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Daniel Patterson, second son of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born Septem- ber 4, 1811, died in 1826.
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Sarah Patterson, fifth child of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born June 15, 1814. She married, in May, 1883, William Megill, a contractor, and lived at West Farms, New Jersey, all her life. They were the parents of seven chil- dren: 1. Hettie E., married Jackson Van Chief, and had a son Elijah. 2. Leonard, a carpenter, died unmarried. 3. Margaret, married Lewis Bear- more, a carpenter; no children. 4. Sarah Ann, mar-
ried William Davison, of Princess Bay, Staten Is- land, and they were the parents of Harriet and Frederick. 5. Mary, married John Soden, of Free- hold, New Jersey, and they were the parents of: Lillian, William, and Helena. 6. Emma, married Samuel Jewell, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, a keep- er of the Sandy Hook lighthouse. They were the parents of Arthur, Grace and another. 7. Fletcher, died unmarried.
Ancelletta Patterson, sixth child of William. I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born Sep- tember 4, 1817, died October 19, 1853, in her thirty-seventh year. She married, December 20, 1838, Correll Howland, who survived her and be- came proprietor of the Howland House, the first hotel in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, to open for the accommodation of guests. Mr. and Mrs. Howland were the parents of: Hettie Ann, and Elwood How- land, both deceased.
Isaac B. Patterson, third son, and seventh child of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born March 5, 1819. He always lived near the homestead at West Farms, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and there died, April 24, 1885. He married, February 24, 1842, Ruhamah Hall, who died July 2, 1874, aged fifty-two years, eleven months, and eleven days. They were the parents of eleven chil- dren: 1. Revoe W., married Catherine M. Lane, and they were the parents of: Everett; Ruhamah, who died January 28, 1901, in her twenty-fifth year; Mary E., married Clarence Matthews; Ira B., died December 17, 1920, in his fortieth year; and Allen R. Patterson. 2. Burris, unmarried, died July 11, 1875, age thirty years, nine months and thirteen days. 3. Ruhamah, married William Borden, a farmer of near Fairfield Station, New Jersey, and died August 21, 1914, having been a widow several years. Mr. and Mrs. Borden were the parents of six children: i. Sarah, married John Miller, of Fairfield. ii. Brittie, died unmarried. iii. Re- becca, married Willard Sutphen, of Jerseyville, New Jersey. iv. William A., married Jennie Gilbert, of West Farms, New Jersey. v. Nettie A., married Howard Ketcham, of West Farms. vi. Howard, married a lady of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. 4. Amanda, married Ezekiel Vann, and now resides at Bradley Beach, New Jersey; they are the parents of a son, Isaac Burris Vann, who married Luella Fennimore. 5. Jennette, married Monroe Huff, of Ardena, New Jersey, who died in September, 1913, his widow surviving him until March 22, 1921, dying at Spring Lake, New Jersey; Charles Huff, their son, died in childhood. 6. Anna C., married Clar- ence Sutphen, of West Farms. 7. Everetta, died, unmarried, November 18, 1882, in her twenty-sev- enth year. 8. George A., a farmer, married Laura Allen, and has two children: Oscar A., who married Emma Hankinson; and Edna. 9. Brittie, died April 17, 1865, in his fourth year. 10. Allen Elmer, died April 17, 1880, in his eighteenth year. 11. Beulah, died April 22, 1883, in her eighteenth year.
George L. Patterson, eighth child of William I. and Esther (Lippincott) Patterson, was born April 17, 1822, and engaged as a farmer until his death,
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which occurred January 17, 1907. He married (first) January 26, 1848, Joanna B. Hall, who died April 18, 1870, and they were the parents of five children: 1. Mulford D., born October 31, 1843, died July 24, 1908; he married (first) Mary Ann Parker, (second) Sarah Ann Elmer, and they were the parents of three children: William I., who mar- ried Gussie Emmons, and lives at West Farms, New Jersey; George, who married Nellie Schenck, of Newark, and there resides; and Owen, who is un- married. 2. Mary, married Frank Herbert, of Avon, New Jersey, and had a large family. 3. Wil- liam, married Carrie Morris, and after her death moved to Shelbyville, Indiana, and again married there and resumed business as a merchant. 4. Ger- trude, married George E. Farry, of Farmingdale, New Jersey, and they are the parents of: Ella, who married De Witt Applegate, of Shafto Corner; Wal- ter; Georgianna, married Elbert Bennett, of Farm- ingdale; Ollie, a farmer, married Ida Patterson, of Farmingdale; Lester, a soldier of the American Ex- peditionary Forces, who died overseas in 1918. 5. Samuel A., a merchant and farmer, married (first) Nettie Madera, of Pennsylvania, who died leaving two children: Florence, married (first) Ed- ward Conover, of West Farms, New Jersey, whom she survived, and married (second) Clarence Con- over, of Jerseyville, New Jersey; and Charles, a farmer, living near Farmingdale, New Jersey. Sam- uel A. Patterson married (second) a lady of North Farmingdale. George L. Patterson married (sec- ond) Mary A. Neisbeit, who died July 6, 1912.
WILLIAM T. FRANKLIN-For many years the aforementioned name has been a familiar one in the business world of Atlantic Highlands, New Jer- sey, and also for a considerable period Mr. Franklin has been identified with the public life of the com- munity in various offices of practical service. He is a son of Rev. William and Jane (Throckmorton) Franklin, his father a native of England, who came to this country when eighteen years of age. Rev. William Franklin was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for many years served the New Jersey Conference, preaching in many towns of this State, his devoted pastoral labors being the means of much good.
William T. Franklin was born in Jacobstown, New Jersey, June 30, 1858. He attended the public schools of various towns and cities of New Jersey, as the family residence changed with the itiner- ancy of the father as a Methodist minister. His education was completed with a special business course under the preceptorship of William Cox, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. As soon as his studies were completed, Mr. Franklin came to At- lantic Highlands, where he engaged in the baggage express and livery business. Beginning in a small way, he developed a thriving interest, then later, finding broader possibilities in the coal and wood business, he dropped his earlier activities and has since been engaged along the present line. He han- dies a very extensive business in coal and wood,
and is one of the leading merchants of the com- munity.
In financial and civic affairs Mr. Franklin is also a figure of significance. He is a stockholder in the Atlantic Highlands National Bank, and is con- nected with the Building and Loan Association of Atlantic Highlands as a member of the auditing committee. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and he has served in various pub- lic capacities. As a member of the Borough Coun- cil at the time of the organization of the borough government, he was for ten years borough clerk, for six years he filled the office of borough registrar, and during the history of the borough has served as a member and secretary of the Board of Health for a number of years. Fraternally, Mr. Franklin held membership in the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and at present (1922) a member of the board of trustees of the church, being president of the board.
Mr. Franklin married, at Red Bank, New Jersey, on January 14, 1880, Anna M. Hammond, dangh- ter of John B. and Amanda (Parker) Hammond, and they have one daughter, A. Mildred.
WILLIAM EDWARD PRESTON-Prominent in the farming community of Marlboro township, and himself a native of New Jersey, William E. Preston is bearing a share in the general progress. Mr. Pres- ton's family came originally from England, and his grandfather, John Preston, lived to the great age of one hundred and four years and five months, then died in 1880 or 1881. He married Grace Burrowes.
James Preston, son of John and Grace (Burrowes) Preston, was born in England in 1825, and came to the United States as a young man, locating in Middlesex county, New Jersey, where he became a well known and highly respected farmer, and lived to the age of ninety-four years, passing away in 1919. He married Elizabeth Sayre, of Manchester, England, who was born in 1834, and died April 16, 1914. They were the parents of: John, born April 2, 1865, and died in 1918; William Edward, whose name heads this review; Emma, the wife of Wil- liam Green, of Old Bridge, New Jersey; Arthur, of Brooklyn, New York; and Ida, who died in 1894, at about eighteen years of age.
William Edward Preston was born in Browntown, Middlesex county, New Jersey, March 23, 1867, and was educated in the public schools of that county, later supplementing the common school course with attendance at night schools in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Preston's first employment was with an uncle in his butcher shop in Brooklyn, then, later on, he entered the butcher business with his brother John, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1908 they sold out to Kopper & Kline, when William E. Preston came to Marlboro township and purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres from Mrs. Tunis. He has conducted this farm very success- fully since, and holds a position among the leaders in agricultural activities in this county.
In the public life of the community Mr. Preston
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has been brought forward, and has for some years served as a member of the Board of Education of Marlboro township. He is a member of the Mes- siah Episcopal Church of Brooklyn, New York.
Mr. Preston married Minnie Holmes, who comes of an old New Jersey family. She is a grand- daughter of John Holmes, who was born in Mat- awan, New Jersey, January 28, 1812, and died Janu- ary 6, 1898. He married, on April 18, 1836, Mary Ann Walling, who died December 5, 1879, and they were the parents of five children: Mary Anne, born March 8, 1837, died January 27, 1875; William W., of whom further; Lydia, born July 18, 1846; Eleanor R, born September 4, 1851, died April 19, 1876; and Minerva, born April 9, 1854.
William W. Holmes, second child of the above family, was born September 5, 1848, and was for many years a resident of Keyport, New Jersey. He died April 28, 1910. He married Rachael Lombard, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was born August 29, 1851, and they were the parents of ten chil- dren: William, Jr., born July 26, 1872, and now a resident of Brooklyn, New York; Thomas and James, who both died in infancy; Minnie, of whom further; John, born July 12, 1879, now an auto- mobile salesman of Perth Amboy; Irene, wife of Joseph Skidmore, of Elizabeth, New Jersey; Sallie, wife of John Gross, of Perth Amboy; G. Cleveland, born February 22, 1885, now telephone foreman in Jersey City; Claude, of Perth Amboy, born Febru- ary 17, 1887; and Arthur, also of Perth Amboy, and an electrician by occupation, born May 27, 1889.
Minnie Holmes, fourth child and eldest daughter of the above family, became the wife of William Edward Preston, as above noted, and they are the parents of nine children, as follows: Marion, How- ard, William Edward, Jr., Dorothy, Roland, Evelyn Grace, Ray, Edward, and Avis. The family are socially prominent in Holmdel.
WILLIAM MORFORD Since the earliest set- tlement of New Jersey by the sturdy pioneers from Western Europe, the most significant activities of the people of Monmouth county, New Jersey, have been along agricultural lines. Generation after generation the people have tilled the soil, not only for the profit of the moment, but for the continued prosperity of the section, with the result that this county is a veritable garden spot. At the present day few finer farms are seen than that owned by William Morford, one of the progressive citizens of New Monmouth, New Jersey, who receiving his original property by inheritance, has added to it and improved it in many ways, and still makes it his home as well as the means of profitable activity. Mr. Morford is a descendant of a well known Mon- mouth county family, and son of George and Eme- line (Mosher) Morford. His father was a lifelong farmer, and a prominent Republican of his day.
William Morford was born in New Monmouth, New Jersey, July 8, 1869, and received a thorough- ly practical education in the public schools of his native place. After completing his studies the young
man took up the work of the home farm with his father, and was associated with him until the death of the latter, which occurred May 10, 1908. After his father's death, Mr. Morford added to his own inheritance by the purchase of the larger portion of the homestead farm from the other heirs, and has since devoted his time and attention to the conduct of the place, carrying on extensive opera- tions in diversified farming, and now holds a posi- tion of prominence in the community.
A Republican by political affiliation, Mr. Morford is rather a worker than a leader in party affairs, and is deeply interested in all progress. He has various business interests aside from the farm, and is a stockholder in the Broad Street National Bank of Red Bank, New Jersey. He is a member of the Baptist church of New Monmouth.
Mr. Morford married, on January 1, 1896, in New Monmouth, Clara Curtis Walling, who comes of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Mon- mouth county, and is a daughter of Fitz Roy and Elizabeth (Curtis) Walling. Mr. and Mrs. Morford are the parents of two children: Ralph W., born March 11, 1897; and Harold R., born August 15, 1899.
ASHER TUNIS APPLEGATE, M. D .- When Dr. Applegate came to Englishtown, New Jersey, in 1871, he was a young man of twenty-five years with about two years experience as a medical practition- er. More than five decades have since elapsed, and he is still an active general practitioner in English- town, standing in the front rank of the medical pro- fession, the friend and confidant of the entire com- munity, and a citizen of intense public spirit and civic usefulness. His worth is fully recognized as both physician and citizen, he having reaped abun- dantly both of professional and civil honors. He is of Middlesex, New Jersey, parentage, a son of James Applegate.
James Applegate, son of Stephen and Elizabeth Applegate, was born in New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, March 25, 1810, and died October 15, 1874. He was a prosperous farmer, and from 1859 until 1862 was sheriff of Middlesex county, New Jersey. He was also a candidate for State senator, but was un- successful, and thereafter took no part in public affairs, but continued farming operations until his passing. He married Dena Dey, daughter of John R. and Hannah Dey, born in Monroe township, Mid- dlesex county, New Jersey, October 6, 1815, died February 19, 1892. Children: Achsah Amelia, mar- ried Jonathan E. Van Doren, of Poughkeepsie, New York; Hannah, married John J. Ely, of Freehold, New Jersey; and Asher Tunis, of further mention. James and Dena (Dey) Applegate are buried in old Tennent Churchyard, the foregoing dates being taken from their gravestones.
Asher Tunis Applegate, only son of James and Dena (Dey) Applegate, was born at the home farm in Monroe township, Middlesex county, New Jersey. September 17, 1846. He was educated in the pub- lic school, Rutgers Preparatory School, under the
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private instruction of John C. Schenck (three years) Princeton College (one year), and the University of Pennsylvania, (medical department), three years. He was graduated M. D. from the last named insti- tution, class of 1869, and began medical practice at Hamilton Square, Mercer county, New Jersey, re- maining there one year.
On April 17, 1871, he began his residence in Englishtown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, and there has completed a full half century of years of successful practice as physician and surgeon. He has won a place in the hearts of his people that can only be reached by the family doctor, and only by him after a lifetime of devotion and service, has given him that perfect confidence that can be ob- tained in no other way. Dr. Applegate is the fam- ily physician in the true sense, being physician to the child, the mother, and to her children, even to the third generation. He has a place reserved for him at every gathering, festive or sacred, is a wel- come guest everywhere, and is the friend of every man, woman and child in Englishtown.
For many years Dr. Applegate has been township physician (Manalapan), and is medical examiner for many fraternal organizations and insurance com- panies. He is a director of the First National Bank, of Englishtown, but has always confined him- self closely to his profession, his practice being general in character, not admitting a divided inter- est. With the years, however, he has permitted his interest in public affairs to assert itself and he has given Englishtown fifteen years of service as mayor, 1907-1922. For nine years he was county collector of Monmouth county, and since November 20, 1920, has been jury commissioner, appointed by Chancellor Walker for a term of three years. His public service has been of a high order, and in his section no man stands higher in public esteem than Dr. Asher T. Applegate, the "beloved physician."
In politics Dr. Applegate is a Democrat, and in religious faith a Presbyterian, serving the First Church, of Englishtown, as trustee. He is a mem- ber of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, having been a member of that lodge since 1871, half a century ago, when first he came to Englishtown. Other orders with which he is affiliated are the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Knights of Pythias, being a charter member of Englishtown Lodge of the last named order. His medical societies are the Mon- mouth County Medical, New Jersey State Medical, and the American Medical, he keeping in touch with the best medical thought through these organiza- tions and their literature.
In the Presbyterian church at Manalapan, New Jersey, October 22, 1873, Dr. Applegate married Jennie C. Wilson, daughter of Robert K. and Helena (Anderson) Wilson, her father a farmer, and both her parents of Manalapan birth. Dr. and Mrs. Applegate are the parents of two sons: James T., born May 30, 1879, a graduate of Free- hold Military School and Pennington Seminary, now a resident of Englishtown; and Kenneth P., born
December 27, 1890, a graduate of Freehold Military Academy, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (E. E. 1912), now electrical engineer with the Hart- ford Electric Light Company, of Hartford, Con- necticut.
Such is a brief outline of a life now in its sev- enty-sixth year, but yet full of energy and useful- ness. It has been a life spent in the service of others, and it is most gratifying to chronicle that the service the good doctor has rendered his fel- lowmen has been appreciated, and that he has reap- ed generously of both the tangible rewards of his profession and of those intangible things, love, re- spect, esteem, that he so much values.
ARTHUR LESLIE PHILIP, who is remembered widely in various circles in Monmouth county, New Jersey, was born in New York City, November 11, 1858, and died in Middletown township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, July 5, 1911. Mr. Philip was a son of Alexander and Mary (Stanley) Philip. The elder Mr. Philip was by occupation a contractor, and making a specialty of churches, he constructed many handsome houses of worship in New York and New Jersey. He conducted important operations, and owned several stone quarries. He was at one time a member of the State Assembly, and was prominent locally.
As a lad, Arthur Leslie Philip attended the pub- lic schools, and also was a graduate of a business college. At the age of twenty-one years he entered a lawyer's office, purposing to prepare for that pro- fession, but finally determined upon a business career, and became a miller, conducting a business in this line for himself at a locality known as Philip's Mill, in Middletown township, and followed this business until 1906. Meanwhile he also pur- chased a farm known as the Daniel Scott farm, once the property of his wifes' father, and conducted both the mill and the farm until he disposed of the mill property in 1906. He continued farming opera- tions until the time of his death. Mr. Philip was broadly interested in all phases of public progress, and politically supported the Republican party. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed church, at Middletown, with which his family are still con- nected. In his passing the community, as well as his close friends, sustained more than an ordinary loss.
On December 29, 1878, Mr. Philip married, at Middletown, Isabella Scott, daughter of Daniel and Isabel (Ramsey) Scott. They were the parents of four children, all now living: Isabel Scott, Marion Ryda, Arthur Leslie, Edgar Roberts.
WILLIAM HENRY SLOCUM, M. D .- While Monmouth county was the early home of numerous Slocum families, and Long Branch the family seat, Judge William Henry Slocum, grandfather of Dr. William Henry Slocum, was born in New York City, but in 1832, when cholera was prevalent in New York, he removed to Long Branch, the home of his ancestors, and became one of the prominent men
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of the county. Judge Slocum was a grandson of Samuel Slocum, and a son of Webley Slocum. His mother, Jemima (Turnier) Slocum, was a grand- daughter of a minister of the gospel who fled from France during the Revolution. The Turniers were a Huguenot family of French and Dutch ancestry. William Henry Slocum, son of Webley and Je- mima (Turnier) Slocum, was born in New York City, June 10, 1813, and lived to a good old age. He attended Warren & Union Hall Academies in New York until 1828, then became a grocer's clerk with Maintain & Thorne at the corner of South and Beekman streets. In 1830 he entered into part- nership with his brother, John W. Slocum, they having a grocery store at the corner of Division and Attorney streets, New York. But he did not enjoy confinement, and retired from the partner- ship. He apprenticed himself to Andrew Turnbull, who taught him the carpenter's trade. Before leav- ing New York he, with his brother, aided in or- ganizing Veto Hose Company, No. 4, of the old Volunteer Fire Department of New York City, and although he was but seventeen years of age he was so well developed and matured that the city officials issued him a fireman's certificate without questioning his age. John W. Slocum was fore- man of that company; William Henry Slocum secre- tary-treasurer.
In 1832, at the age of nineteen, the young man moved to Long Branch, New Jersey, to escape cholera contagion, and there afterward resided. Until 1844 he was engaged in building, farming and teaching. In 1844 he was appointed by the Legislature one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Monmouth, and the same year was appointed a United States customs official, an office he filled for three years. In 1848 he entered into partnership with Captain James Green, of Long Branch, and for nineteen summers he con- ducted the Bath Hotel, closing it in the winter. The hotel, the oldest on the beach, was totally de- stroyed by fire in 1867. In 1856 he was given a life appointment as master of chancery by Chan- cellor Williamson. For seven succeeding years, be- ginning in 1857, he was judge of elections. In 1863 he was elected justice of the peace for a term of five years; in 1865 he was appointed a notary pub- lic for life by Governor Joel Parker; from 1837 he served at different periods as member of the town committees; in 1866 was elected inspector of regis- try and elections, and commissioned by Governor Marcus L. Ward. He was an ardent Democrat, but would never accept an elective office, positively de- clining a nomination to the Assembly after it had been made. But town offices tendered by his friends he accepted until 1868, after which he re- fused to serve.
Judge Slocum was one of the organizers of the Eatontown & Seashore Turnpike Company in 1865, served several years as a director, then as treasurer, finally in 1876 was elected president of the com- pany, an office he long filled. He was also a direc-
tor of the firm of William Haynes & Company, later of Drummond Maps & Company, lumber dealers of Oceanport and operators of a steam saw and planing mill. That firm dissolved in 1876, and from that time Judge Slocum retired from busi- ness, confining himself to conveyancing and the settling of estates.
While not a lawyer nor even accepting a fee, he was constantly sought as counsel on legal ques- tions, and his opinions were both cheerfully and freely given. He never accepted a commission for negotiating a loan, his only charge being for draw- ing the necessary papers. In all positions of trust which he filled he was never asked to give a bond or any security, and he never failed to render a full and true account of his trust.
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