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Mr. Howe married, April 11, 1866, Rosalie Cumming, born June 25. 1841, in Princeton, daughter of Major Alexander M. and Emily
(Hornblower) Cumming. Major Cumming served several terms as mayor of Princeton, and was actively engaged during the Civil war, be- ing a member of the First New Jersey Cavalry. Emily (Hornblower) Cumming was the daugh- ter of Chief Justice Joseph Coerten and May (Burnet) Hornblower, of New Jersey. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Howe are: I. Fish- er, born November 3. 1871, at present (1906) associated with Richard Stockton, in Princeton, as a rose grower, doing business under the firm name of Stockton & Howe. 2. Helen, born December 20, 1875. Leavitt Howe, father of the aforementioned children, died July 19, 1904.
JAMES HOLMES WIKOFF, A. M., M. D. The common ancestor of the Wikoff or Wyckoff family in America was Picter Claesen Wyckoff, son of Claes Wyckoff, and grandson of Corne- lius Wyckoff, who does not appear to have em- igrated. Claes Wyckoff came from Holland to America, 1636, and settled at Flatlands, Long Island. Pieter Claesen Wyckoff was born about the year 1627. He became one of the wealthi- est men in Flatlands, and appears to have been a prominent member of the Dutch church. He served as magistrate of Flatlands in 1655-56-58- 62-63-64, was a member of the convention held at Flatbush for the purpose of sending a delega- tion to Holland to lay before the home govern- ment the distressed condition of the colony, and in 1666-67 was a patentee of the town. About 1649 he married Gretje, daughter of Hendrick Van Ness, and became the father of ten children.
Garret Pietersen Wyckoff, fourth son of Pieter C. and Gretje (Van Ness) Wyckoff, was born about 1667, died 1707. He owned considerable property in Flatlands, and in 1699 was one of the five men who purchased a thousand acres at Marlboro, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he probably intended to settle, but, unlike his brothers, Peter and John, never made the move. He married, in 1691, Catherine, daughter of Johannes Nevius, the common ancestor of the Nevius family in America.
Garret G. Wyckoff, son of Garret P. and Cath- erine (Nevius) Wyckoff, was born March 4, 1704, died November 2, 1770. At the age of twenty-four he married Altie Garretson, and fol- lowed his uncles, Peter and John Wyckoff above- mentioned. to Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he presumably settled on the land pur- chased by his father in 1699. His wife died in
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1740, aged thirty-six years. His sons were: Garret, baptized October 31. 1730, was the fa- ther of Garret Wikoff, a Revolutionary soldier, and grandfather of the Rev. Benjamin Du Bois Wyckoff, the missionary to India, and father of Professor Walter Augustus Wyckoff, of Prince- ton University. Samuel, baptized October 19, 1732. Peter, see forward. He was also the fa- ther of several daughters.
Peter Wikoff, third son of Garret P. and Al- tie (Garretson) Wyckoff, was baptized March 31, 1734, died April 1. 1821. During the Revo- lution he was an active patriot, serving first as captain of the Second Regiment of Infantry, Monmouth county militia. In June, 1776, he became captain in Colonel David Forman's bat- talion of New Jersey state troops. For many years he was a judge of the county court. In 1759 he married Alice Longstreet, born Janu- ary 13, 1742, died June 16, 1820, daughter of Richard or Derrick Longstreet, of Manasquan. New Jersey, a descendant of Derrick Stoffelse Longstreet, who came to America in 1657. Pe- ter Wikoff had purchased a home at Allentown, New Jersey, and hither he took his bride. He was buried in the Allentown Presbyterian church- vard by the side of his wife.
Garret P. Wikoff, son of Peter and Alice (Longstreet ) Wikoff, was born July 9. 1761. died June 2, 1844. He married Elizabeth In- lay, daughter of Peter and Mary ( Holmes) Im- lay. Peter Imlay, son of Robert and Alice Im- lay, of Upper Freehold, was a minuteman in the Monmouth county militia during the Revolu- tion, and a prisoner of war, 1778-79.
Garret R. Wikoff, son of Garret P. and Eliz- abeth ( Imlay) Wikoff, married his first cousin, Alice Wikoff, daughter of Richard and Han- nah (White) Wikoff, the former of whom was a brother of Garret P. Wikoff. Alice Wikoff was a widow at the time of her marriage to Garret R. Wikoff, having previously married a Mr. Holmes. Garret R. and Alice Wikoff had a son, James Holmes.
James Holmes Wikoff, son of Garret R. and Alice Wikoff, was born near Long Branch, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey. He pursued a course of study at Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1851, and from which he received the degree of Master of Arts in 1854. He then studied medicine at the University of the City of New York, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1854. He settled for the
practice of his profession at Princeton, and be- came a leading physician in the town. For many years he served the borough as chairman of the board of health, and was largely instrumental in making the town what it is today. He has been one of the most useful citizens of Prince- ton, being connected with all municipal enter- prises looking toward the improvement of the locality. He was one of the charter members of the Princeton Water Company, and now its president : is trustee and vice-president of Prince- ton Theological Seminary; in 1863 was made a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, and since 1887 has been president of the board; is a director in Princeton Bank and a manager of Princeton Savings Bank.
Dr. Wikoff married Mary Cruser, died Jan- uary 6. 1884, daughter of Cornelius C. and El- len Cruser. Their daughter. Anna Thomason Fisher Wikoff. inherits in a marked degree her father's public spiritedness, and as a member of several local clubs and societies is active in all social. philanthropic and village improvement work.
FRANCIS LANDEY PATTON, D. D., LL. D., since 1884 Stuart professor of ethies in Princeton University, and since 1892 president of Princeton Theological Seminary, and profes- sor of the philosophy of religion, was born Jan- narv 22, 1843, in Warwick Parish, Bermuda.
Francis Landey Patton, of Bermuda, great grandfather of Dr. Francis L. Patton, married June 27. 1763. Elizabeth Richard, daughter of Eli Richard, of Bermuda, a brother of Paul Rich- ard. some time mayor of New York, and Stephen Richard, of Elizabeth. New Jersey. These brothers descended from a distinguished family of Rochelle, France. Their father, Paul Richard. a Huguenot, emigrated from Rochelle to Amsterdam in 1650 and thence to New York. Eli Richard Patton, grandfather of Dr. Francis L. Patton, and George John Bascombe Patton, father of Dr. Francis L. Patton, were also born in Bermuda. The ancestor of the family emi- grated to this colony from Virginia early in the eighteenth century.
Dr. Patton was educated at Warwick Academy. Bermuda. Knox College, Toronto, and the Uni- versity of Toronto. In 1865 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hanover College in 1872, and from Yale University in
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1888. The degree of Doctor of Laws was con- ferred upon him by Wooster University in 1878, by Harvard in 1889, by the University of Toronto in 1894, by Yale University in 1901, by Johns Hopkins University in 1902, and by the University of Maryland in 1907.
June 1, 1865, he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and from 1865 to 1867 was pastor of the Eighty-fourth Street Presbyterian Church, New York. From 1867 to 1870 he was pastor of the Presbyterian church, Nyack-on-Hudson, and in 1871 pastor of the South Presbyterian church, Brooklyn. From 1872 to 1881 he held the Cyrus H. McCormick professorship of Systematic Theology in the The- ological Seminary of the Northwest (now the McCormick Seminary), Chicago, and was also, from 1874 to 1881, pastor of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, Chicago. In 1878 he was moderator of the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly. From 1881 to 1888 he was profess- or of the Relations of Philosophy and Science to the Christian Religion in Princeton Theological Seminary, a chair which was founded and en- dowed for Dr. Patton by the late Robert L. Stewart of New York. From 1888 to 1902 hie was President of Princeton University, an office which he resigned. From 1888 to 1902 he was while at the same time president of Princeton University lecturer on Theism in Princeton The- ological Seminary. He is the author of "The Inspiration of the Scriptures;" "Summary of Christian Doctrine :" and also of many articles and reviews in current publications.
Dr. Patton married, October 10, 1865, Rosa. Antoinette, daughter of the Rev. J. M. Steven- son, D. D., of New York. They have five sons : I. George Stevenson, born Nyack, New York. March 13, 1869, graduated B. A., Princeton Uni- versity 1891 ; married Esther Winifred Outer- bridge, of Bermuda, June 23. 1897 ; he is pro- fessor of Moral Philosophy in Princeton Uni- versity.
2. Francis Landey, Jr., born, Nyack, New York, April 27, 1871; graduated B. A., from Princeton University 1893 ; married Jessie Camp- bell McIntyre, of New York. April 30, 1903 ; he is practicing law in New York.
3. Robert Hunter. born Chicago, Illinois, July 13, 1875 : graduated B. A., Princeton University, 1896; married Katharine Lyman Sharp, of Ports- mouth, Virginia, March 23, 1904: he is practic- ing law in New York.
4. John McMillan Stevenson, born Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1876; graduated B. A., Princeton University 1898; he is practicing law in Bermuda.
5. Paul Richard, born in Chicago, Illinois, March 22, 1881, is in business.
JOHN CHAMBERLIN, deceased, was a de- scendant of an old and honored New Jersey fam- ily, and during a long and active career was one of the most highly esteemed citizens of Hights- town-a successful merchant, and a man who had rendered to the community much valuable service.
His paternal grandfather, Joseph Chamberlin, reared a large family of children, namely : I. Bet- sy, married Hezekiah Chamberlin, and their children were: Joseph, Cornelia, John, Harrison, Stephen, Mary and Jones. 2. Randolph, see forward. 3. Lucy Ann, married Laurence Dey, children: Susan, Margaret, Charles, Elizabeth, Hannah. 4. Israel Clark, married Nancy Comp- ton, children : Joseph, Susan, John, Lucy, Mary and Heneth, twins. 5. Stephen, married Nancy Anderson, children: Joseph, Lewis. Keneth, Clark. Mary. 6. Joseph, married Margaret Perrine, children : Charles, Elizabeth. 7. Dan- iel, married Elizabeth Van Nest, children : Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Daniel. 8. Susan, married Sam- uel Chamberlin, one child. Sarah Maria. 9. Ema- line, married Elwood Bergen, children : Hannah, Mary, Elmer, Sarah, Ella. John. 10. John M., married Emma Duncan. children : Charles, Rose Ella, Mary, John, Joseph, Emma, Maggie. II. Hannah, married James M. Cubberly, one child, Anna. 12. Mary, married Richard Barker, chil- dren : Enoch, Joseph.
Randolph Chamberlin, second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlin, followed the occupa- tion of farming very successfully, and was the owner of two farms aggregating three hundred acres, which he brought to a high state of culti- vation. He married (first) Mary Duncan, by whom he had two children-Joseph and Isabel. He married (second) Ann Perrine, and had chil- dren: I. Abijah E., married Emma Snedeker, and had children : Isaac; Grace, married Wilson Elv and had children: Dorothy and John. 2. John, see forward. 3. Stephen Jones, married Amanda Everett, and has one child. Elva. 4. Albert, married Emma Mason, and had children : Lizzie, married Ezekiel Barclay; and Myrta. 5. Randolph, married Emma Hunt. 6. Charles
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Francis, married Josephine Applegate, and had children: Amy, married Elijah Wright, and has one child, Wilton; Walter, married Stella Van- derburg. 7. Henry P., married Carrie Walton, and has one child, Clifford. 8. Mary Anna, married William Gibson, and has one child, Mar- garet. 9. Louis S., married Lillie Farr, and has children : Anna, Florence, Farr and Lewis. IO. Ella, married Anthony Wilson, and has children : Earl, married Ada Vanderburg, and Helen, not married. II. Elizabeth.
Jolın Chamberlin, second son and child of Randolph and Ann (Perrine) Chamberlin, was born near Hightstown, Mercer county, New Jer- sey. He enjoyed the advantages of an education in the public schools of his native township. and at a suitable age began to assist his father in the cultivation of the farms. He was thus occupied until he had attained the age of twenty-three years, when he commenced farming operations on his own account, ably assisted by his wife. He was successfully engaged in this line of work un- til he was forty years of age, when he removed to Hightstown and embarked in business. He made a specialty of hay pressing. and selling coal. stock, seeds, and agricultural supplies. After a time he associated himself in a business partner- ship with Thomas Field. the business being con- ducted under the firm name of Chamberlin & Field. Subsequently, when his son Elmer had gained sufficient experience, he admitted him to the partnership, the firm name being changed to Chamberlin, Field & Company. Mr. Chamberlin always took an active and beneficial interest in the public affairs of his county and village, and held the office of commissioner of appeals for his town. At the time of his death he was serving as a member of the borough council, in which posi- tion he had long rendered efficient service. He was an earnest supporter of the principles of the Republican party. and was a consistent and act- ive member of the Baptist churchi.
Mr. Chamberlin married Anna Field. daughter of Charles and Mary (Miller) Field, grand- daughter of Elijah and Lydia (Hendrickson) Field, great-granddaughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Robbins) Field, and great-great-grand- daughter of Elijah Field. Charles Field, father of Mrs. Chamberlin, married Mary Miller, daughter of Thomas and Tabitha (Brit- ton) Miller, and they were the parents of children: 1. Anna, mentioned above. 2. George, married (first) Eleanor Hall, and had
children : James, married Sarah Applegate, and had children : Eleanor, Marion and Isabelle ; Grover. He married (second) Catherine Wood- ward. 3. Edward, married Isabelle Pullen, and had children : Frank, married Mary Tindall, and has one child, Harry; and Anna. 4. Elijah, married Mary Chamberlin, and has children : Stephen, and Mary. 5. Thomas, married Ella Darnell, and has one child, Joseph. 6. C. Bar- ton, married Anna Yard, and has children, Su- san and Mary. 7. Abraham, married Eliza Lett, and has children: Charles, William, John and Thornton. 8. William H .. married Sarah L'p- dike, and has children: Lillian and William. To Jolın and Anna (Field) Chamberlin were born children: Charles R., whose sketch follows this : and Elmer, married Susette Lucas, and lias children : John and Calvin.
Mr. Chamberlin died very suddenly on Friday night, March 29, 1907. He had been suffering for some time from sciatic rheumatism, but the immediate cause of his death was acute indiges- tion. On the day of his death he appeared to be in the enjoyment of usual health. and previous to the funeral services of Mrs. Fred B. Appleget he walked from his home to condole with the af- flicted family. Mr. Chamberlin was a man of the strictest integrity, and enjoyed to the full the esteem and confidence of the community. He was of quiet disposition, pleasant manners, an irre- proachable citizen, and a consistent Christian gentleman. All the business houses in town were closed during the funeral. and the mayor and bor- ough council attended in a body, so testifying to the high esteem in which the lamented deceased was held by the people among whom he had lived so long and so usefully.
CHARLES RANDOLPH CHAMBERLIN, proprietor of one of the most flourishing and up- to-date stores in Hightstown, Mercer county, New Jersey, is the eldest child of Jolin and Anna (Field) Chamberlin, a sketch of whom immedi- ately precedes this.
He was born near Hightstown, and obtained luis education in the public schools of the town- ship. Later he was for a time employed in a general store in order to obtain a practical and thorough knowledge of mercantile affairs and the conduct of a retail business. He was em- ployed on the Delaware and Raritan canal until 1891, when he entered the service of James H. Allen, a manufacturer of shoes, to learn this
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business. Subsequently he purchased, from Frank T. Norcross, the gentlemen's hat, shoes and furnishing store, and to this he added, in 1905, a millinery department, which is under the able management of his wife, and which is sec- ond to none in the county. The stock consists of every article usually to be found in the large department stores of New York, is of the finest quality, and is strictly up-to-date. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin are progressive and enter- prising in their manner of conducting the busi- ness, and enjoy the confidence and esteem of their many patrons, who come to them from far and near. Mr. Chamberlin married Ida Louise O'Hara, a descendant of an old and honored fan- ily.
Henry O'Hara, great-grandfather of Mrs. Chamberlin, married Catherine-and among his children was Joseph.
Joseph O'Hara, son of Henry and Catherine O'Hara, married Mary-and had children: I. John, died in infancy. 2. Catherine, married Joseph Steiger. 3. Joseph, married Rebecca- had children : Minnie R., a teacher ; and Louise Brearley. 4. Henry, see forward. 5. George, married Selina Beach, had child: Florence, mar- ried Elmer Mccullough, and had children : Ruth, Catherine and Florence.
Henry O'Hara, third son and fourth child of Joseph and Mary O'Hara, married Mary W. Kerns, daughter of Absalom and Rebecca (Woodward) Kerns, the former the son of John Kerns, the latter the daughter of George and Re- becca (Wynkoop) Woodward. Absalom and Rebecca (Woodward) Kerns had children: I. Mary W., mentioned. previously. 2. Margaret, married Absalom Walker, had one child: James Blaine. 3. Georgianna, married Andrew Dych. had children : Nicholas, Frank and Horace. 4. Evan Morris, married Mary West, and had chil- dren : Harry, Maud, Morris and Wesley. 5. William Wesley, unmarried. 6. Edgar L., mar- ried Lizzie Myers, and has one child: Emma Rebecca. 7. J. Frank, unmarried. Henry O'Hara was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and was educated in the public schools. He was ap- prenticed to learn the trade of brickmaking, and followed this occupation until the outbreak of the Civil war. When the call for men to enter the service was issued he enlisted in the First New Jersey Infantry, and at the expiration of liis term of service re-enlisted for a period of three years. He was an active participant in a number of the
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important conflicts of the war, and was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. Upon his return to his home he was appointed court constable, a position he filled very creditably until his death in 1887. His death was due to the effects of the wound and exposure he endured during the Civil war. He was a member of Aaron Wilkes Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Knights of Pythias. He was a consistent attendant at the English Episcopal church. His widow, Mary W. ( Kerns) O'Hara, was appointed matron of the county jail. December 12, 1887, and has filled this position very capably since that time. She is es- pecially fitted to hold a positon of this kind, as her heart is always open to tales of misfortune, and it is due to her noble influence that many who have entered the institution as criminals have left it with the firm resolve to become useful members of society. Henry and Mary W. (Kerns) O'Hara had children: I. Ida Louise, mentioned above. 2. Mary Elizabeth, who mar- ried Charles S. Swallow, and has one child: Florence Marie.
EDGAR LEWIS KERNS, engaged in the manufacture of carbonated waters in Trenton, New Jersey, is one of the prosperous and rising young business men of the city. He was born in Bridesburg, New Jersey, March 12, 1861, is the son of Absalon and Rebecca (Woodward) Kerns, and the grandson of John Kerns, and of George and Rebecca (Wynkoop) Woodward. He attended the public schools and the Rider- Stewart Business College, and this was supple- mented by instruction in private school of Dr. Hammill in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Upon the completion of his education he came to Trenton. New Jersey, where he found employment with John Schrot, in whose establishment he remained for a period of twelve years, and was thoroughly initiated into the manufacture of carbonated waters. He started in business for himself in 1890, and has had a plant erected for the manu- facture of his products, which is second to none of its kind in the county. It is fully equipped with all modern appointments necessary to the manufacture of mineral waters. He takes a great interest in all athletic sports, and several teams have been named in his honor. He is a member of the following fraternal and other organiza- tions : Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; Knights of Pythias; Ancient Order of Shep- hierds; Improved Order of Red Men; Foresters
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of America; and Caliphs. He married Elizabeth Meyer, daughter of Benjamin and Anna Mary (Miller) Meyer, and they have one child: Em- ma Rebecca.
RICHARD STOCKTON, the immigrant an- cestor of the Stockton family of Mercer county, was a descendant of an ancient and highly re- spectable family of the town of Stockton, in Dur- ham, on the river Tees, which is the boundary line between Durliam and Yorkshire in England. He emigrated with his wife and children from England to Flushing, Long Island, and thence to New Jersey, immediately purchasing of George Hutchinson a tract of land containing two thou- sand acres for £325 by deed, March 10, 1692. This tract of land was situated at a place then known only by its Indian name An-na-nicken, sometimes spelled On-e-on-ick-en, in the easterly end of the present township of Springfield, in Burlington county. It was over two miles in length and a mile in width, adjoining the south- erly boundary of the homestead farm of the New- bold family. In 1815 upwards of one thousand acres of said tract were still owned and occupied by descendants of Richard Stockton. He left a will dated January 25, 1706, admitted to probate October 10, 1707, of which his widow was ex- ecutor. He devised four hundred acres of this tract to each of his sons-Richard and Job-and the residue of the tract he devised to be equally divided between his three sons-Richard, John and Job. He was survived by his widow, Abi- gail, three sons, aforementioned, and five daugh- ters, Abigail Ridgway, Sarah Jones, Mary, Han- nah and Elizabeth.
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Richard Stockton, son of Richard and Abi- gail Stockton, accompanied his father to this country from England in order to escape the dissenter persecutions by the Stuarts. He set- tled with his father in Flushing, Long Island, near a creek called Stony Brook, then moved to Piscataway, and in 1606 to Princeton, New Jer- sey, being one of the first settlers of that town. He there purchased four hundred acres from Dr. John Gordon, October 20, 1701. William Penn conveyed to him a tract of fifty-five hun- dred acres, reserving therein ten hundred and fif- ty acres, for fgoo, and by these large possessions of valuable land Richard Stockton and his de- scendants held a prominent place among the carlv setilers of Princeton. He died in 1709, leaving a will dated April 25, 1709, proved Aug-
ust 15, 1709, before J. Basse, surrogate. He left to hiis eldest son, Richard, three hundred acres of land adjoining the rear of John Hornor's farm; to his second son, Samuel, five hundred acres lying both sides of Stony Brook (which he named) ; to his third son, Joseph, two hundred acres (Springdale farm), also three hundred acres back of that of his brother Samuel; to his fourth son, Robert, five hundred acres; to his fifth son, Jolin, five hundred acres, part of it his dwelling plantation; to his sixth son, Thomas, four hundred acres at Annanicken ; to his mother, Abigail Stockton, twenty shillings a year; to his wife, Susanna Stockton, all of the dwelling plan- tation until his son John became of age, then one-half of the house and improvements during her life. All of the aforementioned sons mar- ried and reared families and resided in the vicin- ity of Princeton.
Robert Stockton, fourth son of Richard and Susanna Stockton, to whom belonged the Con- stitution Hill plantation ( lately known as Ed- ward Stockton farm), was the ancestor of Major Robert Stockton, quartermaster in the Revolu- ionary war, and the father of Dr. Ebenezer Stockton, Job Stockton, Mrs. Dr. Aslıbel Green, Mrs. Thomas P. Johnson, Mrs. James and oth- ers deceased, and the grandfather of Major Rob- ert Stockton, Mrs. Boteler and Mrs. Terry.
John Stockton, fifth son of Richard and Su- sanna Stockton, was the most prominent of the six sons. The most illustrious representatives of the Stocktons are found in this line of de- scent. From him descended Richard Stockton, the distinguished signer of the Declaration, who occupied Morven, a portion of the original plan- tation, until it passed to his son Richard, the great lawyer, who died in 1828, and who was the father of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and from the commodore are traced his sons, the late Richard Stockton, of Princeton, Attor- ney General Jolın P. Stockton and General Rob- ert F. Stockton, of Trenton. John Stockton was also the father of two other sons of prom- inence, namely: Samuel Witham Stockton and Rev. Phillip Stockton.
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