in the store next door to the one\\nhe lately disposed of, remaining there five years. The present\\nbuilding is a pleasent and commodious structure which he remodeled\\nin lS9f,.\\nCiKL VON HAKTZ.\\nCarl Von Hartz, president of the Rutherford News Company, in\\nthe borough of Rutherford, is a native of Germany and was born in 1855\\nin Diepholz, Hanover. In 1873 he came to America, subsequently entering\\nthe employ of a banking house, but remained in this business only a\\nshort time when he became connected with the business of C.\\nAuffmordt Co., importers of dry goods. Following this he became\\nassociated with William Meyer Co., lace importers.\\nSince becoming a resident of Rutherford, Mr. Von Hartz has identi-\\nfied himself with its interests, having been elected councilman in 1890, on\\nthe ticket brought out as the Citizens and Democratic ticket, and two\\nyears later he was made a member of the finance committee, of which\\nhe was chairman, and was at the same time member of the committee\\non streets.\\nMr. Von Hartz is one of the founders of the Union Club of Ruther-\\nford and served for three years on the Board of Governors, then as vice-\\npresident and president; is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, and\\nKnights of Pythias of Rutherford. In addition to these social and fra-\\nternal organizations he belongs to the Leiderkranz and Free Mason\\nSocieties of New York city.\\nMr. Von Hartz is a progressive man, and interested in all that per-\\ntains to the improvement and building up of his Borough.\\nMK. WILLIAM m mAINS.\\nWilliam McMains, now a resident of Bradley Beach, N. J., has\\nbeen prominent in Rutherford during the past thirty years. He was", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0505.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "CAKI, VON HAKTZ", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0506.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 459\\nborn in Myroe, county Derry. Ireland, August 6, 1828. In 1850, he\\ncame to New York and subsequently carried on the drv goods business in\\nthat city for live or six years. In 1867, he married Miss Susan Simpson\\nof New York, daughter of Richard Simpson, of the firm of Simpson\\nCooper, contractors, removing soon afterward to Burlington, Iowa. He\\nnow ventured his all in the grocery business, and having lost every-\\nthing, a few months afterward, by being burned out, he returned to\\nNew York in 1868, without a dollar. He then went to work for Simpson\\nCooper. Eventually Mr. Simpson retired and Mr. McMains succeeded\\nto his place; but in 1871, he gave up the business and came te Ruther-\\nford, somewhat discouraged at his pros])ects. With the thought that\\nothers had risen under adverse circumstances Mr. McMains again started\\nin business, this time being succeesful in accumulating a large amount\\nof propert}-.\\nHe first built a house on River Road, Kingsland, but in 187(), he\\nmoved to Rutherford and this year erected the McMains building on\\nDepot Square, using it as a hotel for a number of years. This was the\\nsecond brick house built in Rutherford. It was burned in 189(), and was\\nimmediately rebuilt. He also built other houses in Rutherford, and in\\n1895, bought two cottages in Bradley Beach, N. J., where he now\\nresides. Mr. McMains was Town Committeeman one term during which\\ntime some of the more important improvements in the little city were\\nmade.\\nCAPTAIN ADDISON ELY.\\nThe subject of this sketch was descended from the Rev. George Ely,\\nVicar of Tenterden, county of Kent, England, through his son the Rev.\\nNathaniel Ely also a vicar of the Church of England and the latter s\\nson Nathaniel who came to Massachusetts in the year 1634. Captain\\nEly s great-grandfather was Captain Levi Ely who was killed in the\\nRevolutionary War in the Battle of Mohawk in 1780. His great-grand-\\nmother was Abigail Sergeant whose father Lieutenant John Sergeant\\ndistinguished himself in the French and Indian War. His grandmother\\nwas the daughter of Colonel Samuel Rose a distinguished officer in the\\nRevolutionary War. Captain Ely s mother was a Harrison, being\\ndescended from the same familv of which William H. Harrison and\\nlater Benjamin Harrison were distinguished members. The subject of\\nthis sketch was born at Westfield, Mass., in 1853, and came to New\\nJersey in 1862 with his father who settled at Bloomlield. N. J., within\\na few miles of which he has since lived. Captain Ely was prepared for\\nHarvard College at the Newark Academy and Philips Exeter Academy,\\nand afterwards was graduated at the Polytechnic Institute. In 1871 he\\nbecame a teacher in the public school at Connecticut Farms, Union\\ncounty, N. J,, and later acted as principal of the High School at Cald-\\nwell, Essex county, and in 1879 came to Rutherford as principal of the\\nPublic School. He joined Company C, Third Regiment, the crack\\nmilitary organization of the New Jersey Nati(mal Guard in August,\\n1872, and in 189.^ organized Company L, Second Regiment, National", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0507.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM M MAINS.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0508.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 4 \u00c2\u00bb1\\nGuard. N. J., which was mustered into the state service June 24, 1S\\nof which Company he has been captain ever since. Captain Ely and\\nhis company volunteered in a body for the Spanish- American War April\\n22, 1898, and were mustered into the United States service at Sea Girt\\nMay 14, 1898. On June 1st they were sent to the front beingf attached\\nto the Seventh Army Corp of which General Fitzhugh Lee was the com-\\nmanding- officer, but remained in camp during- the whole periol of the\\nwar, at Jacksonville, Florida.\\nCaptain Ely was admitted to the bar at the February term of the\\nSupreme Court 1888, and as Counsellor-at-Law four years later. Since\\nhis admission to the bar he has been recognized as a successful lawyer,\\ntaking in all the important litigations in his part of the State. Probably\\nno other lawyer in New Jersey has been counsel in so many cases invol-\\nving the construction of Borough Law. The Borough Law of 1897 was\\nformulated and almost entirely drafted by Captain Ely, and at present\\nhe is devoting a large amount of time to secure the passage of an act to\\ngive extra pay to the New Jersey soldiers in the Spanish-American War.\\nOn December 29th, 1874, he married Emily J. Johnson at Connecticut\\nFarms, N. J., and while Captain Ely and his wife are still young peo-\\nple they have a family of ten children, seven boys and three girls all of\\nwhom are living. The oldest son, Addison Ely, Jr., is editor of the\\nBergen County Herald. The iother children are Seth Harrison, Sanford\\nD., William H., Leon Abbett, Hiram Baldwin, James S. T. Stranahan,\\nAbigail M., Emily J., and Clara Stranahan Ely.\\nWith the exception of the term of one year as member of the Board\\nof Education of the borough of Rutherford, Captain Ely never held a\\npublic office although he has been actively identified with public affairs\\nand has always expressed a deep interest in their proper conduct. His\\nviews on public questions have generally been pronounced. He has\\nalways been a steadfast Democrat, insisting that the liberties of the\\npeople are best maintained and preserved through the success of that\\nparty. As a Democrat his influence is second to none in the county of\\nBergen. In 1896 he was nominated for Congress in the Sth N. J. Con-\\ngressional District and made a thorough and brilliant canvas, but that\\nwas a bad year for Democrats.\\nDAVID BOSMAN.\\nDavid Bosnian of Rutherford, prominently connected with the Erie\\nrailroad is a son of David and Sarah Bosman of Brooklyn, N. Y., where\\nhe was born December 18, 18()4. Young Bosman was educated in the\\nOld Public School No. 1, and in the High School of his native city,\\nfrom which he was graduated in the class with Congressman Charles\\n(i. Bennett. For some time after leaving school he was engaged in\\ncommercial pursuits, later entering the office of Hon. William B. Horn-\\nblower of the New York bar, where he read law for several years. In\\n1887 he became an employee of the Erie Railroad Company in the office\\nof the general manager. Soon after this he was appointed private", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0509.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "462 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nsecretary to the president, John King-, and continued in this capacity\\nuntil President King- s resignation in 1895. Preyious to this in 1893, he\\nwas appointed secretary to the Receiyer of the road, in which office he\\ncontinued until the reorganization of the company in 1895, when he was\\nappointed assistant secretary of the Erie Railroad Company, where he\\nstill continues. In 1890 Mr. Bosman was one of the incorporators of\\nthe Chicag-o Erie Railroad, being elected secretary of that road in\\n1891 and in 1897 elected assistant secretary of the New York Green-\\nwood Lake Railway. All of these positions he still holds.\\nIn politics Mr. Bosman is a Republican, and has always taken an\\nactiye interest in the affairs of the party, having served as delegate to\\nnumerous conventions and held various offices in the party organiza-\\ntions. He was nominated on the Republican and Citizens ticket for the\\noffice of Councilman in the Spring of 1898, and was elected by the\\nlargest majority ever given a candidate in that borough. He is chair-\\nman of the Fire Committee and a member of the Finance, Police and\\nOrdinance committee of the borough.\\nMr. Bosman is a Past Master and member of the Grand Lodge of\\nthe A. O. U. W., a member of the Union Club, Junior Order of Ameri-\\ncan Mechanics, Alumni Association of the Brooklyn High School and\\nof the Republican Club.\\nIn 1892 Mr. Bosman was married to Miss Emily Sloane, of Brook-\\nlyn, N. Y.\\n(lAKKABKANT KYEKSON ALYEA.\\n(iarrabrant Ryerson Alyea, at one time postmaster of Rutherford\\nand for twenty-live years teacher and superintendent of schools in and\\nabout Rutherford, is a native of Paterson, N. J., born December IS,\\n1841.\\nWhen eighteen years of age he came to Rutherford and began\\nteaching school but in 1861 he left his chosen profession for a place in\\nthe Ocean National Bank, New York, where he remained seven years\\nfilling all the positions of trust in that institution except those of cashier\\nand president. In 1868 he returned to Rutherford and to school work, giv-\\ning his attention to pedagogy and didactics, nothing diverting, until\\n1892. At this time a change from a professional to a business career was\\nmade by accepting a position in the Peoples Bank, Rutherford, remaining\\nCashier of that Institution until i894. He then became postmaster of the\\nborough, tilling that position with credit to himself until relieved by\\nchange of administration in 1898. Mr. Alyea was also collector when\\npostmaster, and in fact he has filled every position of trust in the\\nborough except that of mayor and he was only defeated for that office\\nby a few votes in favor of his opponent, Luther,Shafer.\\nMr. Alyea was marred to Miss Martha Brinkerhoff October 20, iS69,\\nand not only by marriage but by both the paternal and maternal lines\\nis connected with the Ryersons, Paulisons and Cadmuses, all old families\\nof Holland ancestry and French Huguenot extraction. Mr. Alyea s\\noldest son William T. Alyea was, until his death, which occured Janu-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0510.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BEKGEN COUNTY 46.\\nary 13, 1899 a student-at-law. His oldest daug-hter Eva B., is a graduate\\nof the State Normal School, and taught in School District .V( until her\\nmarriage.\\nMr. Alvea is a Past Master in the Masonic fraternit}-, and is also\\na prominent member in the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows.\\n\\\\v. J. r.A\\\\VKi-;NsoN co.\\nC. \\\\V. Lawrenson, who for twiiity-tive years has been manager for\\nSpaulding Co., of New York, one of the largest concerns of the kind\\nin tlie country dealing in Sporting (joods, removed to Rutherford from\\nthe city of New York in 188.^.\\nHis son W. J. Lawrenson, the head of the firm that now bears his\\nname, was born in Rutherford in 1S78, in which place he was educated\\nand prepared for his business career. In 1897 he ojjcned the well\\nequipped and commodious establishment now occui)ied at 90 Park\\nA\\\\ enue.\\nThis business, though but two years old, has stepi)ed to the front\\nrank among the enterprising dealers of the towti and enjoys a liberal\\nand first-class patronage.\\nThe compan}- carry in stock a tine line of Sjjaulding s bicycles and\\nother wheels of the best make which deserve the term celebrated.\\nMessrs. Lawrenson Co. are business men and besides renting and\\nrepairing, which is promptly attended to, they also keep a complete\\nassortment of bicycle sundries usually found in all well conducted\\nestablishments.\\nKfCKSTI-HI. KKOTHICKS.\\nCieorge and Adam Ruckstuhl began the manufacture of pianos in\\nRutherford in 1893. The brothers are natives of New York city where\\nthev received skilled training in the art of piano making, the elder hav-\\ning been in the employ of Chambers Co., the younger with Steinway,\\nboth having perfected themselves in the work years before beginning for\\nthemselves.\\nThe Ruckstuhl j)iano is an instrument of high grade with tine tone\\nand finished workmanship, its good (jualities being protected by patents,\\nthe result of years of test and study. Besides the factory in Ruther-\\nford, the Ruckstuhl Brothers have salesrooms in both the cities of\\nPassaic and Jersey City, where their trade is in keeping with their\\nenviable reputation.\\n]Mr. (ieorge Ruckstuhl, the senior member of the firm, has been an\\nactive enterprising citizen of Rutherford since his coming to the place\\nin 1S8(). He has been identified with the fire department of Rutherford\\nfor ten years, and was foreman of the company. He was elected Justice\\nof the Peace in the Spring of 1898 being- the only Democrat elected on\\nthe ticket. He is also a member of the C)dd Fellows Lodge, of the\\nKnights of Pythias, and is identified with other societies and enterprises\\nof Rutherford.\\nThey erected their new building in 1899.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0511.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "4()4 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nKRANK E. HATCH.\\nAbout f(/rty years ag o, in the village of Watertown, Connecticut,\\nthe subject of this sketch first saw the light of day. His father was a\\nmechanic and skilled worker in wood and iron; his mother of true\\nYankee blood had much to do wth the forming of his character. The\\nson, Frank E. Hatch, inherited a taste for mechanical pursuits, and the\\ngenius of mechanism thus transmitted has proved a rich legacy. With-\\nout money but with a fair education, young Hatch when a lad entered\\nthe field of labor for himself. At thirteen years of age he was earning\\nsix dollars a week, and as experience and opportunity afforded, he was\\nadvanced in keeping with his abilities. Possessing an inventive genius\\nhe won laurels which soon distinguished him from the ordinary opera-\\ntor. Besides skill in handwork, he excelled as a designer. He\\nwas the first to build special machinery for drilling several holes in\\niron, at one and the same time, while he also originated the three\\nspindle drills and the combination dies. in\\\\enting this machinery before\\nhe was sixteen years of age.\\nMr. Hatch ccmtinued his work in New York and Brooklyn, whert-\\nhe was married to Miss Emily L. Bull, in 1878. The father, Mr.\\nGeorge W. Hatch, a few years afterward moved to Allendale, this\\ncounty, where he now resides, and in 1887, the son moved to Ruther-\\nford, where he has become a known factor in the upbuilding of this\\nlittle citv. Some four years ago, following the charitable bent of his\\nnature, he sought to aid another in a financial way which resulted\\nfinally in the purchase of the Park Pharmacy. This store with its\\ntrimmings and finished equipments, is one of the finest of the kind in\\nBergen county. It is under the management of an able pharmacist\\nwith a corps of competent assistants and is a credit to the town.\\nMr. Hatch is constantly on the road, in charge of other interests\\nthat keep him traveling North and South and from coast to coast almost\\nwithout cessation. He is sole agent for some half dozen large manu-\\nfacturers of paper box machinery, for the United States, in which his\\nfather assists him. As a public spirited citizen, Mr. Hatch has been a\\nleading factor in the Rutherford Board of Trade, and has identified him-\\nself with all the prominent societies and institutions of the place. He\\nis a member of the I. O. O. K. and of the Free Mason lodge, was one of\\nthe charter members of I^incoln League and has been a promoter of\\nnearly every enterprise looking to the growth of Rutherford, in which\\nhe takes great pride. Mr. Hatch is a self made man in the true sense\\nof the term.\\nMK. GEORGE B. HOI.IIAX.\\nGeorge B. Holman. pro])rietor of Holman s Steam Carpet Cleaning\\nWorks, is one of the bright men of the country. His father, George\\nW. Holman, was a man of marked characteristics, who as a poor orphan\\nboy made his way to New York state, then to Chicago, returning to\\nNew York in l,s5(i, having succeeded in all his business enterprises.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0512.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 4( 0\\nHe was married in 1S()1, to Miss Jane Crocker of Lyme, Conn., becom-\\ning a resident of Rutherford in 1S72. After serving on the police force\\nof New York for several years he was made Sergeant in 1866, ana dur-\\ning the war acted for a time as government detective in the citv. He\\ndied in 1872.\\nGeorge B. Holman was born in l.S( and at nineteen years of age\\nbegan business for himself. Upon securing the loan of ten dollars on\\nthe night of June 22, 1885. he took the initial step in his business\\nventure. Although in ill health, he attended an ice-cream festival at\\nthe Methodist Church assisting at the table and under each plate as it\\nwas served he placed his business card, as an upholsterer. That night s\\nadvertisement brought him sixty dollars worth of orders. In one month\\nfrom that time he was employing a man and had more work than they\\nboth could do. In December, 188f he built an extension to his mother s\\nhouse for a shop, and the following vear Ixnight the site which his\\nhouse and (jther buildings now occupy.\\nIn 18S7 he erected a two-story building and in 18S i added Steam\\nCarpet Cleaning Works. In 18 )1 he put u\\\\ a three-story house for\\nupholstering, and in l.S O converted the original two-story structure into\\na residence, b\\\\ adding a front and other extensions. In October 18 ),i\\nhe was married to Miss Ethelyn R. Huntly of Lyme, Conn.\\nThev have one child, a son. Mr. Holman does a large business,\\nemjdoying several men constantly.\\nCOKNKI.irS COI.I.IN S.\\nCornelius Collins the well known Coroner and undertakerof Ruther-\\nford, is of Irish descent, his father having emigrated from Ireland in\\nISO.v Mr. Collins was born at Littleton, Morris county, N. J.. August\\n21, 1842, where he recieved his education in the public schools. At\\neighteen years of age the iron manufacturing establishment of William\\nBerdan of Trov, New York, was entered where he learned the trade of\\nmaking horse shoes, an industry which was carried on extensively and\\nwhere he remained twenty-three years. In 1877, he came to Ruther-\\nford, finding employment in the locomotive shops of the Delaware and\\nLackawana R. R. In 188.^, Mr. Collins opened undertaking rooms with\\nhis son John, under the firm name of C. Collins Son, and three years\\nlater bought a lot on the north side of Park Avenue and erected a two\\nstory and basement brick building, where they opened a stock of furni-\\nture, and did an extensive business not only in furniture Init in livery\\nand undertaking. In 1892, this partnership was dissolved since which\\ntime Mr. Collins has carried on the undertaking business alone, being\\nassisted in the work of embalming by his daughter Abby, who like him-\\nself holds a diploma from the National Embalming College, New York.\\nIn 1863 Mr. Collins married Miss Healy of Albany, N. Y., their\\nchildren are John, Cornelius, William, Abby and Annie, all living. Mrs.\\nCollins died in 1882, and the following year he married Miss Alice Cor-\\nbitt of New York. Of this marriage there is one child, Alice.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0513.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "466 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nMr. Collins has held a number of political offices. He was Super-\\nvisor of Hig-hwavs for six years; was first made cori ner b}- appointment\\nfrom Governor Grig-g-s and afterward elected to the same office in 1896,\\nfor a term of three years; was made Justice of the Peace in 18 3, for five\\nyears and in 1898, he was appointed Recorder of the boroug-h of Ruther-\\nford. Mr. Collins was with (reneral Kilpatrick, in the Harris Cavalry\\nfor two and one half years.\\nni^. COKXliLirS H. ALI.EX.\\nAmerican dentists are noted for being- the best dentists in the world.\\nAs a rule thev are thorouglv trained and expert in the use of many in-\\nstruments utilized in modern dentistry. What is true of the profession\\nas a whole is true of the individual members of the fraternity.\\nThe enviable reputation attained by Dr. Cornelius H. Allen during\\nhis stay in Rutherford, is a credit to the profession he represents. He\\nis English bv birth, and was born in Manchester in 1858. Ten years\\nlater, he came with his father to Jersey City, where he served an ap-\\nprenticeship under him in the gold leaf business.\\nHis inclinations, however, were decidedly in favor of a professional\\ncareer, and in 1893 he entered the New York Dental College, from which\\nafter a thorough course, he received his merited titled D. D. S. Dr.\\nAllen is a licensed practitioner in the states of New Jersey and New\\nYork. He occupies a fine suite of rooms at 8S Park Avenue, Rutlier-\\nford.\\nArCrST NADI.KH.\\nAugust Nadler, the florist, is a native of Switzerland, bt)rn in 1S46,\\nand received his education in his native land, coming to America in\\n1865, when he located in Westchester county. N. Y. He first worked\\nfor a florist, and later was employed by Mr. Leland. the well known\\nhotel man, whose son is now the proprietor of a hotel in New York\\ncity. He remained three years with him taking care of his grounds at\\nhis home in New Rochelle, N. Y. In 1868, he came to Rutherford, N.\\nJ., where he was for some time in the employ of Mr. David B. Ivison.\\nIn 1871, he bought ten lots, on Woodward Avenue, for a greenhouse,\\nand has at the present time, seven thousand five hundred square feet\\nunder glass. He opened an office on Park Avenue in 1895, and keeps\\non hand a supply of palms, and plants of various kinds. He is prepared\\nto furnish cut flowers, and floral designs at short notice, and enjoys a\\nliberal patronage in the retail trade, both at home and in New York\\ncity. In March 1871. he was married to Miss Elizabeth Tilly. She\\ndied in 1891, and in 1894, he contracted a second marriage with Miss\\nAnnie G. Baker, of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Mr. Nadler is a mem-\\nber of the Presbyterian church.\\nMK. FEKDIN.\\\\ND BKUN NEK.\\nMr. Ferdinand Brunner, the popular jeweler, of Rutherford, N. J.,\\nmay well be classed am(mg the pioneers of Bergen county.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0514.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKC.EN COUNTY 4C 7\\nMr. Brunner came to this country when a boy nine years of age. He\\nattended public school in New York and at an early ag-e entered the\\njewelry business to which he has ever since been devoted. He tirsl\\nbecame identified with Bergen county in 1S(,() when lie moved to Carl-\\nstadt. In 1868 he purchased ground and erected a house at Woodridge.\\nAt all times interested in the development of the town, and especially\\ninterested in school matters, it was largely through his efforts, while a\\nschool trustee, that the handsome school building was erected. A few\\nyears later when the Corona Land Association was organized Mr. Brunner\\nwas chosen president. This was a prosperous organization until the\\npanic of 1S7.^, after which real estate was at an ebb for a long time, but\\nwith the name now changed to Hasbrouck Heights it is again in a\\nflourishing condition.\\nIn 187() Mr. Brunner opened a small jewelry store in the McMain s\\nBuilding in Rutherford, where b\\\\- honest dealing and strict attention to\\nbusiness, it can safely be said that he now has the largest, best equipped\\nand most modern jewelry establishment in Bergen county. In addition\\nto a full line of jewelry, there is also in the rear of the store a private\\noptical parlor which is in charge of a graduate optician. This dei)art-\\nment has made rapid strides in the past few years, and many peo])le can\\ntestify to the care which is taken in fitting the eyes.\\nMr. Brunner has erected a fine brick building at Park Avenue\\nfor his e\\\\er increasing trade. He is ably assisted in the l usiness by his\\nt\\\\yo sons, Robert A. and Ferdinand, Jr.\\nKOBKKT A. HK I-NXlCIv\\nRol)ert A. Tjrunner. who was l)orn in Bergen county, March ISd t.\\nwas educated at the Park Avenue school, Rutherford.\\nAt the age of sixteen years he was employed by one of the largest\\njewelry firms in New York, an l a few years later decided to make watch-\\nmaking and optics a study. Since that time he has confined himself\\nwholly to these two lines. At one time he was in business for himself\\non Maiden Lane, but owing to tailing health was compelled to lea\\\\e\\nNew York, when he entered his father s store to assist in his greativ\\nincreased business.\\nMr. Brunner becoming interested in National Guard affairs, was\\none of the promotors of Company L, Second Regiment, N. G. N. J., in\\n1892. After the organization of this company he was elected a sergeant\\nand in 1895 was made First Sergeant. In iS tdhe was elected Second\\nLieutenant and now holds that commission. Upon the breaking out of\\nthe Spanish-American war he was among the first to \\\\olunteer and\\nwhile in the service was an honest, courteous and hardworking officer.\\nLieutenant Brunner is also secretary and one of the directors of Com-\\npany L Rifle Association, and ablv assisted in building the handsome\\nstructure now owned by the company. Mr. Brunner is a graduated\\noptician associated in business with his father in Rutherford.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0515.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "468 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nGEOKCnC F. SCHEKMKKHOKN.\\n(ieorufc F. Schermerhorn, t)ne i)f the promoters of Rutherford is a\\ndescendant of Judg-e Jacob Jansen Schermerhorn, who came to this\\ncountry from Holland in 1640, settled at Fort Orany-e now Albany.\\nN. Y. and purchased a tract of land on the Mohawk River in the vicinity-\\nof the present city of Schenectady. Simon probably his son accord-\\ning- to record lost a son and three negroes, in the massacre and burning\\nof that villag-e l)y the P^rench and Indians in 168 himself being\\nwounded. He was the Hrst to give the rejfort of that event to the citi-\\nzens of Fort Orang-e.\\nDuring- the Revolution, over sixty of this name appear on the\\nroster of New York State troo])s. Cornelius, grandfather of George,\\nwas engaged in the Naval Ser\\\\ ice during that war and was afterward\\ncaptain in the merchant service, having- an interest in a line of packets\\nbetween New York City and Charleston, S. C. He was also in the ship\\nchandlery business in New York city. On an old map of the city, 1728,\\nis to be seen Schermerhorn Wharf, near the foot of Keekman Street.\\n(Jeorg-e F., son of James Stewart Schermerhorn, was in the book busi-\\nness for a number of years in New York. Having become a stockholder\\nin the Mt. Rutherford Company in 1870, he moved to Rutherford in 1.S72,\\nand has resided there to the present time.\\nJOSEPH \\\\V. Kl lUiESS.\\nJoseph W. Burgess, Clerk of the Ijorough of Rutherford, is an\\nEnglishman by birth, the year 1853 being the date of that event. When\\nstill in infancy his father, Robert Burgess, emigrated to America locat-\\ning in the city of New York where young Burgess received his educa-\\ntion. When fourteen years of age his parents located in Rutherford,\\nwhere the father died in 18 )(i. For many years the show card Iiusiness\\nwas carried on in Canal Street, New York, by father and son, the son\\ncontinuing with the father until recent years. Robert Burgess was also\\nidentitied with the government of the borough of Rutherford having\\nbeen one of its first councilmen when organized.\\nJoseph Burgess was made Borough Clerk in 1804 and has held that\\nposition with credit to himself since that time. By appointment he has\\nbeen Commissioner of the streets and was elected Councilman for one\\nterm also. He has been Deacon in the Presbyterian Church for the past\\nten years, and is Treasurer of that Board. When in 1875 the Ruther-\\nford Mutual Loan and Building Association was projected, Mr. Burgess\\nwas active in the formation of that successful organization, and was\\nshortly after made its Secretarv. which office he held for seven years\\nwhen he was elected to the position of Treasurer. This office he now\\nholds, having been chosen for twelve successive terms. During this\\nperiod, between one and two million dollars have passed through his\\nhands, withcmt the loss of a dollar to the Association. It may be said\\nthat it is to Mr. Burgess twentv-two years of untiring effort in behalf\\nof this association, that its successful career is largely due. He is one", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0516.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKOKN COUNTY 4()9\\nof the charter members and was the first treasurer if the Royal Arca-\\nnum of Rutherford. He is also treasurer of the Exempt Firemen s\\nAssociation of Rutherford and is in many other ways identified with the\\nf^rowth and ])rosj)erity of the I)orou,i;-h.\\nlU NJAMIN VATHS.\\nBenjamin Yates, one of the promotors of Rutherford was born in\\nthe citv of New York in 1831. His parents were Benjamin and Miriam\\nI^e Count) Yates, the father coming- from an ancestry in Nova Scotia,\\nthe mother being- of Huguenot extraction. Mr. Yates, Sr., was an\\nengineering ship builder and died when only thirty-two years ni age,\\nduring the cholera epidemic in l.S,^2. I enjamin s early life was spent\\nin New York when that citv hardly extended above Twelfth street.\\nHe attended school in an old building yet standing on Madison\\nStreet, near Jackson Park, in the old Seventh Ward, and still known as\\nSchool No. 1.^. His old teacher Andrew V. Stout afterwards organized\\nthe Shoe and Leather Bank, becoming its first president. He also\\norganized the Police Department of the city and subsequently became\\nCitv Chamberlain. Out of a school d about one hundred pu])ils, twelve\\nare still living, all prominent men in the \\\\-arious walks of life to-day.\\nThese old school friends hold annual reunions. Their last meeting was\\nin October, 18V7, at Mr. Yates residence on Orient Way.\\nMr. Yates became an engineering ship builder, learning his tr.ide\\nin the Noveltv Iron Works. He worked on the Arctic Shij) which col-\\nlided with the French steamer many years ago, a catastro]ihe in which\\nso nianv lives were lost. He built a numl)er of vessels which left the\\njx.rt of New York.\\nIn XSr^T Mr. Yates married Miss Tryi)hena Finch, oi New York,\\nand became the father of three children. In 1S( 7 he came to Ruther-\\nford, engaging for a time in the manufacture of iron castings, subse-\\nquently becoming a builder; but after erecting alxmt a dozen houses for\\nhimself he retired from business.\\nMr. Yates is a member of the Methodist Church.\\nIIAK KN K-. II \\\\1x-Ii1-:N.\\nHarrv R. Harden, Cashier of tlie Rutherford National Bank, Ruther-\\nford. N. .1., was born in New York city December 2,^, 1S()7. The\\nfamily moved to Westfield, N. J., in 1875, where Harry R. was graduated\\nfrom the public school at the age of fourteen years. After receiving a\\ncourse of instruction at the New Jersey Business College, Newark, N. J.,\\nhe entered the employ of the United States National Bank, New York\\ncitv at the age of sixteen, and remained in the employof that institution\\nfor about twelve years.\\nMr. Harden was appointed cashier of theRutherford National Bank,\\nMay i6, 1895, and opened the Bank for business June 27, 1895.\\nCHAKLES EDWAKD WATERS.\\nCharles Edward Waters, gold and silver refiner and assayer of New\\nYork citv, is a son of John and Anna Waters, his father having estab-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0517.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "470 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nlisbed this business in lS3 t. It is now carried on in the name of John\\nWaters Son. Mr. Waters was born in New York city, Aiig-ust 4, 184(i,\\nand was educated in his native city, afterward completing a course of\\ninstruction in the Commercial College at Aliddletown, Connecticut. He\\nis a man of character and dignity, taking high rank in social circles,\\nand other places in which he is called to act.\\nOn January 7, 1874, he enlisted in Company A, 23d Regiment, N.\\nG., State of New York, in Brooklyn, and was elected Corporal March\\n1, 1875; elected Sergeant May 15, 1876, 1st Sergeant August 7, 1S7S;\\n1st Lieutenant May 6, 1879; Captain March 4, 1880, and Major April 1\\n1SS(). On June 20, 1892, Major Waters was honorably discharged, ha\\\\-\\ning missed but three roll calls during his term of service.\\nDuring his residence in Brooklyn, he was a member of all the lead-\\ning social Clubs, of that city; the Oxford Club, Union League Club and\\nMarine and Field Club at Bath Beach. Since his removal to Ruther-\\nford, he has become a member of Union Clul), the most prominent social\\norganization of that locality. Major Waters wife was Miss Belle F.\\nKeeney of Hartford, Connecticut.\\nKiev. WILLIAM WICKHAM CASK.\\nRev. William Wickham Case, son of Rev. John B. Case and Eliza-\\nbeth Wickham, is a native of New Jersey, born at Perth Amboy August\\nM). 18.^ and was graduated from Bucknell University, Lewisburg,\\nPennsylvania, July, 1S( ,t. His first charge was at Chestnut Hill, Phil-\\nadelphia, following which were New London, Connecticut, and other\\nplaces. Mr. Case served at Hamilton Square, N. J., ten years and was\\nat Holmdel, N. J., for a period of twelve years. In 1S he came from\\nHoboken to Rutherford where he is located at this time.\\nCHARLES K. SOLEY.\\nMr. Charles R. Solev, is a native of New Jersey, born at Lyndhurst\\nforty-three years ago. He began business as contractor and builder, in\\n1878. Eventually he improved his fortunes by launching out in the\\nbroader rield of steam sawing, moulding, turning, c. Experience had\\ntaught him the wants of the trade, and the necessity of good and well\\nmanufactured material, in carrying out specifications in detail. In\\n1890, Mr. Solcy built his factory in Rutherford, N. J., where he carries\\na heavv and varied stock, and is able to till orders without delay. Mr.\\nSolev is prepared to furnish any article in wood or glass, in the con-\\nstruction of a house. He is serving his second term as freeholder was\\na member of council one term; and takes an active interest in the hre\\ndepartment of the borough, having acted as its chief for several years.\\nlanVAKD W. DEAX.\\nThirty-one years ago, Mr. Edward W. Dean, a New Euglander by\\nbirth, and a Bt)stonian Ijv education and prestige, changed his residence\\nfrom New York city, to Rutherford. N. J., where he has been recog-\\nnized as a leading factor, in the growth and develojmient of that little\\ncity. His father, Christopher C. Dean, was a well known jjublisher of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0518.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKC.KN COUNTY 4/1\\nreliifioiis books, in Boston. His mother s maiden name was Martha W.\\nPeck, both families being- well known throughout the country gener-\\nallY. Mr. Kdward W. Dean, the subject of this sketch, inheriting- the\\nliterary tendencies of his progenitors was prepared for colleg-e at Phil-\\nlips Academy, Andover, Mass., but failing- health necessitated his enter-\\ning; at once upon a business career, which now, at the age of sixty-nine\\nyears, can be reviewed with a feeling-, somewhat akin to pride. In\\nBoston Mr. Dean became associated as partner, with Stoddard, Lover-\\ning Co., importers, and in lS()fi, he came to New York city, and\\nopened a branch store, where a large business was carried on till 1S87,\\nwhen he retired, the iirm going out of existence. Mr. Dean s wife was\\nMiss Sallie B. Emerson of Cincinnati, Ohio, whom he married Novem-\\nber 1, 1859. In 1867, ground was bought, and building begun for the\\nnew home in Rutherford. The house which is on the plan of an English\\ncottage with commodious apartments and all the appointments of a\\ncomfortable home including gas and water, was erected at a time when\\nRutherford had no public water or gas. It was named The Deanery,\\nand completed in lS(i S, when the family took possession. The death of\\nMrs. Dean in December of 1893, left a vacancy in the beautiful home,\\nwhich can never be filled. Mr. Dean has been prominently identified\\nwith church work, in connection with the Presbyterian church of\\nRutherford, and superintended the building of their elegant church\\nedifice. He has been a leading citizen in all public improvements and\\naffairs in the little city. Mr. Dean has tra\\\\-eled extensively in many\\nlands.\\nJIAJOK KICHAKD .-ALLISON.\\nThe first ancestor of the Allison family in America was Lawrence,\\nwho is supposed to have emigrated to this country with Robert Win-\\nthrop and Sir Richard Saltonthal in 1630. In direct line from him came\\nJohn, John second, and following him Joseph, the great-grandfather of\\nthe present Richard. Joseph married Elizabeth Benson, and their son,\\nRichard, married Eliza Ruckel. Mr. Allison s parents were Michael\\nAllison and Susan Gentil, whose home was in New York city where\\nRichard was born Julv 7, 183S. After receiving his education in the\\npublic schools of New York, he immediately entered upon a business\\ncareer, acting as clerk for John W. Ouincy at 98 William street from\\n1853 to 1861. When the war broke out Mr. Allison joined the Seventh\\nRegiment N. G. I., N. Y., April 19, 1861, and was made Captain in the\\n127th New York Volunteers in 1862, serving during the war. He made\\nan enviable record in the army and after the surrender, he was made\\nProvost Marshal of Charleston and commanded the Boat Infantry in\\nCharleston Harbor during the siege. He was further honored by being\\nmade Inspector General, of the Northern District of the South. Upon\\nhis return at the close of the war Mr. Allison was elected a captain in\\nthe Seventh Regiment, N. (i. I., N. Y., serving fifteen years and was\\nthen elected Major, after which he resigned upon the completion of\\ntwenty-five years of service.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0519.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "472 HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nMajor Allison is a progressive mart along all liiies which tend to\\nhigh citizenship, culture and refinement, and to the best growth and\\ndevelopment of his borough. He was president of the Rutherford\\nImprovement Association out of which grew the Borough of Ruther-\\nford; president of the Protective Association, and active in all public\\nand social events. Mr. Allison is a member of Union Club and nearly\\nall the clubs or associations leading up to the promotion of Union Club.\\nMr. Allison s wife was Miss Mary A. Love. His brother, Thomas\\nAllison holds a judgeship in New York city.\\nWhile in command of the Boat Infautr}-, in Charleston Harbor,\\nwith three boats he made on August 2, 1864, a reconnoissance of Fort\\nSumter, which General Foster formally acknowledged as follows:\\nHeadquarters, Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C, August\\n6th, 1864.\\nThe Major General commanding, desires to express his thanks to\\nthe officers and men who made the reconnoissance of Fort Sumter on the\\nnight of the second of August and is much pleased with their energy in\\nthe enterprise. Signed, Thomas J. Robinson, A. A. A. G.\\nMK. COOK CONKLING.\\nThe Conkliug family came to America from Staffordshire, England,\\nin 1639. Ananias Conkling, the first of the name to come to this country\\nsettled in Salem, removing with his brother John to East Hampton, L.\\nI., where he married Mary Gardiner, daughter of Lyon Gardiner, of\\nGardiner s Island, near Moutauk Point. Many of the descendants of\\nMr. Conkling are still residents of that part of Long Island, although\\nothers, among them Alfred, the father of Roscoe Conkling, have removed\\nto other parts of the state of New York. About forty-two years ago,\\nCalvin B. Conkling the father of Cook, removed from Sag Harbor to\\nthe farm in Morris county. New Jersey, where he still lives. It was\\nupon this farm, near Stanhope, that Cook Conkling was born, Novem-\\nber 4, 1858. Mr. Conkling s mother was Harriet A. W. King, daughter\\nof Silas D. King, Silas D., being a son of John Phcenix King.\\nThe paternal grandmother of Mr. Conkling was descended from\\nthe Cooks of Lancastershire, England, who became famous as merchants\\nand shipowners. She was a relative of Aaron Burr.\\nMr. Conkling was educated in Stanhope, N. J., public school and\\nprepared for college at Stouten bourgh s Latin School at Schooley s\\nMountain Springs, N. J. Afterward at Mount Union College, Ohio.\\nAfter leaving college he taught school for three years, following which\\nhe travelled in a business capacity through the United States and\\nCanada. In 1888 he formed a partnership with Addison Ely and in 1898\\na new partnership was entered into with Luther Shafer, Mr. Conkling\\nbeing admited to the bar, in November of this year, continuing practice\\nas Shafer Conkling. Mr. Conkling has resided in Rutherford since\\n1888, ccraducting a private banking business and reading law. In 1.S9.S,\\nhe procured the organization of the Rutherford National Bank, was", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0520.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "IIISTdKV OK KEKCEN COUNTY 473\\nelected Justice of the Peace in 1897, and is now devoting- all his time to\\nthe ])ractice of law in connection with farminij i n a larg-e scale.\\nMK. HHTICK H. KIP\\nPeter H. Kip is a descendant of Rueloff De Kyjx who distinguished\\nhimself in the war waged against the Huguenots in the l( th century by\\nCatharine De Medicis through her weak son, Charles IX.\\nRoeloff, fled to Holland and remained there till iS.-i when he\\nreturned to France and assisted the Duke of Anjou to suhdue the Prot-\\nestants. A son of Roeloff, embraced the Protestant faith, however,\\ndropped the De and became the parent stem of the Kii)p family in\\nAmerica. His son was prominent in the organization of the company\\nwhich dispatched Hendrick Hudson to explore the New World, and he\\nhimself came to New Amsterdam, where the family from the first have\\nplayed an important part in the public life of New York.\\nThe first to settle in New Jersey was Nicholas, who bought a large\\ntract on the Polifiy road in 1865, and became the progenitor of all the\\nKips, now residing in this vicinity. His eldest son Hendrick, in due\\ntime, bought a large tract of land in that part of Boiling Springs town-\\nship now constituting Rutherf jrd and built a tine mansion of cut brown-\\nstone, which is still standing on the Meadow Road in the borough where\\nfour generations of the Kips were born. Peter Kip, his son, occupied\\nthe homestead and married first Clarissa Marcelus, and after her death\\nhe married Sail} Van Iderstine. His children were Henry, Edo, John,\\nand Peter, who was the father of the subject of this sketch.\\nMr. Peter H. Kip is a prominent land owner and a director in the\\nRutherford National Bank, He was b:)rn in 1843, in the old homestead\\nwhere he still resides. Mr. Kij) is a man of simple tastes and habits,\\nand is unmarried.\\nMK. THEODOKE MTEHLINC.\\nMr. Theodore Muehling is a native of Germany, horn in the city of\\nLeipzig, January 2, 1843. Coming to America with his parents in 1849,\\nthe family lived in New York until 1855, when they removed to Carl-\\nstadt, N. J. At the age of fifteen years his father apprenticed him to\\na cigar manufacturer in the town, where he continued until the death\\nof his employer in 1863, when he succeeded to the business. By dint of\\nindustry and perseverance, he soon established a flourishing trade and a\\nreputation as a manufacturer of fine cigars, and is known as a conscien-\\ntious and reliable business man. In 1870, he built the fine brick building\\nat the corner of Hackensack and Broad Streets, known as Odd Fellows\\nHall, he occupving the lower part of the building as a factory, the\\nupper being used for lodge purposes. Mr. Muehling is a charter mem-\\nber of the Carlstadt Fire Department, organized in 1872, of Wieland\\nLodge I. O. O. F., organized in 1879, and of William Tell Council O.\\nC. F., orgfanized in 1886. He has also been an active worker for many\\nyears in other fields of labor, which have for their object the advance-\\nment of our youths both mentally and physically. He has served on", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0521.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "474 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe Board of Trustees several terms, on the Township Committee and\\nBoard of Chosen Freeholders. Mr. Muehling has been an active tire-\\nman ever since the first org-anization, and was Fire Commissioner nearlv\\nas long. He was also a trustee of the public schools for many years.\\nMr. Muehling moved his business to Rutherford in 1893, where he built\\nthe handsome brick building which he occupies, and now resides in\\nRutherford. He employs eight hands, while he looks after the sale of\\nhis goods himself. He is thorough master of all the details of the manu-\\nfacturing part nf the business as well as the selling part.\\nE.VST KUTHEKFOKD.\\nThat portion of the old township of Union, known as East Ruther-\\nford, after the organization of the borough of Rutherford, became in-\\ncorporated by an act of the Legislature in April, 1899, under the name\\nof Boiling Springs Township.\\nThe hrst election was held May 1st of that year, and was as follows:\\nJudge of Elections, William Begnell; Inspector of Elections, James\\nTalbot. David Taylor; Township Clerk, Luther M. Axford; Assessor,\\nPeter J. Post; Collector, Edward A. Jeanneret; Chosen Freeholder,\\nLouis Lane; Township Committee, Louis H. Beck. William Sanders,\\nJoseph Huber; Overseer of the Poor, William Conirie; Commissioner\\nof Appeals, Jules Ducommun, Theodore Wood, John V. S. Van Winkle;\\nSurveyor of Highways, George Stettler, Henry Bachmann; Justice of\\nthe Peace, Edward J. Sutton, Charles E. Griffith; Cimstables, L. B.\\nVan Alstyne, Henry Uuintle, Paul Jeanneret; Pound Keepers, John\\nTuma, Louis Handel, John Miller.\\nTownship Purposes, S8(U); Township Roads, $900; Poor Purposes,\\nS50; Fall and Spring Elections. No. 3. Engine House.\\nIn March, 1891, Mr. Axford was succeeded by W. H. Taylor, who\\nhas held that office both for the township and borough, virtually, since\\nthat time. During a portion of the months of April and May, 1894, P.\\nB. Spencer Hodges was clerk of the borough, and Luther Shafer has\\nbeen the only counsel for these two corporations.\\nThe election of Borough officers, for East Rutherford, took place.\\nApril 17, 1894, Theodore G. Hoster, serving as Mayor until released by\\nWilliam McKenzie in May following who has filled that office to the\\npresent time.\\nOn May 23, 1893, the last meeting of the Committee for Boiling\\nSprings township was held, for the purpose of closing uj) the township\\nbusiness and for making transfer of all properties to the borough\\nc)fficers.\\nThe officers of the borough for the year 1897 were as follows:\\nMayor, William McKenzie; President of Council, William Gramlich;\\nCouncilmen, James P. Edwards, Charles Uhl, Charles Albertine, J. V.\\nS. Van Winkle, John F. Randolph; Clerk, William H. Taylor; Assessor,\\nHenry Bachmann; Collector, Edward A. Jeanneret; Counsel, Luther\\nShafer; Recorder, James A. Morgan; Engineers, Wise and Watson.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0522.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n475\\nTHIC :AST lU THlUvl OKD LOAN AND BUILDING A.SSOCL\\\\TION.\\nThis institution with its several advantag-eous features has become\\none of the useful organizations for the poor men of this borough. It owes\\nits })romotion to a number of citizensof East Rutherford and vicinity who\\nin a public spirited manner incorporated for business in 18 )5. Among those\\nwho were the first to promote this enterprise should be mentioned the\\nnames of William McKenzie, president of the Company from the lirst;\\nE. A. Jeanueret, first vice j)resident; Rudolph Uannheim, second vice\\npresident; William Fleming, Sr. secretary; J. F. Randolph, William II.\\nTaylor, E. H. Turner, Theodore Wood and Charlotte Cooper, all of\\nwhom be-long to the Board of Directors at the present time.\\nOne of the useful features connected with this association is its\\nJuvenile Sa\\\\ings Bank. The liabilities to the association from this\\nEAST Kt THKKl-f KI) SCHOOL\\nsource alone during the last year amounted to S1158.88. The number\\nof shareholders belonging to the association is two hundred and sixty-\\ntwo, total liabilities 874,794.80 and net profits for 1898 S4,764.15.\\nCHUKCHES.\\nThe Methodists erected a building for Worship in East Rutherford\\nin 189,S. The Rev. Mr. Hubach was the first pastor. The congrega-\\ntion is constantly increasing, and a flourishing church is in prospect.\\nThere is also a gospel Mission here which is a branch of the Passaic\\nMission Church Society, Rev. James R. Morris in pastoral charge. Be-\\nsides a flourishing Sunday School, the Mission, though small in mem-\\nbership, exercises the influence and does a work creditable to a good", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0523.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "476 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nsized church orij-atiization. It was this mission that sent one hundred\\nTestaments to Company L at Sea Girt, N. J.\\nWILLIAM m kEN ZIE.\\nWilliam McKenzie, May(^rof East Rutherford borouii^h, was born in\\nGlasg-ow, Scotland, on August 22, 1841. From a boy the business of\\ncotton bleaching possessed a strong attraction for him, and he was\\nalready proficient in the art when, in 1866, he came to the United States.\\nIn Norwicli, Conn., and in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, he followed the\\nbusiness, winning a high reputation as superintendent in a large con-\\ncern. With the natural energy of an active man, Mr. McKenzie con-\\nstantly sought opportunities of improving his position, and in 1885 he\\ntook advantage of the opening which has resulted in his becoming so\\nlargely interested in East Rutherford and Bergen county.\\nStanding alongside the Erie Railway track at Carlton Hill at that\\ntime was a large brick building which had become known in the neigh-\\nborhood as a white elephant. A cotton bleachery had been established\\ntheir fifty years ago, and its record had been one of ruin for the men\\nwho put their money into the enterprise. Mr. McKenzie, whose knowl-\\nedge of the business was accurate, and who was sanguine of success\\nunder the right conditions, interested John Ward, a wholesale jeweler,\\nin a plan for starting up the works the place, including machinery\\nwhich had lain idle for years, was bought and the wonderfully success-\\nful career of the Standard Bleachery, with a reputation for fine work as\\nwide as the continent, began. Obstacles which appeared to be insur-\\nmountable were overcome, and success was fairly forced from apparent\\nfailure by the indomitabe energy and enterprise of Mr. McKenzie.\\nThis to-day is one of the most important industries in Bergen county,\\nand gives employment to nearly- 500 people.\\nLike many men deeply immersed in business cares, Mr. McKenzie\\nreached middle age before taking any active part in public atfairs.\\nWhen the call came for him to take a part in the government of his\\ntown, which was then Boiling Springs township, he reluctantly con-\\nsented, and served two terms as chairman of the Township Committee.\\nHis judicial temperament and unvarying fairness quickly made for him\\na name which went far beyond the confines of his town, and strong\\npressure was brought to bear to induce him to run on the Republican\\nticket for Assemblyman in 1892. This was the year of the Democratic\\ntidal wave, and Mr. McKenzie was defeated; nevertheless, he headed\\nthe ticket, and was beaten by a margin so small that his prestige was\\ngreatly increased, in a county hitherto always Democratic.\\nMr. McKenzie was still chairman of the Township Committee when\\nthe movement began which resulted in the changing of Boiling Springs\\ntownship into East Rutherford borough. The success of the movement\\nwas largely due to him, and he became the first Mayor of the borough.\\nHis entrance into the office was marked by a stirring incident, the local\\nelection board having unwittingly counted him out in favor of another", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0524.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0525.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0526.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BHKGEN COUNTY 479\\nman. An ai)pcal to Judge Dixon, however, led to a recount, and he\\nwas seated. In 18 )7 he was elected for the third time, and he had no\\nopposition.\\nFor many years Mr. McKenzie had served as a member of the Ber-\\nyen County Republican Executive Committee, and his marked services\\nto the party were recog nized this year by his election as chairman of\\nthe committee, to succeed Judge D. D. Zabriskie. He is also vice presi-\\ndent for the Fifth Congressional District of the Republican State League.\\nRecognizing- the need of some association to set forth the advan-\\ntages of Rutherford and its neighborhood, Mr. McKenzie last year took\\nan active part in forming the Rutherford and East Rutherford Board of\\nTrade, of which he was chosen president, a place which he now holds.\\nHe has just been re-elected vice president of the Rutherford Public\\nLibrary Association. He is a director in the Rutherford National Bank,\\nof which institution he was one of the founders.\\nBeing a strong believer in the maxim that a penny saved is a\\npenny earned, Mr. McKenzie has for years been interested in loan and\\nbuilding associations, being a pronounced advocate of local associa-\\ntions. Three years ago he was one of the active organizers of the East\\nRutherford Savings, Loan and Building Association, of which he ac-\\ncepted the presidency, which he still holds, and the remarkable progress\\nof the young association has been due largely to his interest and to the\\nprestige which his name bestowed upon it. He is a Governor of the\\nPassaic Hospital, and, in addition to being President of the Standard\\nBleachery Company, holds the presidency of a Paper Manufacturing\\nCompany. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Union\\nClul) of Rutherford.\\nMr. McKenzie lives in a handsome residence at Carlton Hill, sur-\\nrounded by acres of grounds, and located near the bleachery. He is\\nmarried and has four sons and a daughter. His eldest son, James J.\\nMcKenzie, is actively connected with the management of the Bleachery,\\nand his third son is a student in a textile college at Philadelphia. His\\nonly daughter is married and lives near Boston, Mass.\\nMr. McKenzie is a man of sanguine temperament; level-headed, warm-\\nhearted and true; a !--taunch friend and a manly foe. A deep interest in\\nall that tends toward the uplifting of his community has been marked\\nbv many unostentatious deeds of generosity on his part; but no man can\\nbe sterner toward an unworthy cause. A mental habit of looking diffi-\\nculties squarely in the face makes him a tower of strength in trouble;\\nand his advice is constantly sought by thcise who know his absolute\\nintegrity. A certain sturdy independence of manner and an insistence\\nupon his rights have combined to attract toward him a circle of friends\\nwhose entire confidence in him is at once a tribute and a sign of proper\\nappreciation of his worth. His tine mental fibre has been shown in\\nevery positiim of trust which has been given to him, and a deep strain\\nof reverence in his nature lor what is grand and ennobling has left its\\nimpress on his life. He ])ossesses a rare sym])athy for those who are", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0527.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "480 inSTOKY OF KKKOKN COUNTY\\nengaged in the battle of life against odds, and enjoys that faculty of\\ndiscernment which permits him to guage accurately the motives of men.\\nOf an intrepid nature himself, he appreciates courage in others, and has\\nall that catholicity of view which enables men to judge their fellows\\nleniently. While a lover of peace Mr. McKenzie never avoids a conflict\\nwhere a question of principle is involved. His rapid business advance-\\nment has, in no instance, been accomplished to the detriment of others,\\nand no ruins mark the path that he has trod. He is an illustration of what\\na sound head and a willing heart can accomplish, when united with the\\nother sterling attributes of an upright man, and his prosperity to-day\\nawakens nothing but satisfaction in the minds of those who know him,\\nfor no man s sorrow has contributed thereto, and no man is the jxiorer\\nbecause of his splendid rise.\\nMK. JOHN J. DUPUV.\\nMr. John J. Dupuy. proprietor of the HoiTman House, and a well\\nknown official in municipal and county affairs, passed his early days in\\nthe busy city of New York, where he was born August 6, 1855. At the\\nage of thirteen years he left school and since that time his life has been\\na busy one.\\nIn 1876, he came to Rutherford, where he was employed in a watch\\ncase factory for five years. In 1881, he opened a store which he con-\\nducted till 1886. During this time he began in a small way to manu-\\nfacture base balls and other sporting goods, eventually becoming very\\nsuccessful in this business. His factory was in Rutherford and his\\nsalesroom at No. 112 Chambers Street, New York. At one time he had\\nin all nearly one hundred hands employed and in one season manufac-\\ntured 365,000 dozen balls. He conducted this business and at the same\\ntime a dry goods store in Rutherford, until the panic of 1893 caused\\nhim to relinquish both enterprises.\\nAs an official Mr. Dupuy s career has beeen successful also. He\\nserved the borough of Rutherford, first, in the capacity of constable\\nfrom 1880 to 1885, was Town Collector from 1886 to 1888, the only Demo-\\ncrat elected on that ticket. He was Coroner from 1887, to 1889, running\\nahead of his ticket in that election. It was during his incumbency the\\ninquest was held over the remains of Sherff Demarest who was killed at\\nthe Erie crossing.\\nMr. Dupuy was elected Justice of the Peace in 1882, serving five\\nyears, and again elected in 1893. In 1891, he was elected Assemblyman\\nfrom the second Assembly District, and re-elected the following year.\\nHe is Chief of the State Detective Bureau, and has been prominent, in\\nfire circles having served in the department as foreman, chief and\\npresident of the organization.\\nMr. Du])uy is also a member of the Boiling Spring Lodge, No. 152,\\nF. and A. M.; Rutherford Lodge, No. 240, I. O. O. F.; Passaic Lodge,\\nNo. 387, B. P. O. Elks; Rutherford Lodge, No. 42, Foresters of\\nAmerica; Rutherford Council Royal Arcanum; United F riends Council\\nand other social organizations.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0528.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "JOHN J. DUPUY", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0529.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "PETER J. POST", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0530.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 483\\nPETEK J. POST.\\nPeter J. Post, a resident of East Rutherford from 1875 till his\\n(leatJi, was a prominent business man in New York for over fifty years.\\nHe was born in Rockland county, N. Y., in 1821. When a youth he\\nwent to Ne-v? York and learned the clothiers trade, subsequently going\\ninto business for himself at Eighth Avenue and Twentieth Street, where\\nhe remained twenty-five years. He then joined his brother of the firm\\nof A. J. Post Son and carried on business with them at two places in\\nthe city for twenty years or more. In 1875 Mr. Post purchased prop-\\nerty in Rutherford where he remained until removed by death. From\\n1875 till 1884 he was a commuter, at which time he retired from active\\npursuits. In 1S43 he married his first wife Miss Caroline Canfield, and\\nafter four children were born of this union she died. The children are\\nall dead also. His second wife, who was Miss Elizabeth A. Owens,\\nsurvives him. She was born in Bangor, North Wales, and was married\\nat the home of her uncle, James Loyd, in Sullivan county, N. Y. She\\nis a Christian woman, highly respected by all who know her. Mr. Post\\nwas a religious man and greatly devoted to his church. He was a life\\nmember of the American Institute Missionary Society, and belonged to\\nthe Baptist Church in Sixteenth Street, New York. He was a Free\\nMason, also. Mr. Post is missed the most in his home, for those who\\nknew him best loved him most. He died in IS and was buried by\\nStephen Merrit, his intimate friend, who also buried General Grant,\\nBishop Simpson and other persons of note. He was buried in Green-\\nwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.\\nJOHN F. RANDOLPH.\\nThe earliest paternal ancestors of the Randolph family in America,\\nof which we have a record, was Basil F., born in Virginia. His son.\\nJustice F., was born in Elizabeth, N. J., and was the father of Absalom\\nFitz Randolph, also a native of Elizabeth, and the grandfather of our\\nsubject. Edwin Fitz Randolph the father of John F., was born in\\nJersey City, November 9, 1812. He married Hannah Goetchius, of\\nPaterson, a grand-daughter of Rev. Henry Goetchius a Dutch Reformed\\nminister of early days. They had ten children, two boys and eight girls.\\nOf these children John Fitz, was born at Lodi, January 31, 1857,\\nand was educated in the public schools of Rutherford. After leaving\\nschool Mr. Randolph turned his attention to the nursery business and\\nhorticulture, and since 1872, has devoted his energies to this line of\\ntrade. His nurseries and greenhouses are located in East Rutherford,\\nwhere he has built up a successful and growing industry.\\nMr. Randolph s military record covers a period of five years in Com-\\npany L, Second Regiment. New Jersey Volunteers. He served a term\\nof two years as member of Township Committee and three years as bor-\\nough Councilman. He has been a trustee of the Wesleyan Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church since its organization was for thirteen years a fireman\\nand for fifteen years belonged to the order of United Friends, in addi-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0531.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "4g4 HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\ntion to several other clubs and organizations of minor importance.\\nMr. Randolph was married May 15. 1890, to Miss Mary Emma\\nOstendorff, daughter of Louis H. Ostendorff of Hoboken.\\n.\\\\KTHUK ANDEKS.\\nArthur Anders in real estate and insurance business in East Ruther-\\nford is a native of Berlin, Germany, and was born July 22, i859.\\nMr Anders acquired his education in his native country, first m the\\npublic schools, following this by a High School course. In preparation\\nfor a business life, Mr. Anders immediately entered a business college\\nin Berlin, and after completing the prescribed course of instruction,\\nbegan his career bv spending three years in commercial business in that\\ncity After coming to America, in 1884, he occupied various positions\\nin New York business houses, beginning at a small salary, but building\\nup until in 1890, his accumulations enabled him to come to East Ruther-\\nford and purchase property.\\nAfter establishing a general agency business, he continued in it\\nuntil 1897 when he turned his attention wholly to real estate and insur-\\nance in which he has been successful. Mr. Anders takes pride in doing\\nhis share toward the development of his village, and the vicinity. He\\nor ranized a Board for the Metropolitan Savings and Loan Association, a\\nprosperous organization of Newark, N. J., which is of great benefit to\\nthose who have a small income.\\nMr Anders married Miss Margaret Mutter, of Berlin, Germany.\\nHe is a progressive man in every sense of the word, having taken ad-\\nvantage of all the privileges of an American by acquiring his citizen-\\nship in 1890.\\nJAMES A. MORGAN.\\nJames A Morgan, Recorder for the borough of East Rutherford, is\\na native of England, born in 1846. In 1847 his father emigrated to\\nthis country, where James received his education in the public schools\\nof New York city. Subsequently he went to Franklin Grove in Illinois.\\nIn 1861 he enlisted in a New York Regiment volunteers, and served in\\nthe army until honorably discharged in June, 1865. After a visit to\\nEngland in 1866, he followed his trade of marble cutter, coming into\\nthe employ of S. Klauber Co., eventually working tor them from 18/.^\\nto 1897. ,wi, f\\nIn 1871 he married Miss Kate Corrigan, who has shared in all that\\nhas made his social and business relations successful in the home of his\\nadoption. Judge Morgan was elected Justice of the Peace m the Spring\\nof 1896, and was appointed Borough Recorder in the Spring of 189/.\\nHe is manager of the Thespian Institute of Carlstadt, which organiza-\\nti.m he effected in December, 1897. He is a member of the Odd i ellows,\\nbelongs to the Army of the Republic, and is an esteemed citizen ot\\nBergen county.\\nLOUIS BECK.\\nLouis Beck of East Rutherford, N. J., is a man of varied an.l wide\\nexperience. He was born at Homburg, Germany, February 1. 184... and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0532.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 485\\nis of pure German descent by both paternal and maternal lines. He was\\neducated in the public schools of his native country, going to sea when\\nbut fourteen years of age and remaining until his twentieth year. The\\nlast two years of this time he was Quartermaster in the service of the\\nPacific Mail Steamship Company, and before that in the Anchor and\\nAllen Line, and also in the American, Bremen and Brazilian Lines.\\nIn 1861, when fifteen years of age, he came to America, entering\\nas cabin boy on the Vanderbilt line of steamers, Northern Light,\\nbut had to leave after a few trips to Aspinwall on account of\\nbeing sick with fever. In 1865 he left the service coming from Liver-\\npool to New York in the steamer St. David of the Allen Line, which\\nwas thirty-three days making the trip. He then began work as a\\npainter remaining with one man nine and one-half years. He came to\\nRutherford in 1871, and has seen the place grow from nothing to its\\npresent rather prosperous proportions. In 1877, he opened business on\\nhis own account, and in 18*J2. started in the building and contracting\\nbusiness.\\nMr. Beck is a public spirited citizen, is president of the Union town-\\nship committee and Board of school trustees in District No. 40 2. He\\nbelongs to the Order of United Friends, the- Fraternal League,\\nand the Odd Fellows. Is a member of the German Presbyterian\\nChurch. His wife is also German; she was Miss Caroline Greyner.\\nCHAKI.ES DANIEL BKOOKS, M. D.\\nAmong the prominent physicians of the county, having a large\\npractice, may be mentioned Dr. Brooks, of East Rutherford. He was\\nborn near St. Paul, Minnesota, thirty years ago and spent the first nine-\\nteen years of his life on his father s farm. Having natural inclinations\\nto the study of medicine, he began a course in that science before leav-\\ning his early home. His educational career began in the public school,\\nwhich in time was supplemented by special courses on subjects looking\\ntowards the profession he intended to espouse. In time he was gradu-\\nated from Bellevue Medical College, New York, taking his degree from\\nthat institution. He also completed a course of instruction in the New\\nYork Midwifery Dispensary, April 6, 1842, and on January 22, 1S \u00c2\u00bb4,\\npassed the examination by the State Board of Medical Examiners, at\\nTrenton, N. J. Dr. Brooks is a brother of Dr. Harry H. Brooks, a pro-\\nfessor in Bellevue College, New York, who is also one of the visiting\\nphysicians at Sing Sing, on expert cases, for testimony.\\nTHEODOKE WOOD.\\nTheodore Wood, a citizen of East Rutherford since 1870, and one of\\nthe original councilmen of that borough is a native of New York city,\\nand was born in 1840. He is the son of John and Maria Wood, both de-\\nscendants of old New Jersey families, members of the old Holland Church.\\nHaving received a good education in the public schools of New York,\\nMr. Wood learned the trade of bookbinding, taking up the work in the\\nemploy of Beatty Stevenson, with whom he remained thirty-five years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0533.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "486 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe last ten years of which, as a member of the firm. In i890 he estab-\\nlished himself in business on Dutch street, New York, where he still\\nremains as the head of the firm of Wood Salter, binders and manu-\\nfacturer of blank books. The firm employ from fifteen to twenty hands\\nconstantly, and do a large business. In 1865 Mr. Wood was married to\\nMiss Mary E. Rodman of New York, and in 1870 thev moved to East\\nRutherford. They have four children. Mr. W^xxl has been a member\\nof the Masonic Lodge for thirty years.\\nJAMES p. EDWAKDS.\\nJames p. Edwards, son of James B. Edwards, a former wholesale\\ndrug dealer of Jersey City, was born in Morrisania in 1862. W^hen four\\nyears of age his father removed to Jersey City, where he lived the\\nremainder of his life dying in 1881. James P. was brought up in that\\ncity coming to Boiling Springs in 1886. He then bought property and\\nbuilt several houses. In 1888 when a vacancy occurred in the Town-\\nship Committee the office was tendered him which he declined, but three\\nyears later he appeared as an independent candidate and was elected\\nover two other regular party nominees. He has been councilman in East\\nRutherford for eight years.\\nMr. Edwards is of English descent. His grandfather Major John\\nEdwards of Paterson was born in the town of Trowbridge, Vv iltshire,\\nEngland, October 14, 1808, and came to this country when but fourteen\\nyears of age. Making his way to Paterson, he learned the trade of\\nmachinist, finally becoming a member of the firm of Danforth Cooke\\nLocomotive Works, from which he retired with a comfortable fortune to\\nspend his last days in peace and rest. Our subject is a progressive\\ncitizen in the best sense, and looks to the interest of his borough. In\\n1893 he built his own residence, where he now lives, enjoying the con-\\nfidence and respect of all.\\nJACOB H. VKEELAND.\\nMr. Vreeland s ancestors came from Amsterdam, Holland, and set-\\ntled in Bergen county at a very early date. The old homestead is on the\\nPolifly road, the site of which is now Hasbrouck Heights. His grand-\\nfather, Abraham Vreeland was an officer in the Revolutionary war, his\\ngrandmother drawing a pension until her death which occurred in 1856.\\nMr. Vreeland was educated in the public schools of his native place, and\\nin a private high school at West Hoboken. Upon leaving his father s\\nfarm at sixteen years of age he became apprenticed to the firm of Hogg\\nDelameter, marine machinists, located at the foot of Thirteenth\\nStreet, New Y ork city. After serving his full time a position was\\nimmediately offered him as assistant engineer in the Russian Navy,\\nwhich he declined.\\nIn 1861 Mr. Vreeland removed to West Hoboken and in 1863 he was\\nelected a member of the Township Committee and by them was made\\npresident of the Board. Returning to Boiling Springs now Rutherford\\nin 1865 he was elected president of the township committee, serving two", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0534.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 4S7\\nterms. He was also school trustee for fourteen years, being president of\\nthe board of trustee^ for a ^leriod of ten years, and was collector of the\\ntown three 3 ears.\\nWhile serving- the public he was not neglecting his own interests,\\nbeing the inventor of a Patented Hydraulic Jack, for removing and\\nreplacing locomotive drivers without disturbing the height of the\\nengine. This device is in use on all the prominent roads in the United\\nStates, Canada and Mexico.\\nIn 1864 and part of lS(i5 he was em.ployed by Commodore Stevens\\nof Hoboken, superintending- his machine shops. At this time he was\\noffered a situation with the Erie Railroad Company at Jersey City. He\\naccepted a position as foreman, soon after becoming general foreman,\\nand later master mechanic of the Eastern division and all its branches,\\nincluding the care of about three hundred locomotives, and a fleet of\\nferr} and tugboats. He remained with the company until ISSS.\\nMr. Vreeland married Miss Frances Ferritt whose ancestors are of\\nthe Morgan family of Connecticut. He is a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity, having been Master three successive terms. In his religious\\nconnections he is a member of Grace Episcopal Church of Rutherford.\\nHe is a son of Lawrence and Mary Smith Vreeland, his grand-\\nparents being Abraham Vreeland and Rachel Ackerman. He was Ixirn\\nin Bergen county, August 16, 1834.\\nADOLPH (;UHL.\\nAdolph (iuhl, wagon manufacturer and general blacksmith, was\\nhorn in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 11, i850, where he learned the\\ntrade of wheelwright with his father. He came to New York in 1873,\\nand the year following to Carlstadt, where he worked three j ears as a\\nhired hand. In i87S he started business for himself, but after two years\\nhe again began working for wages remaining in his position until 189f\\nwhen he built his present brick shop. Since that time he has been\\nmanufacturing wagons and doing all kinds of blacksmithing, employing-\\nat times a dozen or more hands. In 1879 he was married to Miss Freda\\nGuckelberger, and in 1882 purchased his present residence. Mr. Guhl\\nbelongs to the I. O. F. and the Foresters.\\nEDWARD A. JKANXEKET.\\nEdward A. Jeanneret is of Huguenot e.xtraction born in Locle,\\nSwitzerland, in 1840. His father August Jeanneret, was a manufac-\\nturer of watches and lived for a time in St. Petersburg, where he mar-\\nried Amelia Walter in 1836. Her father was a Polander. She is still\\nliving and is now ninety-four years old. In 1859 Mr. Jeanneret came to\\nAmerica, and in 1872 located in Rutherford, N. J. He died in 1882.\\nEdward Jeanneret learned the trade of manufacturing watches in\\nSwitzerland and worked at his trade for a time in New York. In 1867,\\nhe married Juliet Guinand whose father was an old watch case manu-\\nfacturer in New York for many years, and when he died in 1881 Mr.\\nJeanneret succeeded to the business.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0535.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "488 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nIn 1885 his brother, Paul Jeanneret, who had been with him for a\\ntime, succeeded as sole owner. The brothers were successful manu-\\nfacturers and often employed twenty-five and thirty men. Mr. Edward\\nJeanneret came to East Rutherford in 1870, and has been in the real\\nestate business ever since. Soon after coming here he was made Tax\\nCollector and still holds that office. He is vice president of the East\\nRutherford Building and Loan Association and has been president of\\nthe Fishing and Gun Club since August 1888. His wife died in 1805.\\nVALENTINE GKAMLICH.\\nValentine Gramlich was resident here since 1853, is a native of\\nBaden, Germany, and was born August 1, 1830. He came to this\\ncountry in the William Tell in 1853. In 1856 he built the first five houses\\nin Carlstadt for the German Land Association. In 1863 he began busi-\\nness in coal and wood and during that same year married Miss Mina\\nHobe. They have five sons and one daughter,\\nWilliam Gramlich, the eldest son is president of the Borough\\nCouncil, having been a member of that body since 1893, and chairman\\nof the Board since 1895, He has been in charge of the Station on the\\nErie Railroad at Carlstadt for many years.\\nWILLIAM VOI.MEK.\\nWilliam E. Volmcr, florist, conducts a profital)le trade in flowers on\\nthe Paterson Plank R(jad, East Rutherford, N. J. He was born in\\nBrunswick, Germany, in 1856. His early training in the business was\\nobtained in the Botanical Gardens of his native town, and a diploma\\nconferred upon him in lS9i in testimnnv of his advancement in the\\nknowledge of plants and flowers.\\nAfter coming to America in [892, he was in the employ of De\\nForest, at Summit, N. J., four years, in charge of an extensive place,\\nthe orchids alone numbering 125,000. In 1896 he began business for\\nhimself on Jersey City Heights, and in 1897 Mr. Volmer bought three\\nacres of land, where he is at present located, and has about 10,000\\nsquare feet of this under glass. He enjovs a liberal patronage in his\\nnew field.\\nJA.MES K. TOLESON.\\nJames R. Toleson was born in Paterson in 1843, and is a son of\\nRobert Toleson of that city. He received his education in the public\\nschools, after which he was apprenticed to the moulders trade at the\\nDanforth Cooke Locomotive Works, where he remained until 1861.\\nAt the age of nineteen he enlisted in the First Regiment of Sickles\\nBrigade (70th N. Y. Volunteers) as a drummer boy. Before he had been\\nout a week he exchanged his drum for a gun, and at Chancellorsville was\\npromoted to Color Sergeant. Not long after this he was recommended\\nby his superior officers for a lieutenancy and papers were forwarded for\\nhis ])romotion, but on July 2d, at (Gettysburg, he lost an arm, which", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0536.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "iiisToKV OF bkk(;i ;n coi nty 48\\nunfitted him for dutv. Upon recovery he w;is placed in charge of the\\njruards at the Jarvis General Hospital in Baltimore, and was subse-\\nquently transferred to the Court Martial building- in Washingtcm, where\\nhe remained until mustere l out of service after having Iteen in the war\\nthree years. After Mr. Tnlesun returned to Paterson, he was elected\\nPoormaster in iShS, but soon afterward became superintendent for T.\\nF rank Hoxsie at that time one of the leading contractors of the state.\\nHe remained in this capacity until his removal to Bergen county in 18\\nat which time he purchased his present property. He is a prominent\\ncontractor in this part of the county, and for a i)eri d of three years\\nfilled the office of Freeholder, having been elected nn the Republican\\nticket, defeating both the Democratic and Citizen s candidates. As a\\nc(mtractor, Mr. Toleson built the bridge over the Lodi at that village\\nmacadamized Washington Avenue from the river to Kingsland Lane,\\nmaking it one hundred feet wide, and one of the best graded streets of\\nthe kind in the county. He did similar work in the other streets.\\nincluding Bloomfield Avenue, Irvington Road and other thoroughfares\\nof Rutherford, and has also done extensive work for the Erie Railroad\\nComjjanv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0537.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVII\\nRIDGEFEILD TOWNSHIP.\\nOKIGINAI. TOWNSHIP EAKLY SETTLEMENTS CIVIL LIST COMPANY E\\nVILLACxES REVOLUTION AKY INCIDENTS SCHOOLS CHURCHES\\nFORT LEE, RIDGEKIELD PARK, COVTESVILLE BIOCVR APHICAL.\\nRIDGEFIELD.\\nThis township embraced originally the earliest settlements in the\\nancient township of Hackensack, and was the iirst the traveller entered\\nin passinuf up the Palisades. The valley of the Hackensack invited set-\\ntlers early in the seventeenth century and the valley of the Overpeck\\nCreek, a navig able arm of the Hackensack, also attracted settlers quite\\nas earlv in this direction. Overpeck Creek is navigable for small ves-\\nsels as far up as the nothern boundary of the township. Originally the\\ntownship of Ridgeiield included the villages of Fairview, Ridgefield,\\nPalisades Park, Leonia, Nordhoff, Shady Side, Edgewater, Fort Lee,\\nTaylorsville, Coytesville, Ridgelield Park and Bogota, but now\\nthe boroughs of Undercliff, Palisades Park, Bogota, Leonia, Fair-\\nview, Ridgefield and the village of Ridgefield Park and Overpeck\\ntownship have been taken away leaving but a small portion of the\\noriginal town for the present township. The original township\\nwas bounded on the north by Englewood, on the east by the\\nHudson, on the south by Hudson county Bellman s Creek forming\\npart of the southern boundary line and on the west by the Hackensack\\nRiver. The southern boundary was less than two miles in extent, the\\nnothern less than four, and the length of the township from North to\\nSouth did not exceed four miles. The town was well watered while\\nvarious railroad lines furnished the people with ample facilities for\\ntravel.\\nK IDGEKIELD TOWNSHIP.\\nThe earlv settlements of Ridgefield township antedates even the\\norganization of Hackensack township in 1 I.^, and of the county of\\nBergen in 1675. There seems to have been no town or village com-\\npactly built, like the village of Bergen, but there were settlements both\\nof Dutch and English in and about what was subsequently known as Eng-\\nlish Neighborhood prior to 1675. The Westervelts, the Zimermanns, the\\nBantas, and the Blauvelts, all coming from Holland, settled in the\\nmiddle of the seventeenth century in that locality. The ancestors of\\nJacob P. Westervelt, now of Hackensack Village, with himself, were\\nborn in English Neighborhood. His father was born there in 1776, and\\nwas the son of Christopher Westervelt, who was born there certainly\\nas early as 1690. He was the son of the original ancestor of his family,\\nwho came from Holland and settled on Overpeck Creek, within the pres-\\nent limits of Ridgefield township, probably al)out 1670.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0538.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY 4\\nThe earliest iiieiilidii of the name of Westervelt that can be ascer-\\ntained in Holland is that of Dirck Van Westervelt, who was born\\nbetween 1475 and 1500, and married into the Van Wenkom family, and\\nfrom them sprang- a large and influential family now living in Holland.\\nThe earliest settlers bearing- the name in America were Lubbert\\nLubbertson and Willem Van Westervelt, who came from the town of\\nMeppel, province of Drenthe, Holland, on the ship Hoop, in April,\\n1( ()2, and settled on Long Island, (as given in other portions of this\\nvolume). The fact of settlement is established from records, showing\\nthat a son of Willem purchased in 1()97 considerable property in New\\nUtrecht, which he sold in 1708 to Anthony Holsart, and also that Willem\\nmarried Dericke and lived for some time there, as Dericke Wil-\\nlemse Van Westervelt names in her will, her husband, Willem, and also\\nher son, Abraham Willemse. whose wife was Margaret. Their children\\nwere Alltie, l)orn in 1()51; Abraham, lf)53; Willemtie, 1( 54; Femmetie,\\n1()58; and Jan, 1( )0.\\nLubltert Ivubbertson an Westervelt had children Lubbert, born in\\nMeppel, and married Belitjc Bouluse, March 4. K.SO; Roelof, also born\\nin Meppel in 1( 59. Jumen, Jan. Margrietie, and Maritie were born in\\nthis country.\\nDeeds and papers in possession of their descedants show that the\\nVan Westervelts were among the early settlers of old Bergen county,\\nas Cornelius, son oi Lubbert, settled at Acquackanonk, and was one of\\nthe original fourteen patentees who purchased the Acquackanonk patent\\nin 1684, containing some thirty thousand acres. He did not remain long\\nthere, as there is only one conveyance afterwards, and then settled (m\\nthe other side of the Passaic River, in what is now Bergen county, and\\nhence originated the Van Westervelt name here. Like other families\\nfrom Holland when first coming to America, they had no surname, but\\nadded to their baptismal name the name of the place from whence they\\ncame in Holland. Hence Jan, from the west oi Holland, wast valt,\\na west field, would be Jan Wast Valt. or John Westervelt.\\nThe grandfather of Samuel D. Westervelt lived at the Hopper grist-\\nmill. The Hoppers settled in the valley of the Wagzaw in 1711, and\\nowned nearly all the land in that section on the Passaic River.\\nOf his children, Lucas, the youngest, was born in Pompton, March\\n17, 1788, and upon the death of his mother, when he was only seven\\nyears old, he came to Teaneck, where at the proper age he learned the\\nmason s trade. He married Belinda Demarest November 5, 1803, who\\nwas born November 24, 1784, and died January 1858. After his mar-\\nriage he settled at Tenafly, where he built a stone house, in which he\\nresided until his death, March 17, 1825. The house was standing in\\n1881, and is one of the monuments left of olden time, and showing\\nhis chosen occupation.\\nHis children were Simon. John. Cornelius, Samuel D., Elizabeth,\\nEve, and Ann, wife of Albert Winant, of Hackensack.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0539.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "492 HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nLourens Andriessen Van Buskirk, signifying- from the church in\\nthe woods (sometimes calling himself by the former and sometimes by\\nthe latter name, and whose name is frequently mentioned in the recital\\nof early events in this history) jointly with others purchased, January\\n1()7(), a large tract of land, then known as New Hackensack, upon\\nwhich he resided as early as 1()S8.\\nThe De Mott family were Huguenots, and settled in English\\nNeighborhood in the seventeenth century. Mathias, the ancestor of\\nthis family was born in France, and settled^ in Bergen county in IdSS.\\nHis son Jacob was father of John De Mott, who died in 1S32, aged\\neighty-four. Jacob, the father of Jacob J. De Mott, was born March 11.\\n1794, and succeeded to the ancestral home on the Tenafiy road. John\\nDe Mott, son of Jacob, liwvl in E.i^lish Xjighb;)rho:Hl where he carried\\non a saw and grist mill.\\nRichard Paulison was descended from an early settler in English\\nNeighborhood. He was born October 1, 1773, and lived all of his life\\nin the present Ridgefield township and died in 1873, at nearly one hun-\\ndred years of age. He w;is the father of Johi R., and other children,\\nwho have left a large family of descendants, among whom was the late\\nJudge Paulison and Paul Paulison.\\nRobert Earle, one of the pioneer settlers of Bergen county, located\\nin Ridgefield townshi]), and purchased a large tract of land, beginning\\nat the North River, from thence to the Hackensack, and running thence\\nto Bull s Ferry, from thence to Five Corners (or Bergen), near Fort\\nLee, as early as 1650; and as there were no white inhabitants near Mr.\\nEarle, he gave several acres of woodland to a number of white families\\nto locate on, with a view nf forming a settlement. The only descendant\\nof which there is anv knowledge was Robert, who married Mary Smith\\nand located in Ridgefield township. His children were Daniel, Robert,\\nPhilip, Joseph, John, Charles, Edward, Elizabeth, Jennie and Mary.\\nAndrew Engle, a native of Germany, settled on Bull s Ferry Hill,\\nRidgefield township, in about 1779, and purchased a large tract of land,\\nand engaged in tilling the soil. His family consisted of John, Jennet,\\nSarah, Maria, Margaret, Andrew S., and James.\\nJohn married Mary Day, and settled adjacent to his father. His\\nchildren were Jennet. Andrew, Henry, Sarah, Catherine, John, Mar-\\ngaret, Eliza Ann, James, Wilmina. Louisa.\\nCIVIL OKGANIZATION.\\nThe act of 1871, erecting the township of Ridgefield from the\\nsouthern part of Old Hackensack, defines its lines of boundary as\\nfollows\\nBeginning at a point on the Hackensack River where the Cedar\\nLane road strikes the same, running thence in an easterly direction\\nalong the middle of the said Cedar Lane road to the middle of the Over-\\npeck Creek thence in a northerl3- direction along the easterly branch of\\nsaid creek to where the same strikes the line of lands formerly of John", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0540.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKC.EN COUNTY 493\\nI. Demott thence easterly along- the southerly line of said Deni )tt s land\\nto the east line of the township of Hackensack.\\nEdward Jardine became the tirst chosen freeholder under this last\\norganization, and served for the year 1.S71, and followed bv Hunh Hros-\\nnaham for 1872 and 1873, followed l)y Thmnas (ioulard for 1S74, Ijv\\nIsaac R. Vreeland for 1875-77, John Wiiitcrburne for 1S78, John J.\\nWood for 1879 and 188lf, by Stephen H. V. Moore for 1.S81 to IS ii) and\\nby Cornelius J. Terhune to 1895, John C. Abb \u00c2\u00bbt to 18 M and bv William\\nB. Pugh to 189\\nThe assessors of the townshij) since its organization are as follows\\nJohn V. H. Terhune, 1871-75; James Armett, 76-77; John Fletcher\\nBurdett, Jr., 77-79; William E. Taylor, 8;)-85; J.din Burns, \u00e2\u0096\u00a085-8(.: John\\nC. Abbott, 8()-87; John Burns, 87-88; John H. Mannix, 88-91; Thomas\\nF. Mallon, 91-94; Henry Beneckc, 94-97; Charles Corker, \u00e2\u0096\u00a097-\\nThe collectors, Nicholas T. Romaine, 1871-72; J(din H. Winant,\\n73-75; William P. Degraw, 7()-78; James Christie, \u00e2\u0096\u00a080-,s4; Charles H.\\nLozier, 84-86; J. Fletcher Burdett. \u00e2\u0096\u00a08(,- )(i; James Christie. 10-91; J.\\nFletcher Burdett, 94-99.\\nTownship Clerks: James Christie, 1871-73; Andrew S. Engle, 7.\\n75; Arthur J. Pollock, 75-77; J. H. Mannix, 77-8(1; Charles H. Lozier,\\n80-84; Daniel Manning, 84-87; John H. M(mahan, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0S7-8 Edward M.\\nFitzgerald, 89-90; Fred. Marsden. 90-92; James F. Tracy, 92-9\\nThe justices of the peace, Charles W. Chamberlain, 1872; James C.\\nHazelton, 73; Thomas Dunn English, 76; Maurice Fitzgerald, 77;\\nArthur J. A. Pollock and Alexander Clendenin, 78; Samuel E. De\\nGroot. 7 James Day. 80; Joseph L. (ireeley, 85; Joseph Covte, 86;\\nCornelius D. Schor. 81- Alexander Clendenin, 83-88; Maurice Fitz-\\ngerald, 80- )0; Daniel Manning, iO-9 h S. (1. H. Wright, 86-92; Henry\\nW. Mabie, 8 )-94; James F. Tracey, )4- Eilward A. Caute -l, 98-99.\\nThe population of Kidgewood Townshij) in 1875, was 357(). The\\nofficial vote cast at the November election after six boroughs had been\\ntaken out was 527.\\nFKEEHOLDl .K S.\\nNames of members of Ridgetield Township Committee: 1871,\\nMaurice Fitzgerald, John R. Paulison, Nicholas Jocobus, David Christie.\\nJoseph Coyte; 1872, Maurice Fitzgerald, Nicholas Jacobus, Jacob .Banta,\\nDavid Christie, Albert Z. Bogert; 1873, Maurice Fitzgerald, Albert Z. Bo-\\ngert, Nicholas Jacobus, John W. C. Van Winkle, WilliamL. Jones; 1874,\\nMaurice Fitzgerald, S. H. V. Moore, Henry D. Eagle, John H. Brinker-\\nhoff, Jacob Banta; 1875, Maurice Fitzgerald, S. H. V. Mo;)re, Henry\\nJ. Kipp, Nicholas Jacobus, Charles W. Chamberlain; 187i\u00c2\u00ab. Iknr\\\\ J.\\nKipp, James Christie, John Monahan, Charles W. Chamberlain, Charles\\nE. Richter; 1877, John Monahan, James Christie, Charles E. Richter,\\nHenry J. Kipp, John H. Williams; 1878. James Christie, S. H. V.\\nMoore, Jacob Terhune, William E. Taylor, John D. Pro ost; 1879, S. H.\\nV. Moore, Jacob Terhune, Janiis Day; 1880. Peter Bogert, Jr., Albert\\nB. Christie, Jose])h Coyte; 1881. Nicholas Jacol)us, Peter Bogert, Jr..", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0541.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "494 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nJohn S. Watkins; 1882. Peter Bog-ert, Jr., Nicholas Jacobus, Joseph\\nCoyte; 1883, John S. Edsall, Peter Bogert, Jr., Frederick R. Grace;\\n1884, Peter Bogert, Jr., Frederick R. Grace, John S. Edsall; i885, Peter\\nBog-ert, Jr., Frederick R. Grace, John S. Edsall; 1886, Peter Bogert, Jr.,\\nJohn S. Edsall, Frederick R. Grace; 1887, John S. Edsall, Peter Bogert,\\nJr., Frederick R. Grace; 1888, John C. Abbot. John S. Edsall,\\nFrederick R. Grace; 1889, Joseph Schlosser, Jr.. John C. Abbott,\\nJohns. Edsall; 1890, John S. Edsall, Joseph Schh)sser. Jr., John C.\\nAbbott; 1891, Albert Ravekes, Joseph Schlosser, Jr., John S. Edsall;\\n18 \u00c2\u00bb2, Joseph Schlosser, Jr., Albert Ravekes, John S. Edsall; 1893, Peter\\nSpindler, Joseph Schlosser, Jr., Albert Ravekes; 1894, Albert Ravekes,\\nJoseph Schlosser, Jr., Peter Spindler: 1895, Joseph Schlosser, Jr., Peter\\nSpindler, Albert Ravekes; 1896, Samuel Mabie, Joseph Schlosser, Jr.,\\nAlbert Ravekes; 1897, Julius M. Dubois, John A. Brandt, Samuel\\nMabie; i898, Julius M. Dubois, John A. Brandt, Samuel Mabie; 18 i,\\nJames A. Brandt, James Burns, John Brown.\\nCOMMENCEMKNT OF IMPKOVEMENTS TO CKAXD, PAI.ISADF: AND BKOAD\\nAVENUES.\\nIn 1869 an Act was passed by the Legislature of New Jersev to\\nwiden, straighten, grade, macadamize and put in good order all that\\npart of the public road heretofore known as the English Neighborhood\\nroad, in the township of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen, from\\nwhere it joins the Bergen turnpike in Ridgefield to Palisade Avenue in\\nEnglewood in the said township; and appointed (iarret A. Lydecker,\\nNathan T. Johnson, Samuel E. De Groot, J. Vreeland Moore and Nich-\\nolas T. Romaine commissioners for five vears, in which to make these\\nimprovements.\\nIn 1870 the Legislature amended the Act of 18() t, and largely\\nincreased the powers of the Commissioners; also specifying that the\\nEnglish Neighborhood road should be known as Grand Avenue; and\\nalso added all that part of Palisade avenue from Grand avenue west-\\nwardly to the bridge on said Palisade avenue near the blacksmith shop\\n)f Henry West, in said village of Englewood. Said Commissioners were\\nalso authorized to open, alter, grade and put in good order a new public\\nroad, to be known as Broad avenue, from Ridgelield to Englewood. In\\n1871 and 1872 there was additional legislation; and the Commission\\nfinallv completed their work July 4. 1874, at an exjiense of a little over\\nthirty-tive thousand ilollars.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nFrom a report of the schools of Ridgetield township, dated A])ril\\n10, 1843, we extract the following:\\nNo. 2, at Fort Lee was visited on the tirst Monday in March.\\nThe school building appears to be the best, largest, and most com-\\nmodious of any in the township. A becoming sjnrit animates all in the\\nfurtherance of i)opular education. The average number of scholars", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0542.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 445\\ntaught is tifty-two. the ti-rms of tuition 81.5(1 and S2.U(); the school has\\nbeen kept open the whole year; the amount of mouev received S )2.44.\\nOut of this was paid for interest debt on school house, $30; to paying\\nteacher $30; for stove and fuel $24, leaving an unexpected balance of\\n$8.40 Poor children are admitted free of charge, the teacher being\\nengaged by the year at a fixed pension.\\nAll of which is respectfully subtuitteil.\\n(signed) John an Hrunt.\\nCOMP.VNV v.. 2nd KKGIMENT, N. j. VOL. INFT.\\nThis company was organized May 1. l.S()l, the recruiting having\\nbeen done largely in Ridgefield townshij). The armory is at Leonia.\\nThe first officers were James Vreeland Moore, Captain; Garret L. Edsall,\\nFirst Lieutenant; Stephen H. Moore. Second Lieutenant: .lohn H.\\nBrinkerhoiT, First Sergeant.\\nThe company was organized for the New Jersey National (iuard\\nservice, and during the railroad riots of 1877 took ])art in the quelling\\nof that disturbance. From the Adjutant General s report of 1S77 we\\nfind that the 2nd Battalion was commanded by James Moore, Major;\\nhis staff officers being Charles W. Springer, Adjutant; Jacob J. DeMott,\\nUuarter Master; William P. DeCJraw, Paymaster; Melancthon S. Ayers,\\nSurge(m.\\nCompany A, of I^eonia; B of Englewood. an l C. of Hackensack,\\n1st Brigade composed this Battalion. Companv A, at that time, was\\ncommanded by Stephen H. Moore, Captain: Emanuel G. (iis mond.\\nFirst Lieutenant; Frederick (i. Bennett, Second Lieutenant.\\nDuring the Spanish American war, this company, (known as Com-\\npany E, Second Regiment, N. G., N. J. i. was recruited to the war\\nstandard largely from Leonia. Fort Lee, Covtesville and Englewood,\\nand was mustered into the I nited States service at Sea Grit, N. J., May\\n2, 1898, for the Cuban war. On June 1st the Company left therefor\\nCamp Cuba Libre Jacksonville. Fla.. and was attached to the Second\\nBrigade, First Division, 7th Army Corps, (ieneral Fitzhugh Lee com-\\nmanding. It returned home September 24th, and was mustered out of\\n\\\\J. S. service November 17, 1898, at Paterson, N. J. The company was\\ncommanded by Captain Henry R. Goesser; First Lieutenant, Lorenzo\\nGismond; Second Lieutenant, John Brinkerhoff; First Sergeant, George\\nM. Williams, and upon the return of the command the entire company\\nreceived a royal welctmie at Leonia and also at Fort Lee, September 2(\\n1898. One private of Company E, died during their absence. In com-\\npliance with general orders No. A. (t. dated Trenton, May 2,\\n1899, the National Guard of New Jersey, was re-organized to conform as\\nnearly as possible to the organizations in the United States Army, and\\nreducing the number of infantry requirements from six to four. A\\nnumber of the companies were also disbanded, including the infantry\\nCompany at Leonia.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0543.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "496 HISTOKV OK BEK(;EX COl NTY\\nFOKT LEE.*\\nAs tlie traveller passes up the Hudson, he will observe that a\\npoint nearly opposite Carmansville the mass of rock known as the Pali-\\nsades, which from below Hoboken recede for some distance over the\\nriver, and have their basis studded with towns, villages, and countrv\\nseats, are suddenly forced apparently to the edge of the stream by a\\ndeep and narrow ravine. Thence thev approach so close to the water s\\nedge that their columnar wall seems to rise nearly direct over the bed of\\nthe river. In the circular bend made by this change of position lies the\\nolder village of Fort Lee, formed by about fiftv dwelling houses, an\\nexceedingly uncomfortable schoolhouse, a shacklv building that was\\nonce a piano manufactory, a dilapidated barn, and four wharves that\\nseem to have been erected about the time that Charles II gave to his\\nbrother that portion of the New Netherlands, now known as New\\nJersey. This is the original settlement which grouped itself arcjund\\nBerdette s house after the Revolution. The modern portitm of the vil-\\nlage, embracing the mint)r hamlets of Coytesville, Taylorsville, Pond\\nPark and Irishtown, lies above the summit of the Palisades, and\\noccupies about four square miles. This part contains nearly three hun-\\ndred and fifty buildings, irregularly scattered over the surface, and\\nfashioned in every style of architecture known to civilization, including\\nsome erections that seem to be modelled after the style of Kamtchatka\\nand Central Africa. The roads and streets are graded and covered in a\\nway that would break the hearts of McAdam and Telford, could either\\nof these famous engineers see them.\\nThe Palisades, which first show at this point their most striking\\npeculiarity of formation, commences at Bergen Heights and extends to\\nthe New York line, a distance of about twenty-four miles. Their height\\nvaries from two hundred to five hundred feet, and their average width\\nis a1)out one and a half mile. They are composed of metamorphic rock,\\nparticularly trap and green stone, with occasional thin seams of zoolite,\\nmaguesite and amethystine quartz. The summit of the Palisades from\\nBull s Ferry upward remain in an almost primitive state of wildness.\\nThe timber is mostjy of second and third growth, but it contains many\\nbeautiful trees that might have been standing v hen Hendrick Hudson\\nascended the river.\\nIn the rockv clefts, and through the rarely trodden woods that\\nhave thus far escaped the axe, there is to be found a choice varietj- of\\ninsect and reptile life not to be seen on the other side of the Hudson.\\nThe deer and panther have long since gone with the red men; and the\\nfox and American hare, and that handsome little animal which defends\\nhimself against all comers by a perfume more potent than agreeable,\\nmake all the fauna of to-day. Snakes there are in abundance; copper-\\nheads, black snakes and blowing vipers abound, while occasionally a\\nrattlesnake gives warning that he has not yet entirely yielded to the\\napproach of civilization. P^or miles and miles a foot traveller may pass\\nFrom a skeltil ..ii K.irt I.n- 1.% Dr. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2riiomas Dunn Eiljflisl! in 1S71,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0544.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COfXTY 4 \u00c2\u00bb7\\naloiif^- the summit (,)f the Palisades and find no trace of man, hut of the\\nwihl heauty of nature he will find enousi h. The artist who makes his\\nannual wearv piltjTimai^es to the White Mountains or the Adirondacks\\nin search of subjects for the jiencil. rarely knows tliat within less than\\nan hour s journey from the Art Buildin he can find studies enoujifh to\\nkeep him busy for a lifetime at his easel, and that he has a choice\\nbetween inland scenes of i^i ri at variety and beaut v, and water views,\\nwith an extent of panorama and a])ex of liijiit, shade and atmosjdiere to\\nbe surpassed in few portions, if any in the United States.\\nDurini; the Revolution Fort Lee was the theatrt of many excitins^\\nscenes, and raids were made by the British and Tories along the Hud-\\nson from Weehawken to Ta])pan, dri\\\\in!; ofT cattle and destroying\\nproperty of the settlers. South of Fort hcc. above Bull s Ferry, m\\nBlock-house Point, stood the famous block-house, the refuge for the\\nmost unscrupulous Tories of the Revolution. From the block-house\\nfrequent raids were made ui^on the settlers. Washington ordered Gen-\\neral Wayne to attack this neighborhood, ;ind on July Jo. 1780, Wayne\\nleft his headquarters at New Bridge, and. leaving two regiments at Fort\\nLee, proceeded with the remainder of his force to the attack. On tlie\\nmorning of the 21st the attack was made, and after a tierce encounter\\nCieneral Wayne was forced to witlulr^.w, first destroying the Tories\\nboats on the river front, and dri\\\\ing off their cattle.\\nThis attack brougdit forth a sarcastic i)oem entitled The Cow\\nChase, written by Major A;:ilre, the unfortunate British ofi|icer who\\nwas executed as a spy, just beyon l the border of this county, near the\\nvillage of Tappan.\\nIt was at Fort Lee that the noted Thomas Paine wrote one of his\\nfamous political pap-ers, tlie one beginning with the often quoted\\nphrase: These are the times that try men s souls. In a short account\\nof the battle and evacuation of Fort Lee, Paine says:\\nIt is stated that Washington saw the assault and its result and\\nwept at the sight in the presence of Burdett, who lived in the house\\nbelow the cliff, which, part of the time was Greene s headquarters, and\\nstill stands with a modern addition. This account is implicitly believed\\nby Dr. Dixon. Burdett was evidently one of tliose prudent men who\\nkept on good terms wit n both sides. With a large force ready to\\ncross at the ferries above, and powerful enougli to force a passage, F^ort\\nLee and its dependencies became unattainable, and preparations for\\nretreat was made at once. The movement on the 2()th, was that of the\\nrearguard. The distance was not more than five miles by the direct\\nroute, but a part of the forces moved up a lower rf)ad, traces of which\\nexist and have furnished the artist with one of his views. The main\\nroad now a little south of the present turnpike, arose on the hill, so as\\nto strike just back of the present residence of Henry J. Irving, running\\nclose to tlie farm house, now occupied by William Taylor. As (ieneral", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0545.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "498 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nWashington lodged at this last house for a short while, it forms one of\\nthe many Washington headquarters. The exterior of the house, built\\nin the Dutch style, has been recently modernized, but the interior of the\\nsitting room remains, except the furniture in its old condition.\\nThere is a bullet hole in the jamb of one of the doors, a relic of a Revo-\\nlutionary skirmish. Mr. Trylor took out the bullet some years since\\nand then replaced the casing leaving the hole unfilled. Down these two\\nroads the army seems to have marched, with the exception of a few who\\nretreated in a path further south above a beaver dam, which may still be\\nseen, minus the beavers. The British pursued as far as the Hackensack\\nriver where they encamped.\\nFort Lee did not grow for a long time after the Revolutionary\\nwar. At one time it was the seaport town of the county. Here the\\nfarmers of the neighboring valley used to embark with produce to seek\\na New York market, first in periaguas, then in horse-boats and iinally\\nin the steamboat. Turnpike roads first and railroads afterward, diverted\\nthis stream of travel. Then came a piano manufactory. After some\\nyears this passed. Then came the shoe interest, which had its day, and\\ngave place to the Belgian block-makers, who now form the industrial\\nelement of the neighborhood. With all these the lower village does not\\ngrow, for mere want of space. As for the upper village, that is gradu-\\nally expanding. In 1776 there were farms on the hill. War swept all\\nthat, and Demeter fled before Ares. The embankment was thrown up\\nin a cornfield, in which were a number of bearing pear trees that were\\ncut down to form abatis. When the war was over the i)lace was cover-\\ned with copsewood and brambles, with young trees, and liquid ambers\\nand hickories here and there, that gradually formed a grove. As the\\nproprietors of the ground were Tories, and Toryism got the worst of it,\\ntheir property was confiscated and sold to the highest bidder. The\\nhighest bidder was a very low bidder indeed. A few shillings per acre\\nwas considered a high price for land that was made up of rock and\\nswamp and low grow^th. There is a tract in the neighborhood, held\\npartly by position, and partly through reference to it in the conveyance\\nof an adjoining plot of ground. The owner did not think the ground of\\nenough value to pay for, according to the original deed, which was\\nafterward lost. Yet part of this wild property sold for thirty dollars\\nper acre less than thirty years since and recently changed hands at over\\none hundred and eighty-six times that price.\\nTHE BOl KDETTES.\\nFort T^ee was commenced on the 12, of September, 1776, and was\\nsituated on the western side of the road that leads up the hill from the\\nsteamboat landing, about three hundred feet behind Palisade rocks\\nwhich skirt the river. Its southern bastion is situated directly behind\\nthe Episcopal Church. It was about a quarter of an acre in extent, and\\nwas surrounded by an embankment, still traceable, though nearly\\nobliterated by the plough.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0546.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY 4\\nSome four hundred acres comprising the whole of the village\\n])roper, tog-ether with the landing and the hill on which the hotel\\nstands were purchased about twenty years before the Revolution, by\\nStephen Bourdette, wlm, in connection with William Baj-ard had\\nreceived from the King- a grant of a large tract of land, comprising\\nWeehawken and Ht)boken. The house is still standing at Weehawken\\nHill, in which he lived. He purchased the land at P^ort Lee from an\\nold slave who had been made a freeman by his master, and lived in soli-\\ntude by lishingf and trapping the animals that abounded in the vast\\nforest about that place.\\nThe father of Stephen, Etienne Bourdette, was the son of a French\\ng-entleman who had left hisnative country many years before the Edict of\\nNantes and settled in one of West India islands as a planter. Etienne\\nhad been sent to New York by his father, to acquire an education, about\\neighty years before the war.\\nStephen Bourdette lived in Pine street and cultivated the beautiful\\nregion of which we write purchased the entire place, and erected a\\nspacious stone house afterward occupied by Robert Annette, pro])rie-\\ntor of the hotel and landing. This exceedingly valuable and command-\\ning situation, was given to an ohl man for constructing a few hundred\\nyards of wall, to hold up the old road leading from Mr. Burdette s house\\nto the cow pasture on top the hill.\\nThe stone house occupied bv Etienne Burdette, was the only one\\nthen standing on the place. This was the headquarters of Washing-\\nton, and after the death of Etienne it was left to his son Peter, and\\nhis wife, who had been living at Hackensack, but came to take charge\\nof their father in his extreme old age. He died there, aged eighty\\nyears. Peter Bourdette, with his excellent wife, came to the place about\\nfifteen years before the war, and soon made it an abode of great comfort\\nand hospitality. There the miserable and afflicted always found a com-\\nforter, and were never turned away empty.\\nUpon the death of Etienne, several years before the war, the place\\nwas given by Stephen to his brother Peter, who with his eldest son (also\\nPeter) and his wife Rachel Bush, then seven years t)ld, afterwards the\\nmother oi Edward H. Dixon of New York, passed through the stormy\\nperiod of the Revolution. In November, 1776, Washington having\\nissued orders to General Mercer to summon all available troops and erect\\na fort there, hundreds of tents appeared on the high ground that com-\\nmands the river, the general himself coming on the i.^th of that month.\\nWashington became the admiration of the Bourdette family, he\\nhaving taken up his abode in the old Bourdette homestead. On more\\nthan one occasion it is said a son of Peter Bourdette, a youth of sixteen\\nyears rowed to the city at midnight and brought papers and intelligence\\nof the anticipated movements of the British army which threatened Port\\nWashington, and then the illustricms chief would retire to his room and\\nperuse the papers after which he would walk to the Fort and insjK-ct", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0547.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "500 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ntlirovigh his glass the movements at Fort Washington on the other side\\nof the river.\\nOne night, when the bra\\\\-e youth was approaching the shore after\\none of his night visits to the city to get the news for the General, and\\nto convey some provisions to her poor friends from his excellent mother,\\nwho never forgot the needy, the wind prevented his signal from being\\nheard by the sentinels who guarded the shore, and supposing an enemy\\nto be approaching, a rifle ball cut his oar into two pieces. As he had\\nbut one oar left, he managed his boat with it as well as he could, and\\nlanded, at great risk of being shot, about a mile down the river, and\\nmade his way home on foot. On this occasion, the chief stood bv while\\nhis mother ripped up the lining of the boy s great coat, and receiving\\nthe pa])ers, complimented him warnilv for his bravery.\\nDr. Edward H. Dixcm in writing of the battle at Fort Lee, and its\\nevacuatiim by Washington, says:\\nMy grandmother and the children were obliged to flee to the Eng-\\nlish Neighborhood, two miles off, so as to escape the immediate conse-\\nquences of the free plunder that they knew was to come my grand-\\nfather and his son remaining, to collect, if possible, any property that\\nmight be spared.\\nWhat valuables and money they possessed were buried, and they\\nsoon had occasion to summon all their fortitude. Some thousands of\\nHessians and mercenary soldiers devastated the place. A perfect saturn-\\nalia now commenced. A barrel of whiskey and another of sugar were\\nrolled out of the cellar, and thrown into a rain-water cask standing at\\none corner of the house, in the court-yard. My good grandmother s\\ndairy room yielded its aid, and a jiuncheon of milk punch was made,\\nand stirred with a rail. My grandfather begged a British officer to try\\nto preserve at least a single pail of milk for his children s evening meal.\\nOvercome with sympathy at the request, he was too much excited to\\ncarry out his benevolent intentions judiciously. Ap])roaching a Hes-\\nsian soldier, who was coming up the cellar steps with a flat vessel of\\nmilk (called a keeler in dairy phrase) on his head, he struck him\\nslightly on the back with the flat side of his sword. The cowardly\\ncreature jumped aside at his officer s frown, the bottom of the old vessel\\nbroke, and he became in a moment a personification of plenty literally\\nflowing with milk. There was a shout of laughter, in which my grand-\\nfather was too much of a Frenchman not to join.\\nWhen the punch was prepared, my grandfather was impudently\\nrequested to drink the King s health by those wretched creatures, the\\nHessian soldiers. They were using their shoes by way of drinking\\ncups. Several British officers were present, and it is but doing them\\njustice to say that they seemed to sympathize with the inhabitants.\\nOne of them immediately stepjKnl up to my grandfather, and advised\\nThe abnvesUelch is lak.-n from wiirk now oul i f print .MUiUed Sceiif!; in tile Pr,n;t ce of .1\\nNew York Siirijeon ami wriiu-ii bv Kdwaril H. Dixon. M. I)., wlio wa- a trraiiilson ol til. .Mr. Hiuir-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0548.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGKN COUNTY 501\\niiim to ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o throuiiii with the lOrmalitv onl v, as the soldiers continued to\\ncall loudly for him. There were hundreds of soldiers present. He said hv\\nfeared it would be the cause of ])ersonal danjifer to him if he refused;\\nbut he had stern Huguenot blood in liiin, and replied that if he drank\\nat all, he would say what he ])leased. Thev immediately made way for\\nhim to approach the puncheon, and the officers, who well knew his bold-\\nness, surrounded him completely. Uncovering his head an l dipping\\nhis hand into the liijuor, which he only pretended to drink, he bowed\\nto the name he was about to utter, rather than to the officers,\\nand exclaimed in his clearest tones, throwing a Frenchman s kiss over the\\nmountain where he had that morning taken leave of his beloxed and\\ngreat friend, The health of (Jeneral Washington, confusion to King\\n(leorge, and destruction to his hireling Hessians, It was well for him\\nthat the ofticers were attached to him, or he would have been cut to\\npieces by the infuriated scddiers. Whv he was not killed l)y some of\\nthem when the officers were absent, is to me, a wonder, for his fearless\\nutterance was always exas])erating.\\nAt the end of ten davs the British troops had evacuated the place,\\nand were proceeding toward Newark under Cornwallis, Washington\\nhad crossed the Passaic on his way to New Brunswick, and my gr;ind-\\nfather and his son went in pursuit of the family to bring them back to\\ntheir ruined household. My mother and the other children were l)rought\\nover, and they were about being sent supperless to such beds as could be\\nprepared for them out of the torn fragments which the infuriated sol-\\ndiery had not entirely destroyed, when my good grandmother appeared,\\ncoming down the hill on an old wooden sled, drawn by a beautiful horse,\\nthe only living animal they now possessed, driven by a black man. All\\nthe cattle and other horses were, of course, carried off by the British\\ntrooi)s, and she had, herself, driven this horse to the English Neighbor-\\nhood, when the family fled from the old house with a bag of flour and\\na few pounds of butter, and secreted him in the cellar of an old deserted\\nhouse I have often seen. Here he remained for three days, without food\\nor drink, and would have died but for the kindness of a British officer,\\nwho was attached to my grandfather, and to whom she conununicated\\nthe hiding place of her beautiful pet. He kindly went o\\\\er and fed\\nhim and gave him drink, during those three days, when the Jiritish had\\nextended themselves from Fort Lee. and were foraging the southern ])or-\\ntion of the English Neighborhood, where she, of course, could not ven-\\nture to go.\\nHearing their mother below stairs, the children were clamorous for\\nfood, for they had not eaten since morning. The poor little creatures\\nwere fain to content themselves with a raw turnip till some cakes could\\nbe hastily made for them. The wholesome milk and the pet cows each\\none having its name and its owner were all gone; and had it not been\\nfor the providence of a mother who C(mibined all the affection of the\\nwoman with the firmness of a most determined man, they might have\\nwell nii -h starved to death; for, as we have already said, there was no", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0549.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "502 HISTOHY OK BEKGHN COUNTY\\nother house near, and the people for miles were robbed of all their food\\nand cattle.\\nBless God for all his mercies. Here you are, and here are we all\\ntogether; and here is food, too, said this excellent woman to her hus-\\nband. I feared your tongue would cost you your life. She little\\nknew how nearly true her anticipations had proved.\\nMy mother, who was but seven years of age. and her sister mounted\\nthe old sled, and begged a turnip to appease their hunger. She had\\nfound her doll and her pet cat near the wood-pile, and seated herself on\\na log, perfectly happy, eating her turnip.\\nThis is hard to bear, said my grandmother; l)ut (iod will yet\\nprosper our cause, if we follow the counsels of Washington.\\nYes. said her husband; and they now know my sentiments\\nadding an expletive in French, which his feelings will pardon.\\nWhat s that? said she. Some more imprudence, I dare say.\\nA few days after, my uncle told her the story of the punch and the\\ntoast, to which she jocosely replied, looking nevertheless proudly at lier\\nhusband: Pity it is your father had not a little Dutch blood in him.\\nThese Frenchmen are always half crazy. Thank (xod, my son, your\\nfather was not killed before your ej-es.\\nThe family were now in still greater danger than before, for they\\nwere entirely unprotected, as the entire American army were west of the\\nHackensack, and what was worse, the country was continually ravaged\\nby tories and robbers. What money and valuables they possessed were\\nburied, and my grandfather abstracted from time to time only enough to\\nprocure bread for his family during the winter. It was useless to pur-\\nchase many cattle, for he could not be sure of preserving them over a\\nsingle night. The family managed to subsist during this hard winter;\\nl)ut it was necessary for my uncle to visit the city, often at great\\nrisk of life, to procure food; and when I last saw him, at ninety years of\\nage, firm and erect, with the voice and will of a lion, his immense\\nfeatures and grey hair adding great dignity to his appearance, I could\\nnot but think that the sage was right when he said, Difficulty is good\\nfor man\\nAn event occurred shortly after the evacuation of Fort Ivee. which\\nI have often felt would have graced the page of history, although it\\nnever probably occurred to its chief actor that it was worth recording;\\nfor he never seemed to think it of much moment. Cieneral Knyphausen\\ncontinued in command of the fort and the division of the army on the\\nnorthern part of the island of New York. But a few days elapsed after\\nthe family had returned, when they were alarmed by the rude midnight\\nsummons of a British officer, followed by several soldiers, and a demand\\nthat my grandfather should immediately cross the river to the fort.\\nThey were all dreadfully alarmed; but the officer assured them he would\\nbe permitted to return before da}-, as General Knyphausen merely required\\nsome information, which would insure his safe return. This was equal\\nto an assurance that he would be sent to one of the city prisons, as the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0550.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 503\\nfamily knew he Wduld communicate nothing to the enemy, and that he\\nhad greatlY exasperated the Hessians by the toast. It had now obtained\\ngeneral currency, and every one supposed him a doomed man. My uncle\\nmost earnestly begged to be permitted to accom])any his father, but\\nwas not allowed. He was hurried off to the fort, none supposing they\\nwould again see him in weeks or months, if ever. On his arrival at the\\nfort, he was immediatelv intr iduced to (General Knyphausen, who treat-\\ned him very courteously, offering wine and refreshment.\\nThe General soon commenced the conversation by alluding to the\\ntrouble my grandfather had already undergone, and made some remarks\\non the unequal contest. My grandfather replied that when a whole\\nnation were of one mind, and a country as extensive as America, he\\ncould scarcely believe it jxyssible to subjugate them without years of\\nsacrifice and expenditure. General Knyphausen smiled, and asked if\\nthe recent results showed much determination on the part of the Amer-\\nicans. My grandfather had it on his tongue to refer him to General\\nRawlings and the northern bastion of the fort, within the enclosure of\\nwhich they were then sitting; but prudence prevailed and he was silent.\\nGeneral Knyphausen was not a rude man, and made no further effort to\\nprolong the conversation; but drawing from his pocket a heax v purse of\\ngold, he threw i upon the table, and assured niv grandfather that he\\nwould be i)leased to extend to his f;imilv. in his present dangerous\\nposition on the lines, the ai l and ])rolectiiiTi of a guard, and that he\\nwould be happv in return to receive some necessary information about\\nthe future movements of the armv; that as General Washington had\\nbeen his guest, he must possess more knowledge of the plan of action\\nthan any other person; ending with the assurance that he would be\\npleased to possess his personal friendship, and in return he would sup-\\n])lv his more immediate pecuniary necessities, pointing to the ])urse.\\nMv grandfather felt as though every drop of blood in his Ijody had\\nmounted to his face. He immediately arose, and walking towards the\\nfurther entrance of the tent, replied: Permit me, (ieneral Knyphausen,\\nto draw this conversation to a close; and excuse me for the remark, that\\nif vou insist upon its further continuance. I cannot but feel it will be\\ndiscreditable to both of us. I have already been too long here; but\\nwhat could a man, seized at midnight, surrounded by a helpless family\\ndo, but vield to superior force I am ready to accompany your soldiers\\nto your prison, for I suppose that is to be my fate\\nThat is not the way, Mr. Bourdette. replied General Kny])hau-\\nsen. I have no such intention. But vou are a bold man thus to trifle\\nwith your family. I will return you to them for the present, but can-\\nnot always promise to be so lenient,\\nGeneral Knyphausen, replied my grandfather, it may save you\\nand my helpless family further trouble should the chance of war again\\nbring General Washington under my roof, if I inform y(m that I am not\\nadvised of his intended movements. They will doubtless be dictated by\\nthe emergencies brought about by your superior numbers and apjxiint-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0551.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "5U4 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nments; but I trust in God for my poor country, they will result in good.\\nGood niofht. General, I am certainly indebted to you for your clemencv,\\nand hope you will save yourself and me any future trouble of a character\\nlike the present.\\nCiood night. Mr. Bnurdctte. You are a bold man, and if your\\ncountrvmen were all like vou, we would have harder duty before us.\\nMy grandfather reached home in safety, and was awaited by the\\nwhole family, who had not slept since his departure.\\nBut my pen betrays me, and I must close this tribute to the m.emorv\\nof the past. The family underwent many vicissitudes during the sub-\\nsequent six years of the war.\\nThe old house was rebuilt shortly after the war, and its rooftree a\\nsecond time became grey with muss whilst it covered the venerable\\nheads of its owners, and they recounted to their grandchildren the\\nscenes they had witnessed, and again made it the abode of comfort and\\nhospitality. Often, as in my schoolboy days, I have sought the old\\nmansion through the forest of Weehawken, and could see the venerable\\npair seated on the porch, and hear the echo of the woodman s axe and\\nthe tinkling of the cow-bell, I have thought, even in my early youth,\\nthat a life thus spent, and Hearing its close, was far more ccmgenial\\nwith nature and true dignity of character, than all the applause of popu\\nlarity or the fawning sycophancy of luxury and fashion.\\nKOBEKT ANNETT.\\nRobert Annett was born in Ireland of French ancestry September\\nl )88. In company of his brother James and sister Mary, he came to\\nthis country when eleven years old. After landing he worked for a\\nOuaker family in New York city, and was by them apprenticed to a ship\\ncarpenter. Being early thrown upon his own resources he did not stay\\nlong as ship carpenter, but became the owner of a small sloop, Perry\\nAtger I, carrying freight along the Hudson and was for a time engaged\\nin running a ferry from Hoboken to Christopher Street, New York,\\nwith Barnet De Klyn, in lSOf he opened a grocery store in Vessey\\nstreet, North side, between Greenwich and Washington streets. While\\nrunning this store old Commodore Vanderbilt would bring from Staten\\nIsland in his sloop a load of oysters to the oyster market. The old\\nCommodore after selling his goods would often visit Robert Annett s\\nstore and buy his groceries. A strong friendship grew up between the\\ntwo men and lasted during their lives.\\nIn 1S()5 Robert Annett married Catharine, daughter of Samuel\\nMtxire. From this union were born twelve children, four of these dying\\nin infancy. Those growing up were Mary, James, Stephen, Catharine,\\nRobert, Jr., Alexander, Hannah and George W. Robert Annette moved\\nto Fort Lee in the year 1824 and purchased a plot of ground between the\\nold Fort Lee road and the river, from one Sloat, he constantly\\nadded to this in time owning most of the Bluff property.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0552.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 505\\nThe tirst ferry was run from Fort Lee to Spring- street by John\\nDeg-roat. Boat named Echo two trips a day. This was in the year\\n1825. The trip took two and a half hours time. The steamer Shep-\\npard Knapp took the place of the Kcho in 1829, owned by Joe\\nCoffee. She was replaced by the steamer Boston afterwards named\\nRobert Annett also run by Coffee, Captain Ike Scott in command.\\nThen the steamer Frank, Captain Rodger; steamer Flora, Captain\\nHanes; then Thomas E. Hulse, Captain George W. Annett.\\nBKKGEN COfXTV TKWCTIOX COMPANY TKOLLKY KAILKOAD AND RIVEK-\\nSIDE AND KOKT LEE FEKKY.\\nThe trolley which runs through Fort Lee from the ferry to 130th\\nStreet, New York, was commenced in March, 1895.\\nThe Riverside and F ort Lee Ferry removed from the old landing- at\\nFort Lee Under-the-Hill to Pleasant Valley April 20th, 1896. On that\\nday the trolley and the ferry, which is its terminus, were opened for\\npublic traffic. At that time the road extended only as far as Leonia\\nHeig-hts, but has since been extended to the city of Eng-lewood, and\\nBogota, on the Hackensack River, and will shortly run into Hackensack\\nwith which it is now connected by stag-e. After leaving the ferry the\\nroad runs up the Palisades by means of a switchback, thence along- the\\nPalisades along- Palisade Avenue to Main Street, Fort Lee, continuing-\\nakmg Main Street to Leonia. The cars and other equipments of the\\nline are of the most approved modern appliances known in trolley con-\\nstruction.\\nThe road is owned and operated by Philadelphia people, the resi-\\ndent officials of the company being William N. Barrows, Secretary and\\nTreasurer; E. W. Lawson, Superintendent.\\nPALISADE KAILKOAD.\\nThe ctrastruction of this railroad was commenced in the year 1893\\nand completed and opened for traffic in the early part of 1894. It was first\\noperated as a steam road, but has since been changed to Trolley. At\\nfirst its northern terminus was at Fort Lee, but now extends to Coytes-\\nville, and is operated by the North Hudson Railroad Company, its ter-\\nminus being the West Shore ferries at Weehavvken, connecting with\\nHoboken, Jersey Citv, and the entire system of North Hudson Railroad\\nCompany.\\nELECTRIC LIGHTS.\\nOn the 2d of May, 1899, a meeting was held and appropriations\\nmade for lighting Fort Lee and Coytesville with electric lights. A con-\\ntract was signed by the Township Committee with the Hackensack Gas\\nand Electric Light Company, and the erecti(m of the poles is now in\\nprogress. Everything will be in readiness for lighting by July 20th.\\nFORT LEE FIKE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe Fort Lee Fire Protecti()n Association, No. 1, was organized as\\na volunteer tire company July 18, 1888. A handsome fire house was", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0553.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "50() HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nerected on the sotith side of Main street, two stories in height, with\\nengine room down stairs and large meeting room upstairs. September\\n14, 1898, under an ordinance passed by the Ridgefield Township Com-\\nmittee, this company was accepted as the first company of the Ridge-\\nfield Township Fire Department, and is now under township control as\\nregular firemen.\\nMADONNA CHUKCH.\\nCatholic services were first held at Fort Lee at the residence of Dr.\\nH. Anderson, and in 1859 the present church was erected principally by\\nDr. Anderson. The pastors who have supplied this church are Fathers\\nAnelli, 1859-62; J. Heyman, 1862; Patrick Corrigan, 1863-66; H. A.\\nBrann, D. D., 1866-67; Patrick Cody, 1867-69; O. J. Smith, 1869-97; G.\\nSpierings, 1870-76; Rev. Daniel, 1876-82; Rev. Dominic, 1882-86; Rev.\\nHyacinth, 1886-91; J. A. Huygen, July 25, 1891, to the present time.\\nThe membership of the church including Coytesville, Nordhoff,\\nPalisades Park and Undercliff is twelve hundred and sixty-five, men\\nwoman and children,\\nINSTITUTE OF THE HOLY ANGELS.\\nThis institute for young ladies under the Sisters of Notre Dame\\nwas chartered bv the Legislature in June 1890. The convent was once\\nthe residence of the late Dr. Anderson, a well known scientist and\\nphilanthropist who desired that his home should one day be converted\\ninto an institution of learning. The doctor did not live to see his\\nwishes fulfilled but his plans were carried out in the purchase of his\\nhome together with the eleven acres of ground with it, by the Sisters\\nof Notre Dame on the Feast of the Guardian Angel, October 2, 1879.\\nIn 1890 a new school building was erected on the north side of the old\\nresidence facing Linwood Avenue.\\nThe building is furnished with every accessory for comfort, conve-\\nnience and safety, and in dimensions is one hundred feet long by sixty-\\nfive feet in width, and three stories high.\\nThe Sisters began the erection of the Chapel of the Holy Angels in\\nMarch, 1894, and on the Feast of Annunciation, 25th of March, 1895, it\\nwas dedicated by the Right Reverend W. M. Wigger, Bishop of the\\nDiocese, under whose lordship, also presiding on June 20th, 1899, the\\ntwentieth annual commencement of the school was held.\\nCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.\\nRev. Ralph Hoyt held Episcopal services in Fort Lee from 1852 to\\n1853 in a small church erected at a-cost of four hundred dollars, but the\\nchurch was never organized. Owing to Mr. Hoyt s ill health he aban-\\ndoned preaching and since 1880 no services have been held in the church.\\nThe house is now used for business purposes.\\nSTONE CHITRCH. (PARKEK PEACE.)\\nThis building was erected in 1867 by General Edward Jardine, John\\nG. Cunningham and others at a cost oi eight thousand dollars. The", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0554.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKCKN COUNTY 507\\ntirst trustees were J. (J. Brown, J. (i. Cunningham and General Edward\\n-lard inc.\\nThe church jjjissed through many hands, owned at one time bv J.\\nR. Hoadley, of New York, who let it out to all denominati(.)ns for relig-\\nious purposes, and it was so used from 1880 to 1889. In February 1899\\nit was purchased by the Good Shepherd Mission of the Episcopal\\nChurch, and is now owned and occupied by them, having- a good and\\nsteadily increasing membership. The pastors from 1889 to date are as\\nfolloA s: Reverends Matthew A. Bailey, Walter M. Sherwood, J. Byron\\nCurtis, M. M. Fothergill, James McCleary, and Charles M. Douglass.\\nF^rom the date of its erection to the present time, Charles Wilson has\\nbeen sexton.\\nReverend B. C. C. Parker came to Fort Lee in the year IS.^ I, and l)uilt\\na home on what is now known as Parker Place. He came originally from\\nBoston, and settled in New York where he preached in the Seaman s\\nFloating Church at Peck s Slip. He made many improvements about\\nhis home at Fort Lee, employing a number of men. He died January\\n3, 1859.\\nTHK CHUKCH OF THK PALISADES.\\nThe Church of the Palisades, (Dutch Reformed), in Coytesville,\\nowes its origin, under God, to the self denying labors of Mrs. Catherine\\nF. Dana, wife of Mr. William B. Dana.\\nOn the 15th day of February, 18f)3, she organized a Sabbath school\\nat her residence near Englewood, which rapidly increased in members\\nand interest, and soon led to the establishment of a monthly preaching\\nservice conducted by the neighboring clergy. A little later, in response\\nto an application made by Mr. Dana to the Board of Domestic Missions\\nof the Reformed Church, an appropriation of three hundred dollars was\\nmade by said Board, in part payment of the support of a missionary to\\nthe people living in the vicinity of Mr. Dana s residence, and the Rev.\\nDr. Puytren Vermilye was put in charge of the Mission.\\nOn the 22nd of May, 1866, a church was organized by the Classis of\\nBergen at the house of Mr. Dana; and in September, 1867, the Church\\nof the Palisades was incorporated in accordance with the laws of the\\nState of New Jersey.\\nIn November, 1867, Mr. Joseph Coyte presented to the church two\\nbuilding lots in the village of Coytesville, and sold to the church a third\\nlot adjoining, for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. On this\\nsite a chapel was erected, and was dedicated to the worship of God on\\nthe 14th of October, 1868. A loan of SIOOO was made to the church\\nfrom the Building Fund of the Board of Domestic Missi(ms, which made\\nthe erection of the chapel possible.\\nThe connection of the Rev. Mr. Vermilye with the church was\\nsevered in January, 1868, and he was immediately succeeded by the Rev.\\nIsaac M. See as Missionary. Mr. See withdrew in 1871, and following\\nhim the Rev. J. A. Davis, January 28, 1872; the Rev. Henry Maltice in", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0555.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "508 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ni873, the. Rev. F. M. Bog-ardus in 187 and the Rev. W. E. Buckek-w in\\nMay 1888.\\nIn the Spring- of 1888 a considerable number of the cong^regation\\nbecame disaffected and withdrew from the church, and org-anized a\\nCongreg-ational Church. Mr. Buckelew s health failed, and he was dismis-\\nsed from his pastoral charge in the early part of 1893, and in May of\\nthe same year the Rev. Artemas Dean, D. D., was installed and still\\nremains pastor of the church.\\nThe Church of the Palisades has ever been small in numbers,\\nand until May 18 H, regularly received large aid from the Board of\\nDomestic Missions. Since that date it has been self supporting. Mr.\\nWilliam B. Dana, though no .longer a resident in this neighborhood,\\nhas continued to this day to be a princely contributor to the treasury of\\nthe church, and without his aid it is difficult to see how the regular\\nworship of the sanctuary could have been maintained. A Christian\\nKndeavor Society organized six years ago, has done g-ood work, and dur-\\ning two years of its history gave more per capita to the Mission Boards\\nof our order than any other Christian Endeaver Society in New Jersey.\\nTwo years ago it raised funds and purchased a free circulating Library\\nnumbering over nine hundred volumes, which is kept in the gallery of\\nthe church, under the care of the Society.\\nThere are sixty-four names on the roll of church members.\\nCHAKLES VOGEL.\\nCharles Vogel, inventor and machinist was born in Germany\\nAugust 22nd, 1843, and eight years later his father, Ludwig Vogel,\\nwith his family set sail for America, landing in New York where Charles\\nwas educated. At the age of twenty-two he began the career of inventor,\\nsince then having taken out about fifteen patents on various kinds of\\nmachines. His first patent, g-ranted in 1867, was for a machine for cut-\\nting files. Many previous attempts having been made by prominent\\ninventors without success, it was the general opinion that the only way\\nto cut a file was by hand. Mr. Vogel s invention, however, refuted this\\nidea, his files comparing favorably with the hand made, both in dura-\\nbility and cutting qualities.\\nIn 1874 he moved with his family to Fort Lee and established a\\nmachine shop, where he continues to construct the machines of his own\\ninvention. The last two, which are manufactured mostly by himself,\\nare an improved steam engine, and an especial contrivance for burning\\ncrankshafts for engines, etc. This engine has three cylinders and but\\none rotary valve making half as many revolutions as the main shaft. It\\nis perfectly balanced, and can be run slowly on account of having no\\ndead center and can also be run rapidly, several engines running now\\nat the rate of fifteen hundred revolutions per minute. It is light in\\nweight, very compact, economical in the use of steam, entirely enclosed,\\nand can be started or stopped at any point, and can also be instantly\\nreversed.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0556.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "chaki.es vogei.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0557.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "510 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nAny one familiar with the process, is aware of the tedious task of\\nburning a crank in a lathe on account of the vibration of the unbalanced\\nand unsupported mass of metal, and as only light cuts can be taken, the\\nnecessity- of using long cutting tools in order to reach the crank pin,\\nadds to the vibration and uncertainty of the work. On this machine\\ncrank pins are burned with the shafts remaining in the main centers,\\nthus assuring perfect alignment in every direction, the crank remaining\\nstationary while the cutter travels around the crank. A rest easily\\nadjusted holds the crank perfectly rigid while being burned, thus pre-\\nventing vibration and enabling it to produce a round crank pin on shafts\\nwhich would be considered too weak to be burned by the old way. A\\nchange can quickly be made to a greater or less throw of crank without\\nremoving shaft from main centers.\\nIn 1862 Mr. Vogel joined the New York National Guard and as a\\nmember of the 11th Regiment took part in the campaign when the New\\nYork National Guard was called upon in 1863 to repulse the invasion of\\nthe Confederate General Stuart in Pennsylvania and Maryland. He\\ncontinued an active member of this regiment until 1871, when he\\nresigned. Since 1870 Mr. Vogel has been a member of Copestone\\nLodge 641, F. and A. M., of New York.\\nHe was married in May 187.? to Miss Elise Guide of New York.\\nShe died in 1891. Their children were Charles, Alfred and Paul. In\\n1893 Mr Vogel married Miss Marie H. Campbell of Fort Lee, and two\\nchildren have been born of this marriage, Henrietta and Weston.\\nGEKOME SAKDI\\nOn Third Street, New York, near West Broadway, is one of the\\nlargest plants in the East for the manufacture of artificial flowers.\\nThe business was established in 1878 by Gerome Sardi who mastered\\nthe intricacies of manufacturing and trade in this line of goods, after\\nyears of experience and close application, having successfully met the\\nrequirments of the most fastidious, for beauty and personal adornment,\\nnot only in flowers but also in feathers and piquets.\\nThe business is carried on under the firm name of (i. M. Sardi,\\nimporters and manufacturers, and gives einployment to nearly live\\nhundred hands. The trade has almost a world wide patronage in the\\nwholesale line, and Mr. Sardi has a favorable and extensive acquaint-\\nance, especially in the East. They have ofiiices in Paris, at the Rue\\ndes Petites-Ecuries, 54.\\nMr. Sardi was bt)rn in Italy in the city of (Jenoa in 1855. When\\nsixteen years of age he came to America and worked for a pittance\\nuntil he amassed a small sum for his business, which he finally suc-\\nceeded in establishing on a small scale, in 1878. In 1888 he came to\\nP^ort Lee in which place he now resides, having always taken an active\\ninterest in the prosperity and growth of the place. Mr. Sardi is fore-\\nmost in all progressive movements looking toward the improvement of\\nthe place of his adopted home.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0558.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BP:rOKN COUNTY 511\\nJ. KI.KTCHKK BTilv DKTT.\\nJ. Fletcher Burdett is the son of John F., and grrandson of Peter\\nBurdett, of whose ancestry a full history is g-ivcn in this chapter on\\nFort Lee. J. Fletcher Burdett was l-orn in March, 1843. After his\\neducation in the public schools, which was completed when he was\\nfifteen years of age, he apprenticed himself in the carriage making\\nbusiness at Rah way, N. J., where he remained until the war broke out\\nin 18()1, when he went with his company, being one of the members of\\nthe Twenty-Second N. J. Regiment of Bergen county. Upon returning\\nhome from the South Mr. Burdett fitted himself more completelv for\\nbusiness by taking a course of instructiim in the College at Poughk-eep-\\nsie, N. Y., after which he began carpentry in Fort Lee and vicinity,\\nand during the succeeding live or six years erected many houses in this\\npart of Bergen county. He built his own residence in 189f Mr. Bur-\\ndett has also been successfully engaged in the real estate business for\\nmany years. As a public official he has filled the offices of assessor and\\ncollector for a number of terms, as will be seen by reference to that\\nchapter. He is at the present time collector of the township.\\nIn 18()S Mr. Burdett was married to Miss Susan Mannix, daughter\\nof David Mannix of Fort Lee, and is the father of live children. His\\neldest son, George Burdett, was educated in Manhattan College, and is\\nnow successfully engaged in the grocery business in Fort Lee. He\\nmarried Miss Ada Dubois. The other children are Catherine. Laura.\\nHarry, Lester and (xrace.\\nJAJIKS F. TKACFV.\\nJames F. Tracey, present township Clerk of Ridge field township,\\nwas born at Fort Lee, Bergen county, N. J.. January 23, 1864. He\\nhas spent all his life here, where he was educated in the public schools,\\nsu])plemented Ijv a course of instruction in the parochial School.\\nMr. Tracey is of purely Irish origin, both of his parents having\\nbeen born in Ireland. He takes a lively interest in the affairs of his\\ntownship and has served in the office of township Clerk, to which he was\\nelected March 8, 1892, and re-elected March 14, 1893. He was elected\\nJustice of the Peace March 13, 1894, and served to May 1, 1899. On\\nMarch 10, 1896, he was again elected township Clerk and was re-elected\\nMarch 14, 1899. He has been secretary of Madonna Benevolent Society\\nof Fort Lee, since 1892. In private life Mr. Tracey is engaged in real\\nestate and insurance, conducting a profitable business. He has never\\nmarried.\\nMAX WVLKK, M. D.\\nDr. Wyler, a young man peculiarly fitted for the profession of\\nmedicine, is a native of Switzerland. He was born in 18(i4, and was\\neducated in his native country, in the cities of Zurich and Berne, taking\\na full course of instruction in the institutions of those cities. From\\nSwitzerland he went to Germany for further study and research, the\\ngreat centers of learning, Munich, Heidelberg and Wurzburg attracting\\nhim, in the pursuit of a course of preparation for his proposed profes-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0559.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "JAMKS K. TKACKV", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0560.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY 0 BER(;EN COUNTY 5\\\\?\\nsional career. After completing his studies in those institutions he\\ncame to America, first settling- in Burlington, Vermont, but later com-\\ning to New York city, where he entered the Harlem Dispensary for eye,\\near, throat and nose diseases. In 1892 he located in New York city, and\\nremained until 1896, at which time he came to Fort Lee, bought prop-\\nerty and is building up a lucrative practice, making a speciality of the\\neye, ear, nose and throat, besides his general pratice.\\nDr. Wyler is a member of the Bergen county Medical Society, and\\nof the New York Physicians Mutual Society. He was married in 1895,\\nto Miss Miriam Schreiber of New York.\\nCHAKI.KS J. HIKI.IMANN.\\nCharles J. Hirlimann an expert in electric batteries and a manufac-\\nturer of prominence, was born in France, September 1, 1849. Mr. Hirli-\\nmann has been a resident of Fort Lee, Bergen county since 1873,\\nalthough his business is located in New York city, at 17 Laight street.\\nHe is not only a manufacturer but an inventor as well, and during his\\nprofessional career in the United States has made many improvements\\nin the Disque Leclanche Battery, of which he was the first manufac-\\nturer in this country. Mr. Hirlimann s batteries have been adopted\\nand are in constant use with the Telephone companies. Railroad and\\nSteamship companies in the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico\\nand Cuba. The Industrial Academv of Paris, in 1891, awarded him a\\ngold medal. The Electrical Age of October 17, 189 1 devotes a con-\\nsiderable space to the Disque, in which it exhorts the ])ublic to main-\\ntain the integritv of this battery a1)i)ve all others.\\nIn politics Mr. Hirlimann is prominent in Democratic circles. He\\nwas married June 1, 1885, to Miss Aimee Dubois of New York. He is a\\nmember of several clubs and organizations, among which are the Circle\\nFrancaise de I Harmonie, New York; Mardi Gras, New York and the\\nFort Lee Fire Company.\\nJOSKPH SCHLOSSER.\\nJoseph Schlosscr. proprietor of the Fort Lee Club House, was born\\nin Fort Lee in 1857. His father, Joseph Schlosser, was a native of\\nGermany, but was in business in Leonia and Fort Lee the greater part\\nof his life. He came to Leonia in 1855, and in 1859 bought the property\\nin Fort Lee, afterward converted into a hotel, but which was first used\\nfor a few years in part as a meat store. The interests in the last named\\nbusiness were sold to his brother-in-law, Philip Hook, who moved across\\nthe street, and where he has been in business since that time.\\nMr. Schlosser then began the manufacturing of stone blocks for\\nstreet paving purposes, and carried on that enterprise successfully for a\\nfew years. In 1869 he opened the hotel, subsequently making such ad-\\nditions to the house as were necessary for that purpose. Here he re-\\nmained until his death, in 1891.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0561.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "514 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nJoseph Schlosser, son and successor to the hotel property, is one of\\nsix children. His four sisters, Mrs. Bcnecke. Mrs. Cherny, Mrs. Heft\\nand Mrs. Saita, all live in Fort Lee.\\nWhile Mr. Schlosser has confined his attentions wholly to business.\\nhe is nevertheless, a public spirited citizen, and has frequently been\\ncalled into positions of honor and public trust. He was a member ot\\nthe Township Committee from 1889 to i897, and was appointed m Janu-\\nary 1898 as a member of that body to fill out an unexpired term. He is\\na member of the Pioneer Lodge, F. and A. M\u00e2\u0080\u009e of Hackensack, and a\\ncharter member of the Fort Lee Fire Department, and is treasurer of\\nthe company. He also belongs to various other organizations.\\nKIDGEFIELD PARK.\\nAlthouo-h Ridgefield Park began to attract the notice of land specu-\\nlitors as far back as 1870 when the Ridgefield Land Company parcelled\\na secti.m of the town into building lots and sold them at what is even\\nnow looked upon as high prices, it was not until ten years ago that the\\nhome builder put in his appearance. Soon the little ridge midway\\nbetween Hackensack and the Palisades caught the infection and devel-\\noped into a community of commuters. Speaking of commuters, Morti-\\nmer Smith and Peter Kenny deserve mention as the oldest. They for-\\nmerly went to New York by way of the Northern Railroad at Leonia\\nthree miles away. Mr. Kenny died two years ago; Mr. Smith is still\\ntravellin every day, but has the pleasure of using the New York, Sus-\\nquehanna and Western at Ridgefield Park. He collected over two hun-\\ndred dollars to build this station, and speaks with pride of his efforts to\\nestablish it. t\\nWith the advent of the home builder and his benehcient help mate,\\n(The Building Association), came a demand for better and more modern\\nimprovements. It was thought that the old township form of govern-\\nment run exclusively by the politicians of Fort Lee, or those under\\ntheir direction, was inadequate for the needs of this growing hamlet,\\nand soon a question of change was agitated. The good offices of Sena-\\ntor Winton were obtained and he framed a law which was called the\\nWinton Act and under which Ridgefield Park was incorporated as a\\nvillao-e m the summer of 1892. Many, however, thought this form of\\no-overnment was not suitable as the vote by the people was eighty-four\\nTn favor and sixty-two against. The interest in the first primary, how-\\never was intense, twenty-three candidates for village trustees being\\nnominated, while only five were to be elected. The village Board met\\nat the residence of Thomas M. Brewster on July U, 1892. They were\\nAndrew (xaul. Dr. Ad ilph Dexheimer, Thomas M. Brewster, John W.\\nO Brien and John A. Crandall. Andrew Gaul was elected the first\\n,,resident of the village; Dr. Adolph Dexheimer its first treasurer;\\nJoseph Behan, clerk; and James A. Stratton, superintendent. The\\nBoard decided that eight hundred dollars would be sufficient for current\\nexpenses and ordered the Assessor to levy that amount. The tax offi-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0562.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 515\\ncials were still cdntrdlled l y Kidy^efa-ld tdwiisliip. Ridj^otield Park was\\nnot entirely out of its g:rasi). At the Spring election of 18 \u00c2\u00bb3 George E.\\nHelm was elected to succeed John A. Crandall whose time had expired.\\nJohn E. Ht)ey was appointed clerk. Owing to a lack of funds very little\\nwork was done during the first year. During 1893 nearly all the streets\\nwere dedicated and made public thoroughfares, the exception being\\nthose in the northern section, known as Westview. Garden Street was\\ncut through to Brinkerhoff Street making a much nearer outlet from the\\nsouthern end of the village. The grade map was made bv Williams\\nBrothers.\\nOn March 12. 1S I4, Mr. O Brien introduced the first sidewalk ordi-\\nnance, providing for Central Avenue between First and Fourth Streets.\\nIn tlie Spring of 1S94 a complete change was made in the personel\\nof the Board, the terms of Messrs. Gaul and Dexheimer expiring. Mr.\\nGaul was re-elected, but Dr. Dexheimer was not a candidate, while W.\\nH. Hobart was elected after a very close and exciting contest. Three\\nor four votes would have turned the election either way. After election\\nday four citizens were indicted for alleged illegal voting but were sub-\\nsequently released the indictments having been quashed for lack of evi-\\ndence. Mr. Hobart was elected president of the Board; George E.\\nHelm, treasurer, and Joseph A. Behan, clerk. From that time bitter\\nfeeling among tlie citizens sprung up and resulted in two factions, both\\nevenly dividing the two great parties. One was the Brewster and the\\nother the O Brien faction, both Democrats. Messrs. Brewster and\\nO Brien retired from the Board of Trustees on April 9, 1895, and were\\nsucceeded by John H. Ficken and Milo H. Morgan. Mr. Hobart con-\\ntinued to be president but Mr. Ficken assumed the office of treasurer.\\nNothing of particular interest occurred during 1895. George E. Helm\\nwas re-elected village trustee at the Spring election, 1S9(), for three\\nyears, and Alfred W. Price supplanted Joseph A. Behan as Clerk of the\\nBoard. After a few months Mr. Helm objected to the methods of the\\nStreet Superintendent and with the assistance of Messrs. Morgan and\\nGaul dismissed Thomas Marshall and installed Thomas R. Lindley in\\nhis place. Mr. Price then came under the ban and was removed, Mr.\\nBehan taking his place. These changes caused a bitter feeling and Mr.\\nHelm was roundly denounced by some of the citizens. One of the vil-\\nlage notes went to protest through lack of harmony in the Board, and\\nan indignation meeting was called which was largely attended. The\\nBoard was censured for its indifference to the credit and reputation of\\nthe village. The legislature of 1S9() and 18 )7 passed an Act making\\nRidgefield Park a township, which was called Overpeck, thus taking\\nthe village out of the semi-control of Fort Lee. The new law did not\\ninterfere with the village government. A snag was struck later, how-\\never, when the village trustees endeavored to make a settlement with\\nRidgefield township. The latter s town committee refused to recognize\\nthe trustees; a mandamus was applied for but the Supreme Court decided\\nagainst Ridgefield Park. The fact that Ridgewood was a village in a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0563.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "516 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\ntownship was cited, but Ridgewood had no settlements to make with\\nother townships, and the right of a village trustee, to be a town com-\\nmitteeman without election to that office was disputed successfully.\\nThe village was not declared illegal as some believed, but it was neces-\\nsary to have a town committee to transact business, which the law did\\nnot confer on the village trustees. Thus it came later that trustees and\\ncommitteemen were elected. Frank C. Lowe and John L. Oberg were\\nelected trustees March, 1897, with the remaining township officers neces-\\nsary to transact business. Mr. Oberg held office as trustee for one\\nyear. In March, 1898, D. S. Servoss was elected trustee for two years;\\nW. N. Schwab and Hugh Innes each for three years. They were also\\nelected township committeemen. W. A. Wilcox is the township clerk\\nelected in 1897.\\nPractically all the business is transacted by the Village Board, and\\nsince the new board was installed the streets have been lighted by elec-\\ntricity; gas mains are in nearly four miles of street, and two miles of\\nnew sidewalks have been laid, with no village bonded indebtedness.\\nWe have sprung from a hamlet of a few families to a population of\\nnearly two thousand five hundred in ten years. Over five hundred chil-\\ndren are on the school census rolls. Two schools with nine teachers,\\nsix churches, two railroads, and other virtues too numerous to mention.\\nThe first Board of Education in the township of Overpeck consisted\\nof Conrad W. Mergler, H. W. Brewster, John E. Hoey, P. W. Johnson,\\nAdolph Dexheimer, F. C. Lowe, E. S. Ferris, Carl Damcke and C.\\nOberg. The first meeting of the new board was held at the school\\nhouse on April b, 1897, when they elected Conrad W. Mergler president,\\nand John E. Hoey district clerk, immediately proceeding to a final ad-\\njustment of details incident to the new conditions.\\nOn account of the overcrowded condition of the one school in the\\ntownship, a building had been secured from the district known as West-\\nview, which was made to serve the purpose until the completion of the\\nnew building, then in process of erection. This house, built at a cost\\nof six thousand five hundred dollars, was dedicated September 6, 1897.\\nThe enrollment at this time in School No. 1 was two hundred and fifty,\\nand in School No. 2 one hundred and forty.\\nIn March, 1898, a new board was elected as follows: John E. Hoey,\\nConrad W. Mergler, H. N. Brewster, Carl Damcke, P. W. Johnson,\\nJames M. Shourt, William F. Dowell, Jesse Gregory and Alfred Price.\\nJohn E. Hoey was made president and Conrad W. Mergler district clerk.\\nThe present board (1899) consists of John E. Hoey, president;\\nWilliam F. Dowell, district clerk; Louis Weiss, Samuel J. Shaw, H.\\nM. Brewster, Carl Damcke, P. W. Johnson, James M. Shourt, Conrad\\nW. Mergler.\\nThe total enrollment of the schools in Overpeck township at present\\nis four hundred and eighty.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0564.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 517\\nKIKE nEPAKTMEXT OK KIDC.KFIKI.D PAKK.\\nAlthouifh organized in 1892 it was not until March 2, 18%, that the\\nRidg-efield Park Hose Company, No. 1, and Friendship Hook and Lad-\\nder Company were brought into department form, and put under\\ncontrol of the Board of Village Trustees, which enacted an ordinance\\ncreating the offices of Chief and Assistant Chief Engineers, and formu-\\nlated rules and regulations for the government of the newly made fire\\ndepartment. The first officers elected were: Fred A. Lyman and Charles\\nM. Brewster. The following year Mr. Brewster was promoted to Chief;\\nand Mr. A. E. Innes, D. A. Christie, Samuel J. Shaw and E. S. Carr\\nhave since served as chief and assistant chiefs.\\nOn August 15, 189 E. S. Carr and John E. Hoey v.^ere elected lor\\nthe ensuing year.\\nKIK KMEN s KELIKK ASSOCIATION.\\nFiremen s Relief Association was organized April 22, 18 I5. This\\norganization is managed by a Board of Representatives elected\\nannually from the two companies. This board provides out of the fund\\nfurnished by the state, for members who are sick or disabled. They\\nalso elected delegates to the State Firemen s Convention, held an-\\nnually.\\nKIDOEKIHI.D PAI fK HOSE COMPANY NO. 1.\\nRidgefield Park Hose Company No. 1 formed a temporary organi-\\nzation on December I, 1,S91. enrolling fifty citizens who agreed to become\\nvolunteer firemen, A ])ermanent organization was effected February\\n10, 1892, with the following officers: President, C. W. Calloway; Vice\\nPresident, W. H. Robert; Secretary, J. H. Ficken; Treasurer, J. A.\\nBehan; Foreman, F. S. Sturgis; Assistant Foreman, F. H. Rudol])h;\\nTrustees, C. \\\\V. Mergler, C. \\\\V. Reinhart and J. A. Crandall.\\nThe event leading to the formation of the Hose Company, was the\\nburning, one \u00e2\u0096\u00a0night, of the dwellings of Messrs Reinhart, Henderson\\nand Enders. on Preston Street. The entire population turned out to see\\nthe blaze, but owing to a lack of proper facilities, were unable to sub-\\ndue the flames.\\nSince March 2, 189(), the Board of Trustees have, among other\\nthings, provided a Jum])er and two hundred and fifty feet of hose, which\\nwith a first class Hook and Ladder Company, insure protection to the\\ntown.\\nI KIENDSniP HOOK AND LADDEK COMPANY.\\nThe Friendship Hot)k and Ladder Company was organized February\\n22, 1892, with twenty members and was incorporated on April 5th of\\nthe same year. The officers elected were: President, A. P. Carpenter;\\nVice President, E. S. Carr; Secretary, Isaac B. Winn; Treasurer, M. T.\\nBrewster; Foreman, C. K. Brewster; assistant Foreman, Austin Wolf;\\nTrustees, E. M. Lemarie, James T. Donnelly, D. A. Christie. A hook\\nand ladder truck having been procured the company was ready for\\nbusiness.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0565.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "518\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThe C( mpaii\\\\- set to work to secure funds to build a house, and\\nhave now a commodious home on Garden Street. The membership\\nnumbers twenty-seven, and that of the Hose Company twenty-eight.\\nIn the department are men prominent in all the walks of life, and\\nfrom its inception has made itself felt in local affairs.\\nUNION CHI KCH.\\nThis church owes its orig in to Mrs. E. W. Barnes, a daughter of\\nMortimer Smith, in whose parlors a Sunday School was opened in 1SS4.\\nFrom this small beginning- came the congregation, which is apparently\\ndoing a good work. Organizing in 18 J0, thev built their house of\\nworship in 1891 and dedicated it the following year, the present pastor\\nbeing installed June 4. 1893. This church has now a membership of\\none hundred and fifty, is non-sectarian, and supports two Sunday\\nSchools of about three hundred scholars, a Young People s Society\\nUNION CHUKCH\\nof Christian Endeavor of fifty members, a Ladies Society of sixty\\nand a Junior Endeavor Society, of ninety, educating two of its\\nmembers in schools. They also publish the Union Herald, a\\nmonthl}- paper support a Winter Night College, a Penny Bank\\nand a Boys Athletic Club and Fife and Drum Corps.\\nThe pastor of this church. Rev. Allan MacNeill, is of Scotch and\\nEnglish parentage. On the paternal side he is of Scotch descent,\\nwhile his maternal ancestors are English. He was born on Prince\\nEdward s Island, August 22, 1860, and was educated in Prince Edward s\\nIsland public schools, and in the night schools, and Denver High School.\\nHe then took a course in Amherst College, after which he entered Union\\nTheological Seminary, where he studied for his professional career,\\nfinishing his school work with Post Graduate studies in the University\\nof New York. He was graduated from the Seminary immediately pre-\\nceediuu: his installation in 1S *3.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0566.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY 519\\nMr. MacNeill is president of tlie Public Library Association; a\\nmember of the Reading Club; of the Athletic Club; and of the Society\\nof Comparative Relig-ions, being- also president of the Township Sun-\\nday School Association.\\nMr. MacNeill married Miss Fanny Pomeroy Cutter, of Amherst,\\nMassachusetts.\\nTHE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHl KCH.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Church of Ridgefield Park, is the result of\\na service looking to the formation of a church of this denomination,\\nheld in Republican Club Hall, November IS io. At this meeting\\nRev. J. R. Daniels of Hackensack preached to about fifty people. A\\nSabbath school was organized soon after, and March 1891 the church\\nwas regularly incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey.\\nThe first regular preacher was Mr. C. E. Schenck, from Drew Theologi-\\ncal Seminary. A Ladies Aid Society was an early helper financially.\\nAfter incorporation, the subject of a church building was discussed,\\nwhen the Board of Trustees appointed a committee to select a site.\\nTwo lots, previously donated were sold and the proceeds ajjplied toward\\nthe purchase of more suitable ground, upon which a church was built\\nand the same dedicated on July 7, 1895. The present pastor. Rev.\\nAlfred Evans, resides at Ridgefield Park. He was graduated from\\nDrew Seminery in the class of 1893.\\nST. KKAN CIS KO.MAN CATHOLIC CHI-RCH.\\nThe first church edifice erected in Ridgefield Park wa.s that of St.\\nFrancis.\\nThe Catholics of the Park having met nn February 24. 1S,S formed\\nthemselves into what was called the St I ^rancis Association, for the\\npurpose of devising means to build a church. Plans were adopted,\\nmeans secured, and the building begun immediately, the corner-stone\\nbeing laid on Thanksgiving Day, November 28th of that year. The\\nwork was carried forward without delay and on July 27, 1890, the church\\nwas dedicated. The first pastor. Rev. John F. Duffy, took charge on\\nAugust 3, continuing until November 14, when he was succeeded by\\nRev. J. Russell. Pastor Russell remained until March 25. 1891, and\\nwas followed by Rev. John Hennes who had pastoral charge until March\\n15, 1892, when the present pastor the Rev. John E. Lambert assumed\\nthe care of the little flock.\\nThe niombershii) at present numbers about fifty families or two\\nhundred and fifty souls.\\nRev. John E. Lambert was born in Pliiladeljjhia Fel)ruarv 2(1, 18(.4.\\nand received his Parochial school education in that city, graduating\\nfrom the grammar department. He then took a classical course in St.\\nJohn s College, Brooklyn, N. Y., and was graduated from that institu-\\ntion in 1885. After pursuing theological studies in Seton Hall at South\\nOrange, N. J., for a time, he went to Genoa, Italy, continuing his\\nstudies in that city for a period of four years, subsequently completing", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0567.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "520 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nhis course in theolog y at the University of Innsbruck, in the Tyrol\\n(Austria), and was ordained by the Archbishop of Brixen (Tyrol),\\nJuly 28, 1890.\\nReturning- to America Rev. Mr. Lambert became assistant at St.\\nPeter s, Newark, N. J., until March 25, 18 )2. Since then he has been\\npastor in lower Hackensack and Ridgetield Park.\\nHOTELS.\\nThere are three hotels in Ridgefield Park. The one at Little Ferry\\nwas erected by Michael J. Collins in 1893 at a cf)st of seven thousand\\ndollars and serves the travelling- public to a considerable extent as a\\ndepot, there being no suitable accommodations provided by the railroad\\ncompany at that place.\\nMr. Collins has conducted hotels during the most of his business\\ncareer. He was born fifty-three 3 ears ago in Ireland and came direct from\\nMayo, the people of which province are among the most hospitable in\\nthe world. His father was a farmer. His parents both died when he\\nwas a youth, and he then sailed for this country landing in New York\\ncity, where he served tirst as an orderlie in a hospital for sixteen years,\\nthen for nineteen years in the hotel business at 59 West Street. He\\ncame to Ridgefield Park in 189.i.\\nMOKTIMEK SMITH.\\nAmong the residents of this part of the old townshi]) of Ridgelield\\nshould be mentioned the name of Mr. Mortimer Smith, of Teaneck\\nRidge, who has been living here for the past thirt)^ years. Mr. Smith\\nis a native of the city of New York, where he has maintained business\\nrelations with two of the old insurance companies for over forty years.\\nHe was with the Gebhard Fire Insurance Company, as an appraiser,\\ntwenty-one years, and has now been with the New York Life Insurance\\nCompany in the same capacity over twenty years.\\nMr. Smith has a life membership in the National Academy of De-\\nsign, having been a fellow of that institution since 1860. He is a lover\\nof fine art, a man of public spirit, interested in all charitable and\\nbenevolent work, and one of the founders of the Ridgefield Park Free\\nPublic Library.\\nTHE OLD CHKLSTIE HOMESTE.\\\\n.\\nThis home, prior to November hth, 1844, belonged t() the farm of\\nPaul Paulison, at which time it was conveyed by commissioners H.\\nW. Banta, David D. Demarest and William DeWolfe, to David Christie\\nof English Neighborhood for his stm Albert, and upon his death in 1848,\\nAlbert became absolute owner and lived there until his father s death\\nin 1887 or 88. All his family of nine children were born there, but\\nsince his death the family have removed to a new residence on another\\npart of the farm. The house was presumably built by Paul Paulison,\\nand is no doubt nearly if not quite two hundred years old.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0568.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0569.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0570.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0571.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "524 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nCORNELIUS CHRISTIE.\\nCornelius Christie, train master for the West Shore Railroad at\\nWeehawken, N. J., is distinctively a railroad man, having- spent his entire\\nbusiness life in that line. His grandfather, David Christie, upon his mar-\\nriage to Anna Brinkerhoff, removed to New York city, where he accum-\\nlated a fortune in his trade of stone cutting, and in 1835, bought the\\nfarm of Garret Meyer at English Neighborhood and retired from busi-\\nness. His son, Albert Brinkerhoff Christie, the father of Cornelius,\\nwent to Ridgfield Park about 1830 where he died in 1888, nearly seventy\\nyears of age. His wife who was Miss Lydia Ann Christie (not a\\nrelative died in 18 }6 at the age of seventy-two.\\nCornelius Christie was born at Ridgetield Park September 24, 18r)4,\\nand was educated in the public schools. He was graduated from Washing-\\nton Public School, No. 32, Hackensack, in July 1881. Beginning business\\nas a telegraph operator in the office of the New York, Susquehanna\\nWestern Railroad, in May 1881 he continued in their employ until June\\n4, 1883. At this date he entered the office of the West Shore Railroad\\nCompany as telegraph operator and so continued until March 1888 when\\nhe was promoted to the position of train dispatcher, which he held until\\nApril 1, 1895, when by a second promotion.be became trainmaster. Mr.\\nChristie has about five hundred men under his supervision, directly and\\nindirectly, more than half of whom may trace their examination, disci-\\npline and employment to his management, conductors, brakenian and\\nbaggagemen all coming under his surveilliance.\\nMr. Christie was married October 12, 1898, to Miss Selena Wells of\\nGoshen, N. Y., only daughter of J. E. Wells, for many years Super-\\nvisor of the Town of Goshen and also general superintendent of the\\nOrange county Agricultural Society. The bridal trip of Mr. and Mrs.\\nChristie extended over nine thousand miles of travel throughout the\\nWestern States. In this long trip thej never passed over the same\\nroad a second time between any two points.\\nALBERT RAVEKES.\\nAmong the names of those who have become identified with the\\ngrowth and prosperity of the village of Ridgefield Park, is that of\\nAlbert Ravekes, which stands prominent among the first of those, in\\nthis part of Ridgefield township. Mr. Ravekes is a native of New York\\ncity where he was born fifty-six years ago. He attended school in that\\ncity until eleven years of age, and then began a business career. In\\n1857 he became ai)prenticed to the carpenter trade, an occupation which\\nhe has successfully followed ever since, having had his offices at one\\nplace on Mulberry Street, New York, forty-two years.\\nIn 1885 Mr. Ravekes removed to Hackensack, N. J., but the year\\nfollowing he moved to Ridgefield Park where he erected a beautiful\\nhome and is surrounded bv his married children, who also occupy homes\\not their own.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0572.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0573.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "526 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nBefore the incorporation of the village of Ridgefield Park Mr.\\nRavekes served his township as committeeman for six years, having\\nbeen the first representative of the western district elected to that posi-\\ntion, serving as treasurer of the township at the same time. The duties\\nincident to a large business interest, however, prevented him from serv-\\ning further in any politicial capacity, nevertheless, he has been kept\\nforemost in various other positions before the people. He is president\\nof the Sherwood Land and Improvement Company and also president of\\nthe Ridgeiield Park Town Hall Company. He has been president of the\\nRidgetield Boat Club during the past five years. Among the fraternal\\norganizations, he is Past Regent of the Ridgefield Park Council Royal\\nArcanum No. 1428; member of the Masonic Order, of which both he and\\nhis son Oliver have taken the highest degrees, while they are also\\nmembers of the Mystic Shrine.\\nMr. Ravekes has been a liberal contributor to all the churches in\\nRidgefield Park; was one of the promoters of the village organization,\\nand has been identified with all its interests since its incorporation.\\nJOHN H. FICKEN.\\nJohnH. Ficken, cashier for Charles H. Zinn, of New York, was born\\nin the city of New York in February, 1858, where he was educated in the\\npublic schools. Upon leaving school Mr. Ficken became connected with a\\ncommercial house in the city, holding responsible positions continuously\\nsince that time, first in the tea and coffee business, and then, for twelve\\nyears, in the cotton trade. The past nine years have been spent in his\\npresent position. In 1883 he married Miss Annie S. Beaven, of Brook-\\nlyn, N. Y., and since then has resided in Ridgefield Park, where he has\\nbeen prominently identified with the living issues of that village, hav-\\ning been treasurer from 1894 to 1897, and a member of the School Board\\nappointed when the present law went into effect in 1894. He was a\\ncharter member of the Royal Arcanum, and has also held the offices of\\nsecretary, vice-president and president of the Fire Department, holding\\neach office for a term of two years. He is a trustee and assistant\\ntreasurer of the Union Church, Ridgefield Park, besides being prominent\\nin other organizations.\\nCHARLES W. CAI.LOW.W.\\nCharles W. Calloway, private secretary to Mr. J. P. Morgan,\\nBanker, New York, is a native of the Isle of Wight, England, and was\\nborn forty-seven years ago. He is the son of George Calloway, who\\ndied in 1898, at the age of seventv-nine vears, having been an officer in\\nthe British nav}- for nearly a half century.\\nMr. Calloway graduated in 1865 and after several years of mercan-\\ntile life in Buenos Ayres and the Island of Ceylon, became connected\\nwith the house of J. P. Morgan Co., reaching New York in 1879.\\nbeing the onlj one of his family who ever came to this country.\\nMr. Calloway married Miss Maud Glover of Brooklyn, a lineal\\ndescendant of (General Burgoyne of Revolutionary fame. In ISS Mr.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0574.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "C-^Cc^-eo^ :x-g-/z", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0575.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0576.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY l)K BKKGEN COUNTY 52 t\\nCalloway took up his residence in Rid^etield Park. His son Alfred\\nCalloway is superintendent of the Rochester Pittsburg- Coal Com-\\npany, at Adrian, Pa., and Ernest Evelyn, a second son, is assistant\\ncashier for Price McCormick Co., Bankers and Brokers, New York.\\nCONK.\\\\D WILLI.\\\\M MERGLEK.\\nConrad William Mergler, is of American birth and education. His\\nancestors in the paternal line are purely German, while the maternal\\nline is French, making- a good union of the stolid, plodding German\\ntemperament with the mercurial French spirit. Mr. Mergler is himself\\na good illustration of this combination especially in his business enter-\\nprise. Coming to Ridgefield Park in 1887 with but a meagre sum as\\ncapital, he had a fund of energy and pluck, which no doubt were the\\nchief powers in securing his success.\\nMr. Mergler is the son of Jacob Mergler, whose father was Philip.\\nHis mother was Elsie Archard, a direct descendant of a P^rench Hugue-\\nnot family who in the time of Catherine de Medici, fled from France to\\n(iermany, where they made a home prior to their emigration to America.\\nConrad W., was born in New York city February 5, 18()1, and was\\neducated in the public schools of that city, afterward taking a course in\\ncivil engineering, in Cooper Institute. In 1888, with a capital stock of\\nfifty dollars, and in a room twelve b}- thirteen feet in dimensions, this\\nyoung man started to build up his fortune. Faithful attentitm to busi-\\nness and continuity of purpose have gained success. He has not only\\nmade a home for himself, but has helped build up the village. What\\nwas formerly a bog, is now one of the finest corners in the town, a hand-\\nsome store covering eighteen hundred square feet and holding a stock\\nof goods valued at not less than five thousand dollars, adorns the spot.\\nIn 1888 Mr. Mergler was appointed postmaster, continuing in the\\noffice four years; he was elected member of the local Board of Education\\nin 1S8 being re-elected four times since, and holding the office at the\\npresent time. He is a charter member of local council of the Royal\\nArcanum; member of Pioneer Lodge, Free Masons, Hackensack; mem-\\nber of New Jersey Sovereign Consistory Scottish Rite F. M. and of Kis-\\nmuth Temple Mystic Shrine, Brooklyn. He is president of the local\\nBuilding Association, re-elected three times, and also charter member\\nof local Fire Department.\\nMr. Mergler married Miss I,ouise Rech of New York city.\\nJOHN EDW.\\\\KD HOEY.\\nJohn Edward Hoey, a progressive citii,en of Ridgefield Park, was\\nborn in the city of Philadelphia, September 1S( receiving a com-\\nmon school education in his native place.\\nIn 1890 Mr. Hoe^- came to Ridgefield Park for the ])urpose of mak-\\ning it his home, and immediately becoming identified -with all the\\ninterests of the village, political, social and religious, has ever since\\ntaken an active part in its development and growth. In 18 )4 he was\\nap])( inte(l \\\\illage clerk serving one term, and was subsequently in l S i(i,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0577.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "530 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nelected member of the Board of Education of Ridg efield to\\\\vnship, which\\nembraced several communities including Coytesville, Leonia Heights,\\nPalisades Park and Ridgetield Park. Upon the organization of the\\nboard he was elected district clerk, serving until 1897, when bj- an Act\\nof the Legislature, Ridgefield Park was made the township of Over-\\npeck. He was then appointed district clerk bv Superintendent John\\nTerhune, to serve until the regular election of 1898, at which time he\\nwas elected for a term of three years. In the same year (1898), he\\nwas chosen president of the Board of Education and re-elected in 1899.\\nMr. Hoey acted in the capacity of village clerk during the fiscal year\\nof 1898 and 1899, and while district clerk of Ridgetield township took\\nan active part in the erection of the new school building at Westview,\\nbeing chairman of the committee on site, and subsequently on dedica-\\ntion. He also helped organize and became a charter member of Ridge-\\nfield Park Hose Company No. 1 in 1892, and also of the Royal Arcanum\\nCouncil No. 1428, organized in the same year. Mr. Hoey is president\\nof the Hose Companj-; trustee of the Royal Arcanum and assistant\\nchief of the Fire Department of Ridgefield Park.\\nANDREW GAUL.\\nAndrew Gaul, first president of the village of Ridgefield Park, is a\\nnative of Hudson, Columbia county, N. Y., and was born fifty-two years\\nago. His father John H. Gaul, was a prominent merchant in that\\ncounty.\\nMr. Gaul received an academic education and then selected the busi-\\nness of eng-ineer for his future career. His license dated from 1868 and\\nhis field of labor covered the rivers of the American continent and its\\ncoasts, trading on the Atlantic in all kinds of vessels, in which a valu-\\nable experience was gained which fitted him for the position he now\\nholds. One of the first vessels on which he served as fireman was the\\ndispatch boat Greyhound carrying dispatches from the seat of war to\\nJamestown Island whence they were wired to Washington.\\nHe began as assistant engineer on the steamship Ladona, a vessel\\nplying between New York, New Orleans and Havana, and was subse-\\nquently advanced to the position of chief engineer. After an experience\\nof nearlv thirty years he was commissioned in 1897 United States\\nInspector of Steam Vessels, which position he holds at the present time.\\nMr. Gaul was married to Elizabeth Smith of New York city in 1873.\\nIn 1889 he moved to Ridgefield Park, since which time he has borne his\\nshare of political responsibilities. He became one of the promoters of\\nthe villag-e government; was its first president, and served two terms as\\ntrustee on the village board. His eldest son, Andrew Gaul, Jr., is\\ncashier for Johnson Wood, brokers New York, and is also doing a\\nbrokerage business on his own account. John, the next son entered ser-\\nvice in the Cuban war, stationed in the hospital ship, Missouri,\\nreturning to his home in perfect health, but died a few days afterward.\\nRav, Anniedeal and Alexander complete the names of the other mem-\\nbers of the familv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0578.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "OVEKPKCK I AKK, HOTEL AND LAKE -L. A. EICHEK. I KOP.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0579.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "CHAPTKR XXVIII.\\nBOROUGHS OF OLD RIDGEPIKLD TOWNSHIP\\nKIDC,KFIELD-1--AIKVIK%V-PALI.:ADES PAKK-l-EONIA-^rNDEKCLIFF.\\nBOGOTA.\\nKIDGEFIELD BOROUGH.\\nThe vilhicre of Ridyetield is situated on the New Jersey and North-\\nern Railroad t en miles from New York and is the center ot what was\\nknown as English Neighborhood.\\nMany En^rlish people had settled in this locality, hence the origin\\nof the name. The old stone church standing just west of Ridgewood\\ndepot, erected in 1768, is a memento of former years. There is also in\\nthe village an Episcopalian church, a hotel, two stores and a town hall.\\nThe borough has a population of about six hundred.\\nSTOKES.\\nSamuel DeGroot built the first store in Ridgelield in 1875, and\\nwhich is now occupied by A. M. Lemm. This building was hrst occu-\\npied by Mr. DeGroot, then by his stepson, Mr. Lozier, after whom came\\nW G Christie, and, in 1877, John Brinkerhoff began business. In\\n1888 he sold to Christie Ackerman who disposed of the propertyto\\nW B Pu.rh in 18S1. Mr. Pugh came to the village a few years prior\\nto this time continuing to occupy this store until 1895, when he opened\\nhis present office since which time many sales of real estate have been\\neffected by him. He was the first mayor of Rulgefield elected to that\\noffice which he held two terms. He was a freeholder of the town from\\n18 K. to IS X) A. M. Lemm, the present owner of the store, and the\\npostmaster of the village, began business here in October 1895,\\nMr Lemn is a member of the Building and Loan Association, of\\nthe Board of Health, also of the Fire Department of Ridgeheld, and\\nbelono-s to a number of clubs and societies. Frank A. Kiel began busi-\\nness in Rido-efield in 1889. At that time he erected a building adj.nnmg\\nthe one he now occupies, and kept a barber shop and stationery store.\\nThree years later he built his present store and carries meat and gro-\\nceries. He also owns a store in Hasbrouck Heights. He was b,.rn m\\nBeru-en county in 1859.\\nThe borou-h of Ridgefield was incorporated May 26, 1892. Peter\\nHall was the first mayor. The first councilmen were as follows: N.\\nJacobus, W. H. Goodday, D. \\\\^Bro%yer, J. V. Banta, W. B. Pugh, E.\\nH Piatt J R. Beam, E. B. Meyrowitz. George S. Wood, borough\\nclerk- s E. DeGroot, collector; Frederick G. Bennett, assessor.\\nW B Puo-h was elected Mayor and held the office two terms, being\\nfollowed by the present officers, Alexander A Shaler, Mayor; J^\\\\.\\nBanta, Charles E. Boardman, Charles Englehardt, James E. Maxfield,\\nI K Cotton P. A. Meserole, Council; C. B. Wilson. Borough Clerk:", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0580.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BKKGKN COUNTY\\n53.^\\nBoard of Health, Marion A. Lemin, Dr. B. F. Underwood, W. H.\\nRueckart, James Mc(iill.\\nThe Reformed Church of the English Neig-hborhood can only trace\\nits written history to a few years prior to the Reyolutionarv war, the\\nrecords of the most interestingf period of its existence haying- been lost.\\nThe two churches, located at Hackensack and Bergen Hill, respec-\\ntively, were the easiest of access from this part of the county. The\\nchurch at Hackensack called the Church on the Green, was attended\\nby many of the settlers at English Neighborhood, prior to 17().S, when\\non Noyember IS, a meeting was called and steps taken toward the erec-\\ntion of a church at this place. The records of the society of this date,\\ncontain this entry:\\nEnglish Neighborliood. in the County of Bergen and I roxmce of\\nNew Jersey. Noyember ISth, Anno. Uom. 17()S.\\nB|^\\n-i-i 33 n\\nAs Mr. Thomas Moore has conveyed to us. the underwitfen trus-\\ntees, one acre of land, on ])ur])ose that we sliould erect a church on it\\nagreeable to the constitution of Thirteenth .Reformed Church of Hol-\\nland, established by the National Synod of Dort and as the minister,\\nelders, and deacons, and also the members and all their successors, which\\nshall be elected, appointed, and established in the said church, now act-\\nually building in the English Neighbourhood, are to be conformed to the\\ndoctrine, discipline, and worship established in the United Proyinces by\\nthe National Synod of Dort aforesaid, we promise according to engage-\\nment toendeayour that such minister, elders, deacons, and members shall\\nnow be called and appointed in said church we all pnmiise that we will\\nkeep out of the debate that is now between Coetus and Conferentie as\\nmuch as in us lies, and we will indeayoiir to liye in Christian peace with", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0581.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "534 HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nboth parties, as we have agreed from the first, on purpose that all the\\ninhabitants of the English Neighbourhood and members of the said\\nchurch may live in peace and love among themselves and others, for a\\ndivided house must fall, but a well united house or church shall stand.\\n(Signed),\\nAbkaha.m Moxtanv, Michaki, Mooke,\\nStephen Boukdktt, Thomas Mooke,\\nJohn Day, John Mooke.\\nThe strife between Coetus and Conferentie was disturbing the\\nChurch at this time and in this new organization its members sought to\\navoid as much as possible a discussion of these questions, the record\\nstating that:\\nThe people of the English Neighbourhood, being unanimous,\\nagreed to erect a congregation, and having thus accomplished their\\ndesire and intention, they proceeded by a free vote of the people to call\\nMr. Garret Lydecker, then Candidate of Divinity, who, having accepted\\ntheir call, was ordained and installed in the congregation by Dominies\\nRitzma and Vanderlinden, in the year one thousand seven hundred and\\nseventy, and in the said year the consistory, to wit, Abraham Montany\\nand Michael Moore, elders, and John Day and John Lozier, deacons,\\nwere elected and constituted by Abraham Day, form Hackensack con-\\ngregation, and Dominus Garret Lydecker.\\nThe record also adds this entr^-,\\nN. H. The above is a small statement of the building of the\\nchurch and of organizing the congregation. The congregation being\\ndeficient, on account of Dominus Lydecker removing in the year one\\nthousand seven hundred and seventy-six from this congregation to New\\nYork, who at that time took with him all the papers and writings\\nbelonging to the congregation, from the time of his removal we were\\ndestitute of the preaching of the gospel, excepting some temporary sup-\\nplies which different ministers favored us with, until the year one thou-\\nsand seven hundred and ninety-two. The consistory, in behalf of the\\ncongregation, entered into a combination with the congregation of\\nBergen to call John Cornelinson, their present candidate, who accepted\\nour call, and was ordained and installed in the church of Bergen by\\nDominus Froeligh, Lansen, old Dominus Cooper, and son. W. Cooper,\\non the 26th day of May, in the year of our I^ord one thousand seven\\nhundred and ninety-three.\\nThe Rev. Gerrardus I^ydecker referred to above went with the\\nTories in the Revolution. After officiating for a time in the Dutch\\nChurch in New York city, he went to England, and died at the house of\\nhis son at Pentonville. at the age of seventy-five years. A record dated\\nJuly 1. 1770, says:\\nThen were constituted members of the Reformed Dutch Church in\\nthe congregation of the English Neighborhood the following persons\\nafter due examination, viz.: Michael Moore, Abraham Montany, John\\nLashier. John Day, David Dav, Thomas Moore, Edward Bylestead,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0582.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 535\\nSamuel Moore, Benjamin Bourdette. John Cahy (and nine females). At\\nthe same time were nominated and chosen Michael Moore and Abraham\\nMontana as elders, and John Day and John Lashier as deacons of the\\naforesaid congreg-ation. (Tarret Lydecker, V. D. M., examined the\\nabove named persons and nominated the aforesaid members of the\\nconsistory.\\nDuring these times of strife this church was sixteen years without\\na pastor, the Rev. John Cornelison (spelled Cornelinson in the church\\nrecord was called to this church, November 28. 17 J2, and on May 2(),\\nfollowing was ordained and installed pastor of this church and the\\nchurch at Bergen, by Revs. S. Warmoldus Kuypers, William Prevoost\\nKuypers, Nicholas Lansing and Sohmion Froeligh. Only one-third of\\nMr. Cornelison s time could be devoted to this church, and service in\\nDutch was only occasional. In 17 J3 a new church was built, but before\\na new (rae was begun the following document was issued, apparently as\\na precautionary measure: That Catharine, widow of Michael Moore,\\ndeceased, and Michael, Jacob, and Samuel Moore, his sons, gave full\\njiower to the elders and deacons for building up or pulling down or\\nremoving the (old) church without any molestation from them or any\\nperson claiming under them. Subscriptions came in freely, the highest\\namount subscribed being twenty-five pounds and the lowest, two shil-\\nlings. The subscribers were to be credited pro tiiiito in purchasing\\npews. Everything was planned in detail as the description here given\\nwill show: Plan for building the Reformed Dutch Church of the\\nEnglish Neighborhood, 17 \u00c2\u00bb3:\\nWhereas, The Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church\\nof the English Neighborhood, in the county of Bergen and state of\\nNew Jersey having long seen the necessity of having a place of public\\nworship, having by C(msent, and it also appearing to be their right,\\nthought most beneficial to the said congregation to pull down the old\\nchurch, and have laid a plan to build and erect a new one in a more\\npro])er jjlace. and\\nWhereas, It has pleased the Omnipotent Disposer of I ublic\\nEvents to bless the land with peace and plenty, and we also, wishing\\nharmony in the said congregation having, with the advice of our min-\\nister and the congregation in general in the fear of the Lord, to ])ro-\\nceed in building said church according to the following- plan:\\nI. The place proposed is to be on the Point Field west of an apple\\ntree, and according to the following dimensions, viz: 40 feet wide bv 52\\nfeet long, and with two gallerevs.\\nII. The stone and timber to be brought on the ground free gratis,\\nand no money to be paid out unless it be for meteriels until the car-\\npenters and masons work is begun.\\nIII. The following persons are appointed managers: Messrs.\\nCornelius reelandt, (iarret Banta, John Williams, John Dav, Rinier\\nEarl and Samuel Edsall, whose business it shall be to engage workmen", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0583.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "536 HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nand lalxirors, procuri.- muteriel, superintend the work, and do every-\\nthing necessary to promote the said building.\\nIV. The cong-regation shall immediately take in voluntary sub-\\nscripti(ms in order to defray the expenses of the building. The money\\nsubscribed is to be in two equal payments, viz.: The hrst at the time of\\nsubscribing, the second immediately after the roof of the new church is\\nraised.\\nV. After the church is finished the pews shall be divided into\\nconvenient seats, except as many free seats for strangers as the manag-\\ners shall think proper, and also Elders and Deacons pews, and a pew\\nfor the minister s family. The said seats shall, after due notice given\\nat an appointed time and place, be disposed of at public auction to the\\nhighest bidder, and the several subscribers shall have credit for all\\nmoneys by them subscribed, provided, they purchase to the amount of\\nthe moneys so subscribed.\\n\\\\T. In seats or pews. If any pers(m shall become heir to, or\\n^hall purchase from another any of the said seats, and shall not apply\\nwithin one year and one day after such purchase or the obtaining of such\\nright or legacy, to have such seat transcribed, they shall be deemed the\\nproperty of the congregation, and the church masters have a right to\\nsell them. The price for transcribing shall be four shillings. New York\\ncurrency, per seat.\\nMany of these records are curious reading at this day. Among\\nothers we find a bill for an item of repairs as paid in so many shillings\\nand a gallon of rum.\\nThe Work and material in this structure were of such a substantial\\nkind, that the roof lasted over seventy years. The house was built\\nwithout chimneys, and all the heat the people had was from the little\\nportable foot stoves they carried, which were filled at the corner by Mr.\\nreelandt, who kept a supply of coals) and yet they attended church\\nin midwinter, sitting in these straight backed pews without a murmur.\\nOn January S, 1795, a public auction was held at which the pews\\nwere sold to the highest bidder. The highest price paid was thirty-\\niive pounds, and the lowest, four pounds and twelve shillings. The total\\nsum realized at this sale was ;^1292, Is. The ground upon which this\\nchurch was built was bought from Cornelius Vreelandt, for ^AO, being\\none-half acre, whereon the new church is now erected, and adjoining\\nthat upon which the old church stood. Stipulations with reference to\\nthe use of the graveyard were as follows:\\nThe following rates shall be paid by the strangers for the privi-\\nlege of burying grounds of this church: for an adult, two dollars per\\ngrave: all under twelve years, one dollar per grave. The following\\npersons shall be considered as strangers: all those who live in the\\ncongregation but pay nothing toward the support of the Gospel.\\nAll those who live out of the congregation, except such as have\\npaid toward building the church, purchasing the ])arsonage lot, and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0584.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKCJEN COUNTY o3/\\nbuildini^- nf the Iiousl- and I)uyin^ of tin- l)uryin i-!rrnun(l iind their\\nchildren while reniaininfj- under their jurisdiction\\nMr. Cornelison s pastorate covered a peric id of thirteen years, closinjj-\\nNovember ISOh, and during- this time thirty persons were added on con-\\nfession and eleven by certificate. Rev. Henry Polhemus became the\\nnext pastor on February 17, 1809, and remaine l until February 1813, and\\nduring- this time twenty-six were added. On the 29th of December 180\\nthe church was incorporated, and on the same dav Mr. Polhemus\\ndeeded to the church a desirable tract of land he had secured for a par-\\nsonag-e, at a purchase price of eig-hteen hundred and thirty-two d(dlars,\\nand upon this they built a commodious parsonage. Ke\\\\-. Cornelius T.\\nDemarest succeeded Mr. Polhemus as pastor of this church April 2().\\n1813, pleasant relations existing until the troubles of 1822 arose, and\\nwhich resulted in the formation of the True Dutch Reformed Church,\\nthe pastorate of Mr. Demarest over this people terminating in 1824.\\nThe first feeling- ag-ainst Mr. Demarest arose through his sympathy\\nwith Dr. Froeligh, who had received suspended members from other\\nchurches, and aroused the enmity of those who may have misunderstood\\nhis motive. Mr. Demarest was afterwards the victim of charges and\\ncriminations, leading later on to the accusation that, as Clerk of Classis,\\nhe had returned copies of minutes which were materially false and incor-\\nrect of deliberate falsehood and prevarication of abusive and false\\nslanders in public and private, and also of public schism. Mr. Demar-\\nest disregarded the citation to answer these accusations. The trial pro-\\nceeded and judgment entered by default declaring- him guilty, and\\nsuspending him from the office of the ministery. Sixty-two members of\\nthe church and ccmgregation united in a complaint against the elders\\nand deacons, because of their adherence to the suspended pastor. Thev\\nwere tried, their seats declared vacant and they deposed.\\nFrom February 1825 to July 182S Mr. Abeel served the church and\\nwas followed by Rev. Philip Duryea, who was installed in December\\n1828 and continued with them until 1848. The next pastor was Rev.\\nJames McFarlane, installed April 1849, who remained with them six\\nyears. The next pastor was Rev. Andrus Brown Taylor who was with\\nthem thirty-eight years. After him came a number of pastors, the Rev.\\nMarcus J. Roop, the present incumbent coming to the place in 189().\\nMr. Roop is also Sabbath school superintendent. The elders are Peter\\nAcker, John Bush and Mr. Geo. C. Gausman. The deacons are W. P.\\nDeGraw, Thomas Moore and Martin Jacobus. Mr. Acker has been elder\\nof the church for eighteen years. He was born in Dobbs Ferry, New\\nYork, and was ccmnected for many years with the New York\\nand New Haven Railroad. He married Anna Belle Martling,\\ndaughter of Stephen Martling in 1867 and has had a residence in\\nRidgetield for over thirty years. He also has a residence in Washing-\\nton, D. C. and spends his winters there.\\nThe Building and Loan Association was organized in Ridgelield in\\n1889 and has capitalized stock of two hundred thousand dollars. The", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0585.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "538 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nofficers are W. B. Pug-h. President; M. S. Avers, M. D., Vice-president;\\n(ieorg-e S. Wood, Secretary; P. A. Meserole, Treasurer; Samuel (i. H.\\nWright, Counsel.\\nThe Fire Department of Ridgefield was organized early in 1895 and\\nhas an efficient force of twenty-two members, with all the appliance\\nnecessary for extinguishing fires. The officers are Edward Servaizc,\\nForeman; John S. Van Sciver, Assistant Foreman; (lustavus Hausman,\\nSecretary; Frank Hill, Treasurer.\\nsamup:l edsai.l de groot.\\nThe ancestors of Samuel Edsall DeGroot, were among the early\\nsettlers of English neighborhood in Bergen county. The DeGroots\\nwere French Huguenots, and like many others of their race, went first\\nto Holland, and subsequently came to America. John DeGroot the\\ngreat-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was the first of the name\\nto locate in Bergen county. He married a Miss Demarest, of Bergen\\ncounty, whose family were French Huguenots, and had left their native\\nland because of religious persecution. Of the three sons from this\\nunion, his son John DeGroot, married Johannah Day. and settled on a\\ntract of land which has ever since been the DeGroot homestead. He\\nwas a farmer, a man of affairs, a Justice of the Peace for a term of\\nyears, and in various ways was thoroughly identified with the history of\\nhis county. John Day the maternal grandfather was also a prominent\\npublic man. He was a farmer and surveyor, was a member of the Old\\nDutch Church, and politically was an influential Whig. Samuel E. De\\nGroot s father was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Edsall,\\nwhose children were John, Naomi, Samuel E., and Leonard. His second\\nwife was Maria Scott, whose two children were Ciustavus, Abeel and\\nSarah.\\nMr. S. E. DeGroot was born June 9th 1819. His early life was\\nspent on the farm, where he attended the district school, afterward\\nspending four years in the Academy at Caldwell, N. J. Following this\\nhe took a course in the Columbia College Grammar school, upon the\\ncompletion of which he entered the University of New York. Law was\\nhis chosen profession, but after studying for two years, failing health\\ncompelled him to abandon his plans and take up farming. In addition\\nto agricultural pursuits which proved not t nly profitable but pleasant,\\ntime was also found for public affairs.\\nIn 1849, Mr. DeGroot was elected town clerk, serving four terms in\\nsuccession. In the mean time, in 1853, he was elected Assessor, in\\nwhich office he served four successive terms. In 1861 he was elected\\nchoosen Freeholder and at the first meeting of the Board after being\\nelected a member of that body, he was made director and each term\\nthereafter for three terms. Mr. DeGroot was elected a member of the\\nTownship committee a number of terms, and twice elected a Justice of\\nPeace. The Court, recognizing his ability and superior judgment, many\\ntimes ai)pointed him appraiser to estimate and award damages for land", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0586.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "^5\u00c2\u00bb*r=^.;\\nSAMUKL K. UK (iKOOT.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0587.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0588.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 541\\ntaken f(ir railroad purprtscs. Private individuals souirht his aid and ex-\\npressed their confidence in his inteifrity by placing- their interests in his\\nhands, as executor and administrator of estates, in at least eleven\\ndifferent instances and to an amount aggregating- over $248,000 divided\\namong different heirs.\\nTo Mr. DeGroot was confided the task of keeping account of all\\nmonies raised for bounties paid to the soldiers in the county during the\\niirst three years of the Civil War, and afterwards when the county ac-\\ncounts were investigated he had the gratification of being congratu-\\nlated by Judge Dixon, who said that Mr. Ivcwis, the expert who\\nexamined the books found them absolutely correct during the time he\\nkept them.\\nAt the time he retired from the Board of Freeholders, the Bergen\\nCounty Democrat said of him: Mr DeGroot as a director of the\\nBoard displayed marked executive and financial abilitj^, and retires from\\nthe Board with full esteem and confidence of every member thereof and\\nof the community at large.\\nHe has always been a liberal contributor to all wortliv local enter-\\n])rises, and is a man of the highest christian character, whose religious\\nconvictions have made him a member of the Seceder church for more\\nthan forty years.\\n.M.KXANnEK SH.M.KK.\\nThe Shaler family were the tirst settlers of Middlesex county.\\nConn., from Stratford-on-Avon, England. Thomas, the progenitor of\\nthe family in America, came across in 16()2. The line descends through\\nThomas second, Samuel, Asa, James and Ira, the father of Alexander,\\nour subject. The last of this line in England lies buried in Shakes-\\npeare s Graveyard. They were an honored and refined ])eople, though\\nnot distinguished.\\nAlexander, son of Ira and Jerusha (Arnold) Shaler, was born at\\nHaddam, Connecticut, March l th, iS27. His father, known as Captain\\nShaler, was a mariner during a part of his life, and commanded a vessel\\nsailing between New Yf)rk and the West Indies. The family removed\\nto New York when Alexander was but seven years of age. whereafter\\nattending the public schools he became a pupil in two diiferent private\\nschools, finishing his education at Brainerd Academy, Haddam. After\\nleaving school, at the age of seventeen, he became employed by his father,\\nand three years thereafter became business manager of the concern, which\\nconsisted in general contracting and in buying and selling North River\\nbluestone and builders materials. Fond of military affairs, he enlisted\\nas private in Fifth Company, Washington Greys, in 1845, Eighth Regi-\\nment, New York State Militia, and, in 1848, was transferred to Second\\nCompany, Seventh Regiment, National Ciuard, New Ynrk. He was im-\\nmediately made sergeant, then first lieutenant, and in IS.Sd he was made\\ncaptain. He remained captain in the Seventh, New York, nearly\\neleven vears, when, becoming a resident of New Jersey, he be-\\ncame identilied with the militia of that state, an l was for five vears", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0589.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "542 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\ncolonol of the First Rcg imeiit, Hudson Brigade. In 18()() he resig^ned\\nhiscommand in New Jersey, and was commissioned major of the Seventh,\\nNew York.\\nWhen Fort Sumter was fired on in 18()1 he went with his regiment\\nto the front and after remaining away about six weeks they returned\\nwhen he was commissioned by the President, lieutentant colonel First\\nUnited States Chasseurs, afterward the Sixty-fifth N. Y. V. After the\\nPeninsula campaign he was promoted the colonelcy. His regiment\\nformed part of the Sixth Corps and took part in all the battles of the\\nArmy of the Potomac. After the assault on Mayre s Heights, Fred-\\nericksburg, Va., May 1863, he was appointed brigadier general of volun-\\nteers, and assigned to the command of the first brigade, third division,\\nsixth corps. He conducted the memorable march of that corps, thirty-\\nfour miles in nineteen hours, to reach the battlefield of Gettysburg.\\nMay 18()4, during the Wilderness fight he was taken prisoner and after\\nsix weeks he was exchanged. After his exchange he was assigned by\\ntieneral J. J. Reynolds to third brigade, second division, nineteenth\\narmy corps and by General Solomon Meredith, commanding the depart-\\nment of Kentucky, was ordered to the Post at Columbus, Ky., where head-\\nquarters were established November 1, 18\u00c2\u00ab)4. In December 1864, (general\\nShaler was placed in command of the second division, seventh army corps,\\nand of the White River District, Department of Arkansas, with headquar-\\nters at Duvall s Bluff. In 1865 while in this command he was appointed\\nby the President a brevet major general of volunteers.\\nIn civil life General Shaler was in 1866, elected a member of the\\nNew York Board of Supervisors, and in 1867 appointed a Fire Commis-\\nsioner and also made president of the Department, and held this office\\nfor three years. He was a commissioner until 1873. At the request of\\nthe municipal authorities of Chicago, he reorganized the fire\\ndepartment of that city, after the fire of 1871. Prior to that\\ntime, in 1867, the fire department of New York was reorganized under\\nact of the Legislature, requiring the Government to appoint a fifth fire\\ncommissioner, when General Shaler was made commissioner. He was\\none of the organizers and for four years president and vice president of\\nthe National Rifle Association, and incorporator of the Army and Navy\\nClub, commander of the Loyal Legion of the United States, member of\\nthe Union League Club, the New York Historical Society, the Ameri-\\ncan Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History,\\nthe (xeneral Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, and other organiza-\\ntions.\\nIn 1883 he was appointed president of the New York Hoard of\\nHealth, and in 1884, was made a member of the board to provide armor-\\nies for the city militia.\\n(ieneral Shaler has done much for the prosperity of Ridgefield. He\\nwas connected with the organization of the present borough govern-\\nment. For six years he was president of the Board of Education, and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0590.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "NICHOLAS JACOBl S", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0591.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0592.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKdEN COUNTY 545\\nwas also president of the Board of Health of the borough and is now\\n18 t mayor.\\nCleneral Shaler was married March .^1, l,s47. to Miss Mary McMur-\\nraj of New York cit_v. Of their live children his only son, Ira Alexander\\nShaler, was graduated as civil engineer in Cornell University, and\\nserved in the late Spanish-American war in Porto Rico as major in the\\nFirst Regiment U. S. Volunteer Engineers.\\nNICHOLAS JACOBl S.\\nNicholas Jacobus, for the past forty years a resident of Ridgelield,\\nN. J., is a native of the city of New York, born July 30, 182 He is\\nson of David and Elizabeth Ryerson Jacobus, old residents of the city,\\nwhere his own life was spent until his marriage and removal to Ridge-\\ntield, just prior to the Civil war. David Jacobus was a manufacturer of\\nsash, blinds, doors, etc., first on Spring street and finally on Wooster\\nstreet. New York, where his business was continued for many years.\\nHe retired from business about five years before his death which\\noccurred November 22, 1S7S. He was born in Morris county, N. J., June\\n21, 1S()4, and at fifteen years of age went to the city to carve out a\\nfortune for himself, which he did, unaided by any resources save those\\ncreated by himself.\\nThe mother of Nicholas was born June 5, 1807, and died July 2*t,\\n1890. She was a native of Pompton, N. J. The issue of this marriage\\nwere Nicholas, the subject of this sketch, and Hannah Maria, who was\\nborn September 5, 1831, and died Novemljer 2, 1840. The homestead is\\nat No. 325 West 28th street, New York, where Mr. Jacobus resides during\\nthe inclement season of the year, the house and belongings being pre-\\nserved intact out of regard for the home made sacred by parents now\\ng-one.\\nMr. Jacobus received his education in the Mechanics Institute of\\nNew York, a school under the auspices of a society, which gave the\\nyouth of the city the advantages of a collegiate training before the pres-\\nent course of study in high schools, was adopted. As the only son and\\nheir Mr. Jacobus has necessarily been kept busy looking after the busi-\\nness interests of a large estate, tarst before his father s death and subse-\\nquently until his own retirement from active life, when he was succeeded\\nin the management by Martin R. Jacobus, his son. He was Township\\nCommitteenvin of Ridgelield for 1872-73, 1875-76, 1881-82-83.\\nOn March 29, 1861, Mr. Jacobus married Miss Sarah Catherine\\nCarpenter, of Orange county. New York, and during that year took u])\\nhis residence in Ridgelield, his summer residence at the present time.\\nShe was the daughter of John and Agnes [Fulton] Carpenter and was\\nborn in 1S34.\\nThe property purchased in Ridgefield was originally owned by\\nSamuel Edsall (an account of whose life is given elsewhere). Mr.\\nJacobus bought the property from (Gamaliel Rose who had purchased\\nthe estate from James P. Demarest, by whom it was ccmveved to Mr.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0593.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "546 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nRose May 3, 1837. Mr. Demarest had lived here about thirty rears,\\nand the old stone house, a landmark of those earlv years is still\\nstanding\\nThere were seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacobus.\\nDavid S., the eldest son, is Professor of Experimental Mechanics\\nand Engineering Physics in the well known Stevens Institute of\\nTechnology in Hoboken. As a student, he won a free scholarship for\\nthe course at the institution, given to the graduate of the preparatory\\nschool standing highest in a competitive examination. He was ap-\\npointed an instructor when he was graduated from his Alma Mater in\\n1S84, and has remained there since that time. On April 5th 1899, he\\nmarried Miss Laura Dinkel of Jersey City.\\nIn addition to his work as an instructor Professor Jacobus has\\nundertaken a large amount of practical engineering work, and served as\\nan expert in investigating the feasibility and actual performance of new-\\nmachines and processes. He has been given every encouragement in\\nsuch work as it is appreciated by those in charge, that an engineering\\nschool should have among its faculty, men conversant with the practi-\\ncal side of the profession, and his training has been with this end in\\nview. He has made numerous tests of Mechanical devices to demtmstrate\\ncertain physical laws, and has made these the basis of a number of\\npapers presented to scientific societies, the majority being published in\\nthe Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of\\nwhich society he has long been a member. He is also a member of the\\nAmerican Institute of Mining Engineers; the Society of Naval Archi-\\ntects and Marine Engineers; The American Mathematical Society, and\\nthe Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and is Fellow\\nof the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has\\ncontributed to the transactions of all these societies and also to the\\ntransactions of the the Civil Engineers of Great Britian. He is a\\nmember of the Engineers Club, the Arts Club and the Holland\\nSociety of New York and of the .Technical Club Chicago. The\\nother children of Mr. Jacobus are Mrs. Agnes Pratt, wife of Elisha\\nPratt; Daniel C. Jacobus of the Fifth Avenue Bank, New York; Nicholas\\nJacobus who died in early life; Martin R. Jacobus, Manager of the\\nJacobus estate and deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church, Ridgofield\\nElizabeth, wife of Rev. Mr. Roop, pastor of the same church, and\\nRobert Fulton Jacobus, the youngest member of the family.\\nJACOB V. KANTA.\\nJacob V. Banta, coal merchant of Ridgetield, is a descendant of\\nYan Banta, who early settled in English Neighborhood, now Ridgetield,\\nfrom which place he removed to Pascack about 175(1, Captain Banta\\na descendant of Yan Banta lived in a stone house in Ridgetield, which\\nhad been built prior tt the Revolution. This house became the property\\nof Stephen Martling, me of the projectors of the Northern Railroad\\nwho moved here from New York in 1S4 and remained until 1S()5.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0594.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 547\\nThis was the homestead of the Banta family for many years. Here\\nCornelius, the father of John V. Banta, died in 1819. John V. Banta,\\nthe father of Jacob V., died in 1876, seventy-one years of age. He was\\nthe founder of the house, lirst, Banta Son, then Banta Brother,\\nnow Banta Son again, coal merchants and feed dealers, well known\\nthroughout this part of Bergen county. Jacob V. Banta was born in\\nthe Vreeland homestead in 1829. In 1856 he married Clarrissa Ann\\nDemarest, daughter of Cornelius Demarest of Saddle River township,\\nand by this union had two children, Cornelius and Naomi. The son is\\na member of the firm, Banta Son. Mr. Banta cares little for political\\npreferments though he has served in the Council since the organization\\nof the borough.\\nFAIKVIEW.\\nThis village is at the sonthern end of the township, spreading it-\\nself partly into Hudson county. It is a small, thriving village, where\\nthe descendants of the Bantas, Herrings and Garrabrants could once be\\nfound in numbers, but these are fast giving away to new comers. Among\\nthe mansions of the place stands that formerly owned by Thomas H.\\nHerring, an old New York merchant and one of the early presidents\\nof the Northern Railroad, who was at one time president of the New-\\nJersey State Senate. He died July 1st, 1874.\\nThe Garrabrants here and in Hudson county are from a family at\\none time numerous in Bergen countv. The name is taken from the\\nChristian name of the founder, Gerbrand Claesen, his sons and daugh-\\nters taking the name of Gerbrandsen, of which Garrabrant is a corrup-\\ntion.\\nHenry Day, father of Dr. W. H. Day, for many years a well-known\\nphysician in this town, was a prominent man, known as the hospitable\\nlandlord on the old stage route from Albany to New York. He was born\\nat Leonia in 1775, where his father owned a hotel during Revolutionary-\\ntimes. He married Catherine Banta, who died in 1840, and by whom he\\nhad one son, W. H. Day. Henry Dav bought the property now owned\\nby George Hornecker, and carried on business as an innkeeper until his\\ndeath in i852. Gus De Groot and John Scott carried on blacksmithing\\nwagon making in one end of the old Day homestead. Dr. W. H. Day\\nwas born in this house July 6th, 1810. He practiced medicine many\\nyears before the law was passed requiring a license. A diploma\\nwas granted to him dated May 28th, 1852. He c(mtinued his practice\\nat Fairview until 1867, when he moved to Fort Lee, where he remained\\nuntil his death, which occurred June 23d, 1876. Dr. Day was an able\\nphysician, was one of the founders of the District Medical Society, and\\nwas held in high esteem by every one who knew him. December 31st,\\n1839, he married Eliza, daughter of Peter Wake and Elizabeth Hatfield,\\nof Fort Lee. Their only child, Anna Blanchard Day, is the wife of\\nBenjamin R. Burdett, at whose residence the mother now lives, and she\\nis now in her eisfhtv-ninth year.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0595.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "548 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nJohn and Peter (larrabrandt were both contractors, and erected\\nseveral of the building s in Fairview. Conrad Sedore, a prominent\\nbuilder in New York, learned his trade in New York city and assisted\\nin the building- of the Day homestead in 1854. He also helped to build\\nthe residence now owned by Dr. M. S. Avers. About this time Edward\\nEarl, one of the early and prominent deacons of the Church at English\\nNeighborhood, died (1854) ag-ed seventy-six years. He was the father\\nof Mrs. Marv Sedore, the mother of Conrad Sedore, and she is still\\nliving in the place eighty-nine years of age; she was married to Alex-\\nander Sedore in 1827, the old Monahan place now owned by the Mabie\\nheirs, having been their homestead. During these days the old Deezer\\nhotel stood on the southeast corner of the Hackensack Plank Road and\\nthe old Bulls Ferry Road. This inn was afterward kept by Abraham\\nCarlisle, then bv John Lovett, and later by James and George Weaver.\\nA Mr. Bankroft had a grocery store sixty years ago, afterward owned\\nby Henry Tracy who died of cholera in Fairview in 1852. The ravages\\nof this fearful disease sorely afflicted almost every home in Fairview dur-\\ning those dreaded days; it not unfrequently happening- that one, two\\nand three members of a family would be taken away in a sing-le night.\\nDavid McDonald, the father of Jeremiah, the first victim of cholera\\nkept a grocery in one part of the (dd Deezer hotel, but after the death\\nof Henry Tracy he ])urchased the property and continued business at\\nthat stand.\\nThere are several stores here at this time, also a post-oftice. a school\\nand a church.\\nTHE BOKOfCiH OE E.MKVIEW.\\nThe first vote for this borough was cast on the 14th of December,\\n18^14. and the first election for officers was held in February, 1S J5, fol-\\nlowed in March by the selection of permanent officials. Dr. M. S. Ayers\\nwas elected the first Mayor of the borough, and has been re-elected,\\nholding that office continuously since that time. The first Council was\\nas follows: Benjamin R. Burdett, John N. Nicholson, Cfmrad Sedore,\\nWilliam D(maldson, William H. Wendall, Harry D. Fink; F. B. Wallace.\\nClerk. The present officers are as follows: Dr. M. S. Avers, Mayor;\\nF. B. Wallace, Clerk; Council, Conrad Sedore, Girard Farenholtz, An-\\ndrew Grim, W. H. Wendall. Taylor Hurley, F. H. Egbert. The vote\\ncast in November, 1895, was one hundred and thirty-five. The popula-\\ntion of the village is about seven hundred.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nThere are two School Districts in the borough, Nos. 1 and 2. No.\\n1 was originally the old Bulls Ferry School, the house of which was\\nmoved to the top of the hill, and is now used for the primary grade.\\nMiss Laura Clarke, teacher. No. 2 has two departments. Miss Ethel\\nPowel Harris, principal Miss Nellie Boos, assistant. The School\\nBoard consists of eight members, of which F. Y. Pond is president.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0596.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "msTOK v bhk ;kn county 54\\nKOYAI. AKCANUM NO. 498.\\nRoyal Arcanum. Nd. 4 \u00c2\u00bb8, was org-anized in 18 )fl. The charter\\nmembers were Doctor and Mrs. M. S. Avers, Croorf^-e Bruce, Jr., J.\\nNicholson. Frank .Murjjhy, J\u00c2\u00ab hii S. Tracy, K. M. Pawsen, Dr. M. S.\\n.\\\\vers was the first Regent. The names of other Regents who have\\ntilled this office are Charles Merrick, Henry Wilson, George Nash,\\nAlbert Lussen, F. D. Murphy. The present officers are George A.\\nStorms, Regent; A. H. Wendall, Vice-regent; E. M. Pawsen, Secretary;\\nF. D. Murphy, Treasurer; John S. Tracy, Collector; J. D. Cowan,\\nOrator; N. Samler, Warden.\\nThe societv has a membership of one hundred and ciglitv, and\\nholds its meetings in the Town Hall.\\nl IKE DEPAKTMKNT.\\nProtection to property was organized in 1894, The leaders in this\\nmovement consisted of B. R. Burdett, W. H. Tracy, John S. Tracy,\\nTaylor Hurley, Malcolm Long, Harry D. Fink, Frank D. Murphy,\\nJohn Nicholson and Conrad Sedore. W. H. Tracy, foreman; Jacob H.\\nB. Dav, assistant foreman; John P. Haas, treasurer. The present\\nforeman is Jacob H. B. Day, and F. Y. Pond is treasurer.\\nHAP IMST CHIKCH.\\nFor some time previous to 1.S4S, the people of English Neighbor-\\nhood. now Fairview i under a council of ministers and delegates,\\norganized an independent Baptist Church at this place, to be called the\\nFirst Baptist Church at English Neighborhood. Among those at Fair-\\nview instrumental in securing this organization, was Mary Sedore, who\\nis the only one of the nineteen persons of that number, now living.\\nRev. William H. Spencer, pastor of the Blo( mingdale Church, was\\nchosen moderator; Re\\\\-. George F. Hendrickson, pastor of the church at\\nPerth Amboy, was chosen clerk of the council; Rev. Richard Thomp-\\ns(m, pastor of New Durham Baptist Church, read a portion of Scripture\\nfrom the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The joint letter\\nof dismission from the New Durham Baptist Church, containing the\\nnames of nineteen members, as follows: James D. Demarest. David\\nMcDonald, Ephraini Tracy, William H. Tracy, David C. Dyer. Andrew\\nEngle, Jr., .\\\\braham Jackson, Sarah McDonald, Elizabeth Tracy,\\nFrancis Ebis, Sarah Freeland, Elizabeth Compton, Mary McDonald,\\nMary Sedore, William Engle, Catharine Townsend, Margaret Demarest,\\nSarah Engle, Elizabeth Jackson, who were dismissed from the sai l\\nchurch, was then read before the council. The articles of faith and\\nchurch covenant were then read and examined by the council, which were\\napproved. It was then voted to ])roci ed to organize them into an inde-\\npendent Bajjtist Church, and services were first held in i)rivate houses\\nuntil 1S(,4. when the membership increase*! and a church edifice deemeil\\nnecessary. In the fall of 1864 a church was erected at a cost ot two\\nthousand dollars, which was built bv subscription. This church, a small\\nwocxlen structure, twent\\\\-foiir bv thirtv-five feet, was located in the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0597.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "550 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\ncentre of the villao-e. The building- committee was David C. Dyer,\\nJames D. Demarest, David McDonald, W. H. Tracy, Andrew S. Enf^le.\\nThe church was dedicated December 13, 18(.4, by Rev. Mr. Dowlely, ol\\nNew York.\\nThe tirst trustees were James D. Demarest, David C. Dyer, David\\nMcDonald, W. A. Tracv, and Andrew S. Engle. First deacons, James\\nD. Demarest and Ephraim Tracy, The first pastor was Rev. George F.\\nHendrickson, who presided over this congregation at intervals since\\n1848. Rev. C. A. Harper, was called in 1878, and in 1880 the church\\ndisbanded.\\nThe building is now used as a chapel for any denommatKm that\\nchooses to worship there. The Methodists at this time under the\\npreaching of the Rev. John Mena, of New York, being prominent.\\nMELANCTHON S.\\\\YKE AYERS, M. D.\\nDr. Melancthon Savre Avers, Mayor of Fairview, and otherwise\\nprominent in social and political life, is a native of Beemerville, New\\nJersey, born October 23, 1846. His maternal ancestors were of Hol-\\nland and French descent, his mother being Rebecca Ogden Decker. His\\nfather, however, came from Scotch stock, and owned a large farm in\\nSussex county where our subject spent the -earlier years of his life.\\nAfter leaving the public schools, voung Ayers prepared for college at\\nSuffield, Connecticut after which he taught school at Beemerville, one\\nyear. In 1868, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, m\\nNew York, and desiring to familiarize himself with drugs and medicines,\\nhe purchased a drug store in the city during the first year of his college\\ncareer. He c mtinued this business until the completion of his studies,\\nwhen he was h mored by an appointment as Surgeon on board of one of\\nthe Black Ball Packet Line of ships, and sailed for Europe where he\\nspent the summer. Upon returning to New York Dr. Ayers began the\\npractice of medicine in the city but remained there only until 1872. He\\nthen located in Fairview and is still practicing, having in the mean-\\ntime made an honorable record in his profession.\\nAs a rule every honorable and upright man possessing force of\\ncharacter sufficient to qualify himself for the duties of life, has sooner\\nor later been recognized as a useful factor in matters of public import-\\nance This has been the history of the subject of this sketch. In\\nmilitary affairs the Doctor has been honorably remembered m his ap-\\npointment of First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon to the Second\\nBattalion, National Guard, New Jersey, June 18, 1873, and promoted to\\nMajor and Surgeon April 15, 1876. He resigned m June 1888.\\nUpon the organization of the borough of Fairview Dr. Ayers was\\nelected its first Mayor in 1894, re-elected in 1895 and re-elected again in\\n1897. His term expires in 1899. The doctor has been president of the\\nRido-efield Twouship Protective Association since 1882, and was ap-\\npointed Special Police Justice by Governor Abbett during his presidency\\nof the Protective Society. He is a member and ex-president of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0598.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": ":^^,JK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0599.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0600.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY a.-\\nBerg-en County Medical Society, and has also been from time to time\\nhimored with other positions of trust.\\nIn 1897 the Doctor organized the Cliffside Land Company and he-\\ncoming its president purchased a large tract of land on the Palisades\\no])p )site Grant s Monument, laid it out in lots, and formed the nucleus\\nof a town which he had named Grautwood.\\nDr. Ayers was married first to Miss Nellie Hill of New York city,\\nDecember 1874. Mrs. Ayers died August 12, 1876, leaving a son, Nelson\\nM., an infant but a few days old. The Doctor married Miss Lillian\\nPackard of Providence, R. I., on November 4, 1885. His son Nelso.i M.\\nAvers prepared for college in Berlin, Germany, and at Princeton and\\nHackettstown, N. J. He was graduated from Yale University June.\\n18 \u00c2\u00bb8, and entered New York Law School in October following.\\nCOXK.VD SEDOKE.\\nConrad Sedore, a well known contractor and member of the Bor-\\nough Council, has been prominently identified with the interests of\\nFairview for many years. His grandfather Conrad, and Althea Sedore\\nmoved to Ridgefield township from New York State, locating on the hill\\nabove Fairview, before the Revolutionary war. Their children were:\\nIsaac, William, Alexander, Eliza, Mary, Jane, Catharine, Susan and\\nElvira. Alexander, the father of our subject married Mary Earl,\\ndaughter of Edward Earl, in 1827, locating on the property now known\\nas the Mabie place in English Neighborhood, and at this time owned by\\nJohn Monahan. Edward Earl was one of the deacons of the church at\\nEnglish Neighborhood for many years. He died in 1854, 79 years of age.\\nConrad Sedore was the third son of a family of seven children, and\\nwas born in 1834. At the age of sixteen he went to New York and\\nlearned the trade of carpenter. He remained in the city many years\\nfollowing- his calling and was for a period of fifteen years in charge of\\nthe three hundred and fifty buildings, belonging to the old Trinity cor-\\nporation. He remained in the city twenty-five years, actively engaged\\nin business, much of that time, in charge of large interests, and at the\\nhead of many employees. Soon after the Rebellion he returned to Fair-\\nview, building his own house in 1891, where he now resides.\\nIn 185() he was married to Sarah Westerfield, daughter of Henry and\\nEliza Westerfield, of Hudson county.\\nMr. Sedore, although public spirited, takes the most interest in his\\nchurch connections, and in church work. He has been a member of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church since twenty-two years of age, and was a\\nclass leader for eleven years in the Perr}^ Street M. E. Church, New\\nYork. He is also a leading member of the Union Society in Fairview.\\nBe:nJ.\\\\MIN K. Bl KDETT.\\nBenjamin R. Burdett of Fairview traces his lineage to Ste])lien\\nHurdett, who was a resident and landowner in this locality, many vears\\nprior to the Revolutionary war.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0601.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "554 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nAbout twenty years previous to that period, Stephen purchased\\nsome four hundred acres of hind, upon which are located the sites of\\nthe two forts, which is now Fort Lee. At an earlier date, howeycr, he\\nliad, conjointly with William Bayard received from the king a grant of\\nland covering the ground upon which Weehawken and Hoboken are\\nbuilt. In the course of time the spelling of the famil} name was\\nchanged to Burdett, by dropping the o and e from the first syllable.\\nMr. Burdett s grandparents were, Benjamin and Rachel Burdett.\\nHis father Henry Burdett married Rachel Scott, and by this marriage\\nthere have been the following children: Mary Alvira, wife of Rev.\\nMartin Herr; Peter, now of Elizabeth, N. J.; Sarah A. (deceased Rachel\\n(now dead) was the wife of Dr. Burdett of Hackensack; John H., of\\nHunterdon county, N. J.; Benjamin R., Wilbur F., deceased; Richard\\nWatson in Hunterdon county, and Newtcm James, who died at the age\\nof eighteen months.\\nBenjamin R., our subject, was born at Fort Lee, March 18th, 184(1.\\nHe was educated in the public schools of Fort Lee, supplemented by a\\ntwo years course at Pennington Seminary. Mr. Burdett s father was a\\nMethodist and entertained the preachers at his home. During his life-\\ntime he was a carpenter and boatbuilder, as was his father. He died in\\n1874 aged seventy-two years. During the war of the Rebellion. Mr.\\nBurdett was in the grocery business in Spring street. New York city,\\nand later in Fort Lee, when his health failed and he was obliged to give\\nup business. His wife, whom he married in 1878, was Miss Anna B.\\nDay, only daughter of Dr. W. H. Day of Fort Lee. Dr. Day was one\\nof the founders of the District Medical Society of the county of Bergen,\\nand died in 1S7().\\nMr. Burdett s two children are William Day, who was graduated\\nfrom the Hackensack High school, and later took one year in the Col-\\nlege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York when his health failed.\\nEliza Day is at home.\\nPeter Burdett brother of Benjamin R., enlisted in Com])any K 22nd\\nNew Jersey Volunteers, in which he was made sergeant.\\nMr. Burdett is a Republican and has been secretary of the Republi-\\ncan Executive Committee of Bergen county for six years. He has been\\nJustice of the Peace one year, and was one of the first councilmen and\\nPresident of the Council of the borough of Fairview. He is also a\\nmember of the Sons of Temperance and of the Royal Society of Got)d-\\nfellows, in which he has held every office in the gift of the association.\\nIn addition to these, Mr. Burdett has been District Deputy of the\\ndistrict.\\nJOHN p. H.V.\\\\S.\\nJohn P. Haas son of Joseph and Crezencia Kfeiffer Haas, was\\nborn in New York city, June 22, 1859. His parents came from (iermany\\nin 1850, and settled in New York where John was educated in a private\\nschool.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0602.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKtlKN COUNTY OOO\\nIn 1 S72 he learned the trade of barber, finding employment in\\nvarious shops until 1878, when he went into business for himself in this\\ncity, continuing- them until 1880, he then came to Fairview and began\\nbusiness which has proved successful. Mr. Haas been twice married,\\nfirst to Miss Emma Kaufhold who died leaving him two daughters. His\\nsecond marriage was to Miss Anna Beck. They have four daughters\\nand two sons. Mr. Haas has been Collector since the formation of the\\nborough in 18 \u00c2\u00bb4, having been twice elected to that office, being also\\nTreasurer of the borough. He is a member of the Englewood Lodge,\\nI. F., No. T)7, and a charter member of Bergen Lodge, A. O. U.\\nNo. 52. He was a charter member and took an active part in the\\norganization of Piges Hose Company.\\nPALISADES I AKK.\\nThe village of Palisades Park was founded by Benjamin W. Hitch-\\ncock, who built the depot about 1888, and afterwards sold it to the rail-\\nroad. There are one or two stores in the place; also a Union Chapel,\\nthe ground for which was given by Henry and John Brinkerhoff, the\\nchapel being dedicated on March 8th, 1898. John Blackstrom, the first\\nstorekeeper, is still trading here. The new school house was erected in\\n18 H. F. B. Armstrong, the principal, is assisted by three teachers.\\nThe last census gives a list of one hundred and twenty-eight children\\nin the district of school age.\\nThe borough of Palisades Park lies between the boroughs of Le-\\ntmia and Ridgefield, is about one mile square and has a taxable valuation\\nof about $(.00,000. It was incorporated March 22, 1899.\\nThe officers are as follows: John S. Edsall, mayor; Michael Reid,\\nLouis Schlumberger, Henry Scholz, Robert MacDonald, John P. Davis,\\nDaniel Krueger, council; John Brinkerhoff, collector; Alfred I. Parkyn,\\nassessor; C. H. Lozier, Sr., W. G. Sanderson, Johannes Johns(m, com-\\nmissioners of appeals; C^eorge W. Gardiner, borough clerk.\\nJOHN G. EDSALL.\\nJohn(i. Edsall of Palisades borough, occupies the old Edsall home-\\nstead, which has come to him by inheritance from father to son, from\\nSamuel Edsall, the progenitor of the family, who purchased the estate\\nin colonial times. This estate originally consisted of about two thou-\\nsand acres of land extending north from Bull s Ferry along the Hudson\\nRiver two and a half miles nearly to Fort Ia c and inland to the Hack-\\nensack River and Overpeck Creek. This grant according to a state-\\nment made in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record of\\nOctober 1882, was obtained from the Indians early in 1()( 9. This\\nSamuel Edsall was of Holland ancestry and emigrated from England to\\nAmerica in 1648. In 1774 we find him acting as president of the\\nrecently organized Court of Judicature in the village of Bergen, and\\nin l(i7.^ a special court of Oyer and Terminer was held over which\\nWilliam Sandford was i.rcsident, and Samuel Edsall was an associate.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0603.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "lOHX i-;dsai.i..", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0604.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNT\\\\ 557\\n)n an old map of New York he is marked in i(.56 as the owner of a larg-e\\ntract .f laud, a part of which lay on the Strand, now Pearl street. He\\nmarried his first wife Janetje Jane Wessels in the Dutch church in lf)55.\\nAfter her death he married Namoi, widow of Samuel Moore, a merchant.\\nMr. Edsall s third wife was Ruth Woodhull who owned the old Edsall\\nplantation, known as Edsall s Point. This property falling into the\\npossession of her son Richard Edsall, was sold May 27, 1735 to Michael\\nVrielandt.\\nSamuel E., son of John and jrrandson of Samuel tirst mentioned was\\nsheriff of Bergen county in 174(1. It was this Samuel who built the\\nokl stone house used until 1851 for the Edsall residence. John G.\\nEdsall is a great grandson of Samuel and Naomi Christina (Day)\\nEdsall, grands(m of John and Gertrude Lydecker Edsall, and the son\\nof Garret L., and Lavinia Terhune Edsall. Mr. Edsall s mother, a\\ndaughter of James A. Terhune of Teaneck, is still living on the\\nhomestead.\\nJohn, son of Samuel, and grandfather of the subject of this\\nsketch, died in l,s7(,, eighty-eight years of age. The present residence\\nwas built by him in ISi.l. Garret L.. his son, died in 1885. He was\\none of the organizers of the Jersey Blues (in 1S(,1 and became the\\nsecond lieutenant of that famous company.\\nThe old residence built by Sheriff Edsall, was torn down in 1SS7.\\nJohn G. Edsall was born in 1851, and has spent his whole life at\\nthe place of his birth.\\nA man of sterling character, he has made a record in business for\\nstrict integrity and honesty, neither seeking nor desiring political\\nrecognition, alth mgh his borough forced him into the candidacy for\\nmayor, and came within a vote or two of electing him to that positi.m,\\nin the spring of l,S t. He has served, however, on the school board in\\nhis district, the question being (me of vital issues of the day.\\nThe farming interests of the old Edsall estate have always been\\nimixirtant. while the improvements on the farm and the produce raised\\nfor market have been made to keep progress with the time.\\nIn 1S8,^ Mr. Edsall was married to Miss Pauline Pruden and by this\\nunion there are two children.\\nJOHN S. KDSAI.I,.\\nJohn S. Edsall. Mayor of Palisades Park, is a great grandson of\\nSamuel Edsall and Naimii Christina Day. His grandparents were John,\\nand (kTtrude (Lydecker) Edsall, and his parents Samuel and Isabella\\n(Christie) Edsall.\\nMr. Edsall was brought up on the farm which is a part of the old\\nSamuel Edsall estate meutitmed elsewhere in the work. In addition to\\nhis farming .interests, he is engaged in real estate business with his\\nbrother Samuel S. Edsall. Mr. Edsall is identified officially with the in-\\nterests of his part of Bergen county. He was a member of the Tri-town-\\nship (P.iorhouse) Committee for a period of eleven years, was Treasurer", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0605.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "558 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nof the Poorhouse Cdmmittec for ten years. He was elected Mayor of\\nthe V)orough of Palisades Park in the spring of l.S t\\nOn May 7, 1S()1, Mr. Edsall enlisted in the First Regiment, Bergen\\nBrigade, and was from time to time promoted, holding different offices\\nin his company until October If), 1888, when he was made captain.\\nMr. Edsall married Lydia, daughter of Garret S. Banta, and is\\nfather of seven children; Belle, Lena, wife of Abram Christie; Gertrude;\\nSarah B., wife of J. B. Moore; Charles; (iarret, who was killed by a\\ntrain on the Northern New Jersey Railroad in 1S )7; Agnes Naomi and\\nLily May. Samuel S. Edsall his brother, and member of the tirm of\\nEdsall Brothers, New York, is unmarried.\\nTHK BKINKEKHOl F FA^^L^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.\\nThe Brinkerhoff family is one of the oldest in this county. The\\nhomestead was on the site now occupied by the residence of Henrj- Brink-\\nerhoff in Palisades Park. The fountain head of this family dates back\\nto 1().^8, when Joris Dericksen Brinkerhoff, with his family landed in the\\nlittle city of New Amsterdam. From Joris Dericksen Joris son of\\nDerick j so far as known, with(^ut exception, have come all who bear\\nthe name, or lineage, of Brinkerhoff upon the American continent.\\nSome spell the name B-r-i-n-c-k and some B-r-i-n-k, and the othographv\\nof either is fully authenticated in ancient documents. In a few manu-\\nscripts it is written Blinkerhoff, and in one instance Van Blynckerhoff.\\nThe Flushing branch of the family, descendents of Abraham, son of\\nJoris Dericksen, for the most part, use the c. The Bergen branch\\ndescendents of Hendrick, son of Joris Dericksen, have almost entirely\\nomitted it. It may be safely said that Joris Dericksen Brinkerhoff was\\na very worthy representative of the Holland family to plant in America,\\nand very deserving of rememberance by all who bear his family name\\nor have descended from him. All of these may feel assured that the\\nfirst representative of that name in America was an honest and upright\\nman. The family motto oi/.^fai/s fidc: cl iutcgritas seems evidently\\nfitting to the man. He held in those early days positions of trust requir-\\ning probity and integrity of character, and held them for years, was\\npreeminently a religious man. He lived in times of great religious\\nexcitement. His children two sons and a daughter were all members\\nof the church and his descendants, with very rare exceptions, down to\\nthe present time, have been loyal adherents of the churches of the\\nReformation. The records of any of the Dutch churches in the neigh-\\nborhood of New York will give abundant evidence of this fact. Seven\\nof the subscribers to the building fund of the Dutch church at Flushing,\\nLong Island, for 17.il, were Brinkerhoff s, and in the list of pew-holders\\nfor 17.^h, twentj-one of them were Brinkerhoff s. The first two names on\\nthe roll of the Brooklyn church organized in 1660, are Joris Dericksen\\nBrinkerhoff and his wife, Susannah. The first two names in the Hack-\\nensack church, are Hendrick Jorise Brinkerhoff and his wife, Clausie.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0606.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY 55\\nIn 17.^7, what is now the Brinkerhoff homestead consisted of four\\nhundred acres of land, Ixiuyht hy I ornelius Brinkerhoff from Mat-\\nthew Benson for ^,5( S(I, and was then a tract of unimproved land,\\ncovered with woods and underbrush. It was not until 1758 that the first\\nhouse was built here bv John Brinkerhoff. It was two stories high, a\\nsort of cross between a flat roof and a short pitch, a stvle of archi-\\ntecture much in voyue at that period. Heavy, rouL;h oak iseams were\\nused in its construction, the timbers being all pinned, and no nails used\\nwhere it was possible to pin together with wooden pins.\\nJohn Brinkerhoff, the great grandfather of our subject, was born\\nA])ril 14, 1750, and died October 19, 182.i. His son, Henry, born Janu-\\nary 30, 17 i, married Mary Christie. He was a captain of the militia.\\nTheirchildren were John H., Cornelius, Hannah Maria and William Henry.\\nHe built the house now standing on the farm in 1838, when his son,\\nJohn H., was l years of age. John H. Brinkerhoff was born Septem-\\nber 10, 181 On March 25, 1840, he married Naomi Edsall, and by this\\nunion were born nine children, of whom, only two, Henry and John,\\nare now living. He was one of the organizers of the Jersey Blues,\\nMay 7, 1861. He died in 1SS7. Of his two surviving sons, Henry, the\\nelder, owns the homestead. He is distinctively a farmer, and has never\\nsought office (ir political preferment.\\nJohn Brinkerhoff has been a member of Company E, Second Regi-\\nment, N. G. N. J., since 1872, first as a private, afterwards being made\\nsecond lieutenant, hcdding that office during the enlistment of his regi-\\nment in the Spanish-American war. On December 10, 1897, the mem-\\nbers of the company presented him a handsome sword, engraved with\\nsuitable inscription, in recognition of his twentv-five years faithful\\nservice. He was married on November 29, 1882, to Miss Anna Louisa\\nPruden, and is the father of one child, Ethel Louise. An ehler child,\\nWilliam De(jraw Brinkerhoff. was born November 17, 1S83, and died\\nJune 2, 1892.\\nLKNO.VIA.\\nThis part of old English Neighborhood had no sci)arate existence as\\na village until the railroad was built. Among the oldest families who\\nlived here when the church building was erected in 1831, were John\\nBurdett, who built the house now owned and occupied bv General Moore\\nand his brother Major Stephen H. V. Moore; (xarret Meyers who with\\nJohn Cole gave the ground for the church and David Christie who\\nbought the farm of (t. Meyers and moved into the house at present owned\\nby Cornelius and known as The Homestead, are among the number.\\nBut we hear of no trading here until C. D. Shaw, the first agent of the\\ndepot for the railroad company kept the post-office, also a store, and Mr.\\nShaw has been from that time to this in a business way connected with\\nthe people of Leonia.\\nP. P. Cluss, recorder of the borough, who has been in business six-\\nteen years succeeded C. D. Shaw in 1890. J. H. Clarke and A. M. Price,\\nare each doing a successful commercial business also. Mr. James", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0607.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "560 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nChristie, collector of the boroug h, established a prosperous trade in coal,\\nwood, lime, etc., over twenty 3 ears aj^o. He was succeeded by J. H.\\nFerdon, in 1896.\\nThe stores and business enterprises of the boroug h tog-ether with\\nthe beautiful site of the village, which has attracted people from the\\ngreat metropolis, is fast building up the place.\\nTHE BOROUGH OK LEONIA\\nThe borough of Leonia was incorporated December 5, 1894. The\\nfirst officers were: Mayor, Cornelius Christie; Councilmen, Lorenzo Gis-\\nmond, William P. De Graw, D. G. Beeching, J. Vreeland Moore, Edward\\nCJrinslade, C. J. Terhune; Collector, R. J. G. Wood; Assessor, C. D.\\nSchor; Borough Clerk, H. F. Ahrens.\\nOfficers elected March 20, 1899, were: Mayor, Cornelius Christie;\\nCouncilmen, Edward Stagg, Morell M. FuUarton, Frank I. Barrett,\\nBenj. H. Belknap, Robert Duncan, Edward Stagg, Lorenzo Gismond;\\nCollector, James Christie; Assessor, Julius H. Clark; Borough Clerk,\\nH. F. Ahrens.\\nThe assessed valuation of the borough in 1899 was $579,930.\\nH. P. Hurd is President of the Board of Health.\\nLEONIA COUNCIL KOVAL AKCANUM NO. 956.\\nLeonia Council Royal Arcanum No. 956 was instituted on July 29th,\\n1!S9(). Brother J. Day Otis, Grand Regent of New Jersey was the instal-\\nling officer, assisted by Past Grand Regent Frank T. Griffeth, F. S.\\nPetter, R. H. Alberts, S. J. Kallam, W. Lounsbury. The officers for\\nthe term were as follows: Regent, O. O. Clark; Vice-Regent, B. H.\\nBelknap; Past Regent, Abram Whitle} Orator, P. S. Saitta; Secretary,\\nE. D. McKown; Collector, J. H.Clark; Treasurer, J. Randolph Appleby;\\nChaplain, Edward Stagg; Guide, G. W. Peters; Warden, H. D. Van\\nZaut; Sentry, I. W. Pope. The number of charter members was twenty-\\none, and the number on roll July 1st, 1899, was fifty-eight.\\nThe present officers of the Council are as follows: Regent, H. D.\\nVan Zaut; Vice-Regent, Robert Duncan; Orator, B. H. Belknap; Past\\nRegent, J. H. Clark; Secretary, C, Harry Eaton; Collector, E. T.\\nSwayer; Treasurer, E. G. (iismond; Chaplain, H. F. Ahrens; Guide, E.\\nB. Williams; Warden, William S. Iserman; Sentry, Charles E. (loebel.\\nFIRE DEPAKTMENT.\\nThe borough maintains four churches, an excellent school of three\\nteachers, a lire department, and has one flourishing beneficiary organi-\\nzation.\\nProtection against loss by fire has been assured by the incorporation\\nof a well organized fire department, of Hose Company No. 1, July 9,\\n1898, and shortly after of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, consisting\\nof thirty-two members with George W. Mabie, Chief; A. D. Bogart,\\nand H. E. Oakley, Foremen of the respective companies. The building", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0608.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEROEN COUNTY 561\\nwas erected in 1S )S. The department have hose cart, hook and ladder,\\ntruck, and one thousand feet of hose.\\nTHIC TKTIv KKI ()KMKn DUTCH CIIUKCII A l I.ICONIA.\\nProbably the actual history of this church, as a separate body,\\ndates from I ^ebruarv 20, 1824, at which time the consistory issued their\\nsii;-ned protest ag-ainst the Classis of Berj^en. This protest was signed\\nby 49 persons, male and female. The Rev. C. T. Demarest was Presi-\\ndent of the consistory at this time and preached for the new cong^rega-\\ntion. On March 11, 1S24, the consistory met at the parsonage and John\\nW. Banta and John Kdsall were made a committee to wait ui)on the\\nKev. James (t. Brinkerhoff to ])rocure his services for the two succeed-\\ning- Sabbaths, and afterwards issued a regular call to him, offering-\\nhim $250.00 per annum in half yearly payments, tog-ether with the use\\nof the parsonag-e so long- as it remains in the possession of this consis-\\ntory, for the whole of his services, except six free Sabbaths. During\\nthe succeeding- months there appears to have been some legal disturb-\\nances in the church, but they were happily settled.\\nOn June 1S24, at a meeting of the consistory at the house of\\nKichard Scott, in Hackensack, at which the Rev. Sidomon Froeligh\\npresided, by recjuest, the Rev. C. T. Demarest stated to the meeting\\nthat he had received a call from the True Reformed Dutch Church in\\nNew York city, and had accepted the same, and desired to be dismissed\\nfrom his then charg-e. The request was g-ranted. During the minis-\\ntrations of Mr. Demarest the church community was especially looked\\nafter l)y him in church dicipline, and the teaching of the church was\\never on his lips. Still it was not all harmony, and finally the (General\\nSynod was appealed to, to assist in the settlement of internal disorders.\\nHe was succeeded by the Rev. I eter D. Froeligh of Ackquackanonk.\\nHe was called June 21st, 1825, and died February 1 1S2S. Irregular\\npreaching followed, the Rev. C. T. Demarest occasionally officiating\\nuntil November 4. is,^ when he was duly installed.\\nThe society first held service in a barn, then attached to the old\\nparsonage, afterwards the property of Mrs. James Cronkwright, and\\nlater still in the parlor of the parsonage until the erection of their pres-\\nent church. It is recorded that in the year of our Lord 18.^1, the new\\nmeeting house of the True Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the\\nEnglish Neighborhood was built. The record states that the church\\nwas built on the west side of the English Neighborhood road, a little\\ndistance lielow where the road from Hackensack to Fort Lee crosses it,\\non ground given by (iarret Me3 er and John Cole; and to this David\\nChristie, who bought G. Meyer s farm, and John Cole, afterward made\\nhandsome additions on each side. Then comes the information that\\nthe church was dedicated. Rev. C. T. Demarest preached a. m., from\\nZach, 13:7, the last clause, and C. Z. I auliscm. p. m., from Eph. 2:21.\\nThe church building was paid for by subscription, and cost about 81500,\\nand a final settlement w;is made April 3. IS.^2. Some of the jiews in\\nthe completed edifice were sold at public auction Deceml.)er (i, 1831", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0609.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "562 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nanother sale was held July 23, 1832, and still another afterward, and the\\nfinal settlement on sales was made December 10, 1832.\\nIn 1850 the finances of the church received a very welcome addition.\\nOn March 27, 1850, the Consistor} Elders and Deacons met at the house\\nof James P. Brinkerhoff to receive the one thousand dollars from the\\nexecutors of. the late John Lydecker which he willed to the church.\\nMr. Demarest s pastorate closed in 1852 and he was succeeded bv\\nRev. Cornelius J. Blauvelt, who was installed on the fourth Sabbath of\\n1853. About this time Mr. Abraham Huyler left a beqeust of some four\\nhundred dollars to the church, but some trouble was experienced because\\nthe church was not incorporated. Articles of incorporation were again\\ntiled October 12, 1854 and the money was paid over to the church not-\\nwithstanding- it had been incorporated during the ministry of the Rev.\\nP(dhemus of the old church in 1809.\\nDominie Blauvelt commenced his administration with great energy\\nand success, but failing health soon told on his efforts. In September\\n1859 the lower part of his body was paralyzed and a little later the Rev.\\nJohn Y. DeBaun assumed charge of both congregations. He was\\ninstalled May 6, I860. He was eloquent and earnest and a successful\\npastor. On April 18, 1875 he preached his farewell sermon, the Rev.\\nA. Van Houten succeeded by installation May 14, 1876. To the regret\\nand loss to the church Mr. Van Houten handed in his call to the Consis-\\ntory in September 1884, and he was succeeded by the Rev. Harvey Iser-\\nman May 24, 1885. He was a student under the Rev. Mr. DeBaun, and\\nranked high as a Latin, Greek and Hebrew scholar. He was succeeded\\nby the Rev. James Wyckoff, the last pastor of the church, who took\\ncharge May 1, 1896, remaining until December 1898 when the church\\nvoted itself out. There is no pastor at the present time. Samuel\\nDeGroot and James Christie are the elders and Cornelius Shaw is the\\ndeacon.\\nTHE PKE.SBVTEKIAN CHUKCH.\\nThe Presbyterian Church was organized February 1st, 1899, with\\ntifty-eight members from the Christian Reformed Church of Leonia,\\nwhen ten others were subsequently added to the number. The elders\\nare John Eiserman. John W. Christie. David Talmadge. The Society\\nnow worship in Lyceum Hall, but are intending to build very soon. Rev.\\nJames Wyckoff, the pastor, is a native of Lodi, Seneca county, N. Y.,\\nand was born in 1839. He took his degree of A. B. from Rutgers Col-\\nlege in 1861, graduating from the Seminary at New Brunswick in lS(i4.\\nHe took charge of the Christian Reformed Church May 1, 189(.. On\\nDecember 18, 1898, the church voted itself out of the Reformed Churcli\\nand formed the above organization.\\nTHE EPISCOP.VL CHUKCH.\\nThe Episcopalians built their house of worship in Leonia in IS iS.\\nThey have a membership of ft)rty persons, under the pastoral care of\\nthe Rev. C. Malcolm Douglas, and are in a prosperous condition. Rev.\\nWalter H. Sherwood was their first rector. K. Ahrens is senior warden.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0610.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0611.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0612.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTV 5( 5\\nTHE METHODIST CHURCH.\\nThe Methodists also have a place of worship in the villaj^e, which\\nthey built about three years ago. Their present pastor is the Rev. John\\nBurton.\\nCOKNELIUS CHRISTIE.\\nCornelius Christie, a highly esteemed citizen of Leonia, is of\\nvScotch and Flemish ancestry. The earliest paternal emigrant in the\\nChristie family was James, who was born in Scotland, and died at\\nSchraalenburgh, April lf 17()S, at the advanced age of ninety-si.x or\\nninety-eight years, and was the great-great-grandfather of Cornelius.\\nWilliam, the son of James was born August 9, 1720, married Catalynthe\\nDemarest. vSeptember 22, 174.^, and died September 13. 18(1^). Of their\\ntwelve children James, the eldest, was born August 20. 1744. He mar-\\nried Maria Banta in 1772, and died July 1.S17. Daxid the son t)f\\nJames and Maria Christie, was born December 1, 17.S married Anna\\nBrinkerhoff March 12, 1814, and died April 8, 184S. David and Anna\\nwere the parents of Cornelius. Mr. Christie s mother was a descendant\\nof J(iris Derickson BrinkerholT, of Flemish extraction, who with his\\nwife Susannah Dubbels, emigrated to this country from the United\\nProvinces, in ll .^S, and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died\\nJanuary 1(), 1()()1. Hendrick, son of Joris married Clausie Boomgaert\\nand in 1685, bought a tract of land on the east bank of the Hackensack,\\nnow known as Ridgetield Park, and in the township of Ridgetield. Soon\\nafter removing his family to his new home Mr. Brinkerhoff died, leav-\\ning three sons. Two of tlie sons. Jacobus and Derrick, took the land\\nat old Hackensack, while Cornelius removed to Bergen.\\nThe line descends through Jacobus, whose wife was Agnetie.\\nTheir son Jacob had seven children, one being Albert who was born\\nMarch 21, 17( married Kezia Voorhis in 17()( and died Deceml)er S,\\n1844. Albert and Kezia Brinkerhoff bad three chihlren, Anna,\\nthe eldest, born May 12, 17 *7, becoming the wife of Da\\\\i(l Christie.\\nThe ancestors of Mr. Christie were petiple of decided character, and\\ndeep convictions concerning the aims and duties of life. In their relig-\\nious life they were Calvinistic in doctrine, adhering strictly to the\\nReformed Dutch Church. They were also intensely patriotic, rendering\\nvaluable service to the cause of their adopted country. James Christie.\\ngrandfather of Cornelius bore a Captain s commission in the Re\\\\dlu-\\ntionary war and did good service, but the royalist as zealous in their\\ncause, burned the homestead of William the father of James, while\\nJohn, a brother of James, and Lucas, a Ijrother of Alliert Brinkerhoff,\\nwere imprisoned in the old Sugar House.\\nJohn, a f)rother of Da\\\\-id Christie, was minister of the Reforme l\\nDutch Church and settled at Warwick, Orange County, N. J., where he\\ndied after a long jKistorate. Peter Christie, another brother, was for a\\nlong period, a surgeon in the United States Navy and died at Erie,\\nPennsylvania.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0613.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "566 HISTORY OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nAltboutj-h they were all engag-ed in agricultural pursuits, it was\\nusually in connection with some other trade or profession. Soon after\\nhis marriage to Anna Brinkerhoff, David removed to New York city,\\nand engaged in the business of stone cutting in which he prospered\\nuntil in 1835 he purchased the farm of Garrett Meyer at English\\nNeighborhood, (now Leonia) and removed there with his family to\\nspend his remaining days. It was here that Cornelius was born,\\nDecember 6, 1835. His preparatory studies were under the supervison\\nof the Rev. John Mabon in his well known classical school at Hacken-\\nsack. after which he entered Yale College taking the full course, and\\nwas graduated in 1855. After spending one year at the Harvard Law\\nSchool, he finished his studies with Chancellor Abram O. Zabriskie in\\n1860 and almost immediately opened an office in Jersey City. In 1867\\nhe was elected Member of Assembly of the State on the Democratic\\nticket and the following year was re-elected on the same ticket. In\\n1871, he started the New Jersey Citizen, a weekly paper at Hacken-\\nsack, of which he was editor and proprietor. The publication was\\nDemocratic, devoted to local interests and the improvement of journalism\\nin the county. This was continued six years, the last three as a semi-\\nweekly. In 1879 he resumed the practice of law at Jersey city. Mr.\\nChristie resides at Leonia, and is now serving his second term as Mayor\\nof the Borough.\\nJAMES VKKEI.AND MOOKE.\\nThe first official record of Samuel Moore the emigrant ancestor of\\nthe Moore family, of English Neighborhood, Bergen county, N. J.) is\\ndated July 20, 1669, on which date a Patent was granted by Governor\\nPhilip Carteret to Mark Noble and Samuel Moore, of Barbadoes, Mer-\\nchants, for sundry Parcels of Land lying in and about the Town of\\nBergen.\\nThese tracts of land they had purchased July 15, lf)(i9, of Samuel\\nEdsall, who was then a prominent member of Governor Carteret s\\nCouncil, the first being a large lot or jjlot in the north part of the town.\\nIn the second described ti act of land, one of the corner boundaries\\nis designated as a stake, standing in the road that leads from the\\ntown to the English Neighborhood, showing that it had been so named\\nprior to that date.\\nThe third tract comprehended five lots of upland and five lots of\\nmeadow, and extended from what is now West Side Avenue to the Hack-\\nensack River. All these tracts are now within the corporate limits of\\nJersey City.\\nMark Noble seems to have remained in the Island of l arl)a(loes. and\\nis included in the census of the town of St. Michaells in 168(l.t\\nSamuel and Naomy Moore, his wife, emigrated to Boston, Mass.,\\nfrom the English island of Barbadoes in the West Indies, about the\\nyear 1671-2, and removed to New York in 1674 or 5; following them in\\ndirect line are Samuel, the voungest son of said Samuel Moore, the\\nWinfleld-s Land Titles if Hudson C.miu.v. X. J., 7...\\ntOritrinal Lists ,)f Kniijrrants. etc. published in L.indon. IS71 4+s. isj.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0614.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0615.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0616.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY 5f,\\nemigrant, who married on September 14, 1705, Sarah Smith, a o-rand-\\ndaug-hter ..f Major John Kerry of Hackensack; who was Deputy (iov-\\nernor of East Jersey in l(,72-3. and Deputy Governor of East Jer-\\nsey m l(,8i); vSamuel (who was one of the Justices of Bergen\\ncounty in 1753-54) who married Hester Lozier February 2(., 17M,\\\\\\nSamuel James Moore who married Sarah Day, December, 1776, and next\\nin line come the grandparents of General James Vreeland Moore, our\\nsubject, James and Sarah Moore, who were married September 17, 17\\nHis parents, Samuel J. Moore and Clarrissa Vreeland were m arried\\nNovember 11, 1823.\\nThe maternal ancestors were Hollanders being tirst represented bv\\nMichael Jansen who emigrated from Broeckhuvsen, North Brabant,\\nwith his wife, Pytje Hartmar, and their two children in the ship\\nRensselaerwyck, October 1, 1630. After the arrival of Michael Jansen\\nin the New Netherlands, he settled first at Greenbush, opposite Albany,\\nand remained there for several years. In 1644 he became a resident of\\nNew Amsterdam, and in 1646 he removed to Communipaw, New Jersey.\\nThe same year he was one of the nine representatives of Pavonia\\nand again in 1649 and 1650. He was one of the first Magistrates of\\nBergen. The farm which he had agreexl to purchase of Jan Eversen\\nBout, for 8,000 Florins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 about the time of his removal to Communipaw,\\nor shortly, thereafter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he completed the payments therefor and obtained\\ndeed September 9, 1656. He died in 1661.\\nOn May 12, 1668, Fytje Hartman (widow of Michael Jansen), ob-\\ntained two patents from Governor Philip Carteret; the first being\\napparently to perfect title to the farm purchased of Jan Eversen Bou t\\nin 1656; and the second for land west of and adjoining that described in\\nthe first patent. These two tracts of land are now in Jersey City. Fytje\\nHartman died vSeptember 21, 1697.\\nThe next in direct line were Cornells Michielse Vreeland and Metje\\nDirkse Braecke, married March 12, 1681; Michael Vreeland and Jenneke\\nHelmighse Van Houten, married October 23, 1713; Jacob Vreeland and\\nWintje Duryee married 1769, and the grandparents of General Moore,\\nMichael Vreeland and Rachel DeGroot, married February 13, 1796.\\nGeneral Moore was born in New York city August 18, 1824. He\\nfirst attended school at the village Academy, of which Stephen Runyon\\nMartin was the principal, ana subsequently attended Chamberlain\\nyumn s Classical vSchool; at that time located on Broadway near Grand\\nstreet. After leaving school his first business engagement was as a\\nclerk in the dry goods establishment of Blauvelt Crum; afterwards\\nbeing employed by Zabriskie Van Riper, in Greenwich street. With\\nthe imward move of business, trade necessarily gave place to industries\\nwhich sought the districts nearest the great lines of transportation.\\nSixth Avenue and Twentj-third Street now have a large share of the\\ndry goods business, which was then in the down town streets. In Mav\\n1852 he and his brother Stephen H. V. Moore, purchased a farm in that\\npart of English Neighborhood n(.w known as Leonia and removed from", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0617.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "570 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nNew York city to their farm; on wbicli thev have resided ever since\\nnow more than forty-seven years.\\nPossessed of. good judgment, high moral character and steadfast\\npurpose Mr. Moore could not fail to succeed in his undertakings. That\\nhe commands the respect of those who know him is proven by the\\nrecognition accorded in the various walks of life in which we find him.\\nHis military record is a good index of his popularity. At the time the\\nNational Guard of New Jersey was organized he commanded Companv\\nB Second Battalion, New Jersey Rifle Corps; which became Company A\\nSecond Battalion, National Guard, April 14, 1869. He was elected\\nMajor, Second Battalion, National Guard, New Jersey, October 8, 1872\\nI^ieutenant Colonel May 4, 1885 Colonel of the Second Regiment June\\n18, 1892 and was retired at his own request April 25, 1893. Colonel\\nMoore was brevetted Brigadier General upon the date of his retirement.\\nThe Second Battalion, under General Sewell, was in the service during\\nthe railroad riots of 1873. General Sewell in his report to the Adjutant\\n(General of the State makes mention among others of the Second\\nBattalion under Major Moore as a credit to any command in either peace\\nor war.\\nGeneral Moore has taken an active interest in the affairs of his\\nlocality, having been a member of the Township Committee of the old\\ntownship of Hackensack, for a term of three years, besides holding-\\nother local offices. He has also been Councilman of the borough of\\nLeonia from the time of its incorporation to the last election, when he\\ndeclined a unanimous renomination. He has also served two terms as\\nPresident of the Borough Council.\\nThe General is an associate member of the Military Service Institu-\\ntion of the United States, and member of the New Jersey State Rifle\\nAssociation.\\nHe was married to Miss Caroline Palmer, eldest daughter of John\\nand Cynthia (Swift) Palmer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 1868. She\\nwas born in the city of New York March 26, 1830, and died at Leonia,\\nN. J., June 20, i884, leaving one daughter, Ida Cynthiella Moore, who\\nwas born June 14, 1869. She married Frank Irving Barrett, April 21,\\n1S96. They have one son, Roydon Moore Barrett, born June 12, 1898.\\nMrs. J. Vreeland Moore, nee Palmer, was a descendant in the sev-\\nenth generation from William Palmer, who emigrated from New Eng-\\nland to the town of Westchester, Westchester county, N. Y., in 1862-3.\\n*Of the twelve trustees of the town of Westchester in 1692, three\\nwere sons of the said William Pahiier, viz: John, Joseph and Samuel.\\nThe names of all the trustees are inscribed in a full warranty deed\\nexecuted by the Indian chiefs Maminepoe and Wampage, as proprietors\\nof a large tract of land lying east of the Bronx River, and extending\\nto Pelham Neck, within the limits and bounds of the patent of the\\ncounty town of Westchester, in the province of New York, by which\\nHistory of the Couiitv of Westchester. X. Y., fmin its tirst settlement, by Rev. Robert Bolton.\\nJr. First edition, is+s Vol. II. ITS-li.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0618.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "4^^/ ^y^ /C m^^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0619.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0620.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BKKGEN COUNTY\\nthe title thereto became vested in said trustees and successors, as rep-\\nresenting said town.\\nSTEPHEN H. V. MOOKE.\\nStephen H. V. Moore was born in the city of New York, June 18,\\n1828, where he resided until 1852, when he removed to his present home\\nat Leonia, then known as Enylish Neig-hborhood, and enf^ag-ed in agri-\\nculture.\\nHe was educated in the English branches at the Academy of Stephen\\nR. Martin, and in classics, mathematics and civil engineering at the\\nHigh School of Isaac F. Bragg in the city of New York.\\nOn November 1852 he married Julia Frances, daughter of Alder-\\nman William Tucker of New York city, and a descendant of the seventh\\ngeneration from Henry Tucker, who emigrated about 1627 from the\\ncounty of Kent, England to the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.* She\\nwas born July 15, 1833 and died March 23, 1881. Their children are\\nClarissa, born April 9, 1854. wife of Captain Henrv R. (loesser;\\nJosephine: born August 12, 1855; Julia Lavinia, horn Julv 18, 1857,\\ndied June 2( 1858; Henrietta, born June 28, 18()(), and James Vreeland,\\nborn February 6, 1863, who married Sarah Banta Edsall, daughter of\\nCaptain John S. Edsall. They have one child, Harry Edsall, born July\\n6, 18 \u00c2\u00bb2,\\nMr. Moore was trustee of Central School District No. 11, Hacken-\\nsack township from 1858 to 1866, a period of nine years. He was one\\nof the township committee of Hackensack township in 1861, and for\\nRidgelield tov ^nshii) in 1874 and 1875, and again from 1878 to 1880.\\nHe was chosen Freeholder of Ridgefield townshij) in 1881, holding the\\noifice continuously for nine years.\\nMajor Moore traces his paternal ancestry in America back to l( 71-2.\\nHis father Samuel J. Moore, was born in English Neighborhood, Bergen\\ncounty, N. J., October 11, 17 7, married Clarissa Vreeland, November\\n11, 1823, and died .\\\\pril 24, 1832. James Moore, father of Samuel J.,\\nwas born October 1 17( 7 and on September 17, 17 6 married Sarah\\nMoore, (his second cousin), who was born in May 22, 1778. Samuel\\nJames Moore, father of James, was born April 1 173 l, and married in\\n1776, Sarah Day, who was born June 5. 1744. The ])arents of\\nSamuel James Moore were Samuel Moore, bajJtized October 4, 1712, and\\nhis wife, Hester Lozier, baptized December 16, 1711 Samuel Moore,\\nfather of this Samuel, was born in New York in 1673-4. He married.\\nSeptember 14, 1705. Sarah Smith, (third daughter of Lieut. Michael\\nSmith). He was the youngest son of Samuel and Naomy Mo(ire, who\\nemigrated from the English Island of Barhadoes in 1671-2 to IJoston,\\nwhere their eldest son. Francis was born.\\nOn the maternal side, the mother, Clarissa Vreeland, was born on\\nthe west bank of the Hudson River (opposite the present Riverside\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2James Tucker, a descendant of the third (reneratum i.f the aforesaid Henry Tucker rem.ived\\nfrnm Connecticut wiOi his wife Leali. to the Providence of East New Jersey in ITls, and settietl at\\nDeal, where lie owned a lari-e I lanlation. They were members of the Society of friends, as were", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0621.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "574 HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nPark), November 18, 18(1(1. and died October 25, lS7t She was the\\ndaughter of Michael Vreeland, born October 11, 1770, and Rachel\\nDeGroot (his second wife born May 25, 1775. They were married Feb-\\nruary 13, 1796. Michael was the son of Jacob Vreeland. born March 11.\\n1737, and Wyntje Lavinia Der Yee, the record of whose birth was lost\\nduring- the Revolution. They were married in 1769. Jacob was the son\\nof Michael Cornelise Vreeland, born September 18, 1694, and Jenneke\\nHelmighse Van Houten, who were married October 23, 1713. The par-\\nents of Michael Cornelise Vreeland, were Cornelis Michaelse Vreeland.\\nborn June 3, l()f)(l. and Metje Dirkse Braecke, who were married May\\n12, 1681.\\nLOKENZO frISMOND.\\nLorenzo Gismond of the firm of Tarrant (iismond. Jewellers,\\nNew York, has been one of the leading factors in the borough history\\nof Leonia, having been the projector of that municipal incorporation\\nand identified with it officially, from its organization. Mr. (jismond is\\na grandson of George F. and Rebecca (Earle) Schor, both families\\nearly settlers of English Neighborhood; and son of Emanuel (j., and\\nLouisa (Schor) Gismond, whose lives were spent in this part of Bergen\\ncounty. Mr. Gismond was born in Leonia. N. J., February 5, 1859. and\\nhere his school life began and ended. His early business connections\\nwere with his father, who was a coal merchant. In August 1887, both\\nhis parents died leaving him administrator of the estate, after which he\\nwent into business in New York. About this time he began to take a\\nlively interest in the affairs of his township and county. As a member\\nof the Republican party, his services being considered invaluable, ap-\\npointments to positions of trust followed, the more important being his\\nconnections with the county organization, he having served two terms\\nas member of the Executive Committee. Being public spirited he was\\nthe first to see the importance of securing the benefits that would come\\nto his own village under the law of 1879, and under his direction more\\nthan to any other, the incorporation of the borough of Leonia was car-\\nried to a successful conclusion; and largely to him as a member of the\\nCouncil from the time of this organization, has been delegated the\\nduties belonging to the more important committees.\\nHe was indentified with the military organization of his town,\\nhaving enlisted as a jjrivate of Company A. of the Second Battalion in\\nDecember 1877. his father Emanuel G. Gismond being first lieutenant of\\nthat Corapan} In 1887 he was made sergeant; second lieutenant Janu-\\nary 9, 1892; and first lieutenant April 12, 1892. in which capacity he\\nwas mustered in the United States service at Sea Girt, May 2. 1898 and\\nmustered out November 17, 1898, at Paterson, N. J.*\\nAfter the death of Mr. (iismond s parents, the jewelry business was\\ninaugurated in a small way in New York. In time a partnership had\\nbeen formed with Mr. (ieorge Tarrant, who is a ])ractical jeweler, and\\nSiv Hislor.v .if C.iin])anv K. Scci.n.i K. iin,-iit N, i;.. N. J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0622.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "^/t^M^n. M.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0623.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0624.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 577\\nunder the able manasjement of these two experienced men, the business\\nsoon demanded larger quarters causing- the removal of oftices to the\\npresent commodious rooms on Maiden Lane. As Manufacturing Jewelers\\nand Importers of Diamonds the firm of Tarrant Gismond is well\\nknown to business houses throughout the United States.\\nJULIUS hkkbekt clakk.\\nJulius Herbert Clark, of Leonia, a well known educator in the state\\nof New Jersey, is a son of Harman and Sarah J (Clausen) Clark, and\\nwas born at Beemerville, Sussex county, N. J., December 22, 1852. His\\npaternal grandfather was Isaiah, son of James Clark, and his maternal\\ngrandfather was Elias Clausen. His elementary education was received\\nin the public schools of his native town, supplemented by an advanced\\ncourse in the Connecticut Literary Institute, at Suffield, Connecticut.\\nUpon the completion of his course in the Institute he began teaching in\\nthe public schools of New Jersey, spending his first year in Sussex\\ncounty. Following this he taught seven years in Warren county, and\\nfrom there was called to Stroudsburg, Pa., where he spent two years as\\ninstructor in the Collegiate Institute. Returning to New Jersey he\\ntaught in the schools of Leonia, Bergen county, for a period of fourteen\\nyears, after which he was one year in New York city and one in Ridge-\\nfield, N. J. Mr. Clark holds life certificates, obtained upon examination\\nin the states of New York and New Jersey.\\nHe served on the Board of Examiners for teachers certificates in\\nBergen county, for a term of three years, having been appointed by\\nsuperintendent John Terhune, and also served four years as assessor of\\nborough of Leonia. In 1888 he was appointed by Collector Magone to a\\nposition in the Auditor s Department of the Custom House in New York,\\nbut resigned after a few nn^nths to resume school work in Leonia, at an\\nincreased salary. Mr. Clark s military record began with his enlistment\\nin Company A, Second Battalion, N. G. N. J., December 30, 1884. He\\nwas made corporal June 17, 1889; sergeant December 3, following; first\\nsergeant February 24, 1892, and was discharged at the expiration of his\\nterm of service, October 9, 1893.\\nAt present he is a member of the Overpeck Boat Club, of the\\nSchoolmasters Club of New York city, and is Past Regent of Royal\\nArcanum, Leonia Council No. 956.\\nMr. Clark married Miss Louise B. Phillips, December 28, 1875, and\\nhas three children, Charles H., Fred H., and Mabel Louise.\\nHKN KV G PAKKKK.\\nHenrv G., the only surviving child of Benjamin and Martina\\nBartholf Parker, was born in New York city, July 17, 1841, receiving\\nhis education in his native place. His father was a tinsmith and suc-\\ncessful in business, but failing health compelled him to retire to his\\nlittle farm of thirty-five acres, to which he added, by subsequent\\npurchases enough to increase his land to sixty acres. Henry (i., and", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0625.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "578 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nhis brdtlier John B., carried on the farm. John married Anna Brinker-\\nhoff. and of this marriag-e, their two children John R., and Jennie A.,\\nare both married. J ilri B. died July 14, lS ).i, at the ag-e of fiftj -five\\nyears. Henr} G. married Mary A. Slocum, April 24, 1861, and b}- this\\nmarriage have Benjamin F., Margaret C. deceased, Julia M. and H.\\nUe\\\\yitt who is in the Hackensack Bank. His second marriage was to\\nEva McDaniel, April 27, 1886, and bv this marriage is one child, Marie\\nE., who was born March 12, 1S87.\\nIn politics Mr. Parker is a Republican as was his father. He is a\\npublic-spirited man taking an active interest in all that tends to the\\nwelfare of this locality, and is especially interested in educational mat-\\nters, having acted as school trustee for many years. JNIr. Parker is a\\nsuccessful man in the best sense of the term. His military career began\\nby his enlistment in Company I, 22d Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers,\\nunder Colonel A. G. Demarest, and in the same company with Judge\\nVan Valen, serving nine months in the Army of the Potomac. His\\nfather s first investment was on Teaneck Ridge, where the mother died\\nSeptember 27, 1893, aged seventy-nine years, and the father November\\n1(), 18 \u00c2\u00bbS at the age of eighty-two.\\nTin-: MABIK FAMILY.\\nThe Mabie family of Bergen county are descendants of French\\nHuguenots, who, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, left\\ntheir native country and found a home first in Holland, and subsequently\\nin Long Island.\\nJohn Mabie, one of the founders of the gold pen and pencil case\\nhouse of Roanch Co.; subsjqueatly Mabie, Todd Bard of New\\nYork, settled at Fairview in 1857, where he built a substantial brown-\\nstone mansion.\\nJames Maine, another descendant of this Huguenot family, came\\nto Leonia from New Bridge, probably forty years ago. He was a\\ncarpenter by trade and superintended the erection of many of the first\\nhouses in Leonia and vicinity. He died July 29, 1893, seventy-five j ears\\nof age. His widow is still living. There were seven children born of\\nthis union, five sons and two daughters. All the sons mastered the\\ntrade of carjienter, but none of them pursued that avocation except\\nJohn J., the eldest, who is now foreman of the Erie Railroad car shops,\\nJersey City. The other children are Anna, now Mrs. John Day; Henry,\\nan undertaker; Sarah, Mrs. Stephen Annett Samuel, formerly one of\\nthe fireman for Abbot s Piaij Mia-ifa;t )ry, n.)w pr.iprietur of a lieer\\nbottling establishment, EnglewTK)d; Walter, now of Jersey City, and\\n(ieorge W. Mabie, the youngest of the family, who was born in Leonia\\nthirty-six years ag and who has been running a butcher s store in the\\nillage since ISSS. He is Chief of the Fire Department.\\nHKNKV W. MABIK.\\nHenrv W. Mabie. undertaker, has carried on a successful business\\nin his line for over fifteen years in Fort Lee and in New York. IIi New", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0626.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY 57\\nYork repositories are at 1 Lcxing;ton Avenue. He was Justice nf the\\nPeace from 1SS9 to i8 H; Police Justice for about five ^-ears; C .)roner of\\nthe district for live vcars, and for a period of nearly thirty years was\\nconnected with the New York State militia, enlisting on the 31st nf\\nAugust, 1861, and retiring with the commission of iirst lieutenant.\\nUNDEKCLIFF.\\nThe borough of Undercliff is one of the richest municipalities of its\\nkind in Bergen county. It has a population of about 1500, has two\\nchurches, and a number of very important manufacturing establish-\\nments among them being the large chemical works of Goetchius\\nMorgan; the oil wi.irks of John Ellis Co.; the mciulding works of\\nHinners Son, also the tar works, color works, and iron fnundery.\\nThese various establishments give to hundreds of people of this locality\\nemployment the year through. The territory of this borough extends\\nfrom the village of Shad^ Side to Fort Lee, taking in a portion of the\\nlatter village and including Shady Side, Edge Water, and Pleasant\\nValley.\\nThe borough was formed in March 1S \u00c2\u00bb5, Eido H. Hinners being its\\nfirst Mayor. He was succeeded by Jeremiah Casey the present Mayor.\\nGeorge H. Nash was the first Clerk, and E. M. Speer is the present\\nClerk.\\nA Catholic Church under the pastorate of Father Purcell, gives a\\nplace for worship in one of the most picturesque spots on the Palisades,\\nalthough the congregation is not a large one. The E])iscopal Church\\nis the other society.\\nThe village of Coytesville was founded bv Jose])h Covte wlin buught\\na large tract of woodland soon after the war of the Kebellion and laid it\\nout in lots.\\nCHURCH OF THF M ICDI ATOK\\nEpiscopal services were first held in Church of the Mediator in\\n1862. This edifice was erected in 185 t, and used as a union church\\nuntil 1862, when it was purchased b}* the Episcopal congregation and\\nconsecrated by Bishop Odenheimer August 7, 1864. Eugene A. Hoffman,\\nDean of the Theological Seminar}-, New York, became the first rector,\\nbut was in charge only a short time. The first wardens were D. T.\\nBaldwin and Lucas S. Comstock. The first vestrymen were John Mc-\\nMichael, Frederick Ogden, C. C. Rockwell, John Winterburn and Frank\\nVan Woert.\\nThe Rev. James A. Cameron was here for twenty-one years, and\\nduring his stay the rectory was built, at a cost of S4000. He was in-\\nstalled May, i866.\\nThe Rev. J. A. McCleary, the present rector, took charge of the\\nflock May, 1894. The officers of the church at the present time are as\\nfollows: Jf)hn Winterburn, Sr., F. W. Winterburn, Jr.. Wardens; John\\nAckerman, Clerk; Col(mel George Laird, Major S. Wood McCave. K. H.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0627.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "580 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nMitt, Edward Fischer, J. Procter, George H. Neild, Georg-e A. Carlton,\\nWalter Ellis, Vestrymen.\\nThe parish has organized missions in Ridgefield, Leonia, Cliff Side\\nand Palisade Park. At present it is also carrying on work at Fort Lee.\\nBOGOTA.\\nThis borough is on the Hackensack between that river and Queen\\nAnne s road, and has a voting population of about eight}-. It was\\norganized into a separate municipality in 1893, Frederick W. Cane\\nhaving been its Mayor till the present time. The village is beautifully\\nlocated but its close proximity to Hackensack of necessity makes it one\\nof residences alone. There are no churches in the place. The Bogota\\nPaper Company, founded by Rogers Co., about five years ago and now\\nowned by the companv who came into possession of the mill two years\\nago, manufacture ab .)ut three tons of card board paper daily, and give\\nemployment constantly to twenty hands more or less. The Riverside\\nPlaning Mill, operated by Horton Clayton, successors to Negus\\nClayton, is the only other manufacturing enterprise in the borough, it\\nalso being of recent origin.\\nThe borough of Bogota is named in honor of the Bogart family,\\nwho first occupied these lands. The ancestors of this family came to\\nAmerica from Holland locating first some time prior to 1661 in Long\\nIsland, but subsequently removing to Bergen county, where Peter Bon-\\ngart bought the farm still ovmed by his decendants. Ruloff Bongart,\\nson of Peter and grandfather of Judge Peter Bongart, was the last to\\nspell the name as written above.\\nFREDERICK W. CANE.\\nHon. Frederick W. Cane, Mayor of the borough of Bogota and a\\nmember of the firm of William H. F. W. Cane, contractors and build-\\ners, of Jersey City, is well known in business circles throughout the\\ncountry in general. As a contractor he comes of a long line of ancestors\\nwhose operations have been on an extensive scale, his father and grand-\\nfather in particular, having been connected with large undertakings in\\ndifferent cities throughout the country. William H., the father of the\\nsubject of this sketch, now in his seventy-ninth year, is still in business,\\nhaving the energy and capability of men but half his age. His wife,\\nMrs. Sarah Elizabeth Rennie Cane, lies in a vault in a Jersey City\\ncemetery. Mr. Frederick W. Cane was born in Montreal in 1844, and\\nin 1848 the father moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., and soon afterwards to\\nJersey City, in which latter place offices were opened at 240-242 Twelfth\\nStreet, and also in the Second National Bank Building, both of which\\nplaces still remain the headquarters of the company. Mr. Cane was\\nfitted for the arduous duties of his important business career in the pub-\\nlic schools of Jersey City, subsequently graduating from Nugent s Com-\\nmercial College, corner of Montague and Court Streets, Brooklyn, taking\\nhis diploma from that institution in 1S()4. He then become identified", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0628.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "I KKDIiKIL K W. C Wl-;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0629.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0630.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY 58.^\\nwith the above named tirm, since which time the company of W. H.\\nF. W. Cane have undertaken many mammoth enterprises, carrying; them\\nthroug-h to successful completion. They plan for work only ona larg-escale,\\nand build warehouses, docks, hotels, railroads and electric light plants,\\ncarrving on business in various sections of the country at one and the\\nsame time. Being- a practical builder, and having- knowledge of archi-\\ntectural structure, Mr. Cane s services :is an adjuster of fire losses have\\nbeen eagerly sought by the assured. In this capacity he has adjusted\\nsome of the largest losses known to the insurance companies in the city\\nof New York. Although owning numerous houses in Hoboken and Jer-\\nsev Citv, Mr. Cane, lured by the pleasures and privileges incident to\\ncountry life, sought a home in the village of Bogt)ta. In 1893, from the\\ntime of his coming here, he has been an active participant in all move-\\nments looking to the public welfare, and to promote healthy and invig-\\norating exercises for the young men of Bogota, Mr. Cane built a boat\\nhouse and formed a boating association as a means to that end, giving\\nto them both pleasure and profit. He was quick to see the advantages\\nof borough government, and through his efforts, principally, that organ-\\nization was effected in 1894, when he was elected the first mayor, con-\\ntinuing in office until the present time. It is due to the people of Bogota\\nto sav, also, that its government is one of the most economical and one\\nof the best of its kind in the county.\\nMr. Cane has been identified with different companies as director,\\n\\\\ice president and president, is a member of high degree in the Masonic\\norder, and belongs to various other organizations. Mr. Cane was mar-\\nried to Miss Kate A. Ed-^\\\\-ards of Brooklyn in 1807, the daughter of\\nCaptain Edward Edwards of that city, and three children were born to\\nthis union, two daughters, Caroline Augusta married and living in\\nBoston, and Gertrude Louise also married, and living in Jersey City,\\nand one son William H., Jr.. who is with his father at Bogota and is\\nal)out to become a member of the linn.\\nMAX K. KK IN KM AN D. I). S.\\nMax R. Brinkman, D. 1). S.. an accomi)lished dentist of Hacken-\\nsack, was born in Hartford, Conn., in ISdd. P^ducated in the public\\nschools of New Haven. Conn., an l was graduated from its High School\\nin 1S77. He supplemented this l)y a course in mechanics, and after-\\nwards served full time in learning the trade in cutlerv and surgical\\ninstrument making.\\nHe then took up the study of ilentistry in 1SS2. under the instruc-\\ntion of a preceptor. Dr. G. H. Smith of Holyoke, Mass., with whom he\\nremained one year, immediately thereafter entering the New York C(\\nlege of Dentistry, from which institution he was graduated March I,\\n18S.^, with the degree of D. D. S.\\nDr. Brinkman then began the i)ractice of his jtrofession in the citv\\nof Ne-w Haven. Conn., making a s])eciality of crowning and bridging.\\nHe continued here inuil IS Ml. when he came to New York and hecanu- a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0631.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "5S4 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nmember of the firm of F. A. Ring-ler Co., manufacturers of Printing\\nPlates, remaining- with them until January. 1899. at which date he\\nopened an office for the practice of dentistry in Hackensack.\\nDr. Brinkman was married in 1889 to Miss Anselma Stolz, of New\\nYork cit3-, and resides at Bogota, where he erected a beautiful residence\\nin 1896.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0632.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIX.\\nTHE Te)WNSHIP OF ENGLEWOOD.\\nGENEKAL DESCRIPTION CIVIL LIST CITY OF ENGLEWOOD THE NEW VIL-\\nLAGE AND ITS PROMOTERS HOTELS NEWSPAPERS CHURCHES\\nSCHOOLS ORGANIZATIONS BIOCiRAPHICAL SKETCHES.\\nThe township of Enjrlewood was set off from the old township of\\nHackensack by an Act of the Legislature passed in 1871. By virtue of\\nthis act the boundaries of the territory are described as follows: Be-\\nginning- at the Hackensack River, where the road leading from New\\nBridge to Schraalenburgh intersects it. and running thence easterly\\nalong the middle of said road to the Schraalenburgh road thence\\nsoutherly along the middle of the Schraalenburgh road to the inter-\\nsection thereof with the middle of Liberty road; and thence southerlv\\nalong the middle of Liberty road to the intersection thereof with the\\nmiddle of the road leading to Cornelius Brinkerhoff s house thence\\nalong the middle of the same to the Tenafly road; thence northerly\\nalong the middle of the Tenafly road to the south line of lands formerly\\nof Jacob I. Demott; and thence southeasterly along the same to the east\\nline of the township of Hackensack.\\nThe first census after the organization of the township in 1875,\\nshowed a population of 3932. It has since become so densely inhabited\\nthat a village-like appearance is given to every part of it. In some\\nrespects portions of it might be called one long continued hamlet, especi-\\nally is this true of the picturesque Phelps villa, and other residences\\non the Teaneck road which form almost one continuous village for\\nmiles.\\nThe township is amply provided with railroads and trolley lines for\\nthe accommodation of travel. The New Jersey Nothern and West\\nShore railroads run parallel through the township, about one mile\\napart, affording rapid and frequent connection with New York. The\\nBergen County Traction Company has a trolley line of cars running to\\nEnglewood city, which is well patronized, and a branch of this road\\nruns to Hackensack connecting with the main line at Leonia.\\nThe village oi Highwood is an extension of the northern part of\\nEnglewood, and occupies high level ground. It contains a railroad\\nstation, a church, a store, and many beautiful residences. The streets\\nare well graded and the grounds artistically laid out. Teaneck Ridge\\nnamed from Teaneck road, now Teaneck township, was set off from\\nEnglewood in 1895. Englewood Cliffs Borough was also taken from\\nEnglewood township.\\nThe act of the Legislature for the erection of the township of\\nEnglewood provided that the first meeting for the election of township\\nofficers should be held at Stagg s Hall. The first chosen freeholder of\\nthe township was Joseph W. Stagg, who held office for the years 1871-73,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0633.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "586 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nand was succeeded by James Vanderbeck for 1874-76, who was followed\\nby William Bennett for 1877-79 Henry West, 1880-82 Silas Wright,\\n1883; Georg-e R. Button, 1SS4-8 W. W. Green, l,s H; A. D. Bog-ert.\\n1895-%.\\nThe justices of peace have been Ira W. Hover, 1871-7.1 Hardy M.\\nBanks, 1871-73 Joseph B. Miller, 1872-74, 1877-79 Philip P. Class,\\n1876; George R. Button, 1878-80; Joseph B. Miller, William Ellison,\\n1882; William Ellison, 1883; Gilbert W. Chamberlain, 1884 Alexander\\nCass, Peter Van Wag-oner, 1885; Alexander Cass, 1886-90; John H.\\nAckerman, Bavid C. Van Horn, 1891 Henry J. BeMott, Patrick H.\\nMorris, Charles R. Bailey, Bavid C. Van Horn, 1892; Joseph W. Stag-g-,\\nCornelius Sweeney, 1893; Fred L. Voorhees, Samuel M. Riker, William\\nC. Bavis, 1894; Alexander Cass, Bonald Mackay, Bavid C. Van Horn.\\n1895 Bavid Ireland, John L. Hendricks, 1896.\\nThe assessors Baniel G. Bogert, 1871-76 Alexander Cass, 1877\\nJohn B. Cole, 1878-80; Baniel G. Bogert, 1883-85; John Henry Acker-\\nman, 1886-87: Gilbert W. Chamberlain, 1888-91; Moses E. Springer,\\n1892-94; Hezikiah Birtwhistle. 1895-96.\\nThe collectors: Cornelius A. Herring, 1871-73; Charles Barr, Jr.,\\n1874-76; Adriance Van Brunt, 1877; Jacob A. Bogert, 1878-79; Thomas\\nRussell, 1880-82-84; George Bavis, 1885-86; Henry Cooper, 1887; Thomas\\nRussell, 1888; Henry Cooper, 1889-93; James H.Coe, 1894-96.\\nTown clerks: Francis W. Van Brunt, 1871-73; Albert A. Coyte,\\n1874-76; Richard Bemarest, 1877; Robert Wagner, 1878-79; Gilbert W.\\nChamberlain, 1880-82; Charles F. Valentine, 1883-84; Frank F. Bema-\\nrest, 1885; Albert A. Coyte, 1886-87; Edward J. Sheridan, 1888; Thomas\\nO Brien, 1889-92; Robert Jamieson, 1893-95; Fred G. Coyte, 1896.\\nTownship committee: 1882, Cornelius Lydecker, Henry R. Bailey,\\nMr. Terry; 1883, Henry R. Bailey, Patrick H. Morris, W. C. Bavis;\\n1884, Henry R. Bailey, Patrick H. Morris, Isaac J. Zabriskie; 1885,\\nJames Harris, Henry R. Bailey, Patrick H. Morris; 1886, James Harris,\\nHenry R. Bailey, Patrick H. Morris; 1887, Jacob S. Wetmore, James\\nHarris, Henr}- R. Bailey; 1888, Henry R. Bailey. James Harris, Jacob S.\\nWetmore, Henry J. Brinckerhoff. (To fill out an unexpired term.)\\n1889, James Harris, Abram Tallman, Jacob S. Wetmore. To till\\nout an unexpired term. 1890-91, James Harris, Abram Tallman. Henry\\nJ. Brinckerhoff; 1892, James R. Harris, Henry J. Brinckerhoff, Abram\\nTallman; 1893, Oliver Brake Smith, Henry Brake Smith, James R.\\nHarris; 1894, Joseph Thompson, James Harris, Oliver Brake Smith;\\n1895, Joseph Thompson, Oliver Brake Smith, James Harris; 189(), James\\nHarris, Baniel A. Currie. Joseph Thompson.\\nCITY OF ENGLEWOOD.\\nUntil the spring of 1859 Englewood was part of the old English\\nNeighborhood and was known as Liberty Pole. Prior to that date this\\npart of the old township bore its share in the war of the Revolution\\nafter which for eighty years it was the residence only of a few thrifty", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0634.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n587\\nfamilies. In 1858 it was but a mere succession of long narrow farms\\nreaching from the valley back into the forest and up the Palisades to\\nthe Hudson River. The lands comprising the present site of the city,\\nwere secured by J. Wyman Jones, Esq., and under his management\\nmonths were spent by Hopkins and his assistants iu surveying, laying\\nout streets and lots, mapping the surveys of the old town lines, deter-\\nmining exact center lines and the corners of different plots in detail, for\\nthe new village. This work was begun in the autumn of 1858, con-\\ntiiuicd through the winter and spring following, the map being filed in\\nthe clerk s nftice of the county of Bergen, August 15, 1859. The con-\\ntract for much of this jiropertv was drawn September 24, 1858. The\\nmap of the pro]3erty covered six farms, and a lot on the Palisades then\\nbelonging to John Van Neste of the city of New York, the whole con-\\ntaining altogether six hundred and twenty-five acres of land. Two ot\\nthese farms were on the south of Palisade Avenue, and the other four\\non the north of that road.\\nThe h mor of being the founder of Englewood belongs to Mr. Jones\\nmore than to anv other man.\\nThe selection of a name for the place excited stmie considerable\\ninterest and not a little discussion. The meeting was at Van Brunt\\nWaters Carpenter shop, which was situated on the cross-roads running\\nbetween Van Brunts and J. B. Millers. It was presided over by the late\\nRev. James H. Dwight who afterwards took a deep interest in the wel-\\nfare and development of the town. The name first proposed was Pali-\\nscena, then Brayton. and finally Englewood, suggested by Mr.\\nJones, was adopted.\\nAt that time Liberty Pole tavern was the most important building\\nin the place. It stood in the center of Palisade Avenue where it is inter-\\nsected by the Tenafiy road.\\nThe first house erected in Englewood was built by J. W. Deuel on\\nthe property of J. H. Lyell, Esq., for the purpose of a residence as well\\nas a school. Within its walls many of the young men of the town,\\nnow in active pursuits and professions began their preparation for col-\\nlege. It was in the school-room of this building that the Rev. James\\nH. Dwight began to preach to a small congregatiim, which -was the\\nnucleus of the Presbyterian church afterward organized, and of which\\nfull mention will be made hereafter. The house built by Robert Pratt\\nwas erected about this time on the corncY of Engle street and Demarest\\nAvenue opposite the Episcopal Church.\\nThe railroad was completed in October 1859, and among the beauti-\\nful towns to which it gave communication with New York, none proved\\nmore inviting or grew so rapidly as Englewood. The present beautiful\\nstati(m house was opened to the public in 1898. The road did not pay\\nexpenses for sometime, and run out one train a day when first opened.\\nThomas W. Demarest was its president and John Van Brunt, treasurer\\nand director.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0635.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "588 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nAfter the erection of the first houses, and of the schoolhouse, then\\nfollowed the neat stone chapel which was completed in ISfiO. Two years\\nlater the Methodists erected a church, and the Catholics built in 1862,\\nthe Episcopalians followed in 1865 and the Christian Reformed in\\n1875. The rapid succession of church building indicates the growth of\\nthe place. In 1869 a Protection Society was formed, for the better\\ndefense of the people, which soon made itself a terror to evil doers.\\nArmed with police authority by the state, sustained by private subscrip-\\ntion of citizens and fortified by the services of an experienced officer from\\nthe New York police, the organization gave the town such a name\\namong criminals of every grade, that for years it was singularly exempt\\nfrom predatory intruders.\\nAmong the first pers(ms who were attracted from the city to this\\nplace, after the same was laid out were Isaac Smith Romans, Editor\\nand proprietor of the Bankers Magazine and his two sons, Sheppard,\\nand I. Smith, Jr., with their three families. Mr. Romans and his sons\\nbore a large share of the burden and responsibility of the various im-\\nprovements which marked the several steps of progress, and each built\\nfor himself a large handsome stonehouse for a family dwelling.\\nThe Hon. Hiram Slocum, Ex-Mayor of the city of Troy was one\\nof the early purchasers of Englewood lands, as were also Nathan T.\\nJohnson and Jeffrey A. Humphrey of New York city, each of whom\\nacquired considerable interest in Englewood. He came in 1859 and\\nduring that year lots were sold to J. W. Stagg, John Van Brunt, Hob-\\nart Van Zandt, John S. Messenger, and to Mr. Crowell all of whom be-\\ngan to build in a short time.\\nIn 1860 Francis Howland, Esq.. also from New York, settled in\\nEnglewood, and his contributions to the town were continued for many\\nvears, and in various forms.\\nAbout the same time came Byron Murray, Jr., then cashier of the\\nAmerican Exchange Bank in New York, afterwards occupying the same\\nposition in a large banking institution in San Francisco, and Robert\\nBaylis, then assistant cashier in the same bank, and subsequently presi-\\ndent of .the Market Bank in New York. Mr. Murray built the Swiss\\nhouse afterward sold to Colonel Washington R. Vermilye, and later\\noccupied by his son, W. Romeyn Vermilye, this was one of the large,\\nprominent st(me and brick houses of the place. Both these gentlemen\\nbecame ccmsiderably interested in real estate.\\nVery soon after, the circle of new-comers was enlarged by the\\naddition of John H. Lyell, president of the New York Marine Insurance\\nCompany, Daniel Drake Smith, president of the Commercial Marine\\nInsurance Company, Charles E. Trott, Rev. Dr. Daniel Wise, Darius W.\\nGeer, Charles A. Nichols, Livingston K. Miller, Dr. H. M. Banks, and\\nJames W. McCuUough, all of whom established their family residences\\nin Englewood.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0636.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 58 J\\nShortly after came E. W. Andrews, Frank B. Nichols, James O.\\nMorse, Charles H. Waterbury, George S. Coe, William B. Dana, Donald\\nMcKay, Rev. Thomas G. Wall, and Rev. Dr. James Eels.\\nFollowing- these came at different times, with their families, David\\nHoadley, president of the Panama Railroad Company, Elwood Walter,\\npresident of the Board of Marine Underwriters, Colonel W. R. Vermilye,\\nGeneral T. B. Van Buren, afterward consul-general at Yokohoma,\\nJacob S. Wetmore, Henry W. Banks, E. S. Munroe, Dr. F. Markoe\\nWright, Jf)hn Bailey, Lebbeus Chapman, Jr., the Hon. William Walter\\nPhelps, afterward minister of the United Stated to Austria, Vincent\\nTilyou, Charles Taylor, Henry A. Lyman, Uzal Cory, Stephen Lane,\\nJr., Hon. Cullin Sawtelle, and others.\\nAt a somewhat later day the following gentlemen and their families\\nbecame residents of Englewood: William A. Booth, widely known in\\ncommercial circles in the city of New York and in large benevolent\\nsocieties of the country, and president of the Third National Bank of\\nNew York; his son, William T. Booth: his brother, Charles H. Booth;\\nand his son-in-law, J. Hugh Peters, H. A. Barling, James L. Dawes,\\nOliver H. Shepherd, S. Doughty, the Rev. Dr. George B. Cheever, John\\nand Augustus Floyd, J. H. Selleck, Clinton H. Blake, William Stanley,\\nCharles T. Chester, Josejih Toyman, S. Hinckley Lyman, William Blakie.\\nD. Randolph Martin, Thomas M. Wheeler, Charles W. Hassler, R. L\\nHunter, etc.\\nP roni among tliis list of the earlier settlers in Englewood death has\\nalready gathered an .ihundant harvest.\\nnoTi-:i.s.\\nThe only pul)lic means of communication with New York in earlier\\ntimes was by omnibus, which left I^iberty Pole Tavern every day,\\nSundays excepted, at se\\\\en o clock in the morning, reaching Hoboken\\nat ten o clock. In the afternoon it reached Englewood on the return\\ntrip at four o clock. r.,ong loud blasts from a tin horn, by the driver,\\nannounced its approach to the places along the way, and from which\\nwas gathered in the course of the trip, a mixed company of travelers.\\nOccasionally there would be a full load of people aboard, but more\\nfrequently the bus would start out with but one or two passengers\\nfor the journey. I-/iberty Pole Tavern was the princi])al hotel in\\nEnglewood and known far and wide for years.,\\nEnglewood House was built in 1860, and a small hotel near the\\nstation was opened at the same time. Mr. Kingsley was the first pro-\\nprietor of the Englewood House. In 1869 the Palisade Mountain House\\nwas erected by Senator Lydecker in connection with William B. Dana,\\neditor of Financial Chronicle. Unfortunately this elegant structure\\nwas burned in 1871. The proi)erty is now owned by W. O. Allison.\\nThere are two hotels at this time in the city for the accommodation of\\nthe traveling public, and a number of places for the accommodation of\\nboarders durinir the heated season.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0637.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0638.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY S tl\\nSCHOOI,.S.\\nMr. J. W. Deuel, one of the most th(irou!j;h and successful teachers\\nBergen county has ever had, established the first private school in\\nEnglewood, using one part of his house for that purpose. Mr. Deuel\\nhad been engaged in teaching the district school in the Neighbor-\\nhood, and foreseeing a demand for a select school, erected his dwelling\\nhouse to serve that purpose. Mr. Deuel was greatly beloved, and pos-\\nsessing fine abilities as a teacher, he became the instructor of men now\\nengaged in the active pursuits and professions, who prepared for busi-\\nness and college under his tuition. It was in the schoolroom of this\\nbuilding, the Rev. James H. Dwight began to preach to a small congre-\\ngation, which was the nucleus of the first Presbyterian Church.\\nA school for young ladies had been started by S. S. Norton in the\\nformer residence of Dominie Demarest, and before the end of the year\\n1S59, the town had both a church and a school.\\nThe Seminary for young ladies was still further enlarged and passed\\nunder the control and management of Professor Jonathan A. Fowler\\nand Rev. W. B. Dwight, brother of the pastor, being succeeded by the\\nRev. Thomas G. Wall, who maintained the school until the building\\nwas accidentally burned.\\nAn advanced school for boys, which educated many of the youth of\\nthe place, was established by Prof. August Kursteiner who also opened\\na boarding school m Palisade Avenue west of the railroad, which he\\nccmducted with assistants, until ISSO.\\nDWICHT SCHOOL FOK CrlKI.S.\\nThe modern Dwight School for Girls has been under the princi])al-\\nship of Miss E. S. Creighton and Miss E. W. Farrar since 18.S The\\nschool is well attended, and its course is adapted to suit the admission\\nrequirements of any college open to women. Miss (ierrish s Collegiate\\nSchool for Girls has long been a leading school for young ladies of this\\nplace, also.\\nenc;lkwo()1) school fok boys.\\nThe Englewood School for Boys was incorjxirated in September,\\n1840. The building is situated on an attractive site, and contains five\\nrecitation rooms and a large, well-ventilated assembly room.\\nThe course of study covers seven years, the object being to meet the\\nrequirements for admission to the foremost colleges and scientific schools.\\nThe military drill is one provisioned for physical development, the\\nfatigue suit of the United States army officers being the uniform used.\\nMr. E. A. Brinkerhoft is president of the Hoard of Trustees and Mr.\\nJohn B. Parsons principal of the school.\\nlIia.ICON HALL.\\nHelicon Hall, situated on Woodland Street, is probably the most\\nunique educational institution in the country. The building, designed\\nby the principal. Dr. J. W. Craig, is a harmonious adaptation of various", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0639.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "592 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\narchitectural desig-QS. The pictures, statuary, a palm garden, a Greek\\ntheatre, and many other features emphasize the individuality of the\\ninstitution.\\nWithin the city limits tliere are four public schools, with an attend-\\nance in all of some six hundred and fifty children. The force of teach-\\ners is larg-e and the course of study liberal and C(jmprehensive. Improve-\\nments and changes have recently been made in the school buildings.\\nPO.ST OFFICE.\\nPostal facilities have been given the people of this vicinity from\\nthe time of John Van Brunt, who was the first postmaster in\\nEnglewood. He also kept the first grocery store. During his term of\\noffice, mail was distributed from Liberty Pole tavern. Following came\\nJohn F. Vanderbeck, J. W. Deuel, Gilbert W. Chamberlain who had\\nthe office in the dep(it H. C. Jackson, John H. Ackerman, Frank H.\\nDemarest, Alexander Livingston and James Harris, the present post-\\nmaster, whose commission dates from December 15th, 1897. The office\\nmaintains a free delivery, four letter carriers, and a money order depart-\\nment.\\nThe Citizens National Bank was founded in IS d). Donald Mackay,\\npresident; Charles B. Piatt, vice-president; Fred. H. Hoffman, cashier.\\nIt has a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. The present t)fficers\\nare: Donald Mackav, jjresident; Clinton H. Blake, vice-president; Char-\\nles F. Park, Cashier.\\nNEWSPAPEKS.\\nEnglewood is reaping the benefits derived from two newspapers,\\npublications in both instances issued without bias or affiliation with any\\nother interest save that of the public, in the place in which they are\\npublished. The first of these enterprises ha d its orig-in in the Bergen\\nCounty Journal, a Union paper, but went down in 1S( I). In the fall of\\n18()1 Mr. Eben Winton and C. C. Burr, started the Bergen County\\nDemocrat. Mr. Winton becoming sole owner in 1862. March 1874 the\\nEnglewood Times was started by Eben Winton and successfully\\nmaintained as an independent first-class local newspaper. In 1879 No. 1,\\nVol. 1, of the Englewood Standard, was issued by Tillotson Litch-\\nenberg, proprietors. This paper growing in popularity and financial\\nprosperity under the able management of Mr. Tillotson, is now published\\nunder the name of the Englewood Times Publishing Company. Charles\\nHuckin, manager. They bought the plant in 1895.\\nMr. Huckin was born in Englewood, April 17, 1871. His experi-\\nence in Journalism began with the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, a\\nNew York publication which was continued three years. He was a\\nmember and secretary of the Board of Education 1897-98, is a member of\\nthe Natiimal Guard, also of the I. O. F., belonging to Hackensack\\nHope Encampment.\\nThe Englewood Press was started l)y Mr. Joseph H. Tillots(m\\n1890. It has steadily jfone forward confining attention to the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0640.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK KKKCIEN COUNTY S o\\nnews of the day. kee])inir pace with the demands (if the times, and the\\nneeds of an ever i^rowintf citv. In order to meet the exii^eneies ol a\\nhiri^-e i)atronag-e Mr. Tillotsoh erected and equipped a huildinii- in all\\nrespects suitable for his business and is in jiossession of one of the Ijest\\nplants of the kind in the county. Mr. Tillotson is (uie iif the public\\ns])irited citizens of Englewood, and his name frequently occurs in the\\naffairs of the city. His ])a]ier is one id the land marks of Bcrt;-eu countv.\\nTUSCAX T.ODCK, I AN I) M. NO. 11.=\\nTuscan Lodg-e F. and A. M. No. 115, was chartered January l\\n1S71. First officers were: Peter Rogers, W. M., John E. Wertz, S. W.;\\nW. C. Dayies, P. M.; Moses R. Springer, treasurer; Alexander Cass,\\nsecretary; Jno. H. Hyde, S. D.; Saml. Salters, J. D. Jacob Campbell and\\nJos. Conklin, Master of Ceremonies; Jno. W. Dale, Tyler. Theoiiticers for\\n1899, are: Edw. Koster, P. M.. W. M.; Jas. W. Proctor, S. W.; M. Frank\\nVanderbeek, J. W.; John Tipper, treasurer; Robert J amieson, secretarj-;\\nJacob R. Demarest, P. M., S. L).; John A. Campbell, J. D.; George E.\\nBearss, S. M. C; Byron (i. an Ilorne, J. M. C; Moses E. Springer,\\nP. M., Chaplain; Francis W. Phelps, P. M., Marshall; Philip M.\\nWeidig, Organist; Peter Martin, Tyler.\\nThe Past Masters are: William C. Dayies, Moses E. Springer,\\nWilliam Bennett, Daniel A. Currie, Robert Steyenson. John M. Booth,\\nJacob R. Demarest, James Harris, Francis \\\\V. Phelps, Edward Koster.\\nThere are about sixty-fiye members.\\nENflI.EWOOD I.ODdK N O. 1 7. I. O. K.\\nThis Lodge was instituted October 25. iSS.i. It now has a member-\\nship of ninety-three. Its first oflicers were S. I. Demarest, N. G.,\\nAlbert H. Clark, V. O.; Ahin S. Conklin. R. S.; John H. Ackerman;\\nF. S.; Henry West, treasurer.\\nThe officers for iS C) are Charles Brucker, N. C; James M. Gulnac,\\nG.; J. E. Demarest, R. S. S. I. Demarest. F. S.; John M. Foley,\\ntreasurer.\\np,\\\\i.is.\\\\nE coi NCiL, ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0(:)^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.\\\\I. akcanitm, no. 1135.\\nTliis beneficiary order was incorporated under Massachusetts laws in\\nNovemljer 1877. The society is secret in part, but founded with un-\\nselfish motives, and upon strict business principles and has all the facili-\\nties for successfully promoting its objects.\\nThe Society was organized March 27, i88 Its regents to the\\npresent time are: 1889, C. O. Dewey; 90, R. P. Wortendyke, 91, C. L.\\nVanderbeek; 92, George Lounsbury; 9.^, M. Mattison; 94, T. H.\\nHaring; 95, John Demarest; 96, E. S. Richards; 97, Jacob R. Demarest;\\n9S, F. Meyerhoff; 99, G. W. Springer.\\ndwi(_;ht post, no. 1().\\\\ i;. a. iv\\nThis Post was organized March 25, 1S87. It was named for the\\nRey. James H. Dwight who served in the Union Army both as a sohlier\\nand as chaplain.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0641.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "594 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nTHE women s exchange.\\nThe Women s Exchange was organized in 1887. Mrs. Samuel Dun-\\ncan, was first President.\\nCOMP.\\\\NY F.\\nThis company was mustered into the United States service at Sea\\nGirt on May 14, 1S )8, having been ordered to that place on April 27.\\nOn May 25, the}- were ordered to Jacksonville, Florida, where they\\nremained until about September 1st, when the company was removed to\\nPablo Beach, Florida, and from which point they were ordered North\\nand mustered out of service November 17, 1898.\\nEvery company in the Regiment had some deaths save Company F,\\nwhich escaped without the loss of a single man. In the department of\\nrifle practice Company F ranks seventh in the State, while, according\\nto the last adjutant-general s report, it was the only company in the\\nregiment which received a superior mark for efficiency at the annual\\ninspection. Public drills are held in the Armory every Monday night.\\nIn addition to the active members of the company it numbers among its\\nhonorary members all of our city s best and most public-spirited citizens.\\nCaptain Frank S. DeRonde the present commander of the company\\njoined the National Guard in June, 1888, as a private; was made a\\ncorporal in 1890; sergeant in 1892; second lieutenant in 1895; captain\\nin 1S97. The company is comjjosed of the representative young men of\\nEnglewood.\\nTHE ENGLEWOOD MUTU.VL LOAN BUn,D!N(; AS.SOCI ATION.\\nThe Englewood Mutual Loan Building Association was organized\\nMay 7th, 1887, and incorporated under the laws of the state of New\\nJersey May 16th. Its first officers were: Samuel M. Riker, president;\\nR. S. Maugham, vice-president; Henry Jones, treasurer; William J.\\nM. Byrn, secretary. Samuel M. Riker remained president of the\\nAssociation until his death which occurred November 6th, 1898. Mr.\\n(iarrv Vanderbeck was elected vice-president June 18th, 1889, and still\\nholds that position, having also acted as president since Mr. Riker s\\ndeath. M. E. Springer was elected secretary September 5th, 1890, and\\nhas continued to serve in that capacity to the present time. George\\nH. Payson was elected treasurer, at the annual meeting June 18th.\\n1889, and still holds that position.\\nThe present officers are: Garry Vanderbeck, vice-president and\\nacting president M. E. Springer, secretary George H. Payson.\\ntreasurer Robert B. Taylor, William C. Davies, R. A. Gorham, Alfred\\nP. Thud, Albert Grasing, John S. Westervelt, Jacob R. Demarest, F.\\nW. Phelps, Andrew D. Bogert, Garret Fenton, John Tipper, Carl Hall-\\nlierg, directors.\\nTHE ENGLEWOOD I.IBKAKV.\\nThe Englewood Library was organised in June 1S )0. It wasstarte l\\nbv a number of public spirited gentlemen, among whom should be men-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0642.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTS 595\\ntioncd Dr. DHiiiel Wise. Dr. Henry M. B(\u00c2\u00bbitli, Mr. E. A. Brinkerli.iff.\\nDwi^^-ht A. J jnes and Clinton H. Blake.\\nLife memberships to the number of seventeen at a cost of two hun-\\ndred dolhirs each, were obtained and the monev thus secured was ap])lied\\nto the purchase of l)ool s. There are now six thousand four hundred\\nvolumes in the liljrarv.\\nThe officers for 1S \u00c2\u00bb2- were: President, Rev. Daniel Wise, D. D.;\\nVice President, Elbert A. Brinkerholf; Secretary, Clinton H. Blake;\\nTreasurer, Donald Mackay Librarian, Miss Anna L. Waterbury.\\nThe present officers are: Dwig-ht A. Jones, president; E. A. Brinck-\\nerhoff, vice-president; C. H. Blake, Secretary; Donald Mackay, treas-\\nurer; Harriet R. Prosser, librarian.\\nTHE ENGI.EWOOD KIE7.D CI.X B.\\nThis club was orifanized June ^O, 1887, at which time the following\\nofficers were elected: President, Dwio-ht A. .Tones; Vice-president, D. W.\\nEvans; Secretary and Treasurer, John E. Curran.\\nArticles were filed soon after in the County Clerks office. An\\nadmirable field on Eng-le street was rented for a term of vears with\\nprivileg e of purchasing- the land at a fixed price, and a contract awarded\\nfor putting the grounds in order for baseball, lawn tennis, archery and\\nwheelmen. On Saturday July 1887, the manag-ers opened the new\\ngrotxnd imformally the feature of interest beingf a ball g-ame between\\na team from the Eng lewood Field Club and the Rutherford Wheelmen.\\nWith great energy and in a remarkably short time D. L. Barrett,\\ncontractor, put the grounds in order, having them graded and rolled.\\nA baseball diamond was laid out, cm the north side, a cricket ground on\\nthe east side, with four earth tennis courts on the south, and behind the\\ntennis courts high wire nettings were placed. Two entrances from the\\nstreet for carriages were made, and seats for spectators arranged.\\nThere was also a handsome little clubhouse erected containing- lockers\\nfor the use of the members, a bathroom, and a reception room furnished\\nwith chairs and tables and with curtains at the windows. From a forty-\\nfoot staff the colors of the Club, a beautiful streamer presented bv the\\nladies, floated to the breeze.\\nThe grounds were formally opened to the public by a tennis tourna-\\nment begun on Thursday August 2fHh, 1887, ending on Saturday fol-\\nlowing.\\nThe Club is well equipped for every kind of out door and indoor\\nrecreation. The ground in level as a floor and for tennis or baseball,\\ncricket or golfing, is as fine as any in the state. They also have bowl-\\ning alleys, skating ponds and other accommodations for indoor sports.\\nThere are now over five hundred members belonging to the Club,\\nand the total receipts for the year 1898, amounted to six thousand seven\\nhundred and fortj^-eight dollars, and thirty-six cents. The officers for\\nthe year 1899 are: President, William Dulles, Jr.; ice-President,\\nDavid W. Cory; Secretary, Augustus Duryea; Treasurer, Charles J.\\nPeabodv.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0643.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "596 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nThe Golf Club has its own links and its own club-house, both of\\nwh-ich are models of their kiud. The membership is larg e and the\\nstanding of the club is excellent in every particular.\\nA Bicycle Club holds regular meets in the season and has matle\\nexceptionally line runs. One of the more recent organizations is the\\nCamera Club, which has its head(iuarters on Engle Street.\\nEXC;i,EWOOD GOLF CH B.\\nThe Englewood Golf Club owns a piece of land between Englewood\\nand Nordholf. A Golf Club was formed early in 1896, a club house was\\nerected and a course laid out by Harrj- Stark. Sixty-one men and fifty-\\none woman joined the club the first Season. In 1897 fifty acres more\\nland was leased and a handsome Club house erected. The organization\\nhas now over two hundred and fifty members. Thoinas Thatcher is\\npresident.\\nENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL.\\nThis hospital at Englewood was organized on the 7th of May,\\nl.SS.S, at the residence of Mr. Sheppard Homans. Mr. William Blaikie\\nhaving been called to the chair the following officers for the ensuing\\nyear were elected: President, Mrs. Sheppard Homans; Vice-President,\\nMr. S. G. Clarke; Treasurer, Mr. C. F. Park; Secretary, Miss Adeline\\nSterling. Standing committees were then appointed on Domestic Affairs.\\nMedicines, and Comforts for the sick, on Visiting and on Finance.\\nMr. Peck, Mr. Frendenthal, Mrs. Currie, Dr. Pianks and Dr. Wells were\\nappointed a committee to secure a suitable building for the hospital, or\\nland for the same. On May 7, 1888, steps were taken to secure the\\npresent grounds which extend from Engle street to the Railroad, and\\nsoon after the present building was erected by A. D. Bogert, builder, at\\na cost of about five thousand dollars.\\nIn 1896 a Training School was opened and the tirst class of trained\\nnurses graduated in that year.\\nThe Englewood Hospital has never stood still since its opening,\\nand is becoming a larger and better equipped institution every year of\\nits existence. The citizens of Englewood have always taken a deep\\ninterest in its welfare, and generous gifts of money, delicacies for the\\nsick, and comforts for the injured have always been freely and graciously\\nbestowed\\nThe number of patients treated during the year 1898 was three\\nhundred. Total expenses for nursing in the hospital was S(),^7(l.f 7. The\\ntotal receipts were $7()88.() t.\\nPresident, Mrs. Clinton H. Blake; Vice-President, Mrs. J. O. Cle-\\nphane; Secretary, Lewis Dawes; Treasurer, George P. Payson; Attend-\\ning Phvsicians and Surgeons, D. A. Currie, M. D.; J. A. Wells, M. D.;\\nJ. W. B. Lansing. M. D.; J. W. Proctor. M. D.; Consulting Physician,\\nE. L. Partridge, M. D.; Consulting Surgeon, L. A. Stimson, M. D.;\\nC(msulting Oculist. J. M. Emerson, ^L D.; Resident Physician, Dr.\\nHelen A. Lord.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0644.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKKGHN COUNTY 507\\nHACKKXSACK WATIiK COMPANY.\\nWater was introduced into Eni^-lewood in tS.Si). In April 1S,S7, the\\nHackensack Water Company began to lay mains through the streets of\\nEng-lewood for the new water supply, at which time also it was agreed\\nby the Town Committee that forty lire hydrants should be built in June\\nof that year, the pipes having been laid, the New Milford Water became\\na hxed fact.\\nThe citizens next formed the Knglewood Sewerage Association, and\\non July yth of that year it was found that one hundred subscriptions\\nhad been given to the stock of the company, amounting to twenty-three\\nthousand dollars. The tirst directors (d this association elected were:\\nJacob S. Wetmore, president; Herbert I Turner, tirst vice-president;\\nOliver Drake Smith, secretary and treasurer.\\nThe separate flushing system was put into use, allowing only the\\nhouse waste from kitchens, closets, etc., to be drained oil. Six miles of\\nsmall pipes were laid, fifteen flush tanks and ninety manholes and venti-\\nlators were then built for tlie inspection of the interior of the main pipes.\\nIn the Company s building is a taj) made in twenty-four inch main\\nDecember 1, 18 \u00c2\u00bb2. Charles B. IJrush, chief engineer, was largely\\ninstrumental in securing water for the city. There are now twelve\\nhundred consumers. The officers are: Robert W. De Forest, president;\\nE. A. Stevens, treasurer; William Shii)])en, secretary; D. W. French,\\nsuperintendent. Charles H. llrush, the former engineer and superinten-\\ndent, died June 1S )7.\\nTHK KN(;i,i :w()ui) Mivi association.\\nMonday evening, Octolier Idth. 1.SS7, citizens of Englewood lielil\\ntheir first meeting, with Oliver Drake Smith as chairman, to take meas-\\nures against loss by lire. On November 11th they met again to form\\nand incorporate a Hose Company. Among tliose prominent in tlie\\nmovement were Donald Mackay, W. D. Terry, John E. Miller, Jacol)\\nTaylor, John H. Ackerman, Oliver Drake Smith, Joseph H. Tillotson,\\nH. M. Banks, Charles C. Townsend, (ieorge R. Dutton. On November\\n24th Donald Mackay was elected president of tlie Association; Oliver\\nDrake Smith, secretary; the Ooverning Board consisting of Donald\\nMackay, Oliver Drake Smith, W. O. Terry, Dr. D. A. Currie, C. F.\\nPark, George R. Dutton, J. B. ]5urdett, Fred Hoist, J. F. Fitschen.\\nJacob Taylor was elected Foreman and Charles C. Townsend Assistant\\nForeman. The Associaticm purchased two jumpers with one thousand\\nfeet (d hose, ti\\\\e truck ladders, buckets and other equipments. They\\nalso decided to build a truck house with a tower C(mtaining an alarm\\nl)ell.\\nBKKOEN CO^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0NT^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 OAS COMPANY.\\nBergen County Gas Company introduced gas into the town in 1S(\\ncharging first S3. 50 per thousand feet. The tirst oflieers of this com-\\n])anv were, Treasurer, W^illiani King; Superintendent, Sanniel Gold.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0645.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "598 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT.\\nThe protection of the citizens of Enfjlewood, bej^an first in an\\nAssociation formed April 25, 1869, known as the Eng-lewood Protection\\nSociety, James \\\\V. McCulloh, president. The Society has been one of\\nthe most effective ones in existence. The officers for 1899 are: Presi-\\ndent and Special Police Justice, Donald Mackay; Vice-president, C. H.\\nBlake; Secretary and Treasurer, Charles F. Park; City Marshal,\\nCharles C. Townsend.\\nArmed as it is with police authority by the state, and sustained by\\nthe pet)ple, this association has proven a protection indeed ag-ainst all\\nsorts of evil doers, arrests by the thousands having been made since its\\nexistence.\\nThe protection of the citivezs of Eng-lewood is intrusted to six\\npatrolmen under James A. Turhune, Chief of Police, and John T,\\nMarkam, Sergfeant. The Police Board is under the control of the City\\nCouncil, E. A. Brlnckerhoff, president; Ernest T. Fellows, recorder,\\nCornelius Lydecker, clerk.\\nBKOOKSinE CEMETERY.\\nIn 1876, this site then a wild barron spot, filled with chestnut,\\ndogwood and wild cedars, was purchased for a place of burial. The gfrounds\\nhave recently been enlargfed, and under the charge of its superinten-\\ndent, Moses E. Springer, has been made one of the beautiful i)laces of\\nits kind in the county.\\nENGLEWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.\\nThis church is located on Palisades Avenue and is one of the most\\nbeautiful and most costly church structures in the county.\\nThe chapel of this denomination once stood on the site of the pres-\\nent church. It was completed in 1860 and twice enlarged, but after ten\\nyears was found too small as a place of worship, and was removed stone\\nby stone and re-erected within the cemetery grounds. Funeral services\\nare now held there at the departure of the dead to their graves. Then,\\ntoo, it will stand a memorial edifice of the first church ever built in\\nEnglewood. The new edifice is constructed of red and white sandstone.\\nJ. Wvman Jones and I. Smith Homans, Jr., gave the land on which the\\nchurch stands. Mr. Jones prepared and circulated the subscription\\npapers for the needed funds to build the church. A building committee\\nconsisting of Messrs. Jones, W. R. Vermilye, George S. Coe, James Van-\\nderbeck and Jeffrey A. Humphry with Mr. Jones as chairman, was\\nappointed June 29, 1S68, The first meeting of this committee to\\norganize, was held July 4, 1869, and a report of the building completed\\nwas made October 24, 1870, its entire cost, exclusive of bell, but inclu-\\nsive of furniture, being forty-nine thousand, seven hundred, forty-five\\ndollars and sixty-six cents. David Hoadley presented the organ at a\\ncost of three thousand six hundred dollars. The bell cost fifteen hun-\\ndred dollars and was the gift of Colonel W. R. ermilye. After the\\ncoin])letion of the church the chajiel was rcmo\\\\-ed to the cemetery by", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0646.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 599\\nMrs. Emily Brinkcrhoff, the only daui;-hter of Colonel Washington R.\\nX ermilve, in memory of her father.\\nThe eighteen persons forming this ehureh have been members\\nfrom various denominational churches, as follows: seven from the\\nMadison Square Presbyterian Church, New York city; three from the\\nChurch of the Pilg-rims, Brooklyn, Congregational two from the\\nWestminister Presbyterian Church, Utica, N. Y., two from the Reformed\\nDutch Church. Utica three from the Reformed Church of English\\nNeighborhood; and one from Reformed Dutch Church, Hoboken. James\\nHarrison Dwight, the first pastor was a son of the missionary to\\nTurkey, Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, D. D., and was born on the island of\\nMalta, October 9, 18.^0. He left Turkey at seventeen, was graduated at\\nYale College in 1852, and thence attended medical lectures in the\\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons and the Union Theological Semi-\\nnary in the New York city. Afterwards he preached in Cherry Valley,\\nin New York, and in 1859 in Englewood.\\nMr. Dwight was possessed of great natural abilities, which were\\nquickened and greatly aided by a most accomplished education in two\\nprofessions. He was carried away by consumption, dying on the 2d of\\nDecember, 1872, and sleeps in the be.iutiful little cemetery at Engle-\\nwood, lamented by his own church and people of the town, who will\\nlong revere his memory.\\nThe first pastor of this church took up liis residence in the place\\nearly in 1859, and held public services on each Lord s day, with the\\npurpose of gathering the nucleus of a congregation. In this he was\\ncordiall}- sustained by the original inhabitants of the valle} who gladly\\nopened their houses for divine worshij) until, towards the close of the\\nyear, a more suitable room was i)ro\\\\iiled in the newly-erected school-\\nhouse of Mr. James W. Deuel.\\nIn the meantime, as the c(mgregation enlarged and interest\\nincreased, a sum of money was raised by subscription sufficient to build\\na chapel, the foundations of which were laid in the fall of the year.\\nIn March of 18()0 this chapel was completed, and the first service\\nheld on the 25th of that month, when a dedicatory sermon was preached\\nfr(mi the text, My name shall be there.\\nThus it became the first church of Englewood, and first Presby-\\nterian Church of Bergen county.\\nThe following individuals were elected as lirst officers of the\\nchurch: Elders, Charles A. Nichols, James X anderbeck. Sheitjiard\\nHomans; Deacons, John Dc Mott, J. Wyman Jones.\\nAt the first worshiping in the chapel the congregation numbered\\nfrom seventy to one hundred.\\nOn the tirst day of May, 1S()7, the lirst pastor resigned liischarge_\\ntaking leave with sorrow of a warm-hearted and affectionate i eo])le.\\nand of an enterprise with which his affections and labors had been\\nidentilied from the betiinning.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0647.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "600 HISTOKY OF BEKGKN COUNTY\\nAfter an interval of only a few weeks the church and congrega-\\ntion voted unanimously to extend a call to Rev. Henry M. Booth, of\\nNew York. This was prosecuted in due form through the Fourth Pres-\\nbytery, and accepted. Whereupon, on the I Hh of September, 1867, Mr.\\nBooth was duly ordained and installed as second pastor of the Engle-\\nwood Presbyterian Church.\\nUnder the pastorate of I\\\\Ir. Booth, the church prospered and en-\\nlarged both in numbers and in the administration of Christian labors\\nand charities. His excellent services as a pastor and most capable\\npreacher closed in 1891, when he was succeeded by the Rev. James\\nEells, who in turn was followed March 1st. 1S )8, by the present pastor,\\nthe Rev. Samuel M. Hamilton.\\nThe present officers of the church are: -Elders Henrv W. Banks,\\nElbert A. Brinkerhoff, Henry Jones, Charles F. Park. J. Hugh Peters,\\nL. V. Davis(m, Frederick B. Schenck. (iarrv anderbeck, Edwin M.\\nBulkley.\\nDeacons: (icorge H. Payson, John W. Pitkin, Stuart IvVinan. John\\nF. Fitschen, C. D. Kerr, Theodore L. Peters.\\nThe West Side Presbyterian Church is a branch of the First Pres-\\nbyterian Church of Englewood, and was formed in 1S97. the Rev. Paul\\nA. Junkin pastor.\\nThe Scientists have also recently organized a society in the city\\nwhich is growing rapidly.\\nThe Highwood Chapel service Committee organized for 1899 with\\nthe following officers J. C. Thomson, chairman; George Baker, secre-\\ntary; N. V. Ketchum, treasurer.\\nENGLEWOOD METHODIST EPI.SCOP.\\\\I. CHl KCH.\\nThis organizaticm took its rise in the Summer of 1859, but it was\\nnot until 1862 that a church building was erected for worship, with the\\nRev. Daniel Wise, D. D., as pastor. It was largely through Dr. Wise s\\nenterprise and generosity that the tasteful edifice was constructed. The\\ndedicatory services were conducted by the late Bishop Edmund S. Janes\\nin December, 1863. Succeeding Dr. Wise, came the Rev. E. Hewitt,\\nwhose brief pastorate was followed by that of the Rev. Henry M.\\nSimpson, A. M., a graduate of Wesleyan University. In 18()() the\\nRev. James B. Faulks became pastor; in 1869, Rev. Edson W. Burr, A.\\nM. now a trustee of Wesleyan University. During Mr. Burr s term an\\naddition was made to the church edifice at a cost of S5000, and the new\\nthoroughly furnished. The Rev. John Coyle, M. D., was his successor,\\nremaining in charge one year, when the Rev. Sylvester Bebout was ap-\\npointed in 1873. He occupied the pulpit until 1876, and was succeeded\\nbv the Rev. James W. Marshall, D. D., now of Camden, N. J. The\\nRev. C. E. Walton followed in 1879, and his successor in 188(\u00c2\u00bb was the\\nRev. J. (t. Johnston who remained three years. From 1883 to 1886, the\\nRev. Joseph W. Dally ministered to the congregation, when he was\\nsucceed by the Rev. N. Wallin Clark in the latter year. Mrs. Clark is", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0648.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY ()01\\na well known autliDress, now rcsidini^ in Italy, where Prof. Clark occn-\\npies a chair in the Methodist Theological School at Rome. Rev. E. H.\\nConklin was the next pastor, appointed in 1 S!S9. In 1891 the Rev. Olin\\nB. Coit was minister, who was followed in 1S by the Rev. E. S. Jami-\\nson, Ph. D. In 1895 the Rev. James I Boswell. I). 1)., became pastor,\\nwho in turn was succeeded by the present incumbent, .Toseph \\\\V. Dally,\\nwho is serving his second term in this cong-regation.\\nThe present officers of the Church are Moses E. Springer, Rufus A.\\nGorham, Henry C. Jackson, George W. Springer, (ieorge G. Weeks,\\nIsaiah Huson, Robert Taylor, Jacob R. Demarest, Gilbert Gregory.\\nAdolph H. Engelke, Sherman C. .\\\\bramson, .lolin H. Baldwin and A.\\nL, Williams. M. E. Springer is president of the Board of Trustees; A.\\nH. Engelke is the superintendant of the Sunday School.\\nTHE CHKISTI.\\\\N KKFOKjMHD CHVKCII.\\nThe Christian Reformed Church was organized in Englewood April\\n1st, 1875. It was the outgrowth of the work of the Rev. John Y. De\\nBaun, of Hackensack, who started the organization by coming over to\\nEnglewood on Sundays and jjreaching to a circle of friends in Engle-\\nwood Hall, Leonia. At the end of two years Henry P. Demarest and\\nHannah Bogert, his wife; Margaret Demarest, wife of Cornelius Wester-\\nvelt; Sarah A. Bogert, widow, and Ellen Westervelt, wife of Peter R.\\nChristie; Rachel Cooper, widow of David J. Bogert, and a few others,\\norg-anized the church, with the Rev. John Calvin Voorhis as pastor.\\nA. D. Bogert, Catharine M. Demarest, Lettie Westervelt, wife\\nof Joseph E. Miller; Hester Demarest, wife of John D. Demarest,\\nhave been active members, also. The Hon. Thomas W. Demarest\\nwas the first elder; Richard Earle and Henry P. Demarest were the first\\ndeacons. The church was dedicated May 25th, 1875, the Rev. John Y.\\nDe Baun preaching the sermon. Rev. J. C. Voorhis was called August\\n12th, 1875, and remained twelve vears, his connection ceasing August\\n4th, 1887, when he accepted a call to Hackensack, where he is at the\\npresent time. He was followed by Revs. Abram Van Houten, March\\n1st, 1888, to April 25th, 1892; C. D. De Mott from 1892 to .\\\\pril 2d, 1895,\\nthe present pastor. Rev. E. Van Den Berge, coming March 1 7th, 1896,\\nand who preached his farewell sermon May 21st, 1899. There is a mem-\\nbership of about one hundred and twenty-five persons. Elders, John S.\\nWestervelt, Isaac A. Demarest; deacons, Abram Demarest, John A.\\nBogert.\\nTHE EPISCOPAL CHUKCII.\\nThe Episcopal Church was organized July 11, 18( 5. J^he first war-\\ndens were John H. Lyell, Charles T. Chester, William King, Richard\\nK. Coole, E. W. Andrews and Herbert Turner. The first rector was\\nRev. O. W. Whittaker, now Bishop of Pennsylvania. He was followed\\nby Revs. Mr. Benjamin, John H. Elliott, W. S. Langford, afterward\\ngeneral secretary of the Church at large he died in 18()7,- John", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0649.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "602 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nWilliam Pavre, James H. Van Buren, and the Rev. Charles F. Flicht-\\nner, the present pastor, who took charge January 1, 1888.\\nThe present Wardens of the church are W. E. Tillinghast, H. L.\\nCongdon. The church has a membership of four hundred and sixty\\ncommunicants. An elegant house of worship is about to be erected.\\nST. Cecelia s church.\\nCatholic services in Englewood were held in 1863-64 by Father\\nCoardly, followed by Rev. D. Corrigan of St. Mary s Church, Hoboken.\\nThen Father Brann took the pastorate and under his able direction the\\nchurch building was erected in 18b6 and under Father Smits was\\nenlarged in 1868. He was followed by A. J. Smits, T. J. McDonald. C.\\nJ. Feehan, A. E. Van Rich, A. M. Murphy. The Rev. A. J. Smits was\\nhere at different times covering a period of twenty years. The Rev. D.\\nT. O Malloy, O. C. C, came here the last time in 1897. He was gradua-\\nted in Dublin in 1873, came to America in 1874 when he was appointed\\nto work in Kentucky. From there he went to Niagara Falls, N. Y.,\\ncoming to Englewood first in 1885, leaving in 1889. Under his efficient\\nservices the church has reached a membership of about two thousand,\\nand is well equipped in various ways through organized effort to meet\\nthe needs of young men, the education of children and the spiritual\\nrequirements of all.\\nFather O Malloy is ably assisted by Fathers Fink, McDonald and\\nAngelus. He holds three masses on Sunday and two services are held\\nat Tenafly by the Rev. I. J. McDonald. A school of two hundred\\nchildren, under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, from Madison.\\nN. J., is ably maintained, and there is also a school of one hundred\\nchildren at Tenafly. A Catholic Club with a membership of two\\nhundred under the presidency of William Tierney, Jr., the Rev. I. J.\\nMcDonald, treasurer, and a board of governors, holds regular meetings\\nin the Lecture Hall and gives entertainments of various kinds for the\\nyoung and old. The club has a well appointed gymnasium and among\\nother equipments has one of the best bowling alleys to be found any-\\nwhere.\\nENGLEWOOD LODGE, NO. 103.\\nEnglewood Lodge, No. 103, Independent Order of Good Templars\\nwas instituted April 12th, 1870, with sixteen charter members: It is\\nalso an efficient organization having influenced during its time hun-\\ndreds, if not thousands of persons for good.\\nCITY OF ENGLEWOOD.\\nCity of Englewood March 10, 1896, the village of Englewood became\\na city by a vote of its citizens who favored the change, five hundred and\\nsixteen votes being cast for the incorporation and three hundred and\\ntwenty-eight votes against it. This election was held under the act\\nentitled, An Act authorizing any town, township or borough or part\\nthereof containing a population exceeding five thousand inhabitants to", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0650.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKCJEN COUNTY 603\\nbe incorporated as a city, after a vote by the people, and providing\\nthe g overnment and powers of such cities.\\nA special meeting of the township committee was called March 12,\\n1896, for the purpose of dividing the city into wards. Mr. Thomson\\noffered the following resolution:\\nThe Township Committee of the township of Englewood, pur-\\nsuant to the lifth section of the Act entitled An Act authorizing any\\ntown, township or borough, or part thereof, to be incorporated as a city,\\nafter a vote of the people, and providing for the government and powers\\nof such cities, approved March 22d, 1895, hereb}- divide the city of\\nEnglewood into four wards as follows. (Giving boundaries).\\nMr. Oliver Drake Smith was appointed Mayor; Mr. J. Hugh Peters\\nCouncilman from the first ward; Mr. James Harris Councilman from\\nthe second ward; Mr. Joseph Thomson Councilman from the third ward;\\nMr. Henry Birtwhistle Councilman from the fourth ward; City Clerk,\\nRobert Jamieson.\\nThe following is a list of the officers of the city of Englewood to\\nthe present time. Elected April 14th, 1896, Mayor, Daniel A. Currie\\nCity Clerk, Robert Jamieson; Receiver of Taxes, Thomas O Brien;\\nAssessor, Hezekiah Birtwhistle; Chosen Freeholder, James C. Ander-\\nson; Board of Excise, George S. Coe, Jr., George R. Van Brunt, James\\nM. Gulnac; Members of City Council, Leonard E. Curtis, Edward P.\\nCoe, Abram Tallman, William Scully; Board of Education, Huyler\\nBogert, Robert B. Taylor, Francis M. Demarest, Eugene M. Boeheim;\\nCommissioners of Appeals, Jacob S. Wetmore, Rufus A. Gorham, Walter\\nWestervelt, Ralph J. Demarest.\\nElected April 13th, 1897, Councilman first ward, unexpired term,\\nClinton H. Blake; Board of Education, Miss Adaline W. Sterling,\\nRobert B. Taylor, Joseph M. Cooper, Charles Huckin; Board of Excise,\\nGeorge H. Payson, Edward J. Irwin, Henry Booth, James M. Gulnac.\\nElected April 12th, 1898, Mayor, Daniel A. Currie; City Clerk.\\nRobert Jamieson; Receiver of Taxes, Thomas O Brien; Assessor, James\\nC. Thomson; Chosen Freeholder, Andrew D. Bogert; Members of City\\nCouncil, Oliver Drake Smith. Abram DeRonde, James F. Cooke, Heze-\\nkiah Birtwhistle; Board of Education, Miss Adaline W. Sterling; Board\\nof Excise, George H. Payson, M. Frank Vanderbeek, Frank D. Cana-\\nvello, Edward Ouirk.\\nElected April 11th, 1S99, Mayor, Elbert A. Brinkerhoft; Council-\\nman-at-large, John Dougherty; City Clerk, Robert Jamieson; Collector\\nof Taxes, Tho mas O Brien; Overseer of Poor, Hugh Smith; Chosen\\nFreeholder, William C. Davies; James M. Gulnac; Members of Com-\\nmon Council, James C. Anderson, Robert B. B. Taylor, Frederick L.\\nVorhees, John M. Booth; Assessors, Moses E. Springer, Edson B. Gor-\\nham, James C. Thomson, Henry Birtwhistle; Commissioners of Appeals,\\nJohn W. Pitkin, Garry Vanderbeek, Walter Westervelt, Edward\\nO Hara.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0651.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "f)04\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nJ. WVMAN JONES.\\nIt is always interesting- to trace the early life of men of energ-y\\nfor usually there will be found those surroundings which foster a vigor-\\nous and independent character. This is aptly illustrated in the life of\\nJ Wyman Jones. Born in the town of Enfield, N. H., he was subjected\\nthroughout boyhood to the hardy and healthy country life of New Eng-\\nland; and the rug:ged aspect of nature, the exhilarating winter, together\\nwith a ri -orous home training, combined to produce a strong and cour-\\nageous youth, eager for a conflict with the world. His father was a\\nst urdy New England justice, prominent in the affairs of his locality,\\nand several times a member of the State Legislature. His mother was\\na woman of genuine sweetness and refinement; a direct descendant of\\nthe famous Hannah Dustin. It was the desire of both parents to keep\\ntheir only son at home, but when his school career at Meriuen Academy\\nwas ended, he pressed onward to Dartmouth College, where he was ad-\\nmitted in \\\\s:^7. In his class were a son of Daniel Webster, Edward\\nWebster, who died in the Mexican war; Rev. Dr. Leonard Swain, of\\nNashua, N. H.. and Gardiner G. Hubbard, Esq., of Washington, D. C.\\nUpon graduation, in 1841, he could not be persuaded to locate at\\nhome and^although put wholly upon his own resources, he began the\\nstudy of la^v iaNew York city. In 1843 he was admitted to the New\\nYork bar, and foftwenty years followed his profession, the latter part\\nof the time af Utica, N. Y. Prior to his removal there he married\\nHarriet Dwight Dana, daughter of James Dana of Utica, and sister of\\nProfessor James D. Dana of Yale University, who survived until 1882.\\nAt Utica Mr. Jones made many warm friends in his profession, includ-\\nino- the late Justice William J. Bacon, Senator Kernan, Joshua Spencer,\\nand Senator Conkling. But advised by his physician that he must lead\\nan out-of-do.)r life, he reluctantly relinquished the practice of law to give\\nhimself to rural pursuits, alth..ugh still retaining his interest and mem-\\nbership in the New York bar. In 1S5S, by invation of a former client, then\\nen-a-ed in surveying the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, he made an\\nexamination of the prop..sed route, and being impressed by the natural\\nbeauty of the country, with characteristic daring determined to throw\\nhimself heartily into the developmeut of the regi(m where Englewood is\\nnow located. He spent the summer ,f 1S5S in securing property rights\\nfrom the ori-inal owners, and by the autumn of that year had control ot\\nnearly all the land now occupied by the village. He proceeded to lay\\nout the town to name its streets, and to procure a survey and map of its\\nterritory By the spring of 1859 he had moved his family to the new\\nplace and had gained for it the support of several valuable friends. In\\nthis same spring at a meeting of the residents, the name Englew.od.\\nsu- ^ested and advocated by him, was adopted. Since that time Mr.\\nJones has been prominent in the secular and religious life of Englewood,\\nand he still maintains a keen interest in its growth and welfare. He\\ni\u00e2\u0080\u009e ,\u00e2\u0080\u009ee M,-m..ri.-,l llismry of Ihe city of N.-w York and flu. Hudson Riv.T\\nV^llle", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0652.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "I\\n4iA.^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0653.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0654.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEK ;EN COUNTY 607\\nhas had the satisfactiun of seeiiiii- it develop pursuant to the g-oneral\\nplan formuhited liv himself, into a beautiful and progressive suburb of\\nNew York city. In 1S()5 Mr. Jones became president of the St. Joseph\\nLead Companv, a corporation manufacturinuf and mining- lead in the\\nstate of Missouri; and bv persistent energy he has raised the Company\\nto its present position as one of the largest lead producing concerns of\\nthe United States and the world. With this Lead Company are also\\nassociated a railway corporation having- a road forty-eig-ht miles in\\nlength, and a cattle and farming company transacting- a large business,\\nof both of which Mr. Jones is president. He is also president of the\\nDoe Run Lead Companv. During the thirty years of his presidency of\\nthe St. Joseph Lead Company, he has sjjent much of his time at the\\nmines of Missouri, where now there is a prosperous community. During\\nthis entire period there has never been a serious strike among the men\\nit having been one of the chief concerns of the company, under the\\nleadership of Mr. Jones, not inly t i treat its employees fairly, but also\\nto aid in every undertaking- which ])romised to contribute to their i)leas-\\nure, or their moral or physical welfare.\\nIn politics Mr. Jones has been a Kepublican since the days of the\\nI Vee Soil ]-iartv. At the outbreak of the civil war, while deep in his\\nwork at Englewood, he was an ardent Northerner, frequently speaking\\nat ])ublic meetings. He was many years Chairman of the Republican\\nCounty Executive Committee, and was chosen a delegfate-at-large from\\nthe State of New Jersey to the Presidential Convention of 1.S72. In\\nlS7 i he was elected a delegate to the State Convention by the Engle-\\nwood Republicans after he had declared himself friendly to Senator\\nConkling-, and opposed to Hon. James (i. Blaine, and subsequently by\\nthe State Ccmvention was elected a delegate to the Presidential Con-\\nvention at Cincinnati. There, with five other New Jersey delegates, he\\nrefused to vote for Mr. IJlaine, and voted on the first and every ballot\\nfor Mr. Hayes, who was nominated by the Convention. While this\\ncourse was distasteful to the Blaine adherents, so far as Mr. Jones was\\nconcerned it was in accord with the declarations he had jireviously\\nmade, and with the decision of his Englewood constituents. In late\\nyears he has taken no .-ictive i)art in politics, but maintains a loyal\\nadherence to his party, and an earnest concern for the country s pros-\\nperity.\\nPersonally Mr. Jones is a courtly gentleman who is thoroughly\\nAmerican, and he counts his friends among all classes of men. He\\npossesses a keen insight into human nature, and judges quickly and\\naccurately. He is reserved in manner and refined in his tastes. In 1 SS()\\nhe married Mrs. Salome Hanna Chapin, of Cleveland, Ohio. During\\nthe winter season they reside at Thomasville, (leorgia, where they have\\na vSouthern home of rare attractiveness, and where Mr. Jones has inter-\\nested himself in the development both of the aesthetic and the practical\\nsides of the town. They also have a charming summer home at Bolton\\nMassachusetts.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0655.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "608 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nHON. JOHN VAN BRUNT.\\nHon. John Van Brunt was one of the promotors of the Northern\\nRailroad, and a resident of Eng-lewood Township from 1834 to the time\\nof his death June 20, 187 He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. February\\n17, 1802, and before coming to Englewood was engaged in the grocery\\nbusiness in West Street, New York, for eight years. In 1830 he mar-\\nried Margaret daughter of Peter Westeryelt, Jr., of Englewood, and\\nfour years later took up his residence on the farm where he resided until\\nhis decease.\\nHe took an especial interest in the cause of Education and the\\noffice of Town Superintendent was filled by him from 1847 to 18( 7-\\nor during the whole time the provision made by that law was in\\nexistence. He was one of the organizers of the Bergen County Mutual\\nAssurance Association; was a member of the State Senate from 1S4 to\\n1853 and held other positions of trust.\\nDR. H.\\\\KDV M. BANKS.\\nDr. Hardy M. Banks, the youngest of five children was born on\\nAugust 1 830 at Murfresboro, N. C. His father Hardy M. Banks, was\\na planter at Murfresboro, where his son was educated. He died there\\nin 1 84 1. In i846 young Banks began the study of medicine in the office\\nof Dr. James B. Gilbert of Savannah, Ga., and one and a half years\\nafterwards entered the office of Dr. John F. Gray a leading homeo-\\npathic physician of New York city. He was gratuated from the Medi-\\ncal Department of the University of the City of New York in i84*\\nNot being of age at the time of his graduation Dr. Banks went to Paris\\nand attended the lectures of the Faculty of Medicine for two years,\\nand attended lectures of that famous writer on medical therapeutics.\\nDr. Trousseau, a professed believer in the palliative treatment of\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\llopathy.\\nIn 1 852 Dr. Banks received his diploma from the University of the\\nCity of New York and at once entered upon the practice of his profes-\\nsion in that city, and soon afterwards became associated with Dr. A. D.\\nWilson, a leading homeopath with wht)m he remained until i860. In\\nthe summer of i860 he k)cated in Englewood. Dr. Banks is very popu-\\nlar and was president of the Protection Society of the villiage for a\\nnumber of years.\\nDR. D. A. CURKIK.\\nDr. D. A. Currie, Mayor of Englewood, was born October 1(1, 1.S42, at\\nSearsville, N. Y. In 1857 he entered as a student in the office of Dr.\\nSanford Eastman, of Buffalo, N. Y., and attended lectures at the\\nMedical University of Buffalo, where he was graduated in 1863. He\\nafterwards studied at Edinburg University, for two and half years and\\nat the close of the year 1867 returned to the United States settling in\\nEnglewood in the practice of his professicm in 1872. His specialties in\\npractice are surgery, and diseases of women and children. He was", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0656.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0657.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0658.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BERGEN COUNTY 611\\npresident of the Bergen County Medical Society in 1876, and is a mem-\\nber of various medical societies. He enjoys wide popularity in Engle-\\nwood and upon the organization of the city was elected its mayor. He\\nserved in the Spanish American War as Lieutenant Colonel of the\\nSecond New Jersey Regiment.\\nGAKKET A. LYDECKEK.\\nThe Lydecker family are descendants of Ryck Lydecker, who was\\namt)ng the first settlers of Bushwick, L. I., in 1661, where he obtained\\na grant of land in 1660, as recorded on page 54 of the English Manual.\\nIn the years 1662-63-65 he was magistrate of the town, and was\\nappointed captain of the militia June 24th, 1663, as noted on the town\\nrecord. The muster roll contained forty names, including officers, and\\nthese were divided into watches of ten men each, of whom one watch\\nwas on duty each night as a guard against attack by the Indians, and\\nm June 22d, 1663, Stuyvesant, the Director General, visited the village\\nand ordered a fortification of the place with palisades, as a further\\nprotection.\\nRyck Lydecker married Claere Voormiere, and their children were:\\n(ierrit, born in 1650; Jan, born in 1653; Rj ck, Cornelis and Abraham.\\nIt is not probable that Ryck ever lived in New Amsterdam or New Har-\\nlem. He died prior to November 28th, 1666. His son, Gerrit, married\\nNeeltje Cornelis, from Kuijl, Holland, daughter of Cornelis Cornelison,\\nat New Amsterdam, in the Dutch church. May 20th, 1682, and settled\\nin what is now Englewood, probably in 16 )1 to 1696. The children of\\nthis marriage were: Ryck, born May 7th, 1683; Lysabeth, November 2,\\n1684; Claere, October 3. 1686; Cornelis, March 13, 1689; Gerrit, October\\n21, 1691. These children were all baptized in New York at the dates\\ngiven, except Lysabeth, who was baptized in Hackensack August Hh.\\n1696.\\nGerrit married Weintjen Terhuen, young daughter of Albert\\nTerhuen and Weyntie Brickers, (baptized at Hackensack April 1st,\\n1705), April 5th, 1723. Their children were: Neeltje, baptized at\\nHackensack, February 2, 1724; Gerrit born at Tappan, N. Y. November\\n19th, 1728; Geertijn baptized at Hackensack, May 16th, 1731; Cornelia,\\nbaptized at Schraalenburgh, March 13, 1734 Antjen, baptized at\\nHackensack, March 21st, 1736; Elizabeth, May 28th, 1738; Albert,\\nAugust 10th, 1740. These three were baptized at Hackensack, Marytje\\nwas born at Schraalenburgh, March 20, 1743, and Neeltje was baptized\\nat Schraalenburgh, August 22, 1745. Gerrit G. Lydecker son of Gerrit\\nLydecker and Weintjen Terhuen, was a captain in the Revolutionary\\nWar and was subsequently a member of the Colonial Legislature.\\nHe married Lydia Demarest (twin daughter of Jacobus Demarest\\nand Margreitje Cozine Herring), baptized at Schraalenburgh July 19,\\n1733, marriage record not found. Both became members of South\\nChurch March 11, 1762. Their children were Gerred, born August 29,\\n17.53; Jacobus, May 27, 1755; Wyntje, April 17, 1757; Margrietje, April", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0659.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "612 HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY\\nlf 1759; Gerrit, Aug-ust 31, 17()1; Jacobus and Cornells (twins) March\\n2S, 1764; Lidia, September 13, 17()(); Jacobus, March 14, 1769; Elizabeth,\\nJune 2o. 1771, and Maria, March 15, 1774. These were all born at\\nKnglewood.\\nHis son Garrit born August 31, 17( 1, drove one of the wagons\\ncontaining- household goods belonging to the family when they fled\\nfrom the British, and after crossing at New Bridge, the bridge was\\ndestroyed behind them to prevent the enemy from following. The\\nBritish after landing at Fort Lee came and encamped on the Lydecker\\nhomestead adding quite materially to their commissary stores by appro-\\npriating a number of fat sheep and hogs, which were necessarily left\\nbehind. Mr. Lvdecker subsequently engaged in agricultural pursuits\\non this farm. He married Annaatje Westervelt, daughter of Ari and\\n(ieertje (Zabriskie) Westervelt, (born February 16, 1766) November\\n27. 1784.\\nTheir children were Abraham born May 23, i7S6; Gertrude, born\\nApril 16, 1790, married John Edsall of English Neighborhood and\\nJohn, born December 25, 1795. Garret Lydecker died April 27, 1848,\\nand his wife September 15, 1849.\\nAbraham the eldest son of this Garret, was born on the old home-\\nstead as given above, and became a farmer, as his father had been. He\\nwas active and energetic, identified with the interests of his locality.\\nHe served as freeholder of his township for two terms, and represented\\nhis district in the Legislature of the state. A man of sound judgment\\nand business abilitv he was frequently called upon to act as executor and\\nadministrator of estates. Mr. Lydecker married Maria, daughter of\\nUaid N., and Maretje (De Clark) Demarest, December iS, i808. Their\\nchildren were Garret A., David, born May 3i, i8i4, died in infancy\\nMary Ann, born February 15, 1820, married Thomas W. Demarest,\\nand Martha born July 18, 1824, married John Van Nostrand. Abraham\\nLydecker died November 20, 11S41, and his wife tm July 7, i834.\\nGarret A. Lydecker was born on the farm on which his son Abra-\\nham afterward resided, in Englewood, on January 5, 1811. He was\\neducated in the common schools of his locality and at the Hackensack\\nAcademy. In 1833 he removed to the farm which became his by bequest\\nfrom his grandfather. Garret Lydecker, and continued to reside here\\nduring his life. Mr. Lydecker was a Democrat, and in his younger\\ndays was interested in local politics. He was freeholder of his township\\nfor three years, and was town committeeman for a period of about fifteen\\nyears; also holding the position of commissioner of appeals, and other\\nlocal offices. He was a member of the board of directors of the First\\nNational Bank of Hackensack, and of the Hackensack Savings Institu-\\ntion, and a director in the Bergen County Mutual Assurance Society, of\\nwhich his father was one of the founders. He was a member of the\\nTrue Reformed Dutch Church, of Leonia, in which he held the office of\\nelder for many years.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0660.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "THOMAS \\\\Vn,I.IA:\\\\I I.VDKCKKK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0661.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0662.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGP:n COUNTY ()1,S\\nMr. Lydecker was married first to Gertrude, daug-hter of Peter J.\\nCole, on August 25, i83f. She was born August 22, 1813, and died\\nAugust 10, 1847. Of this marriage were: Gertrude, who died in infancy;\\nAbraham, born January M), 18.^4, married Rachel, daughter of Ralph\\nS. and Jane (Haring) Dcmarcst; Rachel, born July 10, 1838, married\\nJames Christie; Maria, born August i2, 1841, wife of Cornelius Terhune,\\nand John, who died in infancy. His second marriage was to Maria,\\ndaughter of Samuel R. and Elizabeth Zabriskie Demarest, of Bergen\\ncounty. They were married December 30, 1847. The children of this\\nunion were Thomas William, born April i8, i849, died October 20, l.s70,\\nand Martha, born April 9, 185i, married Silas Wright, of Jersey C ity,\\ndied July 29, 1879. Mr. Lydecker died March 16, 1888.\\nTHOMAS WILLIAM LYDKCKKK.\\nThomas William f.,ydecker, grandson of Garret A., is of Holland\\nand French ancestry, having descended directly through the line oT\\nKESIDKNCK\\n)K TUDMAS II. 1, 1AM I.VIIKCKKK\\nLydeckers and Demarests, two of the oldest families in Bergen county.\\nOn the maternal side his grandfather Ralph S. Demarest, was a great\\ngrandson of Samuel Demarest who was imprisoned in the Old Sugar\\nHouse in New York city, being a true patriot worthy of historical\\nnotice. The four sons of Samuel Demarest all served in the Revolu-\\ntionary war. Ralph S., who was a schoolmate of Hamilton Fish and\\nJohn Jay in New York city, chose the life of an agriculturist, becoming\\na representative man not (mly in business but among men. He was one\\nof the projectors of the Northern railroad of New Jersey and was for\\nmany years a director in the company. He was a member of the New\\nJersey State Assembly from 1854 to 1855, and was also State Senator\\nfrom 1859 to 1861. His daughter, Rachel, married Abraham Lydecker,\\na farmer. Their children were (iarret and Jennie, who both died in\\ninfancy, Gertrude, Ralph Demarest. Thomas William, and Bessie.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0663.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "616 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nThomas William was born at EuHflewood August 11, 1868. He occu-\\npies the house built in 1803, by his great-grandfather. Garret Lydecker,\\nand in which his grandfather Garret A. Lydecker was born January 5,\\nISll. This is the oldest house in Englewood, a print of which accom-\\npanies this sketch.\\nThomas William Lydecker was educated in the public schools of\\nEnglewood. He is a floriculturist, devoting his time almost wholly to\\nthe cultivation of roses. He began in a small way in 1892, first occupy-\\ning a building covering a space of about eleven by forty-eight feet and\\nhaving on,ly about two hundred feet under glass. His business has\\nincreased until he now has 25,000 square feet under glass, and does a\\nwholesale trade almost exclusively. He is a thorough going business\\nman, understanding and carr3 ing out in detail the enterprise he has so\\nsuccessfully inaugurated. Mr. Lydecker s father died September 16,\\n1885. His mother is still living.\\nJAMES LYDECKER\\nAnother branch of the family descends from James, son of Captain\\nGarret, whose son Garret J., was born in i797, died in i880. He was a\\nman who occupied a prominent position in the locality then known as\\nthe English Neighborhood, having large farming interests, and being\\none whose advice was sought in all leading questions of the day. His\\nwife was Sarah Ryer, who died in 1862. Their children were James,\\nJohn R., Cornelius, and Maria. John R., was born in i824. He was a\\nmerchant for a number of years. Afterwards he entered political life\\nand served as deputy collector for the port of New York for twenty-five\\nyears. He was a personal friend of President Arthur and many other\\nwell known men. He married Elizabeth Ward. They had four children.\\nGarrett J., Lieutenant Colonel in the regular army, J. Ward, Robert and\\nIda. He died in i896.\\nJames was born January i5, i822. When twenty-one years of age\\nhe went to New York and became station agent for the Harlem Rail-\\nroad and in one way and another he had been connected with the railroad\\ninterests until his retirement to private life. In iS()2 he went to Alex-\\nandria, Va., where he served the interests of railroad officials as\\nconductor in and about Washington for awhile, but in 1864. and for a\\nfew years subsequently, he conducted a train for the Erie Railroad, from\\nPort Jervis up through the Catskills in New York. In i868 he returned\\nto Englewood and subcontracted for the building of the Northern Rail-\\nroad of New Jersey and afterwards wasconductor for a train on this road.\\nIn 1842 he was married to Miss Ellen Lake with whom he lived fifty years.\\nFour children were born of this union.\\nCORNELIUS LVUECKEK.\\nCornelius Lydecker a descendant of Dutch ancestry, who emigrated\\nIrom Amsterdam, Holland, at an early day, is a conspicuous figure in\\nthe county. He is a great grandson of Garret Lydecker, and a grand-\\nson of James Lydecker and Mariah Day. Mr. Lydecker s father was\\n(iaret J., who married Sarah Ryers. Their children were James, John", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0664.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY ()17\\nR., and Cornelius who was born at Englewood on the ])lace where he\\nnow lives, April 16, 1827. Mr Lydecker has had a varied experience in\\nboth public and private life. In 1846, he went to New York as a clerk\\nin the dry goods store of his brother John, where he remained two years.\\nThe gold excitement of i849, attracting him to California, he went by\\nthe water route sailing around Cape Horn. After a stay of two years\\nin the gold regions he returned home and subsequently entered the\\npolitical field, soon after being elected surveyor of highways. Follow-\\ning this he was elected township collector, and in 1862, was elected\\ncounty collector, holding that office five years. In 1872 he was elected\\nto the state senate, on the Democratic ticket, being continued in this\\noffice from year to year until 1875, when he became a candidate for state\\ntreasurer and comptroller, and for seven years thereafter he was a\\nlobbyist in the Senate. In 1871, Mr. Lydecker with William B. Dana,\\neditor of the Financial Chronicle built the Palisade Mountain\\nHouse. He then took a rest by travelling for a time, returning to\\nengage in real estate, building and selling.\\nMr. Lydecker was married in 1852 to Miss Catherine S. Van Blar-\\ncom, they have six children, Mary wife of Oliver Drake Smith, Mary\\nRyers, wife of Stanly P. Parsons, Elizabeth, Garret in a banking\\nhouse at 18 Wall Street, New York, Katie and Cornelius at Englewood.\\nMr. Lydecker is a member of Masonic Lodge, 114.\\nAI.EX.\\\\NDEI CASS, ESQ.\\nAlexander Cass, Esq., Justice of the Peace, Surveyor, Coroner and\\ncitizen needs no introduction, although many have been introduced to\\nhim, and some in the quiet retirement of the County boarding house in\\nHackensack have subsequently regretted the necessity of the interview.\\nMr. Cass was born November 20, 1825, at Carlisle, Schoharie county,\\nN. Y. When he was about eighteen months old his father died. Some\\ntwo years later his mother remarried and went to Carthage, Jefferson\\ncounty, N. Y., to reside. She died there in 1852. The then juvenile\\nAlexander did not accompany his mother to her new home, but was left\\nwith his maternal grandparents, at Carlisle, on a farm. There he\\ngrew, and when of sufficient years was sent to the public school, where\\nhe received a rudimentary education. When he reached the age of\\ntwelve years he was taken from the school and sent to Albany, where\\nfor a year he officiated as clerk in a store. At the end of the twelve\\nmonths he returned to his grandparents home, where he remained for a\\nfew weeks. Next he was sent to the Schoharie Academy, remaining\\ntwo years. After this he worked for one season on the farm of an\\nuncle, but, as he himself says, he did not take kindly to farming.\\nHe next attended a select school conducted by Prof. A. Smith\\nKnight, a most excellent teacher, who was also a civil engineer and a\\nlawyer. There he studied surveying and acted as amanuensis. During\\nthe last six months of study under Prof. Knight he made his home with\\nhim. He left his tuition Ajiril 1, 1.S42, and became teacher of the school", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0665.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0666.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY f)14\\nin Carlisle where he had received his earlier education. The school was\\nknown as District N. 4, or the Little York District. He tauj^ht there for\\ntwo and a half years, when he went to an adjoining- district, known as\\nRockville. There he remained live and one-half j-ears. From 1848 to\\nISSO, however, he spent a portion of his time, Saturdays generally, in\\nthe law office of Mr. John H. Salsbury, at Carlisle. In November 1850,\\nMr. Cass went to Cobleskill, N. Y., where he entered the law office of\\nMessrs. T. and H. Smith, remaining until September 1852, as a student,\\nsubsequently entering the law department of the University of Albany,\\nfrom which he was graduated in April 1853. He was admitted to the\\nbar at the April term of the Supreme Court of the State, and the same\\nyear, at Albany, as an Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Meantime the\\nSenior member of the firm, Thomas Smith had moved his law office to\\nAlbany and Mr. Cass remained with him at No. 51 State Street, for some\\ntime. He looks back with a justifiable pride tt) the fact that he paid\\nmost of his way while studying law, with money he saved while teach-\\ning school. One man, Mr. Charles Courter proved his bon ami, and\\nadvanced him money to enable him to finish his legal course and pay\\ngraduating expenses, taking Mr. Cass s note, simply, as security. This\\nwas paid after Mr. Cass removed to New Jersey.\\nMr. Cass came to this state, to Bergen county. May 22, 1853, and\\nand through Mr. John Van Brunt was appointed teacher of the Upper\\nTeaneck public school. In 1842 the school committee consisted of\\nAbram Ely, New Bridge; Abram Carlock, P^ort Lee; and John Van\\nBrunt, English Neighborhood. There were then ten school districts in\\nthe township. In 1853 there were thirteen, as follows: Bulls Ferry, Fort\\nLee, English Neighborhood, Tenafly, Lower Teaneck, New Bridge,\\nSchraalenburgh, Kinderkamack, Closter, Upper Teaneck, Central Eng-\\nlish Neighborhood, Old Bridge and Palisades. The Coytesville district\\nwas set off frcmi District No. 11, this year (1898). In Mr. Van Brunt s\\nreport for 1854 he says: Eight districts have changed teachers within\\nthe year. These changes are not so much to be attributed to entire\\ndissatisfaction with the teachers as to efforts on the part of the trustees\\nto engage the services of such as possess rare abilities. This township\\nhas now a far better corps of teachers than at any time within the\\nrecollection of the superintendent. This may be considered a highly\\ncomplimentary reference to Mr. Cass and the other seven new teachers.\\nMr. Cass assumed charg-e of the Upper Teaneck School August 6,\\n1S53. The school house was then located on the corner f)pposite the\\npresent building. About six months after Mr. Cass assumed charge it\\nwas moved to the present site. He taught in the Upper Teaneck school,\\nin all about ten and a half years, but after si.x years and a half he was\\ntransferred to the Lower Teaneck District, where he remained two\\nyears after which he returned to the Upper District. This gave him all\\ntold a teachership of thirteen years in Teaneck.\\nBesides his experience as a teacher Mr. Cass had other connections\\nwith various schools. In 1845 he was elected Town Superintendent of", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0667.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "620 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COtTNTY\\nPublic Schools at Carlisle, but could not qualify on account of his age.\\nThe next year he was re-elected and served for two terms. He moved\\nfrom Teaneck to Englewood in 1865. In 1867 he was appointed School\\nSuperintendent for Bergen coiinty, being the first man to hold that\\noffice. He remained in the position two terms or six years in all. The\\nsalary for the first year was S688, of which he had to pay expenses.\\nSubsequently the Board of Freeholders allowed SlflO extra for the\\nlatter purpose.\\nSince retiring from the position of County Superintendent, Mr. Cass\\nhas acted as civil engineer, been a Justice of the Peace, a Coroner, and\\nhas held other offices.\\nHis first term as Justice of the Peace began in 18()4, and was for five\\nyears. Mr. Cass is now serving his fiith term as a Justice. He was\\nthe Town Clerk for Englewood from 1859to 1865. He was Assessor for\\nEnglewood Township during the years ISTfi-??. He served his first\\nterm as Coroner, 1878 to 81, and his second term 1892 to 95, the term\\nexpiring in November. Mr. Cass has also served several terms as Com-\\nmissioner of Appeals. In 1858 he was a,ppointed one of the two\\nexaminers and visitors of th,e|)ublic schools of Bergen county, a position\\nbeheld for two years\\nMany of our citizens were pupils under his tuition at Upjier and\\nTjower Teaneck, and Mr. Cass feels proud of the fact that ex-Judge J.\\nM. an Valen, of the Court of Common Pleas, was one of his pupils.\\nThe Judge Teceived his first license as a teacher from Justice, then\\nsuperintendent Cass.\\nOther pupils who received their early training under his guidance\\nwere Rev. S. I. Vanderbeek of the Reformed Church, late of (irand\\nRapids, Mich.; Judge Holt of Galesburgh, N. Y.; H. T. Austin, E. I)..\\nnow of California; and lawyers, late George Palmer, of East Worchester.\\nN. Y.. and Theodore F. Lozier of Jersey City.\\nMr. Cass was married July 4, 1855, to Miss Maria Louisa Halleck.\\na lineal descendant of Fitz Greene Halleck, the celebrated author of\\nMarco Bozzaris. Miss Halleck was a native of Delaware county, N.\\nY., is now dead. Two children were born to them Willard, now a\\ncivil engineer, and a daughter, Hattie E., who died at the age of sixteen\\nmonths. Mr. Cass ancestors were Germans and Hollanders on the ma-\\nternal side, and English on the paternal side. He traces his ancestry\\nback to 1686. He is a distant relative of the late U. S. Senator Lewis\\nCass, of Michigan.\\nCopied from Englewood Press, of September 7, 1S I5.\\nABKAM DK KONDE.\\nOn a common field stone in the old De Ronde grave yard in King\\nValley. Rockland county, New York, is the name of Abram De Ronde, of\\nRevolutionary fame. The death of this old soldier occurred in 1781,\\nand was caused by a gunshot, in an attempt the Americans were mak-\\ning to recapture him from the enemy who had taken him while he was\\nconducting an expedition to Clinton Point.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0668.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "0 *^^^=-5:?Z^ A^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0669.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0670.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BHKGEN COUNTY ()2.\\nWilliam I)e Rondo was the i^randson of Hendrick De Ronde one (d\\nthe ancestors of this family who e aine frcjm Holland in Colonial days and\\nsettled on Long- Island. The De Ronde s were French Huguenots, who\\nlike others failed to find an asylum in Holland and came to this country\\nin consequence. His son William De Ronde married Rachel Goetchess\\nand moved to Teaneck, Bergen county about sixty-five years ago. He\\nwas the father of four children three sons and one daughter. Two sons,\\nAbram and John died recently, aged respectively eighty-two and eighty-\\nthree years. The other son W-^illiam, the father of the subject of this\\nsketch, is the well known coal dealer of Englewood and is still living.\\nBy his marriage to Miss Lavinia Doremus, he became the father of\\nseven children, three sons and four daughters, all living excej t Rachel\\nthe eldest.\\nAbram De Ronde was born in 1S57, and his career, for so young a\\nman, has been both financially and politically a brilliant one. His\\neducation preparatory to entering College was received in the Has-\\nbrouck Institute, Jersey City, N. J. When seventeen years of age he\\nleft school and entered upon a business career, which eventually evolved\\nthe well-known house of Abram De Ronde Co., a large business firm\\nfavorably recognized as such throughout the countries of Europe as well\\nas in both North and South America. It is not often that financial ven-\\ntures backed by syndicates and moneyed influence have forced them-\\nselves world wide upon the business public even under these favorable\\ncircumstances, but Abram De Ronde has accomplished this mercantile\\nfeat, not only alone but without a dollar to begin the enterprise and\\nwith the natural drawbacks and disadvantages which always encumber\\nsuch undertakings.\\nWith a definite conception of life before him and a faith in himself\\nnecessarily commensurate with the victory to be achieved, Mr. De Ronde\\nbecame first the agent for E. Oakes Co., 41 Dey Street, New York,\\ngoing- to Boston for this firm, where he succeeded in establishing their\\nEastern house under some trying difficulties and putting it upon a\\nsolid business foundation. Two years afterwards he established a busi-\\nness for the same firm in Philadelphia, and when twenty-four years of age\\nlaunched out for himself in the manufacturing and importing of chemi-\\ncals, colors and dyes, with offices in New York, at which place the head-\\nquarters of the concern has remained ever since, with branches in Bos-\\nton and Philadelphia.\\nThe manufacture of nitrate of iron occupied the attention of Mr.\\nDe Ronde at first, but as business necessitated, other chemicals were\\nput upon the market, and the trade eventually so widened that importa-\\ntions were undertaken, a large agency with a competent corps of buyers\\nand sellers were brought into requisition, so that now the name of\\nAbram De Ronde Co. is well known throughout the old world, and is\\n(me of the most prominent of American houses as manufacturers ;ind\\nim])orters of all kinds nf chemicals and dye stuffs.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0671.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "h24 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nMr. De Ronde has also become largely identified in real estate in-\\nterests, and has built several larg e houses in Englewood. His own resi-\\ndence is one of the most elegant structures in this part of the county.\\nIn 1889 Mr. De Ronde was elected a member of the State Legisla-\\nture, and was re-elected in 1893. He was afterwards candidate for State\\nSenator, but was defeated in the nominating convention. As a prominent\\nmember of the Democratic party he served four years on the State Com-\\nmittee of New Jersey, but not approving of the Chicago platform, he\\nresigned that position and took a prominent part in the campaign for\\nsound currency. He has also served as a member of the City Council,\\nof Englewood, where he now lives.\\nIIOSE.S E. SPRINGER.\\nMr. M. E. Springer is one of the oldest citizens of Englewood. and\\nwas born at the corner of Bedford and Commerce streets, in the old\\nNinth Ward, New York, August 5, 1827. When about five years old he\\nwas taken to Paterson, N. J., where, at the early period of seven sum-\\nmers he began to earn bis own living. He was first put to work in a\\ncotton mill and at one time worked in the Old Red Mill at Oradell\\nAt that time he used to walk the entire distance to and from Paterson,\\nboth morning and night, from and to the house of his grandmother,\\nwhere he resided.\\nWhen about eleven years old he was taken back to the city of New\\nYork, where he attended a public school on Seventeenth street for a\\nshort time. He afterward received a brief course of rudimentary instruc-\\ntion in the public school, which with an occasional month or two at a\\ncountry school at Cold Spring, and at the Pond Church. Franklin town-\\nship, this county, was all the schooling he received.\\nAt the age of twelve years he was placed in a shoemaker s store and\\nshop, on Houston, opposite Orchard Street, New York city, with a view\\nof mastering the mysteries of the cobbler s art. The employment was\\nnot congenial and at the end of a year and a half he went to reside with\\na Dr. Colville who at that time had a local reputation as the Scotch\\nDoctor, a man who was both a practicing physician and a druggist.\\nMaster Springer remained here for two 3-ears. During that time he\\nmastered the art of making pills, learned to compound drugs and to put\\nup physicians prescriptions. This line of business proved pleasant to\\nhim, but those who had control of his destiny thought that he should\\nlearn a trade, and when fifteen years and a half old he was taken to\\nFishkill Landing, Five Corners, N. Y., and apprenticed to ti country\\ncarpenter to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner.\\nHere he learned to swing the broad-axe, to handle the adze, to\\ntongue and groove flooring by hand, to match boards, to dress siding, to\\nstick mouldings, and to do all the various things pertaining to house\\nbuilding. After working here for about three years Mr. Springer\\nbecame dissatisfied with the prospects in a small country town, and once\\nagain returned to the city of New York where he obtained employment", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0672.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "MOSES K. SPKINGEK", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0673.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0674.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK KKKCKN COUNTY 627\\nfor a time, at five shillings a day, under instruction. By close applica-\\ntion he soon obtained sufficient knowledge of the art (jf house building,\\nto be able to turn his hand to stair building, sash and blind making\\nwhich are now followed as separate trades.\\nIn the year 1853. Mr. Springer liecame acquainted with Miss Mary\\nA. Golding, of English parentage, born in London, but subsequently\\nremoved to New York. He wedded her in 1854. At this time, and for\\ntwo or three years previously he was in the employ of Mr. A. G. Bogert,\\nin Bank street. New York, a brother of Mr. Andrew D. Bogert, of\\nEnglewood. In his shoj), for some time he occupied the responsible\\nposition of foreman, until in the Spring of 185(\\nAbout this time he started West, landing in B^ averdam, Wisconsin.\\nTwo years following his arrival at Beaverdam were marked b}- great\\nfinancial depression, and although Mr. Springer worked hard to make the\\nbusiness of a steam planing mill and sash and door factory (in which he\\nwas part owner) successful, the venture proved a failure. Heartily\\ntired and sick of the West he turned his feet toward his former home.\\nTo reach this he was obliged to obtain some pecuniary assistance, hav-\\ning wasted his substance and accumulation of former years in his\\nill-stared venture in Beaverdam.\\nAs Mr. Springer and family were about ready to start for the East\\nthey heard through a friend of the existence of a place called Engle-\\nwood, and where carpenters would be in demand to put up houses which\\nit was supposed would soon be needed for the accommodation of the\\nmultitude expected to flock to its beautiful site. This news was the\\nchanging factor in Mr. Springer s life. It brought him to Englewood\\nin time to grow up with the town and to be identified with its founders.\\nWith his little family of wife, two girls and a boy, he left Beaverdam.\\nand on April 10, 1859, landing in Englewood. At first he occupied the\\nhouse which has recently been known as the Metzler house, now in\\nLafayette Park; and worked for a year as a journeyman carpenter for\\nMessrs. Van Brunt Waters, whose shop -a brick building with steam\\npower was located at what was then called an Brunt s Station, on\\nRailroad avenue, near Grand.\\nArriving thus in the infant days of the town, Mr. Springer natur-\\nallv assisted in putting up scmie of the first buildings which were\\nerected in the place. He helped to build the first railroad station at\\nEnglewood, and also aided in constructing the water tank for the rail-\\nroad, Englewood then being a watering station. He further contri-\\nbuted his labor in the building of the Presbyterian Chapel which for a\\nlong time occupied the site where the Church now stands.\\nIn the Spring of 18()0 Mr. Springer purchased the interest of Mr.\\nWaters in the firm and entered into a co-partnership with Mr. Adriance\\nVan Hrunt. One of the first buildings erected by them vras the store\\nnow occupied by Mr. H. J. DeMott, on Palisade Avenue, by the rail-\\nroad. In this building Englewood had its first post-office located. Mr.\\nJohn Van Brunt, then the owner, being the first postmaster. The", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0675.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "628 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nsmall building now owned and occupied by tbe Woman s Exchange was\\nerected along- side the Van Brunt building and was used as Van Brunt\\nSpringer s office.\\nAt the close of the civil war thej removed their shop from Van\\nBrunt s station, and erected the large building west of the railroad,\\nfor a time known as the Ramie Spinning Works, although used\\nat one time as a rubber factory, subsequently as the Democratic\\nCampaign headquarters during the Cleveland campaign, and since\\nas a livery stable. They fitted the building with steam power\\nand introduced the many wood working machines required in con-\\nducting a large business for building purposes. Mr. Joseph Blauvelt\\nwas about this time taken into partnership with Messrs. Van Brunt\\nSpringer, and the firm became Van Brunt, Springer Blauvelt.\\nAfter a few years Mr. Springer purchased the interest of his two partners\\nand then for a number of years conducted the business alone. During\\nthis time he erected many substantial residences.\\nMr. Springer has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch of Englewood almost from the date of its organization, both\\nhimself and wife having united with it during the pastorate of the Rev.\\nMr. Hewett, who was in charge during the first six months after the\\nerection and dedication of the building. He has been a member of the\\nOfficial Board of the church from that time to the present, and was\\nlargely instrumental in raising the funds necessary for the work of en-\\nlarging the church building in 1 S()9, during the pastorate of Rev. E.\\nW. Burr.\\nMr. Springer has always been greatly interested in the subject of\\ntemperance, and to him is due the credit of the establishment of the\\nEnglewood Lodge of Good Templars, No. 103, April 12, 1870. He was\\nalso instrumental in establishing a children s order called the Temple\\nof Honor. He was also one of the charter members of Tuscan Lodge,\\nF. and A. M., of Englewood, and was the third Grand Master of the\\nLodge, holding that office for two j-ears. For fifteen consecutive years\\nhe was one of the trustees of the Englewood Free School, and for a\\nconsiderable portion of that time he held the position of District Clerk.\\nHe has also been connected with Brookside Cemetery as its Superin-\\ntendent, from the date of its organization, and still holds that position,\\nas well as being one of the the trustees and secretary of the Cemetery\\nAssociation.\\nIn 1872 Mr. Springer retired from the business of carpenter and\\nbuilder. But having subsequently invested heavily in considerable\\nproperty he also burdened himself with a heavy mortgage in the pur-\\nchases. The financial depression of 1873 followed with its reverse and\\nshrinkage of values, and the result proved disastrous, leaving him some\\nS4,()00 worse off than nothing, and he was obliged to begin life over\\nagain.\\nIn the fall of 1X75 he started in his present business of Undertaker\\nand Funeral Director, in which he has been successful. During the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0676.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "JnaiUuaST^^^^", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0677.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0678.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OK BKKGEN COUNTY 631\\nwinter of 1875-76 he started a hardware and house furnishing store,\\nhaving- purchased entirely on credit the stock and fixtures of a small\\nstore of that description in the Parramore building, on Palisade avenue.\\nHe continued at this stand until his growing stock became too large for\\nthe building, when he leased a much larger store in the Athenaeum\\nbuilding and fitted same up with especial reference to the necessities of\\nhis trade. The work of fitting up was done by himself. He then took\\nhis son, who had been clerking for him from the start, into partnership,\\nand for a time the firm did a thriving business. The Athenaeum was\\ndestroyed by fire in November 1887, and their business went up as the\\nbuilding was dissipated in smoke. During the time he was engaged in\\nthe hardware business Mr. Springer succeeded in paying off the entire\\ndebt incurred during the financial depression of 1873.\\nAfter the fire at the Athenaeum Mr. Springer again, for a few years,\\ndevoted himself to the business of constructing houses, putting up a\\nnumber of dwellings in Englewood. But the attention this required in\\naddition to the duties pertaining to his profession of undertaker proved\\nto great, and he was once more compelled to relinquish the carpenter\\ntrade.\\nIn August 1S40 Mr. Springer was elected Secretary of the Engle-\\nwood Mutual Loan and Building Association. The success of that\\norganization is good proof of the character of his work in that\\ncapacily.\\nHis family has been increased since he made Englewood his home\\nby a son and daughter, making five children in all, four of whom are\\nmarried. He has seventeen grandchildren, all living, and when he\\ngives a Christmas or other family dinner he has a full table indeed.\\nMr. Springer has also served as Assessor for the township of Engle-\\nwood, and incidentally while in that position as Secretary to the Board\\nof Health.\\nIt will be seen that his life, while passed in the quiet lines of trade\\nand business, has been by no means an uneventful one. Much of it has\\nbeen directly or intimately passed in the building of Englewood, and\\nfew men have done more than he in his mf)dest way to make the town\\nwhat it is. -From the Eng-lewood Press of August 3, 18M5.\\n.\\\\NDKKW DEM.\\\\KEST BOGEUT.\\n.\\\\ndrew D. Bogert was born at Teaneck, Bergen county, N. J., May\\n2.S, 1835, and is the son of (iilliam and Marie Demarest Bogert. The\\nAmerican ancestor of the family was Gilliam Bogert, who emigrated\\nfrom Amsterdam, Holland, in the vear 1662. Mr. Bogert s father was\\na volunteer in the war of 1812. His mother was a direct descendant of\\nnorth of France Huguenot stock.\\nMr. Bogert during his boyhood resided at home on his father s farm,\\nreceiving a common school education, principally at the Teaneck district\\nschool, and learned the art of farming, before leaving home, which he", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0679.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0680.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF BEKGEN COUNTY 633\\n(lid at the age of sixteen. He then went to New York city where he\\nserved an apprenticeship to the carpentering and building- business,\\nduring which period he utilized the opportunity- afforded b}- the Cooper\\nInstitute night school, to master the branches best suited to his pur-\\n])ose. Mr. Bogert remained in New York city until the latter part of\\nthe year 1859, when he removed to Englewood, N. J., and entered into\\nthe contracting and building business on his own account, in which he\\nhas since been prominent. During the year 1877, Mr. Bogert purchased\\nthe Dutch Point saw mill and plant, adjoining the Colt s factory in the\\ncity of Hartford, Connecticut, where he carried on an extensive log-\\nging and lumbering trade on the Connecticut river, in which Mr. I. S.\\nHomans was associated with him. This property, Mr. Bogert sold in\\n1878, and returned to Englewood, where he has since continued to\\nreside, conducting his extensive contracting and building business,\\nconstructing many of the tine residences, hotels and public buildings in\\nthe neighborhood. An enumeration of a few of these includes the\\nEnglewood House, the Tenaily Hotel, Palisades Mountain House, Fort\\nLee Hotel and Octagon Building, the Methodist, Presbyterian and\\nReformed Dutch churches, the Englewood, Teaneck, and Undercliff\\nschool buildings. He has also been active in purchasing and promot-\\ning real estate enterprises in Englewood and vicinity, in buying, build-\\ning and selling, and was the promoter of Leonia Park at Leonia, N. J.\\nMr. Bogert was a member of the Englewood Reformed Church until\\n1881, and held offices of trust. Since that time he has been a member of\\nthe Englewood Presbyterian Church. He became a member of the Hol-\\nland Society of New York in 1889, and was elected vice-president for\\nBergen county in 189f). For ten years he has been a director in the\\nEnglewood Loan and Building Association and has also acted on the\\nBuilding Committee during that time. He has been president of the\\nCitizens Sewer Company since its incorporation in 1882, also a member\\nof the Englewood Field Club since its organization.\\nIn ])olitics Mr. Bogert is an ardent Democrat and has held many\\nminor offices of trust. He was elected Chosen Freeholder from Engle-\\nwood township in the spring of 1895, and from Englewood city, in 1898,\\nhis familiarity with architectural construction and finance, well fitting\\nhim for the office. He has been president of the Democratic County\\nCommittee for three terms, has alwaj-s been a hard worker and an ener-\\ngetic organizer in every undertaking. He is of Christian character and\\nof such temperate, methodical and unassuming habits, as seems the best\\nkind of success with which American life is concerned.\\nAKlv A.M TAI.LMAN.\\nAbram Tallman of the firm of Gulnac Tallman, carpenters and\\nbuilders of Englewood, is a descendant in the direct male line of Douwe\\nHarmensen Tallman who came to this country from Friesland, Holland\\nin 1658 and settled in Bergen now Jersey City New Jersey. Douwe\\npurchased a tract of land in Nyack, Rockland county, New York, extend-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0681.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "ABKAM TALI. MAN.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0682.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKK(;EN COUNTY 35\\ning from the Hudson River to the Hackensack River and embracing\\nwhat is now the business portion of the town. His son Tunis and\\nDouwe removed to N^ack after his death and became the progenitors of\\nall the Tallmans in Rockland county, N. Y. and Bergen county, N. J.\\nMr. Tallman can also trace his connection with many of the other old\\nDutch families who settled in this country in the latter part of the\\nseventeenth and the the early part of the eighteenth centuries, among\\nthem being the DeRonde, Onderdonk, Haring and Blauvelt families of\\nRockland county, N. Y.\\nAbram Tallman was born at Tallman s, Rockland, county, N. Y., on\\nMay 6, 184(). His father, John A. Tallman, like most of his ancestors, was\\na farmer, and Abram s early life was spent on the farm and attending\\nschool at Sufferns, N. Y. In 1862, when sixteen years of age, he taught\\nschool for a few months at Tallman s, the first venture he made in life\\nfor himself. In 1863 and 1864 he was employed in a photograph gallery\\nin New York city, but this work proving too trying to his health, he\\nreturned to Tallman s, and, after six months rest on the farm, found\\nemployment at the Ramapo Car Shops, at Ramapo, Rockland county,\\nN. Y., where he stayed for the next two years, learning the car building\\ntrade. Afterwards he worked at the carpenter trade in Sufferns and\\nMiddletown, N. Y., and Paterson, N. J., and finally, in 1867, came to\\nEnglewood. From 1867 to 1882 he worked at the building trade in\\nEnglewood, and in 1882 formed, with Mr. James M. Gulnac, the present\\nfirm of Gulnac Tallman. This firm, since 1882, have built up a good\\nbusiness and established a first-class reputaticm for themselves as car-\\npenters and builders, and are among the leading concerns engaged in\\nthat business in Englewood, having built many of the city s finest\\nresidences.\\nMr. Tallman has always taken an active interest in the welfare of\\nEnglewood, having seen it grow from a village of about fifteen hundred,\\nin 1867, when he first came there, to a city of about five thousand five\\nhundred inhabitants in 1889 to 189,3. He was a member of the Engle-\\nwood Township Committee from 1889 to 1893. He was also a member\\nof the Citizens Committee formed in 1895 to promote the movement for\\nthe incorporation of Englewood as a city, and when the place was finally\\nincorporated in 1896, he was elected a member of the first regular City\\nCouncil and was chairman of that body from 1896 to 1898.\\nMr. Tallman was married in 1870 to Miss Maria Zabriskie of what\\nis now Oradell, Bergen County, N. J., whose ancestors were am(mg the\\nearliest settlers of Bergen County. They have one daughter and three\\nsons of whom (me. William Tallman is a lawyer practicing in New\\nYork city.\\nTHE BOKOUC.H OF ENC.I.EWOOD CI.IKK.S.\\nThis borough originally formed a part of Englewood townshij) and\\nwas organized into a municipality by itself March 11th, 189.S. W.\\nAllison was elected mayor, and has been continued in office to the pres-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0683.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "IJ.WID J,. KAKKICTT.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0684.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\n637\\nent time. John (1. Ropes, Assessor and Clerk; and Benjamin Woster-\\nvelt, Collector, have also held their respective positions from the\\nortranization of the biirou h.\\nHUDSON KIVKH AND THE PAI.ISAI H", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0685.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0686.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXX.\\nTEANECK TOWNSHIP.\\nHOW FOKMED CIVIL LI.ST TEANECK GKANGE SCHOOLS BIOCIKAPHICAL\\nThis township was formed from Englewood township and is bounded\\non the north by Berj^enfields boroug-h, east by Eng-lewood city and Le-\\nonia borough, south by Bog-ota boroug-h and river, and on the west bv\\nthe Bogota borough and river. It contains about three thousand live\\nhundred acres and has a real estate valuation of four hundred and sixtv\\nthree thousand, six hundred and seventy-five dollars. The population\\nin 1895 was one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. The official\\nvote cast at the November election of 1898 was one hundred and fortv-\\nnine.\\nThe township was incorporated February 13, 1895. The first officers\\nwere:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Township Clerk, P ank S. De Ronde, 1895-98; John H. Acker-\\nman, 1898-1901; Township Committee, William Bennett, 18 )5-98; Peter\\nI. Ackerman, 1895-97; Henry J. Brinkerhoff, 1895-96; Freeholder, John\\nJ. Phelps, 1895-1901; Assessor, Daniel (i. Bogert, 1895-98; Jonathan\\nHawkins, 1898-1901. Collector, Tunis Cole, 1895-98 (died in 1895),\\nWarren M. Cluss appointed to 96, elected 96-98; Jasper Wester velt 1898\\nresigned in 98; Robert Stevenson appointed in 1898. Daniel G. Bogert\\nelected in 1899-1901. Justices of the Peace, Robert Stevenson, 1S \u00c2\u00bb5 to\\n1900; William Bennett, 1898-1903. Officers elected March 14, 18 )9.\\nwere: For Township Committee, Henry J. Brinkerhoff; for Collector,\\nDaniel G. Bogert; for Constable, Christian Cole, Jr.; for Commissioners\\nof Appeals, Peter Rademann, Jasper Westervelt; for Surveyors of High-\\nways, Donald Matheson, Cornelius J. Terhune.\\nTeaneck township is a representative of unity so far as politics and\\nparty are concerned, there never having been a party election held, all\\ntickets have been citizens tickets and all nominations have been made\\nat citizens primaries. While the political complexion of the township\\nis two to one Republican the agreement is favorable to the Democrats\\nwho could not expect anything from a party vote.\\nTEANECK CrKANGE.\\nThere are no villages in Teaneck township, but a villa grange lies\\nwithin its precincts, of more than usual significance and historical\\nimportance, extending from Nordhoff in both directions over twenty-five\\nmiles of roads. It runs through the Phelps estate and is the Mecca of\\nthousands during the summer months, who drive or bicycle through the\\nwoods and shaded groves.\\nHere resided William Walter Phelps, our former minister to\\nAustria and Germany. His estate included the thousand of acres\\nof field, slorje and hill, intersected bv macadamized ro.ids. sli.nU-d bv", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0687.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "f)40 HISTORY OF BERGEX COUNTY\\nforests and ornamental trees. The quaint, low. rambling wooden\\nstructure flanked oti the south by an ornate om of stone containing\\ndrawing- rooms, picture gallery, etc., the whole surrounded by spacious\\ngrounds beautified bv rare plants and flowering shrubs was for years the\\nhome residence of the family. This unique Villa-Grange, for years, not\\nonly the political Mecca of one party, but the seat of hospitality so\\ngenerous and wide as to attract to it persons of all parties and classes,\\nunfortunately and to the regret of all, fell with the greater portion of\\nits contents, a victim to the cruel ravages of fire, April 1, 1888.\\nOn the hill New Bridge lies partly in this township and partly in\\nPalisade township. It is the locality of Baron Steubens residence, built\\nin 1752, but aside from its Revolutionary history and traditions the\\nplace has but little that is important for this chapter.\\nWitLIAM WALTER PHELPS.\\nWilliam Walter Phelps, was born in New York city, August 24.\\n1839. His father, John Jay Phelps, one of the leading merchants of\\nthe city, accumulated a large fortune, having been prominently identified\\nwith many of the imp rtant enterprises of his day. He was the pro-\\njector and virtual founder of the Delawaro, lyackawanna and Western\\nRailroad Company andheld the office of president for many years.\\nWilliam Y* alter, his distinguished son^ received his collegiate edu-\\ncation at Yale College from which institution he was graduated with\\nhigh honors in 1860. Following. this he pursued a special line of study\\nfor a short time in Europe, subsequently taking a leading place in the\\nclass of 1863, in the Columbia Law School, where he was graduated as\\nvaledictorian.\\nImmediately after being admitted to the bar, Mr. Phelps opened\\noffices in New York and was rapidly building up a large practice when\\nthe death of his father occurring in 1868, changed all his future plans\\nfor life. The settlement and care of a large estate now demanded his\\nattention, compelling him to abandon his profession and devote his\\nentire time to private interests. Recognizing his abilities, Governor\\nFenton, had, prior to this, tendered him the appointment to the bench\\nof the Sixth Judicial District of New York city.\\nThe estate upon which he resided is situated near Englewood, N. J.,\\nand comprises about twenty-nine hundred acres of land. In the midst\\nof this stood a residence of palatial proportions filled with treasures\\ncollected during extensive travel in foreign lands. This residence was\\nburned April 1, 1888.\\nSoon after his removal to Bergen county, Mr. Phelps began to take\\nan interest in the success of the Republican party.\\nIn 1872 he was elected to Congress, representing the Fifth Con-\\ngressional District of New Jersey. Forceful and vigorous in oratory,\\nready in debate, and ever the courteous gentleman, he attracted atten-\\ntion and made an immediate and marked impression. He was made a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0688.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "oMJ.\\n9LiM", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0689.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0690.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 643\\nmember of the committee on Batikins^ and Commerce, one of the lead-\\ning committees of the House.\\nHis statesmanlike abilities were quickly recognized by Speaker\\nBlaine, who appointed the young New Jersey Cong-ressman upon several\\nspecial committees of the highest importance, where he acquitted him-\\nself with such fairness and good judgment as to elicit the approval of\\nprominent m n and the newspapers of all parties.\\nIt was at this tim; that a warm friendship and close personal inti-\\nmacy sprang up between Mr. Phelps and Mr. Blaine which was life\\nlasting.\\nMr. Phelps was renominated for Congress in 1874, which was a\\nDemocratic tidal wave year, and although he ran six hundred votes\\nahead of his ticket, the Democratic candidate was elected by a plurality\\nof seven. He declined to become a candidate again in 1878, his private\\nbusiness demanding his whole attention.\\nIn 1880 he was a delegate-at-large from the state of New Jersey to\\nthe National Republican Convention at Chicago, where he worked\\nheroically for the nomination of James G. Blaine for president, but\\nwith characteristic gracefulness he accepted the inevitable, and at once\\nthrew his influence and hearty support toward the election of Mr.\\nGarfield.\\nHis health giving way during this campaign, he was ordered abroad\\nby his ph3 sicians and sailed in October. In the Spring of 1881, while\\nstill abroad, he received the appointment of Minister to Austria from\\nthe new administration. This he accepted but resigned the new posi-\\ntion after the death of Mr. Garfield three months later. He, how-\\never, remained in his position at the Court of Vienna for another year\\nbefore being relieved by a successor.\\nOn returning to this country in 1882, he found his party ready to\\nagain nominate him for a seat in the National House of Representatives.\\nHe was elected by a handsome plurality, and was re-elected in i884,\\nand again in i886, each time by an increased majority.\\nHe positively declined a re-nomination for Congress in 1888, and\\nat the Republican National Convention, that year his name was pre-\\nsented as a candidate for the vice-presidency, and he received a vote\\nnext to that of Mr. Morton of New York, the successful candidate.\\nMr. Phelps had no sooner closed his Congressional career in March.\\n1889, than he was appointed by President Harrison, one of the Com-\\nmissioners to represent the United States at the International Congress\\nm the Samoan question which met in Berlin in the coming April. Here\\nMr. Phelps and his American associates as well as some of the leading\\ndiplomats of Europe, had to measure swords with Bismark and his\\ntalented son, Herbert.\\nIt was agreed on all sides that American interests had been splen-\\ndidly guarded in this conference. Mr. Phelps arrived in this ccmntry\\nwith the treaty in June. The exaniinati(m of the treaty proved so\\nsatisfactorv to our government that in two weeks after Mr. Phelps", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0691.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nreturned, he was nominated by the President to be Minister to Getmanv,\\nMr. Harrison remarking at the time that it was the reward of merit.\\nHis nomination was promptly contirmed by the Senate which was thon\\nin session. Mr. Phelps tilled the Berlin mission until superseded in llu-\\nsummer of 1S )3 by Ex-Chancellor Theodore Runyon the appointee\\nof President Cleveland. The mutual regard which had grown u]\\nbetween the American Commission and Prince Bismark during the\\nSamoan Conference, proved of much assistance to Mr. Phelps when he\\nwent back as Minister and it enabled him to perform important services\\nto the United States which his predecessor had failed to secure, especi-\\nally in the removal of the embargo on American port products.\\nBefore Mr. Phelps left Berlin, he received an appointment imm\\n(lovernor Werts to be a special judge of the Court of Errors and\\nAjjpeals of the State of New Jersey. Mr. Phelps accepted the honor,\\nand the choice of so distinguished a man to serve in the court was\\nwarmly applauded throughout New Jersey. Mr. Phelps took a keen\\ninterest in the work of the court, but his health never robust began\\nrapidly to fail, and his illness made rapid progress early in the Spring\\nof 1894. Governor Werts had named him as one of the Commissioners\\nprovided for by a joint resolution of the Legislature to revise the con-\\nstitution of the State. Mr. Phelps looked forward with great interest\\nto the work of this body, which was to hold its first session the latter\\npart of June, but it was fated that he should never meet his distin-\\nguished associates of that Commission, for on the seventeenth day of\\nJune he died.\\nWhile always the possessor of ample wealth, Mr. Phelps was most\\ndemocratic in his manners. His hospitalit}- was proverbial, and his\\nhouse was in every sense of the word made a home to all his guests.\\nHis popularity with all his neighbors and the people of Bergen county\\nwas demonstrated on many occasions. He was the kindest of employers;\\nhis large contributions to private charities and his generous gifts to the\\nneedy were without ostentation.\\nHis financial standing and his character for probity were of the\\nhighest. He made notable pecuniary sacrifices to save the credit of\\nothers. His business interests were extensive, and he was an influential\\nmember of the directories of many companies and institutions.\\nWhile a positive party man, early in his public career he established\\na character for political independence and liberality which gained him a\\njjublic respect that he never lost.\\nHe was a fluent talker, and as an orator he was natural and cnncise,\\ndiscarding the ornate, and speaking in the choicest diction directly to\\nthe point. His wit was ever bright, keen and fresh. In Congress he did\\nnot speak often, Ijut he was among the few in the House whu wen-\\nalways listened to.\\nSoon after concluding his collegiate course Mr. Phelps was married\\nto a daughter of Joseph E. Sheffield, the founder of the Sheffield Scien-\\ntific School of New Haven. Of this niarriasje there was one daughter.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0692.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "JASPKK WKSTI .KN IU.T", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0693.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "646 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nthe wife of Dr. Franz Von Rottenburg a German scholar and Under\\nSecretary of State for the German Empire; and two sons, Captain John\\nJay Phelps of Bergen county, and Colonel Sheffield Phelps, editor of the\\nJersey City Journal.\\nTHE WESTEKVELT FAMILY.\\nThe Westervelt family trace their lineage to\\nDerick Van Westervelt who was born about 152tt.\\nIn Holland, the native place of this family, they\\noccupied places of honor and trust such as burgo-\\nmasters, students, doctors and as landed proprietors.\\nLubbert Lubbertse Van Westervelt the first\\nAmerican ancestor came in the ship Hope in\\n1662, from Meppel, Province of Drenthe, Holland.\\nr t\u00e2\u0080\u0094 11 He first settled at Flatbush, Long Island, after-\\nwards removing to Hackensack, N. J., where he\\nassisted in building the first Reformed Church on the Green in 16S(..\\nHe and his wife were members of this church.\\nBenjamin Westervelt, the great great-grandfather of Jasper, was\\nthe first American ancestor, and was born in 1702. His wife was Hen-\\ndricktie Bouguert. Casparus, the son of Benjamin, was born in 1723,\\nand married Wyntie Terheun. The grandparents of Mr. Westervelt\\nwere Casparus C. and Maria (Durie) Westervelt, and his parents were\\nPeter C, Jr., and Anna (Lozier) Westervelt. His father was born in\\n1811.\\nJasper was bom at Teaneck, Bergen county, December 2, 1837, in\\nthe same house in which he has resided for the last sixty years, and\\nwhose foundation walls were laid more than one hundred years ago by\\nhis great grandfather. The house has been several times rebuilt and\\nmodernized, and still continues in possession of the family.\\nUntil fifteen years of age Jasper attended the public schools of his\\nnative village, after which he was placed in a private school at Leonia,\\nand at seventeen years of age entered Claverack Institute, a boarding\\nschool, situated at Claverack, N. Y. After leaving school Mr. Wester-\\nvelt began farming, keeping steadily at this occupation until tifty-live\\nyears of age, when he retired from active business. On the subject of\\npear culture Mr. Westervelt is an enthusiast, holding a first-class\\ndiploma for the exhibiton of pears, apples and quinces.\\nWhen the call was made for volunteers in our Civil War, Mr. Wes-\\ntervelt responded, becoming- a private in Company I, 22d Regiment, N.\\nJ. Volunteers. He was one of Father Abraham s Three Hundred\\nThousand; was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.\\nadvancing in the famous mud march under Buruside. He is a member\\nof James B. McPhers m Post, No. 52, Department of N. J., G. A. R..\\nand is at present the Chaplain. In his religious life Mr. Westervelt has\\nbeen a member of the first Reformed Church of Hackensack for the past\\nthirtv-nine vears, serving in the consistory of that church under Dr.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0694.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0695.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM W. KHNNETT.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0696.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKC.EN COUNTY f 49\\nKomevn and Dr. Vandcrwart, both as deacon and elder for a number of\\nterms. He was also for man} years connected with Sabbath school\\nas teacher, and subse([uentlv as superintendent.\\nHe was married on June 22, lHh5, to Miss Annie Maria De Mott,\\n(laui^hter of John J. De Mott, who died in 1898.\\nIn 1888 Mr. Westervelt travelled throug-h the West, takinj^ a tour\\nthrough the most interesting- portions visiting the beautiful points on\\nthe Pacific coast, the Yosemite Valley, the Columbia River and Yellow-\\nstone Park; the large cities also claiming a share of his time. In 18\\nhe made an extended tour of the old World, making visits to Holland,\\n(iermany, Switzerland at Interlaken and Mont Blanc, France, Belgium\\nEngland. Mr. Westervelt reported after coming back from the old\\nWorld that he still retained his admiration for the new: with the\\nsublime, grand and inspiring views of the Yosemite, its peaks in the\\nclouds and its beautiful falls descending from dizzy heights; the mag-\\nnificent and unequalled scenery on the Columbia river, the Yellowstone\\nPark filled with Nature s wonders, Geysers, Hot Springs, beautiful cas-\\ncades and grand views of the falls and the gorge of the Yellowstone.\\nHe says: Unfurl the Red, White and Blue, it is good enough for all.\\nMr. Westervelt is a man with well stored mind and exemplarv\\ncharacter, a pleasant com])anion and true friend.\\nWII.I.I.V.M W. BKNMCTT.\\nWilliam W. Bennett, Superintendent of the Phelps Estate in Bergen\\ncounty; was born in England, February 4, 1841. When six months old\\nhis parents came to America and located at Bingham ton, New York,\\nwhere the father died about twelve j-ears later. When eleven years of\\nage young Bennett was taken by a Mr. Louis Lee Morris, a farmer of\\nOtsego county, N. Y. where he remained six years. This was one of\\nthe important periods of his life, in which he was trained to habits of\\nindustry, and frugality and otherwise prepared to meet and solve the\\nmany difficult and trying problems of life which come to all. At the\\nage of seventeen years, the young man met Mr. John Stewart Wells, of\\nBinghamton, N. Y., to whom he apprenticed himself to learn the trade\\nof carpenter, and remained with him three years, thoroughly master-\\ning this branch oi mechanics, becoming an architect as well. After\\nworking for a time at his trade at home, he enlisted as a mechanic, in\\nthe War, in 1862, and stayed with the army in one capacity or another,\\nwith the construction and repair work on railways, going to Alexandria,\\nthen to Norfolk and Suffolk, Virginia, remaining for a considerable\\ntime on the Peninsula where McClellan operated. In 1863 he was\\nassigned to the quarter-master s department, under Captain Goodwin,\\nand then was employed solely in the construction of Barracks and\\nprison houses, and in the manufacture of army furniture, which closed\\nhis army career. After the fall of Richmond, he applied for his dis-\\ncharge papers, and while on his way home, when near Turner s Station,\\non the Erie railroad, in New York, President Lincoln was shot, and a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0697.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "()50 HISTOKY OF BKKCrKX COUNTY\\nsing ular coincidence was, that he happened to be on the same spot on\\nJuly 2, 1881, when President Garlield was assassinated.\\nFor two 3 ears after the war, Mr. Bennett followed his trade of\\ncarpenterinir at Binghampton, N. Y., but in 1867 came to New Jersey,\\ng oing to the home in which he now lives, staying there one year as a\\ntenant. In 1882 he returned to the same house, where he has since\\nresided. His work in New Jersey, was the erection oi a tine house for\\nJudge Phelps, subsequently building a row of houses in Teaneck, and\\nfollowing this with a number of buildings in Englewood, then the\\nelegant residence of William Walter Phelps, which led to the acquaint-\\nanceship of the two men, and the life long superintendency of Mr. Ben-\\nnett in the management of the Phelps estate. This was twenty-seven\\nyears before the death of Mr. Phelps, during which tiirie the large\\ninterests of this wealthy resident of the county was so ably managed\\nand so agreeably with Mr. Phelps wishes, that substantial considera-\\ntions not infrequently accompanied the salary allowed, and also honor-\\nal)le mention with flattering financial considerations were made in his\\nwill.\\nMr. Bennett has been married twice. His first wife was Mrs.\\nMary C. Corby, daughter of Peter and Catherine Terhune to whom he\\nwas married in 1870. She died in 1875. Two daughters were the fruit\\nof this union, Catherine, the younger being the wife of Captain Frank\\nS. De Ronde. On June 10, 1877, he was united in marriage to Mrs.\\nMargaretta Ferdon, daughter of Gilchrest and Eliza Perry of Nyack,\\nN. Y. They are the parents of four children, two boys and two girls,\\nthe elder of the boys now being a member of the Second Regiment New\\nJersey Volunteers, Infantry.\\nWhen Mr. Bennett first came to Englewood he was elected Town\\nCommitteeman and held that office for a number of years. He was also\\nchosen member of the board of Freeholders and elected by both jiarties\\nand re-elected.\\nWhen Teaneck township was formed he was selected by all jjarties\\nfor Town Committeeman and elected chairman of the Board. This office\\nhe held three years and then by all parties, was re-elected to the same\\nposition and also selected for Justice of the Peace.\\nMr. Bennett s life has been a comparatively smooth one. He is a\\nkindly man whose lines have fallen in pleasant places. In politics his\\npreference has always been Republican, except where in his judgment\\nthe party needed discipline, in which case he has not hesitated to vote\\nwith the opposite party.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0698.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXI.\\nPALISADES TOWNSHIP.\\nICAKl.Y SKTTI.KMKNTS BUKOl-GIIS OF TEXAl I.V, DrM(_)\\\\-T, iii;Kr.i;x i-n;i,i s\\nAXl) CKKSSKILL CHUKCHK.S, .SCHOOLS, .SOCIKTIKS, I.ODCKS.\\nETC. BIOGKAPHIC.\\\\L SKETCHES.\\nPalisades township is of special interest from a historical point of\\n\\\\-iew, many t the most interesting- events of the Revolntioii havini;-\\ntranspired within its borders. In 177h the patriots held F ort Leo. which\\nwas a constant source of annoyance to the British, niaking- it almost\\nimpossible for them to navigate the Hudson river. Lord CornwalHs\\ncrossed the river to Huyler s Landinjf from Spuyten Duyvil on Novem-\\nber IS. 177(1. He had with him a force of two battalions of light in-\\nfantry, two companies of chasseurs, two Itattalions of British an l two\\nof Hessian grenadiers, two battalions of guards and the Thirty-third\\nand Forty-second Regiments of the line, (ieneral Washington, who\\nwas in Hackensack, was immediately notified by (General (Ireen of the\\nmovements of the enemy, and that he had ordered a retreat of his troups\\nto Eng-lish Neighborhood, now in Ridgelield township, and to River\\nEdge, now in Palisade township. Washington met (lenera! (ireene at\\nRiver Edo;e (then called New Bridge). After reaching this jdintin\\nsafety, General Greene returned to Fort Lee and brought up some, who,\\nin the rush, had straggled behind. By his quick movements three\\nthousand Americans were saved from capture. Huyler s Landing was\\nformerly known as Lower Closter. Anumg the early settlers of this\\ntownship were the Huvlers. Ca])tain John Huyler, who scrxed in the\\nmilitia during the Revolution, was a special object of vengeance by\\nthe Krtish. who burned his hf use and left him in a destitute condition. At\\nthe close of the war he purchased the estate, which is vet in possession\\nof the family, and was a part of the confiscated estate of J(din Ecker-\\nson, which was sold for /!^1 )5S. York money. In ISIS this ])roperty\\ndescended to Peter, born in 17S(i. He died in 1S72. The Demarests\\nsettled here in early times where Samuel R., was born in 17S3. He\\nbelonged to the Schraalenburg-h Reformed Dutch Church. The Lozier\\nfamilv were early settlers, coming in the latter ])art of the seventeenth\\ncentury. Daniel Lozier was born in 17o7, and died in 17 \u00c2\u00bb2. The\\nZabriskies also came in the seventeenth century, their descendants con-\\ntinuing- to reside in the townshij). The Paulisons who tr.-ice their origin\\nto Paulis Pieterse, removed to Bergen from New York about l(i()((.\\nGovernor Peter Stuyvesant appointed Paulus Pieterse in li) i,^ one of the\\nc immissi(mers for fortifying Bcrg-en, N. J., against the Indians. For\\nhis services, he recei\\\\-ed the same year a patent for several ])arcels of\\nland. In 1()()2 he subscribed towards the sui)port of a minister at Ber-\\ngen and was one of the founders of the Reformed Dutch Churcli organ-\\nized there in li .4. the earliest in the state. He and his wife both died", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0699.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0700.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 653\\nin 1702. A son of Paulus Pieterse named Martin Paulisse married\\nMarg-rietje Westervelt, and their son Paulus Martense, married Rachel\\nDemarest. They joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1731. Their\\ndescendants still reside in Palisades township\\nPalisades wasa part of Hackensack township until 1871. when it was\\norganized into a separate township. The first officers were: Samuel\\nD. Demarest, who was elected Freeholder in 1871, and was followed by\\nJohn Westervelt in 1875. John H. Anderson was the first Town Clerk\\nand served from 1871 to 1873, when he was succeeded by John H.\\nHuyler. The first Justice of the Peace was William S. Harris; the first\\nCollector, John C. Banta; the first Assessor, Albert A. Terhune.\\nThe present officers are: J. E. Collins. J. B. Christie, and (i. Buck.\\nTownshij) Committee; William Ely. Assessor; Joseph Arnold, Collector;\\nWalter Christie, Freeholder, and Ralph Saier. Township Clerk.\\nTHE PALISADES.\\nThis precepitous wall of rock, known as the Palisades of the Hud-\\nson, have ever been an attraction since discovered by Henrick Hudson\\nin l()(t This wall of rocks rising from the western shore of the river\\nforms the eastern boundary of the old boundary lines of Ridgefield.\\nEnglewood, Palisades and Harrington townships, to the state line.\\nThe height of the range near Weehawken is about three hundred\\nfeet above the river, rising gradually to five hundred and forty feet near\\nits northern terminus. This precipice rose at first, undoubtedly, right\\nfrom the river s edge, but time has formed a talus of fragments of the\\ntrap falling in course of long centuries, as if to guard the deep founda-\\ntions below the great river. The range continues in bold precipitous\\nheights and rocky bluffs along the river to Haverstraw, a little below\\nthe Highlands; thence it sways back from the river, rising again in\\nlofty escarpments and massive columns to the northwest and the west\\nfrom three hundred to eight hundred feet high.\\nIn spite of all efforts to prevent the destruction of the Palisades,\\nsystematic attempts have been made for some time by blasters of rock to\\nbreak up the stone, to be used chiefly for macademizing streets. Indian\\nHead one of the most historic points of the Palisades, a few years ago\\nprojected one hundred and fifty feet into the North River beyond the\\npoint, where its demolition was effected at four o clock in the morning,\\non May .^0, 18 The destruction of this massive rock 1 y a blast in\\nwhich at least ten thousand pounds of dynamite were used, and two\\nhundred thousand tons of rock torn away was one of the most success-\\nful efforts ever made to destroy the grandeur of this part of the Hudson.\\nIt broke out an area surface of one hundred and seventy-five by one\\nhundred and sixty-five feet and a depth of about (me hundred feet con-\\nstituting nearly one-third of the height of the cliff.\\nIndian Head is about five hundred yards from Washington Point at\\nwhich the Father of Our Country arrived after the defeat of his forces\\nin New York. The declivity up which he climbed still stands although\\nthe oint is i)racticallv wiped out.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0701.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "654 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nTKXAFLY.\\nAs to the name of this locality it is undoubtedly from a compound\\nHolland word signifying Willow Meadow. The territory embraced\\nby the name in question never, exceeded an area of more than six miles.\\nThe country northward was known as Closter. The section west of\\nTenafiy was known in the remote past by another Dutch word signi-\\nfying barren hill. That country to the south of Tenafiy for a dist-\\nance of several miles was known as English Neighborhood. The old\\nTenafiy road connected these two places and was used long years ago as\\na trotting course.\\nEAK I.V .SKTTI,EM1{NTS.\\nGeorge Huyler who died in 1894 aged eighty years, was one of the\\nold residents of Tenafiy. His residence was built and occupied by his\\ngrandfather John Huyler, who owned part of the forfeited estate of Juhn\\nEckerson, the purchase price having been ^^^IftSS, York money. John\\nHuyler owned the premises in question, to 1818, when it descended to\\nhis son Peter, who died in 1872, aged ninety-two. John Huyler was\\nCaptain of Militia during the war of the Revolution, and became the\\nespecial object of British vengeance, his house having been burned and\\nhis family left destitute. At the close of the war he purchased the\\nproperty above mentioned, which had been confiscated by the State, the\\ntitle deed to him, bearing date 1780. He had two children, John a\\nphysician of high reputation in New York, and Peter born April 8,\\n1781, on the parental estate. Peter married Miss Catharine Naugle,\\ndaughter of Barney Naugle, whose birth occurred August 26, 1781,\\nand the birth of his son George occurred June 24, 1811, George was\\nmarried May 25, 1847 to Miss Jane, daughter of Garret A. Hopper.\\nMr. George Huvler was for fifteen years Captain of Jersey Blues, a\\nmilitary organization comprising the foremost men of Bergen county.\\nHuyler s Landing on the Hudson, formerly known as Lower Closter\\nwas the place at which the British crossed the river at the time of their\\nraid on F^ort Lee.\\nTKNAFLV.\\nTenafiy as a post office, railroad station, anil a part of Palisades\\ntownship has been a pretty village of the northern valley for about forty\\nyears. In the winter of 189.1 a call was issued by a number of property\\nowners for a citizens meeting at the home of Colonel A. G. Demarest,\\nfor considering the advisability of incorporating the village of Tenafiy,\\nunder the borough law of 1879, permitting an area of four square miles.\\nThe result of that meeting, held January 26th, was a determination to\\napplv to Judge Van Valen, of the County Court, for an order to hold an\\nelection, which application, as required by law, was signed only by\\nowners of land in fee simple, within the boundaries of the proposed in-\\ncorporation.\\nThe committee apjiointed by that meeting to carry this wish into\\neffect were Stchen (i. Clarke, chairman; H. B. Palmer, treasurer;", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0702.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BKRGEN COUNTY ()55\\nWilliam G. Jellison, Frederic L. Colver, H. E. Demarest, J. Hull\\nBrowning and Charles E. Vog t.\\nThere was much opposition to this movement at the time, and not\\na little effort, made leg-ally and politically, to defeat the object at the\\nelection, there being- cast about three hundred votes, with a majority of\\nonly seven in favor of such an organization. This was in January,\\n1894. At this time, however, the beneficial effects arising from such an\\nincorporation in a municipality, having now an assessed value exceeding\\n$800,000, is apparent to all interested, and what was once political dis-\\nsent, has now become mutual amity and rood fellowship.\\nOFFICEKS OF THE BOKOUGH AND BOARD OF HEALTH.\\nThe first officers elected in January 1894 were: Henry B. Palmer,\\nMayor; Garret W. DeMott, J. Hull Browning, Stephen G. Clarke, Paul\\nRichter, James H. Buckley, and Frederic L. Colver, Council; F. R.\\nIng-ersoll, Clerk, succeeded by Warren H. Wendover; Charles J. Everett.\\nAssessor; George E. Westervelt, Collector; George H. Westervelt, Mar-\\nshal. The last three officials mentioned are still in office.\\nThe first officers of the Board of Health were: Dr. J. J. Haring,\\npresident; Dr. J. B. W. Lansing, secretary; James E. Butler, Richard\\nDelahanty and Stephen G. Clarke. Commissioners of Appeals, Messrs\\nA. G. Demarest, B. F. Pond, and John R. Zabriskie. The mayors of\\nthe boroug-h have been as follows: Henry B, Palmer, General Thomas\\nL. James, Charles P. Buckley.\\nThe present officers of Tenafly borough are: Charles P. Buckley,\\nmayor; John H. Osterman, J. Hull Browning-, Elias H. Sisson, Jt)hn H.\\nDeMott, George Lounsbury, Paul Richter, Councilmen; Maurice Lind-\\nsay, Clerk. The Board of Health: Drs. Haring and Lansing; Messrs\\nStephen G. Clarke, Richard Delahanty and Frederic L. Colver.\\nIn the Fall of 1897, in response to a petition signed by Judge\\nAshbel Green and others, who had originally opposed the incorporation\\nof the borough, together with many other citizens who favored the\\nmovement, the New Jersey Legislature passed a special Act extending\\nthe corporate limits eastward to the Hudson River, which Act took\\neffect February 1, 1898. Tenafly is now bounded on the North by Cress-\\nkill, South by Englewood, and West by Bergenlields. Tenafly is one\\nof the most successful towns in the county under the borough form of\\ngovernment, and many desirable improvements are now possessed by the\\npeople at a moderate tax rate.\\nTENAFLY LIBKAKY SOCIETY.\\nThis society was organized February 5, 1891, in response to a call\\nissued by Frederic L. Colver, John W. Hull and William G. Jellison,\\nwho was then editor of Tenafly Record.\\nThe society was incorporated in March, 1S9.^, its object being the\\nimprovement of its members in literary matters and for maintaining a", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0703.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "656\\nHISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nreading room, which were reasons sufficient for enlisting the good will\\nand kind support of every truly public spirited citizen of the village.\\nFor several years meetings were held at the homes of members of\\nthe society, and very frequently from that time many successful enter-\\ntainments, literary and otherwise of a public character, have been given.\\nMany of the most prominent professional men and women, and citizens\\nof Bergen county have delivered lectures on these public occasiims, and\\nthe society now numbers about one hundred members.\\nThe present officers are: Trustees, Stephen G. Clarke, Henry B.\\nPalmer, A. C. Worth, Fisher Howe Booth, Colonel A. G. Demar est:\\nSecretary, Frederic L. Colver; Treasurer, J. Eddie Tuttle. The pres-\\nent executive committee are F. H. Booth, chairman; Frederic L. Colver,\\nRev. C. W. Kirkby, H. M. Rogers, secretary; James Currie, Mrs. A. G.\\nDemarest, Miss Carrie Cauter, Mrs. Samuel Westervelt, Miss Amelia\\nHaring.\\nThe society holds meetings twice a month in its rooms. Tenatlv\\nLIBKAKY IIAI.L\\nHall, and (hiring the winter season gives entertainments consisting of\\nlectures, debates, public socials, and other affairs for amusement or\\nimprovement. Being the only non-religious and non-political organ-\\nization for men and women, young and old, it naturally holds a leading\\nplace in Tenafly, and contributes largely to the literary and social life\\nof the community.\\nTENAI I.V HALL COJIPAXY.\\nThis company was started in the spring of 1891 by a committee\\nfrom the Tenafly Library Society. That commitee consisted of Frederic\\nL. Colver, chairman; David H. Gildersleeve, John W. Hull, and A. J.\\nWaddell, Jr. In 1892, the company was incorporated with sixteen\\nthousand dollars capital stock, the incorporators and officers being:\\nStephen G. Clarke, president; John Hull, vice-president; Frederic L.\\nColver, treasurer; Frank R. Ingersoll, secretarv; Henry B. Palmer, A.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0704.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY b57\\nG. Demarest. Frank A. Hiue, B. F. Pond, and E. K. Meigs. The present\\nboard of officers consists of Mr. Clarke, president; Mr. Browning-, vice-\\npresiden.t; Mr. Palmer, treasurer, and Mr. Colver, secretary; and in\\naddition Charles H. Sission, Col. A. G. Demarest, John H. Demott, J.\\nE. Tuttle, J. S. Lyle.\\nThis company has a membership of nearly one hundred, built\\nTenafly Hall in 1892-3. This building, modern in its appointments and\\nbeautifully situated on Highwood Avenue, wasopened under the auspices\\nof the Tenafly Library Society on June 6, 1893. It was one of the most\\nbrilliant social events ever held in Tenafly, there being present fully\\nfour hundred people admitted by ticket two dollars each. The enter-\\ntainment was furnished on this occasion by the New York Philharmonic\\nClub and the University Glee Club, followed by a reception.\\nThe entertainments given in this Hall have always been of a high\\ncharacter. The building is used by the borough gov^ernment, the\\nTenafly Library Society, the Tenafly Club and the Royal Arcanum.\\nMr. W. Stoddart, formerly a resident of Tenaflv was architect of Tenaflv\\nHall.\\n.SCHOOLS.\\nOriginally the youth from this vicinity attended the school at Liberty\\nPole. The district was to large, however, and in 1871, the community\\nin the meatime having grown rapidily. County Superintendent Cass\\nformed the new district, designated as No. 12. The trustees then\\nappointed were: Messrs Charles P. Buckley, John Westervelt and Charles\\nH. Clarke. In due time lots were purchased from Charles P. Buckley,\\nand a beautiful brick structure erected. It was built two stories high\\nwith mansard roof and basement, and was forty by sixty feet in dimen-\\nsions. The building has since been enlarged, there being apartments\\nfor various grades, and at the present time five teachers are employed.\\nBesides the grammar school grades, one year of the high school course\\nis taught here.\\nWhen the district was first organized the school was held over the\\nstore of Peter I. Westervelt, and continued there until the middle of\\nOctober, 1872, when the new building was completed. At that time\\nMiss Angle was employed as principal and Miss Libbe Duel as assist-\\nant. Miss Maggie Terhune was principal of the school a number of\\nyears. Mr. R. S. Maugham, the present principal, took charge of the\\nschool in 1887. He has live assistant teachers.\\nMIS.S HAKING S PKIVATE SCHOOI..\\nThere are in average communities some parents who for various\\nreasons prefer to have their children pursue their preparatory education\\nin a private school judiciously conducted; and hence the demand for such\\nopportunity. Recognizing the same, Miss Haring opened a school\\nabout twelve years ago and has conducted it with marked success. Being\\nwell qualified for the work both by careful prej)aration and natural teni-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0705.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "658 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nperament, she has had under her care each year a group of happy\\nchildren whose elementary training- has been very thorough.\\nIn conjunction with the intellectual work, eftorts are made to culti-\\nvate the moral and religious natures of the children, and to instill into\\nthe youthful mind high ideas of correct deportment.\\nWith such aims in view pursued with rare enthusiasm on the teach-\\ner s part the result could hardly fail to be in every sense gratifying to\\nthe patrons of the school.\\nThe school building is well located on high ground with rural sur-\\nroundings in keeping with the work, and not a few parents congratulate\\nthemselves in being able to place their children under the moral and\\nintellectual influence of this private school.\\nNORTHERN VALLEY LODGE 3638, KNIGHTS OF HONOK.\\nAbove Lodge was instituted April 7, 1891, with twenty-six charter\\nmembers. Present membership one hundred and twenty-one including\\nseven charter members.\\nFour members died since the Lodge was organized, two of the\\nwidows receiving two thousand dollars each, and two receiving one\\nthousand dollars each.\\nThis Lodge also pays sick benefit to all members in good standing\\nat the rate of five dollars per week for ten weeks, and two dollars and a\\nhalf per week for live weeks additional; and has paid as much as two to\\nthree hundred dollars annually.\\nThe officers for term of 18W are as follows: S. P. D., J. C. West-\\nervelt; Diet., Jos. A. Jacobs; Vice D., William R. Golding; Asst. D.,\\nAlexander B. Roberts; Reporter, Nicholas Kreutztieldt; Fmcl. Rep..\\nJohn Ostermann, Jr.; Treasurer, John Golding; Chaplain, Charles B.\\nHooper, Jr.; Guide, William Ryan; Guardian, Jacob Radner; Sentinel,\\nPacific M. Valle; Lodge Physicians, James B. W. Lansing and Robert\\nG. Contrell. The Past Dictators are George E. Tooker, Leonard\\nSchenkel, Edward Henkel, Nicholas Kreutzfieldt, Charles P. Wester-\\nvelt, John Ostermann, Frank H. A. Achilles, Henry M. Hensel, J. C.\\nWestervelt. All of above with exception of Messrs. Charles P., and J.\\nC. Westervelt are members of the Grand Lodge. Mr. Tooker is assist-\\nant Grand Dictator for the term 1898 to 1899.\\nCHURCHES.\\nPrior to the vear 1860, the locality then and since known as Tenafly,\\nthough near the great metropolis, was yet strictly rural, its pojjulation\\nbeing engaged almost wholly in agricultural pursuits.\\nDescended from French and Holland ancestry, they were a religi-\\nously inclined and church-going community, having their connections\\nwith the old Reformed and Seceder churches in Schraalenburgh about\\ntwo miles westward.\\nThe intervening distance between their residences and these\\nchurches was not regarded by them as much of an obstacle to regular\\nchurch attendance. Regularly on Sabbath mornings, more or less re-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0706.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEX COUNTY 659\\ngardless of weather conditions, the farm horses were harnessed to the\\ncarry-all vehicle of no standard tji c, and, filled with the family, the\\nchurch was reached in time to exchange greetings with neighbors and\\nrelatives before the service.\\nThe construction of the Northern Railroad through the valley soon\\nentirely changed the trend of affairs. Now families began to appear\\nwho were naturally strangers to and hence uninfluenced by the local\\nenvironments and traditions. Among these were the families of Ashbel\\nGreen, Henry B. Palmer, William S. Opdyke, Edwin Saxton, William\\nK. Fowler, Benson Van Vleet, Lyman F. Holman, Thomas G. Wall,\\nD. D., and others. These families soon began considering the religious\\nneeds of themselves and of the incoming population. Arrangements\\nwere made for weekly religious services, w^hich were conducted by the\\nRev. Mr. Wall. A small chapel was erected in which services of a union\\nnature were held for a year or more.\\nBy the explosion of a lamp the building was set on lire and totally\\ndestroyed. Services were afterward held in a building erected by Mr.\\nGeorge Huyler for store pur])oses, but rented later for a boarding school\\nfor boys.\\nA denominatit)nal i)reference towards Presbyterianism having from\\nthe first been apparent, application was made to the Second Presbytery\\nof New York, which met at Tenafly on November 21, 18()5, and organized\\nthe Society under the name of the Tenafly Presbyterian Church, about\\nfifteen names constituting the first roll of membership. At the same\\ntime Edwin S. Saxton and Robert Halley were elected as the first\\nboard of elders.\\nThe society was legally incorporated March 31, 18f The follow-\\ning persons were elected upon the first Board of Trustees: Ashbel Green,\\nWilliam S. Opdyke, Henry B. Palmer, William K. Fowler, Garret\\nHuyler, and Colin G. Newcombe. The board organized on April 2, 1866,\\nAshbel Green being elected president; and Henry B. Palmer, secretary.\\nThe time now arriving for considering the subject of a permanent build-\\ning, this board took the matter in hand and under its able management\\nthe present elegant and costly stone edifice soon appeared upon the well\\ngraded and beautiful site upon the hillside, the latter having been donated\\nby the heirs of the Jay estate. At a meeting of the congregation pre-\\nsided over by Rev. Dr. Alexander of New York, the Rev. T. G. Wall,\\nD. D.. was unanimously chosen as the first pastor. Mr. Wall served the\\nchurch until 1873.\\nRev. Clarence Geddes became his successor on July 16, 1873, and\\ncontinued in the pastorate until June, 1881. Rev. Richard Bentley suc-\\nceeded Mr. Geddes for the following six years, and Mr. Vernon B. Car-\\nroll was Mr. Bentley s successor for eight years. The present pastor\\nRev. Fisher Hov^e Booth is in the third year of his pastorate.\\nThe church has exerted a very wholesome influence upon, and has\\nbeen a useful factor in the experience of a growing community. Ojjpo-\\nsite the church edifice on a beautiful site, on a high knoll, there stands", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0707.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "660 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\na noble and commodious stone building erected and donated as a manse,\\nby the late Judge Ashbel Green in memory of his wife Louisa B. Green,\\nwho was closely identified with the church, and whose death was greatly\\nlamented by a wide circle of friends.\\nCHUKCH OK ATONEMENT.\\nThere is no record giving the date of organization of this society\\nnor any statement relative to the church property made on the church\\nbooks. Mrs. Mahon mother of Captain Mahon, gave the land for the\\nchurch building, and her sister gave the land for the Presbyterian\\nchurch. The first baptism recorded is that of Charles Rowland in\\n1869, and the first marriage was in October of that same year. The\\nRev. Ralph B. Hoyt who was the first rector of the church remained\\nuntil 1882. He was succeeded by the Rev. Joseph Fletcher who had\\ncharge of the congregation until 1890, when the Rev. M. M. Fothergill\\nsucceeded. The present rector, the Rev. Charles W. Kirkby, A. B. a\\ngraduate of Cambridge, England, came to take temporary charge of the\\nparish in January 1898, and was invited to remain as rector, shortly be-\\nfore Easter of that year. Under his spiritual direction the church and\\ncongregation is rapidly increasing. The officers of the church are:\\nHenry Torrence, Senior Warden; Joseph H. Heddon, Junior Warden;\\nH. T. Bailey, H. A. Wolcott, J. F. Denton, David Paul, A. Torrence,\\nVestrymen. St. Luke s Mission, Bergenfields, is a branch work of the\\nChurch of Atonement, Joseph H. Heddon being the Lay Reader.\\nTENAFLY COUNCIL, ROYAL ARCANUM, 1479,\\nTenafly Council, Royal Aacanum, 1479, instituted August i9, 1892.\\nCharter members: T. L. Maclntyre, R. S. Maugham, J. C. Westervelt.\\nC. H. Buckley, Herbert Westervelt (deceased) J. H. Buckley, T. L.\\nHunter, J. B. W. Lansing, M. D., T. L. Taveniere, Eawin D^^marest,\\nJames Roome, E. B. Buckley, J. J. Edsall, P. J. Westervelt, W. H.\\nMowerson, J. J. Schuh, George E. Westervelt, W. B. May, F. R.\\nIngersoll. C. P. Westervelt, M. E. Martin, W. G. Trabold, F. J.\\nCampbell, H. F. York, Jr., S. Upward, Christie Westervelt, J. C.\\nSchnebbe.\\nThe past Regents are J. H. Buckley, T. L. Maclntyre, R. S.\\nMaugham, James Westervelt, H. F. York, E. H. Sisson, Jr.\\nThe present officers are: Regent, A. I. Benedict; Vice Regent, J. H.\\nDemott; Orator, Huyler Bogert; Treasurer, Samuel Westervelt; Secretary,\\nEdwin Demarest; Collector, H. J. B. Willis. Term expires December\\n31 Present membership is eighty-nine.\\nTenafly Council has lost two members by death, Herbert Wester-\\nvelt and Frank A. Hine, the widows in both cases receiving $3000.\\nCHARTER LIST OF NORTHERN VALLEY LODGE K. OF H.\\nNorthern Valley Lodge 3638 K. of H., was instituted April 7, 1891.\\nwith twenty-six charter members. Leonard Schenkel, Edward Henkel,\\nTheodore Taveniere, Paul M. Hawthorne, John G. Ruhl, Frederick C.\\nEvers, (dead); (ieorge Van Valen, Nicolai Kreutzfieldt, John B. Trcn-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0708.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 661\\nkle, Isaac Mabie. Jacob H. DeMott, Paul Richter, David W. DeMott,\\nLudwig Mayer, Charles Stag^, Joseph Van Valen, Charles L. A.\\nWenger, John J. Demarest, (dead); Richard J. Lyons, Edward J. Lyons,\\nRichard Wright, William Weise, David D. Campbell, Edward Hall,\\nCharles P. Westervelt, Jacob A. Tuers.\\nhappy land FKESH AIK HOME.\\nUpon a commanding site on West Clinton avenue about a half mile\\nfrom the railroad depot, owned by Mrs. J. S. Lyle, a wealthy resident\\nof Tenafly, there began about six years ago to be evidences of a build-\\ning enterprise of some sort.\\nSoon a large and ornate building loomed up, wl ich in due time was\\nfinished. Its size and general arrangement showed it to be intended for\\nsome charitable purpose.\\nAt the commencement of the hot weather of the following vear, a\\ngroup of forty or more children under proper oversight alighted from\\none of the northbound trains. Ct)nveyances were at hand and they were\\ntaken to the new building designated as Happy Land. This deter-\\nmined the purpose of the building and the nature of the work for which\\nit was provided. Since then about four hundred children are annually\\nbrought from the hot over-crowded districts of New York city in relays\\nof fifty, each group remaining about two weeks. While at the Home\\nthey are under careful management. The beautiful grove upon the\\ngrounds, well provided with facilities for amusing and interesting the\\nchildren, resounds with happy shouts from morning until evening.\\nNutritious and wholesome meals are well served, and the children are\\ntaught as far as possible in their short experience, the rules of practical\\npoliteness and proper behavior. Upon Sabbath afternoons exercises are\\nprovided to stimulate the religious nature of the children, and when\\neach group leaves the Home it is believed they have not only been enter-\\ntained and made comfortable physically but that their mental and relig-\\nious natures have received an uplift that may leave a permanent impress\\nfor good.\\nThis work is understood to have been inaugurated by Mrs. Lyle,\\nwho, though delegating its details to able assistants, still gives personal\\noversight to this good enterprise, which in the line of fresh air work\\nfor children is perhaps not surpassed by any similar movement any-\\nwhere.\\nkethmokE home.\\nThis institution was established by Mrs. J. Hull Browning in\\nAugust, 1892, and incorporated in December, 1892, for the purpose of\\ngiving a fresh air home to a limited number of poor children from the\\ncity of New York. During the first year, twelve children were taken\\nat a time in the Home, two weeks being allowed each party to remain.\\nThe following year the house was enlarged, so the number has been\\nincreased, and now twenty-six or more are admitted at a time, the num-\\nber for the season being over two hundred. Children were first taken", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0709.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "662\\nHISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nfrom St. Aug-ustine Mission, New York, but during the past two years\\nthe New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission has enjoyed that\\nprivilege.\\nIn 1892 the Rethmore Sunday school was established with thirty-\\nfive scholars. In connection with the school is a Sewing Class and a\\nBoys Battalion of sixty cadets. Recently a Convalescent Home has\\nbeen established at The Rethmore for aged people.\\nThe Rethmore Home (Rethmore means large spring consists of\\nabout four acres of ground, and formerly belonged to the Westervelts\\nestate, but, through the philanthropic spirit of Mr. and Mrs. Browning,\\nhas been dedicated to uses above mentioned. Mr. J. Hull Browning did\\nmost of the repairing of the Episcopal Church in Tenafiy in 1882, and\\nKETHMOKE HOME\\nrestored the building to a good condition, and has been a large con-\\ntributor to that society. After the establishment of the Home\\npublic services for Episcopalians were begun there, tirst by the Rev. R.\\nH. Herron, and subsequently by the Rev. C. B. Mitchell, both of whom\\nwere from the Union Theological Seminary, New York.\\nBOROUGH OF DI MONT.\\nSchraalenburgh is a village on the West Shore Railroad and was\\norginally in Palisades township. It has a population of about six hun-\\ndred; is the site of the North Reformed Church, and the center of con-\\nsiderable mercantile interests in this part of the county. John (Juacken-\\nhush owned and operated the first store, which was sold to Peter E.\\nMoore, its present jjroprietor, in 1877. Mr. H. Meartens, another", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0710.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY hf 3\\nmerchant, came here in IS tS, and DeCiister Ferdon erected their build-\\ning in 1898.\\nThe borough of Duraont, orig-inally named Schraalenburgh, was\\norganized in 1895 and was at that time three miles square, but in 18 \u00c2\u00bb7\\nit was reduced to an area of about two and a half miles. It is\\nbounded on the North by Harrington township, on the South bv Ber-\\ngenlields bort)ugh, on the East by Cresskill borough and on the West bv\\nPalisades township.\\nThe first Mayor of the borough was Dumont Clarke. He was fol-\\nlowed by Newton A. Fuller, and Mr. I ^uller bv the present Mavor.\\nRichard Van Buskirk.\\nThe village has a fire department with a membe -ship of forty men.\\nunder the chieftaincy of D. J. Whittaker. The Town Hall was erected\\nin 18\\nBOKOUfrH OK BEKGENFIELDS.\\nThe village of Bergenfields is on the West Shore Railroad, thirteen\\nmiles from the city of New York, and is the place where the old South\\nDutch Reformed Church is located. John Z. Demarest, freeholder, owns\\nthe only store in the village. Originally this part of the old township\\nof Palisades belonged to the Schraalenburgh district.\\nThe borough of Bergenfields was organized July 17. 18 4. The\\nfirst officers were: W. P. Tyson was the first Mayor; Mr. Walter\\nChristie became the second Mayor and was followed by the present in-\\ncumbent William Van Valkenburgh.\\nTHE Dl TCH KEI OKMED CHUUCH.\\nThe Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh was organized\\nabout the year 17.24, and the first Church was erected in 1725. The\\nRev. Reinhardt Erickson became the first pastor. In 17,^0, the Rev.\\nGeorge Wilhelmus Mancius commenced his work there on September\\n19. The next pastor was Rev. Antonius Curtenius in 1737, continuing\\nover the two churches (Schraalenburgh and Hackensack until 1784,\\nwhen Rev. John Henry Goetschius became his colleague.\\nAfter the strife which resulted in a second church organization, the\\nold church called Rev. Dirck Romeyn who was pastor fnmi 1775 to 1785.\\nThe first pastor of the second church known as the South Re-\\nformed Church was Rev. John Schuyler. Dr. Solomon Froeligh was\\nthe successor of Mr. Romeyn in the first church in 1786, remaining\\nuntil 1822, when the separation took place which resulted in the forma-\\ntion of the True Reformed Dutch Church. The second pastor was\\nRev. Cornelivis J. Blauvelt, from 1828 to 1852; Rev. Ebeu S. Hammond.\\n1858 to 18( 2; Rev. Abram A. Van Houten from 1862 to 1868, followed\\nby Rev. Garret A. Haring, 1868, who stills remains its pastor.\\nThe old North Church at Schraalenlmrgh was built in 1800, after\\nrepeated attempts to induce the other party, to join in the building of a\\nhouse of worship. Mr. Romeyn served the combined churches thirty-\\nthree years, but in 1832 when paralysis (lisal)le(I him and a colleague", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0711.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "664 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nwas needed, the church at Schraalenburgh made application for an inde-\\npendent organization, which was granted, and the relations of pastor\\nand people then existing, was disolved in April IS.^.^, when that at\\nSchraalenburgh became a distinct church.\\nThe minister s salary was provided for by circulating a paper yearly\\nfor subscriptions, which were to be paid half yearly. The highest\\namount given was ten dollars and the lowest amount one dollar. The\\namount subscribed for 1817 was three hundred and fort}- dollars and\\neleven cents in money, and sixty-four loads of wood.\\nRev. John Garretson, of Middleburgh, N. Y., was installed pastor\\nOctober 23, 1833, and remained as such until i836, during which time\\nthe parsonage was built. He was followed by Rev. Michael Osborne,\\nof Virginia, May 15,- 1837, who continued with them until 1841. He\\ndied in 1863. Cornelius Blauvelt, a licentiate, was ordained and in-\\nstalled November 16, 1842, remaining until 1858, and in October of that\\nYear Rev. William R. Gordon, S. T. D., was installed, and was a suc-\\ncessful pastor until i880.\\nIn June, 1859, the church was enlarged, the cost being S5300. Rev.\\nGeorge Seibert entered upon his pastorate October 1, 1880, after which\\nmany improvements were made in the church property. Rev. George\\nH. Cotton succeeded Mr. Seibert about eight years ago, and is the pres-\\nent pastor.\\nIn 1 784 the congregation of which Rev. Warmoldus Kuypers was\\nwas pastor, elected John Demarest their precentor, the service\\nbeing conducted entirely in the Dutch language. Dominie Kuyper died\\nSeptember 10, 1797. In 1799, Rev. James V. C. Romeyn became his\\nsuccessor. One-third of the service was then conducted in English, and\\nJohn P. Durie was made English precentor. For ninety-two years the\\nposition of precentor was occupied by John Demarest and Isaac D.\\nDemarest, except about thirteen years intervening, when Frederick\\nMabie and Jacob Brinkerhoff served. Mr. Demarest was chorister of\\nthe church fifty-two years.\\nCKESSKILL.\\nThe borough of Cresskill was formed in 1S94, and taken from\\nPalisades township. The officers first elected were: James H. Ferdon.\\nMayor; B. I. Westervelt, W. H. Westervelt, John Ferdon, W. A. Tall-\\nman, Henry H. Westervelt, William Frazier, Council; A. C. Demarest,\\nAssessor; W. V. Wilson, Clerk.\\nMayors of the borough subsequently elected were: Egbert Tallman,\\nA. C. Worth and E. B. Westervelt, the present incumbent. Mr. Wilson\\nfilled the office of Clerk until his removal to Tenafly in 1899. C.\\nDemarest that of Assessor to the present time.\\nColonel A. G. Demarest and I. Smith Homans were among the first\\nowners of land in Cresskill. Colonel Demarest had the first store which\\nwas sold to Daniel H. Voorhis in 1861. This stand is now used for a\\nhotel. In 1869 C. A. Demarest bought land of I. Smith Homans and\\nerected his wagon works, which have been operated since that time.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0712.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nAbout five years later Simeon Westervelt built his carpenter shop in\\nthe village, since which time with a force of men constantly employed\\nhe has constructed a great number of houses in Cresskill, being one of\\nthe largest contractors in this part of the county.\\nThe Manhattan Optical Company in the vicinity of Cresskill began\\noperations a few years ago, manufacturing cameras, lenses, etc. F. and\\nE. M. Shafer are largely interested in this plant and in 1894 erected a\\nbuilding fifty-two by one hundred feet. They employ a large force of\\nhelp and ship their products over the entire country. Their plant stands\\non ground formerly occupied by J. R. and B. V. Demarest s Woolen\\nMills.\\nThe school at Cresskill was formerly included in District No. 12,\\nOld Hackensack township known as Federal District. The schoolhouse\\nstood in Harrington township, on the farm of Samuel A. Demarest,\\nafterwards District No. 14. This school was patronized until the year\\n1S57, when the trustees made application to have the district divided.\\nThe application was granted and the organization effected. A lot was\\npurchased of John B. Westervelt, corner of Madison Avenue and County\\nRoad, near Cresskill station. John Durie was given the contract to\\nbuild a house, which he erected in a satisfactory manner. The house\\nwas furnished with seats for seventy-five pupils.\\nMiss Ray Ward and R. S. Maugham have each held the principal-\\nship of this school for six or eight years. Robert F. Doyle is the\\npresent principal. He has one assistant.\\nD.WID H. VOOKHIS.\\nAlbert N. Voorhis, a descendants of Henry Demarest, probably a\\nRevolutionary soldier, who emigrated from Holland in Colonial times\\nand settled at Demarest, N. J., was born here about 1760, and died at\\nDemarest at the age of seventy-nine years. His two children were\\nHenry A. L., and Nicholas N. Henry A. L. Voorhis married Lavinia\\nBlauvelt of Old Tappan, N. Y., and raised nine children, four of whom,\\nDavid H., Henry D.. John B. H. and Elizabeth, wife of John P. B.\\nWestervelt, are still living.\\nDavid H., the subject of this sketch, is the eldest of the family.\\nHe was born on the old homestead at Demarest N. J., December 7, 1818.\\nAt the age of seventeen he went to the city of New York and\\nlearned the trade of carpenter. Shortly afterwards, however, he formed\\na connection with Ludlan Lazanby, large tobacconists, who carried\\non an extensive trade with the merchants in the South in their line of\\nbusiness, and through them became agents for the Old New York and\\nVirginia Steamship Cimipany, which position he kept for nineteen\\nyears. This company first built and operated the Roanoke, subse-\\nquently building five other vessels, and these were the first ships that\\nplied between New York and Virginia.\\nMr. Voorhis was superintendent of the men at the New York Dock,\\nand maintained that ])osition with fidelity and satisfaction to the com-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0713.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "666 HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY\\npany until the war broke out in 1861, when his vessels were taken into\\ngovernment service, which severed his business relations with that corn-\\npan v. Afterwards Mr. Voorhis removed to Cresskill and purchased the\\nstore and other property of A. G. Demarest. He then built his resi-\\ndence here, but carried on the mercantile business but a short time.\\nIn 1840 Mr. Voorhis married Jane, daughter of Henry Westervelt,\\nand by this union became the father of nine children, six of whom are\\nnow living. His daughter Lizzie M. Voorhis was drowned in the Hud-\\nson river in 18S8.\\nSIMEON WESTEKVELT.\\nSimeon Westervelt, carpenter, is a direct descendant of William\\nLubbertsen Van Westervelt, who came from Meppel, Province of Dren-\\nthe, Holland, in the ship Hope, April, i662, and settled in Bergen\\ncounty, sketches of whom and his descendants can be found in the\\nchapters on Englewood and Palisades.\\nDower I. and his wife, Anna Banta Westervelt. daughter of John\\nT. Banta, were his grandparents. Their son, John D. Westervelt, of\\nTenaflv, not only carried on a large farm but operated a cider mill on\\nan extensive scale.\\nSimeon Westervelt was born in Tenafly November 1, 1842. In 18()1\\nhe enlisted in Captain Vreeland s company. Twenty-second Regiment.\\nN. J. Volunteer Infantry, afterwards commanded by Colonel A. G. Dem-\\narest, and was with that command in the war of the Rebellion as a\\ndrummer boy until mustered out of service. After the war he mastered\\nthe trade of carpenter, and was with Blauvelt Bogert, of Englewood.\\nfor ten years, after which he came to Cresskill and began business fur\\nhimself.\\nNovember 7, 186f), Mr. Westervelt married Sarah M. Bogert, daugh-\\nter of Jacob S. Bogert, one of the old settlers of Closter, who died March\\n1, 1886, over seventy-one years of age. He was the son of Seba Bogert.\\nThe old Bogert homestead farm is situated in Cresskill, on the Closter\\nroad, midway between Tenafly and Demarest, N. J.\\nDuring the year after his marriage Mr. Westervelt located on\\ntwenty acres of this farm, and built his residence in Creskill. Shortly\\nafter his business settlement he built an office and shop, one of the best\\nof its kind in this part of the county. A large force of men has been\\nconstantly employed, and almost every building in and around Cresskill\\nhas been built under his supervision. He has also constructed a number\\nof large and extensive buildings in the city of New York. In addition\\nto other business, Mr. Westervelt owns and operates a cider mill in sea-\\nson, consuming great quantities of apples every ^^ear.\\nMr. Westervelt is a member of the G. A. R., Royal Arcanum and\\nMasonic fraternity. He is also one of the marshals of the Protective\\nSociety. Mr. Westervelt is the father of one son and two daughters.\\nArthur Bogert, Antoinette and Alice Irena. The son, Arthur Bogert\\nWestervelt, was formerly in the American Exchange National Bank of\\nNew York city, for a period of twelve years, but is now with Harvey,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0714.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 667\\nFisko Co.. (if New York. Ho married Henrietta H. Kohler. and has\\ntwo children. Marian K. and Noeline.\\nAAKON C. I)I ;M.\\\\1\\\\MvST.\\nOne of the jjrojeotors of the horoujjfh of Cresskill, and for a number\\nof years prominently identified with town and county politics, is A. C.\\nDemarest, member and secretary of the Berg en County Republican\\nCommittee. Mr. Demarest was born in Sprinir Vallev, N. J. in 1S4S,\\nand twenty years afterward went to Spring Valley, N. Y.. where he\\noperated a store for a time. In 1869 he came with his father, Cornelius\\nA. Demarest, to Cresskill where property was purchased and a wag-on\\nsho]) built. The father died in 1885, about sixty-five years of age, since\\nwhich time Mr. A. C. Demarest has conducted the business himself.\\nFrom the time he first came to Bergen county, he has been more or less\\nactive in politics, having been permanently identified with the Republi-\\ncan County Committee during the past fifteen years, filling the office of\\nchairman for two years and at present being secretary of the board.\\nHe was one of the organizers of the borough of Cresskill, and has been\\nAssessor since its incorporation, and during the same time has been a\\nmember of the Board of Education, serving as District Clerk of that\\nbodv. From 1895 to 1898 he was Freeholder of Palisades Township, and\\nwas director of the board during the last year of his term. In is is\\nand 1899 he was made Assistant Journal Clerk of the House of Assembly\\nfor the State of New Jersey. Mr. Demarest is a member of the Odd\\nFellows, and is a Past Grand Master of that fraternity.\\nMr. Demarest married Miss Addie Cluss, daughter of H. H. Cluss\\nof Ne^v Bridge in 1868, and has four cliildren.\\nTHP; KICHTEK M.^NITKACTUKINC COMPANY.\\nThis company was organized in 1887, by Paul Richter princii ally\\nfor the manufacture of window shades, etc., the building having been\\nerected for that purpose. William Jefferson Johnson, son of Josiah\\nJohnson a Revolutionary soldier and claiming to be the only living son\\nof a Revolutionary soldier, was the builder.\\nThe manufacture of window shades, however, was changed to that\\nof textile fabrics, for upholstering and interior decorations, the product\\nof these articles at this time having a somewhat worldwide reputation\\nand sale. Burlap the article manufactured by Mr. Richter, for interior\\ndecorations, made from manila or Indian hemp, was a coarse heavy\\nmaterial for wall covering or decoration which has been used in many of\\nour best colleges, such as Columbia and Bryn Mawr, and similar institu-\\ntions in the United States, as well as in hotels and halls.\\nMr. Richter employs a large number of men constantly, and from\\nburlap manufactures draperies, canvas, buckram, etc. Mr. Richter is a\\nnative of (Germany. He has been in business for himself since he was\\nseventeen years of age, and as a citizen of Tenafly has been honored\\nwith various positions of trust and responsibility. lie was one of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0715.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "PAl I, KICHTKK.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0716.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY 01-- BEKGEN COUNTY f)69\\npromotors of the borou^-h ^--uvcrnment of Tcnafiy and has been a mem-\\nber of its Borough Council from the time of its incorporation, and is\\nat present president of the council. He is also member of the school\\nboard.\\nKLIZABKTH C.VDY STAXTON.\\nElizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most aygressive of the advocates\\nof W(mian Suffrag-e and a leader in the movement ever since she was a\\nmere g-irl, was born at Johnstown, N. Y., November 12, 1815, received\\nher preparatory education in the Johnstown Academy, where she studied\\nCxreek, Latin and the higher mathematics, with a class of boys.\\nAlthough prepared to enter any college, these institutions not then\\nbeing open to women, she finished her school work in Mrs. Kmma\\nWillard s Seminary at Troy, N. Y.\\nMrs. Stanton s father was Daniel Cady, an eminent jurist, a ju lge\\nof the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, and a man of un-\\nimpeachable integrity. Judge Cady remained on the bench until eighty-\\nfour years of age when he resigned, having filled out a length of time\\nhitherto unknown in a similar position. The mother of Mrs. Stanton,\\nwas Margaret Livingston a direct descendant of Chancellor Robert Liv-\\ningston, who administered the oath to Washington at his inauguratiim.\\nThe Cady family consisted of six children, the eldest of whom, and\\nthecmlyson, died soon after the completion of his collegiate course.\\nHis father was well-nigh inconsolable, and at one time exclaimed to his\\ndaughter Elizabeth, then eleven years of age, I wish you were a boy.\\nThis in a measure caused her determination to become as nearly like one\\nin her aims and studies as possible. Gerritt Smith, her cousin, was an\\ninfluential factor in the formation of her future career, and it was in his\\nhouse she met Henry B. Stanton the notable author, philanthropist and\\nreformer, whom she married in 1840. Previous to her marriage she had\\nspent much time in her father s office, where she read Blackstone and\\nKent and often listened to the complaints of women who felt injured at\\nnot being allowed a voice in the care of their inherited property.\\nAccompaning her husband to the World s Anti-Slavery Conventi .n\\nin London, she met among others who proved to be valuable acquaint-\\nances, the devoted and now sainted Lucretia Mott, a (Juaker preacher,\\na woman of rare ability and religious fervor. These two energetic and\\naggressive women returned to America together, and in 1S48 called a\\nWoman s Rights Conventi m to meet in Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July I tth\\nand 20th of that year. Mrs. Stanton had spent the years of 1845-4(.-47 at\\nAlbany, during which time she had used her influence toward inducing\\nmembers of the legislature to vote for the Woman s Rights Bill, then\\nbefore the public. In 1848 she had the pleasure of seeing this bill\\npassed, giving married women the right to hold and control their in-\\nherited property. Her work during all the years since have been along\\nthe same lines\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Woman s Suffrage as a means to woman s so-called\\nemancipation.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0717.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "670 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nIt was not until ISd that Mrs. Stanton became a resident of Tena-\\nfly, N. J., where she iiurnediatelj set to work to bring- about reforms for\\nthe women of this State, and in 1880 caused a little sensation by attempt-\\ning to vote, leaving her ballot lying on the edge of the box, with the\\nremark that, with the inspector lay the responsibility of refusing the\\nvote of a citizen of New Jersey.\\nMrs. Stanton is now living, more than fourscore years of age, and\\nin 1898 published the reminiscences of her busy life, under the title of\\nEighty Years or More, Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.\\nOf her six children, Daniel Cady was at one time a member of the\\nLouisiana Legislature, Henry Gerritt and Robert are lawyers, Theodore\\nis an author, Margaret a professor and Harriet is an author and\\nreformer.\\nComparativeh- few persons, either men or women, live to the age of\\nMrs. Stanton retaining the mental and physical vigor she possesses.\\nEX-POSTMA.STEK GENEKAL THOMAS L. JAMES.\\nEx^Postmaster General Thomas L. James, the present president f\\nLincoln Bank, New York city, is of pure Welsh ancestry. Both his\\npaternal and maternal grandparents came to America from Wales in\\n1801). He was born and educated in Utica, N. Y., learning the trade of\\nprinter, in the office of the Utica Liberty Press. Subsequently he\\nbought the Madison County Journal, a Whig newspaper, published at\\nHamilton, N. Y. In 1856, his paper united with the Democratic Re-\\nflector, under the name of Democratic Republican. Mr. James career\\nin newspaper work, covered a period of ten years, and in the meantime\\nhe incidentally acted as collector of canal tolls at Hamilton for a year\\nor more. In 18bl, having been appointed Inspector of Customs, he\\nremoved to New York city. Later he was appointed Weigher, and in\\n1870 was made Deputy Collector and placed in charge of the Ware-\\nhouse Division and the bonded warehouses of the port. His methodical\\nand systematic manner of conducting business, in a few months estab-\\nlished order and efficiency, where confusion and laxity had heretofore\\nexisted.\\nGeneral Chester A. Arthur, who was then Collector of the Port\\nappointed Mr. James a member of the civil service board of the Col-\\nlectors and Surveyors offices, of which board he was soon after ma le\\nchairman.\\n(reneral James was appointed postmaster of the city of New York\\nbv president Grant, March 17, 1873 and was re-appointed four years\\nlater bv President Hayes. Laying aside all partisanship he set to work\\nto imi)rove the postal facilities, succeeded in increasing the number of\\ndeliveries. He also developed the fast mail service, expediated the\\nforeign mails and promoted the greater security of the mail generally,\\nbv various carefully considered devices. By conducting the office on\\npurelv business principles, he won the respect and confidence of both\\n])olitical parties. Fpon the removal of General Arthur, from the office", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0718.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "CHAKI.ICS I.. A. Wl lNOlMv", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0719.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "672 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nof Collector of the Port of New York, President Ha3-es offered the\\nplace to General James, who out of courtesy and respect to General\\nArthur refused to supersede him. Soon after this, when David M. Key\\nresigned the Cabinet office of Postmaster General, the president ten-\\ndered the place to General James, but this too was declined. In the\\nsame year he was urged to go on the local ticket for mayor of New\\nYork, which he also refused. So widely known had the reforms in the\\nNew York post office become, that experts were sent from European\\ngovernments, for the purpose of looking into the details of the manage-\\nment of the New York office. The post office authorities in Kngland\\nwere disposed to rank Postmaster James with Rowland Hill, Scudamore,\\nChetwynd, and others who accomplished postal system reforms.\\nWhen President Gartield selected his Cabinet, Thomas L. James\\nwas appointed Postmaster General, and while remaining in office but\\nten months, he yet applied business methods and rigid discipline the\\ncurrent of affairs, resulting in complete reform.\\nGeneral James is a local member of the St. David s Society, an\\nassociation of the Sons of Wales. He was president of this society\\ntwo years, a position his son, Charles F. James, now holds. He is also\\na member of the Union League. He belongs to the Atlantic Yacht\\nClub, the Englewood Club, the Tenafly Club, as well as to several\\nchurch and commercial bodies.\\nCHARLES L. A. WENGEK.\\nCharles L. A. Wenger was born at Alsace, now a German province.\\nDecember 15, 1854. His father, Bernard D. G. Wenger, took an active\\npart in the affairs of his locality, serving as collector and assessor, and\\nin other official capacities. Charles was educated in the boys school of\\nhis native place from which he was graduated. Mr. Wenger with true\\nGerman foresight and thrift, became apprenticed to a baker, taking the\\nfull training of three years. He then worked at his trade for two years,\\ncoming to America in 1871. Here he settled in Closter, Bergen county,\\nin 1874, engaging in business on his own account, which proved a suc-\\ncessful undertaking. In 1893 he removed to Tenafly and bought the\\nproperty on Washington street, where he now resides and carries on\\nbusiness.\\nIn 1879 he married Miss Adeline Hincke. By this marriage he has\\nfour children, John W., Josephine, Lena and Adriana. His second mar-\\nriage was in 1896, to Miss Freda Mulfinger. The}- have one child.\\nCharles A. Before coming to the United States Mr. Wenger served in\\nthe French army thirteen months, in the Commissary Department. He\\nis a Republican in politics and holds the office of Commissioner of Deeds,\\nto which he was appointed by Governor Werts. He is a member of\\nAlpine Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Odd P^ellows of\\nEnglewood, and K. of H. Norton Vallev No. .^6. S.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0720.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF Bp:kGEN COUNTY 673\\nJOHN J. HARING, M. D.\\nJohn J. Haring-, M. D., was born in Rockland count}-, N. Y., March\\n15, 1834. His parentag-e was among the Holland Huguenot stock com-\\nmon in that county. His education was pursued in the public schools\\nand academies progressing to a stage fitting him for entrance to college,\\nit being his original intention to complete a college course. A chain of\\ncircumstances turned him aside from this purpose and in 1852 he began\\nthe stud}- of medicine in the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouck, then the\\nleading physician and surgeon in Rockland county. A year later he\\ncame to the office of Dr. Charles Hasbrouck, a brother of his former\\npreceptor, then in an extensive practice in Schraalenburgh, Bergen\\ncounty. His first winter medical course was in the University Medical\\nCollege, his second in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in\\nNew Yf)rk city. A third course was in the Jefferson Medical College of\\nPhiladelphia, from which he was graduated in 1854.\\nInvited to a partnership with his preceptor. Dr. Charles Hasbrouck,\\nhe accepted the same and for two years performed the larger share of\\nthe joint work extending over at least forty square miles of territory.\\nAt the end of that time the entire practice came into his hands by the\\nremoval of his preceptor to Hackensack.\\nFor fifteen years Dr. Haring responded to all professional demands\\nof this extensive field, he being the only practitioner within its limits.\\nThe amount of work involved in these demands was known only to him-\\nself. Fifteen hours were daily spent in making his professional rounds,\\nall of the tooth extracting, fractures, dislocations, and accidents gener-\\nally of the locality, came into his hands. In addition he was compelled\\nto perform many of the duties assigned in recent times to the druggist.\\nWith a view to restricting his professional field and taking advant-\\nage of the developments expected from the construction of the Northern\\nRailroad, he located at Tenafly thirty years ago, selecting a fine site\\nand erecting upon it an attractive and expensive residence, where he\\nhas since resided and has pursued his profession with unabated activity\\nand success.\\nBeing of a practical matter-of-fact mental make-up, and not given\\nto sentimental tendencies, he has pursued the even tenor of his way\\nnever resorting to any of the doubtful expedients often made use of in\\nattaining popularity and professional repute. Naturally reticent and a\\nstranger to the art of flattery, there is little about him of what is\\nknown as personal magnetism. Hence he has never courted social popu-\\nlarity and has been sparing in his selection of close and confidential\\nfriends.\\nIn the domestic life he has found his chief source of satisfaction,\\nand has attained to more than the average of its enjoyment.\\nPositions of public trust, political and otherwise, have for the most\\npart been declined when offered to him. At the present time he is Presi-\\ndent of the Health Board of his borough and chairman of the Medical\\nBoard of the Englewood Hospital. He is the oldest member of the", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0721.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "J. J. HAKINC, M. D.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0722.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY 675\\nHerjren County Medical Society-, having- been associated with that body\\nsince its organization, over forty years ago.\\nPolitically he has been in sympathy with the Democratic party, and\\nhas frequently and earnestly advocated through the public press some\\nof its leading- measures. His religious relations have been with Pres-\\nbyterianism, having- been an elder for many years in the Tenafly Pres-\\nbyterian Church and clerk of its session. He is tolerant of the opinion of\\nothers and is of charitable tendencies, having cheerfully given an un-\\nusually large share of time and labor without expectation of pecuniarv\\nreward. He is a writer of unusul facility, having made numerous con-\\ntributions to various periodicals. Several years ago he published in the\\nlocal weekly paper of his borough a series of paper^, running through\\nan entire year, upon the history of the eastern part of Bergen county,\\ngiven reminiscences and personal observations of much interest, from\\nwhich papers we have been privileged to quote in other pages of this\\nvolume.\\nOne of the doctor s dreams if he mav be supposed to have any i is.\\nwhen he shall retire from active professional life, he may have the op-\\nportunity and intellectual vigor to write just one book differing from\\nany other printed, which will find favor with serious and thoughtful\\nreaders, and which may hold a permanent place upon their book shelves.\\nThis would satisfy the full measure of his future ambition. His large\\ncircle of acquaintances and friends we feel assured will be gratified if\\nthis cherished hope shall be realized.\\nCOLONEL ABRAHAM C. DEMAKEST.\\nThe subject of this sketch was early imbued with the military\\nspirit and at the age of 22, he recruited a company for the now cele-\\nbrated 71st Regiment of the city of New York, which was then called\\nthe American Rifles. This regiment was organized during the Know\\nNothing excitement in that city, and was composed exclusively of\\nAmerican citizens. Colonel Demarest s first commission was received\\nin 185.^ from Horatio Seymour, who was then Governor of the state of\\nNew York. In 1855 he was again commissioned by Governor Myron H.\\nClark and again in 1857 by Governor John H. King. At this time owing\\nto his faithfulness in attending to duty and his efficiency in matters\\nmilitarv, he was appointed drill-master, and, during this time, it is a\\nmatter of record that he never was absent from a drill or a parade.\\nThose who remember the so-called Quarantine War at Staten\\nIsland and the Dead Rabbit Riots in the city of New York, may know\\nthat the Seventy-first Regiment was called upon, and, by its prompt and\\neffective service, put an end to the unpleasant disturbance.\\nIn 18M\u00c2\u00bb, Cohmel Demarest removed to Cresskill, N. J., which neces-\\nsitated his retirement from the New York militia.\\nThe troublous times of the Civil War stirred again his military\\nspirit, and, with old-time vigor, he recruited a company in Closter for\\nthe independent t)attalion of the Hergen County Brigade, and was com-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0723.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "67f HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nmissioned captain by Governor Charles S. Olden, in 1862. As soon as\\nthe companv was formed he commenced to drill his men in his usual\\nefficient manner, so that when Governor Olden issued his proclamation,\\ncalling for New Jersey s quota, under President Lincoln s call for 300, (KKI\\nmen, he had a nucleus around which to rally recruits for the purpose of\\nforming a company, which he did by enlisting volunteers, and by Sep-\\ntember 1, the limit of time given, had one hundred and fifty men\\nrecruited from Closter, Cresskill, Tenafly and Englewood. With these\\nhe reported at the rendezvous in Trenton, when they became a part of\\nthe Twenty-second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, which left the\\ncapital for the seat of war, one thousand strong eight hundred being\\nfrom Bergen county and two companies of about two hundred men com-\\ning from Mercer county. The Twenty-first New Jersey Regiment,\\nwhich was enlisted in Hudson county, under the same call, was enrolled\\nthe day previous to the muster-in of the Twenty-second, and proceeded\\nto the front. When field officers were appointed. Captain Demarest be-\\ncame major, which rank he held until January 1863, when he was com-\\nmissioned colonel.\\nThe Twenty-second Regiment left Trenton for Washington very hur-\\nriedly, and was ordered into camp on East Capitol Hill. In a few days\\nthe regiment joined the Army of the Potomac and was stationed in the\\ndefences of Washington at the Chain Bridge, near Georgetown, which\\nposition it occupied until November 30, when it was ordered to the front.\\nDuring his connection with the army he participated in many of the\\nhard-fought battles, until mustered out of service upon the regiment s\\nreturn to Trenton at the expiration of its term of service.\\nAfter the war. Colonel Demarest had in contemplation the assist-\\ning in raising the Second Regiment of New Jersey Cavalry, which was\\nafterward formed under Colonel Louis Karge, but the strenuous objec-\\ntions of his family deterred him from the purpose, and he returned to\\nthe management of his mercantile business. Colonel Demarest is a\\nprominent member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; also of\\nthe Grand Army of the Republic and of the Society of the Army of the\\nPotomac.\\nFREDERIC L. COLVER.\\nFrederic L. Colver is of New England and New York ancestry,\\nbut was born in Milwaukee, Wis., October 13, 1863. He resided in\\nBrooklyn. N.Y., from 1866 to 1888, removing then to Tenafly, where he\\nhas since lived and built a home. His tastes early inclined him to the\\npublishing business, and at seventeen years of age he began the pub-\\nlication, in Brooklyn, of the Philomathean Review, the official paper\\nof the Philomathean Society, of which society Mr. Colver was one of\\nthe founders and presidents. This paper he succeeded with the Brook-\\nlyn Magazine in 1886, organizing a stock company to publish this\\nmagazine, a department of which contained the sermons of Henry Ward\\nBeecher and T. DeWitt Talmage. During the last winter of Mr.\\nBeecher s life, 1886-7, he conducted a newspaper syndicate of Beecher", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0724.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n677\\narticles. In 1S87 the Brooklyn Magazine was succeeded b} the\\nAmerican Magazine, with Mr. Colver as manager. In May, 1889,\\nMr. Colver accepted the post of advertising- manager for Frank Leslie s\\npublications, after serving a short time as partner in a book publishing\\nbusiness. He was lessee and manager of Frank Leslie s Publishing\\nHouse from 18M5 to July 1, 1898, at which date he incorporated the\\nbusiness under the Frank Leslie Publishing House, with Mrs. Frank\\nLeslie as president and Mr. Colver as secretary and treasurer. In June,\\n1899, Mr. Colver was chosen president and general manager. Since his\\nremoval to Tenafly in 1888, Mr. Colver has taken an active interest in\\nFKF.r)i:Kic I\\nmany public movements. In 1891 he started the Tenatly Library\\nSociety, now a growing and prosperous literary associaticm.\\nIn the spring of 1892, he was chairman of the committee from that\\nsociety which raised the funds and built the Tenafly Hall, he acting as\\nTreasurer of the Tenafly Hall Company. During the years of 1894-.=;\\nhe was editor and manager of the Tenafly Record, a weekly news-\\npaper, and in the winter of 1892-3, he organized the movement which\\nled to the incorporation of Tenafly as a borough in January, 1894. Mr.\\nColver served cm the first Borough Council, and in 1S9S was a])pi.inted", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0725.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "678 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\na member i)f the Board of Health. He is an active worker and officer in\\nthe Presbyterian church, and a member of the Tenafly Council, Royal\\nArcanum.\\nMr. Colver is married to Lillian Frances Warren, of Glens Falls,\\nN. Y., and has one child, Frederic Beecher Colver.\\nHENRY B. PALMER.\\nHenry B. Palmer, first mayor of Tenafly, is a native of New York-\\ncity and was born in 1840. He received his education in the city of New\\nYork, where he has also been identified with the firm of Barrett, Palmer\\nHeal, for years one of the largest dyeing- establishments in the coun-\\ntry. The works of this company are at Nordhoff, N. J., and the business\\ndone by them is extensive. Mr. Palmer is also president of the Old\\nStaten Island Dyeing Establishment, the largest of the kind in the\\nworld. He came to Tenafly about the close of the Civil War where he\\nhas since resided. As one of the public spirited citizens of the new\\nborough, he was elected its first mayor, and was subsequently re-elected\\nto the position twice afterward, both preceeding and succeeding General\\nJames in that office.\\nPROFESSOR R. S. MAUGHAM.\\nProfessor R. S. Maugham, principal of the schools at Tenafly, and\\nRecorder of that borough, is a native of Jersey City and was born in\\n1859. His father Joseph B. Maugham, Supervising principal of Bern-\\nard township, Somerset county, N. J. came from England just prior to\\nthe war of the Rebellion, locating in this state, where his life since that\\ntime has been given to educational work. Being a teacher and a\\nscholar, his son, the subject of this sketch, received from him a course\\nof instruction and mind training equal to that pursued by those who\\nsecure classical degrees in our colleges of the present time. Possessing\\na logical mind and with a taste for scientific subjects, such topics as\\nevolution and the science of life, has engaged his attention, both as a\\nwriter and a lecturer.\\nAs an educator, however, he has devoted his energies, since eigh-\\nteen years of age, to the work of teaching in the public schools, first in\\nTuckerton, N. J., then in Cresskill, for a period of six or eight years,\\ncoming here in 1887 where he has remained to the present time at the\\nhead of the Tenafly schools. He is public spirited and jxissesses qual-\\nities of leadership as in connection with many of the institutions of\\nhis adopted city will testify. He is a member of the Presbyterian church\\nof Tenafly, and was superintendent of the Sabbath school and organist\\nof the church for a few years. He was recently appointed Recorder of\\nthe borough, and is otherwise identified with the government of the\\nplace.\\nBUELL B. BROWN.\\nBuell B. Brown, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1848. His\\nancestors came from Vermont in the early part of the century, and\\nsettled on what is known as the Western Reserve, then a wild region-", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0726.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKOEN COUNTY 674\\nThev were noted for their public spirit and patriotism, the g-reat-urand-\\nfather on both sides being soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and the\\ngrandfathers soldiers of the war of 1812, while the subject of this sketch,\\nhis father and brother served in the war of the Rebellion. Mr. Brown\\nis a distant relative of John Brown, whose soul is marching on and\\nof Lord Nelson, his mother being a grand-neice of the hero of Trafalgar.\\nAt the age of sixteen he enlisted as a member of the Sixth Ohio\\nCavalry, and served under General Sheridan until the close of the war.\\nHe was graduated from the Spencerian Institute of Cleveland, Ohio, in\\nlSr S, the Kingsville Ohio Academy, in 1870, and the Rochester New\\nYork Business University, in 1871, being an instructor in the last named\\ninstitutiim in 1871-72, when he accepted the principalship of the Louis-\\nville Business College. He afterwards established and conducted sev-\\neral commercial schools, which now bear his name. He has been the\\neditor of several weekly papers, and is a frequent contributor to the\\nNew York press, also author of works on commercial education. He is\\na member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and director of the\\nEnglewood Loan and Building Association.\\nMr. Brown gave up the school and newspaper business some time\\nsince and is now a real estate and insurance broker.\\nCHAKI.ES p. lU CKI.KV.\\nCharles P. Buckley, Mayor of the borough, is a native of New\\nJersey, but has been a practitioner of law in the city of New York\\nfor over forty years. He was born in Montclair, N. J., in December\\n1834. A few years thereafter his parents moved to the city where he\\nreceived his education. He has followed his profession since 1858,\\nwhen admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of that State. He was\\nappointed a Master in Chancery in 1873 by Chancellor Rumyon. In 18f.5\\nhe became a resident of Tenafiy, where his name is found in connecticm\\nwith all the movements in that place, socially, politically and other-\\nwise. Mr. Buckley was elected Mayor of the borough of Tenafiy in\\nMarch 18 )9. He is a member of Lawyer s and New York Athletic\\nClubs, New York city and of the L mg Beach Club and Tenafly Club,\\nNew Jersey.\\nAI,I K KI) JAKVIS.\\nAlfred Jarvis was born at Babylon, Long Island, June 4, 1835, and\\nis the son of Rufus and Onee Gildersleeve Jarvis. Alfred served as\\nLieutenant in the late Civil war, in the 12th Mississippi Regiment from\\nApril 1, 18()1, until July 10, 18()5. His grandfather Augustus Jarvis\\nserved in the Revolutionary war.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0727.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXII.\\nHARRINGTON TOWNSHIP.\\nEAKI.V SKTTLEMENT CIVII, LIST CLUSTER, DEMAKEST, NOKWCKJD\\nSCHOOLS CHUKCHES BIOGK.\\\\PHICAL SKETCHES.\\nThis township became a separate organization in 1775, having-\\nheretofore been a part of old Hackensack.\\nThe division of the territory for the formation of Washing-ton\\ntownship called forth strong opposition. In i840, howev-er, it was nearly\\nequally divided leaving Harrington on the east side, making the line of\\nNew York state its northern boundary, with the Hudson river on the\\neast and Palisades township on the s;)Uth. Includia-r the borough\\nrecently taken off it contains fourteen thousand two hundred and one\\nacres and has two railroads, the Northern Railroad of New Jersey and\\nthe West Shore traversing the township from North to South.\\nThe civil powers of the township at that early day were legallv\\nvested in the county board justices and freeholders. The first Chosen\\nFreeholders of the townshij) were Johnson Boskirk and Jacob Cole.\\nFrom that time to i794 the records are indefinite, but from the year last\\nnamed the freeholders, with the respective years in which they served,\\nwill be found as follows:\\n1794, Capt. Abr. Haring; )4- ).S- Abrni. (i. Haring; 95-96.\\nHenry Harring; 97, David Durie; 97-i.S(lil. John I. Banta; 1800-5, Peter\\nHarring: 1801-2, 08-13, Jacob I. Banta; tl.V5, Cornelius Blauvelt; 06-9.\\nJohn D. Harring; 06-7, 10-11, Carret A. Ackerman; 12-17, John W.\\nFerdon, 14-17, James G. Demarest; IS, Uavid A. Demarest; 18, Gar-\\nret A. Zabriskie; 19-21, David A. Demarest; 19, Garret A. Zabriskie;\\n20-21, Jacob Al. Terhune; 22-25. John W. Ferdon; 22, 26-28, John R.\\nBlauvelt; 23-25, 30, Samuel G. Demarest; 26-28, 31-33, Garret Acker-\\nson; 29-39, Jacob I. Blauvelt; 29, Peter Wortendyke; 31-33, Stephen\\nPowles; 34-36, Matthew S. Bogert; 34-36, 46-48. John I. Blauvelt;\\n36-40. John H. Zabriskie; 37-39, Aaron H. Westervelt; 40-42, William\\nV. D. Harring; 41-43, Samuel R. Demarest; 43-45, Tunis Harring;\\n44, John I. Ackerman, Jr, 45-47, Benjamin Bogert; 38-40, Jacob J.\\nFerdon; 49-51, David D. Harring; 51-53, David Doremus; 52-54, Garret\\nA. Ackerson; 54-56, Ralph S. Demarest; 56, Peter D. Harring; 57-( l,\\nGarret I. Auryansen; 57-59, Henrv (t. Zabriskie; 60-62, John T. Har-\\nring; 62-64, John S. Powles; 63-64, Abraham C. Eckerson; 66.\\nBarney N. Ferdon; 67-68, Cornelius Eckerson, Jr.; 68-70, Ralph S.\\nDemarest; 69-70, Abraham Harring; 71, John Van Buskirk; 72-74,\\nJames P. Blackledge; 75-77, Peter S. Yeury; 78-80, Peter A. Demarest;\\n83-84, John Ackerman, Jr.; 84-86, Jacob B. Eckerson; 86-90, W. L.\\nLindemann; 90-99, Garret T. Haring; 99, George N. Brewster.\\nJustices of the Peace, 1872, Barney A. Ferdon; 75, Henry G.\\nZabriskie; 7( Cornelius Eckerscm, Jr., John C. Ackerson. Moses .1.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0728.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF KHKGEN COUNTY 681\\nTaylor; 77, John B. Kipj); 7S. James Y. Van Orden; 80, IMartin De\\nWolf, Allien B. Eckerson; 82, J. P. Andrews. H. G. Zabriskie; 83, P.\\nC. De Wolf, James Y. Van Orden. Robert N. Sneden; 85, Jenkins\\nSloat; 88, Moses J. Taylor, Peter C. Ue Wolf, James Y. Van Orden;\\n89, C. Eckerson, Jr.. B. N. Ferdon; H, H. Campora, B. N. Ferdon; )2,\\nGeorge Dayton; 9.^, Georg-e Dayton, who still holds that office; J. Y.\\nVan Orden, who was elected for five years and J. 1!. Eckerson. who was\\nelected for three years.\\nTown Clerks. 1871-73, Jacob J. Demarest; 74-76, Cornelius A.\\nEckerson; 77-79, William J. Demarest; S()-,S7, Charles L. DuBois; 87-\\n89, Charles H. Lyons; 89-9.^, C. A. Eckerson; 93-96, W. C. Endres,\\nresig-ned November, 1897, George Dayton a]}pf)inted; 98, George Day-\\nton elected.\\nThe officers for the year 1899 are: Town Committee. Ward Varian,\\nCloster; George E. Tooker, Demarest; (iarret D. Durie, Closter; Town-\\nship Collector, John H. Lindemann. loster; Assessor. William J.\\nDemarest. Norwood; Township Clerk, George Dayton, Closter.\\nEAKI.Y sktti.1 :ks.\\nThe Harings, or Harrings, as the name was sometimes spelled\\nwere among the first settlers, giving the name to the township\\nupon its organization in 1775. Peter Haring came to America\\nfrom North Holland early in the seventeenth century. His son John\\nborn December 26, 1633. married Margaret Cozine. Their son Cozine\\nwhose son John, had a son Frederick whose son John, was born June\\n14, 1760. He married Jemima, daughter of Tennis Blauvelt. Their\\nson Teunis, born September 7, 1787, married Elizabeth Perry who died\\nin 1858. Among their children were Abram B., and Jane, wife of Ralph\\nS. Demarest. Abram was born on the old homestead May 20, 1811.\\nHe is a member of the board of freeholders, was surveyor, and was\\nsheriff of Bergen county from 1853 to 185(). He also served two terms\\nin the State Legislature.\\nPeter Westervelt the ancestor of the branch of the family of that\\nname living in this part of Bergen county, settled here in the first part\\nof the seventeenth century. His scm, Peter Benjamin, was the father\\nof John Peter Benjamin of this townshi]). The Blauvelts, Ackermans\\nand Ferdons were also early settlers in the township. Garret Ackerson,\\nthe first of his name in America, settled at Old Tappen. He sometimes\\nspelled his name Eckerson.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nBenjamin Blacklidge, who was the first teacher of English in Ber-\\ngen county, located in Harrington township as a doctor in the latter\\npart of the eighteenth century. He married Caroline Tallman, and\\nbegan housekeeping in a part of the house in which he taught school,\\nteaching both Dutch and English.\\nThe oldest school house of which we have any definite account was\\nbuilt on ground given bv Abraham Ackerman on condition that it", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0729.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "682 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nshould be used always as a school lot. The house was of stone one-\\nstory high, with two rooms, one of which was for school and the other\\nfor the teacher to live in. It was in that house that Mr. Blacklidge\\nbegan housekeeping with his sixteen-year-old wife. It was built by\\nsubscription. The deed was written in Dutch, but was never recorded.\\nThe first school in Closter City District, No. 15, was a private enter-\\nprise begun in 1864 in the basement of the church and became a flourish-\\ning institution. The first public school in this district was opened in\\n1870, in a barn rented for the purpose, while the new building was in\\nprocess of erection. This new house was of brick, thirty by seventv-\\none feet and two stories high. Alpine District, No. 16, had no school\\nof importance until 1845.\\nThe old Closter District, No. 17, is in the northeastern part of the\\ntownship, where the first building was of stone, near the house of Moses\\nTaylor. This was used until 1830, when a new one was built on the\\nfarm of Mr. Taylor, where the lease was to be good as long as used for\\nschool purposes. The next building was erected in 1858, and was\\ntwenty-eight by forty feet in dimensions.\\nOld Tappan District No. 1 is upon historic ground. Major Andre\\nhaving been executed near the boundaries of this district. The first\\nschool building in No. 19 was built a long time ago. According to some\\naccounts, it was about 1785, when a little school house was built with\\nno ceiling and having a chimney built of sticks and mud. A house\\nerected in 1856 was the fourth to be put up in the district, but they did\\nnot all occupy the same site.\\nHarrington township will always be interesting as the locality in\\nwhich young Andre was executed as a spy, October 2, 1780, the execu-\\ntion taking place between the village of Tappan and the state line, not\\nover two hundred feet from the boundary line of Harrington townshij).\\nThis vicinity was the scene of the massacre of Colonel Baylor s troop.\\na small force detached from the main army to intercept a British forag-\\ning party. The massacre of these men was a cruel and inhuman act\\ncalling forth the greatest hatred of the Americans against their British\\nfoe.\\nThe liorough of old Tappan was taken out of this township, and\\nincorporated in rS94. John H. DeWolf was elected the first mayor\\nDecember 6, 1S )4. and has been re-elected to that office every election\\nsince that time.\\nvn.L.\\\\GES.\\nCloster, the largest village in the township, is very pleasantly situ-\\nated on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, twenty miles from the\\ncity of New York. It has one hotel, several stores and four churches,\\nwith a flourishing public school.\\nManufacturing of window shades was begun under the firm name\\nof Adam Richter Co., the business being carried on from that time\\nto the present. The present jiroprietor, Mr. Joseph Schuessler, who", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0730.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\n683\\nhas always been interested in the company from the beginninir, is to-dav\\nmanufacturing about ten thousand every two days. He emjilovs nearly\\ntwenty hands constantly.\\nHOTELS.\\nThe Closter Hotel was built by William L. Lindemann many years\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ago, but it proved a failure, and subsequently, for want of an occuj)ant,\\nstood idle for a number of years. Finally a manager, in the person of\\nthe g-enial landlord, John W. Hutton, took the property, and from that\\ntime the house became a landmark of some value to the village. Mr.\\nHutton purchased the property in ISS I. and. in IS ts. sold it to (rarret I^.\\nDHMAK KS I SCH\\nEaring, the present proprietor. Mr. Hutton at one time carried on an\\nextensive trucking business in New York, and later opened a large\\nrestaurant there on Wall and William Streets, where he conducted two\\nbars, and kept about thirty men constantly employed. Tiring ol such\\nan active life, he sought a home where the remainder of his days could\\nbe spent in retirement.\\nDKM.VKKST.\\nThe village of Demarest follows next in population. It was lai l\\nout by Ralph S. Demarest, and has a store and church. As a place of\\nresidence it has attracted a number of New York business men, whose\\ncoming has helped to build up the place. The Murray Hill House is", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0731.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "f 84 HISTORY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nlocated here. An artificial lake adds to the beauty and attractiveness\\nof the place.\\nXORWOOD.\\nThis villag-e has two churches, two stores and a hotel. J. Wvman\\nJones, who bought the land, laid it out in lots for a villag-e. Among\\nthe older settlers Henry ver Valen and his son-in-law. David Hariug,\\nare worthy of mention. Mr. Haring lived where Peter A. Blauvelt now\\nresides.\\nCHUKCHES.\\nThe Methodists have held services in the town of Harrington since\\nthe year 1841. At that time Rev. Mr. Stur, a local preacher, from the\\nBedford Church in New York, came to the vicinity of Uemarest and\\nheld meetings, which were continued by DuBois and others from the\\nsame church in New York. From that time a movement was set on\\nfoot which resulted in the building of a church edifice on what is known\\nas Hilltop, at a cost of five hundred dollars. The first board of trustees\\nconsisted of Henry DuBois, Thomas DuBois, Jacob Jordan, and William\\nJordan. Before this church was built, it is stated that the mother of\\nJacob DuBois was in the habit of walking four miles to a Reformed\\nChurch in the valley. At that time there was no village on the cliff,\\nbut most of the people lived on the river bank and on the hill. Among\\nthe early members of this church were Oliver Cosine, Henrv DuBois.\\nThomas DuBois, Mrs. Thomas DuBois. Jacob Jorden. William Jorden.\\nMrs. Springstead, and Mrs. Older.\\nIn 1857 a new edifice was erected sixty feet long and thirty feet\\nwide, the building material being hard bluestone. Mr. NordhofF\\ndefrayed the architect s expenses.\\nThe A. M. E. Zion Church of Closter was organi/.ed in IS H), and is\\na small congregation.\\nIn the fall of 1860 Rev. E. S. Hammond began preaching at Closter,\\nand in February, 1861, at a public meeting held at the house of Peter\\nMaxon it was resolved that an effort be made to secure a church edifice\\nfor the better and permanent accommodation of the county, and in 1862\\na plot of ground was deeded to the congregation by Thomas W. Demar-\\nest and wife, and a church was erected under the supervision of Daniel\\nBlauvelt, Nicholas Duree, Garret J. Demarest, John H. Stevens, and\\nMatthew S. Bogert. The church was completed, and dedicated October\\n7, 1862, by Rev. Isaac W. Cole, of Tappan, N. Y. The church was\\norganized September 30, 1862. by Rev. W. B. Mabon, Rev. W. R. (iordcn.\\nRev. James Demarest, Jr., and William Williams. The first members\\nwere Garret J. Demarest, Agnes Westervelt, Peter A. Blauvelt, Elixa\\nHerring, Robert D. Huvler. Mrs. R. D. Huyler. John H. Stephens. David\\nD. Blauvelt, George H. French, Phebe W. Peck, Gideon Peck, Lydia\\nCoddington, Isabella Percell, Margaret H. Hammond, Peter J. White.\\nSarah Zabriskie, and Abraham J. Hopper. The first elders were\\nGideon Peck, Daniel Blauvelt, (larret Demarest; deacons, Peter Blauvelt.\\nAbraliaiu J. Ho])per, Peter White.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0732.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BHKC.EN COITNTY ()S5\\nThe church is located on the hill, and is built of wood, fiirtv l)V\\nsixt\\\\- feet, and cost ten thousand dollars. The pastors have been Co--\\nnelius Blauvelt, 1865, who continued until April 27, 18 S, as a su -)iv,\\nand was succeeded by Rev. P. K. Vaubuskirk, Mav, 18 )9, who remained\\nin pastoral charge until April, 1SS7, when he was succeeded by the Rev.\\nHenry Ward, the present jjastor who took- charge September, 1SS7.\\nFIK.ST CONCKM .CATIONAI. CIIUKCH.\\nThe First Congregational Church of Closter is the outcome of the\\nmeetings for prayer, instituted by a number of Christian i)eo)le who\\nfirst met in the building then known as Closter Institute, but is no.v\\nHammond Hall. This prayer service resulted in the People s Churcli,\\norganized with eighteen members. December 6, 1877, becoming in time\\nthe F^irst Congregational Church of Closter. February 22, 1S7S, the\\nchurch was recognized in a council of which Rev. R. B. Howard, of\\nEast Orange, was moderator, and Rev. William H. Brodhead, of S])ring\\nValley, scribe. The first pastor was Rev. Herbert B. Turner, installed\\nFebruary 6, 1879. The dedication of the new church building took\\nl)lace on December 8, ISSl.\\nIn October, 1883, Mr. Turner left the congregation, and in October.\\n1884, Rev. G. W. Plack was installed, remaining until September, LS iO.\\nIn December of the same year Rev. (i. M. Walton was called, serving\\nthe church until April, 189, when Rev. C. A. S. Dwight followed him,\\nbeginning his laliors in November of the same year, and in November,\\n1894, was installed, continuing to serve as pastor to the present time.\\nA Protestant Episcopal church in the village has a small meniber-\\nshij). Rev. Arthur Whitaker is the rector.\\nA Lutheran church was built in 1887 in the village of Closter, and\\ndedicated in 1888. The membershij) is small. The Rev. (ntstav H.\\nScheild is pastor.\\nTHIC N(_)K\\\\V()OI) I Ki:SHVTl-:i IAN CIU KCH.\\nThe Norwood Preslivterian church was established in the f.ill of\\n1S()8. Meetings had been held in the hotel parlors for about one vear\\nprior to this time. A lot was then donated to the church by J. Wyman\\nJones, upon which a church was erected and dedicated in 1868. The\\nbuilding was afterwards remodelled and moved so as to face the street.\\nThe church was organized May 18, 1869, by Rev. John Spaulding, D. D.,\\nof New York city, and Rev. Henry M. Booth, of England. Twenty-\\none were received by letter and four on profession of faith. These con-\\nsisted of Paul Powless, John Powless, Margretta Powless, Mrs. M. A.\\nKline, William Hammell, Mrs. Elizabeth Hammell, Mary Atwale,\\n(ieorge H. French, Mrs. Phiebe French, Eydia Coddington, E. K.\\nHoughton, Mrs. Louise S. Houghton, Matthevv H. Houghton, Mrs.\\nSarah S. Houghton, Peter A. Blauvelt, Mrs. Eliza Blauvelt, John H.\\nServiss, Mrs. Mary E. Serviss, Curtiss N. White, Mrs. Delia 1). White,\\nC. M. Buck, W. J. Demarest, Leah Demarest, Matthew Powless, and\\nMai^ufie Powless.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0733.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "686 HISTORY OF bekc;en county\\nThe (irst elfk-rs were Paul Powless, William liammell, and George\\nH. French.\\nThe first deacons were Peter A. Blauvelt, Matthew Houghton, John\\nH. Serviss. The first pastor was Rev. William P. Fisher, who was\\ninstalled November, 1871; Rev. L. F. Stevens, October 14, 1873; Rev.\\nS. M. Jackson, May 30, 1876; Rev. J. E. Abbott, stated supply for 1880;\\nRev. Charles B. Chapin, September 13, 1881, and following him came\\nvarious other clergymen until the present pastor. Rev. William E.\\nWestervelt succeeded the, Rev. Mr. Hegerman two or three years ago.\\nThe present elders are Peter A. Blauvelt and Tunis A. Haring.\\nThere is a Baptist church in Demarest under the pastorate of Rev.\\nMr. Coleman. This society was organized in 1874, with seventeen\\nmembers, as follows: William M. Whitmore, Mrs. W. M. Whitmore,\\nWilliam R. Whitmore, Mrs. W. R. Whitmore, Miss G. P. Whitmore.\\nMiss Amelia C. Blacklidge, H. S. Downs, Mrs. H. S. Downs, George\\nAllen, Mrs. George Allen, Miss Annie Rich, Miss Nellie Rich.\\nMrs. Mary F. Rich, W^illiam H. W.estervelt, Miss Anna Randall, W. F.\\nLaroche, Mrs. W. F. Laroche.\\nMeetings were first held in the school house until a church edifice\\ncould be erected. Mr. Ralph Demarest donated a plot of ground, and\\nthe erection of a chapel was commenced, and completed in the fall of\\n1874. On the 17th of December, 1874, the chapel was dedicated. The\\nfirst pastor was Rev. James H. Andrews, who was called February, 1875.\\nHe died October 17. 1875. He was succeeded by Rev. B. F. McMichael,\\nwho was installed October 11. 1876, and preached there until 187*\u00c2\u00bb.\\nVarious other clergymen have had charge of the flock since that time.\\nThe present pastor is Mr. Coleman. The first deacons were W. J. La-\\nroche and William M. Whitmore; trustees, William M. Whitmore and\\nWilliam H. Westervelt.\\nGAKKKT Z. DK MA WEST.\\nMr. Demarest s early ancestors were among the first settlers of\\nBergen county. Mr. David des Marest of French parentage, together\\nwith his wife, Marie (Sohier) and their three sons, John, David and\\nSamuel, emigrated to America from Amsterdam, Holland, in the shi]\\nBcmtekoe, (spotted cow), arriving at New Amsterdam April 16,\\n1( 63. On June 8, 1677, a deed of conveyance was made for a large tract\\nof land in the northern New Jersey province and Mr. des Marest with\\nhis entire family settled at what is now known as River Edge, N. J. in\\n1()7S.\\nSamuel des Marest son of David, married Maria daughter of Simon\\nDreuns, August 11, 1678. They had eleven children. Peter, their son,\\nmarried Margrietie Cornelise Hariugh, a daughter of Cornelise Hariugh,\\none of the first settlers of Tappan, N. J., September 14, 1717, and made\\nhis home at Schraalenburgh, N. J. having two children, Samuel and\\nJohn. Samuel was born June 5, 1724. and died March 14, 1808. His\\nwife Margaret Brinkerhoif who was born October 4. 172 died March\\n21, 1S02, l)ore him the following children: Peter, Hendrick, Cornelius,", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0734.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "(;ai% kkt i)i;:vi \\\\kicst", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0735.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab)88 HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY\\nRoeldf and Margaret Ann. All of the sons served in the Revolutionary\\nwar. The father, Samuel, was captured by the Tory leader, Colonel\\nAbraham Van Buskirk, in his famous Old Closter raid and was im-\\nprisoned in the Sug-ar House in New York city. Cornelius was killed in\\nthis raid and Hendrick wounded. Roelof, the grandfather of our sub-\\nject, was born August 23, 1756, and died September 4, 1814. His wife,\\nMaria Demarest born August 8, 1756, died May 10, 1810. She had borne\\nhim three children Samuel R., John R., and Margaret. Samuel R., the\\nfather of our subject was born February 5, 1783, in the old township of\\nHackensack now Palisades, and died February 24, 1872. His occupa-\\ntion was farming and distilling. In politics he was a staunch Demo-\\ncrat, representing the county in both branches of the State Legis-\\nlature. He was a very active man, and was connected with all mat-\\nters in both church and civil life, that pertained to the prosperity and\\nwelfare of the community, and can safely be classed as a representative\\nman of the past He married Elizabeth Zabriskie December 22, 1808,\\nwho was born February 13, 1789, and died May 14, 1875. Their chil-\\ndren were John Z., Ralph S., Cornelia, John S., Maria, Samuel S..\\nMargaret, Catherine, Garret Z., and Ann Eliza.\\nGarret Zabriskie Demarest the onl) surviving son, was born in Lower\\nCloster or what is now Demarest, in Harringtown township June 21.\\n1829. He married Margaret Zabriskie, a daughter of John Zabris-\\nkie, October 18, 1849. She was born October 14, 1830 and died\\nOctober 10, 1893, having borne him two children, John H. Z., who mar-\\nried Elizabeth V. Moore children J. Westervelt and Gretta and\\nWilliam E., who married Sarah Ferdon children Margretta, Garret\\nand Bessie\\nMr. Demarest was educated in the public schools of his town, and\\nearly in life turned his attention to farming and later entered into the\\ncoal business, to which enterprise he is now devoting his entire\\nattention.\\nMr. Demarest, though a strong Democrat, has never sought any\\npolitical office. He is a man of amiable disposition, and one who has\\nthe respect of his entire community, always an ardent supporter of all\\nenterprises that lead to the advancement and prosperity of his town.\\nMr. Demarest has ever been an earnest supporter of the True Reformed\\nChurch of Schraalenburgh known as the South. This church has\\nbeen the place of worship for his ancestors since its organization.\\nMr. G. Z. Demarest is the brother of the Hon. Ralph S. Demarest\\nwho represented Bergen county in both branches of the Legislature,\\nand who held many other offices of trust in the county, being also one\\nof the promoters and first directors of the Nothern R. R. of New Jersey.\\nDemarest, N. J. was named in honor of this branch of the family.\\nCKOKGE D.WTON.\\nGeorge Dayton, for many years Justice of the Peace, is a great-\\ngrandson of Jonathan Dayton, one of the incorporators of the borough", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0736.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BERGEN COUNTY f)8\\nof Elizabethtown, N. J., and father of General Elias Dayton, who was\\nborti in Elizabeth Town in 1737. Here Jonathan, son of General Elias\\nDayton, was born October 16, 1760. General Elias Dayton commauded\\nthe Third New Jersey Regiment in the Revolutionary war, and was\\nmade a major-general by act of Congress. His son Jonathan was a\\ncaptain of one of the companies in his father s regiment, and afterwards\\nUnited States Senator. Nathan Dayton, brother of General Elias Day-\\nton, was grandfather of our subject. He was born May 11, 1758, and\\ndied October, 1842. He also was a Revolutionary soldier. His wife,\\nMehitable (Hutchinson) Dayton, was born October 11. 1750, and died\\nJune 4, 1803. Their son, Samuel Hutchinson Dayton, father of Judge\\nGeorge Dayton, was born on Long Island September 2, 1790, and died\\nAugust 9, 1864. He married Sally S. Crary, October 13, 1814. She was\\nbora May 25, 1793, and died March 6, 1846. He was a farmer and spent\\nmost of his life in the vicinity of Troy, Albany county, N. Y., where\\nthe subject of our sketch was born October 2, 1827, and where he spent\\nthe first twenty years of his life.\\nA few years before the civil war Judge George Dayton took up his\\nabode in the city of New York where he engaged in mercantile pursuits,\\nand where he on February 1, 1859, married Miss Martha J. Dennis,\\ndaughter of Stephen A. Dennis, a manufacturer of jewelry of that city.\\nThe names of his children are Ella Fitch Wiswall and George Crary\\nDayton.\\nIn 1868 a residence was established in Rutherford, N. J., and next a\\nremoval was made to Saratoga county, N. Y. In 1890 Mr. Dayton\\ncame to Closter, where he has resided ever since. He has held numer-\\nous positions of trust. While in Rutherford he was elected to various\\nofiices and was sent to the State Senate from 1874 to 1877. In 1891 he\\nwas elected Justice of the Peace, and has since served the township of\\nHarrington in that capacity. In 1897 he was elected Township Clerk\\nand still holds that office.\\nROBERT GRAHAJI CONTRELI., M. D.\\nAmong the younger physicians of the county who are fast pushing\\ntheir way to recognition in the profession of medicine, is Doctor R. G.\\nContrell of Closter, N. J., whose admission to the practice of Materia\\nMedica, is but recent. He is the son of John P. Contrell of Newark,\\nN. J., who has been cashier for Clark s O. N. T. Spool Cotton Works\\nfor thirty-seven years; and the grandson of John Contrell of New York,\\nthe proprietor and manufacturer of Contrell s Magic Troches, which\\nhave been known to the world for years. Doctor Contrell is a native of\\nNewark, N. J., in which city he received a public school education.\\nSubsequently he was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and\\nin 1896, his degree of M. D. was received from the University of Penn-\\nsylvania, Department of Medicine. Following graduation he took up\\nhis residence in Newark where he was in charge of the Newark City\\nDispensary until his removal to Tenafly July 2, 1S \u00c2\u00bb7. He resided here", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0737.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "600 HISTOKY OF BEKGEN COUNTY\\nuntil October, IS Ct, when he removed to Closter, N. J., where he is at\\npresent practicing;-. He is examiner for the Prudential Life Insurance\\nCompany, Newark. N. J.; the Colonial Life Insurance Company, Jersey\\nCity, and for the Knights of Honor, Tenafly.\\nDr. Contrell was married on May ^l, 1S4 to Miss Ann May Curtis\\nof Englewood, N. J.\\nMK. CHAKI.ES W. WKTYKX.\\nMr. Charles W. Wetyen, one of the substantial and progressive\\ncitizens of Closter, is a native of New York city, and was born in\\n1S58. He is the son of John Henry and Mrs. Adeline Brickwell\\nWetyen, both of whom were born in Germany. His father came to New\\nYork when a young man, and was successful, first in the milk business\\nthen in the grocery trade for ra.any years. About forty years ago he\\nmoved his family to Bergen county, locating on a valuable tract of land\\nnear Demarest, N. J. Soon after this time the father died. Mr. Wetyen\\nhas spent his life principally, in this part of Bergen county. In 18S2\\nhe was married to Miss Anna L. Schenck, daughter of John Schenck,\\na business man of New York, now dead, and by this union is the father\\nof nine children all living.\\nIn 1S93 Mr. Wetyen took up his family residence in Closter, where\\nhe his been active in all the forward movements made in the interest of\\nhis village and church, is identified with the schools, and has been a\\nmember of the school board for the past five years. He is a stockholder\\nand director in the Harrington Building and L\u00c2\u00abjan Association, is a\\nmember of the Closter Hook and Ladder Company, and is otherwise\\nidentified with the interests of the village.\\nPETER .V. BLAUVEI.T.\\nPeter A. Blauvelt, pioneer undertaker at Norwood, and for many\\nyears ati official in the church at that place, is a grandson of Abraham\\nBlauvelt of Paramus, a history of whom can be found in another part\\nof this work.\\nAbraham A. Blauvelt, father of Peter A., was born in Paramus,\\nbut owing to the death of his mother he was placed in infancy under the\\ncare of an uncle who lived in the vicinity of Norwood. He became a\\nfarmer, but having learned the trade of tailor followed that occupation\\nalso. In early manhood he married Mary Bogert, daughter of Matthew\\nP. Bogert. By this union he became the father of six children, four\\ngirls and two boys, all of whom married except one daughter, who died\\nwhen fifty years of age. Mr. Blauvelt senior died in 18()7 at the age of\\nsixty-nine.\\nPeter A. Blauvelt, the eldest of this family was born in l S2 t. His\\nearly life was spent in the vicinity of his present residence. In 1S4S he\\nmarried Eliza Haring. daughter of David D., and Leah Vervalen Haring.\\nThey reside on the estate formerly owned and occupied by Henry Ver-\\nvalen, grandfather of Mrs. Blauvelt. In 1850, Mr. Blauvelt removed to\\nthe city of New York, where he followed the business of truckman for", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0738.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OK BEKGEN COUNTY 691\\nseveral years, returning to Norwood in 1S5S to take charge of the home-\\nstead, where Henry Vervalen died in 1.S71, in the eighty-ninth year of\\nhis age.\\nMr. Bhmvelt has been an active participant in all the affairs of\\nNorwood during his residence in the village. For the first few years\\nafter his return he followed farming, but the past twenty-six years of\\nhis life he has taken care of the dead, as an undertaker, and has had a\\nbusiness experience reaching to all portions of that part of Bergen\\ncounty.\\nHe was formerly a deacon in the Old Reformed Church, but has\\nbeen for the past twent3--one years an elder and trustee in the Presby-\\nterian Church. His children are Leah, now Mrs. T. J. Haring, whose\\nhusband is a manufacturer of silverware in New York city; and Ira J.\\nHlauvelt, who married Miss Anna De I ew. Their children are Flor-\\nence and Marjorie.\\nDavid D. Haring died aged eighty-nine years, his wife, Leah, in\\nher eight v-first year.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0739.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "iRR.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0740.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0741.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0742.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0743.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "^^^;-i:C\\n/s \u00c2\u00b0\\\\,i:^ y:j: S:^\\na\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^v.\\nc5-\\n.x^^\\nA^^ ^z--\\nV^~^\\n/^...^s^^\\n^v C^^\\nO\\n,oXN^\\n,0o.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J V\\n..r^ -^.A\\nCO", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0744.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00b05. .0-\\n,-0\\n.\\\\*5\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0A\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f\\nV\\n-f-\\n,aV^\\n,0 a^\\n^,ym^r\\nc^^\\nV^ o\\nrl -^J.", "height": "2847", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0745.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "009 107 283 A", "height": "2909", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "historyofbergenc00vanva_0746.jp2"}}