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(IV) Chester Arthur, son of William H. and Mary A. (Gilbert) Cawley, was born in Somerville, New Jersey, April 27, 1882, and is now living in that town. After receiving his early education in the Somerville public school he took the course at a commercial college in New York City, and then began to learn his father's business. Starting at the bottom he applied himself diligently, and gradually rose step by step until he had attained the position of manager of the Flemington branch of the business, which he held until the firm was in- corporated, when he was recalled to Somer- ville and made secretary of the new corpora- tion, which now has a paid up capital of $35 .- 000, and an undivided surplus of profits of $31.000. This position Mr. Cawley still retains.
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He is an active worker for the Republican party in his county, and besides being member of many clubs in Philadelphia, Flemington, Somerville and other cities, he organized and was made the first president of the Somerville Athletic Club. He is a member of the F. and A. M. of New Jersey, of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he holds the chair of Esteemed L. K. He is also an ardent and enthusiastic promoter and supporter of the Somerville baseball organ- ization. He married, September 2, 1908, Jen- nie B., daughter of Frederick and Barbara Wink.
PATTERSON John Patterson, the first member of this family of whom we have definite in- formation was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, March 16, 1781. He may have been the son of Charles and Mary Patterson, who was born there October 14, 1752, and who was baptized in the First Presbyterian Church to- gether with his brother William and his sisters Elizabeth and Mary, August 28, 1762. He was twice married. The children of his first marriage were: 1. James, deceased. 2. Sam- uel, referred to below. 3. Francis, removed to New York. 4. Eliza, married John Kerr, of Baltimore, an auditor of one of the rail- road companies there. 5. Mary Ann, deceased. Children of second marriage: 6. John, who was for many years an official of the House of Correction, in Philadelphia. 7. Sarah, mar- ried Mr. Higginbottom, and was murdered several .years ago.
(II) Samuel, son of John Patterson, of Philadelphia, died in Swedesborough, New Jersey, in 1834, leaving an infant son Francis F., referred to below.
(III) Francis F., son of Samuel Patter- son, of Swedesborough, New Jersey, was only three months old when his father died. He married Abigail Derrickson, daughter of Will- iam Null, of Null's Mill, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and granddaughter of Michael Null. Among their children was Francis F. Jr., referred to below.
(IV) Francis F. Jr., son of Francis F. (I) and Abigail Derrickson ( Null ) Patterson, was born in Newark, New Jersey, July 30, 1867. For his early education he was sent to the pub- lic schools at Woodbury, New Jersey, and to the Friends' Academy there, which latter he attended for about a year. Leaving school when he was fifteen years of age, he entered
a printing office and has been in one ever since, rising gradually from the humble post of printer's devil through all the various grad- uations of position to editor and proprietor. For some time he was a reporter and later on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Rec- ord, then for a time was reported on the staff of the Philadelphia Times, the Philadelphia Telegraph, the Baltimore Herald, the Camden ( New Jersey ) Sunday Review, and the Cam- den Telegram. Mr. Patterson is an ardent and influential member of the Republican party, and has not only done valuable work for its interests, but has served it and his country in more than one capacity at various times. In 1899 he was a member of the New Jersey legislature, and in 1900 he was elected clerk of Camden county, and again in 1905 he was re-elected to the same position, which he now holds. In religion Mr. Patterson is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Camden. He also is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association of Camden, of the Camden Board of Trade, and of the board of directors of the Camden Republican Club of Camden. As a Mason Mr. Patterson is ardent and enthusiastic and prominent in many bodies. He is a member of Camden Lodge No. 15, F. and A. M., of Camden ; of Siloam Chapter No. 19. R. A. M., of Camden; a Knight Templar, and a noble of Crescent Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Trenton. He has also taken all of the consistory degrees in Free Masonry up to and including the thirty- second degree. He also is a member of the Order of Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men.
Mr. Patterson married, September 23, 1896, Isabel Fowler, daughter of Captain Robert L .. Leyburn, of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Chil- dren : Francis Ford (3) ; Robert Leyburn : Isabel E. A., and Mary Null.
This family name is of NORTHRUP English origin, and is a compound of the words North and the Saxon thorp ( middle English thrope ), meaning town, or village. The earli- est mention of the name found in England is of the marriage of Maude, daughter of Simon Northrope, in county York, in the reign of Henry VII. ( 1485-1509). In the Yorkshire Parish Register, vol. ix, appears the follow- ing : 1604: Northrop, Northrope : 1617 : North- rope : 1649: Northrope : 1664: Northroppe.
(I) Joseph Northrup, founder of the fam- ily in America, came from Yorkshire, Eng-
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land, with Sir Richard Saltonstall, in Eaton and Davenport's company, in the ship "Hec- tor and Martha," landing at Boston on July 26, 1637. With others he formed the settle- ment of Milford, Connecticut, in 1639, and his name appears as one of the forty-four "Free Planters" on the document which laid the foundation for their government of the "Plantation." Thenceforward the name North- rup appears frequently in the records, and eleven different Northrup signatures are ap- pended to the patent granted by the Governor and Company to Milford in 1713. Joseph Northrup married Mary, daughter of Francis Norton. He died September 11, 1669.
(II) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) North- rup, was born July 17, 1649, and died June I, 1700. He married Miriam, daughter of James Blakeman, son of Rev. Aaron Blake- man, who was born in Stratfordshire, Eng- land, in 1598, and was bred at Christ College, Oxford, England, matriculated May 28, 1617.
( III) Moses, son of Joseph (2) Northrup, was baptized March 31, 1695. He removed to Dutchess county, New York, in 1734, and died in 1746 or 1747. He married Abigail Cornwall.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Moses Northrup, was born in Dutchess county, New York. in 1739. He removed to Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1760, and died there September 4, 1774. He married M. Lenora Whitehead.
(V) Moses (2), son of Benjamin North- rup, was born in 1762, in Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey, and died there August 4. 1846. He kept a general store, and erected and operated a mill for carding wool. The mill was continued by a son and grandson in turn, and its walls are still standing in 1910. He married, May 1, 1787, Sarah De Witt.
(VI) James, son of Moses (2) Northrup, was born January 3. 1806, on the Northrup homestead (the carding mill property), in Sussex county, New Jersey, and died there October 15, 1876. He followed the business of wool-carding and cloth-dressing, and also conducted a farm. He was a man of promi- lence in the community, and held various town offices. He married, April 29, 1826. Mary Vaughn, born March 20, 1809. Chil- dren: Phoebe, born February 12, 1827; Rich- ard V., August 25; 1828 ; Moses J., November 21, 1830; Thompson, November 18, 1832; Lyman, December 17, 1834; Sarah. July 7, 1837 ; Mary Amelia, November 19, 1839 ; Mon- erva. April 16, 1843; Austin and Oscar, twins, August 7, 1847.
(VII) Oscar, son of James Northrop, was born August 7, 1847, in Sussex county, New Jersey, on the Northrup homestead (carding mill property ), and died there in 1900. He was a farmer by occupation. He was a Pres- byterian in religion, and a Republican in poli- tics. He married, November 19, 1867, Mary Phillips, born in Sussex county, January 17, 1844, daughter of Nelson and Rebecca (Wyker ) Phillips. Children: Sallie Pinkney, born June 7, 1868, now deceased; James Henry, born March 17, 1871 ; Simon Phillips, born August 23, 1876.
(VIII) Simon Phillips, son of Oscar North- rup, was born near Branchville, Sussex coun- ty, New Jersey. August 23, 1876. He attend- ed the public schools, and at the early age of sixteen was a teacher in Sussex county public schools. He completed his literary studies in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1897, the year in which he at- tained his majority. He entered the Yale Law School. New Haven, Connecticut ; while a student there he was president of the Way- land Club ; and at his graduation in 1899 he received the Kent prize for superiority in de- bate. In February of the same year he was admitted to the New Jersey bar. The same year he was engaged in the law office of George P. Rust, in Passaic, from 1900 to 1903 in the office of Flavel McGee, in Jersey City. and in 1903 in the office of Edward M. Colie. in Newark. In 1904-5 he was in law partner- ship with Francis Lafferty, at Newark, under the firm name of Northrup & Lafferty. In 1906 he became associated with the Fidelity Trust Company, and is now assistant title officer of that corporation. With his family he holds membership in the Park Presbyterian Church, Newark. In politics he is a Democrat.
Mr. Northrup married in Newark, Novem- ber 9. 1904, Jennie Mabel Roe, born in Branch- ville, New Jersey, May 2, 1880, daughter of George Warren and Elizabeth (Adams) Roe ; the father is a bookkeeper, and has one other child, Warren Adams Roe. Mr. and Mrs. Northrup have one child, Mary Elizabeth, born November 15, 1906.
As the name indicates. McALLISTER the McAllister family of New Jersey belongs to that stalwart band of Scotch-Irish ancestry which had done so much to shape the destiny of this country during the early stages of its life as an independent nation.
(I) William McAllister, the earliest known
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ancestor of the branch at present under con- sideration, was a prominent citizen of Sharps- town, New Jersey, where his children were born: I. Thomas, referred to below. 2. Irene, married G. Howard Van Meter. 3. Johanna, married William C. Hanna. 4. Raymond, married Rachael Van Meter.
(II) Thomas, son of William McAllister, of Sharpstown, was born in Cumberland coun- ty, New Jersey, in 1858. He married Phebe Garrison, daughter of Samuel Batten, a farmer living near Swedesboro, New Jersey. She was born in Deerfield, Cumberland county, New Jersey, in 1862. Among their children is Al- bert Robeson, referred to below.
(III) Albert Robeson, son of Thomas and Phebe Garrison (Batten ) McAllister, was born at Shiloh, New Jersey, November 4, 1879, and is now living at Bridgeton. For his early education he attended the public schools of Bridgeton and the West Jersey Academy, from which latter he graduated in 1898. After leaving school he took up the study of law in the office of Messrs. Hampton and Fithian, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and was admitted to the supreme court to the New Jersey bar in February, 1903, as an attorney, and as coun- sellor in February, 1906, since which time he has been engaged in his general practice of his profession in Bridgeton. Mr. McAllister is an active, energetic and able member of the Repub- lican party, and since he was admitted as coun- sellor he has been the corporation counsel for the city of Bridgeton. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and also of the Cumberland County Bar Association, and is regarded as one of the ablest of the rising gener- ation of lawyers in South Jersey. In November, 1909, Mr. McAllister was elected by the Repub- lican party to the house of assembly of New Jer- sey. His secret society affiliations are with Even- ing Star Lodge, No. 105, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bridgeton, and Cohansey Lodge, No. 205, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Bur- lington, New Jersey. He is a member of Second Presbyterian Church, of Bridgeton, New Jersey.
November 29, 1905, Hon. Albert Robeson McAllister married Carolyn, daughter of Colo- nel J. Howard Willets, of Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, who has borne him two children: Al- bert Robeson, Jr., born October 6, 1906, and John Howard, February I, 1909.
This name derived its origin SAWYER from an occupation. In New England it was formerly identi- cal with that of Sayer. The New England iii-11
Sawyers are for the most part the posterity of . John Sawyer, a well-to-do farmer of Lincoln- shire, England, whose sons William, Edward and Thomas arrived in the Massachusetts bay colony about the year 1636. William settled in Newbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas was one of the original settlers of Lancaster, Mass- achusetts. Bearers of this name have won distinction as clergymen, jurists, statesmen, merchants and manufacturers. It is worthy of note that the officers of a company recruit- ed in Lancaster for service in the American revolution were all named Sawyer, and it is on record that no less than eighteen members of the Lancaster family-descendants of Thomas, were in the Continental army at the same time. They also assisted in defending the colonies against the aggressions of the French and In- dians, and the name is well represented in the muster-rolls of the war of 1812-15, the strug- gle with Mexico and the civil war. General Thomas Sawyer and two others of this sur- name, bearing the same title, are known to have settled in Vermont shortly after the Amer- ican revolution. The branch of the Sawyer family about to be mentioned, and of which Waldo Fitch Sawyer, M. D., the present mayor of Vineland, New Jersey, is a representative, is doubtless descended from either William or Thomas, referred to above, but owing to the fragnentory condition of the Vermont records an attempt to obtain his line of descent from the immigrant has proved fruitless.
(I) The earliest ancestor of the family men- tioned in the data at hand was Ebenezer Saw- yer, Dr. Sawyer's grandfather, who was a native of Thetford, Vermont. He resided on Christian street, in that town, and reared a family.
(II) James, son of Ebenezer Sawyer, was born in Thetford, December 25, 1825. He was one of the pioneer settlers in Kansas, going there overland from Vermont and carrying with him the first Sharpe's rifle ever used in that locality. He erected the first dwelling house in Lawrence, Kansas, where he resided some two or three years, and as a member of the Free State Association he was intimately associated with John Brown during the famous struggle arising from the attempt to make Kansas a slave-holding state. He was intrust- ed with the delivery of important despatches by the governor, and during those troublesome times he contracted disease from exposure from which he never fully recovered. From Kansas he went to Wisconsin, and locating in Fond du Lac engaged in the manufacture of
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. lumber. He was elected mayor of Fond du Lac, and in 1865 was a member of the Wis- consin state legislature. After the civil war he spent some time in Florida for the benefit of his health, and in 1868 settled permanently in Vineland, New Jersey. He subsequently served in the township council, and was a candidate for the New Jersey legislature on the Green- back ticket, but lost the election by a margin of seven votes. He died in Vineland, New Jersey, in February, 1881. He was twice mar- ried. His first wife was Clarissa Gillett, of Hartford, Vermont, and she died in Fond du Lac, leaving one daughter Emma L. Sawyer, born April II, 1852, died October 29, 1905.
Clarissa Gillett was a daughter of Billa and Laura (Griswold) Gillett, and a descendant in the seventh generation of John Gillett (I), who was one of the original proprietors of Lebanon, Connecticut. He married Experi- ence Dewey, of Lebanon, and had several chil- dren. John (II), son of John and Experience (Dewey) Gillett, was born October 7, 1702; married Abigail Lee. Ebenezer Gillett (III), son of John and Abigail (Lee) Gillett, was born June 5, 1705. He was one of the charter proprietors of Hartford, Vermont, but never resided there. He married Mary Ordway, and had children: Israel, Rhoda and Ezekiel (twins), John, Mary, Isaacand Rebecca (twins ), Ebenezer, and Jacob. John (IV), son of Eben- ezer and Mary (Ordway) Gillett, was bap- tized April 7, 1745. He settled in Hartford, Vermont, in 1768, held many public offices, and March 5, 1772, donated sixty acres of land lying in Hartford to Dartmouth College. He died January 19, 1829. He married Jemima Smalley ; children were: Jemima ( died young), Sendea (died young), Billa, Sendea, Jemima. Anne, and Levina. Billa (V), son of John and Jemima (Smalley) Gillett, was born in Hart- ford, June 7, 1774, died April 5, 1844. He mar- ried (first) Ruby Marsh, (second) Elizabeth Tilden. His children were: Jasper, Billa, Ruby, Azro, Infant (died at two months), Charles, Norman, Maria G. Billa (VI), son of Billa and Ruby (Marsh) Gillett, was born in Hartford, May 14, 1799, died in Sharon, Vermont, March 29, 1841. He was known as Deacon William Gillett. He married (first) Laura Griswold, of Randolph, Vermont, (sec- ond) Almira Partridge, of Norwich, Vermont. The children of his first union were: Clarissa, previously mentioned as first wife of James Sawyer; Nancy, born in 1834, married in Galesburg, Illinois, January 25, 1856, Pro- fessor J. B. Roberts, of Morton, that state, and
had six children. By Billa Gillett's second marriage there were two sons, who reside in California.
James Sawyer married ( second) Mrs. Lucy Dunham, neé Meacham, who had one daugh- ter Ida C. Dunham, born in Juneau, Wisconsin, April 15, 1856.
Lucy Meacham, born in Moriah (now Port Henry), New York, October 8, 1826, was a daughter of William Meacham, and a grand- daughter of Captain William Meacham, who lost his life in the battle of Bunker Hill. Her immigrant ancestor was one of two brothers who are said to have come from near Bristol, England, and settled at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630. James Meacham, a descendant of one of these immigrants, married Rebecca - -, and had at least five sons, one of whom was killed in 1756, while serving in the French and Indian war under Colonel Ephraim Will- iams, the founder of Williamstown, Massachu- setts, and the titular founder of Williams Col- lege, of which Ebenezer Fitch was the first president. The other sons of James and Re- becca Meacham were Captain William (previ- ously referred to), Jeremiah, Jonathan and John. One of these brothers settled in Will- iamstown. A record at hand states that Cap- tain William Meacham and his three brothers served in the same company, Colonel Wood- bridge's regiment, and that all were residents of New Salem, Massachusetts. Another ac- count states that Captain William Meacham commanded a company of minute-men and participated in the battle of Lexington. He was killed at Bunker Hill, and his name ap- pears on the memorial tablet in Winthrop Square, Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was born in Salem, March 10, 1742 (old style) ; married Sarah Cook, in 1770, and had two sons : William and Jeremiah. Captain Will- am Meacham, son of Captain William Meach- am, was born in Adams, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 20, 1771. He commanded a company during the war of 1812-15, and participated in the battle of Plattsburg. After peace was de- clared he met two brothers, Captain William Meacham and Lieutenant Jeremiah Meacham, of the Royal Guards, British army. They were sons of Robert Meacham, who at that time was living on the old homestead in the west of England. Captain William Meacham married Keziah How, August 14, 1796. Keziah How was born May 25, 1775, at Poultney, Vermont, died there in April, 1818. He married Lucy Fitch, February 29, 1824; one daughter was born to them. at Moriah, New York (now
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Port Henry), Lucy Juliet. Lucy Fitch Meach- am died January 22, 1851. Captain William Meacham died April 25, 1852. Their graves are in the old cemetery at Port Henry. The daughter Lucy became the second wife of James Sawyer, as previously stated. She died at Vineland, New Jersey, in December, 1897.
James and Lucy ( Meacham-Dunham) Saw- yer reared two sons: 1. James William, born October 21, 1861, in Fond du Lac, married Lulu Simonson and resides in Brooklyn, New York; children : William, Aimee, Waldo Wat- son and Maizie ; ii. Waldo Fitch.
(III) Waldo Fitch Sawyer, M. D., son of James and Lucy ( Meacham-Dunham ) Sawyer, was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, October 15, 1865. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Vineland, New Jersey, and prior to his majority he went to Cheboy- gan, Michigan, where he was engaged in the lumber business for two years. Returning to Vineland he began the study of medicine with Dr. C. R. Wiley, and entering the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1887, was graduated with the class of 1890. He immedi- ately began the practice of medicine in Vine- land, and has ever since resided there, attain- ing high rank in his profession, and sub- stantially demonstrated his ability in other di- rections ; notably in civic affairs.
In politics Dr. Sawyer is a Republican, but is a staunch supporter of non-partisan govern- ment in municipal affairs, and his official rec- ord is in full keeping with these convictions. In November, 1891, he was elected coroner of Cumberland county for a term of three years, and in 1897 was again elected to that office. He was first elected a member of the city coun- cil in 1892, and was re-elected to that body in 1896. He introduced the first resolution look- ing to the municipality owning its public util- ities, and through his advocacy and instru- mentality, Vineland became the owner of its own electric light plant, water supply and sewerage systems. As chairman of the committee for the investigation of municipal improvements he became thoroughly cognizant of the advan- tages to be gained from municipal ownership of public utilities, and also became fully con- vinced that it would be almost a financial im- possibility for the city to maintain a sewerage system without owning its own water supply. At this time the city was being supplied with water by a private concern, and the additional cost of flushing the sewers would be greatly in excess of what it should be, while under muni-
cipal ownership the cost of water for sewerage purposes would be nominal. After consulting with a competent sanitary and hydraulic engi- neer and obtaining feasible plans, the com- mittee, of which Dr. Sawyer was still chair- man, recommended the purchase and improve- ment by the city of the water works then in use, which was approved and adopted by the city council, and ratified by the people. This undertaking, together with the construction of a sewerage system and the installation of an electric plant, were finally accomplished. In November, 1906, Dr. Sawyer was elected mayor of Vineland for a term of two years, and re- elected in 1908. His popularity as chief magis- trate was forcibly emphasized on the occasion of his last election, when only thirty-five votes were cast against him. From 1906 to the pres- ent time he has served with ability as president of the Landis township board of health. In Vineland, as in other municipalities where con- servation is still the watchword of the electors in choosing its public officials, a citizen of ex- tensive business experience is considered pref- erable to a professional man for mayor. There are, however, exceptions in all cases, and the present chief executive has amply demonstrated the fact that a man well versed in anatomy, physiology, materia medica and therapeutics, is equally capable of grappling with the intri- cate problems of political economy, and for- ward them to a satisfactory solution. Al- though economy has ever been the guiding in- fluence in his administration, progress has not been sacrificed and the march of improvement is plainly visible in every department. A glance at his annual message to the council and citi- zens discloses the fact that the city is at the present time enjoying an era of unusual pros- perity, that the public utilities previously re- ferred to are practically self-supporting, that the business opportunities of the city are su- perior and its future prospects exceedingly bright. Many of the improvements wrought during the present adminstration have in a great measure been conceived with a view of surviving the test of time, and the mayor's solicitude for the future prosperity and at- tractiveness of the city is clearly expressed in the following extract from his second annual message.
"I am glad to note that in spite of the money stringency of the past year, more building has been done in Vineland than for a number of years past. This is a good sign. Communities cannot stand still. They must either go forward or retrograde.
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