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(VIII) Lilbern Murphy, son of John Denny and Rachael A. ( Mason) Hess, was born at Steelmantown, Cape May county, New Jersey, June 6, 1874, and is now living at Tuckahoe, Cape May county, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public school of Cape May county, after leaving which he took a technical course in electricity, under private teachers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the first man in the eastern states to oppose the Bell Telephone monopoly, and he was the first man also to interest capital by hard work, and then to organize that capital into a work- ing opposition to the Bell Telephone Company in southern New Jersey. This he did by organizing the Enterprise Telephone and Tele- graph Company, of which he was appointed the general manager. This company estab- lished its line in twenty-seven towns and cities in southern New Jersey, and connected by means of their wires the counties of Cumber- land, Cape May and Atlantic. The company was finally sold to the Interstate Telephone
Company, with which Mr. Hess was connect- ed in their department of right of way. Mr. Hess finally turned his attention to the stricter financial field of business and organized the Tuckahoe National Bank, of which he became the first cashier under its charter, in 1907. This bank started with a capital of $25,000.00 and it is today in a most prosperous and flourishing condition, in the two years of its existence having already accumulated a sur- plus of over $7,000.00. In 1908 Mr. Hess with other gentlemen, organized the Millville Trust Company, of Millville, New Jersey, of which institution he was elected the first presi- dent. This company has a capital of $100,- 000.00, and its surplus, after one year existence, has amounted to $5,000.00. In addition to this Mr. Hess has just completed, in the spring of 1909, the formation of the Tuckahoe Light & Fuel Company, of which he has been chosen the treasurer. Mr. Hess is a Republican and an independent in religion. He is a member of Shekinah Lodge, No. 58, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Millville, New Jersey. He is also a member of Richmond Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, of Millville, New Jer- sey, and a member of Olivet Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, of Millville, New Jersey. He is a most enterprising and wide- awake citizen of his town.
April, 1893, Lilbern Murphy Hess married Mary L., daughter of Willis Young, of Peters- burg, Cape May County, New Jersey. They have two children : Arthur Young, born June 5, 1896, and Paul de Wolf, April 14, 1899.
(VIII) Rutherford B., youngest child of John Denny and Rachel A. (Mason) Hess, born March 4, 1877, is agent for the Pennsyl- vania railroad at Belle Plaine, New Jersey. He married Maude C. Layton, and has one child, Lolita, born March, 1904.
REPETTO The family here described is of Italian origin, and the rep- resentatives of same who have
made the United States their home have been of the higher class of emigrants, eager to learn the thoughts and opinions of the country of adoption and to adopt such manners and cus- toms as appeal to them as worthy of emulation. Such men have contributed largely to the growth and transmission of high ideals and morals among the people.
(I) Augustine Repetto was living in Genoa, Italy, at the time of the birth of his son An- tonio. He emigrated to America with his family, landing at Philadelphia in 1854.
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(II) Antonio, son of Augustine Repetto, was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1845, and was brought to Philadelphia with his parents in 1854. In 1880 he removed to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and established himself as a fruit dealer, meeting with pleasing success; subse- quently, in connection with his son. engaged in keeping a restaurant at the same place. He married Marie Stormmo, born in Genoa, 1847 ; children: I. Theresa, born January 3, 1867 ; married John W. Smith and they have four children living, Thomas L., Louis R., Augus- tine and Viola. 2. Louis Augustine. 3. Au- gustine Bartholomew, born 1870, in Philadel- phia, received an education in law and is now practicing his profession at 717 Walnut street, Philadelphia ; married Annie Anthony and has one son, Augustine, born in 1906.
(III) Louis Augustine, son of Antonio and Marie (Stormmo) Repetto, was born Sep- tember 10, 1868, at Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia, and there began his education in the parochial school of the Italian Catholic church of that city, and continued same in the public school at Atlantic City. In 1880 his parents removed to the latter city, and he graduated from Sacred Heart College of Vineland, New Jersey, in 1890, with degree B. A. He then began the study of law in the office of James B. Nixon, of Atlantic City, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney, in 1891. He has since been practicing his profession in Atlantic City, and has been very successful in securing an increasing clientage. He is a whole-hearted and patriotic American citizen, has imbibed the spirit of the times and insti- tutions of the state and nation, and is keenly interested in all pertaining to the public wel- fare. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association and Atlantic County Bar Association. He belongs to the Catholic church, of which he is an active supporter, and in political views is a Democrat. He is a member of the Atlantic county board of elec- tions, and for ten years has been secretary of the Atlantic County Democratic committee.
Mr. Repetto married, March 7, 1901, Elcora, daughter of Louis and Catherine Delapiana, and they have one child, Josephine Margaretta, born January 21, 1902, at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
FISH The main and collateral branches of this family lead back to early days in Pennsylvania, when the Kerns. Palmers and Mulhallon's were promi- nent in war, politics and business. Through
maternal line Dr. Clyde M. Fish traces through five generations to his great-great-grandfather, Nicholas Kern, as follows :
(I) Nicholas Kern was elected a member of the "Committee of Observation" of North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1774, serving on that committee until October 2, 1775. He then enlisted in the First Bat- talion, Northampton County Associators, and was commissioned captain of the town com- pany, May 22, 1775. The First Battalion was under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Kaehlein and formed part of the forces commanded by Colonel Joseph Wait. They were engaged at the battle of Long Island, August 21, 1775.
(II) Jacob, son of Nicholas Kern, was at one time speaker of the Pennslyvania house of representatives. He married Mary, daughter of Surveyor-General Palmer, born February 17, 1797, died March 3, 1851.
(III) Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Mary ( Palmer ) Kern, married Dr. John Clyde Mulhallon, son of Anthony and
(Clyde) Mulhallon, of the Northampton county. Pennsylvania, Scotch-Irish family of that name.
(IV) Mary, daughter of Dr. John Clyde and Elizabeth (Kern) Mulhallon, was born near Bath, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, March 23. 1844. She married, June 14, 1871, Hiram Barr, only child of William and Julia (Barr) Fish. William Fish, a lumber dealer of White Haven, Pennsylvania, was born in September, 1819. Julia Barr, his wife, was born in 1822 and died in 1847. Hiram Barr Fish was born December 2, 1845, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He is a civil engineer. Mary Mulhallon Fish, his wife, is a member of Lafayette Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, her home. They are the parents of a daughter, Bertha Mary, born April 23, 1873 and a son Clyde M., see forward.
(V) Clyde Mulhallon, only son of Hiram Barr and Mary (Mulhallon) Fish, was born at Bath, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1875. He at- tended the public schools of Bath and finished his academic education at the Moravian School at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He chose medi- cine as his profession and Rush Medical Col- lege for his alma mater, entering in 1893 and graduating in 1896. He next entered Jeffer- son Medical College in 1896, remaining one year, graduating in 1897, Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he located in Atlantic City, entering the office of Dr. B. C. Pennington, of
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that City. He remained with Dr. Pennington until 1901, practicing at the same time in the Atlantic City Hospital, with which he was officially connected. In 1901 he settled in Pleasantville, New Jersey, where he is now practicing. Dr. Fish is a skillful physician, and enjoys a lucrative practice. He is a mem- ber of the American Medical and New York State Medical associations, Atlantic County Medical Society, of which he was elected president in 1908 and 1909, and the Philadel- phia Medical Club. His fraternal member- ship is with the Odd Fellows. Dr. Fish is unmarried.
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CORNWELL well family which has for several generations been identified with South Jersey is almost un- doubtedly a branch of the family which has become so wide spread in New England, and belongs with the early colonists of the New World. Unfortunately however, the docu- ments which have so far come to light with re- gard to the family are insufficient to establish the line in unbroken succession from father to son, and connect the original emigrant with all his descendants at the present day.
(I) Lot Cornwell, of Cape May county, New Jersey, is the founder of the New Jersey branch, and the earliest known representative of the family in that section of the country. He was for many years a farmer and carried on at the same time a grocery business. Ac- cording to family tradition his mother was a Woodruff, and her brother it is said was one of the participants in the Philadelphia Tea party, when the tea was burnt on the banks of the Delaware. It is also said that this same brother was captured later during the revolutionary war by a British merchant ship which compelled him to pilot a tea boat up the Cohansey river. Among the children of Lot Cornwell was John Tomlin, referred to below.
(II) John Tomlin, son of Lot Cornwell, of Cape May county, New Jersey, was born at Goshen, Cape May county, in 1858, and fol- lowed the trade of miller. By his marriage with Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Judson Garrison, a contractor, he had a son, William Leslie, referred to below, and a daughter, Maud W., died aged twenty.
(III) William Leslie, son of John Tomlin and Mary Elizabeth (Garrison) Cornwell, was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, March II, 1883, and is now living in that city. For his early education he attended the public schools
of Bridgeton and graduated from the high school in that town in 1900. He then went to the West Jersey Academy, from which he graduated in 1902, and in the fall of that year entered the Jefferson Medical College in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1906. Upon leaving the Jefferson Medical College he went to the City Hospital at Newark, New Jersey, where for two years and three months he was one of the internes. October 14, 1908, he came from Newark, New Jersey, to Bridgeton, Cumber- land county, where he established himself in the general practice of his profession. Dr. Cornwell is a member of all of the larger and most influential medical societies, among them being the New Jersey State Medical Society, Cumberland County Medical Society, New- ark City Hospital Ex-Internes' Society, and while in college he was a member of the W. W. Kean Surgical Society of the Jef- ferson Medical College and the W. M. L. Coplin Pathological Society of the same insti- tution. He is an active and influential secret society man, being a member of Ahwahneeta Tribe, No. 97, Improved Order of Red Men, of Bridgeton. Among the other socie- ties and associations to which he belongs should be mentioned the Bridgeton Athletic Club, the Alumni of West Jersey Academy, the Alumni Association and the Alpha Kappa Kappa of Jefferson Medical College.
November 15, 1908, William Leslie Corn- well, M. D., married Lily May, daughter of Samuel Whitaker, of Paterson, New Jersey. One child, William Leslie Jr.
LOPER For over a century and a half the Loper family has been connected with the history of Salem county,
and while numbers of its representatives have risen to great distinction and honor in Salem county, the family as a whole is remarkable for its consistency in almost every individual, of those virtues and qualities which have done so much to place Salem county and the state of New Jersey at the head of the counties and states of the great nation of the west.
(I) The earliest ancestor of the family of whom there is any accurate record at present is Uriah Loper, who on March 26, 1776, filed his account as the administrator of Ephraim Gillman, late of Cumberland county, deceased. He died in 1807 or 1824, and among his chil- dren was Eli, referred to below.
(II) Eli, son of Uriah Loper, owned and operated a sash and door factory in
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Bridgeton, which his son now operates. By his wife, Amanda (Davis) Loper, he had children : Alfred French, referred to below, Carrie and Ida. He is still living.
(III) Alfred French, son of Eli and Amanda (Davis) Loper, was born in Bridge- ton, New Jersey. He married Caroline Car- melia, daughter of John and Ellen Carmelia, of Salem county, New Jersey. Children : John Carmelia, referred to below, Eli, Myrtis, Elsie, and one who died in infancy.
(IV) John Carmelia, son of Alfred French and Caroline (Carmelia) Loper, was born at Bridgeton, New Jersey, October 9, 1881, and is now a practicing physician in that city. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and gradu- ated from the Bridgeton high school in 1899. He then entered the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1903, and then went to Bridgeton where he at once engaged in the general practice of his profession, and is re- garded now as one of the brightest and most able of the rising young men of his generation. Dr. Loper is a member of the staff of the Bridgeton Hospital, American Medical Asso- ciation, New Jersey Medical Society, Cum- berland County Medical Society, of which he is the president, H. H. Hare Medical Society of Jefferson Medical College, Francis X. Dercum Neurological Society of Jefferson Medical College, and also of the Alpha Kappa fra- ternity of the same institution. He is also a member of the board of health at Bridgeton, and in February, 1909, was appointed as the health officer of the city. He is a member of Brearly Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, at Bridgeton. This lodge is the old- est one in New Jersey. He is also a member of the Order of Woodmen of America, Royal Arcanum, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat in politics.
June 8, 1904, John Carmelia Loper, M. D., married Alynda, daughter of Henry and Mary (Dare) Dickinson, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, whose mother was a native of Daretown. Their child is Le Grand Dickinson, born in February, 1905.
WALLINGTON Edward Morrell Wall- ington, late president of the Vineland Grape Juice Company, son of George Edward Wall- ington, of Trenton, was born in that city, June 30, 1868. The company of which he was the president started its factory at Vineland eleven
years ago, and is now the second largest manu- factury of grape juice in the world, having a capacity of two hundred thousand gallons, and have an enormous business transporting their product to every state in the Union, including California, and to many foreign countries. Their product is prepared in accordance with the most rigid of the pure food laws, while its vineyards are conducted on the most scientific method. On the property is located the United States agricultural department, experi- mental vineyard of the Middle Atlantic States. The factory stands in the midst of tributary vineyards. The plant is the finest and most complete in the country. It has immense storage vaults, porcelain lined vessels which prevent salts and other impurities from being preserved in the liquid, while cleanliness is carried to an extreme even for these days of hygienic precaution. Low chemicals or arti- ficial preservatives are not used anywhere in its processes. Their grape farm in Landis town- ship consists of one-hundred and thirty acres. and their factory is used by the United States government department of agriculture for its experiment.
Mr. Wallington, late president of this com- pany, did more than almost anyone else to bring about the unrivaled reputation enjoyed by the Vineland Grape Juice Company and its products. He was a Republican and staunch to the principals of his party, although he did not care for political life. He was an ardent and enthusiastic secret society man, a member of Benevolent Lodge, No. 28, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of New York City; Newport Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Newport, Rhode Island; Palestine Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar, of Trenton, New Jersey, and Lulu Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Philadel- phia. His social club was the Vineland Coun- try Club, and besides serving as president of the Vineland Grape Juice Company, he was a director of the Vineland National Bank and of the Vineland Trust Company. He was a com- municant and a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal church in Vineland.
Edward Morrell Wallington married Anna Eliza Goodfellow, born in Germantown, Penn- sylvania. Children: 1. Edward Casewell. 2. Merton Good fellow. 3. Anna Wallington. Mr. Wallington died October 1, 1909.
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In the year 1707 a small band
VOUGHT of Lutherans under the leader- ship of the Rev. John Kocker- thal left the lower Palatinate country in Ger-
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many and went to England to lay before Queen Anne an account of their grievances, with the result that her gracious majesty pro- vided for their transportation to America, there to dwell in peace and worship according to the dictates of conscience. Three years later, in 1710, a second colony of immigrants came over in the ship "Lyon" and landed at New York; but the voyage was tempestuous and attended with many unfortunate incidents, such as lack of attention and poor food fur- nished on board the vessel, with the result that a considerable number of the passengers died on the voyage. When the ship arrived at New York the passengers were denied the privilege of going ashore because of the fear of infec- tion among the people, and they were ordered to Governor's Island, where doctors were sent to attend such of them as needed attention, of which number there were many.
Among the voyagers in the "Lyon" in this immigration were Simon Vought and Chris- tina, his wife, who were founders of several of the now quite numerous Vought families in this country ; and their descendants are now well scattered throughout eastern New York and northern New Jersey. In the same year, 1710, Governor Hunter purchased from Rob- ert Livingston, lord of the manor, a consid .. erable tract of land near the site of the present city of Newburgh, New York, and provided homes there for many of these immigrants, such of them as would go there and settle; but some of them preferred to remain in New York City, and among the latter were Simon Vought and his wife Christina. In the course of a few years, however, he removed across the Hudson and settled in western New Jersey, and his descendants soon became numerous in Middlesex and Hunterdon counties, while not a few of them ultimately went over into the valley of the Hudson river in the province of New York and established homes in that region. Simon Vought, immigrant, was born in Germany in 1680, and married previous to 1710 Christina , who was born in 1684. They had four children, all born in this coun- try: Johannes, Christoffle, Margaretta and Abraham.
Such in brief is an outline of the circum- stances attending the coming over of the first representatives of the Vought family on this side of the Atlantic ocean, but within the next half century after the arrival of Simon and Christina Vought there came, about 1750, an- other family of the same name, perhaps a rel- ative, although there is no proof or claim of
relationship. The latter was the family which furnished three of its sons to the American service during the revolutionary war, and two grandsons to the second war with Great Britain.
(I) Joseph Vought, immigrant, a native of Holland, came from Omispac or Horrispac in that country to America about the year 1750, and took up his residence in the Hudson river valley in what is now Westchester county, where he was a farmer. He brought with him his wife Christina and probably some of their children, of whom there were nine in all. The Westchester records give us no reliable account of the family of Joseph Vought, although he is known to have been a sturdy Dutchman of progressive qualities, which traits seem to have been inherited by his sons and other descend- ants in later generations. His children were: Henry, see forward; John, Peter, a soldier of the revolution ; Joseph, see forward ; Godfrey, soldier of the revolution; Ontuatue, Hester, Margaret and Katie.
(II) Henry, eldest son and child of Joseph and Christina Vought, was born in Holland and came to America with his parents. He lived in Westchester county, and during the war of the revolution was a private with his brothers Peter and Godfrey in the Third Regi- ment of Westchester county militia, com- manded by Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt and Colonel Samuel Drake. He married Rebecca Nelson and by her had twelve children: I. Joseph. 2. Henry, see forward. 3. Nicholas, see forward. 4. David, married Phebe Brown. 5. James, died in Mobile, Alabama. 6. John, soldier of the war of 1812; married Phebe Rockwell and had son Jackson and daughters Mary and Hannah. 7. Thomas, a sailor ; mar- ried Susan Conklin and had sons Joseph and Albert. 8. Isaac, see forward. 9. Margaret, married Isaac Barton and had Jennie, Kather- ine. Susan, Julia, Abbie and Jenny Barton. Io. Jane, married McCoy and had Henry McCoy. II. Christina, married Thomas McCoy and had Beckie, Delia, John, George, Isaac, Daniel, Rufus, Augusta, Frank, Eliza- beth, Katherine McCoy. 12. Eleanor, married Smith, and had Rebecca, Katherine, Mary Ann, Phebe Ellen, Martha, Jacob. Thomas, Nicholas and Abraham Smith.
(II) Joseph (2), fourth son and child of Joseph (1) and Christina Vought, lived in Westchester county, New York. He married Millie Conklin. They had twelve children. I. Maria, married a Barr. 2. Katie, married a Clark. 3. Abbie Jane, married a Green. 4.
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Eliza, married a Clark. 5. Hester, married a Ward. 6. Nicholas. 7. Jacob. 8. Elijah. 9. William. 10. Henry, see forward. II. Louis. 12. Sallie, married a Saunders.
(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and Rebecca (Nelson) Vought, was born near Peekskill on the Hudson, and spent the greater part of his life on a farm at Cornwall. His farm lay over beyond Storm King mountain, in the valley back of Deerhill, and besides this he owned a large tract of woodland. He was an energetic farmer and gained a fair compe- tency. He served in the American army dur- ing the second war with the mother country. He married Martha Weeks, of an old Peeks- kill family, and by her had six children: I. Edward, married Amanda Vought, and had James H., Sarah, Edward, Ezra, Lester, Annie and Jennie. 2. Nathan C., see for- ward. 3. Sarah, married (first) - ยท Wil- son and had Hattie Wilson ; married ( second ) Henry Barton and had Minnie, Mattie, Addie and Henry Barton. 4. Julia. 5. Mary, mar- ried Ezra Drew and had Townsend, Albert, Nicholas and J. H. Drew. 6. Eleanor, mar- ried Frank Quinn and had Juliette, Nellie and Elbert Quinn.
(III) Nicholas, son of Henry (I) and Re becca (Nelson) Vought, was born near Peeks- kill on the Hudson, and was a farmer. He married Dolly Lent and by her had twelve children : 1. Margaret, married Barney Quincy and had Harriet, David, Mary, Emma, Mar- tha and Ellen Quincy. 2. Joseph. 3. Katie, married Wright Bunce and had Maria, Frank, Will and Lottie Bunce. 4. Jackson, married and had son Charles. 5. Isaac, married Jane De Witt and had De Witt and Joseph. 6. Lent. 7. Jane, married Cuyler Carter and had Della, Stephen and George Carter. 8. Christina, married Charles Bigelow and had Anna and Nicholas Bigelow. 9. Eliza, married Manoah Delling and had Mary, Jackson, Luther, Nich- olas, Sarah and George Delling. 10. Sylves- ter. II. Nicholas, married Mahala Palmer and had Dora and Edward. 12. David, mar- ried Maria Upham and had Nicholas, Myra and Luna.
(III) Isaac, son of Henry (I) and Re- becca (Nelson) Vought, was born near Peeks- kill on the Hudson, and was a farmer. He married Martha McCarty and by her had children: I. Elizabeth, married Oscar Delling and had Ellery and Mytte Delling. 2. Theo- dore, married Sarah Snyder and had Oscar and Floyd. 3. Edward, married and had Elizabeth, George, Charles, Herbert, Edward,
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