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(II) Edward (2), son of Edward (I) and Mary (Lothrop) Crow, was born in 1685, and was the first of the family to determine the modern spelling of the name as Crowell. Among his children were Elizabeth, born in 1708, and Samuel, referred to below.
(III) Samuel, son of Edward (2) Crowell, was born in Woodbridge, in 1711. He mar- ried a Ward, a sister to Abel and Elihu Ward; all of his four sons and two of his grandsons were soldiers in the revolution. About 1728 he bought and settled upon land in what is now South Orange, New Jersey, and is still held to-day by some of his descendants. His children were: I. Joseph, referred to below. 2. Daniel. 3. Samuel. 4. Aaron, born 1750, married Abigail Brown.
(IV) Joseph, son of Samuel and (Ward) Crowell, was born in South Orange, New Jersey, about 1740, and among his chil- dren was John, referred to below.
(V) John, son of Joseph Crowell, was born in South Orange, November 16, 1762. It is said that the name of his wife was Mary Marsh, but it is possible that she may have been one of the Freemans as among his chii- dren was one named Joseph Freeman, referred to below.
(VI) Joseph Freeman, son of John Crow- ell, was born in Caldwell, Essex county, New Jersey, in 1793, died in 1821. He married
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Rosalinda, daughter of the Rev. Stephen Grover, of Tolland, Connecticut, and Cald- well, New Jersey, who was born in 1795 and died in 1873. Their only child was Stephen Grover, born in Caldwell, September 9, 1817, died in Newark, May 20, 1854. As a young man he removed from Caldwell to Newark, where he became a prominent business man, founding the firm of Heath & Crowell, dry- goods merchants, and being at the time of his death one of the directors of the American Insurance Company. Mr. Crowell was a widely read and deep thinking student, with a varied range of knowledge. His home was 16 Cedar street, Newark. He married Sarah W., daughter of David Smith, who had removed from Providence, Rhode Island, to Newark, New Jersey, about 1818, and founded the dry-goods firm of D. Smith & Company. They had four children: 1. Joseph Grover, referred to below. 2. David Smith, born April 10, 1847, married Sarah E., daughter of David Stewart, of Walden, New York. 3. Stephen Grover, a member of the iron and steel firm of Crowell & Coe. 4. Henry Morris, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
(VII) Joseph Grover, eldest child of Joseph Freeman and Sarah W. (Smith) Crowell, was born in Newark, March 31, 1844, and is now living in that city. He entered into partner- ship with James Aaron Coe and founded the iron and steel manufacturing firm of Crowell & Coe. He is a Republican, and attends the High Street Presbyterian Church in Newark. He enlisted with the volunteers of the civil war and when he was mustered out had risen to the rank of Quartermaster of the nine months' men. He married shortly after the war, Laura Francis, daughter of Aaron and Julia (Baldwin) Coe, the sister of his partner in the iron and steel business. Their children are: I. Frederick Morris, referred to below. 2. Joseph Grover Jr., born November 4, 1873, died July 1, 1893. 3. Harry Wolcott, Sep- tember 6, 1877, married Blodwin Savage.
(VIII) Frederick Morris, eldest child of Joseph Grover and Laura Francis (Coe) Crowell, was born in Newark, May 20, 1871, and is now living in that city. He graduated from the Newark Academy in 1889, and for the following two years became a salesman for a paint and oils firm in New York City. For the succeeding four years he worked in the employ of a Newark chemical and oil firm, and then finally in 1895 came to the firm of James A. Coe, becoming vice-president of the
company in March, 1905. Mr. Crowell is a Re- publican, but has held no office. He is one of the trustees of the High Street Presbyterian Church in Newark. September 1, 1903, Frederick Mor- ris Crowell was married in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Ruth Brewer, of Denver, whose father, Benn Brewer, was born in England, and whose mother, Marie (Paulson) Brewer, was born in Denmark. Her sisters and broth- ers are: Minnie, Maud, who married Oscar David Cass and has two children: Dorothy Marie and Oscar David Jr .; Marie Louise and Bayard Paulson Brewer. The only child of Frederick Morris and Ruth (Brewer) Crowell is Frederick Morris Jr., born in March, 1907.
The Drake family are a Vir- DRAKE ginia family, coming to this country at the time of the Cava- lier movement and settling in Fairfax county. The ancestry of Edgar Bless Drake is unfor- tunately not traceable back farther than the Rev. Philip Drake, of Kentucky, in the middle of the eighteenth century. And although it is almost certain that this ancestor was not the original emigrant founder of the family, all attempts hitherto made have failed to deter- mine whether he is a descendant of Robert Drake, of Hampton, New Hampshire, Cap- tain Francis Drake, of Piscataway, New Jer- sey, or of the several Drake families which were among the original settlers of the Vir- ginias and Carolinas.
(I) The Rev. Philip Drake, above referred to, was born January 1, 1743, and is found in the latter part of the eighteenth century as the Baptist minister at Lee's Creek, Kentucky. By his wife Anne (Larue) Drake, of whom nothing more is known, he had two children : I. John, referred to below. 2. Sophia.
(Il) John, only son and eldest child of the Rev. Philip and Anne (Larue) Drake, was born in Kentucky, November 15, 1785, died there December 28, 1823. He married Sophia Crosby, and had five children: I. Joseph Crosby, born July 30, 1811. 2. James, No- vember 4, 1813. 3. Elizabeth, March 16, 1816. 4. Anna, November 6, 1818. 5. Robert, refer- red to below.
(III) Robert, youngest child and son of John and Sophia (Crosby) Drake, was born in Mason county, Kentucky, March 8, 1821, died in Martinsville, Indiana, October 26, 1892. Until 1855 he kept a general store in Maysville, Kentucky ; but in that year he came to Newark, New Jersey, where he set up in
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the business of manufacturing smoothing irons, starting the business now known as the firm of Bless & Drake, which began with five employees. By his marriage with Emma Sarah, daughter of Eleazar and Harriet Eliz- abeth (Fant) Bless, born June 30, 1828, died February 8, 1894, Robert Drake had four children: I. Edgar Bless, who is referred to below. 2. Walter, born December 13, 1856, married Ella M. Ward. 3. Harriet, February 19, 1859, married John F. Ward. 4. Robert Jr., August 28, 1864, married Grace G. Drum.
(IV) Edgar Bless, eldest child and son of Robert and Emma Sarah (Bless) Drake, was born in Minerva, Kentucky, September 18, 1854, and is now living at 17 South street, Newark, New Jersey. When he was about one year old his father removed from Ken- tucky, to Newark, and Edgar Bless was sent to the Newark Academy, from which institu- tion he graduated in 1870. He then entered the employ of the firm of Bless & Drake, where he rose step by step until he has now reached the position of secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Drake is a Republican, but has held no office, nor has he seen any military service. He is a member of Kane Lodge, No. 55, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Masonic Club of New York City. He is not connected with any financial institu- tions ; he attends St. Paul's Methodist Epis- copal Church. November 20, 1877, Edgar Bless Drake married, in Newark, Annie Jane Murphy, born in Syracuse, New York, Sep- tember 20, 1855, who has borne him two chil- dren : Arthur and Edgar Bless, referred to below.
(V) Arthur, eldest son of Edgar Bless and Annie Jane (Murphy) Drake, was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 26, 1878, and is now living in Newark. He was educated at the Newark Academy, after which he took a position under his father in the firm of Bless & Drake, and is now the manager of their factory. He is a member of Kane Lodge, No. 55. Arthur Drake married Florence Lambert and has one child. Arthur Dudley Drake, born May 27, 1906.
(V) Edgar Bless Jr., youngest child of Edgar Bless and Annie Jane (Murphy) Drake, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Oc- tober 29, 1881, and is now living with his father at 17 South street, Newark. He was educated at the Newark Academy and Prince- ton University, class of 1904, and then became a clerk in the office of the firm of Bless & Drake.
SNYDER
Jacob Peter Snyder, immigrant ancestor, arrived in this coun- try from Holland some time
before 1734. He married Elizabeth Lott, of Long Island, who bore him six children: I. William, born in 1734. 2. Catharine, 1735. 3. Annatje, 1737. 4. Johannes, see forward. 5. Petrus, 1740. 6. Elizabeth, 1741. The fore- going is from the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City (the Col- legiate Church).
(II) Johannes or John, fourth child and second son of Jacob Peter and Elizabeth (Lott) Snyder, was born in New York City in 1739. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He married Rachel who bore him six children: Sarah, Margaret, Elizabeth, Jacob, see forward, Mary, Rachel.
(III) Jacob, only son of Johannes and Rachel Snyder, was born November 19, 1766, died in 1815. He married, November 27, 1788, Margaret Bray, born July 26, 1769, died December 27, 1843. Children: 1. Sarah, born August 23, 1789. 2. John, March 17, 1791. 3. Susanna, January, 1793. 4. Andrew, April, 1795. 5. Delia, October, 1797. 6. Rachel, twin of Delia. 7. Nancy, March, 1800. 8. John Wesley, August, 1802. 9. William Van- deran, July, 1805, see forward. 10. Watson, October, 1807. II. Julia, 1809.
(IV) William Vanderan, ninth child and fourth son of Jacob and Margaret (Bray) Snyder, was born in July, 1805, died in Alla- muchy, New Jersey, December, 1838. He married Sarah Ridgway, born April 11, 1809, who bore him five children : I. Margaret, married C. A. Conklin ; children : Louise, died in infancy, and Annie Beaumont, married Howell Mettler and has one child, W. W. Jr. 2. Watson, born November 17, 1832, died January 19, 1892 ; married (first) Malvina L. Blair ; children : William Deforest, and Frank Ridgway, who married Alice Bain and they have one child, Marjorie; Watson married (second) Anna Beaumont Shier ; children : Watson Jr. and Louise Beaumont. 3. Anna Bray, married Jacob L. Lawrence ; children : Frederick, who lives in Sussex, New Jersey ; George Seymour, of Butler, New Jersey ; Henry, of Sussex, New Jersey; Anna Bray Lawrence died December 16, 1897. 4. Charles Ridgway, born in 1837, died September 8, 1895; married Rebecca Porter ; children : Margaret Sterling and Charles Ridgway Jr. 5. William Vanderan, see forward.
(V) William Vanderan (2), son of William Vanderan (1) and Sarah (Ridgway) Snyder,
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was born in Paterson, New Jersey, June 15, 1839. He graduated from the scientific course of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con- necticut, in 1856, and then took an engineering course in the University of Michigan, receiv- ing the degree of Civil Engineer from that institution in 1857. He then engaged in com- pany with his brother Watson in the dry goods business, the firm name being W. & W. V. Snyder, remaining so until 1866, when it became William V. Snyder & Company. The business was enlarged from its insignificant beginning to a large department store of forty- four departments, thus demonstrating the bus- iness ability of the partners and especially of William V, Snyder, who conducted it so many years alone. William V. Snyder sold the bus- iness, December 15, 1908, and retired from an active life, now enjoying the fruits of his industry, perseverance and thrift. He mar- ried, February, 1861, in Newark, New Jer- sey, Laura Blair, born in Allamuchy, Warren county, New Jersey, June, 1839, died in Newark, September 19, 1902, daughter of Peter W. and Caroline S. Blair, natives of Warren county, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Blair had three other children, as follows : Elizabeth, W. Irving and Mallie Louisa Blair. Children of William V. and Laura (Blair) Snyder: I. Watson Beaumont, born in No- vember, 1862. 2. Frank Blair, died in infancy. 3. Mallie Blair, married, October 15, 1891, Chandler White, son of William and Sarah M. (Hunter) Riker. 4. William Vanderan, see forward.
(VI) William Vanderan (3), youngest child of William Vanderan (2) and Laura ( Blair) Snyder, was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 24, 1874. He was educated in private schools and prepared for Princeton University in the Bordentown Military Academy. He began his active career by entering his father's business, remaining with him until April I, 1908, when he resigned and accepted the presi- dency of the Motor Car Company of New Jersey. Mr. Snyder is a Republican in poli- tics. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Masons; Scottish Rite, No. 23; Salaam Temple; Union Club of Newark; Mecca Club of Paterson, and Auto- mobile and Motor Club of New Jersey. He married, March 3, 1897, in East Orange, New Jersey, Iva Darling Beach, born in Nashville, Tennessee, January 27, 1873, daughter of Alex- ander Hamilton and Frances (Alt) Beach, of Petosky, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Beach are the parents of four other children, as follows :
Henry, Ralph, Frank and Jessie Beach. Chil- dren of William V. and Iva Darling (Beach) Snyder: I. Laura Blair, born January 31, 1898. 2. William Vanderan (4), December 15, 1902. 3. Francis Beach, August 15, 1905. 4. Ralph Beach, May 18, 1907.
BLACK Among the families by the name of Black which have risen to dis- tinction in New Jersey, there is none that holds a more honorable place than do the descendants of James Black, of London- derry, who was of Scotch descent, the founder of the family at present under consideration.
(I) James Black, of Londonderry, Ireland, came to this country about 1795, as a young man, and settled in Essex county, New Jersey, where he married Mary Hardenbroeck, a de- scendant of one of the most prominent of the old Dutch families of America. Children: I. William Henry. 2. Samuel Hardenbroeck, served as president of Oakland College, Natchez, Mississippi. 3. Joseph, referred to below.
(II) Joseph, third son of James and Mary ( Hardenbroeck ) Black, was born at Elm Cot- tage, Newark, New Jersey, 1804, died in July, 1887. He married Hannah R., daughter of Edward Sanderson, who was at one time mayor of Elizabeth. Children: I. Edward Sander- son, referred to below. 2. William Harden- broeck.
(III) Edward Sanderson, eldest child of Joseph and Hannah R. (Sanderson) Black, was born in Newark, New Jersey, in the same house as his father, March 6, 1856, and is still a resident of that city. He attended the New- ark public schools and the Peddie Institute, after which he entered Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1879. He then read law with Governor John Franklin Fort, and was admitted by the supreme court to the New Jersey bar in February, 1879, and in 1886 was admitted as counsellor. At the beginning he engaged in a general practice of law, but later specialized in the field of marriage and divorce and is now recognized as one of the leading authorities upon that subject. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and while an able worker for his party has only been prevailed upon once to become a candidate for office, in 1886, when his name was on the ticket for the New Jersey legislature, but the Democrats being in the majority in his district he was de- feated, although running over two hundred ahead of his ticket. Mr. Black is a member of Laurel Lodge, International Order of Good
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Templars, of which order he is grand electoral superintendent for the state of New Jersey ; New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; New Jersey Historical Society ; Seth Boyden Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics ; Memorial Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen ; the New- ark Art Club. He is a member of the First Jube Memorial Congregational Church.
Mr. Black married, December 14, 1881, in Newark, New Jersey, Evelyn T. Lambert, of Charleston, South Carolina, daughter of Charles and Harriet (Kees) Lambert. Mrs. Black died at Newark, February 14, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Black were the parents of two chil- dren : I. Edward J., born April 7, 1883 ; mar- ried Lilian Tomson, and they have a child, Dorothy, born August 15, 1908. 2. Virginia, born 1887, died 1888, at the age of ten months.
CLEVENGER The Clevenger family of New Jersey not only by its own worth but also by its numerous alliances with the old historic fami- lies of New Jersey, deservedly ranks among the representative forces of that great state of the Union, and not the least among its representatives is Samuel J. Clevenger, of Philadelphia, referred to below.
Samuel J. Clevenger is the grandson of John Clevenger, of Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jersey, where his father, Daniel Cleven- ger, was born in 1812. His mother was Mary Starkey, daughter of Anthony Logan, of Jobes- town, New Jersey, and Samuel J. Clevenger was born at Vincentown, Burlington county, January II, 1849. For his early education he attended the public schools of Beverly, later the Mount Holly Institute, after which he went to the Peddie Institute at Hightstown. On leaving school he became for a short time clerk in a store, and then came to Philadelphia, where he began his business career as a clerk in a dry goods house. After some time he became connected with the forwarding business of a private freight line, a position which he gave up in order to become a clerk in the Bel- mont Station of the Reading railroad. After two years at this last position, Mr. Clevenger in 1871 became engaged in the grain and feed business, which he has continued successfully up to the present time, having his offices at No. 468, the Bourse, Philadelphia, and his residence at 1008 South Forty-seventh street, Philadelphia. For some years after he began business the firm name was Burk & Clevenger. Mr. Clevenger is a Republican, and he and
his family are members of the First Baptist Church, of Philadelphia. At one time he was a member of the Union League, of Philadel- phia, but has resigned his membership. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of New Jersey, and of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia.
November II, 1875, Samuel J. Clevenger married Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of James and Rebecca (Harrison) Walker. Her brother was the proprietor of the Harrison Iron Works. He was a locomotive builder, and received the large contracts for locomotives from the Rus- sian government, built the railroad from Mos- cow to St. Petersburg and also built a bridge across the river at the latter point. He was the inventor of the famous Harrison boiler. Children of Samuel J. and Elizabeth Matilda (Walker) Clevenger: I. Charles Henry, born March II, 1876, died January 16, 1899, grad- uated from the Friends' Select School, of Phil- adelphia. 2. Arthur Harrison, January 5, 1880, now in the insurance business at 427 Walnut street. 3. Herbert Logan, December 25, 1884, graduated from the Friends' Select School, Philadelphia, and now in business with his father. 4. Samuel J., Jr., November I, 1888, now in the Philadelphia high school.
HOWELL A number of men of the name of Howell came over to this country among the earliest
pioneers and settled in various portions of the different colonies, and in the state of New Jersey alone there are at least five different families bearing the name which so far as can be ascertained have on this side of the Atlantic no connection whatever. Among those New Jersey families is one that has long been identi- fied with the early history of Morris, Sussex and Warren counties, who claim their descent from Edward Howell, of Southampton, Long Island, through his youngest son, Richard, who was twice married, first to Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Thomas Halsey, and second to a daugh- ter of Joseph, son of Thruston Raynor. To which of these two wives of Richard Howell any particular one of his twelve children are to be assigned has never been determined. Two of them, however, Daniel and Christopher, removed to New Jersey and founded the famous Ewing and Trenton families of the name, and two of the sons, Abner and Elias, of a third son of Richard, namely Josiah, settled one in Flanders and New Germantown and the other in Roxbury or Chester. In the second edition of his "History of Southampton" Mr.
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George Rogers Howell says, page 320, "that. the Sussex county family may belong to the descendants of David, son of Daniel Howell. of Ewing," mentioned above, but a diligent search of the records of Sussex county and of the archives of the secretary of state at Tren- ton have failed to reveal any evidence which would point in either direction. In the ab- sence of opposing testimony and in view of the fact that the constant tradition of the Sussex family is to their descent as given above a con- jectural line may be assumed as follows: Ed- ward (I) ; Richard (II) ; Daniel (III) ; David (IV) ; William (V), of Sussex county, New Jersey.
(V) William, the conjectured son of David and Mary ( Baker ) Howell, was born probably in the neighborhood of Flanders, in Morris county, New Jersey, early in 1740. He re- moved to Hardwick township in Sussex (now Warren) county, and later on to Wantage township, Sussex county. He gave his ser- vices in the revolution. He was twice mar- ried. By his first wife he had four children : William; John, referred to below; Sarah : Polly ; by his second wife two children : Pamelia Schooley and Cornelius. Cornelius Howell moved to Chemung county, New York, and be- came the progenitor of a large family of Howells in and about Elmira and Horseheads.
(VI) John, second son of William Howell by his first wife, was born at or near the old log jail in Hardwick township, then Sussex county, now Warren county, New Jersey, Sep- tember 21, 1783. In 1808 he removed from Hardwick township to Beemerville, Wantage township, Sussex county, and resided there until 1824, when he removed with his family to southwestern Ohio. He was accidentally killed on December 8, 1825, and in the spring of the following year his widow and children made the return trip from Ohio to New Jersey in a one horse wagon. He married, April 4, 1805, Martha Tharp; children: Nancy, Mar- tha, Jane, Ira, William Chauncey, referred to below ; Alpheus, John, Vincent, Emeline and Nelson.
(VII) William Chauncey, second son and fifth child of John and Martha ( Tharp) Howell, was born at Beemerville, Wantage township, New Jersey, October 9, 1814, died at Port Jervis, New York, October 14, 1892. He owned a farm of fifty acres at Beemerville, which he improved and cultivated to a high state of perfection, and in addition to this followed his trade of harness maker. In No-
vember, 1874, he retired from active business, and then took up his residence in Port Jervis, New York, where he spent the remainder of his life, enjoying the fruit of his industry and skill. He married Julia A., daughter of Austin and Anna (Beemer) Schofield; children : James Edward, referred to below; William Frederick, born June 15, 1852, married Irene Northrup; three children who died in infancy.
(VIII) James Edward, eldest son of Will- iam Chauncey and Julia A. ( Schofield) Howell, was born in Beemerville, Wantage township, New Jersey, June 25, 1848. He acquired his early education in the public schools of his dis- trict, after which he served in the capacity of school teacher, in the meanwhile preparing himself for college and studying law. In 1868 he matriculated at the Michigan University Law School, entering the class of 1870, and after his graduation therefrom he located in Newton, where he continued his reading, and in 1872 was admitted to the bar of New Jersey.
The following two years he practiced his pro- fession in Newton, and at the expiration of that time removed to Newark, where he has remained up to the present time (1909). In January, 1876, he entered into partnership with Joseph Coult in the practice of law in Newark, this connection continuing until April 9, 1907, a period of thirty-one years, an un- common occurrence in the law practice. In the latter named year Mr. Howell was appointed one of the vice-chancellors of the state of New Jersey, in which capacity he is rendering most efficient service. He held several minor offices in the gift of his party, the Republican, one of them being membership on the board of the county sinking fund commission, which he resigned in December, 1908, in order to devote all his time to court work. He is one of the commissioners of the Newark City Hall, one of the trustees of the Newark Free Public Library, and a member of the Essex Club and the Republican Club of New York. He was formerly vice-president of the Second National Bank and one of its directors. He attends the Presbyterian church. Vice-Chancellor Howell is a man of scholarly attainments, and posseses a weight of character, a native sagacity, a far- seeing judgment and a fidelity of purpose that commands the respect of all. He married, June 13, 1877. Mary Lillian, eldest child of James H. and Mary (Thomson ) Cummins, of Newton, New Jersey. One child Thomson, born December 21, 1888.
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