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Children : I. Orville Ezra, mentioned below. 2. Horace Nutman, born April 14, 1864; mar- ried, October 5, 1893, Sarah Mary Taggart; a clergyman of the United Presbyterian church at McAlevy's Fort, Pennsylvania. 3. Cyrus Gildersleeve, born October 30, 1865; married, May 4, 1898, Anna Mary Higgins; child, George. 4. William Baldwin, born April 6, 1867, died November 22, 1895, unmarried. 5. Hermon Martin, mentioned below.
(VIII) Orville Ezra, son of George Camp and Sarah Frances (Van Duyne) Freeman, was born at West Orange, New Jersey, Febru- ary 17, 1863, died there March 15, 1909. His preliminary education was acquired in a pri- vate school taught by his aunt, Miss Lucy Van Duyne, after which he entered the high school of Orange, in which institution he was grad- uated at the age of nineteen years. In early life he became familiar with all the duties that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and when not occupied with his studies he devoted the greater part of his time to farm work on the old homestead. After his graduation he as- sumed the management of the farm for his father, and continued to successfully engage in its operation until 1889, when he resolved to engage in mercantile pursuits in Orange Valley. Accordingly, in connection with his brother, Cyrus G. Freeman, he established what grew to be one of the largest and most popular stores in Essex county. The greater part of the vegetables, of which they carried on an extensive assortment, was the product of their own farm. They also conducted a ineat market in connection with the other branches of the enterprise, and in all departments of their business they enjoyed a very liberal pat- ronage. The building which the firm of Free- man Brothers occupied was erected especially for their business and was a structure forty- five by fifty feet, located at Nos. 53 and 55 Freeman street, near the Highland avenue sta- tion. This market constituted one of the lead- ing business houses of the Oranges, and en- joyed a large and constantly increasing trade. Orville E. Freeman was also engaged in the livery business, as a partner in the firm of P. Vroom & Company, a profitable enterprise with a large patronage. Hc was deeply inter -. ested in the welfare of the community with which he was connected, and did all in his power to promote the educational, moral and material growth of the county. He was pro- gressive and public-spirited and withheld his co-operation from no movement calculated for the public good. In 1894 he was elected a
member of the board of education, and in 1896 was re-elected for another term of three years. He was a member of Council No. 799, National Union, at Orange, and of the Patrons of Hus- bandry. His public career and private life were above reproach, and in matters of busi- ness his reputation was unassailable by reason of his close adherence to the ethics that govern an honorable, business life. Mr. Freeman married, January 16, 1895, Sarah Adelaide Sigler, born April 13, 1864, daughter of Charles and Margaret (Beam) Sigler, the former of whom was a carriage maker and trimmer by trade, also a carriage mer- chant at Wanague, New Jersey. Children : George Camp, born October 3, 1896, died Oc- tober 24, 1896; Elizabeth Frances, born Octo- ber 16, 1897; Margaret Beam, born October 12, 1899; Orville William, born July 25, 1902; Bertha Cooper, born February 24, 1906.
(VIII) Hermon Martin, son of George Camp and Sarah Frances (Van Duyne) Free- man, was born on the ancestral homestead, June 10, 1869. His elementary educational training was gained in a private school, and at nine years of age he entered the Orange public schools, graduating from the high school in 1887. Subsequently he took a course of one year in the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken and a two years preparatory college course in mechanical engineering. Later he studied surveying for a year with his uncle, Lewis Van Duyne, at Boonton, New Jersey, after which he entered Cornell University, graduating in 1893 with degree of Civil Engi- neer. He again returned to the employ of his uncle, Lewis Van Duyne, where he took up civil engineering, continuing a year, and then entercd the employ of Freeman Brothers, hav- ing a desire to follow the business of grocerics and provisions. He remained as clerk until the business was incorporated under New Jer- sey laws in 1903, he being then elected secre- tary of the new company, with his oldest brother, Orville E. Freeman as president, Cyrus G. Freeman and Thomas V. Mahoney as vice-presidents, A. H. Mahoney as treas- urer. Hermon M. Freeman assumed control of the store on Freeman street, Orange, which he now manages, and the other members had control of the store on Main street, East Orange. On the death of Orville E. Free- man, March 15, 1909, Cyrus G. Freeman be- came president, and John Bird was elected to make the directorship complete. The firm enjoys a large and extended trade in groceries, provisions and produce products, and is one
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of the largest in the trade, receiving the pat- ronage of the best families of the Oranges. Hermon M. Freeman is directly interested in the Orange Valley Building and Loan Asso- ciation, representing the board of management. He is a member of the Hillside Presbyterian Church, which he and his family attend, and is greatly intcrested in its welfare and con- tributes to its support. He is a member of the Masonic order, receiving his master mason de- gree in Corinthian Lodge, No. 57, at Orange, June, 1908. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, but he believes by an inde- pendent vote he renders more good to a larger number in the community. His attractive resi- dence is located at 54 South Valley road, on land contiguous to the old homestead belonging to his father. He married, June 29, 1898, at Orange, New Jersey, Elizabeth Warner Morse, born at Marlboro, Massachusetts, September 23, 1869, daughter of Leander and Harriet (Gould) Morse, of Marlboro, and they have one child, Eleanor, born February 9, 1903. The Morses are a highly respected old line family of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, its ancestors serving with distinction in the French and revolutionary wars. Leander Morse, father of Mrs. Freeman, was a railroad engineer.
FREEMAN (IV) Deacon Samuel Free- man, son of Samuel Freeman (q. v.), was born at the home- stead of his father in 1716, died October 21, 1782. The homestead of Deacon Samuel Free- inan stood on the "Mountain House" lot, about twelve or fifteen feet from the road and five or six rods north of the brook. Amos and Joseph were born in this house, and Abijah helped tear it down about 1830. It was a story and a half frame house, and the lower part of the chimney was of stone. He was elected deacon of the First Presbyterian Church in 1748, and continued in the office until his death. The contract for building this church edifice in 1754 was made by Samuel Freeman and Moses Baldwin. He served in the revolution. Dr. Wicks, in his history of the Oranges, makes several quotations from Jemima Cun- ditt's diary of Revolutionary events: "Sept. ye 12 1777, on Friday there was an Alarm our Militia was Called. The Regulars Came over into Elizabethtown Where they had a Brush with a small party of our People, then march- ed quietly up to Newark and took all the Cattle they Could; there was five of the militia of Newark; they killed Samuel Crane and took
Zadock and Allen Neady, and Samuel Free- man Prisoners, one out of five run and escaped." Deacon Samuel Freeman married, about 1739, Keziah -, born 1717, died March 19, 1775. Children: I. Joseph, born 1741, died 1830; married (first) 1763, Mary Morris, who died April 20, 1770; (second) Mary Walker ; children: i. Phebe, born 1764, died May 25, 1836, married, January 14, 1783, Venal Dodd; ii. Rachel, born 1766, married Bethuel Ward ; iii. Aaron, born April 16, 1768, died September 7, 1769; iv. Usual Walker, born October 5, 1771, died January 21, 1849; v. Richard, born December 7, 1773, died No- vember 6, 1857; vi. Ira Tennier; vii. Betsey, married Clark. 2. Keziah, born 1743, died September 26, 1781. 3. Elizabeth, died February 28, 1785 ; married Isaac Miller. 4. Amos, mentioned below.
(V) Amos, son of Deacon Samuel Free- man, was born on the old Freeman homestead on Valley road, South Orange, October 31, 1745, died there April 13, 1833. He was a prominent man in his day, and a prosperous farmer. His farm of one hundred acres was situated on what is now Ridgewood road, where the present sanitarium stands, and run up over the mountain. In his will he left this farm to his son Samuel, who in turn willed it to his son Mahlon Freeman, who sold it, and it is now in possession of Mr. Rogers. Amos Free- man was one of the overseers of the highways, chosen at the second lower meeting (1808). He also held other offices in the town. He served in the revolution in Colonel Phillip Van Cortland's Second Essex county regiment, Hurd's upper brigade and his company, com- posed of many of the citizens and his neigh- bors, was stationed in the Orange Valley. He was highly respected throughout his lifetime, strong in his principles of right, and an ardent anti-masonic man. He and his wife, a most devout and capable woman, were members of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Mary Crane, born November 2, 1747, died February 21, 1830, daughter of Job Crane. Children : I. Achsah, born November 18, 1773, died December II, 1784. 2. Keziah, born December 1, 1775, died December 5, 1776. 3. Timothy, born September 28, 1778, died July 27, 1812 ; married Mary Fox ; child, James W., married Amanda Gordon, and had child, Eugene S. 4. Samuel, born August 28, 1780, died December 31, 1835 ; married (first) Cath- erine Tichenor ; children : i. John Nelson, born March 1, 1805, died October II, 1806; ii. Ira T .. born December 9, 1806, died December I,
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1877; iii. Elias Watson, born July 3, 1809, died January 12, 1868; iv. Mahlon D., born August 20, 1811. Married (second) Mrs. Mary K. (Tichenor ) Fox ; children: v. Amzi, born June 10, 1821 ; vi. Newton B., born Octo- ber 28, 1824, died 1890; vii. Katherine, born August 17, 1828, died April 21, 1861; viii. Samuel, born September 21, 1830. 5. Mary, born April 2, 1782, died October 9, 1854 ; mar- ried Joseph Tillou ; children : i. Joseph Morris, born June 11, 1806; ii. Abijah F., born October 3, 1810; iii. Charles, born March 22, 1813; iv. Job B., born March 3, 1815; v. and vi. Daniel B. and Lucetta, twins, born November II, 1817; vii. Rodney W., born November 19, 1821. 6. Amos, mentioned below. 7. Achsah, born November 11, 1786, died January 8, 1861. 8. Abijah, born January 9, 1789, died young. 9. Lucetta, born February 24, 1792, died Feb- ruary 3, 1885 ; married Daniel Bosworth.
(VI) Amos Freeman, son of Amos Freeman, was born on the old Freeman homestead on what is now Ridgewood road, South Orange, Novem- ber 14, 1784, died on South Orange road, South Orange. He acquired the usual common school education of a farmer's son at that period, and early learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed for a short time. Preferring to learn the trade of cabinet maker, he served an apprenticeship to one of the leading cabinet makers of Orange, and at the time of his mar- riage settled in New York City and there fol- lowed his trade. After the birth of several of his children he removed to his native town of South Orange, settling in a house adjoining his father's homestead. This was later known as the Lord house, and stood on Ridgewood road near the Mountain House, a famous spring water retreat. He followed his trade for a number of years, and at one time kept a grocery store in Newark. His latter years were spent on the farm that is now opposite Seaton Hall College on South Orange avenue, South Orange, where he lived with his daugh- ters, Louise and Margaret, and died there. His estate was settled by Abijah Tillou. He lived an upright moral life, and was respected by his neighbors. He was prominent in the Ma- sonic order, belonging to Orange Lodge. His father was opposed to this and disinherited him on account of it. He was treasurer of his lodge. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and a Whig in politics ; he served on the school board between the years 1814 and 1838. He belonged to an early military company at Orange.
He married (first) Rachel Bosworth, born
July 17, 1784, died November 9, 1810, sister of Daniel Bosworth, who married Lucetta Freeman, sister of Amos Freeman. Children : I. Eliza, born August 24, 1806, died January 12, 1850 ; married Whitfield Winans. 2. George Washington, born December 6, 1807, died Feb- ruary 26, 1891 ; married, September 10, 1831, Mary Dodd; children: i. Jemima, born Sep- tember 10, 1833, married, August 4, 1853, Ed- win Hatfield Quimby ; children : a. Mary Ella, born March, 1854, married Charles C. Gay; b. Ida M., born May 10, 1857; c. Charles Mil- ton, born June 28, 1859, died October 28, 1883 ; d. Margarite, born November 6, 1861; died January 1I, 1890; ii. Morris Edgar, born No- vember 29, 1835, died December 14, 1897 ; iii. John Milton, born April 30, 1840, married, April 28, 1869, Anna Pollard ; children: a. Samuel Walter, born December 1, 1869, mar- ried Florence Crane ; b. Harriet Augusta, born June 24, 1874, married Charles W. Lent ; chil- dren: Dorothy, James Milton and Daniel ; c. Carrie Adelia, born July 30, 1877; d. Eva Burnett, born May 28, 1880, married Floyd Lanning ; e. Frederick Milton, born January 25, 1882; f. Frank Henry, born August 12, 1885 ; g. Alice Mary, born December 7, 1888; h. Charles, born May 24, 1884, died December 25, 1884; iv. Samuel Morris, born October 27, 1842, died June 13, 1898; married Amanda Clemmons ; v. Margaretta, born April 30, 1844, died February 2, 1902 ; married, November 13, 1867, Thomas T. Boyer ; children: a. Arthur Ward, born November 12, 1868, married, March 30, 1892, Mary Elizabeth Campbell and have Helen Louise, born January 28, 1892; b. George Stone, born December 31, 1870, mar- ried, October 24, 1904, Mary Louise Rayner ; c. Grace Mabel, born March 4, 1873 ; d. Mary Ella, born March 28, 1875, died August 15, 1898; e. Charles William, born March 9, 1877 ; vi. James Marselles, born August 31, 1846, died April 29, 1856; vii. Charles William, born November 8, 1856, married, March 16, 1881, Ella Louise Budd ; child, Florence Louise, born December 23, 1885. 3. John Edgar, born De- cember 27, 1809, died June 13, 1857 ; murdered in India during Sepoy Rebellion at Cawnpore ; was a missionary ; married (first) 1838, Mary Ann Beach; (second) 1850, Elizabeth Verden- burgh: children: i. Frances Lucetta, born 1844; ii. Dr. John Newton, born 184 -; mar- ried (first) Kate Benedict; (second) Mary Yoe. Amos Freeman married ( second) Phebe Tichenor, born August 20, 1792, died August 28, 1826. Children : 4. Mary Adelaide, born July 16, 1814, died June 5, 1876; married John
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Smith Brown; children: i. Jane Elizabeth; ii. Ira Morris, married, 1860, Libby Jackson ; chil- dren : a. Annie, married Brainard ; b.
Nettie, married Atchinson; c. Mary,
married Barnes; iii. John Newton, married Emma Snecditer ; children : Chapman, Louise, Ira Morris and Kitty ; iv. Amos Free- man, married Emeline Meeker ; children : Clar- ence, Effie and Jean ; v. Annie ; vi. Rena, mar- ried (first) Rev. Dr. J. Allen Maxwell; (sec- ond) Dr. John Morse, M. D .; vii. Frank Ills- ley Ellsworth, married Anna Bond. 5. Charles Albert, born July 6, 1816, died August 3, 1891. 6. Selim, born March 22, 1818, died August 4, 1903; married, 1850, Mary Durand, died March 18, 1888; children: i. Jane Augusta ; ii. John Frederick; iii. Fannie E .; iv. Amos Asher. 7. Alexander Phoenix, born February 28, 1820. 8. Louisa, born December 24, 1821, died November 16, 1897; married, May 20, 1846, Isaac Newton Crowell ; children: i. Ed- ward Lyman, born May 30, 1847, married, October 5, 1870, Caroline Amelia Dodd ; chil- dren: a. Frederick Newton, born October 13, 1873, married, June 5, 1905, Edna Bonebeck ; child, Edward B., born December 24, 1908; b. Lewis Dodd, born October 19, 1880, married, November 26, 1906, Mildred Phillips; child, Janice Southerland, born October 20, 1907; c. Grace Bigelow, born October 3, 1882, died March 31, 1895; d. Edith Lyman, born Au- gust 15, 1889; e. Bertie, born October 19, 1895, died aged one month; ii. Ann Eliza, born February 6, 1850, married, October 13, 1869, J. Ludlow Ketchell; children: a. Albert Bosworth, born March 13, 1876, married, Oc- tober 18, 1905, Eliza A. Wheeler ; b. Newton, born June 6, 1878; iii. Myron Winslow, born April 27, 1856, married, November, 1878, Flor- ence Crowell ; children : a. Isabelle, born Feb- ruary 16, 1880; b. Christine, born April 3, 1883. 9. Margaret, born October 1I, 1823, died August 22, 1894 ; married, May 19, 1842, Elihu Bond ; children: i. Emma Louise, born June 21, 1844, married, April 29, 1868, Alvin Terry, of Westfield, New Jersey ; children : a. Ada Margaret, born June 28, 1875, married, November 23, 1898, George Benjamin Redfern ; children : George Benjamin Jr., born March 6, 1899, and Arthur Bond, born July 20, 1902; b. Carrie Louise, born August 13, 1880, married, April 15, 1903, Charles Houston; children : Alvin Terry, born January 22, 1904, and Ever- ett Kenyon, born July 2, 1906, died September 25, 1907 ; c. Charles Briggs, born September 2, 1882; ii. Charles Edgar, born April 18, 1853, married, September 14, 1875, Maria Jessie
Hull; children : a. Grace Margarite, born July 6, 1878, died February 10, 1900; b. Ella May, born January 21, 1880, married, July 6, 1904, Thomas Cort Jr .; children: Thomas Bond, born March 12, 1905, and Grace Bond, born June 6, 1908; c. Jessie Emma, died in infancy ; d. Alice Bond, born August 6, 1890, died Feb- ruary 17, 1895 ; e. Ethel Loray, died in infancy. IO. Theodore, born October 25, 1825, died March 17, 1876.
CRANE Edward Nichols Crane, a repre- sentative citizen and business man of Newark, New Jersey, was born in that city April 5, 1846. His par- ents were Edward A. and Amanda Crane; his paternal grandparents were Josiah and Lydia Crane. Mr. Crane descends from two of the original settlers of Newark: Jasper Crane and Robert Treat, who were leaders in the settle- ment of that place in 1666, and both of whom were representatives repeatedly chosen to the general council of Connecticut colony before coming to Newark. Jasper Crane helped to lay out the New Haven town lots in 1639, and Robert Treat was the forerunner of the New- ark colony, and laid out the town lots of New- ark in 1666. They both were representatives in the general assembly of New Jersey colonies and Jasper Crane was the first chief magistrate of Newark, while Robert Treat was the lieu- tenant. Azariah Crane, son of Jasper, was also one of the original settlers of Newark, and married Mary Treat, daughter of Robert Treat, who afterwards returned to Connecti- cut and became famous as governor of that colony for many years. Edward N. Crane's line of descent from his first American ances- tor, Jasper Crane, is given below. Josiah and Lydia, his grandparents, were both descended from Jasper Crane, and both lines of descent are given as follows :
Ancestry of Lydia Crane:
Ancestry of Josias E. Crane.
1605: Jasper-Alice.
1605: Jasper-Alice.
1649: Azariah - Mary Treat.
1649: Azariah - Mary Treat.
1695: John Crane-Abi- gail.
1680. Nathaniel Crane- Mary Gibson.
1728: Eliakim-Joanna.
1758: Josiah Eliakim- Lydia.
1717: William-Mercy. 1765: Oliver-Susannah Baldwin.
Edward Ames-Amanda Nichols.
(I) Jasper (q. v.).
(II) Azariah (q. v.).
(III) John W., seventh child and fourth son of Deacon Azariah (q. v.) and Mary
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(Treat) Crane, was born in Cranetown, New Jersey, in 1695, and died September 5, 1776, in Newark, New Jersey. His home was on the east side of Broad street, Newark, on a part of the home lot which his mother inherited from her father, Captain Robert Treat. He was very active and influential in the affairs of the town, and beginning with the year 1740 was for many years recorder for strays as well as assessor of taxes, besides which he served on many of the most important town com- mittees, such as the committee for looking after the parsonage, and collecting subscrip- tions for the parsonage and burying-ground. In 1757 he was a freeholder. In 1717 he mar- ried Abigail , born in 1700, died June 25, 1744. Children: I. Jonas, born 1718, died January 24, 1745; married Hannah Lyon. 2. Samuel, born 1723, died July 2, 1796; married Keziah Baldwin. 3. Abigail, born 1725, died October 29, 1736. 4. John, died about 1790; married (first) Hannah Johnson, (second) Rhoda (Lyon) Wheeler. 5. Eliakim, referred to below. 6. Elias, died 1789; married. 7. Matthias, died about 1777. 8. Benjamin, born 1740; married Phebe M. Meeker. 9. Obadiah, born 1741 ; married; died September 28, 1784. John Crane married ( second ) Rebecca
one child, Jonas, born 1747, died April 4, 1782 ; married Sarah Beach.
(IV) Eliakim, fifth child and fourth son of John and Abigail Crane, died in Essex county, New Jersey, in 18II. He lived between Orange and West Bloomfield, probably served in the war of the revolution from Essex coun- ty, and March 14, 1758, was chosen overseer of highways. By his wife Joanna he had chil- dren : 1. John, born December 1, 1759, died May 9, 1838; married Cornelia Catharine Brewen. 2. Josiah Eliakim, referred to below. 3. Eliakim. 4. Catharine, married Stephen Ward. 5. Margaret, baptized September 19, 1756 ; married Samuel J. Ward.
(V) Josiah Eliakim, son of Eliakim and Joanna Crane, was baptized in the Orange Presbyterian Church, December 3, 1758, and died June 8, 1845. He married, September 20, 1810, Lydia, born February 5, 1789, died Sep- tember 4, 1848, second child of Oliver and Sus- anna ( Baldwin) Crane, granddaughter of Will- iam and - ( Wheeler ) Crane ; great-grand- daughter of Nathaniel Crane, Jasper (I), Aza- riah (II), Nathaniel (III). Josiah Eliakim and Lydia (Crane) Crane had children: I. Dr. Lyman Mark Crane, born 1813. 2. Charles Oliver Crane, born 1815, married and had issue. 3. Edward Ames Crane, referred to
below. 4. Jason Crane, born September 18, 1821 ; married Amarintha Dodd.
(VI) Edward Ames, third child and son of Josiah Eliakim and Lydia (Crane) Crane, was born October 19, 1817. He engaged in the jewelry business in Newark ; was an alderman from the ninth ward, and afterwards lived several years in California, and while there served a term as probate judge. He died in Newark, in 1899. He married Amanda Nichols. Children : Edward Nichols, referred to below ; Clement ; Frank Wright ; Henry C., and Arthur McAulay.
(VII) Edward Nichols, eldest child of Ed- ward Ames and Amanda ( Nichols) Crane, was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 5, 1846, and is now residing in that city, at 354 Mount Prospect avenue. He was educated in the schools of Newark, graduating from the high school in 1862, at the age of sixteen. In 1864 he entered the employ of the Condict & Wheel- er Saddlery Hardware Company, which was reorganized in 1872 under the style of Wheeler & Crane, and later in that year became Crane & Company, under which style it continued un- til 1890, when it was absorbed by the Crane, Cahoone & Barnet Company. The firm carried on a large manufacturing business in saddlery, hardware, with works at the corner of Mc- Whorter & Oliver streets, Newark. Of this house Edward Nichols was a member for about twenty years, having as associates his uncle, Jason Crane, and his cousin, Frederick Crane.
From 1889 to 1892 Mr. Crane was president of the United States Industrial Life Insurance Company, and afterwards became vice-presi- dent of the Arlington Company, manufacturers of celluloid, having been connected with that company as director from the time of its organ- ization in 1883-a corporation whose extensive works are located at Arlington, near Newark, New Jersey. He is also president of the D. Van Nostrand Company, publishers of scien- tific books, New York City. This business was opened in the '5os by D. Van Nostrand, an uncle of Mr. Crane, who, with his brother, Arthur McAulay Crane, succeeded to Mr. Van Nostrand's business interests. Mr. Crane is a director of the Franklin Savings Institution of Newark, and a member of the Newark Board of Trade. He is a life member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and the Newark Museum Association, and has held member- ship in the following clubs: The Essex Coun- ty Country Club, the Merchants' Club and Engineers' Club of New York; the Carteret
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Book Club and Hollywood Club (Adiron- dacks). For many years he has been identified with the Park Presbyterian Church of Newark, and president of its board of trustees. He has never held political office, but as a citizen has al- ways taken cordial interest in political affairs, his affiliations being with the Republican party. In the presidential campaign of 1892 he was private secretary to Hon. Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National Com- mittee. He is an ardent book lover, and for many years has been industriously adding to his library a fine collection of early Americana, especially relating to New Jersey.
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