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Ida and Nina. 4. Oresta, married Josephina Sax and had William and Clayton. 5. Ellen, married Henry Roberts and had Theodore Roberts. 6. Nelson. 7. Eva.
(IV) Nathan C., son of Henry (2) and Martha (Weeks) Vought, was born at Corn- wall-on-Hudson in 1825, died in 1900. His farm, like that of his father, lay over beyond old Storm King mountain, and besides farm -. ing he also carried on a livery stable at Corn- wall. His wife before her marriage was Eliz- abeth Lent, and she bore him five children: I. Isaac S., senior partner of the firm of Vought & Williams, of New York. 2. Henry H. 3. Edward Thomas, see forward. 4. Nathan Franklin. 5. Katherine.
(V) Edward Thomas, son of Nathan C. and Elizabeth (Lent) Vought, was born at Cornwall-on-Hudson, April 9, 1855, and dur- ing the earlier part of his life worked for his father, who was keeper of a livery at that place. Later on he went to New York City and there engaged in business, dealing in hard- ware, iron and other metals, as member of the firm of Vought & Williams, as still known, for Mr. Vought is still head of the firm. He mar- ried, 1883, Ida, adopted daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Pope, of Paterson, and by whom he had three children, Samuel P., and two others, both of whom died in infancy.
(VI) Samuel Pope, son and only surviving child of Edward Thomas and Ida (Pope) Vought, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, No- vember 10, 1883, and received his education in the grammar and high schools of that city, and New York University, where he was a student for some time but did not graduate. He lives in Paterson and is engaged in the real estate and brokerage business, and is treasurer of the Pope Realty Investment Company of Pater- son. He is a member of the Hamilton Club of Paterson and the Ridgewood Driving Club.
Mr. Vought married, June 28, 1905, Ida May, born July 2, 1885, daughter of Ogden H. Planck, of Paterson, and by whom he has one child, Lorene Vought, born March, 1907.
On August 7, 1764, a STEVENSON tract of twenty-five thou- sand acres of land situ- ated at what is now Salem, Washington county, New York, was granted Alexander Turner and twenty-four others residing in Pel- ham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and these proprietors conveyed an undivided half to Oliver Delancy and Peter Dubois, of New York City. The whole tract of twenty-five
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thousand acres was marked off into three hun- dred and four small farms of eighty-eight acres each, suitable to the requirements of a Scotch-Irish farming colony.
The "New Light heresies" which in the mid- dle of the eighteenth century sowed dissen- sions in the Presbyterian churches in Scotland and Ireland caused an Irish Presbyterian com- munity in and about Monaghan and Ballibay to petition the Associate Burgher Presbytery of Glasgow, Scotland to furnish them with orthodox preaching. Rev. Thomas Clark, M. D., an ordained minister of this Glasgow Pres- bytery, was thereupon sent "as a missionary to Ireland," and shortly after was regularly ordained and installed by a committee of the Glasgow Presbytery over the church at Balli- bay, where he became greatly honored and be- loved for his piety and zeal. Bitter persecu- tion, however, instigated by prominent mem- bers of the rival Presbyterian church in Balli- bay induced Dr. Clark and a large portion of his flock to seek a new home in the wilds of America. Dr. Clark and his parishioners sailed for New York from Neury, Ireland, May 10, 1764, arriving there July 28, 1764. The unique feature of this interesting emigra- tion is the fact that the entire church organi- zation was transferred from Ireland to America. An Irish Presbyterian church with a Scotch pastor affiliated ecclesiastically with a Scotch Presbyterian Assembly was thus transferred to America in a body. As stated in the "Salem Book" "there were none of the formalities of organizing a church. No ad- mission of members or election of trustees. The company was already a perfectly orga- nized religious society with its pastor, its eld- ers, its members, all regularly constituted. Dr. Clark had never resigned nor had the Presby- tery released him from his pastoral charge over these people. We doubt if any other re- ligious society has been transferred from the old to the new world in a manner so regular and orderly and with so little to vitiate its title to a continuous identity." Dr. Clark searched for a suitable place on which he and his people could establish their church and their homes, and after much investigation and travel he secured on September 13, 1765, from Delancy and Dubois their undivided share of the twenty-five thousand acre tract, which already had been sub-divided into farms as above stated. The result of acquiring rights to the allotment of farms distributed through- out a large tract, instead of acquiring the whole of a tract which the colonists could di-
vide among themselves, was that the Scotch- Irish and Scotch colony under Dr. Clark were intermingled over a wide territory with a New England colony who divided among them- selves the farms which represented the half of the tract which Dr. Clark did not purchase. Dr. Clark and his people were under obliga- tion after five years to pay a rent of one shil- ling per acre, and hence they no doubt urgently invited their co-religionists from Scotland as well as from Ireland to join them, and within ten years from the original settlement a very substantial addition to the colony was made by emigrants from the part of Scotland from which Dr. Clark had come. Dr. Clark named the settlement New Perth, while the New Eng- land settlers called it White Creek. On March 2, 1774, the legislature of New York combined both tracts into the township of New Perth, thus establishing a legal name, which remained until March 7, 1788, when in dividing the whole state into counties and towns, the name New Perth was changed to Salem, located in Washington county, New York. This was the objective point to which the passengers of the brig, "Commerce," were bent on April 20, 1774, when James Stevenson and his family left Scotland for the New World.
(I) James (2), son of James (I) Steven- son, a shawl weaver, of Scotland, was the founder of this family in America. He was born in the home of his parents on the bank of the Bonnie Doon in Ayrshire, Scotland, about the year 1747. When a young man he removed to Paisley, where he learned the trade of silk and linen weaver. He joined the Scotch Presbyterian church in Paisley, at that time having as its pastor the distinguished divine, John Witherspoon. While a citizen of Paisley he married Margaret, daughter of David Brown, of Stewartson, Scotland, and while residents of Paisley three children- James, Jane and John-were born. The fam- ily embarked at Greenock, Scotland, April 20, 1774, in the brig, "Commerce," with several other families, their destination being the Scotch settlement at New Perth in the state of New York. He had alotted to him a farm located two miles east of the present village of Salem, Washington county, whereon he set- tled and lived during the remainder of his life. In 1896 this farm was owned by two of his grandsons, Thomas S. and Robert M., sons of Thomas and Agnes ( McMurray) Stevenson. The first election held in the town of New Perth, now Salem, was on September 8. 1774. and James Stevenson voted at that election.
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Soon after the American revolution had as- sumed a definite purpose, he volunteered for military service in the New Perth Company, commanded by Captain Alexander McNitt. Upon his arrival James Stevenson became a member of the church of Dr. Thomas Clark and was afterward one of its ruling elders. When Dr. Clark severed his relations with the congregation in 1782, Mr. Stevenson went on horseback through the almost unbroken wilder- ness from Salem, New York, to Pequea, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to endeavor to persuade the Rev. James Proudfit to become
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cessor to Dr. Clark, who had resigned to join another Scotch settlement in South Carolina as their pastor. In this mission he was entirely successful and Dr. Proud- fit became the second pastor of the Scotch church in Salem. Mr. Stevenson brought with him from Paisley, Scotland, a large library of excellent books, and a quantity of fine linen, the product of the industry of his family, and these heirlooms are highly prized by his descendants.
Children of James and Margaret (Brown) Stevenson: I. James, see forward. 2. Jane, born in Scotland; married George Telford and settled in Argyle, New York. 3. John, born in Scotland; married Katherine McLeod and settled in Howard, Steuben county, New York, where he died in 1863. 4. David, born in Salem, New York, died there unmarried. 5. Thomas, born in Salem; married (first) Agnes, daughter of John McMurray ; married (second) Mary, daughter of Joshua Steele ; his children were: Thomas S., Robert M. and James B .; Thomas Stevenson lived on the homestead; was an elder in the church at Salem for nearly half a century; died in Salem, 1854, aged seventy-five years. James Stevenson, father of these children, died in Salem, New York, April 19, 1799, and his widow died the following year.
(II) James (3), eldest child of James (2) and Margaret ( Brown) Stevenson, was born in Paisley, Scotland, January 8, 1762. He came with his parents, sister Jane and brother John to America in 1774. He was prepared for college by his father, and then entered the Hackensack Classical Academy, conducted by Dr. Peter Wilson, afterwards of Columbia College, and was graduated at Queen's now Rutgers College. A. B., 1789. He was prin- cipal of the academy at Morristown, New Jer- sey, the Rutgers grammar school, and in 18II was appointed principal of the Washington
Academy, Salem, New York, in which insti- tution he proved himself one of the ablest classical teachers in the country. Among his pupils, several of whom have written eulogis- tically of his character, his attainments and his extraordinary skill and capacity as an in- structor, were Dr. Philip Lindsay, vice-presi- dent of Princeton and president of Nashville, Tennessee, University, Professor Henry Mills, of Auburn Theological Seminary, Sam- uel L. Southard, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Rev. Jacob Kirkpatrick and Rev. Dr. George W. Bethune. That eminent scholar, Dr. Tay- lor Lewis, professor in Union College, who was a pupil for two years in the Salem Acad- emy, in some reminiscences which he writes of his beloved instructor, says: "He stands in my remembrance as the best model that I ever knew of the most honorable and dignified pro- fession, the schoolmaster's. Some of the thoughts respecting him come to my mind when I read Dr. Arnold, the best sample of a teacher that England ever produced." James Stevenson was a trustee of Washington Academy, incorporated February 18, 1791, the fourth academy incorporated in the state of New York and the first free academy estab- lished in the state outside of New York City. He contributed to the newspapers and maga- zines of the time devoted to educational and religious subjects.
James Stevenson married Hannah, daugh- ter of Richard Johnson, of Morris county, New Jersey. . Children: James, Sarah, Mar- tha, Richard, Paul Eugene, Anna Louisa. James Stevenson, father of these children, died October 9, 1843, in the eighty-second year of his age.
(III) Paul Eugene, son of James (3) and Hannah (Johnson) Stevenson, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 14, 1809. He planned to engage in scientific work, and when he was qualified to enter col- lege matriculated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, where he was graduated B. A. (R. S.) in 1830. On leav- ing the institute he changed the purpose of his life and decided to. enter the ministry, and to that end he took a course in arts at Union Col- lege, Schenectady, New York, where he was graduated A. B. in 1833. He then entered Princeton Theological Seminary and was graduated B. D., 1837. He was ordained by the Presbyterian ministry, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Staunton, Virginia, 1837-43. He then accepted a call from the South Third Street Presbyterian Church.
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Williamsburg, New York, and served that church until 1850. His next church was at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, but soon after going there, he yielded to the urgent request of his Presbytery to accept the principalship of the Luzerne County Presbyterian Institute, which was at the time in a critical financial condition and poorly equipped for the work of so im- portant an institution, as it had been designed to represent in the policy the church denomina- tion for which it was named. He set to work to build it up and re-establish its reputation as a high class seat of learning and was eminently successful, far beyond the expectation of the officers of the school or his own optimistic hopes. Some years later he resigned this post, and for one year was principal of the West Jersey Academy at Bridgeton, New Jersey, from which place he removed to Madison, New Jersey, where he conducted a private school for a number of years. In 1866 he established the Passaic Falls Institute, a school for girls, at Paterson, New Jersey, which he continued to conduct up to the time of his death, March 17, 1870.
Rev. Paul Eugene Stevenson married, May 18, 1841, Cornelia, daughter of the Rev. Na- thaniel Scudder and Julia Ann (Jermain) Prime, granddaughter of Dr. Benjamin Youngs (1733-1791) and Mary (Wheel- wright ) Greaton Prime, of Huntington, Long Island, New York, and of Major John and Margaret (Pierson) Jermain, of Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, and great-grand- daughter of the Rev. Ebenezer ( 1700-1779) and Experience (Youngs) Prime, and great- great-granddaughter of James Prime, of Huguenot descent, who came from Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, with his brother, Mark Prime, and settled in Milford, Connecticut Colony, in 1644, and of Benjamin Youngs, of Southold, Long Island, New York. She was a sister of the Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin Prime (1814-1891), of the Rev. Samuel I. Prime (1812-1885), and of the celebrated lawyer and editor, William Cowper Prime (1825-1905). Rev. Paul Eugene and Cornelia (Prime) Stevenson had seven children of whom the following lived to maturity: I. Archibald Alexander, born October 2, 1845, died unmarried Februarv 10, 1870. 2. Pres- ton, October 29, 1847 ; a lawyer practicing in New York City and residing in Nutley, New Jersey. 3. Eugene, June 28, 1849, see for- ward. 4. Mary Margaretta, born March 7, 1852, umarried. 5. Edward Irenaeus Prime,
born in Madison, New Jersey, January 29, 1858; an editor, critic, lecturer and author ; never married; now resides abroad.
(IV) Eugene, son of the Rev. Paul Eugene and Cornelia (Prime) Stevenson, was born in Williamsburg, which city became the eastern district of Brooklyn, New York, June 28, 1849. He was prepared for college by his father and was graduated at the University of the City of New York, now the New York University, A. B. and LL. B., 1870. He prac- ticed law in Paterson, New Jersey, from 1873 up to the time he went upon the bench as vice- chancellor of the court of chancery of New Jersey. He served a single term as prosecutor of the pleas for Passaic county.
He married, June 11, 1884, Helen, daugh- ter of the Rev. Dr. William Henry and Ma- tilda (Butler) Hornblower, of Paterson, New Jersey, granddaughter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerton (1777-1864) and Mary (Burnet) Horn- blower, great-granddaughter of Josiah, the del- egate, (1729-1809) and Elizabeth (Kingsland) Hornblower. Josiah Hornblower came to Amer- ica in 1753, at the suggestion and request of Colonel John Schuyler, bringing with him the first steam engine ever used in the United States, which was employed in pumping water in the copper mines near Belleville, New Jer- sey, of which mines he was made superintend- ent. He served in the French and Indian war with the rank of captain of militia, was a representative in the New Jersey legislature, 1776-80, speaker of the house in 1780, a mem- ber of the state council, 1781-85, delegate to the Continental congress, 1785-86, judge of the Essex common pleas from 1790 up to near the time of his death, which occurred in New- ark, New Jersey, January 21, 1809. His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Colonel Will- iam Kingsland, of New Barbadoes, New Jer- sey. Mrs. Stevenson was the sister of the well-known architect, Joseph Coerton Horn- blower, of Washington, District of Columbia. born 1848, married Caroline, daughter of As- sociate-Justice Joseph P. Bradley, of the supreme court of the United States, also of William Butler Hornblower, LL. D., the emi- nent New York lawyer, born May 13, 1851.
The Krementz family of KREMENTZ Newark belongs to the later arrivals in this country, but it has already established itself in a prominent and important position in the business world of the country of its adoption, and its repre-
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sentatives to-day rank second to none in the honor, esteem and confidence of the com- munity in which they reside.
(I) George Krementz, founder of this family, came in 1851 from Wiesbaden, Ger- many, where he was born in 1838. At the time of his coming he was a young man, and going to New Albany, Indiana, he for some time worked on a farm. About 1855 he re- turned east to Newark, New Jersey, where he learned the jewelry trade, and started in busi- ness for himself in 1866. About the same time he married Louise Hendrichs; children : I. Louise. 2. Ann, married F. Keer and has one child. 3. Clara, married Charles Irving Taylor, member of the firm of Beardsley & Hemmens, lawyers, of Wall street, New York City, who has one child, George Krementz. 4. Richard, referred to below. 5. Walter Martin.
(II) Richard, eldest son of George and Louise (Hendrichs) Krementz, was born in Newark, New Jersey, January 26, 1877. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Newark, and was graduated from the high school of that city in 1895. He then went to Yale University, and after completing the course in the Sheffield Scientific School there received his degree of Ph. B. in 1898. He then came to his father's factory in order to learn the manufacture of jewelry, and he has worked up steadily until he has reached his present position of superintendent of the factory, having under his control two hundred and twenty-five men. In politics Mr. Krem- entz is an Independent. He is a member of Union Club of Newark and the Yale Club of New York City, and of several college fratern- ities. May 17, 1906, Richard Krementz married Elsie, daughter of Henry P. and Ada Emily (Anderson) Jones. Child, Elsa Louise, born Spring Lake, New Jersey, August 16, 1907.
(II) Walter Martin, youngest child of George and Louise (Hendrichs) Krementz, was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 21, 1881. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Newark and was gradu- ated from the Newark high school in 1898. He then went to Yale University, where he took the academic course, and was graduated in 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Returning home he entered his father's fac- tory, and has worked himself up until he is now the superintendent of the firm of Krem- entz & Company, manufacturing jewelers, whose specialty is brooches, scarf pins and necklaces, and a general line of jewelry. They
are also the manufacturers of the famous "Krementz One Piece" collar buttons. Mr. Krementz is an Independent in politics, a mem -. ber of Yale Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, Automobile Club of New Jersey, Essex County Country Club, and Yale Club of New York.
April 25, 1906, Walter Martin Krementz married in East Orange, Edith Lillie Cordelia, born January 29, 1883, second child and only daughter of James H. and Lillie Letitia ( Blanchard) Hart (see Hart). Their only child is James Hart, born November 28, 1907.
BRIODY James Francis, third son of Philip and Annie (Brophy) Briody, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, August 5, 1876. He was a pupil in the public schools of Paterson, graduating from the high school in the class of 1893. He then matriculated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and took the regular course up to the senior year, when he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and was graduated M. D. 1898. He returned to his native city, where he began the practice of medicine and soon gained recognition as a skilled practitioner in all the branches of his profession - and built up a large private practice. His popu- larity was recognized by the city government and they made him medical inspector of the public schools, the very schools in which he had passed his youth and laid the foundation upon which he had built his professional life. He held the position of medical inspector of schools for several years, until his private practice demanded the time he was obliged to give to his public duties, when he resigned.
In 1907 the office of city physician was va- cant and the city officials appointed Dr. Briody and he accepted the trust and he was holding the office in 1909 by reappointment. His pro- fessional standing was recognized by his fellow practitioners in the city, county and state by electing him to membership in the Passaic County Medical Society.
His fellowship outside of his profession was recognized by the members of Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, who urged his acceptance of member- ship in their exclusive order and he became one of the most popular members of the lodge.
Dr. James Rotrock, or Rod- RODROCK rock, was a native of Scot- land, born in 1787; he was the first of this family to settle in the United
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States; he took up his residence in North- ampton county, Pennsylvania, while a young man. He was an educated physician, having taken a regular course of lectures at an insti- tution of medical instruction and received a license to practice. In 1818 he began prac- tice at Freemansburg, Pennsylvania, but soon afterward removed to Macungie, Pennsylva- nia, where he lived for a short time only. He went from that place to Haines Hill, in Berks county, and is mentioned as having kept public house for a number of years previous to his death. The family name of his wife was Dreisbaugh, and she bore him twelve children, among whom were James, John, Belinda, Kate and DeWitt Clinton Rodrock.
(II) Rev. De Witt Clinton, son of Dr. James and (Dreisbaugh) Rodrock, was born in the township of Bath, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1828, died in Pater- son, New Jersey, August 24, 1903. He re- ceived a good early education in the schools of his native town, prepared there for college and then entered Franklin and Marshall Col- lege, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he completed the course and was graduated in 1848, with honors of the valedictory. He soon afterward entered the ministry of the Dutchi Reformed church of America and labored earnestly and to good purpose in the work of his church until the beginning of the late civil war. He then became chaplain of the Forty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and con- tinued in service until the close of the war. In 1866 he became pastor of the Dutch Re- formed church in Blaine, Perry county, Penn- sylvania, and afterward served in the same capacity at Chambersburg, Marysville, Stone Church, all in Pennsylvania, but while in the latter pastorate he became broken in health and retired from the hard work of the ministry in 1879. Soon afterward he re- moved to Paterson and lived quietly in that city until the time of his death, August 24, 1903. In the work of his church Mr. Rodrock was re- garded as a man of much strength, and after his retirement from the ministry his services were utilized by his people in the writing of arti- cles for The Messenger, one of the leading publications of the church. He was a Mason, member of the lodge at Easton, Pennsylvania.
Rev. Dr. Rodrock married Julia Marga- retta Weldy ; children : I. Warren Weldy, died at Charleston, South Carolina, 1861, aged six months. 2. Ida, died aged nineteen years. 3. Mary Shaff, married Hiram M. Quick and resides at Paterson, New Jersey. 4. Sarah ii-19
Blanch, married Charles A. Fitch. 5. Edward M., see forward. 6. Alice Gray, married A. C. Nightingale. Julia Margaretta (Weldy) Rod- rock died at Paterson, New Jersey, August 24, 1905.
(III) Edward M., son of Rev. DeWitt Clin- ton and Julia Margaretta (Weldy) Rodrock, was born in Blaine, Perry county, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1856. He received his education in the public schools of that township and also in the city schools of Paterson, to which place his father removed in 1879, when Edward M. was a boyof about thirteen years. After his school days were over he started out to make his own way in life, and for a time was engaged in an ex- press business and later took up the trade of painting. Still later he - became a dealer in clay products and from that beginning grad- ually enlarged his business operations until in 1905 he became a general dealer in coal and masons' supplies and materials. He is a prompt and capable man of business and enjoys an ex- tended and favorable acquaintance throughout the city of Paterson and in Passaic county. Mr. Rodrock is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 27, Free and Accepted Masons, of Rah- way.
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