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and Sarah (Van Horne) Brower; children : I. Robert Seth, referred to below. 2. William Putt. 3. Charles Seth, Jr. 4. Thomas Jeffer- son, born July 4, 1855. 5. Martha, married Frank P. Fisher, of Tacony, Philadelphia, and has two children: Roy and Linden. 6. Mary Ellen. 7. Ellen Marcy McClellan. 8. George B. McClellan.
(VII) Robert Seth, eldest child of Charles Seth and Margaret Roe (Brower) Austin, was born in Philadelphia, August 16, 1849, and is now living in that city with his office in room 801, of the Reading Terminal building, on Market street. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied art. After leaving school he was for a time in the office of Henry Disston & Company, the saw manu- facturers. He next learned the art of glass cutting and the decorating of glass globes. Then he became connected with the Reading railroad in 1866, or rather at that time the road that he was with was called the North Pennsylvania railroad, and ran from Bethlehem to Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania. His position here was that of dispatching clerk. This road subse- quently, in 1879, became a part of the Reading railroad system, and Mr. Austin became chief clerk in the auditor's department of the latter road, with his offices in the Reading Terminal. He has been for over forty years connected with the railroad where he still remains. Mr. Austin is a Republican, and is not a member of any church although he attends the Baptist and Methodist churches. He is a member of the "Order of Spartans," a member of the Reading railroad veteran employees associa- tion, employment by the railroad for twenty- five years being necessary before one can be eligible to this association. Mr. Austin was born with an innate natural faculty for art and painting. This fact together with his art studies at the art school in Philadelphia have
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made it possible for him to secure a number of prizes given at art exhibitions in the city of Philadelphia and elsewhere, notwithstanding his responsible position as chief clerk of the auditing department of the Reading railroad, which of course requires most of his time and attention. Mr. Austin seems to have quite as much ability as a marine artist as a landscape painter, which is unusual.
Robert Seth Austin married Mary Lawson, who is now dead. Their children were: I. George Wise, deceased ; married Jennie Carna- han, and has two children : Mildred and Doro- thy. 2. Charles Seth, married Mazie Weldon, and has Charles Weldon, Frank Cody, Bertha and Russell. 3. Robert Matthew. 4. Henry Washington Rihl, now living in Texas. 5. Margaretta, died at the age of seven years.
WOLCOTT A distinguished family of this name has illuminated the pages of New England his- tory, and any Wolcott would be honored by such a progenitor as Henry Wolcott, the immi- grant, who by his wife, Elizabeth Saunders, had a son, Simon, who married Martha Pitkin before 1779. They were honored by a son, Roger, who was born in the frontier town of Windsor, Connecticut colony, January 4, 1679, was made a member of the general assembly of the colony in 1709; was placed upon the bench of justices of the local court of the colony in 1710; was commissary of the Con- necticut stores in the expedition against Can- ada in 17II; was a member of the colonial council in 1714; judge of the county court, 1724; of the superior court 1732; deputy gov- ernor and chief justice of the supreme court in 1741. He was commissioned major general in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745, by Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, and held rank second only to Pepperell. On re- turning from that expedition he was elected governor of Connecticut, and served as such 1750-54. He died in Windsor, May 17, 1767. His son by his wife, Sarah Drake, Oliver, born in Windsor, November 26, 1726, was a grad- uate of Yale ; a captain in the volunteer army sent to protest the north frontier against the French and Indians ; became a student of medi- cine ; was the first sheriff of Litchfield county, 1751-71 ; representative in the general assem- bly, 1764-70; assistant to the governor, 1771- 86; judge of the court of probate, 1772-95; chief judge court of common pleas, 1774-86; held the rank of colonel in the state militia for 1774; delegate to continental congress,
1775-78; one of the immortal signers of the Declaration of Independence, adopted July 4, 1776; was promoted to brigadier-general, 1779; member of continental congress, 1780-83 ; lieu- tenant governor of Connecticut, 1786-96 ; gov- ernor of the state, 1796-97, and died in Litch- field, December, 1797. His son by his wife, Lorroene Collins, to whom he was married, January 21, 1755, was named Oliver (2). He was born in Litchfield, January 11, 1760; grad- uating at Yale, class of 1778; served with his father in the colonial and revolution- ary wars; was member of the committee of the pay-table, 1782-88; comptroller of public accounts, 1788-89, auditor, 1789- 91 ; comptroller United States treasury, 1791- 95; secretary of the United States treasury, 1795-1800 ; governor of Connecticut, 1817-27 ; and died in New York, June 1, 1833. His great-grandson through his son, Frederick, and Elizabeth Huntington, his grandson, Joshua, and Cornelia Frothingham, was Roger Wolcott, born in Boston, July 13, 1847; died there De- cember 21, 1900. He graduated at Harvard, in the class of 1870; was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, 1892-95; governor, 1895-98. That the New Jersey Wolcotts are from the same stock is undoubted, but their direct con- nection with Henry, the immigrant ancestor of the Connecticut Wolcotts, has not been estab- lished. The first known ancestor of the New Jersey Wolcotts is Samuel Wolcott (see for- ward).
(I) Samuel Wolcott died at Tintonfalls, in the township of Shrewsbury, Monmouth coun- ty, New Jersey, about 1693 or 1694. He ap- parently married a Widow Williams who brought him a stepson, Edward Williams. She also gave birth by her marriage to Samuel Wolcott to a son, Nathaniel (see forward) who became the progenitor of all the Wolcotts in New Jersey, except those who came within the last century from Connecticut, and who have an established line of descent from Henry, of Windsor, Connecticut.
(III) Peter, probably son of Nathaniel, and grandson of Samuel Wolcott, had a son, Henry. see forward.
(IV) Henry, son of Peter Wolcott, was born in Shrewsbury township, New Jersey, about 1690; died in 1750. He married but the name of his wife is not known. He had a son, Benjamin, see forward.
(V) Benjamin, son of Henry Wolcott, was born in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, July 18, 1724; died in 1790. He married (first) in 1749, Rachel Wainwright, who died without
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issue. He married (second) February 27, 1753, Clementine Cook, and among their chil- dren was Benjamin, see forward.
(VI) Benjamin (2), eldest son of Benjamin (I) and Clementine (Cook) Wolcott, was born 1758; married Ann Lewis, and their first son was Benjamin, see forward.
(VII) Benjamin (3), eldest son of Ben- jamin (2) and Ann (Lewis) Wolcott, was born in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, 1789. He married Phebe, daughter of Jeffrey, and they lived in Eatontown, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, where their son Edmond, see forward, was born.
(VIII) Edmond, son of Benjamin (3) and Phebe (Jeffrey) Wolcott, was born in Eaton- town, Monmouth county, New Jersey, May 14, 1816. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of John and Sarah Dangler, and they had a son William Henry, see forward.
(IX) William Henry, son of Edmond and Sarah Ann (Dangler) Wolcott, was born in Eatontown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, February 15, 1846. He was a farmer of Eatontown, where he spent his life, and died January 21, 1889. He was a member of In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He mar- ried Martha M., daughter of Charles W. and Mary A. Higginson, of Shropshire, England, and they had two children, born in Eatontown, New Jersey, as follows: I. Edith Maude, March 20, 1877, unmarried. 2. Wilfred Bon- sieur, see forward.
(X) Wilfred Bonsieur, only son and second child of William Henry and Martha M. (Hig- ginson ) Wolcott, was born in Eatontown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, March II, 1880. He was a student in the public schools of Eatontown, the high school of Long Branch, New Jersey, graduating in the class of 1897, and from the University of Pennsylvania, de- partment of law, LL. B., 1900. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar November, 1901, as an attorney, and was made a counsellor in November, 1904, in conformity with the laws of the state which impose a legal practice of three years as an attorney-at-law, before being admitted as an attorney and counsellor-at- law, at which time they come into general practice in all the courts of the state. He was appointed assistant city council of the city of Camden, January 1, 1907, and was made a member of the Camden County Bar Associa- tion, and of the Camden Republican Club. He affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows through membership in Amity Lodge, No. 166, of Camden, New Jersey, and with
the Junior Order of American Mechanics through the membership in Diamond Council, No. 14, of Swedesboro, New Jersey. His col- lege affiliations include membership-the Alumni Association of the University of Penn- sylvania and of the Alumni Association of the Law Department of the University of Penn- sylvania. His church affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal denomination through membership in the Methodist Episcopal church of Merchantville, New Jersey.
He married, March 18, 1902, Mary Aline, daughter of J. Howard and Lydia Kirkbride, of Camden, New Jersey. Children, born in Merchantville, New Jersey, as follows: I. Mary, August 20, 1904. 2. Wilfred Bon- sieur (2), May 17, 1906.
CAMPION This family was founded in New Jersey by a boy who came over as an apprentice and was associated with the Quakers, although he does not seem to have been a member of the society. Many of his descendants now re- side in the vicinity of Burlington, New Jersey, where he settled.
(I) John Campion is supposed to have been born in Northamptonshire, England. Accord- ing to the family tradition, he came from Yorkshire, which seems very probable, as the party with which he came doubtless sailed from the town of Hull in Yorkshire. He was probably less than fifteen years of age on his arrival, and he lived as an apprentice in the home of John Eves, whose wife, Mary (Stokes) Eves, was born in Northampton- shire and it is supposed that John Campion came under the instruction of John Éves through the relatives of the latter's wife. As a member of the Eves household, young Cam- pion undoubtedly attended the Friends Meet- ings. He learned the trade of carpenter under the instruction of Eves, and after the latter's sudden death he received a legacy by will dated June 25, 1738. Campion evidently continued to reside in Evesham township, where he was married by license, May 12, 1752, to Mary, daughter of Samuel, and Mary (Shinn) Eves, of Evesham ( see Eves II). She was a birth- right Friend, and in 1759 she made acknowl- edgement of marriage out of meeting at the Evesham meeting and was received again into full membership of the society. About 1760 John Campion moved to the neighborhood of Burlington, and in 1762 his wife presented a certificate of removal from the Evesham meet- ing to that of Burlington. In 1766 and 1767,
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by two purchases, John Campion acquired from Jacob and William Wills, respectively, two tracts of land amounting to one hundred and fourteen acres together with a dwelling house. This plantation is located in what was then the eastern part of Northampton town- ship, now Southampton township, about one mile northeast of the village of Vincentown. The house has been somewhat altered but is still standing and occupied by Harry Bowne, the present owner. Here John Campion re- sided and died between July 22 and August 13, 1774, the dates respectively of signing and pro- bating of his will. His younger brother, Richard Campion, born 1733, came to New Jersey, but the date of his arrival does not appear. He was married March 22, 1753. by license, to Sarah Borradaille. In December, 1767, he was accidentally shot while duck hunting at Long Beach, New Jersey, and let- ters of administration were granted to his brother, John Campion, and his widow, Sarah Campion, January 8, 1768. John Campion's wife died before him. Children: Joseph, mentioned below; Sarah, married, November 23, 1777, Joab, son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Carter) Jones.
(II) Joseph, only son of John and Mary (Eves) Campion, was born March 26, 1753, in Evesham, died September 23, 1829, on his father's plantation in Southampton, which he inherited. He was not a birthright Quaker, but applied November 6, 1775, to the Burling- ton Monthly Meeting for admittance to the Society, and after examination by a committee appointed for that purpose he was admitted the following month. He was married by Friend ceremony early in 1776, probably at the home of the bride, to Mary, daughter of Fran- cis and Zilpha Venicomb. Shortly after his marriage he took up residence upon his father-in-law's plantation and there continued until the death of Mr. Venicomb in 1785, after which he returned to his own plantation and continued there the remainder of his life. In accordance with the principles of the Friends, he took no part in the revolutionary war and seems not to have participated in the manage- ment of civil affairs, though he enjoyed the respect and confidence of the community and served frequently as executor and adminis- trator of estates. During the last fourteen years of his life, he was confined to the house with palsy, an affliction which he bore with great patience and composure of mind. He survived his wife, who was born December 4, 1755, died April 13, 1826, and both were buried
in the burying ground at the meeting house in Mount Holly. Children : I. Sarah, born No- vember 10, 1776; married, February 2, 1802, William Penn Horner ; died December 5, 1853. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Richard, May 23, 1782 ; was a prominent business man, mem- ber of state assembly and of the governor's council, died in March, 1850. 4. Francis, April 24, 1784, died June 21, 1841. 5. Joseph, September 13, 1786, died April 29, 1861. 6. Stacy Budd, mentioned below. 7. William, June 30, 1793, died August 9, 1827.
(III) John (2), eldest son of Joseph and Mary ( Venicomb) Campion, was born March 3, 1779, in Southampton, died March 19, 1855. He was educated in the country schools of Northampton, and was- still a boy when ap- prenticed to Benjamin Hooton, a hatter of Philadelphia, whose residence and shop was No. 14 North Second street. The confining work of a hatter was distasteful to Campion, and after completing his apprenticeship he returned to the active out-door life of the farm. He rented from Benjamin Cooper a farm adjacent to that of his father, on which he resided until his retirement. He married, February 2, 1804, Sarah Hall, born May 13, 1782, died November 3, 1830, daughter of James and Sarah (Wynne) Hall. James Hall was a native of London, a clock maker by trade, and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he married in 1772 Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Pastorius) Wynne, of that place. After the death of his wife, his daughter Sarah removed to the home of her mother's sister, Anne, wife of Thomas (2) Hooton, of Burlington, New Jersey. The latter was a nephew of John Campion's preceptor, and was also a hatter by trade. Here Sarah Hall met John Campion to whom she was married by Samuel Bispham, a justice of the peace. She was well educated, wrote a fine hand and her gracious manners and charming disposition won the love and respect of the community. Her death was caused by consumption after many years of suffering and she was buried in the Friends burying ground at Mount Holly. After all her children were married, her hus -. band retired and resided with his brother, Stacy B., at Campion's Hotel, at Mount Holly, and spent the remainder of his life either there or with one or another of his children. They were : I. Charles Hall, born February 2, 1805, died February 2, 1840. 2. James, June 10, 1806, died February 14, 1836. 3. Joseph Hall, mentioned below. 4. Sarah, April 9, 1813; married, March 31, 1835, Rev. Josiah Flint
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Canfield; died January 23, 1840. 5. Benja- min Cooper, March 14, 1815, died February 2, 1898. 6. Elizabeth, March 22, 1817; mar- ried, November 2, 1840, George Dugdale ; died November 9, 1844. 7. Rebecca, died aged two years.
(IV) Joseph Hall, third son of John and Sarah (Hall) Campion, was born June 12, 1808, in Southampton, died December 1, 1895, in Philadelphia. He was educated at the country schools in Northampton; he was so small at the age of fifteen years that his father believed he would never grow large enough to engage in the arduous labors of the farm. He accordingly apprenticed him to learn the trade of cabinet-maker under the instruction of Mr. William Fling, of Philadelphia, whose place of business was located at 435 Chestnut street (old number). He became rapidly skilled in the use of tools and developed a taste for mechanics, largely inherited from several of his forebears. He grew in body to such an extent that although slender he stood nearly six feet in height. He was very active and particularly fond of athletics, being a very proficient skater upon ice. After completing his term of apprenticeship he took employment with John Millington, civil engineer and ma- chinist, formerly a professor of mathematics in the Royal Institute of Great Britain and of natural philosophy in Gays Hospital, London. Mr. Millington engaged in business in Phila- delphia as an importer and manufacturer of engineering supplies. Mr. Campion did not remain long with him. Upon leaving this em- ployment, Mr. Campion received from him a letter of recommendation, saying in part, "He is an excellent workman of very steady and industrious habits and perfectly sober, honest, and honorable in all his dealings, and quite worthy of the confidence of any person with whom he may form an engagement of busi- ness, besides which, he is of a good tempered and obliging disposition. The only reason of our parting was his desire to travel and visit the different parts of his native country, and as I part with him with regret, I voluntarily and without his request, offer him this testi- monial of my regard for him and my appro- bation of his conduct, while he was with me, thinking it might prove of use to him in any new connections he may form with strangers. who would be unable to appreciate his merits before they became acquainted with him." Mr. Campion traveled for a time through the south and returned in 1834 to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the manufacture of furn-
iture in partnership with Thomas Moore under the style of Moore & Campion, their factory and offices being located at 261 South Second street. For thirty-five years this business was successfully conducted, and when the pro- prietors retired it was continued several years by Mr. Campion's son, in partnership with an- other under the firm name of Smith & Cam- pion. Joseph H. Campion was a Republican in politics and an abolitionist, but took no active part in the war of the rebellion. He became a member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia shortly after its formation. He resided for many years at 236 Pine street, Philadelphia, whence he removed to 327 South Seventeenth street, where his death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, hav- ing survived his wife for a period of sixteen years. He married, January 17, 1839, Martha Reeve, born December 28, 1816, died Septem- ber 30, 1879, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Sleeper ) Reeve. Both are buried in the fam- ily lot in South Laurel Hill cemetery, Phila- delphia. Children: 1. John W., born Febru- ary 29, 1840, died January 7, 1907. 2. Rich- ard Reeve, February II, 1842, died February 2, 1881. 3. Harry Clifford, mentioned below.
(V) Harry Clifford, third son of Joseph Hall and Martha (Reeve) Campion, was born August 13, 1846, in Philadelphia, died Novem- ber 15, 1905, in that city. He was educated · at the Friends Central School at Philadelphia, and at the age of seventeen years entered the employ of Joel Bailey & Company, where he continued six years. As a result of a severe strain, he was obliged to take a vacation in the year 1869 and traveled through the far west, spending considerable time in California. On his return to Philadelphia he engaged in busi- ness with his brother, John W. Campion, and so continued until the time of his death, which was the result of an accident. He married, April 28, 1877, Ann Mary Keen, born De- cember 18, 1850, daughter of James Styles and Emily Eliza (Catherwood) Keen. She, with an only son, survives him.
(VI) Harry Clifford (2), only son of Harry Clifford (1). and Ann Mary (Keen) Campion, was born February 13, 1878, in Philadelphia, and resides in Media, Delaware county, Pennsylvania. He married, June 16, 1903, Mable Maria Campion, daughter of Will- iam H. and Emma Jane (Shepard) Campion. Children : Ann Louise, born June 5, 1904; Richard Reeve, May 7, 1906; John Wynne, September 30, 1907, died before one year old ; Emma Jane, March 1, 1909.
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(III) Stacy Budd, fifth son of Joseph and Mary ( Venicomb) Campion, was born August 17, 1791, in Southampton, died April 16, 1866, in Camden, New Jersey. He was named for his father's family physician, a famous prac- tician residing in Mount Holly. Stacy B. Campion attended the public schools near his home, and early engaged in business with Henry Burr, Jr., at Lumberton, New Jersey, under the firm name of Campion & Burr. This partnership was dissolved June 13, 1820, and the business was continued by Mr. Cam- pion for a few years. Before 1828 he re- moved to Mount Holly where he succeeded Griffith Owen as proprietor of the Black Horse Tavern, which formerly stood on the east side of Main street, one door above Mill street. In the year 1833 Mr. Campion purchased the State Arms Hotel, on the opposite side of the street, occupying the southern portion of the ground now occupied by the Arcade Hotel. This historic old hostelry has been continu- ously in business since before the revolution- ary war and on its ancient sign board was painted the arms of the state of New Jersey, with the motto: "Peace, Liberty and Safety." Mr. Campion enlarged the hotel to double its former size and conducted it five years, at the end of which time he sold out and removed to a farm near Vincentown. In 1843 he went to Camden, New Jersey, where he rented the Cooper's Point ferry property and hotel of William Cooper and was succeeded by William Cooper's grandson, William Wood Cooper, who had married his only surviving daughter. Returning to Mount Holly, Mr. Campion pur- chased the Washington Hotel, sometimes called the Upper Hotel, and continued there in business for about ten years. At the end of this period, he sold out to Morgan Lippincott and returned to Camden, where he lived in re- tirement until his death. He was a man of very genial, hospitable manner, and well- known throughout the state particularly among the members of the legal profession, many of whom were his guests while attending court at Mount Holly. He served as one of the assessors of Northampton township in 1840-41-42. He married, June 20, 1820, Maria Dungan, born February 9, 1799, died February 19, 1886, daughter of Josiah and Mary ( Butterworth) Dungan, of New Mills (now Pemberton). She was a Baptist by birth, joined the society of Friends after her marriage and was a prominent member of the Mount Holly Meeting, being custodian of the records for many years. She survived her
husband almost twenty years. Children: I: Richard, died in infancy. 2. Mary Dungan, died young. 3. Rebecca Venicomb, died young. 4. Ann Butterworth, born October 9, 1825; married, November 8, 1849, William Cooper ; died February 16, 1883. 5. William, died young. 6. Stacy Budd, November 30, 1833, died April 25, 1896. 7. John C., died young. 8. William Henry, August 14, 1838, died July 22, 1898. 9. Harrison, February I, 1840. 10. Richard, mentioned below.
(IV) Richard, youngest child of Stacy Budd and Maria (Dungan) Campion, was born August 13, 1842, on his father's farm near Vincentown, and attended the schools of his native locality and also received private instruction. At an early age he entered a dry goods store on Market street, Philadel- phia, where he continued seven years and be- came familiar with the business. For three years succeeding this period he was engaged in the same business on his own account in Philadelphia. In 1869 he became a manu- facturer of worsted yarns, and is still identi- fied with this industry, his office being located at Chestnut street in Philadelphia. He is a member of the National Association of Woolen Manufacturers, and of the American Protective League. Mr. Campion enlisted as a soldier of the civil war at Philadelphia in 1862, in what was known as Star's Battery, and was attached to the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is a member of Meade Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Re- public, of Philadelphia, and the Veteran Corps. and is president of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Union League Club; Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia ; Hartford Club of Hartford. Connecticut ; Hope Club of Providence, Rhode Island; and Home Market Club of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member and vice- president of the Manufacturers' Club of Phila- delphia; the Pennsylvania Historical Society and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. Mr. Campion is an ardent Republican, and has recently been appointed a member of the in- ternal water ways commission of Pennsylva- nia.
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