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DUMONT The origin of several of the Dumont families has been traced to Flanders, but it is hardly possible that they all in turn were of Norman descent. There were Dumonts in Normandy as early as 1422, as appears from the "Mémoires Inedits de Dumont de Bosta- quet : Gentilhomme Normand" ( Paris, 1864). The religious wars in France between the Roman Catholics and Protestants, which had their beginning in the year 1652, were like all
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other similar contests productive of much cruelty and persecution. Little credit accrues to either side, in the beginning at least, but the Protestants finally were defeated and ultimately were subjected to such gross mistreatment as finds no parallel in the annals of either ancient or modern times. Many of the Dumonts early adopted the Protestant religion, and on Janu- ary 27, 1599, we find the marriage record of Bastienne du Mont, in London. She was a native of Valenciennes, in the north of France. "The Making of New England," by Drake, mentions De Monts, Pierre du Guast, from Saintonge, France, an officer of the King's household. He was a Huguenot and made an attempt to plant a colony. In 1604 Henry IV. granted him a charter to all of the region of country now known as New England and also a monopoly of the fur trade. He took one hundred followers, among them Samuel de Champlain, and landed at Passamaquoddy Bay. at St. Croix (named Mont Desert), on hi: first trip, but being unable to withstand the severities of winter, broke up his colony in the early part of the year 1605 and went to Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
Walleran Dumont, immigrant, came from Amsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam ( New York) in 1657. He was not married when he came to this country, and according to the record made at the time of his marriage he gave his birthplace as Coomen, Flanders, (now Commines, Department Nord, France, eight miles from Lille ). He was called a cadet ("adelborst"), a rank equal to that of our second lieutenant, in a company of soldiers sent by the Dutch West India Company to Director General Stuyvesant. Other French Protestants of the same surname came from Caen. Normandie. Some of them went to England, and others to Perle, Cape of Good Hope, Africa, and descendants of the same name are now living in both places. A tradition that some of Walleran Dumont's family re- nounced Protestantism in order to retain their property has been handed down to descendants in America, but this tradition never has been verified.
Walderan Dumont came over either in the ship "Draetvat," Captain Beslevoer, which sailed from Amsterdam April 2, 1657, or in the "Jan Baptist," which sailed from the same port December 23, 1657. The latter ship be- longed to the Dutch West India Company and brought over a company of soldiers for Gov- ernor Stuyvesant. Two sisters of Dumont came over about 1663 in the ship "Spotted
Cow." Dumont settled at Esopus (now Kings- ton, New York) about 1660, and appears to have been one of the most influential men of the town. He was a member of the military council during the second Esopus war with the Indians, and served as schepen or magis- trate of Kingston from May, 1669, to May, 1671. He was a deacon of the Dutch church in 1673, and died between June 25, 1713, and September 13, 1713. He married, January 13, 1664, Grietje (Margaret) Hendricks, widow of Jan Aertson, who was killed by In- dians in the second Esopus war. She had one daughter by her first husband, who afterward married Hendrick Kip. Six children were born of this marriage, three sons and three daugh- ters. The sons were Walran, Jan Baptist and Peter Dumont.
There is very little doubt of the fact of rela- tionship of the family of Wallaran Dumont and the family of the surname which is chiefly considered in this narrative, although the latter is supposed to have first appeared in this coun- try soon after the massacre of French Hugue- nots in Paris of St. Bartholomew's day, as is fully mentioned in history. After the distress- ing scenes of that event. the ancestor is said to have come to America and to have taken up his abode in North Carolina, where the family remained seated for at least two or three generations.
(I) Peter Dumont, the earliest ancestor of whom we have accurate knowledge, was born probably in North Carolina, married there and had a family. Among his children was a son John, see forward.
(II) John, son of Peter Dumont, was born in North Carolina and came north to New Jersey probably soon after the beginning of the last century. The precise period of his life is not known, nor the date of his marriage. but it is known that he married Mary Finley. and by her had three children, Caroline, Mary, John Finley (see forward), all of whom are now dead and only the last mentioned of whom married and had a family.
(III) John Finley, son of John and Mary (Finley) Dumont; was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, November 11, 1824, died May 8, 1889. He was a lawyer by profession, a consistent member of the Lutheran church, and a firm Democrat in his political preference. From 1852 until 1855 he was prosecuting attor- ney for Hunterdon county, but otherwise was not particularly active in political affairs. He married in Albany, New York, October 26, 1853. Anne Eliza, born May 23, 1835, daugh-
Wayne Drumont.
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ter of Rev. David and Jane (Kirkpatrick ) Kline (see Kline, III). Children: I. Ira, born September 27, 1855. 2. William L., April 6, 1857. 3. Charles, December 20, 1858, died April 3, 1859. 4. Laura, May 3, 1860. 5. Grace, July 8, 1862, died January 27, 1882. 6. Jenny, September 5, 1864. 7. Anne Eliza, April 9, 1867. 8. Frederick T. F., March 7, 1869. 9. Wayne, see forward. 10. A child, born and died 1873. II. Madge T., July 30, 1875, died July 21, 1876. 12. Voctor St. Clair, September 12, 1877. 13. Ethel, May 6, 1879. (IV) Wayne, son of John Finley and Anne Eliza (Kline) Dumont, was born in Phillips- burg, New Jersey, April 4, 1871, and was fitted for college at Lerch's Preparatory School, Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating cum laude, in June, 1888. In the fall of the same year he entered Lafayette College, Easton, and was graduated A. B., cum laude, in June, 1892; Ph. B. in course, 1895; M. S., Latin scientific course. After leaving college he attended upon the lectures of the New York Law School, and in due season was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey ; was admitted attorney of the supreme court in February, 1896, and attorney and counsellor in February, 1899. Subsequently he received appointment as spe- cial master in chancery and also as supreme court commissioner. In November, 1907, he was admitted to practice in the courts of the state of New York, and became a member of the supreme court of the United States in February, 1908. Mr. Dumont is engaged in active general practice of the law in Paterson, and is a Republican in politics, but without political ambition. He is a member and past master of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phillipsburg ; past high priest of Eagle Chapter, No. 30, Royal Arch Masons, of Phillipsburg ; member of Paterson Council, Royal and Select Masters; Hugh de Payens Commandery, No. 19, Knights Tem- plar ; Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine, of New York City; also a member in good standing of all the Scottish Rite bodies of Masonry in Paterson up to the eighteenth degree, and from the eighteenth degree to the thirty-second degree in the consistory at Jersey City. He holds life membership in all of the Scottish Rite bodies of Free-Masonry. He also is a member of Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks; the Pomfret Club, of Easton ; the Merchants' Central Club, of 487 Broadway, New York City, and of the Law- yers' Club, of New York. He is a member of .
the board of directors of the German Ameri- can Trust Company, of Paterson.
Mr. Dumont married, October 26, 1898, Sallie Insley, born in Easton, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1873, daughter of Edward Insley and Sallie (Lesh) Hunt. Mr. Hunt is a retired merchant. His children: Myra Hunt, wife of Jacob L. Ludlow, of Winston, Salem, North Carolina ; Sue. wife of William E. Howell, of Easton, Pennsylvania ; Sallie I., Mrs. Dumont : and Nan, wife of George H. Meeker, of Media, Pennsylvania. Two children have been born of the marriage of Wayne and Sallie Insley (Hunt ) Dumont : Wayne Hunt, born April 6, 1904, died February 17, 1908; John Finley. born April 2, 1909.
(The Kline Line).
Johann Jacob Klein (Jacob Kline ), of Read- ington township, Hunterdon county, New Jer- sey, was born in Germany, March 6, 1714, died January 6, 1789, and is buried in the cemetery at New Germantown, New Jersey. He is mentioned as one of the signers of the call to the Rev. Albert Weygand in 1749. He carried on a tannery in Readington township, and the same was afterward continued by his descend- ants for more than three-quarters of a cen- tury. About 1748 he married Veronica Ger- drutta, daughter of Johannes Moelich, and by her had seven children: 1. Johann Wilhelm (John William), born January 5, 1750, died February 21, 1818. 2. Jacob, see forward. 3. Mary, married, February 13, 1776, John Far- ley. 4. Magdalene, born 1754, died March 16, 1774. 5. Fanny, married, December 26, 1781, Jacob Neff, Jr. 6. Aaron, born February 29, 1760, died December 24, 1809. 7. Peter, born January 17, 1771.
(II) Jacob, son of Johann Jacob and Ver- onica Gerdrutta (Moelich) Kline, was born in 1751, died October 22, 1823. He was a farmer and tanner by occupation and lived at New Germantown, New Jersey. For nearly forty years he was a ruling elder in the Zion Luth- eran church, county freeholder for nearly twenty years, justice of the peace for many years, town clerk and one of the judges of the court of common pleas of Hunterdon coun- ty from 1806 to 1817. He married, July 7. 1782, Phebe, daughter of Peter Nevius, of Am- well, New Jersey. She was born in 1766, and died February 18, 1845, having borne her hus- band twelve children: 1. Colonel Jacob, born April 8, 1783, died November 15, 1844. 2. Peter, January 16, 1785, died October 18, 1860. 3. Fanny Gertrude, February 28, 1787, died
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January 28, 1880. 4. John William, December 28, 1788, died September 17, 1847. 5. Maria, April 17, 1791, died January 15, 1869. 6. Ann, March 19, 1793, died February 20, 1795. 7. Phebe, December 19, 1796, died March IO. 1874. 8. Elizabeth, August 1, 1799, died March 25, 1880. 9. Nellie (Nelly) Stooloff, July 4, 1801, died April 23, 1803. 10. Cath- erine, July 20, 1804, died January 18, 1857. II. Aletta, February 17, 1808, died January 9, 1879. 12. David, see forward.
(III) Rev. David, youngest son and child of Jacob and Phebe (Nevius) Kline, was born November 14, 1812, died in his pulpit while preaching, as pastor of the Lutheran church at Spruce Run, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, November 5, 1877. He married, April 18, 1833, Jane, daughter of John Kirkpatrick, of Liberty Corners, New Jersey. She was born June 19, 1814, and bore her husband twelve children: I. Anne Eliza, born May 23, 1835; married, October 26, 1853, John Finley Du- mont, born November II, 1824, died May 8, 1889 (see Dumont, III). 2. Phebe, December 3, 1836, died May 28, 1857. 3. Peter, Febru- ary 9, 1838. 4. John Cassiday, November 25. 1839. 5. Jacob, April 27, 1842. 6. Frances Miller, December 12, 1843. 7. Ellen Taylor, March 29, 1845. 8. Mary, December 5, 1846. 9. William Harrison, February 26, 1849. 10. Alfred Beaumont, April 1, 1851. II. Jane Musier, March 16, 1853. 12. Alice, March 27, 1855.
Scotch patronymic would seem to favor inde- pendent Scotch derivation for the name itself, and perhaps "from an object in nature." Reynolds often sounds like Runnels and on that account the latter is thought to be a very reasonable corruption of the former ; yet we must go farther back to prove the identity of these names, and therefore the conclusion is that Runnels is for the most part Scotch, while Reynolds is English and Irish. The particular Reynolds family here considered comes to America from Ireland, and may or may not have been of ancient English origin ; but from whatever source it originates its representa- tives stand for honest endeavor in every gen- eration from the time when its immigrant an- cestor crossed the Atlantic ocean and set foot on the free soil of America.
(I) Thomas Reynolds, with whom the pres- ent narrative begins, was born in county Armagh, Ireland, and came to this country in 1827, settling in Bergen county, New Jersey, and taking up his home on land where now is the site occupied by the North Jersey Country Club. He was a weaver by trade, a skillful workman in his line, an industrious man in all respects, thrifty, frugal and honest. He died in 1873, leaving three children. The family name of his wife was Agnes McCulloch. At the time of her marriage with Thomas Rey- nolds she was the Widow Cardwell, and by her first marriage had two children: Mary A. and Samuel Cardwell. the former of whom married a McAllister. Thomas and Agnes (Cardwell) Reynolds had three children, John, Jane and Margaret.
REYNOLDS In his "Suffolk Surnames" so good an authority informs us that Runnels is "a name (II) John, son of Thomas and Agnes (Card- well) Reynolds, was born in Portadown, coun- ty Armagh, Ireland, March II, 1826, died Jan- uary 6, 1909. He was only one year old when his parents came to this country and settled near Paterson, Bergen county, New Jersey. He was given a good common school educa- tion and when old enough to leave home went to Paterson and became a student at the aca- demic school of which Hugh Dougherty was then the master. But in the course of a short time afterward he set out to make his own way in life, going to New York City, where he was apprenticed to learn the tailor's trade. This, however, was not to his liking and he soon abandoned it for the trade of cigar making in the Caldwell cigar factory at Caldwell, New Jersey, where he remained some time, then returned to Paterson and found employment with Stephen Allen, a manufacturer of cigars taken from the face of nature," and from the same source and others of equal reliability we learn that the surnames Runnels and Reynolds are regarded as synonymous, merely different forms of expressing the same patronymic ; but from various other sources it is discovered that the name Reynolds as now known appears written in not less than forty-nine different ways, but whether Runnels is one of the many variations of Reynolds, or vice versa, the standard authorities do not give us clear light. It is said too that Runnels may have been de - rived from the old Norwegian "Ronald," for we find the name of Baron Ronald Urka, who was present at the death of King Haco, the last of the Norwegian invaders and who fell at Orkney in the thirteenth century. Hence we have the North and South "Ronald sha" among the present names of the islands of the Ork- neys. The fact that Runnels undoubtedly is a . in that city. He proved to be an excellent
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workman and by close attention to his trade and the interests of his employer he soon gained a fair knowledge of the business in general ; and as a result he was taken as partner by John Allen and became himself proprietor of a cigar factory and business. In the course of a few years a consolidation of interests resulted in the organization of the firm of Allen, Reynolds & Company, which firm carried on an exten- sive cigar manufacturing business until 1872, and then was dissolved. Upon the dissolution of the copartnership Mr. Reynolds retired from the cigar business, but not from all active pur- suits, for soon afterward he became president of the Acquacknonk Water Company, and also of the Paterson Gas Company and the Pater- son Savings Institution, both of which latter positions he held until his decease. Thus it will be seen that his early industrious habits and business enterprise eventually gained for him an enviable prominence in connection with the operation of important public utilities of the city, and that his former endeavors received their merited reward. He never aspired to political honors although from 1865 to 1870 he served as a member of the board of alder- men. During the earlier part of his life he was actively identified with the Methodist Episcopal church, but afterward transferred his membership to the Congregational church. He married Elizabeth Kempley ; children : I. Wallace, died young. 2. Alfred C., now of Paterson. 3. Edwin L., now living on Long Island. 4. John Henry. 5. Lizzie, married G. S. Atterbury and lives in Chicago. 6. Mary, married Charles Edwards, of Paterson.
(III) John Henry, son of John and Eliza- beth (Kempley) Reynolds, was born in Pater- son, New Jersey, February II, 1855, and ac- quired his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of that city, and his higher education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was graduated A. B. in 1876. His professional education was received at Columbia Law School, the law department of Columbia University, where he completed the course and came to the degree LL. B. in 1878. In the following year he was admitted to practice in the courts of this state and since that time has been a member of the Passaic county bar, engaged in general practice, with an especial preference for cases which involve questions of real estate law. He is not in any sense a public man, having little inclination for politics, and the extent of his holdings has been limited to several years' ser-
vice as member of the city board of park com- missioners.
He married, April 7, 1881, Cora C., born April 10, 1856, daughter of Albert G. and Sarah C. (Greene) Stevens, of Buffalo, New York, and by whom he has four children, all born in Paterson: Kate, Beatrix, John S., Doris.
Thomas B. Peddie, one of the
PEDDIE most enterprising and successful of the citizens of Newark, New
Jersey, began his business career in that place in 1833, before it had been incorporated as a city. Mr. Peddie was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and this was also the birth place of his parents, who were persons of more than ordinary intelligence, of great industry, and of remarkably piety, his father being somewhat noted as a religious exhorter. To the example and influence of such estimable parents was young Peddie indebted for his habits of in- dustry, as well as for his self-reliance and his reverence for everything that is essential to an honorable and pious life. Such advantages for an education as were within the means of his parents were accorded to him, and though not great they were quite sufficient for the oridinary purposes of life. To the acquisitions made by him as a schoolboy he subsequently added largely by reading and by contact with his fellowmen as he increased in years. He was fond of books of travel and of the accounts of foreign lands given in the newspapers of the day. His desire to visit America was thus aroused, and having at last through his own industry acquired sufficient means to gratify his desire, he left his native land for the United States, not quite decided, however, to make it his permanent home.
In 1833, as already stated, he found himself in Newark, New Jersey, a place which he had been induced to visit on account of the rapid growth of its manufacturing interests. Not intending to be an idle looker-on, but deter- mined rather to obtain a thorough knowledge of the new people among whom he had fallen, he visited the various factories of the place, and finally applied for employment in the great saddlery establishment of Messrs. Smith & Wright, the latter of whom became subse- quently a senator of the United States. He bore about him no other commendation than his honest face and manly ways, but these sufficed to gain him a desirable position in this extensive factory. Here he remained two
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years, when having become familiar with the business ways of the land in which he had now concluded to make a permanent home he re- solved to test his own business abilities as an operator and financier. Accordingly he under- took in a modest way the manufacture of leather trunks and carpet bags. Success at- tended him beyond his expectations, and a large and lucrative business seemed to await him in no distant future. For ten years he continued to manufacture alone his rapidly extending operations. In 1846 he found it necessary, however, to take a business partner to assist him in his labors, especially in keep- ing his books and attending to his growing correspondence. For this important service he selected Mr. John Morrison, who subsequently proved himself to be one of Newark's most estimable and patriotic citizens. This partner- ship continued until 1861, when Mr. Morrison died. On Mr. Peddie alone again devolved the care of his immense establishment, and to it he gave his undivided attention ; but the burden being more than he could long carry unassisted, he sought aid eventually from one of his most esteemed and accomplished assistants, Mr. George B. Jenkinson, whose familiarity with every department of the complicated works relieved Mr. Peddie of much of his labor and finally resulted in a partnership between them, under the firm name of T. B. Peddie & Com- pany. Under this name the business was con- ducted until the death of its founder.
For many years prior to his decease and indeed until within a short time before that event, Mr. Peddie was active in discharge of all the duties of a good and patriotic citizen. His interests led him to take a prominent part in the conduct of the moneyed institutions of the city, in many of which he was an influential director. But even where personal interest did not call him he was equally earnest and active. In almost every important public move- ment he was among the leaders, aiding by his advice as well as by his purse. Of the board of trade of the city of Newark he was a most efficient member, at one time its president and at all times an earnest participant in its proceedings. It was undoubtedly the sterling honesty of Mr. Peddie which pointed him out as a desirable man to be placed in public posi- tions of great responsibility. It was this that sent him in 1863-64 to the state legislature, where as a member of the general assembly he gave valuable support to the general govern- ment during the war of the rebellion, and by his influence and contributions did good ser-
vice in behalf of the Union. During the period of four years, 1866-69, he was mayor of New- ark, an office which he filled with credit to him- self and advantage to the city. In 1876 he repre- sented the sixth congressional district of New Jersey in the forty-fifth congress. On the expira- tion of his term he declined further nomination.
Without making any pretense of learning, Mr. Peddie appreciated fully the value of a good education, and this is shown by the inter- est which he took in building up the flourish- ing academy in Hightstown, New Jersey, to which was given in honor of him the name of Peddie Institute. He was one of the early promotors of the Newark Technical School, an institution for which the city of Newark is mainly indebted to its board of trade, by which body the first steps were taken for its establishment, with Mr. Peddie as chairman of the committee having charge of the enter- prise. For many years he was a trustee for the Newark City Home, a school to which he gave much attention. Of all benevolent enter- prises he was a supporter, ever ready to ad- vance them by contributing of his means as well as by his personal services. On New- ark's principal thoroughfare, nearly facing one of its beautiful parks, stands a house of wor- ship, built of gray granite, in Byzantine style of architecture, and capable of seating three thousand worshippers. It is called the Peddie Memorial, and was the gift of this beneficent man to the congregation with which he con- nected himself when as a youth he came to Newark, and with which he continued to wor- ship throughout his long and useful career. The erection of this massive pile was the last work of Mr. Peddie's life. It is one of New- ark's noblest structures, but he did not live to see it completed. The name given to it was never suggested until after his death, which occurred February 16, 1889. All of Mr. Ped- die's designs in regard to the construction and appointments of this edifice were fully carried out by his estimable widow, who followed him into eternal rest three years afterward. She also complied with another wish on his part by giving to the church valuable property in New York City and elsewhere, which yields it a handsome revenue.
EATON The ancestors of Edward Charles Eaton, of Newark, are on his father's side English and on his mother's Swiss, his great-grandparents having emigrated to this country from England and Switzerland.
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