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George Lindsley married Henrietta Ma- tilda, sister to General Alfred Munn, and daughter of William and Matilda (Fartouite) Munn, of Orange, granddaughter of Aaron Munn, great-granddaughter of Benjamin Munn, and great-great-granddaughter of John Munn. Her father was the cashier of the Orange Bank, now the Orange National Bank. Children: I. Frank, died at the age of six months. 2. Stuart, see forward. 3. Emma Louisa, deceased. 4. Laura Matilda. 5. Katharine Munn, died in infancy. 6. Charles Alfred, referred to below. 7. Clara Augusta, born 1862, died 1886.
(VII) Stuart, second son of George and Henrietta Matilda (Munn) Lindsley, was born in Orange, New Jersey, February 18, 1849.
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He acquired his education in the public schools, the well-known private school conducted by the Misses Robinson, Newark Academy, and . School of Mines of Columbia College, from which he was graduated in 1870. The year following his graduation he was engaged in the private laboratory of Professor Charles A. Chandler as an analytical chemist. He then took up civil engineering, and for six years served in the capacity of engineer for the Dundee Water Power and Land Company, having charge of the works of the company at Passaic, New Jersey. During a portion of this time he was also city engineer of Pas- saic, and engaged as well in private work in the line of his profession. He had never, however, quite dropped his studies in metal- lurgy, and in 1873, there being a general busi- ness depression in the east, he accepted an offer to go as chemist to the Union Consoli- dated Mining Company of Tennessee, an ex- tensive copper smelting company located at Ducktown, Tennessee. In 1879 he went to Leadville, Colorado, and became an assayer for the Gage Hagaman Smelting Company, the proprietor of one of the early silver-lead smelting works of that place. Subsequently he accepted a similar position with the Chrysolite Silver Mining Company. From this place he removed to Clifton, Arizona, to accept an ap- pointment of superintendent and metallurgist of the Detroit copper Company. Later he filled the same position with the Royal George Smelting Company at Canyon City, Colorado, and he also performed other work in the west as a mining expert.
Returning to the east in 1887 he soon after- wards engaged in business in Orange, New Jersey, where he formed a copartnership with Robert Wright under the firm name of Wright & Lindsley. They established an extensive quarry and stone crushing plant on the line of the Erie railroad, near the Great Notch, and engaged in the business of Telford and Mc- Adam road construction in the several com- munities in northern New Jersey reached by the above railroad. After the death of his father he joined his brother, Charles Alfred, who had already succeeded to the coal busi- ness, and formed a new partnership under the firm name of S. &. C. A. Lindsley. This was after his cousin, John Nicol Lindsley, had sep- arated from his brother, Charles Alfred, and taken as his share of the old business the hard- ware trade. The property on the southwest corner of Main and Cone streets was left to Stuart and Charles Alfred by their father's
will ; they enlarged the building and added some seventy-five feet on the west side of the corner. Stuart Lindsley organized the Essex County Electric Company, of which he was the manager ; this company supplied Orange and West Orange with electric lights, and was later merged with others into the present system of the Public Service Corporation. In 1899 he joined with George D. and Joseph M. Mer- rill, brothers of his wife, and formed a cor- poration known as The Merrill Bros. Com- pany for the manufacture of sterling silver novelties, acting as treasurer of the company from its formation to the present time (1909). A factory was established in the city of New- ark and the company has developed a flourish- ing business, growing steadily in volume and importance from year to year.
Stuart Lindsley is one of the few descend- ants of the old founders of the Oranges who have continued the work begun by their an- cestors, to whose energy, enterprise and busi- ness sagacity the city of Orange owes its great prosperity. His long experience in the west developed the characteristics inherited from his ancestors and awakened within him the spirit of self-reliance and confidence, to which he owes his success in his various enterprises.
Stuart Lindsley married Katharine Eliza- beth, born in 1849, daughter of John Leonard and Lucy (Balch) Merrill, and descendant of Nathaniel Merrill, the founder of Newbury- port, Massachusetts, in 1635. Children: I. George Leonard, born 1882; married Louise Van Court Clarke. 2. Lucy Merrill, 1884. 3. Alice, 1887. 4. Horace Nelson, 1889. 5. Girard, 1891.
( VII) Charles Alfred, the sixth child and third son of George and Henrietta Matilda (Munn) Lindsley, was born on Day street, Orange, April 30, 1859. Studious, earnest and thoughtful as a child, as a man he de- veloped the same characteristics. He began his studies in the- public schools and after graduating from the Orange high school, in 1877, was prepared for college by his private tutor, and entering Princeton University re- ceived his B. A. degree in 1882. Soon after this he entered his father's employ as a clerk, and after the latter's death formed a partner- ship with his cousin, John Nicol Lindsley, and continued for a time in the coal and hardware business established by his father. In 1885 the division, whereby John Nicol Lindsley took the hardware business as his share, having been made, Charles Alfred formed another partnership with his brother Stuart under the
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name of S. & C. A. Lindsley, and he con- tinued to develop this branch of the business and also to become connected with other enter- prises. With his brother he became interested in the Essex County Electric Company, of which he was the secretary. He also assisted in organizing and since that event, in 1893, has been a director in the Second National Bank of Orange. In politics Mr. Lindsley is a Re- publican, and for three years, from 1896 to 1899, was a member of the board of school commissioners of Orange, and in 1907 and 1908 a member of the city council of East Orange. Mr. Lindsley in religious matters adheres to the church of his ancestors, but he is in sympathy with the more advanced and liberal ideas of modern Presbyterians. He has been for many years an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Orange of which he is a trustee and the treasurer. He is an earnest supporter of the work of the church, has been a teacher in the Sunday school, and is clerk of the session.
Charles Alfred Lindsley married, January 16, 1894, Emily, daughter of Frank Decker, of Rochester, New York, a descendant of one of the earliest of the old Dutch settlers of New Netherland. She was born in Rochester, Feb- ruary 23, 1866. Her sisters are: Frances, married George Sabie, and has one daughter, Kathryn, and Lulu, married Harry Phillips, and has one daughter, Marian. Children of Charles Alfred and Emily (Decker) Lindsley are : I. Eldredge Decker, born January 2, 1895. 2. Eleanor, September 6, 1897. 3. Laurence Alfred, July 2, 1900.
RIGHTMIRE James Rightmire, the first member of the family of whom we have definite in- formation, comes of an old and honored family of New Jersey, and according to tradi- tion his grandfather was in 1713 sheriff of Middlesex or Somerset county. He may have been a brother of the Jacob Richtmyer, of Middlesex county, who married Maria, daugh- ter of Abraham and Elizabeth Van Voorhees. and granddaughter of Jan Janse Van Voor- hees and Neeltje Nevius. James Rightmire was born in 1770, and died March 7, 1829, his will being proved the following year. For many years he was school teacher at Deans, Middlesex county, New Jersey. He married Sarah, born November 25. 1779, and died 1843, daughter of Jacob and Mary Van Pelt. Chil- dren: 1. Jacob Van Pelt, referred to below. 2. Aaron, died 1872. 3. George, died 1872.
4. Wanchie, married a Mr. Ayres. 5. Cath- arine, married a Mr. Wilson. 6. Maria, mar- ried Thomas Schenck. 7. Sarah, married Voor- hees Suydam.
(II) Jacob Van Pelt, son of James and Sarah (Van Pelt) Rightmire, was born at Deans, New Jersey, March 5, 1800, and died there September 8, 1880. He was baptized March 25, 1800, in the Franklin Park Dutch Reformed Church. He was owner of a boat that ran between Albany and New York in 1824; after having an accident which disabled his right arm, he discontinued that business, after which he conducted a general store at Deans over forty years. He married Isabella, daughter of John and Isabella (Izesbister ) Franks, who was born February 18, 1803, and died December 1I, 1864. Children: I. Maria, born June 21, 1826; died February 18, 1909; married William Van Derveer. 2. James, born August 30, 1827 ; married Mary Tompson. 3. Thomas F., born March 5, 1829; died May 14, 1908; married Elizabeth Post. 4. Margaret, born November 21, 1830; living 1909 ; married Peter Garritson. 5. Jacob, born March 26, 1833; died December 30, 1899; married Ada- line Stults. 6. Sarah Ann, born March I, 1835 ; died February 25, 1905 ; married Samuel Franklin. 7. John T., born April 24, 1836; living 1909; married (first) Jane Ann Hough- ton : (second) Mary Louisa Helwright. 8. Aaron, born January 9, 1839; died November 30, 1865; unmarried. 9. Isaac, born August 24, 1840; died March 25, 1873; unmarried. IO. Voorhees Suydam, referred to below. II. William H., born May 19, 1845; died Janu- ary 6, 1904; married Lydia Vanskiver. 12. Abraham H., born November 13, 1848; died November 20, 1873 ; married Sophia M. Nye.
(III) Voorhees Suydam, son of Jacob Van Pelt and Isabella ( Franks) Rightmire, was born at Deans, New Jersey, June 25, 1843, and for many years conducted a general country store in Deans, where he is now ( 1909) living retired. He married Mary Louisa, daughter of Colonel Dean and Mary Scott (Dey) Britton (see Brit- ton ). Children : I. Estel Dean, referred to below. Willena Vanderveer, born April 14, 1872; living in Deans, New Jersey. 3. Frank- lin, born January 19, 1874 ; a dentist, in Pater- son, New Jersey. 4. Voorhees Alvin, referred to below. 5. Mary Britton, January 14, 1878.
(IV) Estel Dean, son of Voorhees Suydam and Mary Louisa (Britton) Rightmire, was born in Deans, New Jersey, April 14, 1870, and is now living at Atlantic City. He received his early education at the public schools of
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Deans, Middlesex county, New Jersey, and then entered the preparatory school for Rut- gers College, at New Brunswick, and after finishing his course there he studied privately along scientific lines. He started in to work with Josiah Tice, city engineer of New Bruns- wick, February, 1888, and remained with him for five years, when he became connected with the Johnson Railroad Signal Company, of Rahway, New Jersey, with whom he remained for eighteen months. In 1894 he opened an office as civil engineer at Mount Holly, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, and in the fall of 1895 started another office in Atlantic City. In 1905 he was appointed county engineer for Atlantic county, and in April, 1903, he was chosen as city engineer of Ventnor City, At- lantic county, New Jersey. In 1904 he received the appointment of city engineer for Absecon, and in 1907 he was chosen as city engineer of Somers Point ; these three last mentioned posi- tions he still holds. In 1908 he was appointed borough engineer of Linwood, New Jersey, and in January, 1909, the city council of At- lantic City gave him the appointment of city engineer of that municipality, and lastly, in May, 1909, he received the appointment of special engineer of Margate City, New Jersey. From 1903 to 1909 he was a member of the board of education for Ventnor City, being chosen as secretary of the board ; but this posi- tion he was obliged to resign owing to the pressure of his other responsibilities and duties. In January, 1907, in order to fill a vacancy, he was appointed tax collector of Ventnor City. This record shows a most unprecedented list of positions held by so young a man in his pro- fession, and this simple enumeration speaks more than any words can do as to Mr. Right- mire's capacities and energies. He is a mem- ber of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers, the Order of Junior American Me- chanics, Masonic Lodge, and of the Ventnor Motor Boat Club. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and in religious conviction a Presby- terian. January 1, 1903, Mr. Rightmire mar- ried Hattie Estelle, daughter of Robert W. Reid, of New York, who was born August 31, 1878, and whose parents now live at Long Branch, New Jersey.
(IV) Voorhees Alvin. son of Voorhees Suydam and Mary Louisa ( Britton) Right- mire, was born at Deans, New Jersey, No- vember 23, 1875, and is now living at 105 Halsey street, Newark, New Jersey. For his early education he attended the public schools at Deans, and after graduating from the New
Brunswick high school, in 1894, he entered the Penn College of Dental Surgery, from which he received his diploma in 1905. He then open- ed an office for himself in Newark, New Jer- sey, and since that time has been engaged in the practice of dentistry at the address above, winning for himself by his pleasing personality and high ability, a large clientele. He is a member of the New Jersey State Dental Asso- ciation, and in politics he is a Republican.
(The Britton Line).
Nathaniel Britton was of English origin, and emigrated to this country previous to 1660, when he bought twenty-five morgens of land in Flatlands, Kings county, New York. It is possible that he may have been the son of the William Britton who was living on Long Island in 1662, or he may have been the son of Daniel Britton of New Amsterdam. In 1664 he obtained a patent for a tract of one hundred and forty-four acres on the southeast side of Staten Island, where he finally settled and set up a tap-house. April 27, 1671, he and Mr. Stillwell were chosen to lay out the lots upon the hills, and he died prior to April 10. 1708, when letters of administration on his estate were granted. He married Anna, daugh- ter of Nicholas Stillwell, of Gravesend, Long Island, who was born in 1643. Children : Will- iam, Nathaniel, Sarah, Rachel, Joseph, Re- becca, Benjamin, Richard, John, Abigail, Dan- iel (referred to below), Nicholas.
(11) Captain Daniel, son of Nathaniel and Anna (Stillwell) Britton, was born on Staten Island, about 1675, and died in Woodbridge, New Jersey, April, 1733. August 15, 1708, he and his wife joined the Presbyterian church in Woodbridge; March 13, 1716, he and Sam- uel Dennes, Jr., were appointed on the com- mittee to build a courthouse ; the following year he was made town treasurer, and in 1827 he was on the committee appointed to investigate the Somman's claim. He married Elizabeth who was born about 1684, survived her hus- band, and after his death married John Murr- ney, and died in April, 1760. Children : Mary, Daniel (referred to below), Deliverance, Will- iam, Elizabeth, Benjamin.
(III) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (I) and Elizabeth Britton, was born at Woodbridge. about 1705, and died there in 1735 or 1736. He married Apphia Children : Nich- olas, referred to below; Elizabeth.
(IV) Nicholas, son of Daniel (2) and Ap- phia Britton, died in 1783. He lived in New Brunswick, Middlesex county, New Jersey,
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and in his will mentions children: Joseph, Isaac, Nicholas, Nathaniel ( referred to below ), Mary, Martha.
(V) Nathaniel, son of Nicholas Britton, was born June 20, 1768, and died April 3. 1837. He married Ruth, daughter of Aaron and Gertrude (Vliet) Dean.
(VI) Dean, only child of Nathaniel and Ruth (Dean) Britton, was born October 5. 1795, and died June, 1870. He married Mary Scott, daughter of John Wetherell and Cath- erine (Rue) Dey. Children: Ruth, Aaron, John, Nathaniel, Catherine L., Mary Louise, referred to below.
(VII) Mary Louise, daughter of Colonel Dean and Mary Scott (Dey) Britton, was born February 17, 1847, and married Voorhees Suy- dam, son of Jacob Van Pelt and Isabella (Franks) Rightmire.
BRADY Joseph Augustine Brady, presi- dent of the Board Walk National Bank, Atlantic City, New Jersey, is of Irish descent. His father, Thomas Brady, son of Patrick Brady, was born in county Caven, Ireland, in 1827. He came to America in 1850, and settled at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1854. This was almost the very beginning of things at that now popular resort. Mr. Brady was a carpenter and builder and followed his trade after coming to Atlantic City. He erect- ed many of the earlier public and private build- ings of the city and became possessed of a goodly competence. He established the well known "Brady's Baths" along the Board Walk, a business that proved very profitable. They are still popular with the bathers. Thomas Brady married Marie Dellahay, born in Ireland. daughter of Sylvester and Margaret Dellahay. The children of Thomas and Marie Brady are : I. Thomas B., born December 26, 1859; mar- ried Emma Daly, and has a son, Thomas Brady, Jr., a carpenter and builder of Atlantic City. 2. Robert, September II, 1861 ; unmarried. 3. Joseph A., see forward. 4. Ellen, married William Shea, of Wilmington, Delaware. 5. Marie, married Charles Manning, a surveyor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has Charles, Helen, Marie and Ellen Manning.
Joseph Augustine, third son of Thomas and Marie Brady, was born at Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 28, 1865. He received his edu- cation in the schools of his native city. On leaving school he at once began the active and busy life that has never ceased, and has brought him well deserved and abundant success. Dur-
ing the winters he worked with his father on the construction of buildings and such other work as was available. In the summer the ever popular bathing business claimed their closest attention. "Brady's Baths" are still one of the Board Walk's popular resorts. In 1907 the Board Walk National Bank was organized. Mr. Brady was one of the charter members and a member of the first board of directors. This is one of Atlantic City's popular and prosperous financial institutions, with a capital of $200,000 and has already accumulated a surplus of fifty thousand. In 1908 Mr. Brady was elected president of the bank, the position he now occupies, and he is interested in other lines of the city's activity. He is a communi- cant of the Catholic church.
He married, 1888, Margaret Watson, born March 10, 1867, daughter of Frank and Lydia Watson, and a descendant of an old Philadel- phia family. Children: Ethel, born March 24, 1889; Margaret, July 4, 1890; Sybilla, April 8, 1893.
(For preceding generations see John McCarter 1). (IV) Robert Harris, eldest McCARTER son of the late Thomas Nes- bitt and Mary Louise (Hag- gerty) McCarter, was born at Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey, April 28, 1859. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1879, and from the Law School of Columbia Uni- versity, in the city of New York, in 1882. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in June, 1882, and has continuously thereafter practiced his profession in that state, enjoying a general practice, which he conducts in association with Conover English, Esquire, under the firm name of McCarter & English. On May 15, 1903, he was appointed by Governor Murphy attor- ney general of the state of New Jersey, and was subsequently reappointed to the same posi- tion by Governor Fort. He resigned from that office the latter part of the year 1908 on account of the demands of his personal practice. In June, 1904, the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Princeton University. He is a man of the highest integrity, greatly respected in the community, has attained a high standing in the profession and enjoys a merited reputa- tion as an able and reliable attorney.
Mr. McCarter married, October 12, 1886, Mary Bouvier Peterson, born March 25, 1860, daughter of R. Evans and Ellen (Deacon) Peterson, by whom he had two children, name- ly: George W. Childs and Eleanor J. Mc- Carter.
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(For preceding generations see John McCarter 1).
(IV) Uzal Haggerty, sec-
McCARTER ond son and fifth child of Thomas Nesbitt and Mary Louise . (Haggerty) McCarter, was born at Newton, New Jersey, July 5, 1861. He at- tended the Newark Academy, Dr. Pingry's school at Elizabeth, and graduated at Prince- ton University, class of 1882. He entered the office of Kidder, Peabody & Company, No. I Nassau street, New York City, July 1, 1882, remaining for a period of five years, and then accepted a position with the Lombard Invest- ment Company, of New York, remaining for one and a half years. On March 18, 1889, he entered the employ of the Fidelity Trust Com- pany, of Newark, in the capacity of executive manager, later became secretary and treasurer, then trust officer, and in 1904 was elected presi- dent of the company. These successive elec- tions testify to the executive ability displayed by Mr. McCarter in the management of affairs, and the esteem in which he was held by the members of the company. In addition to the presidency of the above named company, he is serving as director and chairman of the finance committee of the Prudential Life Insurance Company ; director and one of the vice-presi- dents of the Union National Bank, of Newark ; director of the Union Trust Company, of Eliz- abeth; director of the Essex County Trust Company, of East Orange; director of the New Brunswick Trust Company, of New Brunswick ; director in the Public Service Cor- poration of New Jersey and its subsidiary companies. He is a member of the North Re- formed Presbyterian Church, of Newark. He is a Republican in politics, and was an elector- at-large to the national Republican convention in 1904 that nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency of the United States. Mr. McCarter is a member of the University Club, of New York City; Princeton Club, of New York City; New York Yacht Club; Essex Club, of Newark ; Essex County Country Club, of West Orange, and the Rumson Country Club.
Mr. McCarter married, January 30, 1889. Jane Meeker Lewis, of Newark, daughter of William G. and Eliza ( Garthwaite) Lewis, the former of whom was a leading clothing imanufacturer of Newark during the period of the civil war, lately retired from active pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. McCarter have one child, Isabella Lewis, born January 11, 1891.
(For preceding generations see Thomas Trenchard 1).
(X) Thoma's Whittaker,
TRENCHARD only child of Hon. William Barrett and Anna Mariah (Golden ) Trenchard, was born at Centreton, Salem county, New Jersey, December 13, 1863, and is now living at Bridgeton. For his early education he went to the public schools of Bridgeton and the South Jersey Institute, grad- uating from the latter in 1882. He then enter- ed the office of Potter & Nixon, at Bridgeton, where he took up the study of law, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1886, and as counsellor in 1893. From the time of his admission to the bar he was actively engaged in the general practice of his pro- fession in Bridgeton. In 1889 he was elected a member of the general assembly of New Jersey. From 1892 to 1899 he served as the city solicitor for Bridgeton, and for many years was the attorney for the Bridgeton board of health. In 1899 he was appointed county judge of Cumberland county by Governor Voorhees, and in 1904 was reappointed by Governor Mur- phy. In 1896 he was elected by New Jersey as one of the presidential electors of the Mckinley and Hobart ticket. June 8, 1906, Governor Stokes of New Jersey appointed him as justice of the New Jersey supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Dixon. On January 15, 1907, he was reappointed for a full term. His term expires in 1914 and his circuit comprises the counties of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem. He was one of the organizers of the Cumberland County Bar Association, and served as its first president. He is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
The Hon. Thomas Whittaker Trenchard married, in 1891, Harriet, daughter of the Rev. J. K. Manning, D. D., and Beulah (Young) Manning, of Trenton. Her father is a Baptist clergyman and her mother came from Hunter- don county, New Jersey.
Stephen Smith, superintendent of
SMITH the Masonic Home and Orphan- age at Burlington, New Jersey, is a descendant of one of the old colonial families of Orange county, New York, where his an- cestors lived for generations.
(I) Henry Smith, who was born in Eng- land, emigrated to this country in 1743, and settled in Goshen, Orange county, New York, where he bought a large tract of land and built a home for himself and his family, on which he lived until he died, and which has come
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down in the possession of his descendants until to-day. Children: Stephen, Caleb, referred to below; Abigail, Phoebe, Joanna, Elizabeth, Hannah.
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