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(VII) Edward, youngest child and the only son to marry of William and Sarah (New- bold) Bowne, was born in Flushing, Long Island, October 16, 1798, died in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, February 9, 1871. He was a farmer and a large cattle dealer, at one time owning four large farms. He was one of the representa- tive men of Springfield township and one of its most prominent business men.
February 6, 1834, Edward Bowne married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Rebecca (Lip- pincott ) Woodward, who died January 7, 1875. Their children were: I. Sarah New- bold, born January 19, 1835, married David T., son of David and Deborah (Troth) Haines, and has three children: Elizabeth, married
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Joseph Matlack ; Annie, married Isaac Lippin- cott ; and Emily. 2. John Woodward, August 3, 1836, married (first) Anna Satterthwaite, and (second) Sarah Campion. 3. William Newbold, April 1, 1838, died unmarried. 4. Rebecca Woodward, January 6, 1840, married Israel Stokes, son of Henry C. and Elizabeth (Stokes) Deacon, and has four children: Ed- ward Bowne, married Rachel Jones ; Eugene, married Helen Lippincott ; Eva, married New- lin Haines; and Anna, married C. William Snyder. 5. Edward Lawrence, September 9, 1841, married Mary Etta Deacon. 6. Anna Matilda, referred to below. 7. Walter B., March 18, 1845, married Edith Johnson. 8. Emily Newbold, August 25, 1847, unmarried. 9. Franklin Woodward, January 8, 1850, mar- ried Laura Lipoincott.
(VIII) Anna Matilda, sixth child and third daughter of Edward and Elizabeth ( Wood- ward) Bowne, was born in Springfield town- ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, May 12, 1843, and is now living at Mt. Holly, Burling- ton county. She married ( first) Henry Irick, born January 1, 1833, died February, 1892, the eldest child of Henry C. Deacon and Elizabeth, daughter of Israel Stokes and Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth N. (Woolman) Bor- ton. Israel was the son of David Stokes and Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bar- low) Lancaster, and the granddaughter of Thomas Lancaster, the emigrant, and Phebe, daughter of John Wardell, the emigrant. David was the son of John Stokes and Han- nah, daughter of Jervis and Mary Stogdelle, and the grandson of John and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes. June 23, 1894, Anna Ma- tilda (Bowne) Deacon married (second) Oliver L. Jeffrey, who died without issue, Au- gust 23, 1908. Oliver L. Jeffrey was born at Toms River, a son of James Jeffrey. When a young man he engaged in the mercantile business in Columbus, New Jersey, later re- moved to Mt. Holly, where he conducted a successful business as a merchant for more then forty years; and retired a few years be- fore his death. He married (first) Mary Ann Lippincott.
The progenitor of the Irick fam- IRICK ily in America was Johan Eyrich, of Palatina, Holland, who landed at Philadelphia with his brother William about A. D. 1750-60.
(I) John Irick (Johan Eyrich) came to Pemberton, New Jersey, and lived with Dr. William Budd, a large owner of proprietory
lands, and at his death John Irick remained with the widow for some years, becoming in- terested in purchasing large tracts of lands, by which he laid the foundation of the future wealth of the family. We have not been able to establish the fact that he must have been possessed of a competency upon his arrival in this country, but it is believed that he was so possessed, for he could not in such short time have amassed the large estate of which he died possessed. He with others was naturalized by the provincial legislature in 1770, his name being anglicized to John Irick. The record of his marriage shows that General Elias Boudinot became the bondsman in five hundred pounds at that time, which fact in- (licates that he was not yet twenty-one years old. Besides being a man of large means, he was a strong churchman, and for many years was prominently identified with St. Mary's Church (Episcopal) of Burlington. Among his possessions was a large estate between Burlington and Mt. Holly, and there he spent the greater part of his life, engaged in agri- cultural pursuits. He married, 2 mo. 28, 1761, Mary Sailer, and (second) 2 mo. 26, 1781, Mary Shinn. He died in 1826, aged about eighty-six years. His children, William and John, were by the first wife, Mary Sailer.
(II) General William Irick, elder son of John and Mary (Sailer) Irick, was born near Burlington, New Jersey, in 1767, died Janu- ary 26, 1832. Immediately after his marriage he removed from his father's homestead on the road from Mt. Holly to Burlington, to Vincentown, New Jersey, and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by his grand- son, Henry J. Irick. He received his educa- tion in the academic schools of Burlington, and after leaving school took up surveying and conveyancing in connection with his extensive farming operations. His public documents, deeds, articles of agreement, etc., are well and accurately written, and still serve very well as models from which to copy. He early became interested in public affairs, and filled many positions of trust and honor ; was a member of the house of assembly in 1804, and again from 1811 to 1814, inclusive, and member of the governor's council from 1815 to 1817. During the second war with the mother coun- try he was in command of the state militia at Billingsport and thus acquired the military title by which he was ever afterward known and addressed. In politics General Irick was a staunch Whig. His death was much la- mented by a wide circle of devoted friends,
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chief among whom was Chief Justice Ewing, with whom he always maintained an intimate friendship. He married Margaret, daughter of Job and Anne ( Munro) Stockton ; children : I. Anne, married Colonel Thomas Fox Budd, of Vincentown. 2. Mary, married Marzilla Coat, also of Burlington county. 3. William, see post. 4. Job, see post. 5. John Stock- ton, see post.
(III) General William (2) Irick, son of General William (I) and Margaret (Stock- ton) Irick, was born on the Irick homestead, near Vincentown, Burlington county, New Jer- sey, December 20, 1799, died August 17, 1864. He followed in the footsteps of his father as a surveyor and business man, and always lived in Vincentown. He also was honored by his fellow townsmen with many public offices, and was the last member of the old council of New Jersey from Burlington county under the con- tinental constitution. His acts of charity and benevolence were unbounded, and he always was ready to lend a helping hand to his neigh- bor. He was a man of fine stature, standing full six feet tall, weighing two hundred and twenty-five pounds, energetic and painstaking in all of his business transactions. He took great interest in military affairs, and he and his staff were a soldierly looking body of men. In his magisterial capacity of justice of the peace he married many of the very first people of his and the adjoining counties. At the out- break of the civil war, notwithstanding his physical infirmities, General Irick tendered his services to Governor Olden, but under a re- organization of the state militia about that time he was legislated out of his military office. He did the next best thing, however, in aiding the government by pledging his ample fortune through Jay Cooke & Company in support of the union cause. General Irick married (first) Sarah, daughter of Amos and Lydia Heulings, of Evesham township, Burlington county. She died in 1852, and he married ( second) Mrs. Sarah Eayre. He had five children-all daughters -- by the first wife, and one child by his second wife : I. Lydia H., mar- ried Franklin Hilliard, of Burlington county. 2. Margaret, married David B. Peacock, of Philadelphia. 3-4. Eliza Ann and Mary Ann, twins; Eliza Ann died in early womanhood ; Mary married Benjamin F. Champion, of Camden county. 5. Cornelia, married John W. Brown, Esq., of Burlington county. 6. William John, now president of the First Na- tional Bank of Vincentown, and whose home
is near the paternal home in Southampton township.
(III) Job, second son of General William (I) and Margaret (Stockton) Irick, was a land surveyor and successful farmer, but he died early in August, 1839, at the age of thirty- seven years. He married Matilda Burr, and lived and died in Southampton township. He had one son, William H. Irick ( father of Mary Irick Drexel), and two daughters, both of whom married and lived in Philadelphia.
(III) General John Stockton, third son of General William (I) and Margaret (Stockton) Irick, was born on the old home- stead in Southampton township, August 4, 18II, died August 4, 1894. In May, 1832, he married and being so nearly of age at that time, his brothers, William and Job, executors of his father's will, permitted him to occupy his inheritance at once, and took him into partnership in working off and marketing the timber growing on the broad acres devised to them jointly. Both he and his wife having a handsome landed estate, their way in the world was successful from the beginning, until along in the fifties, when he joined with nine other men in the iron foundry business at Lumber- ton, as partners, without being incorporated, each member being personally responsible for all its obligations, and trusting to the manage- ment of two of the partners, at the end of a very few years the concern became heavily in- volved, and he realized the fact that he was held responsible for $250,000, all that he was worth at that time. But with the same energy that always characterized his actions, he took hold of the concern, came to the aid of the bankrupt cities, built their gas and water works and financed them, and soon paid off the indebtedness and saved a handsome profit while the others stood off without offering any material aid. The war of the rebellion broke out at about this time, and under the reor- ganization of the state militia he, with three others, was appointed by Governor Olden to organize and command it, with the rank of major-general. Upon the election of Gov- ernor Parker, he was continued and gave his time and services throughout the war. He, like his brother William, tendered through Jay Cooke his fortune in defence of the Union. He was a member of the New Jersey house of assembly, 1847-48-49, and never lost his in- terest in public affairs, always taking an active part in politics as an ardent Whig and Repub- lican. His only other public office was that
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of freeholder, serving as director of the board during his three years' term. It was largely through his efforts that the first railroads in Burlington county were built and he was a director in all of them. He also was instru- mental in organizing the First National Bank of Vincentown, being its president until his death, when William John Irick succeeded him. He died August 4, 1894, upon his eighty-third birthday, leaving a large circle of acquaintances and friends. General Irick mar- ried, May 17, 1832, Emeline S. Bishop, a Quakeress, daughter of Japheth and Rachel Bishop. She was born in Vincentown in 1814, died April 2, 1895; children : I. Henry J., see post. 2. Rachel B., September 9, 1835; married Charles Sailer. 3. Samuel S., August 30, 1838; married Susan Butterworth. 4. Margaret A., January 1, 1841 ; married Henry B. Burr. 5. Job, August 8, 1844; died young. 6. John B., see post. 7. Emeline, 1848; died young. 8. Robert H., June 30, 1851 ; died young. (IV) Henry Japheth, son of General John Stockton and Emeline S. (Bishop) Irick, was born in Vincentown, New Jersey, March 13, 1833, and received his education in the public schools in his home town, in Norristown Semi- nary, under Samuel Aaron, and at Willis Acad- emy, Freehold, New Jersey. After marriage he lived for about seven years on a farm owned by his father, located between Mt. Holly and Burlington, and then returned to the old home- stead at Vincentown, where his father had lived for sixty years, and where he himself has now lived for more than thirty-five years. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, he has been actively engaged in farming and surveying, and is highly regarded as one of the prominent general business men of his section of the state.
From early young manhood he took an active interest in politics. He attended the first Republican convention in New Jersey, which nominated Dr. William A. Newell for governor, in 1856. He has been called to vari- ous public positions of honor and trust. He was made justice of the peace when twenty- one years old; was elected member of the house of assembly in 1862, and served three years ; was elected state senator in 1871. While in the legislature he was chairman of the joint committee for the reorganization of the legis- lative bodies of the state ; member of the com- miittee on educational affairs ; chairman of the committee on engrossed bills ; and lay member of the judiciary committee. He also was ap- pointed by Governor Stokes to membership
on the state board of equalization of taxes, and still serves in that capacity. Soon after his appointment to this position, he was tendered the appointment of stone road commissioner of New Jersey, in 1908, also in 1909 he was tendered by Governor Fort the appointment of a lay judge of the court of errors and appeals, the highest court in New Jersey, and the high- est honor to be given by the governor. How- ever, he was compelled to decline both appoint- ments on account of age, besides being already a member of the state board of equalization of taxes, he felt it his duty to fill out his term, in justice to the agricultural interests of the state, through which influence he was appointed to the position. Previous to his appointment to the state board of taxation, Mr. Irick was a director of the several companies in which his father had been similarly interested, but these connections he severed before becoming a mem- ber of the equalization board. He was presi- dent of the Burlington City Loan and Trust Company for nearly two years. For more than half a century he has been a member of Cen- tral Lodge, No. 44, Free and Accepted Masons, and past master for forty-eight years; and is also a member of Union League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 848, B. P. O. E., and although brought up under the influences of the Society of Friends he attends services of the Prot- estant Episcopal church.
In 1862 Mr. Irick married Harriet R., daugh- ter of Samuel E. and Hannah ( Roberts) Clem- ent. Children: I. H. Clementine, born Feb- ruary 24, 1863. 2. Anne H., June 21, 1865; married William J. Irick, banker of Vin- centown. 3. John Ellis, December 9, 1867; graduate of Rutgers College.
(IV) John Bishop, son of General John Stockton and Emeline S. ( Bishop) Irick, was born at Vincentown, November 28, 1845, and received his education in academic schools at Burlington and Lawrenceville. He began busi- ness life on his father's farm, and carried it on about five years, then for twenty-eight years was proprietor of a gristmill, and now is en- gaged in a general lumber business. For four- teen years he was tax collector of Burlington, and in 1905 was elected member of the New Jersey house of assembly and has been re- elected at the end of each successive term. Since 1871 he has been a director of the bank in Vincentown. He holds membership in Mt. Holly Lodge of Elks, No. 848, has been a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal church for thirty years, and is a lifelong Republican.
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Mr. Irick married, September 13, 1871, Clara Moore, of Philadelphia, daughter of Carlton R. and Mary (McClure) Moore; chil- dren: I. Vincent, born June 12, 1872; grad- uated from Rutgers College in 1898, and is now engaged in mercantile business in New York City; married Blanche Van Alstyne, of Kinderhook, New York. 2. Carlton, May 5, 1877. 3. Hector Tyndall, November 31, 1883 ; graduate of Philadelphia Dental College.
KELSEY Jonathan Hamilton Kelsey, at- torney at law, resident of Pem- berton, New Jersey, descends from an old New England family that early settled in the state of Vermont. His great- grandfather, Jonathan Kelsey, was born in North Danville, Vermont; married, and had issue.
(I) Robert Lee, son of Jonathan Kelsey, was born in North Danville, Vermont. He was a farmer, and an influential man in his community. He was a Democrat, very active in politics and held many public offices of honor and trust. He was four times married, and had the following issue: Hiram, Ichabod, Jonathan B., see forward, Harvey, and Betsey, who is living in Springfield, Massachusetts, at a very advanced age.
(II) Jonathan B., son of Robert Lee Kelsey, was born in North Danville, Vermont, in De- cember, 1827, and died April 2, 1903. He was educated in the schools of his native town and at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. When a young man he was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and for a short time pursued the study of medicine, a pro- fession, however, which he never fully quali- fied himself to enter. Later he located in Arkansas and invested largely in farm prop- erty. He had a large plantation at Poco- hontas, Arkansas, on the Black river, operated with slave labor which he owned before the war. He became interested in the study of law and served as clerk of court in Randolph county, Arkansas. At one time he was a Mississippi and Ohio river pilot, running be- tween New Orleans and Cincinnati. He ac- quired an interest in river steamboats and piloted his own boats. Owing to the reverses caused by the war and the unsettled condition, Mr. Kelsey abandoned the south as a resi- dence, and about the year 1876 located in Cam- den, New Jersey. He engaged in the insur- ance business and was general agent for the Lancastershire Insurance Company of Eng- land. He maintained his business office in Philadelphia. In 1880 he settled in Pember-
ton, New Jersey, which was his home until his death, excepting three years temporary ab- sence as proprietor of a hotel in Atlantic City. In Pemberton he continued in the insurance business. He became identified with the New- ark board of underwriters and acted as their secretary for fifteen years. Mr. Kelsey pur- chased a large farm at Pemberton, and became a breeder of fancy cattle, in which he took a deep delight. He imported fancy Jerseys and other blooded animals for the improvement of his herds. He remained in active business life to within a short time previous to his death. Mr. Kelsey was a Democrat in politics. He was a member of the board of tax revision, and at the taking of the census, in which he assisted, Mr. Kelsey inaugurated methods that proved acceptable and are now in use. He affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and was past master of Central Lodge, No. 44, Free and Accepted Masons, of Vincentown, New Jersey. In the Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree.
Jonathan B. Kelsey married (first) Helen Hamilton, of Rising Sun, Ohio. She bore him seven children, five of whom were carried off by an epidemic of yellow fever. The two who survived were Minnie Blanche and Virginia Helen Kelsey. Mr. Kelsey married (second) Laura Virginia Hamilton, sister of his first wife. She survives him and resides on the farm at Pemberton. Albert Hamilton, father of his two wives, was a merchant of Rising Sun, Ohio. He married, and had five chil- dren : Mary, married Samuel F. Covington, whose ancestors founded Covington, Kentucky ; Albert; Helen, Mrs. J. B. Kelsey (first) ; Laura Virginia, Mrs. J. B. Kelsey (second), and Emma Hamilton.
The children of Jonathan B. and Laura Vir- ginia (Hamilton) Kelsey are two who died in infancy, Robert Lee, Judith, Jonathan H., see forward ; Harriet ( Mrs. John C. Altar, of Mil- ford, Delaware), Mary Alberta, Clara Edith, a teacher in the Pemberton high school; Hiram Albert, with the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, and Ellwood H., who manages the home farm for his mother.
(III) Jonathan Hamilton, son of Jonathan B. and Laura V. (Hamilton ) Kelsey, was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 19, 1873. He came to New Jersey when a child with his parents. He was educated in the Pemberton schools and under the special instruction of Professor George Shepherd. He had determined on the legal profession, and registered as a law student in the office of Samuel K. Robbins, a noted
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lawyer of Moorestown and Camden, New Jersey. He remained with Lawyer Robbins three years. He was then in the law office of William A. Slaughter, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey, for the next two years. Mr. Kelsey was admitted to the Burlington county bar at the June term of court in 1903. He at once opened offices for the practice of his profession in Mt. Holly and Pemberton. In addition to his legal business he is a member of the real estate and insurance firm of Kelsey & Killie, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Mr. Kelsey has the super- vision of his brother's large estate as well as other trusts and properties. He was an incor- porator of the Peoples' National Bank of Pem- berton, and serves on the board of directors and as attorney for the bank ; this bank was in- corporated in 1906 with Theodore Budd, presi- dent ; Clifford E. Budd, vice-president, and Wilson D. Hunt, cashier. Mr. Kelsey is a Democrat and for five years served Pemberton township as justice of the peace, was re-elected but declined to serve; he is a member of the board of councilmen for the borough of Pem- berton. He is a member of the Grange, and of Company, No. 49, Patriotic Order Sons of America. He is an attendant of the Baptist church.
Jonathan H. Kelsey married, August 13, 1904, Rebecca Maud Antrim, of Juliustown, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Antrim, granddaughter of Isaac Antrim, who was a descendant of Lord Antrim and settled on a grant of land near Jobstown, New Jersey, that has never been out of the family's possession. Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey have one child, Virginia Antrim, born at Pemberton, New Jersey, Sep- tember 7, 1906.
POWELL The name is a very common one in the Colonial history of New Jersey, and in fact there are few that are more so. It is probable that inany of these have sprung from the same source before coming hither, but nothing can be found now to establish the family connec- tion founded on the name. Those bearing it have been prudent, industrious, of good repute, and are still contributing their proportion in the moral and physical development of the state.
(I) Among the passengers on the ship "Kent," that brought the first settlement of the English colony to Burlington, were Robert Powell and his wife Prudence, and their two sons, Robert and John, the latter an infant. They came from London, but a tradition has
come down through separate branches of the family that they originally came from Wales. Shortly after their arrival here was born to them a daughter Elizabeth. These are all that are known. The local record reads: "Eliza- beth Powel, daughter of Robert and Prudence Powel, was Borne in Burlington the 7th Sea- venth month, 1677, latte of London, chandler, witnesses then p'sent Ellen Harding, Mary Crips, Anne Peachee." This is the first rec- orded birth in the colony. In another record, showing the deed from Thomas Clide to Rob- ert Powell, the latter is styled clothier. His name is connected with several real estate transactions. In 1681 one hundred acres were surveyed for him along Mule Creek (Willing- ton township), and in 1693 two hundred acres in the fork of the Racocus. Robert Powell was one of the "stalwarts" among the Quakers in the Colony, his name appearing as one of the signers of the declaration against George Keith. He was also one of the signers of an epistle sent by Burlington Monthly Meeting to London Yearly Meeting, dated 12, 7 month, 1680, the first official communication received by the London Yearly Meeting from a meet- ing in America. There is no will of record, but it is certain that he died prior to January 13, 1694, as a deed given by his sons on that date shows. His wife died before him and according to the record was "layd in ye ground ye 10th of ye 4 month, 1678." In this record Robert Powell and wife are recorded "late of Martin, Legrand, London." The elder son married Mary Perkins in 1696 and died in 1706.
(II) John, younger son of Robert and Pru- dence Powell, was born 1676 and his name ap- pears in the census of Northampton township, in 1709. He died in 1715-16. He was mar- ried at Burlington Monthly Meeting, 12 month, 23 day, 1698, to Elizabeth Parker, born 1676, daughter of George and Sarah Parker. She survived him and was married in 1720 to Rich- ard Brown. In her will, her father. George Parker, is referred to as of "East Jersey." John Powell's children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Sarah, born 1701. 3. Rebecca, 1703; married (first) Christopher Scattergood, and (second) an Aaronson. 4. Elizabeth, 1705. 5. Isaac, December 21, 1706; married Eliza- beth Perdue or Purdy, died about 1773. 6. Prudence, married Roland Owen, in 1738. 7. Jacob. 8. Robert. 9. Samuel.
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