History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 149

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1170

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The Literary Gem, printed by S. H. Baldwin at the office of The Whig, is one of the earliest of "the lost stars" of journalism in Somerset. This candidate for public favor first appeared Oct. 10, 1840, with Lewis W. Payne & Co. as publishers (subsequently L. W. Payne alone), but with no announcement concerning the editor. The file of the first three months, in pos- session of the writer, and another covering a month about a year later, in possession of D. K. Milliken, give no clue to the editor or contributors. But it is no secret that John A. Todd (now Rev. John A. Todd, D.D., of Tarrytown, N. Y., a learned divine in the Reformed Church) was the editor. It was in his school-days, prior to entering college, and his taste for literature- since then developed into a passion which has given birth to translations from the litera- ture of other languages and to extensive writings- was first cultivated in the columns of The Gem. In company with him as a contributor was Paul D.

Van Cleef (now Rev. Dr. Van Cleef, of Jersey City) and other of Mr. Todd's associates. When the Gem ceased to be published is something we cannot defi- nitely ascertain. The last copy of the files above re- ferred to is dated Jan. 1, 1842, and it is not likely it survived long after.

The Comet was the title of a very small paper, about nine by twelve inches, issued for a few months at North Branch, in 1855, by Thomas Bartow, now a printer in New York City.

The Somerset County News was published from 1859 to 1863, at Somerville. The first number is dated Dec. 1, 1859; publishers, David K. Milliken and William W. Young, under the firm-name of Milliken & Young. It was published every Thursday, over the Somerset County Bank ; size, twenty-two and one-half by thirty- two inches, six columns; terms, one dollar and fifty cents per annum. It presented an attractive appear- ance, the make-up and press-work being done with care. In politics it was neutral, although it subse- quently supported Douglas for President. It was stated to be "Devoted to Morality, Education, Amusements, Agriculture, Domestic and Foreign News, etc., Independent of Party or Sect." The motto was " Ecce Quercus," printed amid an oak-leaf and acorns, but this was removed in a few weeks, and "Bound to no Master or Sect am I" substituted. Nov. 8, 1860, Mr. I. Lnthier, son of Bernard M. Pol- hemus, Esq., of Somerville, purchased Mr. Young's interest, and the firm was Milliken & Polhemus until Jan. 3. 1861, when Mr. Polhemus published alone, Mr. Milliken continuing as assistant editor. In May, 1862, Mr. E. G. Upson, who had been principal of the Somerville public school, purchased it, Mr. Polhemus desiring to enter the service of his country.+ He conducted it until March 5, 1863, when it was con- solidated with the Somerset Whig by purchase, and the new paper was called the Somerset Unionist, which still exists. Throughout its whole career the News was a newspaper with creditable appearance and con- tents, though of limited circulation. .

The Millstone Mirror helped give an impetus to Millstone during the war. It was a four-page neutral weekly, size twenty by thirty, six columns to the page, published from about April 1, 1861, to March 24, 1864; John R. Hedden was publisher and editor; terms, one dollar and fifty cents, in advance. The limited means of the proprietor and the small amount of patronage bestowed upon it by business men were, as frankly stated in the valedictory, the reasons for suspending it.

The Bound Brook Argus was the earliest newspaper venture at Bound Brook. It was in existence about six months in 1870, with Noah Clappt as proprietor.

¡ Enlisted as a private in Company 1, Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers ; was promoted to corporal; left the service from disease con- tracted at the first Bull Run battle; was discharged Oct. 29, 1862, al- though the position of lieutenant was offered him; died in Somerville, May, 1863.

# Mr. Clapp died in Jersey City in Fel runry, 1881.

* This sketch of the newspapers and magazines which have existed in Somerset, but have now the epitaph Obiit upon their tombstones, is con- tributod by A. V. D. Honeyman, of The"Gurette.

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We have been unable to procure a copy to give fur- ther details.

Our Home, a local magazine of forty-eight pages, issued monthly, was published in Somerville during 1873 by Cornell & Honeyman, and edited by A. V. D. Honeyman, at present editor of the Somerset Gazette. It presented an attractive typographical appearance, and contained nothing but original articles. Only the fact that it was not financially sustained caused the cessation of its publication at the expiration of its first year. Many of its articles were historical, written by local clergymen and others, the field embraced by them being Somerset and Hunterdon Counties, within which its circulation (six hundred copies) was confined. Many important data arc drawn from it in this present History. Its subscrip- tion price was two dollars per annum, and it was printed at the office of the Daily Advertiser, Newark.

The Christian Standard, a four-page monthly paper, four columns to the page, size fifteen and a half by twenty-two, was published by the Somerville Young Men's Christian Association from August, 1876, to July, 1877. It was edited by A. V. D. Honeyman and William P. Flowers until May, 1877, and subst- quently by S. S. Phillips. Its subscription price was twenty-five cents; cirenlation, two hundred and fifty copies.

The Sower, a monthly paper, " devoted to Sabbath- school interests and Bible study," first issued at Mount Holly, N. J., by Rev. R. Randall Hoes, was published by Honeyman & Rowe, at the Gazette office, from July, 1877, to June, 1878. It was indorsed by, and considered as the organ of, the New Jersey State Sabbath-School Association. It was a three-column, eight-page paper, size thirty-four by thirty-nine, the paper being tinted; subscription price, twenty-five cents per year. It had contributions from some of the most noted religious writers in the country. Its editor was Rev. I. L. McNair, of Bedminster, for several issues, then Rev. J. A. Davis, of Pottersville. Of this paper six thousand copies were printed and circulated monthly, but its genuine paid subscription and advertising patronage were too meagre to sustain its publication, and it was discontinued in June, 1878.

Flowers' Family Magazine, advertised as "a con- tinuation of 'Our Home,'" was begun January, 1875, by William l'. Flowers, of Somerville, but was re- moved, at the close of its first year, to Trenton, N. J., and, 1881, to Philadelphia. It is similar in size and shape to "Our Home," and contains fifty-two pages monthly. It was printed at the Gazette office while in Somerville, and consisted chietly of original matter. Circulation, about two thousand.

The Pastoral, a small quarterly newspaper, is pub- lished by Rev. C. T. Anderson, pastor of the Reformed Church at Peapack, as n church paper. Its first issue was June, 1875. It is published semi-annually, size eight and three-fourths by twelve inches, four pages, two columns to a page, and is distributed gratuitously.

The Rock was first started at Dunellen and called The Dunellen Rock in 1877, but removed to Bound Brook in the fall of 1878. Its proprietor and editor was Mr. Charles E. MacGeachy, once a humorist writer upon the Danbury News. It was an eight-page paper, and during its last two or three publications a sixteen-page folio. It caricatured prominent men in the county, and represented them in cartoons "sketched by special artists." It was for a brief time the most widely circulated paper in Central New Jersey, but it became extinct in February, 1879.

CHAPTER IX.

BOOKS AND AUTHORS OF SOMERSET COUNTY .*

Introductory-The Authors of Somerset County, Dend and Living, arranged alphabetically, with Biographical Data and Lists of their Publications.

No general history of a country would be half written without attention to its literature ; and neither can a State or a county be justly portrayed in either its past or its present condition unless the heart-beat of the P'ress-using that term in its widest sense-be registered, and its strength or weakness calculated. Accordingly, the chapter upon the Press, to include the newspapers of the county, is now followed by one upon the many books, pamphlets, and various histori- cal and other contributions to current literature which have emanated from Somerset County men, with the names and data concerning their authors.

As a matter of fact, no county in the State-or in the Union, of equal size and population-has pro- duced more men and women who have been given to publishing their thoughts on the printed page than the county of Somerset. Ex-Governor Vroom long ngot pointed out the usually admitted truth that no county in New Jersey had given more men to fame as orators and statesmen than the one of his birth ; and when he instanced Stockton, Bayard, Berrien, South- ard, Dayton, Blackford, and Frelinghuysen, all pres- ent knew he had but touched upon a list of names which widened far outside the profession of the bar. All these men were famous lawyers, but all were an- thors also, although in a restricted sense ; and when we add to them as writers such well-known and highly-cherished names as Witherspoon, Paterson, Griffith, Finley, Brownlee, MeDowell, Porter, Black- well, Cone, Fish, Chambers, Talmage, Corwin, and such as they,-all famous and some known to the whole world,-Somerset's intellectual sons and daugh- ters stand.forth, not singly, but in serried ranks.

This noble valley of the Raritan, so fertile in its

. By A. V. D. Honeyman, Esq.

+ At a farewell dinner to Ilun. Wm. 1 .. Dayton, al Trenton, 1861. Sco sketch of Inltor, at its close.

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soil and attractive in its climate, drew to itself a hun- dred and fifty years ago not only the best agricultu- rists of Holland and Scotland, but some of the best brains of those two intellectual nations ; and from these two early peoples, which settled respectively its southern and northern portions, now intermarried and with blood intermingled, have sprung descendants who have imparted strength and vigor to the thought and culture of the passing century. There will be found some grand old Scotch names in the list of au- thors below, and yet the Hollandish names predomi- nate, because the deep-thinking Dutch composed three-fourths of onr early population.

An analysis of the list so far as one can be made- in which the total number of newspaper and maga- zine contributions is but roughly estimated from the imperfect data given-reveals the following facts :

Whole number of Somerset authors.

144

Clergymen

Lawyers .

Physicians

Teachers

Miscellaneous occupations.

144

Men.

134

Women

144

Authors living

Authors deceased

144

Number of books published .. Number of pamplets published

479

Number of leading articles published in newe- papers and magazines, law opinions, state

papers, etc. (lowest estionate). 21,251

A total of.

21,909

That the list is complete as to either the authors or their publications is not professed ; in the nature of things, it cannot be. Some names of newspaper edi- tors, and all names of mere reporters, have been omitted, although they may have writing for the press for years, because some line of demarcation between writers of things solely ephemeral, and series of articles or contributions of a more permanent nature, was necessary. The compiler would be pleased to have information concerning any errors of what- soever nature, that they may be corrected on a future occasion.

ANDERSON, REV. CHARLES THOMPSON, - Born Sept. 26, 1849, in Wayne Co., Pa .; removed to Som- erset Co., 1853; grad. Princeton, 1869, and seminary, 1873. Pastorates : Port Kennedy, Pa. (Pres.), 1873- 74; Peapack, Somerset Co. (Ref.), June, 1874, to present time. Publications :

1. " All Things pertaining to Life," illustrating 2 Peter 1. 5, 6, 7, Lippia- cott & Co., 12mo, pp. 126, 1879.

2. Sermon in Somerset Gazette, July, 1876.

3. "Thoughts on the Goodnese of God," and "The Source of National Greatness," two articles in " Flowers' Fam. Mag.," 1878.

4. Other occasional contributions to the prosa.

5. "The Pastoral," a semi-annnai, in four pagos, Jnno, 1875, to present.

APGAR, AUSTIN CRAIG .- Born Aug. 4, 1838, at Pcapack, Somerset Co .; res. Peapack, 1838-62; Har- lingen, 1862-64; Trenton, 1866 to present; teacher of Nat. Sci. in N. J. State Norm. School. Publica- tions :

1. Works jointly edited with hrother (see below, APGAR, ELLIS A.), 1864-74.

2. Contributions to the press. (Total, about 50.)

APGAR, ELLIS AYERS, A.M .- Born at Peapack, March 20, 1836; State Supt. Public Instruction, 1866 to present ; res. Trenton ; real author of Free School System in New Jersey in its present details; indus- trious worker and excellent organizer .* Publications (first seven are joint works with his brother, Austin C. Apgar) :

1. " Apgar's Physical Chart," Cowporthwait & Co., Phila., 12mo, 1865; new ed., 1871.

2. " Apgar's Political Chart," same pub., 1865.

3. " Apgar's Map-Drawing," same pub., 4to, 1866.

4. " Apgar's History of New Jersey," Lippincott & Co., Phila., 12mo, 1870.

5. " Apgar's System of Map-Drawing," Cowperthwait & Co., 1873.

6. " Apgar's Plant Analysis," Ivison, B., T., & Co., N. Y., 4to, 1874.

7. " Apgar's Special Geography of New Jersey," Cowperthwait & Co., 1876.

8. Annual Reports as State Supt., 15 in number, pp. about 50, 1866-81.

9. Miscellaneous contributions to press of the State. (Total, over 200.)

BAYARD, SAMUEL .- Born Jan. 11, 1762, in Phila. ; grad. Coll. of N. J., 1784; licensed attorney in Phila. ; clerk U. S. Sup. Court, 1791-1800; agt. U. S. Gov. in London, 1800; judge, Westchester Co., N. Y., member of Congress from N. Y., res, of Prince- ton, Somerset Co., 1806-40; member council for Somerset; judge Common Pleas, Somerset; died May 12, 1840. Publications (incomplete list) :

1. "On Bill respecting Conrts of the U. S." Speech in Congress, 1802. 2. " Abstract of the Laws of the United States," 1804.

3. Speech in Congress, pamphlet, 1809.

4. "Peake's Evidence, with Notes," 8vo, 1818.

5. " Address in Pres. ch., Princeton, in behalf of Close Observance of the Lord's Day," 1828.

6. "Letters on Sacraments," 18mo, 2d ed., Martien, Phila., 1834.

7. Many letters to the religions prese.

BAYARD, SAMUEL JOHN .- Born Sept. 26, 1801, at New Rochelle, N. Y .; res. at Princeton, Somerset Co., 1806-27 ; grad. Coll. of N. J., 1820; licensed at- torney, 1823; res. in Cincinnati, O., 1827-33 ; Seneca Falls, N. Y., 1833-49 (judge of County Court, 1836- 40) ; Morristown, 1852-54; Camden, 1854-56 ; Wood- bury, 1856-64; Camden, 1864-78; died Oct. 7, 1878. A hard worker all his life, of genuine literary talent, restrained, perhaps, in its fullest development by his devotion to the political press. Publications (incom- plete list) :

1. Editorial arts. in Princeton Patriot, 1826-27.

2. Editorial arts. in Cincinnati Inquirer, Ohio, 1830 (?)-33.

3. Biography of Gen. Harrison, 1840.

4. Campaign songs for Greeley's Log Cabin.

5. Editorial arts. in New York Globe.

6. " A Sketch of tho Life of Com. R. II. Stockton," with Appendix of his Correspondonce, Speeches, etc., 8vo, pp. 340, Derhy & Jackson, N. Y.,

1856. (Only full biography of the Commodore ever written.)

7. " Memoir of Gen. Geo. D. Bayard," 12mo, pp. 300, 1873.

8. IIundrede of other arts. for the press.

BERRIEN, JOHN MACPHERSON, LL.D .- Born Aug. 23, 1781, at Rocky Hill, Somerset Co .; Publications

* Seo " Prominent men of Somerset County," chap. xi., on following pages.

+ See ibld.

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(probably very numerous, but none have come under compiler's notice except ) :

1. Speeches in Congress at various dales.

2. Stato papers as attorney-generul.

3. Legal briefs nod a few opinions.

4. Letters concerning Henry Kolluck and Joseph Clay in "Sprague'e Annals."

BLACKFORD, ISAAC, LL.D .- Born 1786, at Bound Brook ; grad. Coll. of N. J., 1806; judge of Supreme Court, Ill., 1817-53 ; of U. S. Court of Claims, Wash- ington, 1853-59; died 1859. Degree in 1851. A man of marked eminence and unquestioned legal ability, as his positions, so long continued, proved. Publica- tions (imperfect list) :

1. Indiana Stato Roports in Sup. Court, 1818-47, 8vo, Indianapolis.

2. Hundreds of decisions in Indiana Sop. Court and U. S. Court of Claline.

BLACKWELL, REV. ANTOINETTE BROWN, A.M .- Born May 20, 1825, in Henrietta, N. Y. ; pastor Cong. Church at South Butler, N. Y .; res. Somerville, Somerset Co., April, 1868, to present. A lady of strong intellect ; a profound thinker and logician ; one of those who, equally with strong-minded men, would "fitly constitute a state." Publications :

1. " Exegesis of St. Paul's Teaching Concerning Homer," in Oberlin " Quarterly Roviow," 1848.

2. "Studice in General Scjonco," 12mo, pp. 400, G. P. Putnam, 1869.

3. " The Market-Woman," serial story in Woman's Advocate, 1869.

4. "The Island Neighbors," 12no, pp. 300, Harper & Bros., 1871.

6. "The Sexes Thronghont Naturo," 12mo, pp. 400, G. P. Putnam, 187.1.

6. "Physical Basis of Immortality," 12mo, pp. 324, Puluam, 1876.

7. Six Papers on various phases of the Woman Question, published by the " Association for the Advancement of Women," 1873-78.

8. About 200 othor contributions to the Woman's Journal, Tribune, and other nowapnpors, magazines, and annunis of the country.

BLACKWELL, SAMUEL CHARLES .*- Born Nov. 3. 1823, at Bristol, Eng .; came to America 1832; resi- tlences, Cincinnati, New York, Somerville, 1868 to present. A precise writer and aeute thinker whose pen has produced no books, but many scores of influ- ential contributions upon themes fitted to the times. l'ublieations :

Articles on Anti-Slavery, Temperance, Education, Ohio'a Provision for hor Insane, Free Territories, National Union, Southern Reconstruction, Woman's Educationnl, Industrial, and Political Interests, Financo, Lit- erature, and Religion (Including proso nad poetry), to the Cincinnati Gazelle, Chronicle, Times, Enquirer, and Herald, Washington National Era, New York Tribune, Woman's Adrocate, Wl'oman's Journal, Somerset Gazelle and Chionist, etc. (Total number, about 500.)

BLAUVELT, REV. ISAAC ALSTYNE .- Born March 31, 1839, at Lamington, Somerset Co .; res. Somerset until 1860; grad. Coll. of N. J., 1857, and seminary, 1860. Pastorates: New Egypt (not installed), ('lin- ton, German Valley, Roselle. Publications :

1. " Historical Skotch of German Ref. and Pres. Churches of German Valley." pp. 66, April 28, 1870.

2. " Historical Sketch of Clinton Pros, Church," semi-centenary adl- dress, Sept. 14, 1880.

3. Articles In The Presbyterian, etc.

BLAUVELT, REV. WILLIAM WARREN, D.D .- Born June 23, 1800, in New Brunswick ; grad. Rutgers, 1814;

· Husband of the preceding.

teacher in Northampton Co., Va .; missionary in Del- aware Co., N. Y .; teacher in Finley's school, Basking Ridge, cte. Pastorate at Lamington, Somerset Co., July 11, 1826, to present. Degree from Univ. of N.Y., 1855 (?). Publications :

1. " Recollections of an Agod Minister," antobiographical, three artl- cles in "Our lomo," 1873 (unfinished).

2. " Our Older Churches-Lamington," in same.

3. Historical Address nt Semi-Contennin) Anniversary, pp. 6, July, 1876.

BOISNOT, JAMES MONROE, M.D .- Born July 20, 1836, in Franklin tp., Somerset Co .; grad. Trenton Academy, 1856, and Univ. of P'a., March, 1858 ; res. in Philadelphia from 1858 to 1879; died Oct. 30, 1879. A man who stood out prominently from among his fellows in literary culture, as well as in the practice of medicine and surgery. Publications (incomplete list) :

1. Paper on "The Reduction by Manipulation of a Double Dislocation of the llip-joint," in Amer. Jour. of Med. Sci., 1861.

2. Same on "A Case of Purpuru Hemorrhagica requiring Trans- fusion," Med. Times, March 13, 1875.

3. "Come unto Me" and "An Easter Anthem," two poenis set to music.

4. Many other medical and surgical papers, and somo general contri- butions for the press.

BOSWELL, REV. JAMES T .- Methodist Episcopal clergyman at Bound Brook, 1876-79.+ Publications :

1. " Religious Infinence of our National History." Centennial ser- mon in Somerset Gazelle, 1876.

2. Editorial contributions to The Methodist.

3. Contributions to the press, religious and secular.

BROWN, GEORGE HOUSTON .- Born 1810 in Bed- minster tp., Somerset Co .; grad. Princeton, 1828; licensed attorney, 1835; counselor, 1838; res. Somer- ville, 1838-65; State senator, 1845-48; member Con- gress, 1850-52; justice Sup. Court, 1861-65; died Aug. 1, 1865. Publications (incomplete list ) :

1. Editorials in State Gazette, 1860.

2. Opinions ns Justice of Sup. Court In 5 Initcher's, 1, 2 Yroom's Law Reporta, nud 1, 2 C. E. Green's Equity Reports.

BROWN, REV. ISAAC VAN ARSDALE, D.D., LL.D. -Born 1784 at P'luekamin, Somerset Co.# Publica- tions (list imperfect ) :

1. " New Jersey Prencher," edited by Ror. I. V. Brown and Rov. G. S. Woodhull. 1 vol., pp. 161, New Brunswick, 1813.

2. " Biography of Robert Finley, D.D.," 12mo, New Brunswick, 1819. The only memoir of that celebrated man. Republication, with " Early History of the Slave Trudo," by John W. Moore, Phila., 1857, pp. 336.

3. "Old School Presbyterianism Defended," pp. 335, W. S. & A. MIar- tien, l'hiln., 1855. Containing six ablo lotters signed " A Member of New Brunswick Presbytery," and widely circulated in the Southern States.

4. Various letters to the press from time to time.

BROWNLEE, REV. WILLIAM CRAIG, D.D .- Born in Tarfoot, Scotland, 1783; grad. Univ. of Glasgow, 1806 (?), and licensed by Presbytery of Stirling, Scot- land, 1808. Pastorates in America : Mount Pleasant and Burgesstown, Pa. ( Assoc. Ref. ), 1808-13 ; Walnut Street, Phila. (Assoc. Scotch), 1813-16; Basking

The absence of Mr. and Mrs. Howwell in Europe has prevented the procurement of dates or a full statement of publications $ See Chapter XI.

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Ridge, Somerset Co., N. J. (Pres.), 1819-25; rector of academy, New Brunswick, 1815-17 ; professor of languages in Rutgers, 1825-26; pastor Collegiate Church, N. Y. City, 1826-43; died Feb. 10, 1860. " In the Greek and Roman classics and in belles-lettres his acquirements were accurate and elegant; in gen- eral history and literature, very extensive." Publi- cations :

1. " Fearful State of Fr. Spira, an Apostate," 1814.

2. " Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers," 1824.

3. " A Dissertation on the Nature, Obligations, and Form of the Civil Oath," 1825.

4. "The Gospel of Christ," farewell sermon at Basking Ridge, 1825.

5. "On the Loftiest and Most Important Brauch of all Sciences," ora- tion before societies of Rutgers, 1827.

6. "On the Death of Dr. S. H. Woodhull," a sermon.

7. "On the Objections Commonly urged Against the Bible," Premium Tract, Am. Tract Soc., No. 227.

8. "Genuineness and Authenticity of the Bible, and the Madness of Infidelity," sermon, National Preacher, October, 1835.

9. " The Roman Catholic Controversy," 1834.

10. Letter on Theo. Dwight's Book, " Open Convents," 1836.

11. " Earnest Appeal to Christians," 1836.

12. " Lights and Shadows of Christian Life," 1837.

13. "The Christian Father at Home," 1837.

14. " Doctrinal Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent," 1838.

15. "Christian Youth's Book," 1839.

16. " The Converted Murderer," 1839,

17. "History of Western Apostolic Churches," 1839.

18. " The Whigs of Scotland," 2 vols., a romance, 1839.

19. "Popery an Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty" (4th ed.), I839.

20. " The Deity of Christ," 1841.

21. " Letters on Christian Baptism," 1841.

22. "Romanism in the Light of Prophecy and History," 1854.

23. "St. Patrick ; or, The Ancient Religion of the Irish."

24. Introduction to " Maria Monk."

25. Essays on Didactic and Controversial Theology.

26. "On Baptism."

27. Various sermone and articles in " Magazine of Ref. Dutch Church," while editor, 1826-30.

28. " The General's Widow," Tract No. 287, pp. 28.

BURT, REV. ENOCH .- Born in New England ; watchmaker at Princeton ; Pres. clergyman. Pas- torates : Lamington, Somerset Co., 1809-13; Man- chester, Conn., 18- - 37; died at Manchester, Jan. 1837. Publications :

1. Sermon from Phil. iii. 8, in New Jersey Preacher, 1813.

2. Sermon from Luke xv. 7, in same.

CANNON, REV. JAMES SPENCER, D.D .- Born in island of Curacoa, 1766; licensed to preach in Ref. Dutch Church, 1796; pastor at Six-Mile Run, 1796- 1826, portion of this time at Millstone also; Prof. Eccl. Hist., Metaphysics, etc., iu Rutgers, 1818-19, 1826-52; died 1852. Degree by Rutgers, 1811. A studious, diligent man, oracular, of great memory, and a pattern of systematic work. Publications :

I. "Fourth of July Oration," 1815.

2. "Lectures on Ilistory and Chronology," 1834.

3. "Rev. Ira Condit," in " Sprague's Annals."

4. "Sermon on a Sacramental Occasion."

6. " Address to Hon. Theo. Frelinghuyson as Pros .- elect of Rutgers," 1850, in New Brunswick Review.

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History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 149

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1170

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1170