Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Part 6

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 698

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Lillian Cruser Rowland, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Andrews) Rowland, was born June 24, 1868. She resides with her mother in Princeton, New Jersey.

Frederick Andrews Rowland, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Andrews) Rowland, was born January 22, 1875. He married Ethel Terhune, and resides at Freeliold, New Jersey. They have two children, Cornelius Terhune, born November 26, 1899, and Andrew Spencer, born March 9, 1902.

CHARLES HODGE, D. D., LL. D. The Hodge family of Princeton trace their descent from North Irish ancestry, the earliest progen- itor of whom record is known being William Hodge, died January 14, 1723, and Margaret, his wife, died November 15. 1730. Their chil- dren were: William, born November 24, 1704, Hugh, born July 28, 1706, died 1711; Elizabeth, born March 28, 1709, died 1711; Andrew. born March 28, 1711, died 1789; Hugh, 2d, born Jan- uary II, 1713, died 1783, and Jane, born Feb-

ruary 15, 1714, died ante 1730. Soon after the death of their mother, William, Andrew and Hugh emigrated to America, settling in Philadel- phia and becoming successful merchants. Will- iam married Mary -, died Novemher 13, 1737 ; had a daughter, Mary, born November 6, 1737, who married William West, August 18, 1757, and became ancestor of the Wests, Conyng- hams and Fraziers of Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre and New Orleans, and the Stewarts of Balti- more. Hugh, the youngest of the three emi- grant brothers, became a trustee of the second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and in 1745 married Hannah Harkum, born Philadelphia, January, 1721, died December 17, 1805, daugh- ter of John Harkum, of English descent. Her motlier was a Miss Doe, or Doz, of Huguenot ancestry, and connected with the French fugitives who were founders of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. Hugh and Hannalı (Harkum) Hodge had a son Hugh, born 1757, died 1783, who was graduated from Princeton in 1774. and is believed to have been lost at sea on a mercantile enterprise.

Andrew Hodge, the second of the three original emigrant brothers became a wealthy merchant at Philadelphia, owning his wharf, store, and city residence on Water street, and a country resi- dence in the suburbs. He was long conspicuous as possessing one of the six carriages in Philadel- phia. In1 1739 he married Jane McCulloch. Her brother, Hugh was a father of Colonel Hugli McCulloch, of the Revolutionary war, and the war of 1812. Andrew Hodge and Jane ( Mc- Culloch) Hodge had fifteen children. Their eld- est child and daughter Margaret, born 1740, married John Rubenheim Bayard, of Maryland. and later of Philadelphia, who became a colonel in the Revolution. After her death Colonel Bay- ard married a daughter of the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New York City, and thirdly a Mrs. White. of New Brunswick, New Jersey, who survived him.

One of Colonel John and Margaret (Hodge) Bayard's sons was Andrew, merchant of Phil- adelphia and first president of the Commercial Bank and the Philadelphia Savings Institution. He married Sara Pettit, daughter of Colonel Pettit, of the Revolutionary army. Another of Colonel Bayard's sons by his first marriage was Samuel Bayard, of Princeton, afterwards judge of common pleas, and trustee and treasurer of the University, who married a Miss Pintard.

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Judge Samuel Bayard's second daughter mar- ried a Mr. Washington, of Virginia, and had a daughter Augusta who married the son of At- torney General William Wirt, of Maryland. Judge Samuel Bayard's third daughter Caroline married Albert B. Dod (Princeton, Class of 1822), professor of Mathematics at Princeton. One of Professor and Mrs. Dod's daughters mar- ried Edward Stevens, of Hoboken, while still another married Richard Stockton, of Princeton, for many years United States senator from New Jersey. Professor and Mrs. Dod's oldest son Albert Baldwin was graduated from Princeton in 1854, and became a captain of the United States Fifteenth Infantry in the Civil war. He died in 1880. Their second son, Samuel Bayard, a graduate of Princeton of the class of 1857, and a trustee of the University, married Isabella Will- iamson Green, daughter of Jacob Green, and granddaughter of President Ashbel Green, of Princeton, and became himself president of the board of trustees of Stevens Institute at Hoboken. Professor and Mrs. Dod's third son Charles Hodge, (Princeton 1862), was a Captain on the staff of Major General Hancock during the Civil war, and died in service, August 27, 1864.

Returning to the children of Andrew and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge, their second daughter was Agnes, born 1742, who married Dr. James Ash- ton Bayard, of Delaware, the twin brother of Colonel John R. Bayard, above mentioned. Their daughter Mary died single. A son John was a physician and died in Cumberland, Maryland. Another son was James Ashton, Jr., a lawyer who was congressman from Delaware and died at Wilmington, Delaware, August, 1815, leaving a son, James Ashton, who married a Miss Fran- cis, of Philadelphia, became a United States sen- ator, and the father of the distinguished am- bassador, Thomas F. Bayard.

The third daughter of Andrew and Jane (Mc- Culloch) Hodge was Jane, born 1757, married a Mr. Phillips, of the West Indies and England. The fourth daughter of Andrew and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge was Mary, born 1761, who married Major Hodgdon, commissary in the Revolutionary army, and had a numerous family.

Andrew and Jane (McCulloch) Hodge's sons were: John, born 1747. died 1770, a physician. William, born 1750, died 1780, secret agent for the United States during the Revolution. An- drew, Jr., born 1753, died 1834, who was grad- uated from Princeton in 1772, was educated for

the law, but entering the army was captain in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolution, and afterwards became a merchant in Philadel- phia. He married Anne Ledyard, and their eld- est son, John Ledyard, becoming a merchant settled at Marseilles, France, and made a for- tune. President Fillmore appointed him Amer- ican consul at Marseilles. A daughter Jane, born 1786, died 1866, married Dr. Robert H. Rose. Another son, William Ledyard, born January, 1790, died January 22, 1868, became a merchant and eventually assistant secretary of the United States treasury.

The fourth son of Andrew and Jane ( Mc- Culloch) Hodge was Hugh, born Philadelphia, August 20, 1755, died Philadelphia, July 14, 1798. He was graduated from Princeton in 1773, studied medicine with Dr. Cadwalader, was appointed surgeon in the Third Pennsylvania Battalion in February, 1776, was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in November. 1776, and was released on parole. He followed the family call- ing and went into mercantile life, but after the war returned to the practice of medicine and was prominent in Philadelphia during the yel- low fever epidemics of 1793 and 1795, succumb- ing in 1798 to the results of his over-exertions at that time.

The fifth son of Andrew and Jane (McCul- loch) Hodge was James, who went into mer- cantile service and is believed to have been lost in shipwreck in the East Indies in 1793.

Hugh Hodge, above named, the fourth son of Andrew and Jane Hodge, married, in 1790, Mary Blanchard, of Boston, born 1765, died April 14, 1832, the sister of Samuel Blanchard, who married the niece of Colonel Timothy Pick- ering, of the Revolutionary army and secretary of war under Washington. Mary Blanchard was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Hunt) Blanchard. Her father was probably of Hugue- not extraction.

Hugh and Mary (Blanchard) Hodge had chil- dren : Elizabeth, born December 19, 1791, died August, 1793. Mary. born September 1, 1792, died 1795. Hugh, born August 24, 1794, died 1795. Hugh Lenox, born June 27, 1796, died February 23, 1873, who was graduated from Princeton in 1814, received the degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, was appointed professor of Obstetrics at that University in 1871, and married, in 1828, Mar- garet E. Aspinwall, died 1866, daughter of John

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Aspinwall, merchant of New York. Chatles, born at Philadelphia, December 28, 1797, who was graduated from Princeton in 1815, and be- came the celebrated Presbyterian theologian.

Dr. Charles Hodge's early education was re- ceived in Philadelphia, and in 1810 with his el- der brother, Hugh Lenox, he was sent to Som- erville Academy, New Jersey. In the spring of 1812 Hugh entered Princeton and Charles en- tered the Princeton Academy. He entered col- lege in the autumn of 1812 as a sophomore, and was graduated valedictorian of his class in 1815. In November of the following year he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, being grad- uated in 1819. During the winter of 1819-20 he preached at the Falls of Schuylkill, at the Philadelphia Arsenal and at Woodbury, New Jer- sey. In May, 1820, he was appointed assistant instructor in Oriental Languages at Princeton Seminary, a position he retained for two years. He was ordained November 28, 1821. In May, 1822, the general assembly elected him to the chair of Biblical Literature in the Seminary, and in May, 1840, transferred him to the Chair of Exegetical and Didactic Theology, which lie occupied until his death in 1878. In 1846 he was moderator of the general assembly. In addi tion to his professorial work he founded, and until 1868 edited, the Biblical Repertory or Princeton Review, which under varying names has been issued to the present time, principally as the organ of the Princeton Theological Senti- nary. Dr. Hodge's most brilliant writing was done for the Review where he was compelled to defend the old school divinity of the seminary against the advanced movements of the day. He is said to have written nearly one-third of the contents of the forty-three volumes of the Review which appeared during his editorial connection with it.

In order to complete his preparation for the great life work which lav before him on his election to the Chair of Oriental and Biblical Literature, in 1822. he was sent abroad by friends in 1825 to pursue a course of study in the universities of Halle, Berlin and Paris, re- turning to America in 1828. In Europe he made the acquaintance of many of the leading theo- logians of the day, and laid the foundations for the wide personal friendships with foreign schol- ars which he was to enjoy during the remainder of his lifetime. On April 24, 1872, half a cen- tury after he was made a professor in the Sem-

inary, his friends and pupils commemorated the event by a jubilee gathering which in some re- spects has liad no equal in American academic history. Honor was paid him from all parts of the world. He lived in Princeton for seventy years, and died June 19, 1878, in the eighty-first year of his age. He is buried in Princeton cemetery.

Dr. Hodge was a close student and a super- bly equipped scholar. The lameness from which he suffered proved perhaps a veiled blessing in that it compelled him to find his recreation amid his books. As a theological author he enjoyed a foremost reputation, won partly by his work in the Biblical Repertory or Princeton Reviewe. Assisted by a brilliant corps of fellow writers he placed the Review' in prominence among the lead- ing quarterlies of the age: it became a great formative power in the theology of the Presby- terian church and its career is part of the lit- erary history of the country. Dr. Hodge edited the Review from 1825 to 1868, and his massive learning, coupled with the logic clearness and force of his style, won for him his position as a leader in orthodox Presbyterian thought. But his reputation does not rest on his editorial work alone. His "Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans" issued first in 1835 and again in 1866 enlarged and revised, has been accounted one of the most masterly commentaries in existence, while his "Constitutional History of the Presby- terian Church in America" (1840), his "Way of Life" (1841), his "Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians" (1856), his "Commentary on First Corinthians" (1857), and on "Second Co- rinthians" (1859), and his great "Systematic Theology". (1871-1873) are monuments to his scholarship, his simple piety and his literary vigor. His "Systematic Theology" is the great work of his life. It has been republished in Scotland and was translated in Germany and is universally held in highest esteem as the best exposition of the system of Calvinistic doctrine known as Princeton Theology. His last book "What is Darwinism?" appeared in 1874. His articles in the Review have been gathered into volumes as "Princeton Essays" (1857), and "Hodge's Discussions on Church Polity" (1878), and have taken permanent place in theological literature.

As a preacher Dr. Hodge was hardly popular save with a specialized academic audience, his manner being unemotional in the extreme and

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his sermons being always closely read. But as a teacher and a man he was as endeared to his pupils and friends by his simplicity and modest personality as he was revered for his learning. At his Jubilee in 1872, when an entire after- noon was taken up with laudatory addresses from representative men and institutions from the world over, his only comment was "I heard it all as of some other man."

In his home he was an affectionate father, sym- pathetic guide and charming host. A fine con- versationalist, he abounded in humor and anec- dote and was a master in the art of listening. Although his academic relations largely com- pelled him to appear a controversialist in public, yet his personal sympathies went heyond the nar- row confines of sect. It has been well said that he gave his sympathy to all good agencies. Historically in the Presbyterian church he is ranked rather as a defender of the traditional Calvinistic theology than as a constructive or progressive force. He received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers College in 1834 and that of LL.D. from Washington and Jefferson College in 1864. He was a trustee of Princeton Uni- versity from 1850 until his death.

He married (first), June 17, 1822, Sarah Bache, daughter of William and Catherine ( Wis- tar) Bache. Catherine Bache was sister of Dr. Caspar Wistar. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. William Bache was a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Sarah (Bache) Hodge died December 25. 1849, aged fifty-one. On July 8, 1852, Dr. Hodge married (second), Mary Hunter Stockton, died Febru- ary 28, 1880, widow of Lieutenant Samuel Wit- ham Stockton, United States Navy. She was a daughter of the Rev. Andrew Hunter (Prince- ton 1772), professor at Princeton and chaplain of the navy yard at Washington, D. C.

Dr. Hodge's children by his first wife were: I. Archibald Alexander, born July 18, 1823, sec forward. 2. Mary, born August 31, 1825, married, 1848. Dr. William M. Scott, professor at Centre College. Kentucky, who died 1861. 3. Caspar Wistar, born February 21. 1830, see forward. 4. Charles, born March 22, 1832, died 1876; graduate of Princeton, 1852, a physician, M.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1855. 5. John, born 1834, of South Amboy, New Jersey. 6. Catherine Bache, born August 31, 1836, married Dr. McGill. 7. Francis Blanchard, born Oc- tober 24, 1838, died May 13, 1905, a graduate

of Princeton, 1859, minister at Wilkes Barre and trustee of Princeton University, married Mary Alexander, daughter of Professor Stephen Alexander, of Princeton. 8. Sarah, born 1840, married Colonel Samuel Witham Stockton, of Princeton.

Archibald Alexander Hodge, D.D., LL.D., son of Dr. Charles and Sarah (Bache ) Hodge, was born in Princeton, July. 18, 1823. He was grad- uated from Princeton University in 1841. He then spent a year studying with Professor Jo- seph Henry and a year teaching at Lawrence- ville, New Jersey. In 1843 he entered Prince- ton Seminary, spending four years there, during two of which he was tutor in the University. He was licensed in 1846 and ordained as a for- eign missionary in 1847: in August of that year he sailed for India, and at Allahabad remained until the spring of 1850, when impaired health obliged his return. He was pastor of a church at West Nottingham, Maryland, 1851-55, Fred- ericksburg, Virginia, 1855-61. and of Wilkes Barre. Pennsylvania, 1861-64. He was then elected professor of Didactic and Polemic Theol- ogy in Western Theological Seminary, Alle- gheny, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1877, when he was called to Princeton Seminary to be associated with his father. On the death of his father, the next year, he was elected pro- fessor of Didactic and Polemic Theology and occupied the chair until his sudden death on No- vember 11, 1886. He received the degree of D.D. from Princeton University in 1862 and that of LL.D. from Wooster in 1876. He was a trustee of Princeton University from 1881 un- til his death. He married ( first) at Winchester, Virginia, June 17, 1847, Elizabeth Bent Holli- day, who died at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 28, 1868. He married (second), at Detroit, Michigan, Mrs. Margaret (McLaren) Woods, who survives him. Children by his first wife are Sarah Bache, now living in Princeton, and Elizabeth Halliday, who died in 1893. Dr. Hodge was considered one of the greatest pulpit orators of the country. He resembled Dr. Ar- chibald Alexander in his genius for oral expres- sion. He had a remarkable faculty for defini- tion, analysis and original illustration, and his brilliant imagination clothed his language with charm. While overshadowed by his father as a writer of review articles, he nevertheless pub- lished works which have given him high rank as a theological writer. His "Outlines of Theol-

William I Paxton

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ogy." published first in 1860, has been translated into several languages. His "Atonement," pub- lished in 1868, was republished in London in 1886. His "Exposition of the Confession of Faith" appeared in 1869 and in 1880 he pub- lished his "Life of Charles Hodge," a volume entitled Popular Lectures on Theological Themes was posthumously published in 1887.

Caspar Wistar Hodge, D.D., LL.D., son of Dr. Charles Hodge, was born in Princeton, Feb- ruary 21, 1830, and was named after Professor Caspar Wistar, of the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up and was educated in Princeton, and with the exception of two short pastorates spent his entire life in Princeton. He was fitted for college by his lifelong friend and preceptor, the brilliant Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander. He was graduated at the head of his class in Princeton University in 1848, and while acting as secretary to Professor Joseph Henry taught for a year at Edgehill School, Princeton, entering Princeton seminary in 1849. While in the seminary he was tutor in Greek in the University from 1850 to 1852. In 1853 he was licensed and in 1854 or- dained. His first charge was at Brooklyn, one year as stated supply and two years as pastor. In 1856 he became pastor at Oxford, Pennsyl- vania, remaining until 1860, when he was called to Princeton Seminary to succeed Dr. J. Addison Alexander, who had just died leaving vacant the Chair of Hellenistic and New Testament Literature. On Dr. Caspar Hodge's assumption of the chair it was called the Professorship of New Testament History and Biblical Greek. In 1879 the title was changed again to New Testa- ment Literature and Exegesis, he having assumed the work in New Testament Exegesis done by his father, Charles Hodge. For thirty-one years he performed the duties of this chair. Of a re- tiring disposition and averse to publicity, he was prevented from taking a prominence in the church at large commensurate with his attainments. He published only a few sermons and reviews. His special power was in the classroom, and his preaching was particularily enjoyed by the in- tellectual and theological audiences of the Semin- ary Chapel. He received the degree of D.D., from Princeton University in 1865 and that of LL.D., from the same institution in 1891. He died September 27, 1891.

He married (first), May 17, 1855, at Prince- ton, Mary Hunter Stockton, daughter of Lieuten- ant Stockton, of Princeton. She died September

29, 1857. He married (second), June 4, 1863, at Huntington, Long Island, Harriet Terry Post, granddaughter of Professor Post, surgeon in New York City. She died April 7, 1864. He married (third), October 20, 1869, in New York, Angelina Post, who with four children survives him. 1. Caspar Wistar, Jr., a graduate of Prince- ton (Class of 1892) and Instructor in Princeton Seminary. He married Sarah, daughter of Evan J. and Lucy M. Henry, of Princeton, at Prince- ton, in November, 1897, and has a daughter, Lucy Maxwell, born March 5, 1902. 2. Angelina Post, born November 15, 1871, married Malcolm Maclaren : (graduated Princeton 1890). 3. Mary Blanchard, born February 2, 1874, married Pro- fessor William Francis Magie, of Princeton Uni- versity (graduated Princeton 1879). 4. Sarah Madeline, born December 29, 1876.

REV. WILLIAM MILLER PAXTON, D. D.,LL.D., a former resident of Princeton, Mer- cer county, New Jersey is a representative of the fifth generation of the Paxton family in this country, they tracing their ancestry to Scotch Irish settlements in the north of Ireland. From them he received a rich inheritance of character. His father and grandfather were men of public spirit and civic leadership, his father having been at the head of important manufacturing interests and holding positions of trust and responsibility ; his grandfather having been in youth a patriotic soldier in the army of the revolution, and in later life an able preacher, beloved by his community and honored by the whole church.

(I) John Paxton, the direct pioneer ancestor of Rev. William Miller Paxton, emigrated to this country from Ireland about the year 1744. He married Grace and among his children was a son named John.

(II) Captain John Paxton, son of John (1) and Grace Paxton, was born in Ireland in 1740, died in this country, August 8, 1823. He was a captain in the Pennsylvania militia in 1776 and 1777, and was an elder in the middle Octorara Church. He married Jane McNeely, and among his children was a son William.

(III) Rev. William Paxton, D.D., son of Captain John (2) and Jane (McNeely) Paxton, was born April 1, 1760, died April 16, 1845. He was a private in the company commanded by his father in 1776 in the Pennsylvania militia. He married, January 20, 1794, Jane Dunlop, born February 13, 1772, died November 14. 1862,

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daughter of Colonel James and Jane (Boggs) Dunlop, the latter a daughter of Andrew and Ann (Patton) Boggs, of Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania. Colonel James Dunlop was born in 1727, died December 15, 1821. He was major in the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment in 1776; lieuten- ant-colonel of the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment in 1777; and colonel in 1778. He was a son of William and Deborah Dunlop, the former emi- grating from Ireland about the year 1730, and he was said to have attained the unusual age of one lutindred and fifteen years. He was a ruling elder in the Presbytery of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1712. Among the children of Rev. William and Jane (Dunlop) Paxton was a son. James Dunlop.

(IV) Colonel James Dunlop Paxton, son of Rev. William (3) and Jane (Dunlop) Paxton, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, June II, 1796, died in Baltimore, Maryland, February 10, 1864, and is buried at Gettysburg, Pennsyl- vania. He was extensively interested in man- ufacturing and financial interests, and for many years was an ironmaster, being associated in a business partnership with Thaddeus Stevens and doing business under the firm name of J. D. Pax- ton & Company, Caledonia Iron Works. He was a man of intelligence and enterprise, of fine pres- ence and large influence in the community. He inarried March 18, 1819, his father, Rev. William Paxton, D.D., officiating, Jane Maria Miller, born January 18, 1797, in Adams county, Pennsylvania, died in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 1870, and is buried in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Hon. William and Margaret (Craig) Miller, the former born in 1755, died June 3, 1831. He was an ensign in 1776, second and first lieutenant in 1777, and captain from 1779 to 1781, in the Seventh Pennsylvania Line Regiment. He was an honored member of the Pennsylvania legislature for twenty years. He married Margaret Craig, March 16, 1784. Hon, .William Miller was the son of John and Isabella (Henry) Miller, the former of whom purchased a large tract of land in Adams county, Pennsyl- vania, and lived there prior to the Revolution. John Miller was the son of Hugh Miller. Mar- garet Craig, the mother of Mrs. Paxton, was born March 16, 1766, died February 11, 1844, daugh- ter of Thomas and Jane (Jamison) Craig, the former born in 1738, died in 1813, was a private in the army in 1775, a quartermaster in 1777, and commissioner of purchases for Bucks county in 1780. He was the son of Daniel and Margaret

Craig, the former of whom died in 1776. Jane (Jamison) Craig was the daughter of Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison, the former born in 1676, died in 1766, at the age of ninety years. The children of Colonel James Dunlop and Jane Maria (Miller) Paxton were: Rev. William Miller, of whom see forward. Dunlop. Mar- garetta, married John M. Stevenson, and became the mother of William Paxton Stevenson, of New York, and of Rev. Dr. A. Russell Steven- son of Schenectady, New York.

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Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Part 6

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914 Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 698

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 698