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Lemuel Kayhart was born in old Pequannock township, July 6, 1845. The schools of his native county furnished him with educational advantages, and he was reared on the homestead farm until he had attained the age of eighteen years, when he was apprenticed to learn the trade of wagon making and was identified with this industry for a period of a quarter of a century. He then established himself in the hotel business, seven years at Montville, New Jer- sey, and then bought the Hotel Boonton, December 24, 1894, and opened it April 1, 1895. It is the oldest hotel in the town, and has a well established reputation. The hotel has twenty-eight rooms, and everything pertaining to the conduct of the place is attended to with the utmost accuracy and dis- patch. In political matters Mr. Kayhart is a man of independent opinion, and will not allow himself to be bound by party ties. The first vote he ever cast was for Lincoln as president. His fraternal affiliation is with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, of which he has been a member for many years. Mr. Kayhart married Mary F. Wright, and they have had eight children, of whom six are living at the present time. The children are all musical, and the youngest son is now traveling abroad.
JACOB H. KANOUSE
The Kanouse family has been resident in Morris county, New Jersey, for several generations, and Jacob H. Kanouse, proprietor of the City Hotel, at Boonton, is one of its ablest representatives. Henry Kanouse, his father, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, and gave up his life in the war while defending the rights and liberties of his country. He left six children.
Jacob H. Kanouse, the eldest of these children, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1849, and at an early age was obliged to work in order to assist in the support of the family. He left school at the age of eleven years and was engaged in farm work until he was fifteen years of age, when he found employment as a team driver. From that occupation it was an easy step to coaching in the employ of Mr. Bob Richard, of Dover, New Jersey, and when he left this position he became the driver of a beer wagon. He had also for a time been again engaged in farm work, but he felt that he was able to attend to affairs which required more mental ability, and accordingly opened the hotel now conducted by Mr. Lemuel Kayhart, which he conducted four years. In 1903 he removed to Boonton and opened the City Hotel, of which he has continued the proprietor and personal manager up to the pres- ent time. The hotel has nineteen sleeping apartments, comfortably fur- nished, a number of public rooms, and it is equipped throughout in a very attractive and complete manner. The service is excellent and it enjoys a popularity second to none of its size in the country. Mr. Kanouse married Mary Ann Tucker, and they have children: William, a farmer, married ; Harry, assists his father in the conduct of the hotel. Mr. Kanouse is a staunch supporter of Republican principles.
PHINEAS FERRAND
The subject of this review, Phineas Ferrand, of Boonton, New Jersey, is a man whose long and useful life has been devoted to agricultural pur-
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suits, with which his family has been identified for many generations, and in which he has been eminently successful. His father, Samuel Ferrand, was born just south of Boonton, on the farm adjoining the one now occupied by his son. At the time of his death he had attained the advanced age of almost eighty-eight years. He married Eliza Kitchell and had eleven chil- dren.
Phineas Ferrand was born near Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey, in 1838, and attended the public schools of his district and also those of Montclair. Upon the completion of his education he returned to his old home and assisted his father until the death of the latter. He then engaged in farming independently, having a farm of two hundred acres, and his mod- ern and progressive methods have rendered this a very profitable undertak- ing. He finds a ready market for his produce, the excellence of his output ensuring a liberal patronage. The house in which he is living at the present time was erected by him in 1874, and is fitted with all modern conveniences. He has strong opinions in political matters, giving his allegiance to the Re- publican party, and has served as treasurer of the town committee. His religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Ferrand mar- ried (first) Catherine Bastedo; (second) Mary E. Darling; (third) Susan E. Ogden, daughter of John Ogden. Children by the third marriage: William, married Helen Ball; Samuel, married Kate Oram; Phineas Jr., married Grace Baldwin; Frances Elizabeth. Only child by the second mar- riage : Theodore S., married Ada Guerin.
GUY BRITTON
Guy Britton, chemist of the Jersey City Water Works, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1879. He is a son of Samuel Britton, born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, who is still engaged in farming there, at the age of seventy-one years. He married Hannah Edwards, also born in Ashtabula county, and had one child.
Guy Britton attended the public schools and was graduated from the high school at Kinsman, Ohio, after which he became a student at the Ohio State University. He took a course in civil engineering and was graduated from that department in the class of 1904. His first position was a muni- cipal one in Columbus. Ohio, which he held two years, and he was then for a further two years with Mr. E. G. Bradbury, consulting engineer, of Colum- bus. He was next with the New York Central Railroad Company at Ni- agara Falls until the winter of 1907, after which he formed a connection with Herring & Fuller, of New York, and September 21, 1908, came to Boon- ton, Morris county, New Jersey, in their employ. January 1, 1909, he entered the employ of the Jersey City Water Supply Company, remaining with them until 1911, and has now been chemist of the Jersey City Water Works since the first mentioned company turned their plant over to the city, having charge of the Boonton sterlization plant for the city. He is a mem- ber of Gustavus Lodge, No. 442, F. and A. M., of Kinsman, Ohio; Mahon- ing Chapter, No. 66, R. A. M., of Warren, Ohio; Dover Lodge, No. 782 B. P. O. E .; and of the American Water Works Association.
BOWDEN & O'BRIEN
The firm of Bowden & O'Brien, operators of a bottling establishment in Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey, is one of the important enterprises of
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that section of the State, and the two men who are at the head of it are worthy of especial mention.
Dennis Bowden, father of the senior member of the firm of Bowden & O'Brien, was born in county Kilkenny, Ireland, September 20, 1854, a son of Philip and Johanna (Dermody) Bowden, and died in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1912. Philip Bowden having died in Ireland, his widow with several of her children emigrated to America, and made her home at Col- lege Point, Long Island. In 1865 Dennis Bowden and his brother joined the others of the family, and, while he had had but limited opportunities for acquiring an education, his naturally keen powers of observation and his intense desire to acquire knowledge, enabled him to pass muster very well. He was but a young lad when he commenced to assist in the support of the family, his first work here being in the Rubber Jewelry Factory at Col- lege Point, where he was employed as a marble cutter. At the end of three years he went to New York, where he was employed in the jewelry trade several years, and then in the rubber works at Butler, Morris county, New Jersey. He became a resident of Boonton, Morris county, in 1879, and purchased the Mansion House one year later. This hotel he conducted very successfully until 1882, then opened the Mansion House in Paterson, New Jersey, and conducted this personally for a period of two years. In 1884 he returned to Boonton and reopened the Mansion House, and continued as its proprietor until his death, when his son took charge of it. Mr. Bowden was a man of much energy and executive ability, and in addition to manag- ing his hotel business he engaged in the bottling business in 1887, and worked up his enterprise to a very satisfactory condition. He was a charter mem- ber of the board of trade, and treasurer of the fire department, of which he had been a member many years. Politically he affiliated with the Democratic party, and he was a communicant of the Roman Catholic church of Boon- ton. Mr. Bowden married, August 2, 1880, Nellie, daughter of Patrick and Margaret ( Mulqueen) Shanahan, of College Point, Long Island; chil- dren : Philip Walter, William, Margaret, Harry, Thomas, John, Mary, Dolores and Joseph.
William Bowden, son of Dennis and Nellie (Shanahan) Bowden, was born in Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey, where he was also educated, and then became an assistant to his father in the conduct of the Mansion House, and when the bottling business was established he practically had charge of it. Upon the death of his father he took charge of both of these enterprises and has conducted them in a masterly manner. He has asso- ciated with him as a partner D. H. O'Brien, and their plant is located at No. 816 Main street, Boonton, with an office at No. 805 Main street. They are bottlers of carbonated waters, beer and liquors of all kinds. In political matters he prefers to form his opinions independently, and casts his vote irrespective of partisanship. Mr. Bowden is not married.
D. H. O'Brien, junior member of the firm of Bowden & O'Brien, was born in Ireland, a son of James and Catherine (Howard) O'Brien. The former was engaged in the shipping business in Ireland and never came to this country. He had two children. D. H. O'Brien received his education in his native country, and was graduated from Presentation College, in Ire- land. He came to the United States in 1905 and engaged in the electric business in the City of New York, remaining in that until 1909, when he entered into his present business connection. He also is independent in his political opinions, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Mr. O'Brien married May Bowden, and has one child: Catherine.
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JUDD CONDIT
Judd Condit, a well known farmer of Troy Hills, Morris county, New Jersey, is a representative of one of the old families of the State of New Jersey. His great-grandfather, Stephen Condit, came to what was then Troy, in 1800, and died in 1816. He married Polly Ogden, and had chil- dren : Swain A. and John O.
John O., son of Stephen and Polly (Ogden) Condit, was born in Or- ange, New Jersey, in September, 1797, and was three years of age when he came to Troy with his parents. He was a prominent and influential citizen, and died in 1866. He married Elizabeth, who died in 1839, daugh- ter of Benjamin Smith; children: Stephen Hobart, of further mention ; Benjamin Smith, married Sarah, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Cobb) DeHart; Susan M., married Charles F. Ogden; John H., married Car- rie, daughter of John M. and Sarah ( Egbert) Bostedo.
Stephen Hobart, son of John O. and Elizabeth (Smith) Condit, was born in Morris county, June 13, 1830, and died at the home of his son, Judd, in 1908. He was one of the leading farmers of Hanover township for thirty years, the quarter of a century immediately following the Civil War being those in which he achieved his greatest prosperity. He was intensely pub- lic-spirited, and also active in religious work, and for more than fifty years held official position in the Presbyterian church. He married, December 29, 1860, Mary Josephine, daughter of Farrand and Hily A. (Mitchell) Ogden, and had children: Elizabeth Smith, married Stephen Homer Mitch- ell; John O., died August 21, 1888; Judd, the subject of this sketch; and Harry Hobart, married Julia Abbie Osborne.
Judd Condit was born in July, 1868, in a house adjoining the one in which he is now living in Troy Hills, Morris county, New Jersey. He re- ceived his education in the schools of the township and at Hackettstown, and after its completion spent about one and a half years in the jewelry busi- ness. He then engaged in his present occupations-farming and boarding horses (Crown Point Stock Farm)-in which he has been more than usually successful, owing to his progressive methods of conducting affairs. He has a fine farm of one hundred and eighty acres, and his crops are of excellent quality. The house in which he lives, was built by his father about 1874, and modern improvements have been installed from time to time. He is a staunch supporter of Republican principles, and is now serving his second term as a member of the town committee. He has been a conscientious member of the Presbyterian church for many years, and for years has served as elder and trustee, and also in the choir for twenty-five years. Mr. Condit married Estelle Beatrice Turquand, a school teacher of New York City, and they have children : Stephen Hobart and Paul Leonard Turquand.
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(VII) Paul L. Turquand came from France in 1792 to New York City : married Jane McCleary, November 12, 1812; married (second) 1815, Han- nah Garland.
(VIII) Paul L., born May 4, 1816; married Sarah E. Blue, 1845.
(IX) Paul L., born December 12, 1846. Died August 10, 1878; mar- ried Catherine Denman, November 4, 1874; children : I. William L., born June 28, 1876; died March 13, 1882. 2. Estelle B., born April 6, 1878, married Judd Condit, November 5, 1907.
(X) Estelle B.
(XI) Stephen Hobart and Paul L. T. Condit.
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HON. JOSHUA R. SALMON
The Salmon family, represented in the present generation by Hon. Joshua R. Salmon, serving in the capacity of judge of Morris county, can be traced in Scotland and England back to A. D. 1315, when a member of the family was knighted by Robert Bruce. The coat-of-arms of the family is a crest above three fishes, and a hand with an uplifted sword in it guard- ing the crown bonnet. During the Highland wars the family, or a portion of it, crossed over the border from Scotland and settled in the eastern part of England, in Suffolk county. It is safe to infer that some members of the family remained in Scotland, as the name is not uncommon there, and those bearing the name to a greater or less extent are engaged in business connected with boats and fishing, thus giving a plausible reason for the design on the coat-of-arms and perhaps for the name as well.
William Salmon, the pioneer ancestor of the family, was born in England in 1610, died near Southold, Long Island. He emigrated to this country in May, 1635, locating in St. Christopher, from whence he removed to Hasham- onoque, Long Island, in the vicinity of what is now Southold. He married (first) Katharine, widow of Matthew Sinderland, and (second) Sarah Curtis, who after his death became the wife of Captain John Conklin. He was the father of six children, five daughters and one son, four by first marriage and two by second.
John Salmon, only son of William Salmon, died in 1697-98. He mar- ried, August 23, 1683, Sarah Barnes, who died November 3, 1738, aged eighty-two years. Children: William, born 1684, married Hannah Bayley ; Sarah, born 1687, married Nathan Dimond ; and Joseph Terry; Mary, born 1690, married Thomas Reeve; Amy, born 1693, died December 18, 1726-27; John, born 1698, married Lydia Paine.
William Salmon, son of John and Sarah (Barnes) Salmon, born 1684, died May 10, 1759. He married Hannah Bayley, who died February 2, 1754. Children : Hannah, born 1710, married John Hempstead; Joshua, born 1712; William, of whom further; Nathaniel, born 1716, died August 27, 1717; Abigail, married John Rogers; Nathaniel, married Mary Ludlam ; Stephen, married Margaret Frost; John, born 1727, married Nancy Ogden.
William Salmon, son of William and Hannah (Bayley) Salmon, born 1714, left Long Island, where his ancestors had resided for many generations, and settled at or near Mt. Olive, New Jersey, where he became the owner of large tracts of land. He married, April 1I, 1737, Elizabeth Braddick, and their children were: William, born October 17, 1738, died 1764: Peter, of whom further ; John, born April 21, 1743, died in infancy ; Elizabeth, born May 14, 1744, died June II, 1801 ; John, born July 17, 1747, died January 29, 1813; Richard, born June 27, 1750, died January 25, 1813; Cutler, born September 4, 1753, died August 27, 1777.
Captain Peter Salmon, son of William and Elizabeth (Braddick) Salmon, was born November 25, 1740, died 1825. He married, January 27, 1763, Margaret Stark, and their children were: William, born February 13, 1764; Sarah, born December 12, 1765; Aaron, born August 3, 1768; Peter, of whom further ; Elizabeth, born November 20, 1772; John, born March 15. 1775; Anna, born August 30, 1777; Stephen, born November 26, 1779; Elizabeth, born January 28, 1782; Margaret, born September 20, 1784; Cutler, born February 22, 1788, died 1826.
Peter Salmon, son of Captain Peter and Margaret (Stark) Salmon, was born July 9, 1770, died February 16, 1849. He married, May 27, 1797, Priscilla Stephens, who died February 16, 1862. Children: Gideon, born
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June 10, 1798, married Jane Van Fleet; Joshua, born February 9, 1800; Dolly, born January 3, 1803, married Corey ; Richard Stephens, born June 16, 1810, died December 10, 1838.
Gideon Salmon, son of Peter and Priscilla (Stephens) Salmon, was born June 10, 1798, died May II, 1883. He married, February 6, 1823, Jane Van Fleet, who died August 6, 1879. Children: Maria, born December 29, 1823, married John Salmon ; Elizabeth Caroline, born February 28, 1825, died June II, 1833; Abraham Williamson, born November 23, 1826, mar- ried Caroline Smith, died September 21, 1908; Priscilla, born October 21, 1828, died November 18, 1898; William Holdridge, born August 12, 1830, married Mary Jane Praster, died October 1, 1903; Harriet, born October 24, 1832, married John Wolfe; Peter V., born September 27, 1834, married Hannah Bartley, died March, 1905; Henry, born October 4, 1836, married Alma Bartley and Sarah E. Salmon; Richard Stephens, born February 16, 1839; Augustus W., born December 16, 1841, died November 30, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary, Virginia, while a soldier of the Civil War; Joshua S., of whom further.
Joshua S. Salmon, son of Gideon and Jane (Van Fleet) Salmon, was born February 2, 1846, near Mt. Olive, Morris county, New Jersey, died May 6, 1902, while serving his second term in Congress from the fourth congressional district of New Jersey. He attended the seminaries of Char- lotteville, New York, and Schooleys Mountain, New Jersey, and later was a student in the law office of the late Charles E. Scofield, of Jersey City, and in the Albany Law School, where he was graduated in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In March, 1873, he was admitted as an attorney and counselor to the bar of New York, and in November, 1875, as an at- torney to the bar of New Jersey, and on December 21, 1894, was admitted as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served as an attorney in Boonton and Morristown, winning reputation in the ranks of his professional brethren and an extensive practice. In 1876 he was elected a member of the city council of Boonton and served for six years ; in 1877 he was elected a member of the State legislature ; was the Democratic candidate for county clerk in 1878; the nominee of his party for State senator in 1883; on October 6, 1898, received the nomination for representative of the fourth congressional district of New Jersey, elected November 8, and later re-elected for a second term. He married (first) October 13, 1869, Deborah Virginia, a native of Morris county, daughter of Jeremiah and Esther (Stout) Emmons ; she died March 12, 1892. He married (second) April 19, 1893, Mrs. Emma L. (Mains) Richards, widow of Jesse W. Richards, of Lincoln Park, New Jersey. Children of first wife: Nellie S., wife of Fred A. Trowbridge, of Morristown; Irving E., deceased, was an attorney ; Norwood G., a title examiner ; Joshua R., of whom further ; Marie V., a registered nurse at Hartford, Connecticut ; Aida H., a registered nurse at Hartford. Mr. Salmon was survived by his wife, who is now a resident of Boonton, New Jersey.
Joshua R. Salmon, son of Joshua S. and Deborah Virginia (Emmons) Salmon, was born in Boonton, New Jersey, May 31, 1879. He attended the public schools of that town, graduating from the high school in 1896, and the remainder of that year he spent in his father's office. He then ac- cepted the position of assistant bookkeeper in the Boonton National Bank, of which his father was one of the directors from its organization until his death, and served as such until January, 1900, when he accepted the position of bookkeeper in the Greenwich Bank of New York, and while serving in that capacity studied law in the evenings at the New York Law School,
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and in this manner spent his time up to June, 1902, when he returned to New Jersey, and entered the law office of his brother, who conducted one in Boonton and one in Morristown, and remained under his guidance until July, 1904. He was admitted as an attorney to the bar of New Jersey in June, 1904, and at once engaged in the active practice of law, establishing offices in Boonton and Morristown, but since 1905 he has confined his prac- tice to Boonton entirely. He is thoroughly versed in the law, and he has been successfully and prominently identified with many important cases, his services being widely sought by those desiring the best attainable legal talent. On April 3, 1913, he was appointed judge of Morris county for a full term of five years, and during the short time which has elapsed since his appoint- ment he has conclusively proven his fitness for the high office he is efficiently filling. Judge Salmon is director and attorney of the Boonton Building and Loan Association; also director and attorney for the Boonton National Bank. He is a member of the Loyal Association of Morristown. He was elected four times by the town council as attorney for the town, each time by a Republican council. Mr. Salmon is a Democrat in politics, and an attendant of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Salmon married, June 18, 1910, Bertha Condit, a native of Par- sippany, New Jersey, daughter of Melvin S. and Alice (Hendershot ) Condit, and they are the parents of one child, John Condit, born February 17, 1913.
CHRISTOPHER KELLY
Christopher Kelly, of Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, who owns and conducts two hotels, is a man of superior intelligence and much execu- tive ability, natural gifts which have become greatly improved in the course of time. The name of Kelly has for centuries been an honored one in Ire- land, and no less honored in this country. In the Irish language it is called Ceallach, signifying strife or war, and the bearers of it have shown in numer- ous instances that they are well able to hold their own in the battle of life.
The father of Christopher Kelly, also named Christopher, was born in county Meath, Ireland, emigrated to the United States, and settled in Stan- hope, Sussex county, New Jersey, after he had attained manhood. He found employment as a laborer, and died in Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, in 1892. He married Ann Barrett, also born in Ireland, and they became the parents of five children.
Christopher Kelly, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Stan- hope, Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1858, and obtained his educational advantages in the public schools of Morris county. For a time he was in the employ of the Stickle Company of Hibernia, and gradually drifted into the iron manufacturing business, he and his brother being the last in New Jersey to manufacture charcoal iron, their furnace being located at Stock- holm, Sussex county. He and his brother then established themselves in the bottling business, and from that again went to Stickle & Company. In 1900 Mr. Kelly went to Stanhope, and there opened the Franklin House, which be conducted very successfully, and still owns, his son, John W., being the present manager. In 1910 Mr. Kelly purchased the Rockaway House from John Rickett, and has been at the head of this establishment since that time. This hotel has twenty-two rooms, and is one of the best equipped places of its size in the country. It was opened in 1845, and is one of the oldest in this section of the country. The hotel at Stanhope has thirty-two rooms, and both are conducted in an up-to-date manner, and enjoy a large patron- age. The bottling works established by Mr. Kelly and his brother are now
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under the management of his son, Peter J., of Stanhope. Mr. Kelly is a staunch supporter of Democratic principles, and has taken an active part in the public life of the community. He has served as a member of the com- mon council and of the school board of Stanhope. Mr. Kelly married Catherine Melvin, of Ireland, and they have had children: Mary, married David Victor ; Peter J .; Agnes C., deceased; Mrs. Evelyn C. Darrow ; Edith L .; John W .; and three who died in infancy.
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