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February 22, 1797 ; married Amy Hendrickson, and removed to Indiana. 2. Rei, May 16, 1798 ; held the title of general ; married Sarah Clayton, and had six children; he died Sep- tember 7, 1835. 3. Elizabeth, March 2, 1800; married Peter Wyckoff, and had nine children ; he died December 4, 1895. 4. Thomas (q. v.). 5. Ann, December 25, 1803; married Harts- horne Tantum, and had eight children. 6. Evelina, October 25, 1805; married Willian1 P. Foreman, and had four children; she died November 26, 1883. 7. Joseph, July 4, 1807 ; died May 5, 1814. 8. James, June 3, 1810; married Rebecca F., daughter of Richard and Amy Ely, of Black's Mills; he lived on the Baird homestead or Millstone brook, west of Pine Hill, until 1854, when he moved to Illinois ; they had six children: John, who was killed in the civil war, Mary, Amy, Richard, Rei and Thomas. 9. Rachel, September 7, 1812; mar- ried Elias Riggs, and had four children. IO. Eleanor, December 15, 1815; married George W. Sutphen, and had six children. II. Zebulon, July 31, 1819; married Caroline E., daughter of Joseph Perrine, and removed to Illinois in 1854; they had seven children. Thus the de- scendants of Captain David Baird are eighteen children, over ninety-four grandchildren, and more than one hundred and forty-nine great- grandchildren.
(IV) Thomas, fifth son and eleventh child of Captain David (2) Baird, and third son and fourth child of Captain David and Mary (Ed- wards) Baird, was born at Manalapan, Mill- stone township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, February 6, 1802. He was a pro- gressive farmer, and owned several valuable farms and was reputed to have been a very wealthy man for the time and occupation in which he engaged. He married Eleanor P., daughter of Peter and Maria (Ogbourne) Bilyeu. The three children of Thomas and Eleanor P. (Bilyeu) Baird were born in Man- alapan, New Jersey, as follows : I. and 2. David (q. v.) and Jonathan, twins, 1829; Jon- athan died in infancy. 3. Sarah, married John E. Hunt. Thomas Baird died at his home in Manalapan, New Jersey, October 1, 1880.
(V) David (3), eldest child of Thomas and Eleanor P. (Bilyeu ) Baird, was born in Mana - lapan, Millstone township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1829. He had the advantages of excellent school privileges, and was a pupil first in the primary district school, and then the Freehold Academy, where he was graduated, and then the higher Institute at Hightstown. He also had peculiar advantages in studying
agriculture and horticulture on his father's well conducted farms, and he became a skill- ful and successful nurseryman and fruit grower, carrying on the business both for pleasure and profit during his entire active life, only retiring two years before his death, which occurred at Manalapan, New Jersey, January, 1908, when he was in the eightieth year of his life. He was president of the New Jersey State' Horticultural Society for two years, and a member during his entire busi- ness life. He was a chosen freeholder of the township of Millstone ; an active member and oldest elder of the Presbyterian church at Manalapan, and one of its largest contributors to the support of the church and its various missions. His political party allegiance was Republican, and his interest in town, county, state and national affairs was manifest in his clearly defined political opinion always freely expressed. He married, December 9, 1852, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Jane (Heulett ) Pullen, born in Hightstown, New Jersey, 1828. The eleven children of David and Mary Elizabeth (Pullen) Baird were born in Manalapan, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and four of the number died in infancy, leaving eight born as follows: I. Emerson P., married Sarah Probosco and lives at Freehold, New Jersey. 2. Sarah, married John Probosco, a farmer of Englishtown, New Jersey, and their two children are Charles and Eleanor Probosco. 3. Charles Augustus, horti- culturist and landscape gardener of Freehold, New Jersey, who married Emma L. Rue, and have four children : Mary E., Jennie R., David Edward and Carl. 4. Howard, born 1863 ; lives on the old homestead, where he carries on the business of farmer, nurseryman and fruit- grower. He married Elizabeth Lamberton, and their children are: David L. and Louisa. 5. Carrie, married Archie T. Van Dorn, of Englishtown, New Jersey, and they have chil- dren : Peter Forman and Gladys Van Dorn. 6. David (q. v.). 7. John H., was brought up to the business of fruit-growing ; married Jean, daughter of Judge William T. Hoffman, of Englishtown, New Jersey; removed to Fort Valley, Georgia, as superintendent of Hale's Fruit Plantation. Their only child is Ann Hoffman.
(VI) David (4), sixth child and fourthi son of David (3) and Mary Elizabeth ( Pullen ) Baird, was born in Manalapan, Monmouth county, New Jersey, February 16, 1869. He attended the public schools, Freehold Institute and Belle- vue Hospital Medical College, connected with
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the New York University, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1891. He made a tour of the western states for study and observation before settling in the practice of medicine, and in 1892 located at Florence, New Jersey, where he became a member of the board of health of the town and a leading physician and surgeon. His professional affiliations included member- ship in the Burlington County Medical Society and the New Jersey State Medical Society, and he was a frequent reader and speaker before the meetings of these associations. His frater- nal affiliations embraced the Masonic frater- nity, which he entered through Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 28, of Bordentown, New Jersey, and worked his way to the Mount Moriah Royal Arch Chapter; Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar, No. II; Lu Lu Temple, Mystic Shrine. He also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as a mem- ber of Burlington Lodge, No. 22; with the Improved Order of Red Men through the Florence (New Jersey) Tribe ; Knights of the Golden Eagle through Florence (New Jersey) Sub-Castle, and Independent Order of For- esters, through Court, No. 592, Florence, New Jersey. He was a vestryman of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, Florence, New Jersey, but brought up in the Presbyterian faith in the church of which his father was senior elder. He married, February 28, 1900, Lydia, daughter of John and Mary Jane (Smith) Spotts, of Florence, New Jersey, and their children were twins, John Everett and David Emerson, born in Florence, New Jersey, February 10, 1907. Dr. Baird has a beautiful home and enjoys an excellent practice in Flor- ence, New Jersey, where he is one of the lead- ing citizens and the promoter or advocate of all political, social, civic and sanitary reforms.
REILEY Dr. Reiley, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, descends along paternal and maternal lines from forbears that served in the revolution and from men who bore their full share in the early and sub- sequent development of a state. William Reiley, who was killed at the battle of the Brandywine, was a brother of Dennis Reiley, from whom Edward Anderson Reiley de- scends. Ensign John Anderson of the "King's Army," and subsequently a captain in Wash- ington's army, was his great-great-grandfather. Through maternal lines he touches in direct lineal descent Samuel Fleming, an early pioneer and founder of the town of Flemington, New Jersey. Colonel Thomas Lowry and Cornelius
Hoppock of revolutionary fame are his direct ancestors.
The branch of the Reiley family to which Edward A. Reiley belongs was founded in America by Dennis Reiley who with his brother William came from Lancaster, England, and settled in Maryland. They both served in the revolutionary war, William losing his life from wounds received at the battle of the Brandy - wine. The family afterward settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where John Reiley, great-grandfather of Edward A.,
was high sheriff. His son, John, was a man of means but lost all his landed estate through a defective title. He then re- moved to New Jersey, being the first of the family to settle in that state. He located on a farm near Phillipsburg, Warren county, and in a measure retrieved his fallen fortunes. He was an uncompromising Whig and was the only man in his voting district to record a vote against General Jackson for president. He was a strict Presbyterian and raised his family under the strict code of that day and that faith. He was a man of strong mental powers and unbending will. He was greatly respected in his neighborhood. John Reiley married Eliza- beth Arndt, daughter of John Bernhardt Arndt, who came to America in the ship "Penn" dur- ing the year 1731. His wife was Anna Decker. The children of John and Elizabeth (Arndt) Railey were: John, Nathan, William, James, see forward; Polly, Grace, Phebe and Han- nah. John Reiley lived to the good old age of seventy-five, but his wife, Elizabeth, sur- vived him many years, living to see her eighty- fifth year. John Reiley died in 1865. They were the parents of a large family that have settled in different parts of the country, some of them, however, are found in and around Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where they are en- gaged in business and professions of various kinds.
Dr. James Reiley, son of John and Elizabeth (Arndt) Reiley, was born at Durham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1830, and died during the month of March, 1872, at Succa- sunna, New Jersey. He was a graduate of Union College at Schenectady, New York, and prepared for the practice of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York City, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine. He practiced a year at Lambert- ville, New Jersey, then settled at Succasunna, New Jersey, where he practiced his profession for twenty years until the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted in the Union army, August
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4, 1862, and was appointed surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, serving with that regiment until January 20, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. He re-enlisted July 15, 1863, and became surgeon of the Thirty-third New Jersey Volunteer In- fantry, Twentieth Army Corps, General Geary's division, Army of the Cumberland. He was acting brigade-surgeon of the First Brigade, Third Division, Seventh Army Corps. He served with honor and distinction, attain- ing his rapid promotion through his pro- fessional, merit only. He was mustered out of the service July 17, 1865, with the rank of major. With the Thirty-third Dr. Reiley was in the "March to the Sea" and in all the hard campaigns.
Dr. Reiley married Mary Lowrey Anderson, born at Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, November 13, 1832, died March 12, 1897, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. She was a daughter of John H. Anderson. To them were born three children: 1. Dr. Edward Ander- son, see forward. 2. Mary Logan, born April 23, 1858. 3. James Morrison, April 2, 1860; married, December 14, 1880, Elizabeth Gove, daughter of Frank W. and Hannah E. (Tay- lor) Gove, of Trenton, New Jersey. The Gove family is of English origin and settled originally in New Hampshire, the first of the family being Nathan Gove. Mr. and Mrs. Reiley have two sons, Frederick A. and Ed- ward Morris Reiley. James M. is by trade an expert machinist. He resides in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Dr. Edward Anderson, eldest son of Dr. James and Mary L. (Anderson) Reiley, was born at Succasunna, Morris county, New Jersey, October 27, 1855. He attended the public schools of his native town and prepared himself for college. In 1873 he entered Rut- gers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, taking the scientific course. He was graduated therefrom in 1877 with the degree of M. S. He had now decided to follow the profession of medicine and entered the medical depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, graduating in 1881 with the degree of M. D. He began the practice of his profession in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he re- mained two years. In the month of June, 1883, he removed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and began the practice of his profession in that city. He has been in continuous and lucrative practice there from that time to the present date (1909). He is a well known and highly esteemed citizen as well as a most skillful and
prominent practitioner. Evidences of the high standing hehas attained is found in the pres- entation to him in June, 1908, of a solid silver loving cup by his fellow citizens on the com- pletion of twenty-five years of medical practice in the city, Judge Joseph Thompson making the presentation speech. In sanitary and edu- cation affairs he has served his city well. From 1884 to 1887 he was president of the board of health and from 1884 to 1890 was president of the board of education. For six years he was a member of the board of water commissioners. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the New Jersey Medical Associa- tion ; ex-president of the Atlantic County Medi- cal Association ; ex-president of the Atlantic City Academy of Medicine, and member of the New Brunswick Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa. He is an attendant of the Presbyterian church. He married, March 10, 1885, Martha Codo- wise Williamson, daughter of Nicholas W. Williamson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was born May 3, 1854, and died March 9, 1886, a brief married life of one year, lack- ing but one day.
In following the maternal lines through which Dr. Reiley descends, many interesting and historic families are to be named. Mary Lowrey (Anderson) Reiley, his mother, was great-granddaughter of Esther Fleming, daugh- ter of Samuel Fleming, who built the first house and founded the now prosperous town of Flemington, New Jersey. Samuel Flem-
ing's wife was Esther Monia, a French Hugne- not. The Flemings are supposed to be from Flanders and the name is derived from the tendency to call new-comers in the early day by the name of their country. When the family fled to Scotland and Ireland on account of per- secution they were called Flems or Flemish, the name finally getting to the present form- Fleming. Esther Fleming, daughter of Sam- uel and Esther, married Thomas Lowrey, lieu- tenant-colonel and afterward colonel of the Third Hunterdon County Regiment, Conti- mental army. William Lowrey, son of Col- onel Thomas and Esther ( Fleming) Lowrey, married Martha Howe, one of the matrons who received General Washington at Trenton when he was enroute to New York for his first inauguration. Her sister was one of the twenty-four girls who sang songs and strewed flowers in his path as the Assanpink Bridge was crossed on entering Trenton. Mary Lowrey, daughter of William and Martha (Howe) Lowrey, married Thomas Alexander and their daughter, Mary Martha Alexander.
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married John H. Anderson, grandfather of Dr. Edward A. Reiley. The Andersons are found at a very early date in Connecticut, from there they passed over to Long Island, then settled at Maidenhead, New Jersey, now Lawrenceville, and from there going to Hunter- don county, New Jersey. John Anderson held an ensign's commission in the English army prior to the revolution. This commission is still preserved in the family. He took sides with the colonies and enlisted in the Hunter- don county militia. He was commissioned cap- tain of Colonel Johnson's battalion, Heard's brigade, June 14, 1776. He later held a cap- tain's commission in the continental line. Cap- tain John married Anna Van Kirk. Joshua Anderson, son of Captain John and Anna (Van Kirk) Anderson, married Elizabeth Hoppock, a daughter of Cornelius Hoppock, a captain of the Third Regiment, Hunterdon County New Jersey militia in the revolution. Her mother was Catherine (Coyle) Hoppock. John H. Anderson, son of Joshua and Eliza- beth (Hoppock) Anderson, married Mary Martha Alexander, and their daughter, Mary Lowrey Anderson, married Dr. James Reiley, father of Dr. Edward A. This descent from the Fleming, Lowrey, Anderson and Hoppock families entitles Dr. Reiley to membership in any of the patriotic societies that base mem- bership upon colonial or revolutionary ances- tors.
SAILER The science of prognostication as existing in seventh sons of sev- enth sons has been apparent in various sooth-sayers who use this accident of birth for business purposes. These lucky in- dividuals, having judgment and discernment beyond their fellows, have generally carried their extraordinary gifts into questionable busi- ness methods. Others into gold, and made good use of both the gift and the gold for those wise enough to follow the financial paths pointed out.
(I) Samuel Sailer was the seventh son of his father and Ann, his wife, and was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, about 1765-70. They had at least seven sons and a number of daughters. Their seventh son was Joseph, see forward. The Sailers were of German origin and came with the early settlers of West New Jersey who settled in Salem and Glou- cester county, on the banks of the Delaware river. Ann, widow of Samuel Sailer, lived to be over one hundred years of age.
(II) Joseph, seventh son of Samuel and
Ann Sailer, was born in Clarksboro, Glou- cester county, New Jersey, in 1809. He was brought up in his native town, obtained a good education, lived first in Woodbury, Gloucester county, and at the age of twenty was publisher and editor of the Woodbury Constitution; he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became interested in journalism and finance and became editor and owner of the Philadel- phia Times and still later was associated with George William Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, at the time a leading newspaper of Philadelphia, and extensively read in all the large financial centres of the world. He made his articles a feature of the Ledger and his financial acumen was recognized by the lead- ing financiers of his time as of great value in the money market. He enjoyed the responsi- ble position for many years and the financial editor of the Philadelphia Ledger was acknowl- edged an oracle in the world of finance. He married Priscilla Sparks, daughter of Isaac D. and Ann (Sparks) Doughten, who was born at Timber Creek, New Jersey, in 1809. She was of Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph and Pris- cilla Sparks (Doughten) Sailer had seven chil- dren born in Woodbury, New Jersey, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as follows : I. Louise, married Daniel Malseed and had five children. 2. Randolph, born in Woodbury, New Jersey, May 24, 1833; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A. B. 1857, A. M. 1860; studied at the Union Theological Semi- nary, New York City, 1857-59; was an agent of the American Sunday School Union in 1859 and his eyes failed and he engaged in Philadel- phia, as a manufacturer, with Powers & Weightman, and died in that city, January 22. 1869. He married Josephine, daughter of Wilson H. Pile, M. D., and they had one child, Thomas Henry Powers. 3. Morris C., mar- ried Mary Lee, and had two children. He died soon after the birth of his second child. 4. Sarah Ann, never married. 5. John, see for- ward. 6. Isaac Doughten. 7. Frank.
(III) John, third son and fifth child of Joseph and Priscilla Sparks (Doughten) Sailer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, became con- nected with Pennsylvania National Guard as a member of the Keystone Battery, Captain Hastings, and in 1862 the battery was muster- ed into the United States Volunteer Army for one year's service, but was always known as an independent battery. He saw active ser- vice on the battle field, 1862-63, serving as
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second lieutenant of the battery under General Meade in several engagements in Virginia, and he received promotion to staff duty as assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Alex- ander Hayes. On returning from the war at the end of his one year's service, he engaged in the banking business as a clerk, and in 1866 the banking house of Sailer & Stevenson was formed which was still in existence in 1909 under the same name with Mr. Sailer as senior member. The house has withstood all the finan- cial storms of forty years and always have been able to pay all their obligations in full, and the firm name is a synonym for the best financial standing, credit and repute; never having paid less than one hundred cents on every dollar of their indebtedness on the very day on which it fell due. His financial acumen, inherited no doubt from his father, caused his services to be sought by leading banking and benevolent in- stitutions as director, and he gave such services to the Girard National Bank, the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, the Academy of Music, of Philadelphia. He has given his services as president to the University Hospital, and as a member of the board of managers of the Free Museum of Archaeological Science and Arts, of Philadelphia, and as member of the execu- tive committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade. He was made a member of the Penn- sylvania Historical Society, New Jersey His- torical Society, Academy of Fine Arts and of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society. He has served the Union League Club as a mem- ber, as secretary, and as its senior vice-presi- dent for many years. His other club affilia- tions include the Country Club, of Philadel- phia, and the Marion Cricket Club. His mili- tary service brought to him comradeship in Meade Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and companionship in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He has served on the staff of Governor Stewart as lieutenant colonel. His inherited religious faith as represented by the Presbyterian church in America was maintained during his life- time, and he held office as a trustee of the Second Church, of Philadelphia, and chairman of its finance committee.
Mr. Sailer was married, in December, 1866, to Emily, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Pierce) Woodward, and their children are: I. Joseph, born October 1, 1867; married Mary, daughter of Dr. George and Alice Strawbridge, of Philadelphia, and their chil- dren are: Alice Strawbridge; Mary Lober ; Joseph (2), graduated from Towne Scientific
School, biological department, 1885, University of Pennsylvania, Ph. B., 1886, medical depart- ment, University of Pennsylvania, M. D., 1891. He was resident physician Philadelphia Hospital, 1891-92, and after 1892 a general practitioner in Philadelphia. He was made a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Association. 2. Anna, born 1874; married Albion G. Pennington, a banker of Philadel- phia, and they have no children. 3. Emily Woodward, born 1877; unmarried. 4. John Morris, born 1886; he is in the banking busi- ness with his father; unmarried.
COWPERTHWAIT The Cowperthwait family which has played so promi- nent a part in the history of the Quaker colonies along the Delaware, and later in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, are descended from Hugh Cowperthwait, the famous min- ister among Friends, of Flushing, Long Island. His children removed from Long Island to West Jersey, in the end of the seventeenth cen - tury, where they intermarried with the families of the early and prominent settlers of that region, and from whence they have spread out into many of the states of the Union. The majority of them have been faithful to the religion of their founder, and are still today members of the Society of Friends. The great exception was General Samuel Cowperthwait, the founder of the Philadelphia branch of the family, whose record as a revolutionary soldier was so distinguished. Among the grandchil- dren or great-grandchildren of Hugh Cowper- thwait was the ancestor of the line at present under consideration, but whether this ances- tor was Hugh or Thomas, of Burlington county, is at present a little uncertain.
(I) John Cowperthwait, the records seem to show, was son of John, senior, who died in 1795.
(II) John Wardell, son of John Cowper- thwait, was born in New Egypt in 1821 ; died April 30, 1877. He was always engaged in farming. He married Matilda I. Simons, who died July 3, 1885. Their children were: I. Amy, born March 17, 1861 ; married Andrew Moon, and their children are: Frank K., Edna and Ole. 2. John, December 24, 1862; died July 3, 1884. 3. Charles Chapman, referred to below. 4. Charlotte C., April 18, 1866; married Joseph Sison. 5. Matilda I., May 20, 1868; married, in 1888, William B. Pearson. (III) Charles Chapman, third child and second son of John Wardell and Matilda I.
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(Simons) Cowperthwait, was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, November 1, 1864, and is now living in Mount Holly. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Mount Holly, after which he took up the course at the Philadelphia Business College. He then learned the trade of harness maker, which he followed until 1888, when he gave it up and for a year worked in a shoe factory. This position in turn he gave up in order to accept the position of clerk on the Pennsyl- vania railroad, which he retained until 1899, when he resigned in order to accept his present position as postmaster of Mount Holly, Bur- lington county, New Jersey. This position he has held continuously, having been reappointed three times since that date. He is one of the most popular and highly respected men in the town of Mount Holly, and the confidence and trust of his fellow citizens has been demon- strated time and time again. In 1893 he was elected as a member of the town committee, and in 1896 was re-elected to the same position, while for six years he has also been the treas- urer of the township. He is a stockholder in the Union National Bank, of Mount Holly; a member of Washington Council, No. 5, Junior Order of American Mechanics; New Jersey Lodge, No. I, Knights of Pythias; Sons of America ; Patriotic Order Sons of America ; Mount Holly Lodge, No. 848, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Ancient Order of United Workmen. Charles Chapman Cowper- thwait married Lillian, daughter of John and Margaret Goldy, of Mount Holly, New Jersey.
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