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this life May ye 16 1750 in the 57th year of his Age.
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Until the Resurrection of The Just."
Lieutenant David Crane married Mary -, born 1695, died July 3, 1769. Children: I. Jedediah, born 1710, died September 10, 1785. 2. David, born 1721, died March 6, 1794; mar- ried (first) Sarah Ann Dodd; (second) Abi- gail Ogden. 3. Joseph, mentioned below. 4. Abigail, married Johnson. 5. Phebe,
married Lawrence. 6. Mary, married Alling. 7. Dorcas. 8. Sarah, born August 24, 1734, died November 24, 1779; married, March, 1762, Isaac Plum.
(IV) Joseph, son of Lieutenant David Crane, was born at Cranetown (Newark), 1732, died November 21, 1789. He was chosen constable, March 10, 1778. He was a sub- scriber in September, 1786, to the building of the First Presbyterian Church to the amount of £5. He was a farmer and the possessor of much land at Newark, where his children were all born. He married Patience Crane. Chil- dren : I. Phinehas, mentioned below. 2. James. 3. John. 4. Sarah. 5. Hannah, married John Gifford, mother of the late Archer Gifford. 6. Abigail, married Uriah James. 7. Mary, married John Baldwin.
(V) Phinehas, eldest son of Joseph Crane, was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 6, 1755, died in West, Bloomfield, now Mont- clair, November 14, 1840. During his minority he learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed until the breaking out of the revolu- tion, when he enlisted in Captain Henry Squire's company, Colonel Philip Van Cort- land's Second Essex County Regiment, at- tached to Hurd's upper brigade. About 1781 he removed to a farm in West Bloomfield, now Montclair, which contained upwards of forty acres. His homestead and some eight acres was situated on the Orange road, and the other tract of some thirty odd acres was on Cedar street, near the Joseph Ward farm and bound- ed also by the Orange road. This consisted of orchard and woodland. Mr. Crane was an old-fashioned farmer and a maker of cider. His mill was situated adjacent to the home- stead. The sale of his cider netted him a hand- some yearly income, and his product was ship- ped to Charleston and Savannah and other southern ports. He raised his own apples, which were of the Virginia crop, Harrison, Canfield and Newtown Pippin varieties, con-
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sidered the best cider fruit at that time. The homestead of Phinehas Crane, now in an ex- cellent state of preservation, stands on the Orange road just above the bridge, and is now occupied by Thomas Harrop, its owner. The original corn crib is also intact. Phinehas Crane was of medium size, of a quiet and con- scientious nature, and most kind-hearted. He was a constant attendant of the Presbyterian church at Bloomfield ( West), in the graveyard of which he and his wife were interred. This burial-ground was taken for improvement pur- poses, and the remains of he and his wife were removed to the new part of Rosedale Ceme- tery.
Mr. Crane married Abigail Baldwin, born October 5, 1763, died November 3, 1824. Chil- dren : I. Elizabeth, born May 5, 1783, died Au- gust 28, 1851 ; married Josiah Ward ; children : i. Joseph, born February 24, 1813, died April 29, 1880; married (first) Marinda Baldwin ; chil- dren: a. Charlotte Baldwin, born October II, 1837, married, March 12, 1883, Albert Mat- thews; b. Lucinda Baldwin, born January 8, 1842, married, September, 1874, Samuel S. Neck; child, Jessie Miranda, born March 15, 1876: married (second), October 19, 1852, Sarah F. Condit ; children: c. Samuel Condit, born April 6, 1854, married Matilda Donald- son ; child, Samuel; d. Ira Harrison, born Oc- tober 23, 1856, died August 24, 1894; e. Frank Condit, born February 5, 1858; f. William Condit, born April 9, 1859. died April 9, 1875. 2. Mary, born August 29, 1790, died January 2, 1876 ; married Jotham Freeman. 3. Abigail, born September 17, 1795, died June 21, 1891 ; married, December 16, 1817, Ebenezer Will- iams, son of Aaron and Mary (Dodd) Will- iams ; children : i. Alfred Smith, born Novem- ber 2, 1818, died February 8, 1849; married Maria Baldwin; child, Alfred Augustus, born February 5, 1847 ; ii. Harriet, born October I, 1820, died September 30, 1844 ; iii. Mary Olive, born January 28, 1823, died August 24, 1877 : iv. Edward Henry, born September 20. 1825; married, January 13, 1870, Ann Elizabeth, born March 1, 1830, died February 13. 1894, daughter of Albert and Phebe ( Frost) Will- iams ; v. Sarah Crane, born January 30, 1828, died August 14, 1852; vi. Aaron Crane, born August 13, 1830, whose sketch appears else- where in this work; vii. Horton Dodd, born April 6, 1833, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; viii. George Whitfield, born De- cember 28, 1836, died August 4, 1866; ix. Joseph Ebenezer, born December 22, 1840, died June 10, 1859. 4. Sarah Baldwin, born
June 20, 1798, died April 14, 1880. 5. Harriet, born April 6, 1801, died November 30, 1868; married, October 3, 1827, William Brown, son of Moses and Nancy ( Jones) Williams; a sketch of William B. Williams appears else- where in this work. 6. James P., born Septem- ber, 1804. 7. Evelina, born March 20, 1807, died January 4, 1882; married Nathaniel E. Dodd.
Julia Johnson ( Williams) Woodruff, daugh- ter of William Brown and Harriet (Crane ) Williams, was born at Orange, New Jersey, April 30, 1833. She married, October 6, 1852, John Crane Woodruff, a sketch of whom ap- pears preceding in this work.
WOODRUFF (X) Obadiah Woodruff, son of Captain Seth Wood- ruff (q. v.), was born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, November 8, 1768, died at Newark, New Jersey, July 27, 1842. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual common school education of a farmer's son at that period. He early served his time at the trade of mason, which he followed many years. He built the First Presbyterian Church at Newark, became one of its deacons and elders, and his remains are interred in the burial-ground back of the church. He was deeply religious and was known always as Deacon Woodruff to young and old. For a number of years he kept a general store at the corner of Washington and Warren streets. He became a large property holder, and with Stephen H. Plume owned from the old canal up to New street and back to Plane street and to the old road near the watering place, so called, besides many other valuable parcels of real estate. His latter years he spent in retirement, having a large income. He was an ardent Whig and a man of considerable power in his party. He was a member of St. John's Lodge, F. and A. M., at Newark. He was in an early military com- pany in Newark, and was overseer of the poor in 1812-13-14. In the early part of the nine- teenth century he was one of the leading officers of the Newark fire department. He married, February, 1792, Elizabeth Earle, born September 23. 1775. Children : I. Phebe Haynes, born December 9, 1792, died June 27, 1856; married, March 2, 1814, Joseph Fitz Randolph. 2. Parmelia, born August 14, 1795. died March 5, 1856; married, November 9, 1814. John McGuinnes. 3. Eliza, born June 23, 1798, died June 17, 1887 : married, Febru- ary 4, 1818. John W. Stout. 4. Edward Earle,
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born February 13, 1801 died June 1I, 1830. 5. Charles, born April 5, 1803, died August 7, 1818. 6. Jane Earle, born March 1, 1805, died October 21, 1893; married, November 8, 1837, Lewis Stout. 7. Seth Haynes, born March 29, 1806. 8. Abbie Earle, born March 19, 1809, died March 6, 1887 ; married, Febru- ary 24, 1829, James Mitchell. 9. Seth Haynes, born February 28, 1812, mentioned below. IO. Lucetta, born November 3, 1818, died July 31, 18 -; married, May 5, 1849, Victor A. Pepin.
(XI) Seth Haynes, son of Obadiah Wood- ruff, was born at Newark, New Jersey, at the corner of Washington and Warren streets, February 28, 1812, died January 6, 1879. His early education was obtained in the academy kept by Nathan Hedges, supplemented by a course in the Newark Academy. During his early manhood days he learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed for a time, buy- ing his stock and making it into the finished product. He subsequently entered the gro- cery business on Broad street, north of New street, which he engaged in for a time. In 1844 he opened a shoe store on Broad street, opposite the present Trinity Church, and later removed to a location where the present Bee Hive store now stands. His brother-in- law, Charles H. Speer, went into partnership with him under the firm name of Woodruff & Speer. They made and sold shoes from this location up to 1849, when the partners dis- solved their relations, Mr. Speer carrying on the business for a time. Mr. Woodruff in 1849 went to New Orleans for the purpose of collecting accounts due him for his manufac- ture of goods he had sold there. Owing to a bad money market he was obliged to settle by accepting West Indian goods for his bills, and these he brought north and disposed of. He subsequently retired from active business, his father having left him the homestead place and an income. During the civil war Mr. Woodruff again engaged in active work and became superintendent for Hannan & Red- dish in the making of Cuba shoes, remaining in the position until the close of the war, when he retired. Mr. Woodruff became owner of many valuable properties in Newark. He owned the Park House where the present Proctor Theatre now stands, much property on Broad near New street, and near the old City Hall on Lafayette street. He was pos- sessed of many manly traits and was much re- spected for his opinions. His jovial nature won him many friends, and he was much liked in every circle. He was a Presbyterian in
religion, and a Whig and Republican in politics. He belonged to the Society of Druids. He married, July 1, 1833, Jane Hedenburg Speer, born November 20, 1813, died December 10, 1894, daughter of Jacob and Blendina ( Heden- burg) Speer. Children: 1. Joseph Fitz Ran- dolph, born August 18, 1834, mentioned below. 2. Obadiah, born February 27, 1837, men- tioned below. 3. Anna Elizabeth, born May 18, 1839.
(XII) Joseph Fitz Randolph, son of Seth Haynes Woodruff, was born in the old Wood- ruff homestead, at the corner of Washington and Warren streets, Newark, New Jersey, Au- gust 18, 1834. He attended the school kept by Nathan Hedges, then on Bank street, situ- ated where the present Bethany Church now stands. At the age of sixteen years he began an apprenticeship of five years in the hatter's trade with Rankin Duryee & Company, and there he was employed as a journeyman until the breaking out of the civil war. He enlisted April 28, 1861, in Company G, Second New Jersey Volunteers, and was mustered into serv- ice May 28, 1861. After being at Camp Had- den, Trenton, his regiment proceeded to Wash- ington and were encamped on the site of the present Library building. The regiment pro- ceeded to Roache's Mills and during the win- ter of 1861 and spring of 1862 were at Camp Seminary. His regiment under Colonel George W. McLean, Colonel Isaac Tucker, Colonel Buck, and Colonel Weibocken, First Brigade, was attached to the Sixth Army Corps. Mr. Woodruff saw active service at Mechanics- ville, Golden Farm, Chickahominy Crossing, Charles City, Malvern Hill and Fair Oakes. At the time of his discharge he was in the hospital. Upon his return to Newark, New Jersey, he took up his trade of hatter which he followed until 1888, working in Boston, Phil- adelphia and other places. In March, 1888, he received an appointment as clerk in mailing department in the Newark postoffice, where he remained until December 1, 1899, when he retired from active business. Mr. Woodruff and family are attendants of the Methodist Episcopal church. In former years he affil- iated with the Democratic party, but of late years is an independent and a believer in tariff revision. He is a member of Lincoln Post, No. II, Grand Army of the Republic.
He married, November 8, 1858, Julia Ella, born February 23, 1841, daughter of William and Phebe (Leonard ) Brower. Children: I. Charles Haynes, born July 19, 1859 ; married, April, 1894. Charlotte Green; children : i.
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Charlotte, died young ; ii. Charlotte ; iii. Ethel Veronica ; iv. Miriam. 2. Frederick William, August 16, 1861. 3. Jane Hedenburg, August 23, 1863, died May II, 1864. 4. Edwin Speer, October 28, 1865, drowned June 27, 1871. 5. Joseph Fitz Randolph Jr., March 28, 1868; married, October 12, 1904, Catherine Ward. 6. Anna Elizabeth, March 18, 1871; married, June 24, 1891, Seymour Smith Young; chil- dren: i. Charles Woodruff, born April 17, 1892; ii. Harriet Louise, June 1, 1901; iii. Seymour Smith, Jr., January 24, 1906. 7. Julia Ella, November 14, 1873 ; married Ralph Thompson. 8. Harriet Louise, July 18, 1876. 9. Harry Cincinnati, December 30, 1879. IO. Jeannette Hedenburg, November 29, 1885; married, July 2, 1907, Claud H. Rivers.
(XII) Obadiah, son of Seth Haynes Wood- ruff, was born February 27, 1837, in the old Woodruff homestead at the corner of Wash- ington and Warren streets, Newark, New Jer- sey, died in New York City, July 15, 1892. His elementary educational training was limit- ed to the private school of Nathan Hedges on Bank street, one of the most noted private schools at that period. He subsequently at- tended Newark Academy, from which he grad- uated with high honors, being a leader in his class. When about fourteen years of age he entered a career that was to be his chosen occu- pation through life and with which he was identified prominently. At this early age he entered the employ of the Daily Advertiser, the leading journal of Newark. By his energy and strict attention to the business in all its details, and by his probity, he gained such favor with his employers that he was looked upon as a valuable and promising factor for the paper. He was an indefatigable worker and considered among their most valued em- ployees, implicitedly trusted and highly esteem- ed by his associates. His close application and desire to master what was to be his chosen field of labor fitted him for positions of greater responsibility and remuneration. He filled many different posts on the paper and became familiar with the work of almost every de- partment. He had a remarkable capacity for the different kinds of journalistic work and possessed an active temperament. He was a man of strict integrity and was held in high esteem not only by his colleagues but by all who knew him, for his honesty and for the cheerfulness of his disposition. His amiability characterized him among his friends and all others who came in contact with him. He greeted everybody with the greatest cordiality
and spared no pains to aid those who applied to him for assistance or information. Being a man of close application he had a complete fund of useful information, especially about state, city and county affairs. He had been so long identified with the interests and affairs of Newark and the state that he would refer with the greatest facility to every incident of im- portance in the political, financial or commercial affairs of the community. He had a remarkably retentive memory and could fix a date in dis- pute almost instantly. This brought him into close association with many people and his wide acquaintance was in the city and through- cut the state. Mr. Woodruff took a conspicu- ous part in public affairs as a politician, though he never sought political office. As the gift of the citizens he acted as clerk of the Essex county board of freeholders for twenty-four years, and during this long period the affairs of this board were conducted in a most admir- able manner by him. He was appointed in 1866 and reappointed each year until 1890, when the political complexion of the board changed. During all these years Mr. Wood- ruff was one of the best informed men on the board regarding county affairs, and his advice was frequently sought and followed by the members of the board and the utmost respect was shown to such suggestions as he might make. He was often invited to accept of political honors and to run for office; was asked to accept the nomination for alderman and assemblyman, and could have had for the asking other political honors, but always de- clined to serve. He was closely affiliated with the Republican party and its principles, and was ardent and stalwart in his service in the rank and file. He served as justice of the peace. For a number of years Mr. Woodruff was one of the directors of the People's In- surance Company before its embarrassment. He was for many years an active and ardent member of the First Reformed Church, a true and upright Christian, whose influence was broadly felt. For a long period he served his church as deacon, and about 1886 was chosen one of the elders of the church, and served in other offices. He was for a period superin- tendent of the Sunday school. He was pos- sessed of a philanthropical spirit, and at one time was one of the managers of the News- boys' Lodging House, and was also superin- tendent of the Mission School of the Park Presbyterian Church, then on West Park street. Many of these charges that he held so faithfully he was forced to relinquish owing
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to the great amount of extra labor involved. In his private life he was at his best. He was genial and pleasant at all times and won for himself the greatest love and respect from his friends and associates. Owing to impaired health brought on by great mental strain and his persistent efforts, his system both mentally and physically became undermined, and in the fall of 1891 he relinquished completely all work that he might be benefited by a complete change, but this respite was of no avail and the best efforts of medical skill were power- less to resist the slow but sure progress of his malady and his death occurred as above noted.
He married, at Newark, New Jersey, June 14, 1859, Jane Elizabeth Campbell, born at Bloomfield, New Jersey, February 25, 1837, daughter of Edward Harvey and Angelina Dodd (Ward) Campbell; her father came from Scotch ancestors, descending from the Duke of Argyle. Children: I. Edward Wil -. son, born June 26, 1861 ; married, June 26, 1901. Helen May Kraemer, daughter of Ed- ward P. and Emma (Baney) Kraemer. 2. Clarence Campbell, born March 3, 1869; mar- ried. June 14, 1900, Geneveve Willis. 3. Jennie Elizabeth, born February 5, 1872.
(XII) Catherine Chitten- WOODRUFF den Woodruff, eldest child of Archibald (q. v.) and Martha (Crane) Woodruff, was born at New- ark, New Jersey, in the homestead of her father, Cedar and Broad streets, September 28, 1820, died at her home on Broad street, May 2. 1896. On the death of her mother, when an infant, she was taken by her grandparents, whose sorrow for their deceased daughter was only appeased by the coming of her mother- less child. Her early educational training was received in the best schools of the day under excellent instruction, and with the advance of learning she improved her mind with those foundations that were to better fit her to be- come a factor in the home and abroad. Her girlhood days were spent between her father's and grandfather's homes, and after her mar- riage to Stafford Robert Wilson Heath, at her father's home, the place of her birth, she and her husband took up their abode on Clin- ton street, where they resided until 1863, when they removed to the new house on Broad street and settled, residing there until their deaths. In her home life she exemplified all the beauties of her character, giving to those nearest and dearest to her the best there was in her. She added materially to the comfort
of the inmates of her home by devoting to their service all the energy, devotion, thought and love of which she was capable, and she was fully recompensed for her labor by the affection and reverence of her husband and children, the latter of whom, during their life- time, willingly testified to her untiring efforts in their behalf. She left to her children a heritage of right living and thinking, which is more to be desired than wealth. She was greatly devoted to her church and her christian influence was always felt. She was wonder- fully inspired in her work of the church, and in this as well as the material things of life she possessed a wonderful tact, and was al- ways fearless in her principles of right. She was reared a Presbyterian, which church she attended in her early life, but after marriage she became affiliated with the First Reformed Church and subsequently with the Clinton Ave- nue Reformed Church, where her husband and she were faithful and consistent members. She was deeply interested in the Sunday school, and during its infancy became its superintend- ent, remaining so for a time. She was a strong influence in the Ladies' Aid Society and be- came interested in its charities, to which she contributed liberally but with no ostentation. The poor have many times found occasion to bless her for her philanthropy and kindness. She became active in the work for the Home for Aged Women and the Newark Protestant Orphan Asylum, where the light of her influ- ence shed its rays. She was for over thirty years the treasurer of this institution. Cath- erine Chittenden Heath was a woman of rare refinement and capability, beloved and respect- ed by all who knew her.
She married, January 24, 1843, Stafford Robert Wilson Heath, mentioned below. Chil- dren : I. Martha Crane, born February 4, 1844, died February 13, 1897 ; married, Octo- ber 3, 1867, Samuel Horace Hawes, son of Samuel P. and Judith (Smith) Hawes; chil- dren: i. Horace Sterling, born November 4, 1868; married, July 12, 1897, Mary Ried, born January 17, 1876, daughter of William and Lavinia (Ragland) Mac Caw ; children : Mary Ried, born June 7, 1898, and Anne Sterling, born April, 1900; ii. Heath Woodruff, born February 20, 1873, died July 19, 1873; iii. Katharine Heath, born September 3, 1875. 2. Jane Wilson, born November 9, 1847; mar- ried, June 10, 1868, Frederick S. Douglas, born October 31, 1844, died June 7, 1898, son of Samuel and Eliza (Rockerfellow ) Douglas ; children: i. Stafford Heath, born June 22, .
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1871, died December 31, 1877; ii. Frederick Heath, born March 12, 1879; married, May 3, 1907, Edith Rossiter; child, Elizabeth, born March 9, 1909. 3. Anna Woodruff, born No- vember 16, 1853 ; married, November 13, 1873, Edward Hall Peters, born December 14, 1850, died December 6, 1887, son of Horatio Nelson and Emily (Hall) Peters; children: i. Anna Heath, born November 17, 1876; ii. Horatio Nelson, born December 5, 1877, died Febru- ary 14, 1878; iii. Edward Heath, born Novem- ber 15, 1881; married, December 14, 1904, Aline Laura Peters, daughter of George Willis and Lucy ( Dodge) Peters ; child, Anna Wood- ruff, born September 12, 1905.
Stafford Robert Wilson Heath, husband of Catherine Chittenden Woodruff, was born at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, July 8, 1820, died in Newark, New Jersey, December 2, 1889, son of Daniel and Jane ( Wilson) Heath. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual common school education of a farmer's son of that period. At the age of fourteen years, with an earnest desire to start life and make a mark in the world, he was per- mitted by his parents to go to Newark, where he sought employment and entered the dry goods establishment of David Smith, at that time one of the leading merchants of the day. It was here as a clerk that the young man formed the habits of industry and frugality, and by his probity and good deportment gained such favor with his employer that he was con- sidered a valuable factor to Mr. Smith. This close opplication to business and his propensity to save found him, March 4, 1841, the pos- sessor of several hundred dollars to his credit. With this nucleus he entered into business for himself, taking as his partner S. Grover Cro- well, a former fellow clerk, under the firm name of Heath & Crowell. The partnership continued four years when it was dissolved, Mr. Crowell retiring, when Daniel R. Heath, a brother of Mr. Heath, was admitted to equal partnership under the firm name of Heath Brothers. In 1847 Daniel R. Heath was re- moved by death, which caused another change in the firm name, but the business under the management of its sagacious founder pros- pered from year to year and grew into one of the most extensive of its kind in the city of Newark. In 1855 Mr. E. Cortlandt Drake. who as a clerk had been with Mr. Heath from boyhood, became associated with him as part- ner, and in 1860 the firm name was changed to Heath & Drake. Such was the success of Mr. Heath that in 1884 he caused the erection .
upon Broad street of a spacious edifice for the continuance and broadening out of his busi- ness, known as the Heath Building; the busi- ness was conducted there until it was closed up by the estate in 1898.
In 1862 the Firemans' Insurance Company, one of the leading insurance corporations of the state, elected Mr. Heath as its president and to the affairs of this company he gave at once his prompt and faithful service. In fact he seemed to take more pride in the success of this enterprise that that of his own business, which he realized could not be in more trust- worthy care than that of his partner, Mr. Darke. Under Mr. Heath's management the company became one of the strongest and most successful in the state. His sagacity and pru- dence and sound judgment as a business man brought his services as such into constant de- mand. He became a director of the Newark City National Bank in 1854 and remained as such until the close of his life. He was also director and president of the Newark and Rosedale Cement Company. He became presi- dent of the Peters Manufacturing Company, and a director of the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was a trustee of Rutgers College from 1854 until his death and an active member of its finance committee. In 1875 he became president of the Board of Domestic Missions under the General Synod of the Reformed Church, and not only held official positions in the Bible Tract and Tem- perance societies but gave of his time and means to further their progress. The various charitable institutions of Newark always en- joyed his sympathy and aid, especially the Newark Protestant Orphan Asylum, of which he was for many years one of the board of ad- visors.
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