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(\1) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and Mary ( Voorhis) Van Emburgh, was born on the family homestead in Ridgewood, July 13, 1801, died in Paterson, New Jersey. April 15, 1870. He was reared on the home farm, and learned the wheelwright trade, which he fol- lowed for some time. He also owned and con- dueted the road house or hotel at the place now known as Maple Homestead, on the Paramus road; this was one of the leading taverns on that road, being a favorite stopping place for travellers and drovers, and the last stopover night place before arriving in New York. He also operated a wheelwright and blacksmith shop for a number of years with much success. About 1846, having amassed an ample competence, he sold his farm to Jacob Demarest Van Emburgh, and removed to Pat- erson, New Jersey, where he passed the re- mainder of his life. His career was active and useful. He became well-known to the leading cattle dealers and drovers of New York as a genial and hospitable host, and in business circles his name was everywhere regarded as synonymous with honor and integrity. He married ( first ) at Small Lots (now Fairlawn). Bergen county. September 16, 1820, Margaret Demarest, born April 12, 1801, daughter of Jacob and Keziah ( Hopper ) Demarest. Chil- dren: 1. Jacob Demarest, born July 12, 1822. see forward. 2. Maria, August 9, 1824; mar- ried Stephen Terhune. 3. Henry, February 14, 1826; married Charity Ann Ackerman. 4. James, March 3, 1828; married Sarah Ter-
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hune. 5. John H., October 29, 1829 ; married Clarissa Lewis. 6. Kezia, August 25, 1831, died October 8, 1831. The mother of these children died October 16, 1831. Mr. Van Emburgh married (second), April 19, 1832, Jane Carlock, born January 27, 1816. Chil- dren: 7. Jeremiah, April II, 1834; married Jane Hoff. 8. Alfred, December 15, 1842; married Margaret Hopper. The mother of these children died August 20, 1852. Mr. Van Emburgh married (third), December 5, 1852, Matilda Blauvelt, who died July 10, 1880, sur- viving her husband about ten years; of this union there were no children.
(VII) Jacob Demarest, eldest son of Henry (2) and Margaret (Demarest) Van Emburgh, was born at Ridgewood, New Jersey, July 12, 1822. died at the old home, June 4, 1907, after a married life of almost sixty-three years. He was reared and educated in his native town, and learned the trade of carpenter. He be- came a contracting carpenter, and as a result of his thrift and enterprise accumulated con- siderable property. He became prominent in town affairs, and served for some time on the board of chosen freeholders. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him for his hon- esty and straightforwardness in all his affairs. He was an active member of the Dutch Re- formed (now Presbyterian) church, and his influence was always for good. He married, April 15, 1844, Maria Jane Bogert. born at Hackensack, New Jersey, December 12, 1824, died October 20, 1906, daughter of John and Sarah (Demarest) Bogert. Children: I. John Henry, born July 25, 1845. 2. Sarah Jane, January 18, 1848. 3. Demarest, September 13. 1849, died June 2, 1854. 4. Wesley, see for- ward. 5. Margaret Matilda, July 25, 1854. 6. Jacob Demarest, January 25, 1857. 7. Cal- vin Bogert, June 5, 1859, died October 31, 1859. 8. William, January 2, 1861, died Au- gust 15, 1862. 9. Martha, March 26, 1863. IO. Lizzie T., June 9, 1865, died November 13, 1866. II. Irene, September 24, 1869.
(VIII) Wesley, son of Jacob Demarest and Maria Jane ( Bogert) Van Emburgh, was born on the old family homestead, at Paramus (Ridgewood), Bergen county, New Jersey, November 26, 1851. He received his educa- tion in the old district school near the Paramus church. At the age of fifteen he went to New York City and served a five year apprentice- ship with an uncle, John Van Emburgh, in the tailoring business. He made excellent ad- vancement, and October 1, 1872, came to Pat- erson, New Jersey, where he took employment
as cutter in the tailoring department of Vander- voort & Slingerland. On April 1, 1878, with James Simonton, a fellow workman for the firm, as partner, he bought out that depart- ment, and from that time has continued in busi- ness at the same stand. During the more than thirty years of his mercantile career as mer- chant tailor, he has been recognized as one of the substantial and progressive business men of the city of Paterson. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a Democrat. He belongs to the Holland Society of New York, and the Bergen county (New Jersey) branch of the same organization. He is loyal to the memory of his ancestors, and deeply interested in all relating to their history. He has in his possession the original deed made about the year 1700 by Peter Jansen to his early ances- tor, Dr. Johannes Van Imbrock, conveying the lands at Ridgewood, New Jersey, upon a part of which that village has been built up, and a portion of which is yet held in the Van Em- burgh family.
Mr. Van Emburgh married, in New York City, August 29, 1883, Annie Brower, born there February 24, 1858, daughter of Peter D. and Rachel ( Romaine) Brower. Her father was a leading merchant tailor in Eighth ave- nue, New York City. Children: I. Wilbur Demarest, born February 3. 1885: married, June 28, 1906, Sadie Hicks ; child, Wilbur, born February 12, 1908. 2. Elizabeth Bogert, Au- gust 9, 1886; married, June 19, 1909, Charles Gilbert Milham. 3. Anita B., October 18, 1888. 4. Clara Eleanor, February 1, 1893.
The Gastons of New Jersey be- GASTON long to that large and stalwart class of Huguenot refugees who fled from the persecutions which followed upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes over to the hospitable shores of Ireland. Here the founder of the family under consideration made a home for himself and his family, and here the founder of the American family of the name was born and spent his early life, little dreaming that in a new world his descendants would number among themselves Hon. Athel- stan Gaston, of Pennsylvania, and Right Hon. William Gaston, A. M., LL. D., speaker of the assembly and member of the senate of North Carolina, judge of the supreme court of North Carolina, and representative of that state in the Federal congress.
(I) Joseph Gaston, born in Ireland, of Huguenot refugee parentage, emigrated to the new world about 1720, and found his way over
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into New Jersey, where he established him- self, married, and brought up his family in Somerset county. No record remains of his wife's name or parentage, and the names of only two of his children have come down to us, though he undoubtedly had others, as repre- sentatives of the family not only in New Jer- sey, New York, and Pennsylvania, but also in the Southern states, claim to be descended from him. The two sons of whom record has been found are John, who is referred to below ; and Robert, whose daughter Margaret became the first wife of Daniel, son of Aaron and Charlotte (Miller) Mellick, and whose son Joseph married Margaret, daughter of Aaron and Charlotte (Miller ) Mellick.
(II) John, son of Joseph Gaston, the emi- grant, was born November 10, 1730, in Somer- set county, New Jersey, and died in the same county October 3, 1776. He was a farmer, and June 27, 1758, married Elizabeth, born April 4, 1738, in New Jersey, and died in Som- erset county, May 6, 1765, daughter of Will- iam and Katharine Ker, emigrants from Scot- land to New Jersey. Children: 1. Catharine, born May 12, 1759, died April 14, 1762. 2. William, referred to below. 3. Joseph, born May 29, 1763, died October 16, 1796; married, November, 1772, Margaret Lines, and had at least two children, William B. Gaston and John Gaston, both of Somerville, New Jersey. All of the above are buried in Lamington church- yard.
(III) William, second child and eldest son of John and Elizabeth ( Ker) Gaston, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, May 13, 1761, and died there February 13, 1809. Like his father he was a farmer. December 10, 1782, he married Naomi, second child of John, son of George Teeple, who emigrated to America from Germany about 1700, and his wife Mar- garet, daughter of Jeremiah and Naomi Cast- ner, who was born July 15, 1737, and died March 17, 1813, three hours before her hus- band, John Teeple. Naomi (Teeple) Gaston was born in New Jersey, July 20, 1760, and died June 24, 1818. Her elder sister, May Teeple, born December 21, 1756, died October 21, 1816 ; her younger sister, Ann Teeple, born April 13, 1764, died June 9, 1805. Children of William and Naomi (Teeple) Gaston: 1-2. John and William, both referred to below. 3. Walter Gaston, born October 10, 1787, died November 8, same year. 4. Margaret, born October 30, 1789. 5. Joseph Gaston, born February 13, 1792, died April 5, 1814. 6-7. James and Oliver, twins, born January 8, 1795,
James dying in 1860, and Oliver in young man- hood, June 10, 1821. 8. Abraham Gaston, born April 25, 1797, died January, 1823. 9. Hugh, named after his cousin, the revolutionary sol- dier, born August 27, 1800, died a young man. March 30, 1821.
(IV) John (2), eldest child of William and Naomi (Teeple) Gaston, was born in Somer- set county, New Jersey, September 26, 1783, and died in that county June 21, 1857. Octo- ber 17, 1805, he married Sarah, only daughter of Daniel and Mary (Thompson) Castner. Children: 1. William Ker Gaston, born July 23, 1806, died December 24, 1885. 2. Daniel Castner Gaston, born October 14, 1807, died August 2, 1888. 3. Samuel Barnes Gaston, born December 14, 1809, died November I, 1870. 4. Margaret Gaston, born November 29, 1811, died October 31, 1869. 5. Robert Gaston, born December 15, 1813, died Febru- ary 17, 1890. 6. Joseph, born April 12, 1816, died December 3, 1832. 7. John, born August 31, 1818, died February 3, 1888. 8-9. Oliver Barnes and Naomi, twins, born January 14. 1820: Oliver Barnes Gaston died January 8, 1894 : Naomi Gaston married Isaac F. Stevens, had five children, and died October 17, 1897. 10. Hugh Gaston, referred to below. II. Isaac Gaston, born July 23, 1825, died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1900.
(V) Hugh, tenth child and eighth son of John (2) and Sarah (Castner ) Gaston, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, April 23, 1823, and died in Pluckemin, New Jersey, March 25,'1899. He was named for his uncle. He was a farmer. For a long time be was con- nected with the Dutch Reformed church, but, the Presbyterians becoming numerous in Pluck- emin, he became one of the most prominent of them, and it is mainly due to his efforts that the Presbyterian church there was built. Mr. Gaston had a very good voice, and for many years sang in different churches as a chorister, performing this service in Pluckemin and Readington from 1869 to 1881, in North Branch from 1881 to 1884, and at Somerville from 1884 until the time of his death. He was a Republican, and was for many years col- lector of taxes for Somerset county, while for a number of years he was one of the chosen freeholders.
November 2, 1884, Hugh Gaston married Jane Vanderveer Garretson. Her father was Peter Garretson, who by his first wife, Jane Conover, had three: Garret Remsen Garret- son, Eleanor Schenck Garretson, and Ann Eliza Field Garretson. By his second wife,
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Catharine Wilson, he had Jane Vanderveer Garretson, referred to above, born September 29, 1828, and Catharine Wortman Garretson, Mary Pumyea, William Sloan, Martha Parker and John Wilson Garretson. Mrs. Jane Van- derveer (Garretson) Gaston is still living in Somerville. Children of Hugh and Jane Van- derveer (Garretson ) Gaston: I. Robert, born August 21, 1845, died June 11, 1852. 2. Cath- arine, born January 24, 1847, still living ; mar- ried (first) Andrew Quick; one child, Jane, married Archibald Derby, and lives in Arling- ton, New Jersey ; Catharine married (second) Oscar Dunham. 3. Sarah Gaston, born Janu- ary 29, 1849, married William Voorhees, of Jacksonville, Illinois; children: Lena May Voorhees, married Otto Coultas, of Riggston, Illinois ; and Hugh Voorhees, unmarried. 4-5. Mary and Martha, twins, born March 5, 1851. both died in infancy, Mary on August 8, and Martha on September 12, 1851. 6. Margaret Gaston, born January 29, 1853, married Ira Voorhees; no children. 7. Cornelia Gaston, born September 22, 1855, married James C. Henry, now deceased, no children. 8. Jane Gaston, born November 21, 1857; married Isaac Newton Dumont ; one child, Helen, un- married. 9. Marrietta Gaston, born January 7. 1860; married Peter B. Dumont ; lives in Somerville : children : Emma Jane, married William Parry; Hugh Gaston; Cornelia and Irene, both now dead; Lilian, wife of William Hill; Mary; Harold; and Arthur. 10. John Garretson Gaston, referred to below. II. Hugh Gaston, born June 11, 1865, died August II, 1866. 12. Isaac Gaston, born October 20, 1867, died September 9. 1868. 13. William Garretson Gaston, born March 14, 1870; is assistart cashier of Fifth Avenue National Bank, New York City; married, October 12. 1807. Elizabeth Sutphen, daughter of David Kline Craig and Mary Elizabeth Ammerman ; children: Katharine Craig Gaston, born Feb- ruary 4, died June 5, 1903, and Mary Eliza- beth Gaston, born August 22, 1908.
(\'T) John Garretson, tenth child and sec- ond son (eldest son to reach maturity) of Hugh and Jane Vanderveer ( Garretson ) Gas- ton, was born in Pluckemin, New Jersey, Au- gust 28, 1862, and is now living in Somerville. For his early education he went to the North Branch district school and then came to Som- erville, where he obtained a clerkship about 1881 with the grocery firm of Tunison & Losey, with whom he remained for two years. In 1883 he procured a better position as clerk for the dry goods firm of J. D. Smith, and this place
he kept for eight years more, when he found himself in a position to set up in business for himself, which he did in 1891, forming the firm of John G. Gaston & Company, dry goods, the company being Philip Case. In 1905 Mr. Gaston was appointed postmaster of Somer- ville, which he has since held. He is a Repub- lican, but outside of his present post he has held no office. He is a Mason and Elk, a mem- ber of the P. O. S. A., the Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Foresters, and is also a member of the Somerville Athletic Club. He attends the Second Reformed Church, of which he has been deacon from 1893 to 1895, the latter year being also treasurer, and deacon again from 1904 to 1906. He is vice- president of the First National Bank of Som- erville, and also of the Somerville Realty Com- pany.
March 17, 1886, John Garretson Gaston married in Somerville, at the home of his father-in-law, Ella Bergen Smith, born at North Branch, February 8, 1868. Her father, Cornelius Van Dyne Smith, born October 15, 1831, died February 10, 1889, married, Octo- ber 14, 1857, Judith Tunison, second daughter of Andrew A. and Ellen Ann (Van Marter) Ten Eyck, born February 28, 1829, and now- living with Mr. Gaston and her daughter. Chil- dren of Cornelius Van Dyne and Judith Tuni- son ( Ten Eyck) Smith: i. Eugene Ten Eyck Smith, born May 10, 1858, died April 4, 1890, married Catharine Hodge, and had one child, -Margaret, who lives in Brooklyn; ii. Anna Vosseler Smith, born October 20, 1859, died May 2, 1885, married December 12, 1883, Ste- phen Van Clief, but had no children ; iii. Louisa Ten Eyck Smith, born July 29, 1863, married George D. Totten, June 2, 1886; iv. Ella Ber- gen Smith, referred to above.
John Garretson and Ella Bergen (Smith) Gaston have one child, George Gaston, born May 1, 1887, who graduated from the Somer- ville high school in 1903, and from Penning- ton Seminary. in 1905, and in now paying teller of the Carnegie Trust Company in New York City.
(IV) William, second child and son of Will- iam and Naomi (Teeple) Gaston, was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, September 26, 1785, and died September 12, 1837. After reaching manhood he left the place of his birth and established a home for himself in Savan- nah, Georgia, where at a meeting of the mer- chants and citizens generally held "in pursu- ance of a public notice at the exchange in the City of Savannah, on Thursday, September
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21st, 1837, for the purpose of testifying their respect for his memory and their deep sense of loss sustained by this community by his decease," the following preamble and resolu- tions were adopted :
"William Gaston, for many years conspicuous as one of our most eminent merchants and respectable citizens, having been, through the wise dispensa- tion of Providence removed from us by death, and this sad event having occurred when at a distance from this, the place of his home, so that his fellow- citizens were denied the melancholy satisfaction of individually offering to his remains the last rites of respect and affection, they deem it proper publicly to commune on the occasion and to express their deep regret for a bereavement which cannot but touch the sympathies, not only of this community, but of thousands far away, for the strangers' friend will not be unwept, while gratitude yields to worth the just tribute of a tear . . Mr. Gaston, as a merchant, was distinguished for his intelli- gence, industry and integrity, for his promptness, frankness and liberality As a citizen he was patriotic, public-spirited and munificent, and in the contribution of private charity, of unsurpassed benevolence . . He was the patron of merit in every form, and emphatically the friend of the stranger, dispensing with a liberal hand the avails of his honorable and successful enterprise
In the intercourse of domestic life his friends can through long years remember his cheerful welcome and kind hospitality, his glowing genius, refined intelligence and accomplished manners, his gener- ous and confiding spirit . In his character as a man and a citizen he combined a rare assemblage of virtues, which no time can efface from our mem- ory; and although they are extensively known and appreciated, we take the melancholy pleasure of repeating them, as a salutary contemplation and attractive example; and for their commemoration, be it further resolved, That under the superintend- ance of a committee to be appointed for that pur- pose, there shall be erected in the Old Cemetery, a vault for the interment of strangers, which shall bear the name of The Gaston Vault, as a monu- ment to perpetuate the living kindness of the strangers' friend, and teaching posterity a lesson of universal philanthropy . . . Also, that the chair- man, in behalf of this meeting, be requested to address William K. Gaston a letter, requesting him . to have the remains of his late uncle. William . Gaston, Esq., brought to this city, it being in the opinion of this meeting the most proper place for their repose."
The Albright family of Penn- ALBRIGHT sylvania and New Jersey seems almost undoubtedly to be of German origin and to have had for its founder George Albrecht, who, with his sons, was so prominent a figure in the early history of Bucks and Chester counties. Unfortunate- lv. however, the records of the descendants of George Albrecht and his children are too scanty to make the proof an absolute one, and al-
though there is no evidence to indicate that there is any connection between the Albright family which appears in two or three places in New England, with the New Jersey family of the name, which is at present under considera- tion, there is, of course, a possibility that such a connection exists.
(I) John Albright, earliest known ancestor of the present branch, was born in the first quarter of the last century. He enlisted in Company F. Twelfth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, from Mullica Hill, Gloucester coun- ty, New Jersey, commanded by Captain Ed- ward L. Stratton, and he was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863, leaving a widow, Hannah C., and a son, Louis W., referred to below.
(II) Louis W., only living child of John and Hannah C. ( Haines ) Albright, was born June 4, 1856, and is now living in Camden, New Jersey. After leaving school he took up the newspaper business and was a newspaper man for more than thirty years. At the first he was connected with the Camden Post, and left that paper in order to take a position on the Philadelphia Public Ledger, at that time under the editorship of George W. Childs. Of this celebrated Philadelphia paper, Mr. Albright was the New Jersey editor for twenty years. On September 28, 1902, with his son, William Haines Albright, Mr. Albright bought the Constitution of Woodbury, New Jersey. This paper, which was and still is the Republican party organ of Gloucester county, Mr. Al- bright and his son have very greatly improved and enlarged, and they are now conducting it with very marked success. It is the oldest newspaper in southern New Jersey, having been established in 1834. Mr. Albright mar- ried Margaret L., daughter of John and Elvira Stringer, the former a textile weaver of Eng- land, who came over to this country and set- tled first in Pennsylvania and later in Glou- cester City, New Jersey. Children: 1. Will- iam Haines, referred to below. 2. Frank Stringer, born August 16, 1877, city editor of the Post Telegram, of Camden ; married Annie Shepperkotter, and has one child, Lillian May. 3. Louis Harry Knerr, born 1880: married May Parker, of Camden, and has one child, Louis H. 4. Lillian May, born 1883 ; married Fran- cis H. Stevens, of Camden.
(III) William Haines, eldest child of Louis WV. and Margaret L. (Stringer) Albright, was born at Elmer, Salem county, New Jersey, De- cember 20, 1875. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Gloucester
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City and Camden, New Jersey. Early in life he entered the service of the Philadelphia Pub- lic Ledger, of which his father was at that time the New Jersey editor, and for the next eleven years acted as one of the reportorial staff of that paper, and as its field correspond- ent for South Jersey, until September 28, 1902, when he, with his father, bought the Wood- bury Constitution, which since that time he has assisted his father to edit and conduct. He has his home at Woodbury. From 1904 to 1905 he served as the private secretary of the speaker of the New Jersey house of assembly, and during 1906 to 1908 inclusive as the assist- ant secretary of the New Jersey state senate. Mr. Albright has always been devoted to the history of his state, and to the preservation of its great historical relics and monuments. He is a member of the Gloucester County His- torical Society, and was appointed by Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, president of the Red Bank Battle Monument Commission, whose object was the erection of the monument com- memorating that episode of the revolutionary war. Mr. Albright has always been interested in and an active member of the Republican party. He is a member of the Gloucester County Republican Club, and its secretary for several years. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Woodbury Coun- try Club, Board of Trade, Improved Order of Heptosophs, and the Friendship Fire Company. William Haines Albright married, March 30. 1897, Ella Buzby, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Boogar, of Williamstown, and later of Haddon Heights, New Jersey. Child, Paul- ine Gibson, born May 6, 1902.
Thomas Cawley, the first mem- CAWLEY ber of this family of whom we have definite information, was a farmer in Northampton county, Pennsyl- vania. He may have been the son of the Thomas "Cally," who witnessed the will of George Reichert, of Northampton county, April 5, 1787. In politics Thomas Cawley was an old line Whig. Children : Thomas S., referred to below : Eli, Franklin, James, Absolom, Will- iam, Sarah, Jacob.
( II) Thomas S., son of Thomas Cawley, of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, was born there in 1809, and died in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in -1859. After receiving his edu- cation in the common schools he became a shoemaker and successfully plied his trade for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and an active member of the Christian Church,
in which he was chosen at different times to all the lay offices. He married Mary A., daughter of James Smith, who died November 5, 1888, aged seventy-five years. Children, the first three deceased before 1896: Thomas F., James Smith, Sarah; William H., referred to below ; Jennie, Atarah.
(III) William H., son of Thomas S. and Mary A. (Smith) Cawley, was born in Hunt- erdon county, New Jersey, in 1846, and is now living in Somerville, New Jersey. He received his education in the common schools of Hunter- don county, and leaving the home farm when sixteen years of age, he enlisted in the Union army at the outbreak of the civil war, and served throughout the entire war until after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee, being promoted first corporal, then sergeant, and lastly commissary. After the war was over he started in the business of turning spokes, but later gave this up in order to engage in a wholesale and retail restaurant business. He then established a bottling business at Somer- ville, New Jersey, which he operated success- fully for four years, together with a similar plant at Dover, New Jersey. In addition to these enterprises Mr. Cawley owned a good farm, was a director of the Second National Bank of Somerville, and connected with a number of other financial institutions. In poli- tics he is a staunch and active Republican. He is a member of Gen. Wadsworth Post, No. 75, G. A. R .: of Lodge of the Castle, No. 82. Knights of Pythias : of Solomon Lodge, I. O. O. F., and in this last has passed through all the chairs. He married, July 3, 1867, Mary A., daughter of Joseph Gilbert. Children. Will- iam H., junior teller of Second National Bank of Somerville; Jennie B .: Chester Arthur, re- ferred to below.
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