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clerk, in 1902, taking office in March, 1903, his term expiring in 1908. He was a member of the Trenton Hose Company for a number of years, holding the office of president in that body. He is a consistent member of St. Michael's Episcopal church, in which he is a vestryman. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Order of Eagles; Sons of the Revolution ; and a number of others.
Mr. Baker married Leonora A. Fell, daugh- ter of Christian and Mary (Burlen) Fell, the former a brick manufacturer of Trenton, New Jersey.
RICHARD MERTON JOHNSON SMITH, of Trenton, for thirty-seven years a member of the New Jersey bar, and for almost that length of time counsellor-at-law and master in chancery, was born in 1847, in Hightstown, son of Rescarrick Moore Smith, grandson of John Smith, and great-grandson of William Smith, the founder of the American branch of the family.
William Smith was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was a graduate of Dublin University. In 1760 he emigrated to this country and settled in Philadelphia, where he engaged in mercantile business. During the Revolutionary war hè served with the rank of captain in a Pennsylvania regi- ment. In 1780 he moved to Hightstown, New Jersey, where he built the mills and imparted an impetus to the growth of the town. In religion he was a Protestant. He married Mary Nixon Moore, and their son, John Smith, was born in 1787.
Rescarrick Moore Smith, son of John Smith, was born in 1804, in Hightstown, where he car- ried on mercantile business. He was colonel of the Third Regiment, New Jersey, militia, and for fifteen years held the office of state treasurer. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a Universalist. Mr. Smith married Abigail B., daughter ot John B. Mount, for thirty years judge of the court of common pleas of Middle- sex county, and they were the parents of a son, Richard Merton Johnson, of whom later.
Richard Merton Johnson Smith, son of Res- carrick Moore and Abigail B. (Mount) Smith, entered Princeton (then) College, graduating thence in 1866. In June, 1869, he was admitted to the bar, and in November, 1872, was made counsellor, subsequently becoming master in chancery, special master, supreme court counsellor
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and attaining other professional honors. Mr. Smith prefers not to hold office. He is an ad- vocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
WILLIAM G. HOWELL, president of the Mercer Trust Company, a banking institution of Trenton, doing business at Nos. 202 and 203 South Broad street, is a descendant of a family which came to this country from England in the early part of the seventeenth century.
(I) Daniel Howell, the American ancestor in a direct line of William G. Howell, was born in 1680, and migrated from Long Island to Mer- cer county, New Jersey, where he settled in Ewing township. He was descended from that branch of the Howell family which came from Kent, England, and settled on Long Island dur- ing the days of Dutch rule. Its various members were men of great enterprise, many among them being shipbuilders, masters of whaling vessels and extensive landowners. Daniel Howell purchased land in Ewing township which has been in unin- terrupted possession of the family up to the present day. The original deeds were executed by Samuel Coxe and John Hutchinson, 1702, and William Worrell, 1705. He died in 1732. He married "Mary, sister of Ebenezer Prout's wife," born 1684, died September 26, 1760. The children of Daniel and Mary Howell were: David, Phocbe, Elizabeth, John, Hannah, Daniel, Mary. Abigail, Joshua, see forward; Prudence and Hezekiah.
(II) Joshua Howell, son of Daniel and Mary Howell, was born October 11, 1722. He mar- ried Rebecca Reed, and had children : 1. Abigail, married Benjamin Fish, of Trenton, New Jer- sey. 2. Phoebe,, married John Fleming, of Penn- sylvania. 3. Mary, married Peter Elvish, of Hesse Cassel. 4. Peter. 5. Amos, see forward. 6. Levi, married Nancy Clark. 7. Lot.
(III) Amos Howell. second son and fifth child of Joshua and Rebecca (Reed) Howell, was born May 22, 1754, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1821. He resided for a time in Morrisville, for one of his children was born there in 1798, and it appears from the files of the "True American," published in Trenton, in 1806, that upon the occasion of the great cvent of the opening of the first bridge across the Dela- ware river, the procession "was formed at the house of Amos Howell," showing he was still a resident of the place at that date. He married
Martha Jones, born 1753, and their children were : I. Rebecca. born December 4, 1777, died March 16, 1784. 2. Elijah, see forward. 3. Elizabeth, born December 29. 1781, married (first)
Miller ; (second ) Prentiss, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 4. Peter, born Oc- tober 21, 1783. 5. Joseph, born October 11, 1785, died March 14, 1786. 6. Amos, Jr., born July 31, 1792, at Trenton, New Jersey, died Ap- ril II. 1832. at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7. Felix, born February 15, 1794, in Trenton, New Jersey, married, August 8, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 8. Rebecca (second), born Oc- tober 18, 1796, at Trenton, New Jersey, married Samuel Wooley. 9. Maria, born at Morrisville, June 22, 1798, married Dr. Caldwell, of Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania.
(III) Peter Howell, eldest son and fourth child of Joshua and Rebecca (Reed) Howell, was born 1748, died 1812. He married Sarah Pres- ton, born 1750, died 1816, and their children were: I. John. 2. Charles, married Rachel Erwin, had one son, John, who died at the age of twenty-one years. 3. Phoebe, married Abner Scudder. 4. Mary, married Benjamin Clark. 5. Rebecca, married Peter Hahn, of Philadel- phia. had one daughter, Caroline, who married Dr. George B. Wood.
(IV) Elijah Howell, eldest son and second child of Amos and Martha (Jones) Howell, was horn January 29, 1779, died in Philadelphia, February 13, 1824.
(V) James Howard Howell, son of Elijah Howell, was born 1811.
(VI) William G. Howell, son of James How- ard Howell, was born in Trenton, New Jersey. June 17, 1844.
HARVEY G. RUE, one of the foremost and public-spirited citizens of Hightstown, Mercer county, New Jersey, proprietor of the oldest drug business in the township, and universally re- spected and esteemed, is a representative of a well known family.
Joseph Rue, grandfather of Harvey G. Rue, born 1789, married Margaret McAroy, born 1788, daughter of Captain George, born 1732, and- -(Mount ) McAroy, and they had children : 1. George M., see forward. 2. Mary, who mar- ried William Brearley and had children : Samuel, unmarried : and Joseph B., married Kate Per- rine, has children : Robert B. and Florence.
George M. Rue, born 1815. eldest child and
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only son of Joseph and Margaret (McAroy) Rue, married Elvira Gillingham, daughter of Harvey Gillingham, and had children: I. Eliz- abeth M., who married Charles D. Hendrickson, and has one child, May C. 2. Harvey G., see forward.
Harvey G. Rue, only son and second and youngest child of George M. and Elvira (Gilling- ham) Rue, was born in Hightstown, Mercer county, New Jersey, October 22, 1851. His earlier studies were undertaken in the public schools of the township, and from these he was sent to the private school of Dr. Hammill, in Lawrenceville. He was prepared for entrance to the university in the Peddie Institute, and matriculated at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, leaving that institution in 1876 while in his senior year. He returned to Hightstown and there purchased a drug store of long stand- ing which he has personally conducted for the long period of thirty-two years. It is a model of its kind in every way, and the reputation it possesses for reliability and fine quality of goods is surpassed by none in the state. The business methods of Mr. Rue are enterprising and pro- gressive, and he keeps well abreast of the times in every matter of importance. He is a stanch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and though an active and interested worker in all matters pertaining to the public welfare, and though he has been frequently requested to hold public office, has never consented to do so. He is a member of the Universalist church, and also of the fraternal orders of F. and A. M. and I. O. O. F.
Mr. Rue married, December 18, 1878, Blanche Johnes, daughter of Stephen C. and Rebecca (Ward) Johnes, and they had one child. Ward Gillingham, who died in 1903. Mrs. Rue is a descendant of a very old family. Richard Johnes, the first of whom we have recorded, was born about 1572, and died in 1641. He married Alice , of Somerset, born about 1572, and the direct line of descent to Mrs. Rue is as fol- lows: Edward Johnes, who married Anne
, came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, with Winthrop, in 1630. Samuel Johnes married Sarahı , and died in 1659. Samuel Johnes, born 1672, married Esther Stephens, died in 1760. Stephen Jolines, born in 1700, died in 1785, married Grace Fitzrandolph, born in Princeton. New Jersey, in 1705, daughter of Nathaniel Fitzrandolph. Daniel Johnes, born in
1743, married Lucy Titus. Hon. Samuel Clark Johnes married Sarah Bergen. Stephen C. Johnes married Rebecca Ward, daughter of John C. and Margaret (Jewell) Ward, the latter the daughter of William D. and Sarah Jewell, of Princeton, New Jersey. Rebecca (Ward) Johnes was the granddaughter of and Rebecca (Vaughn) Ward, the former born in 1768; great- granddaughter of Benjamin and Lydia Ward, the former born in 1731; and the great-great- granddaughter of Michael and Hannah Ward. Stephen C. and Rebecca (Ward) Johnes had one child, Blanche, who married Mr. Rue as above stated.
THOMAS HENRY ROOME REDWAY, whose business offices are located in "The Aleda," corner of Montgomery and Hanover streets, Trenton, New Jersey, is well and favorably known in the financial and manufacturing world of New York and New Jersey. He is a representative of a family which emigrated from Germany many years ago and settled in Vermont near Putney Mountain.
Maturen Redway, father of Thomas Henry Roome Redway, was born on Putney Mountain, Vermont. December 6. 1772, died December, 1847. His occupation was that of building con- tractor, and he constructed the first bridge across the Delaware river in Mercer county, New Jer- sey. He married Anna Martin, born in Scada- way township, 1790, died January 26, 1863. She was the daughter of Joshua Martin, and one of hier brothers, Captain David Martin, ran the first line of steamships which ever plied between Phil- adelphia and Bordentown. The various members of the Martin family were on terms of intimacy with the Bonapartes at the time of the Revolution.
Thomas Henry Roome Redway, son of Ma- turen and Anna (Martin) Redway, was born in New York City, New York, June 18, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of that city, and was but eleven years of age when he lost his . father. He was very young when he commenced the active duties of life and obtained a footing in the mercantile world. His ambition, determina- tion and energy enabled him to rise step by step, and he later founded the firm of Nesler & Red- way, manufacturing jewelers, located at No. 15 Maiden Lane, New York. Mr. Nesler retiring from business, Mr. Redway continued it for eighteen years, having a factory in Oliver street, Newark, New Jersey. He retired from this bus-
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iness in 1875 and removed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he became an extensive dealer in real estate. Upon the death of Joseph H. Hough, he became the secretary of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons, a position he is now filling, with headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, and he is also the grand recorder of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar. He was a member of the Seventh Reg- iment, National Guard, for about eight years, later becoming lieutenant of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, New York, and was a member of the National Guard for seven years. In political matters he is an Independent Republican. He is 'a man of broad-minded views, and takes an act- ive and intelligent interest in all matters that per- tain to the welfare or advancement of the com- munity.
He married (first) Katherine Mclntyre, of Newark, New Jersey, by whom he had two chil- dren : Harry, died June 12, 1898, and George M., who is connected with the Smith-Premier Typewriting Company of New York. He mar- ried (second) Miriam Decou Mirch, born in Jen- kintown, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1849, daughter of Matthew J. and Sarah A. ( Taylor ) Mirch. The Mirch family originally came from Ireland.
CHARLES HART OLDEN, residing on his estate, Olden Manor, which has been in the pos- session of the Olden family for seven genera- tions, is a successful and well known farmer of Princeton, and has held many offices of trust and responsibility. He is a representative in the present generation of an English-Dutch family, a member of which came to this country in the latter part of the sixteenth century.
(I) William Olden, the pioneer ancestor of the Olden family in this country, came from Eng- land about the year 1682 and settled near Bound Brook, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel James and Elizabeth Giles, and they were the parents of three sons and seven daughters. The sons were: John, see forward; William, Jr., married Abigail Sebring, and had two daughters; and Thomas, unmarried.
(II) John, eldest son of William (I) and Eliz- abeth (Giles) Olden, was born near Bound Brook, Somerset county, New Jersey. His father, Will- iam Olden (1) purchased from Benjamin Clarke, in 1696, three hundred and thirty acres of land to the west of Princeton. New Jersey, in the neighborhood known as Stony Brook. In the
course of time about one hundred and ten acres of the original purchase has been sold. John Olden married Mary Breaerly, of Lawrence- ville, New Jersey.
(III) Thomas, sixth son of John (2) and Mary (Breaerly) Olden, was born at Princeton, (then Middlesex) now Mercer county, New Jersey. He followed the occupation of farming success- fully. He married Sarah Hart, a member of the Hart family of Hopewell, New Jersey, and a close relative of John Hart, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
(IV) Hart, eldest son of Thomas (3) and Sarah (Hart) Olden, was born near Princeton, New Jersey. He was a wheelwright by trade, and worked in his shop at Stony Brook. In the year 1810 he associated himself with Josiah Worth in business, and conducted a store at the western end of Worth's Mill for a period of one year. He then removed to a stone house near the mill, owned by Jerusha Pierson, (this was owned by Charles Smith Olden in 1860), bought out the interest of Josiah Worth in the business they had been conducting together, and carried it on alone for a number of years. He lived in the stone house for two years, then removed to a house opposite the home of Mr. Worth, now the residence of Mr. Joseph H. Bruere, and resided there for three years. This house was torn down in 1826, and the stone used to build a barn for Mr. Worth, and this is still in use at the present time. Mr. Olden removed to Trenton, New Jersey, in 1816, carried on business there for two years, and then purchased property in Prince- ton, New Jersey. This was located on Nassau street, and was a portion of the estate of Mrs. Kelsey. In this place Mr. Olden carried on a general store until 1831, when he sold his entire stock of goods and retired from business life. He married Temperance Smith, daughter of Ethan and Ruth (Saxon) Smith, and they were the parents of children: Job Gardner, see for- ward; Charles Smith, see forward; George, who died unmarried: Sarah, married Henry Clow ; Jane and Mary, unmarried ; Ruth Saxon, married Rev. James Stebbins.
(V) Charles Smith, eldest son and second child of Hart (4) and Temperance (Smith) Ol- den, was born in the ancestral homestead near Princeton, New Jersey, February 19, 1799. He attended the best schools of Princeton, and the high school at Lawrenceville, but prior to the age of fifteen years was obliged to give up school life
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and assist his father in the conduct of the store. as the latter's health had become impaired. His evenings and all his leisure time, however, was spent in the study of books, "solid books" as he called them, thus fitting himself for his future brilliant career, and his favorite pastime was a solitary walk in the woods, where his kcen powers of observation gained for him still further knowl- edge. In business life he was very successful, and later, when his family were in comfortable circumstances, accepted an offer made him by Matthew Newkirk, a prominent merchant of Phil- adelphia, to enter his business. He was but a young man at the time, and remained with Mr. Newkirk for a period of one year, then went to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he opened a store. He sent for his brother George and started him in business, then for his brother, Job Gardner. though the latter remained there but a short time, gave up his business, and returned to Princeton, where he opened a general store which he con- ducted for a number of years. Charles Smith Olden was prosperous in his business ventures in New Orleans. In 1832 he sold out and re- turned to Princeton, New Jersey, where he bought a part of the family homestead, the "original farm," from his uncie Nathaniel, on which he built the "Big House." now the beautiful resi- dence of MI. Taylor Pyne, Esq. Mr. Olden was unanimously elected a director of the Trenton Banking Company, of Trenton, New Jersey, July 8. 1842, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of David Clarke. He was unanimously chosen a member of the board of trustees of the College of New Jersey. December 16, 1862, in the place of the late James S. Green, Esq .. and as a member of this board was on the committees of business, finance and endowment. He was also for a number of years treasurer of the college. He was elected a life member of the New Jersey His- torical Society, March 27, 1860. This society was founded January, 1845. He was a member of the Washington Association of New Jersey, in- corporated and approved by the legislature of the state of New Jersey, March 20, 1874. At the New Jersey State Convention, held in Temper- ance Hall, Trenton. New Jersey. September 7, 1859, Charles Smith Olden was unanimously nom- inated by the Republican party as a candidate for the governorship of the state, and was elected in November, 1859. by a majority of one thousand six hundred and fifty-one votes, his opponent be- ing General E. R. V. Wright. He was inaugur-
ated governor, in the senate chamber of the state house, January 17, 1860. He was appointed a commissioner of the sinking fund by Governor Joel Parker, March 31, 186 -; reappointed April I. 1867, by Governor Marcus L. Ward; and again appointed April 3, 1870, by Governor The- odore F. Randolph, He was appointed a judge of the court of errors and appeals in the last re- sort in all cattses in and for the state of New Jer- sey. by Governor Marcus L. Ward, April 7, 1868; was appointed a "commissioner to ascertain the rights of the state and the riparian owners. etc .. " in and for the state of New Jersey, by Governor Theodore F. Randolph. April 2, 1869: was one of the nine electors chosen to vote for the presi- (lent and vice-president of the United States, and was chairman of the board, November 5, 1872. In all the affairs of his life, whether attending to the affairs of the state, or his private business matters, he threw all the energy of his nature, and was always ready with kindly and helpful advice to those less successful than himself. He died at his home in Princeton, April 7, 1876, and he and his wife are interred in the Friends' burying ground at Stony Brook, about two miles west of Princeton. Governor Olden married. 1832, Phoe- be Ann Smith, born 1807, died July 12, 1892, daughter of George Stephen and Catherine (Ol- den) Smith. They had no children of their own. and adopted Mary L. Sisty, who married John McLean, and had a daughter Phoebe, who was educated in the home of and lived with her grand- parents by adoption. She married in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, and then settled in England. (V) Job Gardner, second son and fifth child of Hart (4) and Temperance (Smith) Olden, was born in Stony Brook, Princeton township, New Jersey. After returning from New Or- leans as related above, he opened a general store in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1832, conducted it successfully for seven years, then sold out and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Maria Brenton Boggs, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, daughter of Morris and Elizabeth (Dunham) Boggs, and they had several children.
(VI) Charles Hart, son of Job Gardner (5) and Maria Brenton (Boggs) Olden, was born in Princeton, Mercer county, New Jersey, January 22. 1844. He enjoyed the advantages of an ex- cellent education in the preparatory school of Professor Jolin C. Schanck, in Princeton. Up- on attaining a suitable age he engaged in farming operations, and is now in the possession of the
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Olden homestead, known as "Olden Manor," consisting of two hundred and sixty-five acres, all in the highest state of cultivation. Mr. Olden is one of the most influential men in this section of the country in political matters, his keen in- sight into public affairs and grasp of the· situa- tion rendering his counsel of great value. He has held a number of public positions, among them the following : Assemblyman, collector of taxes, overseer of township roads, member of the town- ship board of education, and member of the town- ship committee. All of these offices were in Princeton township.
Mr. Olden married, May 3, 1865, Almira Gu- lick, born February 3, 1846, daughter of William and Mary Frances ( Johnson ) Gulick, and they have had children : 1. William Gardner, born January 16, 1868, is a farmer by occupation ; he married Lucy Ellen, daughter of Augustus West. of Ewing township, New Jersey, and they have had children: Emma Winifred, born November 24, 1892, and William Gardner, Jr., born August 8, 1898, died March 18, 1900. 2. Charles Smith, born March 4, 1869: married Minnie Smith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; they have no chil- dren. 3. Frank Gulick, born July 9, 1870, died January 18, 1903. 4. Walter Hart, born March 31, 1872 ; married, September 10, 1902, Caroline, daughter of Stella Alice (Hager ) and Howard Bishop Schureman, the former of Newark, the latter of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Olden have children: Alice, born August 29, 1903: Joseph Bruere, born May 11, 1905; and James Schureman, born August 9, 1907. 5. Em- ma Winifred, born January 31, 1875, died Aug- ust 19, 1876. 6. George Thomas, born May 4. 1877, died April 25, 1886.
CHARLES EDGAR STOKES, president of the Joseph Stokes Rubber Company of Trenton, New Jersey, and vice-president of the Home Rub- ber Company of the same city, one of the in- fluential citizens and highly respected business men of Trenton, is a lineal descendant of a fam- ily of English origin, representative among whom was John Stokes, a native of West Brunswick, England, a carriage builder by trade, and a man of influence in the community in which he re- sided.
Joseph B. Stokes, son of John Stokes, and father of William J. B. and Charles E. Stokes, was born in West Brunswick, England, Decem- ber 9, 1833. During early manhood, hoping to
improve his opportunities for success in the busi- ness career which was opening before him, he emigrated to the United States, taking up his residence in Trenton, Mercer county, New Jer- sey, where he became interested in the manu- facture of rubber. He founded the Home Rub- ber Company, which is now one of the leading enterprises in the city of Trenton, and was also the active factor in the Joseph B. Stokes Rub- ber Company, another successful business enter- prise. He was also superintendent for many years of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Coni- pany. In addition to his business interests, he took an active part in public affairs, serving as a member of the common council, having been elected to that office from the fourth ward of Trenton. He married Sarah Blackman, born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 1834, daughter of Will- iam and Ann Blackman, the former of whom was born in 1811, and was a carpenter by trade. Joseph B. Stokes died July 4, 1896, and his wife passed away 1886. Their remains were interred in Greenwood cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey.
Charles E. Stokes, son of Joseph B. and Ann ( Blackman ) Stokes, was born in Trenton, Mer- cer county, New Jersey, November 30, 1868. He obtained his literary education in the public schools of his native city, and later pursued a course of study in mechanics and draughtsman- ship in the Spring Garden Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1891. He at once engaged in the rubber busi- ness, in which his father and brother were inter- ested, and by persistent application, diligence and perseverance gained a thorough knowledge of the same, thereby qualifying him for the re- sponsible positions he now holds, namely : presi- dent of the Joseph B. Stokes Company and vice- president of the Home Rubber Company, in which capacities he has rendered efficient service. He attends All Saints Episcopal Church of Trenton, and his political allegiance is given to the Re- publican party, the principles of which he believes to be for the best form of government. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner, a Knight Templar, member of Blue Lodge, No. 5; Scottish Rite; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 5, Trenton. In 1890 he be- came a member of Company A, Old Seventh Regi- ment, and served as such for four and a half years.
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