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March 19, 1861, is a daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Taylor ) Fisher, and granddaughter of John and Keziah (Leigh) Fisher. Daniel Fisher, born in Mt. Lebanon, New Jersey, was a farmer by occupation, a Republican in poli- tics and a Methodist in religion; he was the father of two children John, Mary B., afore- mentioned as the wife of George Nolan.
William Daniel Nolan attended the public schools of Raritan and Somerville, and subse- quently was a student at Packard's Business College, New York. In 1896 he entered the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and continued until 1900, when he became con- nected with the firm of Jameson & Frelinghuy- sen, of New York, with whom he remained one year, after which he entered the employ of Samuels, Cornwall & Stevens, insurance bro- kers, serving them until 1907, when he became a member of the firm of Nolan & Swinton, with offices at No. I Liberty street, New York City, and No. 12 West Main street, Somerville, New Jersey, engaged in the insurance business. He is a man of excellent executive ability, enterprise and energy, and has the happy fac- ulty of making friends of those with whom he is thrown in business contact. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is connected with the Episcopal church. He is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, Lodge No. 1068, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Somerville, Bach- elor Club of Somerville, and the Somerville Athletic Club. Mr. Nolan is unmarried.
The Todd family is of Scotch an-
TODD cestry, coming from the north of Ireland before the revolution with other Scotchmen to make their homes in the fertile valleys of Pennsylvania.
(I) John Todd, sometimes called John Neat- by Tood, was a lawyer in Philadelphia. Ac- cording to the census of 1790 he was living on North street, between Market and Race streets, Philadelphia, and had in his family one son under sixteen and three females. There was also a John Todd of Philadelphia mentioned as head of a family, having a son over sixteen, another under that age, and three females. Whether they were related is not known. James Todd, son of the lawyer, was head of family, clerk at the bank, and lived on Chest- nut street, between Delaware and Sixth streets. Children of John Todd: James and John, both mentioned below.
(II) John Todd (2), son of John ( I) Todd, was also an attorney at law. He married, in
1790, Dolly Payne, born May 20, 1768, while her mother was visiting in North Carolina, daughter of John and Mary (Coles) Payne, of Hanover county, Virginia. Her parents were Quakers, joining the Society of Friends after their marriage; they set free their slaves and moved to Pennsylvania when Dolly was about eleven years old. She was educated in Philadelphia. In 1791, after her father died, her mother took boarders; in 1793 the mother left Philadelphia to live with her daughter, Mrs. George Steptoe Washington, afterwards with her other daughters. Her choice of a husband, we are told, met with the full ap- proval of her parents, and was commended to them by his high character, which had already won for him the love, respect and confidence of his friends. He was a young lawyer, tall, handsome in face and figure, of manly bearing, independent in means, and well established in his profession, and had given every promise of future eminence at the bar. Her great joy and happiness from her marriage was of but three brief years duration, and she was then to know the first sorrows of her life. and in nobly bear- ing them her own heart was to be softened, refined, purified and chastened by affliction. She had two sons-John Payne Todd, born February 29, 1792, and William Temple Todd, born 1793. When the yellow fever epidemic broke out in Philadelphia in 1793, Todd re- moved his wife and son Payne to a place of safety, and returned to the city bravely to con- sole, encourage and sustain the sick and dying. He attended the deathbeds of both father and mother, victims of the plague, and with a truly Christian fortitude, yielding not to the solicita- tions of his devoted wife, remained at his post of self-imposed and self-sacrificing duty, faith- ful unto death, answering her protests by say- ing : "Let what may befall me, these duties must be done, and after that I will never leave you again." He returned to her when the epidemic subsided, and then followed a tearful and heart-breaking scene. The young wife threw herself into his arms, but he bore with him all unconscious the seeds of the dread disease, and died October 24, 1793, while, she the adored, having taken the fever, lay at the point of death for three terrible weeks and recovered only to find herself bereft of hus- band and infant. No words of eloquence are needed to do honor to the husband's memory and to prove that he was every way worthy of his noble wife, and richly endowed with the manly qualities which win and keep a true woman's heart. His character speaks in the
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details of his life and death, and the language of his will is his eulogy, which may well be quoted : "I give and devise my estate real and personal to the dear wife of my bosom, and first and only woman upon whom my all and only affections were placed, Dolly Payne Todd
* * trusting that, as she has proved an amiable and affectionate wife to her John, she may prove an affectionate mother to my little Payne and the sweet babe unborn. My last prayer is may she educate him in the ways of honesty, though he may be obliged to beg his bread, remembering that will be better to him than a name and riches." His widow married (second) James Madison, who afterwards be- came president of the United States, and she became Dolly Madison, perhaps the most fam- ous American beauty of her day, the most distinguished of the wives of American presi- dents.
(II) James, son of John (I) Todd, was born in Philadelphia, about 1775. He married Alice, daughter of Samuel Poultney, who was a well-known loyalist during the revolution. Among his children was John Neatby, men- tioned below.
(III) John Neatby Todd, son of James Todd, was born in Philadelphia, about 1789. He was a purser in the United States navy. In religion he was a Quaker. He married Julia Parsons. Children, the first four born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the others in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts: I. Julia Parsons, born 1820; married G. H. Scott, admiral, United States navy. 2. Samuel, born 1822. 3. John, born 1824. 4. Benjamin Parsons, born 1826; attorney at law, New York City ; married Mary E. Parsons, daughter of C. S. Parsons, of New York City. 5. James Madison, born 1835. 6. William Rogers, mentioned below. 7. Henry Davis, born 1838; United States navy ; mar- ried Flora Johnson, daughter of Chancillor Johnson, of Annapolis, Maryland.
(IV) William Rogers, son of John Neatby Todd, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 15, 1837. He attended the public schools of Cambridge and of Brooklyn, New York. He is president of the Quincy Mining Com- pany. In politics he is a Republican, but has never held or sought public office. He is a member of the Episcopal church. He married (first) at Brooklyn, October 2, 1866, Margaret L. Owens, who was born October 2, 1848. He married (second) at Brooklyn, June 14. 1893, Emily M. Thomas. Children: John J., born 1874; William Parsons, born 1877; James Madison, born 1882.
DAVIS James Davis, the first member of this family of whom we have defi- nite information, was a farmer. When he was twelve years old he was brought from the state of Maryland to Port Monmouth, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he established himself, and in addition to his agricultural work interested himself in the fisheries industry. He was a Whig and later a Republican in politics, and served on both the town committee and as a school trustee. He married Mary Elenor Roop. Children: I. James. 2. Elizabeth Ann. 3. John Harrison, referred to below. 4. Daniel Roop. 5. Mary Elenor. 6. George Washington. 7. Hannah Maria. 8. Jacob Manchester. 9. Maryland Virginia. 10. Charles Wilson.
(II) John Harrison, son of James and Mary Elenor Davis, was born at Port Monmouth, Monmouth county, New Jersey, August 22, 1844, and died at Long Branch, Monmouth county, New Jersey, January 12, 1905. After leaving school he entered the employ of the Raritan & Delaware Bay Railroad Company, now a part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He advanced to the position of engi- neer, remaining with the railroad company until May 1904, when he retired to engage in the coal and hardware business at Long Branch, New Jersey. He was a Republican in politics, but held no public office. He was a trustee of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Church at Long Branch, New Jersey. He married, at Port Monmouth, New Jersey, December 31, 1868, Anna Wilhelmina, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Roop, who was born at Port Monmouth, New Jersey, April 10, 1852, and is now living at Long Branch, New Jersey. Children: 1. John Harrison (2), referred to below. 2. Anna Wilhelmina, born April I, 1875. 3. Bainbridge Jones, born May 28, 1878; married Florence Farley. Children of Daniel and Elizabeth Roop: I. Rebecca, mar- ried Theodore Francis. 2. Anna Wilhelmina, referred to above. 3. Daniel Jacob.
(III) John Harrison (2), son of John Har- rison ( 1) and Anna Wilhelmina ( Roop) Davis, was born at Manchester (Lakehurst), Ocean county, New Jersey, July 9, 1873, and is now living at Long Branch, New Jersey. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of Long Branch, and graduated from the high school in June, 1892, and then entered on his prosperous and successful career in the bank- ing business. His first position was that of clerk in the First National Bank, of Long Branch, New Jersey, which position he secured
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and held from June 24, 1891, until December 31, 1898, when he became one of the organ- izers of the Citizens' National Bank of Long Branch, New Jersey, which opened for busi- ness March 8, 1899. In this latter institution Mr. Davis took the post of bookkeeper and served as such until 1904, when he was ap- pointed assistant cashier, a position which he held for four years, until he was appointed cashier in 1908. Mr. Davis is a Republican in politics, and since 1904 has served as city treasurer of Long Branch. He is a member of Abacus Lodge, No. 182, F. and A. M., of Long Branch; Standard Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M .; Royal Arcanum, Loyal Association, Improved Order of Heptasophs, and Long Branch Lodge, No. 742, B. P. O. E. He is also a trustee of the Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at Long Branch. He married in Freehold, New Jersey, October 16, 1895, Alida, daughter of Matthias and Hannah (Truax) Woolley, who was born April 8, 1871 (see Woolley in index ). No. children.
SUTPHEN The Sutphen family may just- ly lay claim to considerable antiquity, representatives hav- ing come to this country at an early date, and their careers have been closely and honorably identified with the affairs of this country. Its representatives are now numerous and through many generations have been prominent along various lines of honorable business endeavor.
(I) Dirck Sutphen, immigrant ancestor, born in Holland, landed in America in 1651, settling at New Utrecht, Long Island. He married Elizabeth Jans Jacobson, and among their children was Guisbert, see forward. He died 1707.
(II) Guisbert, son of Dirck and Elizabeth Jans (Jacobson) Sutphen, was born in 1693, at New Utrecht, Long Island, where he spent the greater part of his life, removing from thence to Monmouth county, New Jersey. He died August 18, 1763. He married Gertrude Van Pelt, also of New Utrecht, a descendant of a well-known family of that section of the country. Among their children was Guisbert ( see forward).
(III) Guisbert (2), son of Guisbert (I) Sutphen, was born at Monmouth, August 28, 1720, and died in Bedminster, November 16, 1796. He married Areantie Van Pelt, Novem- ber 18, 1743; she died May 31, 1788.
(IV) Peter, son of Guisbert (2) and Are- antie (Van Pelt) Sutphen, was born August 17, 1762, at Bedminster township, Somerset
county, New Jersey, where he spent his life, taking an active part in all that pertained to the welfare of the community in which he re- sided. He married Catherine, daughter of Stephen Hunt, and among their children was Peter, see forward. He died February 4, 1839; his wife Catherine Hunt died May 1, 1831.
(V) Peter (2), son of Peter (I) and Cath- erine (Hunt) Sutphen, was born in Bedminster township, Somerset county, New Jersey, De- cember 5, 1800, died January 30, 1875. He was a prominent farmer and man of affairs, active and influential in the advancement and development of the section in which his life was spent. He married Sarah Smith, August 24, 1834; children: Dr. Joseph, a resident of Newark, New Jersey; Arthur Peter, see for- ward.
(VI) Arthur Peter, son of Peter (2) and Sarah (Smith) Sutphen, was born in Bed- minster township, Somerset county, New Jer- sey, October 3, 1841. He attended the public school of his native place for about eight years, acquiring a practical education which qualified him for the duties of life. Later he removed te Somerville, where he has since resided, and where he has been actively engaged in the insurance business. He has been honored by his townspeople, having been elected to serve in positions of trust and responsibility, serv- ing in the capacity of justice of peace for twen- ty-seven years and clerk of the board of free- holders for thirty-two years, discharging the duties pertaining thereto to the entire satisfac- tion of all concerned. He is also filling the office of secretary of the Board of Agriculture and of the Citizens' Building and Loan Asso- ciation. He attends the First Dutch Reformed Church, and casts his vote for the candidates of the Democratic party. He was secretary of the Somerset Bible Society seventeen years. He has been pension attorney for twenty years. He holds membership in Lodge No. 82, Knights of Pythias. Mr. Sutphen married, December 5. 1865, Hannah V., daughter of Samuel and Jane (Rue) Potter. Children: Mary, born April 20, 1868; Gertrude, died in infancy ; William R., born February 4, 1871; Jennie, February 22, 1874; Sadie, August 8, 1876; Samuel, September 27, 1881.
John Smith, son of Martin and SMITH Charity Smith, was born in Con- necticut in 1768, and came to New Jersey at the age of twenty-one and work- ed at his trade, that of a fuller. Family tradi- tion says that his ancestors were all of them
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coopers. He married Jane Merlatt. Children : Hannah ; John, referred to below ; Peter ; Jane ; George; Henry ; Rebecca.
(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Jane (Merlatt) Smith, was born in Readington, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, about 1815. He attended the common schools of his local- ity, and then learned the trade of cooper. After his marriage he settled down on a farm, which he managed in addition to his cooperage busi- ness. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church at Readington. He married Rachel A., daughter of Harman Lane, September 15, 1836, orig- inally Laen, or Lanen, and a descendant of old Teunis Lanen Van Pelt, of Amsterdam. Chil- dren: Abraham Lane; Mary J .; Sarah A .; Harriet ; John S .; David J., referred to below. (III) David J., son of John (2) and Rachel A. (Lane) Smith, was born in Readington, New Jersey, March 17, 1853, and is now living at Raritan, New Jersey. After receiving his education in the public schools he began when fifteen years old to work on the farm of John Morehead. He remained here one year, and then went to help his brother, for whom he worked for two years. He then learnt the trade of mason and set up for himself as a builder and contractor in New York, Brook- lyn and Flushing, Long Island. He has built many notable buildings, among them being the Beardsley residence at Flatbush, Long Island, the Flemington National Bank, J. E. Broad- head's residence at Flemington, J. H. Smith's residence at Somerville, the Somerville woolen mills, the Jackson building at Plainfield, the First National Bank of Somerville, and many business offices for the Central Railroad of New Jersey and other corporations. His most notable feat was the building for J. B. Duke at Raritan, a stone barn one hundred and fifty feet long by fifty feet wide in twenty-nine days, when he was obliged to send fifteen miles into the mountains and away from the railroads for his stone he needed. In 1903, after build- ing and superintending the masonry contracts for a number of other outbuildings for Mr. Duke, Mr. Smith accepted the position of sup- erintendent of Mr. Duke's large estate of seven- teen hundred acres, which is one of the most beautiful properties in New Jersey, and em- ploys about four hundred persons to take care of it. Mr. Smith has therefore, as he says, "little time for politics," but he always votes the Republican ticket. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He married, No- vember 28, 1875, Mary, daughter of Jacob R.
and Mary (Edmonds ) Sheets. Child: Jacob R., referred to below.
(IV) Jacob R., son of David J. and Mary (Sheets) Smith, was born in Stanton, Hunter- don county, New Jersey, August 27, 1877, and is now living in Somerville, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the Som- erville public schools, and afterwards served an apprenticeship with his father in the con- tracting and building trade. He then became one of the subcontractors for the subway sys- tem of New York City, and this occupied his time and energies for five years. He then went to Somerville, New Jersey, and entered into partnership with Mr. Barras, and since then the firm of Barras & Smith, which still does a most prosperous and successful business, has become well known through the numerous im- portant buildings they have constructed. Mr. Smith is regarded as a man of fine judgment and business ability, but is quiet and reserved. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Stanton. He is a member of Solomon Lodge, No. 46, F. and A. M., and of Lodge, No. 1068, B. P. O. E. He married, June 12, 1901, Rose, daughter of Hugh Johnson.
DAVIS William Jerome Davis, a member of the New Jersey bar and a rep- resentative citizen of Harrison, in that state, is descended from two of New Jer- sey's oldest and most honored families, Davis and Sandford. One of the earliest members of tlie Davis family of New Jersey was Jacobie Davis, who resided in Asbury, Hunterdon county, where his son Aaron was born Octo- ber 23, 1775. Jacobie Davis was great-great- grandfather of William Jerome Davis. His son, Aaron Davis, the great-grandfather of William J. Davis, was a cousin of William Davis, who in 1771 was the owner of all the territory where the village of Arlington, Kear- ney township, Hudson county, now stands. Aaron Davis, married, July 10, 1796, Molly ( Mary) Williamson, daughter of Captain Williamson, an extensive slave holder ; she was born July 15, 1776. Children of Aaron and Mary (Williamson) Davis: Rebecca, Eliza, Rebecca (2d), Mark W., Harriet, Charles R., and John and John A. Davis.
Aaron Davis resided in Hope, Warren coun- ty, New Jersey, where his death occurred July 27, 1839. in his sixty-fourth year. His son, Mark W. Davis, grandfather of William J. Davis, was born in Hope township, Warren county, March 4, 1804, and he made that his
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residence until he removed to Harrison town- ship, Hudson county, where he purchased a large farm and entered into the cattle business, also conducting a hotel which was a noted stopping place for Western drivers. He mar- ried, February 9, 1826, Ann Reed, of the same township, by whom he had three children- Irene M., who became Mrs. George W. Cross; Hiram W., of whom presently ; and Jerome B. Davis. Through Joseph Davis, who was born in 1716, and other issue of Caleb Davis, who married Ruth Bruen, daughter of Joseph Bruen, the Davis family of to-day is able to trace its lineage through the Bruens to some of the best, noblest and even royal blood of ancient England and France. This line is so interest- ing in itself as to warrant presenting here.
Beginning with Cedric, who invaded Eng- land in 495 and died 534, the descent runs as follows. Creoda, Cyneric, Ceawlin, Cuthwine, Cutha, Ceowald, Cenred, Inglid, who died in 718; Eoppa, Eafa, Eathmund, Egbert, Ethel- wulf, who died in 857; and Alfred the Great, King of England, who was born in 849 and died in 901. Alfred's daughter Elfrida was married to Baldwin II., the Bald, who was de- scended in a direct line from Pepin the Old, of France, born about 560 and died in 639. Pepin was the father of Begga, born in 638, who had Pepin le Gros, born about 650 and died in 714. Pepin le Gros's famous son, Charles Martel, born about 690 and died in 741, was the father of Pepin the Short, born about 715 and died in September, 768, and grandfather of the great monarch, Charle- magne, who was born April 2, 742, and died January 28, 814. Charlemagne's son, Louis le Debonnaire, born in 778 and died June 20, 840, was the father of Charles II. the Bald, who was born in 823 and died in October, 877. The latter's daughter, Judith, became the wife of Baldwin I., who died in 877, and the mother of Baldwin II. the Bald, who, as noted, mar- ried Alfred the Great's daughter, Elfrida.
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Arnolf I., the Old, son of Baldwin II. and Elfrida, was born before 874 and died March 27, 964, becoming the father of Baldwin III., who died January 17, 961, the latter's son, Arnolf II. the Young, son of Baldwin III., dying March 30, 989, left a son, Baldwin IV., known as Pulchra Barba (Comely Beard), who died May 10, 1036. Comely Beard's son, Bald- win V., who died September I, 1067, had a daughter Matilda, who married William the Conqueror, born November 2, 1053, and died September 9, 1087. Their daughter Adela be- came the wife of Stephen de Blois, who was
born in 1081 and died in IIOI, and their son, William de Blois, adopted his wife's name, de Sulli, his daughter, Margaret de Sulli, marry- ing Henry de Eu, who was born before 1084 and died July 12, 1140. The last named couple had a son, John de Eu, born before 1120 and died 1170, whose son, Henry de Eu, was born before 1150 and died in 1183. Alix, daughter of Henry de Eu, married Ralph de Exodun, who was born before 1172, and died in 1219. Their daughter, Matilde, married Humphrey de Bohun, who died September 24, 1275, and whose daughter, Alice, became wife of Ralph de Tony. Alice, daughter of Ralph de Tony, was born in 1285 and died in 1325. She mar- ried Guy de Beauchamp, who was born in 1272 and died August 12, 1315. They had a daugh- ter, Maud de Beauchamp, who married Geof- frey de Say, born in 1305 and died June 26, 1356. Idonea de Say, daughter of Geoffrey de Say, married Sir John de Clinton, who was born in 1323 and died in 1397, their daughter, Margaret Clinton, marrying Sir Baldwin de Montfort, who died about 1386, leaving a son, Sir William who died December 31, 1453.
Robert de Montfort, son of Sir William de Montfort, had a daughter, Katherine de Mont- fort, who married George Booth, who died in 1483, and their son, Sir William Booth, died November 9, 1519. Jane Booth, daughter of Sir William Booth, married Thomas Holford, who died September 24, 1569, and had a daugh- ter, Dorothy Holford, who married John Bruyn, who was born in 1510 and died May 14, 1587, leaving a son, John Bruyn or Bruen, who was born in 1560 and died January 18, 1625. Obadiah Bruen, son of the second John Pruen, was born in 1606 and had a son, John Bruen, born in 1646, whose son, Joseph Bruen, born in 1667, was the father of Ruth Bruen, wife of Caleb Davis.
It is through his mother, Emma L. (San- ford) Davis, that William Jerome Davis is a direct descendant from Captain William Sand- ford, founder of the New Jersey branch of the family of Sandford. The family bearing the name in different forms as Sontford, Sonforde, Sanford or Sandford, came to England with William the Conqueror, and the name of its founder occurs in every known copy of the "Battle Abbey Roll." The estate was confis- cated by Parliament and the representatives of the family came to America. Captain Sand- ford came from Barbadoes, West Indies, in the seventeenth century and on July 4, 1688, located in Union, New Jersey, settling on a purchase estimated to contain five thousand
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three hundred and eight acres of upland and ten thousand acres of meadow. He had enough influence to give the name of New Barbadoes to the township in which Hackensack, the capital of the county, is situated. He lived in Newark in 1675, and was a member of the Newark council in 1681 and 1684. He must have owned considerable property and have erected a number of buildings at East Newark, now a part of Newark itself, for in 1680 his place was known as "Santfort, an English vil- lage opposite Milfort." Captain Sandford came to this country in the interest of Stephen Kingsland, who owned large possessions in New Jersey. By his will, dated March 14, 1685, Kingsland gave one-third of his lands in New Jersey, consisting of about three thous- and four hundred and two acres, to his nephew, Isaac Kingsland, the other two-thirds going to his children-John, Nathaniel, Isabella, wife of Henry Harding; Caroline, wife of John Barroe Jr .; Mary, wife of William Walley ; and Esther, wife of Henry Applethwaite.
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