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THE NEW JERSEY COAST IN
THREE CENTURIES
HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST WITH
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORIC-BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
WILLIAM NELSON, EDITOR, AUTHOR OF "THE INDIANS OF NEW JERSEY," ETC .; EDITOR OF THE "NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES."
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VOL. III.
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INDEX.
Ackerson, Cornelius, 158 Ackerson, Jefferson, 261 Ackerson, Lewis C., III Albright, Andrew, Jr., 382 Alsop, Thomas, 177 Anderson, William E., 319 Appleby, T. Frank, 169
Applegate, Angella W., 391
Applegate, Asher T., 449
Applegate, William, 4
Armstrong, Addison A., 319
Armstrong, John L., 337
Aumack, Jacob W., 329
Avery, James D., 114
Avery, Thomas N., 175
Bonnell. John W. J., 366
Borden, Charles H., 477
Borden, Jacob, 255
Borden, James E., 259 Borden, John W., 263
Bostwick, Arthur W., 173
Bourgeois, George A., 82 Bowen, David C., 401
Bowman, George W., 152
Bradshaw, Albert M., 191
Brady, Michael, 204
Bray, A. J., 90
Bray, James, 106
Brinley, Walter R., 187
Bristed, Susan Smith, 229
Brokaw, I. P., 347
Bronner, Harvey, 215
Brower, Edward, 455
Brower, William S., Jr., 208
Brown, Arthur M., 7
Brown, Ferdinand, 491
Brown, John, 76
Brown, Jonathan E., 179
Brown, Joseph N., 172
Brown, Nelson M., 89
Batchelor, Edward, 407
Bateman, W. C., 413 Becker, John H., 299
Brown, Walter D., 212
Beckmann, John E., 165
Beegle, Isaac N., 270
Bryan, William, 368
Buck, David, 15 Buck, Valentine P., II
Burdge, William, 209
Burns, Joseph G., 59
Burrowes, Joseph T., 145
Burtis, John N., 29
Butterbach, Nicholas, 198
Bennett, Samuel J., 18I Bennett, William H., 254 Bergen, William M., 490 Bilderback, P. W., 488 Blair, James C., 218
Campbell, John J., 406 Carhart, William H., 214 Carman, William, 452
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Baily, William N., 99 Baird, David, 35
Baird, John, 436
Bannard, William H., 437 Barchwetz, Oscar, 468
Barclay, Isaiah D., 374
Barkalow, Cornelius C., 34I
Barkalow, James J., 35I
Parkuloo, Tunis S., 154
Brown, Oliver H., 257 Brown, Robert L., 164
Brown, Willis G., 190
Bell, Robert, 184 Bell. William A., 137 Bennett, Albert W., 472 Bennett, George C., 417 Bennett, George M., 405
Bennett, James P. B., 162
INDEX.
Carpenter, B. Everett, 199 Case, William H., 139 Casler, Peter, 300 Chadwick, Francis, 195 Champion, Ira S., 376 Chandler, Eli H., 220 Chase, L. A., 227 Cherry. Moses, 329 Child, Henry J., 200
Christie, James W., 338 Clark, Cornelius V., 493 Clark, Joseph S., 420
Clayton, Frederick D., 203
Clayton, Pierson H., 235 Clemons, Welcome G., 447 Clemons, William, 267
Clevenger, John C., 383 Cliver, Joseph L., 495 Cliver, Samuel A., 403 Coan, John A., 66
Cohen, George B., 216
Coleman, Andrew R., 494
Comings, George T., 172
Comstock, George, 246
Conard, Harry, 58 Conover, A. D., 486
Conover, Daniel, 353 Conover, James, 458 Conover, James W., 6 Conover, John D., 305 Conover, J. Don, 110 Conover, Joseph A., 465 Conover, Ten Eyck, 110 Conover, William M., 3 Conover, William T., 369
Conine, Henry, 227 Conine, John W., 34I Cook, Charles E .. 495 Cook, John H., 473 Cooke, Henry G., 234
Cooley, Herbert S., 77 Cooper, Alfred, 389 . Cooper, Benjamin M., 233
Cooper, Edward M., 143 Cooper, Francis E., 224 Cooper, James, Jr., 145 Cottrell, Hiram, 316 Cottrell, William C., 372 Cranston, A. P., 122 Cranston, Irving L., 445 Crawford, James G., 146 Crawford, John B., 230 Crawford, John H., 197 Crawford, Richard, 232
Crego, Milo H., 37 Crenning, E. E., 431 Crine, Michael, 112 Cronk, Lyman, 193 Cross, J. Wesley, 189 Curr, William, 228 Curtis, John H., 110
Daly, Philip, 424
Danser, James V., 461
Davis, H. F., 24I Davison, Benjamin D., 174
Davison, John, 183
Davison, John A., 457
De Graw, Frank E., 266
De Groff, William, 430 Dennis, Albert, 155
De Noie, Vera, 231
Dey, John P., 462
Dey, John R., 459
Dey, Mathias, 30I Dey, Peter J., 185
Dickinson, Isaac P., 301 Dill, John C., 221
Disbrow, William, 370
Dodd, Peter F., 236
Dodge, Paul L., 425
Du Bois, Benjamin V., 42
Dunigan, Thomas F., 244
Eckert, Adam, 240
Eisner, Sigmund, 475
Ellenberg, George, 283
Elmer, Amos, 482
Ely. John L., 429 Emmons, Reuben, 217
Emmons, William A. N., 328
Esberg, Isaac B., 443
Estell, Joseph Q., 463
Evans, John, 51
Evans, John C., 450
Evans, Mrs. George W., 141 Everett, Charles, 77
Fallon, Thomas T., 345 Feltman, Lewis J., 411 Fenton, Edward F., 88 Fenton, John, 94 Ferris, James L., 455 Field, Joseph, 34 Field, Joseph T., 276 Fielder, John H., 182 Fisher, John V., 242 Fisher, Robert, 32
INDEX.
Fisher, William F., 442 Fisk, Charles J., 484 Fithian, George W., 72 Flitcroft, J. E., 133 Flynn, James J., 56 Frick, Fred, 71 Furman, Leonard, 125
Garretson, John G., 25I Garrigan, William H., IOI Gates, Daniel, 130 Gerns, Jacob G., 480 Giffard, William, 49I Gordon, George C., 225 Grace, Alonzo L., 207 Graham, Thomas, 21 Grant, Thomas H., 142 Green, J. Elwyn, 28I Green, Luther, 54 Green, William I., 105 Gregory, John H., 378
Grenelle, L. O., 322 Griffin, Milo C., 128 Grover, Arthur L., 66 Grover, John B., 167 Guerin, Claude V., I
Hagaman, Harry T., 250 Hagerman, George E., 489 Hagerman, William R., 19 Hagerty, Thomas H., 440 Haines, Edward E., 268 Hall, Conrad F., 485 Hall, Frederick E., 168 Ham, William R., 269 Hamilton, William H., 403 Hance, Borden, 412 Hance, Frank, 298 Hance, William, 87 Hand, Aaron W., 264 Hankins, Charles, 137 Hankins, Charles A., 25 Hankins, Harry A., 427 Hankinson, Mrs. John H., 262 Hanson, Jacob, 442 Harris, Samuel C. C., 262 Hartenstein, Edward, 256 Harvey, Charles, 452 Harvey, James, Sr., 143 Harvey, Longstreet, 414 Hayward, William, 478 Hazard, E. C., 5 Hearn, Stephen, 84 Heiser, John, 466
Hendrickson, Daniel F., 432 Hendrickson, Margaret E., 467 Hendrickson, William H., 343 Hennessey, Garrett, 276 Hennessey, John, 440 Herbert, Sidney, 459
Hetrick, Clarence E. F., 457
Heyer, Francis E., 260
Hilliard, Courtney, 83
Hiltbrunner, Ernest, 295
Hiser, Christopher, 419
Hoagland, G. G., 17I Hoben, Thomas, 434
Hodges, Frank H., 95
Holman, James D., 272
Holmes, Asher H., 280
Holmes, Chrineyonce S., 284
Holmes, John S., 16
Hommann, Charles C., 4II Honce, John D., 222
Hopper, Egbert, 294
Hopper, Rulif F., 278
Hopper, William T., 151
Hopping, John T., 2 Horner, Charles, 426
Hubbard, James, 93 Hulse, John W., 23
Hults, E. A., 370 Hurley, Azariah C., 166
Hutchinson, Addison, 325
Hyer, Isaac K. L., 290
Hyer, John Van Pelt, 288 Hyers, John H., 279
Irving, James, 405 Irwin, Charles L., 3II
Jackson, A. J., 249 Jackson, William S., 75 Jeffrey, William E., 237 Johnson, Frank H., 304 Johnson, Grandin, 135 Johnson, James E., 302 Johnson, J. Frank, 214 Johnston, Joseph W., 408 Jones, Isaac, 462 Jones, Lewis D., 310 Jones, William, 330 Jones, William L., 157
Kahle, Louis, 339 Kellogg, Robert M., 306 Kelly, William A., 380 Kelly, William C., 129
INDEX.
Kemmerer, Harry, 470 Kennedy, Wellington, 238 Kenney, Victor D., 52 Keough, John W., 386 Kilmer, Nelson H., 314 King, Benjamin, 312 Kinmonth, Hugh S., 419 Kisner, George B., 476 Kitchel, F. M., 439
Kroeger, August, 479 Kuhns, John E., Jr., 303
La Compte, Garrett I., 213 Lafayette, The Hotel, 244 Lake, Henry, 205 Landis. Howard C., 394
Lawes, William H., 316
Le Compte, Charles R., 326 Le Compte, E. E., 327 Leigh, Adelbert S. D., 85 Leonard, E. W., 247 Leonard, John S., 248 Letson, Joseph C., 357 Levy, Henry, 404 Lewis, Charles A., 451
Lewis, Richard S., 41 Liddle. Clarence M., 125
Liddle, George S., 437 Liddle, John, 400
Liddle, Joshua, 373 Lippincott, Adon, 121 Little, Joseph, 320 Lohsen, George H., 472
Lohsen, M. C., 235
Longstreet, Hendrick, 324
Longstreet, Mary A., 324 Love, Robert C., 315 Low, Cyrus L., 287 Low. George C., 363 Ludlow, Samuel, 454 Lum, Charles H., 55 Luther, Frederick, 37
Macdonald, William L., 340 Magee, George K., 97 Magee, Joseph, 196 Mark, Joseph, 61 Mason, Robert P., 332 Mason, Wesley, 109 Mason, William, 127 Mathews, Harrison, 21I
Matthews, Cornelius, 460 Matthews, Isaac A., 286 Matthews, John H., 321
Matthews, Joseph C., 487 Matthews, Joseph C., 296 Maurer, Winfield, 210
McCabe, Albert D., 409 McClees, John, 334
McClees, Peter J., 88 McColgan, James, 48 McDede, William J., 438
McDermott, Abraham, 219 McDowell, G. C., 335
McLean, Henry C., 336 Mielke, Henry W., 153 Miller, Taulman A., 133 Minton, James H., 342 Montgomery, John E., 152
Morgan, Edmund S., 434
Morgan, Tali E., SI
Morris, Aaron, 45
Morton, Alfred H., 166
Mount, Daniel A., 186
Mullen, Alexander, 90
Murray, David, 199
Nash. William H., 61
Nesbitt, Ebenezer S., 487
Nevill, John H., 398
Newbury, Stephen W., 245
Nivison, Asbury F., 45
Noble, Thomas, 334
Noe, David O., 385
Noe, James E., 384 North, James, 292
Oakhurst Public School, 243 O'Hara, William P., 446 Oliphant, David S., 107 Osborn, Abram, 361
Osborn, Cornelius, 176 Osborn, Franklin, 359
Pach, Morris, 146 Packer, Peter Hall, 346 Palmer, William E., 156 Palmer, William H., 187
Parker, George, 469
Parker, Michael H., 180
Parker, William B., 423 Parker, William T., 374 Parselles, F. H., 410 Patterson, Franklin, 352 Patterson, John C .. 350 Patterson, Joseph C., 399
Patterson, Peter V., 424 Peters, Theodore G., 358
INDEX.
Petteys, Ellison D., 286 Philips, Arthur L., 402 Phillips, Edward H., 364 Phillips, Howard W., 201 Pintard, Eugene, 469 Pittenger, George W., 395 Posten, Amzi McL., 475 Potter, Louis C., 360
Potter, Phineas, 482
Potter, William H., 116
Pownall, Mrs. F. W., 455 Price, E. H., 149 Pullen, Charles, 367 Purchase, A. T., 363
Quackenboss, Theodore B., 176
Quackenboss, William H., 70
Quackenbush, George M., 297
Quackenbush, Richard M., 355 Quin, Edwin S., 277
Radley, Alfred N., 96 Rappelyea, Stafford L., 60 -
Read, Charles, 20
Read, Thomas H., 20
Red Bank Register, The, 473
Redhing, Thomas, 67
Reed, Edwin B., 5
Reed, Joseph E., 423
Reed, Spafford W., 362
Reeves, George H., 388
Reid, John, 422
Remsen, John, 168 Reya, John F., 84
Reynolds, Howland, 117
Reynolds, John P., 313
Reynolds, John T., 400 Ricc, Edward L., 380
Riggs, Addison H., 147
Riker, John L., 456 Riker, Samuel, 13
Roberts, Daniel E., 12
Robinson, Daniel H., 162
Rockafeller, Harry J., 86 Rockafeller, John, 492 Rogers, Albert T., 22
Rohrbach, Peter .N., 210
Rollinson, Henry B., 317
Roome, John W., 349 Ross, Charles J., 26 Rothfritz, Richard E. K., 436
Ruf, William H., 474 Runkle, Harry G., 295 Runyon, George D., 206 Ryan, Patrick L., 218
Salz, A., 453 Savage, Joseph W., 53 Schanck, David, 394 Schanck, Elias P., 223 Schanck, Elisha S. C., 253 Schanck, Garrett, 24 Schanck, John C., 102 Schenck, Edgar, 97
Schenck, Henry, 226
Schenck, Joseph H. C., 150
Schnitzler, Ernest, 13I Schults, John H., 115 Schwartz, Jacob, 27I Scott, Henry D., 78
Scott, Martin H., 313 Scull, Harry S., 322
Seeley, Robert S., 333
Seely, William M., 406 Sheehan, John, 119
Sheppard, B. F., 231
Shwendeman, George, 415
Sickles, Frederick, 271
Sickles, George H., 27I
Sill, Lybrand, 397
Singleton, William B., 270
Skidmore, Abraham, 307
Skidmore, John H., 425
Smith, Albert C., 144
Smith, Charles A., 138
Smith, Charles J., 10I
Smith, Edgar H., 354
Smith, Frank L., 64
Smith, Louis H., 282
Smock, Benjamin DuB., 27
Smock, George A., 356
Smock, John H., 163
Smyth, William H., 331
Snyder, Thomas E., Jr., 92
Sofield, Alfred F., 148
Sparks, George, 243 Spencer, Ira T., 188
Spencer, William A., 392
Sproul, Joseph P., 379
Stacey, William T., 477 Steele, Augustus, 396
Stcele, Spencer C., 397
Stephany, Robert E., 246 Stevenson, John, 203
Stout, Ashley B., 40
Stout, Charles L., 318
Stout, John H., 275 Stout, Wesley B., 412
Stratton, John L. N., 481 Stratton, Josiah A., 108
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INDEX.
Stults, Cornelius V., 242 Stults, Frederick I., Jr., 416 Sutphen, Archibald, 485 Suydam, Elijah P., 461 Suydam, John L., 8 Swan, Webster, 357 Szymanowski, Stephen, 177
Tantum, Elias C., 415 Tatnell, Henry J., 100 Taylor, James G., 274 Taylor, Morford, 31
Taylor, T. R., 285 Thompson, Charles H., 58
Thompson, Fred V., 194
Thompson, Howard E., 348
Thompson, Thomas, 354
Thompson, William H., 91 Thomson, John, 421 Thorn, R. Howard, 68 Thorne, Harriet A., 140 Tice, George H., 289 Tice, Ira B., 64 Tillman, Peter, 104 Toomey, James B., 479 Truax, Anthony T., 105 Trustrum, William, 435 Turner, George, 184 Tusting, Robert A., 428 Tuttle, Frank L., 496 Tuzenew, John H., 140 Twiford, George B., 94
Vail, Daniel, 49 Van Brakle, James M., 48 Van Brunt, Benjamin, 377 Van Cleef, Hendrick, 304 Vandemark, Darius, 117 Vanderveer, Garret S., 338 Van Derveer, John D., 483 Van Dorn, Daniel P., 18 Van Dyke, William T., 44 Van Hise, Isaac A., 216 Van Keuren, Melvin R., 114 Van Kirk, Peter, 79 Van Mater, William, 46 Van Nest, John H., 50 Van Nortwick, David F., 43I Van Note, L. D., 80 Van Pelt, William J., 444 Voorhees, Charles A., 62
Wainwright, Halsted H., 494 Walling. Alfred, Jr., 16I
Walling, C. Herbert, 126 Walling, James K., 239 Walling, James S., 24 Walling, James T., 36 Walling, Rufus O., 160
Walling, Thomas M., 103 Walling, William A., 30 Ward, William W., 326
Wardell, J. Herbert, 21I
Warden, William K., 86 Warn, Will E., 14 Webster, Warren, 98 Weedcn, William C., 323
West, Abner H., 38 West, Nicholas E., 291
Whitaker, Walter K., 57
White, Charles P., 202
White, Charles T., 103 White, Isaac B., 134 White, J. Leon, 63 White, Lyttleton, 120
White, Nicholas V., 471 White, William H., 128
White, Winfield, 298
Whittle & Gibson, 489
Wight, James S., 464 Wilhelm, Emil, 50 Wilkins, George, 124
Wilkins, Pauline, 371
Willett, David M., 154
Willey, John H., 112
Williamson, Nicholas, 123
Williamson, William K., 393
Willis, Asa, 156 Wilson, Henry S., 324
Wilson, Jacob E., 113
Wilson, Richard, 118
Winchell, DeWitt C., 45I
Winckler, Thomas J., 328 Woglom, Abraham T., 71 Wood, George N., 387
Woolley. Edmund T., 56
Woolley, William E., 249 Worth, Adam, 385
Wortman, James E., 136 Wyckoff, William H., 8 Wylie, Robert J., 43
Yetman, John, 309
Yetman, William, 308 Yetman, William, 492 Young, James C., 418
Zandt, Henry D., 448 Zettlemoyer, Thomas F., 202
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THE NEW JERSEY COAST IN
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CLAUDE V. GUERIN.
Claude V. Guerin was born September 8, 1867, in Jersey City, son of Samuel B. and Evelyn (Kale) Guerin. He is of French ancestry and comes of Huguenot stock. Two brothers having emigrated to escape religious persecution in France, settled in early colonial days in Morristown, New Jersey. Descended from this ancestry, Vin- cent Guerin, the grandfather, was a thriving merchant at Martinsville, Somerset county, and subsequently at Bound Brook, New Jersey. He was an active Repub- lican and held at different times various political offices. He was a constable at Bound Brook; a freeholder of Bridgewater township, and a member of the board of education there for several years. He was a prominent member and elder in the Presbyterian church and left children, Samuel B., and Henry V.
Samuel B., the father, born at Mendham, Morris county, New Jersey, later of Martinsville, was educated in Martinsville and in the public schools of Bound Brook. He was a grocer at New Brunswick until 1861; he served during the Civil war in the sixty days service with the Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves. Removing to New York City in 1864, he carried on the wholesale provision business as a member of the firm of Comstock & Co. for six years. He then on account of ill-health located on a farm in Middlesex county, New Jersey. In 1881 he removed to Asbury Park, where he owns valuable estate. He is an active Methodist and has been a steward in that church for many years. He has but one child, Claude V.
Claude V. Guerin, educated in the public schools in Piscataway township and in New Brunswick, removed with his father in 1882, to Asbury Park, entered the high school there, from which he was graduated in 1886 as valedictorian of his class. He read law four years in the office of Hawkins & Durand, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1890. Beginning practice in 1891 he established a lucrative busi- ness, making a specialty of surrogate and probate court business and municipal law. He has been engaged in much important litigation and many notable cases, among which may be cited the Spencer will case, the Sickles case, which decided fifty cases of a similar nature involving the question of the constitutional rights of municipali-
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ties relating to license fees. Mr. Guerin is assignee of the estate of J. J. Parker, which involves $100,000 claimed by more than two hundred individuals.
Politically Mr. Guerin is a Republican and has been delegatc to congressional, county and state conventions. He has been a member of the board of education since 1896 and is at present secretary of the board. He is a member of Neptune Lodge, Odd Fellows, and of the order of Red Men.
Mr. Guerin participated in the Spanish-American war. The beginning of hostili- ties found him Corporal of Company A. Third Regiment, New Jersey National Guard. With his regiment he enlisted and served during the war. He advanced rapidly, being promoted sergeant of Company A, then first sergeant, then second lieutenant of Com- pany B, Third New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. He is now first lieutenant, Company H, Third Regiment, New Jersey National Guard.
Mr. Guerin is deeply interested in church work. He is a member of St. Paul's church of Ocean Grove, and for nearly eleven years has been superintendent of Sabbath-school of the church. For the past two years he has been superintendent of summer schools at Ocean Grove. In October, 1893, he was married to Ruth, daugh- ter of John V. N. DeHart, of Somerville, Somerset county, New Jersey. They have one daughter, Ruthi.
JOHN T. HOPPING.
John T. Hopping, of New Monmouth, New Jersey, was born in that city January 28, 1860. The first ancestor of this family to settle in America was Captain John Hopping, who emigrated from Ireland and located at Port Monmouth. James Hopping, pater- nal grandfather of John T. Hopping, was a resident of New Monmouth, New Jersey, anl he was familiarly known as Judge, having officiated in that capacity for Mon- mouth county. He married Miss Patience Tilton, and their children were Edward; Sarah, who married James Frost; Mary, who married Thomas Leonard; and John J., the father of our subject. James Patterson, the maternal grandfather of John T. Hopping, was born near the Shrewsbury river, Monmouth county, where he was content to remain all his life. He chose farming as an occupation. In his politics he was a stanch Democrat, and was elected by that party to serve in several town offices, and he was also chosen to represent Monmouth county in the senate at Trenton. He was a consistent member and attendant of the Baptist church at Mid- dletown, New Jersey. He was twice married, having selected for his first wife, Miss Deborah Trafford, and their children were Jchu, who served as county clerk of Monmouth county for many years ; Hannah ; Margaret and Anna. The maiden name of his second wife was Miss Lydia Hopping, and the following children were born to them: John H., Dr. James H., Samuel, Ewing Patterson, Henry J., Joseph C., Rebecca, Mary Harriet, Lydia, Charles and Allen.
John J. Hopping, father of John T. Hopping, followed the occupation of a , farmer all his life. He had three farins, aggregating two hundred and twenty-five acres, and he kept them all in a state of cultivation, raising an extensive crop of gen- eral farm produce. which found a ready market. He was considered a thorough business man, and he held the csteem and respect of his fellow citizens. Politically he was a Democrat, and he was elected to fill various local offices. He married Hannah Patterson, daughter of James Patterson, and their three children are James, Mary A. and John T. Hopping. The father of these children died June 5, 1891, aged sixty-nine years, and his widow died April 24, 1898, aged seventy-six years. James P. Hopping, eldest son of John J. and Hannah Hopping, was born November
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28, 1850. He received his education in the public schools and at New Brunswick, and has since been engaged in farming on the old homestead, which is situated in Leon- ardsville, New Jersey, and consists of one hundred acres. In addition to this vocation, he is actively engaged in the lumber business in the firm of Hopping & Ely, at Atlantic Highlands. He was married to Miss Helen A., a daughter of Joseph S. Ely. Mary A., second child of John and Hannah Hopping, was born July 25, 1854, and died October 15, 1879.
John T. Hopping, the third child of John J. and Hannah Hopping, acquired his education in the New Monmouth Academy, and after completing his studies he chose farming as an occupation, and he now conducts an extensive market gardening and trucking business. He has resided for the past seventeen years in a handsome house, which he built according to his own ideas, on a tract of twenty acres. He is also the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in the vicinity of his home. Mr. Hopping is a man of progressive ideas, and the methods he employs in the cultivation of his land places him in the front rank of Monmouth county's agricul- turists. He has recently engaged in the quarrying of gravel for road purposes, and in the top soil business, which consists in the shipping of fertile soil to be used in top tracing and the fertilizing of barren soil. Mr. George Gould's historic place at Lakewood has received a large amount of this top soil fertilizing, and to this is due the beauty and growth of the vegetation. In this line of business he employs a large force of men constantly. He is an adherent of the Democratic party, and hic has been elected to serve at the present time as road commissioner.
Mr. Hopping was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Van Mater, daughter of Gilbert H. Van. Mater, who was born in Holmdel, Monmouth county, New Jersey. He was a farmer, merchant and miller, and resided in Holmdel during the early part of his life, while he later removed to Red Bank. He married Miss Sarah H. Holmes, and their children were Eliza H., who died at ten years of age; Huldah H., who married Robert W. Cook; John H., who married Ncllic Conover, and died in Virginia ; William A., a civil engineer; Dr. Daniel H., who married Susan Aaronson ; Emma L., who married Robert K. Young, an attorney at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; Sarah, who married B. M. Potter, an attorney at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; Lillian Louise, who married John T. Hopping ; and Henry Cook, who died in infancy. Mr. Van Mater died July 23, 1902, his wife having died August 24, 1886, aged sixty- four years. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hopping, the eldest of whom, J. W. Hopping, now sixteen years of age and attending school, had his pictures and history widely heralded through the "New York Press" last year on the advent of his fifteenth birthday as being the largest boy in Monmouth county, hav- ing tipped the scales at two hundred and seven pounds.
WILLIAM M. CONOVER.
The highly esteemed citizen who worthily bears the name of William M. Conover is a representative of one of the oldest and most highly considered families of Monmouth county, New Jersey. The Conover family, or as the original spelling made it, Cowenhoven, dates back through centuries to a worthy Hollander, Herr Albert Cowenhoven, who was born in the land of the Zuyder Zee on December 7, 1676, and emigrated with his wife, Necltje Raelopse Schmock, who was born on January 23, 1681. They were married in 1701 and reared their family in the new country, the names of the children being as follows: William, Roelof, Antic, Janatie, Seltie, Margaret, Sarah, Pretie, Neeltye, Garrett, John and Cornelius.
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William Conover, son of Albert, the original settler, was born on March 7, 1702, and died in 1790. He married Elizabeth VanCleve and they had the following children : Albert, Benjamin, Joseph, David, William, Isaac, Sarah, Eleanor, Eliza- beth, Hendrick and Mary.
Benjamin, the son of William Conover, married Catherine Wycoff, and to this union were born: Garratt B. and Joseph. .
William B. Conover, son of Benjamin, was born in 1752, and died on August 15, 1807. He was married to Eleanor Foreman on January II, 1774, and their family consisted of Catherine, Peter F., Benjamin, Eleanor, Wycoff, Ladya, Ladya and Alice.
Peter F. Conover, son of William B., was born on October 16, 1776, and died on December 25, 1855. He was married to Jane De Wise on November 22, 1799, and their family record was as follows: Daniel, William, Garrett, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Jane, Edward M. and Benjamin F.
Edward M. Conover, son of Peter F., was born on July 19, 1822, and died on September 6, 1879. His marriage was to Margaret Ann Campbell, and to this union were born: Samuel W., William M., Peter F. and Hannah B.
William M. Conover, who is the subject of this sketch, was born on Septeniber 16, 1852, in Monmouth county, and there received a good common school education. During the succeeding years he has been engaged in farming and is considered one of the leading agriculturists of the county, operating one of the largest estates in Atlantic township.
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