Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume IV, Part 26

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 620


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(VIII) Frederick Dayton, son of William Henry and Margaretta (Conover) Wikoff, was born in Freehold, September 27, 1863, and is now living at Red Bank, New Jersey. After receiving his early education in the public schools of Freehold he attended the Freehold Institute and the Greenwood Institute at Mat- awan, and then took a position as clerk in a drug store, which he kept for five years, re-


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signing it to take a similar position in Asbury Park. He then came to Red Bank, where he continued in the drug business until 1903, when he gave it up owing to the state of his health, and started in the hay, grain and coal business, which he is now conducting most successfully. He is a charter member of the Red Bank lodges of the Royal Arcanum and of the A. O. U. W., and treasurer of the Red Bank B. of T. He is also a member of the Ice Boat Club, and of the Monmouth County Historical Society, and a trustee of the Presbyterian Church in Red Bank. He married, in Red Bank, January 21, 1885, Laura M., daughter of Thomas F. and Eliz- abeth (Wilbur) Morford, who was born June 23, 1862. Children : Mabel Thomas, born March 22, 1888, married Horace Van Dorn Jr .; William Henry, born March 7, 1893. Children of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Wil- bur) Morford: Jennie, Catherine, Laura M., (referred to above), Henry.


The Downing family of Amer- DOWNING ica are, so far as is known, the descendants of the children of


Henry and Jane (Clotworthy) Downing, and grandchildren of Emanuel Downing, who mar- ried Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, and the father of Sir George Downing, Knight, who married Frances How- ell, played such an important part in the polit- ical history of his time and country, and in honor of whom the famous Downing street, London, has been named.


Emanuel Downing is the descendant of the old Plantagenet race of English kings. His father Calybut married Elizabeth Wingfield, widow of Edward Morrison, whose mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Cecil and sister to William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Her great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Wingfield, Knight, married Elizabeth Cousell, whose father, Sir Robert Cousell, Knight, was the third husband of Elizabeth Fitz Alan, who had married (first) William de Montacute, son and heir of William, Earl of Salisbury, and ( second) Thomas de Mowbray, Earl Mar- shal and Duke of Norfolk, Knight of the Gar- ter, and ancestor of the present dukes of that duchy. Her father, Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, had married Elizabeth de Bohun, and her grandfather, Richard Fitz Alan Sr., Earl of Arundel, had married Eleanor Planta- genet, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, and Blanche, daughter of Robert Comte d'Ar- tois, and widow of Henry, king of Navarre.


Henry of Lancaster was the brother of Ed- ward I. of England and the son of Henry III. of England, and Eleanor de Berenger, daugh- ter of Raymond de Berenger, Comte de Prov- ence.


Adam, son of Henry and Jane (Clotworthy) Downing, married Margaret Jackson, and from him is descended the branch after whom Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is named. From the other three sons of Henry Downing -- John, George and Daniel-are descended the New England and New Jersey families.


(I) Daniel B. Downing, who was a grand- son of George, son of Henry and Jane (Clot- worthy) Downing, was born in 1748, and died February 24, 1828. He married Margaret born 1751, died February 8, 1802. Among their children was Elias Madison, re- ferred to below.


(II) Elias Madison, son of Daniel B. and Margaret Downing, was born in 1782. He married Polly (or Mary) Chace, born Decem- ber 5, 1784, died in 1856. Among his chil- dren was John Chace, referred to below.


(III) John Chace, son of Elias Madison and Polly (Chace) Downing, was born in Jan- uary, 1808, and died in 1846. He married, in 1830, Joanna, daughter of David and Phebe (Tillou) Beach (see Beach). Children : I. Charlotte Augusta, died in infancy. 2. Emma Louise, born May 2, 1833; married, June 2, 1859, William Robinson, born June 10, 1831, son of John and Jane ( Robinson ) Alling ; chil- dren: John D., born September 16, 1860; Jane R., December 8, 1861, died September 22, 1863 ; William Robinson Jr., born July 13, 1865, died January 13, 1866; Madison, born November 1, 1867. 3. Joanna Beach, married Sylvester S. Battin ; children: John B. Battin, married Jennie C. O'Gorman, and has Joanna Downing Battin and Mary Adams Battin ; Syl- vester Battin Jr., married, and has Elizabeth Downing Battin and Ruth Battin; Jessie Bat- tin, born 1861, died 1871; Clara Battin, born 1865, died 1880. 4. John, Chace Jr., referred to below. 5. Madison, born January 2, 1840, died April 5, 1878, unmarried.


(IV) John Chace (2), son of John Chace (I) and Joanna (Beach) Downing, was born in New York City, June 13, 1887, and died in Newark, New Jersey, December 29, 1900. He received his education in the famous pri- vate school of Dr. Hedges, of Newark, and of Mr. Labaugh, at Hackettstown, and then enter- ed on his life work as a manufacturing jeweler with the firm of Downing & Field. In politics he was a Republican, and throughout his long


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life he was a consistent and faithful member of the South Park Presbyterian Church of Newark, on the board of trustees of which he served for many years as treasurer and presi- dent. He was also for a long time an active member of the Jewelers' Club. He married Josephine R. Cook, of New Orleans. Chil- dren: Jessie Battin; Elizabeth Cook; Alice Marianne, married Robert Bogardus Parker, and has Robert Bogardus Jr. ; Paul Cook, re- ferred to below.


(V) Paul Cook, son of John Chace (2) and Josephine R. (Cook) Downing, was born in Newark, New Jersey, January 25, 1878, and is now living in that city. After attending the Newark Academy for a number of years, he finished his education in the Hartman Naylor Academy at Summit, New Jersey; and then, obtaining a position with the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, by his ability and perse- verance he worked himself up steadily until he reached his present position of assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. He is a member of the Union Club of Newark, and a Protestant Episcopalian. September 22, 1904, he married in Great Barrington, Massachu- setts, Sarah Dodge Peters, of that town, who was born December- 31, 1877 ; children, Lucy Peters, born September 1, 1905; Paul Cook Jr., June 14, 1910.


(The' Beach Line).


Thomas Beach, generally believed to have been a son of John Beach, of Devonshire, Eng- , land, and who is known to have been a brother of Richard Beach, is found at New Haven as early as 1654, when he took the oath of allegi- ance. He moved to Milford in 1658, and died in 1662. He married Sarah Platt, of Milford, who after his death married (second) Miles Merwin. Children : Sarah, married Samuel Lyon, of Newark; John; Mary; Samuel; Zopher, referred to below.


(II) Zopher, son of Thomas and Sarah (Platt) Beach, was born at Milford, Connecti- cut, May 27, 1662. He settled at Newark, and his house is believed to have been on what is now Clinton avenue, a short distance west of Lincoln Park. He was town assessor, towns- man, and on a committee "to provide a man to be surveyor general.", He married Martha -- , who survived him. Children: Epe- netus, referred to below ; Samuel ; Josiah, mar- ried Anna Day; Zopher, married Jane Davis. (III) Epenetus, son of Zopher and Martha Beach, was born at Newark, about August, 1696, and died at Newark, June 14, 1750, being


buried in the old burying-ground on Broad street. He was town collector and surveyor of highways. He married (first) Mary + born February 28, 1696, died December 13, 1736; (second ) Phebe, widow of Mr. Kinney, whose son by her first husband, Thomas Kin- ney, of Morris county, was in 1777 made guardian of the daughter of his half brother Epenetus Beach Jr. Children, eight by first marriage: I. Ezekiel. 2. Hannah, married Caleb Baldwin. 3. Joseph, referred to below. 4. Sarah, married Abraham Canfield. 5. Rachel, married Elijah Crane, of Newark. 6. Mary, married a Mr. Low. 7. Tabitha. 8. Elisha, married (first) Sarah ; (second) Si- bella (Newton) Force. 9. Epenetus, married (first) (second) Hannah Ayres. 10. Phebe. II. Jabez, married Anne Ayres.


(IV) Captain Joseph, son of Epenetus and Mary Beach, was born at Newark, about 1720, and died February 17, 1765. He removed to Mendham, where he spent the remainder of his life, being appointed one of the justices of the peace for Morris county in March, 1759, and being supposed to have fought in the French and Indian war. After his death his widow and seven surviving children returned to Newark, where she died. He married Eunice, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Crane) Baldwin, who was born at Newark, about 1720, and died December 25, 1787. Chil- dren: I. Elias, referred to below. 2. Abner, died unmarried, aged seventeen years. 3. Eunice, died unmarried, in her sixteenth year. 4. Rachel, died in her fourteenth year. 5. Joseph, married Catherine Ogden. 6. Nathan- iel, born October 15, 1754, died May 4, 1808, married Sarah -; served in the revolu- tionary war as private in Captain Abraham Lyon's company, Second Essex County Regi- ment, and afterwards was colonel of the Third Regiment New Jersey militia. 7. Hannah, died unmarried. 8. Samuel. 9. Matthias. 10. Mary. II. Sarah.


(V) Elias, son of Captain Joseph and Eunice ( Baldwin) Beach, was born at Mendham, New Jersey, about 1750. He lived at Newark, and was a soldier in the revolutionary war. A letter from his son-in-law, Rev. Stephen Hays, dated April 4, 1862, says of him: "Mr. Elias Beach, the father of my wife, suffered much in the revolutionary war, was taken prisoner and confined a long time in the sugar house in New York, where his feet were frozen, and he lost in consequence, most of his toes * He was much respected for his many amiable *


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qualities, and the late Judge Pennington, father of the late Speaker Pennington, who was with him through the revolutionary war, said he 'loved him like a brother.'" He married Jo- anna, daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Crane) Camp, who was born about 1759, and died at Newark, February 6, 1832, in her seventy-third year. Children: 1. David, referred to below. 2 Caleb, died July 10, 1853, married Isabella Neal. 3. Ephraim, died August 13, 1837, mar- ried Mary Pierson. 4. Eunice, married in 1805, Lewis Shippen. 5. Phebe, married, 1804, Jo- seph Hedden. 6. Rachel, died October 14, 1860, married Rev. Stephen Hays. 7. Mary, died October 1, 1824, in her twenty-eighth year ; married Nicholas E. Dullaghar. 8. Eliz- abeth.


(VI) David, son of Elias and Joanna (Camp) Beach, was born at Newark, July 12, 1780, and died there May 30, 1830. He mar- ried Phebe Tillou, born at Orange, June 3, 1779, died in Newark, November 30, 1832. Children : I. Elias, born November 21, or De- cember 1, 1805, died November 5, 1851. 2. Mary Ann, born August 5, 1807, died June 27, 1815, unmarried. 3. Joanna, referred to below. 4. Phebe, married, 1832, F. H. Smith. 5. Sarah, married, 1832, H. G. Johnson. 7. Albert. 8. David. 9. Mary Ann, married, 1841, E. A. Baldwin.


(VII) Joanna, daughter of David and Phebe (Tillou) Beach, was born in Newark, De- cember 26, 1809, and died in 1842. In 1830 she married John Chace, son of Elias Madison and Polly (Chace ) Downing.


WOOLLEY Britton, son of Montillion Woolley, is the first member of this family of whom we have definite information. His father is prob- ably the Montillion Woolley who died intestate i11 Monmouth county, and he himself was born in Long Branch, where he was a blacksmith, painter, sea captain and teamster. He married Ann Wood. Children: Matthias ; Montillion W., referred to below; Britton; Ann; Mar- garet ; William H .; Mary ; Martha ; Deborah. (II) Montillion W., son of Britton and Ann (Wood) Woolley, was born in Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, July 10, 1810, and died there in March 1880. He was a car- penter and farmer. He married (first) Cor- nelia, daughter of Michael and Hannah (Throckmorton) Maps, who died in 1851; (second) Lydia C. Emery. Children, eight by each marriage: Matthias, referred to below; Hannah E .; Mary A .; Lavinia ; Will- iii-37


iam E .; Margaret E .; James R .; Cornelia ; John Lewis; Francis ; George; John; Willis; Lewis E .; Harriet ; Alfred.


(III) Matthias, son of Montillion W. and Cornelia (Maps) Woolley, was born in Long Branch, Monmouth county, New Jersey, De- cember 10, 1837, and is now living there. He received his education in the Long Branch public schools and in the Charlotteville Semi- nary, the latter of which he attended for one season, and then began teaching school in Monmouth county, which he continued to do until 1864, when he went as clerk into a store at Oakhurst, Monmouth county. Here he re- mained for one year, and came to Long Branch and started in for himself in the mercantile career which he so successfully followed until 1877, when he received from Postmaster-gen- eral Jewell the appointment of postmaster of Long Branch, which he held for the succeed- ing eight years until 1885, when he went into the real estate and insurance business with C. D. Warner, the firm name being C. D. War- ner & Company. The partnership was dis- solved in 1894. In politics Mr. Woolley is a Republican, and besides his service as post- master he was sheriff of Monmouth county from 1893 to 1896. Since that time he has been engaged in the insurance business for himself. Mr. Woolley was drafted during the civil war, but was exempted from service. He is a past grand master of Lodge No. 77, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Simp- son Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in Long Branch. He married (first) in Long Branch, December 6, 1859, Hannah, born Sep- tember 22, 1837, died August 12, 1904, daugh- ter of Anthony and Tenty Ann (White) Truax (see Truax in index). He married (sec- ond) Harriet Emma Dilentash. Children, all by first marriage: I. Cornelia W., born Janu- ary 1, 1862 ; married James Stewart : one child, James Stewart Jr., married Mabel Lawrence. 2. Anthony Truax, referred to below. 3. Alida W., born April 8, 1871 ; married John H. Davis, whom see in index.


(IV) Anthony Truax, son of Matthias and Hannah (Truax) Woolley, was born at Oak- hurst, New Jersey, March 27, 1863, and is now living at Long Branch. After receiving his early education in the public schools he attend- ed the Eastman Business College at Pough- keepsie, New York, from which he graduated i1: 1881, when he returned to Long Branch and began clerking for the Long Branch Bank-


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ing Company, with whom he remained until 1893, when he resigned in order to take his father's place in the firm of C. D. Warner & Company, real estate and insurance brokers. In 1896, when his father retired from the office of sheriff, the two organized the insurance firm of M. Woolley & Son. Mr. Woolley is a Republican in politics, and was a member of the board of education of Long Branch for six- teen years. In 1897 he was appointed postmaster of the city, was reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1902 and 1906, and by President Taft in 1910. He is also secretary and treas- urer of the New Jersey Mortgage and Trust Company, which he helped to organize. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and of the Junior A. O. U. M., and he has just joined Abacus Lodge, F. and A. M., of New Jersey. For fifteen years he has been steward of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Long Branch. He married, in As- bury Park, October 12, 1887, Caroline N., born in New York City, March 6, 1684, daugh- ter of Daniel D., and Sarah E. (Watson) Davis. Children: 1. Walter M., born Feb- ruary 14, 1889. 2. Edgar D. 3. Marian C. 4. Mildred. 5. Frances H. 6. Anthony Truax. Children of Daniel D. and Sarah E. ( Watson) Davis: I. Ella, died aged twelve years. 2. Caroline N., referred to above. 3. Walter W., now dead; married at Asbury Park, Theresa Martin ; one child, Eleanor. 4. Charles B., married Harriet R. Weir.


SOMMER The Sommer family of New- ark comes from that stalwart German stock which has given so much in previous centuries towards the making up of the strong foundations which lie at the root of New Jersey civilization.


(I) George Sommer, founder of the family in this country, came from Germany to Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and then removed later on to Newark, New Jersey. Among his children was Henry, referred to below.


(II) Henry, son of George Sommer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and came with his parents to Newark, where he is now living. He married Mary, daughter of Franz and Rosalie Haefeli (see Haefeli I). Children : Frank Henry, referred to below; Raymond, deceased, married and had one child, Raymond Jr .; George David, married Josephine Bol- linger.


(III) Frank Henry, eldest child of Henry and Mary (Haefeli) Sommer, was born in


Newark, New Jersey, September 3, 1872, and is now living in that city. For his early edu- cation he was sent to the public schools of Newark, and after graduating he went to the Metropolis Law School, from which he grad- uated in 1893. He then went to the law de- partment of the New York University, and after completing his course there received his LL. D. degree, in 1899. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in the No- vember term of the supreme court, 1893, and as counsellor in the February term of 1897. He has been ever since engaged in the general practice of his profession and in the active upholding of the advancement of his polit- ical party, which is the Republican. At first he went in partnership with Edwin G. Adams and later became a member of the firm of Guild, Lum & Sommer, which later on became the firm of Sommer, Colby & Whiting. In ad- dition to his law practice, wherein he has not only been successful but has become well known and deservedly as one of the acute legal minds of Newark, Mr. Sommer has served his party in a number of important municipal and county positions, among which should be mentioned his term as a member of the board of education of the city of Newark, and his term from 1905 to 1908 as sheriff of Essex county. In this latter position Mr. Sommer showed himself to the best advantage and proved one of the ablest of the many able men who have held that position. Mr. Som- mer is not a member of many clubs, but he is an enthusiastic member of three of Newark's most exclusive and popular ones, namely : Essex County Country Club, Lawyers' Club of Newark and the Roseville Athletic Club.


Mr. Sommer married, November 24, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, Kate Whitehead, daughter of Edward and Hannah (Throck- morton ) Royce. Children: Florence Cath- erine, George Raymond, Frank Henry Jr.


(The Haefeli Line).


The Haefeli family of Newark came over to this country about the same time as the Som- mers family, with which it is so intimately connected, and although its nationality is dif- ferent, yet it belongs to the same group of Teu- tonic settlers who have formed the greatest bulwark of this country's foundation char- acteristics.


(I) Franz Haefeli, founder of the family in America, came from Switzerland and set- tled in Newark, New Jersey. By his wife


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Frank Sommer


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Rosalie he had three children: Albert, re- ferred to below; Elizabeth; Mary, married Henry Sommer (see Sommer, III).


(II) Albert, only son of Franz and Rosalie Haefeli, was born in Newark, New Jersey. He attended the Green street German school, and later graduated from the Washington street school. At age of fourteen he entered the em- ploy of the State Banking Company, later merged into the Union National, with which he remained and advanced steadily up to the position of assistant cashier. For a long time he was secretary and treasurer of the Wee- quahic Land & Improvement Company, of which shortly before his death he was elected vice-president. He was also treasurer of the Weequahic Building & Loan Association, a member of the Arion Singing Society for many years, and one of the organizers of the Kindling Wood Bowling Club. He died July 25, 1909, at the age of forty-four, on the birthday of his one year old son, Albert Franz.


. SMITH David Smith, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, lived in Vernon, Connecticut, and was a revolutionary soldier. He was a farmer, and owned a very large tract of land in that locality. He mar- ried Olive, daughter of Deacon Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lyman) Talcott, of Bolton, Con- necticut ; (see Talcott). Children: 1. Aurora, born May 25, 1792; died April 22, 1830; un- married. 2. Olive, born September 1, 1798; died March 29, 1831 ; unmarried. 3. Warren, born July 27, 1800; died in January, 1870 ; married Mary Goodrich; lived in Chicopee, Massachusetts ; no children. 4. David Tal- cott, referred to below. 5. Mary, born June 16, 1807 ; married Horace Taylor ; no children. 6. Daniel, born September 9, 1810. 7. Zolva, born June 1, 1813 ; married McHall.


(II) David Talcott, son of David and Olive (Talcott) Smith, was born in Vernon, Con- necticut, July 23, 1804, and died there July 25, 1855. He was a farmer, a Democrat, and attended the church at Vernon Centre. He married (first) May 27, 1828, Mary, daughter of Colonel McLean, who built the first woolen mill at Rockville, Connecticut, who died Au- gust 8, 1831. He married (second) in 1831, Margaret T., daughter of Colonel Thompson, of East Windsor (now Melrose) Connecticut, who died in 1852. Children, two by first mar- riage : Frances; George; James Harper, re- ferred to below ; Warren.


(III) James Harper, son of David Talcott


and Margaret T. (Thompson) Smith, was born at Vernon, Connecticut, September 27, 1834, and is now living at Somerville, New Jersey. When he was nine years old he went to Ellington Centre to live, and three years later began working on a farm. After one year of this labor he entered the woolen mills at Rockville, Connecticut, and later those at Warehouse Point, in the latter of which he remained until he became superintendent. His ability was such and so recognized that while he received many offers to take charge of various plants that had been only partially successful, in order to put them on a paying and prosperous basis. During the civil war he was at Newark, New Jersey, working for Henry Gardner, where he had charge of two mills. He then removed to Raritan, where there was a small mill in operation employing about thirty hands, and here his executive and business ability made itself so plainly man- ifest that he eventually developed the plant into two large mills which at the time of his retirement employed thirteen hundred hands. In these mills Mr. Smith became part owner, and the business management of the mills was turned over to his son, whose early death put an end to what promised to be a very brilliant career. Mr. Smith is a very public spirited man, and very energetic and broadminded. He is independent in politics, and a communicant of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in Somerville. He married, in 1860, Mary E., daughter of Lemuel At- water, of Wallingford, Connecticut. Child : Henry Atwater.


(The Talcott Line).


The Talcot or Talcott family came originally from county Warwick, England, and John Talcott, the earliest known ancestor of the family in America, and a descendant of the Warwickshire Talcots, was living in Col- chester, county Essex, England, as early as 1558, when his arms are recorded in a visita- tion of county Essex. He died in Colchester about November, 1606. He married (first) Wells, and (second) Marie Pullen, who survived him and died in Colchester, June 19, 1625. Children, three by first marriage: I. John referred to below. 2. Robert, died 1641 ; married Joanna Drane; became an alderman and justice of the peace in Colchester. 3. A daughter, married - Barnard ; children : John and Mary Barnard. 4. Thomas, married Margaret Biggs, of county Suffolk; took orders and became rector of the parishes of St.


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Mary and Mile End, Colchester, and chaplain to the Earl Marshal of England. 5. Grace, married, after 1606, John Death. 6. Joanna, married, after 1606, Knewstable. 7. Marie, married, after 1606, - Marshall. 8. Eme, married, before 1606, Thomas Adler. 9. John, who lived for a time with his half- brother John, and later went to Madrid, Spain, where he became a prominent merchant.


(II) John (2), son of John ( I) and


(Wells) Talcott, was born probably in Colches- ter, county Essex, England, previous to 1558, and died in Braintree, about fourteen miles from Colchester, early in 1604. He married Anne, daughter of William Skinner. Children : 1. John, referred to below. 2. Rachel living unmarried in 1623. 3. Anne. 4. Mary, possibly married Pagot Eggleston, in England, and emigrated with him to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, and was mother of James and Samuel Eggles- ton. 5. Grace, living and unmarried in 1623. 6. Sarah, living and unmarried in 1623.




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