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Lewis D. Eldridge, son of John and Aba- gail (Hooper) Eldridge, was born in Wind- ser, Mercer county, New Jersey, September 15, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of his native township and the Princeton High school. Upon the completion of his education he established himself in the milk business in Trenton, New Jersey, and worked up a route of one hundred and fifty quarts per day. This line of business he followed for sixteen years, then sold his interests in it and purchased a farm of sixty acres, which he cultivates for general produce. He finds a ready and profitable sale for all that his farm produces, and is considered one of the prosperous and successful farmers of the section of the county.
He is a Republican in his political opinions, member of the Presbyterian church. He .30 a member of Hamilton Square Grange. - married, January 24, 1893, Carrie B. Drake, ldest child of George H. and Annie (Mershon) Drake, who had children : George, married Sadie Stelle; Jessie, married Grace Cottrell, has two children, Jennie, married R. R. Cook, has 01 . child, Estelle, and Carrie B., mentioned above.
In the spring of 1894 Lewis bought the farm on the road leading from White Horse to Ham- ilton Square, known as the Isaac Dye farm, where he lived for six years, when he sold it to William Cubberley and purchased a house and lot in Hamilton Square, where he now resides.
In the fall of 1905 he purchased a farm about one and one-half miles from Hamilton Square of Mrs. Pierson Dilatush, which he worked for one year, when he sold it to Harry Cubberley. In March of 1907 he bought at a public sale the farm of James C. Robbins, one-fourth mile from Hamilton Square, containing 102 acres, for eighty-eight dollars per acre, the same farm being a part of tract of six hundred acres be- longing to his great-grandfather about one hun- dred years ago, and sold for eight dollars per acre. In the spring of the same year he sold eighty-five acres to L. Eggert, still owning sev- enteen acres, which he now farms. He lias one son, John Russell Eldridge, born March 14, 1897.
GEORGE E. SINCLAIR, a resident of Tren- ton, New Jersey, is a native of Bloomsbury, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, son of Daniel Hart Sinclair.
George E. Sinclair graduated from the public schools of his native city, after which lie at- tended the Stewart Business College of Trenton, acquiring thereby a practical preparation for the activities of life. He then took up his residence in Milford, remaining until 1893, in which year he located in Trenton and secured employment with W. H. Young & Company, coal dealers, and this connection has continued up to the present time (1907). Mr. Sinclair is a man of upright character, and is highly esteemed by all who have the honor of his acquaintance. He is a Presby- terian in religion, a Republican in politics, and a member of Trenton Council and Patriotic Order Sons of America. Mr. Sinclair married Ida Emma Watson, daughter of Harry and Ruth Anna Watson, and their children are: I. George WV., died February, 1905, of various compli- cations. He married Anna Steckle, five chil- dren: Ruth, Grace, Esther, Elizabeth and Sam- uel. 2. Frank, married Emma Hawk, one child, Grace. 3. Ida Emma, wife of George E. Sin- clair, one child, Daniel Hartley Sinclair.
JOSEPH PRICE JOHNSON, M. D., one of the best known and skillful physicians and sur- geons of Hightstown, Mercer county, New Jer- sey, and one of the most public-spirited citizens of the town, having served his township in a number of public capacities, is a representative of an honored family of the state of Pennsvì- vania.
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He is the son of Jonathan and Mary ( Price) Johnson, and was born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, January 25, 1838. His early education was received in the public schools, and he was then sent to Chatham and Marshallton for the preparatory course necessary for his entrance to college. He became a student at the Homeo- pathic College in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with honor in 1867, and then went to Christiana, Pennsylvania, in order to take up the active practice of his profession. There he remained for one year and a half, and then re- moved to Philadelphia, from whence he removed to Hightstown, New Jersey, in 1870, and has there been successfully engaged as a medical practitioner for the long period of thirty-seven years. He has achieved more than a merely local reputation as a successful practitioner, his coun- sel being frequently sought by his confreres, who gladly avail themselves of the benefit of his ex- perience and research. At the time of the Civil war, when the call for six months' men was is- sued, Dr. Johnson joined Company C, Twenty- first Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served his full time, participating actively in a number of en- gagements in Pennsylvania and the Cumberland valley. During his residence in Hightstown he has evinced a decided and practical interest in the conduct of public affairs, greatly to the ben- efit of the town. He has represented his ward three terms in the town council, has served as secretary of the Board of Health, and was mem- her of the Board of Education over twenty years. He is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of W. S. Hancock Post, No. 107, Grand Army of the Republic, and of Hightstown Lodge, No. 41, Free and Accept- ed Masons.
Dr. Johnson married, October, 1874, Re- becca D. (Hibbets) Bergen, widow of Peter I. Bergen, by whom she had three children: Sarah A., unmarried ; Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Isabelle P., married Henry R. Applegate, and had four children : Miller, died in childhood; Helen D., Gladys R., and Mary D. Dr. and Mrs. John- son have one son, Joseph P., Jr., born February I, 1876, educated in private schools, Peddie In- stitute, Model School in Trenton, and Penning- ton Seminary. He then learned the business of floriculture, and is at the present time one of the most successful men engaged in this line of busi- ness in the county, conducting his operations on
the York road, East Windsor township, and makes a specialty of growing violets for the Philadelphia market. He has taken an active part in the conduct of the public affairs of the township, and for many years has been the town- ship clerk. He affiliates with the Republican party, and is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married, November 29, 1896, Bessie C. Rogers, daughter of W. Henry and Cornelia (Jameson) Rogers; they have two children, Jesse H. born August 6, 1898; Mar- garet E., born May 30, 1900.
WALTER HOLMES GROVE, a well known merchant of Hamilton Square, Mercer county, New Jersey, is a representative of one of the old- est families in the state of New Jersey, whose various members bore their share bravely in de- fense of the national liberties.
(I) Samuel Grove, the direct ancestor of Wal- ter Holmes Grove, was a standard bearer at the battle of Monmouth. The name of his wife has not been preserved, but it is known that he had several children.
(II) Henry Irvin Grove, son of Samuel Grove, married Mary Bowman.
(III) Samuel Longstreet Grove, son of Henry Irvin and Mary ( Bowman) Grove, married Re- becca Bastedo, daughter of John G. and Ger- trude (Vunk) Bastedo, and they had children : I. Marianna, married Enos Cubberly, and had children : Calvin Holmes, married Sarah Ber- nard, and had one child, Marguerite; Samuel Burtis; Harry, married Viola Foreman. 2. John Henry, see forward. 3. Eliza Jane, married Cornelius C. Grover, and had children : Isaiah Bayley, married a Miss Plumley, and has one child, Leroy; Harvey, married Sadie Rue, has one child; John, married Lizzie Applegate, has one child. 4. Nelson Stryker, married Lavinia Burton, and had children : Rebecca, married Dean Rhodes, and has one child; Maggie, mar- red John Rhodes, and has three children; Cal- vin; Charles. 5. Jonathan Dewitt, married (first), Rosetta Suydam, and had children: Wil- liam Edward, married Grace Petty, and has one child, William; Lizzie May, married Percy Eg- nore, has two children: Mabel and William; Anna Gertrude, married Edward Stiff; Rosetta, twin of Annie Gertrude married Frank Boyd, has two children, Margaret and Allison. Jonathan Dewitt married (second) Jeannette Allen, and they had children : Sarah, Jennie, Rebecca, and Emma.
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6. Luther Ward, married Elizabeth Bergen and had children : Emma, married Luther Hollen- beck, and had one child, Luther; Charles Jones, Luella and Ethel. 7. Rebecca, married Abijah Cottrell and had children: Lewis, married Mabel Bastedo; Edith, Jennie, Frederick and Emma. 8. Frederick Farr, married Eliza Cortelyou and has one child, Mary.
(IV) John Henry Grove, second child and eldest son of Samuel Longstreet (3) and Re- becca (Bastedo) Grove, was born in Middle- sex county, New Jersey, and received his edu- cation in the public schools. At an early age he commenced to assist his father on the home farm, and was thus occupied until he was twenty- six years of age. He then went to Union Valley, where he cultivated a farm of sixty acres on shares for a period of two years, then removed to Hightstown, where he was on the seventy- acre farm of Charles Black for one year, then to Mercer county, where he located on a farm of forty acres near Dayton, and here he lost everything by fire. His next removal was to Dutch Neck, where he remained for three years, then spent three years on the Holdsneck property, then returned to the farm of his father for one year. Subsequently he came to Hamilton Square, where he took a farm of thirty acres, which he cultivated for general market purposes until 1899. He then removed to the Presbyterian par- sonage, where he has now resided for seven years. In politics he is a Republican, and served as road commissioner for a period of one year. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and of the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics. He married, 1873, Eleanor Augusta Morris, daughter of Charles C. and Esther (Holmes) Morris, granddaughter of Charles and Patience Morris. Esther (Holmes) Morris was the daughter of John and Mary (Garrison) Holmes, and the granddaughter of William Holmes, who was in Philadelphia, and assisted William Penn in the laying out of what is now (1907) Walnut street in that city. Charles C. and Esther (Holmes) Morris had children : I. Eleanor Augusta, mentioned above. 2. Alma Kelsey, married Jolın C. Van Nest, and had chil- dren : Mary, married Charles McDonald and liad one child, Milton ; John Lindsay, married Emily Cubberly, had one child, Russell; Morris; Ida Lillian, married Lemuel Allan Reed; Leroy A; James Wyckoff, married Jeannette Cubberly ; Elwin Cyrus, unmarried. 3. James, married
Naomi Lane. John Henry and Eleanor Augusta ( Morris) Grove, had children : 1. Samuel Long- street, married Lula Labaw, had one child, James Morris Labaw. 2. Walter Holmes, see forward. 3. Marianna, married John P. Conover, has one child, Ernest Franklin. 4. Harry James. 5. Linda Lee.
(V) Walter Holmes Grove, second son and child of John Henry (4) and Eleanor Augusta (Morris) Grove, was born in Middlesex county, New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools of the township, and for some time fol- lowed the occupation of farming. He then came to Hamilton Square, and accepted a position as clerk in the general store of David B. Chamber- lain. He remained in this position for a period of seven years, and then established himself in the retail milk business, which he continued for one year, and then abandoned and entered into a partnership with Mr. Chamberlain, which was dissolved at the end of one year, and Mr. Grove returned to the milk business, which he had made very profitable, selling about one hundred quarts a day. He associated himself in partnership with Lewis F. Chamberlain, in 1904, in a general mer- chandise business, and he is connected with this at the present time, the business being in a flourishing and satisfactory condition. Mr. Grove is an enterprising and progressive man of busi- ness, and he keeps well abreast of the times in every direction. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he is a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Kate Cubber- ly, daughter of Azariah and Jeannette (Hutch- inson ) Cubberly, granddaughter of Daniel M. and Anna Maria (Quigley) Cubberly, the latter the daughter of Azariah Quigley ; and great-grand- daughter of David and Betsey (Johnson) Cub- berly. Daniel M. and Anna Maria (Quigley) Cubberly had children: I. Archer, born July 2, 1826. 2. David, born March 24, 1828. 3. Sarah Elizabeth, born April 3. 1831. 4. Johanna, born March 29, 1835; married Randall Hughes, had one child: Johanna, deceased. 5. Jacob, born February 21, 1838. 6. Azariah, born September 9, 1840, married Jeannette Hutchinson, and had children : Anna R., who married Samuel R. Allen ; and Kate, mentioned above. 7. Major Voorhees, born September 9. 1844. 8. Maria, born December 20, 1846, married George Rob- bins, and had children: Edward, married, resides in New York ; Charles, married, resides in New York; Harvey, married Mary Rogers, has one
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child, Mary. Jeannette (Hutchinson) Cubberly, mother of Mrs. Walter H. Grove, is the daughter of William C. and Margaret ( Norton) Hutchin- son, granddaughter of Samuel and Eliza (Lee) Hutchinson; and her maternal grandparents were: William and Sarah (Hughes) Norton. William C. and Margaret (Norton) Hutchin- son had children : 1. Jeannette, mentioned above. 2. Mary, married Amos F. Waters, and had children: William, deceased; Dr. Charles, mar- ried Meta Thorn; Minerva, married Harry Stultz; and Dora, deceased. 3. Kate, married Joseph L. Watson, and had children: William; Margaret, married Edward Taylor; Ethel ; Annie; and Dora. 4. Lydia, married Samuel Tindall, and had children : Amos and Nettie.
Azariah Cubberly was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, and as a boy worked on a farm. He was educated in the public schools, and at a suitable age entered upon a mercantile career. He held the position of clerk for William T. Owens, of Trenton, for one year, then went to Hamilton Square, where he cultivated the Hooper farm of thirty acres for general market purposes for some time. He then again held a position in a general store for two years, and at the expiration of that time removed to Ewing township, where he purchased a farm of one hun- dred and sixty acres, which he cultivated for a period of eight years, then sold, and went to West Windsor township on a farm of one hun- dred acres, remained there for seventeen years, then came to Hamilton Square, where he has made his permanent home, and lives retired from business in a beautiful home. At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted for nine months as a private in Company E, Twenty-first New Jer- sey Volunteers, under Captain Joseph S. Mount. He was attached to the Army of the Potomac, Third Division, Sixth Corps, and was in active service at the battle of Fredericksburg, where he was captured, sent to Libby prison, and kept there for some time. While there he contracted a dis- ease which incapacitated him for active work for many years. He has served as clerk of the town- ship for twelve years, and as assessor for four years. He is a member of the Hamilton Square Grange, Junior Order of United American Me- chanics, Wilkes Post, No. 23, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Holmes Grove have one child: Jeannette Cubberly.
LAWSHE FAMILY is one which has been resident in the state of New Jersey for a number of generations, and which has been prominently identified with commercial and professional cir- cles.
(I) Abraham Lawshe, born in Prussia, 1732, came to America between the years 1740 and 1750 and settled in Herkimer county, New York. He married Mary Beckleheimer.
(II) Henry Lawshe, son of Abraham ( I) and Mary (Beckleheimer) Lawshe, married Mary Moore.
(III) David Lawshe, son of Henry (2) and Mary (Moore) Lawshe, married Elizabeth Ann Hice, daughter of Jacob Hice, and had the fol- lowing children who lived to maturity: 1. Levi, see forward. 2. Lydia, married Benjamin A. Holcombe, had children: Jacob Hice, married Ada Montgomery and had children : Albert Trout, Robert Montgomery, Richard Anderson, Howard Lawshe and Jacob Hice, Jr. Emma, married Hiram L. Fisher, and had one child, Russell Holcombe. David married Mary E. Rit- tenhouse, and had one child, Benjamin Anderson. Hervey Studdiford, married Addie R. Johnson, and had one child, Bertha. Bertha, unmarried. 3. Ruth Ann, married Lemuel Young, and had one child : Achsa D., unmarried. 4. Mary Eliza- beth, married John Trout, has one child : Eliza- betli, who married Fred Charles, and has one child, Mildred. 5. Emeline, married John M. Wilson, son of William Wilson, has children: Elizabeth, William, Ettie S. and Mary Howell. William Wilson married Emma E. Worstall, has children : Heston Lawshe Lloyd Z. and Merwyn R .; 6. David, Jr., married Elizabeth Fisher, and has one child: Mary Belle.
(IV) Levi Lawshe, eldest child of David (3) and Elizabeth Ann ( Hice) Lawshe, born on farm near Lambertville, was a farmer, went to Dela- ware in 1867 and engaged in fruit growing, afterwards was in the lumber business there and had a large mill at Bridgeville that burned in 1875. Went to Maryland in 1876 and remained there in the lumber business until 1881, when he returned to New Jersey. He opened a gen- eral store in Stockton, New Jersey, in 1883, and in 1884 came to Trenton where he opened an- other store, dealing in groceries, meats and pro- visions of all kinds at No. 497 Princeton avenue, leaving his son Ira to look after the interests of the Stockton establishment. He married Mary Rittenhouse, and had a number of children,
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among them being: Wilford Rittenhouse, Ira Munson, David and Allison Rittenhouse, sketches of whom will be found below, and Elizabeth, un- married.
(V) Wilford Rittenhouse Lawshe, son of Levi and Mary (Rittenhouse) Lawshe, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, February 23, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of New Jersey and in those of Sussex county, Dela- ware, and then went to Maryland. He remained under the parental roof until 1881, at which time he went to Colorado, and engaged in mining and prospecting, in which enterprise he met with no financial success. He went to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1885, in association with his father in the grocery and provision business, which was conducted under the firm name of L. Lawshe & Son. This was carried on for four years when, at the death of the father, David Lawshe, brother of Wilford R., took over the interests of the father until 1901, when Wilford R. retired from the active management of affairs, delegating this to others, but retaining a one-half interest in the business, which he still holds at the present time, (1907.) At the time of his retirement from this business he engaged in various other en- terprises, among them being the buying and sell- ing of antiques of all kinds. This he continued up to the present time, and has earned the repu- tation of being one of the best posted dealers in antique china and furniture generally in the state. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party, and he is of the Baptist faith. He married Margaretta Staton, daughter of John W. and Mary Margaret (Pitts) Staton. John W. Sta- ton was the son of Warren and Mary (Given) Staton, and his wife, Mary M. ( Pitts) Staton, was daughter of John R. and Ann (Taylor) Pitts. Mr. and Mrs. Staton had children : Annie M., unmarried ; Edna M., married Benton H. Whaley, had children : James Benton, Ella Green and John Staton; Margaretta, mentioned above, and John W., married Mary Robinson.
(V) Ira Munson Lawshe, son of Levi and Mary (Rittenhouse) Lawshe, was born in Hunt- erdon county, New Jersey, November 27, 1864. He was educated in the public schools of Dela- ware, and Berlin. Maryland. When his father started the store in Stockton, New Jersey, Ira M. assisted him in the management, and when his father removed to Trenton, he remained to look after the interests of the Stockton business. When the affairs of this business were settled he went
to Trenton, where he established himself in busi- ness at No. 141 Spring street, continued this for a year and a half, and then went to Chambers- burg, Trenton, where he started another business which he carried on for seventeen years. He abandoned the grocery business at this time and organized the Perfection Rubber Company, of which he was made secretary and treasurer. This company manufactured mechanical rubber goods for a period of four years, when their plant was destroyed by fire. Mr. Lawshe then returned to the grocery business, associating himself with his brother Wilford R. The firm is now I. M. Lawshe & Company, and the store has been in the family for twenty-thirce years. He takes no act- ive part in political matters. He is connected with the National Union and the Woodmen of the World. He married Ida Everitt, and they have one child : Annetta Marion. Mrs. Lawshe is a daughter of Alfred and Hannah (Van Bus- Kirk) Everitt, who were the parents of children : George, married Hulfish; Elizabeth, unmarried ; Ida, mentioned above; and John D., married Elizabeth Bunting, has one child, Alice. (V) David Lawshe, son of Levi and Mary (Rittenhouse) Lawshe, was born in Sussex coun- ty, Delaware, September 12, 1868. He was a very young lad when his parents removed to Stock- ton, New Jersey, and was eight years of age when they removed to Berlin, Worcester county, Mary- land, where his father had extensive lumber in- terests and saw mills. David attended the pub- lic schools in Maryland, and later those of Stock- ton, New Jersey, to which town he returned in 1880, and assisted his father in the conduct of his store. He removed to Trenton in 1885, and there attended the evening sessions of the Thomas J. Stewart Business College for two winters. David worked for his father and brother Wilford R. in the grocery business until the death of the former in 1889, when he purchased of the estate his father's interest in same, and the business was continued in the old way until 1897. He then sold his interests in the business to his brother Wilford R., and was engaged for five years with Swift & Company, being located at Wilmington, Delaware. He returned to Trenton in the spring of 1902, and purchased a wholesale and retail coal business, which he is carrying on at the present time. Takes no active interest in politics. He is also connected with the various degrees of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities. He married Lillian Lewis, daughter of Joseph M.
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and Annie (Case) Lewis, who had one other child : Annie, who married Frank W. Thurman, and has one child: Lillian. Mr. and Mrs. Law- she have had children: Joseph Wilford, born June 6, 1899, and David Rittenhouse, born Octo- ber 31, 1900.
(V) Allison Rittenhouse Lawshe, D. D. S., son of Levi and Mary (Rittenhouse) Lawshe, was born in Sussex county, Delaware, October 10, 1875. His preparatory education was re- ceived in the public schools of Stockton, New Jersey, and those of the city of Trenton, to which his parents removed when he was still young. From these he passed to the high school of the same city, and after his graduation from the lat- ter took up the study of dentistry, entering the dental department of the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1893, and was graduated in 1896. He then passed the examination of the state of New Jersey in this profession, so that he might prac- tice in that state. This he passed successfully, and in 1896 established himself in his present of- fices at No. 42 West State street, Trenton. He makes a specialty of crown and bridge work and is an expert in his profession. He is Independ- ent in his political affiliations, and takes no active part in public matters. He married Minerva Shaf- to, daughter of William H. and Maria ( Knight ) Shafto, who had children: Samuel R., unmar- ried ; Ella, unmarried ; Luella ; Laura D., twin of Luella ; Minerva, mentioned above; Norma, twin of Minerva, married George D. Harrington, has two children: George Francis and Lawrence Tracy. Mr. and Mrs. Lawshe have had chil- dren : Merritt Hartwell, born June 18, 1904, and Philip Rittenhouse, born July 15, 1906.
RICHARD NEWTON, a well known con- tractor in the city of Trenton, Mercer county, New Jersey, has filled a number of positions of honor and trust in that city to the entire satis- faction of his fellow citizens, and is still actively identified with its business interests. He is a descendant of an old English family, and is a member of the second generation of this family to reside in this country.
James Newton, father of Richard Braddock Newton, was born in Hanley, England, where he was engaged in the trade of pottery printing. He emigrated to America with his family in 1882, and settled first at East Liverpool, and then came to Trenton, New Jersey, which he made his permanent place of residence. He entered
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