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He married, 1795, Mary Jones, born at Orange, New Jersey, June 4, 1774, baptized by Rev. Jedediah Chapman, in the old First Presbyterian Church, November 30, 1774. Mary (Jones) Hedden died October 28, 1827. She was the daughter of Cornelius and Jo- anna (Harrison) Jones, of Orange. Joanna Jones entered into covenant with the "Moun- tain Society" October 16, 1774. The home- stead of the Jones family occupied the spot on which stood the residence of Dr. Duffield, corner of Main street and Munn avenue, East Orange. Mary (Jones) Hedden and Cyrus Jones, her brother, were born on the place. This house was left to his two eldest sons,
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Samuel and Cyrus; Samuel sold his interest to Cyrus and moved to New York state. He is described as a handsome, dignified old gentleman. His farm extended from oppo- site William Peck's to Pluck Lane, now Ar- lington avenue. Cornelius Jones was a very active man in the community, and espoused the cause of the patriots. It is related that he was obliged to flee with his family to the mountain to escape the raid of the Hessians who were terrifying the community. His fam- ily took with them all their silver plate and money together with enough provision to last several days. The cattle were turned loose to shift for themselves. Upon returning after the raid they were pleased to find that the house and barn were not burned, though the Hessians plundered the house and confiscated the cattle and hogs. After their return a skirmish occurred a little east of the home- stead, which terminated in the capture of Cor- nelius Jones and his nephew, Moses Jones, both being taken to Newark as prisoners but released the following day. Cornelius Jones served in the army, a private in Captain Henry Squire's company, Colonel Philip Van Cort- land's Second Essex County Regiment. He was son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Morris) Jones. Samuel was son of Joseph and Han- nah Jones. Joseph was son of John Jones, the ancestor, who came from Wales, and may have been the father of Jane Jones Hedden, wife of Edward Hedden, the Newark ances- tor. Children of Jotham and Mary (Jones) Hedden: Israel, mentioned below; Nancy, born July 18, 1797, died October 31, 1816; Albert, born January 4, 1801, mentioned below.
(VI) Israel, son of Jotham Hedden, was born on his father's homestead in that part of Newark now East Orange, New Jersey (Grove street), May 1, 1796, died at Orange, October 10, 1825. He attended the nearby district school, and during his minority was apprenticed to his uncle, Cyrus Jones (who lived to be ninety-nine years of age), to learn hat making. In 1790 Mr. Jones set up in busi- ness on a lot bought of Benjamin Munn on the west side of Main street at the East Orange Junction. It was here that Israel Hedden learned his trade. He set up as a hatter in Orange, and his shop was about on the site which in 1884 was occupied by Eckert's paint shop, near "Willow Hall," in the vicinity of Main and Park streets. He could not have remained in business any great length of time, as his death occurred in 1825, at the age of twenty-nine years, of consumption, which he
contracted while serving in the war of 1812. His residence in Orange was for a time in the old First Presbyterian parsonage, next the present Young Men's Christian Association building, where Charles I. Hedden was born. He erected a homestead on Main street, di- rectly opposite the present Park Hotel, where he died. He served in the war of 1812 at Staten Island. December 20, 1823, Albert Hedden, brother of Israel, and Abby, his wife, for $150, quitclaimed to Israel Hedden three acres, all right, title, &c., to a certain tract of land formerly belonging to Jotham Hedden, between the township of Newark and Orange, beginning near the shop of Abial Hedden on south side of Newark and Mt. Pleasant Turn- pike. The will of Israel Hedden was dated October 4, 1825. His wife Maria was to have one-third, and "the balance between my chil- dren now living, Mary- J. and Charles I., and such child or children which may be born to me after my decease." Samuel \V. Tichenor, Jotham Hedden Jr. and William Pierson, exec- utors, they also to be proper guardians of chil- dren during their minority. The inventory of his goods and chattels amounted to $1,557.75. Among some of the articles mentioned are the following : Surtout coat, great coats, one light body coat, English watch, saddle skirts, one carpenter's work bench, two hives of bees, wheat in the barn, one leg tub, buck saw and buck. He married, March 17, 1821, Maria Stiles, born October 27, 1798, died October 8, 1830. Children: I. Mary Josephine, born March 2, 1822, died April 6, 1841. 2. Charles Israel, born October 1, 1823, mentioned below. 3. Maria Augusta, born November 17, 1825; married, February 23, 1848, Oliver Bidwell. The family lived at Decatur, Georgia.
(VI) Albert Hedden, son of Jotham and Mary (Jones) Hedden, was born on the Jo- tham Hedden homestead at East Orange, New Jersey, which was situated near what was then "Great Meadow Brook" and not far from his father's, in the vicinity of the present Bur- net street, January 4, 1801. He attended the select schools taught by private masters, as was the custom in those days. He early learn- ed the trade of carpenter or joiner, and doubt- less served his time. His early life was passed in Orange and Newark, and here learned the trade of pattern maker. He subsequently re- moved to Jersey City, where he followed his trade and was employed in the Erie railroad shops until 1852, when he removed his family to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, to accept a position with the Erie railroad locomotive
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works, taking charge of their pattern room. He held this position until his death, May 20, 1870. From one who knew him it is said he filled this position with honor to himself and to his company, and was known for his fair- 11ess with those under his charge. He was a man of exactness and a good mechanic, and stood in high esteem by all who knew him.
He married, at Newark, New Jersey, Sep- tember 28, 1822, Abby Young Faulkner, born at Newark, New Jersey, November 9, 1800, died at Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1874, daughter of Peter and Abby ( Young) Faulkner. Children: 1. Abby Ann, born Au- gust 2, 1823, died April 17, 1889; married, April 9, 1848, Samuel Falkenberg; children : i. Mary Emma, born May 14, 1849; married, September 28, 1870, Myron Benjamin Wright, born June 12, 1847, died November 14, 1894; children : Sarah Emma, born August 17, 1872, died August 6, 1874; Albert Frederick, born June 10, 1876, died November 14, 1894; Clar- ence Edgerton, born April 10, 1882; Chester Samuel, born August 21, 1887, died August 29, 1888; ii. Albert Hedden, born December 24, 1850; iii. Clara Eliza, born September IO, 1855. 2. Frances Caroline, born 1825, died March, 1850.
(VII) Charles Israel, son of Israel Hedden, was born at Orange, New Jersey, October I, 1823, died at Newark, New Jersey, on Thir- teenth avenue, January 7, 1903. After the death of his father in 1825, he was brought up by his uncle, Job Williams, of Orange. His elementary educational training was limited to the district school, working out as a boy. When yet a lad he went to Ohio, remaining for a time, living with his grandfather Stiles. It was during his stay here that he was injured by the fall of a tree, causing a broken leg which rendered him lame during the remainder of his life. He subsequently went to Cayuga county, New York, with his grandfather, where he worked on the farm for a short period, eventu- ally returning to the town of his nativity, where he was apprenticed to his uncle, Job Williams, to learn the art of hat making until he was of age. He then was employed as a journeyman for various concerns, one of whom was Mar- shall Smith's, with whom he resided. In 1856 he established himself in the manufacture of hats in a factory that he later owned. This was a spacious wooden structure about one hundred and fifty by one hundred and fifty in dimensions, on Williams street, adjacent to Par- row Brook. He was the pioneer in Orange to introduce a steam boiler and a set of pouncing
inachines in his factory. He was also the first man who took the refuse hat roundings and repicked them into hat fur stock, the process being done by Robert Slater, of Pompton. From that time to the present every part of waste hat stock has been converted into new stock and utilized. Mr. Hedden was during his business at Orange a heavy buyer of fur from Stephen Brown and Martin Bates, of New York. During the civil war Mr. Hedden became embarrassed financially, but made an honorable settlement and later formed the firm of John H. Myers & Company, which con- tinued up to 1868, when they disolved. Mr. Hedden removed with his family to Ridgway, Warren county, North Carolina, where he pur- chased fifteen hundred acres of plantation from the Solomon Green estate, Solomon Green having been a revolutionary patriot. With the cultivation of tobacco and grain the planta- tion was made to yield a handsome yearly in- come. In 1870 Mr. Hedden was deprived of his helpmate, his wife, by death. He remain- ed in North Carolina until 1872, when the fam- ily removed north, the children going to Hay- denville, Massachusetts, where they resided for a time. Mr. Hedden returned to Newark, New Jersey, and subsequently went to Texas with his eldest son for the purpose of starting a sheep ranch. He returned after a short stay, and for a time was engaged in the provision business at Washington Market, New York. He subsequently entered into the hat manu- facturing business with Philip Hogan at Belle- ville, New Jersey, the partners remaining to- gether about a year. His family removed from Haydenville to Newark, and about this time Mr. Hedden formed the firm of W. B. Huey & Company, consisting of Mr. Hedden, Wilbur B. Huey and Clarence M. Hedden, with quar- ters on Adams street, later ( 1877) removing to 204-208 Academy street, in the old John H. Case baby carriage factory. After a time the partners dissolved, when the new firm of C. M. Hedden & Company was formed and continued the business in the same quarters on Academy street until December, 1883, when they erected a larger and more commodious factory on Thirteenth avenue and occupied it in April, 1884. Mr. Hedden by his skill and enterprise became one of the leading and larg- est manufacturers of his day. The firm at that time employed upward of two hundred persons, with a daily output of one hundred and fifty dozen fur hats, their trade ex- tending not only in the United States but i11 South America and the islands of the
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sea. Mr. Hedden remained the active head of the firm until the time of his death, and was counted one of the successful factors in the hat industry. As a man Mr. Hedden had many excellent qualities both of head and heart. He was an earnest lover of truth and spoke his . thoughts plainly. He was highly respected, honorable in his dealings, and while endowed with many kindly virtues was a man of unre- lenting principles, firm in his convictions and uncompromising. He was appalled by no ob- stacles, and overcame all that lay in his path. His industry and business push was remark- able. He was a thorough exponent of the cause of temperance, never having been known to use intoxicating liquors, and was a member of the old Temple of Honor, the leading tem- perance organization of his day. In religion he was a staid Presbyterian, and retained his membership in the old First Presbyterian Church at Orange, although he was a constant attendant of the Wickliff Presbyterian Church at Newark. In early political days Mr. Hed- den was an ardent Whig, but on the formation of the Republican party in 1856 became affili- ated with it and adhered to its principles dur- ing life. He was one of the strongest abvoli- tionists of his day, and it is said was in league with the "Underground railway," a society for the helping of escaped slaves. He was one of the freeholders of Essex county and a member of the grand jury. He was a close personal friend of Horace Greeley and it is said that he thought as much of the Tribune as he did of his Bible.
He married, June 9, 1852, Matilda Ward Myers, born June II, 1827, died June 17, 1870, daughter of Zebulon and Eliza (Lindsley) Myers, granddaughter of Judge John and Phebe (Baldwin) Lindsley, and was related to the old families of Days, Condits, Wards and other first settler families. She was a refined and cultivated person of considerable literary ability, which she exercised, not often for publication but for her own pleasure and that of her friends. She was reared under christian influence, and was a member in full communion of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange. Her death, which occurred in North Carolina, was in consequence of taking up her abode there, contracting a cold and fever from the change of climate which brought on peritonitis. Children: I. Richard Stiles, born April 27, 1853; married, Novem- ber 22, 1876, Ellen N. Conroy; children: i. Jennie Matilda, born April 15, 1878; ii. Flor- ence Adelle, born June 27, 1884 ; married, Sep-
tember 12, 1907, Robert Buchanan; child, Ethel, born September 9, 1908; iii. Ida Myers, born May 6, 1886; iv. Roy Stanley, born Sep- tember 29, 1890; v. Richard Stiles Jr., born May 14, 1892. 2. Lilia Matilda, born October 30, 1854; married, January 21, 1875, Wilbur Baldwin Huey, born August 4, 1850, died Oc- tober 20, 1896, son of John and Eliza (Bald- win) Huey; children: i. Ella Pennell, born February 6, 1878; married, April 11, 1890, Charles Madison Oxford; children: Gilbert Huey, born January 1I, 1901; Alice Irene, born November 23, 1902; Anna Marion, born January 12, 1907 ; ii. Arthur John, born April 12, 1880; eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, New York City. 3. Clarence Myers, born June 25, 1856, mentioned below. 4. Israel Charles. 5. Alice Eliza, born May 3, 1861, died August 21, 1891. 6. Jesse Williams, born April 4, 1864; see forward. 7. Edith May, born May 30, 1868; see forward. Charles Israel Hedden married (second) August II, 1881, Rhoda Eliza Marsh; of this marriage there was no issue; she is a daughter of Justus Morris and Susanna King (Wright) Marsh, the former a native of Rahway, New Jersey, and the latter of Northfield, New Jer- sey.
(VIII) Clarence Myers, son of Charles Israel Hedden, was born at Orange, New Jer- sey, June 25, 1856, the third of seven children. His education was gained in private schools at Orange until the age of fourteen years, when owing to financial reverses of his father fol- lowing the civil war, he removed his family from Orange to a plantation in North Caro- lina. There the mother died and the family circle was broken for a time. After a few months of school life in a Massachusetts school, Clarence M. was obliged to abandon his studies and seek employment for self- support. Through untiring energy and perse- verance he succeeded after a time in putting aside a few hundred dollars, which gave him an opportunity to put in practice that business ability and rare good judgment which later made his name well known among business men. At the age of twenty-five he entered into a partnership with his father for the manu- facture of hats in Newark; subsequently, when the firm was incorporated under New Jersey laws, 1899, Clarence M. Hedden became the president, his wife, Nellie F. Hedden, vice- president, William H. Fitz, secretary and treasurer. Besides the hat business, Mr. Hed- den for several years carried on an extensive real estate business. In speaking of his abso-
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lute integrity in all his business transactions, his associates had only words of the highest commendation. As an employer he was ever considerate of the interests of those who served him, and many a one can tell of rough places made smooth and life made easier by his ever ready sympathy and timely aid, but all was done so quietly and unobtrusively that few ever knew save those he benefited. Mr. Hed- den was a member of Newark Lodge, No. 8, I. O. O. F., also an active member of the West End Club, where he served for a num- ber of years on the board of governors. His genial disposition, largeness of heart and lib- eral views, made him a good friend and con- genial companion. He was highly regarded and esteemed by his neighbors and those with whom he came in daily contact. He was con- nected with the Sixth Presbyterian Church, having been an active member twenty-eight years, and for sixteen years a member of the board of trustees. As an expression of the high regard in which he was held by his asso- ciates in the work of the church we give here- with a partial copy of a set of resolutions authorized by the board of trustees: "Re- solved : By the death of Brother Clarence M. Hedden the board of trustees of the Sixth Presbyterian Church have lost a faithful and efficient member who served the church for a period of sixteen years, and whose business judgment and sagacity have always been of incalculable benefit to us in conducting the affairs of our work. While our church has lost a member who for twenty-eight years has ever rallied to its every call, liberally giving of his strength and substance that our Master's work might be supported and His kingdom advanced." Mr. Hedden in personal respects was a type of the highest American citizen- ship, a man of the purest integrity and high ideals, devoted to the obligations of family and friendly attachments, most valuable and attractive in his private character, and with his family sustaining a prominent social posi- tion. He found his chief pleasure in the home circle, which was broken by his death, May II, 1904. His life was not long in years yet it had in it something of completeness.
He married, at Haydenville, Massachusetts, Nellie Frances Hamilton, born at Shelburne Falls, November 2, 1857, daughter of John Royal and Sarah Clarissa (Mather) Hamilton. John R. Hamilton was a carpenter and builder, and a descendant of an old pioneer family of Vermont. Children: I. Frances Matilda, born September 2, 1880. 2. Lulu
Josephine, October 12, 1882. 3. Clarence Hamilton, July 1, 1885. 4. Nellie Estelle, De- cember 14, 1887. 5. Charles Leslie, January I, 1890. 6. Ernest Myers, September 28, 1892. 7. Albert Henry, June 23, 1895. 8. Walter Page, June 25, 1898. 9. Dorothy, De- cember 28, 1902.
(VIII) Dr. Jesse Williams Hedden, fourth son of Charles Israel Hedden, was born at Orange, New Jersey, April 4, 1864. At an early age he removed with his parents to War- ren county, North Carolina, where he remained until after the death of his mother, when he removed to Haydenville, Massachusetts, to attend school with his brothers. In 1876 the family removed to Newark, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools, graduat- ing from the high school. As a boy he was. very fond of such studies as pertained to nature, geology, natural history and compara- tive anatomy. While in the high school he mounted many skeletons of the smaller ani- mals (dogs, mink, weasel, rabbit, etc.) Hav- ing completed preparatory studies, he attended the medical school of New York University, from which he graduated in 1887 with the degree of M. D. During his college course he devoted much time to special courses, and on graduating spent the following year working in Bellevue Hospital. He subsequently entered the surgical department of the Out-Patient. Department of Bellevue, where he was en- gaged for a year, and later for fourteen months. he worked at the DeMilt Dispensary on nerv- ous diseases. He was associated with Dr. J. E. Nichols, at Bellevue, Post-Graduate and Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, treating nose, throat and ear cases, and later he became. an assistant surgeon at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, which position he held for two years.
Dr. Hedden had meanwhile opened an office. in West Fifth-fourth Street, New York, where he remained but a few months, remov- ing in 1889 to Thirteenth Street and Third Avenue, again removing in 1891 to Gramercy Park, where he remained in active practice for sixteen years. On April 25, 1907, he removed. to No. 160 West Eighty-seventh street, where he is engaged in general practice. Dr. Hedden. is a member of the New York County Medi- cal Society, American Medical Association, Medical Association of Greater City of New York, American Pharmaceutical League, and the Salamagundi Club. He is a member of the Fourteenth Street Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Hedden married. at Newark, New Jer-
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sey, June 25, 1890, Kate Isabella, born Sep- tember 9, 1865, daughter of Theodore Fassett and Catharine ( McPeck) Langstroth. Theo- dore Langstroth was a tobacco merchant. Children : Harold Raymond, born January 7, 1894, and Howard Leslie, January 5, 1899.
(VIII) Edith May (Hedden) Allen, young- est daughter of Charles Israel Hedden (q. v.), and wife of Rev. John Stevenson Allen, was born on the homestead of her father, on Main street, Orange, New Jersey, May 30, 1868. When an infant her parents moved to Warren county, North Carolina, where she remained with the family about four years when, after the death of her mother, the family removed to Haydenville, Massachusetts, remaining for a short period, when they came to Newark, New Jersey. Here the youngest daughter received her educational training in the public schools, graduating from the Newark high school. After completing preparatory studies for Wellesley College, a special course in literature was substituted for the college course, and after a year she was united in marriage to the Rev. John Stevenson Allen, who became pas- tor of the Presbyterian church at Westchester, New York, where they resided one year. Mr. Allen had a call to the pastorate of the Pres- byterian church at Patterson, Putnam county, New York, where during the three years that followed, Mrs. Allen became associated with her husband in the work of the church. She was president of the Missionary Society con- nected with the church, and took an active interest in other branches of the work. Mr. Allen subsequently had a call to the New York Avenue Reformed Church of Newark, New Jersey (1891), where he filled the pulpit for fourteen years. Mrs. Allen took a deep inter- est in the missionary work and children's classes, and was for a number of years presi- dent of the Woman's Classical Missionary Union of the Classis of Newark. She was a prominent active worker in the Young Women's Christian Association. For the past five years she has been a member of the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church of America, and since her removal to New York City in 1905 was elected to fill the office of corresponding secretary of the board. She has written much on the work of the board, which has been published for the use of all missionary societies. Her duties in connection with domestic missions have been many and varied, necessitating visits to the Indian missions throughout the west, and to the missions among the mountains of Ken-
tucky, and has addressed the different churches in the interest of the board in various parts of the country. Mrs. Allen is a member of the Marble Collegiate (Dutch Reformed) Church, Twenty-ninth street and Fifth ave- nue, New York City, of which Mr. Allen is one of the associate pastors. She is a member of the Council of Women for Home Missions, and has entered extensively into the various activities connected with the work of the Coun- cil, and publishing of text books for use of home missions for all denominations, and the arranging of interdenominational conferences.
Edith May Hedden married, June 6, 1888, John Stevenson Allen, born October 20, 1857, son of Cochran and Elizabeth ( Wilson ) Allen, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Cochran Allen was a farmer, and an elder in the Covenanter Church. Children : 1. Edith Louise, born April 5, 1889 ; in junior year at Barnard College. 2. Marguerite Harrison, born De- cember 13, 1890; freshman at Barnard Col- lege. 3. Douglas Hedden, born September 5, 1893 ; a member of the old Collegiate school, Seventy-seventh street and West End avenue, New York City.
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(VI) Elijah Hedden, son of Abial Hedden (q. v.), was born on the old Hedden homestead,
in East Orange, New Jersey, October 4, 1799, and died at Verona, New Jersey, August 24, 1872. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual district school education of a farmer's son at that period. At the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to the trade of shoemaker, a then very worthy occupation, and followed by many of the early manhood of the time. He made this his chosen occupa- tion, and with that of farming followed it throughout the active years of his life. He and his three brothers, Samuel S., Uzal and Caleb, purchased a tract of some twenty odd acres in the vicinity of the present Hedden place, extending nearly to Grove street, each brother taking his allotted share according to the amount of money invested. Here Elijah Hedden followed his trade, later removing to his father's homestead property. About 1851 he exchanged his property for lands at Vernon. now Verona, with William Miles, of New York, receiving about thirty-four hundred acres. Here he cultivated the common crops and followed shoemaking. His farm compared favorably with the best in the region. He was a practical up-to-date farmer and believed in the improved methods of agriculture. He was
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