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(III) Thomas Van Brackle, son of Thomas and Emma (Van Brackle) Arrowsmith, was born at Arrowsmith Mills, New Jersey. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was sub- sequently promoted to the position of brigade quartermaster, with the rank of major, serving until the end of the war. Afterwards he en- gaged in teaching. He married Elizabeth Wall- ing. Children: Joe; James ; Alfred ; Eusebius Walling, referred to below; Lottie; Annie ; Elizabeth.
(IV) Eusebius Walling, son of Thomas Van Brackle and Elizabeth (Walling) Arrowsmith, was born at Keyport, New Jersey, in 1844, and died October 3, 1907. His early education was obtained at a public school from whence he passed to Holmes Academy. After his graduation he read law with Hon. William H. Vreedenburgh, and after the completion of his course was admitted as attorney to the New
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Jersey bar. He settled at Freehold, where he entered into general practice. Mr. Arrow- smith was an ardent Democrat, but though prominent in party politics, he neither sought nor held office. In religion he was an Epis- copalian, and was a vestryman of his parish church. He married Mary Anna, daughter of Leonard J. and Sarah (L.) Johnston. Chil- dren : 1. Thomas Van Brackle, referred to below. 2. Eusebius Walling Jr., born 1868; married Rachel Simmons ; children : Madeline, Helen. 3. Leonard Johnston, born 1870. 4. Belle. 5. Al- fred W., died as a young man. 6. James Sloan ; child, Mary Wealtheyear. Children of Leonard J. and Sarah L. Johnston : Abram, Isaac, Jacob, Catherine, Rachel Elizabeth, Sarah, Isa- bella, Mary Ann, referred to above.
(V) Thomas Van Brackle, son of Eusebius Walling and Mary Anna (Johnston) Arrow- smith, was born at Keyport, New Jersey, No- vember 9, 1866. He obtained his education at the Freehold public school, and at the institute, and later read law with his father, Mr. Eusebius W. Arrowsmith, at Freehold. He was admit- ted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in Feb- ruary, 1890, and from then until 1893 prac- ticed in connection with his father. He then removed to Long Branch, New Jersey, where he entered into general practice, in which he has attained prominence and success. Mr. Arrowsmith has filled the office of recorder. He is past master of Long Branch Lodge, No. 78, F. and A. M., and is a member of the Long Branch Standard Chapter. He is also a mem- ber of the County Bar Association. He and his family are members of the Episcopalian church, in which Mr. Arrowsmith is a vestry- man. In politics Mr. Arrowsmith is an influ- ential member of the Democratic party. He married at Long Branch, November 4, 1901, Carrie Louise, daughter of Edwin F. and Har- riet Rachel (West) Osborne, who was born September 16, 1870. Children: Louise, born August 5, 1902; Thomas Woolley, July 2, 1904; Edwin O., May, 1909.
(III) George, son of Thomas and Emma ( Van Brackle) Arrowsmith, was born in Mid- dletown township, now Holmdel, New Jersey, April 18, 1839. After obtaining his early edu- cation at the Middletown Academy, he entered the grammar school connected with Madison University, at Hamilton, New York. In Octo- ber, 1855, at the age of sixteen, he entered the freshman class of Madison University, where, though the youngest student, he took and main- tained a high rank, both in class and literary work. After graduating in 1859 with the high-
est honors, he entered the law office of Hon. Charles Mason, judge of the supreme court, and leading lawyer of Madison county. At the same time, in order that he might become self- supporting, Mr. Arrowsmith accepted the posi- tion of tutor at the Hamilton grammar school. He had already for several years been a con- tributor to local newspapers, and it was by means of his spirited and interesting letter sent later on to the editor of the Utica Morn- ing Herald, over the signature of "Aliquis," that so graphic an account of his military career has been preserved. Mr. Arrowsmith was an ardent Democrat, and furnished many spicy and incisive articles of a partisan nature to the Union, a Democratic paper of Hamilton. In April, 1861, Mr. Arrowsmith was duly licensed a member of the New York bar. About this time occurred the attack on Fort Sumter, and when the news reached Hamilton, infuri- ated by the speech of a rebel sympathizer, he was the first to offer himself in the service of his country. A company of fifty men was hastily organized, under the name of the Union Guards, and unanimously elected George Arrowsmith as their captain. A few days later, April 29, 1861, the Union Guards left Hamilton and proceeded to Utica, where they joined the Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers, then form- ing under Colonel Christian, as Company D. After a couple of months spent in barracks at Elmira, the Twenty-sixth started for the front. Even before his regiment left Utica, Captain Arrowsmith had acquired an enviable reputa- tion as an officer. He had applied himself from the first to the mastery of military tactics, and a visitor to the camp at Elmira wrote of him, "Colonel Christian says there is no better officer in the regiment." On July 21 Captain Arrowsmith's regiment marched from Wash- ington to Alexandria, and thence was convey- ed by train to Springfield, expecting to take part in the battle of Bull Run, which was then going on. It was met, however, by news of a defeat, and was ordered to fall back. Captain Arrowsmith's letters describing the condition of affairs at this crisis are interesting in the extreme, also his accurate and humorous ac- counts of his later experiences on the tented field. His regiment about this time was an- nexed to General Heintzelman's brigade, com- prising also the Twenty-sixth New York and Fifth Maine.
In August, 1861, an important mission was entrusted to Captain Arrowsmith on his own 1 equest. This was the destruction of the bridge over Hunting river, the name given to two
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small streams which together formed the divid- ing line between the two great armies. With two companies under his command, Captain Arrowsmith occupied the bridge one stormy night, and, though running grave risk of at- tack at any moment from the enemy, morning found him and his men unhurt, the bridge de- molished, and the capture of Alexandria, con- sequent on the bridge's use by the enemy, pre- vented. In September of this same year Cap- tain Arrowsmith again comes into prominence at the skirmish at Pohich church, where he led two companies of his regiment in an attack upon a body of rebel cavalry, who were quarter- ed in the church, and had been robbing and plundering the Union farmers in the neighbor- hood. The surprise was complete, the rebels put to rout, and their untouched breakfast confiscated by the northerners. After an irk- somely inactive winter spent at different en- campments in Virginia, Captain Arrowsmith's brigade, now under command of General Rick- etts, broke camp about May Ist, and moved along the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg. From here a forced march was made in the vain hope of surprising Stonewall Jackson, bring- ing the brigade to Front Royal in June, 1862. From Front Royal it next moved to Centre- ville, where on June 25th Captain Arrowsmith was chosen by the new Brigadier General Toiner, to act as his assistant adjutant-general. He had been recommended to General Joiner as "an intelligent, educated, soldierly officer, of good repute in his regiment, and the best fitted person of his age in the regiment for this im- portant place on the staff." At the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, Captain Ar- rowsmith was with Rickett's division of Pope's forces. His brigade saw the main part of the fight but was engaged only in the last of it. Captain Arrowsmith acquitted himself so well as to obtain favor from General Tower, who later nominated him to the secretary of war for confirmation in his position as assistant adjutant-general. Engagements at Rappahan- nock, Thoroughfare Gap and second Bull Run now quickly followed. In the last-named battle Captain Arrowsmith was in the thick of the fight, discharging his duties regardless of dan- ger, with the greatest efficiency. His straight black hair, swarthy face, and erect figure, made him a conspicuous object on the field. In the terrible loss suffered by the brigade, though grazed by bullets again and again, he escaped without a wound. It was in this engagement that Captain Arrowsmith won for himself the sobriquet of "the young lion." His gallant
conduct was soon rewarded by promotion to the post of lieutenant-colonel of the One Hun- dred and Fifty-seventh, a New York regiment then forming. About the same time he was urged for the colonelcy of the Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers, Colonel Christian hav- ing resigned. He decided to accept the lieu- tenant-colonelcy, and was commissioned by Governor Morgan, of New York, September 16, 1862. In November Colonel Arrowsmith joined his regiment at New Baltimore. Through- out the trying circumstances connected with the rout of the Eleventh Corps, of which the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh was a part, at Chancellorsville, April, 1863, Colonel Arrow- smith was at his post of duty, and by his cool- ness and intrepidity is said to have saved his regiment from annihilation. Later in June, the Confederate army, on its way to invade the north, crossed the Potomac and pressed towards Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The northern army followed, and by June 28 the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh had reached Middletown, Maryland. On June 30 the Elev- enth Corps lay at Emmetsburg, ten miles south of Gettysburg, with orders to support the First Corps. Next day, July 1, 1863, it left Emmets- burg and marched to Gettysburg to take part in the battle which had already begun. Colo- nel Arrowsmith, though not fully recovered from a recent illness, insisted on going into the fight. The Eleventh Corps arrived on the field just as the First, greatly outnumbered, was giving way. When rebel reinforcements, under Rodes and Early, began to arrive, the Federal line, sorely pressed, took the form of a cres- cent, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh oc- cupying a dangerous position in the center. On the advance of the enemy the regiment was ordered to check their approach, and to do so was obliged to advance up to within fifty yards before making an attack. Colonel Arrowsmith's voice was heard above the din of battle, en- couraging his men and directing their fire. The regiment in its exposed position suffered fear ful slaughter by the enemy on both flanks. and, after fighting only a short time, Colonel Arrowsmith fell, struck by a rifle ball in the forehead. It was afterwards learned from the wounded on the field that he died soon after the retreat which quickly followed. An attempt was made to bring off his body, but it proved unsuccessful. On receiving the sorrow- ful news of his brother's death, Dr. Joseph E. Arrowsmith, hastened to the scene of the late conflict. Colonel Arrowsmith's body was ex- humed from its burial place and forwarded to
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Middletown, New Jersey, where the funeral obsequies were held in the Baptist church on Sunday, July. 26, 1863. The brigade board of Monmouth and Ocean counties was present in full uniform, without sidearms. Extended obitu- ary notices of a highly eulogistic character ap- peared in the newspapers of Madison, Cort- land and Chemung counties, of New York, and Monmouth county, New Jersey, also in the daily papers of New York City, Washington and Philadelphia. Later, in addressing Arrow- smith Post, Department of New Jersey, G. A. R., Colonel Place writes: "You acted wisely when you decided upon the name of your Post. The name of George Arrowsmith is enshrined in the hearts of his surviving comrades. I can only exhort you to emulate his patriotic devo- tion to the cause of your country's welfare and prosperity." No higher tribute to Colonel Ar- rowsmith's memory can be quoted than the following sentences taken from the concluding chapter of the account of his career written and published by Mr. J. S. Applegate: "He gave his all to his country-cultivated talents, alluring prospects in civil pursuits, a young life ; as a patriot he could have done no more. Of his courage I need not speak ; it is attested by heroic deeds on several battle fields which are at once his monuments and his eulogies. In manhood he was the soul of honor, with an inate contempt for whatever was mean or intriguing *
* On the eve of Gettys- burg his comrades urged his higher promotion, with flattering testimonials from persons of distinguished military rank, but here was ended his rising career. It was an honorable death, and his epitath is briefly written; a sterling soldier, a true patriot, and a brave man."
(III) Stephen V., son of Thomas and Emma (Van Brackle) Arrowsmith, was born at Ar- rowsmith Mills, April 13, 1842, and died at Red Bank, New Jersey, January 17, 1910. After obtaining his early education at the dis- trict school he went to Matawan, New Jersey, where he prepared for college at Glenwood Institute. In 1862 he returned to his home, where he remained until 1876. He then went to Keyport, New Jersey, where he taught a country school. In 1878 he undertook the management of the principal school at Mata- wan, but in 1879 he gave this up and returned to Keyport, where he continued teaching until 1897. During this time there, Mr. Arrowsmith by his personal energy and scholarly abilities, raised the working corp of the Keyport school from six teachers to thirteen. He next removed to Red Bank, where as superintendent he in-
creased the school's working force from sixteen teachers to forty-one. For many years before his death he was supervising principal of all the Red Bank public schools, and was for thirteen years secretary and later president of the council of education of New Jersey, as well as for twenty- seven years a member of the board of exam- iners for teachers. Mr. Arrowsmith was a use- ful and honored member of the community in public as well as in private life. In Keyport he was assessor for eight years, and was also for a number of years president of the town commission. Mr. Arrowsmith was a charter member of the New York School Masters' Club, formed in 1890. He was a member of Red Bank Lodge, F. and A. M .; of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Loyal Association. In politics he was an independent. Mr. Arrow- smith was a prominent member of the Baptist church, having united with that body in 1859, and having served as a trustee for five years. He married at Brooklyn, October 9, 1863, Sarah S., daughter of John Sprout, of Key- port. Children: 1. Eleanor, born October 12, 1869 ; a teacher at Red Bank, New Jersey. 2. Emma, born April 1, 1871; married George Morris, principal of Bloomfield public school ; children : Helen, Stephanie. Children of John Sprout: John, Edgar, Luke, Sarah S., re- ferred to above.
DAY The Day family of New Jersey which is at present under consideration, comes, it is said, from the family which settled in the early days on Long Island. It is quite possible, however, that it is a branch of the same family which was so prominently connected with the early history of Newark. The genealogy of the line followed here, how- ever, is that which seems to have the balance of probability in its favor, and was vouched for originally by a Dr. John Littell.
(I) George Day, of Long Island, according to Dr. Littell, had three sons, who came to New Jersey, and settled in the Passaic Valley : George, of Long Hill; David; and Joseph, re- ferred to below.
(II) Joseph, son of George Day, married Hannah Sergeant. Children : I. Jonathan, referred to below. 2. Amos, married Miss Magie. 3. Thomas. 4. Paul. married (first) Elizabeth Thompson, ( second) Elizabeth Crane, (third) Patty Willcox. 5. Stephen, married (first) Damaris Foster, (second) Jemimalı, widow of Stephen Johnson, daughter of Judge John Ogden, of Newark, and sister to Hannah. wife of Rev. James Caldwell, the revolutionary
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patriot. 6. Sarah, married Gershom Mott. 7. 4. Benjamin. 5. Pennington M. 6. Stephen Martha, married (first) Samuel Lum, (sec- ond) Stephen Howell, (third) Mr. Carnes. 8. Susannah, married (first) Mr. Darling, (sec- ond) Mr. Beach.
(III) Jonathan, son of Joseph and Hannah (Sergeant) Day, is supposed to have had a son Daniel.
(IV) Daniel, son of Jonathan Day, of Long Island, came to New. Jersey, lived at Camp- town, now Clinton, and had children: Benja- min, referred to below; Samuel T .; Artemas ; Timothy, married Mehetable Merry; Daniel Jr .; Ezekiel ; Jeremiah ; Nehemiah ; Mary ; Ke- ziah ; Hannah; David.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Daniel Day, was a prominent man of his day, and for many years was a justice of the peace. He died Sep- tember, 1783. Benjamin Day married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Darling ; five children. He married (second), July 19, 1770, Elizabeth, who survives him, daughter of Dan- iel, and sister to Samuel Roberts Sr., and also sister to Phebe, wife of Peter Davison. Chil- dren of Benjamin Day : Stephen ; John ; Moses ; Darling ; Abner ; Daniel, died August, 1845, aged seventy-one years, married Nancy Mor- rell; Stephen, referred to below; Abigail, mar- ried (first), April 10, 1791, Jonathan Valen- tine, (second) John Schureman; Sarah, mar- ried, September 22, 1792, David Valentine, (second) Aaron Baker, of Dayton, Ohio.
(VI) Stephen, son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Roberts) Day, was born in December, 1778. He was a captain of militia, and mar- ried (first) Sally, daughter of Cornelius Mul- ford, and (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Daniel S. Wood. Children, all except the first by second marriage: Mulford, died June 26, 1851, married (first) Sarah Brook- field, (second) Sarah Thompson ; Daniel, died 1805, aged nine months; Benjamin, married Mary Taylor ; Stephen, married Rachael Brook- field ; Peter Davison, married (first ) Stella Eliz- abeth Reading, and (second) Jane Voorhies; Samuel Thomas, referred to below; Waters, died as young man ; Daniel W., married Caro- line Parrott; Francis Asbury, married Han- nah D. Hick; William McKendry, married Lidia Anne Cole ; Edwin Augustus.
(VII) Samuel Thomas, son of Captain Ste- phen and Elizabeth (Wood) Day, was born in New Providence, New Jersey, in 1803, and died int 1888. He married Elizabeth Crane, born April 27, 1805. Children: 1. Wilbur Fisk, referred to below. 2. Waters Burrows. 3. John Crane.
Sylvester. 7. Franklin. 8. Mary, married Rev. Stephen Jones, a Methodist minister of the Newark conference. 9. Elizabeth, died aged three months.
(VIII) Wilbur Fisk, eldest child of Samuel Thomas and Elizabeth (Crane) Day, was born in Morristown, New Jersey, February 6, 1839. He was a caterer, and lived in New Provi- dence. He married Elizabeth, born 1841, died February 6, 1906, daughter of Dr. Phineas and - ( Badgley ) Kinsey. Children: Waters Burrows and Wilbur Fisk Jr., both referred to below ; Nettie, married J. Kelsey Burr, and has Elizabeth and J. Kelsey Jr .; Oliver K., mar- ried Lillian Osborn, and has two children ; Fred- erick Morgan, married May Sinclair; May- nard; Henry P .; John C.
(IX) Waters Burrows, eldest child of Wil- bur Fisk and Elizabeth (Kinsey) Day, was born in Morristown, New Jersey, June 25, 1867. He was educated in the Morristown public schools, from which he graduated in 1885. Two years later he graduated from the Centenary Collegiate Institute of Hacketts- town, and in 1891 received his B. S. degree from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Con- necticut. He then went into the catering busi- ness in Newark with his father and uncle, the firm name being W. F. Day & Brother. Feb- ruary I, 1909, he was chosen president of the Newark Trust Company. In politics Mr. Day is a Republican. April 25, 1894, Mr. Day mar- ried in Middletown, Connecticut, Anne May, born there, April 15, 1872, daughter of George W. and Anne (Sage) Burr. Children: Anita, born May 10, 1895 ; Margaret Burr, March 29, 1901.
(IX) Wilbur Fisk, second son of Wilbur Fisk and Elizabeth (Kinsey) Day, was born in Morristown, New Jersey, March 24, 1869. He graduated from the Morristown high school, the Morris Academy in 1888, and the Cente- nary Collegiate Institute of Hackettstown in 1889, and has been in the catering business with his father in Morristown. He is a Re- publican, treasurer of the ward committee and first assistant engineer. In religion he is a Methodist, and he is a past grand master of the Royal Arcanum. November 21, 1894, Mr. Day married Cora, born February 15, 1874, daughter of Gilbert D. and Cornelia ( Pepper- ed) Young. Children: Evelyn, born July 5, 1896 ; Wilbur Fisk, May 16, 1898; Alice, Janu- ary 20, 1900; Lois, May 18, 1905.
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