Monmouth County historical association, Officers, committees, constitution, by-laws, members, Part 1

Author: Monmouth County historical association, Freehold, N.J. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1902]
Publisher: [Red Bank, N.J.
Number of Pages: 66


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THE 1 MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORI- CAL ASSOCIATION


OFFICERS COMMITTEES SUMMARY OF REPORTS MEMBERS


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Principal Office and Agent in charge JOHN S. APPLEGATE Corner Broad and Front Streets, Red Bank, New Jersey


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OFFICERS


PRESIDENT MRS. CAROLINE GALLUP REED


VICE-PRESIDENTS REV. JOHN CRARY LORD EDWARD DEAN ADAMS


TREASURER


STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS EDITH JOHNSON


RECORDING SECRETARY EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD


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TERM EXPIRES 1905 JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH MRS. ANNIE HULL WHITE


TERM EXPIRES 1906 MRS. CAROLINE GALLUP REED EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD WILLIAM JOSEPH LEONARD


TERM EXPIRES 1907 CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS MRS. THEODOSIA DENNIS FINCH WILLIAM STROTHER JONES


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COMMITTEES


NOMINATING COMMITTEE JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH ELLA COOPER MURRAY VAN BRUNT


LIBRARY COMMITTEE


THEODOSIA DENNIS FINCH ANNIE HENDRICKSON EDWARDS


WILLIAM BLEECKER MATTESON


LECTURE COMMITTEE


JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE ANNIE HULL WHITE CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS


PUBLICATION COMMITTEE


WILLIAM JOSEPH LEONARD ELEANOR ARROWSMITH JOSEPHINE ADELIA BROWN


GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL COMMITTEE


HARRIET WHITLOCK BRAY MARY CRAWFORD MURRAY HYDE NORMA LIPPINCOTT SWAN


NECROLOGY COMMITTEE


ANNIE HULL WHITE GRACE RUSSELL JONES EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD


AUDITING COMMITTEE EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD FREDERICK WALLER HOPE CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS


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SUMMARY OF REPORTS


OF THE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR THE YEARS 1903 AND 1904.


Since the publication of our last Summary of Reports, fifteen regular meetings of the Associ- ation have been held and papers read as follows :


In August, 1902, at the residence of the President at Redemont, papers were read, one by Mrs. Mary Platt Parmlee, of New York, en- titled " The Kingdom of the Invisible," and one by Mrs. Theodosia D. Finch, on the " Settlements of Monmouth County by the Quakers "; in September, John C. Smock, Ph. D., of Trenton, New Jersey, State Geologist, presented a paper entitled " The Geology of Eastern Monmouth and the Early Settlements," illustrated by maps showing the original begin- nings of the county, in the " Isles of Mon- mouth," at a meeting held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hendrickson, Red


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Bank; in October, at the residence of Mrs. Mary E. Hendrickson, Red Bank, Hon. Alfred M. Heston, of Atlantic City, read a paper on " Slavery and Servitude in New Jersey."


The first regular meeting of 1903 was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Apple- gate, Red Bank, and a paper on " Penal Ser- vitude in New Jersey " was read by former Sheriff John H. Patterson, of Middletown; at the same meeting Miss Harriet Whitlock Bray, of Matawan, presented a paper entitled " Sketch of General David Forman, of Monmouth "; the meeting was also entertained with a piano solo by Mrs. Charles E. Nieman and a vocal solo by Miss Anna Hayes, accompanied by Mrs. John S. Applegate, Jr., on the piano ; in June, Hon. Francis B. Lee, of Trenton, N. J., read a paper on " The Story of a Tory," at the residence of William Nelson Cromwell at Low Moor ; at this meeting a musical program was rendered by Mr. P. A Schnecker, organist, and Mr. Franz Wilczek, of New York ; the July meeting, 1903,


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was held at the residence of Mrs. Almira Greer, of Shrewsbury, when John Enright, of Freehold, County Superintendent of Public Schools, read a paper on " The Early Schools and School Masters of Monmouth County," which was followed with a recitation by Miss Alice Blais- dell, of Red Bank; at the August meeting held at the Water Witch Club House, Highlands, Mrs. M. C. Murray Hyde, of New York, read a paper entitled " James II, and his Influence upon the Colonization of New Jersey," followed by Mr. Edward S. Atwood, of Water Witch, with a paper entitled " The Naming of New Jersey, and What Led up to It"; Miss Ida M. Tarbell, of New York, delivered an illustrated lecture at the September meeting held at the residence of the President at Redemont, on " The Ancestry and Early Life of Abraham Lincoln"; October, 1903, Mrs. Annie E. Barnard, of Lakewood, N. J., read a paper at the residence of Mrs. A. H. Borden, Shrewsbury, relating to the part taken by Col. Ramsey in the battle of


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Monmouth ; Mrs. Theodosia D. Finch also read a paper at the same meeting entitled "The North American Phalanx."


The regular course of 1904 began with a meeting in May at the house of John S. Apple- gate, Red Bank, where Major Charles B. Parsons read a paper entitled " The Bay Boatmen "; at the June meeting held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Strother Jones, Riverside Drive, opposite Red Bank, John S. Applegate read a paper on "The Beginnings of Monmouth County "; the July meeting was held at the house of Mrs. William W. Shippen, Seabright, where Hon. Francis B. Lee, of Trenton, N. J., spoke on the subject of "Slavery and its Relation to the Quakers "; Hon. Asa Bird Gardiner, LL. D., L. H D., President of the Rhode Island Cincinnati, addressed the August meeting at the residence of the President at Redemont on the " Cincinnati in France," and exhibited the badge of the order which was owned and worn by General George Washington; in September


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at a meeting held at All Saints' Rectory, Navesink, with the Rev. and Mrs. John C. Lord, a paper was read by Miss Harriet Whit- lock Bray, entitled " A Box of Old Bills "; the October meeting held at Mrs. John H. Patter- son's on Riverside Drive in Middletown Town- ship, opposite Red Bank, Russel G. Andrew, M. D., of Navesink, N. J., closed the year with a paper on "John Bowne, a First Settler of Monmouth, and Dr. John Lawrence, a Medical Practitioner of Monmouth County Prior to the Revolution." These lectures were all well at- tended by the members and their guests.


Recent additions to the Library are an old newspaper entitled "Jersey Chronicle," being No. 33, Vol. 1 of a paper edited and published by Philip Freneau at Mount Pleasant, Mon- mouth County, bearing date December 12, 1795, donated to the Society by the courtesy of Mrs. J. H. Snyder, of Asbury Park ; a book en- titled " The Baptists in America, a Narrative of the Deputation from the Baptist Union in Eng-


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land to the United States and Canada," by the Rev. F. A. Cox, D. D., LL. D., and Rev. J. Noby, D. D., of New York, published 1836, donated by Hon. George C. Beekman ; " Works of John Woolman," published 1818, donated by Hon. George C. Beekman ; " England's Ref- ormation from the Time of King Henry VIII. to the Time of Oate's Plot," a poem of four cantos, printed 1747 in two volumes, donated by Hon. George C. Beekman ; "Sermons upon Several Occasions by the Rev. Matthew Clarke, with Memoirs of his Life, and Sermon Preached at his Funeral by Daniel Niel, M. A.," printed in London 1727, donated by Hon. George C. Beekman ; " The Rural Visiter and Miscellane- ous Gazette," Vol. 1., published in 1811 by D. Allison & Co., City of Burlington, N. J., donated by Hon. George C. Beekman ; a book entitled " Angliae Notitia, or the Present State of England," by Edward Chamberlain, LL.D., printed in 1700, also a book entitled "The Christian Quaker Distinguished from the Apos-


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tate or Innovator," by William Rogers, printed in London 1680, also a clipping from a news- paper of the railroad accident at Parker's Creek, also "Barber and Howe's Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey," do- nated by Mrs. Theodosia D. Finch, of Red Bank; a book presented by Rev. A. H. Brown, en- titled " A Pioneer of Southern New Jersey"; a printed copy of a New Jersey Legislature Senate Bill, dated January 26, 1881, entitled “ An Act to authorize Joel Wilson and others, Trustees for the Religious Society of Friends, to sell a certain meeting house and lot of ground in the Township of Shrewsbury." This bill passed both Houses, was approved by the Governor and became a law. (See pamphlet laws of New Jersey, 1881. ) It commemorates the final act in the history of the Quakers as an organized body in Shrewsbury Township, where the first (1762) Quakers' Meeting House of New Jersey or Pennsylvania was erected. Hon. George C. Beekman, in his letter presenting this bill, states


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that those Quakers were the controlling men in the early settlement of Shrewsbury, and exer- cised an influence that was favorable to the growth of Republican principles. He thought that the presenting of this bill by the Orthodox Friends was an acknowledgment of the utter extinction of the sect and an historical event worthy of notice, as it ended their history in Shrewsbury Township after many years of ef- fort.


There has also been added to the Library by purchase Wolverton's Atlas of Monmouth County, Smith's History of Monmouth County, Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Coun- ties, Poems of Philip Freneau in two volumes, edited by Fred Lewis Pattee (Princeton edi- tion).


We have also received by gift, original adver- tisements of the famous Middletown Peace Meeting in 1863, presented by R. T. Middleditch, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mr. J. P. B. Schenck, of South Orange, N. J .; Minutes


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of the Red Bank Chapter of "The Union League of the United States," organized at Red Bank August 14, 1863, presented by Dr. Charles Hubbard, Brooklyn, who was formerly the secre- tary of the Chapter ; old deeds of indenture, pre- sented by Mr. Walter B. Parsons and by William B. Warner, M.D .; a supplement of the New York Herald, issued the morning after the as- sassination of President Lincoln; four bank bills of the old Monmouth County Bank, located at Freehold, issued in the year 1825, of denomina- tions respectively of one, two, three and five dollars, by the courtesy of Mr. J. P. B. Schenck, of South Orange, N. J .; a miniature trunk with brass nails about two hundred years old, once the property of George Smock, of Bound Brook, N. J., who was the owner of Island Farm in the Raritan River, and the father of the late Isaac G. Smock, of Monmouth County, received by the favor of John C. Smock, Ph. D., of Trenton, N. J.


The Library Committee has also reported


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the receipt during the past year of the original Clerk's book of minutes of the Township of Middletown, covering the entire period between January 2d, 1695, and March 17th, 1848. This book had long been missing and was sup- posed to have been lost or destroyed. Its dis- covery supplies a large fund of local historical information which is very gratifying to genealo- gists. The donor of this record is Mrs. Sarah A. Fairchild, of Keyport, N. J. In token of the Association's thorough appreciation of this favor, it has conferred upon Mrs Fairchild a life membership of its organization with exemp- tion from fees and dues.


Our acknowledgments are also due to William A. Walling, of Phalanx, N. J., who has pre- sented to the Soclety fifteen interesting almanacs for the years 1808, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1818, 1830, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1850, 1851, 1857, 1880 ; also seven copies of Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper during the Civil War and afterwards ; also one copy of the Centennial


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Record, illustrated, 1876, and six copies of Harper's Weekly, illustrated.


During the past year the Association has adopted an insignia consisting of a bronze gilt badge about the size of a silver half dollar, rep- resenting as the ground an Indian pot of the form used by the Lenape Indians. On one side is the head and bust of a Lenape, the coat of arms of the Duke of Monmouth and a quota- tion from the address of Indian Chief " Wilted Grass " to the New Jersey Legislature : " Not a drop of our blood have you shed in battle ; not an acre of land have you taken without our consent "; and on the reverse the seal of the Society. Each insignia is identified by its num- ber, and the name of the owner inscribed there- on. The execution of the design and die is the work of Victor D. Brenner. The whole is sus- pended by ribbon of the Monmouth colors, and makes a beautiful decoration of great artistic merit. Mr. Edward D. Adams, of Rohallion, Rumson Hills, who conceived the original design


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of the insignia and to whose enterprise we are indebted for its development and production, has generously donated the fruits of his efforts to the Association, consisting of the steel dies and one hundred finished medallions struck from them; also a gold badge in the form of an Indian pipe, as the President's badge, to be worn with the insignia. The ribbon is the kindly gift of Mr. George F. Vietor, of Rumson Neck, who manufactured the same expressly for the Society.


The report of the Treasurer at the last regu- lar meeting showed nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and ten cents in the treasury and one hundred and fifty dollars of outstanding dues. By the report of the Trustees we find that seventeen new members were elected during the past year. Five deaths have occurred since our last publication, namely, George Dummer Allaire, George Barr Snyder, Henry Stafford Little, Mrs. Frances M. Purdon and Mrs. Hen- rietta May Holbrook. The roll of membership


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hereto annexed shows the present total mem- bership is 151, of which 143 are regular mem- bers, 4 life members and 4 honorary members.


Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees December 27th, 1902, the southeast room of the third floor of Patterson and Spinning's buildings on Broad Street has been rented and furnished by the Association for its use, and the same is now occupied by the Society as an office, library and cabinet. The custody of the room has been delegated to the Library Committee under the immediate care of Miss Sophie H. Nicholl as Assistant Librarian, with authority to admit visitors subject to the rules and regulations of the library. Miss Nicholl will be found during office hours in rooms of the same building on the second floor, immediately under the library, and will be pleased to extend courtesies to members and others who may desire to consult or inspect the books, papers, documents and relics there de- posited.


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MEMBERS .*


Achelis, Fritz, · 1902


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Achelis, Bertha F. (Mrs. Fritz ), · .


40 1902


Adams, Edward Dean, .


2 1899


Adams, Frances Amelia (Mrs. Edward D. ), .


3 1899 Andrew, Russel Gardner, M.D., .


1902


Applegate, John Stilwell, 4 1898


Applegate, Deborah Catharine ( Mrs. John S.), . 5 1899


Applegate, John Stilwell, Jr., . 28 1898 Applegate, Maxcy, 1899


Applegate, Daniel Herbert, 1902


Applegate, Henrietta Conover ( Mrs. D. H.), 1902


Arrowsmith, Stephen Van Brackle, 57 1898


Arrowsmith, Eleanor, 1900


Arrowsmith, Annie Maria Craig, 1898


Atwood, Edward Stanley, 6


1898


Atwood, Mary Ellen Leverich ( Mrs. Edward S.), 7 1900 Bedle, Althea Randolph ( Mrs. Joseph Dorsett), 32 1899 Bedle, Margaret, 1900


Beekman, George Crawford, ·


1899 Beekman, Edwin, 1898


Bennett, Eleanor Brown ( Mrs. Charles A. ), 19 1901


Bliss, Cornelius Newton, 1899


Borden, Julia Emily ( Mrs. A. H. ),


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1902


* The figures denote number of badge and date of admission.


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Bray, Harriet Whitlock, ·


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1898


Briggs, Clara, 56 1903


Brown, Arthur Marmont 64 1904 Brown, Minnie Adelaide Pearce (Mrs. Arthur M.), 26 1900 Brown, Josephine Adelia,


Brown, Adolph Gustave, M.D.


1902


Brown, Rachel Errickson ( Mrs. A. G.), 33 1902


Church, Elizabeth Wickham ( Mrs. Francis P. ), 35 1898


Conover, John Livingston, 1898


Conover, Lydia H. Schenck, Mrs.,


1898


Connor, Washington Everett, 14 1898


Cook, John Henry, (Life ) 8 1898


Cooper, James, Jr., 1900


Corlies, Benjamin Franklin, 1900


Cromwell, William Nelson, 1903


Cromwell, Jennie Osgood ( Mrs. Wm. N.)


1903


Cross, Emma Matilda Eldred ( Mrs. C. Vanderbilt ), 65 Curtis, Jennie Hornby ( Mıs. Vadin ), 21


L904


1901


Duane, James May, 25 1899


Edwards, Annie Hendrickson ( Mrs. Harry ), 16 1900 Enright, John, 1899


Fairchild, Sarah A. ( Mrs. Samuel G. ), (Life ) 69


1904


Finch, Theodosia Dennis, Mrs. ( Rev. Harry ), . 1898


Fitzgerald, Louis, 1993


Fitzgerald, Gelyna (Mrs. Louis), 1903


·Greer, Almira ( Mrs. James A.), 41 1902


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9 1900


MEMBERS


Hadden, Valerie ( Mrs. Harold Farquhar ), 23


1898 Hallock, Isabella Hull ( Mrs. William E. ), 37 · 1898 Harriot, Samuel Joseph, 1901


Hartshorne, Georgianne Bibb (Mrs. Acton C.), 1904


Hastings, Thomas S , D.D., LL.D.,


1899


Hayes, Louise McDougall ( Mrs. Frederick Taylor), 31 1902


Heisley, Wilbur Arthur, 1903


Heisley, Myrtilla DeGrau (Mrs. W. A.), 1903 Hendrickson, William Henry, .


1901 Herbert, Henry Lloyd, .


1903


Hoagland, Caroline C Mattack ( Mrs. Joseph C. ), 1902


Hoagland, Raymond, 1902


Hoagland, Rosa Wood Porter ( Mrs. Raymond ), 1902


Hope, Frederick Waller, .


52 1898


Hyde, Mary Crawford Murray ( Mrs. Ovid A. ), 13 1898


Johnson, Edith, 51 . 1898


Johnson, Ida, 1901


Jones, William Strother, .


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1898


Jones, Grace Russell ( Mrs. W. Strother ), 6- 1898


Kean, Hamilton Fish,


1903


Kean, Katharine Winthrop (Mrs. H. F.),


1903


Kennedy, Isaac C., 1903


Kimball, Paul T., M.D.,


1904


Kollock, Shepard,


1898


Lamarche, Henry Jules,


43 1902


Lamarche, Clara J. Lynch (Mrs. H. J. ), 44 1902 .


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Leonard, Thomas Henry, 1899


Leonard, William Joseph, 60 1898


Leonard, Frances Maria ( Mrs. Wm. J.), 61 1898 Lewis, William A., 1898


Lincoln, Lowell, 48


1932


Lincoln, Clara Amanda Lothrop ( Mrs. Lowell ),


1932


Loeb, James, (Life ) 63 1904


Lord, John Crary, Rev.,


1898


Lord, Louise Townsend ( Mrs. John C. ), 55 1898


1900


Maxon, Edna Adele, 1904


McKim, Harriet R. ( Mrs. Haslett), 20 1898


Moses, Olivia Gardener Forman ( Mrs. John ), 1898


Nicholl, Kate Eustace, Mrs., .


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1898


Ogden, Annie Hoff ( Mrs. Benj. B. ),


1900


Ogden, Rufus, 1900


Oglesby, Margaret Lennig ( Mrs. J H.), . 1898


Parker, William Taber, 50 1903


Parsons, Anna Reed ( Mrs. Wm. Barclay ), 1898


Parsons, Charles Baldwin, 1898


Parsons, Elizabeth Maxson ( Mrs. Charles B. ), . 54


1902 Patterson, Catherine Rutherford Welsh (Mrs. A. A.) 47 1903 Patterson, John Hopping, 42 . 1898


. Payne, Mary Hendrickson ( Mrs. H. G. ), .


27 1902 Reed, Caroline Gallup ( Mrs. Sylvanus ), . I 1898 . Reed, Sylvanus Albert, ·


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34 1898


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MEMBERS


Rhoades, John Harsen, .


22 1902


Robinson, Albert, 1900


Romaine, Louis Tyson,


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1902


Romaine, Hannah Cole ( Mrs. L. T.), 30 1902 Romaine, Julia Asenath, 1903 .


Roosevelt, Kate Shippen ( Mrs. H. L. ), ( Life )


1902


Sandt, Florence Vander Veer (Mrs. George M.) 70 1902


Schanck, John Garretson, .


71 1899


Schiff, Jacob H., .


38 1902


Schiff, Therese ( Mrs. Jacob H ),


1902


Schwarz, Gustave A., .


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1904


Shippen, Georgina E. Morton ( Mrs. Wm. W. ), 68 1899 Smith, Dora, . 1904


Sneden, George Virginius,


1900


Sneden, Eleanor Antonides Curtis ( Mrs. George V. ),


1900


Snyder, Charles Roberts,


1901


Smock, John Conover,


58 1898 1898


Stevens, William Russell,


Stillwell, John Edwin, M.D., 46 · 1898


Street, Lucy Morgan ( Mrs. William A.), 1I 1899


Strong, Alice Corbin ( Mrs. William E. ), 1899


Swan, Norma Lippincott, · 1901


Terhune, William Letson,


1898


Terrell, Herbert Lester, 1902


Terrell, Mary Elizabeth Wood (Mrs. H. L.), . 1902


Terry, Lidie Urania Walling ( Mrs. James E. ), . 27 1900


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Throckmorton, Joseph Alfred, 10 1898 Van Brunt, Ella Cooper Murray ( Mrs. Wm. T. ), 12 1898


Van Deventer, Maria Louise ( Mrs. D. P. ), 1901


Van Vleck, William Henry, .


1903


Van Vleck, Laura Garland,


1903


Vietor, George Frederick,


1902


Vietor, Annie M. Achelis (Mrs. G. F. ),


1902


Vredenburgh, William Henry,


45 1900


Ward, Francis Ehrick,


1899


Warner, William Bray, M.D., 53 1898


Washington, Henry Stephens, 1901


Weatherby, Alethia Hunt ( Mrs. Isaac ), 1898


Werlemann, Marie Therese Lamarche (Mrs. Henri) 1902 White, Annie Hull ( Mrs. Henry S. ), 36 1898


Wikoff, Frederick Dayton, .


1902


Wikoff, Laura McCausland ( Mrs. F. D. ), 1902


Wilson, Edmund, .


1898


Wood, Mary H. Chadwick ( Mrs. Henry ), . 15 1902


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Heston, Alfred Miller, Lee, Francis Bazley, 18


Pumpelly, Josiah Collins, Wilson, James Grant.


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1902 Allaire, George Dummer, .


. 1898


1900 Hobart, Garret Augustus,


1899


1903 Holbrook, Henrietta May (Mrs. Clark), 1903


1901 Edwards, Harry,


1900


1904 Little, Henry Stafford,


1898


1901


Newell, William Augustus,


1898


1904


Purden, Frances M. (Mrs. John),


1904


1903 Snyder, George Barr,


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1898


1905 Strong, William Everard,


. 1899


1901 White, Henry Simmons,


. 1898


1900 Yard, James Sterling,


. 1899


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Principal Office and Agent in charge JOHN S. APPLEGATE Corner Broad and Front Streets, Red Bank, New Jersey


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PRESIDENT MRS. CAROLINE GALLUP REED


VICE-PRESIDENTS REV. JOHN CRARY LORD EDWARD DEAN ADAMS, LL. D.


TREASURER


STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MISS SOPHIE HERBERT NICHOLL


RECORDING SECRETARY EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD


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TERM EXPIRES 1908 JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH MRS. ANNIE HULL WHITE


TERM EXPIRES 1909 MRS. CAROLINE GALLUP REED EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD WILLIAM JOSEPH LEONARD


TERM EXPIRES 1910 CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS MRS. THEODOSIA DENNIS FINCH WILLIAM STROTHER JONES


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NOMINATING COMMITTEE


JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE STEPHEN VAN BRACKLE ARROWSMITH MINNIE ADELAIDE PEARCE BROWN


LIBRARY COMMITTEE MRS. THEODOSIA DENNIS FINCH MRS. JULIA EMILY BORDEN


REV. WILLIAM BLEECKER MATTESON


LECTURE COMMITTEE


JOHN STILWELL APPLEGATE MRS. ANNIE HULL WHITE CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS


PUBLICATION COMMITTEE


WILLIAM STROTHER JONES MRS. ELEANOR BROWN BENNETT MRS. SARAH A. FAIRCHILD


GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL COMMITTEE


MISS HARRIET WHITLOCK BRAY MRS. LYDIA H. SCHENCK CONOVER JOHN HOPPING PATTERSON


NECROLOGY COMMITTEE


MRS. ANNIE HULL WHITE GEORGE VIRGINIUS SNEDEN MRS. MARY CRAWFORD MURRAY HYDE


AUDITING COMMITTEE EDWARD STANLEY ATWOOD FREDERICK WALLER HOPE CHARLES BALDWIN PARSONS


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FOR YEARS 1905, 1906 AND 1907.


Since our last publication there have been held seventeen regular meetings of the Society, and ten meetings of the Board of Trustees. The following were the regular meetings :


May 25th, 1905, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Applegate, Red Bank. Vice- President, Rev. John Crary Lord, presided. A paper was read by Major Charles Baldwin Parsons ; subject, "The Steamboats of Mon- mouth County." June 29th, 1905, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Schanck, of Keyport ; the President in the chair. A paper was read by Miss Josephine Adelaide Brown ; subject, "The Early History of Keyport." Music by Mrs. John G. Schanck and her daugh- ter, Miss Schanck. July 27th, 1905, at the


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residence of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam T. Van Brunt, on Riverside Drive. Frank Bazley Lee, Esq., of Trenton, .N. J., delivered an address upon the subject "John Woolman, a Quaker of Burlington, N. J., and his relation to the movement for the abolition of slavery." At a meeting held at the residence of Mrs. Caroline G. Reed, the President, August 31st, 1905, a paper was read by Hon. Alfred M. Heston, of Atlantic City ; subject, " Bonaparte and Bor- dentown." September 28th, 1905, at the resi- dence of Mrs. William W. Shippen, Sea Bright, Mrs. Theodosia D. Finch read a paper entitled " Some Old Mills of Monmouth County," and Edward S. Atwood read an article from Dr. John E. Stillwell's recent publication, Vol. 1, Genealogical Miscellany, entitled " A journal of a voyage occupying two weeks' time from Red Bank to New York and return in the year 1734." " At the same meeting a copy of the


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extracts read therefrom. This paper contains a full account of the death of George Washing- ton and his funeral obsequies, and was issued a few days after his decease. At a meeting held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Patterson, Red Bank, October 26th, 1905, a poem entitled " The Pioneers," was read by Mrs. John Moses, of Trenton, N. J., which was followed by a paper by Mrs. Alethia Hunt Weatherby, entitled " The Early Emigration to Ohio from Monmouth County." A musical program followed; Rev. Benjamin C. Lippin- cott sang a solo, "The Two Grenadiers." Miss Eleanor Morris rendered a piano solo, and Miss Anna Hayes a vocal solo.




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