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Jeremias, son of General Robert and Cornelia (Rutsen) Van Rensselaer. II. Archibald, died unmarried. 12. Sarah, born October 31, 1778; married, May 28, 1799, Thomas, son of Rob- ert Morris. 13. Susan Delancey, died aged thirteen years.
(III) Elisha Kent, son of John and Sybil (Kent) Kane, was born in Fredericksburg, Dutchess county, New York, December 2, 1770, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1834. He was yet a boy when he accompanied his mother and brothers and sisters to Nova Scotia during the revolution. Subsequently he followed his three older brothers to New York, and finally upon reach- ing his majority entered into the already famous firm of Kane Brothers. In 1801 he was chosen by the partners to establish the branch house of the firm in Philadelphia, and he moved thither that year. On August 6, 1803, he became one of the organizers of the Phila- delphia Bank, now the Philadelphia National Bank. He married (first) 1793, Alida, daugh- ter of General Robert and Cornelia (Rutsen) Van Rensselaer; (second) in Philadelphia, February, 1807, Elizabeth, daughter of Abra- ham Kintzing, a prominent merchant of the Quaker City. Children, all by first marriage : I. John "Kintzing," referred to below. 2. Robert Van Rensselaer, born August 20, 1792; died aged fifteen years, while a student at Dickinson College. 3. Alida Van Rensselaer, married John Constable, of New York.
(IV) John "Kintzing," son of Elisha and Alida (Van Rensselaer) Kane, was born in Albany, New York, May 16, 1795, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1858. He was baptized John Kent, but later in life, out of affection for his stepmother he adopted the name Kintzing, and is general spoken of as John Kintzing Kane Sr. He was a man of great abilities, and it is the distinguished char- acter of his career which has most indelibly impressed the family name upon the annals of Philadelphia. Graduating from Yale Col- lege in 1814 he studied law under Judge Jo- seph Hopkinson, and was admitted to the Phil- adelphia bar April 8, 1817. His success as a practitioner was immediate, and continued until his elevation to the bench. A considerable portion of his life, however, was devoted to the public service. In 1824-25 he served in the assembly as a Federalist, and soon after- wards became affiliated with the Democratic party. In 1829 and again in 1831 he was ap- pointed city solicitor of Philadelphia. In 1832 President Jackson appointed him one of the
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three commissioners provided for under the convention of indemnity with France of July 4. 1831, and as the task of preparing the re- port of this commission fell to him he publish- ed in 1836 his "Notes" upon the findings of the board. His devoted friendship for Presi- dent Jackson led him to take a conspicuous part in the crusade against the Bank of the United States, and it is said that not only did the first printed attack upon that institution emanate from his pen, but also that it was his brain which inspired certain passages in the President's state papers. During the famous "Buckshot War" Mr. Kane was "the effective manoeverer of the Democratic party," and six years later, during the presidential campaign of 1844, he wrote and published the celebrated letter, at the time attributed to James K. Polk, which is thought to have been responsible for Polk's carrying Pennsylvania over Clay, and in consequence giving him his election as presi- dent. In 1845 Mr. Kane was appointed attor- ney general of Pennsylvania, but resigned this office in the following year on receiving his commission as judge of the United States court for the District of Pennsylvania. In 1825 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, of which he was secre- tary from 1828 to 1848, and vice-president from 1857 until his death. From 1828 he was a member of the Hibernian Society, and from 1836 of the St. Andrew's Society. He was a member of the first board of trustees of Girard College, vice-president of the Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, vice provost of the Law Academy, past master of Franklin Lodge, No. 139, A. Y. M., and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Musical Fund Society, besides many other organiza- tions. He was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of ex-president John Quincy Adams, and one of the speakers at the banquet tender- ed to Louis Kossuth in 1851. Judge Kane married, April 20, 1819, Jean Du Val, daugh- ter of Thomas and Elizabeth Coultas (Gray) Leiper, who was born November 10, 1796, and died February II, 1866. Her father was not only a man of considerable distinction in Philadelphia, but also belonged to a noted family of much prominence in the community. Her mother was a member of the celebrated family of Grays of Gray's Ferry. Mrs. Kane herself is said to have been one of the most beautiful women of her day, and, according to the family records, it was because of this fact that she was chosen to open with the Marquis de Lafayette the ball tendered him by the city
of Philadelphia in 1824. Shortly after her marriage her portrait as Mary Queen of Scots was painted by the famous artist Thomas Sully. Children: 1. Elisha Kent, born Feb- ruary 20, 1820; died February 16, 1857; the celebrated United States naval surgeon and Arctic explorer. 2. Thomas Leiper, born Jan- uary 27, 1822; died December 25, 1883 ; mar- ried, April 21, 1853, Elizabeth Dennistoun, daughter of William and Harriet Amelia (Kane) Wood, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Codwise) Kane, referred to above. 3. John Kent, died young. 4. Robert Patter- son, 'born July 9, 1827, died November 28, 1906; married, October 31, 1861, Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Joshua Francis and Eliza ( Middleton) Fisher. 5. Elizabeth, referred to below. 6. John Kintzing (2), referred to below. 7. William Leiper, died young.
(V) Elizabeth, daughter of Judge John Kintzing and Jean Du Val (Leiper) Kane, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Au- gust 2, 1830, and died there October 14, 1869. She married, April 20, 1861, as second wife, Rev. Charles Woodruff, son of James Read and Hannah (Woodruff) Shields, the distin- guished theologian, who was born in New Al- bany, Indiana, April 4, 1825, and died at his summer home in Newport, Rhode Island, Au- gust 26, 1904. Children : I. Jane Leiper, died 1864, in infancy. 2. Helen Hamilton, married Bayard Stockton of Princeton, grandson of Commodore Robert Field Stockton, and great- great-grandson of Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence; (see Stockton). To the courtesy of Mrs. Stockton the writer is indebted for much information contained in this and other sketches. 3. James Read, born February 25, 1867. 4. John Kane, twin with James Read, died in infancy. 5. Thomas Leiper Kane, born February 25, 1869.
(VI) Dr. John Kintzing (2), son of John Kintzing (I) and Jean Du Val (Leiper) Kane, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, December 18, 1833, and died March 22, 1886. After graduating from the Jef- ferson Medical College in 1855 he accom- panied a relief expedition sent out in that year under the auspices of the United States gov- ernment in search of his eldest brother, then in the Arctic regions. An account of this expedi- tion, detailing his experiences during the voy- age, he published in Putnam's Monthly for May, 1856. He then settled down to the prac- tice of his profession in Philadelphia, and was appointed physician to the Blockley Hospital, April 4, 1856. In 1857 he went to Paris and
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spent a year in the French medical schools and hospitals. He then resumed his practice in Philadelphia until 1861, when he went to Cairo, Illinois, in hospital and private practice. In 1862 he settled in Wilmington, Delaware, where he lived and practiced until his death. He made a number of contributions to medical literature and besides having the largest prac- tice in the state, he was loved by all classes, and is still remembered by the poor of Delaware with affection and gratitude. For two terms he was president of the Delaware Medical Society, and for a number of years surgeon for the Pennsylvania railroad between Wilmington and Havre de Grace. In 1876 he was one of the Delaware commissioners to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He married, Oc- tober 1, 1863, Mabel, daughter of James Asshe- ton and Anne (Francis) Bayard; (see Bay- ard in index). Children: I. Anne Frances, died June 25, 1888. 2. John Kintzing, died young, July 14, 1866. 3. Jean Du Val Leiper, married George Rhyfedd Foulke. 4. Florence Bayard, married Benonia Lockwood. 5. Eliz- abeth, married (first) Edwin Norris, and ( sec- ond) John H. W. Rhein. 6. Bayard. referred to below. 7. John Kent, married Margaret O. Paul. 8. Robert Van Rensselaer, died young, August 24, 1876.
(VII) Dr. Bayard, son of Dr. John Kintzing and Mabel (Bayard) Kane, was born in Wil- mington, Delaware, October 18, 1871, and is now living at Fern Hill, West Chester, Penn- sylvania. He was baptized James Assheton Bayard after his maternal grandfather, but a year or two ago (about 1909) he dropped the James Assheton by legislative enactment, and is known simply as Bayard. He received his early education in the Wilmington schools and afterward went to a boarding school near New Haven, which he left in order to go to work at the time of his father's death. He worked as a clerk in a railroad office in Philadelphia for about a year, and afterward as a clerk in a bank. Following this he went to the far west and spent two or three years, a large part of the time working with the U. S. Geodetic Sur- vey in the state of Washington. Later he went to work in a large electrical manufactory in Chicago, and studied medicine at night in one of the smaller schools there. His health break- ing down, he came east in 1893, entering the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania. He worked during his vacations to pay his way through college, and graduated in 1897, serving afterward as interne in vari-
ous hospitals and then took up the practice of lis profession, at first under Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and later by himself. In addition to this city practice Dr. Kane has a private sani- tarium, the Orchard, near West Chester. He is very fond of outdoor life, and has a splendid pack of fox hounds with which he spends much of his spare time. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of numerous medical associations and clubs. He is a fellow of the College of Phy- sicians, of Philadelphia ; a member of the State and County Medical Societies ; of the Patholog- ical Society of Philadelphia ; of the Neurolog- ical Society of Philadelphia, of the American Medical Association, and assistant physician to the Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for the treatment of Nervous Diseases. He is also a member of the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, of the Rose Tree Fox Hunt, and of the West Chester Hunt. He married, October 2, 1902, in Ganett county, Maryland, Sarah Keyser, daughter of John Worthington and Sarah E. (Keyser) Williams, who was born in Philadel- phia, December 30, 1872. Child, Mabel Bay- ard, born April 15, 1905.
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Rev. Elisha Kent, graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1729, was a distinguished clergyman of Connecticut and New York for over half a century. He died in 1776. He married Abi- gail, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Abigail (Russell) Moss. Her father, Rev. Joseph Moss, of Derby, Connecticut, was born in 1679, and died in 1732, and was a descendant of John Moss, one of the founders of New Haven, and a representative in the early Con- necticut legislature. He graduated from Har- vard College in 1699, and was one of the first five to receive an honorary degree from Yale College, of which he was one of the organizers. His wife, Abigail Russell, was daughter of Rev. Samuel Russell, of Hadley, Massachu- setts, and a descendant of John Russell, who came to Massachusetts in 1636, and who for sixteen years sheltered the regicides Goffe and Whalley in his house at Hadley. Among the children of Rev. Elisha and Abigail ( Moss) Kent were: I. Moss, father of James Kent, the distinguished chancellor of the state of New York, author of Kent's "Commentaries on Blackstone," and one of the ablest lawyers ever produced in America. 2. Sybil, referred to below.
(II) Sybil, daughter of Rev. Elisha and Abigail ( Moss) Kane, was born at Newtown.
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Connecticut, July 19, 1739, and died in Albany, New York, July 18, 1806. She married, in 1756, John Kane, son of Bernard and Martha (O'Hara) O'Kane, referred to above.
Reuben Hope emigrated with his HOPE two brothers, Cornelius and Thomas, from England to America, early in 1800. The family was formerly French, where the name was L'Esperance, and they were banished from France with other Huguenots. Reuben Hope was born in 1774, and after his arrival in New York he became one of the prominent old time merchants of that city, his business being shipper and importer. He died in 1854.
When the Marquis Lafayette came on his official visit to this country in August, 1824, at the invitation of the United States government, Mr. Hope was one of the officials appointed to welcome him to New York City, and his youngest child being born at this time, he com- memorated the event by naming him Washing- ton Lafayette. Reuben married Catherine, daughter of Abner Taylor, a member of the New York family of the name, and closely allied to many of the old and prominent colo- nial Dutch and other families. Her father himself was a revolutionary soldier, and had been especially commended for his efficient services to his country in the blockading of the Hudson river near West Point, and also in the counties of Rockland, Orange, and Ulster, New York. Children of Reuben and Cath- erine (Taylor) Hope: I. William, a farmer and large real estate operator. 2. George Taylor, for many years president of the Continental Fire Insurance Company of New York City. 3. Samuel Waller, of Trenton, New Jersey ; a U. S. customs inspector, inventor and farmer. 4. Mary, married John Carpenter, merchant. 5. Catherine, married Charles Edward Steane, M. D. 6. Frances Matilda, married Benja- min Pike Jr., the noted manufacturer of philo- sophical and scientific instruments, and pub- lisher of books on those subjects. 7. Cornelius, a merchant in New York City. 8. Rev. James Malcolm, a Baptist minister of Brooklyn, Long Island. 9. Washington Lafayette, referred to below. 10-II. Two children died in infancy.
(II) Washington Lafayette, son of Reuben and Catherine (Taylor) Hope, was born in New York City, August 4, 1824, and died at his residence on Sycamore avenue, Shrews- bury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, Febru- ary 13, 1899, in his seventy-fifth year. After receiving his education in the schools of New
York City he entered on a business career, but being a studious and thoughtful man he became an exceedingly well read scholar. At first he engaged in mercantile business in New York City and in Orange county, and became a contractor for materials used in building and equipping railroads. In November, 1844, he was appointed and commissioned major and quartermaster in the Twenty-eighth Regiment of New York State, and served several years when the militia of the country was preparing to take part in the war with Mexico. Later he engaged in farming in Rockland county, New York, and was one of the organizers of the Rockland County Agricultural Society, of which until his removal to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, he was one of the officers. In 1865 he removed to Allendale, in Shrewsbury town- ship, Monmouth county, New Jersey, to prop- erty which had descended to his wife through her parents. Mr. Hope was for a long time lecturer for the New Jersey State Grange, and as state lecturer for the Order of Good Temp- lars, he delivered many addresses, not only throughout New Jersey, but also in other states, and in a number of other cases his services as an orator were in great demand, as he was a highly instructive and eloquent public speaker. He was also grand worthy chief Templar of the state of New Jersey, and an officer of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Good Templars of America. In politics he was a member of the Republican party from its first organiza- tion, and he was in a great measure independ- ent both in principle and practice, adhering more to what he believed to be the spirit than the letter of his party platform, and when needful reforms could not otherwise be brought about, he had no hesitation in acting with a third party. He was zealous for the abolition of the liquor traffic, and made diligent and partially successful efforts for legislation fav- oring local option, and was always very active during the campaigns when local option was an issue. He was a candidate for Congress on the Prohibition ticket when the late General Clinton B. Fisk was a candidate for governor of New Jersey, and at that time and also in 1878, when he was a candidate for Congress in the Third New Jersey district on the na- tional independent ticket, he received a very large vote, which was regarded as a high per- sonal compliment to him. In the different re- form movements outside the Republican party in which Mr. Hope's high sense of public and civic duty led him to engage, he was intimately associated with General Fisk, the late John G.
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Drew, Benjamin Urner, the venerable Peter Cooper, General Benjamin F. Butler, and many other prominent men who believed certain re- forms in state and national government were necessary for the welfare of this country. Mr. Hope was an Abolitionist, and rendered effi- cient services in the campaigns of 1860 and 1864 for the election of Abraham Lincoln, and in 1868 and 1872 for the election of General Grant to the presidency. During the civil war he was most patriotic in behalf of the Union and outspoken against disloyal persons in Rockland county, New York, and when the uprising which culminated in the draft riots in New York City occurred, he armed his family and employees to protect himself against at- tacks which had been threatened because of his active loyalty, and his refusal to surrender two old negroes who had been in his employ for many years as family servants. Although his offer to serve in the Union army was not ac- cepted because of a slight physical disability, he labored zealously and successfully in aiding to stop the spirit of secession, and induced many who were at first against the cause and policies of the government, to become earnest supporters of the Union cause. As he ex- pressed it in a pamphlet he published at the time, he persuaded many men so to act that "not a single star shall be taken from the flag of our Union." He was a devoted husband and father, highly respected for his sterling character and exemplary life, and he and his estimable wife were zealously engaged in many good works, being particularly active in relig- ious and temperance work, and entertaining at their home many prominent persons who were intimately associated with them in their labors. From 1855 both Mr. and Mrs. Hope were members of the Baptist church, and for many years each served faithfully in various important offices in the churches and Sunday schools, Mr. Hope being trustee, deacon and Sunday school superintendent for more than thirty years. He married, September 6, 1848, Helen Cobb, daughter of George L. and Ann Cocks Allen, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Henry Finch, rector of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, at the bride's home, which Mrs. Hope and her ancestors owned for over two hundred and thirty years, and where Mr. and Mrs. Hope themselves lived since 1865. Here they celebrated their golden wedding in Sep- tember, 1898, and here Mr. Hope died after a two weeks illness, from pneumonia, and Mrs. Hope died there December 6, 1902.
Children of Washington La fayette and Helen
Cobb (Allen) Hope: I. George Allen, born February 22, 1851 ; married Sarah J. Reynolds ; is justly celebrated as a fruit farmer at the homestead, Shrewsbury. 2. Frederick Waller Hope, counsellor at law, Red Bank, New Jer- sey, referred to below. 3. Charles Vernon, a successful stock farmer and horse raiser and trainer, born March II, 1857, died September 3, 1906. 4. Rev. Benjamin Pike, pastor of First Baptist Church, Augusta, Maine, born January 20, 1859, married Helen Stifler.
(III) Frederick Waller, son of Washington Lafayette and Helen Cobb ( Allen) Hope, was born in Clarkstown, Rockland county, New York, January 17, 1853, and is practicing law at Red Bank, Monmouth county, New Jersey. For his early education he attended the Rock- land county and New York City public schools, and after his father's removal to Shrewsbury in 1865 he attended Spaulding's school and the Shrewsbury Classical Institute, from the last named of which he graduated in 1870, after which he continued his studies under the tutelage of his father, while assisting in the management of the homestead farm and attending to his father's business while the latter was frequent- ly absent from home on his lecturing tours, and engaged in church work. He then for several years engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business in Elizabeth, New Jer- sey, where he built up a prosperous business. In this way, with his studious habits and fond- ness for instructive reading, he laid the founda- tions which have been so prominent a factor in the high degree of attainment which has characterized his later efforts. Mr. Hope then followed his inclination and turned his atten- tion to the law and began reading as a student in the office of the Hon. P. H. Gilhooly, of Elizabeth, with whom he remained for two years, at the end of which time he entered the office of Hon. John S. Applegate, at Red Bank, on June 1, 1880. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in November, 1882, and as counsellor in November, 1886, and was then also admitted to the United States courts. Since then he has been ap- . pointed a master in chancery by Chancellor Runyon, and a special master and examiner in chancery by Chancellor McGill.
January 1, 1884, the partnership of Applegate & Hope was formed, and together with his old instructor he built up an extensive law busi- ness which continued until July, 1901, when the partnership was dissolved by mutual con- sent in order that Mr. Applegate and his son might form their new firm of John S. Apple-
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gate & Son. Since then Mr. Hope has con- tinued to practice his profession by himself, having his offices at Red Bank, and specializing in the field of real estate and tax laws and land titles. He has attracted to himself a large and influential clientele, including many substantial local persons and wealthy summer residents of Rumson and Sea Bright, and has become counsel for many important estates and cor- porations, among them being the estates and legal business of some multi-millionaires. He has had extensive experience in examining land titles and riparian rights, and in important negotiations requiring knowledge of the law. In March, 1902, he was appointed counsel for the historic township of Shrewsbury, which glories in its ancient seal with its date, 1667. He is also counsel for the Rumson Im- provement Company; Rumson Land and Development Company; Sea Bright Golf Club; J. W. Fiske Iron Works Consolidated Gas Company of New Jersey, Red Bank Gas Light Company ; and other corporations, and is an officer in most of them. He was counsel in organizing all of those and also many others, under New Jersey laws, but which are engaged in business outside of this state.
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Although interested in politics and most effi- ciently active in the cause of good government, Mr. Hope has frequently declined to be a candi- date for office, on the ground that his law busi- ness required all his time, and that he was too much engrossed with his profession to be in- duced to permit the duties of public office to interfere with it; but as counsel for munici- palities and other clients, associated with high political positions, he has had a strong voice in obtaining good legislation and a just ad- ministration of public business. He is zealous for the welfare of the town of Red Bank and the township of Shrewsbury, where he has had large real estate transactions, and he has done much for the improvement and permanent prosperity of that portion of Monmouth coun- ty. When he was only eleven years old, towards the close of the civil war, he endeavor- ed to enlist as a drummer boy, but was refused because of his youth. In 1900 he was elected and commissioned first lieutenant of Second Troop, N. G. N. J. Cavalry, of which he was one of the organizers in 1895. With this troop also Mr. Hope enlisted for the Spanish- American war. He is deeply interested in rifle and revolver markmanship, and is a sharp- shooter and expert horseman. He is a member of the New Jersey State Rifle Association, Monmouth County Revolver Club, United States
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