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(V) Abial, son of Jonathan Hedden, was born in that part of Newark, now East Orange, July 11, 1767, died at Orange, New Jersey, later East Orange, September 24, 1841. He early learned the trade of stone cutter, which he followed with that of farming during his life. Many of the tombstones in the old Scot- land street burial-ground were inscribed by him. He also aided by his work in the con- struction of the forts of Castle Garden and Fort Lafayette in New York harbor, and did a general stone cutting business, and many of the foundation stones of the old residences of the Oranges were cut by him, This trade, with that of village undertaker, was his principal source of income. The transfer of many of the bodies from the old Presbyterian burial- ground to Rosedale cemetery was under his direction. He taught his son Uzal the art of stone cutting. He was also counted one of the prosperous farmers of the section. His farm of about twenty-five acres was situated in East Orange, extending from Main street nearly to Central avenue, Burnet street in later years running through the center of it. His home- stead was moved back when this street was cut through, and now faces Burnet street, near the railroad, and is in an excellent state of preser- vation. During the last ten years of his life iii-18
he was an invalid. He also became lame, caused by an accident in falling. He was very honest and temperate, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where he owned a pew. He was a Whig in politics, and was prominent in his church and town. He and his wife are buried in the old part of Rosedale cemetery, where their tombstone now stands.
His wife, Elizabeth (or "Betsey," as she was called) married (first) August 17, 1785, Sam- vel Sayre, a soldier in the revolution. Her application for pension was made March 20, 1845, when she was seventy-seven years of age, and residing in Orange. She had by Mr. Sayre three children : John Low, born March 15, 1786, married Sarah Stackweather; Cath- erine (twin with John), married Noah Bald- win; Peggy, married Charles Prentice. Betsey Hedden was remembered as a good-souled motherly woman who brought her family up in the straight and narrow path; she was bright and energetic, and a faithful member of the First Presbyterian flock. She was left a widow with three children when twenty years old. The sons of Abial, Elijah and Uzal W., lived near their father. They occupied plain houses which they built on the "Old Road."
He married, September 23, 1790, Mrs. Bet- sey (Hedden) Sayre, born January 15, 1768, died April 3, 1848. She was a first cousin to Abial Hedden. Children : 1. Phebe, born May 15, 1791, died May 24, 1831 ; married Charles Looker ; children: Charles and Margaret. 2. Margaret, born June 15, 1792. 3. Uzal W., born October 19, 1793; married Mary Bald- win ; children: i. Minard, died January, 1859; married Julia Ketchell Baldwin; children : Emily Baldwin, born October 16, 1848, mar- ried, February 5, 1868, Ransford Wells Van- dervoort, and they had children: Seldon, born November 5, 1868, died January 16, 1870, and Ransford Wells, born March 9, 1879, died Feb- ruary 20, 1882; Edward; Lucius Howard; Jane Augusta, born March 30, 1858; ii. Sarah, married Aaron Matthews; children: Mary Matilda, married Edmund Van Bergen : child, Harold; Emeline, G., married Frederick H. Pierson, and had Robert and Frederick; iii. Morris, born June 14, 1832, died April 18, 1909; married Martha J. Norman; children : Sarah Frances, born June 30, 1855. married, February 28, 1878, Ira Jarolemon, and had children : Belle Hedden, born September 12, 1880, married, April 3, 1903, Roy Hopping. and Francis Parker, born December 11, 1891 ; Ezra Wilbur, born February 27, 1858, mar- ried Mary Maxwell Crane; child : Morris,
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born June 30, 1887 ; Mary Augusta, born Feb- ruary 27, 1861, married, December 25, 1882, Dr. Charles E. Pease; children : Norman De Ett, born December 28, 1890, and Scott, born October 13, 1892; Ella Taylor, born April 4, 1863; Margaret T., married, November 20, 1906, Rev. Edmund L. Cleveland; Edna Nor- ma ; Julia ; Emma ; Edward; Minard ; iv. Mar- garet, married Aaron Matthews; v. Emeline, married Alfred Meeker; children: Mortimer Addison, and Margaret, married Henry Ber- gen. 4. Caleb, born December 5, 1794 (q. v.). 5. Sarah Low, born February 21, 1798, died August 27, 1871. 6. Elijah (q. v.), born Octo- ber 4, 1799. 7. Samuel Sayre, born August 24, 1803, mentioned below. 8. Joanna, born July 3, 1805, died September 6, 1806. 9. Abial Jr., born August 20, 1808, died April 23, 1881 ; married Mrs. Mary (Looker) Spencer. IO. Betsey Joanna, born July 5, 1811, died Octo- ber 27, 1826.
(VI) Samuel Sayre, son of Abial Hedden, was born on the old Hedden homestead in East Orange, New Jersey, August 24, 1803, died September 20, 1876, on Hedden place. He was reared on his father's farm, and during the winter months attended the district school a short distance away. During his early man- hood years he was apprenticed to Cyrus Jones until he became of age to learn the trade of hatter. Shortly after his marriage he pur- chased a farm of ten acres where he did light farming with the assistance of his sons. His homestead was the first beyond the "Meadow Brook," a good stream then with fine fish. He also followed the trade of hatter, working for Cyrus Jones, who had his shop near Munn avenue. He also worked for the Stetson Hat Company and other factories at Belleville. After 1858 he devoted his energies to his farm and gave up his trade. His farm was a model of excellence and he made it yield a hand- some yearly income. He was advanced in his ideas and continually improved his land. He was most particular in the choice of seeds, and from his painstaking and constant application of the best methods his farm was known for its large crops. He was fond of the gun and his dog, and was an excellent shot ; he hunted for the New York market, and during the sea- son supplied the most famous hotels in New York with his game. Before his death he deeded his farm equally to his children, a greater portion of which has been cut up and sold. His son, Albert E. Hedden, is now living on a part of the land. He was retiring in his habits, a great reader of the daily papers,
greatly devoted to his home and children. He was strictly moral, upright in all his dealings, and of a religious temperament. He attended the Baptist church of East Orange, and later the Roseville Presbyterian Church. He was a staunch Democrat in politics, and served in the early Orange militia.
He married Mary Ann Cochran, born De- cember 6, 1806, at East Orange (Doddtown), died February 26, 1877, daughter of James and Sarah ( Wright ) Cochran. James Cochran was the son of John and Elizabeth (Peck) Cochran, and came from Scotland and was a weaver by trade. Children: I. Viner Jones, born November 6, 1823, died August 1, 1824. 2. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 31, 1825, died August 16, 1868 ; married, September 10, 1848. William . Deyo Johnson, born September 8, 1824, died October 8, 1854, son of Peter and Jane (Deyo) Johnson; children : i. Grace E., born July 24, 1849; married, March 31, 1869, John Agar, born June 15, 1844, son of James and Eliza (Whittiker ) Agar (see Agar) ; child, William Clifton, born January II, 1870, mar- ried, October 21, 1896, Lillian Braundis, and they have a child, Dudley Clifton, born Octo- ber 10, 1897 ; ii. Clifton Norton, born April 19, 1852, died October 10, 1857. 3. Viner Jones, born July 29, 1827, mentioned below. 4. Har- riet Marvin, born January 3, 1830, died Janu- ary 26, 1892; married, May 1, 1850, James Peck; children: i. Laura I., born July 25, 1852, died March 7, 1904, married, July 25, 1871, Henry D. Havell, born January 27, 1848, son of Henry and Martha (Devoe) Havell ; children of Henry D. and Laura I. (Peck) Havell: a. Harry Peck, born July 1, 1876, married, March 29, 1910, Mabel Hedden, born August 20, 1877, daughter of Albert Emmet and Mary E. (Rittenhouse ) Hedden ; b. Grace May, born July 22, 1878 ; c. George Luke, born February 9, 1882 ; ii. William, born February 2, 1856, married, September 29, 1880, Ella Parsil; children: James, born January 23, 1882, died April 24, 1883; Howard, born No- vember 20, 1883; Edith Gertrude, born June 28, 1888; iii. Emeline, born March 18, 1859. married, May, 1899, Louis Magee; iv. Jessie Olivia, born February 17, 1862, married, June 14, 1888, Frederick William Ward; children : Sterling Davies, born January 26, 1891 ; Ethel, March 1, 1894; Jessie, October 8, 1895 ; Mar- jorie, September 2, 1898; v. Jennie Gertrude, born June 27, 1865, married, June 25, 1889, George Ward Dodd; children : Marvin James, born June 4, 1892 ; Philip, March 7, 1901, died July 29, 1905 ; George Bingham, May II, 1903.
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5. Mary Olivia, born January 27, 1835, died October 31, 1891 ; married, January, 1856, Nelson Gates Baldwin; children: Clinton J., born February 18, 1857, died November 21, 1862; Mary Louise, born May 3, 1867, died March 17, 1886. 6. George Washington, born July 8, 1838, died July 12, 1899; married, Oc- tober 24, 1862, Phebe Jane Thatcher ; children : Clinton Baldwin, born November 12, 1864, married, September 28, 1905, Julia Hedges Crane ; child, George Wilmot, born February 6, 1907. 7. Albert Emmet, born May 4, 1841, mentioned below. 8. Alonzo S., born February 16, 1844, died November 20, 1845. 9. Samuel Clinton, born October 4, 1851, died June 12, 1854.
(VII) Viner Jones, son of Samuel Sayre Hedden, was born at East Orange, New Jer- sey, July 29, 1827, on his grandfather's home- stead, in the vicinity of the present Burnett street. His elementary educational training was obtained at the district school then situated on the Orange road (now Main street, between Munn and Maple avenues ), supplemented by a course of four terms in Dr. Wicks's private school at Newark. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to William Whittimore until he attained his majority to learn the trade of carpenter, and later worked as journeyman for Baldwin & Hedden, Mr. Hedden of their firm being a cousin, Minard Hedden, son of Uzal Hedden. In about 1850 Mr. Hedden, with Joseph J. Meeker, formed a partnership under the firm name of Meeker & Hedden, with quar- ters where the present V. J. Hedden & Sons Company is located. The firm was later changed to V. J. Hedden & Sons, Mr. Hed- den having been in business at this location since 1850 up to the present ( 1910). They have erected many notable buildings, among which were the Traders' Bank, Toronto, Canada ; the New Jersey State Asylum at Morris Plains, and the Produce Exchange at New York City. The firm has a wide reputation throughout the country, and the most congenial relations exist- ed between the partners. In 1884, on the death of the senior member, the firm was dissolved and the firm of V. J. Hedden & Sons was formed, Mr. Hedden admitting his three sons, Charles R., Samuel S. and Louis O. Hedden, equal partners. The firm were manufacturers of every variety of interior finish and later general contractors. June 1, 1896, the business was incorporated under New Jersey laws, the firm name being changed to V. J. Hedden & Sons Company, Viner J. Hedden, president and treasurer; Charles R. Hedden, first vice-
president ; Louis O. Hedden, second vice-presi- dent ; Samuel S. Hedden, secretary. In 1907 Charles R. withdrew and Louis O. became first vice-president. In 1890 the Heddens became general contractors and builders, and have been identified with the erection of many of the largest and most costly edifices. The Prudential Building at Newark was among their first large contracts, they erecting the entire build- ings and all the interior finish being furnished by them. The interior work finish of the pres- ent Prudential Building, under the construc- tion of the Hedden Construction Company of New York City, is to be done by the V. J. Hed- den & Sons Company. They also had the con- tract for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company's building at Newark, Howard Sav- ings Bank, American Insurance Company build- ing, and many of the station buildings on the Morris & Essex division of the D. L. & W. R. R., and work of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, under Judge Lathrop, who was the receiver of the road in the building of depots. The firm have one of the finest equip- ped plants in the country, making a specialty of interior finish from the most costly woods, under the general superintendency of Henry S. Babbage. Although Mr. Hedden has at- tained his four score years, he is still the active head of the company, whose success in a great measure is due to the untiring efforts and sound judgment of its senior member.
Mr. Hedden in his political views is an inde- pendent on general principles, though reared a Democrat, and although he has never sought political preferment has served his city as coun- cilman. He attends the East Orange Baptist Church, and is a liberal contributor to its sup- port. Mr. Hedden is one of the four oldest members of Northern Lodge, No. 25, F. and A. M., having entered the lodge more than fifty years ago, his application having been received September 1, 1856. He was passed December I, 1856, and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason, July 20, 1857. He was exalted in Harmony Chapter, R. A. M .; received his cyrptic degree in Cain Council, R. and S. M .; was made a member of Damascus Command- ery, K. T., at Newark. Mr. Hedden is a mem- ber of the Newark Board of Trade.
He married, May 21, 1851, at Newark, El- mira Vader Meeker, born June 8, 1832, died April 26, 1907, daughter of Caleb Halsey and Hannah Meeker. Children : 1. Charles Rohr- bach, born March 25, 1852; married, June 17, 1874, Martha Havell, born July 9, 1853, daugh- ter of Henry and Mary Etta ( Devoe) Havell :
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children : Etta and Lillian. 2. Samuel Sayre, born September 1, 1854; married, September 13, 1876, Emma Jane Coles, born April 4, 1856, daughter of Jacob Lorenzo and Sarah (Morn- ingstern) Coles; children: i. Viner Jacob, born June 2, 1878, married, October 3, 1905, Florence McMullen, daughter of Henry A. and Ella Matilda ( Mertz) McMullen, and have one child, Jane Matilda, born September 9, 1907 ; ii. Edith Carrie, born August 29, 1882; iii. Daisy Madeline, born August 30, 1888. 3- Abbie Ward, born July 4, 1857 ; married, May 21, 1879, Edwin James Meeker, born June II, 1883, son of Edwin L. and Pamelia ( James) Meeker ; children : i. Herbert James, born Feb- ruary 21, 1879, married, December 2, 1905, Pearl Brewster; child, Doris, born February 13, 1908; ii. Evelyn Eugenia, born August I, 1881, died September 24, 1884; iii. Harold Ernest, born March 31, 1883; iv. Edwin Will- iam, born November 20, 1885; v. Norman Hedden, born May 10, 1888; vi. Dorothy, born September 22, 1895. 4. Louis Osear, born July 19, 1859. 5. Eugene Bleything, born May II, 1862. 6. Emma Louise, born April 8, 1865; married, June 18, 1890, Louis Edwin McCoy. born January 22, 1861, son of Nathaniel Drake and Jane ( White) McCoy ; children: i. Louise Eugenie, born April 30, 1893, died May 9, 1893 ; ii. Ralph Hedden, born August 26, 1895, died August 26, 1895 ; iii. Robert Graves, born April 26, 1899; iv. Donald Edwin, born Au- gust 20, 1902. 7. Minnie E., born October 15, 1867, died January 22, 1870. 8. Alonzo Brown, born September 13, 1869; married, February 24, 1897, Sadie Elizabeth Van Houten, daugh- ter of Edgar W. and Emma ( Bales) Van Hou- ten ; child, Doris, born April 2, 1905, died April 10, 1905. 9. Minnie Elmira, born Sep- tember, 1871 ; married, April 12, 1893, Claude E. Lanterman, born May 11, 1869, son of Will- iam G. and Jane Hall ( Adams) Lanterman ; children: i. Helen Blanche, born September 21, 1895; ii. and iii. William Gerald and Ger- aldine Hedden, twins, born May 31, 1905. 10. Alice, born April 11, 1879, died April 3, 1908.
(VII) Albert Emmet, son of Samuel Sayre Hedden, was born on his father's homestead, Hedden place (then known as the old road to Orange ), May 4, 1841. He attended the district school during the winter terms up to sixteen years of age. He later served a four years apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade with Meeker & Hedden, at Newark, where he had been associated as journeyman for three years, foreman, and later as superintendent of the present firm's plant. Mr. Hedden has been
associated with the Hedden Company over fifty-two years, which has changed from Meeker & Hedden to V. J. Hedden & Sons, and in 1896 to V. J. Hedden & Sons Company. Mr. Hedden resides on Hedden Place, East Orange, having erected a residence there in 1875. He is a member of the Roseville Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and served as steward for a number of years. He is affiliated with the Republican party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having first joined St. Al- bans Lodge, No. 68, and later was a charter member of Hope Lodge of East Orange, from which he demitted and joined Northern Lodge, No. 25, of Newark. He received his Royal Arch degrees in Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Newark. He married (first) Har- riet Garland, daughter of Robert and Jen- nette (Thompson) Young. Robert Young was a hat finisher. Child, Robert Emmet. He mar- ried (second) March 18, 1875, Mary E. Ritten- house, born May 5, 1840, daughter of Abner and Frances (Snyder) Rittenhouse. Abner Rittenhouse was a cooper and farmer. Chil- dren : Anna Mary, born April 19, 1876 ; Mabel, August 20, 1877; Albert Hermann, July 23, 1881, married, June 17, 1908, Daisy Hunt.
(VIII) Louis Oscar Hedden, son of Viner J. Hedden (q. v.), was born in the Hedden homestead, on Hedden Place, East Orange, New Jersey, July 19, 1859. His early edu- cational training was gained in the select school conducted by Miss Anna Vail ; later he attend- ed the public school, then situated on Main street, between the present Munn and Maple avenues, and this was supplemented by a course in the eastern district school at East Orange, continuing his studies up to seventeen years of age. He then served his time up to twenty- one years with the firm of Meeker & Hedden, at the trade of carpenter, and later filled sev- eral positions including that of superintendent, remaining with the firm until it dissolved in 1884, when he with his two brothers, Charles R. and Samuel S. Hedden, entered into part- nership with their father under the firm name of V. J. Hedden & Sons, manufacturers of every variety of interior finish, and in 1890 became general contractors and builders. In June, 1896, when the firm was incorporated, Mr. Hedden was elected second vice-president, and on the retirement of Charles R. Hedden, who was vice-president, Louis O. was elected to fill this office, 1907, in which capacity he is now serving. Mr. Hedden is also directly inter- ested in a number of important outside enter- prises. He was vice-president and is now a
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director of the Tri-Bullion Smelting and De- veloping Company of New Mexico, a valuable mining property, with offices at New York City. He was also vice-president of the Bos- ton and Alta Copper Company of Montana, with offices at Boston, Massachusetts. He is a director and member of the executive committee of the East Orange Bank. He is also a mem- ber of a company interested in constructing a terminal building and subway, also a steel plant of large magnitude at Tacoma, Wash- ington. This company has received the fran- chise from the city of Tacoma for a subway for the terminal facilities for the various trans- continental railway lines entering the city of Tacoma, which will exceed any present engi- neering project on the Pacific coast. He is a trustee of the Job Haines Home for Aged People, Bloomfield avenue, Watsessing, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen years he was a communicant of the Baptist faith and a member of the First Baptist Church of East Orange. In 1884 he took membership with the First Congregational Church of East Orange, of which Mrs. Hedden is also a mem- ber. Mr. Hedden is on the board of trustees and treasurer, and Mrs. Hedden has served as chairman of the Women's Society of Christian Work and president of the same. She has been active in the various offices of the church, especially in music, and has been leading so- prano of the choir. She is a member of the Orange Musical Art Society, and of the Orange Womans' Club, also on the music and art com- mittees, having been prominent in concert work of the club. In politics Mr. Hedden is of sound Republican principles, and he has been active for the good of the community. He is a mem- ber of Orange Council, No. 975. Royal Ar- canum; Aldine Association, Essex Club of Newark, Roseville Athletic Association, Re- publican Club of East Orange, Congregational Club of New York City, and Trojan Bowling Club. Mr. Hedden married, at East Orange, New Jersey, July 2, 1884. Mabel Campbell Ste- venson, born July 6, 1852, daughter of George Washington and Susan Emeline ( Tompkins ) Stevenson. George W. Stevenson was a car- riage manufacturer at Newark. Children : Myra McKay, born May 3, 1886; Donald Ste- venson, June 4, 1895.
(VIII) Eugene Bleything Hedden, son of Viner J. Hedden (q. v.), was born at Hedden Place, East Orange, New Jersey, May II, 1862. He early attended the eastern district public school, graduating from the grammar grades, and later taking a high school course
in the same building. In 1881 he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York, and was graduated from there in 1885 with the degree of civil engineer. He subse- quently entered the employ of the Riverside Bridge and Iron Works, at Paterson, New Jersey, where he remained a year in the study of steel and iron construction. He later ac- cepted a similar position with the Wallis Iron Works of Jersey City, remaining a year, after which time he was a year with the firm of Post & McCord. In 1889 he established himself in steel and iron construction work for build- ing purposes, with offices at 35 Broadway, New York City. In 1892 a plant was erected at Bloomfield Center, with railroad facilities on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western rail- road, for the manufacture of all kinds of con- structional iron and steel work. In 1903 he incorporated under the name of Hedden Iron Construction Company, with office at 22 Clin- ton street, Newark, New Jersey. The com- pany was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with an authorized capital of $100,000. and Mr. Hedden was made president. In 1910 the Bloomfield plant was abandoned, and a new plant was erected on eleven acres of ground at Lyons Farms, on the Irvington branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad. The main shop of the new plant is one hundred and ten by two hundred and forty feet, and has switching facilities for twenty-three cars on a double end switch. The new plant is equipped with the most modern machinery, capable of manu- facturing any kind of constructional steel work. Mr. Hedden has been treasurer and trustee of the First Baptist Church of East Orange for many years, he and his wife holding member- ship in the same. His political principles are allied with the Republican party. He was made a member of Hope Lodge, No. 124, Free and Accepted Masons, at East Orange, November II, 1909.
Mr. Hedden married, September 30, 1886, Hattie Searing Harrison, born December 6, 1863, daughter of Phillip A. and Mary Ann (Dayton) Harrison, of East Orange, New Jer- sey. Children : I. Gertrude Searing, born May 8, 1888; graduate of Smith's College. class of 1910. 2. Edwin Eugene, born July II, 1894, died July 28, 1895. 3. Gilbert Dayton, born April 6, 1897.
(III) John Hedden, eldest son HEDDEN of Edward (q. v.) and Jane (Jones) Hedden, was born at Newark, New Jersey, about 1698, and died in
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that part of Newark now South Orange. Like most of his brothers, he followed farming and owned many tracts at the "Mountain." On December 25, 1732, John Hedden and Joseph Hedden (yeomen), both of Newark, Essex county, eastern division of New Jersey, in con- sideration of thirty-six pounds lawful money, convey to Samuel Freeman Jr. a certain tract of land at the "Mountain," beginning at the west side of the highway at the east corner of John Hedden's orchard, thence to the top of the mountain, thence along the mountain to Samuel's own land, &c., to John Hedden's land south, &c. Oliver and Eleazer Hedden (brothers of John and Joseph) witnesses. Sep- tember 28, 1744, John Hedden was one of many indebted to estate of Joseph Riggs. He married, about 1723, Hannah, daughter of Jo- seph and Sarah Riggs. Joseph Riggs died September II, 1744, and his wife died June 17, 1735, aged fifty-two years. Children: I.
John Jr., born about 1724, mentioned below. 2. Silvanus, born May, 1726, died of diphtheria, July 25, 1735. 3. Ephraim, born January, 1733, died of diphtheria, August 7, 1735, during that fearful pestilence that pervaded the colonies that year.
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