Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware, Vol. II, Part 89

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa.
Number of Pages: 1500

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PLEASANTON HAMM, was born in Camden, February 23, 1812, son of Benja- min and Ann (Pleasanton) Hamm. He was educated in the schools of his neighborhood. At the age of sixteen years he entered the Gazette office at Wilmington to learn printing, where he remained for four years. Leaving this position he followed his trade for ten years when he removed to Cowgill's Corner, and engaged in mercantile pursuits.

Mr. Hamm inherited from his grandfather a farm of 114 acres, situated in Little Creek Neck, and in 1880 he purchased an adjoining farm of 70 acres. Pleasanton Hamm was married, first in 1834, to Miss Abigail, daugh- ter of Judge Christopher Siekler, of New Jer- sey. Two children of this marriage grew to maturity: I. Laura Virginia (Mrs. Rev. Wil- liam F. Talbot); HI. Mary Anna, who mar- ried, first, Mr. Gideon Waples, of Sussex coun- ty, and afterwards, Mr. Alexander Taylor, of Dover. Mrs. Abigail Han died, and Mr. Hamm married, in 1849, Miss Sallie E., daughter of William Porter, of South Mil- ford. Three children of this marriage are: I. Pleasantou, Jr .; II. Kate P .; III. Lizzie.

HENRY CAZIER was born in New Cas- tle county, June 14, 1799, son of Jacob and Charity ( Benson) Cazier. His father died May 2, 1807, and his mother died March 4, 1843. The grandparents of Henry Cazier were Jacob and Rebecca Cazier, whose four sons were: I. John; II. Jacob; III. Henry; IV. Matthias. The ancestors of the family

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were French Huguenots, and owners as early as 1760, of large tracts of land on the St. Au- gustine Creek, traversing a broad area from the waters of the Chesapeake bay, on the Bo- hemia Manor, to the mouth of St. Augustine creek on the Delaware bay.

Henry Cazier grew up on the farm. He received his education in the schools of his neighborhood. When twenty-one years old he came into possession of 400 acres of land. To this he added from time to time until at the time of his death he owned about 3,000 acres of valuable land in Delaware and Mary- land, which was devoted, chiefly, to cereals.

Mr. Cazier joined the Presbyterian church about 1530, which event produced a marked change in his life and character. He became ardent in his attachment to every form of aggressive Christianity, which he was ready at all times to sustain by liberal contributions from his growing means. He was identified with the temperance cause from its rise, and was a devoted advocate of total abstinence, visiting various points and speaking with great effectiveness in Maryland and Delaware. In polities, Mr. C'azier was an old line Whig, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and a personal and political friend of Hon. JJohn M. Clay- ton. He would never allow his name to be used for any office of profit or honor in the state, vet no man was more interested or active in his party than he, during the life of Henry Clay. But when that eminent statesman died, Mr. Cazier ceased to take so large a share of interest in publie and political affairs, yet con- tinued to act and vote with, at first, the American, and then with the People's party.

On November 5, 1859, at the age of sixty- one years, Mr. Cazier died. Henry Cazier was married on the 23d of December, 1828, to Miss Sarah Johnston, of New York, by Rev. T. MeDuley, in Rutgers church in that city. Mrs. Cazier died August 1, 1877, in her (ighty-first year. She was an educated and de- voted Christian lady. Her death was a great loss to the church and community in which she had lived for nearly half a century. The fol- lowing children were born of this marriage: I. Catherine Eugenia (Mrs. Rev. Sanmel Diekey); II. Sallie Eugenia, born August 11, 1853; III. Mary Irvine, born August 21, 1557; IV. Jacob Benson Cazier.

JACOB BENSON CAZIER, son of Henry Cazier, was born on White Hall farm, the old homestead, December 25, 1833. He tended the schools of his neighborhood till his fourteenth year, when he was sent to the Academy at Newark, then in charge of Rev. Matthew Meigs, once consul to Greece. Af- ter a thorough preparatory course of two and a half years, Mr. Cazier entered Delaware College, where he remained till about the middle of the senior year, when he left for the purpose of making a general tour of the United States, and spent about twelve months in visiting the principal cities, and points of intrest in the northern, western and southern portions of the Union. Returning home he entered upon the duties of life as an agriculturist, on the old homestead farm.

In 1859, after the decease of his father, Jacob B. Cazier retired from farming and removed to the beautifully located farm "Mount Vernon place." In this farm Mr. C'azier always took pride, and made of it one of the most productive and valuable estates in the country. He purchased other tracts of land until he sceured about two thousand acres of improved and valuable land. Mr. C'azier rebuilt the old family residence in 1878, making of it one of the most commo- dions, richly finished, and elegant mansions in the state.

Jacob Benson Cazier was married in De- cember, 1878, to Miss Hannah Brinton, daughter of William Magins, late of Winning- ton.

ANDREW D. DEACON TAYLOR was born in Philadelphia, February 11, 1828, son of David Deacon Taylor. His father was born in Wilmington, in 1800, was a machinist by trade, and in early life removed to Philadel- phia, where he took Philip Garrett, a Quaker, into partnership, the firm bearing the name of David D. Taylor & Co. In May, 1827. he married Elizabeth, daughter of John War- wick, of Philadelphia.

John Warwick came from England to America in early life, was a patriot during the Revolution, and died in 1864, at the great age of one hundred years. He was very wealthy, owning a large amount of property in Philadelphia, and after his death a chest,

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he had carefully guarded, was found to con- tain two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in Continental money.

David D. Taylor had two daughters, who died in childhood. He died at the early age of thirty-one. His father, Andrew Taylor, was born in Germantown, Pa., about 1755. He married Elizabeth Deacon, of New Jer- sey, sister of Commodore David Deacon, of the United States Navy, who died at sea on board the man of war Brandywine. They had a large family, seven living to maturity : I. George W .; II. Augustus; III. David Dea- con; IV. Alexander; V. Rev William W. Taylor, a Presbyterian clergyman; VI. Ed- ward T .; VII. Mary Ann, who married Thomas C. Aldrich, of Wilmington, and died in 1855.

Andrew Taylor was for many years, flour inspector in Wilmington. He died in 1840, at about the age of eighty-seven years. The Taylor family came from Germany, where their name was Schneider, which, after their arrival in America, was changed to its Eng- lish equivalent, Taylor. Andrew D. Deacon Taylor was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia. At the age of fifteen years he became a clerk in a dry goods store in that city, and was thus employed until 1850, after- ward serving for seven years as a clerk in a drug store. He then entered into a partneship in the retail drug business.

In July, 1863, Mr. Taylor entered the quar- termaster's department of the United States army at Fortess Monroe, in which position he continued till 1868, when he settled in St. George's, New Castle county, in mercantile business, where he became the leading mer- chant of the town, gaining the entire respect and confidence of the people of the place, as a man of character and worth. In polities he was an old line Whig and a stanch defender of that party, and subsequently an equally pronounced Republican. Mr. Taylor served in the Town Council, was its treasurer and was also treasurer of the town library. In 1853, he became a member of Phoenix Ma- sonic Lodge, of Philadelphia, No. 130. From the time he became a member of the Presby- terian church he took a deep interest and served as treasurer of the board of trustees.

Andew D. D. Taylor was married, in 1853, to Miss Sarah I., daughter of Joseph Keen, of

Philadelphia. Ilis eldest son, Henry Clay, became his partner in business. The only daughter, Ella Yardley, married Oliver V. Jamison, a farmer of St. George's hundred.

CHARLES TATMAN, JR., was born about ten miles west of Milford, Sussex coun- ty, February 17, 1820, son of Cyrus and Eliza- beth (Dushane) Tatman. His father was born in the same place, November 13, 1789, owned a small farm and grist mill, from which he supported his family. lle was married in February, 1813.

Purnell Tatman, the father of Cyrus Tat- man, was a native of Sussex county, and a farmer. He married Bathsheba Griffith, who belonged to an extensive family of that name in sussex county. Purnell Tatman reared a large family and died in 1826. The Tatman family is of English origin, and their emigra- tion to America was made late in the seven- teenth century. The descendants are seat- tered through Delaware and the Western and Southern states.

Charles Tatman was brought up to work on his father's farm and in the mill, attending for a limited period the schools of the neigh- borhood. At sixteen years of age he became a clerk in the store of Edwards & Hazel in Middletown. Six months later the firm dis- solved and Mr. Tatman was employed as a clerk at Cantwell's Bridge, near Odessa, by the firm of Tatman & McKee, the senior member of this mercantile house being his uncle, Charles Tatman. Here he remained until 1843, thoroughly mastering a business which he ever afterward followed. In 1846 he formed a partnership with Philip Le Compt, they purchasing the stock of Richard Lockwood at Middletown, where Mr. Tatman had been a clerk for three years.

In less than a month Mr Le Compt died, but Mr. Tatman continued the business under the firm name of Le Compt & Tatman till 1848. At that time his old employer, Mr. Lockwood, became his partner by the pur- chase of Mr. Le Compt's interest. Lockwood and Tatman continued to do a large and pros- perous business till 1865, when Mr. Tatman bought out his partner, and thereafter man- aged his affairs with equal success in his own

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name. By close attention to business, and by a course of strict integrity and honor, he not only accumulated a handsome fortune, but won for himself the respect and confidence of the community.

Mr. Tatman was originally an old line Whig in polities and cast his first vote for Henry Clay. Ile held the office of postmaster under Presidents Taylor and Fillmore from 1849 to 1854. Ile has also served as town commissioner, and as a school officer. Dur- ing the late war he was a pronounced Union man, contributing heavily and exerting his in- fluence to the utmost to assist the Republic in its struggle with rebellion. His principles and convictions naturally allied him with the Republican party.

JEREMIAH WOOLSTON DUNCAN, deceased, was born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1810, and was the third son of John and Elizabeth (Woolston) Duncan. He received a good English education, but his active and enterprising nature early asserted itself, and while a boy he proceeded of his own volition to Philadelphia, where he became a clerk in a hardware store, remaining till he was twenty years of age. He then went into part- nership, in Wilmington, with his brother, John A. Duncan, in the hardware business. In 1830 he withdrew from the firm and went into the lumber business with Baudy Simmons & Company, of Wilmington. Later he went into the West India trade and wholesale gro- cery business, in partnership with Matthew and Andrew Carnahan.

Mr. Duncan next erected a steam saw mill on the "Old Ferry" property. Removing to Chicago in 1850, he engaged extensively in the Immuber business, owning large tracts of land in Michigan, near the straits of Macki- naw. The town of Duncan, in that vicinity, was named in his honor. Exposed to severe cold in his business pursuit, he brought on poor health, and he abandoned the lumber business, returning to Wilmington, where he died, December 31, 1854.

Jeremiah Woolston Duncan was a man highly respected in all his wide circle of ac- quaintance, and warmly regarded among his friends. His activity and energy were re- markable, and the results proportionate. He was married, in 1833, to Mrs. Elizabeth S.,

widow of Samuel Woolston, and daughter of David Brinton. She died in 1859. Their children were: I. Richard B .: II. Charles; III. Henry B .; IV. John A .; V. William R .; VI. Elizabeth.

DR. AND REV. JOHN DAY PERKINS was born in Kent county, Md., August 20, 1790, son of Thomas and Mary ( Kettridge) Perkins.

John Day Perkins grew to manhood in Turkey Point, Cecil county, Md. He graduated at the Pennsylvania University after having attended three courses of lee- tures, and began the practice of his profession in partnership with Dr. Thomas Emerson Bond, afterward the able editor of the Chris- tian Advocate and Journal, of New York. After a short time, Dr. Perkins removed to Sudlersville, Queen Anne's county, Md., and there practiced medicine for fourteen years.

In May, 1828, he removed to Smyrna, Dela- ware, and for twenty-four years was engaged in a large and successful practice. For eight years before his death he suffered from partial paralysis, which greatly affected both his body and mind.

Doctor Perkins was one of nature's noble- men, in physical form and presence as well as in character. Ilis genial manners made him a favorite, and he won the esteem and con- fidence of his patrons, by his unwavering in- tegrity and honorable life.

In very early life the Doctor became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and after some years was licensed as a local preacher of that church, which office he filled for many years, greatly to the acceptance of the people.

John Day Perkins was married in 1813, to Mrs. Elizabeth, widow of James Kennedy, of Millington, Kent county, Md. The follow- ing are their children: I. Mary J., widow of Colonel George Davis; II. Frances A., widow of George Biddle; III. Thomas J .; IV. John Day; V. Ellen Franklin; VI. Dr. Wil- liam Charles Perkins.

John Bradshaw Perkins died at Harper's Ferry, Va., during the late Civil War.

DAVID JAMES CUMMINS, was born in Smyrna, Kent county, Del., March 16,

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1824, the fifth of seven sons born to John Cummins. Ile was brought up in Smyrna. Ilis early education was obtained in the schools of the town, and in 1839 and 1840 he was sent to the Friends' school in Wilming- ton, then under the direction of Mr. Bullock. After his return he went into the store of his brother George, for the purpose of ac- quaintng himself with all the details of mer- cantile business.

Ile continued as clerk for four years, and in 1845 became a partner with his brother in the general merchandise and vessel business. They built a number of vessels and shipped grain to Philadelphia, New York, Providence and Boston. They manufactured bricks, and dealt in bark, staves, wood, lime and commer- cial fertilizers.

Mr. Cummins retired from this business in 1853, in order to devote himself to his four farms, comprising twelve hundred acres of land. He immediately went into the business of raising peaches, being one of the pioneers of his vicinity in peach culture.

In 1854 Mr. Cummins was made a director of the New Castle county National Bank of Odessa, which position he held for twenty years. In 1876 he was elected president of the National Bank of Smyrna, having been for two years previously one of the directors.

From boyhood he communed with St. Peter's P. E. church, of Smyrna, of whch he served for many years as vestryman.

David James Cummins was married, June 29, 1852, to Miss Juliet M., daughter of Wil- liam Polk, Esq., of Odessa. The six children of this marriage are: I. William Polk; II. Margaret P .; III. Susan F .; IV. Juliet Agnes; V. Edith J .; VI. Albert W.

ISAAC JUMP, M. D., was born in North West Fork hundred, Sussex county, Novem- Fer 8, 1809, the youngest of twelve children, born to Olive and Mary ( Priest) Jump. His father, born in Maryland, removed to Dela- ware in early life, was a man of good educa- tion and stood high in the community. Ile was a farmer, surveyor and conveyancer, and wrote most of the deeds and all kinds of legal papers for the neighborhood. The elder James 1. Bayard once said of him in court, that he

could "draw a stronger instrument in fewer words than any lawyer in the state." He died in 1810, at the age of fiftysix. The mother died when he was only four years old, and Isaac Jump made his home with his sister, Mrs. Mary Nexia Stafford, until he was eighteen. Ile attended the neighborhood schools, and afterwards engaged in teaching, continuing his studies by himself.

At twenty he began the study of the lan- guages, and later the study of medicine. In 1834 he entered the University of Pennsyl- vania, from which he was graduated in 1836. He at once located in Dover, where he built up a large practice.

Dr. Jump was a director of the Farmers' Bank at Dover from 1848 to 1853, and was elected a director of the Delaware Railroad in 1868. For a number of years prior to 1876 he was president of the First National Bank of Dover. In politics Dr. Jump was a Whig and later a Republican. He was elected to the state senate in 1850 for a term of four years. During his term, the code of Dela- ware was revised and what is known as "The Black Code" was re-enacted, but every pro- vision of those measures Dr. Jump opposed with a strength and a decision that is remem- bered to his honor.

Dr. Jump took a deep interest in the cause of the Union. Obtaining arms from the Fed- eral Government, he organized a company of which he was elected captain, and drilled them thoroughly in military tacties. Many of them afterward became officers in the field. When the rebels invaded Maryland and it le- came necessary to send men into that state from elaware, he, to encourage those who had families dependent on their daily labor, had all the grain from his farms carried to his mill as a supply from which such families might draw free rations during that time. After the war Dr. Jump was U. S. examiner for his part of the state. In 1874 he was nominated for governor by the Republican party, ran ahead of his ticket, but was defeated by his Democratie opponent by only twelve hun- dred votes, although the average majority for the Democratic ticket was largely in ex- cess of that. He was for many years a steward in the Methodist church, with which he united in 1852. Dr. Isaac Jump was married in No- vember, 1843, to Miss Ruth Anna, daughter

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of Jonathan Jenkins, of Camden, and sister of Mrs. Dr. Ridgely, of Dover. She lived only eight months after her marriage. On January 6, 1846, he was again married to Miss Margaret Hunn, of New York City, who died about three years afterward, leaving him a daughter, who married Martin B. Hillyard, and died in 1878, leaving two children, Mary Olive and John Hunn Hillyard. He was mar- ried a third time, October 8, 1856, to Sarah Virginia, widow of Charles Alling, of New- ark, N. J., and daughter of Alexander C. Hver, formerly a merchant of Philadelphia, and a member of the Order of the Cincin- nati.

ALLEN BRADFORD RICHARDSON, Dover, was born in South Reading, (now Wakefield,) Massachusetts, September 27, 1825. He was a son of Dr. Nathan Richard- son, a distinguished physician of New Eng- land, fifty years ago, and who died in 1837, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. His mother was a daughter of Mr. Solomon Alden, who-e ancestor, John Alden, came over in the May- fiorrer. She was the second wife of Dr. Riel- ardson, and bore him seven children. She died in 1832. Dr. S. O. Richardson was a half brother, and he died in 1873, aged sixty- five. A younger brother was Nathan Rich- ardson, the author of the popular work, "Richardson's New Method for the Piano- Forte." He died in Paris, in 1859, at the age of thirty-two, and is buried at Warren, Mass.

Mr. A. B. Richardson attended the public schools of his native town until his eleventh year, and Phillips' Academy, in Andover, six months, when his father dying his school days ended. After residing two years with George Flint, Esq., of North Reading, a gentleman farmer, he went to New Bedford and bound himself an apprentice for seven years to a manufacturer of tin-ware goods. While serv- ing in this capacity he developed a taste for machinery and invention, and during his spare hours manufactured a miniature loco- motive, tender, and train of cars, all in com- plete working order, which attracted consid- crable notice at that time. At the termina- tion of his apprenticeship he remained. one vear longer, as foreman, and then went into the same business for himself, which he car- ried on very successfully about three years.

At the age of twenty-three he married Miss Lucy M., daughter of Silas Stetson, Esq., of New Bedford, a lineal descendant of Elizabeth Penn, sister of William Penn. One son was born to them, Harry Alden Richard- son. In 1849 Mr. Richardson left New Bed- ford and went to Wilmington, Delaware, and continued the tin-ware, stove and furnace business, taking into partnership his brother- in-law, Mr. George M. Stetson, the style of the firm being 1. B. Richardson & Co. They were the first to send out tin-ware peddlers in this state. After two years the firm moved to Camden, where they continued in the same business about two years and a half longer, when the firm was dissolved, by mutual consent, Mr. Stetson remaining in Cam- den, and Mr. Richardson going to Dover, where he became associated in business with Mr. James W. Robbins, formerly of North Granville, Washington county, New York, under the firm name of Richardson & Rob- bins, which continued twenty-one years, until the death of Mr. Robbins, in 1876.

This firm early commenced the fruit pack- ing business. During their long buisness con- nections, Mr. Robbins resided in the family of his partner, and he showed his apprecia- tion of their mutual friendship, by leaving Mrs. Richardson a share of his property equal to that given to each'of his brothers and sis- ters. According to his request, the firm name of Richardson & Robbins will never be changed, as he had devoted the best years of his life with Mr. Richardson in making the nane of their firm an honorable one, and one of which they are justly proud. At the death of Mr. Robbins, Harry A. Richardson became a partner with his father, he having earned the right to the position by several years' faithful service and efficiency, with a display of good business talents, that served to guar- antee the continued success of the firm. The ingenuity early displayed by Mr. Richardson was of great service to the firm, during the years they were building up their well-earned reputation. Many of the numerous labor- saving machines and contrivances were in- vented and patented by Mr. Richardson.

In the summer of 1881, the building so long occupied by the firm, with its several ad- ditions that were necessary to meet the in- creasing requirements of their business, was demolished to give place to the large and clo-

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gant hotel, known as Hotel Richardson, which is strictly first-class, with all the conveniences possessed by the best houses in the Union. The very great increase of the business of Richardson & Robbins compelled the erection of a factory sufficiently large to accommodate their trade.

His son, Harry A. Richardson, married, May 6, 1874, Priscilla H., daughter of Wil- liam Walker, of Dover. They have three children: Allen B., William W., and Lucy S. Richardson.

The family record of Mrs. A. B. Richard- son is as follows: William Hammond, born in London, married Elizabeth Penn, sister of Sir William Penn, an admiral in the Brit- ish navy, and father of William Penn, the Quaker and founder of the Pennsylvania colony. William Hammond died leaving his wife with one son and three daughters. Eliza- beth Hammond with her children and many other persons who had Mr. John Lathrop for their minister, left England in troublesome times and came over to Boston, in 1634. Elizabeth Hammond was esteemed for her piety. She died in Boston in 1640; Benja- min, her son, removed to Sandwich, and mar- ried Mary Vincent; had five children; John, his son, married Mary Arnold, who had ten children. Their son, Rowland, married Anna Winslow, had two sons; George Hammond, their son, married Lucy Sturtevant, had six children; Hannah, their daughter, married Ellis Mendall, had nine children; Mary, Lucy, Seth, George, John, Hannah, Anna, Ellis and Lydia. Mary, their daughter, married Silas Stetson, had nine children: George, Henry, Lucy, Silas, Mary, Lucy M., Thomas, Bessie and Hannah. Their daughter, Lucy M., mar- ried Alden B. Richardson.

JOHN ADAMS MOORE, of Felton, was born in Frederica, Kent county, Novem- ber 6, 1823. ITis father, Thomas Jefferson Moore, was a merchant and farmer, and filled positions of public trust and honor in his state, and was at the time of his death, in 1859, a member of the state senate. His mother's maiden name was Johnson. Her father was John Johnson, a man universally esteemed for his benevolent and Christian character.

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Biographical and genealogical history of the state of Delaware, Vol. II, Part 89

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa. Number of Pages: 1500

Author: Runk, J.M. & Co
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chambersburg, Pa.
Number of Pages: 1500