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The Hon. Samuel Hopkins Ladd married, January 15, 1879, Kate Branford, daughter of Thomas L. and Cora V. (Tyree) Johnson, of
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Virginia. Children: I. Cora V., born No- vember 2. 1879; married Henry Barton Reeves, of Woodbury, New Jersey. 2. Sarah Duncombe, January 1, 1881 ; married Matthew E. Davis, of New York City. 3. Mary Con- ner, 1883; unmarried.
ACKLEY The Ackley family of New Jersey belongs among the old established families of Glou- cester county, where they have taken their share in the labor and have reaped their por- tion in the rewards, which have fallen to the lot of those who have so nobly given them- selves and their energy to the building of that county's glorious history. Where the family originally came from is uncertain. It is prob- ably a branch of the family of the same name which is to be found in the earliest days of the New England colonies, but the records are not in existence or have not yet come to light which will enable us to say with certainty exactly what the connection if any is.
(I) The founder of the Gloucester county branch so far as is at present known is John Ackley. He was a revolutionary soldier, serving in the American army in Gloucester county. He was born December 14, 1759. By his wife, Hannah, born January 30, 1763, he had twelve children: I. Uriah, referred to below. 2. John, Jr., born February 4. 1782. 3. Naomi, August 25, 1783. 4. James, November 2, 1785. 5. Royal, August 9, 1787. 6. Absolom, April 24, 1790. 7. Joseph, June 12, 1792. 8. Benja- min, March 2, 1794. 9. Hannah, March 4, 1796. 10. Mercy, March 4, 1798. II. Thomas, June 12, 1800. 12. George A., May 14, 1803.
(II) Uriah, eldest child of John and Han- nah Ackley, of Gloucester county, was born there June 5, 1780, died August 5, 1854. He was an itinerary Methodist minister of Salem county, New Jersey. He married Sarah Coombs, born April 25, 1791, died August 4, 1879. Children : I. Samuel, born February 5, 1810, died February 28, 1890. 2. William, referred to below. 3. Joseph, July 23, 1813, died October 18, 1892. 4. Rachel, March 17, 1815, died October 22, 1880. 5. Hannah, No- vember II, 1816, died October 6, 1893. 6. Ann, May 11, 1818, deceased. 7. Mary, Sep- tember 23, 1819. 8. John, March 24, 1822, deceased. 9. Jesse C., October 20, 1823, de- ceased. 10. Sarah Ann, May 2, 1826, died February 15, 1896. 11. Coombs, June 17, 1828. 12. Ruth, September 5, 1829, deceased. 13. Jane, June 11, 1832, died March 14, 1876. 14. George, July 15. 1835.
(III) William, second child and son of Uriah and Sarah (Coombs) Ackley, of Salem county, New Jersey, was born at Union Pond, Cumberland county, New Jersey, November, 18II. He married Mary Rape, born at Mays Landing, Atlantic county, New Jersey, daugh- ter of the Rev. Solomon Smallwood. Chil- dren: I. Caroline E., died in 1894; married James N. Bedloe, of Philadelphia, a descend- ant of the man from whom Bedloe's island on which was placed the statue of liberty given by the French government in New York har- bor was named. Their children are: Caro- line, William, Ackley and Thomas, the last two being twins. 2. Rachel, who was one of twins, the other twin dying in infancy; she married Joseph T. Dailey, of Bridgeton, and has Sarah Perrine, Caroline Bedloe and Jo- seph T. Jr. 3. William Scattergood, died April 2, 1865, unmarried; he was captain of Company K, Fourth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the civil war, enlisting from Pole Tavern, Salem county, New Jersey, in 1861, and killed before Petersburg, Virginia, while leading a charge of his company, under Gen- eral Grant; he had enlisted for three years and then re-enlisted and was killed at the be- ginning of the last engagement of the war ; en- listing as private, he was for a time the regi- mental color sergeant in the battle of the Wilderness, and while he carried it the flag and staff received thirty-seven bullet holes, and three pieces of shell. 4. Charles Franklin, married Sarah Auffort, of Philadelphia, and have William Scattergood, Mary R. and Michael Hall Stanton, the last now deceased. 5. Elizabeth Johnson, married Gilbert G. Richmond, of Pleasantville, Landis township, New Jersey, and had three children, only one, Kalph D., being now alive. 6. John Alfred, referred to below.
(IV) John Alfred, youngest child of Will- iam and Mary Rape (Smallwood) Ackley, was born at Absecon, Atlantic county, New Jersey, July 14, 1854, and is now living at Vineland, New Jersey. For his early education he at- tended the public school of Bridgeton and Landis township, Cumberland county. After leaving school he helped his father on the farm, and then became a clerk in a hotel in Philadelphia, and later at Atlantic City, after which he purchased a farm for himself next to that of his father, consisting of five acres of land, which he turned into a fruit farm. His next venture was a partnership with Charles H. Birkinshaw, the firm being Ackley & Birkinshaw, general merchants, dealing in
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house furnishings, also auctioneers and dealers in real estate; later he sold his interest in the same, and engaged in auctioneering and real estate on his own account. Mr. Ackley's busi- ness can be called interstate, as his services are as much in demand for important sales in Pennsylvania as in New Jersey. He has in charge the premium lot sales of Baker Brothers. He has cried all the contract sales of the Wildwood and Wildwood Crest lots that have been sold, having sold four million dollars worth of sea shore property in the past fifteen years. He has also had charge of the public sales of lots for Henry H. Ottens. His sales have been more influential in the up- building of Five Mile Beach and the estab- lishing of value than the efforts of all other persons outside of the founders. Since his services were secured the lots have sold readily each year at higher figures. At the sale of Wildwood Crest lots in November, 1906, the premium amounted to sixty thous- and dollars. The highest premium bid on a single lot was one thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars. He inaugurated the pub- lic sales in Youngs' Philadelphia Horse Ex- change in West Philadelphia in the winter of 1903-04.
In 1884 Mr. Ackley came from Bridgeton to Vineland and embarked in the new and sec- ond hand goods business at Sixth street and Landis avenue. In 1895 he removed to 9 and II North Sixth street, where he has two floors, completely stocked with furnishings and mer- chandise. He utilizes in the same manner the second and third floors of the adjoining prem- ises and he conducts the storage business on the second floor of No. 604 Landis avenue. Auction sales take place regularly every Sat- urday afternoon at Mr. Ackley's place of busi- ness, and he conducts public sales upon the premises where goods are located. He pur- chases for cash the entire contents of dwellings and entire stocks of merchandise, and he is prepared to furnish houses completely from top to bottom. Mr. Ackley negotiates pur- chases, sales and exchanges of real estate of every description, and holds the appointment of commissioner of deeds. For his real estate business he maintained an office in the Reeves Building at Wildwood, which is his summer home. He is a member of the Wildwood board of trade, and was a justice of the peace of Vineland.
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Ackley is an exceedingly busy man, he devotes a por- tion of his valuable time to the social side of
life and toward bettering the conditions of the unfortunate. He is a past master of Vineland Lodge, No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons ; a member of Eureka Chapter, No. 18, Royal Arch Masons; Olivet Commandery, No. 10, Knights Templar, of Millville, New Jersey ; Lulu Temple, Mystic Shriners, of Philadel- phia ; Vineland Castle, No. 46, Knights of the Golden Eagle ; Muskee Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Vineland. He is one of the charter members of the Vineland Country Club, one of the board of managers of the Vineland Public Library, a charter member of the Wildwood Yacht Club, Holly Beach Yacht Club, and a member of the Wildwood Motor Club.
In politics Mr. Ackley is a Democrat, and a .: such was a member of the city council of Vine- land, vice-president of the board of education at Vineland until 1908, when he was made president ; also president of the Vineland park and shade tree commission. He and his family attend the Baptist church, and he is one of the trustees of the West Baptist Church of Vineland.
July 7, 1885, John Alfred Ackley married Antha Victoria, daughter of William J. and Hannah (Brown) Smith, of Vineland. Their children are: I. Mary Louise, born Septem- ber 19, 1886. 2. Charles William, July 5, 1888. 3. John Alfred, Jr. 4. Charles Rocus, died in infancy. The last two were twins, born Au- gust 30, 1891.
Hon. and Rev. William Henry CARTER Carter, of Fieldsboro, New Jer- sey, minister of the Gospel and ex-state senator of New Jersey, is a unique and commanding figure in the public life of his state. In private life, his community is the better for his manly example of honor and fidelity, his sunny smile, pleasant greeting and comforting words in time of trial, trouble and sorrow. He has been called the "Father of the town" and perhaps better eulogy could not be written. Rev. Mr. Carter springs from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, stock.
(I) William Carter, grandfather of Rev. William H. Carter, resided in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died there. He married Huldah Brown, a native of Connecticut, who bore him one son, William.
(II) William Carter, father of Rev. Will- iam H. Carter, was born in Attleboro, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, (now Langhorne) 1797, died in 1861. He had a good common school education. He learned the trade of a carriage
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and house painter and carried on a shop in Frankfort, Pennsylvania, until ill health com- pelled him to seek a more healthful occupa- tion. He obtained work in the boiler works of Thomas Halloway. In his shop he helped con- struct the boilers used in the "John Bull," the first steam locomotive to run in this country. He also helped build that famous piece of mechanism. Mr. Carter continued at this line of work until his death. In 1841 he removed to Bordentown, New Jersey, where he was employed in the Camden and Amboy railroad shops. He was a Democrat and was elected chief burgess of Fieldsboro. He was for many years a member of the Methodist church, but in his latter years he became a Universalist. He was a charter member of Bordentown Lodge, No. 16, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, 1818, Esther Pitt, born in Morrisville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, June 18, 1801, died October 1, 1888, daughter of Thomas Pitt, of Bucks county, Pennsylva- nia. Children: 1. Susan Pitt, lived to the ad- vanced age of eighty-six years ; married (first) William Lingle and (second) Alexander Ham- ilton. 2. and 3. Richard and Harriet, twins. 4. Elizabeth, died in childhood. 5. Huldah, de- ceased. 6. Marion Etta, died in childhood. 7. Joseph V., a retired boiler maker ; resides at White Hill, New Jersey. 8. Mary, deceased. 9. William Henry, see forward. 10. George S., deceased. II. David J., deceased. 12. Amos Pitt, deceased.
(III) William Henry, ninth child and third son of William and Esther (Pitt) Carter, was born in New Castle, Delaware, March 6, 1835. The family moved to Bordentown, New Jer- sey, when young William Henry was about six years of age. He was educated in the pub- lic school, and while serving his apprentice- ship attended night schools, so strong was his desire to obtain an education. When but twelve years of age he began work with Sam- uel Cliver, a merchant of White Hill. In 1851 he entered the employ of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company as assistant fire- man. In the early days of railroading on that line three men were employed on each engine, engineer, fireman and assistant fireman. The assistant was obliged to serve three years before he was considered competent to assume the full duties of a locomotive fireman. In the winter of 1852 he was transferred to the car shops as apprentice car trimmer and uphol- sterer and remained in that department until the spring of 1856, when he obtained a position with the New York and Erie railway at Pier-
mont, New York. Here he remained until March, 1857, when he returned to White Hill and entered the general store of C. N. and E. B. Johnson. This was the same store in which he had worked for Mr. Cliver ten years pre- vious. Following this he was in the employ of a wholesale house until 1869, when the Cam- den and Amboy opened a station at White Hill and Mr. Carter was appointed station agent. In 1871 he entered the employ of MacPherson, Williard & Company as shipping clerk in con- nection with his duties as station agent. Janu- ary 1, 1880, he tendered his resignation to the railroad and devoted all his time to MacPher- son, Williard & Company as general clerk, which position he occupied until October I, 1893, a period of twenty-three years. This was the end of Mr. Carter's active business life, although later in Fieldsboro he had a connection with the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York.
His religious and political career will now receive the attention its importance deserves. Mr. Carter united with the Methodist Episco- pal church at Bordentown, New Jersey, De- cember 26, 1852. He was then in his seven- teenth year. In March, 1857, he transferred his membership to the Fieldsboro Methodist Episcopal church, where he still holds mem- bership. In May, 1857, he was elected super- intendent of the Sunday school and continued to serve in that capacity continuously until 1905 with the exception of one year, making forty-seven years of service. In 1859 Mr. Carter was licensed as an exhorter by the quarterly conference of the Columbus district and in 1864 was licensed by the same confer- ence as a local preacher. In March, 1871, he was ordained a local deacon by Bishop Janes in Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church, Salem, New Jersey, and was ordained a local elder in March, 1879, by Bishop Merrill in Cal- vary Methodist Episcopal Church, Keyport, New Jersey. The appointment was extended him as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Fieldsboro in June, 1885, and he faithfully and earnestly served the people as their pastor until March 8, 1904, a record of nineteen years and nine months of continuous service. In August, 1904, he was appointed by. Rev. J. B. Haines, D. D., the presiding elder of the New Brunswick district, under the authority of Bishop Cranston, to the church at Cranbury, New Jersey, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. Henry M. Brown. He occupied that pulpit until March, 1906, since which time he has lived a retired
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life. During his long career as pastor, Rev. Carter has united in marriage one hundred and twelve couples, has officiated at the funeral services of one hundred and sixty-five persons and administered the rite of baptism to one hundred and eighty little ones.
The political career of Rev. Carter is equally remarkable. In 1865 he was assessor of Bor- dentown township. He was a trustee of the public school, member of the common council, on the borough board of health and served as chief burgess of the borough of Fieldsboro. He was elected a member of the New Jersey house of representatives in November, 1879, re- elected in 1880 and again in 1881. He received the nomination for state senator in 1885 and was elected for three years. In 1888 he was re-elected. For honorable and valuable service he was appointed in May, 1895, by Governor George T. Werts, member of the board of prison inspection. He was reappointed by Gov- ernor Foster M. Voorhees in 1900 and again for a third term by Governor Franklin M. Murphy in 1905. He was appointed in 1894 by Governor Werts a member of the board of trustees of the Colored Industrial School. This was in the early days of that institution. He continued on the board until 1898, and did much to bring the standard of that growing institution to its present high position. He is a member of the board of education, custodian of the school funds and collector of taxes. His political faith is Republican. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, his only fraternal society. This combined political, religious and business record is without parallel when length of ser- vice and achievement in each line is considered. Rev. Carter is still active and progressive in his ideas, just in all his dealings, bright and cheer- ful in disposition, a lover of children and devoted to his home and family ties. He enjoys all the comforts of his pretty home, known as "Walnut Shade," which overlooks the Delaware river. He is very hospitable, his doors being always open to his friends.
William H. Carter married (first) January 8, 1857, Elizabeth A. Shinn, daughter of Jona- than Shinn, of Pemberton, New Jersey. She bore him a daughter, Agnes, who died at the age of four years. Mrs. Carter died Septem- ber 1, 1861. He married (second) July 8, 1863, Annie Terhune, daughter of Garrett Ter- hune, of Cranberry, Middlesex county, New Jersey. The children of this marriage were Edward, Sarah and Susan, all of whom died in infancy.
BOWEN John Garrison Bowen, son of Obediah Bowen, was born in Salem, New Jersey, October 15, 1833. He received a good common school edu- cation. He was engaged in farming, and being of a mechanical turn of mind worked at the trade of a carpenter and wheelwright, at which he became very proficient. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Tenth New Jersey, Company D, and served three years. He was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, Vir- ginia, and taken prisoner. For nine months he was held prisoner at Danville, Virginia, and Andersonville, South Carolina, enduring all the horrors of that horrible den of suffering. After the war Mr. Bowen worked at his trade of - wheelwright in South Jersey, and retired from business in 1909. He is a Prohibitionist in politics, and a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. His fraternal membership is with the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and his patriotic in Joseph R. Ridgeway Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Beverly, New Jer- sey.
He married (first) Elizabeth Loper, who bore him three children : I. Charles, of Fairton, New Jersey. 2. Joseph, of Darby, Pennsylvania, 3. Harriet, of Bridgeton, New Jersey. He mar- ried (second) Amanda Stanix. Children of second marriage : 4. Walter L., publisher and editor of The New Era, Riverton, New Jersey ; married Lela M., daughter of Charles F. Slater, of Palmyra, New Jersey. 5. William K., of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. 6. Earle, see forward. 7. John N., married Ida F. Shields, of Clayton, New Jersey. 8. Elizabeth, of Riverton, New Jersey, printer in office of her brother Walter L.
(II) Earle, son of John Garrison and Amanda (Stanix) Bowen, was born in Bur- lington, New Jersey, September 18, 1880. He was educated in the schools of Burlington and Camden, New Jersey. From 1896 until 1904 he was employed by his brother, Walter L., in his printing office at Riverton, New Jersey, where he gained an expert knowledge of the printing business in all its branches, as well as a good newspaper experience. In 1904 he purchased the newspaper plant of the Moores- town Republican, at Moorestown, New Jersey, and for five years edited and published the Republican. In 1909 he formed the Moores- town Printing Company, an incorporated stock company with a capital of $25,000, of which he is president. The company took over the printing and publishing business, but Mr. Bowen remained editor. He edits a Repub-
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lican newspaper in fact as well as in name, the political complexion of the paper being in accord with his own personal conviction. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and an ardent Young Men's Christian Association worker in Moorestown. He holds fraternal connection with the Modern Wood- men of America, and Patriotic Order Sons of America. He married, in 1904, Laura B., daughter of Andrew L. and Isabelle E. Cham- berlain, of Brooklyn, New York.
ACKERSON The first of this family in America bore the name Thomaszen, and it is said by some authorities that his father first saw the country of Holland while taking part as a soldier in the "Thirty Years War," and was so pleased with the fertility of the soil and other features of the country that at the end of his enlistment he returned and there took up his abode, marrying a Holland maid. It is further stated that he was a native of Sweden. The records of the Old Dutch Church in New York show the name Thomaszen, but the founder of the family in America dropped this name and assumed the name of Eckerson, which is found in the Dutch records as Echons, Eckens, Eckes, Ekkes, Eckeson, Ekkisse, and even in other forms. Members of this family have been prominent in Bergen county almost from the first settlement when land was bought from the Tappan Indians, and have contributed largely to the development and improvement of the community which has been their home.
(I) Jan Thomaszen, given in New York Dutch records as j. m. Van de Manhattans, was born in Holland, about 1640, and emi- grated to America about 1665, in which year he married and settled on a farm near the Bowery, not far from the present site of St. Mark's Church. About 1692 he assumed the name of Eckerson, which name has been used by the family ever since, although some of them have slightly changed the orthography and made it Ackerson. Jan Thomaszen mar- ried, November 8, 1665, Apollonia Cornelis, daughter of Cornelis Claeszen Swits and Ariaentie Cornelis, baptized October 25, 1648, and the births of their children were recorded in New York under the name of Thomaszen; they were twelve in number, as follows: Ariaentie, baptized February 16, 1667 ; Thomas, January 27, 1669; Cornelis; Sara, baptized October 4, 1673; Jan, February 9, 1676; Lys- beth, May 29, 1678; Margrietje, 1680; Cor- nelia, November 15, 1682; Rachel, April II,
1685; Jannetje, November 2, 1687; and Maria and Anna, twins, September 6, 1690.
(II) Cornelis, or Cornelius, second son of Jan Thomaszen or Eckerson, was baptized in New Netherlands, now New York, April 9, 1671, and lived on the homestead of his father, near the Bowery, until 1718, when he removed with his wife and children to Bergen county, New Jersey, where he bought about three hun- dred acres of wooded land at Tappan, which he afterward added to by further purchases, and on this land he spent the remainder of his life, clearing and cultivating as he found expedient. He was married in the Old Dutch Church in New York City, August 24, 1693, to Willemtje Vlierboom, daughter of Judge Matthew Vlierboom, of Albany, and their chil- dren were: Jan, baptized June 26, 1695 ; Mat- thys, November 8, 1696; Jan, March 22, 1699; Cornelius; Jacob, baptized February 28, 1703 ; and Thomas, March 3, 1706.
(III) Cornelius (2), fourth son of Cor- nelius (I) and Willemtje (Vlierboom) Acker- son, was baptized January 12, 1701, at New York City, removed with his parents to Tap- pan, and there spent the remainder of his life. He married (first) in 1723, Maria Haring, who died in 1727, and (second) in 1728, Rachel Blauvelt ; his children were: Garret C., Cor- nelius C., Willempie, Catherine, Maria, John, Abraham, Elizabeth, Rachel, Jacob, David and Matthew.
(IV) Garret C., eldest son of Cornelius (2) and Maria (Haring) Ackerson, was born March 7, 1724, died May 2, 1798. He married Maria Haring, born January 7, 1724, died De- cember 22, 1798, and they resided at Tappan, where they had the following children: John, Maria, Cornelius, Rensye, Cornelius, Eliza- beth, Margaret, Abrem G. and Brechie. Gar- ret C. Ackerson purchased a large tract of land at Pascack, which he gave to his eldest son, John, and gave the homestead to his two younger sons, Cornelius and Abram, at his death.
(V) John, eldest son of Garret C. and Maria (Haring) Ackerson, was born in 1743, at Tap- pan, New Jersey, and died in 1837-38; he mar- ried Garritje Hogencamp, and they had two children, Garret and Hannah. The latter mar- ried Nicholas Zabriskie.
(VI) Garret, only son of John and Garritje (Hogencamp) Ackerson, was born in 1779, died in 1857. On his large farm he had a cotten mill, a distillery and a store, and he was a man of considerable prominence in the com- munity. He served two terms in the state
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legislature, and in the war of 1812 was major of the state militia, being stationed at Sandy Hook; after the war he became major-general of the northern militia of New Jersey, repre- senting the three northern counties of Bergen, Essex and Morris. He married Hannah, daughter of John Hogencamp, whose ances- tors lived in Rockland county, and they had the following children : John, Cornelius, Garret G. and James.
(VII) Garret G., third son of Garret and Hannah (Hogencamp) Ackerson, was born April 9, 1816, at Pascack, New Jersey, died December 12, 1891. After receiving his edu- cation in the public schools he helped his father in the management of his various enter- prises, and when he had mastered. the details of same took full charge of his interests until a few years after his marriage, when he re- moved to another farm and established his own woolen mill. In 1839, at the time Harrington township was separated into two divisions, one retaining the name Harrington, the other being called Washington township, Mr. Ackerson was elected assessor, which was his first public office ; six years later he became county clerk, and retained this office six years, being elected by a large majority, and at this time removed from Pascack to Hackensack. He filled the office with great satisfaction to the public, and their trust was shown in him to the fullest extent by the manner in which they made him their banker and asked his advice upon their business ventures. He made his presence felt socially and politically, and soon after his removal to Hackensack was made chairman of the Democratic executive committee.
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