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A. Booz, lives at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 4. William Henry. 5. Clara May, died in in- fancy.
(III) William Henry, third and youngest son of William and Elizabeth (Middleton) Holt, was born July 9, 1872, at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, in the house still ocupied by his father. He received his education in the schools of his native town, and at an early age entered the factory of his father, continuing ever since in the same line of work. He entered into part- nership with his father in 1897, and since 1899 has had the entire charge of the business; he purchased his father's interest in 1907, and since then has been sole owner and proprietor, though the name is William Holt & Son Paper Box Manufactory. Since 1897 he has resided in Delanco, New Jersey, where he takes a prominent part in the affairs of the community, being a member of the board of education of Beverly township. He is a Republican, and attends the Presbyterian church. He is a member of Lodge, No. 996, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Burlington, New Jersey, being a past exalted ruler, and in 1908 was sent to Texas as delegate to the Grand Lodge of this order. He has been successful in his business ventures, and has the respect of all who know him, and a large circle of friends.
Mr. Holt married, August 31, 1892, Rena, daughter of John Reeve, of Mt. Holly, New Jersey, and their children are : I. Raymond G., born July 16, 1893, at Mt. Holly. 2. Emma D., October 10, 1895, at Mt. Holly. 3. William L., December 12, 1897, at Mt. Holly.
TAUBEL The Taubel family is another of the group forming the colony of German origin which, emi- grating to this country in the middle of the nineteenth century, found a permanent home for themselves in Riverside, New Jersey.
(I) The father of the founder of the family lived and died in Germany, where he left five children : Lewis, William, Charles, referred to below ; Mary, Catharine. His wife died in Philadelphia at the advanced aged of eighty- four years.
(II) Charles Taubel was born in Germany, in 1821, died in Riverside, New Jersey, Sep- tember 6, 1905. He secured a common school education in his native town, and then learned the shoemaking trade. He came to this country in 1848, stopping first in New York City, then removing to Philadelphia, where he remained
for several years working at his trade. In 1855 he came to Riverside, New Jersey, where he set up for himself as a shoemaker, and kept up his active work until his death. He was a Democrat, a member of the school board, and a member of the Moravian church. In 1850 he married, in Philadelphia, Cornelia Clutt, born in Germany. Their children were: I. John, born in Philadelphia, now living in Riverside .. 2. Rosa, born in Philadelphia, now living in Riverside. 3. Lewis, now engaged in business in Norristown. 4. Henry, referred to below. 5. George, deceased. 6. William, who has a large mill in Riverside and five mills in Pennsylvania. 7. Mary, deceased. 8. Kate, married a Mr. Schneider. 9. Lizzie, de- ceased. 10. Hannah, married Mr. Webber. II. Sophia, deceased. Both married daughters lived in Riverside.
(III) Henry, son of Charles and Cornelia (Clutt) Taubel, was born in Riverside, New Jersey, in 1858, and is now living in that town. He was educated in the common schools and followed farming until nineteen years old, when he went to Philadelphia and learned the machinist's trade, working in a machine shop in that city from 1879 to 1891, when he re- turned to Riverside and became a dyer in the hosiery mills of his brothers, William and Lewis, in the original plant started by them and now occupied by himself. He remained with his brothers as boss dyer for seventeen years, quitting on February 1, 1908. He started in to manufacture hosiery on his own account in company with his son under the firm name of Henry Taubel & Son, April 12, 1908. Mr. Taubel is a Democrat, and is now serving his third term as township committeeman. He has also served for twelve years on the board of school directors and is still a member of the board. For fourteen years he has been one of the directors of the Riverside cemetery, and he was one of the organizers of and insti- tuted the J. O. M. in Riverside in 1894, and he is a trustee of the order. He is also a mem- ber of several German beneficial and social organizations.
In 1882 Henry Taubel married Louisa Koh- ler, of Philadelphia ; children: I. Gertrude, born in Philadelphia, June, 1884; married William Wright, now in the newspaper busi- ness in Wildwood, New Jersey ; they have one child, Gertrude. 2. Charles, born in Philadel- phia in 1886, educated in the Riverside public schools, spent two years in a textile school in Philadelphia and is now with his father in the
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firm of Henry Taubel & Son. He is an expert dyer and has entire charge of that branch of the work. He married Mary Bergnekes, of Delanco, and they have one daughter Gertrude.
This is an old Pennsylvania name
RUE founded in that state early in the eighteenth century, and is presumed to have gone thither from New Jersey. Tradi- tion says it is a Huguenot family, tracing back to France. Franz, Jacques and Abraham Le Roy came to New Amsterdam (now New York) from Manheim, in the Pfalz, prior to 1680, having fled to the Palatinate from France some years earlier. The descendants of Abra- ham, the youngest of the three brothers, are quite numerous in Bucks county, whither they migrated from New Jersey in the closing years of the seventeenth century. The name was spelled La Rue, Larrew, and in various forms in the early records, but eventually assumed its present spelling. The Bucks county family is not nearly related to or associated in any way with that of Rue, and there appears no points of similarity. The descendants of Jacques (James) Le Roy, who settled in Bergen county, New Jersey, and on Staten Island, spelled the name in various forms, and it may be that the Bucks county family is descended from them. The first record of the name Rue is the grant of two hundred acres of land "above the Falls of Delaware" in New Jersey, in 1699, to John Rue, of Staten Island. He may have been the father or grandfather of James.
(I) James Rue purchased the old Vansant farm in Bensalem in 1718, and died there in December, 1759, "advanced in years," leaving a widow Mary, who died in 1769, and chil- dren: Richard, Matthew, Samuel, Joseph, Mary (married Timothy Roberts in 1735), Catherine (married James Rankins in 1744), Elizabeth (married Samuel Yerkes in 1743), Sarah (married James Kidd).
(II) Matthew, son of James Rue, purchased an interest in the Milford Mills ( now Hulme- ville ), and a large tract of land in Middletown township, Bucks county, in 1730, and lived there until his death. In a conveyance to his son Lewis in 1731, no wife joins, but his will mentions wife, Mary, who was probably a sec- ond spouse, and a sister of Benjamin Towne who married his eldest daughter. He died in 1770, leaving an ample estate, dividing several hundred acres of land among his children, and including a large personal property. He had five children: I. Matthew, the eldest, died before his father leaving two sons, Benjamin
and Lewis. 2. Mary, married Thomas Case, of Trenton, in 1734. 3. Richard, mentioned be- low. 4. Katharine, married Benjamin Towne. 5. Lewis, married, in 1736, Rachel Vansant, and died in 1752, leaving six children.
(III) Richard, second son of Matthew Rue, inherited from his father a farm of two hun- dred and fifty acres in Middletown township and spent his whole life in that township, where he died in 1785 and was buried with his father, where many other members of the family of later generations lie, in the Rue graveyard, on the farm now occupied by Rich- ard Rue, near Hulmeville. He married, Jan- uary 6, 1735, Jane Van Dyck. He seems to have married a second time late in life as he is joined in making deeds in 1772 by a wife Elizabeth. No wife seems to have survived him. Children: Anthony, Elizabeth, Lewis, Catherine, (wife of Isaiah Van Horne), Rich- ard and Matthew. The heirs of Richard and Lewis succeeded to the homestead which was purchased by these two in 1786.
(IV) Mathew (2), youngest child of Rich- ard and Jane (Van Dyck) Rue, was a minor in 1770, when he was mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Matthew (1). In this will he received a negro boy, Charles, provided he lived to come of age and to be a farmer. At the time of his father's death, he was living on a small farm purchased by his grandfather in 1765, a part of a large plantation once owned by James Rue (I). He married Mary, daughter of Adam and Christiana Weaver, of Bensalem, and lived at different periods in Middletown, Bensalem and Bristol townships. This farm was conveyed to him by his broth- ers and sisters, and at the death of his father- in-law in 1812, forty acres of land in Bristol was devised to his children, to remain in his possession and care until the youngest of them should arrive of age. He last appears on record in a deed to his son, Adam, for a part of the land conveyed to him by his brothers and sisters in 1786. This deed bears date April 1, 1822, and is joined by his wife, Grace. Their residence was then in Bristol township. No will or letters of administration on his es- tate appear in the probate records of Bucks county. Adam Weaver, the father of his first wife, was a blacksmith and purchased land in Bensalem in 1760. He subsequently bought land in Middletown of Richard Rue, and owned considerable land in Bristol. His daughter, Mary, wife of Matthew (2) Rue, was not living when his will was made Janu- ary 12, 1802. Matthew (2) and Mary Rue
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had children: 1. Adam, died in Bristol, 1849, leaving two sons and three daughters. 2. Richard, died unmarried. 3. Lewis, men- tioned below. 4. Barsheba, wife of Joshua Wright. 5. Christiana. 6. Elijah. 7. Jacob. (V) Lewis, third son of Matthew (2) and Mary (Weaver) Rue, was born January 31, 1788, in Middletown township, died at New- portville in Bristol township, August 9, 1863. He was a harness maker and lived all his life in Bristol. He married Ann, daughter of Stephen Stackhouse, born January 30, 1797, died December 2, 1868. Children : Edmund, Samuel S., Elizabeth (married Charles Wal- ton) of Andalusa, Bucks county), Henry and Mary Ann. The second son was for many years an undertaker in Bristol, where he was succeeded by his son, Harvey.
(VI) Edmund, eldest son of Lewis and Ann (Stackhouse) Rue, was born October 23, 1825, in Newportville and died in Burlington, New Jersey, September 26, 1897. He attended the common schools of his native town, and learned the harness-makers' trade with his father, which furnished his occupation during most of his life. He retired from active busi- ness about five years previous to his death. In March, 1865, he removed to Burlington, New Jersey, and was there engaged in the harness business on his own account until his retirement. He was a Methodist and active in church work, being a member of the official board and treasurer of the Union street Meth- odist Church in Burlington for a period of thirty years. In politics he was a consistent Republican. He married Roxanna S. Allen, daughter of William and Eliza (Goforth) Allen, born October 16, 1825, died January 6, 1909. William, son of Israel Allen, was born June 24, 1793. Eliza, daughter of William and Isabella Goforth, was born December 31, 1792, died October 28, 1829. Children of Edmund and Roxanna S. (Allen) Rue: Will- iam A., died at the age of twenty-five years; Eugene, died in childhood; Caleb Taylor, men- tioned below.
(VII) Caleb Taylor, only surviving child of Edmund and Roxanna S. ( Allen) Rue, was born June 20, 1859, in Newportville and grew up in Burlington county, New Jersey, whither the family removed when he was about six years old. He received his education in the public schools of that town and Burlington College, a military institution. Early in life, he went to work for the Pennsylvania rail- road, on Fourth street, Philadelphia, in the office of auditor of passenger receipts, and re-
mained there two years. He subsequently engaged in the wool business with Edward A. Green & Company of Philadelphia, and for the last twelve years has been engaged in the trade in cotton yarns with a commission house in the same city. For seventeen years he traveled through the country from the east to the middle west and is now city salesman for Muller, Riddle & Company, located at 206 Chestnut street in Philadelphia. He has con- tinued as a resident in Burlington. Mr. Rue has always taken an active interest in political matters, acting with the Republican party, and was president of the common council of Burlington in 1894. He was a member of the convention which nominated John W. Griggs for governor of New Jersey, and of that which chose delegates to the national con- vention in 1908. In November, 1906, he was elected mayor of Burlington and discharged the duties of that office with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituency. He is a member of Burlington Lodge, No. 32, A. F. and A. M .; of Boudinot Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M .; and Helena Commandery, No. 3, K. T. He has been for twenty years affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of Lu Lu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia. He is a member of Burlington Lodge, No. 22, I. O. O. F., of Burlington, and of Lodge No. 996, B. P. O. E., of the same place. The principles of fellow- ship and charity towards mankind, as main- tained by these orders, have been governing principles in the conduct of Mr. Rue's life, and he enjoys the esteem and regard of a large number of people.
He married, in 1893, Mary Collom, daughter of Elias D. and Kate (Love) Collom, of Phil- adelphia. She is a granddaughter of William Collom, who maintained a boarding school many years ago at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, was a Baptist clergyman, and served a term in the state legislature. He also filled a re- sponsible position under President Lincoln during the civil war.
From the records of the pro- STROUD ceedings of the English house of commons we learn that on Wednesday, April 16, 1621, Sir William Stroud moved that "Tobacco be banished wholly out of the kingdom and that it may not be brought in from any part nor used amongst us." This was during the reign of King James I, and shows that the knight was even then im- bued with the spirit of reform. That he was
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a favorite with his constituents is proven by the fact that he kept his seat through the stir- ring days of the reign of Charles I.
History also states that Pym, Hampden, Hazelrigg, Hollis, and Stroud, all members of the house "bravely resisted this king in his un- just measures." So much more vehement were they than the others, that January 4, 1642, His Majesty "suddenly appeared in the House and after calling the names of these five men, accused them of treason and de- manded that they be given up to him." As is well known, the house refused to do any such thing, and many descendants of Sir Will- iam Stroud are now to be found in Great Britain, especially in the town of Stroud, county Gloucester, and it is said that it is from among his grandchildren that the Strouds of Pennsylvania and New Jersey are descended. The crest of the Stroud family was: Demi lion couped. Motto: Malo mori quam faedari, meaning, I would rather die than be dishonored. A copy of the same can be seen in the Fairburn Book of Crests, plate IO-12.
(I) Thomas Stroud, founder of the pres- ent branch of the family, was born in Eng- land, September 30, 1758, and came to this country when he was yet a young man, set- tling in Chester county, Pennsylvania, where he farmed until his death, February 6, 1822. Thomas Stroud married, May 22, 1787, Sarah Hoxworth, a native of Valley Forge, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, born August 20, 1757, died December 29, 1838. Both she and her husband were buried in Hephzibah, the old Chester county Baptist graveyard. Mrs. Stroud's sister Elizabeth married Benjamin Franklin Hancock, of Philadelphia, and one of their two children was General Winfield Scott Hancock The Hoxworths originally spelt their name Hawkesworth, and members of the family which was of English and Welsh extraction served in the French and Indian wars, in the revolution, and in the war of 1812. Thomas and Sarah (Hoxworth) Stroud had eleven children: I. Margaret, born February 14, 1788, died August 28, 1811 ; married James Potts and moved west. 2. Mary, January 2, 1790, married Lewis Windle, July 25, 1810, and had twelve children. 3. Peter, referred to below. 4. Thomas, De- cember 28, 1794. 5. Sarah, April 1I, 1797. 6. Israel, April 8; 1799, died 1880; married Margaret Gibson, of Chester county, Pennsyl- vania. 7. Elizabeth, August 1, 1801. 8. Will- iam, January 20, 1804, married Ann M.
Merves. 9. Joshua, January 22, 1806, married Hannah W. Merves, and died November I, 1876. 10. Eleanor, July 6, 1808, died June 8, 1878; married Isaac Hinkson. 11. Charlotte, October 8, 1810, died February 27, 1887 ; mar- ried Samuel Hinkson.
(II) Peter, third child and eldest son of Thomas and Sarah (Hoxworth) Stroud, was born in Highland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1792, died there March 26, 1847, after an illness of one year. He was a farmer. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Shields, of Chester county, in 1821. She was born November 29, 1795, at East Fallowfield township, died Sep- tember 22, 1865, after an illness of ten days from a carbuncle on the back of her neck. The children of Peter and Margaret (Shields) Stroud were: I Jefferson Mountford, born November 4, 1819; died August 18, 1844; married Ruth Ann Parke. 2. Benjamin Frank- lin, August 17, 1821 ; died April 8, 1870; mar- ried Hannah Ann Fritz. 3. Joseph Cassius, referred to below. 4. Thomas Shields, Octo- ber 16, 1825; died April 8, 1860; unmarried. 5. David Parke, February 6, 1828; died Au- gust 8, 1861 ; unmarried. 6. Caleb Hurford, July 20, 1830; died September 18, 1900; mar- ried Louise Harley. 7. Joshua Van Horn, July 30, 1831 ; died September 27, 1831. 8. Elizabeth Jane, September 13, 1833 ; died Feb- ruary 5, 1907 ; married John R. McClellan. 9. Peter Van Buren, June 24, 1836; a practicing physician at Marlton, New Jersey; he read medicine with his brother, Dr. Joseph C. Stroud, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, March 14, 1861. 10. Lee An- drews, January 5, 1839; married Emily M. Snare ; he died very suddenly, November 13, 1905.
(III) Joseph Cassius, third child and son of Peter and Margaret (Shields) Stroud, was born near Parksburg, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, August 21, 1823 ; died May 23, 1890 ; he was buried in the Colestown cemetery, near Moorestown. He graduated from Marshall- town Academy in 1842, worked on his father's farm and then learned the wheelwright's trade, and worked at that until 1846. He then studied medicine under Dr. Andrew W. Murphy, of Parkesburg, until 1848, when he entered the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. graduating therefrom March 6, 1851, and com- ing to Moorestown, New Jersey, in September of the same year where he began the practice of his profession. December 25, 1851, Joseph Cassius Stroud, married (first) Elizabeth,
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daughter of J. S. Fletcher, of Philadelphia. September 9, 1852, she was injured by the explosion of a coal oil lamp, and died from the effects five days later ; without issue. January 15, 1862, he married (second) Annie M., born in Philadelphia, February 19, 1840, daughter of George and Eliza Dull, of Moorestown. Their children were: 1. Franklin Gilbert, referred to below. 2. Lincoln Grant, born March II, 1865; died January 29, 1897; unmarried. 3. Joseph Haines, May 27, 1867; married (first) October 29, 1892, Ida Green of Philadelphia, born November 21, 1871, died September 13, 1893, without issue; married (second) April 22, 1896, Abbie Eldridge, of Cape May, who has borne him two children, Paul Eldridge, December 14, 1896, and Mildred, February 26, 1898.
(IV) Franklin Gilbert, eldest child of Dr. Joseph Cassius and Annie M. (Dull) Stroud, was born at Moorestown, New Jersey, Octo- ber 30, 1862, and is now living and practicing the profession of medicine in that town. He graduated from the Giffin Academy, near Moorestown, in 1881, and in the fall of the same year entered the Jefferson Medical Col- lege at Philadelphia, from which he graduated April 2, 1885. He began the practice of his profession. In 1886 he decided to take up a specialty of the diseases of the throat and nose, and removing to Camden, New Jersey, he was appointed a consulting physician in that de- partment of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital. In the summer of 1887 he decided to continue his studies in Europe, and in con- sequence he spent nine months in the general hospitals of Vienna, Austria, and three more in the hospitals of London, Dublin, Paris, Brussels and Heidelberg. On his return he went into general practice with his father in Moorestown as his father's health was then very much impaired. Dr. Stroud is very active in state, county and township affairs and also in secret society matters. He is and always has been a staunch Republican. He has served as coroner for the county, on the board of education, on the board of health, and as health inspector. Owing to his carefulness he holds the position of medical examiner in several large life insurance companies. He is a mem- ber of the national, state, county and local medical societies, and has been honored by being chosen president more than once in most of them. He is also a member of the F. and A. M. His religious belief is with the Baptist denomination.
October 30, 1890, Franklin Gilbert Stroud
married Martha Rudolph, born at Marlborough New Jersey, March 4, 1868, daughter of Ed- mund and Julia Ann (Stretch) Shimp, of Camden, New Jersey, and they have one son, Frank Edmund, born at Moorestown, Novem- ber 17, 1891, in the same room of the same house in which his father was born
The New Jersey branch of the OSMOND Osmond family was trans- planted from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where the family settled at an early date. The first of the family of record was Isaac, who was born in Bristol, Bucks county ; married Ann Hughes and had issue.
(II) John Thomas, son of Isaac and Ann (Hughes) Osmond, was born in Bristol, Penn- sylvania, November 26, 1816; died August 28, 1896. His education was received in the com- mon school. He learned the trade of carriage painting and trimming, at which he was em- ployed as a journeyman until his removal to Bordentown, New Jersey, where he engaged in business for himself. Retiring from busi- ness life, he entered the employ of the old Cam- den & Amboy railroad, rising with rapid strides to the responsible position of train despatcher at Bordentown, the headquarters of the Camden & Amboy railroad. During the war the Camden & Amboy moved large bodies of troops over their lines and the duty of handling the great number of extra trains devolved upon Mr. Osmond. After the leasing of the Camden & Amboy by the Pennsylvania railroad, he was retained by the latter company and appointed ticket agent at Bordentown, New Jersey, where he remained in charge until within a few years of his death. His political faith was Demo- cratic, and as representative of that party he served as county commissioner, common coun- cilman, and in many local positions. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a trustee and class leader. He married, Decem- ber 30, 1837, Lydia McGill, born July 6, 1816, in Lowelville, Ohio, died May 17, 1900, the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Howell Mc- Gill. Joseph McGill was born in Scotland or on the high seas, the son of John McGill, who came from Scotland to America, settling in Ohio with his wife Nancy (Howell) McGill. Six children were born to John Thomas and Lydia (McGill) Osmond : 1. Rebecca, married James W. Rice, of Bordentown ; both deceased. 2. Edward, a locomotive engineer; now de- ceased ; married Elizabeth Keen, of Columbus New Jersey, and left Charles, Sarah, Edward, Morgan and Blanche. 3. Thomas, a locomotive
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engineer ; resident of Philadelphia; married Mary, daughter of Edgar and Annie Wright, of Bordentown. 4. George, a cigar manu- facturer, of Bordentown ; now deceased ; mar- ried Abigail, daughter of William and Sarah Atkinson, of Bordentown, and left children, Joseph D., Lydia and Clara. 5. Joseph Lott, see forward. 6. John F., a railroad conductor ; resident of Newark, New Jersey; married Ann Evans, of Bristol, Pennsylvania.
(III) Joseph Lott, fifth child of John Thomas and Lydia (McGill) Osmond, was born in Bordentown, New Jersey, December 29, 1851. He was educated in the schools of his native town. He early became interested in his father's business, and having learned telegraphy enter- ed the employ of the Camden & Amboy rail- road in Bordentown, New Jersey, later became train despatcher at Trenton, New Jersey, for the Pennsylvania railroad, where he worked for a year, then until 1875 in Jersey City and New York. Since 1875 he has been in Phila- delphia, and for the past thirty years has been chief operator of the Philadelphia office of the Pennsylvania railroad. During his thirty-five years' service in Philadelphia, Mr. Osmond has maintained his residence in Bordentown, where he is actively interested in the business, religious and social life of that city. He is president of the Board of Trade, and Improve- ment Association; director of the First Na- tional Bank ; president of the Citizen Hook and Ladder Company; member of the Board of Sewer Commissioners; member of Chosen Friends Encampment, No. 6, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; recorder of Good In- tent Lodge, No. 19, Ancient Order United Workmen. He is a member of the Presby- terian church and an elder of the Bordentown congregation of that faith. He is a Democrat in politics, and for two terms represented his ward in the common council.
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