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Major John R. Beam, lawyer, and
BEAM for nearly thirty years one of the leading members of the Passaic county bar, was born in Paterson, New Jer- sey, December 19, 1850, died in that city July 4, 1903.
His early literary education was acquired in public schools later he was a student in the academic department of New York University. and subsequently at Brown University, Provi- dence, Rhode Island, where he completed the classical course and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1872. Deciding upon the profession of law for his life work, he imatriculated at Columbia Law School, the law department of Columbia University, made the course of that institution, and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1874. He then returned to Paterson and soon afterward read law with Henry A. Williams, a senior member of the Paterson bar, a lawyer of wide celebrity, a prominent figure for many years in New Jersey politics, and a man of large influence in professional and business circles, in the capacity of clerk. In the meantime he continued his law studies, and in 1877 was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jer- sey. Shortly afterward he became profession- ally associated with William Pennington, of Paterson, and was his managing assistant until the formation of the partnership which com- prised Judge Barkalow, Mr. Pennington and Mr. Beam, under the firm name of Barkalow. Pennington & Beam. This relation was main- tained for several years, when Judge Barkalow withdrew, and the style of the firm was changed to Pennington & Beam. as afterward known for many years in professional circles in Passaic county and in fact throughout the state. The practice of the firm was wholly in the civil courts and very largely in the chan- cery and probate courts, having the manage- ment of many trusts and large estates. This partnership was continued until the death of Mr. Beam. In speaking of the qualities of Mr. Beam as a lawyer one of his professional associates who knew him well said that: "He was recognized as one of the leading members of the city and county bar, a man of marked ability and character and an honor to his pro- fession." He was a careful and methodical lawyer, a safe counsellor, and a man of the highest integrity. He never sought to promote litigation, but rather to prevent it, but he did not shrink from the arduous work of the trial courts in the interests of his clients, and in the trial of contested cases he always proved
a very formidable antagonist. Besides being a successful lawyer, Mr. Beam was an astute business man, capable and honest, and possess- ing excellent judgment respecting the quality and character of investments. For many years he took an earnest interest in military affairs. He was one of the original members of the old Paterson Light Guard, organized in 1888, enlisting as private and advancing through several grades of promotion to color sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, major, and finally lieutenant-colonel of a regi- ment of the National Guard State of New Jersey, and served on the governor's staff. He resigned his commission on account of failing health and against the expressed wishes of his fellow officers. He was reared under the influ- ence of the Baptist church ; for several years, during the latter part of his life, he served as treasurer of the board of trustees of the Bap- tist church, and for ten years was superintend- ent of the Sunday school. Socially Mr. Beam was most companionable and interesting, and he is remembered as having been a man of remarkably attractive personality.
Major Beam married, July 24, 1879, Carrie Swinburne, daughter of John and Sarah A. (Swinburne) Cooke. John Cooke was the founder of the Cook Locomotive Works and assisted in the construction of the first locomo- tive made in Paterson. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Beam : 1. Edward, a graduate of Brown University, class of 1903. 2. John, a graduate of Princeton University, class of 1909. 3. William, a student of Princeton University.
(For preceding generation see p. 171).
(III) Jacob (3) Wal-
VAN WINKLE ingse Van Winkle, eldest son of Jacob (2) and Catharine M. (Vreeland) Van Winkle, was born in Aquackanonk, and was baptized June 13, 1674, in the church at that place. He was reared on his father's estate and succeeded to its ownership. He became an extensive oper- ator in real estate and in making loans on farms and town property. His name appears frequently in the records of leases and deeds, and he was elected a deacon of the Acquack- anonk church in 1704 and again in 1711. Dur- ing his time the English language practically superseded the Dutch in both preaching and teaching, and names were generally spelled and pronounced in English. He married. Oc- tober 30, 1697, Geertruutt Brichers, who was baptized June 13, 1674, in Albany. No births or baptisms of their children are found, but
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his will shows the names of six : John, Jacob, Katrey, Sarah, Wyncheonsje and Margaret. His will was made June 13, 1750. His will was not recorded, but the first sheet of it is now in possession of his descendants. There is no record of the death of himself, or his wife, but he was dead in 1753. No record is found of the birth or baptism of his son, and it is not certain that Geertruutt was his mother, since the time of her death is not known and it is possible that his father had a second wife.
(IV) John Jacob, only son of Jacob Wal- ingse Van Winkle, was probably born about 1724, in Hackensack, where he lived on the place now familiarly known as the Santiago place in Rutherford. In conjunction with his father he purchased large tracts of land in Bergen county and by inheritance became its sole owner. The Hackensack Dutch Church records show that he was married October 25, 1747, to Evaetjen Kipp, a native resident of Hackensack. The baptism of their first two children is entered on the Hackensack Dutch Church records and of seven others on the Ac- quackanonk Church records. In all these the father's name appears as Johannes Van Winkle and the mother's as Eva Kipp, except in the bap- tism of the fourth, where the father's name is Johannes J. Van Winkle. They are : Jacob, baptized March 26, 1749; Willemyntie; Isaac, died young; Geertje; Catrina; Antje, died young ; Isaac and Eva. Numerous records show that John Jacob Van Winkle made the final division of the estate of his grandfather, and was himself an extensive real estate holder. His original will is on file at Trenton and is recorded in the Bergen county wills. It was dated March 17, 1808, proved August 20 fol- lowing. It devises property to his grandsons Isaac and Jacob, sons of his son Jacob, and disposes of a large amount of property.
The following records of the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth generations are col- lated from the leaves of the Bible in possession of Rev. Edward Van Winkle, rector of St. Clement's Church, New York City, and from information as to their respective families fur- nished by the member of the eight generations now living.
(V) Jacob (4), fourth son of John Jacob and Eva (Kipp) Van Winkle, was born March 12, 1748, baptized March 26, 1749, in the Hack- ensack Church, died August 4, 1834. He prob- ably passed his life in his native place. No entry of his marriage appears in the Dutch Church of New York, Bergen, Acquackanonk or Second River, but it probably occurred in
1771. He married Hannah Van Nostrand, born December 18, 1753, died February 14, 1829. Their children were: Jacob Jr., born October 17, 1774, died February 28, 1838; Jane, March 6, 1782; death not recorded ; Isaac, April 30, 1786, died September 3, 1831 ; Henry V. N., July 12, 1796; death not recored.
(VI) Jacob (5), eldest son of Jacob (4) and Hannah (Van Nostrand) Van Winkle, was born October 17, 1774, died February 28, 1838. He married, March 17, 1813, Ann Kingsland, who died March 20, 1839. Chil- dren: John, born January 25, 1814, died Oc- tober 29, 1814; Edward Henry, July 13, 1815; Jane Leonie, September 21-25, 1819, died Oc- tober 6, 1819; Arrabella, June 25, 1822, died 25-28, 1822; Isaac, July 22, 1824, died Janu- ary 24, 1882.
(VII) Edward Henry, second son of Jacob (5) and Ann (Kingsland) Van Winkle, was born July 13, 1815, died December, 1894. He graduated as M. D. from College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1836. He mar- ried, August 25, 1841, Catherine Anna Stan- ford, who died June 17, 1848. Children: I. Edward Henry, born August 26, 1842; grad- uated from Columbia College, A. B., A. M .; General Theological Seminary, 1865; rector of St. Clement's Church, New York City ; mar- ried Matilda Barnes Cantine; children: i. Catherine Stanford, born February 9, 1879, died March 1, 1884; ii. Howard Elanendorf, January 5, 1886; iii. Edward Hasbrogne, De- cember 9, 1898. Edward Henry Van Winkle died August 29, 1909. 2. John Stanford, Feb- ruary 23, 1844. 3. Isaac, January 13, 1846; graduate of Columbia College, A. B., A. M., 1861 ; rector of St. Stephen's Protestant Epis- copal Church, Paris, France, appointed 1870; married, October 14, 1875, Margaret Kemble Lente, born February 9, 1855; children: i. Edward Kingsland, born October 17, 1877; married, May 19, 1906, Louisa Hoyt Scott, born October 2, 1877, daughter of John Fred and Emily Augusta ( Willis ) Scott ; child, Mar- garet Kemble Van Winkle, born February 24, 1907 ; ii. Anna, October 1, 1879; iii. Frederick Lente, February 28, 1882 ; iv. Katherine, Sep- tember 14, 1885; v. Gertrude Bayard, January 24, 1889. 4. Catherine Anna, April 17, 1848, died July 6, 1858.
(VII) Isaac, youngest son of Jacob (5) and Ann (Kingsland) Van Winkle, was born July 22, 1824, died January 24, 1882. He graduated from Columbia College, A. B. and A. M., 1848. He married, June 2, 1852, Emma Armstrong, born March 4, 1826, died January 2, 1885.
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Children : 1. Edward Kingsland, born July 3, 1853, died January 2, 1859. 2. Matthew Arm- strong, November 7, 1856; married, December II, 1878, Helen Holmes Crane; children : i. Kingsland, born December 5, 1879, graduated A. B., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1902; ii. Walton, January 6, 1882, grad- uated A. B., Cornell University, 1907; iii. Cortland, February 23, 1887. 3. Elizabeth Armstrong, August 5, 1859.
(VIII) John Stanford, second son of Ed- ward Henry and Catherine Anna (Stanford) Van Winkle, was born February 23, 1844. He married, January 25, 1886, Louise Graham Davis. Children: 1. William Frederick, born October 5, 1886. 2. Marie Louise, June 14, I888.
(VIII) Elizabeth Armstrong, youngest child of Isaac and Emma ( Armstrong) Van Winkle, was born August 5, 1859. She married, Sep- tember 15, 1880, Samuel Thomas Hubbard Jr., born August 18, 1855, and resides in Yonkers, New York. Children : I. William Hustace, born September 2, 1881 ; graduated A. B. from Harvard, 1903. 2. Samuel Thomas, July 7, 1884, graduated A. B. from Harvard, 1907. 3. Elizabeth V. W., October 31, 1885; grad- uated A. B. from Vassar, 1907. 4. Margaret, April 13, 1890.
VAN WINKLE (V) Simeon (2), prob- ably son of Simeon ( I) Van Winkle, the revolu- tionary soldier, was a native of Richfield, Pas- saic county, where he lived and died. He mar- ried Betsey Garrabrant, and had children : Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Warren, John Daniel, Ellen, Jane and Mary.
(VI) Isaac, third son of Simeon (2) and Betsey (Garrabrant) Van Winkle, was born in Richfield, and was a mason and builder. He married Margaret Lebaugh, and their children were: Moses DeWitt, Eliza, Sarah, Cornelius and Mary Frances.
(VII) Moses DeWitt, eldest child of Isaac and Margaret (Lebaugh) Van Winkle, was born 1838, in Richfield, where he attended the common school, and early learned the art of piano-making with Charles J. Holden in New York. For a period of thirty-five years he was employed by the Peloubet Organ Company, and subsequently engaged in business at Bloom- field as a manufacturer of organs, in which he was successful. He retired from active busi- ness in 1895 and has since resided quietly at Bloomfield, where he is a well-known and re- spected citizen. He is a Republican in political
principal, but has never aspired to office, and contents himself with the ordinary duties of the citizen. He married (first) Elizabeth Mc- Keon; (second) Frances D., daughter of Joel Hubbard, whose wife was a Treadwell. There are two children of the first marriage: Clar- ence E. and Isaac D. The elder married Millie Daniel and has a son, Donald.
(VII) Isaac D., second son of Moses D. and Elizabeth (Mckeon) Van Winkle, mar- ried Lois Corliss.
Whether the William Thorn,
THORN who is the founder of the fam- ily in Long Island and New Jer- sey is the William Thorn, of Devonshire, who became a freeman of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1638, is still a question in dispute and accord- ing to the latest and best authority on the sub- ject, there is no likelihood of the question ever being settled.
(I) William Thorn, the founder of the fam- ily now being considered, was one of the orig- inal patentees of the town of Flushing, in 1645, and in the following year was granted a planta- tion lot in Gravesend. In 1657 he is one of the proprietors of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, which had been purchased from the Indians the preceding year. In 1673 he and his children are mentioned in the census of Hempstead, Long Island. By his wife Sarah, he had five children: William, born April 7, 1632, married Winifred Kay; John, referred to below; Joseph, born 1647, died 1727, mar- ried Mary Bowne (see Rowe) ; Samuel, 1650 to 1732, married Susanna ; Susanna, married John Lackerson, of Flushing.
(II) John, second child and son of Will- iam and Sarah Thorn, was born in 1643, died in 1709. He lived in Connecticut, where May 12, 1664, he was made a freeman. March, 1664, he married Mary, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah Parcell. Children: John, referred to below; Hannah, married Richard Cornell, and had fifteen children; William, died 1742, married, 1708, Meribah A. Allen, and had eight children; Joseph, married Martha Jo- anna Bowne; Mercy, married William Fowler ; Elizabeth, married Mr. Schurman ; Sarah, mar- ried Joshua Cornell, and had four children.
(III) John, eldest child and son of John and Mary (Parcell) Thorn, died in 1737, set- tled at Crosswicks, Burlington county, New Jersey, where August 26, 1717, he bought one hundred and eight-one acres of land. He was a farmer, a carpenter, a man of prominence, and held various public offices. By his wife
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Catharine, who died in 1766, he had twelve children: John, died without issue, May 8, 1759; Mary, died without issue; Elizabeth, died without issue ; Deborah, married Mr. Sim- mons, and had one child; Joseph, referred to below; Samuel, married Hannah Clay ; Ben- jamin, died without issue; Catharine, married Francis King; Sarah, born 1719, died June 30, 1811, married David Wright ; Thomas, died without issue in 1765; Rebecca, married Mr. Simmons ; Hannah, married Caleb Shreve Jr.
(IV) Joseph, fifth child and second son of John and Catharine Thorn, died in 1774, was a yeoman and a weaver, and May, 1723, mar- ried Sarah, born April 1702, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Foulke. Children : Elizabeth, born May 3, 1724; Joseph, born April 19, 1727, died May 9, 1759; John, born May 4, 1730, died August 22, 1807, married Diadamia Ivins; Thomas, referred to below ; Michael, born December 2, 1736. died unmar- ried.
(V) Thomas, fourth child and third son of Joseph and Sarah (Foulke) Thorn, was born July 21, 1733, and died February 25, 1801. Both he and his wife are buried in Borden- town. In 1759 he was married at Fallsing- ton, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where his wife's acknowledgment for marrying out of meeting was accepted May 2, 1759, to Susanna, who died September 7, 1806, daughter of Will- iam and Ann (Stevenson) Biles. Children : I. Joseph, born February 12, 1761, died Sep- tember 28, 1822 ; married (first ) Rhoda Moon, ( second) Ann Beck. 2. Benjamin, born Janu- ary 5. 1763, died June 13, 1846, married Lucy, daughter of Joseph and Susanna Rogers, and widow of Mr. Taylor, had twin sons, one of whom, Benjamin, married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary West, and had seven chil- dren, the second of whom, the eldest daughter, married Josiah Dunn Pancoast (q. v.). 3. Ann, born May 4, 1764. 4. William Biles, born March 26, 1766, died November 17, 1796; married Elizabeth Hutchins. 5. George, re- ferred to below. 6. Langhorn, born March 8, 1769. 7. Sarah, born October 9, 1772, died January 2, 1774. 8. Enoch, born January 6, 1775, died February 12, 1806; married Cath- arine Nagle. 9. Thomas, Jr., born February 17, 1782, died August 18, 1806, married Anna Falkenburg.
(VI) George, fifth child and fourth son of Thomas and Susanna ( Biles) Thorn, was born at Crosswicks, Burlington county, August 29, 1767, and died there October 7, 1843. He set- tled upon a part of the farm belonging to his
father, where he lived until the death of his wife. Some time after this he lost his eyesight, gave up farming, and made his home with his son Edward on the farm adjoining his own. April 9, 1800, George Thorn married Mary, born November 10, 1773, died November 17, 1832, daughter of Benjamin and Tabitha Field, of Chesterfield township, Burlington county. Children : Barton Field, born December 27, 1801, died July 27, 1825, unmarried ; Edward, referred to below.
(VII) Edward, second and youngest child, the only one to marry, of George and Mary (Field) Thorn, was born at Crosswicks, March 12, 1806, and died there March 23, 1880. He settled on the farm adjoining his father near Crosswicks, where he lived until 1860, when he removed to the village of Crosswicks, where his wife died, his son Barton Field taking pos- session of the homestead farm. Edward died at the home of his daughter, on a farm near by the homestead. November 19, 1829, Ed- ward Thorn married Mary, born June 24, 1807, died September 13, 1872, daughter of David and Hannah ( Middleton ) Hendrickson, of Crosswicks. Children: Harriet Hendrick- son, born June 16, 1831, married Joseph S. Middleton ; Barton Field, referred to below.
(VIII) Barton Field, only son of Edward and Mary (Hendrickson) Thorn, was born near Crosswicks, March 1, 1834, and died there May 9, 1904. He was educated at the Westtown boarding school and Haverford Col- lege, and then returned to his father's farm, where he had large farming and real estate interests, besides being a large real estate owner in Philadelphia. For a time he special- ized on apple growing and cider making. Dur- ing the civil war he was most active in filling up the quota for the army. He was a Repub- lican, served as township clerk and committee- inan and for years was collector of the county. From 1874 to 1876 he was state senator. He was a Friend, and treasurer of the meeting and held the trust fund. September 30, 1868, Barton Field Thorn married Anna J., born August 24, 1840, died February 24, 1909, daughter of George Lawrence and Mary W. (Carman) Duer, her father being a prominent physician of Crosswicks. Children : Laura Middleton, born June 30, 1871, died August 4, 1880; Clara Duer, born March 12, 1873; George Barton, referred to below ; Helen Mid- dleton, born August 17, 1879, died September 29, 1890.
(IX) George Barton, only son of Barton Field and Anna J. (Duer) Thorn, was born at
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Crosswicks, Burlington county, November 30, 1877, and is now living at that place. He was educated at the Westtown boarding school, at Chester, Pennsylvania, and left school in order to take charge of his father's interests, and he now devotes his whole time to attending to the large interests, left by his father. For four years he was the treasurer of the New Jersey State Home for Feeble Minded Women, and on the board of managers. He is a Friend. He is a member of the grange, and its purchas- ing agent. He is unmarried, and he and his sister live at the old homestead in the village of Crosswicks.
WHITE Henry Simmons White left an indelible impression on the public life of Jersey City and of his ›section of the state. No citizen of the com- munity was ever more respected, and no man ever more fully enjoyed the confidence of the people or more richly deserved the esteem in which he was held. In his lifetime the people of his state recognizing his merit, rejoiced in his advancement and in the honors to which he attained, and since his death they have cherished his memory, which remains as a blessed benediction to all who knew him. Hon- orable in business, loyal in citizenship, charit- able in thought, kindly in action, true to every trust confided to his care, his life was the high- est type of Christian. manhood. He was one of the distinguished lawyers of the New Jer- sey bar who lives in the memories of his con- temporaries, encircled with the halo of a gra- cious presence, charming personality, profound legal wisdom, and in the quiet dignity of an idea follower of his calling. He was for many years in active practice at the bar of Jersey City, and comparatively few men endeared themselves to so great an extent to their pro- fessional associates and to those with whom they come in contact in the discharge of public duties. While practicing at Jersey City Mr. White maintained his residence at Red Bank, which was the place of his nativity.
Mr. White was of English ancestry, and his family was for many generations associated with the history of New Jersey. His great- great-great-grandfather Thomas White, great- great-grandfather Peter White and great- grandfather Thomas White were well-known and prosperous farmers in Shrewsbury town- ship, Monmouth county. His grandfather, Esek White, was liberally educated in New York City, and was there engaged in business, also managing his homestead farm. In relig-
ions faith he was a Friend, and in politics a Whig. He married Ann Besonet, of a prom- inent French family. Children: Henry B., Esek T., Isaac P. and Caroline.
Isaac P. White, son of Esek and Ann ( Bes- onèt) White, was born in Shrewsbury town- ship, Monmouth county, April 7, 1804, and died at Jersey City, January 27, 1876. In early life he was employed for some time as a clerk in the store of Corlies & Allen at Shrewsbury, and subsequently removed to Brooklyn, where he became one of the organizers of the firm of Lippincott & White, carrying on a whole- sale grocery business. On withdrawing from that enterprise he became a member of the firm of Wooley & White, lumber dealers of Red Bank, establishing the first lumber yard in this portion of New Jersey. The enterprise proved profitable from the beginning, and they built up a large trade. In 1873 Mr. White re- moved to Jersey City, where he lived in re- tirement until his death, which occurred in 1876, when he was in his seventy-second year. His political support in early life was given the Whig party, and later he joined the Repub- lican party, of which he was a staunch advo- cate, taking an active interest in politics and other public matters. He was reared in the faith of the society of Friends, but as his wife was a Presbyterian he attended that church and aided to establish the church of that denomination at Red Bank. He was an ensign or third lieutenant in the New York militia many years, and his commission is still in the possession of the family of his son. Fraternally he was connected with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, as one of its valued members. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Adaline Simmons, was a daughter of Abraham Simmons, and was born at Phelps, Ontario county, New York, August 26, 1817, her death occurring at Red Bank, May 7, 1884. They had three children : Henry S .; Theodore S., who died July 28, 1865; and James S., who died April 14, 1860.
Henry Simmons White, son of Isaac P. and Adaline (Simmons) White, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, July 13, 1844. He acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, and under private tutors at home prepared for college. Subsequently he pursued a course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and was graduated in 1864, but did not immediately receive his diploma, as he had not reached the required age of twenty-one years. After his graduation he was appointed assistant surgeon in the United
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States army during the last year of the civil war, and retained that position until honorably discharged in July, 1865, hostilities having ceased. Returning to the north, he spent some time in the Woman's Hospital and in the old New York Hospital of New York City, and in the spring of 1866 obtained his degree of Doc- tor of Medicine. In his native city he im- mediately entered upon the practice of his profession and remained for about two years there, but in 1868 returned to New York and entered the law department of Columbia Col- lege, for he had decided that the field of juris- prudence would offer him broader opportuni- ties, and that the profession would be more congenial than that of medicine. He had previ- ously read law in the office of William Allen Lewis, of Jersey City, and in 1870 he was graduated from Columbia and the same year was admitted to the New York bar. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and as counselor at law in November, 1875. On the Ist of February, 1873, in partnership with John A. Blair, he opened an office in Jersey City, and the firm continued practice until February, 1878, when the partnership was dis- solved, owing to Mr. Blair's appointment as a member of the judiciary. Mr. White then engaged in practice alone and soon gained a large clientele. Between 1884 and 1890 he also had an office in New York City. He was retained as counsel or advocate in connection with many important litigated interests. One of the most notable of these was the suit be- tween the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 1ailroad and the Hudson River Tunnel Rail- way Company. Mr. White represented the latter company, which had organized to the purpose of constructing a tunnel under the Hudson river between New York and Jersey City. The former company held that accord- ing to the provisions of the general railroad law no company could be legally organized for the construction of such a tunnel, and further that they could exercise no right of eminent domain. After a hard fight and long and tedious litigation lasting several years and pass- ing through the court of appeals and lastly the United States court, Mr. White's clients re- ceiving the decision of each, the work of con- structing the tunnel was allowed to proceed, but after two thousand feet had been con- structed, financial difficulties forced a suspen- sion of the work, and the project, though a bold and novel one, yet entirely practicable, was never completed. Subsequently the property
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