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(I) It is natural to believe that Nicholas Snow, of Plymouth and Eastham, Massachu- setts, was influential in bringing others of the name to the new colony, and it seems probable that part or all of the other early emigrants of the name were related to him. Among these was "William Snoe, an apprentice to Mr. Richard Derby, 1637, and by him brought over out of England and assigned over to Edward Doten, 1638, to serve him seven years," at Plymouth. It appears from the above that he was a minor, and was sent under appren- ticeship to join or be among relatives already here. He appears on the list of those able to bear arms at Plymouth in 1643, when he was probably an adult. He was early in Duxbury, and though not an original proprietor appears in the list of such in 1645, when he was likely a single man. He was one of the first settlers of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he sub- scribed to the oath of fidelity in 1657. His will was made in 1699 and proved in 1708, pre- sumably the year of his death, at the age of about eighty-four years, and he was cared for in old age by his son, William. His wife's baptismal name was Rebecca, and they had children : William, James, Joseph, Benjamin, Mary, Lydia, Hannah and Rebeckah.
(II) Joseph, second son of William and Re- becca Snow, resided in Bridgewater, where he died in 1753. He had a wife, Hopestill, and children : Joseph, born 1690; Mary, 1691 ; James, 1693; Rebeckah, 1696; Isaac, 1700;
Jonathan and David, 1703. The elder daugh- ter married Joseph Lathrop in 1718, and the younger married Thomas Wade in 1722.
(III) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (I) and Hopestill Snow, was born 1690 in Bridgewater, and removed about 1790 to Easton and later to Providence, Rhode Island, probably about 1738. He was there a member of the Beneficent Congregational Church of which he was made a deacon in 1738, and rul- ing elder, October 14, 1743, and continued in that office until his death. He had wife Eliza- beth and children: Joseph, born 1715; James, 1717; Elizabeth, 1719; Susanna, 1722; Sarah, 1725 : Daniel, 1727; and Mary, baptized 1733 in Providence.
(IV) Rev. Joseph (3), eldest child of Jo- seph (2) and Elizabeth Snow, was born April 6, 1715, in Bridgewater, and died April IO, 1803, in Providence, where he acted as min- ister of the gospel fift-eight years. He was a house carpenter and went to Providence early in life to exercise his calling. He was ad- mitted to the church, May 7, 1738, and was one of the twenty-five persons who withdrew March 7, 1743. This group, comprising about half the membership, continued to worship without a settled pastor for some years until Joseph Snow was ordained as a minister in February, 1747. He conducted their worship from the beginning, and was chosen as pastor in October, 1746. In the meantime, he had urged upon the flock the necessity of procuring one better fitted and held the appointment under consideration for one year after his election. He was gifted as a leader and preacher, and after deciding to enter the min- istry, prepared himself as well as he could. Like another celebrated carpenter who began teaching more than seventeen hundred years before him, his work was successful and he en- joyed the respect and esteem of a large circle of followers. During his ministry he bap- tized two hundred and forty-nine children. He is described as of sober demeanor, of fine person, always wearing the big wig dictated by the fashion of the time. In 1750 the so- ciety built a house of worship, the minister going to the woods to aid in cutting the tim- bers used. The structure covered thirty-six by forty feet of ground, and was afterward enlarged. A bell was brought from England in 1772-73, to hang in its tower. The same ground is now occupied by its successor. In 1793 Rev. John Wilson was made colleague of Mr. Snow, to lighten somewhat the latter's labors, but this led to disagreements, and Mr.
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Snow withdrew from the church in the fol- lowing year. With his followers he built a church in 1795, where he continued as pastor until death closed his labors. This is known as the Richmond Street Congregational So- ciety. Joseph Snow married (first) Novem- ber 1, 1737, Sarah Field, born August 9, 1710, died July 19, 1753. He married ( second) March 14, 1754, Rebecca Grant. Children of first marriage: Sarah, born October 27, 1738; John, February 3, 1740; Joseph, died young ; Joseph, September 2, 1742 ; Lydia, January 8, 1744; Susannah, October 14, 1745; Elizabeth, October 10, 1747; Abigail, March 26, 1749; Josiah, February 24, 1750. Children of sec- ond wife: Rebecca, February 13, 1756; Sam- uel, August 1, 1758; Edward, May 9, 1760; Benjamin, December 6, 1761.
(V) Joseph (4), third son of Rev. Joseph (3) and Sarah (Field) Snow, was born Sep- tember 2, 1742. He resided in Providence. He married, October 24, 1775, Mary Proctor.
(VII) Josiah, probably a grandson of Rev. Joseph Snow, possibly a generation later, was born in Providence, 1809. His mother's maiden name was Dunham. The vital records of Providence show nothing of her baptismal name or of his father, and family tradition is the only available authority for information. In the spring of 1829 Josiah Snow went to Southbridge, Massachusetts, and purchased the type and other material which had been used in printing a paper, and established the Southbridge Register. This he published until 1832, when he sold out. Later he went to Geneva, New York, where he established a newspaper and was an ardent supporter of William H. Seward in public policies. He set- tled ultimately in Detroit, Michigan, and was the founder of the Detroit Tribune, still a powerful journal, as it was under his guid- ance. While resident at Detroit he served as register of Wayne county. He removed to Rivervale, New Jersey, and there passed his last years in quiet retirement on a tract of twenty-five acres which he purchased. He was a Whig in politics until the formation of the Republican party, of which he was one of the most enthusiastic founders, and he exer- cised a large influence in political affairs in his day. Being a close personal friend of Mr. Seward. he was naturally associated with other leading men of the times including Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune, and his yeoman service in behalf of advanced principles brought to his aid many leading minds of the west as well as the east. A lib-
eral in religious ideas, he was a supporter of the Unitarian church. He married, May 21, 1829, Louisa Northrup, born August 26, 1810, on an island in Narragansett bay, daughter of a sea captain. Two sons and a daughter sur- vived the period of infancy: William D. and Eugene J., the latter a resident of Brooklyn, New York, and Louise, married Dr. James Ketchum ; left no issue. Josiah Snow died at his home at Rivervale, New Jersey, May, 1886.
(VIII) William Dunham, elder son of Jo- siah and Louisa (Northrup) Snow, was born in Webster, Massachusetts, February 2, 1832. He began his educational training in the pub- lic schools of Detroit, Michigan. He then at- tended the Branch of University of Michigan at Romeo, before the consolidation of that university at Ann Arbor, and graduated at the age of twenty-one. He studied law at Dixon, Illinois, under the late Attorney General Edson, of Illinois. He established at Detroit, Michigan, in connection with his father, Jo- siah Snow, the Detroit Tribune, and for many years served in the capacity of associate editor. Becoming interested in telegraphic operations, he was one of two individuals who constructed the Atlantic and Pacific telegraph line from New York to San Francisco. In 1860, in as- sociation with his father, he built telegraph lines in Arkansas, from Memphis to Little Rock, Fort Smith and to Napoleon, and other points of that state. In 1871 Mr. Snow went to Paris, France, remaining two years and dur- ing that time studied civil law. In 1874 he entered the Columbia Law School, New York City, from which he was graduated in 1876, and immediately admitted to the bar of New York. He was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey in 1894, and the United States supreme court in 1908. In 1882 he was elected secretary and counsel to one of the large New York trust companies, necessitat- ing a special devotion to mercantile, trust and corporation law, but in 1888 resigned to take up a general practice, which he continued until 1896, when he decided to retire and moved to Hackensack, New Jersey, where he has since resided. He found it difficult, how- ever, to retire from activity and is still con- ducting an extensive practice, with office on Main street, Hackensack.
In 1860, before the civil war, Mr. Snow settled at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and during the election of 1860 was the chosen political corre- spondent of Abraham Lincoln as to the senti- ments, tendencies and prevailing opinions of
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that section in the contest then going on. As a known Union man, Mr. Snow was selected to represent Jefferson county in the Consti- tutional convention of Arkansas, which re- sulted in the establishment of the first free state constitution in any of the so-called se- ceded states. The United States military authorities, in the chaos of public opinion on the question of reconstruction, had prejudiced President Lincoln against the elections for free state officers, ordered by that convention. At this juncture Mr. Snow was requested by President Lincoln to come to Washington and explain the action of the convention and the state of public opinion in Arkansas. After two interviews with President Lincoln on February 15, 1864, Mr. Snow returned to Little Rock with the following document : "To I. Murphy, Provisional Governor, Arkansas .- My Order to General Steele about an election, was made in ignorance of the action your Convention had taken or would take. A sub- sequent letter to General Steele, directs him to aid you in your plan and not to thwart or hinder you. Show this to him. A. Lincoln."
The elections were held in March following, resulting in an overwhelming majority for the Union cause. The Free State Constitution was carried by ten thousand majority, and Arkansas was the first state from the confed- eracy to return to the Union on a free and unbiased vote of its people. Isaac Murphy, the only man who had voted "no" on the or- dinance of secession, in the convention which assumed to take the state out of the Union, was elected governor and the legislature sub- sequently elected Mr. Snow for a long term to the United States senate. The last public speech made by Abraham Lincoln, a few days previous to his assassination, was a plea for the re-admission of Arkansas to the senate. The senators from Arkansas were accorded seats in the senate, but their credentials were retained by the judiciary committee, pending the intense excitement growing out of the dif- ferences of congress with President Johnson on reconstruction and on the passage of the final reconstruction measures. Mr. Snow de- clined a re-election and settled in Brooklyn, New York, practicing his profession of law in New York City.
During the civil war Mr. Snow acted in the capacity of volunteer aid to General Powell Clayton and Major General Fred Steele, was present at several battles and was largely in- strumental in enlisting and organizing three regiments of native Arkansians for the Union
army, more than nine hundred strong each. For that service he was tendered an appoint- ment by Governor Murphy as brigadier gen- eral of volunteers, which he declined, pleading want of educated military knowledge sufficient to undertake the responsibility of that office, in a contest already organized, going on and calling for immediate action.
As a result of strong convictions he became an ardent anti-slavery advocate, contributing largely to the magazines and journals of that day, occasionally indulging in poetry, and among his most noted poems was "Freedom," which appeared in the "Autographs of Free- dom," published in New York, 1854. Among Mr. Snow's co-contributors in the same book were William H. Seward, Joshua R. Geddings, Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, David Paul Broom, T. Starr King, Charles Francis Adams, and many others of those early apostles of liberty, who in the burning nature of the crisis that came soon after its publica- tion found a torch which illuminated their pathways to national fame. Mr. Snow has always been interested in hymnnology, de- claring as a theory that worship should be characterized by the divinest poetical afflatus attainable, that the higher the elevation of thought and symbol, the more spiritualizing will be the influence of sacred song. The two Christmas hymns, written by Mr. Snow for the Church of the Saviour ( Unitarian) Brook- lyn, 1867, show the poetic fervor of Mr. Snow's Hymns, of which there are many. He has amused himself during a long lifetime in the intervals of his professional duties by the study of natural philosophy, and is the in- ventor of several successful inventions. His thermostat is regarded as the most reliable and sensitive of that class of instruments be- fore the public, and there are said to be in New York City alone more than forty thou- sand of his invention for equalizing the pres- sure of gas, independent of the pressure at the holder. Mr. Snow is president of the board of trustees of the Unitarian church of Hack- ensack, and was president of the Bergen County Historical Society in 1908. He is a Master Mason, a trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association, and a member of the Law- yers' Club, the Bullion Club of New York, the Columbia College Association of both New York and New Jersey, and ex-president of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Snow married, August 21, 1854, Mary Elizabeth, born at Providence, Rhode Island, September 30, 1833, died at Hackensack, New
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Jersey, November 1, 1909, daughter of Asa and Mary (Kelley) Newell, and grand- daughter of Dr. Kelley, who left a medical school in Boston to join the revolutionary army. Mrs. Snow was a graduate of the Spingler Institute of New York, a woman of rare intellectual attainments and a linguist. Children : 1. Walter Newell, born October 31, 1855, died December 15, 1863. 2. Louise S., born February 25, 1864; married, January I, 1885, Dr. Charles A. Jersey, born June 27, 1859, died August 16, 1902; resides in Hack- ensack; has one son, Chester C. Jersey, born August 9, 1887, now a midshipman at Annap- olis and the star member of the first class. 3. Mabel S., born March 26, 1867; married, Oc- tober 16, 1890, Captain Francis J. Kester, a graduate of West Point, also a graduate of the War College at Washington, D. C .; now cap- tain of the Fifth Cavalry, United States army. 4. William J., born December 16, 1868; a grad- uate of West Point, the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe and the War College at Washington, D. C .; now adjutant of the Sixth Light Artillery, United States army, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas; he stands third in line of promotion ; he is considered an authority on military matters; he married, April 19, 1892, Isabel, daughter of Arthur Hall Locke, of Charleston, South Carolina ; one son, Will- iam Arthur, born April 21, 1892. 5. Emily Christine, born December 27, 1874, died in her senior year at college, July 12, 1896.
This name has been borne by men KING in all stations of life; it has been made famous by many professional men, authors, lawyers and orators, as well as merchants and statesmen. They have con- tributed a fair share to the upbuilding of the communities in which has been their abode, and have won the respect of their fellows.
(I) Elias Brown King was born in 1820, at Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, and re- ceived his education in his native town. In. 1845 he removed to Paterson, New Jersey, where he learned the trade of plumber, and in 1848 began business on his own account, at which he became very successful. Mr. King retired from active life in 1889, and his death occurred in 1892. He was city tax assessor for some years, and filled the office very ac- ceptably. He was an active worker in church circles, being a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, in which he filled several offices. He married Rose, daughter of William Mit- chell, of Ireland, and they became parents of
six children, of whom four are living, namely : Mary, wife of Samuel McCloud, of Long Branch, New Jersey. Amelia, wife of Ed- ward Van Winkle, of Atlanta, Georgia. Charles Mitchell, see forward. George L., of Paterson.
(II) Charles Mitchell, son of Elias Brown and Rose (Mitchell) King, was born August 30, 1849, at Paterson, New Jersey, which is still his residence. He attended the public. schools until he reached the age of sixteen years, when he entered the Grant Locomotive Works in order to learn the trade of machin- ist. After spending three years in this po- sition he entered the employ of the Van Win- kle Cotton Manufacturing Company. At the age of twenty-one years he became a clerk in the office of the surrogate of Passaic county, and in 1885 was elected to the office of surrogate, which he now fills, being in his fifth term. He has had ample opportunity to learn the duties and responsibilities of this office, and through close application to the details of same has become a most acceptable incumbent of the position. He is a staunch supporter of the Republican party, and has represented same in many state conventions. Mr. King is a member of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 88, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, of Paterson, and a life member of Paterson Lodge, No. 60, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, being a charter member of the latter organi- zation and actively associated in its work since the institution in 1887 ; he has filled the office of secretary, and is past exalted ruler of the lodge. He is a director of the Silk City Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Paterson.
Mr. King married, October 15, 1879, Char- lotte M., born in New York City, December II, 1860, daughter of John P. and Louise (Spanenberger) Mayer, of Paterson, the former born in Germany and the latter in New York City. Children: I. William Ber- dan, born July 4, 1880; married, October 30, 1907, Florence G., born August 4, 1883, daugh- ter of John and Martha Ann (Mottershead) Grimshaw, natives of England. 2. Charles Leonard, born August 19, 1883.
This name is often found in BOGERT various spellings in the early records and two distinct forms are widely used in the present day, many em- ploying the spelling Bogart. There were sev- eral immigrants bearing the name among the early settlers of New Amsterdam and Long Island and their descendants have scattered
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over a wide region being especially numerous in northeastern New Jersey. The conspicuous Dutch traits of industry and thrift have been well perpetuated in this family and it has taken active part in the general development of this state. Most of its representatives have been devoted to agriculture.
(I) Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt came from Holland before 1661 and settled on the village lot at Flatbush, Long Island, which he shortly sold to Peter Jansen. In 1677 he was one of the proprietors of the Flatbush patent, and died at that place in 1684. The name of his wife who accompanied him from Holland is given as Geesie Williams, which indicates that her father's christian name was William. It is presumable that the general usage in spell- ing her name was Williamse. Children : Wyntie, Jan Cornelise, Classie, Roeloff, Maritie and Peter. All of these except the eldest evi- dently settled at Hackensack, New Jersey.
(II) Jan Cornelise, eldest son of Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, resided in New Lots, Long Island, until 1694, when he sold his property there and joined others in a large purchase of land southeast of Hackensack. His descend- ants are now very numerous in Bergen county and have spread to other regions. He married Angenitie Strycker. Children: Roeloff, Lam- neetie, Claes, John, Cornelis and Albert.
(III) Albert, youngest child of Jan Cor- nelise and Angenitie (Strycker) Bogert, was born about 1690 at New Lots, and was reared near Hackensack on his father's farm. He married, February 17, 1713, Martha Bartholf. Children : John, William, Guilliaem, Isaac, Ja- cobus, Angenitie, Henry, Cornelius (died young), Cornelius and Angenitie.
(IV) Isaac, third son of Albert and Martha (Bartholf) Bogert, was born near Hacken- sack, 1718, and settled on lands at what is now Westwood, which he purchased in 1765. He was a carpenter by trade. The deed to his land, which included about sixty-five acres, was dated March 26, 1765, the grantor being John Marselis and the purchase price eight hundred pounds. This land, except a small portion reserved for the homestead, is all within the village of Westwood, and has been sold off in village lots. He married, June 4, 1742, Lea, daughter of John Demorest. Children: Albert, Jacobus, John and Martina. The second son was a soldier of the revolution and died in the service.
(V) Albert (2), eldest child of Isaac and Lea (Demorest) Bogert, was born March 16, 1743, at Hackensack, died July 25, 1833, at
Westwood, aged ninety and one-third years. He inherited the homestead from his father and resided there through life.
(VI) Isaac A., son of Albert (2) Bogert, was born May 9, 1769, at what is now West- wood, died there March 29, 1847. He in- herited, occupied and tilled the homestead farm. He married, June 26, 1788, Margaret Duryea, born April 17, 1770. He was an active citizen and served as constable and in other civil capacities. He had a daughter and a son, the first, Lea, born January 6, 1791. became the wife of Daniel Demarest and re- sided at Oradell.
(VII) David A., only son of Isaac A. and Margaret (Duryea) Bogert, was born July 2. 1800, on the paternal homestead, which he oc- cupied through life, and died January 18, 1872. He was a member of the Reformed Church, then known as the North Schraalenburgh Church, in which he was deacon and elder. He was an industrious and successful farmer, and a respected member of the community. He married, December 20, 1817, Hannah Ack- erman, born February 27, 1802, died June 19, 1897. Her father, David Ackerman, was born May 23, 1774, died October 31, 1846. His wife, Adaline (Cooper) Ackerman, born December 28, 1777, died April 13, 1859. Of the four children of David A. Bogert three grew to maturity, viz: Adaline, born July 5, 1824; Albert, December 17, 1826; Isaac David. mentioned below. The first is the widow of Benjamin Zabriskie Van Emberg, residing at Woodcliff. Her husband died September 29. 1891. Albert Bogert died September 25, 1860. He married, November 19, 1845, Ellen Flear- aboam and left five children: Hannah Maria, born April 1, 1848; John Henry, April 7, 1851 ; Leah Margaret, November 14, 1853; Harriett Ann, April 5, 1856; Adaline, February 15, 1859.
(VIII) Isaac David, youngest child of David A. and Hannah (Ackerman) Bogert, was born August 25, 1834, on the paternal homestead, where he now resides, and received his primary education in the school near his home. He also attended the school at what is now Oradell, and another at Pascack. He early engaged in farming upon the homestead, and in 1869 en- gaged in the grocery business as head of the firm of Bogert & Van Emburgh, and served twenty years as postmaster at Westwood. His homestead was gradually sold off in village lots, and he now resides, retired from active business, in the old mansion on the southwest corner of First avenue and Mill street. Al- though he is a Republican, while the voting
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strength of the town is nominally Democratic, he has been active in public affairs and served as collector of the town of Washington for several years, and was six years a freeholder, being director of the board during his last two years of service. He was the leader in the movement to incorporate the borough of West- wood and was its first mayor. He has filled the same office three times subsequently, and is the present incumbent, 1909. In 1894 he gave to the borough a tract of land for a park, which is now being improved and is a beauti- ful adjunct of that handsome village. He is a director and vice-president of the bank of Westwood. He is also a director of the Ber- gen County Gas and Electric Company and of the Hackensack Trust Company. He is a member of the Reformed church of Westwood, which he was instrumental in organizing in 1887, and was one of its first elders, which position he still fills. For over twenty years he has been a member of Gabriel R. Paul Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Westwood, which he was active in organizing and of which he was first commander. He enlisted in 1862 as a member of Company D, Twenty-second New Jersey Volunteers, and served in the Army of the Potomac. He was singularly fortunate in escaping injury, being present among the reserves at the battle of Fredericks- burg, and participating in the battle of Gettys- burg as a member of the First Army Corps. Soon after that engagement he received an honorable discharge. Mr. Bogert is one of the most progressive and enterprising citizens of Bergen county, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of a large circle of his fellow citi- zens. He married, December 23, 1852, Anna Van Wagoner, born September 22, 1831, at Oradell, daughter of John and Mary (Cooper) Van Wagoner, natives of that locality.
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