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CARMANY
The Carmany family of Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey belonged to that sturdy
group of German settlers who came over to this country in the latter part of the eighteenth and the early of the nineteenth century, and have grown up with the new nation in the Western World.
(I) Philip Carmany, founder of the branch of the family at present under consideration, came over to this country with three or four of his brothers, and possibly his father, and settled in Lebanon and Anwill, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. By his wife, Mary Esterline, he had eleven children: I. Eliza- beth, born December 8, 1801. 2. John, No- vember 9, 1803. 3. Catharine, November 27, 1805. 4. Rebecca, April 21, 1808. 5. Henry, referred to below. 6. Sarah, January 25, 1813. 7. Cyrus, March 15, 1815. 8. Joseph, Novem- ber 14, 1817. 9. Maria, April 14, 1820. IO. Jacob. II. William, November 25, 1825.
(II) Henry, fifth child and second son of Philip and Mary (Esterline) Carmany, was born June 15, 1810. He married in Anwill, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, Sarah Phil- ippy. Their children were: I. Jeremiah, born November 4, 1833. 2. Cyrus, referred to below. 3. Henry, June 30, 1838. 4. William, October 8, 1841. 5. Mary, September 18, 1844. 6. George, January 25, 1847. 7. Sarah, April 10, 1850. 8. Joanna, December 21, 1853. II. Abraham Lincoln, March 27, 1861.
(III) Cyrus, second child and son of Henry and Sarah (Philippy) Carmany, was born in Anwill, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 23, 1836, and is now living retired in Roxborough, Philadelphia, where he was for many years engaged in the dyeing business. He was for two terms a member of the city council of Philadelphia. He married Adeline, daughter of John Stober, of Schafferstown, Pennsylvania. Their children are: I. John, born June 23, 1859; he was married three times, the names of both of his first two wives being Caroline, that of his third wife Sarah; his children are Bertha, John and Harry. 2. Edward, February 8, 1862; married Bella Ferguson. 3. George Walter, referred to below. 4. Mary Ella, April 29, 1866; married Charles M. Stout and has five children : Charles M. Jr., Stober, Mary, Mildred and Helen. 5. Harry S., M. D., July 14, 1868; un- married. 6. Alema Aldine, December 31, 1872 ; married Harry Binns, physician, and has one child, Adeline. 7. Sallie, July 14, 1875. 8. William, August 21, 1877 ; a physician ; mar-
ried Ray Craven and has one child, Lillie Craven. 9. Bessie Adeline, February 19, 1880; married Dr. William MacKinney.
(IV) George Walter, third child and son of Cyrus and Adeline (Stober) Carmany, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1864, and is now living in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For his early education he went to the public school of Philadelphia, and then became a cash boy to the store of Strawbridge & Clothier, in that city. With this firm he remained as boy and man for about eight years, and by his diligence, application and ability rose to the position of clerk in their clothing department. He then became one of the representatives of a firm in Berlin, Ger- many, which dealt in dyestuffs, which had branch offices at 122 Walnut street, Philadel- phia, and this firm he still represents. In 1889, owing to the poor health of one of his children, he removed his residence from Phil- adelphia to Atlantic City, where his wife in 1891 opened a small hotel known as the Fre- domia, which has been in most successful and popular operation ever since, located at No. 158 South Tennessee avenue, Atlantic City. Mr. Carmany is the alderman of Atlantic City, that city being peculiar in having only one which is elected by the city at large. In virtue of this office he is the president of the city council, and in the absence or sickness of the mayor he is ex-officio, the acting mayor. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and is also a popular, prominent, influential and enthusiastic secret society man. Among the numerous societies and associa- tions of which he is a member should be noted: Lodge No. 276, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, in Atlantic City ; Lodge No. 9, Free and Accepted Masons, of Philadelphia, of which in 1896 he was wor- shipful master ; Chapter No. 250, Royal Arch Masons, of Philadelphia, of which he was one of the committeemen; the Kadosh Command- ery, No. 29, Knights Templar, of Phila- delphia ; the Lu Lu Temple, Mystic Shriners, of Philadelphia ; the Order of Sparta, Phila- delphia; the Washington L. S. of Honor, Philadelphia ; Lodge No. II, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, of Atlantic City. Mr. Carmany is also a prominent social clubman, being a mem- ber of the Philadelphia Athletic Club, Phila- delphia Quartet Club, and of the Harmony Singing Society of Philadelphia. All this, however, does not interfere with his taking a prominent and an active part in the business interest and welfare of the city. He is a mem-
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ber not only of the Hotelmen's Association of Atlantic City, but also of the National Hotel- men's Association. He is the harbor master of the Atlantic City Yacht Club, an active member of the City Troop of Atlantic City, a contributing member of the Morris Guard of Atlantic City, a member of the Atlantic City Businessmen's League, and a member of the Atlantic City Board of Trade.
George Walter Carmany married, October 31, 1887, Catharine Crosland, daughter of Charles Storey and Elizabeth (Goldsmith) Crosland. Her grandfather, John M. Cros- land, was one of the earliest pioneers of Potts- ville, Pennsylvania, where he died at the age of eighty-three. He was born in Ridley town- ship, Delaware county, August 25, 1810, and came to Pottsville at the age of nineteen. He learned the trade of ship carpenter and boat builder, and he built the first boat in which coal was shipped to New York for George H. Potts Sr .; Mr. Crosland had personal charge of the boat on the trip. He subsequently entered into the boat building business on a site near where the present Atkins Furnaces are located, and this business he carried on successfully a number of years. During this time he saved three persons from drowning, one of whom was Dr. A. H. Halberstadt. He was an active politician, and a lifelong Demo- crat. He spoke in almost every county in Pennsylvania ; he was able, eloquent and forci- ble, and always in demand. At one time he was elected a representative to the Pennsyl- vania legislature, at another he was chosen as a justice of the peace, and held that office for a number of years. He was twice a writer for The Press. During his life he was the oldest Odd Fellow in the state of Pennsylva- nia, and was the third or fourth oldest past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsyl- vania. He was a member of Girard Lodge, No. 53. In 1842 he was elected chief burgess of Pottsville. He left thirteen children, among whom are Charles S., John J., George W., Lewis, Wilson, Mrs. John Nagle, Mrs. John W. Pawling, also twenty grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, all of whom are still living. In religion Mr. Crosland was a Universalist.
Children of George Walter and Catharine (Crosland) Carmany, are: 1. Charles Cyrus, born August 8, 1889; attended the public schools of Atlantic City, the Wenonah Mili- tary Academy, and is now at the University of Pennsylvania. 2. George Walter Jr., born October 11, 1898; was for four years at the
Friends' school in Atlantic City, and is now attending the public school of that place.
Joseph Rusling Bartlett is a BARTLETT is a member of one of the old Atlantic county, New Jersey, families. His grandfather, William Bartlett, was appointed keeper of the "Abse- con Light House" at Atlantic City in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. He continued in that office until his death in 1866.
(I) Joseph Rusling Bartlett was born at Mays Landing, Atlantic county, New Jersey, April 13, 1836. In early life he was a worker in iron-a core maker. He became an iron master, his father having built the iron foun- dry at Mays Landing and at Gloucester, New Jersey. He died at Mays Landing, New Jer- sey, during the year 1876. Joseph R. Bartlett married Mary Turner, born March 14, 1838, daughter of John Turner, of Mays Landing. She survives her husband and is a resident of Tuckahoe, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Bartlett were the parents of two sons, Joseph Rusling, see forward, and Harrison T., who died in the year 1895, unmarried.
(II) Joseph Rusling (2), first son of Joseph Rusling (1) and Mary (Turner) Bartlett, was born at Mays Landing, New Jersey, April 28, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and of Atlantic City, after which he took a course of study and was grad- uated from a business college of Philadelphia in 1873. After leaving school he entered the employ of the Camden and Atlantic railroad, and from 1876 to 1895 was a conductor on that road, now the West Jersey and Seashore railroad, part of the Pennsylvania railroad system. In 1882 Mr. Bartlett removed to Atlantic City and has since been closely identi- fied with the public affairs of that city. He is a Republican, and from 1890 to 1892 was city recorder. In 1892-93-94 he was alderman of the city and president of the city council. He later became health inspector, being appointed by the board of health. October 1, 1908, he was chosen clerk of the district court of At- lantic City, which office he now holds (1909). Mr. Bartlett is an attendant of the Baptist church, and is secretary of the Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church of Atlantic City. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is past master of Unity Lodge, No. 96, of Atlan- tic City. He is a Royal Arch Mason of Trin- ity Chapter, No. 38, of the same city. He is a member of the Young Men's Republican League, and trustee of the Second Ward Re-
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publican organization, both of Atlantic City. Mr. Bartlett's activity as is shown touches all lines of public interest, political, religious and fraternal.
Joseph Rusling Bartlett married, June 26, 1878, Ida May Williams, born March 14, 1857, daughter of Robert L. Williams, of Frenchtown, New Jersey. Their children are : I. Theresa Williams, born September 16, 1879 ; graduate of the New Jersey State Nor- mal school ; married Frank Hollingsworth, an architect of Cranford, New Jersey. 2. Kath- erine Turner, January 7, 1881 ; graduate of the New Jersey State Normal and a teacher in the Atlantic City public schools. 3. Robert William, April 7, 1884; receiving teller of the Atlantic City Second National Bank; married Elizabeth T. Bew, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1886, daughter of J. T. Bew.
Horace Franklin Sutton, Es- SUTTON quire, ranks as one of the fore- most of the legal profession in Camden, New Jersey, where he was born Oc- tober 26, 1876. He is the son of Benjamin Franklin and Emily (Hammell) Sutton. His father was born in Camden county in 1841, and his mother was the daughter of Thomas and Ann Hammell, of the same county. For his early education Mr. Sutton attended the public schools of Camden, New Jersey, and then began the study of law in one of the offices of his native city. In June, 1901, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and in February, 1908, as a coun- sellor. Since this time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Camden, where he is regarded as one of the rising men of his profession and generation. In politics Mr. Sutton is a Republican, and in religious belief a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
BEYER The Beyer family of Egg Har- bor, New Jersey, and of Atlantic City, are another illustration of the fact that this country has drained Europe of some of its best blood and brawn in order to increase its own. worth and wealth; and although but three generations of the family have made America their home, their name among the communities amongst which they have lived and worked stands for character, success and popularity.
(I) Gottfried Beyer, born in Germany, died in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, was the first of
the family to come to this country, and though little is now known about him except the year of his death, 1861, he left behind him a son, Albert, referred to below.
(II) Albert, son of Gottfried Beyer, was born in Hanover, Germany, April 6, 1827, died in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, October 15, 1894. He was a miller, a lumber dealer, and the keeper of a country store. He came to this country in 1853, but whether with or after his father is uncertain. In 1854 he married in Philadelphia, Magdalena Woertz, who that year had come to America from Ulm, Ger- many, where she was born July 14, 1833, and immediately he and his bride left the city and took up their residence in Egg Harbor. The issue of this marriage was a son, Albert, re- ferred to below.
(III) Albert (2), the eldest child of Albert (I) and Magdalena (Woertz) Beyer, was born at Egg Harbor, New Jersey, May 12, 1859, and is now living at 617 Pacific ave- nue, Atlantic City. When he was thirteen years old he left home and coming to Philadelphia learned the trade of a fresco painter, at which he worked until he was twenty-two years old, being employed in the work on many of the Roman Catholic churches of New York City. In 1882 he came to At- lantic City and engaged in the hotel business with his father, who was running Beyer's Hotel on the corner of Arctic and Maryland avenues. In this business he continued for the next twenty-five years. In 1894 he was elected to the city council of Atlantic City, and in this body he has served until June 15, 1906, when he was appointed treasurer of the city to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the then incumbent. This unexpired term came to an end two years later, in 1908, and Mr. Beyer was then re-elected as the treasurer of the city for the full term of three years, in which capacity he is now serving the city. Mr. Beyer is a member of Trinity Chapter, No. 38, Royal Arch Masons, of Atlantic City; Belcher Lodge, No. 182, Free and Accepted Masons, of Atlantic City; Atlantic Commandery, No. Io, Knights Templar, of Atlantic City ; Cres- cent Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Trenton, New Jersey ; Tall Cedars of Lebanon Forest, No. II, of Atlantic City ; American Star Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Atlantic City, and also of the Encampment; Pequod Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Atlan- tic City : Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Beyer is a Republican and a member of the Lutheran church.
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March 8, 1888, Albert Beyer married Char- lotte, born in Atlantic City, March 13, 1859, daughter of Christian Bom, of Atlantic City. Their children are: I. Magdalena Bom, born December 24, 1888, unmarried. 2. Rose Bom, April 27, 1890, unmarried. 3. Albert Victor; January 12, 1892. 4. William Lewis, Decem- ber 14, 1894. 5. Eugene Edward, November 13, 1896. 6. Lotta Main Bom, February 14, 1898. 7. Walter Edmund, March 23, 1900.
The Goldenberg family GOLDENBERG of Atlantic City is of German origin, and has been located in this country but little more than a half century, but the two generations which have made the United States their home and country have not only allied themselves with descendants of some of the best blood in the land but they have also by their own per- sonal worth and actions placed themselves in the forefront of those who are entitled to be recognized as the representatives of the Amer- ican people and principles.
(I) Charles D. Goldenberg, son of Charles Goldenberg, was born in Darmstadt, Ger- many, in 1836, and came to this country when he was only eleven years old, in 1847. At the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, he enlisted at Philadelphia, and was assigned to the One Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Pennsylva- nia Volunteers, an infantry regiment. While serving with this regiment he was wounded at the battle of Winchester, and on account of his wounds he received his discharge, January 24, 1863. Later, on the same account, he re- ceived a pension until his death. Unable, however, to restrain his patriotic ardor for the land of his adoption, Mr. Goldenberg enlisted a second time at Camden, New Jersey, Janu- ary 23, 1864, and became the first lieutenant of Company D, of the Thirty-fourth Regi- ment of New Jersey Volunteers, and served. with this infantry regiment during the re- mainder of the war.
After the war was over Charles D. Golden- berg married Mary Woodruff, born in 1840, daughter of Samuel W. and Elizabeth (Duf- field) Kemble. Her father was a farmer near Woodbury, Gloucester county, New Jersey, where he lived and died, but about the time his daughter Mary Woodruff was born he was serving as a constable of Gloucester county. Her mother, Elizabeth (Duffield) Kemble, was of Scotch extraction and lived to be ninety-three years old, dying in Ambler, Pennsylvania, in 1893. The children of Sam-
uel W. and Elizabeth (Duffield) Kemble were: William H., Thomas, Samuel, Eph- raim, Ross, Margaret, Mary Woodruff, Eliz- abeth, Amelia, Jane, and one child that died in infancy. Children of Charles D. and Mary Woodruff (Kemble) Goldenberg were : I. Clar- ence L., referred to below. 2. Elizabeth Kemble. deceased. 3. William Kemble, born May 2, 1874. 4. Augusta Linda, married Frederick Gates, and who died August 31, 1909. 5. Thomas Kemble, born May 6, 1878; engaged in the office with his brother, Clarence L. Goldenberg, at Atlantic City.
(II) Clarence L., eldest child and son of Charles D. and Mary Woodruff (Kemble) Goldenberg, was born at Cape May Court House, New Jersey, December 12, 1866, and is now living at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He attended the public schools of Philadel- phia, and then studied law in the office of George G. Cookman, the eldest son of the Rev. Alfred Cookman, an eminent Methodist minister, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, October 2, 1897. At first he started in the practise of his profession in Philadelphia, and continued there until 1903 when he came to Atlantic City and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1903, and as a counsellor in June, 1906. Beginning in Atlantic City as a general practitioner he soon attracted much favorable notice, and March 17, 1908, the governor of New Jersey appoint- ed him prosecutor of the pleas for Atlantic county for a term of five years, and he is now serving in that office. In September, 1893, he was made a Free Mason in Merchantville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Later he demitted from that lodge and became one of the charter members of Belcher Lodge, No. 180, of Atlantic City. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Atlantic City. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, and one of the members of the committee on prosecution. He is also a member and first vice-president of the Atlantic County Bar Association. He is a Republican and attends the Methodist Episco- pal church.
December 28, 1887, Clarence L. Goldenberg married Emma Atwood Bennett, of Philadel- phia, where she was born January 28, 1866, and they have had three children: I. Charles Clarence, born September 10, 1889; gradu- ated from the Atlantic City high school in 1909. 2. Mary Kemble, born May 12, 1891 ; also a graduate from the Atlantic City high school in 1909. 3. William Kemble, born May 10, 1893.
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Reuben Potter was born in POTTER Middlesex county, New Jersey, about 1772, died about 1863. He was a farmer and resided in Middlesex county, New Jersey, all his life. He married and had children : Ellis, James Rowland, men- tioned below ; Joanna.
(II) James Rowland, son of Reuben Potter. was born in Raritan township, Middlesex county, New Jersey, 1811, died November, 1887. He was educated in the common schools of his native town. He owned a large amount of real estate. He was a farmer all his life, and accumulated a comfortable fortune. He was a Democrat in politics before the civil war, but afterwards became a Republican. He mar-
ried Sarah A., born 1818, near Plainfield, New Jersey, died May, 1881, daughter of William Hand. Children: 1. Sarah H., born 1837, died in 1878; married Henry F. Slout, of Jer- sey City. 2. Reuben C., 1839 ; resides in New Haven, Connecticut ; married Clara Brown, who died 1900; had Nellie, Catherine and Harry. 3. William H., 1841; resides on the homestead. 4. Apollos, resides in Rahway, New Jersey. 5. Josephine De Foreest, resides on the homestead. 6. Frederick James, men- tioned below. 7. Ellis, September, 1855; a dentist by profession.
(III) Frederick James, son of James Row- land Potter, was born in Raritan township, New Jersey, March 31, 1853. He received his education in the private schools and Pennington Seminary, with a supplementary course at Rut- gers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1872. He entered the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad in the maintainence-of-way department as a civil engineer, November, 1872, and won promotion from time to time until he attained the position of supervisor of the maintainence-of-way de- partment, which position he now holds. He has been with the company for thirty-seven years. For the past twenty-seven years he has made his home in Bordentown, New Jer- sey, where he is a prominent citizen. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank, of Bordentown, in November, 1908, and was chosen its first president, still holding that office. In politics he is an active Republican and has served as president of the city council. He has also served as city collector and town- ship collector. He is at present a member of the board of water commissioners, is president of the board of excise commissioners, and has always been a faithful public servant. He is a member of Trenton Lodge, No. 5, Free and
Accepted Masons ; Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 20, Royal Arch Masons, of Bordentown; Ivan- hoe Council, No. II, Knights Templar, of Bordentown. In religion he is a Baptist and is the president of the board of trustees of his church.
He married (first) 1872, Louisa, died April, 1880, daughter of George T. Price, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. He married (sec- ond) November, 1881, Sarah B., born 1860, daughter of Edwin and Harriet Wright, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Children of first wife: I. James R., born in New Brunswick, New Jersey ; now a contractor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2. Frederick A., born New Brunswick, New Jersey ; an engraver, residing in Syracuse, New York; married Jessie Ten- ney, of Syracuse, and has Helen, Ellis, Doro- thy, Jessie, Frederick, Ralph and James. 3. Child, died young. . Children of second wife: 4. Marion, born Bordentown, December, 1882, died aged nine years. 5. Robert, born Borden- town, June, 1884. 6. Edward W., born Bord- entown, died aged four years. 7. Ellis, born Bordentown, died aged two years.
HESS In the year 1712 a Swiss colony came to America and among them was Samuel Hess, who settled at Pequa and had a large family. He was the first of his name in this country.
(II) Jacob, son of Samuel Hess, took up a tract of two hundred acres of land one mile east of Lititz, now Warwick township, Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania, in 1734.
(III) John, son of Jacob Hess, lived on the old home place with his father. He died in 1778, being interred in the old graveyard sit- uated on the plantation. He left two sons and eight daughters. The sons were named Chris- tian and John. His daughters married John Brubaker, Daniel Brubaker, Rev. Dr. Eby, Jacob Metzler, Daniel Borhlorder, David Mar- tin, Henry Hess, of Lancaster, Abraham Huber.
(IV) Christian, eldest son of John Hess, of Pequa, Lancaster county, was born in 1766. In 1785 he married a widow by the name of Snavely who bore him three sons and three daughters. The sons were: John, Christian, referred to below ; Jacob.
(V) Christian (2), second son of Christian (I) Hess, was born December 29, 1787, died September 26, 1857. He was one of the county commissioners of Lancaster county and lived at Pequa with his wife, Elizabeth (Wenger) Hess, born May 16, 1790, died May 27, 1870.
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Among their children was John, referred to below.
(VI) John (2), the son of Christian (2) and Elizabeth (Wenger) Hess, removed from Pennsylvania to New Jersey at the time the iron foundry and stone works were opened at the head of the Tuckahoe river. Among his children was John Denny, referred to below.
(VII) John Denny, son of John (2) Hess, was born at the head of the Tuckahoe river, Atlantic county, New Jersey, July 20, 1836. For many years he was in the lumber business at Belle Plaine, Cape May county, New Jer- sey. He married Rachael A., born October 9, 1843, daughter of Samuel Mason, of Cape May county. Their children were: I. Eliza- beth, married John A. Chandler, of Easton, Pennsylvania, an iron worker. 2. Charles P., married Reba S. Turner, of Millville, New Jersey, and has four children, Mabel, Ira, Rob- ert and Anna. 3. Eleanor, married George Warren, of Millville, New Jersey, and has four children, Howard, Cora, Charles and Mary. 4. Emma, married Samuel Mason, has Bertha and Beatrice. 5. Lilbern Murphy. referred to below. 6. Rutherford B., referred to below. There is a tradition in the family of Rachael A. ( Mason) Hess that her grandfather, Sam- uel Mason, having heard of the British troops coming into the Delaware bay and stealing pigs and cattle, armed himself, although he was only a young boy at the time, with his father's rifle, which his grandfather had borne during the revolution, and started out to drive them away.
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