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wood, Lester, Avery and Ethel; Albert C. married Miss Clara Moore, moved to Ches- ter, New Jersey, and has two children, Howard and Mabel.
Cornelius Smith received a common- school education and remained under the parental roof until he was sixteen years old, when he engaged in farming and milling at Bedminster Mills, Somerset county. After the declaration of war young Smith, filled with a spirit of patriotism, enlisted in Company E, Thirtieth New Jersey Vol- unteer Infantry, under Captain C. T. Cox, and served nine months, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and others. After completing his term of enlistment he was discharged in Virginia and returned home, where he remained but a short time and then went west, locating in Illinois, where he engaged in farming. After a year thus employed he returned to Somerset county and embarked in the mer- cantile business for one year, was then em- ployed as bookkeeper, collector and sales- man for his brother, John C., in the grain and commission business, and remained in that capacity for a period of ten years, when he entered the flour, feed and grain trade on his own responsibility, his place being located on Plane street, Newark, New Jer- sey. In 1895 he established himself in the large and commodious warehouses on Fourteenth street, where he has since re- mained, and he has met with pronounced success in this line of enterprise. He is a self-made man in the strongest sense of the term, and may be classed among the pros- perous and enterprising business men of Newark. Socially he is a member of Lin- coln Post, No. II, Grand Army of the Re- public, and of the North End Club.
Mr. Smith was married at Newark, in
1868, to Miss Mary A. Luke, a daughter of Charles Henry Luke. The mother of Mrs. Smith died while she (the former) was yet an infant. The following children have re- sulted from this union: Charles Harold, who is a graduate of Miller's (New Jersey) Business College; Ada Z., who is a gradu- ate of the Penington Seminary; Halsey El- wood, who is likewise a graduate of Miller's Business College. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are faithful adherents of the Halsey Street Methodist Episcopal church, which the children also attend.
HENRY J. STRUCK,
deceased, was a worthy and respected citi- zen of the Orange Valley, where he con- ducted a successful grocery business. He was a native of the old town of Burg, situ- ated on the island of Fehmarn and belong- ing to the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, his birth occurring June 13, 1847. His father, John Struck, lost his parents during his childhood. During his early manhood days he learned the tailor's trade, which he made his life work. He married Miss Gertrude Beyer, a daughter of Matthew and Gertrude Beyer, both na- tives of Schleswig-Holstein. Mr. and Mrs. Struck were worthy Christian people, hold- ing a membership with the Lutheran church.
Henry J. Struck, whose name introduces this memoir, acquired a common-school education and remained in his native town until fifteen years of age, when he decided to come to America, believing that the op- portunities here were more favorable for rapid advancement in business life. Ac- cordingly he bade adieu to friends and fatherland and sailed for New York. He
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landed in the spring of 1863, and finding employment in the metropolis continued there until the following year, when he came to the Orange Valley. Here he was employed by his brother John for some time, and in 1866 he embarked in the grocery business on his own account on the Valley road. He possessed a strong deter- mination to succeed if success could be won by close application to business, hon- orable dealing and an earnest desire to please his patrons, and these proved the necessary qualifications, for his trade grew and he was soon enabled to purchase the property which he had hitherto rented and to make some excellent improvements thereon. His work was carried on with en- ergy. He carried excellent goods and a large increasing trade brought him a good income. In this way he continued until 1884, when failing health caused his re- tirement, and he was compelled to travel. He went abroad and upon his return home traveled for some time in the west and south, hoping to be benefited thereby, but all to no avail; and on the 27th of Novem- ber, 1890, he passed away. He was a con- sistent Christian man, taking an active and commendable interest in church work, and was instrumental in the organization of the Hillside Presbyterian church, at Orange. He was charitable and benevolent, honor- able and trustworthy, and over the record of his life there falls no shadow of wrong. He left to his family not only a comfort- able competence, but also that priceless heritage of a good name. Socially he was connected with the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Honor of Orange, and his breth- ren of the fraternities held him in the high- est regard, while all who knew him enter- tained for him unqualified respect.
His home life was very pleasant. He was married February 26, 1870, to Miss Cecelia Möller, a daughter of John and Catherine Möller, and to them was born one son, August C. W., whose birth occurred Feb- ruary 7, 1871. The mother died Febru- ary 21, 1871, and Mr. Struck was again married, his second union being with Miss Henrietta W. Timme, by whom he had four children: J. Ernest, born July 21, 1874; Henry J., December 27, 1875; Ce- celia G., July 21, 1878; and George F., born August 13, 1880. The mother is still liv- ing at the family homestead in Orange Val- ley. She, too, is a consistent member of the Hillside Presbyterian church, and shared with her husband in the good work of that organization.
Henry J. Struck, Jr., who assists in the management of his father's estate, was born on the old homestead and was edu- cated in the district schools. He received his business training in his father's gro- cery store and has become a practical, pro- gressive young business man. In his po- litical views he is a Republican and is a popular and enterprising young citizen of Orange Valley whose excellent qualities will undoubtedly win success in the future.
THE LIGHTHIPE FAMILY.
The Lighthipes stand first in chronologi- cal order as builders of the Oranges, their connection with Orange beginning two years after it was set off from Newark as a separate township. From that time to the present they have been constantly iden- tified with the growth and prosperity of the township, town and city of Orange, in all of which Charles A. Lighthipe, the present representative, has borne a conspicuous part.
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John Lighthipe, the ancestor of the family, came from Brunswick, Germany, about the beginning of the Revolution and immediately joined the Continental army, serving faithfully until the close of the war. He then settled at Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and drew a pension until his death. He was a man of means and considerable influence in the community. He married Mary Duffy, whose parents were natives of Scotland.
Charles Lighthipe, a son of the ancestor, was born at Pompton, New Jersey. He re- moved to Orange in 1808 and was one of the leading manufacturers of that period. He built what is still known as the Light- hipe homestead, on Main street, near Jeffer- son, and had his factory on the same prop- erty. He was a man of strict integrity and honesty, and highly respected. He married Maria S. Condit, born April 25, 1789, daughter of Captain Moses and Hannah (Smith) Condit. His father was a private in the Revolutionary war and took part in the battle of Monmouth. He was also a captain of militia in the war of 1812. He was a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church from 1805 until his death, in 1838. He was a brother of Dr. John Condit, a distinguished officer of the Revolution and for thirty years representative and senator in congress.
Charles Alexander Lighthipe, youngest son of Charles and Maria (Condit) Light- hipe, was born in Orange, at the homestead of his father, on Main street, near Jefferson, October II, 1824, and attended the little village school which was then located oppo- site St. Mark's church, and the old Orange Academy on Main street. He served his time at hat-making and afterward became the leading manufacturer in the business
under the firm name of C. A. Lighthipe & Company. He carried on a successful man- ufacturing business for nearly twenty years, and was known from one end of the coun- try to the other. He was one of the first to adopt the use of machinery which re- sulted in a large increase of his business. In 1865 he became interested in the hat- forming business, introducing the newly- invented hat-forming machine, which pro- duced a better grade of work, with much less labor. He sold out his hat business in 1863 and became interested in the patent- forming business, preparing the material used by the hat manufacturers. He pur- chased a large factory property at Millburn, where he carried on the business success- fully for many years, until the expiration of the patents, when, owing to the strong competition, it was no longer remunera- tive.
Mr. Lighthipe was one of the pioneers in the development of Orange and West Orange. He cut through and laid out Cen- tral avenue from Centre street to Valley road. He was associated with Mr. Everett in the opening of North Jefferson street, and was also instrumental in laying out Bell street and a part of Essex avenue. He and Mr. Everett opened Lincoln avenue from Main street to Highland avenue, and named it in honor of President Lincoln. He owned, altogether, between seventy-five and one hundred acres. In connection with Mr. Haskell, he opened Park avenue from the Orange line to Valley road, in West Orange. He spent large sums of money in the improvement and development of this property. He also opened New Eng- land Terrace. Mr. Lighthipe was elected president of the Orange Bank on January 8, 1862, as the successor of Dr. Babbit, and
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continued in that position for twenty-three years, resigning January 13, 1885. His administration of its affairs was wise and judicious, and during this period the bank grew from a small country bank to one of the strongest financial institutions in the state of New Jersey. It was during Mr. Lighthipe's administration that the bank was changed from a state to a national bank. When he assumed charge of its af- fairs in 1862 the stock was below par; when he resigned the stock was worth 175, and paid 10 per cent. per annum dividends. In 1864-5 he represented his native town in the state legislature. He was an active director of the Morris & Essex Railroad Company until that road was leased to the D. L. & W. R. R. Co.
Every business enterprise with which Mr. Lighthipe has been connected has proved successful. For more than thirty years he has been a director in the Ameri- can Insurance Company, of Newark, one of the most successful insurance companies in the state of New Jersey. He has also been a director in the Citizens' Gas Com- pany almost from the date of its organi- zation. In 1888 he assisted in organizing the United States Industrial Insurance Company, of Newark, of which he is vice- president and treasurer. This, the second life insurance company in New Jersey, operated on the industrial plan, bids fair to rival its older competitors. Mr. Lighthipe brought to bear a successful business ex- perience of nearly half a century and has devoted all his energies to the development of this wise and beneficent plan of life in- surance which enables the industrial classes to participate in its benefits. He has been too much engrossed in business affairs to participate in the public affairs of his native
township, but has worked faithfully in the interests of good government and contrib- uted liberally to public improvements of every kind, being a man of broad and lib- eral ideas and of generous impulses. In religious matters his interests have been with St. Mark's church, Episcopal, of which he has been for many years a warden and of which his sainted mother was one of the earliest members.
Mr. Lighthipe married Sarah, daughter of Caleb Smith, son of Samuel, son of David, son of James Smith, the ancestor, who married the daughter of Deacon Azariah Crane, the founder of Cranetown, now Montclair. The issue of this marriage is Charles Francis, Arthur Nichols, Her- bert, Ernest, Florence and Sarah M.
Charles Francis, the eldest son, was born in Orange, May 25, 1853; graduated at Harvard College, in 1875; read law in the office of Blake & Freeman, at Orange; at- tended Columbia College Law School; was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1878, and as counselor in 1881; and is a prac- ticing lawyer in Orange.
THE EAST ORANGE GAZETTE.
When a town has reached that point where it can support a local paper, its subse- quent growth is already assured. This fact was fully appreciated by Stephen M. Long, the enterprising real-estate agent, when, in order to further his business operations, he started a real-estate paper. The first num- ber was issued May I, 1873, and was a very modest affair. It was an eight-page sheet. 14 x 20 inches, five columns to the page, and was called the East Orange Ga- zette, the name it still retains. The experi- ment proved successful, and Mr. Long
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found the people of East Orange were ready to support a weekly newspaper of their own, and be no longer dependent on the neigh- boring township journals for their news. Being a Republican in politics, Mr. Long decided to make it a Republican paper, and received sufficient assurances from the leading members of that party to justify him in this course; it thus became, and still continues as the organ of the Republican party. The paper was subsequently en- larged to 20 x 26 inches, four pages, eight columns to the page. It was printed at first partly in New York and partly in Orange, and for some time at the Chronicle office in Orange.
On May 1, 1882, Mr. Charles Starr, the present proprietor, purchased the good will, etc., of the paper, there being no plant to dispose of. He at once enlarged it to its present size, and a year later put in a complete newspaper and jobbing plant. On January 1, 1893, he moved into his present quarters on Main street, near the junction. He fitted up the office with the best and all the latest improvements in presses, etc., and everything necessary to carry on his business in enlarged quarters. The expectations of the present proprietor have been fully realized; the circulation, as well as the advertising, has steadily in- creased, and the Gazette is recognized, not simply as the organ of a political party, but as one of the best family papers in the state.
Charles Starr, the editor of the Gazette, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born April 19, 1855. He is the son of Edgar P. and Lucy M. (Jackson) Starr, of New York, and a direct descendant of Comfort Starr, of Boston, who had a son and grandson named Comfort. A descendant of these, General Comfort Starr, was a distinguished .
officer of the Connecticut line in the war of the Revolution. Most of the descend- ants of the first Comfort Starr resided in Connecticut. Charles Starr came east with his parents when he was nine years of age, and since then has been a resident of Orange. He received his education at the public and private schools of the city. He left school at the age of fifteen and spent four years at surveying, in the office of Mead & Taylor. He began his journalistic experience in the office of the Orange Chronicle, as reporter, bookkeeper and finally as local editor. He had an experi- ence of seven years in this line of work, and when, in the spring of 1882, he decided to undertake the publication of the Gazette, he was well fitted and thoroughly equipped for such an undertaking. Although the paper is the recognized organ of the Re- publican partv, Mr. Starr has conducted it in such a manner as to win the confidence of the people without regard to party dif- ferences. Upright. honest and fearless in the discharge of his duties to the public as a journalist, he never oversteps the bounds of propriety by personal attacks on the in- dividual, whatever may be the cause of grievance, but presents his facts in a clear, concise and forcible manner, leaving it for his readers to "hear and determine." He devotes his whole time to his journalistic labors, leaving others to manage the politi- cal affairs of the township. As a man he is courteous, kind and agreeable, and equally accessible to rich or poor.
He is interested in the various benevolent organizations of the Oranges, in some of which he has borne a conspicuous part. He is past regent of Longfellow Council, No. 675, Royal Arcanum; past commander of Arlington Council, American Legion of
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Honor; past dictator of Garfield Lodge, Knights of Honor; past archon in East Orange Conclave, Improved Order of Heptasophs; a member of Hope Lodge, F. & A. M., of East Orange; of Plato Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and other fra- ternal organizations.
Mr. Starr married, October 20, 1880, Minnie E. Smith, daughter of Caleb A. and Mary J. (Munn) Smith. She died December 4, 1891, leaving one child, Charles Edgar. On September 10, 1896, Mr. Starr again married, his wife being Jean Tamezen Slee, daughter of Matthew Henry and Miranda Caldecott Slee, of Auburn, New York.
HENRY M. MATTHEWS.
They reared five children, as follows: Jos- eph, who was killed in defending the Union while assisting in storming Fort Hudson, on the Mississippi river; Henry M., our subject; Mary Emily, deceased; William Edgar, who was accidentally killed while as- sisting in erecting the Brick Church station of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad; Anzenette Lavinia; and there were two who died in infancy.
At the age of two and a half years Mr. Matthews was taken to visit his maternal grandfather, Clement Cary, at Succasunna Plains, Morris county, and became so at- tached to his grandparents that when his time expired he refused to return home and was consequently adopted by the old folks. He received his education in the district schools, finishing at the academy of Morris county, after which he went to Newark and there learned the carpenter's trade, which he has made his life vocation. Upon com- pleting his apprenticeship, in 1855, he re- moved to Orange, engaged in business, and for forty-two years he has been continu- ously engaged in building and contracting.
Of the builders and contractors in Orange, Mr. Matthews has a record of forty-two years' service in that line. Born on the 24th of November, 1833, at the old Matthews homestead, situated on the cor- ner of Scotland street and Central avenue, the subject of this review is the son of the late Albert and Mary Ann (Cary) Mat- thews. The father, also born on the old Mr. Matthews has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Anna Amelia Perry, a daughter of Matthias and Mary (Foster) Perry, who was born in Orange, and of this union two children were born, namely: Mary Alice, now residing with her father; and Frederick Henry, a steamboat purser, who died on the 18th of last March. Mrs. Matthews died in 1864, and our subject contracted a second marriage in 1868, when he was united to Miss Damaris Halsey Fos- ter, daughter of Job and Parmelia (Perry) Foster, a cousin of his first wife, and to homestead, passed his life in Orange, ob- taining his education in the public schools of those days, and subsequently learned the shoemaker's trade, in connection with which he contracted for the manufacture of shoes for the southern trade, but later, on account of failing health, he was obliged to retire from that business and engaged in gardening. He was of quiet, unassuming habits, possessing the high regard of his fellow citizens, and spent the autumn of his life in comparative retirement. His death occurred in 1858, and his wife, who is in . them were born three children: Myra the ninety-second year of her age, is still Emilie, Clifford Minton and Donald Max- living, with mental faculties unimpaired. well.
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In his political views Mr. Matthews is a stanch Republican and has taken an active interest in national affairs, but has never sought nor desired office. He is one of the founders of the Orange Valley, or High- land Avenue, Congregational church, of which all the members of his family are ad- herents, and of which he has been a deacon. He has been closely identified with the church and its interests since its organiza- tion and is a liberal contributor to its sup- port.
RICHARD A. and ANDREW M. FULCHER,
hat manufacturers, at the corner of New and Hoyt streets, Newark, occupy a prom- inent position in industrial circles in the city. Hat manufacture is one of the lead- ing enterprises of Essex county, and it re- quires splendid executive ability, enterprise and sound judgment to win and maintain the enviable position which they occupy in the trade.
These gentlemen are brothers, natives of London, England, the former born July 27, 1832, the latter March 16, 1836. They are sons of Charles and Sarah (Butler) Fulcher. The former was of French de- scent and was a silk weaver by trade. Dur- ing his early manhood he engaged in the manufacture of silk goods, in which en- terprise he was very successful, doing a very profitable business and employing a large force of workmen. He died in the autumn of 1854, at the age of sixty-one years, his birth having occurred in 1793. He came to America in 1853 and took up his residence in Brooklyn, where he re- · mained until called to the home beyond, his remains being interred in Greenwood
cemetery. His faithful wife afterward re- turned to the land of her nativity, where she passed away in 1866, at the age of six- ty-nine years. Both held their religious membership in the Episcopalian church.
ARTHUR COLES DOUGHERTY,
son of Alexander N. Dougherty, M. D., elsewhere mentioned, was born in Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 1858. He re- ceived a good preparatory education in the schools of Newark and spent one year in the College of New Jersey. His medical studies were pursued in the office and under the direction of his distinguished father. In 1882 he was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and began at once the practice of medicine in his native city. Dr. Dougherty was for a time surgical clinical assistant to St. Michael's Hospital, and is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.
THE BALDWIN FAMILY.
The name Baldwin is said to be derived from the words "Bald," quick or speedy, and "win." an old word signifying victor or conqueror,-the true signification being "the speedy conqueror or victor." The Baldwins, earls of Flanders, were contem- porary with Alfred the Great, whose son Baldwin (2d) married the daughter of Robert of France. whose daughter Matilda married William the Conqueror. Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, with a train of two hundred horses and three hundred foot, his banner inscribed with the name of Thomas à Becket, went on a crusade with Richard Cœur de Lion, in 1120.
Most of the Baldwins of the Oranges
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Andrew. M. Fulcher.
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trace their ancestry, through Benjamin, to Joseph Baldwin, one of the first settlers in Milford, Connecticut, in 1639. This Joseph was probably the brother of Timothy and Nathaniel, sons of Richard Baldwin, of Cholesbury, county Bucks, England, whose will was proved in 1633. Joseph removed to Hadley, Massachusetts. His wife, Han- nah, joined the church June 23, 1644, and his children were then baptized. These were: Joseph, born 1640; Benjamin, 1642; Hannah, 1644; Mary, 1645; Elizabeth, 1646; Martha, 1647; and Jonathan, born 1649. Joseph (Ist) gave his property in Milford to his sons Benjamin, Jonathan and Joseph.
Benjamin Baldwin (Ist), second child of Joseph and Hannah Baldwin, was baptized in Hadley, Massachusetts, June 23, 1644, and was taken thence by his parents to Mil- ford. He married Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Sergeant, one of the Branford signers of the "Fundamental Agreement," at Newark, in 1666. Benjamin Baldwin's . name does not appear on the list, but he evi- dently came with the other settlers, as his name is on the "Sure List of Every Man's estate," in 1667. His "home lott" in New- ark was bounded east by Washington street, west by High street, and extended above the present line of New street to the canal. The Town Records of Newark, Sep- tember, 1668, contain the following "Item. -the town hath granted to Seth Tomp- kins, Liberty to lay downe his Own Home Lott and take up that which was formerly Granted to Benjamin Baldwin." Whether Benjamin (Ist) removed to South Orange is not definitely known, but at a town meet- ing held March 19, 1673-74, "it is also agreed that Weavers Thomas Pierson and Benjamin Baldwin shall be considered by
the Surveyors to make their out lotts on the Hill shorter."
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