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In 1823 a number of shares were confiscated by the association and advertised for public sale in the Palladi- um of Liberty. They were all sold except four. In 1825 the trustees presented Rev. Albert Barnes, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, with one of these (No. I) shares, " to be used by him so long as he may remain pastor of the said church," and not subjected to yearly annuity. Mr. Barnes accepted the share, and was elected a trustee.
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APPRENTICES' LIBRARY.
The next library for public benefit at Morristown was instituted June 16th 1848. The books and chattels of the former organization were purchased by the infant asso- ciation, which started with the brightest prospects im- aginable. This library was begun solely for the benefit of the apprentices of Morris county.
From the constitution, which is a finely written article, by Dr. R. W. Stevenson, we learn that the capital stock of the association was limited to fifteen hundred dollars, divided into shares of three dollars each, half of which was in three months subscribed.
The library started with fifteen hundred volumes, rang- ing, with many and frequent gaps, from Mother Goose to the English Encyclopedia, and was considered for the times a very good collection. The library rooms were in the building now used by James Douglas as a drug store.
The association with various vicissitudes lived from 1848 until 1851. This library did without doubt a great deal of good. It had at closing some twenty-five hundred volumes, from the ancient books of the "Society for the Promotion of Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures" to the " latest edition of Shakespere, in eight volumes."
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succeeded the Apprentices' Library Association. It lived, however, but a short time. It was founded February 11th 1854, with G. T. Cobb as its president and J. R. Runyon its secretary. They rented rooms in "Mr. Marsh's building," which is now called Washington Hall. They purchased or rented all the books of the Apprentices' Library, and in addition had a reading room with some of the prominent weekly and monthly periodicals. But the enterprise was not a suc- cess, the books were old and the privilege of reading cost so much that but few availed themselves of it. The so- ciety dissolved in two years and all the books were stored away in the building on the corner of Court and Wash- ington streets. Soon afterward this took fire and about half of the books were destroyed. The rest were stored in a safer place, where they remained until they were claimed for the "new library."
MORRISTOWN LIBRARY AND LYCEUM.
The subject of a public library began to be agitated in 861. A number of meetings were held by those most interested; but the excitement of those days of war pre- vented action for some time. In 1865 interest in it took definite shape. Toward the close of the year a circular was sent out to prominent citizens, as follows:
"DEAR SIR,-At a meeting held at Washington Hall on Tuesday evening December 26th, with reference to a public library, the undersigned were appointed a com. mittee to mature and report a plan. They will not be prepared until a later day than the one to which the meeting was adjourned. Their report will be ready to be presented at a meeting to be held on Monday evening January 8th, at 772 o'clock P. M., at Washington Hall. The subject of a public library is one of the greatest of volumes about 10,000.
importance, and you are particularly invited to attend the meeting on Monday January 8th 1866."
This was signed by John Whitehead, John F. Voor- hees, William C. Caskey, William S. Babbitt, R. N. Mer- ritt, J. T. Crane, E. J. Cooper, George T. Cobb and Alfred Mills.
The charter of incorporation was granted March 6th 1866, and Alfred Mills, John Whitehead and William C. Caskey were appointed commissioners to receive sub- scriptions to the capital stock, which was restricted to a sum not exceeding $50,000. When ten thousand of this amount had been subscribed a meeting of stockholders was held and a board of seven directors chosen.
The directors hold office one year, and elect a presi- dent, secretary and treasurer. The stock is divided into shares of $25 each, and is free from all taxation. When the time came to look for a building site it was found there was none on the Green except at a price which was considered impracticable. The Morris Academy was standing, dilapidated and unused, on South street, and the stockholders therein offered to assign their stock to the Library and Lyceum for an equal nominal value in its stock-the lot to be taken at a valuation of $10,000- on condition that a roomn be reserved in the new build_ ing for a classical school for boys. This was agreed to, and it was decided that a stone building should be erected on this site. Plans were submitted, and that of Colonel George B. Post of New York city was adopted. A beautiful specimen of stone, found on the property of the proprietors of the Morris aqueduct, near the Jockey Hollow road, was selected; this the aqueduct company generously gave. Ground was broken in February 1875, and the laying of the foundation was begun in the follow- ing May; work was pushed rapidly, and the building was inclosed early the ensuing winter. The building cost $55,000.
The public opening occurred August 14th 1878. Each member of the board of directors has been from the con- ception of the enterprise until the present time active and efficient; and the result is a noble institution, unsurpassed by any in the State, and of which the citizens may well be proud. Special praise is due to J. Warren Blatchly, now deceased, for his donation by will of $5,000 for the purchase of books; to William L. King for his untiring energy in the interest of the library, and for his generous gifts to it, amounting in all to about $20,000; to John Whitehead for the time and pains bestowed in the selec- tion, purchase and arrangement of books, and preparation of the catalogue; and to William S. Babbitt, the efficient secretary of the institution.
Oil portraits of Messrs. King and Blatchly, painted by J. Alden Weir, have recently been placed in the library by friends of the institution.
From the last annual report we take the following: Total number of accounts during the year, 332; volumes in library, 8,280; added during the year, 557; issued during the year, 14,078; visits to the reading room, 11, 170; more recent additions make the present number
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MASONIC LODGES AT MORRISTOWN-FEMALE CHARITABLE SOCIETY.
The board of directors consists of William L. King, president; John Whitehead, vice-president; W. S. Bab- bitt, secretary; John E. Taylor, treasurer; Henry C. Pitney, Alfred Mills, Theodore Little, Aurelius B. Hull, Samuel Eddy.
The board was increased in June 1879 from seven members to nine, the present number. At the same time
the capital stock was increased from $50,000 to $100,000. lodge to change the place of meeting to Hanover (Whip-
LODGES AND SOCIETIES.
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
Cincinnati Lodge, No. 3. - The "American Union Lodge "-an army lodge-had its warrant granted Feb- ruary 15th 1776 by Colonel Richard Gridley, deputy grand master of Massachusetts, to certain brethren of the "Connecticut line." At the close of the year 1779 it was located with Washington's army at this place.
On the 27th of December 1779 a meeting of the above named lodge was held to celebrate the festival of St. John the Evangelist; and the record shows the presence of sixty-eight. brethren, including General Washington. There is a tradition that Lafayette was initiated at this meeting.
It is very commonly stated that General Washington was initiated into the mysteries of masonry while in camp here, and the room in the old Arnold tavern where the ceremony of initiation took place is pointed out. Truth compels us to disturb this pleasant local tradition. Gen- THE FEMALE CHARITABLE SOCIETY eral Washington was a mason previous to the Revolution- of Morristown was organized on the 13th of August ary war, at Fredericksburg, Va. The books of Freder- 1813. Mrs. Samuel Fisher, wife of the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, was first directress, Mrs. Israel Canfield second directress, Mrs. Arden treasurer, and Miss A. M. Smith secretary. The board of mana- gers were Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Phoenix, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Vail. Mrs. Silas John- son succeeded Mrs. Fisher as first directress, but re- signed the office at the end of two years, and Mrs McDowell was chosen in her place. icksburg Lodge, No. 4, have the following entries: " Nov. 6th 1752 .- Received George Washington; his entrance £2 35." " March 3d 1753 .- George Washington passed fellow-craft." "Aug. 4th 1753 .- At a meeting of Fred- ericksburg Lodge, No. 4, transactions of the evening are: George Washington raised Master Mason; F. P. Willford, W. M .; R. S. Chew, S. W .; C. B. Willford, J. W." While in Morristown steps were taken by the members of the American Union Lodge for the appointment of a grand In the year 1830 Mrs. George P. McCulloch was elected first directress of the society, and she remained its honored and beloved head for nearly thirty-four years. Mrs. McCulloch died in 1864, and Mrs. George T. Cobb was chosen to fill her place. master over all the colonies, and it was signified by the committee having the matter in charge that General Washington was their choice for general grand master. Nothing, however, ever grew out of it, each State after- ward establishing a grand lodge of its own, presided over by a separate grand master.
On December 18th 1786 a convention of master ma- sons was held at New Brunswick for the purpose of es- tablishing the grand lodge of the State of New Jersey. At a communication held at New Brunswick January 30th 1787 a dispensation was granted for three months to certain master masons to open a lodge at Morristown, to be distinguished by the name of Hiram Lodge, No. 4. On the 2nd of April 1787 the dispensation was canceled, and a warrant issued by the grand lodge, which warrant was subsequently (on the 5th of July 1796) returned on account of the non-attendance of members.
A warrant was issued November 10th 1812 to twelve master masons to open and hold a lodge at this place,
under the name St. Tammany's Lodge, but this was also returned after a few years.
On the 8th of November 1803 a warrant was granted to James Burras, W. M .; Wm. Bailey, S. W .; and John Sturtevant, J. W., to hold a lodge at Montville, in this county, to be called " Cincinnati Lodge, No. 17," No- vember 11th 1806 permission was granted by the grand pany), where it continued to meet until December 26th 1844, when it was removed to Morristown, under dispen- sation of the M. W. grand master. The number of the lodge was changed from 17 to 3 November 8th 1842.
The following is the list of W. masters of the lodge since its organization:
1803, 1804, James Burras; 1805-8, John T. Bentley; 1809-14, Jeptha B. Munn; 1815.18, Abraham Reynolds; 1819, John S. Darcy; 1820-22, William Scott; 1823, 1824, Royal Hopkins; 1825, 1826, James Quinby; 1827, William McFarland; 1828, Stephen Fairchild; 1829-34, 1842-45, 1848, 1849, James Clark; 1835-37, 1846, George Vail: 1838, Albert G. Hopping; 1847, 1851, 1854, Jabez Beers; 1850, W. C. Mott; 1852, 1853, Davis Vail; 1855, 1856, Thos. B. Flagler; 1857, Wm. H. James; 1858, 1859, Job J. Lewis; 1860-63, John S. Stiger; 1864, 1865, Alanson A. Vance; 1866, 1867, 1869, 1876, James V. Bentley; 1868, Chas. H. Dalrymple; 1870, Roswell B. Downing; 1871, Henry M. Dalrymple; 1872, Richard M. Stites; 1873, Jacob O. Arnold; 1874, Eratus D. Allen; 1875, John W. Hays; 1877, James W. Carrell; 1878, 1879, Wm. Becker jr .; 1880, 1881, Sidney W. Stalter.
The semi-centennial of the society was held in 1863. At the annual meeting in November 1879 Mrs. Cobb resigned the presidency of the society because of ill health, and Mrs. J. W. Miller was elected first directress. Mrs. Miller has been a member of the charitable society sixty years, filling the various offices of manager, second directress, etc. She is the daughter of Mrs. McCulloch, who for so many years directed the society's affairs.
The present officers are: Mrs. J. W. Miller, first directress; Mrs. Albert Erdman, second directress; Mrs. R. W. Stevenson, secretary; Mrs. Eugene Ayers, treas- urer; board of managers-Mrs. L. N. Hitchcock, Mrs. Henry Shaw, Mrs. L. B. Ward, Mrs. Theodore Little, Mrs. H. C. Pitney, Mrs. E. C. Lord, Miss Benson, Mrs. F. G. Burnham, Miss Rowe, Mrs. S. F. Headley, Mi.s
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Watson, Mrs. G. Werts; honorary managers-Mrs. R. N. Merritt, Mrs. R. S. Green, Mrs. Chadwell, Mrs. Bowman.
The society distributed during the past year $616.82 in charities.
ODD FELLOWS.
Roxiticus Lodge of I. O. of O. F. was instituted Sep- tember 11th 1849 and continued to 1863. It was re- organized in March 1871, and is still in existence. We judge that it is quite unappreciative of the importance of its history to after generations, as we made not less than six applications to it, but all in vain, for whatever is worthy of record in its past and present existence. We regret this for the sake of those unborn generations.
Its present officers are: N. G., Alfred M. Armstrong; V. G., Edward Cobbett; secretary, Charles R. Lindsley; treasurer, John McGowan; district deputy of Morris county, William Lewis. The present number of members is 50.
The lodge meets Wednesday nights in the Bell build- ing.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The first post of the grand army in Morristown was organized September 3d 1868, and was known as Phil. Sheridan Post, No. 18, Department N. J., G. A. R. The name was afterward changed to Ira J. Lindsley Post, No. 18, in honor of Captain Ira J. Lindsley, Com- pany C 15th N. J. volunteers, who fell in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d 1863. The officers of the post were: Commander, Samuel J. Hopkins; S. V. C., James M. Brown; J. V. C., Heyward G. Emmell; adju- tant, George W. Derrickson; quartermaster, Ellis T. Armstrong; S. M., Charles P. Case; Q. M. S., John Moreland.
The post surrendered its charter in 1874.
Winfield Scott Post, No. 24, was organized July 14th 1879. The name of the post was changed on the death of General Torbett to A. T. A. Torbett Post, No. 24, G. A. R., there being a large number of his old brigade members of the post. The present officers are: Com- mander, Heyward G. Emmell; S. V., William S. Earls; J. V., James Shawger; surgeon, Stephen Pierson, M. D .; chaplain, Theodore Searing; adjutant, L. P. Hannas; quartermaster, William Becker jr .; officer of the day, Edward Cobbett; officer of the guard, Alonzo Hedden; Q. M. S., George Pierson; S. M., E. A. Doty.
The post numbers about fifty men.
WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY.
This society was organized in 1873, for the purpose of aiding poor and worthy women in town by giving to them such work as they could perform and paying them a generous price for it. It was designed thus to culti- vate a proper self-respect among the poor, and remove the pauperizing influence of alms-giving. In this respect the society has done an excellent work. According to the last annual report it paid out for work during the year over $700, and sold garments to the amount of were $1, 589.58; the expenditures $909.32.
nearly $800. Its total receipts for the year ending November Ist 1880 were $1,338.66, and expenditures $1,288.81.
The officers are: First directress, Mrs. C. H. Hunt; second directress, Mrs. P. C. Barker; treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Lord; secretary, Miss J. E. Dodge; managers-Mrs. W. E. Bailey, Miss Benson, Mrs. G. W. Colles, Mrs. J. Smith Dodge, Mrs. H. W. Ford, Mrs. Hillard, Miss M. Lord, Mrs. R. W. Lyon, Mrs. H. W. Miller, Mrs. Henry Shaw, Mrs. George Vail, Mrs. L. B. Ward; honorary manager, Mrs. J. W. Miller.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
For a number of years before the organization of this association its various branches of work (including read- ing-room) were carried on by the young men of the two Presbyterian churches. The reading-room was over the store of W. S. Babbitt. The expenses of this organiza- tion were jointly borne by the churches just named.
The Young Men's Christian Association had its rise in a preliminary conference of young men of the different churches at a private house in December 1873. This led to the formal organization of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association on the 2nd of January 1874, in the Bap- tist Church of Morristown. On that occasion over 100 men assembled and 6r members were enrolled.
The presidents of the organization have been as fol- lows: J. V. Bentley, Wm. E. Church, Frederick Wooster Owen, Jonathan W. Roberts, George E. Voorhees, James P. Sullivan and John Edward Taylor, the present incum- bent; vice-presidents, Isaac R. Pierson, Wm. E. Church, W. F. Day, J. E. Parker, Wm. D. Johnson, Isaac Pierson and Kiliaen Van Rensselaer. The first recording secre- tary was M. W. Stoll, the first treasurer the lamented George L. Hull. The first executive committee consis- ted of Geo. E. Voorhees, J. J. Davis, L. E. Miller, E. E. Marsh, Isaac R. Pierson, Levi J. Johnson, W. F. Day, J. Searing Johnson, W. S. Babbitt and E. A. Muir.
The year 1876 saw the association initiating and suc- cessfully concluding the scheme for freeing the African M. E. church from debt. It is a significant fact that Morristown at large contributed through the Y. M. C. A. $3,800 for that purpose, fully acquiring the church prop- erty and vesting its official control in the association.
In this same memorable year the association held 36r prayer meetings in Morristown and vicinity, induced the citizens to feed the poor on Thanksgiving day at an ex- pense of $200, prepared the way for the " mission chapel " movement, and distributed 100 Bibles and about 1,500 tracts.
In 1877 the association became an incorporated body. In January 1880 the "coffee-room and gymnasium " and "evening school " movements were inaugurated, and they have proved highly successful. The committee in charge of the former was Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, T. B. Nutting and J. E. Parker; of the latter, J. H. Van Doren, W. L. R. Haven, S. Moore and Theodore Little.
The receipts of the association during the year 1880
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The officers during the year 1881 were. J. E. Taylor, president; Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, vice-president; W. S. Mulford, corresponding secretary; D. H. Rodney, re- cording secretary; H. T. Hull, treasurer; executive com- mittee-J. H. Van Doren (chairman), George G. Ely (secretary), William K. Norris, George W. Colles, William Lewis, George N. Yates, I. R. Voorhees, William S. Babbitt, W. F. Day, T. B. Nutting jr., Lansing Furman, Charles A. Edwards, J. D. Guerin; devotional committee -Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (chairman), Truman H. Scott secretary), (T. B. Nutting jr., James Welsh, Isaac R. Pierson, William D. Johnson, P. H. Hoffman, H. H. Fairchild, Walter N. Coriell; corporation-F. W. Owen (president), I. R. Pierson (secretary), H. T. Hull (treas- urer), J. E. Taylor, George E. Voorhees, P. H. Hoffman, W. F. Day, A. A. Schenck, William D. Johnson, George Yates.
THE MORRISTOWN LYCEUM
was organized in September 1879, having previously ex- isted for a few years as a debating society under the name of "Young Men's Lyceum." Its object was to preserve the best features of the debating society, to add a reading room for newspapers etc., a course of lectures, and other literary entertainments.
The first officers were: President, Paul Revere; vice- president, E. A. Quayle; treasurer, W. B. Wood; record- ing secretary, Mahlon Pitney; corresponding secretary, F. Schraudenbach.
The office of president has since been filled by W. W. Cutler, C. F. Randolph and J. B. Vreeland.
The present board of officers is as follows: President, J. B. Vreeland; vice-president, W. B. Wood; recording secretary, H. Hillard; corresponding secretary, W. P. Fennell; treasurer, A. W. Bell; members of executive committee-T. C. Bushnell, W. W. Cutler.
The meetings are held on Monday evening, during the winter. A commodious and well-furnished room in the library building is the place of meeting. A course of lectures has been given each year, and a public debate held just prior to adjournment for the summer.
" THE MORRISTOWN GREEN."
In the year 1771 (September 7th) " the trustees, Henry Primrose, Benjamin Bayles, Benjamin Cox, Samuel Rob- erts, Joseph Stiles, Samuel Tuthill and Stephen Conkling, in consideration of £5 and also for and in consideration that the justices and freeholders of Morris county and successors do constantly and continually keep full and in passable repair that part of the hereafter mentioned lot of land commonly called the Gully " (a portion of the present "Green "), deeded "one acre, strict measure, for the sole use and purpose of a court-house, gaol," etc. This deed specifies "that if the court-house aforesaid shall be removed to any other place then this indenture and everything herein contained to be void, and title to the aforesaid lot of land to revert to said Henry Prim- rose," etc.
the land now embraced in the park for the purposes of a common was mooted. It was owned by the First Pres- byterian Church. An old surveyor by the name of Ed- ward Condict, however, laid claim to it as unlocated land. Finally he was induced to forego his claim in view of the fact that the church was ready to sell the land for a green to certain citizens. The price paid was $1,600. The deed bears date of April Ist 1816. It is signed by John Mills, president of the board of trustees, and by those who had subscribed to the purchase fund, with the amounts given. These names ought to be preserved, and we consequently append them. The parties of the sec- ond part were the original subscribers; those of the third part later subscribers.
Parties of the second part: Daniel Phoenix, $100; Lewis Mills, $100; James Wood, $150; Israel Canfield, $200; Samuel Halliday, $50; P. A. Johnson, $50; Henry King, $25; Ebenezer H. Pierson, $50; David Mills, $25; Theodore F. Talbot, $25; Jonathan Ogden, $100; Syl- vester D. Russell, $35; Andrew Hunt, $25.
Parties of the third part: William M. O'Hara, $10; Henry P. Russell, $30; the bank, Daniel Phoenix presi- dent, $50; Henry I. Browne, $25; Abm. C. Canfield, $25; William H. Wetmore, $25; Loammi Moore, $50; Stephen Halsey, $5; William Dixon, $50; Charles A. Pitney, $5; Lewis Hayden, $50; Stephen J. Ogden, $35; George K. Drake, $10.
This deed is recorded in Book O O of deeds, page 417, etc.
The deed provided "that no dwelling house, store, shop or barn, or any other building of any kind should be thereafter erected on the aforesaid green or comnion, except a meeting-house, a court-house and jail, and a market-house." These last specifications did not seem so important to the more recent trustees as to those whose names are above recorded. Accordingly in 1868 they reconveyed the property to the trustees of the church, who immediately transferred it back to the trus- tees of the Green, with the objectionable specifications omitted, thus prohibiting building of any sort upon it; also agreeing when a new church is built to place its front line forty feet further back than the front line of the present edifice.
The Green is in shape a square, divided by walks into eight triangles. It contains about two and a half acres, and the distance around it is a quarter of a mile. Around this square are situated the principal business places and three of the churches. In the center of the Green are a "liberty pole " and a rustic summer-house for the band, and at the northeast corner the soldiers' monu- ment, of which notice is taken elsewhere.
LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO MORRISTOWN.
Thursday the 14th of July 1825 was a great day for Morristown and vicinity. Preparations had for a long time been making for it. As far back as the previous September a pressing invitation had been extended to General Lafayette, "the nation's guest," to visit this place. The invitation had been in due time accepted, and the above date appointed as the time of the. visit.
About 1816 the project of inclosing the remainder of | The following large committee, consisting of the fore-
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most men of the community, had been chosen to make the necessary arrangements: General John Doughty, chairman; Gabriel H. Ford, James Wood, James C. Can- field, Cornelius Ludlow, Colonel Lemuel Cobb, Colonel John H. Glover, Joseph Dickerson jr., Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Lawrence Hager, Captain Richard Reed, Abraham Brittin, Hon. Lewis Condict, George K. Drake, Captain Daniel C. Martin, S. D. Russell, General John S. Darcy, Silas Cook, Robert Colfax, Major William Hunt, Samuel Sayre, Colonel Benjamin McCurry, Doctor Jephtha B. Munn, Lewis Mills, Jacob Mann, secretary.
The arrangements were all completed, the stand was erected, the speakers appointed, the military in readiness under General Darcy, the tables in Mr. Sansay's long room spread in readiness for an epicurean feast for all who could pay three dollars for a dinner ticket, while the parlor of Mr. Ogden (by whom General Lafayette was to be entertained while here) was put in readiness for the ladies of the town to whom the honored guest was after the dinner to be introduced.
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