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ed him, not only as an able and eloquent advo- cate but as a Christian, a scholar and a gentle- man."
Frederick Frelinghuysen married, August 4, 1812, Jane, daughter of Peter B. Dumont, who bore him five children. Susan, the eldest, mar- ried William D. Waterman, but had no chil- dren ; Gertrude Ann, born September 20, 1814, died October 11, 1886, became the wife of William Theodore Mercer (q. v.) ; and Louise, married John C. Elmendorf, and had one son. Dumont Frelinghuysen, the oldest son, born February 16, 1816; died at Somerville, in 1905; was admitted to the bar as attorney in 1838, and counsellor in 1843; 1840 to 1845 was clerk of Somerset county, and was prominent in Sunday school and Bible society work. He married Martina Vanderveer, but had no issue.
(V) Frederick Theodore, the younger son and next to the youngest child of Frederick Frelinghuysen, was born in Millstone, August 4, 1817 ; died at Newark, May 20, 1885. When his father died, he was only three years old, and immediately thereafter he was adopted by his Uncle Theodore, who took him to his home in Newark. Inheriting his father's natural gifts, his eloquent speech and his fervid emo- tions, he also shared in the peculiar refinement and comliness of his mother, and the transfer to the care and custody of his distinguished uncle gave him the best of opportunities for training and cultivating his gifts aright. While his uncle was absent from home in the senate at Washington, he attended the academy at Somerville, under Mr. Walsh, but otherwise was prepared for college at the Newark Acad- emy. Entering Rutgers as a sophomore he graduated in 1836, having among his class- mates Joseph Bradley, Alexander Brown, George W. Coakley, John Frelinghuysen Hage- man, William A. Newell and Cortlandt Parker. Mr. Hageman records thus the impression he made upon his classmates: "We were accus- tomed to look upon him as a minature Senator and statesman in embryo * *
* he had no specialties in his studies, no genius for the higher mathmatics, no special fondness for the physical sciences. While his standing was good in the classics and in the general studies prescribed *
* he enjoyed most *
* mental and moral philosophy, logic and rhet- oric."
After graduation, Mr. Frelinghuysen began to study law in the office of his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen, in Newark, being admitted to the bar as attorney in 1839 and as counsellor in 1842. He now succeeded to the practice of
his uncle who had become chancellor of the University of New York, and from the very first he stood on high vantage ground in his professional career, influential friends gathered around him, the church of his ancestors revered his name, and the whole community gave him their good will and helping hand. He did not have to struggle and wait long for success as most young lawyers are compelled to do. In 1849 he was chosen city attorney ; and the next year, the only time he submitted his name to the popular vote, he was elected member of the city council. Soon afterwards, Mr. Fre- linghuysen was retained as counsel for the New Jersey Central Railroad Company, and for the Morris Canal and Banking Company, which required his appearing before courts and juries in different counties, meeting as his antag- onists the strongest counsels in the state and from abroad, and even calling him into the highest courts of the state. In a few years he stood foremost among the New Jersey bar, noted for his eloquent speeches before juries, and his strong personal influence, both in and out of court. In addition to this, he studied and toiled with unwearied diligence, making himself not only an eloquent advocate, but an able lawyer, a strategic counsel, a formidable antagonist in any suit, and his practice became lucrative and enviable.
Mr. Frelinghuysen's patriotism was innate and inherited, and though not an office seeker, he kept well read in the politics of both state and country, and was frequently called upon to address large gatherings, notably the Whig state convention in 1840, in the memorable Tyler-Van Buren campaign of that year. Very naturally, however, he wished to follow in the path of honor and office trodden by his father, uncle and grandfather ; subsequently in 1857 his name is mentioned for the office of attor- ney-general of New Jersey, then vacant. It is said that this is the only time he did not obtain appointment to an official position he desired. Although Governor Newell knew Mr. Freling- huysen's qualifications, there were several other fully qualified classmates of theirs who equally desired the nomination, and so the governor relieved the embarrassment of the situation by appointing ex-Senator William L. Dayton, who had failed of reappointment to the senate and also of election to the vice-presidency on the Fremont ticket. In 1860 Charles S. Olden succeeded Newell as governor, and the follow- ing year Governor Olden and Mr. Frelinghuy- sen met as members of the Peace congress in Washington, which tried to avert the threat-
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ened secession. A warm personal and political friendship sprang up between them, and when later in the year Lincoln appointed Attorney- General Dayton minister to France, the gov- ernor filled the vacancy by nominating Mr. Frelinghuysen ; and in 1866, when his term of office expired, Marcus L. Ward, then gov- ernor, reappointed him for another term to the same post.
The duties of this office and the legislation of the war period required much special labor and attention and Mr. Frelinghuysen now spent most of his time in Trenton. Besides being the law advisor of the state, he had also to assist the prosecutors of the pleas in the different counties in trials for high felonies and in several important and difficult murder cases his services were characterized by great skill and powerful oratory. He was also the most popular political speaker in the state. Consequently when the death of William Wright, of Newark, in 1866, left a vacancy in the United States senate, and the condition of the country made it imperative to fill the vacancy before the next meeting of the legis- lature, no one appeared to Governor Ward so well qualified as Attorney-General Freling- huysen. Accepting the appointment, Mr. Fre- linghuysen took his seat in December, 1866, was elected by the legislature in the winter of 1867 to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Wright, and resigning his state office accepted the sen- atorship with great pleasure, having now reached the goal of his youthful ambition. When his term expired in 1869, the legislature being Democratic, he was not re-elected, but his services had been such that in 1870 Grant nominated him and the senate without refer- ence to committee confirmed him as minister to England. Why he declined so honorable a position was for many years variously answer- ed by friends and foes, and it was not known until after his death that his refusal was be- cause Mrs. Frelinghuysen was opposed to ex- posing her children to the influence of court life, which that mission would involve, and he yielded to her wish. His reward soon came, for the next year a full term vacancy occurring in the senate, and the legislature being Repub- lican, he was elected to fill it.
In 1867 Mr. Frelinghuysen had voted for the conviction of President Johnson on his impeachment; and in his later term he became one of the most prominent of the reconstruction senators. As member of the judiciary and finance committees, and those on naval affairs, claims, and rail-
roads, and as chairman of the committee on agriculture, his responsibility was varied and perplexing. He took a prominent part in the debates on the Washington treaty, the French arms controversy, the question of polygamy in Utah, and in a clear manly speech explained and cleared up New Jersey's policy of grad- uating taxes upon railroads. After much labor he secured the return to Japan of the balance of the indemnity fund that was not used or required for the payment of American claims against that government; he introduced the bill to restore a gold currency, and taking charge of Mr. Sumner's reconstruction bill after that senator became unable to look after it, he procured its passage. The soundness of his arguments in the southern loyaltists bill debate were at first doubted, but the bill was defeated, and his contention, now generally accepted, that the north cannot adjust the damage caused to southern unionists by the war, had undoubtedly saved the national treas- ury from being swamped by innumerable claims of that character. In the summer of 1876, anticipating the trouble that actually ac- curred later, over the counting of the electoral votes, he introduced a bill referring decision in such cases to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house and the chief justice. The senate, however, adjourned before the bill could be acted upon ; and in the following year, when the problem of the Hayes-Tilden vote had to be settled, Mr. Frelinghuysen was a member of the commission reporting the bill that created the electoral court and was also a member of that board. His term expired March 4, 1877, and the Democratic party being again in power in the state, elected Mr. Mc- Pherson as his successor.
For the next four years Mr. Frelinghuysen retired into private life, but after the assassina- tion of James A. Garfield, President Arthur called him to his cabinet as secretary of state, December 12, 1881. In this position Mr. Fre- linghuysen's belief was that there is a proper medium between too much and too little strategy; and acting on this conviction, "the foreign policy of the administration was pacific and honorable under his guidance." In the arduous labor and responsibility of negotiat- ing international treaties, however, he sustain- ed the heaviest burdens of his life. The so- called Spanish treaty, presented to the senate by President Arthur near the close of his term, but stolen by the press and killed by ignorant clamor before that body had an opportunity to consider it, cost the secretary most exhaus-
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tive labor both in its general provisions and its specific details, 'all of which he had matured himself. So too the great treaty involving the building of the Nicaragua canal, likewise sub- mitted to the senate about the same time, caused Mr. Frelinghuysen intense study and painful anxiety. For many years an inter- oceanic canal had been desired by the com- mercial world and had long been the subject of jealous treaty manipulations between Eng- land and the United States. Mr. Frelinghuy- sen surprised the whole world by submitting through the president his elaborate treaty, which only needed the assent of the senate to assure the consummation of the work, by re- quiring the government to construct the canal along a new and better route through pur- chased land, to become its owner, and to open it to international commerce upon equitable tolls. It was defeated at the time by a Demo- cratic senate, but it will ever remain a monu- ment to Secretary Frelinghuysen's industry, skill and statesmanship, alike creditable to himself and to the department of state.
In 1864 Princeton Academy gave Mr. Fre- linghuysen the LL. D. degree ; and at the time of his death he was president of the American Bible Society. Notwithstanding his absorbing public occupations, he was very much interest- ed in educational problems, both elementary and higher, and for thirty-five years, from 1851, served as a trustee of Rutgers College. At the inauguration of Grover Cleveland, Mr. Frelinghuysen surrendered his seat in the cabi- net to Mr. Bayard, and returning to his New- ark home, lay down on his death bed, "too ill to receive the congratulations and welcome of his fellow citizens who had thronged there to greet his return." For several weeks he lay, conscious, but absolutely exhausted and gradu- ally dying, and at last passing away, May 20, 1885. He was buried from the North Re- formed Church in Newark, and his body lies in Mount Pleasant. cemetery. On August 8, 1894, the city of Newark unveiled a statue to his memory, wrought in bronze by Karl Ger- hardt, and mounted on a base designed by Wallace Brown.
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen married, January 25, 1842, Matilda E., daughter of George Griswold, of New York City, who bore him three sons and three daughters: I. Matilda Griswold, married Henry Winthrop Gray, of New York City, a prominent mer- chant and financier, and at different times the holder of various city offices, who died Octo- ber 19, 1906. 2. Charlotte Louise, lives un-
married in New York City. 3. Frederick, re- ferred to below. 4. George Griswold, referred to below. 5. Sarah Helen, married (first) in 1883, John Davis, secretary of the Alabama claims commission at Geneva, United States assistant secretary of state, 1882 to 1885, and judge of the court of claims. Children: Ma- tilda E. Davis, wife of John Cabot Lodge, Jr., and John C. Bancroft Davis. Mrs. John Davis married (second) August, 1906, Major Charles W. McCawley, U. S. A. 6. Theodore, born in Newark, April 17, 1860; married (first) August 25, 1885, Alice Dudley Coats, who died March 4, 1889, leaving two children: Fred- erick Theodore and James Coats; he married (second) June 2, 1898, Elizabeth Mary Thompson) Cannon, widow of Henry Le Grand Cannon.
(VI) Frederick, third child of Hon. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, was born in New- ark, September 30, 1848, and is now living at 18 Park Place in that city. He was educated at the Newark Academy, and graduated from Rutgers College with high honors in 1868. Taking up the study of law, he was admitted to the bar as attorney in 1871 and as counsellor in 1874. Beginning his practice in Newark he specialized on chancery cases, in conducting which he proved able and successful, and on the failure of the National Mechanics' Bank of Newark, was appointed by Chancellor Run- yon as its receiver. In 1887 he became presi- dent of the Howard Savings Institution, which position he held until January, 1902, when he resigned to become president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, which post he now holds. He has been the trustee for a number of estates and has for many years been identified with large financial interests of various character. For about twenty years he has been actively associated with the National Guard of New Jersey, and is a captain in the Essex Troop. He is much interested in Sunday school and church work, in both of which he is an earnest and influ- ential worker. He is a member of the Essex Club and of the Essex County Country Club. July 23, 1902, he married Estelle B., daugh- ter of the late Thomas T. Kinney, of Newark, and had four children: Frederick, born Au- gust 12, 1903; Thomas Kinney, born Febru- ary 8, 1905 ; Theodore, born February 7, 1907 ; George Griswold, born December 20, 1908.
(VI) George Griswold, fourth child of the Hon. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, was born in Newark, May 9, 1851, and now lives at Morristown, New Jersey. He was educated
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in the public schools, prepared for college in the Newark Academy, graduating in 1866, entered Rutgers College, in the class of 1870, and received his degree from the Columbian University Law School in 1872. For some time he read law in the office of Keller & Blake, and from 1873 to 1876 was one of the United States patent office examiners at Wash- ington. In 1873 he was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and in 1876 to that of New York, at which latter date he began practicing inde- pendently in New York City, specializing on patent cases. From 1898 to 1905 he was vice- president of P. Ballantine & Sons, since when he has been president of the company. He is also a director in the Rail Joint Company, the Alliance Investment Company, and the Saranac Realty Company. Like all the other members of his family he is a Republican, but has never held office, nor seen military service. He is a member of the Essex Club, Morris County Golf Club, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C., and the Union Club of New York. At the present time he is also a director in the Howard Savings Institution and the Morristown Trust Company. April 26, 1881, Mr. Frelinghuysen married Sara L., daughter of Peter H. Ballantine and Isabelle Linen, of Newark. They have two children : Peter H. Ballantine, born September 15, 1882, and Matilda E., November 25, 1887.
CRANE From the time when the "Rotuli hundredorum," in 1272, records among the tenants of Sir William le Moyne of Saltney-Moyne, in Huntingdon- shire, the names of Andreas, John, Oliver and William de Crane, to the present day, the members of that family have been increasing the reputation and prestige of their name, until now both in the old as well as in the new world it has become synonymous with worth and character.
About the middle of the thirteenth century Sir Thomas Crane, of Norfolk, married Ada, sister to Giles and probably daughter of Fulco de Kerdiston of Cardiston, whose manor was situated in the hundred of Eynesford, about two miles northwest by north from Rupham, county Norfolk. Sir Thomas Crane, their son, married Petronella Bettesley, and had three sons, one of whom, Richard, was the father of John Crane, of Wood-Norton, who married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Berry. Of this marriage there were three children: Adam, Symond and Alice, and from this time on the family becomes
more and more prominent in the county, reach- ing the zenith of its prosperity between 1560 and 1640, its greatest representatives perhaps being Anthony Crane, master of the household of Queen Elizabeth; John Crane, clerk of the kitchen to James I ; Sir Robert Crane, of Chil- ton; Robert Crane, Esquire, of Coggeshall, and Sir Francis and his brother Sir Richard Crane, of Woodrising, the last two being pos- sibly the most prominent of them all.
Sir Francis Crane was secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales, and was knighted at Coven- try, September 4, 1617, by the prince's father, James I, being also made chancellor of the Order of the Garter, a rare mark of special distinction, the Garter being the highest order of chivalry in Great Britain. In 1619 Sir Francis introduced into England the manu- facture of a curious tapestry, and with the assistance of King James, who contributed £2000 to the enterprise, built a mill at Mort- lake, then a village on the river Thames, in the county of Surrey about nine miles west of London. Engaging the most skillful tapestry workers from Paris and Flanders, on March 20, 1621, he secured from the Archbishop of Canterbury a license for them to worship either in the parish church, or in his own house, or some other suitable place, and arranged that a minister should be sent out to them from the Dutch Reformed church at Austin Friars, London. July 8, 1623, King James I requested the King of Denmark to send to England, Francis Cleyne, a painter and native of Rostok, a town in the duchy of Mechlinburg, whom he wished to have as designer in the Mortlake works. The year after his father's death, Charles I paid Sir Francis £6000 for "three suits of gold tapes- try." From these works came also the five cartoons of Rafaelle, now hanging in Hamp- ton Court, and the design of the five senses for the palace of Oatlands. The hangings of Houghton, the seat of Lord Orford, contain- ing full length portraits of King James, King Charles, their Queens and the King of Den- mark, with heads of the royal children in the borders were also manufactured here. For copies of the four seasons, John Williams, Archbishop of York, paid Sir Francis £2500; and at Knowl, the Duke of Dorset's place in Kent, there was in 1814 a piece of silken tapestrv portraying Vandyck and Sir Francis himself. In 1634 Sir Francis was chosen one of a commission to purchase a tract of land to be used by Charles I as a game park. For seventeen years he was given by the king
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exclusive privilege of making copper farthings, at the yearly rental of one. hundred marks payable into the exchequer ; and his contribu- tion to the building fund of St. Paul's Church, London, was £500. He married Mary, daugh- ter of David and sister to Sir Peter de la Maire, and having no children, in his will, dated August 27, 1635, he gives to "wife Dame Mary," lands in Northampton and other places, and a trust fund to his "brother- in-law Sir Peter de la Maire" to found five dwellings for five poor knights at Windsor, and names his brother Richard sole executor and heir. He died June 26, 1636.
Sir Richard Crane, brother of Sir Francis, who came into possession of the tapestry works at Mortlake, assigned them to the crown, and retired to the manor of Woodris- ing, also bequeathed to him by his brother. He was created a baronet by King Charles I, March 20, 1642, and on the following Sep- tember 26 was knighted at Chester. He mar- ried (first) Mary, daughter of William, Lord Widdrington, and after her death married a second time, but left no children by either marriage. By his will, September 20, 1645, the manor passed to his adopted heiress and niece, Frances, youngest daughter of his sister, Joan Crane, who had married William Bond, of Earth, county Cornwall. This niece, Frances, married William Crane, of Lough- ton, son of John Crane, clerk of the kitchen to Kings James and Charles.
William, son of Symond, and grandson of John Crane, of Wood-Norton, married Mar- gery, daughter of Sir Andrew Butler, and removed to Suffolk county, where several members of the family had already established themselves. William Crane's first wife had been Anne, daughter of William Forrecy, and by his second wife he had two children, John and Robert, of Stoneham and Chilton. Like his father, Robert Crane married twice, (first) Agnes, daughter of Thomas Greene, of Creet- ing, and (second) the daughter of Thomas Singleton, who bore him a daughter Agnes, who married an Appleton and had two sons, John and Robert, the latter of whom married (first) Katharine, daughter of Robert Darcy, and (second) Anne, daughter of Sir Andrew Ogard, of Buckingham, county Norfolk, who bore him three children: George, died 1491, without issue; Elizabeth, became Abbess of Brusyerd ; Marjery, married Thomas Apple- ton, of Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, and became the ancestress of the Appletons of Ipswich, Massachusetts. After the death of
his only son, George, Robert Crane, of Chil- ton, made his nephew, Robert, son of his brother John of Stoneham, by Agnes, daugh- ter of John Calthorpe, of Norfolk, his heir. This Robert Crane married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Southwell, of Woodris- ing, who died, leaving three children: Robert, Anthony and Dorothy. Anthony married (first) Elizabeth Aylmer, and (second) Eliza- beth Hussey. He was cofferer to Queen Eliz- abeth, and dying in London was buried in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. His will was dated August 16, and proved September 9, 1583; he left three daughters, Elizabeth, by his first marriage, married Anthony Death, of Lin- colnshire; Dorothy, married (first) Thomas Mantinge, of Dereham, and (second) Thomas Baxster; Mary, married Gerald Gore, son of the alderman of London. By his second wife, Jane White, of Essex county, Robert Crane, of Chilton, had five more children: John; Anne, married Edward Markaunt; Anne, married John Sanden and Ambrose Coole; Gryssel, married Robert Bogas; Agnes, died unmarried. This Robert Crane died before August 5, 1551, and his eldest son and heir, Robert, married Bridget, sister to Sir Ambrose and daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn.
From the will of the last-mentioned Robert Crane, executed October 7, 1590, we learn that he was born about 1508, that the death of his wife Bridget had but lately occurred as well as that of his only son and heir apparent, Henry, who however left a son Robert, then about three years old, to whom his grandfather left the bulk of his estate which consisted of some fourteen manors and farms situated within the confines of twenty-one or more different par- ishes in the central and southern portions of county Suffolk. In order that the property might be kept intact, and at the same time that his other children might have the benefits therefrom until his grandson came of age, Robert Crane devised an elaborate scheme of trusts whereby his six daughters each had some one or more of the different manors in trust during the heir's minority, they enjoying the income of the estates for that period and turning the property over intact to him when he reached the age of twenty-one. Sir Robert Jermyn, of Rushbrook, was also one of these trustees and the residuary legatee, and "espec- ially appointed guardian" of the young heir that the proceeds of his trusteeship might be used "for the purpose of giving the said Robert a virtuous education and a Godly bringing up."
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Before he was out of his teens, young Robert Crane became the favorite of King James I, who knighted him at Newmarket, February 27, 1604. January 19, 1606, he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, lord chief justice of the common pleas, and soon afterwards entered into pos- session of the estates left to him by his grand- father, taking up his residence in the old family mansion, "Chilton Hall." Among his intimate friends were the Appletons of Little Waldingfield and the Winthrops of Groton ; and James I, by letters patent, November 22, 1615, granted his "free warren," in his exten- sive estates, which was the exclusive privilege to keep and hunt certain beasts and fowls within those bounds. In 1620 Sir Robert Crane came before the freeholders and inhabi- tants of county Suffolk as one of the two can- didates for "Knights of the Shire." He was successful; and joining the parliament, Janu- ary 30, 1621, at once made himself conspicuous by his zeal for his country and constituents. The next election gave him a seat in parlia- ment as a representative from Sudbury. April II, 1624, his wife Dorothy died, and Septem- ber 21 following he married (second) Susan, daughter of Sir Giles Allington, of Cam- bridgeshire. May II, 1627, Charles I created him a baronet ; and in 1632 he was high sheriff of the county of Suffolk. In 1640 the election was so close that Sir Robert's seat was claimed by his opponent, Mr. Brampton Gurdon, son of John Gurdon, of Assington, a connection by marriage of the Saltonstalls and the friend or relative of "Mr. Rogers in New England." December 8, 1640, the parliamentary commit- tee to whom the contested election had been referred reported "that Sir Robert Crane is duly elected ;" and consequently he took his seat in the famous long parliament, where he joined the opponents of King Charles. May 3, 1641, he affixed his name to the "Protesta- tion," which declared for the protestant reli- gion and the privileges of parliament ; and he was appointed one of the commissioners for the county of Suffolk whose duty it was to see to the enforcement of the act against scan- dalous clergymen and others. In August, 1642, a mob surrounded Long Melford, the home of Lady Rivers, a recusant, and a retainer of the Earl of Warwick, Mr. Arthur Wilson, was sent with a few men and a coach and six to fetch Lady Rivers to Lees Priory. Reaching Sudbury Mr. Wilson was stopped; and though set free as soon as recognized, was unable to go on to the succor of Lady Rivers i-2
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