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received his education in the public schools, and when a young man engaged in the ice busi- ness, erecting large ice houses on the Neshaminy, near Neshaminy Falls, and shipping the ice to Philadelphia, where he did a large and profitable business. In 1899 he organized the Jefferson Ice Manufacturing Company, of which he was pres- ident until his death in 1905. This company was the largest retail ice dealers in Philadelphia. He also established and carried on a large coal and feed business in Philadelphia. In 1904 Mr. Worthington removed to Burlington, New Jer- sey, and established the plant of the Diamond Plate Ice Company, manufacturing ice exclu- sively from water drawn from artesian wells. He died at Burlington, September 29, 1905. John Spencer Worthington married, Novem- ber 1, 1881, Clara Delany, born at Hunting- don Valley, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1853, daughter of William R. Delany (died December 24, 1909), and of a family long resident in lower Bucks and Mont- gomery counties. She is now living at No. 113 East Union street, Burlington, New Jersey. Children of John Spencer and Clara ( Delany) Worthington : I. Henry Delany Worthington, subject of this sketch. 2. S. Cameron Spencer Worthington, born in Philadelphia, February, 1886; now paying teller in the Central Trust and Savings Fund, of Philadelphia. He mar- ried Charlotte McKensie, of Somerton, Phila- delphia, and has two children-Murrell Mere- dith Worthington, and Alice Minerva Worth- ington.
(VI) Henry Delany, eldest son of John Spencer and Clara (Delany ) Worthington, was born in Philadelphia, February 18, 1883. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia, later entered the famous William Penn Char- ter School of that city, and graduated from Dean Academy, Franklin, Massachusetts. On leaving the latter institution he accepted a posi- tion in the Merchants' National Bank, of Phil- adelphia, but soon after became associated with his father in the management of the ice busi- ness at Burlington, New Jersey, and at the latter's death took entire charge of the busi- ness and has since conducted it with eminent success. Henry Delany Worthington married, June 30, 1908, Mary Edith, daughter of Edgar Ezekiel and Hannah ( Forbes) Allen, of Bur- lington, New Jersey, and they have one child- Gertrude Elizabeth Worthington, born August 29, 1909. They reside at Burlington, where Mr. Worthington is one of the prominent and successful young business men.
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COLLINS Gilbert Collins, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, from March 8, 1897, until 1903, when he resigned to re-enter the practice of law, was born in Stonington, New London county, Connecticut, August 26, 1846, and is a descendant of an old English family which originally came from Kent, England. His great- great-grandparents were Daniel Collins and Alice Pell. His great-grandfather, Daniel Col- lins (1732-1819), of Stonington, served in the revolutionary war, and according to existing records was first lieutenant in the First Regi- ment Connecticut Line, formation of 1777 ; and it is also known that he was in service from 1775. He married Anne Potter. His son, Gil- bert (1789-1865), grandfather of the present Gilbert Collins, served several terms in the Connecticut legislature. His wife was Pru- dence Frink. Judge Collins' father, Daniel Prentice Collins (born in 1813, died in 1862), was a manufacturer in Stonington throughout his life ; he also had business relations in Jer- sey City, and on this account his son eventually made choice of that city as his field of labor, and his home. His mother, Sarah R., was a descendant of the Wells family of Connecticut.
Judge Collins was prepared for Yale College, but the death of his father changed his purpose. The family, which consisted of his mother and one sister, removed to Jersey City in 1863, and in 1865 he there entered the office of Jonathan Dixon, now deceased and former justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. He was ad- mitted to the bar as an attorney in February, 1869, and as a counselor in February, 1872. On January 1, 1870, he became a partner of Mr. Dixon, and continued in that relationship until that gentleman was elevated to the bench in April, 1875. He afterward formed a part- nership with Charles L. Corbin, one of New Jersey's most distinguished lawyers. In 1881 William H. Corbin was admitted as a member of the firm, which continued under the style of Collins & Corbin till March 8, 1897, when Mr. Collins was appointed a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, which position he held from March 8, 1897, until 1903, when he re- signed and re-engaged in the practice of law with his former partners, under the firm name of Collins & Corbin.
Judge Collins is in politics a Republican ; he has been nominated by his party for state sen- ator ( 1880) once, and for congress twice ( 1882 and 1888). For two years, from May, 1884, to May. 1886, he served as mayor of Jersey City, having been elected by a combination of
an independent organization of citizens with the Republicans. For five years previous to 1893 he served as chairman of the Republican county committee, when he declined a re-elec- tion. He is a member of the Union League and Palma clubs, of Jersey City, and of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion.
June 2, 1870, Judge Collins married Harriet Kingsbury Bush. Of their six children, two daughters survive. Their son, Walter Collins. was educated at Columbia University, New York, and Williams College, Massachusetts. He studied law in his father's office, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1896, and was a practicing lawyer in Jersey City. He died November II, 1900.
ADAMS Dr. Jesse Steelton Adams, of Burlington, descends from the Atlantic county line of the Adams family. His grandfather was Joshua Adams, who was born in Atlantic county, and was a prosperous farmer. He reared a family of sons, and with the eldest of these, William B., the line is continued to Dr. Adams. These sons were William B., Peter, Richard and Ryan. There was also one daughter.
(II) William Boice, son of Joshua Adams, was born at Somers Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey, August 13, 1801, and died April 15, 1867. He received a good common school education, and learned the trade of a black- smith, which he followed for a great many years. About the year 1855 he removed to Bridgeton, New Jersey, where for eleven years he was proprietor of a hotel. About a year previous to his death, in 1867, Mr. Adams re- tired from active life. Although in the hotel business Mr. Adams neither sold nor used . liquor. He was an active member of the Methodist church and of the order of Sons of Temperance. His political preference was for the Democratic party. He married, March 3, 1825, Rebecca, daughter of Clement Cordrey. She was born at Cordrey's Brook, Atlantic county, New Jersey, March 14, 1802, and died in 1889. She was a member of the Methodist church, and a devoted wife and mother. The children of this marriage: I. Clement C., bor11 August 25, 1826; is a business man of Tren- ton, New Jersey. 2. Henrietta D., died in childhood. 3. Absalom D., born May 19, 1831 ; he followed the sea many years, and now re- sides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 4. Mary P., died in infancy. 5. Daniel C., born April 15, 1836 ; is a merchant of Cumberland county,
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New Jersey. 6. James Henry, died in childhood. 7. Jesse Steelton, see forward. 8. Thomas Henry, died in childhood.
(III) Jesse Steelton, son of William B. and Rebecca (Cordrey) Adams, was born in Bakers- ville, Atlantic county, New Jersey, May 15, 1842. He received his education in the com- mon schools and at the West Jersey Academy, Bridgton, New Jersey. While hardly more than a boy, Mr. Adams enlisted in the Union army to help suppress the great rebellion then in progress. He enlisted for nine months serv- ice beginning in August, 1862, in Company F, Twenty-fourth New Jersey Infantry. He saw much hard service and participated in those two memorable battles and Union defeats, Fred- ericksburg and Chancellorsville. His company was commanded by Captain Samuel Harris. At the expiration of his term of enlistment Mr. Adams received an honorable discharge. Having now to decide on a profession or bitsi- ness, he chose dentistry, and entered the office of Joseph C. Kirby, who became his instructor and with whom he remained five years. In 1868 Dr. Adams located in Burlington, New Jersey, and from that time until the present (1909) has been in successful practice in that city, with the exception of four years spent in Hightstown, New Jersey. He is a gold Demo- crat politically, and for six years was secre- tary of the Burlington Board of Health, his term of office ending with his resignation. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and served the church at Hightstown as warden. His fraternal relations are with the Masonic order, in which he has attained the thirty-second de- gree Scottish Rite. He is a member of Bur- lington Lodge, No. 32, F. and A. M., and is past high priest of Boudinot Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M.
Jesse S. Adams married, March 19, 1874, Emily Francis, daughter of Joseph D. and Emily A. (Schuyler) Deacon, of Burlington, New Jersey. Three children have been born to them ; one only, the first born, Alfred, sur- vives: I. Alfred Leslie Deacon Adams, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, February 4, 1875. He was educated at the Bordentown Military Institute, Bordentown, New Jersey, and at Drexel College, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. He is now a resident of Newark, New Jersey, where he is employed in the home office of the Prudential Insurance Company. He married, in 1900, Annie Van Rossen, of Beverly, New Jersey. 2. Carleton Cordrey Adams, born February 24, 1879; died at the age of seven years. 3. Heathcote Steelman iii-9
Adams, born November 29, 1887; died aged eight years.
The Rev. Frederick Augustus LEHLBACH Lehlbach, founder of the fam-
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was born at Ladenburg, Baden, in 1805; died in Newark, New Jersey, September 11, 1875. He was educated at Heidleburg and Halle, and in 1832 became pastor of the Lutheran church at Nuenstetten, where he remained until 1841. After that he took charge of a large parish in Heiligkreutzsteinach, Baden, and while there was chosen several times by his people as their representative in the second chamber of the Baden legislature. He became a prominent character among the revolutionists of 1848-49, and when the grand duke was expelled and Baden declared a republic, Pastor Lehlbach was chosen a member of the constituante or constitutional assembly by several districts. He accepted the election from his old district of Weinheim. When the revolution collapsed, he was proscribed and sentenced to fifteen years solitary confinement for his share in the re- bellion. He escaped this severe sentence by fleeing to Strasburg, and in November, 1849, emigrated to America. After spending a few days in New York City, he went to Newark, New Jersey, where he settled as pastor of the Mulberry Street German Evangelical Church, and for the next quarter of a century, in fact until he died, maintained an exalted reputation there as a teacher of christianity and as an exemplar of morals. It was truly said of him at the time of his death that he was a man of advanced thought, and a fearless and zealous advocate of civil and religious liberty. He took a prominent part in educational and pro- gressive measures, and was one of the founders of the Green Street German-English School, of the German Hospital, and kindred charitable institutions. Children: Charles F. J. ; Emma ; Paul Frederick, referred to below; Gustav ; Hermann: Hugo; Rudolph; Laura; Ernst ; Robert ; Franklin.
(II) Paul Frederick, son of the Rev. Fred- erick Augustus Lehlbach, was born in Heilig- kreutzsteinach, Baden, in April, 1842: died in New York, April 19, 1884. He was brought over to this country by his father when only nine years old, and after receiving his educa- tion. started in life as a pharmacist in New York City. Later he became secretary of the New York College of Pharmacy. He married, in 1874. Anna Marie, born May 19. 1856, daughter of Philip and Catherine (Leitz) Jung-
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mann. Children: I. Frederick Reimold, re- ferred to below. 2. Anna, born November 7, 1878 ; married Daniel K. Van Ingen. 3. Ed- ward, October 16, 1880. 4. Emma, January 30, 1884. Children of Philip and Catherine (Leitz) Jungmann ; Johanna ; Elizabeth ; Lina ; Julius ; Anna Marie, referred to above ; Philip ; Emil.
(III) Frederick Reimold, son of Paul Fred- erick and Anna Marie (Jungmann) Lehlbach, was born in New York City, January 31, 1876, and is now living in Newark, New Jersey. He received his early education at private schools in New York City, and after coming to New- ark in 1884 entered the Newark public schools, graduating from the high school in 1893, after which he entered Yale University and grad- uated with the class of 1897. Mr. Lehlbach then began reading law with the firm of Riker & Riker in Newark, and attended the lectures at the New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in Novem- ber, 1899, and as counsellor in February, 1902. Since that time he has been engaged in the gen- eral practice of his profession in Newark. Young as he is, Mr. Lehlbach has already be- come prominent both in his profession and in the field of politics. He has been an active worker for the success of the Republican party since attaining his majority, and is a member of the Essex county Republican committee. In 1899 he was elected a member of the board of education of Newark from the third ward by a majority of one hundred and twenty-one, although the ward gave a Democratic majority for mayor and alderman. He was elected to the assembly in 1903, and again in 1904, and re-elected for a third term in 1905 by a plural- ity of twenty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-one over Mr. Waller, the highest candi- date on the Democratic ticket. In 1904 Mr. Lehlbach served as chairman of the committees on militia and passed bills, and as a member of the committees on municipal corporations, state hospitals, and Home for Feeble Minded Boys and Girls. He was clerk of the state board of equalization of taxes in 1905, in April, 1908, was appointed second assistant prosecutor of the pleas, and January 1, 1910, first assistant prosecutor of the pleas. Mr. Lehlbach is as active and popular in private as in public life. He is a member of the County Bar Associa- tion, and is a Free Mason, member of St. John's Lodge.
He married at Newark, New Jersey, June IO, 1908, Frances Estelle, born January 12, 1878, daughter of William and Harriet (Ax-
ford) Martin. Children of William and Har- riet (Axford) Martin : I. May. 2. Dell, married Daniel E. Ellis, at Amesbury, Mass- achusetts ; child-Harriet, born January 23, 1891. 3. Frances Estelle, referred to above.
WHITE In the year 1682 a large ship of five hundred and fifty tons, from England, arrived at West Jersey and ran aground in Delaware Bay. She lay there eight days and then by favorable wind and tide got off, "and coming up the river, landed her passengers, being three hundred and sixty in number, between Philadelphia and Bur- lington on the Jersey shore. Their provisions being nigh gone, they sent them in to an In- dian town near Rankokus creek, for Indian corn and pease. The king of this tribe being then there, treated them kindly, and directed such Indians as had provisions, to bring it in the next morning, who accordingly brought plenty ; which being delivered and put in bags, the messengers took leave of the king; who kindly ordered some of the Indians to carry their bags for them to their canoes."
"The assembly of West-Jersey having, at their last sitting adjourned to the first of second month this year ( 1682) met ; but not being a full house they adjourned to the fourteenth and then dissolved themselves without doing any business. Another being called, sat from the second to the eleventh of the first month fol- lowing," and among those who sat in its coun- cils was one John White, progenitor of the New Jersey family of that surname purposed to be treated in these annals.
(I) John White is supposed to have been one of the passengers in the "large ship" above mentioned, which ran aground in Delaware Bay, and he was one of those who afterward constituted the assembly of West Jersey, to which also reference has been made. On this occasion the governor. council and assembly passed sundry laws for the government of the inhabitants within their jurisdiction; and to appoint sundry officers to fulfill the mandates of the governor and assembly and otherwise to maintain the law then established. For the jurisdiction of Burlington John White was appointed sheriff, but that was done long years before the county of Burlington was estab- lished. He also performed other duties and was one of the overseers of the poor in 1682.
(II) Philip, son of John White, but extant records do not appear to furnish any account of his life or family.
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born August 17, 1762. He married Sarah M. Scott and had six children: Blanchard, Ben- jamin, Mary, Ann, Louisa and Elizabeth.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Samuel and Sarah M. (Scott) White, was born in 1796; died March 3, 1876. He was a large and enter- prising farmer in Springfield township and raised some of the best blooded horses ever bred in the county. He married, May 3, 1825, Margaret, daughter of John and Abigail Eld- ridge, granddaughter of John Eldridge, who came over with William Penn, and by her had five children: Julia Ann, born January 28, 1826; Charlotte, February 5, 1828; Blanchard, April 20, 1830; Samuel, December 27, 1835 ; Anna, November 31, 1837; Benjamin, March 20, 1840.
(V) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (I) and Margaret (Eldridge) White, was born in Springfield township, New Jersey, March 20, 1840, received his education in public and pri- vate schools in his native township and at Mount Holly. He afterward taught school for some time in Burlington and then turned his attention to farming pursuits, which has been his principal occupation in business life. In politics Mr. White is a lifelong Democrat, and for twenty-five years served as justice of the peace. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 10, Junior Order of American Mechanics. and in religious preference is a Baptist. He married Eliza Gaskell, born April 6, 1842, daughter of Abraham Gaskell, of Burlington county. They had two children, Blanchard H. and A. Harry White, the latter of whom was a young man of splendid promise, law student, member of the legislature, and who met acci- dental death by drowning.
(VI) Blanchard H., only surviving son and child of Benjamin (2) and Eliza (Gaskell) White, was born in Springfield township, June 30, 1864, and was given a good early educa- tion in public schools. During the next twelve years after leaving school he was engaged in clerical work for various large mercantile houses in Philadelphia, the last of which was John Wanamaker's store on Market and Chest- nut streets, where he remained some time, and for the next four years was employed by the Eddystown Manufacturing Company, Eddys- town, Pennsylvania. However, in 1892, on the death of his brother, he took up the study of law with Charles E. Hendrickson, of Mount Holly, and E. P. Budd, and was admitted to the bar at Mount Holly in June, 1896. For two years he served as clerk of the board of chosen freeholders, once stood as a candidate for the
legislature, and his name has been mentioned in connection with congressional nominations, although he has not at any time declared candi- dacy for that honor. Originally a Democrat, during more recent years he has allied himself strongly with the Republican party. He is a Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias and a Red Man. Mr. White married, December 10, 1902, while serving as great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, by Hon. Joseph E. Mowry, mayor of Camden, who at the time was great prophet of the order just mentioned, Aurietta E. Cope, daughter of George B. Cope, former treasurer of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and who married Fran- ces Crook, the latter a native of New Hope, Pennsylvania. One child has been born of this marriage-Margaret White, April 6, 1906.
John Nicholas Steiger (as the STYER name was formerly spelled) was a horseman in the regiment of the Most Illustrious Bernard, commander of the cavalry of his majesty, the king of Bohemia.
(II) Jacob Styer, who seems to have been the first to change the spelling of the name, was a son of John Nicholas Steiger.
(III) Leonard, son of Jacob Styer, married Mary Tyson.
(IV) David, son of Leonard and Mary (Ty- son) Styer, was born June 21, 1810. He was a railroad contractor, and in the pursuit of his calling built many miles of railroad tracks, mostly for the Pennsylvania railroad. He set- tled first in White Hill, later in Florence, Bur- lington county, New Jersey. He was in active service during the civil war. His political affil- iations were with the Whig and Republican parties, and he was a member of the Presby- terian church. Mr. Styer married at German- town, Pennsylvania, Mary Ann Jones. Chil- dren : Ferdinand Clay, Gertrude, Mary, Henry Clay (see forward), David, Clara, Rebecca, Matilda, Frances, Kate, Thomas Leonard, Paul and Harriet.
(V) Henry Clay, second son and fourth child of David and Mary Ann (Jones ) Stver. was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, De- cember 21, 1841. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and this was supple- mented in various ways, so that his entire edu- cation was broad and liberal. He was but nineteen years of age when he enlisted in 1861 in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment : he served in the quartermaster's department from 1861 to 1865. After leaving the army Mr. Styer assisted his father for a time in the
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railroad contracting business, then conducted a general store in Florence, New Jersey. Later he settled in Trappe, Pennsylvania, where he cultivated a farm and also conducted a general store. He returned to New Jersey in 1888, was a merchant in the southern part of the state for a time, then removed to a farm near Burlington, New Jersey, where he now resides. Mr. Styer is a Republican, and justice of the peace for Springfield township, Burlington county, and for several years has been a mem- ber of the board of education. He has also served his township as collector, clerk and committeeman. He is a Presbyterian, and elder of the church at Jacksonville, New Jer- sey. Mr. Styer married, June 2, 1874, Martha Emily, born April 24, 1843, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Bowne ) Scott, and granddaugh- ter of Henry Scott, and of Phoebe Bowne. Children : Harry Butler ; Frank, born Novem- ber 7, 1876; David, see forward ; Phoebe Anna, born October 1, 1880; Archibald ; Oliver Smith.
(VI) David, third son and child of Henry Clay and Martha Emily (Scott) Styer, was born at Florence, New Jersey, December 10, 1877. He received his education in the district schools of Burlington county, Mount Holly Academy, Van Rensselaer Seminary, Burling- ton, New Jersey ; Rider Business College, Tren- ton, New Jersey ; and Lafayette College, Eas- ton, Pennsylvania, from which he was grad- uated with the degree of civil engineer in 1904. He became connected with the Bordentown (New Jersey ) Military Institute in 1896, hold- ing the position of stenographer and book- keeper, and since that time has served as in- structor and general assistant in the adminis- trative department. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, and his political views are those of an independent Republican. He and his family are attendants at the Presby- terian church. Mr. Styer married at Pueblo, Colorado, June 29, 1909, Lillian Scott, born near Burlington, New Jersey, July 6, 1877, daugh- ter of William and Sarah Ann ( Antrim) Rich- ardson, whose other children are: William, John Antrim and Rebecca. Mr. Richardson was a farmer.
Alexander Stewart, the found- STEWART er of the family at present under consideration, was born in Scotland and emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia, where he died about the mid- dle of the nineteenth century. . He married Annie Clibborn, born in Scotland. Children :
James, referred to below ; William ; Alexander ; Annie ; Mary ; Thomas ; Joseph ; John.
(II) James, son of Alexander Stewart, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1857, and died in Long Branch, Monmouth county, New Jersey, March 2, 1888. After re- ceiving a good common school education he learned the trade of plumber, and then removed to Long Branch, where he set up for himself and conducted a prosperous and successful business until his death. He married Cornelia, daughter of Matthias W. and Hannah ( Truax) Woolley (see Woolley). She was born Janu- ary I, 1862. Children: William, born and died August 14, 1886; James Alexander, re- ferred to below.
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