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In 1850, Mr. Deats bought the very desirable prop- erty at Pittstown where he now lives. Upon this property stood an old house and barn which were there during the Revolutionary war, the barn being then used as a government store-house, and the house, it is said, was that at which Gen. Washington stopped for a time on his return with a portion of his army from Morristown, after their hard winter there. The present house is partly on the old site, and three long stones used as steps to the old house are now used at the entrance to the yard.
Mr. Deats is known, and has been for half a een- tury, as one of the most busy mechanics in this see-
tion of the country, devoting more hours to work and business than most of his contemporaries. He is now, though on the shady side of seventy, engaged in his general business, in superintending improvements on his farm near Flemington, and in the erection of a large brick building in the village,-interests which require his constant care and attention.
Mr. Deats married, first, Nov. 10, 1838, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan Higgins, of Hillsborough, Som- erset Co. She was born June 26, 1820, and died Ang. 6, 1862. Four children were the fruit of this mar- riage, three sons and one daughter, of whom only the latter survives. Their names and dates of birth are as follows: Jonathan II. Deats, born Nov. 8, 1840, died Aug. 16, 1850; Emly Ogden Deats, born Sept. 13, 1842, died Oct. 31, 1866; Lemuel Madison Deats, born June 23, 1845, died July 26, 1879; Rebecca Julia Deats, born Oct. 11, 1848.
Mr. Deats married, for his second wife, Elmira Stevenson, of La Salle Co., Ill., by whom he has one son, Hiram E., born May 20, 1870.
LEBANON.
GEOGRAPHIEICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
THIS is the extreme northern township of Hunter- don County, and is bounded northeast by Morris County ; southeast by Tewksbury and High Bridge townships ; southwest by Bethlehem township; north- west by Warren County. The Musconeteong Creek is the dividing line between this township and War- ren County.
NATURAL FEATURES.
The surface is quite uneven, rising at some points several hundred feet above tide-water. A ridge of the Musconeteong Mountains runs nearly east and west across the township, forming the divide, the waters on the south falling into Spruce Run, while those on the north empty into the Musconetcong Creek.
The principal stream is Spruce Run. It rises in School District No. 1, a little above Anthonytown, flowing sonthwesterly, westerly through the centre of township, and southerly, breaking through the moun- tain at Eilen Gardner and Clarksville. The South Branch of the Raritan is the dividing line between this township and Tewksbury.
The soil is, as a rule, susceptible of a high state of cultivation, especially along the Musconetcong, Spruce . Run, and Raritan River.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
Among the pioneers was Abraham Banghart, better known as " Uncle Abram." He lived on the land pur-
chased by his father in 1765. His grandfather eame from Rhinebeck, Germany, and hired out as a team- ster with Allen & Turner at Solitude Forge. His son George purchased 300 acres of William, Richard, and Daniel Coxe, of Burlington, and built a log house on the same spot where " Unele Abram" lived and died, in School District No. 7. George married Abraham Van Buskirk's daughter, who lived on the farm now occupied by Samnel Apgar. Thomas Van Buskirk lived where the late James Force lived and died. Frederick Fritts lived near the Lutheran church, and Jacob Lernenger at what is now "White Hall." These, with others living at quite a distance, united in building the Lutheran church at Spruce Run, about 1795.
"Uncle Abram" used to say that his father, though a lending church-member, would attend parties and was the usual fiddler at dances. Spinning-frolics, which were very common, always wound up with a dance and "going home with the girls in the morn- ing."
In those days wild turkeys were quite often seen in this vicinity, and as late as 1820 deer were very plenty in Lebanon township.
James Force was one of the pioneer settlers, near what is now Glen Gardner. His grandfather, Wil- liam Force, in company with two brothers, came from England. He married a Miss Wolliver, whose father was from Rhinebeck, Germany. Thomas Force Was
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a millwright, and settled at Rowland's Mills over a hundred years ago.
Among other pioneers near the Spruce Run Lu- theran church were Mathias Castner, Morris Fritts, Leonard Hipp, Thomas Foss, Philip Crater, William Fritts, Jacob Terreberry, Jacob Lunger, Andrew Banghart, John Banghart, Thomas Banghart, Isaac Hildebrant, and William Taylor, all of whose de- scendants live on the old homestead or in the vicinity.
In what is now School District No. 5, where the old homesteads are nearly or quite all occupied by those of a direct line of descendants, there located the Castner family,-Daniel, Jacob S., and Crazy Jake,-Joseph Foss, Joseph Thomas, Samuel Wea- ver, William F. Fritts, George Ackerman, and Thomas Aston. In District No. 4 there were Peter Castner, William R. Prall, and J. Stearns, son of Abram ; in No. 8 Richard Rounsavall (where S. Shep- herd now lives), Joseph Johnson, Joseph L. Bowlby, David Parks, and Jacob Johnson.
In School District No. 2 the Hicksonbough, Backer, Huffman, Erts, and Lance families represent the pioneers.
The pioneers of School District No. 3 were George and Matthias Trimmer. One of Matthias Trimmer's sons now occupies the old homestead on which his father located over one hundred years ago. The Neighbours and Huffmans were also among the pio- neers in the southeast part of the township.
White Hall District was settled about 1765 by Jacob Lenenger, Stoffle Hildebrant, George Fritts, John P. Lance, John Apgar, Paul Anthony, Christo- pher Tiger, and John Anderson.
June 10, 1772, Samuel Johnson and Mary, his wife, sold 125 acres to " Peter Van Boskerk," covering the farm now owned by John Eveland, the hotel property of E. Humphrey, and other lots in the village of Glen Gardner. The same land was sold to the grandfather of John Eveland by Van Buskirk.
GIIOST STORY.
Among the old stories best remembered in this locality is that of the Morristown ghost. Tom Bang- hart says that some men from this locality were among the victims. In 1788 one Rausford Rogers, a school-teacher from Connecticut, professing a deep knowledge of chemistry, pretended that it gave him power of raising good and dispelling evil spirits, and through them of finding hidden treasure. A tradi- tion was then current that immense sums of money lay buried at Schooley's Mountain. Rogers, taking advantage of this, formed a company and held secret meetings at midnight, drawing dupes into a " charmed circle" and performing incantations too various to mention. The whole upper part of Hunterdon County was excited over the matter, and numbers believed in it till the chief actor, getting drunk, revealed him- self, a ghost of flesh and blood, and was sent to jail.
There are many versions of this matter, but these are the main facts.
EXTRACTS FROM PIONEER RECORDS.
" LEBANON, March 17, 1734 .- Election of officers : Schooley and Hollo- way, Freeholders; Samuel Schooley, George Malloat, Overseers of the Poor; John Moore, Assessor ; Abraham MeDaniele, Collector; Edward Barber, Gasper Headershott, Commissioners of Highwaya; Lawrence Howleson, Jacob Angell, Overseers of Highways; James McGraden, Constable. .
"May, 1734 .- Upoa the petition of divers of Inhabitants of the towa of Lebanon setting forth that William Phillips of the sd towa retaile liquors hy small measure and keeps a disorderly House, & it appearing to this Court that the ed Wm. Phillips has no Lycence granted him to keep a Publiek House of Entertainment, it's ordered by the Court that Justice Martin Ryerson & Justice Joha Vaa Sickle do inquire iato the Truth of the allegation of the said Petition; & if the said justices aball think it conveniont, they may suppress the said Publiek House & order the ad Wm. Phillips to Retail no more strong liquors hy small measures."
CIVIL HISTORY.
For lack of township records we are unable to give civil officers of this township prior to 1841. Those who have served since that date are :
TOWN CLERKS.
1841-42, Andrew Banghart; 1843-45, James Madison Johaston ; 1846-17, Peter A. Beavers; 1848-49, Morris F. Martedis; 1850-51, David H. Banghart ; 1852, George Beavers ; 1853, 1864-65, Nelson Read ; 1854- 56, Ambrose Fritts; 1857-58, Michael Bangbart; 1859-60, Elias Fritte; 1861-63, George Banghart; 1866, Stewart F. Bell; 1867-68, Abraham S. Banghart ; 1869-70, Mansfield H. Beatty; 1871, Christo- pher Martenis; 1872-73, John H. Parkinson ; 1874-76, William V. Prall; 1877-78, Jacob N. Miller; 1879-80, Eugone Eveland.
ASSESSORS.
I841, Benjamin Fritts; 1842-43, 1848-49, William R. Prall ; 1844-45, 1862- 63, Thomas Banghart; 1846-47, George Beavere; 1850-5I, James Madison Johnston ; 1852-53, David H. Banghart; 1854-55, Samuel Fritte; 1856-57, Morris F. Marteais; 1858-61, Abraham W. Grant ; 1864-66, Frederick Fritts; 1867-68, Andrew Crater; I869-70, 1873- 74, Coarad Davis ; 1871-72, Mansfield 11. Beatty ; 1875-76, Joseph Bon- nell; 1877-80, William V. Prall.
COLLECTORS.
1841-42, Morrie Fritts; 1843-44, Benj. Fritts; 1845-46, Ralph Beavers; 1847, Samuel Fritts; 1848-49, Leonard Hipp; 1850-51, Peter C. Apgar; 1852-53, George Jones; 1854-55, John Hill; 1856-57, Abraham W. Grant; 1858-59, Lowis Yonag; 1860-61, Samuel C. Fritte; 1862-64, 1867-68, Samuel Reinhart ; 1865-66, Eliae V. Creger ; 1869-72, Dennis Sullivan; 1873-75, Andrew B. Flomerfelt; 1876-78, John Evolaad ; 1879-80, George W. Beatty.
CONSTABLES.
1841-42, Thomas Banghart, Anthony W. Reinhart; 1843-44, Joseph A. Srope, Thomas Banghart; 1845, Thomas Banghart, John Dean ; 1846, John Deaa, Abraham Apgar; 1848-50, Thomas Banghart; 1851, George Jones, Thomas Banghart; 1852-55, Jacob Crater ; 1856, J. J. Walters; 1857, Geo. W. Beatty, Abraham W. Grant ; 1858-60, Abraham W. Grant; 1861, John B. Crane ; 1862-65, Thomas Banghart, John B. Cremmer ; 1866, J. B. Cremmer, Andrew Crater, Thomas Bang- hart; 1867, Andrew Crater, Neleon Road; 1868, Martin Lunger, N. Read, George C. Trimmer ; 1869, Conrad Davis, Martin Lunger, Mar- tin O'Brien ; 1870, Thomas L. Anderson, William MeCann, Joha S. Cox ; 1871-72, T. L. Andorson, William MeCanu; 1873, W. MeCaun, Henry Peirce, T. L. Andorson ; 1874, T. L. Anderson, John II. Par- kinson, W. MeCana ; 1875-77, T. L. Anderson, A. B. Banghart ; 1878- 80, T. L. Andorson, Stewart T. Bell.
TOWN COMMITTEE.
1841, Abram Banghart, Peter C. Apgar, David Neighbour, George Franks, Jacob Anthony ; 1842, Anthony W. Reinhart, A. Banghart, D. Neigh- bour, P. C. Apgar, Geo. Franks, Jacob Anthony ; 1843, Lewis Young, D. Neighbour, l'eter II. Rowland, George Franke, David P. Srope; 1844, Lewis Young, Samuel Fritts, Petor II. Rowland, D. P. Sropo, William R. Prall ; 1845, George Foss, Samuel Fritts, Benjamin Fritts,
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D. P. Srope, W. R. Prall ; 1846, George Foxa, Jacob M. Trimmer, Benjamin Fritts, George Jones, Morris F. Martens; 1847, William C. Beavers, Frederick Lance, G. Jones, M. F. Martenia, Lewis Young; 1848, Frederick I. Hoffman, F. Lance, Sylvester Bowlby, Andrew Bunghart, Lewis Yeung ; 18-19, F. I. Hoffman, A. Baughart, S. Bowlby, Abram Banghart, John S. Davis; 1850, Abram Banghart, John S. Davis, Poter Eveland, Zachariah Flomerfelt, Androw Bunghart ; 1851, Z. Flomerfeit, l'. Eveland, Jacob Peace, Andrew Banghart, Beejamia Fritts ; 1852, Benj. Fritts, J. Pence, Neison Bennett, Charles Force, Richard Ronnsavail; 1853, George W. Beatly, N. Benaett, Lewis Young, Jacob A. Wise, Joseph B. Fritte; 1854, L. Young, J. A. Wise, G. W. Beaty, J. B. Fritts, W. R. Prail; 1855, W. R. Prall, G. W. Bowlby, Rance H. Gray, Elius Fritts, Jacob Anthony ; 1856, Rance II. Gray, E. Fritts, George W. Bowlby, J. Anthony, John C. Miller ; 1857, J. C. Miller, G. W. Benty, Jobu Eveland, E. Fritts, H. II. Gray ; 1858, J. Eveland, G. W. Benty, Nathan Lance, Adam iteinhart, Net- Boa Read ; 1859, Adam Reinhart, Nathan Lance, R. II. Gray, D. H. Banghari, E. S. Beavers; 1560, N. Lance, D. H. Hanghart, Rance If. Gray, E. S. Benvers, Abram S. Banghart ; 1861, Nathan Lnace, D. Il. Banghart, Ellas V. Creger, A. S. Banghart, Ebenezer S. Beaver; 1862-63, D. IT. Banghart, E. S. Beaver, A. S. Banghart, E. V. Creger, Martin O'Brien; 1864, Abram Banghart, George Banghart, Martin O'Brien, E. V. Creger, Cornelius Stewart ; 1865, C. Stewart, George ilanghart, M. O'Brien, Leounrd Neighbour, Ira C. Anderson ; 1866, C. Stewart, Dunlel C. Anderson, Peter Walters, L. G. Neighbour, Jona- than M. Welsted ; 1867-68, C. Stewart, D. C. Andersen, G. Banghart, J. A. Wise, William S. Brown; 1869-70, J. A. Wise, Joha Gardner, G. Banghart, Isalah Trimmer, Joseph B. Fritts; 1571, G. Banghart, J. B. Fritta, J. A. Wise, G. Gardner, D. C. Anderson ; 1872, D. C. An- derson, William Beatty, J. B. Fritts, George Gardner, Peter Martenis; 1873, D. C. Andorson, P. Martenis, G. Gardner, G. W. Beatty, William Beatty ; 1874, John Wise, John Fritts, G. W. Beatty, W. Beatty, I'. Marteuis ; 1876, P'. Marteals, W. Beatty, J. Fritts, Isalah Apgar, Joha Wise; 1876, P. Martenis, John Fritts, 1. Apgar, Andrew Castner, John C. Miller ; 1877, L. H. Trimmer, George K. Bird, Christopher Brynnt, J. Apgar, A. S. Banghart; 1878, G. K. Hird, L. II. Trimmer, J. C. Miller, Joseph Hipp, P. C. Castner; 1879, G. K. Bird, John C: Apgar, Jacob Hipp; 1880, John C. Apgar, Jacob Hipp, Joha M. Shannon.
The chosen freeholders from 1800 to 1880 may be found on page 264 of this volume.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
JUNCTION is situated in the northwest corner of the township, a considerable portion of it reaching over into Bethlehem township; it is comparatively a new town. Here is the junction of the New Jersey Cen- tral and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- roads, from which fact the place derived its name. Previous to the advent of the Central Railroad, in 1852, there was no village here. But when it became established that the junction of the two roads was to be at this point, one sprang into existence as if by magic. A plot was surveyed, building loan associa- tions formed, and when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western was completed to this point, in 1857, a thriving village was ready to welcome it. The lands upon which it is located were formerly owned by John Bowlby, M. D. Wells, Nathan Terreberry, and A. Skillman.
The Central Railroad, in 1865, built extensive re- pair-shops, machine-shops, etc., here, which caused a speedy increase of population. The Delaware, Lack- awanna and Western also built similar shops, which made n still greater demand for tenement-houses, stores, etc.
The pioneer tavern was built in 1852, a short dis-
tance west of the railroad shops, by Joseph Bonnell. The house is now owned by Chester V. Dilley, and is unoccupied. The present National Hotel, opposite the depot, was built by Dennis Sullivan, in 1865, and in 1867 the "Junction House," a little farther west, was built by D. T. McCarthy.
The pioneer store was kept by M. D. Wells, a short distance east of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern Railroad shops.
" Wells' Hall" was built in 1875, on the corner of Main Street and Wells' Avenue, and is three stories high. The lower floor is occupied by stores and the post-office, the second is a public hall, and the third is occupied by four different civic societies.
The first physician was Philip G. Creveling, in 1866. The pioneer postmaster was MI. D. Wells, ap- pointed in 1865, and still holding the office. The first church was built by the Roman Catholics in 1860. It was in the west part of the town, and is now occu- pied as a private dwelling. The present Roman Catholic church was built in 1865.
Business is represented by ten or more stores, a blacksmith-, tailor-, shoe-, and other shops, three ho- tels, a school-house, and three cigar-manufactories.
VILLAGES.
GLEN GARDNER is located on the extreme western border of the township, in a romantic glen through which winds the Belvidere and Burlington turnpike (laid out more than n century and a quarter ago), and the Central Railroad of New Jersey, built here in 1852.
Over a century ago this locality was known as " Eveland's Tavern," and soon the glen became known far and near by the name of "Sodom."
Just when the first settler located it is impossible to say. John Eveland built and kept a tavern as carly as 1760. The present hotel covers n part of the site of the old one. Jolin Eveland kept the tavern for fifty-five years, his son, Peter, for forty, his grand- son, John, for ten, when the property was purchased by E. Humphrey, present owner and proprietor. It is now known as the "Clarksville Hotel." Jacob Leninger built a saw-mill near the tavern; it stood adjoining the site of the present grist-mill.
Soon after (or about 1800) the population of "So- dom" commenced changing quite rapidly. The pioneer store was kept by a Mr. Clark, in 1820, on the oppo- site side of the road from the present "Hunterdon manufactory." A post-oflice seeming to be a neces- sity, Dr. W. A. A. Hunt was appointed, about 1820, and the office was named Clarksville, in honor of the old merchant, and kept in his store. The place is now better known as Clarksville than as either Sodom or Glen Gardner, as the one is nearly forgotten, while the other is of such recent origin that it has not come into general use.
James Smith succeeded Mr. Clark in the old store- house in the bank, and was followed by Dr. W. A. A.
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Hunt, who moved the building up to near his resi- dence, where he kept both store and post-office.
Adam Runkle first kept the store on the west side of the creek, at the end of what is now the iron bridge, as early as 1825. Other merchants were John and Aaron Mckinstry, Prall & Runkle, Lewis Young, James P. Huffman, Samuel and Jacob Weller, L. W. Young & Son, Young & Grant, and Watson Ander- son. In 1864 the Gardner Brothers established their chair-manufactory, when the name of the post-office and village was changed to "Glen Gardner" in their honor.
There are three churches (Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Lutheran), one academy, a hotel, two grist-mills, a frame-factory, four stores, a coal- and-lumber yard, several shops, and a railroad depot, with Samuel Van Arsdale as agent ; Lewis F. Bigelow is the present postmaster. Population, 700.
LOWER VALLEY is a small hamlet situated in School District No. 3. There are a church, school- house, the post-office, and about a dozen dwellings located within a mile of the four corners where the church is situated.
ANTHONYTOWN, on the highlands of Hunterdon County, in School District No. 1, was settled as early as 1825 by David and Philip Anthony. There are at present a Methodist church, a school-house, a store, two saw-mills, blacksmith- and wheelwright-shops, and a few dwellings. The first store was kept by Jacob Beatty, in 1853. A post-office was established in 1860, with G. W. Beatty as postmaster ; he still acts in that capacity.
WHITE HALL is located in School District No. 6, on the south side of the township, and was settled as early as 1800, when Jacob Leninger kept taveru here. The house had become weatherbeaten, and the pro- prietor painted it white; hence the name by which the village has been known for eighty or more years. There are a tavern, store, blacksmith- and wheel- wright-shop, and half a dozen dwellings.
NEW HAMPTON, situated on the Musconetcong Creek, in the northwest corner of the township, was settled as early as 1800. The first tavern, kept by Elisha Matlick in 1812, is still standing, a short distance up the road, but unoccupied. There are a store, hotel, cabinet-manufactory, blacksmith- and wheelwright- shop, grist-mill, school-house, and about twenty-five dwellings. The present postmaster is George Apgar.
CEMETERIES.
There are several burial-places in this township, some of which are private plats or family grounds on the " old homestead," but the one in which the most interest centres is probably the "Spruce Run Burying- Ground," which is located about a mile east of Glen Gardner, and opposite the Evangelical Lutheran church.
The following names and dates, taken from the tomb- stones and monuments in these grounds, give an idea
of who the pioneers were: Anna Apgar, born Nov. 20, 1795, died July 4, 1877 ; George Apgar, died Nov. 6, 1864, aged seventy-one; Margaret Stymets, died June 8, 1809, aged eighty-one; Frederick Fritts, Jr., died Aug. 23, 1812, aged fifty-three ; Daniel Castner, died Feb. 12, 1839, aged eighty-two; George Moore, died Jan. 2, 1815, aged ninety. On his headstone are the following lines :
" Remember me as you pass by : As you are now, so once was I ; As I am now you all must be ; Prepare for deatb, and follow me."
Elizabeth Moore, died Oct. 17, 1810, aged seventy- seven; Christopher Martenis, died April 19, 1822, aged seventy-seven; Catharine Mckinney, died March 2, 1863, aged eighty-five; John McDan- iels, born July 1, 1785, died March 17, 1864; Peter Swick, died May 1, 1844, aged forty-six; Mary Larue, died April 17, 1856, aged fifty-five; Harman Dilts, died Oct. 28, 1842, aged forty-two; Benjamin Fritts, boru Nov. 11, 1781, died Sept. 29, 1861; Wil- liam F. Fritts, born April 18, 1783, died Jan. 27, 1871; Rachael Fritts, born June 13, 1789, died March 28, 1870; John Anderson, died Feb. 27, 1865, aged ninety-six ; Ann Anderson, died March 8, 1860, aged seventy-four ; Thomas Haston, died Dec. 15, 1835, aged eighty-eight; Margaret Haston, died Dec. 15, 1852, aged ninety-one; George Martenis, died April 15, 1860, aged seventy-five ; Jane. M., wife of J. G. More, died Feb. 7, 1864, aged eighty-one; Rev. R. Collins, died Jan. 1, 1861, aged sixty-five ; Abraham H. Banghart, died Sept. 26, 1872, aged sixty-three; Andrew Moore, born May 15, 1764, died June 1, 1846 ; Jacob Lininger, died Aug. 15, 1835, aged eighty-two; Thomas Banghart, died May 12, 1859, aged eighty ; Rebecca Banghart, died May 10, 1876, aged eighty- three; Christian Foss, died Oct. 8, 1865, aged sixty- nine ; Charles Plum, died April 29, 1860, aged thirty- nine; Rev. David Kline, born Nov. 14, 1812, died Nov. 5, 1877 ; Jane Kirkpatrick, wife of Rev. David Kline, born June 19, 1814, died June 1, 1875.
"Lower Valley Cemetery" is located at Lower Valley, in the southeast part of the township, and adjoining the Presbyterian church lot. This, aside from the Spruce Run grounds, is the only one of much interest in the township. The names of a few of those buried there are : Elizabeth Gray, died June 19, 1867, aged forty-four; William Neighbour, died March 10, 1878, aged eighty-three; Jacob Swackhamer, born Dec. 31, 1789, died April 20, 1851 ; Dr. J. K. Stryker, died Sept. 8, 1862, aged forty-one ; Conrad Hoppough, died Oct. 23, 1864, aged seventy ; Ralph Beavers, died March 31, 1863, aged eighty-one; Elizabeth Apgar, died March 27, 1863, aged eighty-two; David Trim- mer, died March 1, 1824, aged sixty-five; Elizabeth Flomerfelt, died Aug. 26, 1848, aged sixty-nine; Wil- liam Apgar, died Feb. 19, 1835, aged sixty-six; Joseph Hoover, died Aug. 28, 1843, aged fifty-four ; Sylvanus Young, died Dec. 11, 1857, aged eighty-two; Leonard
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Neighbour, died Dee. 10, 1854, aged ninety; Peter Bunn, born April 17, 1794, died Sept. 15, 1874; Ele- anor Hoffman, died Nov. 18, 1869, aged seventy-two; Catharine Teeter, died April 13, 1837, aged seventy- two; William Wack, died Jan. 30, 1864, aged seventy- two; Ann Hance, wife of David Neighbour, died Dec. 2, 1834, aged thirty-four; Elizabeth, wife of David Neighbour, died July 22, 1857, aged fifty-eight.
SOCIETIES AND CORPORATIONS.
The Temple of Honor at Glen Gardner was organ- ized Nov. 28, 1872. The following persons signed the application for a charter : L. M. Castner, George Crater, George L. Dean, Lewis Fritts, David Hart, William Hart, Moses Housel, Samuel Litts, R. A. Martenis, Frank Maxwell, Peter Nelson, P. H. Pras- ter, Henry R. Queen, James G. Sbultz, Elwood S. Teats, Joseph J. Unanst.
The first principal officers were: W. C. T., Samuel Litts; W. V. T., Henry R. Queen ; W. R., Lewis M. Castner.
The failure of the factories has very seriously af- fected the society. It still lives, but has only 12 members. The present officers are: W. C., M. G. llousel; W. V., J. Robbins; W. R., S. K. Doolittle ; W. F. R., T. E. Hunt ; W. T., W. M. Hunt; W. W., J. Petty ; W. G., M. Geary; W. S., C. Martenis ; W. Chaplain, C. H. Traver.
"Shabbekong Tribe, No. 46, I. O. of R. M.," is located at Junetion. The tribe was originally organ- ized at Washington, Warren Co., N. J., but was re- moved to Junction, where the tribe was reorganized June 21, 1878, with the following officers and members under the new charter: Sachem, A. Weidmann ; S. S., William Huselton; I. S., J. Duckworth ; O. S., C. G. Blackford; K. of W., John Hoppock; C. of R., A. M. Young; and J. R. Rex, E. B. Hoppock, Charles Weid- mann, William B. Smith, G. German, William Rex, John S. Rodenbaugh, A. Rinchart, A. B. Apgar, S. Bowlby, S. Apgar, A. Nigh, J. B. McLean, H. Husel- ton, William Brown, P. Young, William Dorland, A. Apgar, James Brown, N. Conover, J. Walters, and W. Busenberry, Wells' Hall was fitted up for the tribe in the summer of 1880, at a cost of $300. The tribe is now in a flourishing condition, with 75 members. The Past Sachems are A. Weidmann, D. D. G. S., George Hummel, William Huselton. The present ofli- cers are : Sachem, John Duckworth ; P. S., William Huselton ; S. S., G. W. Winters; 1. S., William Dor- land; K. of W., John Hoppock; C. of R., C. J. Blackford.
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