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village of Middletown, which he manages and farms. This farm has been in the family over a century, and is generally considered one of the most productive in that vicinity. The rail- roads from New York to Red Bank pass over the north end of it. Mr. Beekman is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, A. F. and A. M., at Freehold, New Jersey. He served four years as worshipful master, and is now the oldest living past master of this lodge.
Mr. Beekman removed from Freehold to Red Bank in the year 1903, taking up his per- manent residence at No. 54 Shrewsbury ave- nue, on the banks of the Shrewsbury river. Here he has since resided. Although within a stone's throw of the Red Bank depot, where the numerous trains to and from New York City, take on and let off there numerous passen- gers, also close to the trolley cars, which run south and north, his home and grounds are as secluded and quiet as if on an isolated farm. Situated on a high bank, above the gentle flow of the Shrewsbury river, and where the tides rise and fall, with many cedar, spruce and other shade trees, his home is wholly free from the wild rush and roar of American business life, the strenuous and non-ending pursuit of the "Almighty dollar." Since 1903 he has wholly abandoned the practice of law. Instead of wrangling before stupid juries and weary judges, settling the quarrels and troubles of other men and women, and trying to reconcile the laws made by legislators ignorant of laws already made by over one hundred legislatures of the same stripe, he reclines under the trees of this home by the river side, with none to molest him with their complaints and quarrels -- at peace with the world and himself.
FREELAND (VII) Lawrence Freeland (Vreeland), son of Law- rence Vreeland (q. v.), was born at Sacaucas, Hudson county, New Jersey, September 25, 1842. His educational training was gained in the common schools of his native town up to the age of seventeen years. At the age of twelve years his father died, and on the completion of his schooling he went to New York City, where he served an apprenticeship in general woodwork and carpentering with Decker & Mandeville, located on East Twenty- second street. He remained with this firm as a journeyman carpenter until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in Company B, Tenth Regiment New York Volunteer In- fantry, April 19, 1861, when the historic Fort
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Sumter was fired on. He was mustered into the United States service April 27, 1861, and embarked with his regiment for Fortress Mon- roe, where he was assigned to detached service at General Benjamin F. Butler's headquarters (provost marshal duty), remaining there, under Major Generals Wood and John A. Dix until April 27, 1863, when he was honorably dis- charged from the service. While stationed there Mr. Freeland was under fire of the rebel gunboat "Merrimac," when that vessel en- gaged the Union fleet and fought the "Moni- tor." On his discharge he returned to New York City, resuming his trade with Mandeville & Sigler, East Twenty-third street, working for two years as a journeyman carpenter, sub- sequently going to Newark, New Jersey, for a short time. Hewas offered a position as superin- tendent of the Mandeville & Sigler plant and returned to them, remaining in their employ until 1889, when he entered the employ of the Batavia and New York Wood Working Com- pany, whose eastern office is in the present Flatiron building at Twenty-third street and Broadway. Mr. Freeland represented them in New York City and vicinity. The plant of the company is at Batavia, New York, and they are manufacturers of every description of in- terior finish. Mr. Freeland is in charge of the New York office and serves in the capacity of contracting agent and estimating manager. He is a Methodist in religion, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of John A. Dix Post, No. 135, Grand Army of the Republic, De- partment of New York, served as commander of E. D. Morgan Post, No. 307, and is a mem- ber of the Tenth New York Regimental Asso- ciation, which he served as president one year and as secretary three years.
Mr. Freeland married, May 8, 1864, Mrs. Sophia Catherine (Berry) Perrine, widow of Richard Van Riper Perrine. She was born at Pompton, New Jersey, November 23, 1842, daughter of John Piatt and Eliza (Van Ness) Berry. Children : I. Frank, born April 8, 1866, died same day. 2. Lillie May, born June 30, 1867 ; married, June 30, 1886, Arthur Mel- ville Thompkins; children : Grace Melville, born April 8, 1887; Harold, born October 12, 1888, died April 15, 1889; Dorothy, born De- cember 9, 1901. 3. Bessie J., born June 16, 1874; married, November 21, 1900, Archibald Stanton Stafford; children: Lester, born Oc- tober 14, 1901, died June 6, 1902; Clinton Lawrence, born May 10, 1904; Ethel Millicent, born January 30, 1906.
Alvin Pike Thacher, the first THACHER member of this family of whom we have definite infor- mation, was the son of Asa Thacher, of New York state. He married Jane Salisbury.
(II) William Franklin, son of Alvin Pike and Jane (Salisbury) Thacher, was born in Genessee county, New York, in 1844, and died at his summer home, Seaside Park, Ocean county, New Jersey, July 24, 1908. He re- ceived his early education in the common schools of Genessee county and graduated from the high school in 1862. In the following Au- gust, being then only eighteen years of age, he enlisted at Erie, Pennsylvania, in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, and served with the Army of Potomac in all of its battles including Gettysburg. In a skirmish near Mal- vern Hill, July 28, 1864, Sergeant Thacher was. struck in the shoulder by a minie ball while trying to save the life of Lieutenant Caughey, of his own company, who had been wounded. As a result, Mr. Thacher's arm had to be am- putated, and after his convalescence he served during the remainder of the war in the com- missary department. During his convalescence Mr. Thacher had taken a course in a business. college in Philadelphia, and at the close of the war he went to Millville, New Jersey, where his father owned a large farm. He remained for a short time, and then became a teacher in the Bridgeton Academy, Bridgeton, New Jer- sey. Later he entered the employ of R. D. Wood & Company as bookkeeper, and in 1872 located in Burlington, New Jersey, where he formed a partnership with John McNeal for carrying on a general foundry business. In 1874 he settled finally in Florence, New Jer- sey, where he spent the remainder of his life .. He was general manager of the Florence Iron Works for thirty-four years, and held that position when he died. He was also the sole owner of the Florence Thread Works, which he had himself established. In addition to these Mr. Thacher had many other interests of a varied character, being connected with several mining enterprises, land improvement plans and oyster farms, besides owning large real estate interests in Philadelphia and else- where. He was for thirty years president of the Florence Building and Loan Association, which he had organized himself. He was a Prohibitionist in politics, and a deacon in the Baptist church in Florence, and for many years superintendent of its Sunday school. This Sunday school was organized by Mr.
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Thacher and his wife in 1871, and from it grew the present flourishing Baptist congrega- tion of which his widow is now the only sur- vivor of the original charter members. Mr. Thacher built the church and gave liberally of both his time and means, not only in its sup- port, but also in the furtherance of any plans for the benefit of the town in which his memory is warmly cherished. He married in 1867, Ella, daughter of George and Ellen (Kincaid) Hoover, of Philadelphia (see Hoover). Chil- dren: George and Frank William, both re- ferred to below ; Nella, born in Philadelphia, educated at Miss Wright's school, and a grad- uate of Bryn Mawr College.
(III) George, son of William Franklin and Ella (Hoover) Thacher, was born in Millville, Cumberland county, New Jersey, in 1868. After receiving his early education in the Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, he studied at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Mary- land, and graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College, and then set up for himself in the general practice of his profession in Philadelphia where he is now. He married Clara Wilkins, of Philadelphia. Child : John Wilkins.
(III) Frank William, son of William Frank- lin and Ella (Hoover) Thacher, was born in Florence, Burlington county, New Jersey. He received his early education at the Penn Char- ter School in Philadelphia, and then graduated from Haverford College. He is now secretary and treasurer of the Florence Thread Works, Florence, New Jersey, of which his mother is the president. He married, June 3, 1909, Catharine Wallace, daughter of Morris Levin, of Beverly, Burlington county, New Jersey.
(The Hoover Line).
The family of Hoover, or Huber, as the name was originally spelt, is of German-Swiss origin, and has long been prominent in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, especially in Bedford and Somerset counties of the latter state, from colonial times.
(I) George Huber, or Hoover, the founder of the family, was born near Basle, Switzer- land, in 1752, and came to America with his parents and only one brother, Ulrich, shortly before the revolution. He settled in York, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood, and at the outbreak of the revolution had become sufficiently prosperous to loan the colonies £2200, which according to tradition was repaid him after the close of the war in continental notes that were later repudiated. He married
(first) a Miss Shearer; (second) Catharine Miller, of York, Pennsylvania; (third) a woman whose name is unknown. His first wife and six of the eight children she bore him died within six weeks of each other, prob- ably during one of the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth century. The names of the two surviving children are unknown. Children of the second marriage: Margaret ; Mary ; Eve; Catharine ; Jacob, referred to below ; George ; Samuel ; Jonas; Two children, died in infancy. (II) Jacob, son of George and Catharine (Miller) Hoover, was born in York, Pennsyl- vania, and died in Philadelphia. The name of his wife is unknown. Children: Jacob; Mau- rice ; George, referred to below ; Rachel; Mar- garet ; Maria.
(III) George, son of Jacob Hoover, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and died in 1867. He married Ellen Kincaid, of Philadelphia, born in 1821, died in October, 1888.
(IV) Ellen, daughter of George and Ellen (Kincaid) Hoover, was born in Millville, Cum- berland county, New Jersey, in 1850. After receiving her education in the common and high schools of Millville, she began teaching when only fifteen years of age. All her life she has been engaged in church and temper- ance work, and was for a time before the public as a singer. Sunday school work has also found in her an ardent worker, and in these lines of work and especially in the special W. C. T. U. work, is she best and most widely known. For fifteen years Mrs. Thacher has been president of the Burlington county, W. C. T. U., and is still at the head of the county organization. For thirteen years she has been national superintendent of the Department of Work among Soldiers and Sailors, a most im- portant department of W. C. T. U. work. Herself the wife of a veteran of the civil war who carried an empty sleeve, she has a partic- ular interest in the soldiers and sailors not only of her own country but of the world. For the past six years she has been world's superin- tendent of the same department, and in per- formance of her duties has visited European countries and the West Indies, and has crossed again and again the United States. She is an earnest worker in the cause of temperance along all the lines of W. C. T. U. effort, and an entertaining, convincing public speaker. Her time is fully occupied in the work to which she has devoted her life and talents. She was one of the original organizers of both the State and National Congress of Mothers, of which she
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is vice-president of the New Jersey branch, as well as chairman of the house economies de- partment of domestic science. For twenty-one year's she has been engaged in settlement work in Florence, which she has organized and car- ried on with marked success. She married, in 1867, William Franklin, son of Alvin Pike and Jane (Salisbury) Thacher; (see Thacher above).
The descendant of a KATTERMANN long line of those Ger- man burghers who for centuries were the pride and the mainstay of the city of Frankenberg, Saxony, part of the German Empire, Emil G. Kattermann, of Dover, New Jersey, would have been untrue to the grand inheritance of character and abil- ity which he derived from them, had he done less than win the well deserved success and honor which he now enjoys.
His parents, August and Ernestine (Schuh- mann) Kattermann, lived for many years in Frankenberg, Saxony, where they now enjoy the fruits of well won honor and competence. The father was born there April 4, 1837, and has spent his life in the manufacture of silks, owning and operating a mill and for over a quarter of a century, and was one of the coun- cilmen of his town. His mother was born in Doebeln, Saxony, September 12, 1839; and his grandfather, August Kattermann Sr., started life as a weaver. Children of August and Ern- estina (Schuhmann) Kattermann: I. Fred- erick August, now a silk manufacturer in Pat- erson, New Jersey. 2. Frederick Paul, now in business with his brother, Emil G., in Dover. 3. Emil G., referred to below. 4. Gotthard, now a silk manufacturer in Passaic. 5. George, studied dentistry in University of Pennsylvania, graduated D. D. S., and is now practicing in Frankenberg. 6. Martha. 7. Clara.
Emil G., son of August and Ernestina (Schuhmann) Kattermann, was born in Frank- enberg, Saxony, July 11, 1869. In 1889 he came to America and went to Dover, New Jersey, where he remained about six months and then removed to New York, where he remained six months longer, and in 1890 started in busi- ness for himself in Paterson, New Jersey, known as the Swiss Knitting Company. After about five years he had built himself up by energy and perseverance a very successful busi- ness, and then removed to Dover, New Jersey, where in 1899 he formed a co-partnership with his brother, Frederick Paul, under the name of the Swiss Knitting Company, E. G. Katter-
mann & Co., proprietors, manufacturers of Swiss ribbed underwear. Here in Dover, the brothers employe over one hundred hands, and manufacturing the finest qualities of silk, wool, lisle thread, cotton, silkmixed, vests, tights, and combination suits, for which they have a mar- ket all over the United States, and which is now taxing their annual output of more than $200,000 worth of goods a year.
Mr. Kattermann in his short sojourn in Dover has risen to be one of the most promi- nent and influential citizens of the town, and holds many positions of trust and responsibil- ity in its financial, business, and civic worlds. He has been a director in the Dover Trust Company, and since 1898 an alderman of the city and chairman of that board's license com- mission, as well as a member of other com- mittees. In the social life of the community his genial disposition, warm hearty consid- erateness and other sterling qualities, have won him a host of friends, especially among the German residents of the town. He is the leader of the German Singing Society of Dover, which he organized about ten years ago, and he is also a member of the F. and A. M. of Dover, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. June 19, 1895, Mr. Katter- mann married Blanche, daughter of David and Rachael (Williams) Jenkins. Her father was for forty years the agent of the Crane Iron Company, and was associated with the iron interests which centered in Dover from their early days until his death. Children of Emil G. and Blanche (Jenkins) Kattermann: Her- mann, born April 4, 1896; Emil David, April 6, 1898; August Paul, August 16, 1900; George, June, 1906.
Charles Steiner, the first mem- STEINER ber of the family of whom we have definite information, mar- ried Elizabeth Alexander. Children : 1. Sarah, married Joseph Roy, and has Artie, Daisy, Frederick and Morrie. 2. Charles, married Louise Ross, and has Charles, Edward and Louise. 3. James Frederick, referred to below. 4. Edward, lives Carteret, New Jersey. 5. Jo- seph, lives Chicago, Illinois.
(II) James Frederick, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Alexander) Steiner, was born in East Newark, November 7, 1848, and is now living in Newark. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools, and then found employment in the boiler factory of Perkins and Burnett, where he remained three years. He then went into the marketing business with
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Stephen Burr, and the two of them conducted a fish store in the market for forty-five years. They were most successful, and twelve years ago, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Steiner determined to continue it by himself, which he has done ever since. He is a Repub- lican, and a member of the Fairmount Baptist Church. His secret society is the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his club the Joel Parker Association. February 26, 1875, Mr. Steiner married, in East Newark, Eliza- beth Fountain, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Fountain) Peirce, who was born in Newark, August II, 1843, and whose brothers and sis- ters are Sarah M., Elizabeth, George, James and Caroline Peirce. Children of James Fred- erick and Elizabeth Fountain ( Peirce) Steiner : John; Sarah, married Albert Bannister, of Newark; Gussie Aretta; Frederick, married Hester Blanche; Ella, married Thomas Cox ; May ; Laura ; William.
MOUNT It is not necessary that the man who achieves success be made of sterner stuff than his fellow- man, but there are certain indispensable char- acteristics that contribute to the prosperity of the individual; these are energy, enterprise, determination, and the ability to recognize and improve opportunities. These qualities are cardinal elements in the character of Mr. Mount, and accompanied him in his progress to the position he now occupies, that of promi- nence and affluence.
(I) James Mount is the first member of the branch of the family here under consideration of whom we have definite information. So far all attempts to discover his parentage have failed, although it is undoubtedly certain that he is a descendant of George Mount, of Mid- dletown, who came to this country before 1669. Mr. Samuel H. Sheib, of Nashville, Tennessee, conjectures that James Mount is the son of John, grandson of Thomas and Mary, great- grandson of Richard (2), great-great-grandson of Richard (I) and Rebecca, great-great-great- grandson of George Mount, of Middletown. Mr. James R. Mount, of Brooklyn, New York, another authority says: "I have thirty records of James Mount. Out of the thirty there seems to be but two possible James to connect with Dr. Elmer E. Mount's James, as follows : James, son of James and Patience Mount, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey; James, son of George and Hester Mount, of New York, born January 6, 1808." James Mount married, May 29, 1832, Beulah Fort.
(II) Joseph Fort, son of James and Beulah (Fort) Mount, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1836. He acquired an excellent edu- cation. He learned the trade of a shoemaker and worked at this until the breaking out of the civil war. He enlisted in the New Jersey forces and rose to the rank of lieutenant. His military record was in every way creditable and reflected the fullest honor upon his gal- lantry and patriotism. He married Elizabeth Carpenter Vandegriff, born in Burlington, New Jersey, 1842, died in December, 1908. Joseph Fort Mount died at the Soldiers' Home in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, in- 1900, aged sixty-five . years. Children: I. Laura Virginia, married Charles Price; children: Inez, Charles and Elizabeth Price. 2. Mary Sabina, married Willis M. Ridgway; children: Edward and Myra Ridgway. 3. Elmer Ellsworth, referred to below. 4. Edward Ashby, deceased. 5. George Washington. 6. William Henry, married Fan- nie Warner; children: Edward, Helen, de- ceased, and Paul Mount. 7. Edward, deceased.
(III) Elmer Ellsworth, first son and third child of Joseph Fort and Elizabeth Carpenter (Vandegriff) Mount, was born in Burlington. New Jersey, October 24, 1861. He attended the public schools of his native city, and after completing his studies there he matriculated at the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1884, and subsequently the veterinary depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of Veterinary Sur- geon in 1894. His uncle, John Vandegriff, was the proprietor of a drug store in Burlington, and in 1896 Elmer E. Mount entered his em- ploy in the capacity of clerk, serving in that capacity until 1895, when he established a drug store on his own account, known as the "Broad Street Pharmacy," of which he is still the owner and proprietor. The success he has ac- quired in this undertaking has been directly due to his own efforts, and his integrity being of the highest order he has won the esteem and thorough confidence of all with whom he has held relations. He is an ardent Republican in politics, and is at all times ready to take an active part in the campaign work of his party, and his popularity is such that he carries his elections successfully even when his party ticket goes down to defeat. In 1888 he was elected city tax collector and succeeded him- self in that office in 1889, being the only Re- publican elected at that time. In 1891 he was elected township assessor for a three years term. He is an active member of the Burling-
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ton fire department, and ex-president of the Young America Fire Company, of which he was secretary for ten years. He is a member and a past officer in the leading beneficent and fraternal orders: Junior Order United Amer- ican Mechanics ; Phoenix Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. Mount is a man of public enterprise, courage and conviction, and in every way has contrib- uted his full share toward the progress and welfare of his native city, in which he takes a pardonable pride and a keen interest.
Dr. Mount married, April 15, 1885, Helena Adams, daughter of Casper K. and Adelaide (Borden) Adams, of Burlington, New Jersey. They have one daughter, Natalie Baymore, born in Burlington, New Jersey, in June, 1889.
STERNER The Sterner family is of Ger- man origin, many representa- tives of the family emigrating to Pennsylvania between the years 1727 and 1776, and locating in the counties of Philadel- phia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster.
(I) John Sterner was the son of a German emigrant of the same name who located in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, prior to the organization of York county, where we find the son located in early manhood, and where he spent his remaining days.
(II) Henry, son of John, above named, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland line, and spent his whole life in that section. He was a farmer and miller, owning and operating a flour and grist mill in Shrews- bury township until shortly prior to his death. He had three sons : John, Joseph and Henry ; and a daughter Rachel.
(III) John (2), eldest son of Henry Sterner, above named, was born in Shrewsbury town- ship, York county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and died there in 1901. He owned a large farm in that township which he operated up to the time of his death. He was active in local affairs, and an elder of the Lutheran church. He married Leah Tyson, born in Windsor township, York county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, of Holland descent, and of a family prominent i11 Pennsylvania since the founding of German- town, the first German colony in Pennsylvania, in which her ancestors participated. She still survives, and now resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. R. A. and Mrs. Lucy (Sterner) Hildebrandt, at Glen Rock, Penn- sylvania. John and. Leah (Tyson) Sterner had five children who survived the years of
childhood. Albert Sterner, the eldest son, is a farmer in Shrewsbury township, York coun- ty, Pennsylvania; Melinda, the eldest daugh- ter, is the wife of John Stark, of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania ; Jacob, the third son, is deceased ; Lucy, the youngest child, is wife of Dr. R. A. Hildebrandt, of Glen Rock.
(IV) John Henry, second son and third child of John (2) and Leah (Tyson) Sterner, was born at Bonnerville, Shrewsbury township, York county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1861, and obtained his early education in the public schools of that township. At an early age he secured a position in the drug store of S. M. Gable, at York, Pennsylvania, where he spent two years apprenticeship to the drug business, and then went to Philadelphia and, securing a position in the drug establishment of Dr. William A. Brown, entered himself as a stu- dent at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1884. Soon after his graduation he opened a drug store in Phila- delphia, which he successfully conducted for fif- teen years. In 1901 he removed to Mount Holly, New Jersey, to take charge of a drug store for Dr. Prichett, and at the end of six months pur- chased the business and has since conducted the store there on his own account. Dr. Sterner has taken an active interest in the affairs of Mount Holly from the time of his location there, and given earnest support to her local institutions. He is a director of the Lumber- ton Water Company, secretary of the Mount Holly Board of Trade, and a trustee and chair- man of the local fire company. In politics he is an ardent Republican, and religiously is asso- ciated with the Dutch Reformed Church. He is a member of Damascus Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Philadelphia, and of Mount Holly Lodge, Patriotic Sons of Amer- ica. Dr. Sterner married, in 1887, Annie S. Bieber, of Littletown, York county, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of William T. and Charlotte ( Rohter) Bieber, the former a native of Ger- many, where his father died from wounds re- ceived while serving in the German army. Dr. John H. and Annie. S. ( Bieber ) Sterner had four children. John Sterner Jr., the eldest, born in Philadelphia, is now employed in the shoe factory at Lumberton, New Jersey. Ralph Sterner, the second son, born in Philadelphia, August 17, 1891, is still a student at Mount Holly high school. Charles Sterner, the third son, born in Philadelphia, January 20, 1895, is also a student at Mount Holly high school. Alice, the only daughter, died at the age of two years.
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