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success, to become an all-the-year-around re- sort. The gain was gradual, and at first the experiment was very expensive, a loss of be- tween five and ten thousand dollars resulting from the first winter's business. Gradually this changed, however, and the pioneers, to whose enterprise and courage the resort is indebted for its great success, gradually turn- ed the point between loss and profit, and the winter and spring seasons, which they had instituted, became, if anything, more popular and profitable than the summer season had been before.
In 1892 the property extending from The Luray out to the ocean was acquired, and the house again enlarged, and in 1895 Mr. White constructed the New Luray, having a capacity of four hundred and fifty guests, and which, until it was burned in the great fire of 1902, originating nearly a block away, was one of the most popular and successful of Atlantic City's famous hostelries.
Mr. White's second son, Allen Kirby, after he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1894, became associated with his father in business under the firm name of Josiah White & Son, and with his professional training as a mechanical engineer and his natural aptitude for machinery, was a very important element, contributing to the success of the enterprise.
In 1901 Mr. White's eldest son, John Josiah, a member of the Philadelphia bar, purchased the lot of ground then occupied by the Sisters of The Sacred Heart, an old French Catholic order, and upon which the Marlborough now stands. A corporation, the Marlborough House Company, was then formed, with Josiah White (the father) as president, and his three sons, John Josiah, Allen Kirby (both above men- tioned) and Charles D. (who was then also practicing law in Philadelphia) as vice-presi- dent, treasurer, and secretary, respectively, and who between them were and have con- tinued to be the owners of all the company's stock. The lot of ground was transferred to this corporation by John Josiah White (next hereafter mentioned), who also entered into a contract to construct the Marlborough House thereon. The ground was subject to certain re- strictions, one of which was that no building other than dwelling house could ever be erected thereon. It was supposed that this restriction had been abandoned and that every one interest- ed therein was satisfied to have The Marlbor- ough constructed, as proposed. The foundation stage, however, had hardly been completed when injunction proceedings were commenced by the
owner of a neighboring property to prevent the construction of the building. Application was made before Vice-Chancellor (now Justice of the Supreme Court) Alfred Reed, on the last day of the term before the summer vaca- tion, for a restraining order to stop construc- tion until the final hearing of the case. Vice- Chancellor Reed had during the entire winter been performing not only his own judicial duties but also taking care of those of a sick brother Vice-Chancellor, and he had arranged to spend his vacation in Europe, and expected to sail two days later. After the argument for and against the restraining order had been com- pleted, the Vice-Chancellor, upon his own mo- tion and without any application to that effect having been made, announced that, "as it ap- pears to me that irreparable damage would result from the delay which a restraining order would occasion should the injunction be re- fused upon final hearing," he would delay his proposed vacation for two weeks in order that both sides might take their testimony before a master and be prepared for final hearing be- fore him at the end of ten days. This was done, the case was argued, with the testimony all in, and a decree refusing the injunction was the result. Appeal to the court of errors was made, but because of the crowded dockets of that court it was evident that argument could not take place for nearly a year. Under these circumstances, delay being disastrous, the construction of The Marlborough was proceed- ed with, and the house was actually completed, opened, and occupied by between five and six hundred guests when the case came up to be argued before the court of errors. Fortunately the opinion of Vice-Chancellor Reed was affirmed by the court of errors, and conse- quently it did not become necessary to tear down The Marlborough, which even then and before the construction of The Blenheim, was probably the most advanced resort house in America. Had the first application for a re- straining order been granted, the consequent loss from a year or more of delay would have resulted in financial disaster to the younger Mr. White, in which case The Marl- borough would never have been completed and The Blenheim would not have been built. The ultimate, artistic and financial success of the Marlborough-Blenheim, therefore, is clear- ly attributable, and by all of the Whites, father and sons, is heartily attributed, to the conscien- tiousness and high sense of judicial duty of this New Jersey judge ( Vice-Chancellor Reed ), who recognizing that in this instance tardy jus-
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tice would probably be injustice, sacrificed his own comfort and much needed rest to his high sense of the duties incumbent upon his posi- tion.
In the fall of 1905 the ground on the oppo- site side of Ohio avenue from The Marlbor- ough was purchased and The Blenheim, at that time the largest reinforced-concrete-con- struction building which had been attempted, was erected, and connecting by bridges across Ohio avenue with The Marlborough, forms with it The Marlborough-Blenheim, now recognized as the most complete resort house in the world. Reinforced concrete was in its infant stages when The Blenheim was built, and people in general looked upon as particularly hazardous the proposition to construct with this material so large and high a building as The Blenheim, with its twelve stories. A careless mixture of a single barrow of concrete, whereby it did not receive its proper share of cement, or careless- ness in placing reinforcing bars, would in all probability result in the whole structure fall- ing down when the wooden forms, within which the concrete was poured, were removed. Every one knew that if the building stood up all right two weeks after these forms were removed, its strength would double and treble each year during the next five years, but other disasters had taught those who knew, that a little carelessness would cause complete ruin before the building was entirely completed. It was probably this thought which prompted the latter part of the statement made to John J. White, who had most to do with the con- struction part of the enterprise, by Thomas A. Edison, the famous inventor and expert, who, when the reinforced concrete work had just been completed and the wooden forms had been entirely removed, after making a thorough inspection of the entire job, said to Mr. White: "Well, it is the coming construc- tion for all great buildings; it won't bend, it won't break, and you could not burn it if you tried ; but, young man, you have some nerve." In advertising the opening of The Marlbor- ough-Blenheim, the first part of Mr. Edison's sentence was during the entire year a promi- nent feature over his name in the newspaper cuts of the house, but the portion of the sen- tence referring to Mr. White's nerve was some- how overlooked and did not appear in these advertisements.
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Children of Josiah White and Mary Kirby (Allen) White: I. John Josiah, referred to above and hereafter. 2. Elizabeth, married Isaac H. Dixon, of Baltimore. 3. Mary K., died five
years old. 4. Frances M. (unmarried). 5. Allen Kirby, referred to below. 6. Charles Doughty, referred to below. 7. Gertrude Allen, married John L. Coppage, of Los Angeles, California.
(VIII) John Josiah, eldest son of Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born near Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jer- sey, August 16, 1863. When five years of age his father's family moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Denton, Caroline county, and his early education was received in the excellent public schools at that place until in 1880 he entered Swarthmore College, where he remained two years, completing the fresh- man and sophomore classes. He then entered the Law Department of The University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1884, and after waiting three months to become of age, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar and to the bar of Delaware county, Pennsyl- vania, in the fall of that year, where he con- tinued in general active practice until 1901. He then purchased the tract of land upon which The Marlborough House was built, and upon its completion entered into partnership with his father and brothers, Allen K. and Charles D. White, in the management thereof under the firm name of Josiah White & Sons, since incorporation under the name of Josiah White & Sons Company, of which company he is first vice-president, and one of the four directors, his father being president, and his two brothers, respectively, second vice-presi- dent and treasurer, and third vice-president and secretary.
On February 18, 1890, he married Laura Carolene, daughter of John Wesley Harris and Carolene Delacroix Harris, the latter being a grandniece of the celebrated French painter, Eugene Delacroix, and a granddaugh- ter of Joseph Delacroix, refugee from Paris in the time of the French revolution, whose property had been confiscated or destroyed and who with his family immigrated to Phil- adelphia, where he became a distinguished pro- fessor of languages. They have one child, Elizabeth, born June 3rd, 1891.
(IX) Elizabeth (White) Dixon, daughter of Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, married Isaac H. Dixon, of Baltimore, Mary- land. They have eight children : William T., Frances, Mary Allen and Elizabeth (twins), Katharine, Gertrude Allen, Deborah and Isaac H. Jr.
(X) Allen Kirby White, son of Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born near Denton, Maryland, December 14, 1872. He
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received his early education in the public schools of Caroline county, Maryland, and then went to Swarthmore College, from which he graduated in the class of 1894. He then went into business . ith his father in Atlantic City in the firm of Josiah White & Son, as proprietors and managers of The Luray, which firm was upon the construction of The Marl- borough (the extensive machinery plant of which and of the Blenheim he designed and constructed) subsequently enlarged by the ad- mission of his two brothers, John Josiah and Charles Doughty, and became Josiah White & Sons, subsequently incorporated. as at present, into Josiah White & Sons Company, of which company Allen Kirby White is second-vice- president, treasurer, and one of the four di- rectors.
Allen Kirby White, on October 15, 1896, married Emma Chambers, daughter of Thomas Seal Chambers and Albina Hayes, of Union- ville, Chester county, Pennsylvania ; and has four children: John Josiah, Carolien, Mary Allen and Dorothy.
(XI) Charles Doughty White, third son of Jo- siah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born July 7, 1875, near Denton, Caroline county, Maryland, where he received his early education in the public schools, and afterward entered Swarthmore College, where he continued through the freshman and sophomore years, after which he entered The University of Penn- sylvania Law Department, from which he grad- uated in the class of 1896. He was then admitted to practice at the Philadelphia bar and the bar of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he continued in active practice until 1902, when he went to Atlantic City and became a member of the firm of Josiah White & Sons, afterward incorporated under its present name of Josiah White & Sons Company, of which company he is third vice-president and secretary, and one of the four directors. He married Mar- garet Jean Fisher, of Brooklyn, New York. He has four children: Bertha, Esther, Josiah and Fisher.
(XII) Gertrude Allen White, daughter of Josiah and Mary Kirby (Allen) White, was born near Denton, Maryland. She married John L. Coppage, of Los Angeles, California, and has two children: Frances M. and Ed- ward.
(The Haines Line).
The Haines family is of Saxon origin, and is found in many of the counties of England. In New Jersey there are at least two distinct branches-one the descendants of the Haynes
who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay in the "Griffin," in 1633, one of whose descendants became governor of Massachusetts, and an- other the founder of the East Jersey branch of the family in Elizabethtown; and the second coming from county Northampton, England, and being the founder of the celebrated West Jersey branch.
(I) Richard Haines, founder of the West Jersey branch of the family, left the parish of "Iynhoe of ye Hill," Northamptonshire, Eng- land, with his wife and children, sailed from the Downes in the ship "Amity," Richard Dia- mond, master, April 23, 1682. The voyage was long and tedious, and the father sickened and died, and after his death Joseph, the fifth son, was born in midocean. John, the eldest son, had come to America two years previous- ly, and was living in a cave in Haines' bank, below Lumberton, New Jersey, on the south branch of the Rancocus creek. The family landed in Burlington in the fall of 1682, and the widow Haines married, in 1685, at Thomas Gardiner's house in Burlington, Henry Birch- am Neshaminy, of Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania. Children: 1. John, died 1728; married (first) Esther Borton; (second) Hannah Wood. 2. Richard, died 1746; married Mary Carlysle; according to tradition of Lenni Lenape Indian lineage. 3. William, referred to below. 4. Thomas, born 1674, died 1748: married Elizabeth, sister to Francis Austin, the.emigrant. 5. Mary. 6. Joseph, born 1682, died September 12, 1763 ; married (first) Doro- thy - -; (second) Elizabeth Thomas, who died November 24, 1796, aged exactly one hun- dred years.
(II) William, third child of Richard and Margaret Haines, was born in 1672, and died in 1754. He located one hundred acres of land near Nancutting's old plantation, in 1689, and land in Northampton township, Burling- ton county, in 1712. In 1689 he also purchased one hundred acres of Samuel Jennings, and in 1693 another hundred acres of Elias and John Burling, and still another hundred acres in 1698 of Christopher Wetherill. In 1695 he married Sarah, daughter of John Paine, of Wellingborough township, Burlington county. Children: 1. Jacob, born 1699; married Han- nah Stokes. 2. Margaret, born 1701 ; married Brown. 3. Nathan, born 1703, died 1751 ; married Sarah, daughter of Francis and Mary (Borton) Austin. 4. Samuel, born 1705; married Lydia Stokes. 5. Nathaniel, born 1707, died 1788; married Mary Harvey. 6. Jeremiah, referred to below.
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(III) Jeremiah, youngest son of William and Sarah (Paine) Haines, was born in North- ampton township, Burlington county, in 1713, and died about 1774. In 1736 he married Han- nah, daughter of Robert Bonnell. Children : I. Robert, born 10 mo. 17, 1741; married Rachel, daughter of William and Sarah (Stock- ton) Jones Venicome. 2. Sarah, born 4 mo. 25, 1737 ; married Isaac Hilliard. 3. William, born I mo. 29, 1739 ; married Mary Eastblack. 4. Rebecca, referred to below. 5. Frances, born 8 mo. 10, 1746; married John Hilliard. 6. Hannah, born I mo. 16, 1749; married Sam- uel Woolston. 7. Jeremiah, born 7 mo. 14, 175I.
(IV) Rebecca, daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah ( Bonnell) Haines, was born in North- ampton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 7 mo. 27, 1744, and died at Mt. Holly. March 22, 1826. June 7, 1775, she married John, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Foster ) White (q. v.) (see White line above).
(The Smith Line).
Thanks to the preservation of the old "Buggs" or "Trekle" Bible brought over by one of the Smith brothers who came to Amer- ica over two centuries ago, we have accurate information regarding the family in England. The line is traceable to William Smith, a farmer or yeoman, who resided in the parish of Bramham, West Riding, of Yorkshire, in the sixteenth century.
(I) Richard, son of William Smith, of Bramham, was baptized in the parish church there May 13, 1593, and was buried in the parish churchyard November 19, 1647. He was a contemporary of the hero of the Eliza- bethan period and of the first two Stuart reigns, and he lived in "a substantial mansion" near Bramham, which was found by William Dillwyn (a descendant, about 1800) still in the possession of a branch of their descendants. The then owners told W. D. that "it was built by Richard Smith, the first in the Elizabethan or Jacobean period in architecture." Richard Smith married about 1620, and among his chil- dren was Richard, referred to below.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (I), of Bramham, was baptized October 15, 1626, and died January 26, 1688. He was educated for the law, but his father dying about the time he came of age, he was thrown upon his own resources. He was one of the earliest of the converts to the creed of George Fox, and in 1650, while William Penn was hardly more than a baby, Smith wrote a tract called "A
Christian Directory," in which he clearly demonstrated the Friends' doctrine of the Holy Spirit. In 1655, when Miles Halhead and Thomas Salthouse were arrested for holding meetings contrary to law, Smith was one of the leading Friends who entered security for them. February 9, 1660, he was arrested, and with five hundred others was imprisoned in York Castle. Later in the same year he wrote his famous "Letter to a Priest of the Church of England." About four months after his death, his widow was committed to York Castle for refusal to pay tithes, and two years later she and her youngest son, the others having already emigrated to America, were assessed £23 17 shillings, which the officials appropriated out of her property. February 25, 1653, Rich- ard Smith married Anne, daughter of William Yeates, of Alborough. Children: I. Hannah, emigrated to America. 2. Mary, died in in- fancy. 3. John, born March 27, 1657, died 1699 ; emigrated to America in the "Kent." 4. Sarah, died in infancy. 5. Deborah, emigrated to America in 1691. 6. Benjamin, died in England. 7. Elkanah, died in infancy. 8. Daniel, born January 14, 1665, died August 4, 1742 ; emigrated to America in 1691 ; mar- ried Mary Murfin. 9. Joseph, born March 4 1667, died 1730, emigrated to America in 1691 ; married Catharine Lynch. 10. Emanuel, born 1669 or 1670, died 1720; emigrated to America in 1691 ; married Mary Willis. II. Samuel, referred to below. 12. Richard, born April 25, 1674, died 1750; married Anne Mar- shall.
(III) Samuel, son of Richard and Ann (Yeates) Smith, was born May 1, 1672, at Bramham, and died April 18, 1718, in Burling- ton, New Jersey. In 1694 he followed his brothers to the new world, where he became an active member of society and was recog- nized by his neighbors as possessing the qualities of leadership. He was chosen to represent Burlington in the assembly, and in the year 1716 his colleague was his brother Daniel. He engaged in both agricultural and mercantile pursuits and acquired considerable wealth for that early period, Joseph Sansom. in his "Mean- while," written in 1728, says of him that he was "much respected in his public capacity as a man of principle and conduct, was of a mild and benevolent disposition, rather inclined to retirement, yet no stranger either to the duties of the pleasures of society." The "History of New Jersey," of which his grandson and name- sake Samuel Smith was the author, says, "In 1718 died Samuel Smith, one of the members
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of assembly for Burlington; he had sought happiness in the quiets of obscurity, but being against his inclination, called to this and other publick stations, he passed thro' them with a clear reputation : In private life he was in- offensive, benevolent, steady and respected." Samuel Smith married ( first) Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Edmond Lovett, a prominent citizen of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and a member of the provincial assembly from that county. He married (second) Dorothy Gyles. Children, all by first marriage: 1. Richard, referred to below. 2. Samuel, died unmarried. 3. Mary, born June 15, 1701, married Joseph Noble.
(IV) Richard, eldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lovett) Smith, was born in Bur- lington, July 5, 1699, and died at Perth Amboy, November 9, 1751. He was extensively en- gaged in commerce with the West Indies, and owned a good deal of vessel property, his ships in fact being built under his own super- vision, and his sons making frequent voyages in them as super cargoes. He acquired large wealth, and of him it has been said, "Richard Smith appears to have combined, in an unusual degree the virtues of energy and business abil- ity with gentleness and tenderness of heart. His hospitality was largely exercised toward travelling Friends, as extant letters from such men as Isaac Norris and others amply testi- fied." Like his father, one of his uncles and a cousin, he represented Burlington county in the provincial assembly, his period of service reaching nearly twenty years. In 1720 he built his town house in Burlington, the property occupying an entire block between Main and two cross streets. His country seat, known as "Green Hill," originally belonged to the famous Samuel Jenings, one of the most noted characters in the early colonial history of New Jersey. He died while attending the assembly, and the body was brought to Burlington for interment, being met on the road by a pro- cession of his fellow citizens desirous of show- ing their respect to his memory. The Penn- sylvania Gasctte thus refers to him: "Last week died Richard Smith, Esq., of Burlington, N. J., and was buried in Friends' burial-ground in that city ; in whom the characters of a gen- erous, good-natured, hospitable man, true pa- triot and good Christian, were so truly blended that he lived beloved and esteemed by all who knew him, and his death is lamented as a public loss by the people of that province." August 20, 1719, Richard Smith married Abi- gail, daughter of Thomas Raper, the descend- ant of a famous Yorkshire family, one of
whose members was lord mayor of London. Her father was one of the early emigrants to West Jersey, and at one time a member of the colonial assembly. Children : 1-2-3. Sam- uel, John and William Lovett, are referred to below. 4. Richard, born March 22, 1735, died 1803; delegate to first Continental congress from New Jersey, and of the first legislative council, and state treasurer ; he married Eliz- abeth, daughter of Dr. John Rodman.
(V) Samuel, eldest child of Richard and Abigail (Raper) Smith, was born December 13, 1720, and died in 1776. He was a noted char- acter in New Jersey affairs, served both in the council and assembly, and was otherwise offi- cially identified with the province. He is best known, however, by reason of his "History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jer- sey, from its settlement to 1721," published in 1755. November, 1741, he married Jane, daughter of Joseph Kirkbride, of Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania. Children: Joseph, Abigail, Richard, Sarah.
(V) John, son of Richard and Abigail (Raper) Smith, was born March 20, 1722, and died March 26, 1771. He became a merchant in Philadelphia, and prospered exceedingly. He was chiefly instrumental in the organiza- tion in 1746 of the Philadelphia Contribution- ship, one of the first fire insurance companies in America. In 1755 he co-operated in the foundation of the Pennsylvania Hospital. He was a trustee of the Library Company of Phil- adelphia, and of the American Philosophical Society. In 1750-51 he was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, and he held other official public governmental positions. He married Hannah, daughter of James Logan, the confidential friend and secretary of Will- iam Penn, and later mayor of Philadelphia and a chief justice and governor of the prov- ince. Children : Sarah Logan, James, Han- nah, Hannah again, John, and John again.
(V) William Lovett, third son of Richard and Abigail (Raper) Smith, was born Sep- tember 19, 1726, and died December 14, 1794. Septeniber 15, 1749, he married Mary, daugh- ter of Daniel and Ann ( Stevenson ) Doughty, granddaughter of Jacob and Amy (White- head) Doughty, great-granddaughter of Elias Doughty, and great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Francis Doughty, the famous New Eng- land, Long Island, and Maryland minister. Children : 1. William Lovett. 2. Daniel Dough- ty, referred to below. 3. Samuel. 4. Ann. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Abigail. 7. Mary. 8. Lovett.
(VI) Daniel Doughty, second son of Will-
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iam Lovett and Mary (Doughty) Smith, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Schooley, great-granddaugh- ter of Samuel Jennings, the first governor of West Jersey. Among their children was Re- becca, referred to below.
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