USA > New Jersey > Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume III > Part 27
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85
986
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Lydia H. Bishop, of Medford, New Jersey ; (second) Kate Jacob, of Louisville, Kentucky. II. Benjamin Walter, born June 29, 1821 ; died December 15, 1883 ; married Harriet W. Davis.
(III) Richard, son of Benjamin and Mary (Howell) Jones, was born in Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey, February 21, 1812, and died October 29, 1890. Like his father he was an iron founder, and owned the furnaces at Han- over, New Jersey, which he continued with his brother, Samuel Howell Jones, under the firm name R. & S. H. Jones. About 1850 Mr. Jones went to Newark, New Jersey, where he organized the New Jersey Zinc Works, and owing to the fact of his uncle William's having been a member of the first board of directors of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, on which he served for five years, he became very much interested in the Newark Library Asso- ciation, which was being organized and incor- porated at that time, and became one of the first stockholders of the corporation. In 1853 he went to Florence, New Jersey, where he established an iron furnace which he operated 11ntil 1864, when he retired from active pur- suits and spent the remainder of his life partly at Mount Holly, New Jersey, and partly in Philadelphia. Mr. Jones married ( first) Susan Gibbs, (second), on June 2, 1841, Alice Wood- mansie Davis, of Chesterfield, New Jersey. Children, two by first wife: I. Joseph Gibbs, married Christine Kellog. 2. Benjamin, re- ferred to below. 3. Ivins Davis, died unmar- ried ; became captain of Company C, First New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and afterward major of First New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, and served during the civil war. 4. Alice, mar- ried Cyril Monier Williams. 5. Mary Howell. 6. Susan Emlen, married (first) Mortimer Oldham Heath, of England; (second) George W. Carpenter. 7. Richard Jones, married Eliz- abeth Brightly.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Richard and Susan (Gibbs) Jones, was born in Hanover, New Jersey, in 1828, and died in Pemberton, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, October 6, 1899. After receiving a good education in the public schools of Hanover he entered and graduated from the Gibbs school at Plattsburg, New Jer- sey, after which he became associated with his father in the conduct of the latter's iron furnace in Florence, New Jersey, where he continued in business for several years, after which he turned his attention to school teach- ing, which became the chief occupation of the remainder of his life, and for many years he
was one of the most prominent men in the educational field of Burlington county. He did not specially identify himself with any ecclesiastical organization, although his own tastes and ancestral affiliations inclined him strongly to the Society of Friends. About 1859 Mr. Jones married Mary Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William Carroll, of Juliustown, New Jersey. Children: I. Susan, now dead. 2. William Carroll, referred to below. 3. Lillie, married George West, superintendent of an electrical construction company in Fairhaven, Vermont ; child, Mary Elizabeth West. 4. An- drew, an employee of Pennsylvania Railroad Company ; lives in Pemberton, New Jersey ; married Amy Emmons ; children : Inez, Paul and Oscar. 5. Alice, married Charles Wills, of Vincentown, New Jersey. 6. Elizabeth .. now dead. 7. Arthur, married Annie Wells, of Pemberton ; lives in Camden, New Jersey ; one child, Barclay Jones. 8. Mary, married Oscar Ayres, of Freehold, New Jersey. 9. Horace, now dead. IO. Rebecca, married Roy Rue, of Hightstown, New Jersey ; one son, Oscar Rue. II. Martha, now dead.
(V) William Carroll, son of Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth (Carroll) Jones, was born in Hanover, New Jersey, October 10, 1862, and is now living in New Egypt, Ocean county. New Jersey. He received his early education in the high school at Pemberton, and in 1878, when sixteen years of age, obtained a position in the drug store of J. Harley Compton, in New Egypt, where he remained for the ensu- ing ten years, taking, at the same time the regular courses of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1888 with the degree of Ph. G. Shortly after his graduation he obtained a position as phar- macist and clerk in the drug store of E. B. Jones, of Mount Holly, with whom he con- tinued until 1895, when he returned to New Egypt and bought up the business of his former employer, Mr. J. Harley Compton. Since that time Mr. Jones has been the proprietor of that establishment, and although it is one of the largest businesses of its kind in that portion of the state, it comprises in reality only a small portion of the business interests of which Mr. Jones is the head. In 1906 he organized the Jones Break-up Company, a corporation organ- ized under the laws of the state of New Jersey for the manufacture of druggists' specialties and proprietary remedies. Of this company Mr. Jones is president and active managing head. Besides these business interests Mr.
987
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Jones has been closely identified with many of the best corporations and institutions of New Egypt. He is the one who was mainly respon -- sible for the organization of the First National Bank of New Egypt in 1906, and he is now vice-president of the institution. He is also a director and the treasurer of the New Egypt Water Company, as well as treasurer of the Village Improvement Association, of which he was one of the most prominent organizers. He is a firm believer in the benefits of fraternal organizations, and is an enthusiastic member of several, among them the Masons, Golden Eagle, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Junior Order of American Mechanics. Al- though he was brought up under the influence of the Society of Friends, he has for many years been a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is president of the board of trustees of that de- nomination in New Egypt, which he also served for eleven years as secretary of its Sunday school.
January 1, 1887, Mr. Jones married Louisa C., daughter of William and Charlotte L. (Miller) Holzbaur, of New Egypt, whose father is a native of Germany and emigrated to this country, landing in 1854 in New York City, where for a time he worked at his trade of shoe-making, removing in a few years to Bordentown, and shortly afterward to Colum- bus, New Jersey. He settled in 1866 perma- nently at New Egypt, where he still, as he has for many years past, conducts his business as proprietor of a variety store in connection with general shoe repairing. He married, in Colum- bus, New Jersey, Charlotte L. Miller (or Mueller). Children: Francis, Hannah, Char- lotte, Margaret, Louisa, William and Sarah Holzbaur. Mr. Holzbaur is son of Christopher and Elizabeth Holzbaur, whose children were: Jacob, Rose, Casper, William, referred to above, and Riker Holzbaur. Child of William Carroll and Louisa C. (Holzbaur) Jones : Harley Roscoe, referred to below.
(VI) Harley Roscoe Jones, born in New Egypt, New Jersey, April 2, 1888, was edu- cated in a private school of that town, after which he went to the Mount Holly high school, from which he graduated in 1905. Since 1907 he has been connected with the Corn Exchange of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for a shorter while has been engaged with the Interstate Instructional Banking School. He is also treas- urer of the Jones Break-up Company.
(For preceding generations see Matthias Corwin 1). (VII) Joseph Albert Corwin, CORWIN son of William and Martha (Vance) Corwin, was born in Sparta, New Jersey, May 17, 1810. He grad- uated from Yale Medical College, 1835, and throughout his active career was a noted phy- sician and surgeon, practicing his profession at Belleville, New Jersey, from 1837 to 1850, and at Newark, New Jersey, from 1850 until 1880. He was a member of the Newark Board of Education, and warden of Christ Episcopal Church, Newark. He married (first) Tar- quina Kenney; (second), September 18, 1856, Emma Whybrew, born in Newark, New Jer- sey, July 29, 1831, daughter of Samuel A. and (Ward) Baldwin, of Newark, grand- daughter of Nehemiah and Rhoda Baldwin, of Newark, and a descendant of Lieutenant All- ing, of Newark, New Jersey, who was a minute-man in the war of the revolution. Chil- dren of Nehemiah and Rhoda Baldwin: Sam- uel A., Amarintha and George W. Baldwin. Children of first wife: I. Francis Nicholas West, born July 4, 1840; married (first) Louisa Westervelt ; ( second) Sarah E. Condit. 2. William Albert, born March 12, 1843 ; stud- ied medicine; became a surgeon in United States navy in 1871, and remained in service to his death at Panama from yellow fever in 1887. 3. Charles Frederick, born July 25, 1845. 4. Mary Garette, born February 14, 1850; died September 9, 1851. Children of second wife: 5. Theodore Wellington, see for- ward. 6. Harry Clifford, born 1859; died in his second year. 7. Robert Lowell, born 1870; employed in pension office at Washington, D. C. 8. Joseph Wilmer, born 1871; resides in Orange, New Jersey ; conducts a wholesale paper business in New York City.
(VIII) Theodore Wellington, eldest child of Joseph Albert and Emma Whybrew ( Bald- win) Corwin, was born in Newark, New Jer- sey, June 1, 1857. He was educated at the pri- vate school of Professor Shier, and later stud- ied medicine in his father's office. For three years he pursued a course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City (medical department, Columbia College), and was graduated with honors, Feb- ruary 28, 1879, when he received a prize awarded for general proficiency. He at once entered Charity (now called the City) Hos- pital of New York City, and received the hos- pital diploma October 1, 1880, having served as interne for eighteen months. He then engaged
ยท
1
988
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
in general practice in Newark, making a spe- cialty of diseases of the nose, throat and lungs, in which branches he achieved success and re- nown, becoming one of the leading local au- thorities, his opinions being sought by many from far and near. He also became connected with the Hospital of St. Barnabas, Newark, serving in the capacity of externe. In 1886 he was appointed visiting physician to the same. In 1887 he became connected with St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, and in 1890 established a clinic for treatment of diseases of the nose and throat. This has since steadily grown in im- portance and favor. In 1900 Dr. Corwin re- linquished general practice and limited his practice to diseases of the nose, throat and lungs. He is a member of the American Med- ical Association, and its state and county branches; the New York Academy of Medi- cine : American Laryngological, Otological and Rhinological Society ; National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; New Jersey State Association for Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis; Newark Medical and Surgical Society ; Essex County Medical Soci- ety ; Practitioners' Club of Newark, and other medical bodies. He is a member of the Ameri- can Public Health Association and New Jer- sey Sanitary Association, North End Club, Northern Republican Club, Wednesday (liter- ary) Club, Forest Hill Literary Society, Young Men's Christian Association, and was formerly connected with the Golden Star Fraternity and Knights of Honor. He is a member of the Board of Trade, Newark, and has served as commissioner of public health, city of Newark. since January, 1909. He is a member and junior warden of St. James Church (Prot- estant Episcopal) of Newark. Both he and Mrs. Corwin are actively interested in many philanthropic and charitable associations.
Dr. Corwin married, at Rorchester, New York, July 2, 1891, Lillian E., born at Greece, New York, now Rochester, January 4, 1860, daughter of Delafield and Eugenia E. ( Put- nam) Whiting, the former of whom was lieu- tenant in United States army ; he was a mem- ber of the New York National Guard, and later was connected with the civil department of Rochester, New York, in charge of poor house. Children of Lieutenant Whiting : Dela- field Jr., Willis P., Bertha, Lillian E. (Mrs. Corwin) ; another child, who died in infancy. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Corwin: 1. Emma Eugenia, born May 22, 1892 ; educated in New- ark public schools and Newark high (or Bar- ringer ) school, graduating therefrom in 1909.
2. Ruth Backus, born August 8, 1893; edu- cated in Newark public school, entered high school, and after one year entered Blair Acad- emy at Blairstown, New Jersey.
WIESE Henry Wiese, the first of the line herein treated of whom we have information, came to this country from Germany and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became an importer of wall papers, with store on Chestnut street. He was a public-spirited citizen, as are most of the emigrants from Germany, ready and willing to conform to the laws of their adopted country and willing, if necessary, to lay down their lives for its honor. He married and was the father of twelve children, two of whom attained years of maturity, namely: Edward and Frederick George. Edward was born about 1832, was sent to Germany and educated at Wittenburg, becoming a celebrated linguist ; he returned to the United States and was a prominent educator for many years; after a separation of thirty-eight years the brothers met. The mother of these children, Rosine Wiese, died at the birth of Frederick George, and Henry Wiese removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he married again and en- gaged in business, continuing with marked suc- cess until 1849, when the gold fever broke out and he started for California but died on the journey.
(II) Frederick George, son of Henry and Rosine Wiese, was born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, February 9, 1840, his mother dying at his birth as aforementioned. He was adopt- ed by F. L. Albrecht, a prominent piano manu- facturer of his day, whose place of business was at the corner of Third street and Apple alley, Philadelphia; Mr. Albrecht was the in- ventor, patentee and manufacturer of the cele- brated iron tuning board now used in all pianos; Mr. Albrecht died suddenly of heart trouble when Frederick G. Wiese was three years of age, and he was then reared by Mrs. Albrecht, who in 1845-46 came to Borden- town, New Jersey. Mrs. Albrecht gave young Wiese an excellent practical education, and upon attaining years of maturity he well re- paid her for her care and kindness to him by looking carefully after her welfare, she spend- ing her last years at his home, where her de- mise occurred. When fifteen years of age, Frederick G. Wiese entered a general mercan- tile store as clerk, and four years later engaged in the dry goods and trimming business, which he conducted successfully until 1890, when he
989
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
sold out, and in 1895 engaged in the real estate and insurance business, which he has followed to the present time (1909), attaining a large degree of success as a result of his enterprise and sagacity. In 1870 Mr. Wiese erected the brick block where the Bordentown post-office now stands. In 1885, at the first election of Grover Cleveland as president, Mr. Wiese was appointed postmaster of Bordentown, serving through that administration, and was again ap- pointed on President Cleveland's second elec- tion, discharging the duties thereof to the per- fect satisfaction of all concerned. He served three years as a member of the common coun- cil and two years as president. He is a Demo- crat in politics, advancing the interests of his party at every opportunity. Probably as an active member of the Masonic fraternity Mr. Wiese is best known throughout the state and country. In 1861 his petition was presented for membership in Mt. Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in which order he has passed through all the chairs and is past mas- ter. He was one of the founders and first high priest of Mt. Moriah Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He was high priest of the Grand Chapter of New Jersey in 1875, and has held the office of grand treasurer of the Grand Chapter continuously since 1881. He was one of the organizers of Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar, No. II, of Bordentown, and was its first eminent commander. He was grand commander of the Grand Commandery of New Jersey in 1876, and has served as grand treasurer of the Grand Commandery since De- cember 7, 1880, a period of almost thirty suc- cessive years. He took the consistory degrees to the thirty-second in the Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, in 1867, but resigned and joined Excelsior Lodge, Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret, at Camden, New Jersey. He was a charter member of Lu Lu Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia, but changed his mem- bership and was a charter member of Cres- cent Temple of Trenton, New Jersey. He is also a member of Lodge No. 16, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and past chief patriarch of Chosen Friends Encampment, No. 6.
Mr. Wiese married (first), February 4, 1862, Susan M. Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, of Trenton, New Jersey. She died June 30, 1904. Mr. Wiese married (second) November 9, 1907, Mrs. Emma A. Williams, daughter of Israel Riggins, of Cape May coun- ty. New Jersey. Children of first wife: I. H. Benson, born January 18, 1863. attended
the Bordentown Collegiate Institute, is a civil engineer, having been in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad for many years, becom- ing supervisor of the Parksburg division, and is now ( 1909) superintendent of the Parks- burg Iron Company ; he married Ann Macal- tioner, of Woodstown, New Jersey ; they have one child, Joseph Frederick. 2. Louis W., born December 8, 1865, attended the schools of Bordentown, learned the trade of printer and has an office in Bordentown.
BARTRAM Strange as it may seem, the Quaker City, as Philadelphia has been called, was the resi-
dence of comparatively few Quakers, most of the disciples of George Fox settling in the country round about, and leaving the city to be occupied by men of many religious convic- tions, among them even Roman Catholics. This was due in part to the fact that the only Quakers in William Penn's family were him- self and his wife, all his children returning to the Church of England, and in consequence giving a churchly tone to their proprietary government. This led to the Quakers seek- ing isolation in the country round about, and aniong the little party of Derbyshire Quakers who settled at Darby, Chester county, Penn- sylvania, in 1682 or 1683, was the founder of the family at present under consideration.
(I) John, son of Richard Bartram, of Derby- shire, England, was born in Ashbourne, Eng- land, and died in Darby, Pennsylvania, May I, 1697. With his wife and four children he came to Pennsylvania, where he became active and influential in the religious and social affairs of that day, co-operating early in the organ- ization of the monthly meeting at Darby. He settled on the western side of Darby creek, just above the present village of Darby, where was surveyed to him August 30, 1685, three hundred acres of land, portions of which tract are still in the possession of certain of his de- scendants. In 1689 he was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly from Chester county. His wife Elizabeth survived him many years, dying September 4, 1723. Children: John, died young, August 14, 1692 ; Isaac, died March 10, 1707, unmarried; William, referred to below ; Mary, married John Wood; Elizabeth, born July 8, 1684, married John Cartlige.
(II) William, son of John and Elizabeth Bartram, was born in Ashbourne, England, and brought over to Pennsylvania by his par- ents about 1683. He was a man of ability and influence, being chosen in 1708 a member of
990
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
the provincial assembly. He married (first), May 22, 1696, Elizabeth, who died October 21, 1701, daughter of James Hunt, of Kingsessing ; (second), in 1707, Elizabeth, born March 17, 1689, daughter of William and Elizabeth Smith ; in 1715, after her husband's death, she mar- ried (second) John Smith, of Burlington, New Jersey. Children, two by each wife: I. John, referred to below. 2. James, born October 6, 1701 ; married, September 30, 1725, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Hayes) Maris ( see Maris), and whose daughter Mary, born November 12, 1727, died December 16, 1756, married, November 21, 1747, Isaac Howell, and their daughter Eliza became the wife of John Bartram (IV), referred to below. 3. Elizabeth, born February 10, 1709; died January 15, 1732; unmarried. 4. William, born June 3, 1711 ; died about 1770; married Elizabeth (Locke) Smith, and removed to the vicinity of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
.
(III) John (2), son of William and Eliza- beth (Hunt) Bartram, was born May 23, 1699, and died September 22, 1777. He was one of the most remarkable men of his time, and it should be noted that the date of his birth as given by almost all the leading authorities, namely, March 23, 1699, is incorrect, as the record of the Darby monthly meeting, "23 Third Month 1699," is according to the old style calendar, by which the year is reckoned from March instead of January.
Born during the infancy of the colony estab- lished by Penn, John Bartram was, it is need- less to say, surrounded by conditions which held the minds of most men to the material things of life. He was, however, essentially a student, and developed at an early age a propensity for scientific investigation, rather out of place at such a time. In spite of lack of educational advantages he became familiar with Latin and Greek and the natural sciences ; but he was pre-eminently a student of nature, and one of his sons, William Bartram Jr., himself an eminent botanist, thus comments upon his father's tastes and inclination : "While engaged in plowing his fields and mowing his meadows, his inquisitive eye and mind were frequently exercised in the contemplation of vegetables, the beauty and harmony displayed in their mechanism, the admirable system of order which the great Author of the universe has established throughout their various tribes. and the equally wonderful powers of their generation, the progress of their growth, and the various stages of their maturity and per- fection."
His investigations and discoveries led to the establishment of his fame as the first great botanist in America ; indeed, as has been said, he was the first Anglo-American who conceived the idea on instituting a botanic garden for the reception and cultivation of the various vege- tables native to the country, as well as exotics. At sheriff's sale, September 30, 1728, he pur- chased in what was then known as Kingsessing, Philadelphia county, now within the city of Philadelphia, but at that time about three miles below the old city, a tract of land famous for a century and three-quarters as "Bartram's Garden." Here with his own hands he erected of hewn stone the structure still standing, where he resided until his death, and occupied for many years thereafter by his descendants. It is now the property of the city of Philadel- phia. Throughout the lives of John Bartram. and of his sons, William and John Bartram Jr., who succeeded him in the occupancy of the place and in devotion to botanical research, "Bartram's Garden" was ever a noted resort for those visiting Philadelphia, and indeed to Philadelphians themselves. Its fame was world- wide, Bartram being recognized as, to quote the words of the celebrated Linnaeus, "the greatest natural botanist in the world."-
John Bartram was one of the most noted travellers of his time, when journeys, as a rule, were only undertaken for compulsory reasons, owing to the disadvantages incident to touring at that primitive period. As his son tells us, "he began his travels at his own expense. His various excursions rewarded his labours with the possession of a great variety of new, beautiful and useful trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. His garden at length attracting the visits and . notice of many virtuous and ingenious persons, he was encouraged to persist in his labours. Having arranged his various collections and observations in natural history, one of his par- ticular friends undertook to convey them to the celebrated Peter Collinson, of London. This laid the foundation of that friendship and correspondence which continued uninter- rupted, and even increasing, for nearly fifty years of the lives of these two eminent men. Collinson, ever the. disinterested friend, com- municated from time to time to the learned in Europe the discoveries and observations of Bartram. It was principally through the inter- est of Collinson that he became acquainted and entered into a correspondence with many of the most celebrated literary characters in Europe. He employed much of his time in travelling through the different provinces of
991
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
North America, at that time subject to Eng- land. Neither danger or difficulties impeded or confined his researches after objects in natural history. The summits of our highest mountains were ascended and explored by him. The lakes Ontario, Iroquois and George; the shores and sources of the rivers Hudson, Delaware, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Allegheny and San Juan ; were visited by him at an early period, when it was truly a perilous under- taking to travel in the territories, or even on the frontiers of the aboriginees."
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.