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much to say that much of the success which the company has achieved has been the result of his exceptional ability and devotion to the interests of the company and to the promotion of its welfare." In 1876 Dr. Ward became a member of the medical board of St. Michael's Hospital, the oldest institution of its kind in Newark, and for seven years he was its secre- tary. He was at this time also visiting surgeon of St. Barnabas Hospital. Before 1876 the duties now performed by the county physician of Essex county had for the most part been done by coroners and magistrates ; but in 1877, by the appointment of Dr. Ward to the office of county physician, the present state of things was inaugurated. Dr. Ward's residence is 1058 Broad street, Newark, and his country home is "Brooklake Park," Madison, New Jersey.
He was a delegate from New Jersey to the Republican national convention in Philadel- phia, June, 1900, and a member of the com- mittee notifying Mr. Mckinley of his nomina- tion for his second term. He was also a mem- ber of the Chicago convention nominating and the committee notifying Mr. Roosevelt of his nomination for second term, and again delegate to Chicago in 1908, and one of the vice-presi- dents of the Republican national committee. His clubs are the Union League of New York, Essex of Newark, Essex County Country Club, Tuxedo Club of Tuxedo, Automobile Club of America, Whippany River Club of Morris- town, Morris County Country Golf Club, Morristown Club and the Flatbrook Valley Club. March 5, 1874, he married Minnie, daughter of James Perry, of Newark, and has had two children: Leslie Perry Ward, and Herbert E. Ward, married Nancy Currier, and has one child, Helen.
WARD (VIII) Edgar Bethune Ward, fourth child and third son of Moses Dodd (q. v.) and Justina Louisa (Sayre) Ward, was born in Afton (then Columbia), Morris county, New Jersey. He acquired a practical education in the village school, and the knowledge thus gained was supplemented by attendance at the Bloomfield Academy and Cornell University. He then directed his attention to the study of law, be- ginning his reading in the offices of Runyon & Leonard, the senior partner of which firm was the well-known chancellor of New Jersey, and completed his course under the tuition of Hon. J. Henry Stone and John P. Jackson Jr.,
who at that time were practicing under the firm name of Stone & Jackson. In 1872 Mr. Ward received his license as attorney, and was ad- mitted to the bar as counsellor in 1875. During the interim between 1872 and 1875 he acted as managing clerk for the law firm of Mc- Carter & Keen, where he gained by actual prac- tice the equipment for an active and successful career. Immediately after his admission as counsellor, Mr. Ward opened an office in New- ark, New Jersey, for the general practice of law, and for the following five years his busi- ness steadily increased in volume and import- ance. In 1880 an opportunity presented itself which enabled him to concentrate his energies and knowledge of law along special lines. The Prudential Insurance Company, which had been incorporated in April, 1873, and organized October 13, 1875, was the means to this end. In this company Mr. Ward became deeply interested, and was a member of the board of directors from the organization of the com- pany. Mr. Ward was offered and accepted the position of counsel for the company, which had entered into active competition with the old line companies with a new system of insur- ance that was at once both popular and pro- gressive. In 1880, when it was clearly appar- ent that the Prudential Insurance Company would become one of the leading companies in the country, Mr. Ward was forced to relin- quish his general practice and devote his entire time to the work and responsibilities of the Prudential, and it is the general concensus of opinion that it was the skillful management of the law department that materially contributed to the development and success of the company. Mr. Ward also served in the capacity of sec- ond vice-president of the company for many years. In addition he served in the directorate of the National State Bank, Fidelity Trust Company, Union National Bank, Firemen's Insurance Company and the old Newark and South Orange Railroad Company. During his residence in Newark Mr. Ward represented his ward in the board of education, where he proved himself to be a firm believer in the higher education for the masses. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Masons; of the Essex Club, Essex County Country Club, Lawyers' Club, and the Auto Club of America in New York. In 1892 Mr. Ward removed to Orange, New Jersey, and later to his present residence in Harrison street, East Orange. Both he and his wife are active participants in the social life of the
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community, and are in hearty sympathy with all that tends to its material welfare and de- velopment.
Edgar Bethune Ward married Harriet Newell, daughter of John P. Jube, of Newark, a descendant of one of the old New York fam- ilies. Children : Edgar Percy and Newell Jube, both referred to below; and Kenneth Bethune.
(IX) Edgar Percy, eldest son and child of Edgar Bethune and Harriet Newell (Jube) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Au- gust 10, 1879. After graduation from the Dearborn-Morgan School in Orange, he enter- ed Yale University, class of 1900. After his graduation he took up the study of law at the New York Law School, and upon the comple- tion of his course accepted a position in the legal department of the Prudential Company, where he remained until about 1906, his time being especially devoted to the passing on titles for real estate loans. In the early part of 1906 Edgar P. Ward and Gustave W. Gehin organ- ized the Ward-Gehin Company, an insurance and real estate agency corporation. The bril- liant prospects before this new firm and its high rating in the business world of Newark can be expressed in no better way than in the following words taken from the Expositor, which is one of the most authoritative period- icals of the insurance and financial world. In the issue of June 30, 1908, it says: "The agency has been in operation not quite two years, but during this period it has made a notable and creditable record, which was natur- ally to be expected, owing to the prominent connections, high standing and well-directed energetic efforts of its principals, Messrs. Ward and Gehin." Early in 1909 Mr. Ward was elected a director in the Firemen's Insurance Company of Newark. He holds membership in the Union Club and Yale Club of New York. He is a Republican in politics. Edgar Percy Ward married, June 10, 1903, in Boston, Mass- achusetts, Laura Edith, daughter of John de Wolf and Mary Catherine ( Miller ) Wilson. Children: Muriel, born March 5, 1904, and Edgar Bethune (2d), February 7, 1907. The family reside at No. 517 Centre street, South Orange, New Jersey.
(IX) Newell Jube, second son and child of Edgar Bethune and Harriet Newell (Jube) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 27, 1882. His educational advantages were obtained in the Newark Academy, Lawrence- ville Academy, Westminster School at Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he completed his
preparation for Harvard University, matri- culating in the class of 1904. He afterwards entered the employ of the Prudential Insur- ance Company, with whom he continued for more than five years, resigning in order to be- come the vice-president of the Allen Adver- tising Company, with whom he remained until 1908, when he was elected secretary of the Frank Seaman Company, incorporated, an ad- vertising firm at No. 30 West Thirty-third street, New York City. Mr. Ward is a Re- publican in politics. He is a member of the Essex County Country Club. Newell Jube Ward married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ethel, only daughter of Theodore H. and Mary (Coop) Couderman. They reside at No. 116 Highland avenue, Orange, New Jersey.
WARD (VII) Aaron Condit, the sixth child and fourth son of Jacob (2) (q. v.) and Abigail (Dodd) Ward,
was born in Bloomfield, Essex county, Febru- ary 10, 1810. He was about two years old when his father moved the family to Columbia, now Afton, Morris county, and in the latter place young Aaron was brought up a strict Presbyterian and received his education from the district school, and his vigorous health from the out-door farm life. He was, how- ever, of a mechanical turn of mind, and the appeal of manufacturing business was greater to him than that of the farm; consequently, in 1828, when eighteen years old, he found his way to Newark and into an establishment for making sashes and blinds. Here his genius found the material it needed to work upon, and it was not long before he had devised improve- ments in the then existing machinery and finally had invented a machine for the making of wood mouldings, which he patented. Mr. Ward, who inherited his share of the business ability of the family, now set about putting his invention to use, and, taking two or three others into his confidence, the result was the founding of the firm of Ward, Huntington & Company, of which Mr. Ward was senior partner to his death, and the building of a fac- tory on the corner of Bruen and Lafayette streets, in which his newly patented invention was successfully operated. The remainder of Mr. Ward's life was devoted to his business, his family and his church; he was a Repub- lican, but contented himself with. voting with his party, and with acting as a member of the Newark board of education from 1857 to 1858. Shortly after coming to Newark he had allied himself with the Sixth Presbyterian Church
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of that city, and for many years was not only a devout member and finally a deacon, but he labored indefatigably in its Sunday school as teacher and superintendent. On the day of his death, June 25, 1860, the Newark Daily Advertiser not only put the usual death notice in its columns, but also placed an obituary of him among its editorials. He was buried on the Wednesday following his death, from the Sixth Presbyterian Church, and his body was interred in Mount Pleasant cemetery. In 1832 Aaron Condit Ward married Mary Oliver Munn. Children: 1. Alexander, born 1833; died 1903 ; married (first) Henrietta E., daugh- ter of James F. Bond, who died June 19, 1860. leaving three children-Francis, Caroline and Anna Bond. Alexander married (second) Miss Hardam, who bore him one child; and on her death he married (third) Mrs. Francis, through whom he became father of George Alexander Ward, of Newark. 2. Elizabeth T., born June 18, 1834; now living in Newark; married William K. Poinier, born July 3, 1832, died September 3, 1895; six children. (See Poinier). 3. Joseph Grover, of whom further. 4. Margaret Anna, born May 1, 1838; died March, 1903; married Daniel S. Evans, of Washington, D. C .; four children. 5. Julia, born February, 1840; died unmarried, about 1867.
(VIII) Joseph Grover, third child and younger son of Aaron Condit and Mary Oliver (Munn) Ward, was born in Newark, October 31, 1836, and died in that city, April 27, 1902. For his education he was sent to the famous school started in his native city in 1820 by Dr. Nathan Hedges, in which so many of Newark's business men for a quarter of a century re- ceived their training, and after graduating from there attended for a while at the seminary of J. Sandford Smith. When he was about fifteen years old his father apprenticed him to the firm of Durand & Company, manufactur- ing jewelers, and his interest in this kind of work became so great that when his term of apprenticeship was over he voluntarily con- tinued in the employ of the same firm as a journeyman. Later on he obtained a financial interest in the business, and when, owing to deaths, changes were made in the personal of the firm he obtained a large interest. Had he lived not quite a year longer than he did he would not only have risen from apprentice boy to vice-president and half owner of the busi- ness, but would also have completed a half- century in the branch of manufacturing, the success of which in its later years has been
largely owing to his genius and ability. During his life he was regarded as one of the leaders in the jewelry trade, and many of the medals for international athletic events were not only made in his shops, but were of his own design- ing. In an obituary published in the Newark Evening News at the time of his death, he is spoken of as "the best jewelry designer in the country." While still a young man, Mr. Ward moved to Irvington, where he continued to live for about thirty-five years, becoming one of that village's most influential and representa- tive citizens. For many years he was presi- dent of the township committee, and also presi- dent of the board of freeholders; as a Repub- lican he was both active and influential not only in Irvington, but later on also when he re- moved back to Newark.
Mr. Ward was a Knight Templar Mason. Outside of his business, his political interests and his family, he gave most of his spare time and energies to his religion. For many years he labored long and earnestly as an official and superintendent in the Sunday school of the Reformed Dutch Church in Irvington, and as an elder, and after removal to Newark became a member of First Reformed Dutch Church. Mr. Ward was drafted for the civil war, but the state of his health obliged him to send a substitute in his place, as even then the begin- nings of the organic disease which finally over- came him had made their appearance. He was a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, tracing his ancestry back to his great-great-grandfather, grandfather of his father's mother, Isaac Dodd, private in the Essex county New Jersey militia, although he was also entitled to his member- ship from his descent from his own great- grandfather, Jacob Ward (I), likewise a pri- vate in the Essex county militia.
Between 1890 and 1895 Mr. Ward left Irvington and returned to Newark, making his home at 33 Johnson avenue, where he remain- ed for the rest of his life. For many years he had been troubled with an organic weakness of his heart, which ended with his death. This delicacy of health made Mr. Ward feel that the time he could spare from his business should be devoted to his family ; consequently, although he was repeatedly offered the director- ship in banks and affiliation with other financial institutions, he invariably refused, and more and more confined himself to his home and his office and his social life. His end was sud- den and peaceful. He was apparently in ex- cellent health for him when he left his desk at
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the close of business hours on Saturday, and until Sunday evening there was no sign of serious trouble, but in the night he passed sud- denly and quietly away. The funeral was from his home at two o'clock the following Wednes- day afternoon, Rev. Timothy J. Lee, of the First Reformed Dutch Church, and Rev. Dan- iel H. Martin, of the Clinton Avenue Reform- ed Dutch Church, officiating, and the interment being at New Providence, where the family burying-ground is located.
Joseph Grover Ward married (first), Octo- ber 8, 1860, Julia Smith, third child of Rev. Thomas and Emily ( Beach) Cochrane. Chil- dren : I. Aaron Condit Ward, M. D., born March 8, 1862; married Sylvina, daughter of Hiram Haskins; has twin children, Walter Lester and Harold Haskins. Aaron Condit Ward was one of the medical examiners of the Prudential Life Insurance Company at the time of his death. 2. William Cochrane Ward, see forward. 3. Henry Carr Ward, see for- ward. 4. Florence Ward, born May 22, 1869; married James Edward Young Jr., of Brook- lyn; one child, Marjorie. 5. Arthur Beach Ward, see forward. 6. Joseph Grover Ward Jr., born November 15, 1876; married and living in Jersey City ; without issue. October 23, 1898, Joseph Grover Ward Sr. married (second) Elizabeth, seventh child of Rev. Thomas and Emily (Beach) Cochrane, sister of his first wife, and widow of Henry J. Carr, of New York. By her first husband Mrs. Carr was mother of three children-Edward Beach Carr, died in infancy; William Henry Carr, a Brooklyn barrister, who died unmar- ried, at the age of thirty-six ; and Walter Les- ter Carr, M. D., of New York, her oldest child, who married Grace Elmendorf, and has two children-Elmendorf Lester Carr, and Rowland Stebbins Lester Carr. Mrs. Eliza- beth (Cochrane) Carr-Ward survives her hus- band, and is now living at the Irving apart- ments, 224 Broad street, Newark.
(IX) William Cochrane, second child and son of Joseph Grover and Julia Smith (Coch- rane) Ward, was born June 20, 1864, in New- ark, and is now living with his family at 67 Gleenwood avenue, East Orange. He was pre- pared for college in the Newark Academy, and then entered Rutgers College, where he grad- uated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1883. He then started in the jewelry busi- ness in his father's factory, but the work not proving to his liking he soon afterwards ob- tained a position with the Newark Electric Light and Power Company, which he retained
until 1900, and then resigned to accept another position offered to him by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, with whom he has been ever since and where now he has become assistant sales manager. Mr. Ward is a Republican, and during the resi- dence of his father's family in Irvington he was quite an active figure in the politics, of the village. Starting in by running for and ob- taining the smaller and more unimportant offices, he gradually rose from office to office until he became chairman of the township committee, which he held for five years, and then at the annexation of a portion of the village to Newark dropped out of politics en- tirely. Mr. Ward belongs to no secret soci- eties. He is a member of the Rutgers Alumni Association of New York, the University Club, the Chi Phi Club, the Rutgers Club of New- ark, the Machinery Club, the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, and the New York Society of Electrical Engineers. For some years Mr. Ward has been a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church.
June 20, 1886, William Cochrane Ward married Corinne Andrews, daughter of Joseph Andrews and Jane ( Morris) Whittaker, both of whom were born in England. Mrs. Corinne Andrews (Whittaker) Ward was born in Irvington, March 7, 1865, and is the youngest of three children, all of whom are now mar- ried. She has borne Mr. Ward four children : Julian and William, both of whom died in infancy ; Harry Carleton Ward, born March 21, 1892 ; and Janet Morris Ward, September 30, 1898.
(IX) Henry Carr, third son and child of Joseph Grover and Julia Smith (Cochrane) Ward, was born in Irvington, New Jersey, Au- gust 27, 1866, and is now living at 330 Clinton avenue, Newark. Until 1878, when he was twelve years old, he attended the public schools, and was then sent to finish his education at the private school of E. E. Clarke, at Stratford, Connecticut. On leaving school he started in the jewelry business as salesman for his father's house, Durand & Company, and has rapidly risen in his career, until now he is vice- president of the corporation. In politics Mr. Ward is a Republican, but he has held no office. He belongs to no secret societies ; he is a member of the Auto and Motor Club and of the Jewelers' Club of Boston. He is a com- municant of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church of Newark. June 1, 1889, Henry Carr Ward married Grace Louise, eldest daughter of Stephen Van Cortlandt and Emilie ( Fichter )
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Cadmus, by whom he has had one child, Ray- onette Emily Ward, born April 11, 1890, died in July, 1891.
(IX) Arthur Beach, fourth son and fifth child of Joseph Grover and Julia Smith ( Coch- rane) Ward, was born in Irvington, New Jer- sey, November 30, 1874, and is now living at 72 Nairn place, Newark. His early education was received in private schools, and he was then sent to the Newark Academy, from which he graduated in 1891. His desire was to fol- low in his father's footsteps, and for this pur- pose he entered the employ of the Gorham Manufacturing Company in New York imme- diately after graduation to study the designing of high grade jewelry. His father, however, wished him to become an architect, and in the early part of 1892 he entered the office of Henry S. Ihnen, in New York City, where he continued until the fall of the same year, when he convinced his father that his genius lay in another direction and he was allowed to take the place he wished in the workshop of his father's factory. From this place he has climb- ed steadily, until now he is the general manager of the factory, and a stockholder in the cor- poration. He is a Republican, who has held no office, and belongs to no secret societies. His clubs are the Essex Bicycle Club and the New Jersey Auto and Motor Club. His church is the Clinton Avenue Dutch Reformed. Octo- ber 8, 1901, Arthur Beach Ward married Min- nie, youngest daughter of George and Dora (Spaeth) Schrick; children: Arthur Beach Ward, born August 26, 1903; Norman Schrick Ward, October II, 1907.
WARD (VII) Samuel Davis, son of Jacob (q. v.) and Abigail ( Dodd) Ward, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1812, and died in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1883. He removed to Rahway early in life and became there a successful carriage manufacturer, a business which he conducted for many years. He was a captain of militia, and at the outbreak of the civil war volunteered his services, but being past the age prescribed by the military authorities, his application was rejected. He married, in 1854, Rebecca Mar- tin, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Miller) Miller (see Miller). Children : I. Clarence David, referred to below. 2. Frederick Will- iam, born January 30, 1858; died April 6, 1899 ; married Jessie Coe, daughter of James and Harriet M. (Hedden) Peck; children : Sterling D., born January 26, 1891 ; Ethel W., born March 1, 1894; Jessie W., born October
8, 1895 ; Marjorie, born September 2, 1898. 3. Susan, died aged four years. 4. Ella Miller, married Joseph H. Bryan, of New York; chil- dren: Chester Ward, Elva, and Doris Bryan.
(VIII) Clarence David, son of Samuel Davis and Rebecca Martin ( Miller) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 7, 1856, and is now living at Rahway. For his early education he was sent to the Rahway and Newark public schools, and after graduating and receiving his LL. B. degree with the class of 1877 from the Columbia Law School, he read law with the firm of J. R. & N. English, at Elizabeth, being admitted to the New Jer- sey bar as attorney in November, 1877, and as counsellor in November, 1881. He then formed a partnership with Hon. Benjamin A. Vail, which continued until 1904, when Mr. Vail resigned and Mr. Ward continued the business by himself. He is a Republican in politics ; was a member of the common council of Rahway, 1883-86; county attorney for Union county, 1888-93, and city attorney of Rahway, 1897- 1902. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Independent Order of Foresters, and of the Heptasophs. He is also a member of the County Bar Association, president of the board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Rahway, and counsel and manager of the Rahway Savings Institution. He married, in Rahway, June 24, 1886, Annie Pauline, daugh- ter of Frederick and Annie M. (Haydock) Schumacher, who was born June 24, 1865. Children : 1. Helen E., born April 4, 1888. 2. Clarence Arnold, July 20, 1896. Children of Frederick and Anna M. (Haydock) Schu- macher : I. Dora M. 2. Jennie E. 3. Leonora. 4. Eva S. 5. Annie Pauline, referred to above. 6. Gertrude. 7. Frederick.
(The Miller Line).
William Miller, founder of the family at present under consideration, died in 171I. He was probably a brother of Andrew and John Miller, of Easthampton, and all three were possibly the sons of John Miller, of Southamp- ton. William Miller came to Elizabethtown about 1683, but returned soon afterward for a time to Long Island. In 1692 he returned to Elizabethtown, and drew lot No. 62 of the one hundred acre lots at "the Edg or foot of ye mountain," adjoining Joseph Lyon at Scotch Plains. It is a family tradition that when he went to reside on this lot so far away from the town plot, the parting was rendered very solemn by the expectation that they should seldom if ever see him again, but to their sur-
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prise, when the townspeople went to church the next Sunday morning, they found him sitting on the steps. He married Hannah Children: 1. Sarah, married Peter Ellstone. 2. Hannah, married Daniel Crane. 3. Samuel, born about 1674; died 1759; married Elizabeth Thompson or Elizabeth Riggs. 4. Richard, died 1759 or 1760; married possibly Rachel Hatfield. 5. Jonathan, referred to below. 6. William. 7. Andrew. 8. Daughter, married Samuel Dayton.
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