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(II) Joseph, third son of Walter and Re- becca Allen, born in England, was a cooper by trade, and settled at Watertown Farms, which was incorporated in 1712 as the town of Wes- ton, and probably lived in the northwestern part, near the Concord and Sudbury lines. He died there September 9, 1721, probably eighty years of age or over. He married, October II, 1667, Anne Brazier, who died in December, 1720. Children : I. Abigail, born and died 1668. 2. Rebecca, born April 8, 1670. 3. Ann, August 22, 1674. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Nathaniel, December 8, 1687 ; a deacon, of Weston. 6. Sarah, died 1699. 7. Deborah, married John Moore, of Sudbury. 8. Rachel, married Joseph Adams. 9. Patience.
(III) Joseph (2), eldest son of Joseph (I) and Ann ( Brazier ) Allen, was born June 16, 1677, in what is now Weston, and died there November 1, 1729. His tombstone in the old burial ground at Weston Center gives him the title of "Ensign." He married ( first) Decem- ber 19, 1700, Elizabeth Robbins, died in No- vember, 1712; (second) Abigail -. Chil- dren of first wife, all born in Weston : I. Isaac, November 10, 1701. 2. Prudence, May 18, 1703. 3. Amy, September 21, 1706. 4. Re- becca, February 25, 1708. 5. Joseph, mention- ed below. 6. Elizabeth and 7. Ann, 171I (twins). 8. Silence, November, 1712. Chil- dren of second wife: 9. Daniel, September 26, 1714, settled at Claverack, New York. 10.
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Abigail, May 14, 1716. 11. Elijah, September II, 1718, lived at Sutton. 12. Sarah, August 10, 1720. 13. Tabitha, October 26, 1722. 14. Daniel, August 31, 1724, lived at Sheffield, Massachusetts. 15. Timothy, died young.
(IV) Joseph (3), eldest son of Joseph (2) and Eliza (Robbins) Allen, was born April 2, 1709, at Watertown Farms, and removed to Grafton, Massachusetts, about 1730, and six years later to Hardwick, same colony, where he died August 18, 1793. He was a house- wright, captain of militia as early as 1740, selectinan, assessor, clerk and treasurer of the town, and for nearly fifty-seven years deacon of the church. He married (first) August 16, 1733, Mercy Livermore, of Grafton, who died March 1, 1789, aged seventy-six ; married (sec- ond) August 2, 1789, Sarah Knowlton, widow. His house at Hardwick was destroyed by fire and he erected the one now standing. He was not only one of the earliest but one of the most active and energetic of the pioneers of Hardwick. After his death a pamphlet was published containing several articles written by him, chiefly on religious subjects. In one of them is a scrap of autobiography which fixes the date of his birth :
"My native place where born was I In seventeen hundred nine, Does sixteen miles from Boston lie, In Westown, called mine.
"Between my third and my fourth My mother left this life, Which was to me affliction sore, My father lost his wife. * * *
"In all my father's family Once sixteen did survive; Before my father two did die, Then fourteen left alive."
Children : I. Sarah, born July 25, 1734; married Benjamin Winchester. 2. David, men- tioned below. 3. Lydia, September 19, 1743; married October 10, 1765, Lemuel Cobb. 4. Mercy, April 19, 1746; married, February 4, 1771, John Amidon. 5. Joseph, December 21, 1748.
(V) David, son of Joseph (3) and Mercy (Livermore) Allen, was born August 18, 1738, in Hardwick, where he died August 5, 1799. He was selectman and assessor and a very active and prominent citizen. He married (first) November 12, 1761, Elizabeth Fisk, who died October 22, 1791, aged forty-eight. He married (second) January 22, 1794, Lydia Woods, of New Braintree, Massachusetts.
Children, all born in Hardwick: I. Rhoda, September 27, 1763; married David Barnard. 2. Eunice, August 22, 1765; married John Earl. 3. Daniel, September 20, 1767. 4. Eliz- abeth, October 27, 1768; married Isaac Wing. 5. David, born May 12, 1771. 6. Mercy, May II, 1773. 7. Moses, died young. 8. Moses, March II, 1779; prominent citizen of Hard- wick. 9. Lydia, October 18, 1784; married Daniel Matthews, of New Braintree .-
(VI) Daniel, eldest son of David and Eliz- abeth (Fisk) Allen, was born September 20, 1767, in Hardwick, and became a skillful mill- wright. He settled in Newark, New Jersey, and became widely known as a mill builder, and while engaged in Mexico in the construc- tion of a water-wheel, he accidentally fell into the wheel pit and was seriously injured. He immediately returned to his home, where gan- grene followed his injury, and he died soon afterward. He married Jane Personette, who survived him, and was the mother of five chil- dren.
(VII) Stephen, son of Daniel and Jane ( Personette) Allen, was born probably about 1800, at Newark, New Jersey, and died in his eighty-fifth year, at Paterson, same state. His education was acquired in the schools of his native town, and when a young man he re- moved to Paterson, where he engaged in the tobacco business ; in 1854 he admitted to part- nership his son Alpheus S. Allen, and the firm was known as Stephen Allen & Son. John Reynolds and John Allen subsequently became members of the firm, which then took the style of Allen, Reynolds & Company, doing business until 1872, when it was sold. From this time until his death, Mr. Allen lived a quiet retired life. He was for some time captain of the General Godwin Guard, a military organiza- tion of Paterson, and at one time served as member of the board of chosen freeholders of Passaic county. He married Catherine, daugh- ter of John Courter, of Paterson, and they became the parents of four children, only two of whom are living, namely: Alpheus S. and Louise. The latter is the wife of Charles H. May, of Paterson.
(IX) Alpheus Sylvester, son of Stephen and Catherine (Courter ) Allen, was born May 27, 1833, in Paterson, which city has continued to be his home through life, and which he has notably served in various public capacities. He received his early education in the private schools of his native city, he then attended one term in a private school at Poughkeepsie, New York, and attended a private school at Bloom-
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field, New Jersey. As a boy he became familiar with the tobacco business in the establishment of his father. In 1851 he took a trip to Cali- fornia by way of the Straits of Magellan and spent two years on the Pacific coast, chiefly in Oregon, returning to his native home by way of the Isthmus of Panama. On his return he was admitted to partnership with his father, and remained a member of the firm until its business was sold out in 1872. He subsequently retired from active business. In 1870 Mr. Allen was elected a member of the board of alder- men and served two years, and in May, 1872, was appointed receiver of taxes for the city of Paterson and served eighteen years as such. He has been a director of the Pater- son Savings Institution for over twenty- five years, and for a like period has been a director of the First National Bank of Pater- son. Mr. Allen has been an astute and success- ful business man, and gave more than twenty years to the public service, to which he gave the same careful attention which characterized the conduct of his own affairs, and thereby won the esteem and regard of his fellow citi-, zens. He is a man of genial and friendly dis- position and takes an active interest in the progress of public events and the public wel- fare. He is a member of Fabriola Lodge, No. 57, Knights of Pythias, whose fraternal prin- ciples have been guiding motives in the conduct of his life.
He was married, May 11, 1858, by Rev. William H. Hornblower, to Maria Osborn, born April 12, 1837, daughter of Edward and Ann (Stagg) Osborn, of Paterson. Children : I. Annie Vernet, born April 21, 1859 ; married, December 15, 1881, Willard P. Whitlock, and they are the parents of: Harold Allen Whit- lock, born August 15, 1882 ; Louis Ivey, March 21, 1884; Willard P., March 16, 1886; Herbert, July, 1897. 2. Stephen Lincoln, born March 25, 1865 ; died January 10, 1871. 3-4. Jessie Elizabeth and Jennie Rebecca (twins), born November 15, 1867; the first was married, April 8, 1891, to Robert M. Helfenstein, and is the mother of Edith Morris Helfenstein, born August 27, 1892. Jennie R. was married November 25, 1890, to Jerome C. Read, and has a son and a daughter, namely: Allen Jerome, born July 30, 1893, and Jane C., born July, 1903.
The Plume arms : Ermine, a blend PLUM vair or and gules cottised vert. Crest (English) : Out of a ducal coronet or, a plume of ostrich feathers argent.
The Plumbs are an ancient Norman family and are traced back to Normandy, A. D., 1180; and in England to A. D., 1240. In America the Plumes and Plums are among the oldest New England colonial families. Of the entail- ed Plume and Plum ancestors of the immi- grant some brief mention may be made in this place.
(I) John Plumbe, yeoman, of Tappesfield, England, had a wife Elizabeth, sons, John, Robert, Thomas, and four daughters.
(II) Robert Plume, yeoman, son of John and Elizabeth Plumbe, was of Great Yeldham, Essex, England. He married (first) Elizabeth Purchase ; (second) Mrs. Etheldred Fuller. Nine children ; sons, Robert, Thomas, Edmund. Joseph and one other; daughters, Margaret Elizabeth, Mary and Anne.
(III) Robert (2), gentleman, of Spaynes Hall, Great Yeldham, Essex, England, son of Robert (I) and Elizabeth ( Purchase) Plume, lived and died at Great Yeldham. He married Grace Crackbone. Eight children; sons, Rob- ert, John and Thomas; daughters, Martha, Mary, Etheldred, Frances and Hannah.
(IV) John, immigrant, son of Robert (2) and Grace (Crackbone) Plume, was born in Spaynes Hall at Great Yeldham, Essex, Eng- land, was baptized there July 28, 1594. He came from England to Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, 1635, and his name first appears there in a court record of the following year. He was a member of the court there from 1637 to 1642. He is mentioned in the records as "Mr. Plum," indicating a social station of more than ordinary importance .. In 1636 it is recorded that "Whereas, there was tendered to us an inventory of the estate of Mr. Jo. Old'a (Old- ham) which seemed to be somewhat uncertainly valued, wee, therefore, think meete to, & so it is ordered that Mr Jo. Plum & Rich. Gilder- sleeve, together with the constable; shall survey the saide inventory and perfect the same before the next corte & then to deliver it into the corte." At a court held at Hartford in March, 1636, "Mr. Plum," being a member of the court, the business before it was the adopting of some measures to buy corn from the Indians, as the inhabitants were in a starving condition. They agreed to pay from four to six shillings a bushel for it, and "Mr. Plum" was appointed to re- ceive the corn for Wethersfield. He held vari- ous town offices and performed many public duties, such as marking town boundaries, lay- ing out roads, determining lines between towns, looking to the improvement of the lands of the plantations, and attending the court as a deputy.
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He was also one of the men in Captain John Mason's little army that wiped out the Pequot Indians in 1637, and for his services he re- ceived a grant of lands. He was a ship owner and it is thought that he might have been owner of the vessel that carried seventy-seven of Mason's men around from the mouth of the Connecticut river to the Narragansett. In 1644- 45 he was appointed to attend the clearance of vessels at Wethersfield, but in the former year, 1644, he sold his lands in Wethersfield and removed to Branford, where in 1645 he is mentioned as "Keeper of the Town's Book." He died there in 1648 and his wife, "Mrs. .Plume," administrated on his estate August I, 1648. Only one of his children was born in this country, and no record exists of any of his children except that of his son Samuel, who lived with his father in Branford when the former died. By wife Dorothy John Plume had eight children: I. Robert, baptized, De- cember 30, 1617. 2. John, May 27, 1619. 3. William, May 9, 1621. 4. Ann, October 16, 1623. 5. Samuel, January 4, 1625, see for- ward. 6. Dorothea, January 16, 1626. 7. Eliz- abeth, October 9, 1629. 8. Deborah, July 28, 1633.
(V) Samuel Plum, son of John and Doro- thy Plume, was born in England, January 4, 1625-26, died January 22, 1703. He was of Wethersfield and Branford, Connecticut. In 1668 he sold all the remaining part of his lands in Branford and removed to Newark, New Jer- sey, and was among the very earliest settlers in that region. The town of Newark was bought in 1666 by certain men of Milford, New Haven, Branford and Guilford, Connecti- cut, and lots were divided among the purchasers as early as 1667. The name of the wife of Samuel Plum is not known, but he had eight children : I. Elizabeth, born January 18, 1650- 51. 2. Mary, April 1, 1653. 3. Samuel, March 22, 1654-55. 4. John, October 28, 1657; see forward. 5. Dorothea, March 26, 1660. 6. Joshua, August 3, 1662. 7. Joanna, March II, 1665. 8. Sarah, born probably in 1676.
(VI) John (2), son of Samuel Plum, was born in Branford, Connecticut, October 28, 1657, died July 12, 1710. He came with his father's family to Newark, New Jersey, 1668, and afterward lived in that town. In 1677 he married Hannah Crane, who bore him five children, born in Newark, who are only known by being named in his will and other wills with their husbands and wives, but the dates of their births and deaths are not known. Children : I. Mary, married (first) Elihu
Crane; (second) Rev. Jonathan Dickinson. 2. Sarah, married John Lindsley. 3. Jane, mar- ried Joseph Riggs. 4. Hannah. 5. John, see forward.
(VII) John (3), youngest child and only son of John (2) and Hannah (Crane) Plum, was born in Newark, New Jersey, about 1696, died after 1785. His entire life was spent in Newark and he appears to have been one of the few of his family who wrote his surname "Plume." He married (first) about 1724, Joanna Crane, who died about 1785; married (second) Mary Children, all of first marriage: I. Isaac, born October 1, 1734, died November 19, 1799 ; married (first ) Sarah Crane; (second) Ann Van Wagennen. 2. Stephen, died 1828, aged seventy-three years. 3. Mary, married Rufus Crane. 4. Jane, died after 1780. 5. Phebe, married Captain Robert Provost. 6. Joseph. 7. John, see forward.
(VIII) John (4), youngest son and child of John (3) and Joanna (Crane) Plume, was born in Newark, New Jersey, about 1743, died there about January, 1771. He always wrote his name without the final "e," and his example has been followed by all of his descendants. The date of his marriage with Susan Crane is not known, but it was about the year 1764. Children, all born in Newark: 1. Joseph R., born July 30, 1766, died November 12, 1834; married (first) Mary Banks; (second) Anna Price. 2. Matthias, 1768, see forward. 3. David, 1769, died August 27, 1835; married Matilda Cook. 4. Robert.
(IX) Matthias, son of John (4) and Susan (Crane) Plum, was born in Newark, New Jersey, 1768, died there in 1852, having spent his entire life in that city. He married, about 1793, Phebe Woodruff, who bore him five children, all born in Newark: I. Lucetta, born May 21, 1794, died July 3, 1881 ; married Jo- seph Plum. 2. Sarah, September 19, 1797, died March 22, 1875; married Ambrose Will- iams. 3. Stephen Haines, January 7, 1800, see forward. 4. Elias, November 18, 1804, died April 12, 1883; married (first) Susan Rankin; (second) Mary Mann; (third) Mar- tha M. Buell. 5. David B., May 2, 1813, died July 15, 1851 ; married (first) Leonora Whit- taker ; (second) Anna M. Arnold.
(X) Stephen Haines, eldest son and third child of Matthias and Phebe (Woodruff) Plum, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Janu- ary 7, 1800, died there April 11, 1885. He received a good common school education, and was then apprenticed to a shoe manufacturer, with whom he remained until he was old
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enough to establish a business for himself. From the outset he was very successful, and establishing a place of business in New York City he soon extended his operations through- out the southern and western states, being among the first of the Newark manufacturers to make for that city its well-deserved and earned reputation. About 1850 he began to withdraw gradually from business of a mer- cantile and manufacturing nature and invested his means in other directions, becoming largely interested in the Newark Gas Light Company, of which he was for a number of years a director. He was also a stockholder and director in the New Jersey Fire Insurance Company, the Mechanics Fire Insurance Com- pany and the St. Mark's Fire Insurance Com- pany of New York. He was a man of high character and his influence was always felt for good. He married Margaret Monteith, born in Belvidere, New Jersey, died in Newark, January 6, 1883, daughter of . Michael and Martha (Ramsden) Todd, the former of whom emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland, to Amer- ica in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Children, all born in Newark: I. Charlotte, born 1835 ; married Theodore B. Coe. 2. Mat- thias, November 24, 1839, a sketch of whom and descendants also appears in this work. 3. Stephen Haines, see forward.
(XI) Stephen Haines (2), son of Stephen Haines (1) and Margaret Monteith (Todd) Plum, was born in Newark, New Jersey, No- vember 12, 1842, died there May 30, 1906. He attended Mr. Hedges private school and later the high schools of Newark. His first position was as a drug clerk, and at the age of nineteen he entered the employ of the City Bank, of Newark, where he remained for eighteen months, after which he became connected with the National Bank of the Republic, New York City, where his promotion was insured, since he proved his abilities and fidelity to the respon- sible trusts imposed. He continued with this institution for but one year less than a quarter of a century, and for about eighteen years of that period served in the capacity of paying teller. His father died in 1885, leaving a large estate to be settled up, and on this account Mr. Plum resigned his position in the bank in order that he might devote his entire time and atten- tion to his individual property interests. He spent eighteen months abroad, visiting Eng- land, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Ger- many, Algeria and other foreign countries. In 1858 Mr. Plum became a member of the First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, of which ii-24
he was for nineteen years the treasurer, sev- eral years president of the board of trustees, and active in the furtherance of missionary work. As a teacher he maintained an abiding interest in the Sunday school, and he induced many youths to join his class, inspiring them by precept and example, and in this manner he has been instrumental in developing honor- able men who have attained success in life and have become the heads of prosperous, christian families. Mr. Plum was a philanthropist in the highest sense of the word, contributing liberally of his means to various charities in a quiet and unassuming manner, believing in the scriptural injunction to "Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth." He built the Eighth Avenue Day Nursery in New- ark in honor of his mother ; with the late Mr. Horace Alling, he was largely instrumental in securing the subscriptions for the erection of the building for the Children's Aid and Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children Society in New- ark, to which society he contributed liberally and in which he took a keen interest, serving as its president for many years and up to his decease. He was a Republican in national and state matters, but in local affairs maintained an independent attitude, preferring to lend his support to the man whom he regarded as the most fitting for municipal offices.
Mr. Plum married, October 25, 1865, Mary, daughter of David C. and-Lydia (Dodd) Run- yon, of Newark, who survives him and resides in the home in Newark. Children: 1. Mar- garet Monteith, married Henry G. Atha, treas- urer of the Cast Steel Works of New Jersey ; children : i. Margaret Monteith, born July 17, 1898; ii. Sarah, born March 8, 1901. 2. Mar- tha J., resides at home. 3. Stephen Haines, third, born January 18, 1877, in Newark ; edu- cated in Newark Academy and Princeton Col- lege, graduating from the latter in class of 1901 ; engaged in the real estate business in Newark; a Republican in politics ; member of the Peddie Memorial Church, serving as one of the trustees of same, and is continuing the good work along christian lines in which his father was interested. He married Blanche Devereux ; children : i. Stephen Haines, fourth, born October 30, 1906; ii. Lucretia Mary, born December 30, 1907.
Aargau, on the river Aar, next to BAER the Rhine and Rhone the largest river in Switzerland, is a canton of about five hundred and thirty-eight English square miles, and a population of over two
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hundred thousand people. It was in the well- wooded hills and fertile valleys of this small canton, amid a people at least half of whom were Protestants, and all industriously engaged in agriculture and the manufacture of cotton, linen, silk and hosiery, that the family of Baers had lived for centuries. Enjoying the advan- tages of living in the first pure republic of the modern world, they thrived and were happy, and doubted the existence of a better climate. soil, scenery or government on the face of the globe. The family were silk cultivators and manufacturers for generations. They had the advantages of the use of museums, libraries and schools, and became well versed in Swiss history.
(I) Frederick Jacob Baer, the eldest son of his father, was born at Arburg, Switzerland, December 13, 1813, died at Paterson, New Jersey, July 20, 1877, and is buried at Cedar Lawn cemetery. He was educated in his native town under competent masters, and through his individual efforts gained much in the way of learning. He became competent to teach and had classes among the laboring people in his locality. It was the desire of his parents that he take up a religious life and missionary work, but to this he was much averse. At the early age of sixteen years he decided to learn the art of silk ribbon making, and accordingly went to Basle, a small hamlet in the canton by the same name. He began in the lowest station and mastered every branch of the art, better- ing himself in his positions so that he became a thorough master of his trade. Here he mar- ried and lived for ten years thereafter, and three of his children were born there. He sub- sequently removed to Aarau, where he took a leading position in the then largest factory of the town, then operated by Feer & Company, where he remained until 1865 and in July that year emigrated to America from Havre, France, with his wife, three sons and daughter, Maria Anna, who became the wife of Jacob Walder, of Paterson. After landing at New York City he immediately came to Paterson, settling there, and taking a position in the silk establishment of his son, Jacob Frederick Baer, and had the management of different depart- ments as superintendent. About 1873 he re- tired from this position of responsibility and from active work. He resided on Lafayette street, where his death occurred. He was a man of remarkable foresight and action, deeply studious and fond of deep reading, taking up scientific studies. He kept in touch with his native country and his adopted land by reading
the current news. He was a thorough believer in American ideas, having read much before he came to America of the new country. He was a Lutheran in religion and a Republican in politics.
He married, at Basle, Switzerland, 1835, Anna Weibel, born at Reckenback (in Canton Basle), December 29, 1811, died in Paterson, New Jersey, January 19, 1890, daughter of Jacob and Anna (Gerster) Weibel. Jacob Weibel was a mason by trade. Children : I. Jacob Frederick, mentioned below. 2. John Rudolph, born August 5, 1840, died October 20, 1872 ; married Matilda Ackerman. 3. Au- gust, born December 23, 1843, died unmarried. May 1, 1891. 4. Maria Anna, born March 13, 1846; married, September 12, 1869, Jacob Walder, born March 18, 1839, died December 30, 1897 ; children : i. Anna Maria, born July 8, 1870; married, June 15, 1893, John Blunt- schli, born November 10, 1865, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Balber) Bluntschli ; children : a. Jacob Walder, born December 5, 1894, died December 20, 1899; b. Hans Arthur Walder, born September 14, 1896; c. Robert William Walder, born March 19, 1900; ii. Maria Louise, born August 29, 1871 ; married, April 21, 1896, John Grantley Taylor, born July 4, 1868, son of Joseph and Mary (Sweatman) Taylor ; children : a. Grantley Walder Taylor, born March 6, 1897; b. Marie Hale Taylor, born June 24, 1899; iii. Minnie, born January 24, 1874, died 1876; iv. Jacob William, born No- vember 29, 1880 ; married, April 18, 1906, Clara Huntoon ; children : a. Cynthia Marie Walder ; b. Clara Huntoon Walder ; v. Bertha Augusta, born May 30, 1884; married, April 15, 1909. Edward Beam. 5. William Frederick, born March 18, 1849; married Anna Miesch. 6. Gustaf Adolphus, born June 8, 1852, died July 20, 1868.
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