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president of the J. B. Conover Company, con- tinuing until July, 1908, when he sold out to Crane & Company. From 1868 to 1872 he was in the office of the Newark street com- missioner, and was also for twelve years an alderman. In 1888 he was elected assembly- man, after which he served for eight years as police commissioner. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the Ninth Regiment. New York Volunteers, as private, May 13, 1861 ; promoted sergeant May following; dis- charged May 16, 1863. He then recruited Company I, Thirty-fifth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers, of which he was appointed captain, September 18, 1863, mustered out with same rank, July 25, 1865. September 17, 1862, he was taken prisoner and sent to Libby prison till exchanged; July 22, 1864, taken prisoner at Decatur, Alabama, and sent to Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, South Caro- lina ; he escaped from the latter place, and was three months in reaching the Union army at Nashville, Tennessee. He is a member of Lincoln Post, No. II, G. A. R. He married in Newark, August 3, 1869, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary (Van Winkle) Smith. Children: I. Russie, born December 28, 1872; married Carlton George Winans, who was born November 13, 1872; child, James Dusenberry. 2. Fred Wheeler, born May 10, 1874: married Iva, only child of Dr. Edward and Mary Elizabeth (Ryno) Wake- field ; child, Fred Augustus.
(III) James Peter, son of Peter and Mary ( Wheeler ) Dusenberry, was born in Newark, New Jersey. April 19, 1844. For his early education he was sent to the public schools, and after graduating from the Newark high school he entered a store as boy and rose to the position of bookkeeper. In 1862 he be- came attached to the quartermaster's depart- ment of the Army of the Potomac, and after the St. Albans raid went with General Pitkin to Vermont to assist the state quartermaster in organizing the militia to resist any future at- tacks from Canada, from thence to Richmond after its capture and later to New Orleans, Louisiana, with the quartermaster's depart- ment, United States army. After the war was over he became a manufacturer of expansion envelopes. For three years he was secretary for the Board of Assessment and Revision of Taxes of Newark, and later became secretary of the Newark Gas Light Company ; treasurer of the Newark Gas Company ; secretary of the Hudson Gas Company, and treasurer of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. He
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is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Newark, and a director in the National Newark Banking Company, the Firemans' In- surance Company, and the Public Service Cor- poration of New Jersey. He married in New- ark, February 16, 1897, Frances, daughter of Judge Caleb S. and Frances (Grant) Tits- worth (see Titsworth).
(The Wheeler Line).
Deacon James Wheeler, founder of the branch of the Wheeler family at present under consideration, was probably with the two Jo- seph Wheelers who were in Newark in 1726, a member of the Milford family of the name. He died in Newark, January 3, 1747, aged sixty-three years. In 1712 he was constable of Newark, and bought from Abraham Kitchel the home lot in Newark which had formerly been the property of Robert Kitchel. The name of his first wife is unknown. He mar- ried (second), after 1723, Mary, widow of Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Abigail (Car- man) Coe, who was born about 1679, and died January 1, 1763, aged eighty-four years. Child, Caleb, referred to below. There were perhaps other children.
(II) Deacon Caleb, son of Deacon James and Mary Wheeler, died December 22, 1803, aged seventy-seven years. He married Phebe Children : Caleb, married, February 23, 1778, Betsy Morris; James, referred to below ; A daughter, married Robert Neil.
(III) Captain James, son of Deacon Caleb and Phebe Wheeler, died in Newark, New Jersey, March 12, 1777, aged thirty-seven years. He enlisted during the revolution and rose to the rank of captain, and as Congar well says, he is "worthy of a more honorable monu- ment than the edifice stealthily and illegally erected on the burial place of the family." He married Rhoda Lyon, who after his death married (second) John Crane. Children : Ste- phen, James, Joseph Lyon, referred to below ; Phebe, married Governor William S. Penning- ton ; Mary, married · Halstead.
(IV) Joseph Lyon, son of Captain James and Rhoda (Lyon) Wheeler, married Phebe, daughter of Zebulon Jones. Twelve children. among whom Mary, referred to below.
(V) Mary, daughter of Joseph Lyon and Phebe (Jones) Wheeler, married Peter, son of Stephen and Anna (Townsend) Dusenberry.
Benjamin Franklin Faulk- FAULKNER ner, first member of the fam- ily of whom we have definite . information, was the son of a farmer in Queen
Anne's® county, Maryland, where he was born in 1817. He lived at Easton, Talbot county, Maryland, where he died in 1844. He was a manufacturer of wagons, carts and wheels; in politics was a Democrat, and in religion a Methodist. He married Emily Adeline Mills. Three children: Alfred Beaston, referred to below, and a son and daughter who died in infancy.
(II) Alfred Beaston, son of Benjamin Franklin and Emily Adeline (Mills) Faulk- ner, was born at Easton, Talbot county, Mary- land, December 17, 1842. After leaving school he took a position as clerk with Goldsborough & Dawson, in Easton, Maryland, after which he went to Baltimore, where he found a posi- tion at first with Murray & Hazlehurst, and later with John W. Bruff & Company. When this latter firm dissolved he became a member of its successor, Bruff, Faulkner & Company, which later became the firm of Bruff, Maddox & Faulkner, which failed about 1884. Mr. Faulkner then became connected with the law and collection firm of Snow, Church & Com- pany, at first in Philadelphia and afterward in New York. Mr. Faulkner was one of the organizers of the United Merchants Associa- tion of New York, and from the time of its organization, about 1888, until his death in 1891, he was the secretary of the association. He was a Presbyterian in religion and a Dem- ocrat in politics, but he was always a lover of peace and retirement and held himself aloof from public services. He married at Glen Cove, Long Island, November 19, 1867, Louisa Augusta, born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 25, 1844, granddaughter of Parker and Re- becca (Fisher) Robinson, who were married, October 10, 1795, and daughter of Daniel and Charlotte (Henoig) Robinson. Her father was born November 24, 1802, died October 9, 1863. Her mother died January 31, 1862. Children: I. Daniel Robinson, referred to below. 2. Emily Josephine, born May 12, 1872.
(III) Daniel Robinson, son of Alfred Beaston and Louisa Augusta (Robinson) Faulkner, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 13, 1869. After receiving his early education in the Baltimore public school, he attended the private school of Major Wilburn B. Hall, in Baltimore, Maryland, which he left without graduating in June, 1886. He then started in business with the insurance broker- age firm of Butcher & Benedict, 145 Broad- way, New York, with whom he remained from November, 1886, until December, 1894, when he resigned his position in order to go into business for himself under the firm name of
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King & Faulkner, 45 Cedar street, New York. The new firm, however, was not a success so Mr. Faulkner separated from Mr. King in September, 1896, and took a position with Frederick B. Thomason, then of 13 William street, and now 64 Wall street, New York. Here he remained until February, 1902, when he started once more in the insurance business on his own account, this time making a decided success, his office being 95 William street, New York. In politics Mr. Faulkner is an Inde- pendent. He is a member of the Maryland Society of New York, and of the New York Southern Society. He married, May 10, 1900, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Susan Creighton, born in Gladstone, New Jersey, October 10, 1879, daughter of Elwood and Sarah ( Backus ) Prall. Children: 1. Daniel Robinson, Jr., born January 1, 1903. 2. Elwood Prall, April 2, 1905.
ENTWISTLE The Entwistles are an Eng- lish family, said to be one of great antiquity, and better still of honest endeavor and honorable achievement in all generations in the mother country and also on this side of the Atlantic ocean, where the surname has been known for something like a century. The immediate an- cestors of the particular family here under consideration were noted cotton manufacturers in Manchester, Berry and Leeds, England; all men of character, worth and influence in the business world and in the more private walks of life.
(I) Thomas Entwistle, immigrant, was born in Manchester, England, and came to Amer- ica when a young man, settling in Paterson, New Jersey, which even then was famous for the diversity of its manufactures and the skill of its mechanics, operatives and artisans. Doubtless young Entwistle found former ac- quaintances there and perhaps was induced to come to this country through the representa- tions of those who had preceded him to the flourishing industrial city near the great metrop- olis of America. He was apprenticed to the trade of a machinist, and after having became a practical workman removed to New York City and was made superintendent of the Nov- elty Iron Works. Still later he was employed in the service of Horatio Allen a mechanical engineer of wide repute, while he himself had then gained considerable prominence as a me- chanical inventor, having patented several me- chanical appliances and was engaged in their manufacture and sale when he was striken and
died. At that time he had sailed for Cuba, West Indies, with a shipment of machinery, and during his stay there was attacked with climatic fever which resulted in his death in 1888, soon after he had returned to New York. Mr. Entwistle married Fanny Holt, by whom he had seven children, only two of whom are now living, Jane Elizabeth, now Mrs. David Hutchinson, and James, of whom mention is made in succeeding paragraphs.
(II) Rear Admiral James Entwistle, son of Thomas and Fanny (Holt) Entwistle, is a na- tive of Paterson, New Jersey, born July 8. 1837, and still lives in that city, although much of his life as an officer of rank in the United States navy has been spent in other scenes. As a boy he received a good common school education in his native town, and afterward for some time was a student at the Free Acad- emy of New York. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship to the trade of ma- chinist at the Novelty Iron Works, and later became a mechanical draughtsman in his father's office in that city. He was thus em- ployed at the beginning of the civil war, and within less than ten days after Mr. Lincoln's call for volunteers "to suppress treasonable rebellion," he enlisted for three months as pri- vate in Company C, Eighth New York Volun- teer Militia. He continued in service until the expiration of his term of enlistment and took part in all of the military movements of his regiment, including the first battle of Bull Run, and was discharged and mustered out August 2, 1861. From the day of his enlistment as private in the three months' service Admiral Entwistle's life has belonged to our national government and his subsequent splendid record of achievement has become a part of our na- tional annals so well and widely known as to require little elaboration of detail in these pages ; and the story of his rise from the posi- tion of private of militia to the rank of rear admiral is perhaps best told in a recent narra- tive account published in a leading military magazine, from which free quotation is made in these pages.
Immediately after his discharge in August, 1861, he was granted permission by the secre- tary of the navy to appear before the board of examiners for admission to the engineer corps of the naval department, and having passed a satisfactory examination was appointed to that corps as a third assistant engineer from civil life, October, 1861, and immediately was de- tailed for duty on the gunboat "Aroostook," then building at Kennebec, Maine. While that
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vessel was being fitted out at the Boston navy yard under direction of Lieutenant Commander J. C. Beaumont, urgent telegraphic orders were received from the secretary of the navy to pro- ceed to sea immediately and search for the United States ship "Vermont," which vessel had been reported as having lost her rudder. After seven days' cruising she was finally sighted and found to be in a disabled condition with rudder gone, but with the aid of a hawser she was kept head to the sea for six days while a temporary rudder was being put in place ; and then being relieved by another gun- boat the "Aroostook" sailed for Philadelphia and was immediately ordered to Hampton Roads and to report to Admiral Goldsborough, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, reaching there the next day after the historic battle between the confederate ram "Merri- mac" and the original "Monitor," under the command of Lieutenant Commander Worden. He took part in all subsequent engagements between the "Ram" and her escorts in their attempts to destroy the Union fleet, and after the defeat of the confederate ships entered the James river with a detached fleet under com- mand of Commodore Rogers and engaged the batteries at Fort Darling, which protected the approach to Richmond, Virginia; and after a bombardment of several hours the fort was silenced, but soon afterward having been rein- forced by the crew of the "Merrimac," which vessel a few days previously had been blown up by the Confederates. the engagement was renewed and continued until nightfall, when the Union gunboats were compelled to drop down the river and anchor off Sandy Point. Afterwards the "Aroostook" engaged in the work of covering McClellan's retreat from be- fore Richmond to Harrison's Landing on the James river, and soon afterward was detach- ed from the North Atlantic squadron and sent to Pensacola, Florida, for blockade duty, under command of Admiral Farragut, commanding the west gulf blockading squadron, embracing the coast line from Pensacola to the southern end of Texas ; and later took part in nearly all of the naval engagements under command of that famous naval hero. On one occasion, while blockading off Mobile, Alabama, the "Aroostook" had the extreme good fortune to capture the first prize, the schooner "Sea Lion," with her cargo of two hundred and eighty-five bales of Sea Island cotton, while attempting to run the blockade from that port
The "Aroostook" continued to serve in the west gulf squadron until January, 1865, and
then was detached and ordered home. In April following Admiral Entwistle was ordered to the ship "Mohongo," Captain J. W. A. Nickolson, which vessel was detailed for the Pacific coast, by way of the Straits of Magellan, and while enroute touched at all of the princi- pal ports on the Atlantic coast of South Amer- ica, and arrived at Valparaiso, Chile, at the beginning of the six months' blockade and final bombardment of that city by the Spanish fleet under command of Admiral Menzes Nunez. Following the movements of the Spanish fleet after the bombardment he was a witness of the final attempt of the Spaniards to subdue the South American republic in the repulse and partial destruction of their fleet by the Peru- vians in their attempt to lay waste the city of Callao, Peru, and proceeded thence to Panama, where the "Mohongo" remained six months guarding the railroad, and then sailed for Acapulco, Mexico; remained at the latter port during the Maximilian sojourn, and from there made port at San Francisco, where he was de- tached from the "Mohongo" and ordered home by way of the Isthmus of Panama. He then was attached to the United States ship "Wamp- anoag" during the experimental trial of her machinery at the navy yard at New York; re- mained there until February, 1868, and then was ordered to the "Amanorsac" for the same duty until June, 1868. After that he was. at- tached to the ship "Nipsic," Commander Self- ridge, from September, 1868, until December, 1869, while engaged in the important work of making a preliminary survey of the Isthmus of Panama for a new canal route; and in the light of subsequent events this duty on the part of Admiral Entwistle may be regarded as of significant importance. Subsequently he had short tours of duty aboard the ship "Michigan" on Lake Erie, at League Island, Pennsylvania, and on the monitors "Saugus" and "Canoni- cus." Next he was ordered to the flagship "Franklin," under command of Admiral Worden of "Monitor" fame, for a cruise to Europe, and on the return of that vessel in 1876 one of her involuntary passengers was William M. Tweed, a fugitive from justice. who had been taken at Vigo, Spain, after his escape from America.
In March, 1877, Admiral Entwistle, then passed assistant engineer, rank of lieutenant, « senior grade, was ordered to special duty at the navy department in Washington, and in July following was ordered to special duty at the Morgan Iron Works, New York, as assist- ant to General Inspector Chief Engineer Alex-
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ander Henderson, United States navy, for the inspection of machinery being built for the gov- ernment. In December, 1878, he was ordered to duty at Mare Island navy yard, California. Three years later, February, 1881, he was ordered to the United States ship "Palos," Asiatic station, under command of Commodore Green, to verify the longitude of all open ports on the coast of China and Japan, from Vladi- vostok, Siberia, to Hong Kong, China, and upon the fulfillment of these duties to the ship "Ashmelot," Commander Mullen, United States navy, which vessel was wrecked in February, 1882, on Lammock rocks lying between Foo- chow and Amoy, off the coast of China. This loss was in great measure due to treacherous currents, dense fogs and extreme darkness peculiar to that locality during the winter months, and when all hope of saving the ship had vanished she was finally abandoned and went down in seventeen fathoms of water in forty minutes from the time of striking, officers and men losing everything but what they stood in. At daylight those who escaped made a landing on a barren island and found eleven men missing. In the meantime a whaleboat had been dispatched to Foochow, thirty miles distant, for provisions and assistance, which arrived on the following morning and proved to be a Chinese man-of-war under command of a former English naval officer, and all were taken to Hong Kong and soon afterward ordered home.
In November, 1885, Admiral Entwistle was again on duty at the Morgan Iron Works dur- ing the completion of the "Chicago," "Boston," "Atlantic" and "Dolphin," after the failure of John Roach & Company, the once famous ship-building concern of Chester, Pennsyl- vania. An interesting fact in this connection is that these four vessels formed the nucleus of our present powerful American navy. After the completion of his duties in the connection just mentioned he had short tours of experi- mental duty on the "Alarm," our first torpedo- boat, and the double-turretted monitor "Puri- tan," followed by inspection duty at Newport, Bristol and Providence, Rhode Island, in con- nection with steam capstan engines, which were the first to be installed on a United States man-of-war. Subsequently he spent one year on special duty on board the training ship "Minnesota," stationed at New York. In Sep- tember 1887, he was assigned to the govern- ment ship "Enterprise," Commander B. H. McCalla, United States navy, which vessel made one of the most varied and extended cruises in
European waters that ever was made by an American man-of-war, and during her thirty- two months' commission she steamed some- thing like forty-three thousand miles, includ- ing a voyage around the island of Madagascar and also visiting nearly seventy percent of the ports and inland cities by river navigation, both in Europe and the Continent. In June, 1890, he was ordered to the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, as inspector of machinery of the "Machias," "Castine," "Ammon," and the ram "Katahdin," having been on this duty five years and six months. In November, 1895, he was assigned to duty on the "Boston," Cap- tain Frank Wilde, fitting out at the Mare Island navy yard for a cruise to China; de- tached January, 1897, and reported for duty on Admiral Dewey's flagship "Olympia," as engineer of the fleet. He took part in the battle of Manilla Bay, May 1, 1898, and was highly commended by Admiral Dewey, awarded the Dewey medal and commended by the secretary of the navy and board of naval officers for ad- vancement in numbers for eminent and con- spicuous services in the battle. In December, 1898, he was detached from the "Olympia" by telegraph from the secretary of the navy and ordered to the United States ship "Raleigh," Captain J. R. Coghlan, United States navy, for passage to the United States, arriving home in April, 1899, and placed on the retired list of officers, in accordance with the provisions of the revised statutes of the United States.
Having thus noted in a general way some- thing of the life and experiences of Admiral Entwistle as an officer of the American navy, it is perhaps necessary to our present narrative to note his individual rank and advancement from time to time throughout the long period of his naval career : Appointed third assistant engineer, rank of ensign, October, 1861 ; pro- moted second assistant engineer, rank of lieu- tenant, junior grade, July, 1866; promoted passed assistant engineer, rank of lieutenant, senior grade, October, 1866; promoted chief engineer, rank of lieutenant commander, July, 1877 ; promoted chief engineer, rank of com- mander, October, 1896; promoted captain, March, 1899; promoted rear admiral, Febru- ary, 1901.
In Scotland the Grahams are GRAHAM a family of distinction, and in England and Ireland are those of this honored surname who have attained to positions of prominence in official life. The traditional origin of the family dates to the
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ducal house of Montrose and thence traces back in its ancestry to about the fifth century. In early Scottish history the clan Graham played an important and chivalrous part, and for gallantry acquired the designation of the "gallant Graemes." In ancient times the Gra- hams were famous champions of right and justice, and even in more recent times there have been those of this honorable house who have lent their aid to the cause of rights of man ; and it was through the advocacy of prin- ciples such as these that the immigrant ances- tor of the particular Graham family here treat- ed came to this country.
(I). Joseph Graham, the immigrant, was born in England and died at Haledon, New Jersey, aged sixty-three years. Because of his advocacy of the cause of the workingmen of England, in seeking to secure for them shorter hours of daily labor, he was virtually exiled from his native land and compelled to seek a new home in America; and here as in the mother country he was the first man to cham- pion the cause of shorter hours of labor for workingmen. He was a skillful designer and metal engraver.
(II) John, son of Joseph Graham, was born in England in 1818, died in Jersey City, New Jersey, July 2, 1881. He was quite young when he came with his father to this country. He was one of the earliest engineers on the old Paterson and Hudson railroad, also was a skilled taxidermist and a horticulturalist of considerable local celebrity. His wife was Dorothy Ryerson, and by her he had two chil- dren : I. Joseph Ryerson. 2. Harriet, married James Johnson.
(III) Joseph Ryerson, son of John and Dorothy (Ryerson) Graham, was born in Pat- erson, New Jersey, September 21, 1842; died there, January 30, 1906. He was educated in the public schools and as a pupil exhibited such remarkable proficiency in studies that thrice was he sought out and asked to become him- self a teacher. But he declined all of these offers in favor of his own determination to become a business man, and as a foundation of his subsequent career learned the carpenter's trade, becoming a competent and practical workman. And like his father and grand- father before him, Mr. Graham always mani- fested a deep interest in the welfare of work- ingmen in general, and at the age of twenty years organized the first carpenters' union and became the first president of that pioneer body. In 1874 he was elected alderman of old Ward 5, Paterson, served two terms in that office, and
in 1879 was elected mayor of the city and served efficiently a full term. And withal, Mr. Graham was a capable and successful business man, having begun his career as a journeyman carpenter. In 1864 he started in business on his own account, as a manufacturer of sash, doors and blinds, and then established what eventually became one of the largest enter- prises of its kind in Passaic county.
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