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and finally died of apoplexy, January 4, 1884. A full meeting of the bar of Essex county was held a few days after his death, and many eloquent tributes were paid to his memory.
Judge Ludlow McCarter said, concerning him: "As a lawyer he was great. Of the prosecutors of this state he by common con- sent stood at the head. As an advocate he was the very impersonation of force and power. As a soldier in the field he was brave, and many times faced death without flinching. As a man he was honest, generous and noble, the truest of friends the most honorable of foes." The Hon. Cortlandt Parker, in a note ad- dressed to the meeting, which he was unable to attend, says among other things: "Poor Abeel, may he rest in peace. I see that the public prints do justice to his character. He was no copyist; nor did he truckle one whit to any one. What he wished he wished and went for it. What he thought he thought and was apt to say it. In a certain direction of ability he had few equals. Those whom he opposed had to look out. He asked no quarter and gave little." The following are the resolutions adopted on the occasion: "Resolved, That in the sudden death of Col. Gustavus N. Abeel the Bar loses one of its ablest and most experi- enced members ; an acute observer of men, in- stinctively able to detect sham, endowed with a mind distinguished for its quickness of apprehension and fertility of resource, dis- playing great tact and skill in the examination of witnesses, powerful and convincing in argu- ment, fearless and independent in the per- formance of duty, he filled the responsible office of Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex county for eleven years with credit to himself and safety to the community, and in that most important position his zeal in the exposure and punishment of crime was only equalled by the care with which he sought to discriminate ac- cused innocence from guilt. His mind was full of individuality, and native strength, and had his health been restored to him, a career in which he would have had few peers lay before him. He served with distinction in the war of the Union and rose by successive steps to an honorable rank in the service. His nature was genial and kindly ; his friendship was close and enduring ; he was a gallant soldier, a warm- hearted gentleman, and and upright man ; and we, members of the Bar of Essex county, join in tendering our sincere and heartfelt sym- pathies to his family from whom he has been so suddenly snatched by the hand of an over- ruling and wise providence."
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By his marriage with Margaret Hall, the Hon. Gustavus Neilson Abeel had three chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, married John R. Brinley and had five children : Margaret, John, Ayliffe, Anne and Elizabeth. 2. Caldwell Hall, died unmarried as a young man. 3. Neilson,, re- ferred to below.
(VIII) Neilson, youngest child of Colonel Gustavus Neilson and Margaret (Hall) Abeel, was born in Newark, New Jersey, August 22, 1872, died in that city, May 18, 1907. He re- ceived his early education in the Newark public schools; during his early manhood was em- ployed in the Celluloid Company in New York City. Deciding, however, to take up the law as a profession, he entered the New York Law School and after his graduation in 1898 was admitted to the New Jersey bar. In 1900 he was appointed assistant city attorney for New- ark under a Democratic mayor and held this office for three years. Up to his death he was an ardent worker for and a zealous upholder of the Democratic party, and his dearest wish was to see purer politics and a higher ideal for his party. He was a communicant of Trinity Church, Newark, and also a member of the Holland Society of New York.
April 19, 1900, he married in Newark, Nina Fessenden, seventh child and second daughter of Frederick Wolcott and Nannie Jane (Nye) Jackson, born June 11, 1874 (see Jackson, V), who survives him and has borne him four chil- dren: I. Nancy Fessenden, born March II, 1901. 2. Neilson Jr., October 29, 1902. 3. Elizabeth Wolcott, August 23, 1904. 4. Mar- garet Hall, February 3, 1906.
BARRETT Ireland has furnished several notable men of the name of Barrett, sons of immigrants who came to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. George Carter Barrett (1838-1906) associate justice of the New York supreme court, and his uncle, George C. Barrett, the successful New York lawyer ; and Lawrence Barrett ( 1838-91), the tragedian and contemporary of Edwin Booth and E. L. Davenport, and author of the lives of Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cushman- these are examples of the genius inherent in the family.
(I) John Barrett was born in county Cork, Ireland, in 1834. He married, in 1859, Mary D). Lee, born in 1837, in county Limerick, Ire- land. He came to the United States with his wife in 1860, and found employment in the shops of the Camden & Amboy railroad at
Bordentown, New Jersey, and about 1886 was transferred to the company shops in Newark, New Jersey, where he met his death by acci- dental drowning in the Passaic river in 1889. He was an industrious man, and brought up his family with his own high principles as to the honor attaching to honest labor. John and Mary D. (Lee) Barrett were the parents of fourteen children; two died in infancy, and eight still survive: I. Timothy J., of whom further. 2. John, born in Bordentown, New Jersey, 1873 ; is engaged in dredging along the Delaware river. 3. Thomas J., of whom fur- ther. 4. James, born- in Bordentown, New Jersey ; was a steam engineer until 1908, and is now engaged in the theatrical profession with his elder brother. 5-6. Lizzie and Bess, reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7. Mar- garet, lives in Bordentown ; is widow of George Sullivan, who was a plumber. 8. Hannah, re- sides in Florence, New Jersey. The family were brought up in the Roman Catholic church.
(II) Timothy J., son of John and Mary D. (Lee) Barrett, was born in Bordentown, New Jersey, in 1869. He was advertising solicitor for the Sunday Advertiser of Trenton, and while so engaged, became interested in ama- teur theatricals, and soon became a profes- sional. He made his first professional appear- ance in the vaudeville team of "McManus and King," Mr. Barrett, taking the part of Mc- Manus, continued to use that name. He mar- ried Edith Chappelle, of the vaudeville team of the Chappelle Sisters, and the couple are now playing under the name of McManus and Chappelle. In 1909 they appeared before the late King Edward and the Queen Mother in the private theatre at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Barrett wrote and staged the "Watermelon Girls" and the "Pullman Porter Girls." He and his wife both held well established places in the profession, and are great favorites with the amusement loving public.
(II) Thomas Joseph, third son of John and Mary D. ( Lee) Barrett, was born in Borden- town, New Jersey, November 15, 1875. He was educated in the parochial school of the Roman Catholic church at Bordentown, and when old enough found his first employment as an apprentice to the machinist's trade in the shops of the Riverview Iron Works, where he remained four years. He then went to Trenton, New Jersey, where he was engaged with William Shap for about a year. He next superintended the putting in of steampipes in the Linoleum Building, and had charge of piping the new building erected for the large
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Brewing Company established in Trenton. His next application of his engineering and me- chanical skill was the improvement of the roads of New Jersey under the direction of the state government. He began at the founda- tion by running a steel roller, and from that to the charge of the stone crusher. His next engagement was as foreman of the men em- ployed in macadamizing the state roads, and he held this position for twelve years, and during this time owned and operated the Keeler Stone Quarry in company with a partner. The ex- cellent roads in and about the state capital and iar into the surrounding country are monu- ments to his thorough workmanship and di- rection. In 1906 he sought a less strenuous profession and became proprietor of the Roeb- ling Inn at Roebling, New Jersey. He put the business on an excellent money-making basis, and sold it out May 20, 1908, and took charge of the Florence Hotel, which he remodeled and refitted, improving the entire property, which has been a wayside hostelry for genera- tions, and after expending more than $20,000 made it one of the most attractive and best equipped hotels of the state outside of the ex- clusive class of ultra-stylish patrons. He main- tains the old fashioned hospitality, where com- fort and good fellowship exists between the host and guests, and between one guest and another without regard to class distinction. Mr. Barrett is now engaged in the contracting business in Bordentown, New Jersey, and Greensboro, Maryland. Mr. Barrett is a Re- publican in politics, and a good Catholic in every sense of the word, and the political faith, combined with the religious faith, make him an ideal innkeeper and host to the traveling public, where automobile tourists over the splendid roads that he helped to build find special accommodation and leave with reluc- tance so genial a host.
He married, November 28, 1905, Anna, daughter of Captain John and Ellen (Sweeny) Herron, of Bordentown, New Jersey. She was graduated at St. Mary's Convent, Borden- town, New Jersey, and is the mother of two children: Rose Roebling, the first child born in the new town of Roebling, New Jersey, in October, 1906; as a babe she took three prizes at the baby show at Trenton; and Thomas, born at Roebling, in October, 1907.
The Brower family belongs BROWER among the old Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam, from whence the descendants of the original emi-
grant ancestors have dispersed throughout many of the states of the Union, especially into New Jersey, where the family has not only be- come numerous but has also played a most important part in the history of its various Dutch settlements.
(I) Adam Brouwer Berckhoven, born at Cologne, came to this country about 1642 and settled at New Amsterdam, where he lived in the house built on the lot of Hendrick Jansen. in 1656 he had removed to Long Island. He died in 1733. Among his children were : Jacob, married Anna, daughter of Domini Bogardus and Anneke Yans; Adam, referred to below.
(II) Adam, son of Adam Brouwer Berck- hoven, removed from Long Island to Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, and settled in the vicinity of Farmingdale, where he died in 1769. Among his children was Sybrant, referred to below.
(III) Sybrant, son of Adam Brouwer, was born in 1683, and married Sarah Webber, May 22, 1706. Children: Jacob, Arnatt, Abram, Cornelia, Sybrant Jr., Janett, Pieter, Annetje.
(IV) Jacob, eldest child of Sybrant and Sarah (Webber) Brower, was born in Mon- mouth county, May 7, 1707, and married, No- vember 2, 1724, Lea Studhard. Children : Jonas, John, referred to below.
(V) John, son of Jacob and Lea (Stud- hard) Brower, was born in 1733, and married, December 25, 1757, Katharine Verway. Chil- dren : Elias, referred to below ; Mary.
(VI) Elias, only son of John and Kath- arine (Verway) Brower, was born in Mon- mouth county, in 1760, and married Elizabeth Palmer. Children : Isaac I., referred to below ; Katharine, died young.
(VII) Isaac I., only son of Elias and Eliza- beth (Palmer) Brower, was born June 10, 1781. He was a miller. June 5, 1804, he married Schicha Van Brunt. Children : I. Elias I. Jr. ; Schicha ; Joseph ; Ann ; Catharine ; Henry ; Elizabeth; Benjamin; Gilbert Van Brunt, referred to below.
(VIII) Gilbert Van Brunt, youngest child of Isaac I. and Schicha (Van Brunt) Brower, was born at Marlboro, February 2, 1816, and died at Point Pleasant, in 1854. He was a farmer. He married (first) Ann Maria Hes- keth, who died in August, 1850. Children : William H .; Charles W., referred to below ; Amelia ; Christina ; Sarah. Gilbert Van Brunt Brower married (second) Amelia Hesketh ; children: Alonzo; Dewitt Clinton.
(IX) Charles W., second child and son of Gilbert Van Brunt and Anna Maria (Hes-
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keth) Brower, was born in Marlboro, New Jersey, January 12, 1840, and died June 12, 1906, in Farmingdale, New Jersey. As a boy he attended the common schools of Monmouth county, but his education was mostly the result of his efforts and perseverance. At the out- break of the civil war he enlisted in the Fourth New Jersey Heavy Artillery, in which he served as quartermaster-sergeant for three years and nine months, being in the battles of Cold Harbor and Andersonville, and on the frontier when General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. At the close of the war he returned home and after a year went into the butchering business in Eaton- town, New Jersey. . In 1870 he established the American House in Farmingdale, which he ran for forty years with great success, at the same time managing a farm a little way outside of the town. He was also very much interested in many financial organizations in which he was a large stockholder and director. Among these was the Farmingdale Improvement Com- pany, for the manufacture of pianos and car- riages, of which he was vice-president and treasurer, and also the Monmouth County Fair Association, then of Freehold, and later of Asbury Park, of which he was one of the di- rectors. In politics Mr. Brower was a Re- publican, and very active in the interests of his party, and although he steadfastly declined to hold any office he was widely known as one of the party leaders all over the county. For many years he served as a member of the Farmingdale school board. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Freehold, and a charter member of Squankum Tribe, No. 19, Improved Order of Red Men, of Farmingdale, and a past sachem of one of the oldest tribes in the state. He was also an officer in Conover Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Freehold. In his younger days he was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. Charles W. Brower married Martha E., daugh- ter of Jacob Young, of Ocean county, New Jersey. Children : I. William Isaac, born 1872 ; now station agent for Pennsylvania rail- road at Farmingdale; married Frances Kesth, of Brooklyn, New York. 2. Charles Chauncey, referred to below. 3. George Patterson, born in Farmingdale, 1882; now in the hotel busi- ness there, with his brother Charles Chauncey.
(X) Charles Chauncey, second child and son of Charles W. and Martha E. (Young) Brower, was born in Farmingdale, New Jer- sey, in 1876. After receiving his early educa-
tion in the schools of Farmingdale he went to the high school at Freehold and to the Free- hold Military Academy, after which he gradu- ated from the business college in Trenton, New Jersey. For seven years he was engaged in the mercantile business in Farmingdale, in the employ of Jacob Lutz. This position he left in order to go into the hotel business in Lake- wood, New Jersey, where he had charge of a hotel at the time of his father's last illness and death. After this event the American House, established and run by his father, was sold, and Mr. Brower removed for a short time to Philadelphia, but in March, 1907, re- turned to Farmingdale, where he established the Brower House, which he has ever since conducted most successfully and satisfactorily with the aid of his brother, George Patterson. In addition to this hotel he still continued to manage and operate the farm which his father had also carried on. He has now purchased the South Orange Hotel and will locate there soon. In politics Mr. Brower is a Republican. He is a past sachem of Squankum Tribe, No. 19, Improved Order of Red Men of Farming- dale, and was that tribe's representative to the grand council in 1909, and he is chief of rec- ords of the organization.
BUTTERWORTH
The Butterworth fam- ily of New Jersey has always had a reputa-
tion for honesty and integrity and those quali- ties of sterling value which have made New Jersey the most highly respected, and the strongest intellectually and morally of any state in the Union. The family has intermar- tied with almost every family that has a his- tory in the state, but unfortunately the records that have come to light so far are insufficient to reduce the family genealogy to a coherent whole, and the most that can be done with any degree of certainty is to trace individual lines back for several generations.
(I) The earliest known ancestor, John But- terworth, married Rachael Eayre, a descend- ant of one of the most prominent families of Burlington county, whose ancestry includes such names as Moore, Stokes, Fenimore and Lippincott. Among his children was Joseph, referred to below.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Rachael ( Eayre) Butterworth, was born February 19, 1798. He lived in Pemberton township, and married Esther, daughter of Jarvis and Eliza- beth ( Rogers) Stokes, born January 22, 1791.
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Her great-grandparents were Thomas and Mary ( Bernard) Stokes, who came to this country among the earliest of the old Quaker settlers. Among their children was Mordecai Stokes, referred to below.
(III) Mordecai Stokes, son of Joseph and Esther (Stokes) Butterworth, was born in Pemberton township, Burlington county, New Jersey, September 8, 1831, and died February 4, 1901. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Burlington county, after leaving which he conducted a general store in Wrightstown. Then for a number of years he was a farmer in Pemberton. In 1877 he came to Mount Holly and engaged in the hotel business. Three years later he sold out and went back to farming, which he continued until 1899, when he returned to Mount Holly and took charge of the same hotel that he had previously conducted, until the time of his death. He was a member of the Society of Friends ; a director in the Farmers' National Bank, of Mount Holly, and for one term col- lector for Burlington county. He married, October 10, 1851, Rebecca Childs Lippincott. Children : I. Franklin Lippincott, born De- cember 29, 1852 ; married Mary S. Budd; one child, Charlotte, born April 12, 1883. 2. John Henry, born February 19, 1854; married Camilla Lawler. 3. Jervis B., born June 24, 1855, died same year. 4. Gertrude, born Au- gust 29, 1857 ; married J. W. Ewan ; Esther B., now Mrs. S. Orland ; J. Edgar, married
Alcott; Ruth Pretz, of Brooklyn; Carl S. 5. Mordecai Stokes, born September 15, 1859, died in infancy. 6. Howard Lippincott, twin of Mordecai Stokes, died in infancy. 7. Eliz- abeth Esther, born March 2, 1860; married George I. Bowne, a descendant of the cele- brated John Bowne, of Flushing; children: Arthur D., G. Herald, Elizabeth B. 8. Mor- decai Stokes, born April 25, 1862, unmarried. 9. Rebecca Ella, referred to below. 10. Will- iam Lisco, born August 3, 1871, died in in- fancy. Rebecca Childs (Lippincott) Butter- worth died January 17, 1909.
(IV) Rebecca Ella, ninth child of Mordecai Stokes and Rebecca Childs (Lippincott) But- terworth, was born in Pemberton, New Jersey, September 27, 1869, and is now living in Mount Holly. She married (first ) Joseph Powell Jr., who died January 31, 1902. Married (second ) William D. Marren. Children of first mar- riage: Joseph Jr., died in infancy ; Beatrice Butterworth, died in infancy. Child of second marriage : William D. Jr., born April 4, 1907, died in infancy.
(IV) Captain Jonathan, son of CONDIT Samuel Condit (q. v.), was born in West Orange or Pleasant Valley, New Jersey, October 18, 1736. He settled on the farm of his father, where he followed his chosen occupation of farming, and died there August 29, 1823. He was a captain in the revolution, serving in Colonel Philip Van Cortland's Second Essex County . Regiment, attached to Heard's upper brigade. He was a conscientious churchgoer, and in his old age being poor and having no vehicle but an ox cart, he and his wife rode regularly to the church in that ; not caring to show it, he would stop as he entered the village, hitch his cattle to a tree, and thence walk to the house of God. He was on a committee by vote of the parish of the First Church, December 22, 1784, to call upon and settle with the managers by paying over to them money subscribed to the building of the "Orange" sloop, a boat running from Newark to New York in the interest of revenue of the parish. He married, 1758, Jemima Condit, born 1736, daughter of John Condit. Children: I. Isaac, bern July 19, 1759, died February 25, 1829. 2. Simon, born October 18, 1761, died January 5, 1839. 3. Ruth, born May 18, 1764, died September 12, 1840. 4. Jeptha, born 1768, died 1820. 5. Jonathan, born April 5. 1769, mentioned below. 6. Electa, born October 21, 1771, died September 10, 1776. 7. Phebe, born April 28, 1774, died September 4, 1776.
(V) Jonathan (2), son of Captain Jona- than (I) Condit, was born on the old landed homestead in West Orange Valley, April 5, 1769. In later years he removed some distance back into the mountain, where he settled on a farm of fifty acres situated on what is now Laurel avenue. Here he died November 30, 1854. He erected a stone house on Mt. Pleas- ant avenue, with road running between this and his son Moses's homestead. He cultivated the land and erected a shop where he set up a turning lathe for the turning of tool handles of dogwood. His power was furnished by water from the nearby brook. He maintained this shop for a number of years. He was of the straight forward and upright type of man, industrious and conscientious, a member of the First Presbyterian Church. At his house were held joint meetings of the society, and he was a devoted member of his church. He mar- ried Abigail Baldwin, born September 9, 1771. died January 17, 1843, daughter of Benjamin Baldwin. Children: I. Moses, born August 17, 1794, mentioned below. 2. Benjamin.
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born February 24, 1796, died December 14, 1855. . 3. Lucinda, born March 5, 1799, died July 29, 1866. 4. William, born April II, 1801, died June 13, 1859. 5. John, born De- cember 18, 1803, died February 28, 1810. 6. Morris Z., born March 12, 1807, died Decem- ber 19, 1866. 7. Maria, born January 14, 1809. 8. Abigail B., born March 18, 1812, died April 14, 1851. 9. Emeline, born Febru- ary 28, 1814.
(VI) Moses, son of Jonathan (2) Condit, was born on the old Condit homestead, Mt. Pleasant avenue, West Orange, New Jersey, August 17, 1794. He attended the district nearby school during the winter terms, work- ing on the farm at other times. He continued on his father's farm until after his marriage, and before his father's death was deeded the house and six acres of land. Here he spent his life. He raised the common crops, cut and sold large quantities of lumber from his own land, and bought other tracts which he cut and sold. He was successful with his orchard, growing large quantities of peaches, his son Albert conducting the growing and selling of this fruit. He raised Canfield and Harrison species of apples, converting these into cider at a profit. As a speculator in cattle he made much money, buying his cattle in Sussex and Orange countics and driving them to West Orange, slaughtered them during the winter months in his barn, in the old-fashioned way. His farm situated on the present Pleasant Valley way comprised at his death one hundred and eight acres. He was progressive and up- to-date, and had everything to beautify and improve his farm. Few farmers believe in the more improved ideas of agriculture than Mr. Condit, and he was always active in the affairs of the farm. He served in the war of 1812, going to Sandy Hook with his regi- ment, the service being mostly guard duty. He led an upright useful life, and devoted deeply to his home and family, which he taught the habits of industry and frugality. He had deep religious convictions, and early joined the Methodist church at Verona, but later joined the St. Cloud Presbyterian Church by letter at the formation of the society and was elected an elder of this church. He was an oldtime Whig in his belief and practice, but later affili- ated with the Democratic party. He became interested in education, was a trustee of the school in his district, and for a number of years boarded teachers at his home. He mar- ried, May 27, 1819, Maria Corby, born No- vember 30, 1797, died November 1, 1874,
daughter of William Corby. Children : I. Jesse W., born August 14, 1820, died March 19, 1872; married, November 26, 1856, Sarah A. Soper; children: i. William Adrian, born January 21, 1858; ii. Frank M. N., born June 29, 1860; iii. Emma S., born September 29, 1861 ; iv. Jessie Mabel, born May 23, 1864 ; v. Grace Ann, born June 29, 1866; vi. and vii. Edna M. and Minnie G., twins, born June 26, 1870, died August, 1870. 2. Albert born March I, 1823, mentioned below. 3. Martha Almira, born March 12, 1826, married, October 1, 1851, Adam Wilson Nevins; children: i. Ella A., born July 9, 1852; ii .- Mary Olive, born June 25, 1854, married J. Francis Conklin ; iii. Carrie E., born July 8, 1858, married Joseph H. Conklin ; iv. Wilson Condit, born January 14, 1860. 4. Theodore F., born December 18, 1828, married, February, 1858, Elizabeth Sayre; children: i. William, born December 14, 1858, died December 6, 1859: ii. Sarah E., born August 15, 1860; iii. John T., born May 16, 1862; iv. Lowell E., born May 14, 1864; v. Robert R., born July 7, 1866; vi. Mary O., born June 3, 1868. 5. Hannah Caroline, born March 24, 1831, married, April, 1861, Isaac Newton Canfield ; children : i. Anna Augusta, born April 23, 1862; ii. Mary Emma, born June 24, 1864, died December, 1874. 6. Jona- than Emmons, born August 27, 1833, died Sep- tember 9, 1849. 7. Moses Edgar, born Feb- ruary 23, 1836, married, December 11, 1867, Anna R. Bond ; children : i. Harry, born April 16, 1871, died April 30, 1872 ; ii. Carrie Nevins, born September 3, 1873. 8. Mary, born March 28, 1844 ; married. 1886, Andrew J. Van Ness.
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