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Asbury Park, and two years supervising grand regent; the Young Men's Christian ion, and Kiwanis Club. In religion he is a erian, and has been deacon of the First of this denomination of Asbury Park since
ctober 10, 1899, at East Orange, New Jer- . Strassburger was united in marriage with ay Hartmann, daughter of the late George uise (Kleinecke) Hartmann, the former for ears previous to his death, a steel engraver e American Bank Note Company. In later e returned to his farm in Ocean county, is death occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Strass- have no children. They reside at Stokes the summer, and in the winter they return home at No. 35 Corlies avenue, Neptune p. The interests of Albert Louis Emil Strass- have been varied and all along lines of ; and improvement. He is a broad-minded o places a correct valuation upon life, its nities and its privileges, and in the course esidence in this section he has become well both his social and business intercourse and je many friends.
.PS CHERRY-For many years prominent usiness life of Keyport, Phelps Cherry now among the leading men of the community. es of an old New Jersey family, and is a Henry and Mary C. Cherry, both residents an township, and the father a wheelwright e, a Democrat by political affiliation. Mr. was married twice and was the father of Idren: John P. and William H. by the first lizabeth Cherry, and two children, Sarah E. elps, by the second wife, Mary C. Cherry. nily were always connected with the Meth- piscopal church.
Cherry was born in Keyport, New Jersey, 1866. He was educated in the grammar and hools of his native place. His school days : entered the employ of T. S. R. Brown, of , then a leader in the lumber, hardware l business here, and was thus engaged in acity of salesman and bookkeeper for a of five years. He then went to Michigan, le was identified with the Delaware Copper Company for a time, as clerk, after which rned East and accepted a position in the [ the E. W. Bliss Manufacturing Company, klyn, New York. He afterward became man- a branch office for the Union Transfer and
Company, in New York City. He was rd employed in the Winteston Brothers Mar- oklyn, New York. Returning to Keyport in r. Cherry established himself in the grocery here, and with this wide experience, to- with his tireless energy and natural business soon built up a large and prosperous inter- : still continues in this field of endeavor, and : progress of the times he has advanced, al- seping at the head with new methods and
equipment, until now he handles not only one of the largest stores of this kind in Keyport, but one of the best, commanding the highest class of trade.
As an individual Mr. Cherry has also become a significant figure in the life of Keyport. Independent in political convictions, he supports every worthy effort of public import, bringing his influence to bear against all retrogression. Fraternally he holds membership in the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of the Board of Education. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Cherry married, in Camden, New Jersey, on December 5, 1894, Emma J. Stanger, who was born November 27, 1865, in Willow Grove, near Vineland, New Jersey, a daughter of George C. and Lydia (Gilbert) Stanger, Mr. Stanger having been a Meth- odist preacher. Mr. and Mrs. Cherry have two sons: Earl H., born March 5, 1896; educated in the Key- port schools, and now associated with his father in business; and George S., born January 20, 1900; also educated in Keyport, and now in the employ of the Keyport Banking Company.
Earl H. Cherry, the elder son, enlisted in the United States Army in the World War, on April 15, 1917, went to Sea Girt for training, and was there for two months, after which he was transferred to Camp Mcclellan, Anniston, Alabama. After nine months of training there he was sent to Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, sailing one week later for Liverpool, England, from Hoboken. From Liverpool the route led to Southampton, England, then across the Channel to Havre, France, where the young man saw ten months' service with the 112th Heavy Field Artillery, 29th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. The regiment was quarantined for influ- enza, and after the quarantine was lifted started on to the front. They were on the road three days when the armistice was signed, but remained for some months thereafter, sailing for home from St. Nazaire, France. Mr. Cherry was discharged from Camp Dix, June 3, 1919.
DANIEL EMMET MAHONEY-Prominent ir the mercantile affairs of various prosperous com- munities of Monmouth and a neighboring county Daniel Emmet Mahoney is one of the substantial and progressive men of the day, successful in his own undertakings, and broadly interested in all pub- lic advance.
Mr. Mahoney comes of Irish ancestry, both his parents having been born in County Kerry, Ireland. His father spent the greater part of his life in this country, and served as an officer in the Civil War. Daniel Quinlan Mahoney (father) was a well known contractor and builder in St. Louis at the time the Civil War broke out. He was then erecting several large churches, but during the progress of the war he served in a military company in St. Louis, guard- ing government property. He was highly skilled in the use of firearms, and won a silver cup and a number of medals for marksmanship. After the
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ort, New Jersey, April 24, 1911. The mother se children died May 3, 1911. Mr. Labrecque ed (second) Mrs. Winifred C. Jones, of New south, New Jersey, born in Middletown, New 7, June 29, 1882.
: present Mrs. Labrecque had three children by mer marriage: Frederic Jones, Harold Jones, innie Jones. Mr. Labrecque is taking care of ducating a very large family, five children by st marriage and three children by the former age of the present Mrs. Labrecque.
IN OLIVER BROANDER-Two generations e citizens of Keansburg will recognize this as that of one who for upward of half a cen- vas one of the town's most respected residents. roander was a seafaring man, always taking a but helpful interest in whatever promised to t his community.
n Oliver Broander was born at Faro Sound, and, Sweden, and at the age of nineteen emi- i to the United States, settling in Granville, Keansburg, New Jersey. All the active years i life were spent in the oyster industry, his ef- not only yielding him a competence, but win- for him the reputation of a thoroughly able :uly honest man. He followed the sea, on old g vessels, advancing from cabin boy to mas- His political principles were those upheld by epublican party, but he never allowed himself made a candidate for public office.
Broander married, November 2, 1879, in Old nie Wilson's house, at Port Monmouth, Mary hester, and their children were: 1. Mary e, married Lisle Ward, of Keyport. 2. Edward. rrie (Kempton). 4. Stephen Johnson, married . Brown, of Belford, New Jersey, and they one child, Gerald. 5. Arabelle Campbell, men- I below. 6. John Oliver, married Viola Van , of Port Monmouth, and they have two chil- Milicent and Viola Beatrice. 7. Henry Irving, ed Sarah Snelgrove, of Jersey City. 8. Charles ;, served in the World War as a member of any D, Third Battalion, at Camp Dix, dis- ed December 10, 1918, from Camp Devens, achusetts. 9. Floyd Dinsmore, married Anna , of Mattawan. 10. Melvin Ramsay, belonged e Student Army Training School of Columbia Irsity, and is still studying at that institution. Oliver Broander, the father, died at Keans- in April, 1917, at the age of seventy-five years. Broander was one of the finest types of Ameri- itizens of foreign birth, inasmuch as he achiev- norable prosperity and made himself a valued ver of his community.
ibelle Campbell Broander, daughter of John r and Mary (Manchester) Broander, was born ansburg, New Jersey, December 20, 1887. She ded the local schools, spent one year at Brock- Academy, Brockton, then returned to Keans-
In 1908 she became a clerk in the post office, salary of three dollars a week, Mrs. Ramsay the first postmaster. In 1913 Miss Broander
took charge, being the second postmaster of Keans- burg, and is still serving in that capacity. The post office department has increased 100 per cent. in eff- ciency under her management, it being then fourth class, but now second class. The citizens of Keans- burg presented to Miss Broander a gold watch, with diamond studded case, for her services in se- curing for the borough, village delivery and for the installation of street letter boxes. During the World War she was chairman of the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, and took a prominent part in all war work, being equally prominent in church and social work. She is active in the work of Keansburg Methodist Church, having served as vice-president of the Junior League. She also served as vice-presi- dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Keansburg Fire Company No. 1, of Keansburg, the oldest here, and is second vice-president of the New Jersey State Association of Postmasters. She is a member of Freedom Council, No. 36, Daughters of Liberty, of Keyport, New Jersey.
JAMES PATTERSON HOPPING-On the road from New Monmouth to Atlantic Highlands, sitting back from the road and surrounded by acres of fine farm land, stands a beautiful old farm house so un- common in design that the passerby views it with curious eyes, wondering apparently how old the house is and who owns it. That house is the old Hopping homestead, built in 1797, and the home of James Patterson Hopping, who is also its owner. He has carefully preserved the original design of the house, and, save for some interior modern im- provements, the house stands as when finished one hundred and twenty-five years ago, when it became the home of his grandfather.
The Hoppings are a Scotch-Irish family, Presby- terians from the North of Ireland, who came to New Jersey, settling first in Morris county, coming thence to Monmouth, where James Hopping was born in 1771, died in 1836. He was born in Middle- town township, there married, and became a pros- perous farmer and influential in township, county and State affairs. He was a civil engineer, a com- missioner of deeds and acting judge for the town- ship, and widely known as a man of ability and public spirit.
John J. Hopping was born at the homestead, July 4, 1821, and died June 5, 1890. He married Febru- ary 14, 1850, Hannah Patterson, daughter of James and Deborah (Trafford) Patterson, her father born in Middletown township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1774, died in 1867. She was a grand- daughter of Judge Jehu Patterson and his wife Han- nah, he a noted civil engineer, who ran lines for the original Erie canal, his descendant, James Pat- terson Hopping, now owning the compass he used. John J. Hopping was a farmer and surveyor. He left three children: James Patterson, of further men- tion; Mary A., born July 25, 1854; John T., born January 28, 1860.
James Patterson Hopping, eldest of the children of John J. and Hannah (Patterson) Hopping, was
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and Germantown, Pennsylvania (October 4, 1777), afterwards serving sundry tours in the First Regi- ment, Monmouth County Militia. He married, on January 9, 1777, Jane Williamson, who was born July 5, 1758, and died January 28, 1845, and they were the parents of twelve children: Mary, Jacob P., Albert, of whom further; Williampe, Anne, John, William, Isaac P., Peter P., Arthur, Jane, and Sarah.
(IV) Albert Van Dorn, son of Peter and Jane (Williamson) Van Dorn, and Dr. Van Dorn's grand- father, was born November 14, 1781, and died De- cember 14, 1849. He was a farmer, and lived near Freehold, New Jersey. He married, on March 14, 1803, Sarah Conover, and they had nine children: John Conover, Peter Albert, Elias, Garret, of whom further; Jane, Jacob A., Eleanor M., William A., and David M.
(V) Garret Van Dorn, son of Albert and Sarah (Conover) Van Dorn, was born in 1809 on a farm near Freehold, New Jersey, and was a builder by trade, carrying on an extensive contracting busi- ness in Red Bank and vicinity. He was a Democrat by political affiliation, and he and his family were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in 1881. He married Elizabeth White, of Red Bank, New Jersey, who lived to the age of ninety- three years. They were the parents of three chil- dren: One died in infancy; Sarah E., lived to maturity, and became the wife of Alvin M. Cady, a civil engineer, but is now deceased; and Dr. Horace B., of whom further.
(VI) Dr. Horace B. Van Dorn, son of Garret and Elizabeth (White) Van Dorn, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and received his early edu- cation in the public schools of the place. His pre- ceptor in dentistry, his chosen profession, was Dr. Borden, then a prominent practitioner in this sec- tion. For years Dr. Van Dorn was connected with him, both as student and as associate. Later Dr. Van Doren established an independent practice in Long Branch, New Jersey, but his work at Red Bank eventually came to occupy his entire atten- tion, and he discontinued the Long Branch office. He is now the oldest dentist, in point of practice, in the borough of Red Bank, and holds the lead- ing position among his colleagues.
Dr. Van Dorn is a member of the National Den- tal Association, and of the New Jersey and Mon- mouth County Dental Societies, also of the Dental Protective Association. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and has served as vestryman for many years.
Dr. Van Dorn married, in Red Bank, Harriett R. Goff, daughter of Walter S. and Emily S. Goff, and of their four children one, Edith Marguerite, died in infancy. Those living are: Horace B., Jr., of Boston, Massachusetts, representing there the Dixon Graphite Company, who married Mabel Wikoff, and has two children: Laura Wikoff, and Horace, 3d; Elizabeth B., wife of Warren R. Hamilton, now of Red Bank, but formerly of New Orleans, Louisi- ana, insurance broker in New York City, has one
child, Elizabeth; and Walter M., unmarried, who is engaged in the automobile business in Red Bank.
SHERMAN OVIATT DENNIS-Since he was eighteen years of age Sherman Oviatt Dennis has been identified with the hotel business, and the thorough training which he received in his younger days thoroughly qualified him for the responsible position which he now holds as resident manager of the New Monterey Hotel, of Asbury Park which is without doubt the finest of its kind in this vicinity.
Sherman Oviatt Dennis was born in Eatontown, New Jersey, July 13, 1879, the son of George H. and Mary M. (Patterson) Dennis, the former for many years cashier and paymaster of the Laurel- in-the-Pines Hotel at Lakewood. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Dennis, both deceased, were the par- ents of three children: Sherman Oviatt, of further mention; Mary, who married Fred C. Stanford, with the General Electric Company at Buffalo, New York; George E., cashier of the New Monterey during the summer months, and at the New Willard, Washington, D. C., during the winter months.
Sherman Oviatt Dennis attended the Manasquar schools until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered the employ of the New York & Long Branch railroad as telegraph operator. Four years later he resigned from this position and became bell boy at the Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel at Lake- wood, and from this meagre beginning worked up to the position of chief auditor and paymaster. remaining here for seven years. Mr. Dennis then went to the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, Louisi- ana, as first assistant manager, remaining for six winters, and during the summer months of this period he was at Jefferson, New Hampshire. From 1905 until 1911 he was travelling accountant for Price, Waterhouse & Company, the largest charter- ed accountants in this country. The following year, after severing his connection with this firm, Mr. Dennis became manager of the New Monterey Hotel, which position he held summers until 1918, when he became resident manager. In 1917-18 he organized and opened the New Farragut Hotel at Knoxville, Tennessee, which is the largest and finest in the South.
In all matters relative to the city's welfare, Sherman Oviatt Dennis has ever manifested a deep and sincere interest, aiding to his utmost any move- ment which tends to further public progress and good government. He is no office-seeker, prefer- ring, moreover, to concentrate his energies on the faithful discharge of his various trusts and respon- sibilities. He is a member of the Asbury Park Rotary Club; the New Jersey Hotel Men's Associa- tion; Asbury Park Hotel Association; and is a mem- ber of the Asbury Park Golf Club, of which he is chairman of the house committee.
Mr. Dennis married (first), May 19, 1903, Phoebe E. Avery, daughter of Samuel Avery, a professor of languages at Lenoxville College, Ontario. Mrs. Dennis died in 1916, leaving two children: Sherman
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A., born June 25, 1904, now with his father in the hotel business; Helen E., born April 17, 1907. Mr. Dennis married (second) Dorothy T. Schneider, daughter of John L. and Anna S. Schneider, by whom he has one child, Dorothy T., born July 28, 1919. The family home is at No. 705 Broadway, Long Branch, New Jersey.
JOEL HULTS BURCHELL, for many years con- nected with construction work in Long Branch, was born at Dover, New Jersey, November 14, 1856, and died in Long Branch, New Jersey, January 23, 1921. He was a son of Ebenezer Clark Burchell, who died in Dover, New Jersey, August 28, 1899, at the age of sixty-four, and his wife, Eleanor Louise Bur- chell, who died October 10, 1881.
Joel H. Burchell attended the public schools of Dover until fourteen years of age, then began learn- ing the carpenter's trade with his uncle, Crowel Hults, of Manasquan, New Jersey, preferring that to his father's trade, wagon maker. After four years apprenticeship at Manasquan, he located in Long Branch, and was a foreman for Richard V. Breese, a leading contractor and builder of Long Branch, whose business was taken over by Joel H. Burchell and David H. Woolley shortly after 1890, and they conducted business as Woolley & Burchell until 1917, when the firm dissolved. Mr. Burchell continuing alone until his death.
In his contracting operations Mr. Burchell cover- ed a wide field, erecting many of the fine residences in the Elberon section of Long Branch proper, and along the Rumson Road. He did all the carpenter work on one of the great Rumson Road estates for about thirty-three years, and had other customers that he served for but a few years less. He was frequently in charge of other than house building operations, notably the laying of the temporary track from Elberon station of the New York & Long Branch railroad to the very veranda of the Frank- lyn Cottage, over which on the morning of Sep- tember 6, 1881, the car was run in which lay the wounded President Garfield, who had been shot by the assassin, Guiteau, July 2, 1881. When it was decided that President Garfield should be brought to Long Branch, the Franklyn Cottage on the ocean front at Elberon was offered by its owner, and in order that the president be moved as little as pos- sible a track was laid connecting the railroad with the cottage. Work was begun under Mr. Burchell's direction at five P. M., September 5th, and con- tinued throughout the entire night until early morn- ing of the 6th of September, when the train engine drew the President's car across the lawn and he was carried within, never to come out again alive.
While supporting the candidates of the Repub- lican party at national elections, Mr. Burchell was extremely independent in his political action at local and state elections. He was an attendant of the Baptist church, of Long Branch, of which his wife was a member. He was a devoted member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having joined that order in Matawan, New Jersey, and later trans- ferred his membership to Empire Lodge, No. 174,
of Long Branch, and in that lodge passed all the chairs.
Joel H. Burchell married, at Matawan, New Jer- sey, December 2, 1872, Mary Elizabeth Cottrell, her parents both deceased. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Burchell: Eddie J. and Georgie, the two eldest, dying in infancy; Holmes Clark, of further mention; Elsie Louise, born August 28, 1899.
HOLMES CLARK BURCHELL - Among the younger men of Long Branch, Holmes C. Burchell, formerly associated with his father in the contract- ing business, takes a prominent position. He is a son of Joel H. Burchell, whose recent death leaves his son the head of the business founded by the father.
Holmes C. Burchell was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, February 1, 1889, and was educated in the grammar and high schools of this city. While still a lad in school he served an extensive news- paper route, and displayed unusual interest in busi- ness affairs. In 1907 he entered business life by engaging in the real estate business, an activity which he followed for about six years, meanwhile taking a course in mechanical drawing with the International Correspondence School, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. For a time he was employed as draftsman with the Roberts Boiler Company, of Red Bank, New Jersey, then became associated with his father in general contracting and building. During the period of war between Germany and the United States, Mr. Burchell enlisted on August 26, 1918, and was assigned to Company C, 33rd Machine Gun Battalion, Lafayette Division, and was in Camp Meade, Maryland, until discharged from the ser- vice, January 27, 1919. He then entered the em. ploy of the Westinghouse Company, of Newark, New Jersey, as machinist, remaining for some months. In September of the same year Mr. Bur- chell returned to Long Branch, and again became associated with his father, taking over the entire interest at his father's death, and now is head of the business concern, which is a large and con- stantly increasing one.
Politically, Mr. Burchell is one of the active young men of the Republican party, and serves as a mem- ber of the City Committee. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and the Masonic Club. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, of Long Branch, and a young man highly esteemed, both as a business man and citizen.
THE PATTERSON FAMILY - When Joseph Patterson and his wife Mary located at West Farms, Howell township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1777, that section was a dense forest, with few and widely scattered dwellings. They were then newly wed, there they spent their after life, and in that section their seven children were born. Their descendants are numerous.
Joseph Patterson was born in Northern New Jer- sey, of English parentage, in 1752, and died at his
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home in Monmouth county, New Jersey, November 30, 1833. He was a soldier of the Revolution; was captured by the British, and held a prisoner on Long Island for over a year. He married, in 1776, Mary Sutton, born in 1755, of Dutch ancestry, and in 1777 they moved to Monmouth county, New Jer- sey, where Mary (Sutton) Patterson died in Janu- ary, 1842. Joseph and Mary (Sutton) Patterson were the parents of seven children: Jeannette; Phoebe, William I., of further mention; Willimpee. Leria, Isaac S., and Sarah.
William I. Patterson, eldest son of Joseph and Mary (Sutton) Patterson, was born at the home farm in Howell township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, June 4, 1781, and died May 24, 1849, aged sixty-seven years, eleven months, twenty days. He married, January 15, 1805, Esther Lippincott, who died February 17, 1853, aged seventy-one years and eighteen days. They were the parents of eight children.
Elizabeth Patterson, eldest child of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born Octo- ber 27, 1805, died May 6, 1887. She married Isaac Fielder, and lived in different places. They were the parents of three children, all of whom died in early childhood: Hettie E., David T., and John T.
Mary S. Patterson, second child of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born February 5, 1807; married, April 8, 1826, William Henry Goodenough, of Farmingdale, New Jersey. They were the parents of William L., Elizabeth, and George Goodenough, the last-named, the last sur- vivor of the family, dying at West Farms, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, in January, 1917.
William L. Patterson, eldest son of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born July 4, 1809, died in Lebanon, Ohio, May 17, 1887. At one time he owned the flour and feed mill at West Farms, which later he sold. He was a farmer at Bound Brook for a time, then moved to Lebanon, Ohio, where he died. He married, February 9, 1832, Jennette Anderson, of Rutland county, Vermont, and they were the parents of three children: 1. Emma, married Asher W. Matthews, and died in 1871; her two children died young. 2. Colonel George P., born in 1843, died in 1887, a veteran officer of the Union army, commanding the Forty- eighth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. He married (first) Emma Higgins, who died No- vember 11, 1864; (second) Lee Sarah Duckworth, of Ohio, who survived him. 3. Susan A., died un- married, April 25, 1907.
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