Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 15

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590

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lucrative employment, with twenty-five dollars to defray his expenses, he stopped on the way at Buffalo, New York, to make a farewell visit to his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, a stock farmer. who induced him to remain and aid him in the compilation of "Allen's American Shorthorn Herd Book." In return he received the sum of fifty dollars, and with this aid he entered the law offices of Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, at Buffalo, as a clerk and law student. His stud- ent life was one of arduous labor and rigorous economy and self-denial. For a few months he served without compensation, as a copyist, and then received a wage of four dollars a week. He lived at a modest hotel, took break- fast by candlelight, worked in the office the entire day, and did most of his law reading at night. He was admitted to the bar in 1859. Meantime his employers, recognizing his ability and fidelity, advanced him to a position of con- fidential and managing clerk, and in three years he had saved from his salary a thousand dollars.

Mr. Cleveland's public life began in 1863, when he was appointed assistant district at- torney for Erie county. A staunch Democrat from his first studies of American history and politics, he had been a sturdy supporter of his party and an industrious party worker from the day in 1858 when he cast his first vote. In his first term in the office to which he was chosen, the Democrats were extremely desir- ous of carrying the board of supervisors, and looked to him as their promising candidate in the second ward of the city of Buffalo, which was Republican by a plurality of two hundred and fifty. He consented to accept the candi- dacy, made a vigorous canvass, and came within thirteen votes of election. He acquitted himself so well in his office, that at the expira- tion of his term he received the unanimous nomiation for district attorney. He had for his Republican apponent a warm personal friend, Lyman K. Bass, who was elected by a plurality of five hundred ; Mr. Cleveland, how- ever, polled more than his party vote in all the city wards. Retiring from office in January, 1866, he formed a law partnership with Isaac V. Vanderpoel, former state treasurer, under the firm name of Vanderpoel & Cleveland. In 1869 he became a member of the law firm of Laning, Cleveland & Folsom, his partners being Albert P. Laning, former state senator, and for years attorney for the Canada South- ern and the Lake Shore railways, and Oscar Folsom, former United States district attorney. During these, as in previous years, he sent the

large portion of his earnings to his mother, to aid her in support of her family. In 1870 at the earnest solicitation of his party friends, and against his own earnestly expressed desire. he consented to become candidate for sheriff, and was elected after a stubbornly contested canvass. His official conduct was warmly ap- proved by the people. At the expiration of his term of office he resumed the practice of law, in association with Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell. Mr. Bass retired in 1879 on account of ill health, the firm becoming Cleveland & Bissell. In 1881 George J. Sicard was ad- mitted to partnership. During all these changes Mr. Cleveland shared in a large and lucrative business, while he had attracted the admiration of bench and bar for the care with which he prepared his cases and the ability and industry with which he contested them.

In 1881 Mr. Cleveland was nominated for mayor of Buffalo on a platform advocating administrative reform and economy in munic- ipal expenditures, and was elected by a plural- ity of more than thirty-five hundred, the larg- est majority ever given a candidate for that office, and at an election where, although the Democrats carried their local ticket to success, the Republicans carried the city for their state ticket by more than one thousand plurality. His administration commanded unstinted ap- proval, for his courageous devotion to the interests of the people and his success in check- ing unwise, illegal and extravagant expendi- tures, saving to the city a million dollars in the first six months of his term, and he was a popular favorite as "The Veto Mayor." He was now a state celebrity, and the convention of his party, held September 22, 1882, at Syra- cuse, nominated him for governor. He was elected over the Republican nominee, Charles J. Folger, by the tremendous plurality of 192,- 854-the largest plurality ever given a guber- natorial candidate in any state in the Union. Among the chief acts of his administration were his approval of a bill to submit to the people a proposition to abolish contract prison labor ; his veto of a bill permitting wide latitude to savings bank directors in investment of de- posits ; his veto of a similar bill respecting in- surance companies ; and his veto of a bill to establish a monopoly by limiting the right to construct certain street railways to companies heretofore organized, to the exclusion of such as should hereafter obtain the consent of prop- erty owners and local authorities.

Mr. Cleveland was nominated for President by the Democratic national convention in Chi-

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cago, in July, 1884, receiving 683 votes out of a total of 820. His Republican opponent was Hon. James G. Blaine. The campaign was remarkable for the discussion of the personal characters and qualifications of the candidates, rather than political principles. At the election Mr. Cleveland received a majority of thirty- seven in the electoral college, and a majority in the popular vote of 23,005, out of a total of 10,067,610. At his inauguration, March 4, 1885, he delivered an admirable inaugural ad- dress, with flowing ease, and his modesty and sincerity impressed all hearers. He took his official oath upon a small morocco bound gilt- edged Bible, a gift from his mother when as a lad he first left home. Among the most im- portant acts of his administration was his pro- clamation of March 13, 1885, for the removal of white intruders from Oklahoma, Indian Territory; and, after the burning of Aspin- wall, Panama, by the revolutionists, March 31, 1885, his ordering a naval expedition to pro- tect American persons and property.

Mr. Cleveland was unanimously re-nomi- nated for President in 1888, but was defeated by Benjamin Harrison, Republican, although his plurality in the popular vote was more than 100,000. He then located in the city of New York and again took up his profession. In June, 1892, he was nominated a third time, by the Democratic national convention in Chicago, receiving on the first ballot 617 I-3 votes out of 910, the nomination then being made unani- mous. At the election he defeated Benjamin Harrison by a plurality of 110 in the electoral college, and a plurality of 379,150 in the popu- lar vote. He was inaugurated March 4, 1893, in the presence of a vast multitude, in midst of a blinding snowstorm. The military and civic parade was more imposing than on any other similar occasion. His administration

was marked by some most unusual features. His first important act was to call a special session of congress, August 7, 1893, and in pursuance of his recommendation was repealed the act of 1890 calling for the monthly purchase of $4,- 500,000 of silver bullion. In this he was op- posed by the silver wing of his party. Elected as he was on a tariff-reform platform, both houses of congress were in accord with him on that issue, and in 1894 was passed the Wilson bill, a tariff-for-revenue-only measure. The industrial and financial stagnation of that period was ascribed by the Republicans as to this measure, while the free-silver Democrats attributed it in large degree to the repeal of the silver-purchase measure, and in November of

the same year the Republicans won a protec- tive tariff victory, with the result that during the latter half of President Cleveland's admin- istration he had to deal with a Republican con- gress. He performed an invaluable service to law and order and protection to property by his firm stand with reference to the railroad riots in July, 1894, ordering United States troops to Chicago and other railroad centers to enforce the orders and processes of the federal courts, and to prevent interference with inter-state commerce and the transmission of the United States mails. On January 1, 1895, he appoint- ed, with the consent of the senate, the com- mission to inquire into the Venezuelan bound- ary. During the insurrection in Cuba he took strong measures against the violation of the neutrality laws. In February, in order to pre- serve the national credit, he ordered an issue of four per cent. thirty year bonds to the amount of $62,000,000. May 29th he vetoed the river and harbor bill calling for an immedi- ate expenditure of $17,000,000, and authoriz- ing contracts for the further sum of $62,000,- 000, but the bill was passed over his veto. In summer of the same year he received the sig- nal compliment of being chosen as arbitrator in the dispute between Italy and Colombia, in which the former claimed large pecuniary

damages for injuries sustained by Italians dur- ing the revolution of 1885. Late in 1895, in his annual message he recommended a general reform of banking and currency laws, and ac- complished the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary, the treaty being signed February 2, 1896. In the latter year he issued an order under which thirty thousand additional posts in the civil service were placed under restric- tions formulated by the board of civil service commissioners. In the same year he sent Gen- eral Fitzhugh Lee to Havana as consul-general ·- an appointment which was approved by the great mass of Union veterans almost as heart- ily as it was by the ex-Confederates. On June 16, 1896, he issued an open letter condemn- ing the free-silver movement, and approving the principles of the Gold Wing of the Demo- cratic party, a document which had a salutary and far-reaching effect. Before the expiration of his official term he had the great pleasure of witnessing the execution of a treaty between the United States and Great Britian providing for the establishment of an international tri- bunal of general arbitration.

One of President Cleveland's last public ap- pearances before retiring from his high office, was the delivery of an address at the sesquicen-

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tennial celebration of Princeton College, which then took on its more appropriate title of Uni- versity. Shortly afterward he purchased a home in the town of Princeton, and where his first son was born. Known as a polished and forceful writer, Mr. Cleveland's most import- ant papers have been widely published. His Annual Message of 1887 was issued in a sump- tuous edition de luxe, illustrated by the famous artist, Thomas Nast. An important compila- tion of his utterances was made by Francis Gottsberger, of New York, under the title, "Principles and Purposes of Our Form of Government, as Set Forth in Public Papers of Grover Cleveland," and George F. Parker selected and edited a volume, "Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland." In 1904 ap- peared "Presidential Problems," a volume of essays by Mr. Cleveland, two of which were originally delivered at Princeton University, the others being articles which had their origi- nal appearance in leading magazines.

Mr. Cleveland was of striking personality, commanding respect and confidence under all circumstances and before all manner of assem- blages. Physically of large and powerful frame, in motion he was deliberate and firm, yet without slowness. In manner and voice he was genial and agreeable. Broad minded and liberal in thought, he was tolerant and charitable. In religion he was a man of conscience rather than of set creed. All his personal habits were marked by Democratic simplicity, and totally devoid of ostentation. After his retirement from the loftiest place open to an American, he steadily grew in the regard and affection of the people, while publicists and political stu- dents are only beginning to adequately measure the wisdom and beneficence which were the characteristics of his public career. He died June 24, 1908.

In the second year of his first presidential term, June 2, 1886, President Cleveland was married to Miss Frances Folsom, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Byron Sunderland, D. D., in the Blue Room in the White House. Of this marriage were born: Ruth, in the city of New York, October 3, 1891; Esther C., in Washington City (the first child ever born in the White House), September 9, 1893 ; Maria C., at "Gray Gables," Buzzards' Bay, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, July 7, 1895; Richard Folsom, at Westland, Prince- ton, New Jersey, October 28, 1897.

Mrs. Cleveland was born in Buffalo, New York, July 21, 1864, only daughter of Oscar and Emma Cornelia (Harmon) Folsom, her

father being a distinguished lawyer. Her family, Folsom, is descended from the same family with John Foulsham, D. D., of Fols- ham, England, died 1348. The family seat name appears in Domesday Book, and in the various forms of Foulshame, or Foulsham (signifying fowl's home, or mart), twenty miles north of Hingham, Norfolk county, where Dr. John Foulsham was prior of the Carmelite Monastery. The family line runs as follows : I. Roger Foulsham, of Necton, Norfolk county, England, will dated 1534. 2. William (2), married Agnes Smith, alias Foulsham, of Besthorpe. 3. Adam, of Besthorpe, married Emma 4. Adam, baptized 1560, died 1630; had home in Hing- ham, and lands in Besthorpe; married Grace

5. Adam, of Hingham, died 1627; married Agnes 6. John, born 1614; baptized at Hingham, 1615; came to America in ship "Diligence," of Ipswich, John Martin, master, sailing from mouth of the Thames on April 26, 1638, with wife and two servants ; landed in Boston. 7. John, born 1638; fre- quently member of general assembly ; married Abigail Perkins, daughter of Abraham Per- kins, of Hampton, New Hampshire. 8. Abra- ham, died about 1740. 9. Daniel, of Exeter, New Hampshire. 10. Abraham. II. Asa. 12. Colonel John Folsom, of Folsomdale. Wyom- ing county, New York; died 1886. 13. Oscar Folsom, of Buffalo, died 1875; married Cor- nelia Harmon, daughter of Deacon Elisha Harmon, descended in the seventh generation from John Harmon, of Springfield, Massachu- setts, 1644. Florence, daughter of Oscar and Emma Cornelia (Harmon) Folsom, became the wife of Grover Cleveland.

This family, through the SCUDDER Throckmortons, descended from four barons, who sign- ed the Magna Charta, and from Edward I. (I) Thomas Scudder emigrated to America from London, England. In 1635 is at Salem, Massachusetts, where he lived until his death in 1658. His will, dated 1657, names wife Elizabeth, John (2), Thomas, Henry, Eliza- beth, and his grandson Thomas, son of his son William. His wife died in 1666.

(II) John, son of Thomas Scudder, removed in 1651 from Salem to Southold, Long Island, thence to Huntington in 1657, and before 1660 is found at Newtown, Long Island, promi- nently engaged in affairs. He married, in 1642, Mary, born in 1623, in England, eldest daugh- ter of William and Dorothy King. Their chil-

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dren were: Samuel, John, born 1645; Mary, baptized June II, 1648; Elizabeth, baptized March, 1649 ; married John Albartus ; Hannah. (III) John (2), son of John (1) Scudder, born 1645, lived in Newtown, Long Island. His wife Joanna, whom he married in 1669, was the third daughter of Captain Richard Betts of the same place. Children: Richard Betts, John, and probably others.

(IV) Lieutenant Richard Betts, son of John (2) Scudder, was born at Newtown, Long Island. In 1709 he came to Ewing township. He is the ancestor of the families of this name in Trenton and Ewing. His property on the Delaware river, known as "Scudder Falls," is still in the possession of his lineal descendants. His deeds for this land were, one from John Hutchinson, the other from John Brierly, both originally to Thomas Hough, of Springfield, Burlington county, bearing date 16-6 and con- veyed in 1709 to Richard B. Scudder. He died March 14, 1754, aged eighty-three years, twenty years after his wife Hannah, daughter of Joseph Stillwell. Their children were: Hannah, Mary, Richard, John, Abigail, Joseph, Samuel, Rebecca, Joanna and Deborah, mar- ried John Hart, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Lieutenant Richard Betts Scudder commanded a section of New Jersey militia in an expedition to Canada in 17II. The commission is in the possession of the family. His name is mentioned frequently in charters, etc., and heads the list of grantees to the land on which the Presbyterian church at Ewing was built.

(V) John (3), son of Richard Betts Scud- der, died May 10, 1748, aged forty-seven. His wife Phebe, daughter of Daniel Howell, died January 31, 1787, aged eighty-nine. Their chil- dren were: Daniel, born August 6, 1736; Pru- dence, April 30, 1738; Amos, February 14, 1739, died August 11, 1824; Jedediah, 1742; Jemima, 1744; Ephraim, 1747, died aged twenty-eight ; Keturah.

(VI) Daniel, son of John (3) Scudder, trustee of the Ewing Presbyterian church, died in 18II, aged seventy-five. Mary Snowden, his wife, of Burlington county, died 1798, aged sixty, leaving children as follows : Rachel, Kesiah, Abner and Elias.

(VII) Elias, son of Daniel Scudder, died June 20, 1811. His wife Sarah, daughter of Jasper Smith, died in 1858, aged eighty-four. Children: Daniel, a lawyer; Jasper Smith, John and Abner, who died in 1878.

(VIII) Jasper Smith, son of Elias Scud- der, died October 20, 1877, aged eighty. His

wife, Mary Stillwell, daughter of Amos Reeder and Mary Stillwell, bore him children: Daniel, died young; Edward W., Christiana, wife of Judge William R. McIlvaine. He was the first president of the Trenton Mechanics and Manufacturers Bank.

(IX) Justice Edward Wallace Scudder, was of Jasper Smith Scudder, was born at Scudder's Falls, August 11, 1822, died in Trenton, New Jersey, 1893. He prepared at Lawrenceville Academy, Princeton, 1841. Studied law with William L. Dayton, Trenton. Attorney, 1844. President of New Jersey Senate in 1865 ; 1869 was appointed justice of the supreme court of this state, which office he held until his death. Princeton, LL. D. in 1880. For twenty years he was trustee of Princeton Theological Semi- nary. He was a Presbyterian and a Democrat. He married, in 1848, Mary Louisa, daughter of George King Drake, Morristown, New Jer- sey, justice of New Jersey supreme court, and Mary Alling (Halsey) Drake, of New York. George King Drake was son of Colonel Jacob Drake. (See below).

(X) Wallace McIlvaine, son of Justice Edward Wallace Scudder, of the supreme court of New Jersey, and Mary Louise Drake, his wife, was born December 26, 1853, in Trenton, New Jersey. He was surrounded from infancy with culture and refinement. His father held the high respect of the people among whom he lived, not only for his loyal legal attainments and statesmanlike qualities, but also for his high character and personal worth. His mother possessed much dignity and presided over a home which dispensed a gracious hospitality. The education of the family was a matter of careful consideration, and he went to the State Model School, pre- paratory to entering Lehigh University, from which he graduated in 1873 with the degree of mechanical engineer, afterwards commenc- ing the study of law with Garett D. W. Vroom. He attended Harvard Law School, after which he entered the office of John R. Emery. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, practiced in Newark until 1883, at which date he started in Newark the Evening News as editor and publisher, which paper rapidly attained large circulation and usefulness. He served a term in the Newark board of education, but since beginning his newspaper work has had no political connection and refused all political position or preferment. The Essex Club, Auto- mobile Club, Essex County Country Club, Mor- ris County Golf Club, and the New Jersey Historical Society claim him as a member. Of

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the latter useful and flourishing organization he is vice-president. His family attend Trin- ity Episcopal Church of Newark, of which he is a vestryman.

Mr. Scudder and Ida, daughter of James M. and Phebe (Swazy) Quinby, were married October 21, 1880, in Newark. Their children are: Edward Wallace Scudder, married Kath- erine C. Hollifield, and Antoinette Quinby Scudder. He married (second) April 17, 1906, in New York, Gertrude Witherspoon.

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Colonel Jacob Drake, born April 21, 1732, in Piscataway, New Jersey, died Septem- ber, 1823, at Morristown. He commanded Western Battalion New Jersey Militia during revolution. Member of committee of cor- respondence and safety, and of first New Jersey assembly. He was also a member of the convention to approve the state constitu- tion in 1776. (Morrison Records, Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution). His mother was Esther Dickerson, daughter of Captain Peter Dickerson, who fought with New Jersey troops at Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Long Island, and his wife, Ruth (Coe) Dickerson. Through his mother, Wallace McIlvaine Scudder is descended from the Halseys, Elys, Reeves, Coes, Dodges, Per- kins, Chatfields, Rev. Francis Higginson, of Salem, etc.

Peter Dickerson, born 1724, at Hempstead or Southold, Long Island, died May 10, 1780, at Morristown, New Jersey. Member of first provincial congress May, 1775. Captain Fifth Company, Third Battalion, First Establish- ment, February 7, 1776. (Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution).

Mary Alling Halsey, wife of George King Drake, was the daughter of Jacob and Jemima Cook, son of Elihu and Elizabeth Ely, son of Recompense and Hannah Jaggers, son of Nathaniel and Anna Stansborough.

William Ely, born at Plymouth, England, 1646, lived in Massachusetts 1647, died 1717 at Lyme, Connecticut. He was deputy 1697- 98-1700-06; commissioned captain May, 1697.

Richard Ely, born 1685, at Lyme, Connecti- cut, died 1761. He was captain in French war at the siege of Louisburg, 1745.

William Ely, born at Lyme, Connecticut, 1715, died 1802 at Livingston, New York. He served as captain in the Third Connecticut Militia.

Anna Stansborough was the daughter of Josiah Stansborough and Anna Chatfield,

daughter of Thomas Chatfield and Anna Hig- ginson, daughter of Rev. Francis Higginson, who was born in England, 1580. In Massa- chusetts Colony, 1620. He died 1630 at Salem. He was one of the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Preacher of election sermons. (See Log Book of Mayflower).

(Memoranda of Alliances).

(Betts). Joanna, wife of John Scudder (III) was the daughter of Captain Richard Betts, born 1613 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Eng- land, and resided in the Province of New York from 1648 to 1713. He died November 18, 1713, at Newtown, Long Island. He was a member of the provincial assembly, 1665, high sheriff of Kings county, New York, mem- ber of the high court of assize, then the supreme power of the land, and in 1665 dep- uty to form the duke's laws. (Annals of New- town).

(Stillwell). Hannah Reeder, wife of Rich- ard Betts Scudder, was the granddaughter of Joseph Stillwell and Mary Ogborne. Joseph, son of John and Mercy Burras, son of Thomas and Alice Throckmorton, son of Richard and Mary Holmes, son of Nicholas and Abigail Hopton. (Osborne) Mary, daughter of John and Mary Stillwell, daughter of Gershom and Elizabeth Grover. Gershom, son of Nicholas and Mary Moore, son of Nicholas and Cata- lyntje, Huyberts, married November 6, 1671.

Nicholas Stillwell, born in 1636 at Holland, lived in the colony of New York from 1638 to 1715. He died 1715 at Gravesend, New York. He was justice of the West Riding of York- shire, justice of the quorum, high sheriff of Kings county in 1691 and a member of the first colonial assembly.

Nicholas (2), born in England, lived in New York colony from 1638 to 1671. He died at Dover, Staten Island, December 28, 1671. He was lieutenant of forces in the Indian wars of 1644 and 1663.

Richard, born 1634 in Holland. In the Province of New York from 1638 to 1689, the date of his death at Dover, Staten Island. He was captain in 1673 of the Kings county militia and justice of West Riding.

Thomas, captain of militia, born December 4, 1666, at Gravesend, Long Island. Lived in the colony of New York from 1666 to 1758, the date of his death at Middletown, New Jersey.

Joseph, born September 28, 1739, Middle- town, Monmouth county, New Jersey, is found in the province of New York from 1739 to.

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1805, dying on the 8th of March of that year at Middletown. He filled the position of judge in Monmouth county, representative for

eighteen years, and a captain in the revolu- tionary war, 1776. He was ordered to con- tinue to guard the coast of New Jersey as cap- tain of a company. (See Stillwell Family and Archives of New Jersey).

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Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 15

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 590

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590