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(II) Othniel Hart, son of William and Mary A. (Gazzam) Taylor, was born May 4, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In his early years he attended elementary schools in Philadelphia and Holmesburg, Pennsylvania, and at Basking Ridge, New Jersey: In 1818 he entered the literary department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and there pursued the more advanced studies of a general education. In 1820 he became a student in the office of Thomas T. Hewson, M. D., and at the same time received a course of instruction in the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania. He completed his university studies in 1825, and graduated with the class of that year. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Philadelphia. Shortly af- terward he was appointed one of the physicians of the City Dispensary, in which capacity he served many years. About the same time he was elected out-door physician to the Penn- sylvania Hospital, a position which he held for a term of eight years. In the year 1832 the Asiatic cholera made its first appearance on this continent, and it afforded him a signal opportunity to show his qualities, not only as a medical practitioner, but as a man. He distin- guished himself by volunteering to serve in the city hospitals which the municipal authorities established to meet the emergency, and at the same time he acted as one of the consulting phy- sicians to their sanitary board. The hospital especially in his charge was the St. Augustine Hospital, on Crown street, and the number of cholera patients reported by him as under treatment in that hospital was five hundred and twelve. He had also been elected as one of a commission of medical men who were sent to Montreal to study the character and treatment of cholera on its outbreak in that city, and before its appearance in our own cities, but being unable to accompany the com- mission, he declined in favor of Dr. Charles D. Meigs. When the hospitals were closed,
after the disappearance of the cholera, he with seven other physicians received by vote of the city councils a testimonial for the services ren- dered the city, each being presented with a service of silver, the inscription testifying that the gift was bestowed "as a token of regard for intrepid and disinterested services." His arduous and unceasing labors told upon his health, and in 1838 he temporarily relinquished the practice of his profession, and removed from Philadelphia to Fountaintown, Pennsyl- vania. He remained there until 1841, when he removed to Caldwell, Essex county, New Jersey, and in 1844 took up his residence in Camden, where he resumed his practice of medicine, continuing until about a year before his death, which occurred September 5, 1869. He was for many years a member of the Prot- estant Episcopal church of Camden. He was an active member of the Camden County Medical Society from the time of its organiza- tion; acted as vice-president of the body through many successive terms, and prepared and delivered numerous addresses before the society. In 1852 he was made president of the State Medical Society, and consequently a fellow of the same until his death. He was the author of many exhaustive treatises on medical subjects, published in various leading medical periodicals.
He married Evelina C. Burrough, whose an- cestors came from England to Long Island and thence to West Jersey as early as 1693. She was born October 24, 1800, in Camden county, daughter of Jehu and Anne (Hollingshead) Burrough. Anne Hollingshead, born March 25, 1772, was a daughter of Jacob Hollings- head, born October 15, 1732, a son of William and Hannah Hollingshead. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Taylor: 1. William R., born Janu- ary 5, 1833, died in infancy. 2. Othniel G., January 24, 1834. 3. Marmaduke B., August 17, 1835. 4. Henry Genet, see forward.
(III) Henry Genet, son of Othniel H. and Evelina C. (Burroughs) Taylor, was born July 6, 1837, at "Charmantot," Rensselaer county. near Greenbush, New York, at the residence of his uncle, General Henry James Genet, eldest son of "Citizen Genet." the first ambassador of France to the United States, and who married the daughter of George Clinton, of New York. He obtained his preliminary education in the Camden city schools and in the Protestant Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1860 and imme- diately opened an office in Camden. Shortly
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after this the civil war broke out and immedi- ately after the first battle of Bull Run, Dr. Taylor complied with the request of his sur- gical preceptor, Professor Henry H. Smith, then surgeon-general of Pennsylvania, and went to Washington to assist in taking care of the wounded. In September, 1861, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon of the Eighth New Jersey Regiment and during the campaign of the following year was the only medical staff officer of his regiment on field duty. After the second battle of Bull Run he spent ten days within the rebel lines and ac- companied the wounded under his charge to Washington. He was made brigade surgeon of the artillery of the Third Army Corps soon after the engagement at Antietam, and served on the staff of Major-Generals French, Hooker and Sickles. After a long term of service he resigned in March, 1864, and re- sumed practice at Camden. Soon after this he was made assistant surgeon of the board of enrollment with the first congressional district for New Jersey and had charge of the medi- cal examination of candidates for the service until the close of the war. Dr. Taylor was sergeant of the Sixth Regiment of the National Guard of New Jersey from 1869-1882, and during the strike of 1887 was brigade surgeon of the provisional brigade on the staff of Major-General William J. Sewell. Except during his absence at the front, Dr. Taylor was secretary of the Camden County Medical Society from 1861 to 1888 and was its presi- dent in 1865. On his resignation the society presented him a set of engrossed resolutions and a beautiful silver service. One of the founders of the Camden Dispensary, Dr. Tay- lor has been one of its consulting physicians since 1878, and has been for many years its secretary. In 1889 Rutgers College conferred upon him the degree of A. M., and in the same year he was elected president of the New Jersey State Medical Society.
He is a member of the American Medical Association, the New Jersey Sanitary Society, the New Jersey Academy of Medicine and the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Since the establishment of the Cooper Hospital at Cam- den, Dr. Taylor has been chairman and secre- tary of its board of physicians and surgeons, medical director, and a member of the board of managers, and is physician-in-chief of the Camden Home for Friendless Children. He is also president of the New Jersey Training School for Nurses and delivers lectures on nursing and holds clinics at the hospital. He
has read many papers before the various so- cieties of which he is a member which have proven valuable contributions to medical lit- erature and have attracted much attention. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Military Order of Surgeons of New Jer- sey, the Sons of the Revolution, and is a char- ter member of Trimble Lodge, No. 117, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, of Camden. He is a prominent member of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church of Camden, of which he is senior warden.
Dr. Taylor married, October 23, 1897, Helen, daughter of Alexander and Hannah C. Cooper, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and granddaughter of Captain James B. Cooper, United States navy, who was a soldier of the revolution and entered the navy during the war of 1812. In that struggle he had charge of the gunboats of the United States navy along the New Jersey coast and some years before his death was appointed superintendent of the Naval Asylum at Gray's Ferry, Phila- delphia. The living children of Dr. and Mrs. Taylor are : Henry Genet and Richard Cooper.
JOY The name of Joy has been borne with honorable distinction by families in England and Ireland for at least five
centuries. It is believed that the name is de- rived from the locality Jouy, in Normandy, and may have reached England in the form "de Jouy." It has undergone many modifica- tions, in some of which its identity disappears, as it passes from Joy to Jay through such forms as Joye, Joie, Jaie, Jaye and even Gee. Norfolk county in England has been for five hundred years the seat of a family of Joy (now Jay), and John Jaye ( 1563-1619) of this line, lord of the manor of Holverston, lying between Hillington and Yelverton, received a grant of arms in 1601, as follows: "Gu. on a bend eng. ar. three roses of the field, seeded. Crest : an otter pass. ppr."
(I) Thomas Joy, the emigrant ancestor of the Toy family in America, was probably born in Norfolk county, in 1610, and came to the new world in the "Constance," which sailed from Gravesend in 1635. He settled in Bos- ton, and was early the possessor of several tracts of land, comprising that on which the mansions of Governor Hutchinson and Sir Charles Henry Frankland were built; and land in Bendall's Cove, perhaps including the sites of Faneuil Hall, and the "Old Feather Store." Thomas Joy was an architect and
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builder, constructing the early dwellings, wharves, bridges and warehouses of Boston and Charlestown, and was the owner of corn and saw mills at Hingham. In 1657, with his partner, he built the first town house of Bos- ton, which was the first seat of government of Massachusetts, and the most important edi- fice of a secular character which had up to that time been constructed in New England. Upon its destruction by fire in 1711, there was built on its site, of brick, the "Old State House," which still stands, one of the most venerated monuments of colonial Boston. In 1646, with Robert Child, Samuel Maverick and others, he participated in the "Child Memorial" episode, which was an effort to effect certain reforms in the government, and particularly to extend the right of suffrage among the colo- nists, and circulated among the non-freemen a petition which was to be sent to England. In 1658 he became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and in 1665 a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married, in 1637, Joan, only daughter of Captain John Gallop, owner of Gallop's Island, in Boston Harbor, the skill- ful pilot and trader, whose engagement with Indians at sea off Block Island was the fore- runner of the Pequod war, in which he con- spicuously served. They had ten children whose descendants are now scattered through- out the United States, many of them having won distinction in business and the profes- sions.
(II) Joseph Joy, son of Thomas and Joan, born April 1, 1645, baptized at First Church, Boston, "13 d. 2 m. 1645," died May 31, 1697, was ensign of the Hingham militia company, constable and carpenter, and lived on Bacheler (Main) street, nearly opposite the meeting house at Hingham, toward the building of . which in 1680, he contributed. He married, August 29, 1667, Mary, daughter of John and Margaret Prince.
(III) Joseph Joy, junior, born July 30, 1668, died April 29, 1716. He was a con- stable in 1697 and 1711. In February, 1708-9, he signed with others a testimonial to the worthy character of Mehitable Warren, ac- cused of witchcraft. His gravestone, with the inscription still legible, is in the Hingham churchyard, and is the most ancient Joy grave mark in America. He married, May 22, 1690, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Thomas and Ruth Andrews.
(IV) Jedediah Joy, son of Joseph Joy, ju- nior, was born February 27, 1703-4, and died
October 19, 1798. He was taxed at Hingham, and joined the First Church there in 1751. He married, February 7, 1733-34, Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Eels) Stowell.
(V) Nathaniel Joy, son of Jedediah, was born November 19, 1734, and died in 1760. He lived in Abington, Massachusetts, and was. one of those who enlisted in the French and Indian war for service in Canada, where he was killed in 1760. He married, November 26, 1751, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Rachel (Ward) Whitmarsh.
(VI) Nathaniel Joy, junior, was born in 1759, and died July 9, 1833. He was a farmer, and a soldier in the war of the revolu- tion. He married, September 23, 1786, Sarah, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Kendall) Ward.
(VII) Luther Joy, son of Nathaniel, junior, was born September 21, 1805, and died May 5, 1867. For many years he was a merchant in Benson, Vermont, and came to Newark in 1860, where he engaged extensively and suc- cessfully in the manufacture of rubber goods. The business was continued as L. Joy & Co., the members of the firm being John E. Dix and two sons, E. Luther Joy and Horatio B. Joy. Mr. Dix married, September 22, 1858, Mary Fisher, daughter of George W. Joy. Their two sons, Edwin A. Dix and William F. Dix, graduates of Princeton University, have won distinction in literary work. The former married, August 15, 1895, Marion Olcott, and the latter, on June 2, 1900, Mary Alice Ten- nille, by whom he has a son, Tennille Dix, and a daughter Alice Joy Dix. As a family they have traveled extensively, having made in 1890-92 a tour of the world, and Mrs. Dix has been state regent of the Daughters of the Rev- olution. Edmond Luther Joy, of the firm above mentioned, has been vice-president of the Newark Gas Company, and director of the Newark National State Bank, the Firemen's Insurance Company, and other financial in- stitutions ; a director and vice-president of the Newark Board of Trade, and a member of the Essex Club, and the Essex County Country Club. He married, December 14, 1859, Harriet E. Hood, and adopted Florence, a daughter of his brother, Horace H. Joy, who married May 8, 1897, George Randall Swain, a graduate of Princeton University, and had two children, Edmond Luther Joy Swain and George Randall Swain, junior. Horatio B. Joy has been director of several corporations, and a member of the New Jersey Historical Society. He never married, making his home
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with his sister, Florence P., who married, April 30, 1873, William Henderson Trippe, a vestryman in Trinity Church, Newark, and a member of the Essex County Country Club. They had two children, William Horatio Trippe and Elsie Laura Trippe. The latter married, October 17, 1906, Harold Armour Dodge. Another of this family, Laura Em- magene, married, June 2, 1863, Rev. John R. Fisher, who filled successfully pastorates of Presbyterian churches in Jersey City, South Orange, and Newark. They had four chil- dren: William Joy Fisher ; Florence Joy Fisher ; Maude Elizabeth Fisher, who married November 10, 1897, William D. Downs, and has a son, William Horatio Joy Downs ; and John Edmund Fisher, who married, February 19, 1908, Gertrude Everitt, and has a daughter, Lois Eunice Fisher. Mrs. Fisher was a mem- ber of the Society of Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Revolution, the Meridian Club of New York, and several prominent charitable organizations. Luther Joy married, October 5, 1826, Phylinda, daughter of Shu- ball and Phylinda (Turner) Mason. They were members of the High Street Presby -- terian Church.
(VII) Charles Joy, son of Nathaniel, jun- ior, was born February 9, 1808, and died Au- gust 3, 1873. He entered the provision busi- ness at Albany, New York, about 1830, which he successfully conducted, and in 1838 he served as city marshal. He was also a lieuten- ant of the Albany Burgesses Corps. After a trip to California he established himself in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as a packer and smoker of provisions, and continued in this business until his death. He was a member of the common council, 1866-67, and was one of the committee which in co-operation with the New Jersey Historical Society had charge of the celebration of the two hundredth anniver- sary of the settlement of Newark. Having joined the denomination in Albany where with others he helped organize a new church, he served as a deacon of the First Baptist Church in Newark, where a window has been erected to his memory, and he was a life manager of the American Baptist Publication Society. He was a member of the New York Com- mercial Association and the New York Pro- duce Exchange, and in 1871 was an incorpo- rator of the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank of Newark. "In all his business rela- tions he was a man without guile, and sur- rounded himself with a host of earnest friends, who valued his counsel as a sagacious business
man and placed implicit confidence in his honor." He married twice, and by the second marriage had a son, also named Charles, who was born in Newark, and was a teller in the Manufacturers'. National Bank ; sergeant and an original member of the Essex Troop ; presi- dent of the Newark Academy Alumni Asso- ciation, and a member of the Essex Club. Charles Joy, senior, married (first), June 18. 1833, Harriet, daughter of Guy and Harriet (Rogers) Shaw, by whom he had two sons, one of whom was Edmund L. Joy. He mar- ried (second), September 6, 1859, Julia, daughter of Robert and Edith Swaffield.
(VIII) Edmund Lewis Joy, son of Charles Joy, was born October 1, 1835, and died Feb- ruary 14, 1892. He was prepared for college at Anthony's Classical Institute, and the Al- bany Academy. After graduation at the Uni- versity of Rochester he studied law in New York City, and in 1857 was admitted to the bar of New York as an attorney and coun- sellor. Soon thereafter he commenced active practice in Ottumwa, Iowa, where in 1860 he was appointed city attorney, holding that office for two years. At the breaking out of the civil war he became active in raising troops, and in 1862 entered the United States service as captain in the Thirty-sixth Regiment of lowa Infantry, and in this capacity served in the southwest, participating in important movements on both sides of the Mississippi river, which culminated in the capture of Vicksburg. In 1864 he was appointed by President Lincoln, major and judge advocate, United States Volunteers, and assigned to the Seventh Army Corps, commanded by Major General Frederick Steele. He was also made judge advocate of the Department of the Ar- kansas. with headquarters at Little Rock, in .which position he had much to do with the administration of justice in Arkansas and the Indian Territory, and took part in the re- establishment of the government of Arkansas under a new constitution.
After retiring from the service he located in Newark, New Jersey, where his father, Charles Joy, had settled in 1855, became as- sociated with him as partner in the manage- ment of extensive business interests, and upon the latter's death in 1873 succeeded him, being a member of the New York Produce Ex- change, and conducting the business on his own account during the remainder of his life. Since his death the business has been con- tinued at the old established place as the Ed- mund L. Joy Company.
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It was only natural on account of his intel- lectual gifts, his superior attainments and va- ried experiences, that he should have been called upon to make himself useful by his fellow citizens in New Jersey ; and so it hap- pened that in 1871 he was chosen to be a mem- ber of the state legislature. Re-elected the following year, he filled the important position of chairman of the judiciary committee, where his legal knowledge and effectiveness as a speaker enabled him to render valuable serv- ice to the state. In 1877 he became a member of the Board of Education, holding this posi- tion until 1888 and serving for three years as president of the board. He was president of the Board of Trade in 1875 and 1876, and its treasurer from 1879 to the time of his death. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and in 1884 and 1885 he served, by appointment of President Arthur, as a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. He was an organizer of the Manufacturers' National Bank, and his large business operations made him prominent in matters affecting the financial interests of the community, placing him often in positions of much responsibility.
Edmund L. Joy was a man of marked en- ergy and intellectual capacity, quick apprehen- sion, and correct judgment. He was happy in the faculty of expressing his thoughts in lan- guage at once strong and elegant, was noted for his excellent impromptu addresses, and in the exercise of his abilities as a public speaker won enviable distinction. He was a genial and entertaining companion, a warm and reli- able friend, and withal a Christian gentleman, conscientious in the discharge of every duty, mindful of the rights of his fellow men, and faithful in the service of his Maker.
He married, November 24, 1862, Theresa R., daughter of Homer L. Thrall, M. D., of Columbus, Ohio, who was for a number of years a professor of chemistry and mineralogy in Kenyon College, a lecturer at Bexley Hall, the Theological Seminary at Gambier, and later a professor of materia medica and general therapeutics in Starling Medical College. They had four children : Edmund Steele Joy, a lawyer, a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University ; Harriet Shaw Joy, who married, January 25, 1891, Robert D. Martin, a lawyer, a graduate of Yale College and Co- lumbia University, and has two children, Joy Delos Martin and Helen Theresa Martin ; Homer Thrall Joy, a physician, a graduate of Yale College and Columbia University, who
married, November 9, 1905, Elizabeth J. van Beuren, and has a son, Homer van Beuren Joy ; and Helen Adele Joy.
A full account of the Joy family is con- tained in "Thomas Joy and his Descendants," a genealogical record compiled in 1900, by James R. Joy, of New York City.
The Badgleys belong to that BADGLEY numerous class of pioneers who began their life in the new world in the seventeenth century. The exact date of the arrival of the founder is un- known, as is also the place in old England from which he came, but from his petition in 1694 down the records of the family are com- paratively complete.
(I) Anthony Badgeley, founder of the fam- ily, under date of March 3, 1694, petitioned for a warrant of survey for his lot in Flush- ing called the "Hemp lot," in order to put a stop to the encroachments of Thomas Hedger and others. This petition was granted Au- gust 19, 1697. In the Flushing census of 1698, the fifth entry is "Anthony Badgley, Elizabeth his wife, Anthony, Georg, phebe, and I negro." In 1707 he was one of a large company who purchased from Peter Sonmans, one of the largest of the proprietors of East Jersey, a tract of land called "New Britain," or "Markseta Colinnge," of one hundred and seventy thousand miles lying about thirty-three miles to the northwest of Elizabethtown. Owing to the legal difficulties about the divid- ing of old Arent Sonman's estate this property was laid out and divided among its owners as late as 1751. In the Flushing tax-list of 171I, Badgley was rated for twenty-three pounds of bacon, six bushels of wheat and one bushel of Indian corn. In 1715 he was a sergeant in Captain Jonathan Wright's company of militia, and as no mention of his name has been found since then it is probable that he died within a few years later.
By his wife Elizabeth, Anthony Badgley had seven children: I. Anthony, born between 1690 and 1695; married Phebe Haight; died April 3, 1732, in Flushing. 2. George, born between 1693 and 1696; married Mary Hat- field; died about September, 1759. 3. Phebe, born between 1696 and 1698; married at Ja- maica, Long Island, Peter Wilcocks, -and moved with her husband to New Jersey. 4. Sarah, born between 1698 and 1700; married, about 1721, Joseph Doty, of Essex county, New Jersey, and left six children. 5. James, referred to below. 6. John, born after 1700;
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married Euphemia ---; died in 1759. 7. Elizabeth, born after 1700; married Uriah Hedges, of Essex county, New Jersey.
(II) James, fifth child and third son of An- thony and Elizabeth Badgley, was born in Flushing, Long Island, between 1700 and 1705, died in Essex county, New Jersey, 1777. Mov- ing as a young man from Long Island to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, he married in the latter place, and acquired considerable land in Turkey, now New Providence, his home plan- tation being on the road from Rahway to Westfield. In his will, dated July 7, 1777, and proved November 16, 1777, he describes himself as "of the borough of Elizabeth, yeo- man," and names his wife and five children. Two of his sons having already received their portions, he divided his real estate between his sons Anthony and Robert, whom he appointed his executors. He is buried either at New Prov- idence or Westfield. James Badgley married Hannah, daughter of Joseph Kelsey, of Rah- way; children: I. James, born about 1720; married Sarah 2. A daughter who married Abraham Vreeland. 3. Elizabeth, married William Robinson. 4. Joseph, born probably about 1730, married Elizabeth Scudder ; died 1785. 5. Anthony, referred to below. 6. Marcy, married a Mr. Carle. 7. Robert, married Rachel Vreeland.
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