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I. Susan Wainwright, born November 25, 1831. She resides on the farm formerly owned by her father, and is noted throughout that sec- tion of the county for her quiet, unostentatious charity. Like her brother and sister, she has been gifted witli a rare amount of literary abil- ity.
2. Mary Ann, born September 3, 1838, died July 12, 1861. She was a member of the Wind- sor Methodist Church, and highly esteemed as an amiable Christian woman. She was familiar- lv known as "Kate," a pet name given by her brother, and used this as her signature in home letters. She was a school teacher, serving in that capacity at Allen's Corners and at East Branch. Her methods of imparting instruction were gentle yet forceful, and were dominated by a strong sense of justice. The trustees of the schools were ardent in the support of her authority, recognizing the excellence of the re- sults attained. Twelve years after the decease of her mother she composed the following stan- zas :
DREAMLAND WANDERINGS.
'Neath the calm and holy twilight, By the bright and winding streams, And o'er the hills and valleys I have wandered in my dreams.
While memory brought the happy time, When, in my childhood hours,
I have sauntered in the same old place And played beneath its bowers.
When she I loved, since passed away, Was ever by my side
To share my sorrows and my tears, My faults to gently chide.
Although that form has passed from earth To the brighter world on high,
My thoughts shall every be of her Who dwells above the sky.
3. James Nelson Woodhull, born August 14, 1840. He was a teacher in the school at New Sharon for two years, and was a man of great
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erudition for his years. He was in active service during the Civil war as a private in the Eleventh Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and par- tieipated in all the engagements with which his regiment was concerned. He was wounded at or near Fredericksburg, and about three months later, June 16, 1864, was killed at the battle of Petersburg. He was greatly beloved by his comrades and his death was sincerely mourned by all. During his entire military career he kept a daily record of all the proceedings of the army, and this is so faithful and detailed a report as to compare favorably with the best histories of that stirring time. His letters, also, to his fam- ily and friends are models of pure dietion and in- teresting information, and give a clear insight into the nobility of his character and his devo- tion to his home and country. He was known in his family and to all his friends 'as "Tip," be- cause Captain Scattergood, a friend of James R. Freeman, requested that this child be named Mar- tin Van Buren; the father, however, being an old line Whig, thought he would name the child Tippecanoe, in honor of General Harrison. The name finally decided upon was James Nelson Woodhull, but he was always known as "Tip." This sketch would be incomplete were we to omit the subjoined lines, which are from the gifted pen of this young hero :
"Morning is lovely, but a holier balını Lies folded close in evening's robe of calm ; And weary man must cver love her best, For morning calls to toil, but night to rest. All things are hushed before her as she throws ()'er earth and sky her mantle of repose. There is a calm, a beauty and a power That morning knows not in the evening hour. O, when our sun is setting, may we glide, Like summer evening. down the golden tide, And leave behind us. as we pass away, Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping day."
COOLEY FAMILY. Benjamin Cooley, the first ancestor of this family of whom we have any definite information, was born in 1620, died 1684. He came to Springfield, Massachusetts, which was settled in 1636, and was one of three selectmen in 1646. He was one of the earliest settlers of Longmeadow. and one of the commis- sioners to lay out the town of Suffield, Connec- ticut, in 1670. I.Ic was one of the wealthy men of his day, accumulating a fortune by his bus-
iness pursuits. He was survived by a family of eight children.
(II) Daniel Cooley, son of Benjamin Cooley, born 1651, married Eliza Wolcott, of Windsor, Connecticut ; seven children.
(III) Simeon Cooley, son of Daniel Cooley, born 1686, died 1746. He and his family, con- sisting of ten children, settled at Sunderland, Massachusetts.
(IV) Simeon Cooley, Jr., son of Simeon Cooley, born 1720, died 1805. He married Bethia Ashley, who bore him eight children.
(V) Rmnnah Cooley, son of Simeon, Jr., and Bethia (Ashley) Cooley, born 1758, died 1827. He married and was the father of eight children.
( VI) Rev. Eli Field Cooley, son of Rinnah Cooley, born in Sunderland, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 15, 1781, died April 22, 1860. He pursued his studies at the Academy at Hartford, Connec- tient, and College of New Jersey, from which he was graduated with the class of He 1806. studied theology with the Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, and was licensed to preach at the New Brunswick Presbyterian Church, October 3, 1800. He went to Cherry Valley, Otsego coun- ty, New York; was ordained and installed a pas- tor of a church there, and remained ten years. He then returned to New Jersey, and for three years was located at Mattewan, and April 10, 1823. became pastor of the First Church of Tren- ton, now Ewing, remaining until July 19. 1857, a period of thirty-four years. He married. Octo- ber 15, 1807, Hannah Scudder.
(VII) Stanhope S. Cooley, son of Rev. Eli Field and Hannah (Scudder ) Cooley, born 1816, died September 30, 1875. He was a merchant in Trenton, active in the affairs of that city, and prominent in the work of the Presbyterian church. He married. January 13, 1841, Harriet Welling, born May 2, 1820.
(VIII) William Henry Cooley, son of Stan- hope S. and Harriet (Welling) Cooley, born February 6, 1850, died March 1, 1891. He was a farmer, conducting operations on a farm of seventy-five acres, and a successful business man. He was interested in local polities, and held the offices of assessor, school trustee, member of the township committee and freeholder, his service being noted for efficieney and faithfulness to the smallest details of the duties devolving upon him. He was a member and trustee of the Pres- byterian elmireh, a member of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons and Patrons of Husbandry, and
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a Republican in politics. He married, February 26, 1878, Emma Rose and two children were born to them: Edith, February 12, 1879, died March 12, 1891 ; Walter F., May 29, 1881.
The Rose family, of which Mrs. Emma ( Rose) Cooley is a representative, traces its ancestry to Robert Rose, of Wethersfield, in 1639, who came in the ship "Francis" from Ipswich, county of Suffolk, in 1634. He died in 1665 in East Hamp- ton ; had wife, Margery, and children : 2. John (2), born 1619; 3. Robert (2), born 1619; 4. Elizabeth (2), born 1621; 5. Mary (2), born 1623; 6. Samuel (2), born 1625: 7. Sarah (2), born 1627; 8. Daniel (2), born 1631; 9. Dorcas (2), born 1632; 10. Thomas (2), born 1635.
2. John Rose (2) died April 17, 1697. Had wife Abigail and children: II. David (3) ; 12. Thomas (3); 13. James (3); 14. Hannah (3) (not eighteen years of age, February 27, 1715-16, when John (2) made his will) ; 15. John (3) ; 16. William (3), and 17. Martyn (3). David had half the landed estate, and the other half went to his wife, and to Thomas on her clecease. I1. David (3), died 1716; had wife Hannah and children: 18. Hannah (4) : 19. David (4) ; 20. Daniel (4), and 21. Obadiah (4). ( Sons in March, 1716, all under fifteen years of age.) 12. Thomas (3), of Watermill, had son, 22. Israel (4).
15. John Rose (3) had children: 23. David (4), and 24. James (4).
23. David Rose (4) had wife Esther and chil- dren: 25. Esther (5), born 1736, died 1738, and, 26. David (5).
26. David Rose (5) had son, 27. David (6), born 1753.
27. Captain David Rose (6) died July 23, 1836. His first wife, Mary (Rogers) Rose, died 1800, aged forty-four; his second wife, Nancy (Jes- sup) Rose, died April 22, 1845, aged sixty-six. He had children : 28. Hannah (7), first wife of Captain Herrick Rogers ; 29. Nancy (7), wife of Micaiah Herrick; 30. Emma (7), wife of Cap- tain Edward White, of Sebonac; 31. David Rogers (7), born 1798; 32. Harriet (7), wife of Silas Riggs ; 33. John (7), born 1802, died July 16, 1854: 34. Mary (7), wife of Jacob Drake; 35. Austin (7).
31. David Rose (7) married Mary A. White, born 1800, and had children: 36. Peter R. (8), born 1823: 37. Emma (8), wife of John Rick ; 38. David Harold (8). born 1840.
36. Captain Peter R. Rose (8) married Caro- line, daughter of John Benedict, and had daugh- ter, 39. Emma, born 1856.
38. David Harold Rose (8) married (first) Mary, daughter of Captain Henry Halsey, and had daughter 40. Mary. His wife died and he married ( second) Eleanor, daughter of Albert Hildreth, and had children.
17. Martyn Rose (5) had wife Sarah, daugh- ter of Richard Howell, and had children: 41. Zacheus (4), born 1700; 42. Stephen (4) ; 43. Christopher (4) ; 44. John (4), who removed to Orange, New Jersey; 45. Sibyl (4), who re- moved with Stephen to Ewing, New Jersey ; 46. Esther (4) : 47. Sarahı (4) ; 48. Abraham (4).
41. Zacheus Rose (4) died August 4, 1760. He had wife Anna, who died August 17, 1773; they had children: 49. Stephen (5), born 1742; 50. Anna (5): 51. Phebe (5); 52. Puah (5) ; 53. Moses (5).
49. Stephen (5) died July 1, 1806. Had wife Chloe, who was born 1744, died July 7, 1796. They had children: 54. Jeremiah (6) : 55. Phebe (6), wife of Timothy Holmes, of Con- necticut : 56. Zaccheus (6) ; 57. Silas (6), of Connecticut ; 58. Stephen (6), born June 5. 1780.
57. Silas Rose (6) had children : 59. George (7):60. Phebe (7); 61. Emily (7) : 62. So- phronia (7).
58. Deacon Stephen Rose (6), died 1866. Married, February 10, 1805, Phebe Haynes, born May 5, 1780, died August 14, 1817. He married (second), November 15, 1818, Maria Pierson, born November 21, 1788, died April 2, 1831. He married (third), March 21, 1832, Nancy Haynes, born August 10, 1794. He had children: 63. Stephen (7). born June 17, 1806: 64. David (7). born July 25, 1808; 65. Eliphalet (7), born July 26, 1810: 66. Chloe (7), born March 20, 1813; 67. Mehitable (7), born August 24. 1815: 68. Phebe (7), born August 7, 1817 : 69. Benjamin F. (7), born October 10, 1819; 70. Aaron W. (7), born July 8, 1821 ; 71. Henry Martyn (7), born March 10, 1823: 72. John H. (7), born August 30, 1824; 73. Mary C. (7), born September 1, 1826; 74. Maria E. (7), born November 18, 1834; 75. Helen B. (7), born June 28, 1836.
65. Eliphialet Rose (7) lived in the west and had children : 76. William (8) : 77. Henry T. (8).
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76. Rev. William Rose (8), of Omaha City. Kansas, has children: 78. Sidney (9) ; 79. Howell (9); 80. Frank (9) ; 81. Richard (9).
77. Rev. Henry T. Rose (8), of Lowell, Massachusetts, has daughter, 82. Helen (9).
71. Henry Martyn (7) married Elizabeth. daughter of Sullivan Cook, and had children : 83. Anna (8), born 1852, wife of Addison Cook; 84. Charlotte P. (8), born 1854: 85. Henrietta (8), born 1857; 86. Frank (8), born 1858; 87. Stephen (8), born 1860.
53. Moses Rose (5) married Hannah, daugh- ter of David Cooper, and had children: 88. Jere- miah (6); 89. Simon (6) : 90. Martyn (6) ; 91. Luther (6) ; 92. Hannah (6), wife of Caleb Fordham, of New York.
89. Simon Rose (6), had son : 93. Harvey (7). born 1816.
93. Harvey Rose (7), had wife Hannah, born 1821, and children: 94. Saralı H. (8). born 1842; 95. Frederick H. (8), born 1844: 96. Nancy (8). born 1846; 97. Charles (8), born 1848.
90. Martyn Rose (6), had son Lupton, of Sebonac.
91. Luther (6), had wife Phebe and children : 98. Hannah (7). born 1834: 99. Laura (7). born 1840.
48. Abraham Rose (4), had children : 100. Abraham (5); IOI. Samuel (5) ; 102. Rufus (5).
100. Abrahamı Rose (5). had son Maltby Gelston (6). born 1791.
103. Maltby Gclston Rose (6), had wife Phebe, born 1788, and children: 104. David P. (7), born 1813; 105. Elbert (7). born 1825: 106. Abraham (7), born 1829.
104. David Rose (7). has wife Mary S. and children: 107. Adeline C. (8), born 1846; 108. Abraham (8). born 1857.
105. Elbert Rose (7) married Josephine, daughter of Daniel and Louisa Halsey. of Wick- apogue and had children : 109. Maltby Gels- ton (8), born 1856; 110. Phebe L. (8).
IOI. Dr. Samuel Rose (5) had son, III. Abra- ham T. (6). born 1792.
III. Abraham T. Rose (6) died April 14, 1857. Had wife Eliza, born 1804, and children : II2. Samuel (7), who died a young man of much promise; 113. Matilda (7) born 1825; 114. Maria E. (7), born 1830; 115. Adelaide (7), born 1835; 116. Caroline (7), born 1838;
117. Evelyn (7), born 1841; 118. Nettie (7), born 1844.
III. Abraham T. Rose was a graduate of Yale College, a lawyer by profession and one untisually successful with a jury, and for several years a county judge. His brilliant talents made him a man of distinction among the highest in the land.
102. Dr. Rufus Rose (5) married Phebe, daughter of Thomas Sanford and had son, 119. Edwin (6), born 1807.
119. Colonel Edwin Rose (6) had wife Sa- rah E., born 1812, and children: 120. Eliza J. (7). born 1835: 121. Edwin (7) born 1837; 122. Rufus (7), born 1841.
42. Stephen Rose, born 1710, died August 16, 1775. Removed from Long Island to Ewing, New Jersey, soon after its settlement. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Ebenezer Prout, who died January 30, 1779, and had children : 123. Phebe (5), born 1739, died January 9, 1772, wife of Amos Pender ; 124. Deborah (5), wife of Daniel Howell, of Ewing; 125. Ebenezer (5), born 1744: 126. Patience (5). born 1746, died March 13, 1785, wife of Henry Baker, of Hope- well, New Jersey; 127. Elizabeth (5), born 1748. died 1811.
125. Ebenezer P. Rose (5), born 1744, died April 20, 1831. Had wife Eunice and children : 128. Stephen (6), born January 6, 1769; 129. Phebe (6), wife of Jonas Addonis, of New York; 130. Ebenezer P. (6), born 1784; 131. Samuel (6), born 1786, died July 19, 1810.
128. Stephen Rose (6) married Elizabeth Wynkoop.
130. Ebenezer P. Rose (6), born 1784, died June 21. 1836. Married Catherine, daughter of Dr. Jonathan Foreman, and had children : 132. Elizabeth (7), wife of George Kissam; 133. Jonathan F. (7), born 1818; 134. Catherine (7); 135. Samuel K. (7).
133. Jonathan Foreman Rose, born 1818, died May 21, 1877. Married (first) Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Benjamin Hendrickson ; had two children : 126. Emma (8). widow of William Henry Cooley: 137. Catherine (8), died at St. Mary's Hall, Burlington. Married (second) Caroline, daughter of William Paff, of Yardleyville; had children : 138. Ella (8). unmarried ; 139. Mary L. (8) married Lewis M. Crozer; 140. Foreman (8), married Helen Ackerman.
135. Samuel K. Rose (7) married Matilda Ho- hensack, and had a son, 141. George K.
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HIREM WELLER'S SONS is a concern which is especially benefited by the conjunction of rail and water transportation facilities. Their shipyard, which covers five acres of ground, is on the Pennsylvania railroad and the Delaware & Raritan canal. Tug and canal boats, barges, lighters and pleasure boats, yachts, launches, etc. are built at this yard. Within one year, ending June 1, 1901, they built and completed twenty- three yachts and launches. They built the yacht "Kittewan," of Philadelphia, a one hundred and ten foot yacht. The steam yacht "Ivanhoe" was cut in two in this yard and lengthened fourteen feet. The yard has a front of three hundred and eighty-four feet on the canal, has two mna- rine railways, each one hundred and twenty- five feet long, and has all facilities for doing repair work on a large scale. There is a steam saw mill at the yard and a public wharf. This firm also deals in coal, and they have storage facilities for fifteen hundred tons. They are large dealers in bar sand from the Delaware river, at Bordentown, New Jersey. They own five canal boats and make contracts for trans- porting sand, stone, etc., to any point on the Delaware & Raritan canal and the Delaware river. The business was established in 1867 as a marine railway and boat builder by the late Hirem Wel- ler at its present location. Mr. Weller died in 1882, and the business has been since that time carried on by his sons-Harry H., William E., George H. and Lester R .- tinder the present . firm style. The office is at No. 462 Brunswick aventie. The coal business was added fourteen years ago, and the annual sales average three thousand tons. The firm also own the United Ice Company, of which Lester R. Weller is sec- retary. The family is of Dutch extraction.
Jacob Weller's ancestors settled in New Am- sterdam, New York, and later removed to Kings- ton, New York. Jacob Weller married Char- lotte Geoutches, also of Holland ancestry, and they had one child Hirem.
Hirem Weller, founder of the business de- scribed above, was born in the year 1825. He married, 1856, Sarah Moore, daughter of Sam- tel and Anna (Bogart) Moore, and grand- daughter of Albert Bogart, of Hackensack, New Jersey, whose ancestors came to America from Holland about the year 1750. Samuel Moore, the father of Mis. Weller, was a grandson of Samttel Moore, who came to this country from England prior to the war of the revolution,
and had a plantation on the present site of Leo- nia, New Jersey, where his descendants lived for many years. He died in Amos street jail, New York, a prisoner of war, while that city was under the control of the British, and his brother, a colonel in the English army, was commander of the prison at the time of his death. Samuel and Anna (Bogart) Moore had children : Albert, Samuel, Peter, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Rachel, Sarah, Daniel and Anna. Hirem and Sarah ( Moore) Weller were the parents of children : I. Harry H., a grad- uate of the Rider-Allen Business College of Trenton; for many years he was a prominent member of the First Baptist Church, and later was one of the organizers of Grace Baptist Church, in which he is a deacon. He married Ella B. Quick, daughter of Dr. Jacob Quick, and they had children: Augusta, Elizabeth, and Arabella. 2. William E., a graduate of Rider-Allen Business College, a prominent Ma- son, and leading member of Central Baptist Church. He married Elizabeth Hockins, daugh- ter of John Hockins, and they have one child, Hirem. 3. George H., see forward. 4. Les- ter R., see forward. 5. Frank M., retired from the firm in 1902. He was for two terms a mem- ber of the Trenton common council, and for one termi a member in the state legislature. He imarried Florence Francis, of New York City, and they have children : Chester, Olive, Lillian, Frank J. K. and Lottie W. 6. Lottie Moore.
George H. Weller, third son and child of Hirem and Sarah ( Moore) Weller, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, September 11, 1861. His education was acquired in the public schools and in Rider-Allen Business College, from the commercial department of which he was grad- uated. He resided in Galveston, Texas, for two months, and was a salesman in the hardware business, later traveling for the Trenton Lock & Hardware Company for one year. Since 1882 he has been connected with the firm of Hirem Weller's Sons. He is the president of the United Ice Company with which the firm is connected. He gives his political support to the Republican party, is a member of the Central Baptist
Church, in which instituttion he is a trustee, and is also a member of the Republican Club and the Masonic fraternity. He married Jeanette M. Heath, daughter of Samuel Heath, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and they have had children : Edith R. and Gertrude.
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Lester Robert Weller, fourth son and child of Hirem and Sarah ( Moore) Weller, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, September 28, 1866. He was educated in the public schools and the Rider-Allen Business College. His first step in the business world was in the ice business, and he was the owner and manager of an ice wagon, which he operated personally until the death of his father. He commenced with one wagon, but at the end of the first year had two, and the business increased steadily until he had fifteen teams to deliver his supplies, which consisted of natural ice only. The United Ice Company was organized in 1890 by Colonel A. R. Kuser, R. P. Wilson, W. J. B. Stokes, Major Hurley, John Sulphin, Al. Worthington, James Fury, Sr., James Fury, Jr., Thomas Fury, George H. Weller and Lester Robert Weller. The officers of the company were: John W. Sulphin, presi- dent ; George H. Weller, vice-president and sec- retary; Al. Worthington, treasurer ; James Fury, Sr., superintendent ; James Fury, Jr., and Les- ter Robert Weller, assistant superintendents. This corporation continued for some time, until the stock had all been bought by the Weller brothers, some of the other stockholders starting in the same line of business independently. George H. Weller was made president of the company in 1907, and Lester Robert Weller was elected secretary, treasurer and manager.
Mr. Weller bought a farm of forty-two acres at Trenton Junction from George H. Howell, in 1900, and started a small dairy farm. The following year he purchased from A. M. Reeder twenty-one acres adjoining his property, and in 1903 commenced a retail dairy business which he continues at the present time. He bought a farm of ninety acres from John W. Golding, in 1906, and purposes to convert this to dairy pro- (lncts also. He bought the Dr. Allen residence at Trenton Junction, in 1907, and removed to that place with his family. He is a man of great energy, and holds a number of important posi- tions, among them being: President of the board of trustees of Grace Baptist Church since its organization : president of the board of trus- tees of the Trenton Junction Sunday schools ; president of the Improvement Society of Tren- ton Junction. He is a thirty-second degree Ma- son, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, Pa- trons of Husbandry at Ewing, and the Republi- can Club of Trenton.
Alr. Weller married Hettie Askue Leaver,
and has had children: Helen Charlotte, born De- cember 31, 1890; Lester Robert, Jr., April 29, 1893; Sarah Moore, September 1, 1896; Ruth, December 22, 1899.
CHARLES SILVESTER, one of the fore- most residents of Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, who has filled efficiently the office of justice of the peace for many years, repre- sents in this generation a family which has been highly respected in the State of New Jersey for many years, and which came originally from France. They probably came with the Hugue- nots, to whom they trace their ancestry, and set- tled on Staten Island.
(I) John Silvester, the emigrant ancestor of the family, and the first of whom we have any authentic record, married, and became the father of fifteen children.
(II) Reuben Silvester, son of John Silves- ter (I), was probably born on Staten Island, Richmond county, New York; was a shoemaker by trade, and an expert in his line of work. He was the youngest of his father's fifteen children. He married and raised a family.
(III) Charles Silvester, son of Reuben Sil- vester (2), was born in Indian Fields, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey. He followed the trade of shoemaking for a number of years, hav- ing learned this under the able tuition of his father, and later combined it with farming. He was in active service during the war of 1812 for two years, was wounded, but persistently re- . fused to accept the pension offered him by the government. About the year 1822 he bought part of what was known as the Tusculum tract, in Mercer county, New Jersey. This contained about fifty-one acres, and upon it was situated the original Gallows tree of Mount Lucas. Mr. Silvester was a man of considerable influence and importance in his time, was a trustee of the public schools, and helped establish and was an ardent advocate for the building of the old stone school house in Mount Lucas. He was a deacon of the Reformed church in Kingston. Middlesex county, and helped organize and build the Reformed church at Rocky Hill, of which he was subsequently a deacon. He died March 18, 1861, at the age of sixty-two years. He married Katherine Van Arsdale, born in 1801 or 1802, daughter of Garrit and Harriet (de Hart) Van Arsdale, the former a farmer in Middlesex county, New Jersey. They had two
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children : Charles, see forward, and another child, who died in infancy.
(IV) Charles Silvester, only surviving child of Charles (3) and Katherine (Van Arsdale) Silvester, was born in Princeton township, Mer- cer county, New Jersey, June 22, 1847. His early education was acquired in the country school at Mount Lucas, and this he supple- mented by extensive reading and study at home, so that he may well be considered a self-educated man. He inherited a farm of thirty acres which he cultivated for some years, and then turned his attention to the study of photography, in which he became an expert, and in which he gave private instruction for some years to many pu- pils. He took an active and beneficial interest in the political affairs of the township, and twenty years ago was elected to the office of justice of the peace, and has held this office continuously since that time. Three times he was elected with a larger majority than had ever been obtained by any other candidate in the county. The last time he was elected was No- vember 6. 1906, and this was for a term of five years. He is a member of the Princeton school board of education, of the Patriotic Sons of America, of the Junior Order of American Me- chanics, and of the Reformed church. He is a prime mover in any plan which tends to the public welfare, and gives such his support in every manner in his power.
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