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"Streets running at right angles to the sea are from one to two hundred feet wide, an advantage possessed by no other seaside resort on the New Jersey coast. The depot grounds are the finest on the line of the Long Branch Division of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and, with adjoining streets, cover four acres, including magnificent woods."
The first store ereeted at Asbury Park was by Washington White. It was afterwards en- larged, and became, in 1873, the Lake View Hotel, the first one opened in Asbury Park.
The first briek building was ereeted in 1879 by Allen R. Cook. It is the Cook building, including the Masonic Hall.
The Opera-House, on Sewall Avenue, near - Grand, was erected in 1882, at a cost of fifteen thousand dollars, by Frank Patterson. It has a seating capacity of twelve hundred.
The following leading hotels were erected in the years mentioned, viz. : Lake View, opened in 1873; Grand Avenue, 1873 ; Hotel Bruns- wiek, 1873. This building was first called the Philadelphia House, and at the time of its eree- tion was the farthest out of any. It was enlarged, remodeled and its name changed to the present one in 1880. The Sea View and Ocean View Hotels were built in 1877; the Surf House, Hotel Bristol and Coleman House, in 1878. The latter occupies a block between
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Asbury and Ocean Avenues. It is the leading hotel, and was built and is still owned and con- ducted by Mrs. S. L. Coleman. The Gilsey was opened in 1881. Besides these, there are over one hundred smaller hotels and cottages for summer boarders.
The Asbury Park Journal was established in 1876, by James A. Bradley, the first issue being January 29th in that year. Until June, 1878, it was printed at the office of the Brooklyn Eagle. In that month John K. Wallace, of Philadel- phia, established the Asbury Park Printing- Office, and the paper was then printed in that office, the first issue being June 1, 1878. John L. Coffin, who from the first had been assistant editor, became the editor and proprietor Janu- ary 1, 1882. It was then enlarged to eight columns. In the April following, the office was moved to the present building. On June 1, 1883, a summer daily journal was begun, and continued through the months of June, July and August. It is to be continued as a sum- mer daily.
On September 1, 1884, the Monmouth Re- publican, which had been printed by J. K. Wallace sinee June, 1883, was merged into the Journal, and business eondueted under the firm- name of J. L. Coffin and J. K. Wallace. The Ocean Grove Record, edited by J. K. Wallace, is published at this office.
The Shore Press was established by A. L. Thomas and Dr. H. S. Kinmonth. The first issue was on July 10, 1879. In 1880 it was sold to Jonathan Ingling, and soon after pur- chased by the Shore Press Publishing Company, and edited by Robert P. Miller. In 1882, Frank Patterson leased it. Miller was eon- tinued as editor for a time, and J. T. Crane succeeded him. In the latter part of 1883, R. J. Wardell beeame the editor and continued until October, 1884, when the paper was pur- ehased by C. T. Hendrickson, who employed W. K. Devereux as editor.
The Daily Spray was a paper issued in June, July and August of 1884 by W. K. Devereux & Co.
The Artesian is published in the cause of tem- peranee. It was commenced in the early summer of 1884, and is published at irregular intervals.
TRINITY CHURCH (Episcopal) was the first ehureh established at Asbury Park, being organ- ized in 1872. A few Episcopalians visiting at Ocean Grove desired to hold a service on the grounds, to which strong opposition was made. They then decided to hold meetings in Asbury Park, then in its infaney. The Rev. George H. Watson, of St. Peter's Church of Freehold, commeneed a missionary work in an open lot opposite the present church edifiee. In August, 1875, James A. Bradley donated a lot on the corner of Asbury and Grand Avenues, and a ehureh building was soon after begun, and eom- pleted in 1877. It was not, however, eonse- erated until September, 1880, when the services were eondueted by Bishop Searborough. It has sinee been enlarged. The Rev. Eliot D. Tomkins sueeeeded Mr. Watson in the latter part of 1875.
In October, 1879, the Rev. William Capers was called to minister to the society in eonnee- tion with Tom's River. It was at this time a missionary station, and in February, 1880, it was made Trinity Church parish. Mr. Capers resigned as minister, and was ealled at onee by the vestry and wardens of Trinity parish as the first reetor. He served until January, 1883, when he resigned on aeconnt of ill health. He was sueeeeded soon after by the Rev. William B. Guion, who remained one year, and was succeeded by the present reetor, the Rev. George F. Breed.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH at Asbury Park was organized in 1878. A lot was donated by Mr. Bradley, on the corner of Grand and Seeond Avennes, on which the present chureli was ereeted, and was dedicated December 2, 1880. Meetings were held in the sehool-hall prior to this time. The Rev. J. E. Peters was the first pastor. The present pastor is the Rev. E. E. Moran.
THE REFORMED CHURCH OF ASBURY PARK was organized February 9, 1875, with twelve members. Mr. Bradley donated them a lot on Grand and Sewall Avenues, on which, in June and July of that year, a ehapel was erected. This being too small, the corner-stone of a new chapel was laid out on the same lot April 11, 1883. The edifice was completed and ready for use August 5th in that year. The Rev.
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F. F. Wilson and Edgar A. Enos" served as pastors, and on Jannary 13, 1880, the present pastor, the Rev. William H. Ballagh, was in- stalled.
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THE FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ASBURY PARK was organized in March, 1880, with one hundred and fifty members. Service was held in Educational Hall until the church edifiee was completed on Grand and First Avenues, at a cost of twenty-three thou- sand dollars. The corner-stone was laid August 16, 1883. Pastors have been W. H. Boole, B. C. Lippineott and J. S. Gaskell, the present pastor.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH was organized at 1 Asbury Park, in Park Hall, on May 1, 1877. The Rev. Thomas R. Taylor beeame their pas- tor and remained until May, 1884. A lot on Bangs Avenne was donated by Mr. Bradley, and the present church was erected in 1880, and used till Angust, 1883, when it was dedi- cated. In 1882 a parsonage was built. The property is valued at thirteen thousand dollars. A call was extended to and accepted by the Rev. - Colby, who entered upon his duties November 30, 1884. The church has a mem- bership of one hundred and sixty-five.
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Was organized in 1880, and in February, 1881, Father Michael S. Glennon was appointed to the charge, and still continues. A elinreh was erected on Second Avenue and Bond Street, and consecrated July 8, 1880.
THE BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPIS- COPAL CHURCH is situated on Second Avenue and Main Street. The Rev. W. H. Dickerson is pastor.
The Salvation Army, in the fall of 1884, erected a large building on Main Street, be- tween Summerfield and Munroe Avenues.
The Young Men's Christian Association, after several preliminary meetings, was organ- ized at Asbury Park February 9, 1884, with fifteen members. A room was offered them by Mr. Bradley in a building next the post-office, which they accepted and still occupy. The rooms are open to members and visitors every evening except the Sabbath. The membership
has inercased to seventy-five. The following are the present officers : Professor R. A. Tusting, president ; Frank Cobb, first vice-president ; Aden Lippineott, second vice-president; R. Ross, recording secretary ; F. Miller, corre- sponding secretary ; M. R. Hults, financial sec- retary ; M. D. Le Roy, treasurer. Executive Committee : Professor R. A. Tusting, A. Lip- pincott, M. S. Gould, P. G. Snedeker, Dr. A. Pauley and H. A. Outealt.
THE ASBURY PARK AND OCEAN GROVE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION was incorporated in 1882. Two lots, at First and Grand Avenues, were donated by Mr. Bradley. A building is now in process of ereetion upon these lots. The association has five hundred members. Meetings are held every Monday evening, from October to June, in the rooms oeenpied by the Young Men's Christian Association. The prop- erty is vested in a board of trustees, of which Mrs. J. A. Bradley is president and J. A. Bradley treasurer.
The first school at Asbury Park was taught by Miss M. Crowell (a niece of James A. Bradley) in 1872, in the lower room of Park Hall. As members increased, the upper hall was taken, and the demand still inereasing, both were used. Sixty scholars attended before this was made a distriet. Application was made for a distriet in Mareli, 1874, which was granted, and the district formed, embracing Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.
A block of six lots was donated by Mr. Bradley, on Bond Street, between Munroe and Summerfield Avennes, on which a temporary school-house was ereeted and used for a time. In the fall of 1876 the present frame two-story school-house was ereeted at a cost of ten thou- sand dollars, and was opened for use September 12, 1877. The number of scholars still in- creasing, the trustees, in the spring of 1882, purchased of the trustees of St. Paul's' Church their edifice, situated a short distance from the Main Avenne gates to the grove, paying there- for eight thousand dollars. It was remodeled, fitted and furnished at a cost of four thousand dollars, and opened in September of that year. A school building was erected in West
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Asbury Park in 1883, and opened in September of that year. It is a colored school.
These schools have an average attendance of six hundred and twenty children. The census gives fonrteen hundred children of school age in the district.
Miss Crowell, the first teacher, had as an assistant, while in Park Hall, Miss M. L. Coffin, and upon the retirement of Miss Crowell, in 1875, Miss Coffin became principal, and .served until the completion of the new school- · house, in 1877, when George Allord was chosen principal. He served until September, 1882, when Professor W. D. Ireland, formerly of Long Branch, was appointed, and is still in charge.
Asbury Lodge, No. 142, F. and A. M., was chartered in the fall of 1875 with eight charter members. Meetings were held in White's Hall until Masonie Hall was completed, in 1880. It is in the third story of the Cook building, and was dedicated July 28th in that year. The lodge contains about seventy members. The Past Masters have been T. S. Wooley, Jeremiah Bennett, John A. Githens, J. D. Beegle, L. Rainear and Jolin L. Coffin. The present W. M. is D. W. Sexton ; D. H. Loudenslager is the Secretary.
Corson Commandery, No. 15, K. T., was chartered in the fall of 1880, and has at pres- ent sixty-five members. The officers are Thomas H. Redway, P. E. C .; J. D. Beegle, E. C .; D. H. Loudenslager, Recorder. Mect- ings are held in Masonic Hall.
Coast City Council, No 813, Royal Arcanum, was organized November 28, 1883, in Manning's Hall, where they still meet. They now number forty members. M. F. Bird is Regent, George M. Lane Secretary.
Neptune Lodge, No. 84, I. O. of O. F., was organized in 1883; meetings are held in White's Hall. The lodge has fifty members. The officers are Albert Willis, N. G .; Charles T. Harrison, Secretary.
C. K. Hall Post, No. 41, G. A. R., was in- stituted April 7, 1880. Meetings were held in White's Hall until rooms in Manning's Hall were completed, in 1882, when they moved to and still ocenpy them. The officers are A. R.
Toland, Commander; George H. White, Senior Vice-Commander ; William B. Brown, Junior Vice-Commander; D. Wright, Adjutant; George Warren, quartermaster. Membership, fifty.
Monmouth Lodge, No. 107, K. of P., was instituted May 5, 1875. Meetings are held in Manning's Hall.
Good-Will Division, No. 187, Sons of Tem- perance, was instituted in December, 1881, in Manning's Hall, where they continued until the next year, when they moved to their present quarters, in Prohibition Hall. Frank Harrison, W. P., and W. H. Longstreet, Recording Secre- tary.
MOUNT PROSPECT CEMETERY is the burial- ground of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, and lies directly west of the latter. In 1882, Wil- lisford Dey, of Ocean Grove, and Edward M. Fielder, of Asbury Park, purchased thirty-five acres on rising ground, one hundred and nine feet above the sea, one and a quarter miles from Ocean Grove and one mile from Asbury Park, in the township of Neptune. This was laid out with walks and avenues and nearly two thou- sand lots, and set out with evergreens and shrubbery. The grounds were named Mount Prospect Cemetery, commanding a view seaward as far as the eye can reach, -northward to Long Branch, and south to Manasquan. It was dedicated June 25; 1883.
The resident physicians of Asbury Park are Dr. J. A. W. Hetrick, Bruce S. Keaton, H. S. Des Anges, Samuel Johnson, H. W. Garrison, G. F. Wilbur, S. D. Evans, H. S. Kinmonth, Henry Mitchell and R. Tusting.
THE ALMSHOUSE FARM is a tract of land con- taining seven hundred and twenty-eight acres, that is bounded southerly and easterly by Shark River and Musquash Brook, northerly by the highway, and westerly by North or Jumping Brook, and is now in the possession of the town- ships of Atlantic, Ocean, Neptune, Eatontown, Howell and Wall, in Monmouth County, and Dover and Brick, in Ocean County.
On the 14th of May, 1800, the Freeholders of Monmouth County appointed William Laird, John Stillwell and Jacob Holmes " for to make Enquiry When and on What Conditions they
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could Procure Lands, Or house, Or Either, Or Bouth, and to make Report to this Board at their next meeting." This action was the first effort to establish a connty poor farm. The committee reported Angust 14th following that they had fixed ona place near Colt's Neck, " but as yet were not certain of obtaining it." They viewed other tracts, and reported upon each. The committee was continued, and on the 28th of January, 1801, they reported the purchase of land of William Parker, for four thousand dol- lars, the deed bearing date January 27, 1801. The land is deseribed as seven hundred acres, more or less, lying on the north side of Shark River, and known by the name of " Hog Pound Neek." At this meeting Theophilus Little, Jacob Holmes, William Laird and John Still- well were appointed a committee to draw plans for and build a poor-house on the land, and to rent the place for one year from April 1, 1801. On the 3d of March in that year Jacob Holmes presented a plan, which was accepted, and gave an opinion that two thousand dollars would place upon the ground all the material necessary for the buildings. The committee also reported that, in their opinion, the building, which was to be fifty feet front and thirty-four feet in depth, would cost four thousand dollars-perhaps four thousand five hundred dollars. It was built as soon after this time as possible, and was occupied by the county. Each township appointed a trus- tee to compose a board of managers. The farm was enlarged later to nearly a thousand acres. Two hundred and seventy acres wereafterwards sold, leaving at present seven hundred and twenty-eight acres. The farm and buildings were used by the county until 1843. Prior to that time some of the townships were dissatisfied with the arrangement and desired a township farm. This dissatisfaction resulted in the pas- sage of an act of Assembly, February 16, 1843, to allow Dover, Middletown and Howell to sell real estate. A supplement was passed February 14, 1852, to allow Raritan to sell ; later, other townships sold their rights, and at present the townships of Atlantic, Eatontown, Occan, Nep- tune, Howell and Wall, of Mommonth County, and Dover and Brick, of Oecan County, own the entire tract, as before mentioned.
SHARK RIVER VILLAGE, otherwise known as Greenville, Hamilton and Coburg, is situated in the southwest corner of the township of Nep- tune, near the line of Shrewsbury, on the road that runs north of and nearly parallel to Shark River, above where the stream widens.
At this place before 1734 a Presbyterian meeting-house was erceted on the lot where the old cemetery now is at Shark River village. It is mentioned in a road record of November 6, 1789, and again April 23, 1790. It was used as late as 1803, but was soon after abandoned. The old church was one of the preaching- places of the Rev. Samuel Blair, Rev. Elihn Spencer and the Rev. Charles Mcknight dur- ing the Revolution.
The land in this vicinity was owned, in 1800, by James Fleming, who inherited it from Cook, whose danghter, Rebecca, he mar- ried. The " Trap Tavern," so called from trap rock, that crops out at this place, was opened before 1812. In 1815, Elkanah Stout became the landlord, and kept it for several years. It stood in front of the present residence of Cap- tain A. J. Rogers. It was discontinued many years ago.
In 1812, Elilm Williams built a store on the site of James Simpson's present residence. About 1825, Michael Howell built a hotel, and kept it several years. It was kept afterwards by many, and went down over twenty years ago. In 1834, Richard Stout built the brick blacksmith-shop, and worked in it for thirty years. George Shafto built a large store at the village many years ago, which was destroyed by fire, William Barnes erected a building on the site, and kept store and post-office eight or ten years, thien sold out to Captain A. J. Rogers, who was appointed postmaster and still holds the office.
East of Shark River village, on one of the branches of Shark River, John Fields, about 1825, built a grist-mill on the site (it is said) of an old forge. The mill is now owned by Bow- man Kisner. On Shark River, below the village, William Remsen, in 1859, built a grist-mill, which is now unused and belongs to his heirs.
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Shark River is a little more than half a century old in its organization, though mention is found in the journal of the Rev. Francis As- bury, of Methodist preaching at Shark River as early as 1792. Preaching was held in pri- vate houses for many years, and it was not until 1833 that a Methodist Church was organized. The Rev. David Bartine officiated at the ser- vices. On August 23, 1847, the society was incorporated, and the following were chosen as trustees : Henry Youmans, Robert B. Morris, Daniel Dangler, David J. Morton, Drummond White and John Hunter. A lot of land was donated- for church and burial purposes by Asher Howland, and the church was soon after built and dedicated by Father Bartine. Among the ministers who have served are William Abbott, 1864-66 ; George L. Dobbins, 1867- 68 ; W. F. Randolph, 1869-70; William Os- born, 1871; S. M. Stone, 1872-73; Mason, 1874; J. S. Thomas, 1875; A. J. Gregory, 1876-77 ; J. S. Wilson, 1878-79 ; W. E. Perry, 1880-82; J. W. Grant, 1883; H. S. Norris, 1884.
Neptune township contains five school dis- tricts,-Hamilton, New Branch, Whiteville, Green Grove and Asbury Park. An account of the last-named district is given in the history of Asbury Park.
Hamilton District, No. 80, now contains one hundred and seventeen children of school age. The first school-house was built on the present school-lot, which was donated by John Ely about the beginning of this century. It is now on the farm of John Tilton, the house having been repaired and rebuilt, and is still in use for the school.
New Branch District, No. 803, contains at .present one hundred and twenty-three children of school age. This is a new district, formed by the settlements at Key East and Neptune, near where the house stands. It was built in 1877.
Whitesville District, No. 88, is in the central part of the township. The first school-house was built of logs, abont 1828, about half a mile south of Whitesville, in the pines. It was aban- doned about 1840 and a school-house erected on the present site in 1845, which was used until
1872, when it was moved to the rear of the lot and the present house erected. It is two miles from Ocean Grove. The district contains two hundred and eighteen children of school age.
Green Grove District, No. 90, was formed in 1860. It embraces parts of Shrewsbury and Neptune townships. The school-house was built in 1861. The district now contains fifty-three- registered scholars.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ALLEN R. COOK was born August 25, 1818, near Mechanicsville, then Shrewsbury town- ship, now Ocean. His father, Edward Cook, died about 1866, aged seventy years. His mother, Elizabeth Cook, died in 1858, aged about sixty years. He had only one brother, Joseph, who went West many years ago. In early life he learned the tanning business at Lippincott's tannery, and subsequently engaged as a miller in the Ocean Mills, and was after- wards with his uncle at what was known as Hyer's Mills. Subsequently he purchased the Henry Bennett farm, on Shark River, on which the Hotel Newport is now situated, and still later he owned the Hyer mill property, which he soon sold and purchased a farm at New Branch of his father-in-law. In 1842 he mar- ried Mrs. Deborah, widow of the late Mahlon Woolley (1810-39) who resided at Eatontown until 1836, and removed to Shark River, where he died three years after. Mrs. Deborah Wool- ley (1809-81), was a daughter of John and Margaret (Britton) Fields, and by her first mar- riage had two children,-George P. Woolley (a farmer in Wall township) and Margaret (wife of Louis C. Green, who succeeded his father, Captain James Green, for many years proprie- tor of the Bath Hotel, at Long Branch).
In 1872, Mr. Cook came to Asbury Park, and from that date until his death, April 31, 1883, was foremost and prominent in its im- provements, and from January, 1872, until his deccase efficiently acted as superintendent of Asbury Park. He held many minor offices in the township,-in 1858 was made wreck-master of the Merritt Wrecking Company for this dis- trict, and two years afterwards he was appointed
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agent of the Board of Underwriters, to which he always gave prompt attention.
Mr. Cook was a man of noble, generous im- pulses, and took pleasure in assisting those in need. His acts of kindness were not made pub- lic, nor were his benevolent deeds ostentatious. His death produced a universal feeling of sor- -row, both with permanentand transient residents. He was an ardent Mason, and to his generosity Asbury Lodge owes its handsome rooms on the
of Asbury Park met at Park Hall and passed appropriate resolutions expressing sorrow at the removal of their much-esteemed citizen by the hand of death, sympathy for his bereaved fam- ily, and requesting the business places of Asbury Park to be closed during the solemn funeral services of their fellow-eitizen. Another writer said of him soon after his death : "Since the founding of Asbury Park there has been no more familiar form -- save one-to be seen on
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upper floor of his brick building, corner of [ our streets than that of Allen R. Cook, the Cookman Avenue and Main Street. He was superintendent." Early in the history of the place, almost from the beginning, had he been identified with its interests and that of its peo- ple. By his marriage he had two children, who died young. buried with Masonic honors, and his remains were interred in the Branchburg Cemetery, near the spot where he was born. Allen R. Cook was reared under Quaker influences, and until he removed from the scenes of his younger days was an attendant at the Friends' Meeting NELSON E. BUCHANON .- John Buchanon, the grandfather of Nelson E., resided in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County N. J. His children in Shrewsbury township. Upon the occasion · of his death the commissioners of the borough
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were George, Jolm, James, Anthony, Joseph, Betsey, Eliza and Margaret. James, of this number, was born about the year 1821 at Perth Amboy, from whence lie removed, in 1859, to Red Bank, and subsequently to Hunterdon Connty, his present 'residence. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of Philip Elgordon, of the latter county, and to them were born chil- dren,-Nelson E., Jacob, John, Philip, James and Sarah M. (wife of Silas Case, of Hunterdon County). The eldest of this number, and the subject of this biographical sketch, was born on the 30th of Angust, 1841, at Perth Amboy, and at the age of fourteen removed to New York City, where he remained two years in the capa- city of clerk. Not satisfied with his meagre advantages of education, he returned to his birth-place and devoted three years to more thorough study, removing, at the expiration of this period, for a brief interval to New York. Mr. Buchanon, in 1860, made Lambertville, Hunterdon County, his residence, and became en- gaged as salesman for a firm extensively interested in the lumber trade. He later removed to Flem- , ington, in the same county, aud acted in like capacity, changing his location, in 1866, to Eatontown, in the employ of B. C. White, also a lumber dealer. In 1873 he located at Asbury Park, and, in connection with Garret V. Smock, purchased the interest of Mr. White, making Asbury Park the base of operation. They added to their stock general building supplies, and very speedily established a large and suc- cessful trade. In 1881 the firm underwent some changes, and the present style, N. E. Buchanon & Co., was adopted. The excep. tional success of the business may be indicated by their annual sales, which the first year amomited to forty thousand dollars, and in 1883 reached the sum of two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.
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