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Mr. Stokes married Anna L. Barwis, born in Trenton, New Jersey, daughter of Charles and Leslie Barwis, the former of whom is a merchant tailor of Trenton. Two children were the issue of this marriage: Elizabeth L. and Charles E.
WILLIAM JOHN BLACKMAN STOKES, son of Joseph B. and Ann ( Blackman) Stokes, and brother of Charles Edgar Stokes, whose sketch with the family history precedes this in the work, was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1857.
The State Model School of Trenton, New Jer- sey, and the Trenton Business College afforded William J. B. Stokes the opportunity of acquiring a thorough literary and business education, of which he has since made excellent use. Upon taking up the practical duties of life, he turned his attention to the rubber business, and is now one of the proprietors of the Home Rubber Com- pany, founded in 1882, the Joseph B. Stokes Rub- ber Company, founded by his father, the Tren- ton Rubber Manufacturing Company, and the firm of Wilson & Stokes, lumber merchants. He resided many years in the fourth ward of the city of Trenton, and during this time he became a leading factor in the politics of his adopted city. He has always been an indefatigable working Re- publican, and has been honored by his townsmen to election to various positions of honor and trust in Trenton. He was a member of the common council of the fourth ward for six years, during which time the Pennsylvania railroad was extend- ing its four track system through the city, and his stand in this matter was highly satisfactory to his constituents, who were vitally interested in the matter. He was elected city treasurer of Trenton in 1894, re-elected in 1898-1900, and again in 19044 for a term of three years, which facts are an eloquent testimonial to his integrity, and proves conclusively the confidence reposed in him by his fellow-citizens. He is a member and trustee of State Street Methodist Episcopal Church, to the work of which he contributes lib- erally. He has attained the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry, and affiliates with Column Lodge, No. 120, the Scottish Rite bodies and the Mystic Shriners. In all relations of life he has faithfully performed his part, and is worthy of being accorded a place among the best citizens of Trenton.
Mr. Stokes married Mary E. Johnson, a native of Trenton, New Jersey, daughter of Robert
Johnson, a contractor of Trenton. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stokes are as follows: Robert, Carrie, Mary and Beatrice.
THE BERRIEN FAMILY. All testimony and family traditions ascribed to this ancient family show that it is of French origin, and it is supposed that the early ancestors came from and had their family seat at "Berrien," now a town of considerable size in the department of Finis Terre. Concurrent traditions existing in diverse branches of the family declare that their ancestor was a Huguenot, who, during the civil wars of France, was forced to flee and took refuge in Holland.
Cornelius Jansen Berrien, as appears upon the early records of the family, was the first of the name that emigrated to this country, and be- came the common progenitor of the family here. Ile settled in Flatbush, Long Island, as early as 1669, and there married Jeannetie, daughter of Jan Stryker. Being a person of character and education, he was appointed to fill positions of trust and held offices in the town government and was a deacon in the Dutch church. In 1683, by appointment of the Colonial Assembly, he served as one of a commission to levy a special tax in the province. In 1685 he removed to Newtown, Long Island, where, during the previ- ous year he and his brother-in-law, Abraham Brinckerhoff, had bought over four hundred acres of land at the head of Flushing Bay, which they afterward divided. Mr. Berrien died at Newtown in 1688, and his widow married sec- ondly, Samuel Edsall, Esq. Children of Corne- lius Jansen Berrien : John, Peter, Nicholas, Catharine, who married Joromes Remsen ; Agnes, married Lieutenant Joris Rapelje.
(1) Nicholas was an intelligent farmer, and for a time a magistrate. He owned a farm on Flushing Bay which he had bought in 1712 of William Stevenson, it having been owned at an earlier date by John Ramsden. Nicholas Ber- rien married his cousin, Sara, daughter of Abra -. ham Brinckerhoff, and widow of Jacob Rapelje. He died without issue, December 27, 1737, aged fifty-six years. He bequeathed his farm to the children of his brother, John, who sold it to Nathaniel Fish, and is now owned by Daniel Lent.
(II) John Berrien, eldest son of Cornelius, was a farmer and brewer on the paternal estate, at the head of Flushing Bay. He married, April
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5, 1697, his step-sister, Ruth Edsall. He served as a justice of the peace, and died in April, 171I. His widow married secondly, Samuel Fish. Children of John Berrien: Cornelius, born Jan- uary 8, 1698; Samuel, born August 30, 1700; Jane, born March 1, 1703, she married first Dennis Lawrence, and secondly, Andrew Riker; Richard, born September 11, 1706; Catharine, born November 13, 1709, she married Rem Rem- sen ; her twin sister, Agnes, born November 14, 1709, who married Captain Samuel Fish. Sam- 11el and Richard Berrien were seafaring men, and masters of their own vessels. The former it is said, died in the West Indies.
(III) Cornelius Berrien, son of John, mar- ried, December 9, 1719, Sarah, daughter of Sam- 11el Hallett. In 1727 he bought from Timothy Wood the island since called Berrien's Island, with adjoining property now comprising the farm of Ezra N. Berrien. Here Mr. Berrien died, March 30, 1767, aged sixty-nine years. His widow died January 11, 1797, aged ninety- three years. Their children were: John, Sam- 11cl, Richard, Nicholas, Cornelius, Peter, Jacob, Phebe, married William Warner, and Ruth, married Jacob Hallett. Jacob Berrien died while on a voyage to the Bay of Honduras. Nicholas and Samuel settled in Westchester county, New York, where their descendants have become nu- erous. The latter was born in 1723. He married Dorcas, daughter of George Tippett. He be- came proprietor of Tippetts, now "Berrien's Neck," and had sons Cornelius, George, James, Richard and William. Of these Richard, born April 29, 1765, was father of Rev. William Berrien, D.D., rector of Trinity Church, New York City. He married, October 27, 1812, Jane, daughter of Colonel Elias B. Dayton, of Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey. John B., born Septem- ber 20, 1720, married Ellen Brasher ; it is said he became a merchant in New York City, and he appears at one time to have commanded a vessel. He died, September 26, 1773, and his widow died September 17, 1806, in her seventy- fifth year. Both were interred in Trinity church- yard. Their children, who attained to years of maturity, were: Abigail, born January 8, 1754. married Captain Alexander Cameron ; John, born December 20, 1756: Sara, born December 31, 1758, married Jacob Hegeman ; and Daniel, born August 20, 1762. He was a shipbuilder. He died of yellow fever in 1795. He was father of the late Daniel Berrien, brush dealer of New York City,
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who died February 2, 1849, aged sixty-three years. His business was contimed by his son Daniel.
(IV) Richard Berrien, son of Cornelius, mar- ried, December 24, 1748, Grace, daughter of Abraham Riker, of Newtown, and occupied the farm since of Jesse Leverich, Esq., and where the widow of B. Denton now resides. During the Revolution, he being a Whig, was an exile in Connecticut, though his family remained on Long Island. His wife died December 12, 1771, at the age of forty-two years. He died in 1802, aged about seventy-six, having served as office bearer in the Presbyterian church. His children : Abram, born July 21, 1751; Sara, born March 31, 1754, married Samuel Leverich, and Grace, born November 24, 1759, married Jesse Leverich. Abram removed to Westchester.
and in 1796 bought from lis uncle, Samuel, the estate of Tippett's Neck, near Kingsbridge. He married, February 18, 1775, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Moore. She died February 13, 1788, aged thirty-three years. Abram Berrien married secondly, Pelatiah Williams, February 4, 1794. He died October I, 1830, and his widow died October 26, 1839, both aged seventy-nine years. Their remains were
interred at Newtown. Abram Berrien's child- ren who attained to adult years were all by his first marriage: Abram, died in 1851, aged sev- enty-one ycars; Nathan, died in 1847, aged sixty-five years ; Richard, for a number of years totally blind, died in 1827, aged forty years ; Re- becca, 'married George Brinckerhoff; Grace Moore, married Major Leonard Bleecker ; Char- ity, married John Hoagland ; and Mary.
(V) Cornelius Berrien, son of Cornelius, born January 30, 1735, remained on the paternal homestead. He married Jane, daughter of Charles Warner, of Westchester. She died in her fortieth year, February 22, 1777, and Cornelius Berrien died July 7, 1810. They had twelve children, of whom the following attained to years of maturity, viz: Elizabeth, born Novem- ber 20, 1753, married Jolin Bogart; Sara, born March 29, 1755, married her cousin, Samuel, a son of Nicholas Berrien, of Fordham, New York; Jane, born December 24, 1757, married John Deacon, and after his death she married Daniel Farrington ; Samuel, born June 7, 1760, married Sara, daughter of Ezra Newman, of Connecticut ; Lydia, born April 8, 1768, married
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William Lawrence; Catharine, born March 30, 1772, married Richard Moore ; James, born Au- gust 18, 1773, married Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Cooper ; and Cornelius, born October 13, 1775, who obtained the paternal farm in Hellgate Neck, and died unmarried, August 6, 1833, leav- ing his estate to his kinsman, Ezra N. Berrien, son of Samuel, now occupying the same.
(VI) Peter Berrien, son of Cornelius, born 1672, married August 10, 1706, his step-sister, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Edsall, Esq. He was a surveyor by profession, and became a large land holder. He served several years as a su- pervisor of the town, and enjoyed a large meas- ure of public confidence. He presented the ground upon which the First Dutch church in Newtown was erected. He died very suddenly while riding from Newtown to his home, April 5. 1737. His widow died May 6, 1763. Their children, except two that died in infancy, were : Cornelius, born May 24. 1707; Samuel, born September 29, 1709, died August 29. 1742: John, born November 19, 1711; Peter, born February 6, 1714: Jane, born September 29, 1716, married Nathaniel Fish : Nicholas, born August 3, 1720; and Jacob, born April 10, 1723. The last two became merchants in New York City, and of the last two named children only Nicholas mar- ried. Of this family, Peter settled on a farm in Somerset county, New Jersey, where he died in 1781, aged sixty-seven years. He married Anna Emmons, and had sons Henry and John ; and daughters, Elizabeth, married Colonel Van Dyck: Sara, married a Mr. Schureman ; and Ann, married Richard Betts. The sons, Henry and John, married into different branches of the Van Dyck family, but only Henry had issue.
(VII) Cornelius Berrien, son of Peter, re- mained in Newtown, and in 1740 bought the pa- ternal farm, later owned by Richard Berrien, and now the residence of Mrs. Denton. Corne- lius Berrien married Amy Smith. He served as a civil magistrate, and was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Newtown. He died Janu- ary 14, 1758, in his fifty-first year .. His widow was a woman of high educational attainments and culture. She died December 22. 1793. Their children were: Cornelius, John, Peter, Eliza- beth, married Richard Betts; Amy, married Richard Lawrence; Jane, married William Ni- coll; Catharine, married Nathan Fish. The son, Peter, became a shipmaster and a member of the Marine Society, sailed a vessel owned by
his brother, Cornelius, and lost his life on the Spanish main in 1777. John for some time studied medicine, and upon relinquishing his studies engaged in mercantile pursuits, meeting with success, and was prosperous. He married, April 27, 1763, Sara, daughter of Elnathan Fish. by whom he had an only child, Rachel, who mar- ried Colonel John Jameson, of Virginia. In 1775 Mr. Berrien was chosen a member of the committee of safety for the city of New York, and throughout the struggle for independence gave strong evidence of his patriotism and faith- fulness towards the cause of liberty. His abil- ity was displayed in legislative and other offices. His private life was adorned by many virtues. Mr. Berrien died September 25, 1784.
(VIII) Cornelius Berrien, son of Cornelius, born October 14. 1734, married in 1765. Eliza- beth, daughter of Richard Penfold. During the French war he was first lieutenant on the priva- teer "Tartar," Captain Thomas Lawrence, and at the termination of their successful cruises against the French he engaged in commerce. owning and commanding several vessels. In 1777 he dispatched three vessels to the West Indies in command of his brother, Peter, his brother-in-law, John Penfold, and Captain Rich- ardson. On the Spanish main, while obtaining a shipment of mules, they were attacked by the natives, and of the three crews only two sea- men escaped to reveal the tragedy. After the war Captain Berrien resided on the Penfold farm at Hellgate and followed husbandry till his death. December 12, 1805, in his seventy-second year. His widow died September 10. 1817, aged sev- enty years. Their children, who reached years of maturity, were: Richard and Cornelius Pen- fold, twins, born October 5, 1779. The latter married Elizabeth B., daughter of John Mor- ris, and died April 3, 1828, having had issue : Sara, John M., Cornelius A., Mary, Elizabeth and Jane. Richard P. Berrien, now of New York, married Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon Vanderbeck, and his children are: Eliza P., Cornelius P., Richard P., William E. and Ger- trude A.
(IX) John Berrien, grandfather of Isaac Scudder Berrien, became a merchant at Rocky Hill, in Somerset county, New Jersey. From 1763 till his death he was one of the trustees of Princeton college, besides holding other re- sponsible public positions. On his tombstone in
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Princeton cemetery is the following inscription : "Sacred to the Memory of the Hon. John Ber- rien, Esq., one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Province of New Jersey, who died much lamented on the 22nd day of April, A. D., 1772, in the sixty-first year of his age." He married Margaret, daughter of John Eaton, founder of Eatontown, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, and their children were: John, William, Samuel, Thomas, of whom later: Eliza, married Nathaniel Lawrence, and after his death John Lawrence; Mary, married Dr. Thomas Montgomery; William, died at Ar- neytown, New Jersey; he was a physician; Dr. William Berrien, married the widow Prior, for- merly Miss Macpherson, sister to his brother John's wife. Two children were born to this union-John Macpherson and Mary, neither of whom married. They lived many years in De- troit, Michigan, and died in that city.
John Berrien, while a student at Princeton. was among the first to enlist from the state of New Jersey, commanded a company of regulars at the age of seventeen, and at eighteen was com- missioned a brigadier major, in which capacity he made the campaign of New Jersey, and was engaged at the battle of Monmouth. After the close of the struggle for independence he re- turned to his adopted state, Georgia, to which he emigrated in 1775, and settled in Savannah, where his death occurred in 1815. He took an active part in civil and legislative affairs, both local and state, and held the office of surveyor of the port of Savannah for many years, and for a short period filled the position of state treas- urer. At the close of the war he married Mar- garet Macpherson, of Philadelphia, daughter of Captain John Macpherson, an officer of the Provincial navy, and a sister of John and Wil- liam Macpherson, both of whom distinguished themselves during the Revolutionary struggle.
Hon. John Macpherson Berrien, son of John and Margaret ( Macpherson) Berrien, was born at Rocky Hill near Princeton, New Jersey, August 23, 178[. He was educated at Nassau Hall ( Princeton), and graduated in 1796 in the class with Judge William Gas- ton, LL.D., and the Rev William Axtel, D.D., at the age of fifteen years. He was admitted at the bar of Georgia as a practicing lawyer at the age of cighteen. He soon equalled those much older than himself, and ultimately ranked not only as one of the first lawyers in his own state,
but as one of the most talented in the United States. His first public office was that of re- corder of the city of Savannah ; he was for eleven years judge of the Eastern District of Georgia, United States senator three times, and attorney general of Jackson's cabinet. At the age of twenty-nine he was elected to a judgeship on the state bench, which office he held for ten years, and in 1825 took his seat in the United States senate, where he remained until 1829, when he was appointed United States attorney general. The same year the mission of ambassador to England was offered to him by the government, but he declined it chiefly for domestic considera- tions. Mr. Berrien resigned the office of attor- ney general in 1831, and the following letter was received by him :
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15, 1831. THE PRESIDENT AND MR. BERRIEN.
Sir :
In accepting your resignation as Attorney General I take pleasure in expressing my approbation of the zeal and efficiency with which its duties have been per- formed, and in assuring you that you carry with you my best wishes for your prosperity and happiness.
I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, John M. Berrien. Esq. ANDREW JACKSON.
Mr. Berrien was again called to the United States senate in 1840 and again in 1847, and dis- tinguished himself throughout his term of serv- ice, and in fact throughout his entire public ca- reer. His eloquence gave him the name of the "American Cicero," and Chief Justice Marshall called him "the honey-tongued Georgia youth." He had a reputation beyond the borders of his own country for scholarship, eloquence and re- finement. Says a writer : "He was a man whose equal in many respects the world has not pro- duced since the days of Cicero. America has had her Henry, one of nature's thunderbolts ; her Clay of grand and surpassing gifts-to electrify the public by their soul-stirring eloquence, but neither of these had the polish of the Roman school, with its rich stores of learning and clas- sic beauties gathered from every epoch and clime. It was reserved for John Macpherson Berrien to stand alone as an example in the Nineteenth Century." Judge Berrien commanded a regi- ment of cavalry during the War of 1812. He died at Savannah, Georgia, January 1, 1856, in his seventy-fourth year.
Thomas Berrien, son of John and Margaret (Eaton) Berrien, was born at Rocky Hill, and
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educated at Princeton. He afterward became a teacher, and also studied medicine, but practiced but a short time. He married Rachel Freeman, who bore him six children: Margaret Eaton, John Montgomery, William, Alexander Mont- gomery, Isaac Scudder and Nathaniel Lawrence. He enlisted at the beginning of the War of 1812, and at its close received honorable discharge. He died at the home of his son, Isaac Scudder, April 6, 1850, aged 80 years. Rachel Freeman Ber- rien died January 22, 1857. She also died at the age of eighty, and at the home of her son, Isaac Scudder.
Isaac Scudder Berrien, son of Thomas and Rachel (Freeman) Berrien, was born December 22, 1812. He received his education almost en- tirely from his father, who was a graduate of Princeton college. In his early years he became interested in farming, and made it his vocation through life. He was a man of a high order of intelligence, and of sterling worth and character. Well informed through much reading, genial and kindly, though dignified, and the soul of hospi- tality ; unselfish and self-sacrificing to a marked degree, a most affectionate and devoted husband and father. He was a member of the Metho- dist church. He died after an illness of three days, June 30, 1888, and is buried in Princeton cemetery.
Mr. Berrien married, April 20, 1847, Eliza- beth Stockton Grover, born October 8, 1825, and their children were: I. Mary Louisa Wells, born April 5. 1848, became the wife of William N. Grover, an uncle of the late Hon. John Hay ; for sketch of William N. Grover, see forward. 2. Helen Elizabeth, born March 21, 1851. 3- John Macpherson, born May 3, 1856, named after Judge John Macpherson Berrien, of Georgia. He is the only surviving male representative of the Berrien family in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He is a retired farmer, who, with his estimable wife, Sarah H. (Van Cleve) Berrien, a member of the well known Van Cleve family, lives on the Lawrence road about a half-mile south of the village. Mr. Berrien has long been identified with local politics, being the Republican leader in the district. He was for many years town- ship clerk, and is now ( 1907) a member of the Mercer County Republican committee. He was given by the New Jersey senate a committee clerkship for the legislative session of 1907. and will act as clerk to the committee on municipal corporations. Senator Barton B. Hutchinson is
chairman of this committee, and as the appoint- ment came from Mercer county, Senator Hutch- inson has made Mr. Berrien clerk of his com- mittee. This is one of the important committees of the senate. Possessing a warm heart and a genial nature, and believing thoroughly in the principle of fairness to all with malice toward none, Mr. Berrien has drawn to him hosts of friends, and is easily one of the most popular men in the county. 4. Anna Montgomery, wife of William Austin Furman, two children : Caro- line Elizabeth and Anna Higgins. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Berrien died in early infancy.
William N. Grover was born on a farm near Princeton, New Jersey, and removed with his parents to Ohio.in 1822, where he lost his father. The family removed to Pennsylvania in 1826, where he received a common school education. At the age of seventeen he engaged in civil en- gineering on the railroads of New York, and at the age of nineteen drifted west, locating in Illi- nois, and for several years was connected with the public works of this state, and was identified with the first railroad building in Hancock county. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He practiced for ten years in the courts of Illinois, when he removed to St. Louis, Missouri, where he continued the practice of his profession until 1866 with marked suc- cess. In 1852 he was the Whig candidate for the legislature, and although defeated he ran ahead of his ticket. In 1863 he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, then the most important district in the country west of the Alleghanies, by President Lincoln, on the unanimous recom- mendation of the St. Louis bar and without ef- fort on his part. He held the office during the busiest period of the Civil war. He resigned the office in 1866, returned to Warsaw, and retired to his farm near that city. He remained on the farm until 1879, although he returned to the practice of law in August, 1877, and continued in active practice until the day of his death. He served on the library board of Warsaw from 1879 to 1892, and was one of the most efficient directors that institution ever had, succeeding the late Dr. Charles Hay as president. He was also a member of the Board of Education for several years and performed his duties conscientiously and fearlessly. He was one of the incorpora- tors and first directors of the loan association, continuing a member of the directory until his
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demise, and to his zeal is largely due the estab- lishment of this institution in Warsaw.
Judge Grover favored everything that prom- ised the advancement of Warsaw-commercially, socially or morally-and his faith in the growth of the city never faltered. He was a man of strong convictions, fearless in denouncing what be believed to be wrong and tenacious in the ad- vocacy of that which he was convinced was right, yet he was charitable in his judgment of men and tolerant of those who differed with him. He was free from malice, was a man of the highest integrity, guided by the golden rule in Înis deal- ings with his fellowmen, and was a gentleman of the old school, clean, pure, upright, noble, dignified and chivalrous. Intellectually he was a man of exceptional ability and superior attain- ments. He was a wide reader, a deep thinker, and an easy and versatile talker. While he never identified himself with any church, the cause of religion always found in him a warm friend, and he regularly attended and liberally contribu- ted to the support of the Presbyterian church. The following are sentiments expressed by friends of Judge Grover: "Both in private and public life Judge Grover bore a spotless reputa- tion, and his character deserved it. He was a scholarly man, of clean mind and noble senti- ments, through whose life, as a current of sweet sympathy, ran the gently influencing precepts of the Nazarene. His life was simple, unostenta- tions ; his death but the translation of a good spirit to a better world." "He was no ordinary man. The possessor of a powerful and well- trained mind, I have met none who could sur- pass him in intellectual attainments and force of reasoning. As a lawyer, I have met none whom I thought superior to him. His reported cases in the Supreme Court reports of Missouri and Illinois will ever stand as enduring monti- ments to his learning, ability and skill. He pos- sessed not only a deep knowledge of the law, but also a profound understanding of the philosophy of the law. As a man, he was genial, lovable, kindly and optimistic. It always seemed that he viewed the world from the light of a philoso- pher. He had the faculty of always looking at the brightest side of things and saw something good in every thing."
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