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(IV) Francis (2), son of Francis (I) and Maria (Dey) Bodine, was born on Staten Island, from which place he crossed into New Jersey and settled at Cranbury, on the border of Middlesex county, before 1745. November I, 1775, he had some thirty acres of land sur- veyed in Tranquility swamp, on Wading river,
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Little Egg Harbor township, Burlington coun- ty, and as late as 1820 this land was in posses- sion of his children. He was a farmer. by occu- pation, an Episcopalian by religious convic- tion, and the founder of the Bodine families of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. The name of his first wife is not known. January 29, 1756, he married (second) Rachel Wilson. Children : Joel, born 1742, died May, 1819, married Mary Corlies ; Francis, born 1744, died September 27, 1822, married Mary Rose ; John, referred to below.
(V) John, son of Francis Bodine Jr., was born at Cranbury, Middlesex county, New Jer- sey, in 1746, and died at Wading river, Little Egg Harbor township, Burlington county, New Jersey, March 26, 1826. Early in life he re- moved to Burlington county and became the proprietor of the inn at Wading river, which he conducted for forty years. He was also a prosperous farmer and a considerable land holder. During the revolutionary struggle he was an ardent patriot, serving through the en- tire war and rising from private to captain. He married (first) about 1773, Mary Round- tree ; (second), September 16, 1790, Ann Tay- lor, who survived him. Children, five by the first wife: I. Charles, born 1775, died 1860; married Margaret Wright. 2. John, referred te below. 3. Francis, born 1778, died Decem- ber 6, 1862; married Elizabeth Throp, and Margaret Amos. 4. Susan, born March 27, 1781, died April 15, 1876; married Barzillai Wright. 5. Stacy, born October 21, 1783, died June 26, 1867; married Elizabeth Budd. 6. Mary, died August 21, 1859; married John Moncrief. 7. Joel, born December 14, 1794, died May 22, 1879; married Sarah Gale, and Phebe A. Forman. 8. Sarah, born June 17, 1797, died April 6, 1866 ; married Joseph Allen. 9. Abigail, married Henry Hudson. IO. Budd Sterling, born September, 1801, died October 20, 1868; married Jane Ann Newell. 11. Jesse, born 1804, died February 25, 1879; married Grace (Mathis) Coulte. 12. Lucy Ann, mar- ried John Fisher. 13. Wilson, died July 20, 1856; married Rebecca Barnard. 14. Samuel Tucker, born July 29, 1810, died November 26, 1879; married Isabel Sheppard Nixon, and Louise Milliken. 15. Daniel James, born June 26, 1811, died February 13, 1888; married Charlotte Pullen.
(VI) John (2), son of Captain John ( I) and Mary (Roundtree) Bodine, was born at Wading river, Little Egg Harbor township, Burlington county, New Jersey, January 17, 1776, and died May 2, 1848. By occupation
he was a farmer and teamster, and in politics a Whig. In religion he was a Methodist, and received a license to preach. March 28, 1799, he married Mary, daughter of John Fort, of New Hanover, born January 8, 1780, died No- vember 8, 1853. Both husband and wife are buried at Mount cemetery, Mount Holly. Chil- dren : I. Eliza, born March 24, 1800, died Au- gust 25, 1890; married Benajah Antram. 2. John Wesley, born November 16, 1801, died March 28, 1802. 3. Charles, born January 26, 1803, died January 25, 1878; married Rebecca Croshan. 4. Margaretta Fort, born March 12, 1805, died February 28, 1852; unmarried. 5. Andrew Darius, born February 20, 1807. 6. John Fort, born June 3, 1809, died Septem- ber 29, 1872; married Mary Ann Imlay. 7. Mary Heisler, born September 22, 1812, died August 8, 1856; unmarried. 8. Barton Mof- fard, born October 20, 1815. 9. George Wash- ington, referred to below.
(VII) George Washington, son of Rev. John (2) and Mary (Fort) Bodine, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, February 17, 1820, and died October 10, 1853, in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. He married (first) Ann Fowler, (second) Elizabeth H. Fowler. Children: Jesse Fowler, referred to below ; Susanna Rebecca, born October 2, 1844; John Pierson, January 10, 1847; George Washing- ton, November 14, 1853.
(VIII) Jesse Fowler, son of George Wash- ington and Elizabeth H. (Fowler ) Bodine, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 14, 1842, and is now living in that city. For his early education he went to the public school, and then learned the trade of painting and paper-hanging, in which he has been en- gaged for over fifty years. Starting at first in Salem, New Jersey, where he learned his trade, in 1869 he went into business for him- self, and after a prosperous and successful career of twenty years he removed in 1889 to Philadelphia, where he has remained ever since. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and in religious conviction a Baptist, having been licensed to preach by that denomination, and having been a deacon for over thirty years. At the outbreak of the civil war he enrolled in the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment of Vol- unteers, but owing to sickness he was not sworn in, but made a member of the home guard of Salem, New Jersey. Later he enlist- ed in Company B, the One Hundred and Ninty- second Pennsylvania Regiment, and received his honorable discharge. He has been a mem- ber of the Odd Fellows, of the Knights of
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Pythias, of the American Mechanics and of the Sons of Temperance. May 1, 1865, he married, in Salem, New Jersey, Eliza L., daugh- ter of William and Eliza L. Barnast, who was born in that town in 1846. Children: 1. Will- iam Barnast, born November 17, 1866, died aged six months. 2. Benjamin Franklin, born February 19, 1868; married, May 8, 1889; no children. 3. Harry Evans, referred to below. 4. Charles M., born October 2, 1874; married Nettie Pollock; one child, Newton Barnast, born June 15, 1902. 5. Albert J., twin with Charles M. ; married Fannie Block ; children : Charles A., Maxwell, Ellen, Jesse Fowler, John B. and Benjamin Franklin. 6. Elizabeth Fowler, born January 28, 1882.
(IX) Harry Evans, son of Jesse Fowler and Elizabeth L. ( Barnast) Bodine, was born in Salem, New Jersey, August 30, 1870, and is now living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For his early education he went to the public schools of Salem, and when he reached four- teen years of age he entered the office of the Qui Vivi, a periodical published in Jersey City, where he learned the printer's trade. He re- mained here for about two years, and then returned to Salem, where he finished learning his trade in the office of the Salem Sunbeam, which at that time was edited by Robert Quinn. After four years in the latter position Mr. Bodine became connected with the N. W. Ayer advertising agency in Philadelphia, and in 1892, with a friend by the name of Reynolds, he set up in business for himself, establishing the United States Fashion and Sample Book Company. Starting in a small way and with a very limited capital in offices at 107 South Second street, the business increased and pros- pered to such an extent that in 1902 it was incorporated under the Pennsylvania law under the title of The United States Fashion and Sample Book Company, with offices at 208 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where they have a large establishment, of which Mr. Bodine is president, B. F. Berkheim, vice-president, Charles S. Kinsey, secretary, and Harry Kates, treasurer. Their business is that of publishers of men's fashions, and with offices at 218 and 220 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, printers, binders and lithographers. They have also offices and studios at 1269 Broadway, New York City, near Thirty-second street, and a capital of $200,000. Mr. Bodine has been a member of the council of Merchantville, New Jersey, for eight years, a director of the First National Bank of Merchantville, and a mem- ber and official of the Banking and Loan Asso-
ciation of Merchantville. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 52, F. and A. M., of Philadelphia, and of Columbia Chapter, No. 91, R. A. M., of Philadelphia, besides being a member of Mary Commandery, No. 37, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia, and of the Con- sistory. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious conviction a Baptist.
July 23, 1890, Mr. Bodine married Mary Emma, daughter of Charles Coles, of Woods- town, New Jersey, whose father at one time was county clerk and also sheriff of Salem county. Children of Harry Evans and Mary Emma (Coles) Bodine: Hazel Lippincott, born January 27, 1891 ; Alice McAllister, Oc- tober 24, 1893; Helen Elizabeth, November 27, 1897 ; Harry Evans Jr., June 15, 1901. All of the children have attended the public schools, Hazel Lippincott is a graduate of Bucknell Col- lege, and Alice McAllister has been a student at the National School of Industrial Art.
William Charles- CHARLESWORTH worth, the founder of this family in America, died at a very advanced age in 1849. He was a wealthy merchant and ship owner of England, having an extensive trade with the West Indies and the American colonies in the days when it was the common practice for the great merchants to spend a good part of their time sailing from place to place in order to give their business as much as possible of their own supervision in the actual disposing and procuring of their cargoes. This method of transacting business not only enriched the American colonies and the United States in its early days with many of its greatest mer- chants, who liberally educated by their ex- tended business travels, became enchanted with the prospects and opportunities afforded by a settlement in the new world, but it also in the present instance was the moving cause of Mr. Charlesworth's emigration. - He came over to this country finally shortly after the close of the revolution, and made his home in Cumberland " county, taking out his naturalization papers and making himself an American citizen. He purchased large tracts of land in and around the region where Millville is now situated, and in the Maurice river found a good harbor and landing place for his ships. When the war of 1812 broke out this choice of wharfage proved unfortunate for Mr. Charlesworth, for the British, sending an expedition up the river, discovered a number of his vessels which they promptly destroyed, thus inflicting upon their
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owner a good deal of loss and damage. This loss, however, was not sufficient to cripple him, and he soon recovered from the embar- rassment caused by it, and at the time of his death left his son, James Madison Charles- worth, a goodly inheritance, known for over half a century as the Charlesworth estate.
(II) James Madison, son of William Charlesworth, was born in Millville, Cumber- land county, New Jersey, April 5, 1817, and died there November 19, 1907. He married, March 1, 1844, Elizabeth J. Johnson. Chil- dren : Ruth ; John E .; Olive; John Francis; James Albert, referred to below; Eugene ; George Parker.
(III) James Albert, son of James Madison and Elizabeth J. (Johnson) Charlesworth, was born on his father's farm near Millville, Cumberland county, New Jersey, April 24, 1853. He spent the early part of his life on his father's farm, and then after several changes of place went to Bridgeton, Cumberland county, New Jersey, and obtained employment in the Cumberland Glass Works Manufactur- ing Company. Owing to his previous experi- ence in this work in Baltimore and Cum- berland, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania; Glassboro, New Jersey, and Brook- lyn, New York, Mr. Charlesworth found his last position both lucrative and pleasant. He married, January 31, 1876, Ella Lucretia, daughter of John Wesley and Maria Patten (Dunlap) Wade ; (see Wade in index). Chil- dren: Irving Eugene, referred to below ; Grace Elnora ; Dora Ruth; Raymond Wade; Ruella ; Elizabeth ; John Wade; Leslie Robert.
(IV) Irving Eugene, son of James Albert and Ella Lucretia (Wade) Charlesworth, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 29, 1876, and is now living in Bridgeton, Cumber- land county, New Jersey. For his early educa- tion he was sent to the West Jersey Academy at Bridgeton, graduating from that institution in 1900. Two years later he took up the study of medicine and received his M. D. degree from the Medico-Chirurgical College of Phila- delphia in 1906. Dr. Charlesworth at once be- gan the general practice of his profession in Bridgeton, and has been engaged in that ever since, rising to a foremost position among the members of his profession in the county. He is county physician for Cumberland county, and also the county's medico-legal adviser, as well as a member of the staff of the Bridgeton Hos- pital, being especially interested in surgery. He is a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, the Cumberland County Medical Soci-
cty, the Tri-county Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is an inde- pendent Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton. He is also a member of the Bridgeton Athletic Asso- ciation, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the legislative committee of the Cumberland County Medical Society. While he was at the medical college in Philadelphia he was the president of his class, vice-president of the College Y. M. C. A., and a member of the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity. He married, June 26, 1901, Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Albert S. and Sarah ( Woodruff ) Lambert, and grand- daughter of Judge Woodruff. Children : Lang- don Lambert, born May 17, 1902 ; Rena Moore, born May 14, 1904; Horace Hamilton, born September 27, 1906; Irving Eugene (2), born January 1, 1909.
WILLIAMS Robert Williams, the first of the line here under consid- eration of whom we have definite information, was a resident of New- ark, New Jersey. He married Sarah E. Cut- ler, of Morristown, New Jersey. Children : Aaron, Charles, George, Henry R., see for- ward, and Mary.
(II) Henry R., son of Robert and Sarah E. (Cutler ) Williams, was born in Newark, New Jersey, October 3, 1843, died there June 22, 1901. He was a jeweler by trade, which line of work he followed throughout his active career. He was a member of the Sixth Pres- byterian Church of Newark, of which he was for many years an elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. He married Lucy Jane Taylor, born June 2, 1845, died January 26, 1901. Children : I. J. Harry. 2. Irving Wil- bur, see forward. 3. Elwood Murray, mar- ried Stella E. Gorgas and has two children : Evelyn and Stella; they resided in Philadel- phia. 4. Howard C., married Edith M. Zim- mermann ; children : Dorothy, born September 23, 1903, and Lucy, October 15, 1907. 5. Sarah Lucy, married Arthur M. Clark, of Newark.
(III) Irving Wilbur, second son of Henry R., and Lucy Jane (Taylor) Williams, was born in Newark, New Jersey, December 27, 1868. He was educated in the public and high schools of Newark. He entered the employ of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- pany as clerk September 24, 1883, and has steadily risen to his present position of man- ager of the premium account department. He attends the First Presbyterian Church of
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Madison, and is a Republican in politics. He is a past master of Lodge No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons, of Madison, and is a mem- ber of Madison Chapter, Royal Arcanum, and of Granite Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Newark. He is a member of the Clinton Hill Building and Loan Association of Newark, and of the Madison Building and Loan Asociation of Madison. He is a member of the Madison Golf Club, Madison Athletic Association and of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. He married, June 23, 1892, Nellie Eliza, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 17, 1871, daughter of Henry Ellis and Ella Elizabeth (Carter) Ogden (see Ogden). Children: Miriam, born September 5, 1894 ; Ogden, January 2, 1898; Irving Wilbur Jr., March 28, 1900.
ELLIOTT Among that splendid band of Scotch-Irish emigrants who were driven over to this coun- try by the landlord and the famine, in the early part of the nineteenth century, there is per- haps no better or nobler example than the Elliott family at present under consideration. The founder of the family, the grandfather of its present representative, came to America, about 1820 or 1830, and set up in business in Philadelphia, where he ran a foundry in con- nection with a second one which he established in Easton, Pennsylvania. By his wife, who was a Sigmond, a descendant of one of the old Pennsylvania Dutch families, whom he brought with him, he had among other chil- dren, a son Alexander, referred to below.
(I) Alexander Elliott, born in Ireland, came to this country with his parents when he was nine years old. After receiving a common school education in Philadelphia he succeeded to his father's iron foundries, and extended the business over into northern New Jersey. He married Louisa Wallace, born in Easton. Pennsylvania, and now living in Jersey City. where her husband died. Among their chil- dren was Leonard, referred to below.
(II) Leonard, son of Alexander and Louisa (Wallace) Elliott, was born in Dover, New Jersey, October 2, 1861, and is now living in that town. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Dover, and he worked for a time about the mines which his father owned and worked. Here he learned how, and after awhile procured employment in setting up and installing mining machinery. In 1881 he went to Tucson, Arizona, where he
was employed as a superintendent of a copper mine. Returning to Dover shortly afterward. he went to Passaic, New Jersey, and engaged once more in his old business of installing mining machinery. Procuring a position as traveling salesman for the A. A. Griffing Iron Company of Jersey City, he remained with them for nineteen years from 1886 to 1905. Previous to this, from 1883 to July 15, 1885, he was at Atlantic City and Midvale. In Octo- ber, 1905, he became a partner in the R. C. Bartley Company, where he remained for the next two and one-half years, manufacturing and installing steam heating plants. May I, 1908, he sold out his interest in this firm, and since then has been doing business for himself in Dover; not only installing, but selling and contracting for both steam and hot water heaters. Mr. Elliott has made a most pros- perous and successful business career, and his reputation for good work has become so well known that he is always in demand, and he has installed heating plants in many large pub- lic buildings and private residences. Among these should be mentioned the East Side public school of Dover, the residence of Mr. E. L. Dickerson, the Livingston Bank of Dover, and the Dover Alliance office. With his pleasing personality and great ability, Mr. Elliott has won for himself the confidence and trust of every one in the community, and although he is a Democrat, and the town was carried for President Taft by six hundred votes, Mr. Elliott in the fall of 1908 was elected to the Dover council, being the only Democrat to hold position in the town, by a majority of seventy-eight. He has always been active in the Democratic interests of his locality, and for quite awhile was chairman of the district committee, which appointed him a member of the Democratic county committee. In the Dover city council he has taken an active and a prominent position, being chairman of the fire and lamps committee, the finance commit- tee, and the license committee.
The old Munson homestead in which he and his wife reside, is one of the finest in the town, situated on the south side of Munson Hill, and built on the property which has come down to his wife from her great-grandfather Mahlon Ogden Munson. Mr. Elliott has for many years been a communicant and vestry- man of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Dover. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Elks, and the Royal Arcanum. Jan- uary 5, 1892, Mr. Elliott married Stella
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Eugenia, youngest child of Mahlon Ogden and Phebe Ann (Cole) Munson; (see Mun- son). Children: Marjorie E .; Leonard M.
MUNSON The Monson or Munson fam- ily of England have a recog- nized history in the English peerage, extending over five centuries, and according to Burke, John Monson "living in 1378 and denominated of East or Market- Rasen, County Lincoln" a contemporary of Richard II, Chaucer and Wickliffe, was the lineal ancestor of the English titled line, and it is believed also of the founder of the family in this country.
(I) Thomas Munson, the founder of the American family, was born about 1612, and died May 7, 1685. The first record of him is in 1637 as a resident of Hartford, Connecti- cut, twenty-five years old, when he performed service in the Pequot war. His house lot com- prising two and a half acres was on the east side of the present High street, beside the head of Walnut. This lot he sold to Nathaniel Kellogg about 1640, and in February that year he had quit the Hartford plantation and cast in his iot with the Quinnipiac, and his name is sixth in the list of forty-eight signatures to . the Fundamental Agreement. Here he became one of the most prominent men in the colony both in civic offices and in military services, as well as in the provincial assemblies. By pro- fession he was a carpenter, and his house in New Haven was what is now Temple street, between Wall and Grove. As an officer in King Philip's war and as a commissary in treating with the Indians, Thomas Munson is said to have outranked his associates. His wife Johanna was born about 1610, and died December 13, 1678. Children : Elizabeth, married, October, 1664 (first) Timothy, son of Lieutenant Thomas Cooper, of Springfield ; (second) Richard Higinbotham; Samuel, re- ferred to below ; Hannah, baptized June II, 1648, died November 30, 1695, married Joseph, son of William Tuttle.
(II) Samuel, son of Thomas and Johanna (Munson), baptized in the First Church of New Haven, August 7, 1643, and died in the same place between January 10 and March 2, 1693. He was a shoemaker and tanner, and a Congregationalist, and resided at New Haven and Wallingford. In 1667 he was made a freeman, and the following year given a seat in the meetinghouse. In 1670 the town granted him a new plantation, and he removed to the then newly settled village of Walling-
ford, where he remained for sometime, where meetings for worship were held alternately in his house and in that of Lieutenant Merri- man, which adjoined his own. In 1673 he was chosen selectman, and about a month later, drummer. When King Philip's war broke out he became an ensign in the Wallingford train band. He was also the colony's agent at the general court in Hartford. April 12, 1679, he was chosen to serve as the first school- master of the town, and from that time until his death he filled a continual line of important, civic, religious and military positions.
October 26, 1665; he married Martha, daughter of William and Alice (Pritchard) Bradley. Children : I. Martha, born May 6, 1677, died April 24, 1728; married Thomas Elcock. 2. Samuel, referred to below. 3. James, born March 12, 1670, died September 28, 1746; married Mary Wilcox. 4. John. born January 28, 1672, died 1752; married Sarah Cooper. 5. Theophilus, born September I, 1675, died November 28, 1747; married Esther Mix. 6. Joseph, born November 6, 1677, died October 30, 1725; married Mar- gery Hitchcock. 7. Stephen, born December 5, 1679, died 1768; married (first) Lydia Bas- sett, (second) Widow Hollingsworth. 8. Caleb, born November 19, 1682, died August 23, 1765; married (first) Elizabeth Hermon, (second) Hannah Porter. 9. Joshua, born February 7, 1684, died December 9, 1711; married Catherine Street. 10. Israel, born March 6, 1686, died about June 18, 1697.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Martha ( Bradley ) Munson, was born in Wal- lingford, February 28, 1668, and died there November 23, 1741. He lived at Wallingford all his life, where he was one of the most prominent men of the town, being for many years treasurer, auditor, lister and town clerk, besides holding many other offices of civic and ecclesiastical importance. He married (first) Martha who died January 7, 1707, (second) March 10, 1708, Mary, daughter of Deacon Eliasaph Preston, born April 25, 1674, died November 28, 1755, and widow of Keeler Merriman. Children : (Eight by first mar- riage) : I. Solomon, referred to below. 2. Samuel, born August 25, 1691, died about 1710. 3. Marlo, born February 15, 1693, died July I, 1739 ; married John Hitchcock Jr. 4. William, born October 13, 1695, died July 21, 1773; married Phebe Merriman. 6. Eunice, born September 13, 1700, died November 29, 1793; married Stephen Hart. 7. Obedience, born October 13, 1702. 8. Catharine, born
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ber 7, 1870, married Charles Walton ; William Cowperthwaite, born October 17, 1875, now in the coal business at Burlington, and is a Mason ; Daniel Budd, born October 15, 1876, living on the old homestead at Vincentown, and also a Mason; Joseph W., born August 15, 1882, engaged in farming and produce busi- ness with his brother John Aquila, and a mem- ber of the Elks of Mount Holly; and John Aquila, referred to below.
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