History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 148

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 1148

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In 1849 a post-office was established here and Dr. John P. Lewis was appointed postmaster with William Haynes as deputy. He was ap- pointed postmaster in 1864, and served until his death, in 1874. His son, William R. Haynes, served as deputy postmaster until 1876, when Zadock M. Briggs succeeded and served until March, 1883. Edwin Corlies was then appointed and is now postmaster. The office is in Griscom's store.

THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH edifice was built in Oceanport in 1868. The congregation was under charge of Eatontown for several years, and later, under the Little Silver Church. Since 1870 the pastors who have served are as follows : W. F. Abbott, 1870 ; F. F. Mundy, 1874; L. M. Atkinson, 1875; S. F. Gaskell, 1876-77; T. D. Sleeper, 1878-80; W. H. Pearne, 1881-82; T. S. Wilson, 1883-84. The church has at present about fifty members.

Mizpah Lodge, No. 61, I. O. of O. F., was insti- tuted at Eatontown many years ago. It was active for a short time and was then dormant for twelve years. On February 4, 1869, it was revived with five old members and seventeen initiates. In the spring of 1880 it was removed to Oceanport, where it remains. Albert Smith is the present Noble Grand.

SCHOOLS .- The township of Eatontown contains five public schools and the Eatontown Academy. The township contains six hundred and thirty-two children of school age, and the public school prop- erty is valued at ten thousand four hundred dol- lars.

Locust Grove District, No. 82, has eighty-five scholars. About the year 1800 a school-house was

on the site of Edmond A. Wolcott's house, about three-quarters of a mile from Eatontown village. William Herbert was a teacher in its early days. The last teacher was Elisha Little. The house was abandoned about 1825. In November, 1846, the school district bought of William Lafetra the present lot and erected a school-house, which was used until 1870, when it was moved off and is now used as a lodge-room by the colored people. In the latter year the present house was erected.

Eatontown District, No. 83, embraces the village of Eatontown. The first school of which anything is known as having existed in or near Eatontown was the Pleasant Hill Academy. It was built in 1806, on a slight elevation a little north of the vil- lage (known as Academy Hill), by the Friends of Shrewsbury Meeting. One of the early teachers was Heth Lippincott, who lived there, and, in addi- tion to his day scholars, had some from a distance who boarded at the house. It was abandoned by the Friends before 1825, but was rented to others, who kept the school for many years. Among the teachers since 1829 were Larza Merchant, Wil- liam Ely and (about 1840) Obadiah Thayer. It was entirely abandoned before 1860. The prop- erty now belongs to the estate of Benjamin C. White.

About 1810 a school-house was erected on land now owned by Thomas White, about one-quarter of a mile from the village of Eatontown. Joseph Wardell was a teacher there in early years. It closed about 1825. In 1824 Masonie Hall was erected on the main street in Eatontown, and in the lower part a school was opened. The first teacher was John Kyle. He was succeeded by Obadiah Lang, Charles White and Mrs. James McGregor. In 1841, JJacob Little taught an English and elas- sical school there ; later, Miss Reeve, Rev. Dr A. Ten Broeck and daughters, Miss Hatfield, and at present Professor James M Clagget. It is known as the Eatontown Academy. Between the years 1825 and 1830 a private school was taught in a small house that stood on the lot where Dr. W. S. Kimball now resides.

Prior to 1836 most of the land north of the main street to the Feidler line was open commons. In that year it was divided into lots and sold at auction. A few years later, about 1846, a school- house (still standing) was erected and used until

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the present public school-house was completed, in the spring of 1870, at a cost of three thousand five hundred dollars. The district at present contains two hundred and thirty-five children of school age.

Wolf Hill District, No. 84, embraces Oceanport and a territory south of it, to the east of Mon- mouth Park. An old one-story frame school- house stood on the present school-lot many years, and in 1869 it was moved to the main street near the railroad, where it is now used as a dwelling. It stood on land donated by Edmond West. The present two-story frame school building was erected in the winter of 1869-70. A school-house was built in Oceanport soon after 1829, and was used until the winter of 1869-70, when the Wolf Hill school-house was built and the districts were con- solidated. The district now contains one hundred and seventy-nine children of school age.

Mechanicsville District, No. 86, embraces the village of Branchburg. In this place Alexander McGregor, soon after his settlement in 1807, donated a lot for a school-house and a church. On this lot, about 1810, a school-house was erected, in which Francis Martin was an early teacher. The present school-house is upon a lot about fifty yards northwest from the old house. It is a frame building, two stories in height, and was built in 1869-70. The district now contains one hun- dred and thirteen children of school age.

Pine Grove District, No 89, is located in the pines, on the road from Eatontown to Oceanville. The first-school-house here was built in about 1856. It is a one-story frame building, about twelve by fourteen feet in size, still in use. The district con- tains sixty-seven children of school age.

MONMOUTH PARK is situated about a mile east from Eatontown and about three miles westwardly from Long Branch. The grounds are adjoining the track of the Eatontown Branch of the Rari- tan and Delaware Bay Railroad.

In May, 1878, the Monmouth Park Railroad Association was formed and incorporated to build a railroad one and a half miles in length to connect with the Central Railroad of New Jersey about one hundred feet from where the railroad bridge crosses Parker's Creek. The land on which the park was laid out belonged to the Corlies estate, and in 1866 was bought by Richard R. Hulett,

who, on the 13th of September, 1869, sold one hundred and twenty-eight acres, with dwelling- house, barn and wagon-house, for thirty-two thous- and five hundred dollars, to J. McB. Davison and J. F. Chamberlain, who fenced the grounds and laid out a race-track of one mile circuit.

An act was passed March 29, 1865, to encour- age agricultural, horticultural and mechanical manufacturing and scientific arts and productions, and for the improvement of blooded stock in this and other States. Under this act the company was incorporated. Its corporators were Charles Haight, Henry S. Little, William D. Davis, Sam- uel Laird and Francis Corlies. The association was designated the Long Branch and Sea-Shore Improvement Company. Time elapsed and nothing was done, and on February 9, 1870, the incorporation was revived, and Charles S. Lloyd was named as a corporator in place of William D. Davis, deceased.

This association came into possession of the land purchased by Davison and Chamberlain (as above mentioned) and issued stock for the purpose of its improvement, which was carried out by the building of the sheds, out-buildings, stables, grand stands and club-house. The company came to financial em- barrassment, and on foreclosure, David D. With- ers, of New York, bought the property for the sum of $57,146.46.

An association was then formed by the name and style of the Monmouth Park Association, who filed a certificate of incorporation May 17, 1878. The property purchased by Mr. Withers was conveyed to this association, who now own the property. Large additions have been made to the grounds and buildings since the purchase by the asso- ciation.

The capital stock of the association is sixty thousand dollars, which is owned by August Bel- mont, David D. Withers and Pierre Lorillard, of New York ; George Peabody Wetmore, of New- port ; and George Lorillard, of Islip, Suffolk County, N. Y., the latter of whom is president of the asso- ciation.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

EDMOND WEST .- Mr. West, who is the oldest living resident of Eatontown township, is the grandson of Joseph West, one of whose nine children was James, born in Monmouth County on the 10th of December, 1731. He married ; school system and occasioned the recall to Eng- Ann Wing, whose birth occurred August 14. 1729, in Shrewsbury township, the children of this marriage being a son, John, and two daugh- ters John West was born in 1753, and spent his life in agricultural pursuits on the farm now

He recalls many events of interest in his youth, notably the death of General Washington, which occurred when he was a mere lad. Mr. West enjoyed no opportunities for a thorough education, the War of the Revolution having deranged the land of most of the clergymen of the Episcopal Church and others engaged in teaching. IIe assisted in the cultivation of the farm, and subse- quently embarked in mercantile ventures, but not finding these pursuits congenial to his tastes, re-

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owned by his son Edmond, where his death oe- sumed his farming employments. The land which eurred on the 14th of March, 1829, in his seventy- came to him by inheritance from his father em- sixth year. He married Meribah, daughter of braced marl-beds, which rendered the soil pro- John Slocum, of Monmouth County, and had ductive and materially increased the profits accru- children,-James, Elisha, Joseph, Edmond, Ga- "ing from the year's labor. Mr. West was married briel, John H., Revoe, Rebecca (Mrs. Thomas ' to Rachel, daughter of John Drummond, of the Morford) and Ann (Mrs. John A. Taylor). same township, a descendant of Lord Drummond, one of the proprietors of East Jersey. Her death occurred on the 23d of September, 1880. Mr. West has been during his lifetime a firm and con- Edmond West was born on the 9th of March, 1791, on the homestead where, with the exception iof a brief interval of three months when a soklier n the War of 1812, his whole life has been spent. sistent Democrat, but has never held official

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position with the exception of a service of thirteen years as surveyor of highways. He is a member and senior warden of St. James' Protestant Epis- copal Church at Long Branch. Though in his ninety-fifth year, he still enjoys vigorous health and exhibits rare mental acuteness.

WILLIAM HENRY SLOCUM, the son of Webley and grandson of Samuel Slocum, was born in New York City the 10th of June, 1813. His mother, Jemima Turnier, was of Huguenot and Dutch ex- traction. His great-grandfather Turnier was a Presbyterian clergyman in Paris, and fled to America to save his life at the time of the Robes- pierre Revolution. He received his early educa- tion in the Warren and Union IIall Academies of the city of New York. For two years, from the spring of 1828. he was engaged as clerk with Messrs. Maintain & Thorne, at the corner of South and Beekman Streets, and then became a partner with his brother, John W., in the retail grocery business, at the corner of Division and Attorney Streets, New York. That business becoming dis- tasteful, he sold his interest to his brother and apprenticed himself to Andrew Turnbull to learn the trade of carpenter and builder. At the age of seventeen years he assisted his brother, John W., in the organization, under the New York Fire Department Aet, of the Veto Hose Company, No. 4, of which the latter was chosen foreman and he secretary and treasurer. His appearance at this time was that of maturity far beyond his years, and the city authorities issued to him a fireman's certificate withont a question as to his age.

On the advent of cholera in New York, in the year 1832, Judge Sloeum removed to Long Branch, N. J., the home of his ancestors, and married, on the 17th of July, 1834, Mary Slocum, who was born August 16, 1816, daughter of Peter and Abigail Slocum. He has had three children, viz. : Walter L., Mary Melissa and Fannie A. Walter L. is married and resides with him ; Fannie A. is a widow living in Camden, N. J. ; Mary Melissa is deceased. Mrs. Slocum died July, 1883. The next ten years of his life were passed in building, farming and school-teaching In the autumn of 1841 he was nominated by the Monmouth County Democratic Convention as representative to the New Jersey Legislature, without his knowledge or

consent, which honor he respectfully declined, not- withstanding the certainty of his election, as the county was largely Democratic. The same nomi- nation was again tendered him a few years after- wards and again declined. Although a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, he did not desire to be- come a politician, knowing that such a course would necessarily take him into associations not congenial to his nature. But while refusing higher offices, he exhibited a very commendable spirit, in accepting various neighborhood and township offices, to which his neighbors repeatedly elected him from early manhood until 1868, since which date he has declined to serve. In the year 1844 the New Jersey Legislature appointed him one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Mon- mouth County. The same year he was deputized as an officer of United States customs and served three years in that capacity. By rendering timely assistance in discharging cargo to lighten ships, sometimes in the night and in severe storms, valua- ble stranded vessels, with their cargoes, have been saved from destruction along the New Jersey coast. In the year 1848 he connected himself with the late Captain James Green, of Long Branch, in the hotel business, and continued thus occupied for nineteen summers. The hotel was only kept open in the summer season and was widely known as the Bath Hotel, the oldest, at that time, on the sea-shore at the Branch. It was wholly destroyed by fire in the spring of 1867. During his connec- tion with this hotel Judge Slocum became ac- quainted in a business way with a number of men prominent in the State and nation, with several of whom the acquaintance ripened into intimaey. In the year 1856 he was appointed a Master in Chancery for life by Chancellor Williamson, of New Jersey.

In the year 1857 he was elected judge of elec- tion, which office he held for seven successive years. In the year 1863 he was elected a justice of the peace for five years. In the year 1865 he was ap- pointed a notary public for life by Governor Joel Parker. He has been elected and acted as one of the town committee several times at intervals since 1837. In the year 1866 he was elected inspector of registry and elections and commissioned by Gov- ernor Ward.

He took an active part in the organization of

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the Eatontown and Sea-Shore Turnpike Company | continued until the dissolution of the firm, in 1876. in 1865, and was chosen one of the directors, Since this date he has abandoned all business ex- which was followed, in connection with other busi- ness, since 1844. and for several years served as treasurer, and in , cept conveyancing and the settling of estates, 1876 he was elected president of the company, which position he still holde. He is also a mem- ber of the board of directors of the Shrewsbury Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Eatontown, N. J.

Throughout his life he has taken great interest in the welfare of laboring men. He was the prime mover for the introduction of the ten-hour system

His counsel on legal questions has been fre- quently sought and freely given, and though often tendered a fee for the same, he has always declined receiving it, nor has he ever accepted a fee or com- mission for aiding others to procure a loan of

in Monmouth, N. J. which superseded the old plan requiring, during the summer months, work from sunrise to sunset as a day's labor. He has also given considerable attention to schools, and he aided in the organization of the graded system now in successful operation in his neighborhood.

In the year 1868 he connected himself with the firm of William Haynes & Co.,-which was soon succeeded by Drummond, Maps & Co.,-of Ocean- port, N. J , lumber dealers, and proprietors of a steam saw and planing-mill, in which connection he

money. In all positions of trust which he has been called upon to fill he has never been asked to give bond or any security for the faithful performance of his duty, and has never failed to render a full and true account. In business he has always been industrious, persevering and economical, which virtues, with his judicious habits and man- agement, have brought him the full score of hap- piness, for

" Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words-health, peace, and competence."

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In the spring of 1844, Judge Slocum removed from Long Branch village-where he had resided since his marriage-to a small farm which he had purchased near Branchburg. In November, 1854, he completed and occupied his present residence, which is pleasantly situated near Wolf Hill, on the turnpike between the villages of Long Branch and Eatontown-one mile and a half from each-and near the village of Oceanport. He is a member

sided. He remained with his parents until his marriage, on the 9th of May, 1849, to Eliza, daughter of Yeomans and Sarah Gillingham, of Frankford, Pa., when Oceanport, Monmouth County, became, and is still, his residence. Mr. Williams, in the spring of 1844, under the firm- name of J. & T. T. Williams, embarked in mer- cantile pursuits at Poplar, and continued thus en- gaged until 1847, when the store and stock was of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Eatontown, ' sold to William Cook, and, removing to Oceanport, and now acts as its treasurer and warden.

he entered the firm of B. Drummond & Co., lum-

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THOMAS T. WILLIAMS. - The great-grandparents of Mr. Williams were Elihu and Ann Wadey Williams, who were married April, 1750. His grandparents were Israel and Bathsheba Wood- mancie Williams, the former of whom was the owner of several plantations, which he distributed among his sons. Daniel Williams, one of these sons, married Mary Tilton, and was the father of Thomas T. Williams, whose birth occurred March 27, 1819, at Poplar, Monmouth County, N. J., where his ancestors for three generations had re- ' of a political or public nature, but has frequently

ber dealers. Retiring from this firm in 1850, he embarked alone in the same business, and in 1857, again changing, invested his capital in a stock of furniture, crockery and general merchandise. In 1863, Samuel W. Griscom was admitted as a part- ner, under the firm name of Williams & Griscom, and this business association continued until 1882, when the senior partner retired, and has since de- voted his time to agricultural pursuits. Mr. Wil- liams has had neither taste nor leisure for affairs

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been called to fill the office of administrator and executor, which duties have been discharged with unerring fidelity. He is a member by birthright of the Society of Friends, and worships with the Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting.

SAMUEL WILLIAM GRISCOM. - Mr. Griscom is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, William Gris- com, having been a native of Salem County,

lingham, of Philadelphia, whose children are Sam- uel W., George L., Elwood, Yeamans, Sarah L. (Mrs. Thomas D Holmes), Nancy S. (Mrs. Reed Nuckles) and Mark Stewart.

Samuel William Griscom was born in Frank- ford, now included within the corporate limits of Philadelphia, and in youth removed with his parents to Virginia. Receiving there a rudimen- tary education, he began active life as a merchant's

N. J., where he pursued the blacksmith's craft. clerk, remaining thus employed until October 10, 1859, when he removed to his, present residence, Oceanport, and entered the store of T. T. Wil- liams. After continuing for several years this bus- iness association, he was admitted to a partnership as the owner of a half-interest, and in 1882, on the retirement of Mr. Williams, become sole pro- Mr. Griscom has been and is a prominent Demo- crat in his political affiliations, and while occa- He married Ann Stewart, whose children are Samuel S., William, John D., David J., George, Charles W. and Mary W. Samuel S., also a native of Salem County, early in life re- moved to the vicinity of Philadelphia, where he engaged in teaching. On a subsequent migration to Virginia, he became favorably known as a sur- prietor of the business, which he still conducts. veyor and conveyancer. Mr. Griscom married Sydney, daughter of Yeamaus and Sarah L. Gil- 57

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sionally a delegate to party conventions, has not sought office nor encouraged the proffer of honors easily within his grasp. He is a member of the Agricultural Society of the county. He still ad- heres in religion to the belief of the Society of Friends, and worships with the Shrewbury Friends' Meeting.

CHARLES ANTONIDES .- The ancestors of Mr. Antonides emigrated at an early day from Hol-

19th of October, 1804, in Monmouth County, learned his father's trade, which he continued until his marriage to Miss Lydia, daughter of Reuben Tilton, of the same county. The children of this marriage are Delia Ann, Charles, Mary Elizabeth (wife of Charles Wilson Ten Brook), Ira, Eleanor L. (deceased), Deborah Jane, Emeline (wife of Charles Curtis), William W .. Lauralı (wife of Lewis Lane) and Stephen S. Charles Antonides was born on the 29th of Sep-

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land to the United States, and settled in Mon- mouth County, N. J. His grandfather, Jacob, was born on the 8th of October, 1780, in New Jersey, and probably in Monmouth County, where he fol- lowed the trade of a blacksmith. He married, on the 18th of December, 1800, Miss Elizabeth Sutphen, whose birth occurred October 1, 1781. Their children were John (born in 1801), Abram, Sarah (born in 1807), Archibald (in 1808), Phebe (in 1810), Deborah (in 1812), Eliza (in 1816). Abram Antonides, whose birth occurred on the

tember, 1829, in Leedsville, Monmouth County, and removed in youth to a farm purchased by his father from the estate of his maternal grandparent. Here he remained until eighteen years of age, meanwhile receiving instruction in the English branches at the neighboring schools and respond- ing to the demand for his services on the farm. He then determined to render himself independent by the acquirement of a trade, and entered the carriage-shop of Daniel Ilerbert, of Middletown. | Being already very skillful in the handling of

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tools, his apprenticeship was completed at the ex- his father in manufacturing ; and Isaac V. D., de- piration of the second year, after which he spent a ceased. Mrs. Antonides died October 29, 1881, year, partly as journeyman, in the same establish- and he was again married, in November, 1882, to ment. At the age of twenty-one he removed to Mrs. Lydia A. Brown, daughter of Joseph Thompson, deceased, of Leedsville. Hillsdale, in Marlboro' township, and opened a shop for the prosecution of his trade. Two years later he became a resident of Holmdel, and re- mained six years engaged in business, when Mechanicsville (now Branchburg) presented a favorable opening, and has since that time been the scene of his successful career as a carriage

Mr. Antonides is in politics a Prohibitionist, having formerly voted the Republican ticket. He has been a member of the township committee, but accepted no other offices, his attention being chiefly occupied with his own business pursuits. He is a member of Arioch Lodge, No. 77, Inde-

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manufacturer. A large demand was soon estab- lished for his wares, light carriages being especially popular with his customers. The increase of busi- ness rendered more spacious quarters necessary, as purchasers were not confined to the vicinity, but extended to New York City and its suburbs. Mr. Antonides, therefore, enlarged his shops to keep pace with the increase of business. He was, on the 17th of November, 1853, married to Eleanor H., daughter of Isaac Van Dorn, whose children are Lydia Maria; Adolphus V. D., associated with

pendent Order of Odd-Fellows of Long Branch. He is connected with the Reformed Church at Long Branch village in which he fills the office of deacon.

HENRY CORLIES .- Britton Corlies, the grand- father of Henry Corlies, who resided upon the farm now owned by the latter, was born No- vember 27, 1738, and died October 31, 1816. He married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Woolley, whose children were Ann, Elizabeth,

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Britton, Deborah, Britton (second), Joseph W., Jacob W., and Benjamin W. The last named was born February 9, 1797, in Monmouth Coun- ty, where his death occurred May 24, 1884, in his eighty-eighth year. He married Miriam T., daugh- ter of Tyler and Elizabeth Williams, who was born October 8, 1797. Their children are Henry, Tyler W., Edward, (deceased,) Francis, Sarah (wife | of E. A. Osborn), Susan (deceased), and Eliza H. (wife of Dr. Henry Townsend). Henry Corlies was born on the 20th of October, 1821, in Shrews-

Monmouth County, whose death occurred January 18, 1854. He was again married, on the 25th of December, 1856, to Miss Mary, granddaughter of Captain Hendrick Hendrickson, of Revolutionary fame, and daughter of William and Eleanor Du- Bois Hendrickson, of Middletown, and sister of ex-Senator William H. Hendrickson. Their children are William H. H., born May 16, 1858, who died August 16th of the same year ; Charles Du Bois, whose birth occurred August 25, 1859; and Willie HI., born June 21, 1862, who died No-

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bury (now Eatontown) township. He acquired a vember 23d of that year. Mr. Corlies has always affiliated with the Whig and Republican parties in politics, and was an advocate of anti-slavery doe- trines, but has found little leisure for matters apart from the routine of his daily business. He was formerly president, and is now a director of the Shrewsbury Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is also a member of the Monmouth County Ag- ricultural Society. Mr. Corlies is descended from Quaker aneestry, and is a birthright member of the thorough English education at the Friends' Board- ing-School at Westtown, Chester County, Pa., and later at Wilmington, Del , on the completion of which course of study he returned to his home and engaged in farming employments. In 1852 he purchased a portion of the land owned by the family, and has since been devoted to the varied pursuits of an agriculturalist. Mr. Corlies was, on the 8th of September, 1852, married to Miss Ellen L., daughter of Ruloff Van Derveer, of Poplar, 'Society of Friends, but at present worships with

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the congregation of the Shrewsbury Presbyterian Church.

JOHN P. CASLER .- The grandfather of Mr. Cas- ler, who was of German origin, settled in Monmouth County prior to the War of the Revolution. His son John, who was a popular landlord in Freehold, married a Miss Clayton, of the latter place, and had sons-Peter, John, Robert and George ; and daughters,-Hannah (Mrs. Joseph Parker), Re-

Joseph Williams), Edward, Peter, Delia (Mrs. Martin), Aaron and Rufus. Mr. Casler was a second time married, to Eliza Paxton, sister of his first wife, whose children are Sallie (Mrs. Ira Borden) aud Harriet (Mrs. Charles Wyckoff ). John P. Casler was born on the 21st of February, 1820, in Middlesex County, N. J., and in child- hood removed with his parents to Eatontown town - ship, where he received such advantages of educa- tion as were obtainable at the common schools of

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becca (Mrs. Joseph Vau Cleef) and Delia (Mrs. | the county. He then devoted his energies to farm Richard Worthley). Peter, of this number, resided " labor until twenty-two years of age, when a more in Eatontown township, where he was a successful attractive field presented itself in travel through the West. He finally became a resideut of Mid- dlesex County, N. J., and married, in 1844, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of William Rue, of the same county. Their children are Aaron T., Mary Ellen (Mrs. Benjamin Brinker), John Milton, Anne (Mrs. Joseph Hoffman), Emily (Mrs. Lemuel Pullen) and Harriet (Mrs. Albert McNamee). farmer, and died in 1883, in his eighty-seventh year. To his first wife, Mary, daughter of John Paxton, of Allentown, Pa., and later of Middlesex County, N. J., were born children,-Joseph, John P., Theo- dosia (Mrs. Edward Lupton), William C., Marga- ret (Mrs. William Throckmorton), Robert, Henry, Elizabeth (wife of Dr. John Cook), Emily (Mrs.

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Mr. Casler remained eight years in Middlesex County and then removed to his present attractive home in Eatontown township, where he has been for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits and devoted much time to dairying and the raising of produce for the New York market. A Repub- lican in politics, his daily employments have not afforded him leisure for participation in affairs of a political nature. His religious preferences are for the Presbyterian Church, at which his family worship.

ABRAM T. METZGAR -Abram and Dorothea Metzgar emigrated from Germany in 1801 and settled in Philadelphia. Their children were : John, Christian, Jacob, Abram, Elizabeth, wife of John Faunch, and Henry. The latter was born in Germany and emigrated when an infant, with his parents, to America, residing, until his twenty-first year in Princeton, N. J., when he re- moved to Rumsen and made it his residence until 1838, when Prineeton again became his home. In 1843 he settled at Poplar Monmouth County, where his death occurred in 1866. He married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Bennett, and had children, John B., Lydia A., Catherine E., Margaret B. and Abram T. The last-named and youngest of this number was born on the 20th of June, 1840, at Princeton, and removed in child- hood, with his parents, to Poplar, where he became a pupil of the district school, and afterwards en -!

tered the Quaker City College, Philadelphia, where he pursued a two years' course. Returning to his home at Poplar and engaged with his father in farming, which was continued until the death of the latter, when he inherited a portion of the farm as his patrimony, and continued to superin- tend its cultivation. In 1869 he married Susan C., daughter of James Reynolds, of Eastontown, Mr. Metzgar, in 1867, made Branchburg his home, but retained his ownership of the farm until 1871, when, on selling the property, he erected his pre- sent attractive residence, and is now engaged in the raising of produce for the New York market. A Republican in politics, Mr. Metzgar has won the suffrages of both parties. He has, since 1877, filled the office of Assessor of Eatontown town- ship, and been for three years its collector. Mr. Metzgar manifested his patriotism during the late war by enlisting in the 14th Regiment, New Jer- sey Volunteers, and participated in the engage- ments at Manassas Gap, Wapping Heights, Cul- pepper, Brady Station, Locust Grove, Bristow Station, Kelley's Ford, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Po River, North Anna, Hanover Court-house and Cold Harbor. He was wounded in the latter conflict, June 1st, 1864, and dis- charged on the 30th of December of the same year. Mr. Metzgar is still engaged in agricul- tural employments, though much of his time is devoted to affairs connected with the township. Both himself and wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Long Branch.

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History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 148

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co. Number of Pages: 1148

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 1148