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(IV) Julia, daughter of Dr. John and Abi- gail (Bleecker) Neilson, was born December 29, 18II, and died August 19, 1878. She mar- ried, May 18, 1842, Charles' Addison Bulkeley, born 1808, died July 19, 1886. Children : I. Charles, born February 17, 1743, died August 30, 1884, married Ernestine Blanche D'Alle- sime. 2. John Neilson, born January 9, 1846, died August 12, 1876. 3. Julia Neilson, born November 1, 1848, died July 24, 1851. 4. Ellen Loraine, born September 9, 1851 ; mar- ried, April 22, 1885, Dr. Guy Carleton Bayley. 5. Catharine Beman, born November 20, 1854; married, October 6, 1875, Douwe Ditmars, son of Nicholas and Mary R. (Bullock) Will- iamson, and grandson of Douwe Ditmars and Mary Ann (Abeel) Williamson ; (see Abeel in index) ; children: i. Helen Loraine, born July 1, 1876; ii. Julia Bulkeley, December 10, 1878 ; iii. Nicholas, December 23, 1880.
(IV) Cornelia, daughter of John and Abi- gail (Bleecker) Neilson, was born April 27, 1814, and died July 15, 1889. She married, June 30, 1842, Rev. Orlando Harriman, who died April 30, 1881. Children: I. John Neil- son, born 1843, died April 7, 1898; married, December 6, 1865, Elizabeth Granger Hancox, who died April 16, 1872. Children: i. Eliza- beth Granger, married, November 25, 1903, Rev. Lawson Carter Rich; ii. John Neilson (2) ; iii. Orlando; iv. Joseph W., married Au- gusta Barney ; child, Maria ; v. Cornelius Neil- son. 2. Orlando, born November 12, 1814; married Rose Barrowdale. 3. Anna Ingland, born March 22, 1846; married, February, 1866, J. Fleming Van Rensselaer, who died January,
1900. Children: i. Jeremiah, married Vir- ginia Robinson; children: Frank, Jeremiah, Edward; ii. Cornelia Neilson; iii. Rutsen Schuyler ; iv. Mary Fleming; v. Orlando Har- riman ; vi. James Fleming, married, October 8, 1902, Jane Bolan Glover ; vii. Anna Harriman, married, October 8, 1903, Louis Cuthbert Mas- ten ; viii. Katrina, married July 17, 1901, Mau- rice Edwin Ginn; ix. Francis; x. Robert. 4. Edward Henry, born February 25, 1848, died September 10, 1909, (q. v. below). 5. Cor- nelia Neilson, born September 13, 1850 ; mar- ried, October 5, 1871, Charles Dewar Simons. Children : i. Harriman Neilson, married, Oc- tober 19, 1898, Helen Neilson, daughter of Rodman M. and Helena (Neilson) Price, born December 31, 1875; (see William Neilson) ; children: Mary Noel, born May 23, 1902; Harriman Neilson (2d), March 12, 1904; Helena Lispenard, December 12, 1905; 11. Charles Dewar (2d), married, February 12, 1901, Jessie McNamee; iii. Edward Henry Harriman, married, May 15, 1901, Caroline G. Comstock; child, Harriet, born May 28, 1902; iv. Mary Elizabeth, married, June I, 1904, Charles Storey Thurston.
Edward H. Harriman was elected a director of the Illinois Central railroad, May 30, 1883, his service continuing until his death. He was elected vice-president September 28, 1887, and resigned June 18, 1890. His reputation as a financier and pre-eminence as a railroad man began with his entrance into the board of di- rectors of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, December 6, 1897. May 23, 1898, he was elected chairman of its executive com- mittee, and president of the company June 7, 1904, which offices he held until his death. Closely identified with his work on the Union Pacific has been his connection with the South- ern Pacific Company, of which he was chosen a director and chairman of its executive com- mittee April 3, 1901. He was elected presi- dent September 6, 1901, and continued to hold these offices until his death. He was also a director and president of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, of the Oregon Rail- road & Navigation Company, and of the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company. He was close. ly identified with all the controlled and affiliated railroad and steamship companies of the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Company, operating over fifteen thous- and miles of railway in the states lying west of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The service rendered by Mr. Harriman to the states served by the Union Pacific and Southern Pa-
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cific systems and the country at large is in- calcuable. When he began his work on the Union Pacific Railroad in 1898, the company was emerging from bankruptcy, its property was physically impaired, and its traffic possi- bilities at the mercy of its strongest competi- tors. With indomitable courage and unex- ampled energy Mr. Harriman, with the co- operation of the interests associated with him in the directorate, proceeded to place the rail- road in such physical condition that its future business could be handled with economy and despatch. This work involved the elimination of over thirty miles of excess curvature on the main line between Omaha and Ogden, and the reduction of all excessive grades to practically a maximum of less than forty-three feet to the mile. The work was prosecuted to a success- ful conclusion, while at the same time many miles of double track and sidings were added to this line, coincident with the construction of new bridges, depots, shops and terminals neces- sary for the development of a constantly in- creasing business. Similar work was immedi- ately undertaken on Mr. Harriman's entering the directorate of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, and vast sums of money have been raised and expended in bringing the lines of that com- pany's system up to such efficiency as enables it to conduct its business on modern principles, and under the most effective conditions. The two systems have expended on improvements, extensions, and up-building of their lines, in the territory above named, sums aggregating approximately $300,000,000, whilst the stock- holders, who in 1897, only a little over eleven years ago, were receiving no income from their shares, have for years received a steady satis- factory return upon their investments. The rehabilitation and reconstruction of these com- panies' lines, the high-class service secured to the adjacent communities as a result of such construction, and the establishment of their credit on a basis of unquestioned stability, are essentially due to the untiring enterprise and far seeing sagacity of Mr. Harriman. He was also a director of the New York Central sys- tem, Baltimore & Ohio system, Erie Railroad Company, Central of Georgia Railroad, The Delaware & Hudson Company, as well as of the National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Com- pany, Equitable Trust Company, and the Mer- cantile Trust Company, all of New York. Mr. Harriman married, September 10, 1879, Mary Williamson Averill. Children: i. Mary, born 1881 ; ii. Henry Neilson, born 1883, dead; iii. Cornelia, born 1884, married March 3, 1908,
Robert Livingston Gerry ; iv. Carroll Averill, born 1889; v. William Averill, born 1891; vi. Edward Roland Noel, born March 24, 1895.
(III) Gertrude, daughter of Colonel John (2) and Catharine (Voorhees) Neilson, was born April 25, 1780, and died February 13, 1863. She married, June 4, 1799, Rev. George Spafford Woodhull, born March 31, 1773, died December 25, 1834, son of Rev. John Wood- hull. Children: I. Rev. William Henry, born March 4, 1802, died January 4, 1835, married, October 26, 1825, Amanda, daughter of Colo- nel Wickoff, who was born February 1, 1806, and died December 2, 1850. 2. Cornelia Neil- son, born May 16, 1803, died November 5, 1824; unmarried. 3. Dr. John Neilson, born July 25, 1807 ; died January 12, 1867; unmar- ried. 4. Alfred Alexander, born March 25, 1810; died October 5, 1836; married, Febru- ary 26, 1833, Anna Maria Salomons, born March 30, 1811, died August 20, 1862. Child, Gen. Alfred Alexander, born April 13, 1837, married, December 15, 1868, Margaret Elli- cott. 5. Spafford Eugene, married, February 18, 1853, Mary Elizabeth Abrams, born March 25, 1830. Children: i. Charles Neilson, born January 3, 1854, married, May 8, 1890, Lottie Francisco; ii. Isabella, born March 28, 1858, died January 24, 1882, married, October 24, 1877, George Dodge ; child, Mary Louise, born September 25, 1879; iii. John Neilson, born March II, 1861, died June 28, 1894, married Maria Perrine Mount; iv. William Bound, born August 15, 1863, died January 18, 1866; v. Archibald Alexander, born July 13, 1867; vi. George Spafford Neilson, born January 5, 1869, married, January 7, 1895, Ada Augusta Beyer ; child: Howard Eugene, born Decem- ber 25, 1895, died May 10, 1896.
(III) Catharine, daughter of Colonel John (2) and Catharine (Voorhees) Neilson, was born March 28, 1783, and died February 27, 1860. She married, October 3, 1804, Dr. Au- gustus Fitz Randolph, son of Lieutenant-Colo- nel John and Janet (Fitz Randolph) Taylor, who was born May 27, 1782, and died August 19, 1840. Children: I. John Neilson, born July 24, 1805, died February 6, 1878; married, October 27, 1831, Anna Y. Ovington, born September 24, 1805. Children: i. Julia C., born January 13, 1835, married October 9, 1856, Thomas Frederick Bailey Parker ; chil- dren, (a) Francis Eyre, married Henrietta MaCauley, children : Sallie MaCauley, Doro- thy Neilson, Adelaide Bailey; (b) Neilson Taylor, married (first) Ellen E. Porter, (sec- ond) Anna C. Benedict ; (c) Frederick Will-
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iam, married (first) Mary Champlain, (sec- ond), Ethelwyn Hoyt ; child by first marriage, Isabella Champlain, (d) Adelaide Ellen; ii. Catharine Augusta, born September 25, 1840; died May 30, 1904, married Anson Phelps Ste- phens ; iii. Anna A., born October 3, 1838, died July 21, 1854. 2. Clarkson Edgar, born Octo- ber 20, 1807, died November 16, 1855. 3. Au- gustus Fitz Randolph, M. D., born October I, 1809, died 1887; married, 1833, Cornelia Hol- comb; children: Mary, born in 1834, died February 17, 1909; Catharine; married Lloyd T. Ives. 4. Samuel Staats, born November 18, 18II, died May 14, 1896; married, April 13, 1834, Charlotte Josephine, daughter of Com- modore Joseph Bainbridge. Children: Mary B., Augustus F., J. Bainbridge, Charlotte Jo- sephine, Samuel Staats, Charlotte Josephine (2d). 5. Catharine, born August 1, 1814, died January 27, 1884, married Rev. John S. Him- rod; no children. 6. Benjamin Rush, born September 28, 1818, died in August, 1881 ; married Caroline Mundy. Children: Louise Cornelia, Augustus F., John Neilson, Charles Rush, Caroline, Helen Briggs, Mary Butler, Addie Rockwell. 7. Robert Hudson, born Jan- uary 19, 1824, died August 31, 1825. 8. Janet, born September 8, 1825, died March 29, 1895 ; married Rev. Charles J. Sheppard, D. D. Chil- dren: Charles, Neilson, Augustus Taylor, Samuel, Staats, John, Janet.
(III) James, son of Colonel John (2) and Catharine (Voorhees) Neilson, was born in New Brunswick, December 3, 1784, and died there February 21, 1862. He inherited the enterprise of his north of Ireland ancestry, with the persistence of the Holland blood of his mother, Catharine Voorhees, and of his father's mother, Joanna Coejeman, of the great Dutch manor of that name on the Hudson, one of whose ancestors was the celebrated four- teenth century vice-admiral Joachim Ghyse, who was knighted and received the name Staats, with a coat-of-arms, denoting courage, distinction and watchfulness, from the Dutch government, for his services in the capture of four out of seven vessels of a Spanish fleet, which he persisted in waiting for and engaging when his admiral retreated. Colonel John Neilson's distinguished military services dur- ing the revolution, and his pre-eminence, as de- noted by his election to the continental con- gress and to the convention of 1787 which formed the Constitution of the United States, did not tend to enrich him, and the large prop- erty inherited by him from his uncle James, who had died in the preceding year (1783) had
no doubt been largely destroyed, and the ship- ping business with Belfast, the West India Islands, Madeira and Lisbon, in which they had been engaged, was rendered unprofitable by the action of Great Britain after the war. So the large family was poor, and James was hard at work in his father's shipping business. while yet a boy of seventeen. Already, be- tween 1810 and 1816, he saw the importance of steam, and was a director and treasurer in the New Brunswick Team Boat and Steam Boat Company, which built the steamboat "John Fitch," the latter to convey the passen- gers and freight of the former in New York waters, monopolized by Fulton and ex-Chan- cellor Livingston. This enterprise, however, was given up when the New Jersey retaliating legislation was repealed, allowing Livingston again to run his steamboat to New Brunswick. James Neilson was the most active of the orig- inators of the canal connecting the water of the Delaware with those of the Raritan, and with Garret D. Wall he procured a charter from the New Jersey legislature, December 30, 1824, for such a canal. A company was formed and the stock was subscribed for thirteen times over. There were forty-eight subscribers and twelve of them each subscribed for all of it. The board of directors, elected June 26, 1826, contained such well-known names as John N. Simpson, president ; James Neilson, treasurer ; Floyd S. Bailey, Richard Stockton, Thomas. Cadwalader, Garret D. Wall, George Gris- wold, Elisha Tibbits, Peter Remsen, Chan- cellor James Kent, and John Potter. Much time was spent at Harrisburg during the winter of 1825-26 by Messrs. Neilson and Wall, but the act they were able to procure from the Pennsylvania legislature so hampered the com- pany in its use of the waters of the Delaware, the necessary feeder, that it is was the unani- mous opinion of the very able legal advisers of the company, Daniel Webster, Chancellor Kent, Richard Stockton and Horace Binney, that it was not safe to go on with the enter- prise, so $40,000 expended for preliminary work was lost, and $20,000 was repaid to the subscribers, together with $100,000 required by the state of New Jersey as a bonus and now returned by the state. Messrs. Neilson and Wall, however, continued their efforts and suc- ceeded in getting a more liberal charter, dated February 4, 1830, from New Jersey. Now, however, there was a prospect of vigorous com- petition from the Caniden & Amboy railroad, incorporated the same day, and it was with difficulty that the capital stock could be dis-
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posed of. Finally Commodore (then captain) Robert Field Stockton took 4800 shares for himself and his father-in-law, John Potter, thus closing the subscription to the capital stock of $1,000,000. Captain Stockton was elected president of the company, James Neil- son, treasurer, John R. Thompson, secretary, the engineer, Mr. White, being the same as that of the first canal. The canal company at once took measures for laying rails on the canal bank, and the Trenton & New Bruns- wick Turnpike Company, having later passed into possession of the Philadelphia & Newton Railroad Company, contemplated using their right of way for a railroad. These gentlemen, however, were wise in their generation, and anticipated the business methods of the next century. John C., Edwin A., and Robert L. Stevens, of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company, and Messrs. Stockton and Neilson, of the Delaware & Raritan Canal Company, met one evening at Burton's Theatre, in New York, and agreed to pool their issues. An act was passed by the New Jersey legislature, Feb- ruary 15, 1831, uniting the two companies under the title of the Delaware & Raritan Canal and Camden & Amboy Railroad Com- pany, which, admirably managed from the first, by these able men, has been profitable to the stockholders and to the state from that day to this. For twenty-five years there was no death in the boards, the members of which became warm personal friends and devoted to the de- velopment of these works and of their state. In 1871, the members of the boards being dead, the proprietors were leased to the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company for 999 years.
James Neilson continued his interests in transportation with the New Brunswick Steam- boat Company, later John Dennis & Company, and in 1831 the New Brunswick Steamboat and Canal Transportation Company, Edwin A. Stevens, president and manager, James Neilson, treasurer. This company did a very large and prosperous business through the canal and on the railroad, accommodating for those days a large fleet of boats and large assets. The company in 1851 disposed of its business to the Raritan Steamboat Company, which in 1852 sold to the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company. In 1835, seeing that the shipping business of New Brunswick must be cut off by the canals and railroads, Mr. Neil- son, with Commodore Richard Field and Major James C. Van Dyck, incorporated the New Brunswick Manufacturing Company, leasing the surplus water at New Brunswick from the
canal company. In 1837 they built a mill there for the manufacture of printing cloths. A saw mill was also built. These mills were disposed of after Mr. Neilson's death to the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Company, the whole property having passed into Mr. Neil- son's possession.
Some five acres of land, comprising most of the land of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church, Mr. Neilson gave to the trustees for the buildings and grounds of that institution, and much of the remainder of the land has been given to Rutgers College for its uses. James Neilson was lieutenant and afterwards captain of the artillery company, Second Battalion, Third Regiment, Middlesex Brigade, and was on duty with his company at Sandy Hook during the war of 1812. He suc- ceeded his father and was for many years and until his death a trustee of Rutgers College. The Colonel became a trustee in 1782 and served until his death in 1833, James, his son, succeed- ing him and serving till 1862. His son James (2) in turn has served from 1886, making in all a service of 108 years. Mr. Neilson was also a trustee of Princeton Theological Semi- nary (Presbyterian), of the Presbyterian Church at New Brunswick from his father's death in 1833, and president of the board from 1845 until his own death. To all of these he was a liberal contributor. It is interesting to note that the three members of the family named James, whose three lives touch each other, reach from the sixteen to the nineteen hundreds. A correspondence between James Neilson and his wife, Rivine Forman, and his father, during a business trip of 1500 miles to Natchez, on horseback, largely through the wilderness, and only from Pittsburg down by boat, from December 4, 1811, to May 8, 1812, is interesting, as are his notes of a trip to Niag- ara shortly after the completion of the Erie canal. An interesting letter from Mr. White, managing director of the Lehigh Coal & Navi- gation Company, urging the early completion of the Delaware & Raritan Canal, says that in 1820 the first boatload of anthracite coal from that region was sent to Philadelphia and "stocked the market." By 1828 he estimated that 100,000 tons could be shipped. In 1830 James Neilson built the house still occupied by his son James and his wife on land bought by him from his father, and being part of the land bought by Cornelius Longfeldt from the In- dians in 1681, and sold to his great-grand- father, Johannis Voorhees, in 1720, inherited by his son John Voorhees, who gave it to his
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daughter Catharine, Colonel John Neilson's wife and Mr. Neilson's mother. Consequently that part of "Woodlawn" on which the house stands has been in the family 190 years and five generations, and has been added to by father and son until the whole covers some three hundred acres.
Mr. Neilson married (first) March 26, 1811, Rivine, daughter of General David Forman, who was born December 30, 1791, and died December 11, 1816. He married (second) January 25, 1820, Jane, daughter of James and Jean (Moncrieff) Dunlap, who was born in 1793, and died April 29, 1823. Her parents were married January 15, 1789. He married (third) December 11, 1833, Harriette, born January 10, 1811, died June 16, 1840, daughter of Robert and Clarissa (Dow) Benedict. He married (fourth) January 16, 1844, Catharine, born June 9, 1809, died December 23, 1893, daughter of John R. and Esther Vailey (Linn) Bleecker (see Bleecker). Children, two each by first and second marriages, and one each by third and fourth : I. Ann Augusta, born April 7, 1812, died March 20, 1841 ; married, April 2, 1834, George Griffin. Children: i. Au- gusta, born January 14, 1835 ; married (first) October 22, 1856, Ezekiel Chambers Wickes, who died in 1861 ; (second) June 6, 1867, J. Robert Edmonds, who died in 1887. Children, three by first marriage: (a) Augusta M., born July 28, 1857, married Louis, son of L. Bart- lett McCoy ; (b) Frank Chambers, born Octo- ber 3, 1858, died June 12, 1881 ; (c) Mary Eliz- abeth, born February. 19, 1862, died in Sep- tember, 1901 ; (d) Robert Eugene, born April 7, 1868, married, October 24, 1906, Cecile Au- gusta, daughter of Dr. C. F. Sterling; (e) George Griffin, born October 15, 1869, mar- ried, January 9, 1908, Mary Buchanan, daugh- ter of Robert and Helen Mary Hooker (Stuy- vesant) Sandford; (f) Wilmot Neilson, born June 15, 1871, married, October 11, 1899, Helen Stuyvesant Sandford ; children: Helen Neilson, born January 21, 1901; Catharine Livingston Reade, April 17, 1906, died Sep- tember 30, 1908; (g) Eleanor, born April 27, 1874; (h) Henry Lee, born April 22, 1880. 2. Catharine Amelia, born in March, 1815, died December 21, 1816. 3. John James, born Oc- tober 20, 1820, died July 8, 1821. 4. Jane Eliz- abeth, born February 4, 1822, died October 8, 1822. 5. James, born December 25, 1836, died August 10, 1837. 6. James, referred to bclow.
(IV) James (2), son of James (1) and Cath- arine ( Bleecker) Neilson, was born November 17, 1844, and is now living at Woodlawn, New
Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1866, and from Hamilton Law School in 1869. He married, December 15, 1870, Mary Putnam, daughter of Isaac Baker and Mary A. (Putnam) Woodbury, and granddaughter of Rufus and Abigail (Proctor) Putnam, who was born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 29, 1846 (see Putnam).
(III) Abraham Schuyler, son of Colonel John and Catharine (Voorhees) Neilson, was born September 10, 1792, and died June 30, 1861. He was a shipping merchant, his office adjoining his residence on the banks of the Raritan river. He was a member of the board of freeholders, and a very prominent citizen : "Beloved by all for his gentleness, his modesty, his kindness and liberality. Although possessed of a sound mind and excellent judgment, he patiently listened to the opinions of others and deferred to their wishes. He hid his own high merits behind his disinterestedness." He was for many years a faithful and efficient elder of the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick. He married, June 6, 1815, Cath- arine, daughter of Rev. Thomas Grant, who died July 6, 1866. Children: I. John Grant, born April 21, 1816, died 1844. 2. Catharine Amelia, born October 10, 1817, died September 9, 1900; married, March 21, 1837, Alexander Brown; children: i. Catharine Neilson, born March 9, 1838, died February 26, 1840; ii. John Alexander, born May 26, 1839, married (first) Philippa Etting, who died April 2, 1893, (second) January 9, 1895, Harriet Etting ; iii. Emily, born August 8, 1840, died May 23, 1865 ; married, February 2, 1864, John Mar- koe; child, James Brown, born May 12, 1865, died November 29, 1902, unmarried ; iv. Isabel, born May 24, 1843, died July 26, 1907, mar- ried, February 13, 1862, Henry Brinton Coxe. Children: (a) Henry Brinton (2), born Feb- ruary 12, 1863, married January 5, 1888, Ruth Lovering; children: Ruth, born November 14, 1896; Henry Brinton (3d), May 17, 1898; Catharine, born May 4, 1901 ; (b) Alexander Brown, born September 9, 1865, married, June 3, 1891, Sarah Frederica White; (c) Charles Edmund, born July 12, 1870, married, April 4, 1894, Louisa Tucker White ; children : Eck- ley Brinton, born June 4, 1895; Jane Gordon, April 27, 1901; v. Neilson, born July 3, 1845, died July 20, 1905, married, October 24, 1868. Elizabeth Lawrence Carson; children: (a) Rosalie, born August 2, 1869, marricd Novem- ber 8, 1894, Clarence W. Dolan; children: Rosalic, born October 7, 1895, Alexandra, Junc 6, 1899, Rita, February 24, 1904; (b) Alcx-
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ander Drown, born September 25, 1872. 3. William Howard, born June 12, 1820, died July 9, 1887 ; married, July 6, 1843, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Charles and Eliza (Dunphy) Hoover. Children : i. Catharine Amelia Brown, born May 27, 1844; married, August 12, 1877, Max Strakosch, born in Brunn, Austria, Sep- tember 27, 1835, died in New York City, March 16, 1892 ; children : (a) Max, born May 5, 1878; (b) Julia Neilson, June 17, 1879; (c) Hannah Maria, October 31, 1880; married, August 1, 1903, George Farquhar Jones King ; child, Frances Neilson; (d) King Neilson, born April 2, 1882, died November 16, 1892; ii. Charles Hoover, born December 2, 1848, mar- ried, October, 1873, Katharine S. Pritchard, born October 17, 1849; children: (a) Howard Stout, born August 30, 1874, married, June 4, 1901, Jane Wallace Platt, born December 4, 1874; children : Jane Wallace, born April 8, 1902, Catharine Bishop, April 8, 1902, Wallace Platt, November 24, 1903, Marion Redfield, February 9, 1907; iii. William Howard (2), born February 12, 1858, died July 7, 1899, married, October II, 1877, Frances Anne But- ler, born September 22, 1860; children: (a) Edith May, born March 13, 1879, died March II, 1893; (b) Helen Maud, born August 15, 1881, married, June, 1901, Henry Bogert Clark, born August 16, 1878; children: Will- iam Neilson, born September 21, 1903, Henry Bogert (2d), April 16, 1908; iv. Eliza Ann, born December 15, 1859, died 1868; v. Josepha Howard, born July 28, 1863, died November 12, 1908 ; married, June 5, 1888, Robert Arthur Osborn, born January 5, 1861 ; child: Aud- rey Neilson, born May 8, 1894. 4. Thomas Grant, born September 8, 1822, died August 7, 1825. 5. James, born December 12, 1824, died in 1842. 6. Theodore Grant, born Feb- ruary 12, 1827, died May 2, 1890; married, November 4, 1847 ; Catharine Bayard, daugh- ter of Anthony and Sarah Alexander (John- son) Rutgers. Children: i. Gerard Rutgers, born November 10, 1848, died February I, 1851 ; ii. Alexander Schuyler, born March 22, 1850, died January 21, 1851 ; iii. Julia Grant, born May 21, 1852, married, July 15, 1876, James Kearney Rice; children: (a) James Kearney (2d), born November 23, 1877, mar- ried, June 3, 1908, Margaretta Meyer, child, James Kearney (3d), born December 24, 1908; iv. Sarah Rutgers, born December 26, 1853, married, March 15, 1877, Williard Penfield Voorhees (q. v. see index) ; v. Nicholas Bay- ard, born February 2, 1856, married, Septem- ber 5, 1879, Sarah Grifford Chapman; chil-
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