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He married, August 3, 1871, Anna M., born October 23, 1855, daughter of Henry and Madaline (Haultzhausen) Meyers, of Brook- lyn, New York. Children: I. George Ryer- son, born June 14, 1872 ; died August 14, 1873. 2. Emma J., October 5, 1873; died August 5, 1898. 3. Florence May, May 5, 1877; died March 19, 1882. 4. Viola K., January 3, 1883; married, February 28, 1908, Vernon E. Royle. 5. Joseph R., February 9, 1885 ; died March 3, 1909.
KEIGHLEY The Keighley family is an- other of the late acquisitions to this country and to New
Jersey soil, being represented by only three generations, the last of which has still to make its name for itself; but the two first genera- tions have already left a permanent impress on the industries of the state in their chosen calling and now enjoy not only a local but also a national reputation.
(I) Charles Keighley, founder of the fam- ily, was born in Great Horton, Bradford, York- shire, England, June 1, 1842, and is now living in Vineland, Cumberland county, New Jersey. After receiving his education in Great Horton he became an apprentice in the shoe factory of his grandfather, where he learned his trade. After this he went to Bradford to complete his term of apprenticeship, and then set up in business for himself, conducting a retail boot and shoe store successfully until 1870, when he accepted an offer to become the agent in Amer- ica of Pitt Brothers, of Cleckheaton, York- shire, who were introducing into this country their circular feed sewing machine. Mr. Keighley was so pleased with his experiences while here on this work that he subsequently returned with his family, and made his home in Philadelphia as the regular representative of Pitt Brothers. In 1873 he removed to Vine- land, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and tried farming, but after about a year went back to his old trade, obtaining a position in a shoe factory, which he retained until his em- ployers failed in 1875. He then made an agree- ment with Hunt & Reeves to manufacture
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shoes for then at a given price, they supply- ing the materials. Beginning with twenty workmen, his business grew so that in 1884 he erected his present four-story brick factory, covering fifty-four thousand square feet of superficial area, where he employed four hun- dred operatives, with a capacity of two thous- and pairs of shoes, both hand and machine made, for men, women, misses and children, sending his product to all parts of the United States. In 1894 he took into partnership with himself his two sons, and since then the firm name has been Charles Keighley & Sons. Much of his success has been due to a number of labor-saving devices and machines which he has invented and patented, the most important of which in his estimation is the automatic heal burnisher, which enables the work of three men to. be done by one. This machine but recently he has still further improved as to capacity and quality of work done.
To Mr. Keighley is mainly due the pure water supply of the town. In 1885 he obtain- ed from the authorities of the borough the franchise necessary, and immediately set about drilling the wells and building the needed struc- tures for the water works. When completed he had put in at the pump station a fire pump so powerful that three streams from hydrants could be played through the regulation hose over any building in the town. He had laid some fifteen miles of water mains. This pro- ject has now become the Vineland Water Works Company, which is now a part of the borough equipment. Mr. Keighley has not only devoted himself to his chosen line of shoe manufacturing, but has become interested in other enterprises, among which are: The manufacture of glass bottles, window glass, artificial stone, leather tanning, shoe machinery, gold mining in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Ne- vada and British Columbia. In 1898 he equip- ped an expedition to search the Peace river district of British Columbia for placer gold deposits, which was partially successful. He has always had a particular fondness for fancy farming and stock raising and he hopes some day when the arduous duties of active business life become less, to retire to an ideal spot close to Vineland, where he can devote the remainder of his days to his long cherished fancies in farm and live stock. To Mr. Keigh- ley's credit it must be said that he has helped many a struggling manufacturer to get on his feet and make a success. Mr. Keighley is a director of the Tradesmen's Bank of Vine- land. For twenty-two years he has been a
trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and a director of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble Minded Children, while his wife has served as a member of the board of managers of the State Institute for Feeble Minded Women, and on the board of lady visitors of the Training School for Feeble Minded Children, and for many years presi- dent of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Charles Keighley married, December 17, 1863, Martha, daughter of William Parker Bottomley, of Great Horton, Yorkshire, Eng- land. They have had eight children, only two of whom reached maturity: William Bottom- ley, and Charles Percy, both of whom are re- ferred to below.
(II) William Bottomley, eldest son to reach maturity of Charles and Martha ( Bottomley) Keighley, was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, March 31, 1868, and is now living in Vineland, New Jersey. For his education he was sent. to the public schools of Vineland, and after- wards to Pennington Seminary, where he grad- uated with marked honors. He then became one of the department foremen in his father's factory, and when the new firm was formed was taken into partnership and he became the general manager and buyer of most of the ma- terial used, and is now also vice-president of the Keighley Company, manufacturers of shoe machinery and supplies. He was also interested in the Vineland Water Works Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer, and helped to make that company the success it attained. Like his father, he is an inventor, and has taken out many patents for improved boot and shoe machinery, glass machinery, gold washing machinery, rubber tires, etc., and his business ability is of a high order. He is a student and close observer in the sciences, espe- cially metaphysics as applied to natural phe- nomena. He believes that the coming method of transportation will be by the air, even for carriage of heavy bulky freight and cargoes, and that it is possible and probable that we will be able to leave New York City at 7 p. m. and be in London by 7 p. m. next day, and that by 1920. Besides shoes and shoe machinery he is interested in window glass manufacturing, gold mining in Mexico, Nevada, California,. Montana and Colorado. In 1898 he headed an expedition to the Peace river country in search of placer deposits. He predicts that British Columbia will be one of the greatest mining countries of the world, that its mineral wealth is simply marvelous and that it awaits only the transportation facilities necessary to
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cause a movement in that direction that will eclipse the rush of 1849 to California or the rush of 1898 to the Klondyke. He is an ac- complished musician, and for eighteen years has been chorister and organist of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Vineland; he organized and led for years a fine concert band. Mr. Keighley is a Prohibitionist in politics, and a member of Vineland Lodge, No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Eureka Chapter, No. 13, Royal Arch Masons, of Vineland. He married, September 1I, 1891, Carrie Frances, daughter of Rev. George S. Sykes, a Meth- odist minister of Pennsylvania; they have no children.
(II) Charles Percy, second child of Charles and Martha ( Bottomley) Keighley to reach maturity, was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, July 12, 1870, and is now living in Vineland, New Jersey. Like his brother, he was sent to the Vineland public schools and to Pennington Seminary for his education. He then took charge of his father's Philadelphia office, at II North Fourth street, where he re- mained for the next three years, when his father discontinued the office because he had determined to sell direct to the jobbers and the retailers. Charles Percy then came to Vine- land and took charge of the sales and financial department of the business, and also became the buyer of the upper leathers. He is now secretary and treasurer of the Keithley Com- pany. He is a member of the Alpha and Omega Greek letter fraternity of Pennington Seminary, and is also a member of Hobah Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Like his brother, he is a Prohibitionist. He is also an inventor and interested in the manu- facture of window glass, shoe machinery and in mining operations in the west. He has ably filled the position of secretary and treasurer in a number of large business combinations and is very active in business circles. Charles Percy Keighley married, September 2, 1891, Elizabeth H., daughter of John W. Carson, of Vineland. They have two children: Helene Jennings and Marian Holden.
McKEE This family of Mckees came to America from the north of Ire- land, and while the Mckees of that region of country had lived there for many generations previous to the last century and while some of them perhaps had intermarried with pure Irish families, they sprung from original Scotch ancestors who were famous in olden times.
(I) William McKee, immigrant ancestor of the family here treated, was born in the north of Ireland, January 13, 1813 ; died at Paterson, New Jersey, February 19, 1881. He came to this country about the year 1830, settling first at Hoboken, New Jersey, from whence he re- moved up the Hudson river, changing his resi- dence from there about the year 1850, settling in Paterson, New Jersey, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a stock farmer by principal occupation for many years after he settled in Hoboken, and is remembered as having been much interested in the breeding of fine blooded horses. Just how many horses he bred for the racing track would be difficult to say at this time, but among the many was the famous trotter "Judge Fullerton," one of the very best horses of his day in the United States. The producing of thorough-bred horses gave Mr. McKee a wide reputation among genuine sportsmen and lovers of fine stock, and in the times when track racing was in its infancy he was one of the most popular men in the stock breeding business. Upon taking up his resi- dence in Paterson, he was proprietor of a livery and sales stable which stood in the cen- ter of the city on the site now occupied by the county courthouse. Mr. McKee married Eliza (Willis) Berdan, born June 22, 1806; died at Paterson, January 17, 1876, daughter of John and Catherine Willis, and widow of Jacob Berdan. Children: I. James Willis, see for- ward. 2. Alida, born August 31, 1842; died May 14, 1893.
(II) James Willis, only son of William and Eliza (Willis) (Berdan) McKee, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, October 24, 1840; died in Paterson, New Jersey, May 4, 1902. He was a boy of eleven years when his father moved to Paterson, and when old enough to work learned the trade of cabinet making, be- coming a practical workman, and for many years built the cabs for the engines constructed at the Cooke Locomotive Works. About the beginning of the civil war he became proprietor of a hotel and continued in that business some ten or twelve years. In 1872 he became a professional singer, and is remembered as one of the noted vocalists of his day, a popular member of the Tony Pastor company and also a favorite under Harrigan and Hart. In 1880 he was elected a member of the board of free- holders of Passaic county, and in 1884 was elected sheriff of the county, holding the latter office until January 1, 1888. He then engaged in the undertaking business with his son, Will- 1 iam B., under the firm name of James W. Mc-
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Kee & Son, and continued the same until his death. For many years Mr. McKee was one of the most popular citizens of Paterson, and few men had a more extended acquaintance than he in the entire county. In politics he was a strong Republican, but he had also many sincere friends in the Democratic party who were always ready to support him when he was a candidate for public office. He was a prom- inent member of New York Lodge, No. I, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married, October 10, 1861, Margaret Bush, born September 22, 1837, daughter of Peter and Eliza Ann (Wanamaker) Bush, of Lodi," Bergen county, New Jersey. Children : I. Alida, born March 25, 1863 ; died December 4, 1863. 2. William Bush, July 20, 1864 ; married (first) Etta C. Burton, by whom he had one child, Alida ; married ( second) Josephine Phae- lan ; no children. 3. Wood, November 10, 1866; see forward. 4. Jesse, June 18, 1869 ; married, January 9, 1889, Charles Loman Dooley, born August 3, 1866; one child, Charles Cameron Dooley, born December 14, 1899. 5. Eugene Nott, January 25, 1872; died July 3, 1872. 6. Walter, June 9, 1877 ; died July 7, 1877.
(III) Wood, son of James Willis and Mar- garet (Bush) McKee, was born in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, November 10, 1866. He received his early education in the public schools and Father McManus' Seminary. After leaving school he took up the study of law with Judge Francis Scott, and in 1888 was admitted to practice. For twenty years he has been a member of the Passaic county bar, en- gaged in active general practice, and in connec- tion with professional employments he has taken considerable interest in public affairs, always on the Republican side, for Mr. McKee is regarded as one of the leaders of that party in the city and county. From 1897 to 1899 he was a member of the lower house of the state legislature, and from 1900 to 1906 occupied a seat in the state senate. Like his father, Mr. McKee is an accomplished vocalist, and is basso in the choir of St. Peter's Church, Prot- estant Episcopal. He is a thirty-second de- gree Mason, member of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 88, Free and Accepted Masons; Adelphic Chapter, No. 33, Royal Arch Masons; Terry Council, No. 6. Royal and Select Masters ; Melita Commandery, No. 13, Knights Temp- lar; Silk City Conclave, No. 232, Order of Heptasophs; Fabiola Lodge, Knights of Pythias ; Pioneer Camp, No. 7734, Modern Woodmen of America; Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He also is a member of the Mecca and Hamil- ton clubs, of Paterson. Mr. McKee married Margaret Ayres, born February 22, 1868, died May 22, 1908, daughter of James G. and Ellen ( Watson) Ayres, the former of whom was. for many years superintendent of the Cooke Locomotive Works, of Paterson. Children: I. Dorothy, born June 24, 1896. 2. Jessie, July 3, 1898. 3. Margaret, July 23, 1906.
COOK The Cook family in America was
founded by Francis Cooke, who came to Massachusetts in 1620, 011 the "Mayflower," with one child John. His wife Esther and children Jacob, Jane and Esther came in the "Ann" in 1623. The name was spelled with an "e" until later generations. From New England descendants of Francis Cooke settled in Hunterdon, Monmouth and Mercer counties, New Jersey. The Cook fam- ily of Trenton is one of the oldest in that city or vicinity. Among the archives of New Jer- sey is found the following: "1867, Apr. 20 Ballefield Certificate of Mahlon Stacy and that Anthony Woodhouse employee of William Cook had done his duty in West Jersey." "On April 23, 1687, William Cook of Sheffield, Eng- land, gave forty acres to Anthony Woodhouse yeoman of the First Fourth for his services." In Hunterdon county the founder of the fam- ily retained the final "e" and in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, one Thomas Cooke men- tions in his will of December 12, 1698, his wife Elizabeth, sons William, Thomas and daugh- ter Elizabeth. Henry Cook appears in the New Jersey Archives by indenture between himself and one Peeps, the same bearing date of November 1, 1708. This land was one hundred acres in what was then Burlington county, New Jersey. It is from the Mercer county Cooks that Henry Brown Cook, of At- lantic City, descends.
(I) Henry Brown Cook was a leading con- tractor and builder, and settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where in 1872 he built what was then a large hotel which he called the "Senate House," which he conducted until his leath, enlarging it in 1879 and again in 1891. He married Rebecca Emmons and they had Henry C., deceased; John J., now living in Atlantic City, Franklin Pierce, see forward, and Elizabeth A., married David R. Barrett.
(II) Franklin Pierce, son of Henry Brown and Rebecca (Emmons) Cook, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1851. On the death of his father the business of con- ducting the hotel devolved upon him. In 1897
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the property was again enlarged, the location on the beach front making it a very desirable resort for tourists. Mr. Cook was a member of the Atlantic City common council in 1882, and was three times re-elected. He was pro- gressive in his ideas and stood boldly for all needed public improvements. He was a char- ter member of Neptune Fire Company, and the first to advocate the use of horses by the fire department, and had a great deal to do with making the "Board Walk," a steel elevated structure. He was a member of the board of water commissioners in 1895. Many of the attractive features of Atlantic City were either introduced or championed by Mr. Cook. He married Sally S. Barrett, born on Long Island, New York, daughter of David R., Sr., and Lydia ( Naylor) Barrett. Lydia Naylor's mother was Marion Jackson, a daughter of Major William Luke Jackson, who served on the staff of General Washington during the revolution, and served as private secretary to President Washington in first term. Major Jackson's wife was Elizabeth Willing. The children of Franklin P. and Sally S. ( Barrett) Cook are: I. Harry Brown, see forward. 2. Rebecca E., born in 1879; married Leonard D. Alger, born in Burlington county, New Jer- sey. 3. Benjamin Harrison, born in 1881. 4. Howell E., born in 1886. The brothers are owners and proprietors of the "Seaside House," Atlantic City, which they conduct under the name of F. P. Cook's Sons. They are the third generation in the business, and comprise the oldest hotel family in the city. The "Sea- side" was established in 1870 and rebuilt in 1900, situated at the sea end of Pennsylvania avenue, Atlantic City's most fashionable thor- oughfare, facing the ocean, and directly over- looking the "Board Walk" and famous steel pier, and is open all the year.
(III) Harry Brown, son of Franklin Pierce and Sally S. ( Barrett) Cook, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1873. He attended the Atlantic City schools and Prick- etts Business College at Philadelphia. He was taught the hotel business by his father who early took him into his employ, and has proved a worthy successor to the two generations of hotel proprietors who preceded him. Mr. Cook is a member of the Atlantic City Yacht and Country clubs, and vice-president of the Hotel Men's Association. He married Hancie A., born in Philadelphia, in 1877, daughter of Thomas Irwin, formerly a resident of Phila- delphia, now of Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Cook are the parents of two children,
Franklin Pierce (2), born October 4, 1902, and Ellen Irwin, born June 18, 1905.
The Twinings of Twining be- TWINING longed to the race which was English before William the Conqueror arrived, and the home from which they sprang is in the county of Gloucester. Prior to the Saxon invasion under Cuthwrin in 577, there is no mention of the name, the patronymic originating at that time. Twyning Manor dates from the time of King Edward I, and from that day on we find the name spelt in some fourteen or fifteen different ways in the records, especially in Tewkesbury, Pershore and Evesham. Among the prominent members of the family was Richard, 1472, monk of Tewkesbury Abbey; John, lord abbott, of Winchcombe, 1474; Thomas, monk of Tewkes- bury, 1539, and from that day to the present a continuous line of leading and prominent ecclesiastics in the English church. In other branches of life, Daniel, 1853, was rector of Stilton Hunts; Elizabeth, 1805-89, his daugh- ter, was celebrated botonist and philanthropist ; Frank Theed Twining, 1848-83, was a famous physician. The family is also prominent in Wales and in Nova Scotia.
(I) William Twining, founder of the fam- ily in America, came to this country before June 1, 1641, when his name is found in the court records of the Plymouth Colony in a case of trespassing regarding certain lines. He was then a resident of Yarmouth, some thirty miles southeast of Plymouth, and incorporated as a town in 1639. His daughter Isabel was mar- ried there the same date, and his first wife was then living. In 1643 he is included in the list of those able to bear arms at Yarmouth, and for the next two years the records rank him among the militia, consisting of fifty soldiers, to each of whom was given on going forth, one pound of powder, three pounds of bullets, and one pound of tobacco. In 1645 he was one of the five soldiers to send out against the Narragansetts. Soon after this he removed to Nauset, now Eastham, Barnstable county, Massachusetts; in this latter place he was chosen constable June 5, 1651 ; May 13, 1654, he was granted two acres of meadow, "lying at head of Great Namshaket." In 1655 his name is included in the list of twenty-nine legal voters of Freemen in the town. The same records show several parcels of land were granted to him at Rock Harbor, Poche, and other localities on the Cape. He appears to have resided in Poche, "on the east side of the
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town Cove, on the lot containing two and one- half acres, lying next the Cove." He died here April 15, 1659. That he was a man of more than ordinary character is shown by the title of Mister affixed to his name in the early records, a distinction given to but few men, even though they were men of substance. In 1652 he married Anna Doame, who died Feb- ruary 27, 1680. She may have been a sister to Deacon John Doame, 1590-1685, who came to Plymouth 1621, and Eastham, 1645. Children so far as known, by his first wife, born in Eng- land: I. Isabel, died in Yarmouth, May 16, 1706; married Francis Baker, and immigrated with her husband in the "Planter," 1635; eight children. 2. William, referred to below.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) Twining, was born about 1625, probably in England, and was therefore but a boy when he came over with his father. He is first men- tioned in the records when he married, at East- ham. In 1652 he was admitted and sworn, and from this date to 1671 his name occurs four times as one of the grand jury. As early as 1677 he was a deacon of the Eastham church, and is alluded to as Deacon Twining as late as 1681. He deeds land at Bound Brook in Yarmouth, 1669, and two years later sells Thomas Dagget one hundred acres at Mama Kasset. In 1659 the town of Eastham granted him three and one-half acres which had formerly belonged to Joshua Cooke. He also had lands at Billingate and several other places in Barnstable county. The last occurrence of his name in the Eastham records is in 1695, when he and his son William were numerated among the legal voters of the town. Previous to this date his religious views underwent a radical change and he became a member of the Society of Friends. The circumstances of this change are unknown, and the monthly meeting with which he united is not on record. With the change of creed, however, came also a change of habitation in order that he might enjoy the peaceful fruits of a peaceful religion. We therefore find him and his son Stephen locating in the new province of Pennsylvania. Up to this date ( 1695) the family had remained intact and this was the first division. William Twining, Jr., located at Newtown, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, and his name first appears in 1699 upon the Middletown monthly meeting record, together with that of his son Stephen, in a discussion against selling rum or strong drink to the Indians. In 1703 the records state a marriage was held at his house. He died No- vember 4, 1703, and his will, after being lost
sight of for one hundred and eighty years, was found in 1885 in the register's office in Phila- delphia. William Twining married Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Ring) Deane, who died December 28, 1708. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, died March 10, 1725; married John Rogers, of Mayflower descent ; eight children. 2. Ann, died September I, 1675; married Thomas Bills; two children. 3. Susanna, born January 25, 1654 ; died young. 4. William, referred to below. 5. Mehitable, supposed to have married Daniel Doame. 6. Joanna, born May 30, 1657; died June 4, 1723; married Thomas Bills, widower of her sister Anna. 7. Stephen, February 6, 1659; married Abigail Young.
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