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(V) Timothy, son of John and Hannah (Talmage) Ross, was born in Westfield, Au- gust 26, 1741. He married, March 20, 1765, Mary, daughter of John Bryant. Child: Sam- uel referred to below.
(VI) Samuel, son of Timothy and Mary (Bryant) Ross, was born about 1766. He married (first) Huldah, daughter of Thomas Randolph; (second), a daughter of Ezekiel Day. Children, four by first marriage: Tim- othy, married Sarah Laing; Milan, referred to below; John; Sarah, married Coon ; James; Daughter, married Peter Houseman.
(VII) Milan, son of Samuel and Huldah (Randolph) Ross, was born in Union county, New Jersey. He married Susan Force. Chil- dren : Samuel; Randolph, referred to below ; John; William ; Susan, married Daniel, son of Timothy and Sarah (Laing) Ross, referred to above.
(VIII) Randolph, son of Milan and Susan (Force) Ross, was born in Union county, New Jersey. He was a carriage maker in Rahway. Child : Milan, referred to below.
(IX) Milan, son of Randolph Ross of Rah- way, was born there in 1830, and died there in 1866. He began life as a carriage salesman for his father, and later was taken into part- nership with him, the firm name becoming Randolph Ross & Son, the manufactory being in Rahway and the depot in New York City. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Aaron Dol- beer, by his second wife. Children: Emma A .; Leonard Chapin; Milan, Randolph, and Benjamin Parvin, all referred to below.
(X) Milan (2), son of Milan (1) and Eliz- abeth (Dolbeer) Ross, was born in Rahway, January 6, 1861, and is now living at Asbury Park, New Jersey. He received his early edu-
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cation in the public schools, which he left however when he was about thirteen years old in order to become a clerk for Hon. James A. Bradley, who was developing the Jersey Coast. in the spring of 1877 he entered the real estate and insurance office of Willisford Dey, where he remained until 1885, rising in the first six years from clerk to cashier and then to office manager. In these various positions he was noted for his unfailing courtesy and constant attention to his business, which, as his fellow citizens grew to know him, made him not only highly respected but very popular. January I, 1885, he engaged in business on his own account, starting the Milan Ross Agency, deal- ing in real estate and insurance, and later in property developments, and having his offices in Asbury Park and Allenhurst. From the outset his venture was successful and has steadily increased from year to year. In 1894 Mr. Ross admitted his brother Randolph Ross into partnership in the agency, and being far- seeing and progressive, he developed several large deals, while in addition to purchasing and developing local real estate he promoted and managed the Deal Beach Land and Improve- ment Company, and negotiated the purchase of the Hathaway, Drummond and Hendrick- son farms, situated near Asbury Park, at an expenditure of $380,000. On this tract the company laid out the hamlet of Darlington, which name was later changed to Deal. Mr. Ross is a Republican in politics, and served as collector of Asbury Park from 1884 until the organization of the city government, when he became city treasurer, and served continuously in that capacity, endorsed at each re-election by the citizens irrespective of party, until 1907. He was a director of the First National Bank of Asbury Park for ten years, and also in the Monmouth Trust and Safe Deposit Company. He is treasurer of the Asbury Park Amuse- ment Companies, which provide amusement attractions for summer visitors. He has served for years as foreman of the Wesley Engine Company, and is an honorary member of the Asbury Park fire department. In 1898 he en- listed in the Monmouth County Troop, and at the end of his term of enlistment, May 30, 1904, re-enlisted and served one year. He is a member of Lodge No. 142, F. and A. M. of Asbury Park ; of Standard Chapter, R. A. M., of Long Branch; of Corson Commandery No. 15, Knights Templar ; of Mecca Temple, No. I, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New York City ; of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon ; of the Deal Country Club,
and of the B. P. O. E. Although deeply engrossed with his business affairs, Mr. Ross is ever ready to give much of his time and attention to aid the advancement of education and politics, and to assist all worthy enter- prises having the progress of the city as their objects. He married, November 4, 1886, Nelly V., daughter of David H. and Lydia Wyckoff of Matawan, New Jersey. Children: Milan, born July 30, 1891 ; Rodney Wyckoff, August 18, 1905.
(X) Randolph, son of Milan (I) and Eliz- abeth (Dolbeer ) Ross, was born in Rahway, Union county, New Jersey, October 19, 1862, and is now living at Asbury Park. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Rahway, and then graduated from a military academy, after which he entered the real estate office of Hon. James Bradley, with whom he remained for eighteen years until 1894, when he became the partner of his brother Milan Ross, and the two formed their well-known firm for dealing in insurance, real estate and mortgage loans, and property devel- opment. Mr. Ross is a Republican in politics, and for twenty-four years was a member of the Board of Health of Asbury Park, the greater part of the time serving as clerk of the board. For fourteen years he has been a member of the Board of Education of Asbury Park, and the last year served as its president. He is a member of Lodge No. 142, F. and A. M., of Asbury Park, and for the last twenty- seven years has been a member of the official board of the First Methodist Church of Asbury Park, for ten years serving as the president of its board of trustees. Like his brother, Mr. Ross has made himself a host of warm friends by his pleasing personality, his unfailing cour- tesy, and his many fine qualities both of heart and head, while his business ability, coupled with his willingness to devote time and atten- tion to everything which benefit or promote the best public interests, have placed him high among the substantial and representative men of the community. He married, April 29, 1886, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Gilles- pie, of Philadelphia. Children: I. Randolph, born April 5, 1887; Thomas Gillespie, Sep- tember 24, 1889; Henry Mitchell, August 27, 1891.
(X) Benjamin Parvin, son of Milan and Elizabeth (Dolbeer) Ross, was born in Rah- way, Union county, New Jersey, March 16, 1866, and is now living in Asbury Park. He received his education in the public schools of Asbury Park, and when he was sixteen years
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old he started to learn the trade of manufac- turing candy, but gave this up in order to accept a clerkship with his brothers Milan and Randolph Ross. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Junior O. U. A. M. He married, September 28, 1899, Ida May Free- man. Children : Parvin Freeman, born Novem- ber 8, 1900; Marjorie, July 25, 1902.
MANNING Samuel Manning, the first member of this family of whom we have definite infor- mation was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1749, and died there November 10, 1832. His wife's name is unknown. Children : I. Helen, born June 16, 1772. 2. Margaret, September 18, 1774. 3. Thomas, July 18, 1776. 4. Elizabeth, November 24, 1778. 5. John, February 9, 1781. 6. Leah, August 9, 1783. 7. Catharine, December 12, 1785; married Nicholas P., son of William and Catharine (Pickle) Apgar. 8. Mary, born April 12, 1787. 9. Samuel, referred to below. IO. Hannah Van Vendet, born November 20, 1791. II. Sarah, July 9, 1795.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Man- ning, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, September 21, 1789, and died there October 18, 1837. He married Nancy, born July 12, 1792, died March 12, 1848, daughter of William and Catharine ( Pickle) Apgar (see Apgar). Children: I. James Apgar, born January 1, 18II. 2. William Apgar, referred to below. 3. Sarah, born December 18, 1814; married - Henry, of New York City. 4. Catharine, born January 4, 1817 ; married Jo- seph Potts. 5. Isaac B., born April 6, 1819. 6. John W., October 10, 1821. 7. Christian W., December 9, 1824; married Henry Max- well. 8. Hannah, born March 6, 1826; married Henry Eckman. 9. Aaron D., born June 17, 1828. 10. Samuel, December 27, 1830.
(III) William Apgar, son of Samuel (2), and Nancy (Apgar) Manning, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, August 16, 1812, and died at Mount Pleasant, same coun- ty, June 6, 1895. He was a farmer and a shoe- maker at Mount Pleasant, a Whig in politics, and a member of the Baptist Church. He mar- ried, February 7, 1835, Hannah, born Febru- ary I, 1815, died August 23, 1897, daughter of Henry and Mary (Dalsy) Aller. Her parents lived at Evansville, Rock county, Wisconsin, but her great-grandfather was probably the Peter Aller who came to Philadelphia in the ship "Two Brothers," in 1752, and settled in Amwell, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Peter
Aller died leaving a widow Elizabeth, three sons and seven daughters. One son, Peter, remained in New Jersey; the other two, John and Philip, it is believed went west from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, then to Ohio and finally to Wisconsin, and one of them was probably the father of Henry Aller and grand- father of Hannah (Aller) Manning. Chil- dren: Joseph Ketchum, refered to below; John Wall; Eilzabeth, married William Beers, and had two children ; Harriet, married David Beers ; children : Frank Beers ; Hannah Beers ; Ella Beers.
(IV) Rev. Joseph Ketchum Manning, D. D., son of William Apgar and Hannah (Aller) Manning, was born in Mount Pleasant, Hunt- erdon county, New Jersey, and is now living in Trenton, New Jersey, where he is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. He started life as a farmer, went to Claverack, New York, then studied for the ministry, and after ordination entered on his life work there. He married, September 27, 1866, Beulah, born in 1836, died January 27, 1893, daughter of Lewis and Ann R. ( Salter) Young ( see Young and Sal- ter). Children: Louis Young and Harriet A., referred to below ; Frank L.
(V) Louis Young, son of Rev. Dr. Joseph Ketchum and Beulah (Young) Manning, was born at Glen Gardner, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, September 21, 1867, and is now living at Red Bank, New Jersey. He received his early education at the private school at Key- port, Monmouth county, New Jersey, conduct- ed by Mr. George Holmes, after which he at- tended the Glenwood Institute at Matawan. In 1883 he started in the life insurance busi- ness, working for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Insurance Company until 1898, being in their home office for eight years and for the succeeding seven in their Boston office. Il1 health, the cause of his resigning his position, forced him to remain inactive for a year, but in 1899 he became the general manager of the Monmouth Ice Company, and since then has been engaged in the coal and ice business. He is a Republican in politics, and for three years from 1905 to 1907 was a member of the town council. In 1908 he was elected mayor of Red Bank, but after serving as such for two months he resigned in order to accept the position of postmaster of Red Bank, February 20, 1909, a position he is still holding. He is a mem- ber of Mystic Lodge, No. 21, F. and A. M., Red Bank, of which he became master in 1908. He is also a trustee of the Baptist Church of Red Bank. He married, in Red Bank, January
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28, 1892, Ada, born there August 4, 1867, daughter of William H. and Sarah Matilda (Davis) Sherman. Children: Beulah Young, born December 6, 1894, and Sherman A., Sep- tember 8, 1906. Children of William H. and Sarah Matilda (Davis) Sherman: Ada, re- ferred to above; Albert Percy, married Emma Mount; William H. (2d), married Clara Mount ; child, Marian G.
(V) Harriet A., daughter of Rev. Joseph Ketchum and Beulah ( Young) Manning, was born in Glen Gardner, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. She married, in 1895, Hon. Thomas Whitaker, son of Hon. William Barrett and Anna Maria (Golder) Trenchard, who was born at Centreton, Salem county, New Jersey, December 13, 1863; (see Trenchard).
(The Apgar Line).
The name Apgar was originally spelt Eb- gert, then Ebcher, still later Ebgar, and finally assumed its present form about the time that John Adam Ebger came from the Swiss bord- ers of Lombardy, in Italy, to Philadelphia, September 13, 1749. He took the oath of allegiance there. His wife's name is unknown. Children : 1. Herbert, of East Cokesburg ; died 1800; married (first) - -; (second) Anna Eick. 2. Heinrich, born 1745; died October 19, 1832; married (first) Anna Maria Nixon ; (second) Groendyke. 3. Jacob, born July 18, 1746; died May 6, 1814; married Hannah Charity, daughter of Conrad Pickle. 4. Peter, of Lebanon, New Jersey; married (first) Catharine Clover ; (second)
5. John Peter, died 1792; married Elizabeth McCracken. 6. William, referred to below. 7. Adam, died 1815; married Anna Barbara Manning, probably a sister to Samuel Man- ning, referred to above. 8. Frederick, of Alexandria township, Hunterdon county, born October 7, 1753; died March 5, 1832 ; married Elizabeth Philhower. 9. Conrad, married (first) Mary Farley ; (second) Charity Sutton. IO. George, went west. II. Catharine, mar- ried (first ) John Emery ; (second) John Sharp. (II) William, son of John Adam Ebger (or Apgar, as he signed his name both ways), was born in 1752 and died April 9, 1836. He lived in Clinton, New Jersey, and married, April 17, 1774, Catharine, born in 1752, died December 9, 1831, daughter of Conrad Pickle. Children : I. Joanna Gertrude, born March 3, 1775. 2. Hannah, March 3, 1776; died young. 3. Eliz- abeth, born 1777; died young. 4. Nicholas P., June 29, 1779; married Catharine, daugh- ter of Samuel (1) Manning, referred to above ;
children: James, George, John, Catharine, Maria. 5. James, born January 28, 1781 ; died unmarried. 6. William, born October 29, 1782; died young. 7. Elizabeth, June 12, 1785; married William Mettler. 8. Sarah, twin with Elizabeth, married Isaac Bloom. 9. Catharine, born August 2, 1789; died young. IO. Nancy, referred to below. II. William, born July 15, 1794; died young. 12. George. P., born 1799; married Elizabeth McPherson, of Brooklyn.
(III) Nancy, daughter of William and Catharine (Pickle) Apgar, was born in Clin- ton, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, July 12, 1792, and died in Mount Pleasant, same coun- ty, March 12, 1848. She married Samuel (2), son of Samuel ( 1) Manning, referred to above.
(The Young Line).
Lewis, son of Silas and Sarah Young, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in Sussex coun- ty, New Jersey, September 22, 1803, and died in Clarksville, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, January 15, 1878. He married, February 26, 1834, Ann R., daughter of John C. and Beulah (Wills) Salter, of Valley Church, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, who was born May 31, 1801, and died in Red Bank, New Jersey, July 9, 1890. (See Salter). Children: I. Beulah, referred to below. 2. Eli Wills, born May 14, 1844; died May 16, 1879; unmarried. 3. Har-
riet Oleanna, born February 12, 1839; died August 20, 1880; married, June 14, 1864, Oliver Tumbleson, son of Joseph Carver and Mary ( Vansant) Terry, of Philadelphia, who was born February 25, 1839. Children : Kate Lizzie Terry, Anna Young Terry, Sarah Grace Terry, Oliver Tremont Terry.
(II) Beulah, daughter of Lewis and Ann R. (Salter) Young, was born in Clarksville, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, April 26, 1837, and died in Bridgeton, Cumberland county, New Jersey, January 26, 1894. She married, in Clarksville, September 27, 1866, Rev. Jo- seph Ketchum, D. D., son of William Apgar and Hannah ( Aller) Manning, referred to above.
(The Salter Line).
John Salter, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, came from Westchester county, New York, to Mor- ris county, New Jersey, where he bought land July 13, 1764, from David Ransford a Quaker. He married Charlotte Weissenfeld. Children : Tohn C., referred to below; Susan; Elizabeth ; Charlotte ; Sarah.
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(II) John C., son of John and Charlotte (Weissenfeld) Salter, was born January 2, 1779, and died April 25, 1847. He removed to Tewkesbury township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1808. He married Beulah, born March 26, 1778, died November 3, 1835, daughter of Samuel Wills, of Mendham. Chil- dren : Samuel Wills and Nancy, referred to below.
(III) Samuel Wills, son of John C. and Beulah (Wills) Salter, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, September 14, 1802. He was a merchant at Fairmount, New Jersey, and was a judge. He married (first) June 16, 1836, Sophia Zoe, daughter of Archibald and Martha (Sayre) Sayre, of Madison, New Jersey, who was born October 10, 1808, and died January 26, 1845. He married (second) July 28, 1846, Hannah Maria Sayre, born Feb- ruary 26, 1807, died about 1873, sister to his first wife. Children, all by first marriage: I. George Edward, born June 19, 1837; died in April, 1883; married (first) Aletta M. Lewis; (second) Margaret Pitney. 2. Beulah Wills, born March 22, 1839; died 1853. 3. Martha M., born August 24, 1832, died 1843.
(III) Nancy, or Ann R., daughter of John C. and Beulah (Wills) Salter, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, May 31, 1801, and died in Red Bank, New Jersey, July 9, 1890. She married, February 26, 1834, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, Lewis, son of Silas and Sarah Young, referred to above.
Henry Albert Potter, of East POTTER Orange, is a direct descendant of George Potter, an officer in Cromwell's army, who accompanied that dis- tinguished leader to Ireland and received for his services grants of land in county Fer- managh. Under the settlement of 1660, in the time of Charles II., he was confirmed in the possession of several estates in that county, afterward known as Potterstown, or Potters- rath. The family is of Norman origin, the ancient spelling of the name being Pottier, or Porterie.
(I) In 1791 James Potter became the owner of property in county Tyrone, which passed to his son, George Potter, who came to Amer- ica in 1828 and settled in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, and who by his wife, Ann Scott, had a son Thomas.
Philadelphia, served for many years as a mem- ber of the city council, and as chairman of the finance committee was chiefly instrumental in securing for the city the land now known as West Fairmount Park, and in the establish- ment of the paid fire department. In 1837 he founded the house of Thomas Potter, Sons & Co., one of the largest oilcloth and linoleum manufacturing concerns in the United States. He was president of the City National Bank of Philadelphia for many years up to the time of his death, held many positions of trust in municipal and financial corporations, and was a man of upright Christian character. He mar- ried Adeline Coleman Bower, daughter of George Bower, and a granddaughter of Gen- eral Jacob Bower, who was born in Reading. Pennsylvania, in September, 1757, and died at Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1818.
General Bower was a distinguished officer in the revolutionary war, becoming quarter- master in Captain George Nagle's company, Colonel Thompson's rifle battalion, June 25, 1775, which marched to Cambridge, Massachu- setts, and took part in the battles of Bunker Hill and Lachmere Point. He was a lieu- tenant in the First Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, January 18, 1776; Captain in the Pennsylvania Flying Camp, Continental Line, in 1776; Captain in the Sixth Pennsyl- vania Regiment. February 15, 1776; and Cap- tain in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment, January 1, 1783, to the close of the war, being then twenty-five years of age. He was one of the officers who on May 13, 1783, in the cantonment on the Hudson river, formed the General Society of the Cincinnati, and was an original member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, which convened in Phila- delphia, October 4, 1783. His son, Dr. Henry Bower, succeeded to the membership in 1823, and his grandson, Dr. William Bower, in 1845. General Bower was one of the five delegates appointed by the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati to the first meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, held May 4-18, 1784, in Philadelphia, General Washington in the chair. In the war of 1812, Captain Bower was appointed by Governor Snyder, of Pennsyl- vania, brigadier-general commanding the First Brigade, Sixth Division, Pennsylvania regi- ments.
Children of Thomas and Adeline Coleman ( Bower) Potter: George, born August 7, 1846, died October 4, 1876; Margaret, born Thomas Jr., born July 12, 1850 ; William, who
(II) Thomas Potter was born at Relagh- guiness, county Tyrone, Ireland, August 14, 1819, and died at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, . July 16, 1848, died November 23, 1854; September 29, 1878. He was educated in
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was minister to Italy under President Harri- son ; Margaret (2d), born December 12, 1854, married Stephen J. Meeker, of Newark, New Jersey, a descendant of one of the "Elizabeth- town Associates ;" Henry Albert, the subject of this article; James Bower, born November 2, 1858 ; and Charles A., born October 4, 1860. (III) Henry Albert Potter was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1856. He pursued his preparatory studies at the Friends' Central High School, Philadel- phia, and entered the University of Pennsyl- vania with the class of 1877, but left at the end of his sophomore year and joined the class of 1877 at Lafayette College, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He soon after entered his father's factory, worked his way up step by step, was appointed superintendent, and in 1879 was re- ceived into the firm as a partner. The follow- ing year he established the New York branch, the business of which has steadily increased under his management. He built up a local trade second only to that of the parent house.
Mr. Potter settled in East Orange in 1880, and purchased the Reune Martin place, at 95 Harrison street. He soon became interested in local politics, and gradually his influence ex- tended throughout the state. At the present time (1909) he is recognized as one of the strongest leaders in the Republican party. While participating in every movement for the advancement of party interests, he is in no sense a politician according to the modern ac- ceptation of the term. His position is always clearly defined and his course straightforward and upright. His entrance into public life be- gan in 1885, when he was elected to the state legislature. It was during the height of the labor agitation, and he had the combined ele- ments of the Democratic and Labor parties against him. The district included Orange and East Orange. His course in the legis- lature was upright and exceedingly gratifying to his constituents. He introduced and carried through two important measures relating to his own township, viz., the division of East Orange into wards and the organization of the Board of Education. Mr. Potter declined the nomination for a second term tendered him by his party. He has been liberal in his dona- tions to the party for legitimate expenses. In 1888 he was a delegate to the national conven- tion which nominated Benjamin Harrison ; and after the election, in which Mr. Potter took a . prominent part, he was offered the position of
secretary of legation at Berlin, by Hon. Will- iam Walter Phelps, which he declined. He has made frequent trips to Washington on be- half of the oil cloth manufacturers, to protect their interests.
Mr. Potter's efforts in behalf of Orange have been by no means limited to politics, but to whatever concerns the public good or advances the welfare of the people. He was one of the originators of the Orange Athletic Club, and was one of its governors; he also assisted in the reorganizing and rebuilding of the Orange Club. He is a member of the Country Club and other social organizations. In January, 1897, he was appointed by Gov- ernor Griggs a member of his military staff.
He married, April 9, 1879, Frances, daugh- ter of Hon. Henry Green, chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. Judge Green was the son of Enoch, son of John, son of Richard, son of Richard, son of William, the ancestor who left England at an early age and landed at Philadelphia. William Green soon after visited Long Island and there be- came acquainted with John Ruder, whose sister or daughter he married. He removed to Ewing township about 1700. He purchased 345 acres of Colonel Daniel Coxe, the deed bearing date 1712, and on it erected the first brick house in the township, which is still standing, having on the west end the date 1717. His qualities were such as to give him distinction, for he was appointed the first judge of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, and from the frequent mention of his name in public office he was evidently a prominent and useful citizen. John Green, great-grandfather of Mrs. Potter, served in the revolutionary war, in the First and Second Battalions of Salem, in the state troops, and also in the Continental army. The mother of Mrs. Potter was Anna Hulsizer, daughter of Daniel Hulsizer and Christiana Hummer. Daniel Hulsizer was the son of Christopher, son of Martin Hulsizer, who came from Germany about 1750, and located first at Phillipsburg and later resided at dif- ferent points along the Musconetcong creek. His sons were Christopher, Jacob, Valentine, and John Martin.
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