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Thomas, John and William, and daughters Grace and Agnes. John, the father of these children, was an early sheriff of Burlington county, and the same office was afterward held by his son John.
(II) William Hollingshead, son of John and Grace Hollingshead, was born in England and came to New Jersey with his parents. Little is known of him except that he married, but the name of his wife and the date of their mar- riage is not known. Four of his children are mentioned in the will of their grandfather : Grace, Elizabeth, George and Sarah, but there also was a son Jonathan and probably other children of whom we have no account.
(III) Jonathan, son of William Hollings- head, and of whom nothing is known except that he married and had children.
(IV) Jacob, son of Jonathan Hollingshead, was born in Moorestown, New Jersey, and married Lippincott. Their children were : Anthony, Sarah, Ann, Enoch, Jacob, Hugh and Thomas.
(V) Enoch, son of Jacob and (Lip- pincott) Hollingshead, was born in Moores- town, and married Rebecca Austin. Their children were: Charles, Enoch and Martha.
(VI) Charles, son of Enoch and Rebecca ( Austin) Hollingshead, was born in Moores- town, in 1800, and died in 1875. He was en- gaged in farming all his life, which was mostly spent on the old homestead place. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He mar- ried Esther, daughter of Job and Martha Haines. Their children were: Charles, Na- than. Elwood, Martha, Esther, Mary Rebecca and Enoch.
(VII) Dr. Enoch Hollingshead, son of Charles and Esther ( Haines) Hollingshead, was born in Medford, New Jersey, in 1844. His literary education was acquired in schools in Medford and the Chester County Academy and he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated from the medical department in 1867. After graduation he began practice in New Egypt, New Jersey, where he remained until 1877, when he re- moved to Pemberton, where he has remained. He is a member of the state and county med- ical societies of New Jersey, the Philadelphia Medical Club, and the American Medical Asso- ciation. Politically he is a Democrat, and he was born and brought up in the religious faith of the Society of Friends. In May, 1870, he married Esther Woodward, born near Mount Holly, New Jersey, daughter of Benajah and Rachel ( Buttersworth) Wood-
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ward. Children: 1. Irving W., born October 12, 1871; see forward. 2. Mary B., born in New Egypt, September, 1874; married W. C. Hancock, coal merchant of Philadelphia. 3. Lyman B., see forward. 4. Charles Herbert, born February, 1880; drowned September 21, 1896. Two otlfer children died in infancy.
(VIII) Dr. Irving Woodward Hollingshead, eldest child of Dr. Enoch and Esther (Wood- ward ) Hollingshead, was born at New Egypt, New Jersey, October 12, 1871, and received his literary education in public schools at Pem- berton, New Jersey, the academy at Mount Holly, and the Friends' Central School, Phila- delphia. He afterward took a course in biology at the University of Pennsylvania, and also the regular course of the medical department of the same institution and graduated M. D. in 1894. Since he came to the degree Dr. Hol- lingshead has engaged in general medical prac- tice in Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Philadel- phia Medical Society, and in religious prefer- ence never has departed from the faith of the Society of Friends in which he was born. He married, October 15, 1902, Florence Bucking- ham, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Dr. Lyman B. Hollingshead, son of Dr. Enoch and Esther (Woodward) Hollings- head, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, June 26, 1876. He attended public schools in his native place and in Mt. Holly, and Swarth- more College, then took up the study of medi- cine at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Phila- delphia, where he came to the degree of M. D. in 1906. Upon graduation he associated him- self in practice with his father, Dr. Enoch Hollingshead, at Princeton, and has been identified with him since. In August, 1908, Dr. Hollingshead married Daisy H. E. Simp- son, daughter of Samuel and Josephine Van Horne Simpson, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl- vania.
KEASBEY Edward Keasbey, founder of the Keasbey family in this country, emigrated from Glou- cestershire, England, about the year 1694, and settled in Salem, West New Jersey. The town, Fenwick Settlement, in 1684 was called New Salem, and the town of Salem was incorporated in 1695. He was then a young man and had probably become a member of the Society of Friends before leaving England, and had come to this country in order to avoid religious perse- cution. Soon after his arrival we find him taking an active part in the affairs and the
religious meetings of the society. His subscrip- tion towards the erection of the brick Friends' meetinghouse in the graveyard on Broadway, now Broadway street, Salem, was £5. This house was completed in 1701, and shortly after- wards, II mo. 26, 1701, he married Elizabeth, widow of Isaac Smart, of Elsinborough, daugh- ter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Marshill) Thompson, who was born near Dublin, Ireland, October 15, 1666. His will is dated August 13, 1712, and proved December 24, 1712. Chil- dren: Mary, born May II, 1703; Edward, re- ferred to below; Matthew, born 1706; Sus- anna.
(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (I) and Elizabeth (Thompson-Smart) Keasbey, was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1705. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of William and Eliza- beth ( White ) Bradway. The house built by Ed- ward Bradway, father of William Bradway, in 1691, is still standing. Children: Edward, re- ferred to below ; Mary; Bradway.
(III) Edward (3), son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth ( Bradway) Keasbey, was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1726, died in 1779. His name was first on the list of patriots proscribed in the proclamation of March 21, 1778, after the battle of Quinton's Bridge, March 18, 1778. He was a deputy from Salem to the provincial congress of 1775, and attended the session in New Brunswick in October that year, when ordinances were passed for the organization of the militia and the issue of letters of credit. During the revolution he was a member of the council of safety. He married (first) Pru- dence, daughter of Edward and Temperance (Smith) Quinton; (second) Sarah, sister of his first wife ( for their ancestry see Quinton). Children, ten by first wife, six by second wife : I. Edward. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Matthew, born 1749; drowned at sea. 4. Sarah. 5. Lewis, born 1752; married Sarah Grinnell. 6. Phebe. 7. Prudence. 8. Edward (2). 9. Samuel. 10. Anthony, referred to below. II. Temperance, married Judge John Smith. 12. Delzin, mar- ried Rachel Smith. 13. Jesse, married a daugh- ter of Thomas Bowen Sr., of Salem. 14- Rachel, married Leonard Gibbon. 15. Keziah. 16. Jane.
(IV) Anthony, son of Edward and Pru- dence (Quinton) Keasbey, was born in 1758. He was clerk of Salem county, and a member of the New Jersey assembly, 1798-1801. He married, in 1758, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Abbott) Brick, of Elsinborough (see Brick). Children: I. Rebecca, married Charles Hanna. 2. Prudence, died in middle
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age ; unmarried. 3. Matthew, married Ann Fisher, of Woodbury ; children : Caroline and Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and Quinton. Quinton was a senator from Salem county for two terms. His son, Howard Buzby Keasbey, is a lawyer living in Salem; he is a member of the common council ; he is the only man of the name of Keasbey living in Salem, and he has inherited some of the family acres. He married Anne Bassett, of Salem, a descendant of one of the original settlers, William Bassett, who came to Salem county from Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1691. 4. Edward Quinton, referred to below. 5. Hannah, married Thomas van Meter. 6. Anthony, went south. 7. Artemisia, died un- married. 8. Ann, married James M. Hanna.
(V) Edward Quinton, son of Anthony and Hannah (Brick) Keasbey, born 1795, died 1847. He was a physician with a large practice a judge of the common pleas, and one of the presidential electors for Henry Clay in 1844. He married Mary Parry, daughter of Gillaem Aertsen, of Charleston, South Carolina, who was a resident of Philadelphia. Children: I. Anthony Quinton, referred to below. 2. Helen. 3. Annie Artemisia Aertsen, married Wheeler H. Peckham, of New York. 4. Edward Keas- bey, married (first) Anna Griffith, (second) Louise Pothier, (third) Sara Steele. His chil- dren by first wife: Henry Griffith, of East- bourne, England; Mary Parry, wife of Fran- cis A. Hardy, of Evanston, Illinois .; Robert Aertsen, of Montclair, New Jersey. Child of Edward Keasbey by second wife: William P., of California.
(VI) Anthony Quinton, son of Dr. Edward Quinton and Mary Parry ( Aertsen ) Keasbey, was born in Salem, New Jersey, March I, 1826, died in Rome, Italy, April 4, 1895. After receiving a preliminary education in Salem he was graduated from Yale College in 1843, and then entered the office of Francis Law Mac- culloch, Esq., in Salem, son of George P. Mac- culloch, of Morristown (see Miller family). Subsequently he went to Newark and continued his studies with Cortlandt Parker, and was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar in October, 1846. He then returned to Salem, where he practiced his profession until after the death of his wife in 1852, when he removed to Newark, where three years later he formed a partnership (the first law partnership in New Jersey under the act of 1852) with Cortlandt Parker, which continued until 1876, when it was dissolved in order that Mr. Parker might associate him- self with his son, Richard Wayne Parker, and Mr. Keasbey, with his two sons, Edward Quin-
ton and George M., under the firm name of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons. Mr. Keasbey devoted himself with great energy to the practice of his profession, acquiring soon a good clientele in Essex county, while still engaged in some im- portant cases in Cape May, including the insur- ance cases that arose out of the burning of the Mount Vernon Hotel. It was there that he invoked for the first time the jurisdiction of the United States court in which he was after- wards so prominent a figure. This was in 1859, when the state of New Jersey was with- out a chancellor, and in order to obtain an in- junction Mr. Keasbey went to the Long Island coast in search of Judge Dickerson, whom he finally found in a fishing boat in Jamaica Bay. In April, 1861, he received from President Lincoln the appointment of United States at- torney for the district of New Jersey, and was reappointed in 1865. It was discovered, how- ever, after the death of Mr. Lincoln, that the commission had not been signed by him, and Mr. Keasbey was therefore appointed by Presi- dent Johnson until the following session of the senate, when in 1866 he was regularly com- missioned for another term of four years. In 1870 he was reappointed by President Grant and again in 1874-78, thus holding the office continuously for twenty-five years, during which time he performed distinguished serv- ice and dealt with many very important cases. During the civil war a great deal of his work had reference to persons who were suspected of giving aid and comfort to the enemy in his own state and town, and also to the enlistment of soldiers for the war. Once, having prose- cuted a man who attempted to abduct a young volunteer from Massachusetts, he received a letter of commendation from Governor An- drew. He also took an active and efficient part in the suppression of great frauds con- nected with the United States revenue, being associated in this with the Federal officials in Washington and with the district attorneys of several states. One of the most important cases with which he was connected in his offi- cial capacity was the prosecution which re- sulted from the discovery of a conspiracy to defraud the United States government of a legacy of $1,000,000 bequeathed by Joseph L. Lewis, an eccentric miser of Hoboken, who directed that it be applied towards the pay- ment of the national debt.
Mr. Keasbey was all his life in active prac- tice as attorney and counsel, and was one of the recognized leaders of the bar of New Jersey, possessing a national reputation. Be-
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sides his official work as United States attorney he had a large general practice and was inti- mately connected with many financial institu- tions. From 1868 to 1876 he was counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance Company in New Jersey, and examiner of applications for loans and of the titles to lands in Essex, Union, Middlesex and Monmouth counties. He pos- sessed great ability as a trial lawyer, and was especially noted for his skill in the cross exam- ination of witnesses. He had a remarkable faculty of clear statement, and his gentle man- ner enhanced to a great degree his power of vigorous denunciation and passionate invective against fraud and wrong. He was engaged in many arguments in the court of chancery and in the New Jersey supreme court and court of errors. He also had a large practice in patent causes, and his great familiarity with the prin- ciples of equity, combined with an intense interest in new inventions and discoveries, gave him many advantages. He also took a keen interest in all public affairs. As a young man he was active in the organization of the Repub- lican party, and was efficient and prominent in its affairs in city and state throughout his life, becoming distinguished as a public speaker and an able advocate. He also promoted many plans for the improvement of Newark, and took part in the building up of the street rail- way system, being one of the leaders in carry- ing out the plan whereby the different lines were consolidated and equipped for operation by electricity. He was one of the incorporators of the Howard Savings Institution, and served for nearly forty years on the board of man- agers. He was also one of the founders of St. Barnabas Hospital, and from 1867 until his death one of its managers. He was a charter member of the Essex Club, and served for many years on the board of governors. He was also a member of the New Jersey His- torical Society, and contributed some important papers to its records, notably his address on the lives of Judges Field and Nixon, a paper on the bi-centennial of the purchase of East Jersey, and another published after his death, on slavery in New Jersey. His opinions on political affairs and legal questions of public interest were frequently published as editorials in the Newark and New York City papers. His reading was very extensive and varied, and he was familiar not only with the best literature of the past but also with the latest writings of the authors of his day. A few years before his death he built a country house in Morristown. and in the latter part of 1894 made it his home.
In the spring of 1895 he went to Italy witlı his daughters for a short vacation, was taken suddenly ill, and on the 4th of April he died in Rome. The following estimate of his char- acter was given in the Newark Daily Adver- tiser at the time of his death:
"Mr. Keasbey was, in a multitude of re- spects, one of the most eminent men of the state. In learning, in culture, in refinement, in the profundity of his legal knowledge, in the sagacity of his business judgment, in the clarity of his intellectual opinions, in his ap- preciation of the true, the beautiful and the good, in the warmth of his social life and the intensity of his friendship, he was a remark- able and distinguished man. Few men in our state have the wide range and sweep that marked Mr. Keasbey's intellectual equipment. He could have shone on many fields of en- deavor, but he chose the law, in which he achieved so many and so brilliant triumphs. In the world of letters, had he chosen to walk in that field, he would have made a high name and fame for himself, so rich was his power of expression, so well stored his mind, so wide his grasp of essential things. Even in his busy career he found time to write much, and in everything he wrote there was a fineness of expression, a delicacy of touch, a force, vigor and charm which disclosed the true man. Of his private and personal life this is not the time or place to speak. His wide circle of friends feel too keenly the sad blow of his death, to give any definite form or expression to the sense of their profound loss. He was the most genial of companions, the most de- voted of friends, most affectionate in all the sacred and beautiful relations of his home. Time cannot diminish the intensity of the loss created by his death, nor will it efface the recollection of his distinguished career as a lawyer, jurist, author and citizen, nor the memory of his rare qualities as a friend, coun- selor, companion and father. Death came too soon for Mr. Keasbey, but none the less it found him prepared and in that beautiful atti- tude of readiness which he loved to describe in his favorite poem, Emerson's 'Terminus' :"
" As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef and sail, Obey the voice at eve, obeyed at prime; Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed."
Mr. Keasbey married (first) Elizabeth, sec-
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ond child and daughter of Jacob W. and Mary (McCulloch) Miller, of Morristown (see Miller ). He married (second) Edwina Louisa, first child of Jacob W. and Mary (McCulloch) Miller, referred to above. Children, three by first wife: 1. Edward Quinton, referred to be- low. 2. George McCulloch, born in Salem, New Jersey, October 25, 1850; lawyer in Newark ; married Annie W., daughter of William M. Lewis, of Newark. 3. Elizabeth, died 1862, in childhood. 4. Mary Aertsen, died in child- hood. 5. Francis McCulloch, died in infancy. 6. Henry Miller, born January. 16, 1859 ; vice- president of National Fire Proofing Company, of Pittsburgh and New York; married, April 18, 1883, Charlotte Condit Lewis. 7. Rowland P., born September 8, 1861 ; treasurer of Na- tional Fire Proofing Company ; married Minna, daughter of Edward H. and Dora (Mason) Wright, of Newark. 8. Francis H. 9. Louisa Edwina. 10. Lindley Miller, born in New- ark, New Jersey, February 24, 1867 ; professor of political economy in University of Texas ; married, June 8, 1892, Cornelia Simrall, of Louisville, Kentucky. II. Frederick Winston, born January 29, 1870; publisher of the Cor- poration Manual in New York ; married Mary Welsh, daughter of Rev. William H. Vibbert, of New York ; one child-Julia Newbold Keas- bey.
(VII) Edward Quinton Keasbey, son of Hon. Anthony Quinton and Elizabeth (Miller ) Keasbey, was born in Salem, New Jersey, July 27, 1849, and is now living in Morristown, New Jersey. He early attended the private school of Rev. Julius H. Rose, in Newark, and was prepared for college at the Newark Acad- emy. After taking the freshman year in Co- lumbia College he entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated with first honors in 1869. He received the degree of A. M. in 1872, and delivered the master's oration. He began the study of law in the office of Parker & Keasbey immediately after leaving college in 1869, entered Harvard Law School the fol- lowing year, in 1871 received the degree of LL. B., and remained in the school under Pro- fessor Langdell until June, 1872. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney at the June term that year, and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Newark. In 1875 he received his license as counsellor. On the dissolution of the firm of Parker & Keasbey, in March, 1876, he joined with his father and his brother, George M. Keasbey, in forming the firm of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons, and this firm style was preserved after the
death of the father ( April 4, 1895) and until 1904, when it was changed to Edward Q. & George M. Keasbey. He is a supreme court commissioner and a special master in chancery and served as a United States commissioner for many years.
Mr. Keasbey has had an extensive and varied practice in his office and in the state and Fed- eral courts. A careful student of the law, he is thorough in the preparation of his briefs on legal questions, and, with the faculty of clear statement and logical argument, is espe- cially effective in the presentation of legal ques- tions in the appellate courts, and has made some notable arguments in important cases both at law and in equity. He took part in the argument before the court of errors in the case involving the constitutionality of the statute providing for assembly districts, in which it was held, as he insisted, that the statute was unconstitutional. He has had experience in patent litigation, and has argued cases of this character in the United States supreme court and the United States circuit court of appeals. In all his career he has held the high- est standards of both personal and professional conduct, and his record is absolutely untainted.
Mr. Keasbey is recognized as a forceful and industrious author along professional lines, and his writings have enjoyed wide and favor- able publicity. It was in the line of his pro- fessional studies that he edited and wrote for the New Jersey Law Journal from 1879 to 1898. He has contributed articles on legal topics to the Harvard Law Review, the Colum- bia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He delivered an address before the American Bar Association at Buffalo in 1899, on "New Jersey and the Great Corporations," which was published in the Harvard Law Reviewe and also in pamphlet form. He wrote a sketch of the life and judicial decisions of Chancellor Henry W. Green for a volume of biographies of "Great Judges and Lawyers in the United States." He is the author of a law book en- titled "Electric Wires in Streets and High- ways," published by Callaghan & Company in 1892, and again in an enlarged edition in 1900. He has been since 1888 the editor of a monthly paper, The Hospital Review, published for the benefit of the Hospital of St. Barnabas, in Newark, and his writings in this have covered a variety of subjects.
Mr. Keasbey was a member of the state legislature from Essex county, 1883-85, and took a prominent part in the legislation of his second term. when the Republican party was
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in control. He is the counsel in New Jersey and a director of the North American Com- pany, the Baltimore & Ohio Railway system, and many other important corporations. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Hospital of St. Barnabas, and of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Fund of the Diocese of Newark; a member of the board of man- agers of the Howard Savings Institution of Newark, and a vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Morristown. He is a charter member of the Essex Club, and a member of the Morristown Club, the Morris County Golf Club, the Har- vard Club of New York, the Princeton Club of Newark, the Harvard Club of New Jersey, the Lawyers' Club of Essex County, the Amer- ican Bar Association, and the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Mr. Keasbey married, in Grace Church, Newark, New Jersey, October 22, 1885, Eliza Gray, daughter of Henry Gray and Anne Mc- Kenzie (Drake) Darcy (see Darcy).
(The Quinton Line).
Tobias Quinton, founder of the family in West Jersey, emigrated from England and purchased land on the south side of Alloway's creek, where the village of Quinton is now located. He died between October 16 and De- cember 16, 1700, leaving his wife Elizabeth sole heiress and executrix of his real and per- sonal estate, which was to be divided among his children after her death.
( II) Edward, son of Tobias Quinton, died in 1756: married Temperance, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Salem county, who died in 1775, aged seventy-five years.
(III) Prudence, daughter of Edward and Temperance (Smith) Quinton, married Ed- ward (3), son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth ( Bradway) Keasbey, referred to below.
(The Brick Line).
John Brick, founder of the family in Salem county, emigrated from England to Fenwick's colony previous to 1680, and purchased a large tract of land at Gravelly Run, where the village of Jericho now stands. His children were John, referred to below; Joshua, Richard and Samuel.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Brick, died I mo. 23, 1753. He inherited all his father's real estate at Gravelly Run, became a conspic- uous and influential person in the colony, and was for many years one of the judges of the Salem court. When Cumberland county was set off from Salem, it was owing to his influ-
ence that the Gravelly Run was made the line, and his property thrown into the new county. He married, in 1729, Ann, daughter of Abel and Mary (Tyler ) Nicholson, of Elsinborough, born II mo. 15 d. 1707, died in 1878. Children : 1. Mary, born 2 mo. 10, 1730, married Nathan- iel Hall. 2. Elizabeth, born 7 mo. 4, 1732, married John Reeve. 3. John. 4. Joseph, re- ferred to below. · 5. Ann, born I mo. 23, 1738, married Joseph Clement. 6. Hannah. 7. Ruth, born 10 mo. 1, 1742, married Benjamin Reeve, of Philadelphia. 8. Jane, born I mo. 10, 1743.
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