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Ground was broken and the erection of the buikl- ing begun April 30th following. Proposals for build- ing were advertised for in the daily papers of Trenton. Three proposals were received, and one made by
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Messrs. Parrish & Burdsall was accepted. Pursnant thereto this firm engaged to ereet the church for three thousand four hundred and sixty dollars, of which two thousand dollars was to be paid in cash at the dedication, the balance to be seeured by mortgage and paid one year thereafter.
At the annual election of trustees, held at the house of Reuben Kent, June 3, 1872, the following persons were elected : Reuben Kent, Charles Wilkinson, George Shebbard, - Hoffman, Levi Kearney, Zimri Wood, and Charles Parrish. Zimri Wood was elected. president of the board, Charles Wilkinson, secretary, and Rev. J. R. Westwood, treasurer.
The church edifice was completed and dedicated in 1872. Since the removal of Rev. J. R. Westwood the church has had several successive pastors or min- isterial supplies. The present pastor is, Rev. C. R. Smith. The trustees are Samuel Stead, William Day- ton, J. W. Tonkin, James Peak, G. D. Sortor, James Harl, and Anthony Archer.
The Hamilton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church .- This church is an offshoot of the State Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Trenton. A society was organized and an appointment on the Trenton Circuit constituted at the house of George R. Whittaker, by Rev. John R. Westwood, March 22, 1872. The constituent members were the following : Moses Golding, Elizabeth Golding, Richard Jackson, William Gagg, Mary Gagg, James G. West, Martha West, Joseph MeClanen, Rebecea A. McClanen, Alice Tantum, and Emoneline Robbins.
On Tuesday evening, March 28, 1872, a meeting was held at the house of George R. Whittaker, at which the following-named persons were elected trustees: Moses Golding, Charles Care, James G. West, George R. Whittaker, William Gagg, John H. Whittaker, and Richard Jackson.
The trustees were authorized to purchase of Albert H. Whittaker, for two thousand five hundred dollars, a lot on the southeast corner of Hamilton Avenue and Hudson Street, and steps were at once taken to- wards the erection of a house of worship. The corner- stone was laid by Rev. D. W. Bartine, assisted by Rev. Thomas Hanlon, D.D. The church was com- pleted the following winter, and the first regnlar ser- viee was held therein Jan. 13, 1873, by Rev. J. R. Westwood. It was dedieated by Rev. John H. Heisler, Mareh 2, 1873.
The house of worship is a brick structure, and is valued with the lot at ten thousand dollars. The par- sonage, also of brick, located on Hudson Street, adja- cent to the church, was built in 1881 at a cost of two thousand dollars.
The first stationed pastor was Rev. J. F. Heilenman, who was appointed in March, 1875, and remained until 1877, when he was succeeded by Rev. James Lavelle, who resigned at the expiration of four months. Rev. Francis M. Collins became pastor in October, 1877, and remained until the close of 1878.
The next pastor, Rev. J. G. Reed, was appointed in the spring of 1879, and served until March, 1881, when he gave place to the present pastor, Rev. Charles F. Garrison.
The church had a membership of one hundred and sixty-nine in March, 1882, and was officered as follows: Trustees, Richard Jackson, Thomas Cheatle, John D. Hingsley, Hamlet Smith, and Robert Deelans. Stew- ards, Isaae N. Housen, Charles W. Beatty, Michael McGovern, William Burton, and Garret S. Otis.
The Sunday-school in connection with this church was organized Jan. 12, 1873, with James G. West as superintendent. The present superintendent is Moses Golding. The membership is two hundred and ten, and the library contains three hundred volumes.
The Calvary Baptist Church .- The house of wor- ship of this church is a Gothic wooden building, at the corner of Clinton and Annie Streets. The lot on which it stands measures one hundred and fifty feet by one hundred. The erection of the building was begun May 16, 1868, and it was completed and ded- ieated May 16, 1869, by Rev. Stillwell Smith, assisted by Rev. T. S. Griffith. The church property is valued at ten thousand dollars.
During its earlier history Calvary Church was eon- nected with the First Baptist Church of Trenton. In the fall of 1871, Rev. Thorne was appointed a mis- sionary in charge of this and the Clinton Avenue missions, remaining . until in 1872. Sept. 10, 1874, sixty members of the First Baptist Church of Tren- ton organized themselves into a church, to be known as the Calvary Baptist Church of Chamber-burg, with Joseph Hamer, Thomas Golding, and John Seammell as deacons, and J. C. English, Matthias Schenck, James Butterworth, Henry Everenham, William H. Slack, Reese Reese, and George Selner as trustees.
The first stated pastor was Rev. Matthias Johnston, who came in September, 1874, and remained until 1876, when he resigned. May 19, 1877, Rev. Frank F. Spencer was called. He remained until Oct. 20, 1880, and his successor, Rev. L. H. Copeland, began his labors December 22d following, serving until May 29, 1881. The present pastor, Rev. William H. Bur- Jew, has been in charge since November, 1881.
April 1, 1882, the church had a membership of two hundred, and was officered as follows: Trustees, Eli Greenwood, Robert Wheeling, William Burroughs, John Scammell, John Weldy, Jacob Rue, and Wil- liam H. Prediger ; Deaeons, John Overton, Joseph Hamer, John Martindell; Clerk, J. R. English.
The Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes .-- The Catho- lies of Chambersburg organized a church in 1874, which consisted of twenty-five families.
April 25, 1875, a lot on Chestnut Avenue was pur- chased of Charles Ribsam for six thousand seven hun- dred dollars. The corner-stone of the chapel of Oar Lady of Lourdes was laid by Rev. Anthony Schmidt, of Trenton. The building was completed and blessed by Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, in 1875. The value
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of the church property, including the Roman Catho- of Broad and Coleman Streets, was ereeted by Abner Chambers in 1878, and is now kept by David Haas.
lie College and five acres of land upon which the chapel and the college building, a large brick strue- ture, stand, is thirty-five thousand dollars.
The Roman Catholic College was opened for the purpose of educating young men who wished to unite with the order of Franciseans. The number of stu- dents in 1882 was ten.
The church and college have been from the first under the care of Rev. Peter Jachetti, who was in- . up largely under the patronage of the German ele.
strumental in organizing the church, building the chapel, and establishing the Francisean College.
St. John's Church of the Evangelical Associa- tion .- This church was organized July 10, 1881, with the following members : August Markhofer and wife, Henry Wahrenann and wife, Frederick Everhart and wife, John Thaler and wife, Jolin Seib and wife, Frederick John Wittenbourn, John Herman, Gott- fried Steinbricker, August Gutzman and wife, Fred- erick Petry, Adolph Statte and wife, Frederick Jacob Burgner and wife, Peter Schneider and wife, Gottfried Beiswanger and wife, Catharine Weil, Barbara Kock, Sophia Barkholz, Maryn Barkholz, Charlotte Kroh, and Daniel Sehnebel and wife.
The first trustees were Henry Wahremann, Fred- erick Petry, Frederick J. Wittenbourn, G. Beiswan- ger, and Adam Stolte. The first stewards were Fred- erick Everhart, August Markhofer, and Henry Wah- remann.
In October, 1881, a lot at the corner of Jennie and Adeline Streets was purchased for eight hundred dol- lars, and the ereetion of a church edifice is ( April 1, 1882) in progress, which will cost about six thousand dollars.
The first preacher of the Evangelical Association who held meetings in Chambersburg was Rev. Joseph Yeakel, presiding elder of the Atlantic Conference of . of children of the school age, 1650; number enrolled the Evangelical Association. The present and first regular pastor is Rev. Daniel Schnebel, whose pas- torate began May 22, 1881.
The membership of St. John's Church in March, 1882, was forty-seven.
June 5, 1881, a Sunday-school was organized with thirty-five members. The membership has since in- creased to seventy-five. The superintendent from the first has been Rev. Daniel Sehnebel.
The Mercer County News was established in 1873 by John W. Moody, its present cditor and proprietor. A branch office was opened at Allentown, and a paper was issued tliere under the name of the Allentown Times, which later was consolidated with the Mercer County News, under the title of the Mercer County News and. Allentown Times, which is a five-column, eight-page paper, devoted to loeal and general inter- ests. It is published weekly at 801 Broad Street by John W. Moody, editor and proprietor, Elliott Moody, assistant editor, and has a paying and in- creasing patronage.
Hotels .- The Chambersburg Hotel, at the corner 49
The Hamilton Avenue and Clinton Street House of Anthony Kuhn was built in 1878, and has since been kept by the proprietor. In the third story of this hotel is the Odd-Fellows' Hall.
In various parts of the borough there are numerous houses of entertainment, variously known as saloons, restaurants, gardens, and hotels. These have grown ment in the population, which is considerable.
Educational .- The late and rapid growth which characterizes all of the prominent interests of Cham- bersburg has been manifested in its educational his- tory as well. Until 1876 one school-house, now re- ferred to as the "Old School," though it is said to have been little more than thirty years in existence, accommodated all of those who attended the public school in the village. This is known as the "Cham- bersburg" building, and stands at the corner of Wood- land and Prospeet Streets. In 1876 the " Centennial' school building, on Prospect Street, between Bayard and Butler, was erected. The Hamilton building, at the corner of the Pond Run road and William Street, was built in 1880.
The statistics of the schools of Chambersburg in 1880 were as follows : Amount of apportionment from State appropriation, ineluding two-mill tax and $100,000, $4906.65; amount of district school tax voted for payment of teachers' salaries, $2543.35; amount of district school tax voted to be used for building, purchasing, hiring, repairing, or furnishing public school-houses, $5500; total amount of distriet school tax ordered to be raised, $8043.35; total amount re- eeived from all sources for public school purposes, $12,950; value of sehool property, $25,000; number
in the school register, 830; estimated number who attended private schools, 293; estimated number who attended no school, 374; teachers employed, one malc at a monthly salary of $83.33, and fifteen females at an average monthly salary of $37.50.
The school board is organized as follows : Frank B. Alexander, president; George R. Whittaker, clerk ; and William Leip.
The instructors are as follows, the principal of the Centennial School being the principal of the schools of the borough :
Centennial School .- George H. Voorhees, principal ; Lydia A. Bottoms, first assistant ; Annie B. Smith, second assistant; Annie H. Hibbs, Annie M. Severs, Mary E. Hayes, and Lillie D. Yates, teachers.
Chambersburg School .- Mrs. Carrie A. Bastedo, vice- principal; Ella W. Bunting, assistant; Jennie Hatch- inson, Cora M. Boyd, Ella H. Matlack, and Miss Wyckoff, teachers.
Hamilton School .- Ella Schermerhorn, vice-princi- pal; Joanna M. Krumholtz and Misses Kum and Mescrall, teachers.
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Lodges and Societies .-- LODGE No. 91, K. OF P .--- This lodge was instituted Nov. 25, 1873, with the fol- lowing-named charter members and officers : William Hammell, P. C .; John Bates, C. C. ; Howell Scar- borongh, V. C .; Oliver H. Knowles, P .; John Pat- tison, M. at A .; James Crocket, I. G .; Johu MI. Er- rickson, O. G. ; Ernest Volk, M. of F., and K. of R. and S.
The officers in March, 1882, were William Scrogie, P. C. ; Charles H. Wood, C. C .; Albert S. Weiss, V. C .; William Holt, P. ; George E. Hughes, M. at A .; Uriah Smith, I. G. ; Ralph Eastwood, M. of E. ; John W. Moody, M. of F., and K. of R. and S.
The lodge now numbers forty-eight members and meets in Lovett's Hall, at the corner of Clinton and Jennie Streets.
LODGE No. 109, O. U. A. M .- Iu September, 1874, this lodge was organized with thirty-five charter mem- bers. The following officers were elected: Augustus Bailey, C .; Edward McFall, V. C .; Jacob Millick, S .; John Wilson, T .; Holloway Young, Sr. Ex-C .; William Taber, Jr. Ex-C.
The membership in March, 1882, was forty, and the officers were as follows: Charles MeClaskey, C. ; H. The following were the officers of the department in April, 1SS2 : Samuel W. Foster, president ; George and Charles Howard, chicf. R. Haven, V. C .; John Kershaw, S .; Cyrus Parks, Sr. Ex-C .; Charles W. Parish, Jr. Ex-C. ; William . R. Bergen, secretary; Augustus Reidle, treasurer ; Henry Condt and Henry Nailer, Exs. ; Garret Otis, T. Meetings are held Monday evenings in Lovett's Hall.
ST. ANTHONY'S BENEFICIAL SOCIETY .- St. An- ! thony's Beneficial Society was organized in June, 1876, with about twenty members. It now has a mem- bership of forty-two, meeting regularly on the first Monday in the month at a school-house on Chestnut Avenue. The first officers were as follows : Charles Joenig, president ; Joseph Scheimell, vice-president; Charles Schueler, secretary; Henry Franzoni, treas- urer.
In March, 1882, the following officers were serving : David Haas, president; Joseph French, vice-presi- dent ; William Paine, secretary ; B. Koch, treasurer.
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Members are entitled to a stipulated allowance per week during illness, and a funeral benefit is due each member.
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MERCER LODGE, No. 34, I. O. O. F .- Mercer Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd-Fellows was insti- 1 tuted March 25, 1881, with the following charter members: Theodore Hunt, Enoch Coffin, George R. Morse, John M. Errickson, Elmer Bowers, and Wil- liam Hartman. The following principal officers were chosen : William Hartman, N. G. ; Elmer Bowers, V. : G .; John M. Errickson, S .; Theodore Hunt, T .; John Van Fleet, C.
The membership is fifty. Meetings are held Friday evenings in Odd-Fellows' Hall, at the corner of Clin- ton Street and Hamilton Avenue.
CHAPTER LXV.
EAST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP.
Situation and Description .- East Windsor is the most easterly of the townships of Mercer County. The greatest length of this township is about seven miles. Its greatest width is about five and one-half miles. The surface is generally level, but in some parts slightly undulating. The soil is light, well cultivated, aud in most portions very productive. The township contains about ten thousand acres of improved land, and a small amount of swamp land, which is rapidly being redeemed by a thorough sys- tem of drainage.
The Amboy Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad crosses the township in a nearly north and south di- rection, forming a junction near Hightstown with the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad.
Settlement .- At this time it is impossible to state the name of the first white settler within the present borders of the township, and the date and site of the first settlement are likewise unascertainable. The fol- lowing paragraphs are believed, however, to contain . all that is now known of the early settlement of East
In March, 1882, the lodge was officered as follows : John M. Errickson, N. G .; Enoch Coffin, V. G. ; Morris Suffridge, S. ; Theodore Hunt, T. ; John Van . Windsor, research having been made carefully and Fleet, C.
thoroughly among all known authorities. To the published and verbal statements of Joseph J. Ely, J. R. Norton, R. M. J. Smith, and others the his- torian is indebted for much of what follows.
MODOC TRIBE, No. 111, I. O. R. M .- This organi- zation was instituted Sept. 9, 1873, with twenty- eight charter members. and the following officers were elected : William Sehniclzeizen, P .; Christian Schmidt, O. C .; Frederick Bidlingmuer, U. C .; George Bruck, B. C .; George Mehlburger, Sec. ; John Metzger, Treas. The lodge mcets Tuesday evening in Lovett's Hall. The membership in April, 1882, was sixty-two, and the officers were as follows : Girodon Van Loppen, P .; Charles Schmidt, O. C .; John Fuch, U. C .; George Erb, B. C .; George Muhlenberger, Sec. ; M. Johnson, Treas.
The Mutual Fire Department .- The Mutual Fire Department of Chambersburg was incorporated in 1876. The first officers were Isaac Ronner, presi- dent; James Wallace, secretary ; William Donnelly, treasurer ; David Haas, chief. The company consists of thirty-five active volunteer members. The engine- house is located at the corner of Clinton and Annie Streets. The department is provided with a Denison ! steamer, manufactured in Newark, aud purchased by the borough at a cost of three thousand six hundred dollars, and eight hundred feet of hose.
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There is a ridge of land three or four miles in length, situated partly in what is now Millstone township (Monmouth County), and partly in East Windsor. It runs in nearly a straight line, in a west- erly direction, from the farm of Hon. George J. Ely, across the farms of Joseph A. Ely, John G. Mount, Daniel M. Davison, John Ewart, Jefferson Wright, Isaac L. Davison, Joshua R. Norton, and Enoch A. Ely, to the Old York road. John Ely, who was born Oct. 1, 1707, at or soon after arriving at his majority became the owner of a large portion of the farms over which this ridge extends. He had been about to purchase a tract of land in what is now Lawrence township, but hearing of this tract near Hightstown, he came and looked at it, and being pleased there- with, purchased, in the first instance, some thirteen or fourteen hundred acres, and located upon it, and as his sons grew up settled some of them on portions of it. When old age admonished him that he was soon to die, he directed that he should be buried under a sweet apple-tree on his tract, and so situated as to mark the dividing line between the water-sheds of Assanpink and Rocky Brooks.
He died March 11, 1795, aged eighty-seven years five months and ten days, and was interred as he had desired. He was a practical surveyor, but seems to have devoted much of his time to agricultural pur- suits. In religion he adhered to the Church of Eng- land, and it is said of him that he held the use of to- bacco in uncommon abhorrence, an aversion which has been transmitted, curiously enough, to some of his descendants.
John Ely was three times married. His first wife, Phebe Allison, was born Jan. 27, 1712, and died Aug. 24, 1756. His second wife was Sarah Worford. His third wife was Deborah Hammell, who was born May 28, 1729. All three were buried beside him. His first wife only had children. They were twelve in number, named as follows: John, Richard, Phebe, Mary, William, Joshua, Isaac, Allison, Phebe (a second of the name), Joseph, Isaac (a second of the name), and George, who was born only about a month before his mother's death.
Most of the descendants of John Ely, the oldest son of the settler John Ely, live in other States than New Jersey. Except as regards the descendants of Richard, the next son, we have no data concerning the family. It seems the pioneer established a rule, in the keeping of which he had furnished an example, that none of his sons should marry until they had arrived at the age of twenty-five, and it is said it was observed by all of them who grew up and married. Richard married Jemima Lee when he was nearly thirty. He owned and lived upon the tract in Mill- stone township (Monmouth County ) now occupied by Mr. Donald in part, one hundred acres of which is the farm of Capt. Jefferson Wright. He cleared a spot in the timber there for his house, and " grubbed" out the roots of the trees where that and a more :
modern dwelling were built. Richard and Jemima Ely were among the first Methodists in their neigh- borhood, and the early regular Methodist meetings were held in Richard Ely's house and barn. The children of this couple were nine in number :
(1) Sarah was born Feb. 18, 1763. She married Robert Hutchinson, of Milford, well known for many years as a Methodist preacher who traveled exten- sively. (2) John Ely, born Dec. 4, 1764, lived at Milford, and owned the farm later of his great-grand- son, Theodore Y. Ely. (3) Mary, born Nov. 16 or 11, 1767, married John Norton, and was the mother of the much-esteemed Richard Norton, deceased; of William Norton, Sr., long resident near Hights- town; and of Joshua, Isaac, and Daniel D. Norton and three daughters, -Mrs. Wicoff, Mrs. Miller, and Mrs. Grace Schuyler. (4) Samuel Ely (named after Samuel Lee), was the father of Richard S., Thomas, and Abijah Ely (all dead ), and grandfather of Samuel R. Ely, resident near Hightstown. (5) Isaac Ely, born April 5, 1773, died young. (6) Phebe, born Nov. 5, 1774, married Daniel Duncan, former owner of Plainsboro' mills. (7) Jemima, born May 12, 1777, died young. (8) Joseph Ely, born Oct. 17, 1782, died May 5, 1854, leaving four children, -Ann, since deceased, wife of Abijah L. Chamberlin, de- ceased ; Joseph J. Ely, Elijah Ely, and Belinda, wife of Hon. W. H. Mount, deceased. (9) Aaron Ely was the father of Joseph H. Ely and Richard A. Ely, both deceased, and of Jemima Ann Ely and Mrs. Maria J. Bowne, of Cranbury, and Mrs. Mary Reed, of Englishtown, and grandfather of John V. Ely and of Aaron Ely, of Hightstown.
Another large tract of land early taken up in the township was that often referred to as the Hutchin- son tract. It was surveyed to William IIutehinson, a justice of the peace under the crown and govern- ment of England by governmental authority, and has been thus described: " All the land bounded easterly by or near the Earl of Perth's patent (at the corner of the farm now ' owned by Mr. Wesley Sill). and bounded northerly by Rocky Brook, and extend- ing westerly to, at or about the farm now = owned by Thomas Mount (son of Hiram Mount, deceased), and extending southerly also to the Ely tract, at or about the property now3 owned by Abijah J. Cham- lin." It included the site of that portion of Hights- town borough lying south of Rocky Brook. Hutch- inson and a brother came to America from England, probably in the seventeenth century. His wife was Ann Simpson, who was born March 17, 1699, and died Jan. 4, 1801, having lived in three centuries to the age of one hundred and one years, nine months. and seven days, retaining her faculties to the last. having been able, it is said, to thread a needle or read withont spectacles in her one hundred and first year.
This family have been remarkable for longevity.
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Joseph Hutchinson, son of William and Ann Hutch- inson (very frequently and justly called Father Huteh- inson), lived on the William R. Hutchinson place. He was a very exemplary and pious man, and be- tween 1780 and 1790 was one of the very small num- ber who formed the old Methodist elass in Milford, and the history of the old Hutchinson family is identified with the early history of Methodism in this part of the country. William Hutchinson, another son of William and Ann, lived on the Daniel P. Hutchinson place, and had four sons, who became Methodist preachers, viz .: Revs. Ezekiel, Robert, Sylvester, and Aaron Hutchinson, all of whom have been dead many years. The former re- moved to Ohio a long time prior to his death.
The children of William and Ann Hutchinson numbered thirteen, and the latter was grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother to three hundred and seventy-five persons. Five of their children were sons and eight were daughters. From the latter have sprung numerous families bear- 'ing the names of Tindall, in the neighborhood of Hamilton Square; English and Laird, abont Eng- . . lishtown; Ely, Wilson, Moore, Taylor, and others, in the vicinity of Hightstown ; and Kinnan, Bennett, and others, of New Brunswick. The marriages into families of these names took place about a hundred years ago. With later generations came the names . of Cubberly, Dey, Moore, Taylor, James, Hartman, and others, and now, besides. hundreds of Hutchin- sons in the vicinity, the descendants of William and Ann Hutchinson may be found in almost every fam- ily in the section. Although only a little more than one hundred and eighty-three years have elapsed sinee the birth of Ann Hutchinson, her descendants are numbered by thousands. Among these long well known as residents on the old Hutchinson tract may be mentioned William R. Hutchinson, Daniel P. Hutchinson, and the late ex-State Treasurer Res- carrick MI. Smith.
Three brothers named John, William, and Joshua Norton emigrated from England to America at an early date. John Norton, who was born Dee. 20, 1725, owned and occupied the Daniel D. Norton farm, and in 1802 was thrown from a load of hay, sustain- ' married Amos Lee and settled near Hamilton Square. ing injuries which resulted fatally, and was buried in the old Ely burying-ground. He had seven children, viz. : (1) William, born in 1750, who never married. . (2) Joshua, born in 1752, who married Lydia Combs, daughter of Thomas Combs. (3) Theodosia, born in 1755, who never married. (4) Sarah, born in 1756, who never married. (5) Grace, born in 1759, who never married. (6) John Norton, Jr., born March 26, 1761, who married Mary, daughter of Richard Ely. . (7) Hannah, who never married.
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