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the institution. This honorable promotion was largely due to the good work he had done dur- ing the twenty years he had been engaged in preparing at the Keystone Academy pupils for matriculation at Bucknell. In 1909 he had rounded out twenty years as president, at which time he had a staff of fifty instructors, seven hundred and seventy-five students, and a library of thirty thousand volumes, with a pro- ductive fund of seven hundred thousand dol- lars. His success as an educator and his peda- gogical knowledge gained for him the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Lafayette College in 1884, and that of Doctor of Laws from Dickinson College and Colgate University in 1891.
Mr. Harris married (first) Mary Elizabeth Mace, born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania, in 1855, died in 1880. She was the daughter of Uriah V. and Ruth (Bailey) Mace, grand- daughter of Benjamin F. Bailey, and great- granddaughter of Benjamin and Catharine (Stark) Bailey, the latter a descendant of Gen- eral Stark, of revolutionary fame. Children : I. Marv B., born August 19, 1874; was edu- cated at Bucknell University, from which she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and that of Doctor of Philosophy for work in the Sanscrit language, from the University of Chicago. 2. Herbert Frederic, see forward. 3. Howard Mace, born in 1878, died in 1884. Mr. Harris married ( second) July 20, 1881, Lucy Bailey. Children : 4. Reese Harvey, born July 3. 1883; received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University in 1903, and that of Bachelor of Laws from Har- vard University in 1908; he is an attorney and counsellor at law in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 5. George Bailey, was graduated from Buck- nell University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904, and received that of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Michi- gan in 1908; he is practicing his profession in Detroit, Michigan. 6. Spenser Tillinghast, re- ceived the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Civil Engineer from Bucknell University in 1907, and has been civil engineer for the Car- ter Oil Company, at Sistersville, West Vir- ginia, for the past year. 7. Coleman John, an undergraduate at Bucknell University, of the class of 1912. 8. James Pardon, an under- graduate of Bucknell University, also of the class of 1912. 9. Walter William, student at Bucknell Academy. 10. Stanley Newton, also a student at Bucknell Academy.
(III) Herbert Frederic, eldest son and sec- ond child of John Howard and Mary Elizabeth
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( Mace) Harris, was born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1876. He was a pupil in the public schools of Factoryville, prepared for college at Bucknell Academy, and was graduated from Bucknell University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1896, and that of Master of Arts in 1897 ; in 1899 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Colum- bia University, now George Washington Uni- versity. He then read law in the office of At- torney General Henry C. McCormick, at Will- iamsport, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1899. He began the active practice of his profession in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, removing to Camden, New Jer- sey, in 1904, was admitted to practice as an attorney in June, 1904, and established law offices at No. 428 Market street. In June, 1907, he was made a counsellor at law for New Jersey. His law partner in Camden, New Jersey, is Curtis T. Baker, Esq., a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws, and the style of the firm is Baker & Harris.
Upon the declaration of war with Spain, April 21, 1898, Mr. Harris enlisted in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment. and served up to the signing of the peace protocol. August 12, 1898, when he was honorably discharged. Mr. Harris is an ac- tive member of the Republican party, and of the Baptist church of Camden. In 1898 he affiliated with Ivy Lodge, No. 397. Free and Accepted Masons, of Williamsport, Pennsyl- vania, and was rapidly advanced in the work of the lodge. Mr. Harris is unmarried.
HARDING As far back as the Harding family has been traced on New Jersey soil it has always been found in Salem county, and at the pres- ent time it is impossible to say from whence the ancestors of the branch now under con- sideration have come, although the probabili- ties are that it belongs to the New England family.
(I) Thomas Harding, founder of the New Jersey branch, was born July 26, 1772. He married Lydia Richman, born in Salem county, New Jersey, February 8, 1776. Chil- dren: Catharine, born July 28, 1797; Benja- min, see forward: John, June 8, 1800; Ann, September 29, 1801 : Rachel, December 13, 1803; Elizabeth, June 21, 1805 : Thomas, De- cember 6, 1808; Henry, February 18, 1811; Eli, October 1, 1820.
(II) Benjamin, second child and eldest son
of Thomas and Lydia (Richman) Harding, was born at Whig Lane, Salem county, New Jersey, December 21, 1798, died April 4, 1880. He married, January 23, 1823, Mary Marshall Fisler, born near Clayton, then Fislerville, Gloucester county, New Jersey, September II, 1800, died November 9, 1862. She was the daughter of Leonard and Mary (Marshall) Fisler, the former, who was born in Swedes- boro, died in April, 1846, the latter, who was the first wife, died about 1812. Children of Benjamin and Mary Marshall ( Fisler) Hard- ing : Annie F., born April 11, 1824, died July 24, 1881 ; Leonard F., January 23, 1827, died on Thanksgiving day, 1878; Lydia M., Decem- ber 14, 1828; John, died in infancy ; Hannah H., October 7, 1830, died in 1894; Thomas W., July, 1836, died January, 1845; Benjamin Franklin, see forward.
(III) Benjamin Franklin, youngest child of Benjamin and Mary Marshall ( Fisler) Hard- ing, was born at Glassboro, New Jersey, Octo- ber 14, 1838, and is now living at Bridgeton, New Jersey. . He was educated in the public schools of Clayton, New Jersey, and at the age of fifteen years entered the West Jersey Acad- emy at Bridgeton where he took a complete course. He returned to the family homestead in 1857, remaining on the farm until May 7, 1873, when he located in Bridgeton, New Jer- sey, and accepted the position of superintend- ent and treasurer of the Bridgeton Gas Light Company, an office he has filled up to the present time (1909). He is a director and a member of the executive committee of the Cumberland Mutual Fire Insurance Company. and a director and president of the Bridgeton Hospital. In politics Mr. Harding is a Republi- can with independent proclivities. He was a member of the Bridgeton city council. 1886- 91, during the last year serving as president of that body ; in early life took an active part in educational matters, serving as superin- tendent of schools for his township, 1863-66. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton. one of the elders, has represented his church at the synod, and was superintendent of the Sunday school connected with his church for thirty-three years. Mr. Harding married, May 14, 1867, Harriet Lore, who died April 27, 1898, daughter of Rev. Samuel Lawrence, of Lewistown, Pennsylva- nia, who was born in Philadelphia in 1795. Children: 1. Samuel Lawrence, see forward. 2. Mary Marshall, born July 3, 1878 ; married, September 17, 1908, Rev. William W. John- eton, a Presbyterian clergyman, now connected
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with mission work in Tsinanfu, China. 3. Benjamin Milton, February 2, 1884; a student in his fourth year at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
(IV) Samuel Lawrence, eldest child of Benjamin Franklin and Harriet Lore (Law- rence ) Harding, was born August 29, 1875. He is now connected with the Western Electric Company of Chicago, residing in that city. He married, November 18, 1903, Marie An- trim, of Philadelphia, a descendant of one of the most prominent families of New Jersey. Children : Robert Lawrence, born January 3. 1906: Marian Louise, August 21, 1909.
DARNELL The ancestor of the Darnell family came over to the New World with that large body of stalwart English yeoman who had em- braced the tenets of George Fox, and who had watched the birth and growth of the Quaker colonies along the banks of the Delaware with fascinated and longing eyes, dreaming of that peace and prosperity which so many, and among them the founders of the Darnell fam- ily and his descendants, lived to realize and enjoy.
(I) Of John Darnell, emigrant and ances- tor of the family, little is known except the fact of his emigration and the date of his mar- riage. Coming to this country some time after 1700, he settled in Evesham township, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, where his descend- ants have borne and perpetuated his name in the honor and esteem of their fellowmen for the last seven generations. Here also it was that he found his wife in 1722. She was Han- nah, daughter of John Borton Jr., by his first wife, and granddaughter of John and Ann Borton, of Hillsdown, on the Northampton river, Burlington county, and formerly of the parish of Aynhoe, county Northampton, Eng- land, from which place they had come over to this country, bringing with them a certificate dated the 5th of Third month, 1679, from the Monthly Meeting of Friends at Burton, in Ox- fordshire, which stated that "they have walked (these many years) honestly among us living in the fear of God and in obedience to the blessed truth revealed in this our day and have been of a good savour to ffriends and to their neighbors in ye village where they dwell."
John and Hannah ( Borton ) Darnell had five children: 1. Edward, referred to below. 2. Lewis, born 1736; married, 1759, Grace Thomas, and their son Isaiah married Sarah, daughter of Edmund Bartlett, Sr., and had
two children, Aaron and Sarah. 3. William, 1739. 4. Hannah, 1742. 5. Jemima, October 6, 1744, died January 13, 1818; married Reho- boam, son of Robert Braddock and Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Clement) Bates, and granddaughter of Robert Braddock and Elizabeth, daughter of Timothy Hancock, the emigrant, and also of James Clement, the emigrant, who was the son of Gregory Clem- ent, the regicide. Of their ten children, Rachel, the seventh, married Joshua Dudley, and their child Rachel, by her marriage with Edmund Darnell, referred to below, became the great-grandmother of William Sharp Dar- nell, also referred to below.
(II) Edward, eldest child of John and Han- nah (Borton) Darnell, was born in Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, the 14th of First Month, 1730, died in the same place between 1789 and 1791. In 1754 he married in the Evesham Monthly Meeting, Jane Driver, who bore him two children: I. Samuel. 2. Edmund, referred to below.
(III) Edmund, son of Edward and Jane (Driver ) Darnell, was born in Evesham town- ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1768. In 1790 he married Rachel, daughter of Joshua and Rachel (Braddock) Dudley, who through her mother's mother, Jemima (Darnell) Brad- dock, was a great-granddaughter of John Dar- nell, the emigrant, referred to above. Chil- dren of Edmund and Rachel (Dudley) Dar- nell: 1. Rachel, married Benjamin Satter- thwaite. 2. Joshua, referred to below. 3. Edward, died unmarried. 4. Ann, died un- married. 5. Hanna, died unmarried. 6. Isaac, referred to below. 7. Job, married Agnes, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Lukens) Mullen. Children : i. Charles, married, 1852, Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Engle) Haines, and had Joseph, who mar- ried Miss Morse, and another child, unmar- ried. ii. Sarah, married Mark, son of George and Esther (Haines) Buzby, and has two chil- dren, Georgianna and Walter, the former un- married ; iii. Edmund, married Hetty, daugh- ter of William Jessup ; iv. Agnes, died unmar- ried ; v. Henry, married Anna Prickitt and has one son, Albert H. 8. David, married Mary C., daughter of John and Rebecca (Cowper- thwaite ) Evans. Children: i. Howard, mar- ried Elizabeth F. Haines; ii. John, married Edith Middleton. iii. Rebecca, married James Bell; iv. Jane, married Robert Engle ; v. Mary Anna, unmarried; vi. Ezra, unmarried; vii. David, unmarried; 9 .- 12. Four children who died young or in infancy.
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(IV) Joshua, son of Edmund and Rachel (Dudley ) Darnell, married Eliza Lippincott. Children: 1. Aaron, referred to below. 2. Enoch, married Martha S., daughter of Thomas and Susanna ( Ballinger ) Haines, and had Joshua, who married Martha - -, and Anna H., married William Henderson. 3. Rachel, married Levi Jones. 4. Caleb, married a Miss Haines.
(V) Aaron, son of Joshua and Eliza (Lip- pincott) Darnell, married Mary Warrington. Children : I. Elizabeth, married Benejah Haines. 2. Rachel, married William Evans. 3. Warrington, married three times, and by his second wife had one child. 4. Hannah, mar- ried Barcley Allen. 5. Sarah, married Elwood Johnson. 6. Mary, married Reading Mar- jorum. 7. Ann, married a Mr. Sharp.
(IV) Isaac, son of Edmund and Rachel (Dudley) Darnell, was born in Evesham town- ship, Burlington county, New Jersey, Febru- ary 5, 1799, died in that place in 1855. Like his ancestors he was a gentleman farmer and lived on the same acres which had supported them, and which he had received from them by direct inheritance. He married Sarah, daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Burrough) Saunders. Her father was a son of John Saunders, and Elizabeth, daughter of Free- dom Lippincott and Elizabeth, daughter of John, son of Dr. Daniel Wills. Freedom Lip- pincott was the son of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott. Her mother was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Lamb) Bur- rough, granddaughter of Samuel and Ann (Gray) Burrough, and great-granddaughter of Samuel Burrough, the emigrant, and Hannah, daughter of John Roberts, the emigrant.
Children of Isaac and Sarah (Saunders) Darnell: 1. Edward, referred to below. 2. Lydia, married Andrew, son of William and Jemima (Braddock) Sharp. His mother was the daughter of Darnell and Sarah (Rogers) Braddock, and granddaughter of Rehoboanı and Jemima (Darnell) Braddock. Children : i. Richard, married Rebecca Lamb; ii. Isaac ; iii. Walter, married a Miss Kain; iv. Laura, married Joseph Randall. 3. Hannah, died un- married. 4. Samuel. 5. Ann, died aged three years. 6. Deborah, died in infancy.
(V) Edward, son of Isaac and Sarah (Saunders) Darnell, was born in Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, in November, 1835. He was a farmer, and an Orthodox Friend of the Evesham Meeting. and was one of the most highly respected and in a quiet way influential men of the commun-
ity in which his life was spent. He married Abigail Ann, daughter of William and Jemima (Braddock) Sharp, referred to above (see Sharp, V). Children: I. William Sharp, re- ferred to below. 2. Henry Sharp, deceased ; married Ida Stratton. 3. Lewis Sharp, born 1863; married Elizabeth Mary Stratton. 4. Sarah Hilliard, married Lewis B. Hillman. 5. Anna Jemima, married William J. Moss. 6. Edward Eugene, married Alberta B. Wooden. 7. Florence, married Charles D. Haven. 8. Mary Collins, living and unmarried. 9. Lydia Sharp, married M. Weber Watkinson.
(VI) William Sharp, eldest child of Ed- ward and Abigail Ann (Sharp) Darnell, was born in Evesham township, Burlington county, August 5. 1860, and is now living at No. 421 Penn street, Camden, New Jersey, with his law offices at No. 322 Market street, Camden, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools at Penn Grove, Evesham township, and to the private academy of Mil- ton H. Allen, at Medford, Burlington county, New Jersey, from which latter institution he graduated in 1876. After his graduation he became a teacher in the Cookman Institute at Jacksonville, Florida, and after holding this position for a short while he gave it up in order to become the bookkeeper for the firm of Taylor Brothers in Camden, New Jersey. Here he remained four years, and then turn- ing his attention to the study of law pursued his reading in the law office of Leaming & Black in Camden, and was finally admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in 1887. Since that time he has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in Camden, and having made a specialty of corporation law has become widely known as one of the lead- ing legal lights in that section of the state. He is also a master in chancery. Mr. Darnell is a Republican but he has always declined to hold office. He attends the Protestant Epis- copal Church of St. Paul in Camden.
Mr. Darnell stands at the head of the pub- lic-spirited and influential men of the city in which he lives and he has been called to many positions of responsibility and trust which he has always filled not only to his own honor and credit, but also to the full satisfaction of all concerned. He is the counsel for the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters of New Jersey, and also the counsel for the Shepherds of Beth. He is a member of the Board of Trade of Camden and of the Camden Bar Associa- tion, and in addition to these he is the treasurer of the Camden County, New Jersey, Society
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for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Among the many financial institutions with which Mr. Darnell is connected and in the management of which he plays an influential part, should be mentioned the Pennsylvania Automobile Supply Company, the John Baiz- ley Iron Works, the Peerless Pottery Com- pany, the Pennsylvania Graphite Company, the American Chemical and Novelty Company, the W. H. Dobbins Company, the American Gas and Power Company and a large number of other New Jersey corporations.
About 1884 Mr. Darnell married Ella Louisa, daughter of William and Eliza ( Brooks ) Slatcher, of Philadelphia. Her mother was born in London, England, January 15, 1831. Children: I. Mabel Wolcott, born Camden, New Jersey, 1885; unmarried and living with her parents. 2. Hattie Ann Eliza, 1891. 3. Kate Slatcher, 1897. 4. Ella Louisa. September, 1902.
SHARP William Sharp and Thomas Sharp, brothers, the children of Francis Sharp, of Oak Lane, in the parish of St. Anne, Limehouse, county Middlesex, England, and grandsons of Thomas Cooper of 16 George street, in the parish and county above mentioned, according to the record preserved in the old family Bible of William's son, John, "came over Sea on the Ship Samuel * * * and landed in New Jersey about the 4th or 5th Day of September 1682." According to the family tradition the three children, John, William and Hugh, who accompanied the brothers William and Thomas, were all of them children of William.
(I) John, son of William Sharp, who ac- companied his father to this country in 1682, married, June 17, 1688, in Burlington Monthly Meeting, Elizabeth, daughter of John Paine, of Burlington. Children : 1. William, referred to below. 2. Elizabeth, born May 4, 1692. 3. John, December 8, 1693, died October 23, 1729; married (first) Jane Fitchardall and (second) Ann Haines. 4. Thomas, August 23, 1698; married Elizabeth Smith. 5. Han- nah, December 1, 1700; married Thomas Adams. 6. Samuel, September 5, 1702; mar- ried Elizabeth Haines. 7. Sarah, June 30. 1705. Elizabeth, wife of John Sharp, died November 28, 1705.
(II) William (2), son of John and Eliza- beth (Paine) Sharp, married (first) Mary, daughter of Francis and Mary ( Borton) Aus- tin. This was in 1716, and after her death he
married Hannah -, who survived him. Children, the last seven by the second wife : I. Rebecca, born 1719, died August 17, 1781 ; married Solomon Haines. 2. Hannah, March 27, 1721 ; married Jonathan Haines. 3. Hugh, referred to below. 4. Esther, April 26, 1727 ; married Job Haines. 5. William, February 19. 1730; married Mary Haines. 6. Sarah, August 15, 1735; married Barzillai Prickitt. 7. Samuel, May 3, 1737. 8. Jane, September 19, 1739; married Robert Engle. 9. A child born April 14, 1741. 10. Isaac, November 9, 1744, died young. II. Josiah, June 1, 1748. 12. Elizabeth, August 30, 175I.
(III) Hugh, son of William (2) and Mary (Austin) Sharp, was born January 15, 1724. He married (first ) Sabilla -, and (sec- ond ) Ann, daughter of Mark and Ann ( Han- cock) Stratton. Children, three by first wife : 1. Sabilla, born April 23, 1755. 2. Hannah, May 24. 1757. 3. Thomas, August 1, 1759. 4. Job, October 21, 1761 ; married (first) Ann and (second) Esther, daughter of Thomas Brooks, widow of Thomas Sharp. 5. William, referred to below.
(IV) William (3), son of Hugh and Ann (Stratton) Sharp, was born March 10, 1770. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Zane) Rakestraw. Her grand- parents were Thomas Jr. and Mary ( Wilkin- son) Rakestraw and her great-grandparents were Thomas Rakestraw and Thomas Wilkin- son. Children of William and Elizabeth ( Rakestraw ) Sharp: I. Eli, married Kathar- ine Sinnickson. 2. Franklin, married Eliza Braddock, sister to his brother William's wife. 3. William, referred to below. 4. Isaac, mar- ried Hannah Engle. 5. Charles, married (first) a Miss Logue; (second) Esther Leatherberry ; (third) a Miss Somerall. 6. Maria, married Benjamin Wilkins. 7. Eliza- beth, married Japheth Bowker. 8. Amanda, married a Mr. Morford. 9. Susan, married Wesley Evans.
(V) William (4), son of William (3) and Elizabeth (Rakestraw) Sharp, married Je- mima, daughter of Darnell and Sarah ( Rog- ers ) Braddock. Her grandparents were Will- iam and Martha (Esturgans) Rogers and Rehoboam and Jemima ( Darnell) Braddock. Children of William and Jemima (Braddock) Sharp: I. Ferdinand, married Lydia daughter of Edward B. and Abigail ( Haines) Thomas. 2. Hugh, married (first) Jane Ann, daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Garwood) Sharp, and (second) Rebecca, daughter of William and
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Charlotte ( Beck) Venicombe, and the widow of Dr. Benjamin Fisler. 3. Benjainin, mar- ried Adeline (Garwood) Hilliard. 4. Jemima, married Edwin Crispin, as his first wife. 5. Abigail Ann, married Edward, son of Isaac and Sarah (Saunders) Darnell (see Darnell, V). 6. Jervis, married Sarah A. R. Githens. 7. Andrew, married Lydia, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Saunders) Darnell. 8. Lewis L., M. D., married Rebecca (Bailey) Sharp, widow of Edward Sharp, deceased. 9. Henry, married Annie, daughter of Amos and Jane (Prickitt) Wilkins. 10. Edward (deceased) ; married Rebecca Bailey.
The Gaskills are an old Bur- GASKILL lington county family and the name is frequently mentioned in connection with the early history of Spring- field township. One historical account speaks of Job Gaskill as one of the earliest settlers there and says that he came from England at a very early period and was one of the pioneer farmers of the vicinity. He had a son, Thomas, who married Elizabeth Hilman, and their son was the late Hon. Job Hilman Gaskill, of Pemberton, New Jersey. It is said too that Jobstown, in Springfield township, was named for Job Gaskill, although by some writers that distinction seems to be claimed for Job Lippin- cott. So early as 1777-78 Josiah Gaskill was constable of Springfield township, and in 1781 a Job Gaskill was member of the township committee. William Gaskill was township clerk in 1802 and 1808, and in 1815 Abel Gas- kill was the pioneer merchant at Jacksonville, while Daniel Gaskill kept the first tavern there, was the first postmaster of the hamlet and also an early shoemaker in the township.
(I) Joseph Gaskill, doubtless in some man- ner related to the Job Gaskill mentioned in the preceding paragraph, and perhaps his son, is said to have been born in Burlington township, probably before 1780, but little else appears to be known of him. His wife's name was Sally, and their children were Furman, Joseph, George, Richard, Caleb S., Asa, Mary, who married Daniel Lippincott, and Sarah, who married Robert Deacon. Joseph Gaskill was a farmer during the greater part of his life and spent his declining years in Mt. Holly.
(II) Caleb S., son of Joseph and Sally Gas- kill, was born in Burlington county, in 1813, and died in September, 1886. He was a well educated man for his time and also a very suc- cessful farmer. raising and dealing extensively
in sheep, and it is said that his lambs and sheep were always considered the best sent to the markets. He also raised many swine and beef cattle and was in all respects one of the most enterprising farmers of his time in southern New Jersey. He served in various official capacities, was a Whig and later a Re- publican, and a devout Friend. In 1842 Mr. Gaskill married Esther A. Johnson, who was born in Mt. Holly, June 15, 1820, and is now living in Mt. Holly. They had ten children : John C., C. Frank, Joseph H. (now dead), Newton (now dead), Richard S., (died young), Laura V., Hettie A. (lives with her mother in Mt. Holly), Robert Stockton, Mary J. (mar- ried Edward E. Logan, a farmer) and Sally (who also lives with her mother).
(III) Robert Stockton, son of Caleb S. and Esther A. (Johnson) Gaskill, was born near Buddtown, New Jersey, June 18, 1856, and re- ceived his education in the Lumberton public school, William J. Kelley's tuition school, Charles Aaron's academy and Mark R. Sovy institute, all at Mt. Holly, and Bryant & Strat- ton's Business College, at Philadelphia. After leaving school he worked for a time on his father's farm, then went to Mt. Holly and took up the study of law in the office and under the instruction of James N. Stratton, Esq., with whom he was associated until the time of Mr. Stratton's death. Mr. Gaskill was admitted as an attorney in February, 1882, and as counsellor at law in Febru- ary, 1885. During the earlier years of his professional career he practiced some- what extensively in the criminal courts and gained a wide reputation as a successful criminal lawyer. This special branch of pro- fessional work, however, he afterward aban- doned in favor of a general office practice. In addition to his law practice, which always has been large, Mr. Gaskill for many years has been somewhat prominently identified with local interests and institutions, having served as township solicitor, special county solicitor, vice- president of the board of education, and for fif- teen year as president of the Northampton fire department. He is past master of Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M., deputy grand master of the District of Columbia, and is an Elk, a Republican in politics and a member of the Society of Friends.
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