History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 110

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830

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The Circuit Judge. ~ This paper was started by Mr. Whitley after the suspension of the (facette, and "families in Jersey City and Hudson County. Its run but a few weeks, when it died.

The Hoboken City Standard. - This paper was first issued Oct. 9, 1856. with P. M. Reynolds as editor.

The American Standard arose from the ashes of the Daily Telegraph Ang. 8, 1859, and was published by Metz & Brother as a daily till Det. 14, 1859, when it was purchased by John HI. Lyon.

The People's Advocate was a daily paper, estab- lished by John C. Clark & Co., of Jersey City, and subsequently was merged in the Jersey City Times.

The Jersey City News was established in 1854 by Daniel E. Gavitt as a weekly, who continued its pub- lication one year, when the paper died.

The Jersey City Herald was issued as a weekly July 19, 1864, by Hugh Me Dermott. It subsequently was merged with the Hudson City Gazette.

The Evening Journal daily , the best known and most widely circulated newspaper in Hudson County, and with a much larger circulation than any other daily newspaper printed and published in the State of New Jer cy , was origin aby estal lished by its present editor- in-chief, Maj. %. K. Pangborn, the first number of the paper being is ued May 2, 1867. It is now owne land published by the Evening Journal Association, a stock company which is controlled by Mr. Pangborn and Mr. Joseph A. Dear, the business manager and treas- urer of the association, who are also the sole pro- prietors of the extensive book and general job print- ing establishment doing business under the name and title of the Jersey City Printing Company. When the Ecen'ng Journal was first issued, Mr. Panghorn associated with himself in its publication, C'apt. Wm. B. Dunning, a practical printer, who had considerable experience in the newspaper publishing business. Eighteen months later Messrs. Pangborn & Dunning soll an interest in the Evening Journal to Mr. Joseph 1. Dear, and until 1877, and a short time prior to the death of Mr. Dunning, the publishing firm was Pangborn, Punnig & Dear. The firm was then ( Issolved and the property was transferred to the Evening Journal Association. The general business

department have, during the entire period since his

The Jersey City Courier was first issued Aug. 1, entrance into the firm, been chiefly in the hands of Mr. Dear, while the editorial control of the newspaper has remained with Maj. Pangborn. The career of the Evening Journal has been one of marked, almost un- equaled. prosperity. Its daily circulation, now aver- aging more than ten thousand copies, is greater than that of any other daily newspaper in New Jersey, and more than double that of all the other news- papers published in Hudson County.

It has been from the first condneted on the strictest cash basis, no credit being given in any instance in the sale of copies of the paper. Five regular editions of the Evening Journal are published daily, and the paper is taken in nearly all the most respectable columns are largely devoted to the giving of local news, and this has secured for the Journal popularity and general circulation. The pecuniary success of the enterprise enabled the proprietors of the newspaper to build for their use a large and commodious print- ing-office, which was completed in 1874, and is prob- ably the most extensive and best-equipped printing establishment in New Jersey. It is located at 37 Montgomery Street in close proximity to the river front opposite Cortlandt Street, in the city of New York. The several daily editions of the Evening Journal are printed on the first completed perfecting press which was over successfully used, all the processes of print- ing, cutting and folding being automatically performed with great rapidity. This style of press is now in general use in those daily newspaper establishments where large and frequent daily editions are issued, but the Kerning Journal of Jersey City has the dis- tinetion of being the first newspaper in the workl that was printed on this mest perfect of all printing presses. The beginning of the enterprise of publish- ing the Evening Journal was comparatively humble ; its proprietors had little capital, and few besides themselves believed it could or would prove a finan- cial success. It had at that time two established daily papers in Jersey t'ity as competitors with itself for the patronage of the public; yet in less than a year from the date of its first issue it had secured a regular daily circulation exceeding that of both its rivals, and its growth has since been steady and its prosperity unchecked, until it is now practically without any competitor in journalism in Hudson County. Its marked success is largely due to the energy and tact of the business manager, Mr. Dear, and to the fact that its editorial control has always remained in the hands of Mr. Pangborn, who has always taken care to secure the assistance of a full, competent and well-paid corps of reporters. Under this management the Evening Journal has become conspicuous as the best and most reliable newspaper in the city or county, and has at- tained a special popularity as a purveyor of localnews. Its large and secure circulation has gained for it

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a patronage of great value and the merchants and employed in the work of the Jersey City Print- business men of New York City use its columns ing Company, the job printing establishment of the Journ I, about fifty men. The route-owner -. Journal number upwards of two hundred and fifty for advertising purposes as freely as they do those of the New York City daily papers. The proprie- carrier and newways connected with the Limit tors of the Journal have never spored cith r expendi- ture of money or labor in their efforts to make it a first- class and a deservedly populair daily newspaper ; the result is an ample oud gratifying vindication of the energy and liberality of their conduct of the enter- prise.

In politics the Leaning Journal is, and ever has been, the pronounced and vigorous alvaate of Re- publican principles and the general policy of the Republican party. It has supported and advocated the election of the national and State candidate of that party. In city politics and local elections, however, it has often waived considerations of national an I State politics, and aided the election of local officers without regard to their political affiliations. It gave the earliest and most energetic support to the Citizens Association in its efforts to reform the administration of the city government of Jersey City. While dis- tinetly and positively Republican, the Evening Journal has been noted for its independence and its progres- sive spirit and action within its own party. It has always been foremost and uncompromising in urging whatever its editor deems to, by in the loss of a pro- gressive Republican policy. It was the pioneer in New Jersey of the movement for granting the right of suffrage to the colored citizens of this State; the initial number of the Evening Journal, May 2, 1867. contained the call, written by the e liter, for the first State convention ever held for the purpose of de- manding equal civil politied right. for the e lored man. The Er ning Journ il is never neutral or with- out opinions on any subject of public importance of interest, and its edit oral utterances are of an explicit and positive character It never cater- for popular favor by pandering to the wishes or schemes of the baser elements in the community, and is known as the uncompromising foe of whatever it deems to be a sham. or fraudulent or immoral, and as the carnest advocate of whatever will benefit the community in which it is published.

In pursuance of the plan of its founder to make the Evening Journal a newspaper of special interest anıl value as a diss .minator of news of a local charge- ter, the reportoral corps of the paper is always ample, and it is the aim of the editors and rejerters to make the Journal a complete and accurate daily chronicler of all current local events. The working force employed in the newspaper office is usually forty to fifty. At the present date (November, last) Mr. Frederic W. Pangboru is the first assistant or managing editor, and Mr. C. H. Benson city editor. The Journal is supplied with all the news collected and furnished by the New York Associated Press simultaneously with its transmission to the New York evening daily papers. There are usually

7 .. K. PANGBORN -Zelina Kobber Pangborn, al itor-in-chief of the Jersey City daily 1 . ny Journal was born July 31, 1x29, at Per ham, Vt His father was a physician and sargon ot considerable eminence in his profission, a I was of scott shi descent. The subject of this sketch after leaving the common school had the advantages of an academic training and pre- paration for a collegiate course at the Black River In- stitute, at Watert wn. N. Y., and at the se. demy at Malone, S. Y., and was also a private pupil of Res. James Millar, formerly s praeser in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. The death of his mother when he was thirteen years of age gave young Pang- born an vorly incentive and opper unity for selt-exer- tion, and he commenced h's care ras a school-tea her in the winter after his fourteenth birthday, and in the nine years succeeding he taught in schools in New York and Vermont, during portioas, or the wh de, of these years attaining distinction as a excesful and popular instructor. At the age of seventeen he entered the freshman class in the University of Vermont, at Burlington, and gr doated with the class in 1850, taking the highest rank In scholarship and the class honors. He earned, by teaching school and by literary work, his own support during his cologiate course, and on leaving college, at the age of twenty- one he possessed no capital except his education. He was offered the position of tutor in the University, but decline I it, and accepted the position of principal of the Lamoille County Grammar School, which in the two sureceding years, under his charge became one of the largest and most popular aca lemie schools in Vermont. While in college Mr. l'angoorn was occasionally em- ployed as a writer and reporter on the Daily Srlel, a newspaper at Burlington, and there acquired th. inclination for journalism which, perhaps, finally deter- mined his choice of a profession for life. In Isil. while at the head of the institution above referred to, he commenced the publication of a monthly educa- tional journal, called The Teacher's Voice, the first pub- lication of the kind ever issued in Vermont. Its publication was continued two years. It was popular and attained a fair circulation, chicfly among the teachers of the Sate, but it w.s not peruntarily n shecess, -- it was in advance of the times, educationally Mr. Pangborn removed to St Albur-, Vt., and taught the academy at that place ohe your, and during that period was also one of the editors of the Vermont Tribune, a weekly newspaper, e ablished ns the first distinctive Republican newspaper in Vermont. In the spring of 1556, Mr. Pangborn assumed the editorial management of the Worcester Daily Transcript, at Worcester, Mass., and eight months Inter accepte I an

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ffer of the place of editor-in-chief of the Boston Daily Bee, which soon after was consolidated with the Boston Daily Atlas, the old Whig organ of Boston, and the newspaper was thereafter published as the Boston Daily Atlas and Bee. Mr. Pangborn remained its editor until the summer of 1861. Before the outbreak of the great Rebellion the period of Mr. Pangborn's . ditorial work in Boston was one of the most exciting in the political history of the country, and he took a very active part, both with his peu as an editor and as a political speaker "on the stump." He was con- spicuous in the Fremont campaign of 1856 as an ad- vocate of the election of Fremont and Dayton, and in the following year in the State canvass which resulted in the clertion of Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks as Gov- ernor and in the defeat of Governor Henry J. Gardner for re-election, and the final disbanding of the Amer- ican, or "Know-Nothing" party in Massachusetts. 1s a political stump speaker Maj. Panghorn soon be- came well-known and popular, and he has actively participated in all the Presidential contests since 1852, except that of 1864, as an advocate of the election of the Republican candidates. He has addressed many hundreds of political meetings, in all the New Eng- land States, and in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Indiana. His services as a public speaker have always been in demand by the National Republican Com- muttee. He has been four times a delegate and three times an alternate delegate in the National Con- ventions of the Republican party, and was for several years a member of the State Committee of the Repub- lican party of New Jersey. In 1861, Mr. Pangborn accepted the position of paymaster of volunteers in the army, and served acceptably in Virginia, South Carolina and Florida. A short time before the con- clusion of the war of the Rebellion, in 18, Maj. Pangborn accepted the editorship of the Jersey City Daily Times, a Republican newspaper established by an association of Republicans of Jersey City at that time. The Times in a few months, under Maj. Pang- born's editorial management, attained a circulation of more than twenty-five hundred, but it was not wisely managed in the publication department, and was sold to tren. E. Jardine, who continued its publication. Maj. Pangborn resigned the editorial eare of the Times in the autumn of 1866, and in May, 1867, he commenced the publication of the daily Evening Journal, a sketch history of which is given elsewhere in this volume. Maj. Pangborn is one of the two proprietors of this eminently successful daily newspaper, and its editor- in-chief, and gives his personal attention to its man- agement. He las always kopt the Evening Journal on The most advanced and positive line of progre sive Republicanism, and made it recognized as one of the lewling and influential organs of Republican opinion in the State of New Jersey. But he has never allowed the political department of the Evening Journal to over hadow or cause to be neglected the more impor-

tant department of news gathering and news dissem- inating. The best test of the popularity which the Erening Journal has attained under Maj. Pangboru's direction is the fact that although it is published in a community which is overwhelmingly Democratic. it has been so successful that it is practically without any competitor, or rival, in the field of journalism in Hudson County. Maj. Pangborn has never been an office-seeker, preferring his position, independence and opportunities as an editor to any position which his party might offer him. He has been twiee mar- ried .- first, in 1853, to Miss Harriet Wood, of Malone, N. Y .; the s ond time, in 1>8), to his present wife. Miss Georgiana L. Walton, of Boston. Ile has two children living, both by his first wife, Frederic W. and Harry L .; the chest of these is the managing editor of the Evening Journal.

Jersey City Times was first issued as a daily paper Sept. 14, 1864, with Z. K. Pangborn as editor. Nov. 8, 1873, the paper was changed to a weekly, and soon after its publication was suspended.

The Hudson City Gazette was established in March, 1867, with William D. McGregor as editor. and subsequently merged with the Jersey City Herald.

Jersey City Chronicle was a semi-weekly paper, first issued Feb. 14, 1863, by Davidsom & Colston, and Aug. 24, 1864, was merged with the Jersey City Times.

The Hudson County Volksblatt, a weekly paper, was established in 1868, in Hudson City, by Deitz & Tirum.

The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, a weekly paper, was first issued Dec. 25, 1869, with Roswell Graves as editor. The office was removed from Greenville to Bergen Point.

The Hudson County Journal. a German (weekly) paper, published in Hoboken by Rabe and Bayer, the first issue of which made its appearance Dec. 19, 1868. It was subsequently published by Bayer & Kaufmann.

Jersey City Herald and Gazette is a weekly pub- lication, established in 1870 by MeDermott & Medire- gor as the result of the merging of the Jersey City Herald and the Hudson City Gianet".

Hudson County Register was issued first, July 23, 1870, as a weekly paper, at West Hoboken, by Peter Y. Everett as editor.

Palisade News was established, Aug. 6, 1870, at West Hoboken, by Alfred E. Gregory, who is still the publisher and editor. It is a weekly paper, inde- pendent in politics, and has a large circulation.

Bayonne Times was established at Bergen Point in August, 1870, under the name of Hudson County Times, by the Times Printing Company of Jersey City, and subsequently sold to Edward Gardner, the present publisher, with his son, Bloom Gardner, as editor.

Die Wacht am Hudson. a weekly paper, was estab- lished in 1871, in Jersey City, by the Hudson County tierman Publishing Association.

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Highland Sentinel, a weekly publication was first Ialle | March 29, 1973, at West Hoboken, with Joseph Paul Buzie as e litor.

Hudson County Independent was established as a weekly May 9, 1573, by Angu. tus O. Evans, at Hobo- ken, and was discontinued after a few numbers had been

Dispatch, a weekly paper, was established at East Newark, in 1575, by Trelense, Simonds & th.

The Evening Palisades was a daily publication. established June 30, 1873, at West Hoboken, by the Palisades Publishing Company.

CHAPTER XXXI.

EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF HUDSON COUNTY .!

Tur earliest settlement by Europeans in the State of New Jersey was within the present Junits of Ill- sin tousty. At the incorporated town of Bergen were organized the first court the first church and the first school in the State. That part of Jersey City amain | Ber ren Square still shows the plan of the ancient town, and a schoof building now stands where the first log school-house was created by the enterprising people who went over from New Amster- dam to cultivate the land " behind Communepah." When the State was divided into connties the greater part of what is now Hudsom County was known as Bergen township, in Bergen County, and it was not wntd 1549 that Hudson County was set off frem Ber- gen 'inty by act of the Legislature. Since its incor- poration many changes have 'men made, both in its boundaries and In ts political divisions, and in 1984 there was in Hudson County three cities (Jersey ('itv, Hoboken and Basong"), three towns ( Harriso Union and truttenberg) and five townships (North Bergen, Woawken, Cuiun, West Hoboken and Kearny The former townships of Van Vorst and Greenvill. and the cities of Bergen and Hudson have been added to Jersey City. Under the State school law the confits was divided, in April, 1871, into seventeen - hood districts, and there are now sixteen of those distri cts, Greenville, which was District No. 14, having been annexed to Jersey City in 1873. These districts are as follows : Nos. I to 5 inclusive, in North Ber- ren ; No. 6, town of Union ; Vo. 7, Weehawken ; \n. s. Guttenberg ; Nos. 9 and 1), township of Union ; No. 11, West Hoboken; No. 12, Hoboken; No. 13. Jersey City; No. 15, Bayonne; No. 16, Harrison ; No. 17, Kearnv.

Bergen. The carly recor Is show that on Aug. If. 16 00, the director-general and Couned of New Nether- land granted a petition isking " for permission 'to

begin' to cultivat farn - and plantation- on the west side of the river, behind Communepah, and 'to make a village or concentration.' " Pursuant to this consent Bergen was laid out and setthe 1.

A church and a school were very soon organized. and the first school master employed as carly 2- 1642. was Engelbert Steenbuysen. Regarding Fim, Mr. Winfield says, in his " History of Hudson t nuty," " He was a tailor by trade, and came from Soest, the second city in Westphalia; arrived at Now Ameter- dam, . . . April 25, 1659, paying for his fire and freight thirty-six florin -. " He was license ! Det. 6, 1662, which is probably very near y the date of the opening of the first school in the State of New Jersey. During the following year a controversy arme Jn tween him and the authorities about the payment of taxes, and the following memorial, dated Dee. 17 1664, was presented to the Governor-thural and Council of New Netherland. It contains so much information regarding the manner in which local atlairs were all- ministered at that early day that an account of this contest is inserted in this sketch .

" Shew rever ntly thether ff and con mimaries of fle villeof Bergen when they presume is known to your Il me that If ( el IN' favored with the nj pw motment f& lerk Iver wer which iat the summe time krep schuci, to instruct the youth, th preren the cibert und commitencie. men a year past, progemed it & the munity, wie then i prosadit, wir bel tiengage him n & olyan sk ler but with the capr stipulation toint he, besides th - Innrti u, was t. he pa hal, which the aforeand at enlingen agreed to , and did dining five quarters of n year, for which wue all wel him f % Iu -a- want annually, lesider mane other stipulations besides the whi | m ). M1 a reason and equity hall d mand. Now, an is the aforezuid Engelbert Sternhaveen, whereas he has a lot und house and . du le form, Mounted in the jarisla tion of the village of Bergen, in, Is the c m- filmint of a mas rity of the community, obliged, with the other iulinh t unta, topraile for the mustanan " of a wildier, by which the af and

bin offer, pretending that a et hootmaster and lerk ought to levent from all taxes and borthe ne of the y ing ., whi hh rays - the room n proti a through the whole Christian world, which is the Geriff and comuni aries le umph exul that only that can take plu wh rou ha

ha quality as clerk coucher, but even tol k cutand ph me a propos and cons ment place t keep & hond, w h he thus far nell-tel. and protocols at the community must effe I this, so that he muss keep him bowl in it. They cannot perce so how 1 ; Wert St nhar can

wharf, but Iy , men . when anche ner hp con fa hi um and bat and double farm , that he in an h a cure should pay of the from his lot and lands, atud the immunity at large in of the pit

s half year lefaro ; wherefore the -app leststa nulfrem tine -let your Honors bundy a li Hing them to inst ust . to the a od F gellert Starplassen to continue in his service this me und ver, and to de lare if the aformaal Fogeffort steenhayen kor in told gel la fin oma. mon fal tand form, to pros de in the malate ape of a - b-r. w well ny the other i ibalatents. "

The parties interested in the above memorial were summoned before the t'ouncil aod heard at length. and Steenhuysen was commanded to serve his tine according to his contract. From this communication it appears that the school-house was not yet built. Une was, however, shortly afterwards constructed on the lot where the school-house now is. It was built

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of1 gg -. The Cofarolda Academy was erected on the some lot in 1790, and tak n down in 1857 to make room for the present structure. situated on the east side of Bergen Square, and known as school building No. 11. As was customary in all new settlements, the school-house was used for the holding of religious services until 1680, when a meeting-house was erected. No settled pastor for the congregation was procured for several years, and to the duties of school-master were added those of clerk. A traveler visiting Ber- geo in 1679 wrote that the people had "agreal with the minister of the city to administer the Lord's Sup- per three times a year, for which he receives thirty hush.l- or fifteen bags of wheat. This service he per- forms on week-days because he cannot be absent from the city on Sundays, where he is the only minister."

For many years the church and the school were deoly connected, and were sustained by taxes levied upon all the inhabitants. In the charter granted September, 1668, by Sir Philip Carteret to the town of Bergen, it was provided,

.ithly. That the Frecholders aforesaid, or the Major part of them, have Power to have their ou a Minister for the preaching of the world of Gi-1, and the Administering His Holy Sacraments, and being an ch men, all persons, as well the Freeholders as the Inhabitants are to c voilte according to their estates and pre portions of land for his main- tu nce, er Lay out such a proportion of Land for the Minister, and the Keeping of a Free School for the Education of Youth, as they shall think fi, which land being once Innl ut is not to be alienated, but t) R min and tinge forever fr un one incumbent to another, Free from Paying aty hy . Rent. r any other Rate or Taxes whatsoever, notwith- "funding it shall and may be lawful for any particular person or persones t. Kep and Maintain any other Minister at their own Proper Cost and ( arges."

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 110

Author: Shaw, William H Publication date: 1884 Publisher: [United States :] Number of Pages: 830

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830