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The Levis family of New Jersey traces its ancestry back directly in this line :
(I) Robert Levis was born in 1558.
(II) Edward Levis, buried May 10, 1654, married Yssabell , buried June 3, 1593. They had a son, Christopher, and other chil- dren.
(III) Christopher Levis, buried May 9, 1580, married Agnes , buried February 4, 1584. They had a son, Richard, and perhaps other children.
(IV) Richard Levis, buried March 2, 1612, married (first) June 29, 1577, Elizabeth Clark, buried January 25, 1593; married (second) May 15, 1594, Constance Smalley, buried March 3, 1597. Of this second marriage there was born a son, Nicholas, baptized February 24, 1597, buried August 5, 1607.
(V) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Elizabeth (Clark) Levis, was baptized April II, 1585. He married, but the name of his wife is not known. He neither married nor was buried in the parish at Beeston.
(VI) Christopher, son of Richard (2) Levis, was baptized September 20, 1621, and died in 1677. He married, in March, 1648, Mary Need, of Harby, England, and had children.
(VII) Samuel, son of Christopher and Mary (Need) Levis, was born at Harby, July 30, 1649, and his will was admitted to probate in 1734. He came to America in 1682, from Lan- cashire, England, remained here a short time, then returned to England for his family and again came over in 1684, with his wife; son, Samuel, and sisters, Sarah and Hannah. He erected a large brick house on Darby creek, in
Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he had a grant of two thousand acres of land. The old mansion house is still standing and is owned by his descendants. He was a man of considerable means and much influence, espe- cially in the Society of Friends, being a min- ister of that faith, and a very devout man in his walk in life. He was among the first set- tlers in Delaware county, and at one time was a member of the provincial council, of the state of Pennsylvania. He married, in 1680, Eliza- beth Clator, of Nottingham, England, and by her had several children.
(VIII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Elizabeth (Clator) Levis, was born in Eng- land, December 8, 1680, died in 1758. He married, October 15, 1709, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Stretch, of Philadelphia, and they had children.
(IX) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and Hannah (Stretch) Levis, was born August 21, 17II, and married, December 6, 1742, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Martha Thomson, and they had children.
(X) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) and Mary (Thomson) Levis, married Elizabeth Garrett, and they had children.
(XI) William, son of Samuel (4) and Eliz- abeth (Garrett) Levis, was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1774, died September 22, 1823, and was a paper maker. He mar- ried, March II, 1798, Esther Pancoast, who died September 15, 1848, daughter of Seth Pancoast. Their children were : Samuel Franklin, see post ; Pancoast, Robert J., Eliz- abeth and Ann.
(XII) Samuel Franklin Levis, progenitor of the Mt. Holly family of that surname, son of William and Esther ( Pancoast) Levis, was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1805, died at Mt. Holly, December 10, 1887. He received a good early education in the Darby town schools and also in the Friends' school, and began his business career as clerk in a gen- eral merchandise store in Philadelphia then under the proprietorship of Bennett & Walton. Soon after 1820 he was sent by his employers to Mt. Holly, New Jersey, to take charge of their mill there, which was operated in the manufacture of wall, book and newspaper. He continued to live in Mt. Holly until the time of his death, in 1887. Mr. Levis married twice. His first wife, whom he married, No- vember 20, 1830, was Sarah Biddle Hulme, born June 26, 1804, died April 1, 1843, daugh- ter of George and Sarah B. (Shreve) Hulme (see Hulme). He married (second) Novem-
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ber 20, 1845, Maria B. Hulme, born October 23, 1814, and still living in Mt. Holly. She also is a daughter of George and Sarah B. (Shreve) Hulme. Mr. Levis had three chil- dren by his first and two by his second wife: I. George Hulme, born April 30, 1832; died June 26, 1889; married, November 1, 1854, Mary Holby, daughter of Charles Magargee and Ann (Cooper) Hicks, and had children : i. Clara M., born November 30, 1855, married, June 25, 1877, Brinckle Gummey, and had daughter, Mary, born December 6, 1877; ii. Anne Hicks, born September 21, 1857, mar- ried, June 12, 1882, Frederick Hemsley, and had daughter, Frances, who married and had children ; iii. Charles Magargee, born October 6, 1859, married Jean Rowland, and had chil- dren. 2. Franklin Burr, born July 28, 1834; see post. 3. Sarah Maria, born August 12, 1839; married, November 3, 1883, Daniel Gar- wood. 4. Emily Hulme, born September 6, 1847. 5. Adelaide Shiras, born October 28, 1851 ; died April 10, 1873.
(XIII) Franklin Burr, son of Samuel Frank- lin and Sarah Biddle (Hulme) Levis, was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, July 28, 1834, and attended public and private schools of that town until he was fourteen years old, when he was sent to Westown to a boarding school to prepare for college. He entered Haverford College in 1849, remaining until 1851, and then entered Princeton College and graduated there in 1853. After leaving college he took up the study of law with Hon. John L. N. Stratton, of Mt. Holly, and was admitted attorney at law at the June term of the supreme court in 1856. He at once began active practice in his native town and since that time has been a member of the Burlington county bar, although in connection with these pursuits he has been somewhat identified with the political history of his town and county. He is a Republican of un- doubted quality, was one of the organizers of that party in Burlington county, and for more than half a century has been looked upon as one of the most earnest exponents of Repub- lican principles in the state. During the civil war he was appointed by Governor Olden judge advocate of the first division of New Jersey militia, and in that capacity assisted in enrolling men and organizing companies for service which had been raised by draft. In 1862 he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue for the second district of the state and held that office for several years.
After the close of the war and particularly after he ceased to be deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue, Mr. Levis devoted his attention to professional pursuits, and in connection with the general practice of law he has been appointed tovarious positions incidental thereto. He is the senior member of the Burlington county bar and still in practice notwithstand- ing his advanced years. He is attorney and counsellor at law, a master in chancery, su- preme court commissioner and special master, and outside of the profession he was for a long time a director of the Union National Bank, of Mt. Holly, and a director of Mt. Holly Safe Deposit and Trust Company; director and vice-president of Mt. Holly Water Company, and a director of the Mt. Holly, Lumberton and Medford Railroad Company. For forty- seven years he has been secretary of the Mt. Holly Building and Loan Association, except- ing for a short period when that office was held by his son, Howard. He is vice-presi- dent of the Burlington County Lyceum of History and Natural Science, member of the board of trustees of Mt. Holly Circulating Library, member of Mt. Holly Lodge, F. & A. M., and a communicating member of St. An- drew's Church, Episcopal, and one of the dele- gates to the Pan-Anglican convention held in London, England, in June, 1908. He was instrumental in founding Trinity Church, of Mt. Holly, for many years was one of its wardens, but subsequently transferred his membership to St. Andrew's Church. At one time also Mr. Levis was secretary and treas- urer of the Mt. Holly Gas Company, director in the Burlington County Telephone Company and president of the Mt. Holly Opera House Association.
On October 14, 1857, Mr. Levis married Re- becca Browning, daughter of Peter Van Pelt and Eleanor (Hollinshead) Coppuck, and by whom he has five children: I. Howard Cop- puck, born Mt. Holly, March 21, 1859; see post. 2. Franklin Burr, Jr., born Mt. Holly, March 25, 1862; died March 26, 1862. 3. Ed- ward Hulme, born April 11, 1864 ; see post. 4. Gertrude Van Pelt, born Mt. Holly, February 23, 1871 ; died June 24, 1871. 5. Norman Van Pelt, born Mt. Holly, April 11, 1872 ; see post.
(XIV) Howard `Coppuck, eldest son and child of Franklin Burr and Rebecca Browning (Coppuck) Levis, was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, March 21, 1859, acquired his earlier education in private schools, then took a special law course at Columbia College, New York, later read law under the instruction of his father and was admitted a member of the Burlington county bar. For several years he practiced in
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association with his father and then received an appointment as assistant counsel for the Westinghouse Electric Company. His duties in that capacity called him to live for some time in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and after- ward in Chicago as western counsel of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, and still later, when he became assistant coun- sel for the General Electric Company, he lived temporarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, and afterward in Schenectady, New York, in which latter city are located the principal works of the General Electric Company. In 1902 Mr. Levis was elected managing director of the British Thomson-Houston Company, of London, England, and since that time he has lived abroad. He is a member of the Pil- grims, Ranelagh, City of London, and Burling- ton Fine Arts clubs, of London, and the Grolier Club, of New York. He married, April 24, 1884, Jane Chester, daughter of the late Hon. William A. and Jane (Chester ) Coursen, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and by whom he has two children : I. Chester Coursen, born Janu- ary 18, 1885. 2. Edith Chetwood, born Octo- ber 31, 1886.
(XIV) Edward Hulme, third son and child of Franklin Burr and Rebecca Browning (Coppuck) Levis, was born in Mt. Holly, April 1I, 1864, received his literary education in public schools in Mt. Holly and also at Peekskill Military Academy, Oswego county, New York, and afterward began his business career in a clerical capacity with the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Company, of Philadelphia. He continued in that employ during the life of the firm under that name, and later with the successor firm until July, 1907, when he became junior partner of the house of C. D. Barney & Co., whose members are J. Horace Harding, J. Cooke, 3d, and Mr. Levis. He maintains his residence at Mt. Holly. Mr. Levis married, January 12, 1892, Theodora, daughter of the late Theodore Risden, of Mt. Holly, and by whom he had two children: I. Dorothy, born November 8, 1895, died the same day. 2. Dorothea, born March 23, 1901, died August 15, 1901.
(XIV) Rev. Norman Van Pelt, youngest son and child of Franklin Burr and Rebecca Browning (Coppuck) Levis, was born in Mt. Holly, April II, 1872. He was educated in public schools of his home town, Peekskill Military Academy, the University of Pennsyl- vania and Alexandria Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia, in the latter of which he studied for the Episcopal ministry. After one
year there he continued his studies at the Philadelphia Divinity School, graduated and was ordained, and became assistant rector of St. John's Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey. After about one and one-half years at St. John's, Mr. Levis was made rector of Christ Church, Westerly, Rhode Island, remained there four years, and in 1904 was called to the Church of the Incarnation, Philadelphia, of which he since has been rector. Mr. Levis married, June 15, 1889, Grace Royal Tyng, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, by whom he has two children : 1. Russell Tyne, born July 13, 1900. 2. Norman Van Pelt Jr., born August 29, 1906.
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In our narrative of the Levis family in these annals it is written that Samuel Franklin Levis married, first, Sarah Biddle Hulme, and after her death married, for his second wife, Maria B. Hulme, sister of his first wife. In this connection a brief account of the Hulme family will be found of interest.
(I) George Hulme, immigrant ancestor of the family here treated, was born in England and came to this country from old Cheshire in the year 1700. He settled in Newtown, Mid- dletown township, Bucks county, Pennsylva- nia, and was still living in 1732.
(II) George (2), son of George (I) Hulme, the immigrant, was born in England, came to America with his father's family in 1700, and died in 1729, his father surviving him about three years. He married (first) October 2, 1708, Naomi, daughter of John and Christina Palmer. She died in 1709, having borne her husband one child, who died in 1709, at or about the time of his mother's death. He married (second ) in October, 1710, Ruth Palmer, sister of his first wife, and by her had four children, Eleanor, Naomi, Hannah and John.
(III) John, only son of George (2) and Ruth ( Palmer ) Hulme, was born probably about 1716-18, and died in 1776. He married (first) in 1744, Mary Pearson, daughter of Enoch and Margaret Smith, and by her had six children. He married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Mary ( Biles) Cutter, and by her had three children. John Hulme had in all nine children: 1. John, born June 3, 1747. 2. Mary, August 31, 1748. 3. George, November 25, 1750. 4. William, Feb- ruary 18, 1752. 5. Thomas, January 28, 1755, died young. 6. Margaret, August 25, 1767. 7. Ruth, October 23, 1771. 8. Thomas, 1774. 9. Benjamin, 1778.
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(IV) John (2), son of John ( I) and Mary (Pearson) Hulme, was born June 3, 1747, and married, May 5, 1770, Rebecca Milner, born December 3, 1748, died April 11, 1806, daughter of William Milner, of Falls town- ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Nine chil- dren were born of this marriage: I. William, July 10, 1771. 2. John, September 20, 1773. 3. Samuel, September 15, 1774. 4. George, October 24, 1776. 5. Isaac, October 26, 1778. 6. Mary, November 5, 1780. 7. Amos, Oc- tober 29, 1782. 8. Joseph, August 25, 1784. 9. Rebecca, February 25, 1787.
(V) George (3), son of John (2) and Rebecca (Milner ) Hulme, was born in Hulme- ville, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1776, died there July 16, 1850. He married Sarah Biddle Shreve, born 1774, died April, 1847, daughter of Joshua Shreve, and by her had seven chil- dren : I. James S., born September 27, 1802. 2. Sarah Biddle, June 26, 1804, married Sam- uel F. Levis, of Mt. Holly (see Levis). 3. Rebecca Ann, March 30, 1806. 4. John, Au- gust 17, 1808. 5. George, November 6, 181I. 6. Maria B., October 23, 1814, married Samuel F. Levis (his second wife). 7. Charles, July 4, 1809.
The late Charles Dunham DESHLER Deshler, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was of the sixth generation of the Deshler family and of the eighth generation of the Dunham family in America, his ancestral lines being as follows :
Paternal Line. (I) Johann Deshler, born in Germany, came to America in 1730. (II) Adam Deshler, lived near Allentown, Pennsylvania, purchased, in 1742, from Frederick Newhard, two hundred and three and one-half acres, on which he built in 1760 the stone dwelling called Fort Deshler (still standing) ; furnished the provincial troops with supplies in the French and Indian war ; married Apollonia (III) David Deshler, born at Egypt, Pennsylvania, 1733, died at Bienj's Bridge, Pennsylvania, De- cember, 1796 ; built in Germantown, 1772-73, the famous dwelling (afterward the residence of the Morris family) known as the Morris- Deshler house, which at one time was the headquarters of the British General Howe, and in 1793, during the yellow fever scourge, was occupied by President Washington as the executive mansion ; married Susanna
(IV) John Adam Deshler, born 1766, died 1820; married Deborah Wagener. (V) George Wagener Deshler, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1793, died 1836;
lived in Easton, Pennsylvania ; prothonotary of Northampton county, Pennsylvania ; editor for some time of the Belvidere (New Jersey) Apollo; married, May 4, 1818, Catharine Law- son Dunham. (VI) Charles Dunham Desh- ler, see forward.
Maternal Line. (I) Deacon John Dunham, born in England in 1589, came to New Eng- land in the ship "James" in 1630, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1669; married Abigail - (II) Benajah Dunham, born 1640, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, died De- cember 24, 1680, in Piscataway, New Jersey ; married, October 25, 1660, Elizabeth Tilson. (III) Rev. Edmund Dunham, born in Piscat- away township, Middlesex county, New Jer- sey, July 25, 1661, died March 7, 1734; mar- ried, July 15, 1681, Mary Bonham (born Oc- tober 4, 1661, died 1742). (IV) Rev. Jona- than Dunham, of Piscataway, born August 16, 1694, died March 10, 1777; married Au- gust 15, 1714, Jane Pyatt. (V) Colonel Aza- riah Dunham, born in Piscataway, New Jer- sey, 1719, died January 22, 1790; noted land surveyor ; active in the revolutionary war, being a member of the committee of corres- pondence ; married Mary Ford, of Morris- town, who was born September 22, 1734, in the old Ford house at that place, afterward Washington's headquarters. (VI) Dr. Jacob Dunham, of New Brunswick, born September 30, 1767, died August 23, 1832 ; married Eliz- abeth Lawson. (VII) Catharine Lawson Dunham, born July 14, 1791, died March 26, 1875 ; married, May 4, 1818, George Wagener Deshler. (VIII) Charles Dunham Deshler.
(VI) Charles Dunham Deshler, eldest child and only son of George Wagener and Catharine Lawson (Dunham) Deshler, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1819. When about four years old he was sent to New Brunswick, New Jersey, to make his home with his grandfather, Dr. Jacob Dunham, who then resided on Peace street, at the foot of Church, in a house which is still standing, though remodeled. He was educated in pri- vate schools and at the Rutgers Preparatory School, where he was graduated in 1832 at the age of thirteen. After his grandfather's death in the latter year, he was apprenticed as clerk to Richard S. McDonald in the drug business in New Brunswick. Succeeding Mr. McDonald, he conducted the business under the firm styles of Deshler & Carter, Deshler & Boggs, and finally C. D. Deshler. During this period he took an active and prominent part in organizing the New Brunswick gas works,
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savings institution, and circulating library, as also the New Brunswick public school system, of which he has always been regarded as the founder.
Moving to Jersey City, Mr. Deshler became editor of the American Standard, resigning that position to accept the editorship of the Newark Daily Advertiser, and conducted these papers with marked ability during a portion of the civil war. Appointed by Governor Joel Parker commissioner for the sick and wound- ed Jersey troops, he spent considerable time in the south caring for the wants and interests of the New Jersey and other troops in the various hospitals. In 1865 he went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, occupying the posi- tion of treasurer of the Farmers' railroad, which ran from Petroleum Center to Oil City. He resigned that place to become secretary of the International Life Insurance Company, of Jersey City, and later was engaged in business interests and literary work in New York City, where he was at various times editor of the Christian Intelligencer, secretary of the United States Dairy Company, secretary of the Har- ney Peak Tin Mining, Milling and Manufac- turing Company, and book reviewer for the publishing house of Harper Brothers.
Re-establishing his residence in New Bruns- wick, Mr. Deshler was until his death a promi- nent and highly esteemed citizen of that com- munity. He was lay judge of the Middlesex county court of common pleas, postmaster of New Brunswick (appointed by President Cleve- land), and agent for the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company. For many years he was vestry- man of Christ (Episcopal) Church. Through- out his very long life he was strongly inter- ested in public affairs, and he was associated on intimate terms with many of the most dis- tinguished political leaders. Originally an ardent Whig ( his first vote being cast for Har- rison and Tyler in 1840), he later became a member of the so-called Know Nothing party, and finally of the Democratic organization. By appointment from Governor McClellan he served as one of the commissioners for the Blind and Feeble-minded, having charge of the erection of buildings, etc. At the centen- nial of the New Jersey state legislature he delivered, by the invitation of that body, one of the addresses. A man of accomplished lit- erary ability, for a portion of his life (as we have seen) a professional writer and editor, and at all times occupied more or less with literary studies and composition, no account of his career would be adequate without a some-
what particular allusion to this phase of it. His reading was most extensive, his tastes in- clining especially to the study of English liter- ature, of which he had a scholarly knowledge, and upon which he wrote and published val- uable critical essays and other contributions. He was the author of "Selections from the Poetical Works of Geoffry Chaucer" (Put- nam, 1848) and "Afternoons with the Poets" ( Harper, 1879). He also devoted much atten- tion to historical researches, and in this con- nection published many sketches and addresses. The George W. Deshler Memorial Library of the New Brunswick high school was given by him in memory of a son. Mr. Deshler died at his residence in New Brunswick, May 10, 1909, in his ninety-first year.
He married, May 30, 1841, Mary Moore Holcombe, born October 10, 1824, in New Brunswick, died September 7, 1893, daughter of Theophilus Moore and Catherine Neilson (Farmer) Holcombe. The Holcombes in this line were an older Quaker family, originally of Lambertville, New Jersey. Children: I. Edward Boggs. 2. George Wagener, graduate of West Point Military Academy, and after- ward first lieutenant of Company A, First Artillery, United States army ; died of yellow fever at Fort Barrancas, Florida, July 28, 1875. 3. Monroe Holcombe (deceased). 4. James. 5. Kate. 6. Theophilus Holcombe (deceased). 7. Mary Holcombe. 8. Elizabeth Dunham (deceased). 9. Charles. 10. Fred- erick. II. Edith.
(VII) James Deshler, fourth child of Charles Dunham and Mary Moore (Hol- combe) Deshler, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 9, 1850. He received a public school education and at an early age engaged in mercantile employment in Newark, New Jersey, subsequently being a clerk in the office of the general ticket agent of the New Jersey Central railroad, Wall street, New York City. From 1865 to 1874 he was in the Pennsylvania oil regions, occupying positions as clerk for the Farmers' railroad and with George H. Bissell & Company, bankers at Petroleum Centre. In the latter year he re- turned to New Brunswick, where he became connected with the New Jersey Rubber Com- pany. He has since continued with that manu- facturing interest, which in 1876 took the name of the New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company, and in 1892 was merged in the United States Rub- ber Company ; and he now occupies the posi- tion of superintendent and manager of the New Jersey factory of the United States Rub-
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ber Company. Mr. Deshler is president of the New Brunswick Trust Company. He mar- ried Ellen Slater, their children being: I. Mary, married George W. Wilmot, of New Brunswick. 2. Anna H., married Frank K. Runyon, of New Brunswick. 3. Katherine, married Dr. Frank L. Hindle, of New Bruns- wick. 4. Louise, married Robert E. Ross, of New Brunswick. 5. George Ray, married Mabel Dickson, of New Brunswick. 6. Helen.
DUNHAM The family name Dunham is a surname derived from a place and in part from per- sonal qualities. Dun is a Celtic adjective mean- ing brown and "ham" in early Anglo-Saxon stood for house. Therefore the town house of the Duns was Dunham. In early times the name was variously written, according to the peculiar fancy of the writer, hence the familiar Dunham patronymic is found otherwise as Doneham, Denham and Duneham. In its origin the name dates back to some remote period, even before the Saxon invasion of England. Most all words, whether names of persons, places or things, have a history, "the ancestry of which, as of individuals, is often a very noble part."
(I) Deacon John Dunham, immigrant an- cestor and founder of this family in America, is said to have come from Lancashire, Eng- land, in the ship "Hope" in 1630-31 .* He set- tled at New Plymouth, became landholder in 1632 and was made freeman of the colony there in 1633. Soon afterward he became identified with the Pilgrim church, in 1638 being elected deacon of the religious society. At that time in the "Old Colony," as after- ward in most other New England colonies, none but church members were admitted to full citizenship. John Dunham was one of the four deputies elected in 1638 to represent the Plymouth settlement, and for each succes- sive council during the next twenty years he was chosen to this responsible office in the legislative assembly. He was born in England in 1589, and after coming to Plymouth con- tinued to live there until he was eighty years old. The public records mention his upright character as a lawmaker and his pious life as
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