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to-day he is still president of the company. He is a director and vice-president of the Farmers' Line Telephone Company between Vincentown and Tabernacle, president of the Burlington County Retail Druggists' Associa- tion, president since its reorganization of the Vincentown Fire Company and was promi- nently identified with the reorganization of
that company and the work of placing it on an efficient basis. He also was one of the lead- ing spirits in starting a shoe factory in Vin- centown and was a director of the company which operated the factory and business. He is past master of Central Lodge, No. 44, Free and Accepted Masons, member of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, member and for sev- eral years has been commander of T. W. Eayre Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, and member and senior warden of Trinity Episcopal Church, of Vincentown. In 1869 Mr. Hilliard married Rebecca Josephine, daugh- ter of Joseph Pharo, of Tuckertown. Children : Marion Pharo, a graduate of the State Normai school at Trenton, and now a teacher in Engle- wood, New Jersey ; Grace, married Frank Ross and has one child, Donald Hilliard Ross ; Flor- ence ; Irving, died young ; Bayard, a graduate of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and now in business with his father.
(For preceding generations see Walter Reeves 1).
(III) Thomas, eldest son and
REEVES heir of John and Ann (Brad- gate) Reeves, was born in Bur- lington county, New Jersey, about 1700, died in Deptford township, Gloucester county, De- cember 2, 1780. His gravestone is the oldest in the ancient Reeves burying ground. He was a well to do farmer and landed proprietor. Up to about 1734 he lived in Wellingborough township, Burlington county, and then re- moved to Gloucester county where he spent the remainder of his life. By his wife, Sarah, who probably survived him and has been con- jectured from the name of his eldest son to have been one of the Biddles, he had children : I. Biddle, referred to below. 2. Arthur, mar- ried Mary Cox. 3. Thomas, born February 2, 1728; died July 25, 1802; married Keziah Brown. 4. Ann, married John Wood, of Glou- cester. 5. Rachel, married probably in Old Swedes church, Philadelphia, Benjamin Rambo. 6. Joseph, born June 20, 1743; died January, 1825; married (first) Elizabeth Morgan and (second) Sarah Gill.
(IV) Biddle, eldest son and child of Thomas and Sarah Reeves, was born in Burlington or Gloucester county, New Jersey, died in Dept- ford township, Gloucester county, in 1789. He lived in Deptford, was a farmer, distiller and landed proprietor. His home plantation was about one and a half miles from Woodbury, on the road from that place to Mantua. He was married twice, but the name of his first wife is unknown. His second wife, Ann (Clement)
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Reeves, survived him. By his first wife he had one son, Josiah, born November 11, 1756, died April, 1808; married Esther By his second wife he had eleven more children 2. Mary, born September 12, 1760; married John Groff. 3. Thomas, referred to below. 4. Ann, February 26, 1764; died July 25, 1849; married Archibald Moffett. 5. Biddle, Jr., October 4, 1766; died June 2, 1828; married (first) Elizabeth Haines, and (second) Eliza- beth Ellis. 6. Elizabeth, June 10, 1768; died in infancy. 7. Joseph, March 16, 1771 ; died 1825 ; married Sarah Groff. 8. Clement, March 19, 1772 : died July 5, 1819; married Sarah Wood. 9. John, March 22, 1775 ; died unmar- ried. 10. Desire, March 9, 1777. II. Sarah, August 1, 1779; died March 23, 1875; mar- ried John Smith. 12. Elizabeth, May 12, 1783; died January 18, 1837; married John Mul- ford.
(V) Thomas (2), second child and eldest son of Biddle and Ann (Clement ) Reeves, was born in Gloucester county, April 25, 1762, died there September 18, 1819. He was a farmer. having a plantation in Greenwich township, Gloucester county. He married (first) Mary Wood; (second) Abigail Thompson; (third) Sarah Haines. His children were : I. Thomas, died April 6, 1840, aged fifty-six years; mar- ried Hannah Sitgreaves. 2. Joseph, born Jan- uary 10, 1799; died October 18, 1824; married Mary Gill. The above two most probably by first wife. 3. Charles, referred to below. 4. Mary Ann, born April 1, 1802; married Thomas S. Dyer. 5. Desire, December 18, 1804; died February 14, 1822 ; married Joseph C. Gill. 6. Abigail, who died unmarried. Chil- dren of second wife.
(VI) Charles, eldest child of Thomas (2) and Abigail (Thompson) Reeves, was born in Gloucester county, November 27, 1800, died in Camden, New Jersey, May 30, 1865. He was a gentleman farmer and for ten or twelve years was a lay judge. December 12, 1822, he mar- ried Beulah Ann, born April 27, 1803, died December 26, 1880, daughter of Joseph Van- nemann and Elizabeth (Tiers) Clark. Their children were: I. Joseph Clark, born August I, 1824; died November 29, 1824. 2. Eliza- beth Clark, November 27, 1827; died April 28, 1885. 3. Abbie Augusta, May 14, 1830; died October 14, 1903. 4. Charles Carroll, referred to below. 5. Frances Stratton, September 6, 1834 : married John R. Stevenson, M. D., of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and is now living in that place. 6. Samuel Southard. March 15, 1836 ; died June 4, 1880 ; married Elizabeth S.
Yard. 7. William Pennington, January 14, 1841; died September 30, 1870.
(VII) Charles Carroll, fourth child and sec- ond son of Charles and Beulah Ann ( Clark) Reeves, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, April 5, 1832; died June 8, 1903. He graduated from the Pennington Academy, and as a young man went into a wholesale wool house in Philadelphia for a short time, and then took a position in the National State Bank in Camden, New Jersey, where he remained for thirty-five years, thirty-one of which he was the paying teller. He then accepted the position of cashier of the First National Bank of Camden, and after holding this post for five years longer he went into the flour, grain and feed business in the same city and continued in that until about two years prior to his death, when on account of disability he retired from all active business. He was a Republican, a member of the Ancient Order of United Me- chanics, and a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. June 9, 1864, Charles Carroll Reeves married Elizabeth Sarah, born March 4, 1832, in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, died in 1899, daughter of John and Sarah (Lentz) Rex. Her father was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, September 15, 1800, died 1852, son of Levi and Catharine (Riter) Rex. He married, March 1, 1826, Sarah Lentz, born September 29, 1807, died September 3, 1882, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Schultz) Lentz. The children of Charles Carroll and Elizabeth Sarah (Rex) Reeves were : I. Charles Carroll, Jr., referred to below. 2. Frederick Rex, born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1869, graduated from the public schools of Camden and the Penn charter school of Pennsylvania; read law in the office of his uncle, Walter E. Rex, in Philadelphia, was admitted to the Philadel- phia bar in 1890, and is now practicing in that city. He married Emily H., daughter of Philip J. Scovel, of Bordentown, New Jersey, now practicing law in Camden.
(VII) Charles Carroll, Jr., eldest son of Charles Carroll (1) and Elizabeth Sarah (Rex) Reeves, was born in Camden, October 15, 1865, and is now living in Florence, New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools of Camden and William Fewsmith's school in Philadelphia. He then went with his uncle, Frederick A. Rex, in the wholesale tea, coffee and spice business in Philadelphia. After re- maining in this for a year, he went in 1886 out west to Montana and Wyoming and spent three years there on a ranch as a cow puncher. In 1888 he returned to the east and entered the
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employ of the Philadelphia and Reading rail- road, in the Philadelphia office of the freight department, where he remained for about a year and a half. He then for a short time went into the State Bank in Camden, and left this position to become search clerk for the West Jersey Title Company, with whom he remained for about two years. In 1891 he went into the office of the Camden Iron Works as cost clerk and organized the cost department, which position he held for seven years, when he was made general foreman of the works and filled this latter position for nine years longer. In 1907, after sixteen years service with the Cam- den Iron Works, he was transferred to the Florence Iron Works at Florence, New Jer- sey, and was made assistant superintendent, and on the death of the superintendent, W. F. Thatcher, in the summer of 1908, he was in the ensuing August appointed superintendent, a position he now holds, having under him some twelve hundred men. Mr. Reeves is a Republican, and was a member of the board of health in Haddonfield, where he resided for a time while he was working in Camden. He is a member of the A. U. O. M., of Camden ; was an elder and communicant in the First Presby- terian Church of Camden, and is now a vestry- man of the Protestant Episcopal church in Florence. In 1892 Charles Carroll Reeves married Louise Thompson, daughter of Philip I. Scovel, of Camden, New Jersey. They have no children.
MIDDLETON The Middleton family of New Jersey ranks among the oldest and staunchest of the old patriotic colonial families that have brought during the course of the centuries honor and glory to their state, their country and themselves. Not the least of these honors is due to the fact that the family numbers among its representatives Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The branch of the family at pres- ent under consideration is that which has for centuries been identified with Camden county and city.
(I) Amos Archer Middleton, son of Timo- thy Middleton, is the founder of the branch at present under consideration. He was born in Camden county, May 13, 1794, where he passed his life as a farmer, and died October 13, 1849. He married Priscilla Smallwood, born near Haddonfield, New Jersey, December 2, 1785, died April 12, 1852. Children : I. Robert Smallwood, a physician, who was the first to
introduce the practice of homeopathic medicine in Burlington county, where he established a large practice, but being ambitious for a larger field of labor, afterwards removed to Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, where he passed the remainder of his life. 2. Amos, of Camden, New Jersey ; merchant. 3. Timothy, referred to below. 4. Margaret, married Alfred Githens, a farmer of Camden. 5. Priscilla, married Isaac Hinchman, of Camden. 6. Elizabeth, married John Wright, of Camden.
(II) Timothy, son of Amos Archer and Priscilla (Smallwood) Middleton, was born in Camden, New Jersey, January 21, 1817; died April 15, 1867. He was a farmer and merchant. At one time he was mayor of Cam- den, and also a superintendent of the Pennsyl- vania railroad. He married Hester A. R., daughter of Andrew and Lydia (Wiltse) Jen- kins, of Camden, November 19, 18.40. Chil- dren: I. Melbourne Fletcher, referred to be- low. 2. Melinda E. 3. Amos Archer. 4. Eliz- abeth Smallwood.
5. Timothy Jenkins.
(III) Melbourne Fletcher, son of Timothy and Hester A. R. (Jenkins) Middleton, was born in Camden, New Jersey, January 21, 1842, and is now living at No. 227 Cooper street, that city. For his early education he attended the public schools of Camden and of Philadelphia. After leaving school he return- ed to his father's farm near Camden, on which he worked for the ensuing four years, and then for a short time held a position as a clerk in his uncle's store. After this he became a sales- man in a cloth house in Philadelphia, which he gave up to become an assistant bookkeeper in the office of Dr. D. Jayne & Son, of Phil- adelphia, being very soon appointed the general correspondent for that firm, which position he held for two years, when his health failing he became one of its traveling men, continuing in that position for over two years, when he re- signed to enter upon the realization of his hopes and dreams cherished since early childhood, and took up the study of medicine. This he had begun while he was still in Dr. Jayne's office by attending lectures in single branches of medicine each winter. In the fall of 1866 he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, and after attending the full course of lectures there was graduated with the degree of M. D., March 4, 1868, when he immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in Camden, New Jersey. From the very beginning Dr. Middleton met with suc- cess, and his high qualifications for a medical practitioner coupled with his other gifts, both
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social and personal, have made him one of the most successful physicians in the state. He is a member of the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society, a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He is one of the founders of the Camden Homoeopathic Hos- pital and Dispensary Association, and in 1880, through his influence, the practice of homoeo- pathy was introduced into the Camden County Asylum for the Insane. He is also an ex-presi- dent of the New Jersey State Homoeopathic Medical Society, and of the West Jersey Homoe- opathic Medical Society. For eight years Dr. Middleton, who is a Republican, was a member of the board of education of the city of Camden. He is now and has been for fifteen years a mem- ber of the board of health of the city of Camden. He is a member of Camden Lodge, No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, and he is a member of the Centenary Methodist Epis- copal Church, of Camden.
March 16, 1871. Melbourne Fletcher Middle- ton, M. D., married Emily M., youngest daugh- ter of Captain Henry and Elizabeth King. Her father was one of the oldest and most highly respected sea captains sailing out of the port of Philadelphia ; at the age of twenty he was master of his own ship, and after fol- lowing the sea as captain for fifty years retired and spent the remaining years of his life quietly at his home in Camden. He was an honored member of the Presbyterian church. He had formerly lived in Philadelphia, but about the year 1846 removed to Camden, where he died February 14, 1884, at the age of ninety-four years. The children of Dr. Melbourne Fletcher and Emily M. (King) Middleton were: I. Melbourne Fletcher, see forward. 2. Arthur Lincoln, see forward. 3. Timothy Grant, see forward. 4. Elizabeth King.
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(IV) Melbourne Fletcher (2), son of Mel- bourne Fletcher (I) and Emily M. (King) Middleton, was born February 22, 1877, and is associated with the firm of Charles D. Bar- ney & Company, bankers, at No. 124 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, who are the busi- ness successors to the old firm of Jay Cook & Company, who rendered such valuable aid to the government during the civil war. He mar- ried Jessamine Weatherby, of Camden, Octo- ber 25, 1900 ; they have two children, Dorothy, and Melbourne Fletcher, the third.
(IV) Arthur Lincoln, son of Melbourne Fletcher ( 1) and Emily M. (King) Middleton, was born August 20, 1878. He married Nancy, daughter of James and Elizabeth Baird, July 29, 1907.
(IV) Timothy Grant, twin brother of Arthur Lincoln Middleton, son of Melbourne Fletcher (I) and Emily M. (King) Middle- ton, was born August 20, 1878. He married Jennie E. daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Rudolph, and they have five children: Joseph Everett, Henry King, Newell Melbourne, Paul Fletcher, Donald Maze Middleton.
APPLEGATE
The name is undoubtedly derived from the Saxon word Applegrath. In Eng-
land there were ancient families named Apple- grath, Appleyard and Appleworth, each signi- fying apple orchard. The founder of the Applegate family in America, or rather the first of the name to be found in America, was Thomas Applegate, who went from England to Holland with a party of discontented fellow Englishmen before 1635, which date he left his temporary haven of refuge in Holland and came to Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he was licensed by the general court to run a ferry between Weymouth and Braintree. His name then disappears from the colonial records of Massachusetts Bay and appears in Rhode Island, 1640.
(I) Thomas Applegate was in New Amster- dam so early as 1641, and he secured a patent of land on Nassau Island at Gravesend, No- vember 12, 1646, and in 1647 he is named among the patentees of the borough of Flush- ing in the North Riding of Yorkshire on Long Island, the patent bearing date October 19, 1647, and signed by Governor General William Kieft. In 1651 the authorities of New Amster- dam sentenced him to have his tongue bored through with a red-hot iron, the sentence being pronounced on his having charged the director- general with bribery. After the sentence he relented of his wrongful charge and the sen- tence was interrupted by a pardon from the director-general. He married, February 9. 1648, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Morgan, magistrate of Gravesend, 1657-63. His land in Gravesend was purchased from John Rick- man, one of the original thirty-nine lots into which Gravesend was divided in 1646. The children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Morgan) Applegate were: 1. John, who appears on the list of residents of Gravesend, Long Island, 1650, and in 1655 as of Thompson's, Long Island. In 1661 John Applegate is charged with smuggling in New Amsterdam. In 1663 he is a freeholder of Oyster Bay, Long Island, and with his wife Avis or Avies he is in Fair- field, Connecticut, where he signs his name John
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Appelgate and his wife signed her name Aves Applegate. 2. Arien Appel, took the oath of allegiance to the English government in 1664. 3. Bartholomew, married, October, 1650, Han- nah Patricke, and was among the purchasers of land in Middletown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1674. He signed his name Barthol- inel Apelgate, but it is not evident that he set- tled there. 4. Thomas, see forward. 5. Han- nah. Thomas, the immigrant, died at Grave- send, Long Island, between 1652 and 1660.
(II) Thomas (2), fourth son of Thomas (I) and Elizabeth ( Morgan) Applegate, born before 1653, married Johanna, daughter of Richard Gibbons, who was one of the twelve Monmouth county patentees. On October 19, 1677. Thomas Applegate, Sr., secured by a quit-claim deed two hundred and forty acres of upland and meadow in Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and Thomas Applegate, Jr., secured one hundred and twenty acres of similar land on the same date. This was three years after they came to Mid- dletown and secured the same land by Dutch warrant, under the government of New Nether- lands. Thomas, Sr., made his will February I, 1698, and it was proved February 29, 1699, and his death must have occurred between these dates. His wife, Johanna, and her father, Richard Gibbons, were executors of his will. Thomas and Johanna (Gibbons) Applegate had children as follows : I. Thomas (2), who secured one hundred and twenty acres of land in Shrewsbury township as noted in his father's sketch. He married Ann -; settled in Perth Amboy, where he had children : Thomas John, James and Andrew. 2. John, married Sarah Pettit, October 6, 1736, and lived in Middletown. 3. Daniel, married Elizabeth Hulett, January 31, 1745. 4. Joseph. 5. Ben- jamin, married Elizabeth Parent, of Middle- sex county, New Jersey, July 18, 1749. 6. Richard, see forward.
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(III) Richard, youngest of the six sons of Thomas and Johanna (Gibbons) Applegate, was born in Middletown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1683. He was a large owner of real estate and a successful farmer. He is on record as a member of the Baptist church in that place, March I, 1701-02. He married, about 1705, Rebecca Winter. Children, born in Middletown, New Jersey, were: I. John. 2. Abigail. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Joseph Jacob, see forward. 5. Hannah. 6. Rebecca, married Samuel Ray. 7. Johanna. 8. William. Rich- ard Applegate's will was dated November 7, 1732, in which he gave all his lands to his
daughter to go to his son, William, then under age.
(IV) Joseph Jacob, second son and fourth child of Richard and Rebecca (Winter) Apple- gate, was born in Middletown, New Jersey, about 1713. He married Esther Lukens or Lewkers, in 1743, and probably removed to Middlesex county, New Jersey, where his chil- dren were brought up. He named his eldest son Joseph Jacob, see forward; he was the first of ten children.
(V) Joseph Jacob (2), eldest son of Joseph Jacob (I) and Esther (Lukens) Applegate, of Middlesex county, was born about 1745. He married and had several children, including Samuel, see forward.
(VI) Samuel, son of Joseph Jacob (2) Applegate, was born about 1772. He prob- ably removed to Ocean county, where he mar- ried on June 1, 1797, Jane Johnson, and had children, including one Chamblers (or An- thony ), see forward.
(VII) Chamblers, son of Samuel Apple- gate, was born in Toms River, Ocean county, New Jersey, about 1805, married there and had children one of whom was Joseph, see forward.
(VIII) Joseph, son of Chamblers Apple- gate, was born in Toms River, Ocean county, New Jersey, about 1805. Later he removed to Hurffville, from whence he removed to Harri- sonville, Gloucester county, where he remain- ed until about 1883, when he took up his resi- dence in Camden, removing from thence about 1893 to Pitman Grove, where his death occurred in June, 1903. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Drucilla Batten, born in Barnes- boro, Gloucester county, New Jersey. Chil- dren: I.William S., born in Hurffville, New Jersey; graduated at the New Jersey State Normal school ; became principal of the Frank- lin School, near Newark, New Jersey; grad- uated at Jefferson Medical College, M. D., 1883; married, in 1887, Mary Vail, sister of Theodore Vail, of Boston, Massachusetts, and had two children, Vail and Dorothy Apple- gate, who with their parents reside in Brook- lyn, New York. 2. Abigail, born in Gloucester county, New Jersey ; married Allen Conover. 3. Keziah, born in Gloucester county, New Jersey ; married Clement G. Madara and had four children: Viola, Blanche, Iona and Harold Madara. 4. John Chew, see forward. 5. George H., born in Gloucester county. 6. Alexena, born near Harrisonville, Gloucester county ; unmarried.
(IX) John Chew, second son and fourth child of Joseph and Drucilla (Batten) Apple-
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gate, was born in Hurffville, Gloucester county, February 19, 1861. He attended the public school and Friends' Academy at Woodstown, under Professor Norris. After graduating he taught school for four years in New Jersey, then pursued a course in medicine at Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and he was graduated M. D. in 1887. He followed this with special courses in Lying-In, Charity and Philadelphia Hospital for diseases of the skin. He practiced medicine at Fairton, New Jersey, 1887-90, removed to Bridgeton, where he con- ducted a general practice of medicine and sur- gery, 1890-1903, and also served on the sur- gical staff of the Bridgeton Hospital. In 1903 he accepted the chair of obstetrics at Temple University, Philadelphia, and he still continues in that position. The University is a co-edu- cational institution and had over four thous- and general students from all sections of the United States and even from beyond the seas. He also carried on a general private practice from his office, 3540 North Broad street, and holds professional positions in the Garretson and Samaritan hospitals in Philadelphia, being a chief of both institutions. His professional memberships in learned societies include the : American Medical Association, the Philadel- phia County Medical Society, the Philadelphia Obstetric Society, the Philadelphia Medical Club, the Samaritan Hospital Medical Society, the North Western Medical Society, of Phila- delphia ; honorary membership in the Cumber- land County, New Jersey, Medical Society, of which he was an active officer for many years, and social membership in the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. The first society organized in the medical department of Temple University of Philadelphia and named in honor of an individual was "The John Chew Apple- gate Obstetrical Society." Dr. Applegate's fraternal affiliation is with the masonic order and his masonic work began in Evening Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and was carried on through Brearly Chapter, No. 2. Royal Arch Masons, of Bridgeton. His church affiliation is membership in the Church of the Resurrec- tion (Protestant Episcopal), of Philadelphia. His political affiliations are with the Repub- lican party.
Dr. Applegate married, June 6, 1888, Frank, daughter of Zamor and Rachel (Pritchard) Briggs, of Cape Vincent, New York, and their son, Zamor, was born in Bridgeton, Cumber- land county, New Jersey, January 16, 1895.
In its earlier generations the BENNETT branch of the Bennett which is at present under considera- tion did not belong to the history of New Jer- sey, as it is only in the last two generations that their lot has been cast in that state.
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