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Having completed his legal studies in the office of the Hon. G. D. W. Vroom, of Tren-
ton, Mr. Lee was admitted to the bar of New Jersey, June term, 1893. From July of that year until May, 1894, he assisted the city solicitor of Trenton, Edwin Robert Walker, in legal matters connected with the establishment of the sewer system of that city. In June term, 1896, Mr. Lee was admitted as a coun- sellor-at-law. During this period, with Nelson L. Petty, of Trenton, Mr. Lee was secretary to the commission to compile the general statutes of New Jersey issued in 1896. In 1897 and 1898 Mr. Lee was the receiver and managing editor of the Trenton Times, also in 1905 becoming acting editor of the Demo- cratic Truc American, at the personal solicita- tion of its editor, Joseph L. Naar, during his last illness. He is a director in the Standard Fire Insurance Company, of Trenton, and suc- ceeded his father as president of the Trent Tile Company.
Mr. Lee has contributed largely to current historical and legal literature. He has written extensively for the daily newspaper press of New Jersey, while among his more extensive contributions are : "Memorial of George White Worman," 1890; "Supreme Court of New Jer- sey," Medico-Legal Journal, March, 1892; data relating to New Jersey men in the Matric- ulate Catalogue of the University of Pennsyl- vania; a series of articles on colonial laws, legislation, and customs, New Jersey Lawe Journal, 1891-1902 ; "Colonial Jersey Coinage," 1893; "Agricultural Improvement in Southern New Jersey," 1894; "Jerseyisms," 1894; "His- tory of Trenton," 1895; "History of the Great Seal of New Jersey," in Zieber's "American Heraldry ;" and "Outline History and Com- pilations and Revisions of the Colony and State of New Jersey, 1717-1896," in the General Statutes of New Jersey, 1896. He has for several years been a member of the publication committee of the New Jersey Archives and has edited Vol. II of the 2nd series. He was also chairman of a committee of the University of Pennsylvania, class of '90, which in 1895 pub- lished the Quinquennial record of the class. He wrote the four-volume history "New Jer- sey as a Colony and as a State" and prepared the articles on "New Jersey," "Newark" and "Trenton" in the Encyclopedia Americana. An article upon "Receivers of Insolvent Corpora- tions" in the American Corporation Legal Manual is also from his pen.
In matters of public health and parks, Mr. Lee has taken active interest. As a member of the Trenton board of health since 1901, he has led a campaign for mosquito extermination. By
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reason of resultant agitation in 1903 the com- mon council of the city of Trenton commenced the plan of the purchase of the Delaware river tront. Of the special committee on the ac- quisition of park lands Mr. Lee has been secre- tary.
Mr. Lee is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, recording secretary of the Princeton Historical Society ; member of the Burlington County, Monmouth County, Salem County (New Jersey ) Historical societies, and of the Bucks County ( Pennsylvania) Histor- ical Society ; for ten years was corresponding secretary of the New Jersey Sons of the Rev- olution ; formerly a member of the board of managers of the Revolutionary Memorial Soci- ety and active in the attempts to preserve Washington's headquarters in Rocky Hill and Somerville; formerly secretary and president of the State Schools Alumni Association, of which he was one of the organizers ; a mem- ber of the American Dialect Society; of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania and of the State and Mercer County Bar associations Since December. 1892, he has been a member of the board of managers of the New Jersey State Charities Aid Society, and is a member
of its law committee. In April, 1895, Mr. Lee was appointed one of a special committee to examine the penal laws of New Jersey and other states, and to report necessary and bene- ficial changes. The committee reported in favor of the indeterminate sentence and the probation system, and upon its findings much of the recent beneficial legislation has been enacted.
Mr. Lee was secretary to the commission to compile the public statutes of New Jersey, and was in charge of New Jersey's historical ex- hibit at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Ex- position, and is also historian to the executive committee of the Washington's Crossing Com- mission.
Upon the 12th of June, 1894, at Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Vincentown, New Jersey, Francis B. Lee married Sara Stretch Eayre, born in Junction City, Kansas, only child of Captain George Stretch Eayre and Marie Burr Bryan, his wife. Captain Eayre is living in Vincentown, three miles distant from the home of the original emi- grant, Richard Eayre, founder before 1710 of one of Burlington county's colonial commercial centers, Eayrestown. As a young man Cap- tain Eayre removed to the west, and before the age of twenty-one was clerk of the legis- lature of the territory of Nebraska. Among
the earliest arrivals in Denver he was engaged in the lumber industry, and at the outbreak of the civil war enlisted in the First Colorado Cavalry Regiment, and later in the Colorado Independent Battery. This battery was at- tached to the Army of the Frontier and the Army of the Border, Trans-Mississippi De- partment. He became senior first lieutenant of the battery June, 1861, and received a cap- tain's commission in June, 1864, for bravery on the field. During his military career Cap- tain Eayre participated in the following frontier engagements : Apache Canon, Anderson's Gap, Beaver Creek, Bentonville, Big Blue, Bogg's Mills, Branchville, Bull Creek, Cadd's Moun- tain, Cane Hill, Carthage, Cherokee Nation, Des Arcs, Fort Scott, Fayetteville, Fort Craig, Fort Fillmore, Fort Larned, Grandy, Independ- ence, Kansas City, Little Blue, Marais des Cygnes, Mine Creek, Neosho, Newtonia, Osage River, Pea Ridge, Pigeon Ranche, Rio de las Animas, Rio Honato, Smoky Hill and Val Verde. After residing a short time in Iowa, Captain Eayre returned to Vincentown. Dur- ing recent years he has devoted himself to scientific arboriculture and horticulture, experi- menting especially with grapes, plums and strawberries.
Through her mother, Mrs. Lee is directly descended from the Burr family, who, like the Eayres, were large owners of Burlington coun- ty plantations and woodlands. The original emigrant to New Jersey was Henry Burr. To him and his wife Elizabeth Hudson were born several children. One daughter, Elizabeth, was the mother of John Woolman, the most distinguished American minister of the Society of Friends during the period of the French and Indian war. Another daughter, Martha, be- came the mother of Colonel Timothy Matlack, the "Fighting Quaker" of the American rev- olution, whose portrait hangs in Independence Hall, and to whom the citizens of Philadelphia presented a silver urn in commemoration of his gallant defense of the city. A grandson, son of Henry Burr, was Joseph, father of Keziah, wife of Governor Richard Howell, of New Jersey, and of Lieutenant William Burr. Lieu- tenant Burr's daughter was the wife of Jeffer- son Davis, president of the Confederacy. A son Joseph was the grandfather of Joshua Burr, of Vincentown, who married Mary E. Newbold, descended from Michael Newbold, justice, Burlington, 1701 ; Thomas Newbold, justice, Burlington, 1739; William Newbold, member Burlington County Committee of Safety. 1775: Major Barzillai Newbold, serv-
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ing with distinction in the American revolution. Mrs. Lee is a great-granddaughter of Joshua and Mary Newbold Burr.
Major Barzillai Newbold married Euphemia Reading, of one of the most distinguished an- cestral lines in the colony of New Jersey. Through Captain John Reading, of Gloucester, Governor John Reading, long a member of His Majesty's Council and the representative of the crown as governor and chancellor, and Captain Daniel Reading, Mrs. Lee is descended from the Ryersons, of Bergen county, and the Reids, of Hortensia, Monmouth county. It is a noteworthy fact that the daughter of John Reid married Governor John Anderson, who with Governor John Reading were the only men born in New Jersey who filled the office of governor from the settlement of the colony until 1790.
From the Gloucester county family of How- ells, of "Livewell" and "Christianity," Mrs. Lee is descended, as also from Thomas Stretch, first governor of the "Colony in Schuylkill," who came to America with his father, Peter, in 1703. A son of Thomas was Peter (II) a signer of the Continental bills of credit, and in 1778 was a member of the Philadelphia light infantry company. Peter (II) married Sarah Howell, daughter of Samuel Howell, a conspic- uous Philadelphia merchant and earnest sup- porter of the revolutionary movement.
Upon the 5th of November, 1898, a daugh- ter, Rhoda, now living, was born in Vincen- town, New Jersey, to Francis B. and Sara Stretch Eayre Lee.
JUBE The Jube family belong to the more recent arrivals to this country, but in the short space of three genera- tions they have already won their place and made their mark among the prominent families of Newark who represent the forces which have given the city a name and rank among the foremost of the manufacturing centres of the United States.
(I) The first of the name to come to this country was Thomas Jube, who was born in England sometime about the middle of the eighteenth century. Very little is known about him except that he emigrated to this country and settled in New York City, and that it was there that his son, John Prosser Jube, who is referred to below, was born.
(II) John Prosser, son of Thomas Jube, was born in New York City, October 24, 1812, died at his residence, 973 Broad street, New- ark, New Jersey, February 9, 1905, of pneu-
monia, after an illness of about a week. He came to Newark as a young man and began his business career in 1838, as a manufacturer of carriage materials, establishing himself and his small plant on Mechanic street. It was not long before his business, which grew rapidly, became so great that Mr. Jube was compelled to seek larger and more commodious quarters, and he therefore transferred it to New York City, where he further extended and enlarged it. Here he continued to transact his business for many years of his life, until he retired and gave up his business to the management and control of his son William M., but he continued to live and make his home in Newark. He retired from active business many years be- fore his death, having amassed a fortune through his business, and augmented it greatly by wise investments in Newark and elsewhere. He was a genial, well-informed man, shrewd in business, active in good works, and scrupu- lously fair and honorable in all his dealings. He was a member and one of the principal supporters of the First Congregational Church of Newark and contributed very largely to the fund for building the new church edifice of that congregation in Clinton avenue. For a number of years he was a director of the Na- tional State Bank, and for several years was its president. Among other financial institu- tions of Newark in which he was interested was the Firemans' Insurance Company, of which for over forty years he served as a di- rector, being one of the original directors and was one of its charter members and at the time of his death being the last of the original thirty members of the board. He was also interested in many other local financial enter- prises, and was connected with quite a num- ber of charitable and religious organizations. He was married twice, but his children were all borne to him by his first wife. Mr. Jube was a Republican, but he never held any office nor did he see any military service. By his wife Sarah, the daughter of Uzal and Fanny ( Bolles) Ward, John Prosser Jube had eight children : I. William Uzal, referred to below. 2. John Jube, married; lives in Brooklyn ; has three children: John, Albert and Mary. 3. Harriet Newell, married, October 31, 1877, Edgar Bethune, son of Moses Dodd and Jus- tina Louisa (Sayre) Ward. 4. Albert B., re- ferred to below. 5. Mary Jube. 6. Amanda Ward, married in Newark, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 1, 1871, Charles Francis, son of Francis and Sarah (Seaman) Mackin, and grandson of John and Eliza (Jenkins) Mackin, of New-
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burg, New York (see Mackin). 7. Emma Jube. 8. Thomas S., referred to below.
(III) William Uzal, eldest son and child of John Prosser and Sarah (Ward) Jube, was born in Newark, New Jersey, and is now living in East Orange, New Jersey. Entering his father's business in early manhood he succeed- ed to the management of it on his father's re- tirement and is now carrying it on at 97 Bow- ery, New York City, inheriting by will his father's interest in same. He married Electa M. Heaton, who has borne him three children : I. John Prosser, died at eight years of age. 2. Fanny, married Joseph Perian and has one child, Helen. 3. Matilda Heaton, married Frank, son of Edward and Hannah (Wade) Benjamin, and grandson of David and Cor- nelia (Smith) Benjamin.
(III) Albert B., third son of John Prosser and Sarah (Ward) Jube, was educated at the Blairstown Academy, and upon taking up the practical duties of a business career, he became identified with his father's interests and con- tinued thus engaged for a number of years, when he finally relinquished his active duties owing to impaired health. He is a Republican and is a member of the First Congregational Church.
(III) Thomas S., youngest child of John Prosser and Sarah (Ward) Jube, was edu- cated like his brother at the Blairstown Acad- emy, and also is a member of the First Con- gregational Church of Newark.
MACKIN Amanda Ward, sixth child and second daughter of John Pross- er and Sarah (Ward) Jube, was married in Newark, New Jersey, February I, 1871, to Charles Francis Mackin, of Newark.
Mr. Mackin's grandfather, John Mackin, of Newburg, New York, was born in 1801, died in 1829. He married Eliza Jenkins, of New- burg, and their children were: I. Charles, married a Miss Merritt. 2. James, married (first) a Miss Wilsey, and (second) a Miss Brittain. 3. Mary, married James M. Ker- naghan. 4. Francis, referred to below.
Francis, son of John and Eliza (Jenkins) Mackin, was born in Newburg, New York. February 22, 1826, and is now living in New- ark, New Jersey. He was about three years old when his father died, and he was sent to live with his uncle in New York City. Here he attended the public schools, and on the death of his uncle returned to Newburg for a while, after which he went to Chatham, New Jersey, to live and there spent eight years in the tailor-
ing business. He then came to Newark, where he became a clerk in a clothing store, and learn- ing cutting, remained for six years. In 1850 he started in the clothing business for himself, at first as a retailer, and shortly afterwards as a wholesale dealer. In 1861 he obtained con- tracts for the army, and in 1865 retired. In 1868 he was an alderman of Newark, and in 1869 a member of the state legislature. He attends the Universalist church. By his wife, Sarah (Seaman) Mackin, born March, 1826, died in 1891, he has had four children : I. Charles Francis, referred to below. 2. Eliza L., married Francis A. Carpenter and has four children : Charles M .; Francis Newton, mar- ried Adeline Hoag; Eugene, married a Con- necticut girl; Adele Prendergast, married Oliver Wolcott Jackson. 3. and 4. Died in infancy.
Charles Francis, son of Francis and Sarah (Seaman) Mackin, was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 3, 1849, and is now living in that city. For his early education he was sent to the Newark Academy from which he grad- uated in 1860, after which he went to the Eagle's Wood Military Academy at Perth Am- boy. He then went to a French school in New York City, and for the following five years worked in a broker's office in Wall street. For the ten years succeeding this experience he was engaged in the leather trade, and in 1897 came to the medical department of the Prudential Life Insurance Company. Mr. Mackin has held no political offices nor has he seen any military service. He belongs to no secret societies, and is a member of no clubs. He attends the Con- gregational church. By his marriage with Amanda Ward Jube, referred to above, he has four children living and two died in infancy. Those living are: I. Frank, married Juliette Henschel. 2. John Prosser Jube, married Jo- sephine Harriet Riker. 3. Charles Francis Mackin, Jr. 4. Edward Harvey Mackin.
HART The Hart family of Orange, which is represented by James Hamilton Hart and his son, Percy Grier Hart, belongs to an old and honorable family of Orangeburg county, South Carolina.
(I) Hamilton Hart, of Orangeburg, South Carolina, grandfather of Mr. James Hamilton Hart, was a joiner. Among his children was Middleton G., referred to below.
(II) Middleton G., son of Hamilton Hart, of Orangeburg county, South Carolina, was born there in 1816, and died in Horry county, same state, in 1854. He took up the study of
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medicine and became one of the best known country physicians in that part of the south. He was a Whig in politics, and for twenty years before his death a member of the Meth- odist church. His wife, Johanna Josephine, daughter of James and (Durant) Bel- lune, was born in 1824, died in 1859. Child, James Hamilton, referred to below.
(III) James Hamilton, son of Middleton G. and Johanna Josephine ( Bellune) Hart, was born in Marion county, South Carolina, Janu- ary 31, 1849. For his early education he at- tended the southern public schools, and then went to work on one of the railroads in the south. After this he went into the naval stores business. Near the close of the civil war, he en- listed under Captain Maguire, in Company K, Sixth South Carolina Cavalry, Confederate States Army, and served until the close of the war. He then came to New York City, and in 1872, with John R. Tolar, he started in his present cotton commission business and deal- ing in naval stores, in which he has continued for thirty-eight continuous years. In politics Mr. Hart is a Democrat. He is an enthusiastic secret society and fraternal organization man, a member of St. John's Chapter, No. I, Union Chapter; Kane Council, Free and Accepted Masons; Damascus Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Mecca Temple, Mystic Shrine. Among his clubs should be mentioned the New York Southern Society, the New York Con- federate Camp, and the Essex County Country Club. Among the financial institutions in which he is interested outside of the Tolar, Hart & Company, should be mentioned the J. S. Bell Confectionery Company. October 19, 1880, Mr. Hart married in Newark, New Jersey, Lillie Letitia, daughter of Noah Farwell and Emeline C. (Wood) Blanchard. Children: I. Percy Grier, referred to below. 2. Edith Lillie Cordelia, born January 29, 1883; married, April 25, 1906, Walter Martin, son of George and Louise (Hendrichs) Krementz.
(IV) Percy Grier, eldest child and only son of James Hamilton and Lillie Letitia ( Blanch- ard) Hart, was born in Newark, New Jersey, July 26, 1881. After receiving his early educa- tion in the Burnet street public school, he enter- the Newark Academy, from which he grad- uated in 1901, and then took the academic course in Princeton University. He then went to work under his father in the firm of Tolar, Hart & Company, 160 Front street, New York City, and after six months spent in thoroughly familiarizing himself with the business, he was taken into the firm. Later he went into the
cotton commission business for himself, with his offices at 49 Leonard street, New York City. In politics Mr. Hart is a Republican and from religious conviction an attendant at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, of Newark. His home is 66 Hawthorn avenue, East Orange. He is a member of the Princeton Association of the Oranges, Essex County Country Club, New Jersey Automobile Club, Wool Club of New York City and Cap and Gown Club, Princeton University. April 26, 1905, Mr. Hart married in Newark, New Jersey, Emily, daughter of Frank B. Adams, of that city. Children : I. Percy Grier, born July 30, 1906. 2. Mary Frances, August 24, 1908.
FULLER It is well established that those bearing the name of Fuller, so numerous and wide-spread over the United States and Canada have de- scended from eight ancestral heads, the dates of whose arrival in this country are as follows : Dr. Samuel and his brother Edward, of the "Mayflower," came in 1620. John, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and William, of Hamilton, New Hampshire, came in 1634. Thomas, of Dedham, and John, of Newton, Massachusetts, came in 1635. Robert, of Salem, and Thomas, of Woburn, and later of Middleton, Massachu- setts, came in 1638. Robert, of Dorchester, later of Dedham, Massachusetts, came in 1640. Although positive evidence is wanting, it is very probable that in England these several heads had a common ancestry. This record attempts to deal only with Thomas Fuller, of Woburn, later of Salem and Middleton. The coat-of-arms of the Fuller family: Argent, three bars gules, on a canton of the second a castle or. Crest, a dexter arm embowed, vested argent, cuffed sable, holding in the hand proper a sword of the first hilt of pommel or. (Argent-white ; gules-red; or-gold; sable -black. The bar is one of the honorable ordinaries representing a belt of honor given for eminent services. The canton is a subordi- nate ordinary representing the banner given to Knights-Banneret ). This coat-of-arms has been long in use in the family, and Burke in his "General Armory" described the same as be- longing to a Fuller family on the Isle of Wight. It appears also that other lines of Fullers in this country are using it, and perhaps right- fully ; if so this serves to confirm the opinion that in England they had a common origin which had merited this military prestige.
(I) Thomas Fuller, the emigrant, was born probably in Wales, in April, 1618. He came
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from the western part of England, probably Wales as some old accounts give it. in 1638, at the age of twenty, on a trip of observation, intending to return after a sojourn of a year, but changed his plans. He attributed this change of purpose to his conversion under the preaching of the Rev. Thomas Shepard, of Cambridge, while others assign as a reason that he became attached to a maiden who re- fused to accompany him to England, and that he went alone, and having secured his patri- mony from his father, who was a blacksmith, returned to this country, married and settled in that part of Cambridge now called Woburn and became prominent in local matters, serving often as a town officer. After the death of his wife, evidently seeking a broader field of op- portunity for his growing family, he obtained from Major General Dennison, of Boxford, some three hundred acres of land in the vicin- ity of Will's Hill. He also acquired other lands, having extensive tracts in the townships of Reading and Andover as well as other land bordering on the latter near the Andover line. As nearly as can be ascertained he left Wo- burn about 1665 and settled on the three hun- dred acres of land in that part of Salem which sixty-three years later was incorporated as the town of Middleton. His home was not far from the place where twenty-five years after- ward the infamous Salem witchcraft developed, and he located his dwelling, half a mile east of Will's hill on a stream then known as Pierce's brook, tributary to Ipswich river, and was the second white man in that vicinity. It appears, however, that in 1684 he once more became a citizen of Woburn, remaining about three years, when he again returned to Salem, now Middleton, and remained till the time of his death in June, 1698. He was a man of enter- prising spirit and sound judgment, which his posterity have inherited in a large degree and which have given them good positions in soci- ety.
He married (first) June 13, 1643, Elizabeth, daughter of John Tidd, of Woburn. Married (second) August 25, 1684, Sarah Wyman, widow of Lieutenant John Wyman, of Wo- burn; her maiden name was Sarah Nutt; she died May 24, 1688. Married (third) Hannah Wilson, of Woburn, whose maiden name was Hannah Pamer ; she survived her husband and returned to Woburn to live with relatives. Chil- dren of first wife, born in Woburn : I. Thomas, born April 30, 1644, see forward. 2. Elizabeth, born September 12, 1645; married, March, 1662, Joseph Dean. 3. Ruth, born May 17,
1648; married (first) Wheeler; (sec-
ond) . Wilkins. 4. Deborah, born May 12, 1650; married (first) Isaac Richardson ; (second) - Shaw. 5. John, born March I, 1653; married, February 2, 1672, Rebecca Putnam. 6. Jacob, born May 14, 1655; mar- ried, June 19, 1683, Mary Bacon; died 1731. 7. Joseph, born August 8, 1658, died young. 8. Benjamin, born April 15, 1660; married, December 15, 1685, Sarah Bacon. 9. Samuel, born May 9, 1662, died young.
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