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they had two children. His son William re- sided in Salem until his death, leaving a son, Thomas, who married Sarah Maverick, and died in Boston in 1689. In his will he calls himself a mariner, and names his wife, Sarah, but no children.
(II) Thomas Scudder, son of Thomas (1) and Elizabeth Seudder, left Salem in 1651 and after a residence of some years in Southold re- moved to Huntington, Long Island, where he settled. He became the proprietor by grant and purchase of about one thousand acres of valu- able land, a large portion of which is still held by his' descendants. His death occurred in 1690. He married Mary ,who survived him, and they had children: Timothy. Benjamin, see forward. Mary, married Robert Arthur. Eliza- beth, married Walter Noakes. Sarah, married Conklin. Clemar, married
Clemens. Merey, who died unmarried.
(III) Benjamin Sendder, second son and child of Thomas (2) and Mary Scudder, was born in Huntington, Long Island. He, also, was a large land owner, receiving from the estate of his father lands, a grist mill and the homestead, on which lie died in 1735. He married (first) Marv -, (second) Sarah -, and
Ezekiel. 3. had children : 1. Thomas. 2. Benjamin. 4. Jacob, see forward. 5. Isaac, who left Long Island soon after the death of his father and settled in Connecticut. He was drill master of a troop of militia in that state about 1744, but there is no record of him after 1750. 6. Isaiah, received his inheritance in money, and soon after left Long Island and all trace of him was lost. 7. Moses, received from his fa- ther a large landed estate, a considerable part of which he sold to his brother Thomas in 1751. 8. Peter, married, and left two daughters. 9. Sarah, married Epenetus Platt. 10. Ruth, mar- ried -
Rogers. II. Anne, unmarried.
(IV) Jacob Seudder, fourth son of Benja- min (3) and Mary Seudder, was born in Hun- tington, Long Island, November 29, 1707, and resided there for a period of forty-two years. He sold his property in that section in 1749 and re- moved with his family to the vicinity of Prince- ton, Mercer county, New Jersey, where he pur- chased, November 25 of the same year, of Josiah Davinson, for one thousand four hundred pounds sterling, a tract of land on the Millstone river. This consisted of one hundred aeres on which were located two grist mills, a saw mill, a press
house and a fulling mill. To this he added an- otlier traet, lying above these mills, which he purchased from John Davinson, a son of Josiah Davinson, and on this was located a mill erected in former times by Isaac Fitz Randolph. Mr. Scudder was au energetie man of business, of great influence in the community, and held in high esteem. He was a man of generous spirit, and a liberal contributor to the First Presby- terian Church of Princeton, in the establishment of which he took a foremost part, and Rev. Dr. John Woodhull says of him, "He was one of its leading members." He died May 31, 1772, and at his death the mill property passed into the hands of his son. Colonel William Seudder, of whom more hereinafter. Jacob Scudder mar- ried, August 5, 1731, Abia Rowe, also of Hun- tington, Long Island. She was born May 23, 1708, and died May 5, 1791. Their children were :
1. Nathaniel, born in Huntington, Long Is- land, May 10. 1733. He removed with his fa- ther to the vicinity of Princeton. He was grad- uated from Princeton College, of which he was afterward a trustee. He was a physician and became eminent in his profession. He was a member of the committee of safety ; was several times elected to a seat in the legislature ; and at the assembly held at Burlington he was chosen speaker. At the legislative meeting held at Princeton, November 20, 1777, the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, Elias Boudinot and Dr. Scudder were chosen to represent the state in the national congress. This Dr. Scudder continued to do until the elose of 1779. He was colonel in the First Regiment of Monmouth, and was killed in battle at the head of his command, October 16, 1781, being the only member of the Continental congress to fall in battle. It was said of him, "Few men have fallen in this country that were so useful and so generally mourned for in death." He was buried with all the honors of war in the graveyard of the old Tennent Church, of which he was an elder.
Dr. Nathaniel Seudder married, March 23, 1752, Isabella, daughter of Colonel Kenneth An- derson, of Monmouth county; had children : John Anderson, see forward: Josepli, see for- ward: Kenneth ; Hannah, married Colonel Will- iamı Wyckoff, of Manalapan ; and Lydia, became the second wife of David English, of George- town, District of Columbia, a graduate of Prince-
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ton College, of which he was also tutor, and pres- ident of the Bank of Georgetown.
Dr. John Anderson Scudder, son of Colonel Nathaniel Scudder, was a graduate of Prince- ton, and became a surgeon in 1777 of the same regiment of which his father was colonel. He was for several successive years elected to a seat in the legislature of the state, and in 1810 was chosen to represent it in national congress. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel For- man and Catherine Wyckoff, his wife, and re- moved to Kentucky, then to Indiana. Their chil- dren were: Charles, married Mary, daughter of Rhodin Horde, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Nathaniel. Emma, married David Wood. Ja- cob. John. Henry, married a Miss Beasley. William. Ellen, married Jesse Crabbs. Kenneth, a physician of Indianapolis, was for several years a member of the state legislature, and one of the commissioners who laid out the city of In- dianapolis.
Dr. Joseph Scudder, second son of Colonel Nathaniel Scudder, a graduate of Princeton Col- lege, became a physician ; settled in Freehold. He married Maria, daughter of Colonel Philip John- son, a gallant officer of the revolution, who was killed in the battle of Long Isand. Philip John- son, born July 16, 1791, died 1830. He gradu- ated from Princeton College, practiced law at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Married (first) Eliza- beth, daughter of Captain Simms ; married ( sec- ond) Harriet Whitney; married (third) Caro- linc Davidson. Dr. Joseph Scudder died March 5, 1843, aged eighty-two. His wife died Decem- ber 21, 1858, aged ninety. Their children : I. Eliza, married Rev. William C. Schenck, of Princeton, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church there till his death, 1818; their only son, William, was a graduate of Rutgers College and Theological Seminary. and their only daughter. Margaret, married Rev. Asa S. Colton, professor in Rutgers College. 2. John, born September 3, 1793, after graduating at Princeton College, studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, settled in New York, where he gained an extensive practice ; this he gave up and went in 1819 as a mission- ary to India with Winslow, Spaulding and Wood- .ward, whose wife was a granddaughter of Lu- cretia Scudder. He married Harriet Waterbury, daughter of Gideon Waterbury, of Stamford, Connecticut, and sister of Dr. Jared Waterbury, of Boston. Their eight sons entered the min-
istry, and with the exception of one who died during preparation, were his fellow workers in the missionary field, as were also his two daugh- ters, until their marriage. 3. Maria, born Octo- ber 14, 1795. 4. Louisa, born 1797, died un- married, 1826. 5. William Washington, born 1799, died 1823; was a graduate of Princeton College, professor of mathematics in Dickinson College, a young man of great promise. 6. Jo- seph, born 1801, died aged twenty-five years; a graduate of Princeton College and a practitioner of law in Freehold. 7. Cornelia, born 1803, married Rev. Jacob Fonda, D. D., of Hudson. 8. Juliet Philip, born 1805, married Daniel B. Ryall, a lawyer ; settled at Freehold. and was for several years a representative of the state in congress. Their children : Edward, Thomas, Matilda, married Jonathan Forman, whose chil- dren are: Ellen, wife of Samuel Forman ; The- odocia, wife of Lieutenant Frederick Kerner; and Edward T., lieutenant of artillery in the late war. Jane, married Rev. Christopher Hunt, a Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, whose children are: De Witte, Joseph, Mary, Louise, Theodocia, married Rev. William J. Pohlman, both of whom went as missionaries to China, where Dr. Pohlman was drowned in going from Hong Kong to Amoy in 1842 and Mrs. Pohlman died three years later.
Hannah Scudder, daughter of Colonel Nathan- iel Scudder, married Colonel William Wyckoff. Their children were: Nathaniel S., married El- len, daughter of Colonel Elias Conover ; Sarah, not married ; Mathilda, married John C. Smith, of Philadelphia ; Ann. married Dr. John T. Wood- hull; Charlotte, married Dr. Gilbert S. Wood- hull; Lydia, died in infancy ; Amanda, married Rev. William H. Woodhull.
2. Phoebe, born August 2, 1734, married Davidson; died 1807, leaving no chil- dren.
3. Lucretia, born March 6, 1738, died April 13, 1826, and is buried beside her nephew, Will- iam Scudder, in Princeton cemetery. She mar- ricd Joseph Coward, born about 1710, died in 1760, son of Rev. John Coward, and grandson of Captain Hugh Coward, of England. Their children were: I. Elizabeth, married John Potts, of Imlaystown. 2. Joseph, a member of Pulaski Legion during the war of the revo- lution. 3. Ruth, married Christopher Stryker. 4. Samuel. 5. Jacob. 6. John, a lieutenant in the company of Captain Wykoff, Second Regi-
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ment of Monmouth, 1777. 7. Abia, married Abel Middleton, and raised a family of chil- dren. 8. Lydia, married Henry Woodward, who, with Drs. Spaulding, Winslow and Scud- der, formed that early and devoted band of mis- sionaries to India in 1819, where both he and his wife died. One of the great-grandchildren of Lucretia (Scudder) Coward was Joel Parker, a graduate of Princeton College, who was twice elected governor of New Jersey.
4. William, see forward.
5. Lemuel, born September 30, 1741, died July 9, 1806; married a daughter of Richard Longstreet, owned and resided on a property in the vicinity of Princeton, now the home of Mr. P. A. V. Van Doren, had children : Richard. Elias, married Jane Vanartsdalen; Margaret, married Moses Morris; Abah, married Josiah Fithian; Jacob; Elizabeth, married a Mr. Du- bois; Jane, married (first) a Mr. Nevins; (sec- ond) a Mr. Lusk, a lawyer of Wilkes Barre.
6. Ruth, born October 17, 1743, married, Au- gust 18, 1772, Major Kenneth Anderson, an offi- cer during the Revolutionary war. He was ad- jutant of the First Regiment of Monmouth coun- ty, of which his father was colonel. Mrs. Ken- neth Anderson died October 13, 1826.
(V) Colonel William Scudder, second son and fourth child of Jacob (4) and Abia (Rowe) Scudder, was born in Huntington, Long Island, April 6, 1739. He was the proprietor of a large landed estate and of several mills near Princeton, which, owing to the well known patriotism of the family suffered greatly at the hands of the British during revolutionary days. Colonel Scudder was devoted to the defence of his country, and was an active participant in the famous battle of Monmouth, being lieutenant-colonel at the time of the Third regiment of Middlesex. He was a man of distinction and influence in his day, and was one of the founders and principal supporters in 1763-64 of the First Presbyterian church of Princeton, and one of its trustees from 1786 to 1793. He married (first) Mary Skelton, (sec- ond) Sarah Van Dyke, a descendant of an old Dutch family, a sketch of whom will be found below. They had children : I. Isaac, born Feb- ruary 9, 1786. He married Abigail Wetherill, daughter of Colonel John Wetherill, and resided on his large estate near Cranbury. 2. Hannah, born 1788, married, October 15, 1807, Rev. Eli Field Cooley ; died April 6, 1817. 3. Eleanor, died in infancy. 4. William, also died in in-
fancy. 5. William, see forward. 6. Sarah, married John Ross Hamilton, a grandson of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph. After the death of Colonel William Scudder his widow married Perez Rowley, and after her death, Perez Row- ley married Ruth (Coward) Stryker, daughter of Lucretia (Scudder) Coward, and widow of Christopher Stryker.
Sarah (Van Dyke) (Scudder) Rowley, widow of Colonel William Scudder, was a lineal de- scendant of Jan Thomasse, son of Thomasse Jans, of Amsterdam. He came to this country from Amsterdam, Holland, 1652, and settled at New Utrecht, Long Island, died 1678. He was ap- pointed one of the schepens by Governor Colse, in 1673. He married Tryntje Haegan and had eight children: Thomas, Derrick, Akias, Hen- drick, Jan Jans, Karel Jans, Angenietje or An- netje, and Peter.
Jan Jans, born at Amsterdam, Holland, 1735- 1736, son of Thomasse and Tryntje Haegan, of New Utrecht, Long Island, married Tenntje Tyssen Van Pelt, daughter of Thys Janse Lauen Van Pelt, who emigrated from Liege in 1663, and had five children : Jan; Mathys ; a daughter who married Jan Van Buen; a daughter who married Rutgert Van Brunt; a daughter who married Simon de Hart.
Jan, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, son of Jan Jans and Tenntje Tyssen Van Pelt, was born in New Utrecht, in 1682, and died December 18, 1754. He removed to New Jersey prior to 1727, and settled at Freshwater Ponds, near Spotts- wood, where he purchased considerable land. He also bought land on the Millstone river at Maple- ton, and at Harlingen, in Somerset county. The Dutch church in the latter place was built on his land in 1751. He married Annetje Verkerk, daughter of Jan Jansse Verkerk, who emigrated in 1663 from Buren in Gelderland, and settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, where he became the owner of large tracts of land. They had ten children : Tenntje, married Johannes Emans ; Catrina, married Gerardus Beekman: Jan; Roe- lof: Mathys, see forward; Abraham; Simon; Isaac : Jacob; Anna, married Albert Voorhees.
Mathys, of Mapleton, son of Jan and Annetje Verkerk, was born at New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, August 28, 1714. He married Noltys Laen and had eight children: John; Matthew; Anna, married Aaron Longstreet ; Noltys or Ellen, mar- ried John Berrian; Tenntje, married (first) John Bergen, (second) John Bayles ; Margaret,
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married John Gulick; Catherine, married Freder- ick Causer ; Sarah, married (first) Colonel Will- iam Scudder, and (second) Perez Rowley. By the second marriage she had children : Kelsey V., a physician, who married (first) Mary A. Diel, (second) , and had children ; Cather- ine; Robina; Mary; Robert, a civil engineer, who held the rank of captain in the Confederate army, and was promoted to a position on the staff of General Bragg; Catherine, married Rev. Symmes C. Henry, a graduate of Princeton Col- lege and the Theological Seminary. Their chil- dren were: Mary, who married Rev. Joseph G. Symmes, and James Addison, who married Mary Steins, of Philadelphia.
(VI) William Scudder, third son and fifth child of Colonel William (5) and Saralı (Van Dyke) Scudder, was born at Scudder's Mills, Middlesex county, New Jersey, 1794, and died there, March II, 1819, aged twenty-five years, sixteen days. He was buried in Princeton ceme- tery. He was closely identified with the manu- facturing interests of the time and place, and was the owner of a large estate. He married Eleanor Craig, daughter of James Craig, of Monmouth. New Jersey, and had children: 1. James, mar- ried Ann Morris, daughter of George Morris. 2. William Van Dyke.
(VII) William Van Dyke Scudder, second and youngest son and child of William (6) and Eleanor (Craig) Scudder, was born at Scudder's Mills, Middlesex county, New Jersey, February 8, 1818, and died September 9, 1905. He was in full possession of all his faculties at the time of his death at this advanced age, and his remains were interred in Princeton cemetery. He was of an active and energetic nature, combining great force of character with strong principles. For many years he was closely identified with the business interests of Princeton, New Jersey, and took the initiative in many movements which were for the welfare and improvement of that section of the county. He was a Republican in politics and invariably voted the Republican tick- et. He took a sincere interest in the welfare of the First Presbyterian church, of which he was a member for many years. He was a man of lib- eral opinions, a diligent reader, and always kept in touch with current events in all directions. He was quiet and reserved in his manner, but pos- sessed a fund of quaint humor which was charac- teristic of him. He was of a kindly disposition and had a host of friends in all classes of society.
Captain Scudder was elected cornet by Princeton Troop, Fifth Regiment of Cavalry, in 1844, and was commissioned second lieutenant the following year. During the progress of the Civil war he raised his own company, which was known as Company E, Second New Jersey Cav- alry, and was in command of this as captain from September 16, 1863, until the close of the war. He was also a member of the Governor's Guards, an organization he was instrumental in forming prior to the Civil war, and held the rank of cap- tain in this company. His war record is as fol- lows : He was assigned to Stoneman's division of cavalry, Army of the Potomac, transferred to the First Brigade, First Cavalry, Army of the Ten- nessee. He took part in the following engage- ments : Jackson, Tennessee, December 30, 1863; 1864, New Moscow, Tennessee, February 13; Aberdeen, Mississippi, February 19; West Point, Mississippi, February 20-21 ; Okolona, Missis- sippi, February 22; Ivy Farm, Mississippi, Feb- ruary 22; Tallahatchie River, February 23 ; as- signed to First Brigade, Seventh Division, Six- teenth Army Corps; Raleigh, Tennessee, April 10; Bolivar, Tennessee, May 2; Holly Springs, Mississippi, May 23; Corinth, Mississippi, June 5: Ripley, Mississippi, June 7; Hatchie River, Mississippi, June 11; Guntown, Mississippi; in command of the Pioneer Corps, Ripley, Missis- sippi, June 11; Waldron's Bridge, Mississippi, June 11 ; Davis' Mill on Hatchie River, Tennes- see, June 12; assigned to First Brigade, Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division, West Mississippi; Utica, Mississippi, July 12; Grand Gulf, Mississippi, July 14; Port Gibson, Missis- sippi, July 15-16; Jackson, Mississippi, July 20; Abbysville, August 10; Tallahatchie River, Mis- sissippi, August 14; Teppo River, Mississippi, August 15; Waterford, Mississippi, August 19: near Memphis, September 12-13, in pursuit of General Price through Arkansas and Missouri ; Syracuse, Missouri, October 10: Big Blue and Osage rivers, Kansas, October 23 to 25; Fort Scott, Arkansas, October 28; Big Lake, Arkan- sas, November 29-30; Verona, Mississippi, De- cember 25: Egypt Station, Mississippi, Decem- ber 28; in the siege and capture of Mobile, 1865, April 8-10; Blakeley, Alabama, April 12; Man- ingham, April 23. The "History of Burlington and Mercer Counties" says: "From the first to the last the regiment exhibited a courage and discipline which justly ranked it among the best of our cavalry, and its record, covering a field
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of peculiar hardship and hard fighting, will shine ivith luster and glory in the annals of the brave long after the men who fought in its ranks have gone down to their last sleep." Captain Scudder was a member of the Thomas R. Haines Post, No. 30, Grand Army of the Republic, and was elected commander of the Post, and was a mem- ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
William V. D. Scudder married, at Wood- bridge, May 11, 1850, Mary Grover Conover, born near Princeton, January 24, 1827, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bastido) Conover, of Penns Neck, New Jersey. Mrs. Scudder is now (1907) living with her daughters at No. 53 Uni- versity Place, Princeton, New Jersey. Captain and Mrs. Scudder had children: I. Annie Fish- er, died in infancy. 2. Mary Cruser. 3. Will- iam Craig, died in childhood. 4. William New- ell, married Mary Thomas. 5. William, died in infancy. 6. Edith, died in infancy. 7. Helen Van Dyke. 8. Robert Lincoln, a civil engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He married Kather- ine Allen.
HOWE FAMILY. This ancient family num- bers among its numerous representatives Ed- ward Howe, president of the Princeton Bank, and his son, Walter Butler Howe, a well known business man of that city. The history of the Howes is traced through the following genera- tions :
(I) James How (as the name was originally spelled), son of Robert How, of Hatfield, Eng- land, was born in 1598, died May 17, 1702, and was the founder of the race in the New World, emigrating to this country about 1637. His death occurred at Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was the "man of three centuries," his life embracing the two last years of the sixteenth century, the entire course of the seventeenth and the first and second years of the eighteenth. Born in the "spacious times of great Elizabeth," he witnessed the founding of the American colonies, the civil wars, the commonwealth, the restoration and ex- pulsion of the Stuarts, dying shortly after the ac- cession of Queen Anne. James How married Elizabeth, daughter of John Dane, of Berkhamp- ton, England, and the line of their descendants is traced below.
(II) James How, son of James (1) and Elizabeth (Dane) How, was born in 1634, died in 1702. He married Elizabeth Jackson, who was
one of the unfortunate sufferers in the Salem witchcraft delusion. Of her a historian of the times says: "Her gentle, patient, humble, be- nignant, devout and tender heart bore her, no doubt, with a spirit of saintlike love and faith through the dreadful scenes. We cannot doubt that in death, as in her life, she forgave, prayed for and invoked blessings on her persecutors."
(III) John How, son of James (2) and Eliz- abeth (Jackson) How, born in 1671, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, died in the same place in 1697.
(IV) James How, son of John How (3) born in 1694, in Ipswich, died in 1771 in Meth- uen.
(V) James How, son of James How (4), born in 1723, in Methuen, Massachusetts, died there in 1806.
(VI) James How, son of James How (5), was born in 1755, in Methuen, Massachusetts, served as surgeon in the Continental army and later became a noted physician in New Hamp- shire. He married Lucy Fisher, a descendant of Daniel Fisher, a man very prominent in the early history of Massachusetts. Dr. James How died in 1807, in Rochester, New Hampshire.
(VII) Fisher Howe, son of James (6) and Lucy (Fisher) How, was born September 3, 1798, in Rochester, New Hampshire, and about 1825 moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he was engaged during the remainder of his life in mercantile pursuits, being a director in many business and benevolent institutions. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of David Leavitt, a well known banker of New York in the early part of the last century. The death of Fisher Howe occurred in Brooklyn, November 7, 1871.
(VIII) Edward Howe, son of Fisher (7) and Elizabeth (Leavitt) Howe, was born March 8, 1839, in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1859 moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where he has since resided, engaging in farming. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, of which he is one of the deacons and also a member of the Board of Trustees, of which he has been president since 1872. He is a director of the Princeton Water Company and the Princeton Savings Bank and takes an active interest in all enterprises that have for their object the good and welfare of the community.
Mr. Howe married, February 28, 1861, Han- nah T., daughter of Walter and Maria (Van
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Allen) Butler, of Chicago, and they have been the parents of the following children : Maria Wynne, born March 15, 1862, died October 29, 1887. Elizabeth Leavitt, born May 30, 1864. Walter Butler, born September 2, 1865, engaged in business in Princeton. Mary Butler, born December 14, 1868. Edward Leavitt, born April 6, 1870, engaged in business in Princeton and vice-president of Princeton Bank. Hannah But- ler, born March 22, 1872, wife of the Rev. Sam- uel Martin, of Windber, Pennsylvania. Chris- tine Butler, born December 26, 1875, died Feb- ruary 7, 1904. Hannah T. ( Butler ) Howc, mother of the aforementioned children, died Jan- uary 13, 1876. Mr. Howe married (second), February 7, 1878, Clarissa ( Butler) Blaney, sis- ter of his former wife, and her death occurred December 19, 1906.
LEAVITT HOWE, for many years resid- ing at "Fieldhead," Snowden Lane, Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, was a representa- tive of one of the leading families of the state of New Jersey, whose earlier ancestral history is to be found in the sketch immediately preceding this. Mr. Howe has been prominently and in- fluentially associated with the financial and agri- cultural interests of the county for a number of years.
Leavitt Howe, son of Fisher and Elizabeth ( Leavitt) Howe, was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 24, 1836. He enjoyed the ad- vantages of an excellent education, was gradu- ated from Andover in the class of 1854, and from Yale University in the class of 1858. He came to Princeton, New Jersey, with his brother Ed- ward, and they immediately became largely in- terested in agricultural and banking enterprises on a large scale. Mr. Howe was a director and vice-president of the Princeton Bank, of which his brother is the president. He raised high class cattle, and was the owner of the first herd of Alderny cattle in the state of New Jersey. He was a member of the following organiza- tions : D. K. E. of New York; Nassau Club, Princeton ; and a charter member of the New Jersey Cattle Club. He was a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, and took an active interest in the welfare of that insti- tution.
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