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This institution is under the immediate control and patronage of the New Jersey Conference. The Con- ference purchased it because they believed that the members and friends of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Jersey ought to possess a school which would enable them to take part directly in the great work of Christian education. It began its career as a school for both sexes in 1853, and by its work has fully vindicated the wisdom of its organiza- tion.
The buildings are two hundred and seventy feet long, forty feet wide, and four stories high, and are well arranged for the comfort of the students, and for all the purposes of a first-class seminary. The two de- partments, male and female, are entirely separate,
in the chapel, dining-hall, or reeitation-rooms. The building is warmed by furnaces placed in the base- ment. Connected with the buildings is a plot of land containing twenty-five acres, a part of which is beau- tifully shaded by a fine grove, and another part is used as a play-ground.
The faculty is constituted as follows : Rev. Thomas Hanlon, D.D., president, Evidences of Christianity and Moral Science ; C. L. Williams, A.M., vice-pres- ident, Greek Language and English Literature ; Rev.
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B. C. Pilsbury, A.M., Latin and Higher Mathematics ; F. A. Jackson, A.B., Natural Sciences and English ; J. W. Thomas, A. B., German and English ; Rev. J. D. Miller, Mental Philosophy and History ; W. R. Pedrick, Penmanship and Book-Keeping ; Miss Laura J. Hanlon, M.E.L., preceptress, French and Music ; Miss Lida D. Lillagore, M. E.L., assistant preceptress, Instrumental Music; Miss L. B. Wheeler. Drawing and Painting; Miss L. Robinson, musical director, Harmony, Theory of Musie and Voice Culture : Miss F. A. Ramirez, Spanish and Instrumental Music ; Miss Myra A. Hanlon, M. E.L., English and Ladies' Calisthenics; Rev. J. D. Miller, Ifbrarian ; Mrs. E. D. Milliman, housekeeper.
PENNINGTON INSTITUTE .- The building known as "the Institute" at Penuington was erected by Joseph Bunn, who established a private sehool therein, with a competent corps of teachers, princi- pally for the cdueation of the daughters of Metho- dist elergymen. About 1850 the institution was pur- chased by A. P. Lasher, who continued the school with great success during the succeeding twenty-five years. Its career during the past few years has been less successful than formerly, but its work continues, , assisted by Miss Ella Duer, Mrs. R. L. Gurnee teach- and its future prosperity is earnestly hoped for by its many well wishers.
EVERGREEN HALL, PENNINGTON .- In 1836 pro- longed discussion upon the feasibility of establishing a female seminary at Pennington resulted in the or- ganization of a stoek company with that end in view, of which Joseph Titus, Isaac Welling, and Hudson Titus were trustees.
Besides the trustees above named, Dr. Henry W. Blachley, Dr. Absalom Blachley, Dr. James B. Mc- Nair, and other gentlemen were interested, and sub- seribed liberally. A lot was purchased and a briek building erected by A. M. Vankirk, architect. The services of the wife of the Rev. George C. Hyde, front New England, were engaged, and the seminary was opened. At the outset suceess seemed to crown the 'effort, but for some eauses, now unknown, the princi- pal left at the end of the year. This discouraging feature deterred many from subscribing additional stoek sufficient to pay for the seminary edifice. The stock already paid in was voluntarily sacrificed, and Mr. Vankirk took the building on his own hands to meet the cost of material and work.
While the property was held by Mr. Vankirk, for two or more years, an excellent school was maintained by Roswell Howe, Esq., and two of his dangliters. In the spring of 1841, having offered it for sale, it was bought by an association of gentlemen connected with the Presbyterian congregation of Pennington. Joseph Titus, of Titusville, assumed the payment of one-half the purchase-money, and the balance was made up by Asa Hunt, Aaron Hart, Sr., Rev. George Hale, Stephen B. Smith, Aaron Hart, Jr., J. Smith Hart, George Woolsey, Andrew Titus, Garret J. Schenck, and Ephraim Woolsey.
The Misses Scovel were employed to take charge of the department of instruction, and Mrs. Ann Reed of the boarding department. This arrangement con- tinued until November, 1842.
At this date began the labors of Miss Mary L. Hale, who eventually bought the property, and named it Evergreen Hall. Miss Hale continued in the discharge of active services as principal for twenty-seven years, having the aid of her two sisters after the spring of the year 1845. For about two years previous to the latter date Mr. David N. Wiley superintended the boarding department. In consc- quence of the protraeted and dangerous illness of one of the sisters, in connection with the death of an- other which had oeeurred a year or two previous, Miss Hale resolved, after the anniversary exereises in the summer of 1869, to discontinue the school for at least one year. In July, 1870, Miss Wragge became prineipal, and so continued for four years, with mod- erate sueeess.
Miss Mary L. Hale resumed the charge of Ever- green Hall in September, 1874. In 1879, Miss Hale was succeeded by Professor R. L. Gurnee, who is ing vocal and instrumental musie. The present num- ber of pupils is fifty.
THE HOPEWELL YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY .-- This institution was established in 1867 by two sis- ters, Misses E. H. and M. J. Boggs, daughters of Elder Jolm Boggs, who was pastor of the First Bap- tist Church of Hopewell forty years. It is unseeta- rian, and the number of its boarders is limited to fifteen, the day scholars bringing the average attend- ance up to twenty-five.
The course of study embraces a preparatory and a senior department. The senior department comprises two courses, the literary and scientifie course and the belles-lettres course. There is also for pupils not de- siring to pursue the studies of these departments a course of music and art.
Miss E. H. Boggs was for seven years principal of one of the first grade public schools in Washington, D. C., and furnished from that school twenty-five teachers for the public schools of that city. Since the establishment of this seminary the Mi-ses Borg- have furuished many competent teachers to the pub- lic schools of New Jersey and other States.
This seminary is conducted in a spacious three- story brick building. The grounds are ample and tastefully arranged.
The management and faculty are as follows : Mr -. E. H. Boggs, principal; Miss M. J. Boggs, a -- i-tant principal ; Professor G. L. Fetter, instructor : Mi -- J A. Crasson, teacher of Latin ; Miss L. E. Cook, teacher of music.
The First Presbyterian Church of Hopewell '
Condensed from the historical discourse of Rev. George Hale, I'D.
-- delivered July 2, 1876.
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HISTORY OF MERCER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
--- The first authentie record that there were Chris- tian people in this region uniting for the mainte- nance of religious worship is found in the record of a deed bearing date "1698-99, March 18th," in which " the Honorable Jeremiah Basse, Esq., Gov- ernor of the provinces of East and West Jersey, and Thomas Revell, &c., agents of the Honorable the West Jersey Society in England, convey for the erecting of a meeting-house, and for burying-ground and school- house," one hundred acres of land to ecrtain inhab- itants1 of " Maidenhead and parts adjacent." Some of these persons lived in Hopewell.
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There is a strong presumption that the first house of worship of the congregation was erected in what is now the village of Lawrenceville. The baptismal records of the First Presbyterian Church of Phila- delphia show that Rev. Jedediah Andrews, of that church, administered the rite of baptism at that place. in 1713 and 1714, oue of the persons there baptized by him, Feb. 10, 1714, having been John Hart, a na- tive and lifelong resident of Hopewell, and after- wards one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Rev. Robert Orr was ordained Oct. 20, 1815, in the meeting-house in Maidenhead.
The second church edifice was in what is now Ewing township, built of logs in 1712 on land con- veyed by Maj. Alexander Lockhart, March 9, 1709, to Richard Scudder and sixteen others in trust. The third was erected at Pennington as early as 1724 or 1725, on the site of the old brick church, which was taken down in 1847. The fourth was built of stone | chased, that the said shall be set apart toward the in 1726 on or near the site of what is known as the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
The congregation spread over this extensive terri- tory continued as one under the ministration of three successive pastors,2-Revs. Robert Orr (1715- 19), Moses Dickinson (1722-27), and Joseph Morgan (1729-37). The first church at Pennington was built during the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Dickinson. There is a tradition that before this edifice there was stated preaching in a school-house which stood on the ground now included in the south part of the Pennington graveyard, known from time imme- morial as the school-house lot. The church was a frame structure thirty by thirty-four feet, covered with cedar shingles. The pulpit was on the north side and the doors on the south. In 1765, when this fraine church was replaced by another, the timbers were removed to the parsonage farm, on the Scotch road, and used for the frame of a barn. That frame, with quite a number of the old weather-beaten cedar . shingles, even yet serviceable for weather-boarding, may be seen at the present day.
terial labors in the congregation of Maidenhead and Hopewell, active measures were taken by the Hope- well people to procure a parsonage tarm. The orig- inal subscription reads thus :
" We hereunto subscribed inhabitants of Hopewell, in the county of Hunterdon, in the province of West Jersey, do promise and oblige ourselves, our execu- . tors and administrators, to pay or cause to be paid unto Nathaniel Moore, Philip Ringo, and Thomas Reed, their heirs, executors, administrators. or as- signs, or any one of them, the several sums of money that are to our names annexed, one-half at or before the 1st day of May next ensuing the date hereof, and the other half at or before the 1st day of May, in the year of our Lord 1731, the said money being in trust with the said Nathaniel Moore, Philip Ringo, and Thomas Reed, toward the purchasing of a plantation to be a dwelling-place at all times for such a gospel minister of the Presbyterian persuasion as shall be duly and regularly called by the major part of the in- habitants of Hopewell which compose the Presby- terian Society in that town, but to be enjoyed by such a minister no longer than he continues to be such a lawful and regular minister to that society, and when the relation between such minister and that society shall cease, then the said plantation shall re- turn to the said society to be a dwelling-place for the minister that shall next be regularly called, to dwell on as aforesaid, and if the subscribers shall judge meet that if there be above oue hundred acres pur-
founding of a Latin school." Aug. 15, 1739, Rev. Thomas Cowell, of Trenton, met the Hopewell people and drew up a call to Mr. Guild, to which the follow- iug persons signed their names :
" Nathaniel Hart, Edward Burrowes, Thomas Bur- rowes, Jr., Stephen Burrowes, Eden Burrowes, John Burrowes, Joseph Disbrow, John Titus, Nicholas Roberts, Jeremiah Burroughs, Andrew Smith, Ralph Smith, Philip Palmer, Thomas Burrowes, Ralph Hunt, Thomas Baldwin, Ralph Hunt, Henry Wool- sey, Edward Hart, Ephraim Titus, George Woolsey, Benjamin Temple, Edward Hunt, William Reed."
Mr. Guild wisely judged it best not to declare his acceptance immediately, but he at last accepted the call, and was ordained Nov. 11, 1741. Mr. Guild re- mained with the Maidenhead people until about 1766. In the minutes of the New Brunswick Presbytery for April 8, 1769, a tabular statement represents Mr. Guild as the pastor of the Hopewell Church, and Maidenhead is included among the vacant churches.
It was under Mr. Guild's ministry that the second church edifice for the Hopewell people was built
It is not improbable that this effort was the first step toward the purchase of the parsonage farm on the west side of the Scotch road, adjoining the land- of George Woolsey, Aaron Hart, and Stephen B. Smith, where for many years lived Revs. John
Shortly after Rev. Mr. Morgan began his minis- . upon the said plantation so purchased as above.
1 Sec history of the settlement of Lawreuce.
2 For a further account of the ministry of these pastors than appears here, and events preceding the installation of Rev. Mr. Orr, ser the bis- tory of the Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church, in the history of Law- rence township.
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Guild and Joseph Ruc, successively pastors of the His cpitaph, composed by Rev. John Woodhull, First Presbyterian Church of Hopewell. D.D., is as follows :
Before the ministry of Mr. Morgan closed the Trenton people worshiping in the two meeting- houses-the one in the country and the other in the city-were organized into a separate congregation.
Rev. John Guild was the fourth pastor. He was born in Wentham, Mass., in 1712, a son of John and Esther Guild.
At a meeting of the Presbytery, March 14, 1737-38, the "New Side" men asked the privilege of hearing Mr. James Davenport or some other minister for three months. The friends of Mr. Guild quietly yielded.
The church was commenced in 1765, and com- pleted in 1766, and dedicated by Rev. William Kirk- patrick. The pulpit, shaped like a wine-glass, and with sounding-boards above, was at the north side, between two windows. The doors were on the south side, and opened into the churchyard. A stceple surmounted the castern end. The aisles were paved with square brick, a few of which are yet to be seen in the south end of the sidewalk along the graveyard wall. Towards the erection of this building Reuben Armitage, Ralph Hart, Edward Hunt, and John Welling gave one hundred pounds each. The names of only thirty-four other contributors have been pre- served. The young men of the congregation (active among whom were Jonathan Bunn and John Muir- head) presented a bell, which was the first ever heard in the village. Moore Furman, of Trenton, gave the communion.table ; Charles Cox, of Kingwood, Hun- terdon Co., a silk damask cushion for the pulpit. The building committee were Noah Hunt, Edward Hunt, and Jeremiah Woolsey. William Worth, of Lawrence, was the chief mason, and Alexander Biles and Josiah Beakes the carpenters.
After the union of the two branches of the church, Rev. Mr. Guild was transferred to the Presbytery of New Brunswick. For more than a century Mr. Guild has not been without a representative from his own children and descendants on the communion-roll of the Pennington Church, and in 1876 thirty-four of his descendants by blood were in the communion of this body.
He had his share in the alarm caused by the French and Indian war. In the Revolution he was hated as a true patriot, and was obliged to escape, in company with his children, to Bucks County, Pa., while the enemy were roaming through forest and field and keeping possession of his desecrated church. British soldiers entered his house and destroyed his books and papers. He died July 10, 1787, and his funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Ralph Stan- hope Smith, D.D., president of the College of New Jersey. He was buried beneath the brick church, then standing, under the chancel, in front of the pulpit. The taking down of the church left the marble slab which covers his grave exposed to view.
" In memory of the REV. JOHN GUILD,
Pastor of this congregation 47 years, who departed this life July 10, 1787, Aged 75 years."
Rev. Joseph Rue, the fifth pastor, was a son of Joseph and Sarah Rue, born June 19, 1751, in Free- hold, N. J. His paternal ancestor (La Rue being the original name) was one of the Huguenots who fled from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The pastor of his childhood and youth was Rev. Wil- liam Tennent, for whom he had a warm affection. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1776, and began his theological studies with his pastor.
June 15, 1784, having preached a trial sermon at Pennington, he was ordained as an evangelist.
April 25, 1785, at the time of the dissolution of Mr. Guild's relation with the Pennington Church, a call'was laid before the Presbytery for the pastoral services of Mr. Rue. In the absence of records to conclusively prove such to be the fact, it is reasonably supposed that Mr. Rue was installed as pastor of this church at a meeting of the Presbytery at Pennington, Oct. 19, 1785. From this date Mr. Rue gave his full time to the Pennington congregation until his death, April 15, 1826. The kindness of the Presbytery of New Brunswick in sending ministers to supply Mr. Rue's | pulpit gratuitously for about two years after he had been laid aside by disability, both physical and men - tal, and for six months after his death, that the salary might inure to his afflicted family, is worthy of special note.
The records of the Presbytery show that during the last twenty-five years of its continuance (1801-26) there had been accessions of two hundred and fifty to the communion-roll by profession. Mr. Rue left a widow ( Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Liscomb!, two sons, and two daughters. The widow and daugh- ters remained in connection with this church to the close of life, and their dust lies in the Pennington churchyard, side by side with that of their venerated ; husband and father. On the memorial stone which covers Mr. Rue's remains is engraved the following epitaph, composed by Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., of Princeton, N. J .:
" This Marble Covers the mortal remains of the Reverend JOSEPH RUE. For forty-one years The active and useful Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Pennington, New Jersey. An affectionate Husband, A Kind Parent, a firm Patriot, And as a Christian Minister Pious, faithful Successful and beloved. Hle departed this life April 15, 1826, In the 75th year of his age."
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The sixth pastor was Rev. Benjamin Ogden, son of
The old briek church was taken down in 1847. and Jolin and Abigail ( Bennett ) Ogden. He was born in in 1847-4S a stately Gothic structure, in the style of Fairfield, N. J., Oet. 4, 1797. He graduated at Prince- . ton in 1817, and was one of the subjects of the work of grace which occurred under Dr. Green's presidency. . He prepared for the ministry at the Theological Sem- inary at Princeton, and was licensed as a probationer by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in April, 1821, and ordained in June, 1822, at Bensalem, Bucks Co., Pa., where he labored a year and a half as missionary. Nov. 28, 1826, he was transferred to the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and a call from this church was placed in his hands, which he accepted, and he was installed December 5th following. In 1834 the church was enlarged by the addition of cighteen feet to the west end. March 5, 1834, the first steps were taken towards erecting a house of worship in the western . subscribed one thousand dollars each, and that after- part of the township, at Titusville, for Sunday after- noon services, which was completed in 1839. the eleventh century, was erected. It was in imita- tion of brown freestone, all the old material on the ground being used as a matter of economy. The building cost the congregation only ten thousand dollars, but such an one could not now be crected for three or four times that sum. The corner-stone was laid May 5, 1847, and the church was dedicated Aug. 10, 1848. Jan. 25, 1874, this edifice was de- stroyed by fire. The musical instruments, the old and new communion-tables, the pulpit chairs, old and new, with the old pulpit-cushion of 1766, and the Bibles were saved. On the following Wednesday it was unanimously resolved to rebuild at once. George Woolsey. John Smith Hunt, and Joseph A. Frisbie noon a subscription of fifteen thousand dollars gave assurance that the work would be done. The corner- During Mr. Ogden's ministry one hundred and eighty-six persons were received upon profession of their faith. On its completion he removed to Val- paraiso, Ind., where he died Jan. 11, 1853. He was married to Emily T. Sansbury, Oct. 15, 1821. stone of the new church was laid May 5. 1874, on the twenty-seventh anniversary of the laying of the cor- ner-stone of the church just burned down. Until its completion the congregation worshiped in the public school-house Sunday mornings, and held a joint meet- ing with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the even- ing. The cost of the present church was twenty-seven thousand dollars, all of which was pledged previous to its dedication by Rev. Joseph T. Duryea, of Brook- lyn, N. Y .. Jan. 14, 1875, the pastor, Dr. Samuel MI. Hamill, of Lawrenceville, and others taking part in the exercises.
Rev. George Hale, D.D., the seventh pastor, was born in New York State, and graduated from Wil- liams College in 1831, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1838. His call to this pastoral charge was signed Jan. 2, 1839, by the ruling elders and trus- tees, all of whom are now dead. They were as fol- lows : Aaron Hart, Charles Welling, Isaac Welling, Joseph Titus, Joab Titus, Enos Titus, Edmund Rob- erts, Theophilus Furman, Enoch Ketcham, Nathaniel R. Titus, and John Hoff, elders, and Joseph Titus, Aaron Hart, James Stevenson, Charles Welling, Gar- ret J. Schenck, Andrew Titus, and C. L. Wynkoop, trustees.
Mr. Hale's pastorate was prolific of increase to the church, brought about by revivals in the winters of 1841-42, 1846-47, 1847-48, 1857-58, 1865-66, and 1866 -67. As a general result, five hundred and thirteen _ were added on profession and one hundred and twenty- seven by certificate. The revival of 1841-42 paved the way for the organization of the Titusville Church in 1844.
Nov. 18, 1863, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day upon which he began his regular labors with this people, he preached a quarter-century sermon, in which he made an interesting review of his pastor- ate to that time, and of the general progress of the community in its spiritual, educational, literary, and material interests.
tary of the fund for disabled ministers and their fam- ilies, vice Rev. Joseph H. Jones, D.D., deceased. Hc accepted the appointment, and his relation with the Pennington Church was dissolved, to take effect March 7, 1869.
The eighth and present pastor, Rev. Daniel Requa Foster, was born Sept. 22, 1838, at Patterson, Putnani Co., N. Y., the son of Edmund and Eliza Foster; re- ceived into full communion of the church in January, 1849; prepared for college at Peekskill Academy, and took the degree of A.B. at the College of New Jersey in 1863, and that of A.M. in 1866; was licensed as a probationer for the gospel ministry by the Presbytery of Connecticut, at Bridgeport, April 24, 1866, and en- tered upon his duties as pastor-elect of the Presbyte- rian Church of Phelps, N. Y., June 1, 1866. He was ordained and installed as pastor of that church July 29, 1866, by the Presbytery of Rochester, N. Y. June 25, 1868, he married Miss Anna Evans Steward, of Trenton. In October, 1869, his pastoral relation to the church of Phelps, N. Y., was dissolved, and he en- tered on his ministerial duties at Pennington in Oc- tober, 1870, and was installed pastor April 17, 1871, by a committee of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Rev. James B. Kennedy presiding and preaching, Rev. A. Gosman, D.D., giving the charge to the pastor, and Rev. Dr. George Hale, the previous pas- ate of Rev. Mr. Foster has been a successful one, marked by frequent acce-sions to the numbers of the congregation as the result of revival etforts. The membership of the church is four hundred and fif- teen. The following are the present elders and trus-
Feb. 11, 1869, Rev. Dr. Hale was elected by the trustees of the General Assembly of the church secre- . tor, delivering the charge to the people. The pastor-
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tees : William H. Muirhead, Henry B. Perrine, Jo- seph P. Blackwell, Samuel B. Ketcham. David B. Burd, and Reuben Titus, elders ; John E. Burd, Wil- liam H. Muirhead, Henry B. Perrine, Henry Black- well, Archibald Updike, Samuel B. Ketcham, Daniel C. Titus, and John P. Hart, trustees.
The Young Men's Christian Association, which is connected with this church, was organized Feb. 20, 1871. It is officered as follows: Alvin Blackwell, president ; George Clendenning, vice-president ; S. H. Titus, secretary ; Charles M. Titus, treasurer.
The "New Side" Presbyterian Church of Maid- enhead and Hopewell.1-A mile west of Pennington is a graveyard, on which once stood a Presbyterian Church, and where a Presbyterian minister lies buried. : He was afterwards convinced of his errors, and often This was the site of the " New Side" house of wor- ship of the congregation of Maidenhead and Hope- nection with the church was formally severed humil- well. It embraces an acre of ground, which was conveyed to ten trustees for the sum of £4, Oct. 11, 1763. A house of worship had been built on it, as is supposed, about 1744. About the time of the Revolu- tion this house began to be used as a preaching-place by Methodist ministers of the Trenton Circuit, and the ground had been appropriated for burial purposes. The house was taken down in 1826, at the time of the erection of the first Methodist Episcopal Church in Pennington. The only relic of it remaining is a sun- dial on the south side of the Methodist Episcopal Conference Seminary of New Jersey at Pennington.
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