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Greece, Roumania and Servia, to which short- ly afterward Bulgaria was added. Upon his recommendation, Roumania and Bulgaria were created a separate mission, and in 1905 he was reappointed to Greece and Servia, to which Montenegro was added, having for the first time an American diplomatic representative. In 1907 he was appointed minister to Persia, and in December, 1909, to Cuba, where he took up his duties in March, 1910. He is a member of the Union League Club, the University Club, the Army and Navy Club of New York, the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, and the Royal Yacht Club of Kiel. In 1896 he re- ceived the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Princeton College. He united in 1876 with the South Park Presbyterian Church, but is now a member of the Episcopal Church. April 26, 1886, John Brinckerhoff Jackson married Florence A. Baird, daughter of Mat- thew Baird, of Philadelphia, long connected with the Baldwin locomotive works. They have had one child, Florence, born in April, 1887, who lived only six weeks.
(XIII) William Fessenden, third child of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie (Nye) Jack- son, was born in Newark, November 22, 1864, and lives at the family homestead, 656 High street. He was educated at Miss Stanley's school; in Newark Academy, graduating in 1881 ; and at Princeton College, where he grad- uated with honors in the class of 1885. He entered the banking house of Brown, Shipley & Co. immediately upon graduation, but later became connected with enterprises in Newark, and is still interested in the Fairlie & Wilson Coal Company. He was an original member of the Essex Troop, and was urgently in favor of the troop volunteering as a whole for serv- ice in the Spanish-American war. This not being accomplished, he went to the front on his own responsibility, hoping for appointment on the field, but instead found opportunity for good service in nursing the sick soldiers at Santiago and Montauk Point. He is a mem- ber of the University Club of New York and of others, and has spent considerable time in travel abroad and in this country. He is a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church.
(XIV) Frederick Wolcott Jr., fourth child and son of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie Jane (Nye) Jackson, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 1, 1867, and now lives at Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He studied at Miss Stan- ley's private school, graduated from the New- ark Academy in 1883, and from the John C.
Green School of Science at Princeton Uni- versity, standing first in his class and receiving the degree of C. E. in 1887; and the Ph. B. degree from Columbia University the follow- ing year. He graduated from the Theological Seminary at Princeton in 1891. From 1892 to 1894 he was a missionary of the Presby- terian Church at Chefoo, China. In 1894-95 he attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in New York City. In 1895 he was assistant at the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and was pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian Church of Jersey City, from 1896 to 1900. From 1900 to 1906 he was engaged in home missionary work in Hot Springs, North Caro- lina. During the latter part of 1906 and 1907 he resided in Germany with his family, study- ing in Jena University, and also traveled in Greece and Italy. In 1908 he became English professor in the German Theological School of Newark at Bloomfield, New Jersey. His chair includes the teaching of psychology, logic, Eng- lish and American literature, rhetoric, and also astronomy and geology.
June 27, 1894, Rev. Frederick Wolcott Jack- son was married, in Savannah, Georgia, to Louise Gindrat, daughter of Thomas Clay and Elizabeth Woodbridge (Screven) Arnold. Children: I. Elizabeth Screven, born Septem- ber 12, 1895. 2. Frederick Huntington Wol- cott, September 25, 1897. 3. Louise Arnold, May 27, 1902. 4. Nannie Nye, September 9, 1904.
(XV) Charles Huntington, fifth child of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie (Nye) Jack- son, was born at the Nye farm, Clinton town- ship (now within the city limits of Newark), November 29, 1869. He now lives at Greeley, Colorado. He was educated at Miss Stan- ley's school ; the Newark Academy, graduating in 1886; at Princeton College, graduating in 1890; and at the Columbia Law School, gradu- ating in 1893. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1895, and admitted as a coun- sellor in 1901. He practiced law in Newark and Jersey City, being for some time connected with the firm of Bedle, Magie & Bedle. From 1903 to 1907 he was connected with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Since 1908 he has resided in Colorado and is now estab- lishing himself in Greeley.
(XVI) Nina Fessenden, seventh child and second daughter of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie Jane (Nye) Jackson, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June II, 1874, and is now living in that city. April 19, 1900, she married Neilson, son of Gustavus Neilson and
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Margaret (Hall) Abeel, of Newark. (See Abeel).
(XVII) Oliver Wolcott, the eighth child and sixth son of Frederick Wolcott and Nan- nie Jane (Nye) Jackson, was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 9, 1876, and is now living in that city. He was educated at the Newark Academy, graduating in 1894, and at Princeton University, from which he re- ceived his B. A. degree in 1898. He then took a position with the banking firm of C. C. Cuy- ler, Morgan & Company, and in 1902 started in the real estate business for himself. Mr. Jackson is a Republican, but not especially active in politics. His clubs are the Jersey Auto Club, the Deal Golf Club, the Princeton Club of New York, and the Colonial Club of Princeton. He is a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church in Newark. He is a director in the Manhattan and Essex Auto- mobile Express Company. April 6, 1904, Oliver Wolcott Jackson was married, in Trin- ity Church, Newark, to Adele Prendergast, daughter of and Frances ( Mackin) Carpenter. Children: I. Frances Adele, born January 5, 1906. 2. Loraine Wolcott, Decem- ber 31, 1907.
The Christopher White family of New Jersey is descended from WHITE an ancient house of county Cim- berland, England, where Thomas White, father of the founder of the family, lived and became converted to the principles of George Fox. Soon after this Thomas White removed to London, and in 1664 he was taken from the Bull and Mouth meeting in that city and haled before the magistrate. He told Alderman Brown, before whom he was accused, that he thought that he, the alderman, had filled up the measure of his wickedness; and the in- censed official struck him in the face, kicked him and sent him to Newgate prison.
(I) Christopher, son of Thomas White, was born in Cumrew, county Cumberland, Eng- land, and died in Salem county, New Jersey, between the middle of September and the end of December, 1693. Like his father, he also suffered much violence and persecution in Lon- don on account of his religious opinions; and it is probably that for this reason he concluded to emigrate to America. Accordingly, having purchased from John Fenwick, before the latter left England, about one thousand acres of land, he set sail in the ship "Kent," Gregory and Marlowe, masters, and arrived in the Del- aware on August 23, 1677. By trade he was
a carpenter, and he soon became an active and a useful citizen in Fenwick's colony, taking up his land at Alloways Creek. In 1668 he mar- ried (first) Elizabeth (Wyatt) Leath, daugh- ter of John Wyatt, of Yorkshire, who died about 1671, leaving a daughter Elizabeth, born in Shadwell, near London, in 1669. He mar- ried (second) early in 1674, Esther, widow of John Biddle, who survived him and died in 1698. Children, by second marriage: Esther. married Israel Harrison; Josiah, referred to below ; Joseph, born II mo. 5, 1678.
(II) Josiah, son of Christopher and Esther -) Biddle White, was born 7 mo. 3, 1675, in London, and died in Alloways Creek in 1713. He became the owner of his father's real estate in New Jersey, and married, in 1698, Hannah Powell. Children: Christopher, born 6 mo. 23, 1699, died young ; Josiah, referred to below; Hannah, born 1710.
(III) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (I) and Hannah ( Powell) White, was born in Allo- ways Creek, Salem county, New Jersey, 6 mo. 21, 1705, and died in Evesham, Burlington county, May 12, 1780. In 1698 the owners of the meadows and low land lying on Allo- ways Creek had obtained a law from the West Jersey legislature enabling them to dam the creek, buy a sluiceway and drain the lands lying above the present Hancock's bridge. In 1723 Josiah White made a contract to erect a dam and sluiceway, and gave a guarantee that it would stand one year, the forfeiture being his pay for the job. The meadow owner above the dam found that the project was causing them a loss in more ways than one. The dam broke before the expiration of the year, and tradition says that it was cut on the night be- fore the year expired. Josiah White, having lost his pay for the erection of the dam, was obliged to sell his whole Salem county property to pay his obligation. When this was done, having five hundred pounds left and no family, he removed to Evesham, near the present Mt. Holly, and purchased land at the head waters of Rancocus creek, where he built a fulling mill in which he manufactured cloth for the greater part of the remainder of his life.
Josiah White was a minister in the Society of Friends, and was recommended as such in 1743. On the same day the celebrated John Woolman was also recommended by the Mt. Holly monthly meeting. Josiah had the happy faculty of putting what he desired to say into brief pithy sentences. He had also inbibed the Homeric idea that there were plants and herbs growing for the cure of every disease,
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and he was known far and wide as the "herb doctor," not only using no other medicine in his own family, but being frequently sent for to minister to the ailments of his neighbors. He was a man of clear and comprehensive judgment, and the great qualities with which he was endowed have been transmitted in a remarkable degree to his descendants of the third and fourth generations, as their lives and their undertakings for the public good fully demonstrate. He was the intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin, and also of his son, Gov- ernor William Franklin, whose country seat was near Mt. Holly.
Josiah White married, Io mo. I, 1774, at Evesham monthly meeting, Rebecca, daugh- ter of Josiah and Rebecca Foster, a descendant of the Borden family, after which Bordentown is named. She was born 10 mo. I, 1702, and died December 6, 1771. Children: I. Amy, born 5 mo. 13, 1737, died at age of thirteen months. 2. Hannah, born II mo. 28, 1739; married (first) Thomas Prior; (second) Dan- iel Drinker. 3. Josiah, born 4 mo. 24, 1742, died aged two years. 4. Rebecca, born 3 mo. 15, 1745; married Redman. 5. John, referred to below. 6. Josiah, born 8 mo. 20, 1750.
(IV) John, son of Josiah (2) and Rebecca ( Foster) White, was born in Evesham, 7 mo. 9, 1747, and died in Mt. Holly, August 21, 1785. June 7, 1775, he married Rebecca, daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah ( Bonnell) Haines (see Haines). Children: 1. Josiah, born April 18, 1776, died May 19, 1776. 2. John, born April 2, 1777, died August 13, 1798. 3. Christopher, born September 17, 1779, died September, 1796. 4. Josiah, referred to below. 5. Hannah, born February 3, 1783, died Sep- tember 13, 1785. 6. Joseph, referred to below.
(V) Josiah, son of John and Rebecca (Haines) White, was born in Mt. Holly, April 3. 1781, and died in Philadelphia, November 14, 1850. He was the pioneer in introducing the Schuylkill water for the use of the inhabit- ants of Philadelphia; and he was also one of the first projectors of the Schuylkill canal and of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. This last he commenced and completed nearly all together by his own individual exertions, so as to enable the different coal companies then organizing in the anthracite coal region to have a Philadelphia market. He was much interested in the subject of education, espe- cially in diffusion among the lower classes of the people, in a way to make them self-reliant and self-supporting ; and he often contributed
liberally for this purpose, in particular be- queathing funds for the establishment of two labor manual schools, one in Indiana and the other in Iowa, which should give special prom- inence to the religious and moral training of their pupils. Shortly after his death a man who knew him well, wrote, "I know of no man to whom the citizens of Philadelphia are so much indebted for substantial benefits they have so long enjoyed, as they are to Josiah White." In 1805 Josiah White married (first) Catharine Ridgway, of Burlington county, who died shortly afterward, leaving no issue. He married (second) September 6, 1810, Eliz- abeth, daughter of Solomon and Hannah White of Philadelphia. Children by second marriage : I. Hannah, born May 29, 1811 ; married Rich- ard Richardson, of New Castle county, Dela- ware, son of Ashton and Mary Richardson. 2. John Christopher, born September 22, 1812, died May 9, 1822. 3. Solomon, born October 16, 1813, died February 20, 1832. 4. Josiah, born January 23, 1815, died February 1, 1820. 5. Rebecca, born December 15, 1816; unmar- ried.
(V) Joseph, youngest child of John and Re- becca (Haines) White, was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, December 28, 1785, and died May 25, 1827. Like his elder brother Josiah, he inherited from his ancestors that great energy of character and cast of mind which made them pioneers in new and important improve- ments for the benefit of mankind. Had his life been extended to the allotted three score years and ten, he had the ability and energy, as is abundantly proven, by the following ex- tract from the account of his life written by his son Barclay, referred to below, to have risen as high or even higher on the pinnacle of fame in the history of his country as his elder brother.
In 18II he left Philadelphia, intending to travel on horseback to St. Louis and other places in the west and south to extend the business of his firm and collect the debts due it. This firm, long known as White & Lippin- cott, of III Market street, Philadelphia, had been founded in 1808, when he and Samuel Lippincott had purchased the hardware stock of the former's brother, Josiah White. Stop- ping at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Joseph White met, by accident, Elisha Hunt, who with his brother Caleb, were merchants of the place. The Hunts made Mr. White a proposi- tion that if he would give up his journey and assist them in building and freighting a keel- boat, Caleb Hunt would join him on his St.
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Louis trip. Joseph White agreed, and in 1812 he and Caleb, with a crew of French Canadian boatinen, started from Brownsville for St. Louis. The trip was successful and they brought the boat back as far as Smithland, at the mouth of the Cumberland river, where a few friends left it and journeyed on horseback to Shepardsville, Kentucky, where they sepa- rated, Joseph White going on to Louisville, Frankfort, Lexington, and then to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he formed the acquaintance of the governor. After this he travelled through Virginia and Maryland, and returned to Philadelphia about the end of 1812. On his return he and Elisha Hunt organized a stock company to construct steamboats for carrying passengers and freight between Pittsburg and New Orleans. They engaged the services of Daniel French, who owned a steamboat patent, and was operating one of his vessels on the Delaware between Camden and Philadelphia. Shops were erected at Brownsville, Pennsyl- vania, the steamboat "Enterprise" was con- structed at a cost of about $15,000, and in 1813 went on her initial voyage to New Or- leans, under the command of Captain Henry Shreve. Reaching the latter place, the vessel was seized by the state marshal at the instance of Fulton and ex-Chancellor Livingston, for coming within the limits of Louisiana, as they had a charter from the legislature of that state granting them the exclusive privilege of run- ning steamboats on all the state's waters. Cap- tain Shreve gave security for trial, and the vessel returned home with a full cargo of freight and passengers. On her next voyage General Jackson impressed her into the service of the United States, and she only made three round trips between Pittsburg and New Or- leans before the end of the war of 1812. On her fourth voyage the crew abandoned her at Shippen's port, below the falls of the Ohio, and she there sank. Fulton and Livingston obtained judgment against the company in the state courts, but on appeal the Federal courts reversed the decision and declared the naviga- tion of the Mississippi open to all. The steam- boat company, having had ill fortune with their second boat "Despatch," became discour- aged and dissolved, and Hunt and White then turned their Brownsville shops into a manu- factory for tools needed in constructing steam machinery. The importance of their venture lies in the fact that they initiated the move- ment which ended in turning over the control of all interstate navigable waters to the Fed- eral government.
December 18, 1807, Joseph White married Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Doughty and Eliz- abeth (Schooley) Smith (see Smith). Chil- dren: I. John Josiah, referred to below. 2. Daniel Smith, married Rebecca L. Shreve. 3. Elizabeth, married Joshua Lippincott. 4. Sarah S., died unmarried. 5. Howard, died unmar- ried. 6. Barclay, referred to below. 7. Anna Maria, married J. Gibbon Hunt, M. D.
(VI) John Josiah, eldest child of Josiah and Rebecca (Smith) White, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1808, and died in the same city in the year 1878. He was a lawyer by profession, and conducted an active and distinguished practice in Philadel- phia until, when only about forty-five years of age, he became convinced that the "testi- mony" which Friends hold against the taking of an oath, prevented him from conscientiously continuing in active court practice. He there- upon gave up all his practice excepting the con- veyancing part, which he continued thereafter. He became a distinguished minister with the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends shortly after this time, and so continued during the remainder of his life. He was a great stu- dent and deep reader, and his was looked upon as one of the best historically informed minds in the city of Philadelphia during the latter part of his life. He was an eminent Greek and Sanscrit scholar, and spoke the German, French, Spanish and Italian languages with considerable fluency and read their literature in the original. He had also a very decided mechanical turn of mind, and originated sev- eral inventions for which he took out patents. One of these, taken out years before the in- vention of the modern bicycle, was for a two- wheeled vehicle to carry one person and be propelled by pedals in a somewhat similar manner to the bicycle afterward invented, ex- cept that the wheels were placed side by side, instead of one ahead of the other. He con- structed one of these bicycles with wheels twelve feet in height, but finding in actual prac- tice the machine very difficult to steer, depend- ing entirely upon brakes applied to one side and then the other, he abandoned the idea.
On roth mo. 2nd, 1834, he married Mary Kirkbride Shoemaker, daughter of Dr. Nathan and Frances Maria (Kirkbride) Shoemaker ( see Shoemaker line ), and their children were : I. Frances Maria, married Nathan H. Sharpless, who became a distinguished member of the Phil- adelphia bar. 2. Josiah, referred to below. 3. Re- becca Smith, married T. Elwood Bartram, of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. 4. John Shoemaker,
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died unmarried at the age of twenty-eight. Chil- dren by his second marriage with Abigail Weav- er : Dr. Joseph Weaver White, a dentist of Phil- adelphia, and Samuel Jennings White, who mar- ried Amanda Seal, and who became the chief chemist of the United Gas Improvement Com- pany, before his death at the early age of thirty- five years, leaving two children-Maurice and Arthur.
(VII) Josiah, son of John Josiah and Mary Kirkbride (Shoemaker) White, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1841. He received an excellent education at the Friends' Central School, Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, under Aaron Ivins (who was its great principal for over half of the nineteenth century ), graduating in the same class with Clement A. Griscom, Isaac H. Clothier, Dillwyn Parrish and Dr. James Tyson, who were his particular school friends.
On October 2d, 1862, he was married with Mary Kirby Allen, daughter of Joshua and Margaret (Dilks) Allen (see Allen line), of Haddonfield, Camden county, New Jersey, who had also graduated as a member of the same class with himself in Friends' Central School in Philadelphia. Having taken up agriculture, he purchased a farm in Burlington county, opposite the Mount near Pemberton, New Jersey, where were born his first two children, John Josiah, referred to below, and Elizabeth, who married Isaac H. Dixon, of Baltimore. He subsequently removed to Denton, Caroline county, on the "Eastern Shore" of Maryland, where he was the pioneer in the idea ( since successfully en- larged further south) of raising early vege- tables and small berries in a more southern climate, for supplying the northern markets. He was successful in this enterprise, but after a few years, sections further south in the Caro- linas, Georgia, and afterward Florida, were able to supply this produce much earlier, and consequently procure the early prices. He then turned for a market for the berry-and- vegetable-growing industry, which had sprung up on the Eastern Peninsula of Maryland and Virginia, to the canning industry, and in 1872 constructed, with a partner, Charles A. Dun- ning, the first canning house ever built on the Eastern Shore, where now there are many hundreds. This canning house, which has been in continual operation ever since (thirty-four years) was three hundred feet long, three stories high, and employed two hundred and fifty men and women. It was regarded as a wonderfully bold and venturesome enterprise. The community was exceedingly poor and the
new industry was a great blessing. There was no bank within twenty miles, and the brass checks given out for fruit delivered and for the piece work, by which a large number of the employees were paid in the factory, pass- ed for currency in the community until at the end of each month they were sent in by the merchants and cashed by checks on the distant. bank. It was with great difficulty that farmers. were then persuaded to plant three and four acres in tomatoes. Wheat was the principal product and yielded about fifteen dollars per acre. In the same community at the present time, farmers plant from twenty-five to one hundred acres in tomatoes, and even at the present lower prices, and higher wages net fifty dollars per acre from the tomatoes sup- plied to the canning houses. The industry thus introduced by Mr. White thirty-four years. ago has now made the county the richest on the whole Peninsula, instead of by far the poorest, as it was originally. Disastrous fail- ures of firms, to which big sales of canned goods had been made, swept away the young canning firm's limited capital, however, some years later, and Mr. White returned with his family to the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and three years later came back to the state (New Jersey) where he had first started farm- ing and where his ancestors had lived during two centuries. He purchased, in 1888, in At- lantic City, The Luray, a three-story one-hun- dred-room boarding house, on the west side of Kentucky avenue, two hundred and fifty feet from the beach. The season in Atlantic City at that time commenced July Ist and ended September Ist, and the first season's business did not pay the running expenses of the house, not to speak of taxes, interest on mortgages, fire insurance, and other fixed charges. In- stead of despairing, however, Mr. White and his wife, with a splendid courage and per- sistence, borrowed additional capital, added a story to The "Luray," and with the increased capacity thus produced managed to just about come out even the second year. The next year he opened his house for Lincoln's birth- day in February, and started in to help create the "Spring Season," which has contributed such a famous portion of Atlantic City's popu- larity. At that time no one thought of com- ing to Atlantic City until summer, and the task of creating a new season was indeed pioneer work. The following fall The Luray remained open throughout the entire winter and from that date Atlantic City commenced its at first slow struggle, since crowned with such marked
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