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He remained in Philadelphia, where he established the business of retail grocer. He also established himself in that city as a manu- facturer of caskets, under the firm name of Grobler & Middleton. In 1874 he returned to Pemberton, where he bought out the business of his former employer, then owned by Ed- ward Remine, and conducted the business of cabinet making and undertaking up to the time of his death, which occurred at Pemberton, New Jersey, May 20, 1901. He was a member of Mount Holly Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M .; Pemberton Lodge, No. 49, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Amo Lodge, No. III, Knights of Pythias, Pemberton ; a comrade of General A. E. Shires Post, No. 26, Grand Army of the Republic, and he was an officer in the several organizations except Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M. He was treasurer of the Pem- berton Building and Loan Association at the time of his death, and also a trustee and dea- con in the Baptist church. He had served for several terms as commissioner of appeals and road commissioner of the town of Pemberton, and was held in high esteem as a citizen, patriot and trusted official. He married, 1864, Mary, daughter of Samuel C. and Drusilla (Johnson) Rambo, and granddaughter of Benjamin Rambo, born in Woodbury, Glou- cester county, New Jersey, and his wife Mary (Cooper) Rambo, who had besides Mary five other children: Joseph, Samuel, Martha, Epecorus and Sarah. Her brothers and sisters were: Joseph J. Rambo, born in Pemberton, New Jersey, May 10, 1842, who married (first) Rebecca Cliver, who with her first born child was drowned, and (second) Florence Cliver, his deceased wife's sister, who had one child, Rebecca ; Lydia, who was the second wife of Captain Augustus Grobler ; and Anna, who married John J. Branda. Mary (Rambo) Grobler was born in Pemberton, New Jersey,
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in 1845, and died in 1871, leaving one child, Augustus Badger Grobler (q. v.). Captain Grobler married (second) Lydia, sister of his deceased wife, and by her had three children : William, Mary and Effie.
(II) Augustus Badger, only child of Cap- tain Augustus William and Mary (Rambo) Grobler, was born in Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jersey, July 18, 1865. He attend- ed the public schools of his native town, and engaged in cabinet making and the undertaking business with his father as soon as he reached his fifteenth year, and under his direction and through the introduction of the latest methods in manufacturing and handling, the business increased both in volume and profits. He followed his father in political faith, and was elected to the office of coroner for Burlington county, serving in that office for three years. He affiliated with Central Lodge, No. 44, F. and A. M., of Vincentown; with Pemberton Lodge, No. 44, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; with Amo Lodge, No. III, Knights of Pythias, of Pemberton, and gained admis- sion to the Grand Lodge; with the Protective Order, Sons of America, Camp No. 49, of Pemberton; with the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, Lodge No. 848, of Mount Holly ; and with Maumee Tribe of Red Men, No. 53, of Pemberton. He was brought up in the faith of the Baptist denomination, of which church his father was a leading member, and he contributed generously to the work and financial support of that society. He married, July 18, 1892, Laura J., daughter of Charles P. and Adlie (Johnson) Nutt, of Pemberton, their first child, Daniel Earl, was born Sep- tember 19, 1893, and their second child, Edith Kingdom, November 5, 1899.
KNIGHT The civil war was a school of instruction and discipline that turned out many notable grad- uates, who but for the opportunity thus offered might have lived and died in oblivion. Very few of the veterans who escaped the deadly effects of change of climate and mode of living that rendered so many permanent invalids, or who came back with whole bodies uninjured by the bullets of the enemy, failed to succeed in civil life. They had experienced a process of preparation that made them men of thought and action and not drones in the busy hive of life. The country had taken a new grip on prosperity and needed just such men to help along the wheels of progress and rehabitation. It is helpful to the young to read of these
examples of heroic endeavor, fired as they were by patriotism and proving proof against imbecility or cowardice. In the instance before us we have as well the apparently entire ab- sence of the influence of parents or guardians. Left alone from early youth and forced to fight the battle of life among strangers, we find pure gold comes out of apparent dross.
(I) Gilbert W. Knight was the only child of his parents who lived in Philadelphia, where he was born in 1831. He had no knowl- edge of the names or future of his parents, as he came to Burlington county, New Jersey, when quite young and lived at Tabernacle. He learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed until 1862, when he enlisted in the Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteer Regiment under Colonel Henry O. Ryerson for nine months service. He was assigned to the com- pany of which Lieutenant E. Burd Grubb, of Burlington, New Jersey, was in command and from which rank Lieutenant Grubb was pro- moted to major on November 23, 1862. The regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, Colonel A. T. A. Torbert; First Division, Brigadier-General William T. H. Brooks; Sixth Army Corps, Major-General William Farror Smith; Left Grand Division, Major- General William B. Franklin; Army of the Potomac, Major-General Andrew E. Burnside, and in that position fought the Confederate army of General Robert E. Lee, at Fredericks- burg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, and the Federal army was repulsed with a loss of fif- teen hundred and twelve killed and six thous- and wounded. His next battle was at Fred- ericksburg, May 3, 1863, known as the Battle of Chancellorsville, the army having been re- formed and General Joseph Hooker placed in command. The relative position of the Twenty- third New Jersey Volunteers in the army was the same as occupied on the first battle of De- cember 13, the changes in command placing Major E. Burd Grubb as lieutenant-colonel in command of the regiment and the fortunes of battle giving the command of the brigade to Colonel Henry W. Brown, Colonel William H. Penrose, Colonel Samuel L. Buck and back to Colonel William H. Penrose and the Sixth Army Corps to Major-General John Sedge- wick. The main battle fought on Sunday, May 3, again resulted in the defeat of the Federal troops, and in the meantime General Sedgewick with the Sixth Corps had crossed the Rappahannock and occupied Fredericks- burg, but he was also defeated and compelled to retire to the northern bank of the river, not
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being able with a single corps to sustain his posts against the entire army of General Lee. This battle cost each army at least fifteen thousand men in killed, wounded and prisoners. Soon after the disaster at Chancellorsville, that changed the fortunes of war in favor of the Confederate army, the term of enlistment of the Twenty-third New Jersey had expired and the regiment was ordered to camp at Beverly, New Jersey, preparatory to being mustered out, when the news of the invasion of Pennsylvania by Lee's army reached camp and the regiment under Colonel Budd volun- teered to serve as emergency men. They reached Harrisburg before any other regular troops had reached that city, and they pro- ceeded to entrench the place, but before they were ordered to the front they were summarily directed back to camp at Beverly and disband- ed, June 27, 1863. Thereupon Colonel Burd set about reforming the regiment as the Thirty- seventh and they left Trenton, June 28, 1863, to report to General Butler at Bermuda Hun- dred, Virginia, where they took part in the battles before Petersburg, for which one hun- dred days service the regiment was compli- mented in general orders by General Berry as being unexceptionally a superior regiment of one hundred day's men. Gilbert W. Knight was married soon after the close of the civil war in 1865 to Elizabeth J., daughter of Will- iam Bareford, of Tabernacle, New Jersey, and their only child was Harry Laban (q. v.).
(II) Harry Laban, only child of Gilbert W. and Elizabeth J. ( Bareford) Knight, was born at Tabernacle, Burlington county, New Jersey, July 24, 1863, and he worked on farms and attended the public school of his native place. On arriving at his majority, he found employ- ment in the railroad office at Medford, where in addition to his labors as clerk and station agent he learned the art of telegraphy. He remained in charge of the railroad station at Medford from 1891 to 1906, when he resigned to accept the position of postmaster at Med- ford, of which office he still had charge in 1909. He was also interested in the cranberry cul- ture as secretary and treasurer of the New Jersey Cranberry Sales Company, and as owner and cultivator of twenty acres of cranberry bog in Burlington county, which he had in ten years brought to a high stage of productive- ness and profit. Besides being postmaster, Mr. Knight has served as township clerk, col- lector of taxes, and member of the board of education. His affiliations with benevolent and fraternal associations included membership in
the Medford Lodge, No. 178, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Medford, of which lodge he is past master; in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 100, of Medford; in the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 108, of Medford; in the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, sub-council No. 9, of Medford; in the Knights of the Golden Eagle, sub-castle, of Medford; of the May- flower Council, No. 33, Order of Settlers and Defenders of America, incorporated in 1899. Mr. Knight married, April 21, 1893, Lillie R., daughter of Arthur and Amanda M. (Austin) Haines, of Tabernacle, New Jersey, and their only child Verna L. was born in Medford. New Jersey, June 29, 1897.
GARWOOD
The family of this name have been residents of the state of New Jersey for sev-
eral centuries, and those who represent it today move among the best circles of social and busi- ness activity.
(I) Japhet Garwood the first of the name of whom we have record, was born in Upper Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 1720, married and among his children was Israel (q. v.).
(II) Israel, son of Japhet Garwood, was born near Medford, New Jersey, 1750, mar- ried and was the father of five children : Thomas, William, Samuel (q. v.), Elizabeth, Mary.
(III) Samuel. third son of Israel Garwood, of Upper Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, was born in Southampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 1779. He was a farmer in his native township and also carried on a distillery and was an all- around mechanic, also to do both carpentering and working in iron as a machinist. He mar- ried Mary Newton, of Southampton township, and they had seven children, born at follows : Hannah, William, Elizabeth, Joshua (q. v.), Samuel, Mary Jane, Israel, March, 1825, and living in Medford in 1909. Samuel Garwood died at his homestead, October 25, 1865.
(IV) Joshua, second son and fourth child of Samuel and Mary ( Newton) Garwood, was born in Southampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 1803. He attended the dis- trict school, was brought up on his father's farm, and he continued in the same calling on reach- ing manhood. He added to his income by deal- ing in cattle from the west, which he gathered up and shipped to Burlington and other markets by the carload. He also bred fine stock and
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blooded horses and moulded and burned brick, made from clay found on his farm. He was a Democrat in party politics, and a member of the Society of Friends, attending the Hicksite Meeting in Medford. He married Hannah, daughter of Job and Hope Braddock, of Gresham township, and they lived in Medford, where they had ten children born to them, as follows: 1. Henry, who lives in Medford, New Jersey. 2. Sarah, married William Allen, a farmer who carried on a farm near Vin- centown, New Jersey, where she died. 3. Ellen, who lived to be seventeen years of age. 4. Job, died young. 5. Hannah, died unmar- ried. 6. Frank, died unmarried. 7. Hope, married Joseph Taylor, a farmer of Woodford, where she died. 8. Samuel (q. v.). 9. Charles, lives in Medford. 10. J. Maurice, a merchant in Medford. Joshua Garwood died at his home in Southampton township in 1866.
(V) Samuel (2), fourth son and eightlı child of Joshua and Hannah ( Braddock) Gar- wood, was born in Medford, Burlington county, New Jersey, November, 1857. He attended the Haines' Corner school house, a pay school in Medford, and Pierce's Business College in Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1876. His employment was clerk and bookkeeper in a large boarding house at Atlantic City, where he remained four years, when he returned to Medford, where he established a business as painter and house decorator, which business he carried on for ten years. In 1889 he joined John B. Mingin, Frank Reiley and others in organizing the Star Glass Company, which is carried on as a joint stock company, amply captalized, with a business office and sales- rooms in Philadelphia and Mr. Mingin as presi- dent and superintendent of the manufacture of glass. A general store was started in con- nection with the glass works in 1892, and Mr. Garwood was placed in charge of the store in Medford. He was also made a director of the Medford Gas Company. His political faith was that of the Democratic party, and his religious faith that of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends and he attended the Hicksite Meeting at Medford. He was affili- ated with the Masonic fraternity through Med- ford Lodge, No. 187, of which he is past master. He was advanced to the Royal Arch Chapter and made a Knight Templar at Bur- lington. Mr. Garwood was married in 1881 by Friends' ceremony to Ella, daughter of Ed- mond and Rebecca (Andrews) Prickett, of Medford, and they had two children born of this marriage as follows: 1. Carlton, born Sep-
tember 19, 1883, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and after graduating at Union Business Col- lege, Philadelphia, he became assistant man- ager of the Star Glass Company at Medford. He married Ray, daughter of Henry and Caro- line (Brown) Wright, of Indian Mills, New Jersey, and their first child, Samuel, born in Medford, July 21, 1908, is of the seventh gen- eration from Japhet Garwood, the immigrant ancestor. 2. Irene, born in Medford, New Jersey, December 13, 1891, educated at George's Friends' School, Newtown, Pennsyl- vania.
The Seaver family of New Eng- SEAVER land is descended from Robert Seaver, who was born about the year 1608. March 24, 1633-34, at the age of about twenty-five years, he took the oath of supremacy and allegiance to pass for New England in the ship "Mary and John," of Lon- don, Robert Sayres, master (see "Founders of Newbury," Drake). On the 10th of De- cember, 1834, he married, in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, Elizabeth Ballard. A William Bal- lard took the oath at the same time with Rob- ert Seaver, and presumably was a fellow pass- enger and a relative of Elizabeth. The church records show that "Elizabeth Ballard, a maide- servant she came in the year 1833 and soone afterward joined to the church-she was after- ward married to Robert Seaver of this church were she led a goodly conversation." Robert Seaver was made freeman April 18, 1637. He built a house over a half mile from the meeting house, but was allowed to keep it by vote of the town, 1639, and the "halfe-mile law" was repealed in 1640. He was a selectman of Roxbury, 1665. Elizabeth, his wife, died June 6, 1657. "1657 buryed, mo. 10 day 18, Sister Seaver ye wife of Robert Seaver." "Also 1669 mo. 10 day 18, wife to Robert Seaver, buried." He must have had a third wife, for in his will made January 16, 1681, he pro- vides for his wife, christian name not given, and four children. Names of latter : Shubael, Caleb, Joshua, and son Samuel Crafts, who married his daughter Elizabeth. The latter was probably dead at the date of the will. Robert Seaver died (town records) May 13, 1683, aged about seventy-five years. Rox- bury church record says "1683, mo 4 day 6 Robert Seaver an aged Christian buryed." These dates are not uniform. Robert. and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver had: I. Shubael, born January 31, 1639, died June 18, 1729. 2. Caleb, born August 30, 1641, died March 6,
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1713. 3. Joshua (twin with Caleb), died beore 1730. 4. Elizabeth, born 1643, married Samuel Crafts (Crafts Genealogy) ; they had nine children and he died December 9, 1709. 5. Nathaniel, born January 8, 1645, see post. 6. Hannah, born and died 1647. 7. Hannah, born 1650, died 1653.
(II) Nathaniel, son of Robert and Eliza- beth (Ballard) Seaver, was baptized in Rox- bury, January 8, 1645, and was slain by Indians in the battle at Sudbury, Massachusetts, April 21, 1676, during King Philip's war. He was one of ten Sudbury men who were killed on that day and served in Captain Wadsworth's company. The site of the battlefield where Captain Wadsworth so long held the Indians at bay is on what is now called "Green hill." While an attack was being made on a small body of eighteen minute-men under Edward Cowell, Captain Wadsworth and his company came upon the scene and seeing a small party of Indians rushed forward with impetuous haste and were caught in the usual ambuscade, for when within about a mile of Sudbury they were induced to pursue a body of not more than one hundred Indians and soon found themselves drawn away about a mile into the woods, where on a sudden they were encom- passed by more than five hundred, and were forced to a retreating fight toward a hill where they made a brave stand for a time (one au- thority says four hours) and did heavy execu- tion on the enemy until (Hubbard says) the night coming on and some of the company be- ginning to scatter from the rest their compan- ions were forced to follow them, and thus being surrounded in the chase the officers and most of the company were slain. It is said that the savages set fire to the woods and thus forced the disastrous retreat, and only thirteen out of the entire company escaped to Noyes' mill. Nathaniel Seaver married Sarah
and by her had two children: 1. John, born August 18, 1671. see post. 2. Sarah, died April 18, 1674.
(III) John, only son of Nathaniel and Sarah Seaver, was born in Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, August 18, 1671. He married Sarah , and by her had ten children : 1. Sarah, born February 4, 1696, married, December 15, 1714, Aucariah Winchester. 2. Nathaniel, De- cember 22, 1697, see post. 3. John, October 6, 1699, died Brookline, October 21, 1767. 4. Anna, 1701, married, April 9, 1724, Thomas Stedman, Jr. 5. Lucy, November 24, 1703, married, 1725, John Goddard, of Brookline. 6. Andrew, 1705. 7. Mary, 1707. 8. Richard, 1710, mar-
ried, November 30, 1748, Hannah Everett, of Roxbury. 9. Esther, November 13, 1712, mar- ried, December 1, 1756, Edward Sheaf, of Cambridge. 10. Elizabeth, September 12, 1715. (IV) Nathaniel (2), son of John and Sarah Seaver, was born in Roxbury, December 22, 1697, died in Brookline, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 2, 1768. He married (first) Hannah White, who died in Brookline, February 20, 1742, and married (second) October 23, 1746, Sarah Stevens. Nathaniel Seaver had eleven children: 1. Benjamin, born September II, 1729, died before September 17, 1768. 2. Han- nah, November 13, 1730 .- 3. Lucy, November 24, 1731. 4. Sarah, April 12, 1733. 5. Han- nah, born July 16, 1735, died May 31, 1821 ; married John Goddard, of Brookline. 6. Abi- jah, August 31, 1737, see post. 7. Lucy, Feb-
ruary 17, 1739-40. 8. Mary. 9. Elizabeth. IO. Susanna. II. Nathaniel.
(V) Abijah, son of Nathaniel (2) and Han- nah (White) Seaver, was born August 31, 1737, and married, March 29, 1764, Anne Winchester, of Brookline. They had five chil- dren : 1. William, born May 6, 1765, married, December 1, 1796, Lucy Heath. 2. Benjamin, September 28, 1766, died June 29, 1815 ; mar- ried, May 25, 1794, Debby Loud. 3. Joseph, baptized January 20, 1771, see post. 4. Na- thaniel, baptized May 16, 1773, married, No- vember 1, 1798, Lydia Wilson. 5. Polly, mar- ried Levi Pratt.
(VI) Joseph, son of Abijah and Anne (Winchester) Seaver, was baptized January 20, 1771, and married, November 17, 1799, Abigail, daughter of Elisha Whitney. They had five children: 1. Joseph, born June 17, 1804. see post. 2. Elizabeth Whitney, married, June 29, 1823, George Seaver. 3. William Whitney, born April 6, 1806. 4. Nathaniel, September 24, 1808. 5. Abigail Dana, Septem- ber 16, 1810, died single.
(VII) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Abigail (Whitney) Seaver, was born in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, June 17, 1804. He mar- ried, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Phebe S. Elmes, born Augusta, Maine, and by her had nine children: 1. Joseph H., born January 22, 1834, see post. 2. Emma. 3. Thomas Elmes. 4. Maria E. 5. William Archer. 6. Frank. 7. Charles. 8. Mary. 9. James R. S.
(VIII) Joseph H., son of Joseph (2) and Phebe S. (Elmes) Seaver, was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1834, re- ceived his education in the public schools and for many years has been actively identified with the business life of that city, member of
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the stock exchange and former member of the brokerage firm of E. W. Clark & Company. Mr. Seaver is a Republican in politics and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. In 1871 he married Mary Gillespie, born 1838, daughter of Franklin Gillespie, who was born in New Castle, Delaware, a descendant of Rev. George Gillespie, who was a son of Rev. George Gillispie, the latter of whom attained fame through the authorship of a Scotch Pres- byterian catechism. He purchased from Will- iam Penn a considerable tract of land in the upper part of Delaware. Joseph H. and Mary (Gillespie) Seaver had three children : I. Jessie Gillespie, born 1872, married William Percy Simpson, of Overbrook, Pennsylvania, president of Eddystone Manufacturing Com- pany. One child, William Simpson. 2. Archer Whiting, 1874, died 1902; married Marion Skinner, a native of North Carolina, and had one son, Archer Whiting Seaver, Jr. 3. How- ard Eves, see post.
(IX) Howard Eves, youngest son and child of Joseph H. and Mary (Gillespie) Seaver, was born in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, May 31, 1878, gradated from Princeton College in 1898, and during the following year engaged in corundum mining in North Carolina. His subsequent business career may be mentioned as follows: Employee in the office of Strong, Sturgis & Company, brokers, of New York City, one year ; associated in business with his father in Philadelphia, two years; went west as traffic manager for Bell Telephone Company and remained there about four years; with Sloane Howe Company, Philadelphia, iron and steel commission house ; and in 1908 purchased a farm of fifty acres at Brown's Mills, New Jersey ; and has recently established what is known as the Pine Park Poultry Farm, mak- ing ample preparations for carrying on an ex- tensive business in raising poultry and poultry products for the market.
KIRKPATRICK The Kirkpatricks of New Jersey come of an honorable and note- worthy Scottish lineage, having from their first appearance in history showed the forcible characteristics and qualities which by the end of the eighteenth century had numbered them among the families of principal importance and worth in New Jersey. Originally a Keltic family, they settled in Scotland in early times and by the ninth century had established them- selves in various parts of Dumfriesshire, espe- cially in Nithsdale, where in 1232 the estate of
Closeburn was granted by King Alexander II., to Ivon Kirkpatrick, the ancestor of the Lords of Closeburn. In 1280 Duncan Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn, married the daughter of Sir David Carlisle, of Torthorwald, who was nearly related to William Wallace, and their son, Ivon Kirkpatrick, was one of the witnesses to the charter of Robert Bruce. In 1600 the Kirk- patricks of Closeburn were appointed by decree of the Lords in Council among the chieftains charged with the care of the border. Sir
Thomas Kirkpatrick in the reign of James VI. of Scotland, one of the gentlemen of the privy chamber, obtained a patent of the freedom of the whole kingdom and his great-grandson, also Sir Thomas, was created in 1686 baron of Nova Scotia. The modern baronetcy dates from 1685, when the following arms were registered : Arms: Argent, a saltire and chief azure, the last charged with three cushions or ; Crest : a hand holding a dagger in pale, distill- ing drops of blood; Motto: I mak sicker ("I make sure"). Among the noteworthy de- scendants in this line of the Kirkpatricks is the Empress Eugenie, whose maternal grand- father was William Kirkpatrick, of Malaga, Spain, whose ancestor was Sir Roger Kirk- patrick, eighth baron of Kylosbern or Close- burn.
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