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Boroughs-Metuchen and Dunellen, 458; South River, 460; Milltown, 464; James- burg, 465; Sayreville, 469; Roosevelt, 472; Highland Park, Helmetta, 477; Middlesex, 478.
Brainerd, missionary to Indians, 172.
Cheesequake, 442.
Connecticut, settlers from, 13.
County of Middlesex, organization of, 49; bounds and changes, 50; civil divisions, 51; first court house and jail, 53; New Brunswick made county seat, 54.
Courts, first, 63; crimes and misdemeanors, 64; later courts, 233.
Cranbury, township of, 447.
Dutch, coming of, 7; lineage, 10.
East Brunswick, township of, 427. Elections, first, 92.
English, coming of, II; Duke of York, Lord Berkeley, Sir George Carteret, If; Colonel Nicolls, 14; Sir Edmund Andros, 17.
Governors, Proprietary and Colonial-Sir George Carteret, 15; Barclay, Rudyard, Lawrie, 39; Lord Campbell, Andrew Hamilton, 40; Hunter, 41 ; Burnet 42; Montgomerie, Morris, Cosby, 43; Bel- cher, 44; Bernard, Boone, Hardy, Franklin, 45.
"Henry and Francis" ship, arrival of, 24. Home life, early, 81. Hospitals, 267.
Indians, Leni-Lenapes, I; other tribes, 2: ownership of soil, 3; land sales, 4. Inns or Taverns, 64.
Insurance Company, 322.
Jersey, East and West, 57; boundary be- tween, 58; the Keith line, 59; the quin- tipartite division, 61.
Kearny, Gen. Phil, 131. Kidd, the pirate, 171. Lafayette, visits Middlesex county, 173.
Libraries, Teachers', 222; New Bruns- wick Public, 310; Perth Amboy, 383; Woodbridge, 409.
Lotteries, 65.
Madison, township of, 440.
Manufacturers-In Perth Amboy, 271; in New Brunswick, 274.
Medicine, 243; first physician in Middle- sex county, 245; State Medical Society, 247; first medical journal, 249; present members of County Medical Society, 252; members of in World War, 252; officers of County Society, 253; Socie- ties organized by Middlesex county physicians, 254: State Medical Society, 257; prominent deceased physicians, 261; Hospitals and Clinics, 267.
Middlesex County, organized, 49; bounds and changes, 50; civil divisions, 51: first court house and jail, 52; New Brunswick made county seat, 54. Mineral products, 71.
Monroe, township of, 437.
New Brunswick made county seat, 54; during the Revolution, 91 : Rutgers Col- lege, 185: Theological Seminary, 195: Public Schools, 204; early annals, 279; the Royal Charter, 282; shipbuilding, 286; early newspapers and merchants, 288; in the War of 1812, 290; visits of President Monroe and Lafayette, 294; arrival of first locomotive, 295; open- ing of railroad bridge, 297; manufac- tures, 300; street railways, 306; fire companies, 307; great fires, 309: Pub- lic Library, 310; Board of Trade, 313; Historical Club, 317; Rotary Club, 317; Den of Lions, 318: Boat Club, Reli- gious Clubs, Charity Organization, Humane Society, 319; Banking and In- surance, 319: insurance, 322; Churches, 323; notable characters, 347; in the World War, 356; Liberty Loans and Campaign Rolls, 485; Honor Rolls, 486. Newspapers, early, 229; ephermal publica-
tions, journals now existing, 231; New Brunswick Times, 312.
North Brunswick, township of, 423. Noted Men-James Schureman, 173; Jo- seph Bloomfield, 174; Alexander Henry, James Manning, 175; Luther Martin, 176; John Watson, William Dunlap, 177; Joseph W. Scott, 178; Cortlandt Parker, 179; Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Neilson, 180; Theo. F. Randolph, Zebulon M. Pike, 181: Jona. Dixon, Andrew Kirkpatrick, George C. Lud-
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low, 182; Woodbridge Strong, 183; other notables, 347.
Perth Amboy, settlement of, 23, 361; ar- rival of the "Henry and Francis," 24; first court house, 53; receives Royal charter, 363: railways and manufac- tures, 364; old mansions, 365; famous men, 373; development of transporta- tion, 376; early schools, 378; in the Revolution, 379: civil government, 380; public utilities, 382; Public Library, 383; financial institutions, 384; churches, 336; in World War, 492.
Piscataway, township of, 416.
Political-New Jersey enters the Union, 116; organization of parties, 118; the Parkers as leaders, 120; election of President Grant, 165; succeeding elec- tions, 167.
Prohibition, election in 1919, 169.
Proprietors, the East Jersey, 27; early records of, 29.
Queens College, 185; name changed to Rutgers, 187.
Raritan, township of, 444.
Raritan Valley, settlement of, 19; Wood- bridge settled, 20: early settlers, 21.
Reformed Church, Theological Seminary of, 195.
Revolution, beginning of, 83; first obser- vation committees, 87; Provincial Con- gress at New Brunswick, 88; British troops in New Brunswick and Perth Amboy, 91; privateering, 96; Middle- sex men in military service, 97; Colonel Neilson, 98; other officers, 99; roster of State troops, 105.
· Rutgers College, founding of, 185; change of name from Queens, 187; buildings, 191; courses of instruction, 192; prop- erty and endowment, 193; donors of funds, 194.
Schools, Public, 203; provision for flags at, 203; Schools, New Brunswick, 204;
Perth Amboy, 205; South Amboy, 206; Helmetta, 207; Highland Park, 208; Jamesburg, 209; Metuchen, Middlesex, 210; Milltown, 211; Roosevelt, Sayre- ville, 212; South River, Spotswood, 213; Cranbury, 214; East Brunswick, Madison, 215: Monroe, North Bruns- wick, 216; Piscataway, 217; Plains- boro, Raritan, 218; South Brunswick, 219; Woodbridge, 220; Honor Roll, 221; Teachers' Library, 222; School
Board Association, 223; Supervising Principals' Association, 223; District Teachers' and Parent Teachers' Asso-
ciations, 224; vocational schools, 225. Scottish Covenanters, 24.
Sewaren, clay mines, 411; History Club, 502.
Slavery, introduction of, 68; its disap- pearance, 68.
Soil and products, 71.
South Amboy, city of, 397.
South Brunswick, township of, 431.
Thanksgiving Day, first, 65. Theological Seminary of Reformed Church, 195; buildings, 199.
Townships-North Brunswick and South Brunswick, 51; Monroe, Piscataway, Woodbridge, 52; East Brunswick, 53. Transportation, early, 73; first roads, 74; first ferries and stages, 76; packets, 77; canals, 78; steamboats, railroads, 79.
Visitors, distinguished, 171.
War between the States, 129; New Jersey regiments-First, 130; Ninth, 134; Four- teenth, 138: Twenty-eighth, 141; Ros- ter, 143; First Cavalry, 164.
War, Spanish-American, 167, 484.
War, World, 169, 356; Liberty Loans and campaigns funds, 485; military rolls, 486, 498.
Washington visits Middlesex county, 173. Woman Suffrage, 169.
Woodbridge, settlement of, 20; township of, 401; Knights of Columbus, 501.
BIOGRAPHICAL
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John Twall
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JOHN P. WALL .- The name Wall is a corruption of De Val, and it was introduced into Ireland by the Normans in 1169. The bearers of this name settled in the South of Ireland and held estates in Waterford and Cork. The family seat was in Coolnamuck, Waterford. The estates were sold in 1852 under the Encumbered Estates Act and are now held by the Ormond Buttlers. The name is still carried in the original form by the Spanish and French descendants of the family. In some cases it is written Del Val, notably in that of the Spanish family of Cardinal Merry del Val, secretary to the late Pope Pius X., and his brother, Senor Alfonso del Val, the present Spanish Ambassador to London. They are descended from the Waterford family of Wall, and this eventually was Latinized into its present form. The Ambassador's father, Don Rafael Merry del Val, was for some years secretary to the Spanish Embassy in London. Other notable members of this family were: Colonel Joseph Wall, Governor of Goree in Africa, 1779-1792, son of Garrett Wall; John Wall, a physician, who contributed to the establishment of the porcelain manufactory in Worcester, England. - The Walls of New Jersey are all descendants of this family.
The name was introduced into Spain by Richard Wall, born in Waterford, Ireland, 1693, died in Granada, 1778. He entered the Spanish navy while still a youth, and rose to the rank of major-general. He served as private agent of Spain in Aix La Chapelle; was Minister to the Court of St. James, and later Minister of Foreign Affairs to Ferdi- nand VI. and Charles III. It is to his antiquarian zeal that the world is indebted for the preservation of the Alhambra. His father was a colonel in the army of James II., and had two brothers, one of them being the father of Garret Wall, of further mention.
Garret Wall was born in 1710, and died in 1768. He married Cleary, who died in 1779. Their son, James, is of further mention.
James Wall was born in 1764, and died in 1806. He was an officer of the United Irishmen, and very active in the stirring days of 1798. He was somewhat of a political figure in his time, and his services were much in demand as an orator. He married, in 1794, Mary Brouders, born in 1769, died in 1809. Children : Patrick, of further mention ; Gar- ret, born 1799, died 1842; Ellen, born 1801, died 1851; William, born 1805, died 1869.
Patrick Wall was born in 1796. He was a contractor for army cloth- ing in London during the Crimean War. He returned to Ireland, where he died in the year 1879, and was buried in the family plot in Glanworth. He married, 1825, Hanora Keleher, born 1797, died 1881, daughter of Michael and Mary (Birmingham) Keleher, who were married in 1796. Michael Keleher was born in 1768, and died in 1841 ; his wife was born in 1770, and died in 1800. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wall: 1. Mary, born 1826, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1904; married, 1853,
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Jeremiah Coleman, London, England. 2. Ellen, born 1828, died 1834. 3. Margaret, born 1831 ; last heard from in 1854, when she was living in Brooklyn, New York, where she married John Sattier. 4. James, born 1833, died in London, England, 1916; married, 1864, Ellen Courtney .. 5. Michael, of further mention. 6. John, born 1838; went to Italy as secretary to one of the British representatives at Rome during the Papal War; a letter received from him stated that he was wounded and after that all efforts to locate him failed. 7. Patrick, born 1840, died in London, England, 1913; married, 1866, Hanora Greene, sister to Susanna Greene, who died in London, England, 1912, leaving among their surviving children the Rev. John J. Wall, Rev. William Greene Wall, of London, also Sister Mary Abycia of the Assumption Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Michael Wall was born December 2, 1836, and died in New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, September 7, 1911. He was educated in London, England. On June 12, 1870, he settled in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was engaged in the tailoring business until he retired in 1897. He married, May 11, 1866, Susanna Greene, daughter of George and Mary (Hennessy) Greene, who were married in 1838. George Greene was born in 1811, and died July 7, 1886; he was postmaster and revenue collector in Glanworth for fifty-one years; his wife was born in 1819, and died in 1883. Susanna (Greene) Wall received her education in the Black Rock Convent and the Dublin University of Teachers, after which she became the principal of the Glanworth public schools. Michael and Susanna (Greene) Wall were the parents of nine children: I. Hanna, born 1869, died aged four months. 2. Susanna, born 1873, died aged five months. 3. Annie, born 1876, died aged eleven months. 4. Michael, born 1881, died aged six months. 5. John P., of further men- tion. 6. Mary T., of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 7. Nora M., of New Brunswick, New Jersey; married, December 26, 1912, John F. Nevius, of Deans, New Jersey, where he died August 26, 1920. 8. James M., of New Brunswick, New Jersey; married, January 7, 1902, Emma Wright, daughter of William and Fannie (Breese) Wright; the latter named died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 26, 1911 ; their children were: James Clifford, and George Greene. 9. Margaret C.
John P. Wall, a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is the author of the following works: "When the British Held New Bruns- wick," "New Brunswick During the War of 1812," "How New Bruns- wick Became the County Seat," "Before the Railroad Came to Town," "When County Sheriffs Were Hangiren," "New Brunswick's Navy in the Revolution," "New Brunswick at the Critical Period of the Revo- lution," "The Floods of the Raritan," "When the Irish Came to Amer- ica," "The Settlement and Progress of the Catholic Church at New Brunswick, N. J.," "A History of Clerical Garments," "The Boys of '98," and several other articles of more or less note. He compiled the history of New Brunswick in the World War, and was at one time associate editor of the "Sartorial Art Journal" in New York. Mr. Wall is reputed to have one of the finest private libraries of Americana in New Jersey, and is considered an authority on local history. He was chairman of
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W. H. S. DEMAREST, D. D., L.L. D., President of Rutgers College
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the committee on arrangements to welcome home the soldiers from the Spanish-American War. It was under his direction that the early records of the Common Council were copied for the New Brunswick Historical Society.
Mr. Wall married, January 15, 1903, Elizabeth Hope Macom, daugh- ter of Samuel and Margaret (Harding) Macom, who were married August 12, 1866. Samuel Macom was born September 29, 1841, died December 9, 1889; his wife was born August 1, 1844. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wall: Evelyn Macom and Elizabeth Victoria.
REV. WILLIAM HENRY STEELE DEMAREST, D. D., was born in Hudson, New York, May 12, 1863. He is the son of the Rev. David D. Demarest, D. D., LL. D., for thirty-three years Professor of Pastoral Theology and Sacret Rhetoric in the New Brunswick Theo- logical Seminary. His mother was Catharine L. Demarest, daughter of James Schureman Nevius, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. President Demarest is the first alumnus of Rutgers College to become its president. Ancestrally, his connection with the college is almost co-extensive with its history. He has himself been a trustee since 1899, and was secretary of the board from 1904 until 1906. His father was a trustee of the college from 1858 until his death, in 1898, and secretary of the board from 1866. His maternal grandfather was a trustee from 1825 until 1858, and secretary from 1825 until 1830. His great-grand- father, the Rev. Henry Polhemus, was trustee from 1800 until 1816, and his great-great-grandfather, the Hon. John Schureman, was a trustee from 1782 until 1795.
The boyhood and young manhood of William H. S. Demarest were spent in New Brunswick. He graduated from the grammar school in 1879, and from the college as the first honor man of the class of 1883. After teaching in the grammar school for two years, he entered the Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1888. Being licensed to preach by the Classis of New Brunswick and ordained by the Classis of Orange, he had successful pastorates in the Reformed churches of Walden, New York, ( 1888-1897), and Catskill, New York, (1897-1901). The General Synod of 1901 elected him Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He thus returned to the service of the institution to which his father gave the best years of his life. Dr. Demarest continued in his professorship for five years. During the last of these years he was also acting president of Rutgers College. The trustees elected him president of the college, February 8, 1906, and he was inaugurated, June 20, 1906, in the presence of the largest assembly of alumni and friends which has ever attended a college function at New Brunswick. Rutgers conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1901, and the University of New York gave the same degree in 1916. He also received the degree of LL. D. from Columbia University in 1910, from Union College in 1911, and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1912. In 1909 he served as president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America.
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The first ten years of President Demarest's administration have been marked by a very vigorous life in the old college. The adjustment of the relations with the State, accomplished before the end of Dr. Scott's administration, has borne fruit in largely increased appropriations. The Neilson Campus which adjoins the Queen's Campus became the property of the college through the liberality of Mr. James Neilson, of New Brunswick. Upon it two large buildings have been erected, the Engi- neering building and the Chemistry building. Several smaller pieces of property, including five residences adjoining the Neilson Campus, have been acquired by purchase, so that nearly all the property between the Queen's Campus and the Theological Seminary is in the hands of the college. Upon part of this a new dormitory has been erected at a cost of about $125,000, by the late John Howard Ford, of New York City, a trustee of the college. A large extension of the Robert F. Bal- lantine Gymnasium, which contains a fully-equipped swimming pool, costing more than $30,000, has been erected, Mrs. Robert F. Ballantine giving $27,000 for this purpose. An Entomology building has also been acquired. The college has enlarged its land holdings by an extensive tract comprising two blocks on the western side of College avenue, and by lots on George street, extending from the Neilson Athletic Field to the New Buccleuch Park. Upon the latter four residences have been erected, which are occupied as dormitories by the Rutgers Preparatory School. The strip of land between George street and the canal, and extending westward from a point near Seminary place nearly to the end of College avenue, has become, college property. The College farm has been greatly enlarged so that it now includes nearly 350 acres of land. On it has been erected a handsome Agricultural building by a State appropriation of $100,000. The Short Course building, the Poultry Administration building, greenhouses, dairy barn and other buildings have also been added.
The progress along educational lines in these ten years has not fallen behind that along property lines. The faculty has increased considerably in numbers. Short courses in agriculture during the winter months and a summer session have been established. The number of students in the regular courses has doubled. Several industrial fellow- ships for graduate students have been founded and new lecture courses inaugurated. The loyalty of the Alumni has been strengthened by the founding of several new local Alumni associations, and the ancient interest of the Reformed church in the college, founded by its ministers and elders, has been fostered. The outlook for Rutgers was never before so promising as in the year of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
AUSTIN SCOTT, PH. D., LL. D., was born in Maumee, near Toledo, Ohio, August 10, 1848. He graduated from Yale College with the degree of A. B., in 1869. After a year of post-graduate study at the University of Michigan, he received the degree of A. M. He then studied three years at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his Ph. D. from the latter university in 1873. During the same years
AUSTIN SCOTT, Ph.D., LL. D., Voorhees Professor of History and Political Science, Rutgers College
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he was engaged with Mr. George Bancroft in the preparation of the tenth volume of his "History of the United States." He also carried dispatches to General Washington which contained the decision of Emperor William, as arbitrator, between Great Britain and the United States, in regard to the northwestern boundary. Dr. Scott was instructor in German at the University of Michigan (1873-75). He collected and arranged materials for Bancroft's "History of the Constitution of the United States" (1875-82), at the same time acting as associate in history at Johns Hopkins University. He there organized a seminar of American History, and conducted it from 1876 until 1882.
In 1883 Dr. Scott was made Professor of History, Political Economy and Constitutional Law, at Rutgers. On November 25, 1890, he was elected president of the college, and was inaugurated February 4, 1891. He conducted its affairs with great ability and devotion for fifteen years, until January 1, 1906, when his desire to devote a larger part of his time and abilities to the work of teaching and writing led him to relin- quish the duties of the executive. During his administration, the Col- lege Extension Department was organized and successfully carried on, the teaching of the English Bible was introduced into the curriculum, and in other respects the educational side of the college was enlarged. On the property side, the improvement during these years was very marked. Two of the handsomest college buildings were erected. Mr. Robert F. Ballantine, of Newark, for many years a trustee of the college, was the generous donor of a well-equipped gymnasium, and Mr. Ralph Voorhees gave the college a new library. The ground for both of these buildings was the gift of Mr. James Neilson. Van Nest Hall was improved, chiefly by the liberality of Mrs. Ann Bussing, of New York. The house adjoining the preparatory school was purchased and put into use for the younger scholars. The campus was also greatly improved and beautified. By the generosity of Mr. James Neilson, the students have the use of the Neilson Athletic Field.
It was from Dr. Scott's initiative that the Alumni Endowment Fund was begun in the first year of his administration, a fund which not only promises ever increasing advantage to the college treasury, but which binds a large number of loyal alumni to their alma mater. Large additions were also made in this period to the general endow- ments of the institution by the liberality of Mr. Robert Schell, Miss Helen M. Gould, Mr. Peter Donald, and others. By no means the least of Dr. Scott's accomplishments were the adjustment of the long-stand- ing account with the State, and the passage of a new law governing the State appropriations to the college.
Since his resignation as president, in 1906, Dr. Scott has continued to perform the duties of the Voorhees Professorship of History and Political Science with eminent success. The degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon him by Princeton in 1891, and by Rutgers in 1914.
JOHN HOWARD RAVEN, A. M., D. D .- The active work of the ministry claimed Dr. Raven, but for twenty-seven years he has filled the chair of Old Testament Languages and Exegesis at the Theo-
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logical Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Bruns- wick, New Jersey. Dr. Raven ranks high as a theologian and has filled and is still filling important engagements. He is a son of Anton Adolph and Gertrude (Oatman) Raven, his father born in Curacao, the largest of the Dutch West India Islands, September 30, 1833, died in Caldwell, New Jersey, January 15, 1919. Anton A. Raven was president of the Atlantic Insurance Company, of New York City, and a man of influence in the business world. He married Gertrude Oatman, born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 15, 1840, died in Brooklyn, New York, March 7, 1914.
John Howard Raven was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 3, 1870, and after private school study entered the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, finishing with the class of 1887. He spent the next four years at Rutgers College, whence he was graduated A. B., 1891 ; A. M., 1894. Choosing the profession of a minister of the gospel, he prepared at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there completed his studies in Divinity, class of 1894. In 1899 Rutgers College conferred the honorary degree, D. D., and in 1902-03 Dr. Raven pursued special courses of study at the University of Berlin. He was licensed to preach by the South Classis of Long Island of the Reformed Church in America, in 1894, and the same year was ordained by the Classis of New Brunswick pastor of the Reformed church at Metuchen, New Jersey, a charge he faithfully fulfilled for five years.
During the years 1898-99 he was acting professor of Old Testa- ment Languages and and Exegesis, and in 1899 he resigned his pastorate and has since most ably filled the same chair as a full faculty member. During the years 1910-13 he was lecturer on the English Bible at Rutgers College, and he is the author of many works, including the following : "Old Testament Introduction, General and Special," 1906; "Essentials of Hebrew Grammar," 1908; "Biblical Hermeneutics," 1910. He is also the compiler of a "General Catalogue of Rutgers College, 1766- 1916," having previously, 1909, completed an edition of same; and "Bio- graphical Record of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1784-1911." He is vice-president of the educational body of the Reformed Church in America ; was president of the Zeta Psi fraternity of North America, in 1912; member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a trustee of Rutgers College. He is biographer of the Rutgers Alumni Association, and of the Alumni Association of the Seminary, and chairman of the committee on Necrol- ogy, of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of America. He is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the American Geographical Society. His clubs are the University, Interchurch Clergy, Zeta Psi of New York City, Middlesex Country and the Rutgers of New Bruns- wick. His religious affiliation is with the Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick.
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