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The following volumes are the results of his painstaking re- search: "Trenton, One Hundred Years Ago;" "The Old Bar- racks at Trenton, N. J .; " "The New Jersey Volunteer Loyalists;" "The Battles of Trenton and Princeton;" "The New Jersey Continental Line in the Virginia Campaign of 1781;" "Wash-
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ington's Reception by the People of New Jersey in the Revo- lutionary War." He compiled as adjutant-general, a "Register of the officers and men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War," and a "Record of the officers and men in the Civil War, 1861-1865." Both of these volumes are monumental records of accuracy and skill.
General Stryker was President of the Trenton Battle Monu- ment Association and its completion was largely due to his interest and enthusiasm. He was President of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati, of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the New Jersey Historical Society. He was President of the Trenton Savings Fund Society, and a director of the Trenton Banking Company, and of the Widows' Home Association; a Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and of the Theological Seminary at Prince- ton; a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion; a fellow of the American Geo- graphical Society, the New York Historical Society, and of the Royal Historical Society of London.
General Stryker was a man of peculiarly modest and unassuming character. In all his relations he was honored, and he was gifted with the grace of manner which made him a natural leader. His high attainments enabled him to do a great work, and it was always well done.
General Stryker married Helen Boudinot Atterbury, of New York, on September 14, 1870, and they have two daughters and a son.
CHARLTON T. LEWIS.
Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D., LL.D., was born in West Chester, Pa., February 26, 1834 and died, May 26, 1904, after a brief illness at his home in Morristown. He was the son of Joseph T. Lewis, Commissioner of Internal Revenue under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.
He prepared for college in West Chester, and graduated at Yale in 1853, taking high honors in both Mathematics and Classics.
It seems to have been his original intention to enter the Meth-
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odist Ministry; but, in 1856, he became Professor of Mathematics in the State Normal University at Bloomington, Ill.
In 1858, he was Professor of Mathematics at Troy University, and later, transferred to the Chair of Greek.
After three years, he went to Washington on the threshhold of the Civil War, and for two years was Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
At the expiration of this period, he returned to New York, where he took up the practice of law. He became a leading insurance lawyer, and influenced insurance legislation through- out the United States. His mathematical ability, and his un- usual powers of expression, fitted him for this career, but his wide reading qualified him preeminently for a leading position in Journalism. His contributions to the Evening Post of New York led to his being called to the Managing Editorship of that Journal, and, for a time after Mr. Bryant's death, he was its Editor.
He resumed his law practice in 1871, and was counsel for several large corporations, and for more than twenty years, counsel to the Mutual Life Insurance Company.
In 1898 and '99, he lectured on Insurance in Harvard, Colum- bia and Cornell Universities.
He received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1878, and the degree of LL.D. from Harvard University in 1903.
Dr. Lewis was well known as a classical scholar, and compiler of Greek and Latin Dictionaries. He performed this work without suspending his other professional engagements by ex- erting his patience, accuracy, and industry-a power of con- centration, and of persistent labor seldom combined in one of his versatility, imaginative, and creative literary power.
For more than twenty-five years, he was connected with the Prison Association of New York, and for many years, was its President. He was, also, a member of the State Charities Aid Association of New Jersey. He was a delegate from the United States to the International Prison Congress in Paris 1895, and
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was a member of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey State Reformatory.
Dr. Lewis was twice married. In 1861, he married Nancy D. McKeen, of Brunswick, Maine, a grand-daughter of Joseph McKeen, the first President of Bowdoin College. His second wife was Margaret P. Sherrard, of New York, whom he married in 1885.
He was a writer and thinker of unusual power, and an orator of great distinction and force. An appreciative editorial note in the Evening Post says that "for sheer mental ability, carrying with it a mastery in several branches of knowledge, it would be hard to name a man of his generation, who rivaled the late Charlton T. Lewis. His scholarship was both precise and wide- ranging. In practical affairs, he had an eminent skill. His services, in more than one form of public charity and reform, were noted for intelligence and energy, while his talents as a speaker were of the highest. That such remarkable versatility as his should never have been called directly to the service of state or nation, seems both a regret, and a reproach."
Dr. Lewis was a member of the American Mathematical Society ; the American Society of Actuaries; the Century Association; Sons of the Revolution; the Society of the Colonial Wars; and the Pennsylvania Society.
REV. CHARLES WOODRUFF SHIELDS, D.D., LL.D.
The Rev. Charles Woodruff Shields, D.D., LL.D., was born on April 4, 1825. He was the son of James Read Shields, of New Albany, Ind., and Anna Woodruff, of Elizabethtown, N. J.
He was prepared for college at the Newark Academy, and graduated from Princeton College in 1844. After graduation, he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, where he graduated three years later.
His first pastorate was at Hempstead, L. I., moving from this place in 1850 to Philadelphia, where he ministered to The Second Presbyterian Church until 1865.
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He married Charlotte Elizabeth Bain of Galway, N. Y., on Nov. 22, 1848. His wife died on Aug. 9, 1853.
Dr. Shields married again, on Aug. 25, 1861, Miss Elizabeth Kane, of Philadelphia, who died in 1869.
He came to Princeton in 1866, where he was Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion, from that time until the close of his career. From 1869 to 1882, he also taught the subject of History.
Dr. Shields died suddenly of heart failure, on August 26, 1904, and it came as a great shock to his many Princeton associates who had heard him respond with great vigor and eloquence to the toast of the "Old Guard," at the Alumni Dinner, only two months before his death.
His career in the University stretched through a large part of the modern period of the "schism between Science and Re- ligion," and it was his life work to show that there was no real ground for this disagreement; that there ought to be a recon- cilation, and that both sciences, when perfected, would prove to be but opposite halves of the same rounded truth.
It would be difficult to estimate the value of his labors in the Academic Chair, or to tell of how many thinking minds he saved from skeptical opinion, and led to the comfort of a reasonable faith.
Dr. Shields throughout his ministerial life was deeply inter- ested in the cause of Christian Unity, and he omitted no oppor- tunity to advocate this cause-in the pulpit, on the platform, and in the press. He deeply mourned the unhappy divisions of the Christian Church, and he looked forward to the time when its various branches would come together, and be connected as "The United Church of The United States."
He was an accomplished liturgical scholar, and in early life prepared and published various forms of a liturgical service, modelled after those of the book of Common Prayer.
He made many contributions to literary and philosophical science, and his productions are marked by elevation, and vigor
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of thought, and by a purity and grace of style, which never failed to charm as well as to inform the readers' minds.
His scholarship was polished; his tastes and feelings were refined; for he was not only a genuine but a cultivated gentle- man. In his character, the Christian graces were so harmoniously proportioned, and interblended as to effect a practical realiza- tion in the man himself, of that unity and harmony which was his noble quest throughout life.
A long and accurate biographical sketch of Dr. Shields, and his ancestors on both sides of the family, will be found as an introduction to Vol. III of the great work of his life, called "Phil- osophia Ultima," prepared by Prof. William M. Sloane, followed by a bibliography of the books, and pamphlets, editorial work, and magazine articles, published by Dr. Shields.
Dr. Shields was Chaplain of this Society from 1899 to the time of his death; and was also, a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in this State; and a member of the Huguenot Society of New York.
CHARLES BURNHAM SQUIER.
The late Charles Burnham Squier was born on February 12th, 1850. He was the third son of William C. and Catherine Craig Squier, being the grandson of Dr. David Stuart Craig.
He was educated in Dr. Pierson's school in Elizabeth and was prepared for college, but preferring a business life he took a position with the Passaic Zinc Company, and Manning and Squier who were among the first to develop the zinc industries of America.
In 1898, when the New Jersey Zinc Company was formed, these firms were absorbed by the combination and he became the treasurer and one of the directors of the new corporation, which position he held for four years, when he retired on account of ill health.
He was always interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of his native town, but he never accepted public office except as a member of the Board of Finance. He was reappointed
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as a member of this Board several times, and his financial ability and influence made him a most valuable member of the Board.
Mr. Squier was a man of the very highest integrity and honor, and while reserved and self contained was always unfailingly courteous and considerate. His kind heart always responded to those in need or in trouble.
He was a member of this Society for many years, and also a member of numerous clubs in New York City and in Eliza- beth.
He died on October 6, 1904, sincerely regretted by all who enjoyed his friendship.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER TENNILLE.
William Alexander Tennille was born on July 3, 1840, in Washington County, Ga., and died in New York, January 10, 1905. He passed his boyhood, and early manhood at Ft. Gaines, Ga. He graduated at an early age at the University of Georgia, in Athens, and was studying law when the Civil War began. He volunteered at once, and served throughout the War in the Confederate Army. He was promoted twice for gallantry on the field, and at the close of the war, was on the staff of Gen. "Tige" Anderson, with the rank of Captain, and prized as one of his most valued possessions the Cross of Honor of the Con- federate Veterans. After the war, he moved to New York, and embarked in business on the Cotton Exchange as a member of the firm of Tuttle & Wakefield.
About 1893, this firm dissolved partnership, and Mr. Tennille retired from active business, and moved to East Orange, N. J., where he resided during the remainder of his life.
Descended on his father's side from several Colonial and Revo- lutionary ancestors and on his mother's side, from Gen. Nathaniel Bacon, and other Virginia and Georgia patriots, he took much interest in patriotic societies. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati; the Society of Colonial Wars; and the Sons of the Revolution.
He married Miss Clara Tuttle, and his widow and three children survive him.
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REV. ASHBEL GREEN VERMILYE, D.D.
Dr. Ashbel Green Vermilye was born in Princeton, N. J., on September 6th, 1822. His early education was obtained at the Anthon Preparatory School in New York City. At thirteen years of age he entered Columbia College and passed one year in that institution, his Sophomore and Junior years were spent at Williams College and he graduated at New York University in 1840. He then entered the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick and completed this course in 1844. His first pastorate was at Little Falls, N. Y. In 1850, he went to Newburyport, Mass., occupying the historic pulpit of Whitefield. Here he remained for thirteen years as a very successful pastor. During this period the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Rutgers College.
In 1863 he received a call from the Reformed Church at Utica, and thus returned to the denomination in which he had been trained. He was elected President of the General Synod in 1870, and in 1871 he accepted a call to the First Reformed Church in Schenectady. Here he remained six years, and then accompanied by his wife and daughter he went to Europe, spending one year as chaplain of the Seaman's Bethel at Antwerp.
His labors were not limited to his churches but he was in- fluential in every department of church work, his sagacity, good judgment and kindly spirit made him not only a successful but very acceptable member of every committee upon which he was appointed. This was conspicuously true of his connection with the Committee on Hymnology.
In 1890 he was appointed the delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly on a mission involving delicate diplomatic effort in which he was eminently successful.
He married Helen Lansing De Witt and they celebrated their golden wedding in 1897.
After his return from Europe, Dr. Vermilye retired from active work in the pulpit. One year was spent in Orange, N. J., and one in New York City; then he bought a home in Englewood,
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N. J., where he lived over twenty years. Though he no longer occupied a regular pastorate, he labored in other fields of use- fulness. He died on July 9th, 1905.
For eighteen years he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Dutch Church of New York, serving with much zeal, pru- dence and tact. He was a Director of the Seaman's Friend Society, a member of the Historical Society of New York, and of the Huguenot Society, the Society of the Colonial Wars of New York, and also of New Jersey. In the latter Society, he served as historian and chaplain.
He was conscientious and careful in all his preparations for duty, whether in the pulpit or elsewhere, he had high intellectual ideals and broad sympathies.
It has been well said that he was "a master of the noble art of friendship."
HENRY HARRINGTON HALL.
He was born in Boston, May 16, 1846, and died in East Orange, April 9, 1906. He was a good citizen; a broad-minded, religious, and charitable man, of a bright and inspiring presence; a man of deep convictions, and intense loyalty-in other words, a good New England type. He was a man that believed that correct business principles could never be morally wrong. For thirty- nine years he was in the Fire Insurance business in New York, being known principally as the United States' Manager for important English companies. His relations to the business were, however, wide and important, and for many years he was one of the best known fire underwriters in the United States. His knowledge of Fire Underwriting was extensive, thorough, and accurate. His opinions were highly regarded, and his counsel was widely sought. He was at one time President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. He served repeatedly on important committees, and while never neglecting the interests for which he was responsible, he contributed freely and effectively to the advancement of the business as a whole.
One of his projects was to use the peoples' need of insurance
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as a lever, wherewith to bring about wiser and safer methods of building.
He was a director of the Municipal Art League, whose object was the beautifying of East Orange.
He served during the Civil War, and while on duty before Washington, was personally thanked by President Lincoln for his efficiency.
COL. MASON WHITING TYLER.
Colonel Mason Whiting Tyler, of Plainfield, New Jersey, was born in Amherst, Mass., June 17, 1840; died in New York City, July 2, 1907.
Colonel Tyler prepared for college at Amherst Academy and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He entered Amherst College in 1853, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fra- ternity, to which his father, his three brothers, and his two sons also belonged, and in which he always took the greatest interest, being prominent in its councils, and earnestly active in its welfare. In scholarship he stood well. He was Com- mencement orator, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. From 1860 to 1862, he was also Class President. On July 10, 1862, he was graduated with the degree of A.B., and three years later received the degree of A.M.
Immediately on graduating, he entered military service in the Civil War, and was mustered as Second Lieutenant, 36th Massachusetts Volunteers. On August 13, 1862, as First Lieu- tenant, he was transferred with the Company which he had recruited, and which became Company F, to the 37th Massa- chusetts Volunteers. With this regiment, he served with dis- tinction until the end of the war. This regiment was attached to the Sixth Army Corps, which was then in the Army of the Potomac. He afterwards served under Sheridan in the Shen- andoah Valley. He was commissioned Captain in this regiment, January 17, 1863; brevetted Major, U. S. Volunteers, September 19, 1864, for distinguished gallantry in the battle of Winchester, Va .; made Major of the regiment, March 4, 1865; commissioned
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by the Governor as its Lieutenant-Colonel, May 4, 1865, and as its Colonel, June 26, 1865, but could not be remustered although in command of the regiment, because the losses had depleted the ranks of the regiment below the numbers required by the U. S. Government for those appointments. He was mustered out and honorably discharged, July 1, 1865. He took part in some thirty engagements.
Col. Tyler's regiment had an enrolment of 1324 men, and lost 523 killed or wounded, 169 died of wounds (12.7%). It was one of the "Three Hundred Fighting Regiments" enumerated in Col. Fox's "Regimental Losses in the American Civil War." Col. Fox names twelve battles as the bloodiest of the war. Col. Tyler was engaged in seven of these twelve. He was wounded in the chin, September 19, 1864, and March 25, 1865, in the right knee. He served on General Neill's staff from May 15 to June 30, 1864, and was Provost Marshal at Winchester, Va., from September 19 to December 18, 1864. His regiment was the first to arrive in New York City to quell the draft riots.
At the battle of Spottsylvania, "one of the bloodiest battles in history, unique in character, sublime in the heroism displayed by the combatants on either side, which covered a small space of earth thicker with dead and wounded than was ever seen on any battlefield in modern times," Col. Tyler's regiment sup- ported the Salient of the Bloody Angle twenty-two consecutive hours during which time "all Grant's toilers in the ditch were relieved except the 37th Massachusetts." Fifty volunteers were called for to "rush inside the Angle and drive the enemy from the traverses." Col. Tyler volunteered to lead the party, but the order was countermanded just as the assault was starting. In the Russo-Japanese War such parties were frequent and were regarded as details for death. So, in this instance, it was considered by every man who volunteered.
Col. Tyler studied law in Columbia College Law School, 1865- 66, was admitted to the bar in 1866, after which he practiced three years in the law office of Evarts, Southmayd and Choate. In 1869, he formed a partnership with General Henry E. Tre-
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main, under the firm name of Tremain and Tyler. In 1893, he formed a new partnership under the name of Tyler and Durand, and in 1903, that of Tyler and Tyler, consisting of himself and his two sons, William S., and Cornelius B.
He conducted many important cases. He was connected with important business enterprises. He was President of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, and director of the Colum- bus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company. He was a director and Vice-President of the Rossendal, Reddaway Belting and Hose Company. But he was most active in public enterprises and benevolence. He was instrumental in founding the Plain- field Public Library and Reading Room, in 1880, the second to be founded in the State of New Jersey, and of this he was President until his death. He was promoter and first president of the Organized Aid Association of Plainfield and North Plain- field. He was also one of the early trustees of the Muhlenberg Hospital, President of the Music Hall Association, and Presi- dent of the Anti-Racetrack Association of New Jersey. No matter of public interest in Plainfield went without his support. He was also one of the Trustees of Amherst College. "His was one of those rare natures who, in business or in social life, radiate the benevolences of humanity and goodness and peace that dispel the shadows of evil. He was a patriot-soldier, an honored citizen, a beloved husband and father."
He was a member of the Society of the Mayflower descendants in New York and New Jersey, and Governor of the New Jersey Society; a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and of the Societies of the Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, and Colonial Governors, and a member of the New York Com- mandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and numerous other societies and clubs.
WILLIAM MORRIS DEEN.
Mr. Deen was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2nd, 1852. His early youth was spent partly in New York City, and partly in Virginia, where his father was a rich tobacco merchant. He
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was intended for a military career but his father's fortune having been swept away by mismanagement after his death, in 1855, he was obliged to start in business for himself at the age of six- teen. He was very successful until some ten or fifteen years before he died.
Mr. Deen was a man of active mind and great executive ability. He was President, for some years, of the Mercantile Guaranty Co., and a director in many large enterprises.
He married, in 1876, Emily A., daughter of Thomas Andrews, by whom he had six children.
He was particularly interested in Genealogical researches, and belonged to many patriotic societies. He was Governor of this Society for several years.
Mr. Deen was a very public spirited man, and much interested in enterprises which related to his home neighborhood. He was active in school and political matters, and for many years was President of the Board of Education and of the Town Com- mittee, he was also instrumental in building the church of Short Hills, N. J., where he lived.
The last few years of his life were clouded by illness and he died on November 7, 1909. A man of great helpfulness to others and of great personal strength and usefulness.
COLONEL DUDLEY EVANS.
Colonel Dudley Evans was born at Morgantown, West Vir- ginia, on January 28, 1838. The first of his family came from Wales to Fairfax County, Virgina, in 1683, settling near Mount Vernon. Just before the Revolution, his ancestors went over the mountains into that part of Virginia which split off in the Civil War, and located on the Monongahela in what is now West Virginia. He entered the Monongahela Academy at fifteen years of age and was graduated from Washington College in 1859. He was engaged in teaching for one year at the Mononga- hela Academy and was in scholastic work in Louisiana when the war broke out.
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He then returned to Virginia and enlisted as a private in the First Virginia Infantry. He served throughout the war with the Confederate forces, rising in rank to that of Colonel of Cavalry at its close. After the battle of Seven Pines, in 1862, he was commissioned Captain, and after the campaign in the Valley of Virginia, he became Colonel of the Twentieth Virginia Cavalry. He was captured near the close of the war and spent several months in a Federal prison.
He was elected to the Virginia Legislature and served from 1863 to 1865. After the close of the war he went to California, where he formed a connection with the Wells, Fargo interests, which he represented first in Victoria, B. C. and then in Port- land, Oregon. He became superintendent of the Northwestern States division of the Company's business and was its real organ- izer in that section. In the eighties, his responsibilities were largely increased, and in 1892 he became manager of the company and was elected second Vice-President, which position he held until he succeeded to the presidency in 1902.
Col. Evans was also president of the Wells, Fargo Bank of New York, Director of the Mercantile Trust Company, Treas- urer of the Batopilas Mining Company of Mexico, Director of the Citizens National Bank of Englewood, and of the Wells, Fargo, Nevada National Bank of San Francisco. He was prob- ably one of the most widely known common carrier officials in this country.
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