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(II) Samuel, son of Thomas Hine, lived in Old Milford but there is very little known about him except what can be gathered from an old account book kept by his son George, referred to below, from an entry in which we learn that Samuel and his wife went to live with their son, May 10, 1769. Samuel Hine died December 23, 1771, and his wife Decem- ber 10, 1773.
(III) George, son of Samuel Hine, was born in Old Milford, and followed the occu- pations of farmer, teamster, fisherman and merchant. His old account book is full of interesting examples, of which the following is a fair example : "January 13th, 1755. Then reckoned with Moses Malory and cleared of all accounts from ye beginning of ye world to this day, as witness our hands." George Hine and his family removed from Old to New Milford some time before October 1, 1793, and was probably among the first settlers of that place. From the fact that her name is signed with his to a contract for a fishing privilege at Fowler's island on Stratford river, it is supposed that the name of George's wife was Jean. His children were: I. Thomas. 2. Samuel. 3. George Jr. 4. Daniel, who is referred to below. There may have been others.
(IV) Daniel, son of George and Jean Hine, was born in Old Milford in 1750. While in Old Milford he was a fisherman and leased for ninety-nine years a privilege of fishing at Fowler's island at the mouth of Strat- ford river on Long Island Sound. In May,
1795, he removed from New Milford to Warren, Litchfield county, Connecticut, where he lived for eleven years. In the spring of 1805, hearing glowing accounts of the west- ern reserve, he sent his son David to accom- pany Erastus Carter and others on a tour of inspection. The journey, both ways, was made afoot, and the report was so favorable that the following September two of his sons, Daniel and Hezekiah, emigrated with others to Johnstown, Ohio, and in the succeeding spring, Daniel Sr. followed with the remain- der of the family. He remained in Johnstown till the ensuing December, and then moved on to Canfield, Ohio. Here, two years later, he moved into the home of his son David, on the same farm that is now owned and occupied by his niece, Mrs. Betsy Comstock. His son Hezekiah, having located in Shalersville, Port- age county, Ohio, Daniel, being better pleased with that situation, moved thither in February, 1810, and settled finally not far from the centre of the township, where he lived until his death, September 16, 1828. Daniel Hine was married three times, but all his children were by his first wife. About 1775 he married (first) Mary Stone, of Old Milford, who died in Shalersville, February 5, 1812, at the age of fifty-six years. His second wife, Eunice (Sutliff) (Crosby) Hine, the widow of Tim- othy, died July 17, 1817. His third wife, Phoebe (Clark) Hine, was a native of Williamstown, Vermont, and died aged seventy-two years. The children of Daniel and Mary (Stone) Hine were : I. Daniel, born May 30, 1776, died January 19, 1858; married Laura Finney. 2. Abel, September II, 1778, died September 21, 1855 ; married a Miss Frelove. 3. David, who is referred to below. 4. Polly, September 27, 1784, died October 29, 1859; married Au- gustus Adams. 5. Hezekiah, May 29, 1789, died July 21, 1867; married Mary Atwater. 6. Elizabeth, February 16, 1790, died Febru- ary 14, 1867; married Thaddeus Bradley. 7. Lyman, September 9, 1792, died December 16, 1870; married Sabina Crosby. 8. Abigail, Au- gust 7, 1795, died March, 1865 ; married Dan- iel Burroughs. All these children, save the last who was born in Warren, were born in Old Milford.
(V) David, third child and son of Daniel and Mary ( Stone) Hine, was born in Old Mil- ford, Connecticut, December 9, 1780, died in Canfield, Ohio, April 19, 1856. He was fif- teen when his father went to Warren, Litch- field county, and twenty-five, when April, 1805, he set out with Erastus Carter, Daniel Beach
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and John Morris, for Johnstown, where he bought land for $3.00 an acre, and after build- ing a small shanty returned home with his report to his father. He then guided his brothers, Daniel and Hezekiah, out to the new lands and returned home again with the team, remaining in Warren for that winter, and in February, immediately after his marriage, set- ting out on a final trip to Johnstown, accom- panied by about sixty of their friends and relatives. In the following autumn he settled on the farm in Canfield spoken of above. May 3, 1810, David Hine was commissioned by the governor of Ohio Captain of the Third Com- pany, First Battalion, Second Regiment, Fifth Brigade and Fourth Division of the Ohio state militia. As such he served for five years and was in active service during the War of 1812, his regiment forming a part of the land forces at Cleveland, during Perry's naval engage- ment and victory, September 6, 1812. After the war he became conspicuous in civil affairs, being commissioned May 13, 1822, by Gov- ernor Allen Tremble, justice of the peace, and in many ways interesting himself in politics. David Hine married, February 20, 1806, Achsah, daughter of Benjamin Sackett, of Warren, born there January 21, 1786, died in Canfield, Ohio, March 23, 1831. She bore her husband at least eight children of whom one, David, is referred to below.
(VI) David (2), eighth child of David (I) and Achsah (Sackett) Hine, was born in Can- field, Ohio, August 16, 1822, died in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, January 12, 1872. He graduated from Williams College, Massa- chusetts, in 1850, taught in the academy at Warren, Connecticut, for four years, and in the autumn of 1854 moved out to Ohio and accepted a position as principal of the Maho- ney Academy. He here became a neighbor and later a warm friend of General James A. Garfield, through whose influence soon after the breaking out of the civil war he was ap- pointed to a position in the office of the second auditor of the treasurer in Washington, which he held until his death. While at college he boarded with A. M. Bridges, a descendant of Benjamin, son of Edward Bridges, of Tops- field, Massachusetts, in 1664. Here he made the acqaintance of Harriet Amelia, daughter of Samuel Bridges, of Williamstown, born April 20, 1828, died in Washington, October 4, 1874, whom he married September 24, 1850. The children of David and Harriet Amelia ( Bridges) Hine were: 1. Helen Blanche, born December 25, 1851, died October 7, 1883. 2.
Edwin Warren, who is referred to below. 3. Charles Augustus, May 2, 1857, died young. 4. Irene Bridges, July 12, 1861, died 1862. 5 Irene Bridges, March 23, 1862, died 1866.
(VII) Edwin Warren, second child and eldest son of David (2) and Harriet Amelia (Bridges) Hine, was born in Warren, Litch- field county, Connecticut, March 17; 1854, and is now living at 112 Park avenue, Orange, New Jersey. He was in his infancy when his parents went to Ohio, and he was thirteen when they went to Washington, where he received his education in the public and high schools, obtaining a position in a sta- tionery store in Washington and retaining it until he accepted a position as entry clerk with the firm of George A. Olney & Company, sta- tioners, with whom he remained until their failure. In 1872 he removed to Orange and was for two years with Thomas P. Bayes, dealer in books and stationery, and in 1874 started for himself in the flour and feed busi- ness in the old academy building on Main street, near Cone and Day. In 1877 he bought out the old firm of W. B. Tichenor & Com- pany who were in the same line of business. In 1888 he became interested in the Harvey Steel Company, and in the following year be- came a director of that corporation, being now the only survivor of the original board of five. In May, 1890, together with Mr. Harvey, he organized the American Washer and Manufacturing Company, of which he was elected and remained for many years the president. He now sold out his old flour and feed business, and in 1903 became the sec- retary of the public service corporation of New Jersey. In 1878 he was elected for a term of three years to represent the first ward of Orange in the common council, and being the only Republican in that body at the time was given the sobriquet of the "Lone Star." In 1879 he was first elected to the board of chosen freeholders, of which body he con- tinued a member until 1887. In 1884 he was a candidate for the office of sheriff, and in 1887 was elected to that office by a majority of 2,600. He discharged the duties of this office "without fear or favor, retiring in 1890 with a clean record and the hearty good wishes of his fellow citizens, irrespective of party."
Colonel Hine began his military career in 1882, as the chief organizer of the Orange rifles of which he was elected the first lieu- tenant. January 1I, 1886, he was commis- sioned as first lieutenant and adjutant of the third battalion of the National Guard of the
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state of New Jersey, by Governor Leon Ab- bett. This position he held for five years, until the reorganization of the first brigade, which resulted in the consolidation of the first, second, and third battalions, forming the second regiment. June 25, 1892, Lieutenant Hine was commissioned as captain and judge- advocate of the second regiment under Colonel J. Vreeland Moore. At the election which preceded this commission, Mr. Hine had been nominated for one of the majorships, and it is an indication of his deserved popularity that he secured for it all of the votes of the Essex county battalion. April 25, 1893, Colonel Moore was retired on his own application, Lieutenant-colonel Samuel V. S. Muzzy was promoted to his place, and Captain Hine was chosen lieutenant-colonel to fill the vacancy. November 8, 1897, Colonel Muzzy retired as brevet brigadier-general, and there was but one man it was felt who could take his place, namely, Lieutenant-Colonel Hine. Conse- quently his election to the head of the regi- ment gave general satisfaction as he was greatly liked by both officers and men, and when his commission was issued, bearing date of December 7, 1897, it was a time of great rejoicing in the regiment. He had hardly seated himself firmly in the saddle and grasped the reins before he was called upon to prove the trust reposed in him. The "Maine" was blown up, the Spanish began capturing prizes in the Carribean and Colonel Hine was among the first in the country to offer his regiment for active service. During the war the regi- ment was stationed first at Sea Girt, and then at Jacksonville, Florida, and it was mainly due to the efficient carrying out of his instruc- tions by Colonel Hine that the regiment won its place and reputation as the best in the camp, and received from the old Confederate war-veteran and then commanding officer, General Fitzhugh Lee, the compliment, "Thank God, we have one regiment equipped for service, but that is the way New Jersey always sends out her soldiers." May 2, 1899, came the order of Governor Voorhees disband- ing the Second Regiment and Colonel Hines was retired. In 1902, as a result of the great fire in Paterson, the Fifth Regiment came into being, and from the very first it was felt and said that there was only one man for its com- manding officer. The feeling of resentment over the disbanding of the Second Regiment was strong. It was felt that its commanding officer, Colonel Edwin Warren Hine, had acted the part of a gallant officer and had handled
his regiment with rare discretion and skill in the south, and not only among the officers of the old regiment identified with the new, but also among the people of northern New Jersey as well, it was most strongly indicated and urged that the command of the new Fifth was Colonel Hine's by right. The devotion of the officers of the Second Regiment to their com- manding officer had been a matter of comment throughout the entire Seventh army corps, and while there was some discssion about other officerships in the regiment, September 19, 1902, Colonel Hine was unanimously elected to the command which he has held ever since. From 1883 to 1886 Colonel Hine was chairman of the Essex county Republican committee, while for three years he was the chairman of the Orange Republican committee and for twelve years its treasurer. He is also an active member of the New England Society. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 11, F. and A. M., of Orange, and also past master. He belongs to the Union Club of Newark, to the Lotus Club of New York, and to the Hamilton Club of Paterson. He attends the First Presbyterian Church of Orange. Colonel Hine received a most unusual honor at the time of the Hudson-Fulton celebration by being selected, over the heads of officers of higher rank, to be the personal representative of the governor on the official reviewing stand at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, dur- ing the military parade, September 30, 1909.
Colonel Edwin Warren Hine married, March 23, 1874, Nellie, daughter of David and Margaret ( Rockafeller) Sturtevant, a de- scendant of the early settlers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, born in 1854. Their children are : I. Helen Blanche, born February 15, 1876. died in infancy. 2. Walter Robbins, Decem- ber 1, 1877, married Annabell Bagley, and has one son, Walter Robbins Jr., born May 6, 1908. 3. Marguerite, September 20, 1879, died March 17, 1885. 4. James Sayers, born July 14, 1882.
The George family of Newark GEORGE has already made a name and place for itself in the industrial
world of Newark, although its existence in this country has only been for two genera- tions.
(1) Christian George, the founder of the family in this country was born in France, June 25, 1847, died in Newark, New Jersey, July 16, 1898. By his wife, Sophia (Vollmer) George, who survives him and is now living
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at 394 Eighteenth avenue, he had three chil- dren : Edward C., see forward; Henry P., Louis F.
(II) Edward C., the eldest child of Chris- tian and Sophia (Vollmer) George, was born in Newark, New Jersey, August 1, 1877, and is now living in that city. After attending the public schools where he was sent for his early education, he entered the New York Univer- sity Law School. He read law in the office of Charles A. Feick, Esquire, and was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar in June, 1899, as attorney, and as counsellor in November, 1908. He has turned his attention to the specialty of real estate law, and he is rapidly winning for himself a name and place as one of the most judicious and acute of the younger lawyers who are dealing with that subject. In politics Mr. George is a Republican, and for four years, from 1901 to 1905, was one of the com- missioners of public school education in New- ark. He is a member of Cosmos Lodge, No. 106, Free and Accepted Masons of Newark, and also a member of Lodge No. 21, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He mar- ried, June 26, 1907, in Newark, Pauline B., daughter of August E. and Pauline Kleeman, of 493 South Sixteenth street, Newark, whose children are: August M., Pauline B., Emil H. and Amelia. Edward C. and Pauline B. (Kleeman) George have no children.
"That the bearer John Mc- McCARTER Carter is a single Person & was born in the parish of Gaughboyn & County of Donegal in Ireland of honest Protestant Parents & from his in- fancy behaved Soberly and inoffensively & at his leaving this Kingdom a regular member of the dissenting congregation of St. Johnstown & whereas he designs to transport himself to the plantations in America to improve his worldly circumstances he is hereby recom- mended to the blessing and protection of Almighty God and to regards of all Christian People whom it may concern as a person fit to be entertained and encouraged. This is certified and recommended at St. Johnstown August 15th, 1774, by Thos Bond. V. D. M."
(I) Such was the testimonial brought to this country by the founder of the McCarter family of New Jersey, when he left the home of his father, Robert McCarter, in the small hamlet of Carrigan's in the parish and county above mentioned. Landing in Philadelphia in 1774, in his own words, "consigned with a regular bill of lading, like a bale of merchan-
dise to a friend of his father's family residing there." When he came over he was about twenty-one, and for a short time taught in Delaware, then enlisted in the revolutionary army and after the war settled in Mendham, Morris county, New Jersey. He began his revolutionary service in 1776 when he enlisted as a volunteer in Colonel Craighead's Dela- ware rifle corps, with which he fought at Wil- mington and Trenton. In 1777 he became a commissary under General Wayne, and later under General Lamb and General Hazen. Finally he was at West Point and Philadelphia. For these services his widow was granted a pension dating from March 4, 1836, which she received until her death. In 1784 he entered into a mercantile connection with Messrs. Grier and Brooks which continued for several years until his health failing he went to the coun- try near Mendham, where he purchased some iron works and ran them successfully until 1794 when he lost everything in a freshet. He rebuilt but his works were washed away twice more and the failure of some friends with whom he had left for safety a large sum of money caused him to go into bankruptcy. At this juncture he found a warm friend in Governor Bloomfield, who appointed him sur- rogate of Morris county, and later a master in chancery. Still later he became clerk of Morris county, and held that position until his death. Mr. McCarter took a warm and active interest in public affairs, was an ardent ad- mirer of the person and a fervid advocate of the principles of Thomas Jefferson, and was a frequent contributor to the newspapers on political topics, his articles over the signature of "The old man of the Mountain" attracting much notice and exerting much influence on the public mind. John McCarter had been well educated and ever before coming to this country had shown ^vidences of literary abil- ity and was at o' ime connected with the Londonderry warnal, a semi-weekly still in existence and one of the most influential papers in the north of Ireland. In addition to his frequent communications to the press on po- litical topics, Mr. McCarter wrote many odes and addresses for public occasions and his letters are many of them literary gems. He died at Morristown in 1807, and the local paper of that day contains a very full account of his life, public services and business career.
November 21, 1786, John McCarter married Agnes, daughter of George and Mary (Boyd) Harris, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth (Blair) Harris, who came to this
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country from Ireland in 1742. She had one aunt, her father's sister, Isabel, who married her cousin, Robert Harris, M. D., who lived in 1791 in Spruce street, Philadelphia, was one of the founders of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and one of the physicians who remained in the city during the yellow fever epidemics of 1793 and 1795. Her father died February 23, 1790, at Hackettstown, New Jersey, where he owned a mill and left some property. Her mother, Mary ( Boyd) Harris, died in 1780, and was the daughter of Robert and Janet ( McAllister ) Boyd, who came from Scotland. Agnes (Harris) McCarter was born in New Vernon, New Jersey, October 21, 1769, died at Morristown, February 8, 1851. She was "a woman of high principle, strict in- tegrity, unflinching fortitude and cool, calm judgment, * *
* somewhat stern and re- served in manner, but warm of heart and full of kindness, not only to her own relatives, but to every deserving person with whom she came in contact." The children of John and Agnes (Harris) McCarter were: I. Mary Eleanor, born April 1, 1789, died October 7, 1868, after "a long life filled with loving service to her family, so whole-hearted and so simple that no idea of self-sacrifice ever occurred to her or to any of those she served." 2. Martha Isabella, born March 5, 1791, died May 2, 1845 ; married, late in life, Luther Y. Howell, of Newton, New Jersey, but left no children. 3. Robert Harris, who is referred to below. 4. Benjamin Ludlow, born December 24, 1796, who died unmarried at the age of thirty-two. 5. George Harris, born November 5, 1797, died 1843, he married (first) Hannah Maria, daughter of George Rorbach, of Newton, and (second) his cousin, Martha Lyon Ludlow. 6. John, born January 26, 1799, died October 31, 1864; married Mary, the aunt of the Hon. Henry C. Kelsey, at one time secretary of state of New Jersey; their , sangest son was the Hon. Ludlow McCarter, judge of the Essex common pleas. 7. James Jefferson, born De- cember 14, 1800, died February 17, 1872; spent most of his life in Charleston, South Carolina ; married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and sister of the Hon. George S. Bryan, judge of the United States district court of South Carolina, and (second) his first wife's younger sister, Mary Caroline. 8. Daniel Stuart, born December 2, 1803, died August, 1868; married Maria Hayden, of Georgia. 9. Eleanor Cordelia, born March 2, 1807, died July 27, 1883; married Dr. Harvey Hallock.
(II) Robert Harris, third child and eldest son of John and Agnes (Harris) McCarter, was born at Mendham, March 16, 1793, died March 8, 1851. His father's death, when he was fifteen, leaving him as the eldest son of nine children, compelled him to do something which would aid in supporting the helpless family. Sylvester Russell, who had been ap- pointed county clerk to succeed John Mc- Carter, gave him the position of assistant clerk, where he began his study of the law, and at the end of Mr. Russell's term of five years was himself although not quite twenty-one years old appointed to the office of clerk. In 1826 he removed with his wife and two boys from Morristown to Newton and engaged in mercantile business with his brother George H., his mother and sisters also removing to the same place. Here he remained until his death. After his removal to Newton he be- came judge of the common pleas and a justice of the peace, presiding for a long time in the Sussex county court of common pleas and serving also three terms in the court of gen- eral quarter sessions. He was also appointed supreme court commissioner, and in 1840, when his brother George H. was made sheriff acted as his deputy. Governor Haines ap- pointed him a judge of the court of errors and appeals. In politics he was a Democrat, was thoroughly informed on the political his- tory of the country and inherited from his father an intelligent devotion to democratic principles as they were then understood, and he was frequently appointed a delegate to the county, congressional, and state conventions of his party, and was nominated for presiden- tial elector on the Jackson ticket in 1828. He was a director of the Sussex Bank and of the Morris Turnpike Company. After the death of his brother George H., he took his oldest son into partnership with him and continued the mercantile business as R. H. McCarter & Son, and later John McCarter & Company until it was dissolved by the death of the senior partner. While in Morristown, Robert Harris McCarter married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Nesbitt, who had emigrated to this country from the north of Ireland and settled at Somerville, on a farm on the Raritan river at what is now Finderne. The children of Robert Harris and Eliza (Nesbitt) McCarter, the two eldest born in Morristown and the three youngest in Newton, were : 1. John, com- monly known as John McCarter Jr., born in 1822, died October 3, 1886, leaving a widow, the daughter of Colonel Joseph E. Edsall, of
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Ilamburg, and two daughters. 2. Thomas Nesbitt, who is referred to below. 3. Agnes, born May 8, 1828, died March 22, 1881, un- married. 4. Frances Meeker, born October 6, 1830, died May II, 1897, married Samuel Henry Potter, of Deckertown and Newton, New Jersey, and later of Janesville, Wiscon- sin, and had Robert Harris McCarter Potter, of Chicago. 5. Susan Thompson, born July 17, 1832, died July 4, 1895, unmarried.
(III) Thomas Nesbitt, second child and younger son of Robert Harris and Eliza ( Nes- bitt) McCarter, was born in Morristown Janu- ary 31, 1824. After attending the Newton Academy, he entered the junior class of Princeton University and graduated from that institution in 1842. He then began studying law in the office of Martin Ryerson, Esquire, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1845. From that time until 1853 he practised in partnership with his instructor, and when Mr. Ryerson removed to Trenton, Mr. Mc- Carter continued practising in Newton alone until 1865, when he removed to Newark and became highly successful in the prosecution of his profession. In 1868 he became associated in practise with Oscar Keen, Esquire, and this partnership continued until 1882. After this he became the senior member of the firm of McCarter, Williamson & McCarter. As a cor- poration lawyer, Mr. McCarter enjoyed a high reputation both in Sussex and Essex counties. During his residence at Newton he was the director of and counsel to the Sussex Railroad Company, and for several years he was also a director of and counsel to the Morris Canal and Banking Company. He was the counsel to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, to the Morris and Essex Railroad Company, to the New Jersey Railroad and Transporta- tion Company and to other similar cor- porations. In addition to these professional connections Mr. McCarter was prominently identified with various corporate bodies as a director, among which were the Peoples' Mutual Insurance Company of Newark, and the Easton and Amboy railroad. His well known abilities as a lawyer induced Governor Olden in 1860 to tender him a seat on the bench of the supreme court of New Jersey, and in 1866 the offer was renewed to him by Governor Ward. On both occasions, how- ever, he declined the honor, preferring to re- main at the bar. He was nevertheless willing to become a chancery reporter and accepted
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