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The new church was completed carly in Septem- ber, 1869, and dedicated Thursday, Sept. 14, 1869. The building and furniture cost $10,000, which was all provided for by the evening of dedication-day, and the church owed much of its subsequent pros- perity to its freedom from debt. The year following, by the exertions of Deacon Gabriel Welsh and the young people of the church, one of Meneely's sweet- sounding bells was purchased and placed in the church-tower.
The following description of the church, from one of the leading State papers, is appended :
"The church building is small. but perhaps the most completo and beautiful Baptist church of its size in the State, having all the couve- niences and modern improvements of the more pretentious churches of the cities. Fine stained-glass windows, carpeted throughout, heated by furnaces, a pipe-organ by one of the best New York mukers, side-walls and ceilings elaborately frescood, a pleasant little Sabbath-school room adjoining the rear and opening from the church, a baptistery built uoder the pulpit platform, are among the successes of the enterprise."
The subsequent history of the church is marked by but few notable incidents.
The North New Jersey Baptist Association was or- ganized at Glenwood in 1872.
ST. THOMAS' PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
The certificate of incorporation of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Vernon reads as follows :
" Tonll ichom these presents may concern :
" We whose names and seals are hereunto affixed do certify that the congregation of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church of Vernon, In the county of Sussex and State of New Jersey, which is a society wor- shiping according to the customs und usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church, desiring to form themselves Into a hody corporate according to the act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey In such case mad" and provided, met in St. Thomas' church aforesald, in the sald town of Vernon, ou the 18th day of May, Isis, pursuant to ten days' previous notice given as the intention of the said congregation to form themselves into a truly corporate by an advertisement set up In open view on the
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outer door of the said church, it being the place where the said congre- gation usually assesible for divine service, which designates the day when and the place where they designed to meet for that purpose. The rector of the said church, the Rev. Dexter Potter, presided, and H. W. McCamley, the secretary of the vestry, recorded the proceedings. The congregation then proceeded, by a vote of a majority of those present, to designate the corporate name or title by which the said church shall be known, and which is ' The Rector, Wardeos, and Vestrymen of the St. Thomas' Church of Vernon.' The congregation then chose two war- dens and five vestrymen, and also, by a majority of voices, fixed and de- termined on Monday in the week called Easter week, annually, as the day on which the election of officers of said church shall take place.
"Ia testimony whereof, in order that these proceedings may be re- corded, we, the rector and secretary aforesaid, have hereuato set onr hadde and seals this 18th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1848.
" D. POTTER,
" HENRY W. MCCAMLEY."
The meeting for incorporation was held subsequent to the building of the church, which was erected in 1847, at a cost of $1500.
The first wardens were Walter L. Shee and Thomas B. De Kay ; the first vestrymen were John Ruther- ford, Henry W. McCamley, Lewis G. Price, John Baird, and Carlos Allen. H. W. McCamley was ap- pointed treasurer, and James Riley sexton.
The rectors in succession since 1848 have been Rev. D. Potter, who remained from 1848 until 1853, when he was succeeded by Rev. W. H. Carter. He was followed by Rev. George Hubbard, in 1860, after which Rev. George Z. Gray began his labors, in 1862, and remained two years. The next incumbent was Rev. N. F. Ludlow, who came in 1864 and remained until 1869, an interval having been filled by Garret Van Horn as lay-reader during his rectorate. During a portion of the winter of 1868-69 the church was closed. Rev. Peter A. Jay came in 1869, and was followed by Rev. H. B. Stuart Martin in 1872. The present rector, Rev. Levi Johnson, begau his ministry in 1875, and also includes the Hamburg parish in his field of labor.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
There are two churches of this denomination in the township, both under the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Pope. Both church buildings are spacious and com- fortable, and each of the organizations enjoys a con- siderable degree of prosperity.
The deed conveying the property on which the first church was erected, in 1837, is from Robert A. Lynn and Elizabeth, his wife, of Hamburg, to Wil- liam R. Winans, Nathan Benjamin, Abram Van Gelder, Thomas B. De Kay, Richard S. Denton, Samuel Simonsou, and Abram Rutan, Jr., trustees of the Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church. It is dated Aug. 8, 1835.
The church built in 1837 becoming too small, a new one was erected in 1873. It was dedicated by Drs. Dashiel and Laroe. Rev. William R. Keifer was pastor at that time.
Dr. L. R. Dunn, in 1841, took Vernon for his first charge, and met with Miss Camley, who afterwards became Mrs. Dunn,
Several prominent divines have had charge of Ver- non Circuit. Rev. W. H. Dickenson was appointed to the charge in 1880, and lived only a few months to work in his new field of labor. Rev. J. Pope suc- ceeded Mr. Dickenson.
In 1880-81 a very interesting revival meeting was held, in which a very large number professed conver- sion. Under the ministrations of Mr. Pope the church was brought into a good state of working order.
Rev. William Toland, who resides in his beautiful home on one of the hills uear Vernon, is a local preacher; he is alive to all church prosperity, and is always ready for every good work.
The above charge is in a prosperous condition. The membership is large, and constantly increasing.
XII .- THE LAST CENSUS.
The following list, embracing the residents of Ver- non who have obtained advanced years, is of interest:
Carlos Allen, 65; Jane Arvie, 92; John C. Baxter, 66; Eliza Bates, 78; Hannah Babcock, 86; Jeho Brooks, 70; Sarah Babcock, 69; David Barrett, 66; John H. Brown, 66 ; John Baxter, 66; John S. Couklin, 75; John Crabtree, 67; Eliza Crabtree, 65; William Campbell, 69; Delia Cole, 69; John S. Carpenter, 73; Mary E. Carpenter, 71 ; John Crissy, 73; Ilenry Chardavoy oe, 70; Sarah A. Chardavoyae, 66; Anna Conklin, 84; Robert Chardavoyne, 77; John Cooper, 69; Ephraim Cherry, 77; Mary E. Cherry, 73; John Card, 67; Janet Cole, 66; Sylvester Card, 74; John De Kay, 69; Sarah De Kay, 69; Gilbert Drew, 76; Isaac Drew, 69; David Dixon, 66; Eliza Dixon, 70; Chris- tian D. Day, 82; Emeline Day, 72; Richard B. Edsall, 85 ; Joseph V. Edsall, 65; John Force, 50; Rosetta Force, 66; Philip Fitch, 65 ; William Green, 82; John Garlinghouse, 67; Fanny Hynard, 75; James Y. Holley, 83 ; Everett Hovencamp, 67; Benjamin Harrison, 67 ; Sarah Harrison, 69; Isaac Howard, 65; Melissa Jones, 70; Caro- line Lewis, 68; Charles V. Longwell, 69; John Lott, 80; Elizabetlı Layton, 67; William Mullery, 68; Catharine McCamly, 69; Evi A. Martin, 68; John D. Mapes, 72; Rachel Mapes, 66 ; Sarah O'Daniels, 65; Lewis G. Price. 75; Atkinson Parks, 68; Jane Pullis, 65; Izariah Parker, 69; Sarah M. Parker, 67; Mary Paddock, 70; Milly Rickey, 74; Mary Romaine, 72; William Riggs, 88 ; Maria Shaw, 68; Samnel Sprague, 78; Joseph Simionson, 76; Lydia Simonsoo, 73; William Smith, 74; Caroline A. Smith, 73; Adam Smith, 87; Nicholas Tuite, 65; Matilda Toland, 82; John S. Thornton, 66; Catharine Thornton, 67 ; William Talmage, 70; Esther W. Utter, 77; Mary Winade, GG; Henry B. Wilcox, 68; Christiana J. Walling, 65; Jane Wood, 72. Number between the ages of 60 and 65, 57.
XIII .- ORGANIZATION.
The following act of the State Legislature, passed Nov. 19, 1792, erected Vernon as an independent township :
" Whereas, a number of the inhabitants of the township of Hardyston, in the County of Sussex, have by their petition set forth that they have long labored under many and great difficulties by reason of the great length of the said township, for remedy WHEREOF BE IT EN- ACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this Stute, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That all that part of the township of Hardyston lying northwest of the following line, to wit: beginning at a tree standing on the east side of the road leading from Jesse Ford's house to Peppacotton bridge, being a corner of Hardyston and Wantage, and running from thence on a due course to a bridge over a branch of Pequennock River, heing on Col. John Seward's old farm; from theace continuing the same course until it intersecte the line of the County of Bergan; shall be aad is hereby sett off from the township of Hardystou aud made a separate township, to be called by the name of 'The Town- ship of Vernon.'"
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DANIEL BAILEY.
Stephen, son of Joseph Bailey, was born in War- wick, Orange Co., N. Y., Jan. 11, 1765.
He married, Jan. 15, 1790, Huldah Whitney, of the same place, who was born Jan. 6, 1769. They settled at what is now Glenwood, N. J., where he purchased, May 26, 1794, fifty-three and forty-six one-hundredths acres for sixty-six pounds seventeen shillings current money of the State of New York, it being a part of the tract surveyed for the Earl of Perth. This was a wilderness tract of land, and he found his way to it by way of a foot-path. Here he encountered the hardships incident to pioneer life, and lived until his death, which occurred May 30, 1819. His widow re- moved with one of the family-Thomas-to Troups- burg, N. Y., where she died March 27, 1852. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and was buried in " Young Hickory Cemetery" at that place.
Stephen Bailey was a man of great muscular strength, stood over six feet in height, and was a man of considerable enterprise and business ability. Prior to his death he acquired a quite large landed estate.
lle had ten children,-viz., Stephen ; Daniel ; Es- ther, became the wife of Charles Mott, of Paterson, N. J. ; Joseph ; Huldah M., became the wife of Joseph Edmundson, of Newton, N. J .; Samuel L .; Phebe ; Thomas Whitney ; William O .; and Matthew.
Daniel Bailey, son of Stephen, was born Dec. 16, 1792, and married .Jan. 12, 1816, Jane, second daugh- ter of Matthew and Mary (Phillips) Van Ostrand, of Morristown, N. J., where she was born May 15, 1795. IFer father was a member of Washington's life-guard, and was killed near Morristown.
Daniel Bailey succeeded to the homestead, partly by purchase and partly by inheritance, and added to it other land, owning at his death some two hundred acres.
lle was an active and zealous member of the Meth- odist Church, and his home was the welcome and hos- pitable stopping-place for the early preachers of that denomination.
lle owned a beautiful grove, where many camp- meetings used to be held, and he was buried in the cemetery which he had given for a public burying- ground. Hle died May 16, 1839, and his remains were, in 1876, removed to the tilenwood Cemetery, where a fine monument has been erected to mark the burial-place of himself and wife. She died Nov. 15, 1874.
llis children are one son and six daughters,-viz., Matthew; Hannah, wife of John N. Ryerson, of Goshen, N. Y. ; Mary, was the wife of John S. Van Houten, of Independence, N. J .; Susan, married %(- nus D. Riggs, of Denton, N. Y. ; Alzadn, became the wife of William Toland, of Glenwood, N. J. ; Sarah J., married Joseph Simpson, of Amity, N. Y. ; and
Matilda, became the wife of Amos M. Ryerson, of Denton, N. Y.
Matthew, son of Daniel Bailey, was born Feb. 13. 1817, and married Nov. 25, 1840, Sarah MI., daughter of Joseph and Hannah J. Ferrier, of Edenville, Orange Co., N. Y. She was born Aug. 13, 1818.
Matthew Bailey inherited his father's lands, and during his life made additions to it. He lived a quiet and unostentatious life as a farmer, respected and es- teemed by all who knew him. He was one of the first trustees, a constituent member and clerk of the Glen- wood Baptist Church, and his house was the home of the ministers of that denomination. In early life he was much interested in military matters, and belonged to Col. Kilpatrick's regiment. He died April 20, 1860, and was buried by the side of his father. His widow married for her second husband James Thompson, now deceased, and after her marriage became a mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church at AAmity, of which her husband was an ehler. She survives in 1881, and resides with her son.
Daniel, only son and only child of Matthew Bailey, was born at Glenwood, N. J., Nov. 25, 1841. His life has been mostly spent as a merchant and a farmer. He inherited the homestead settled by his great- grandfather, upon which he resides, and manages in connection with his store. He was commissioned by Governor Olden, June 10, 1862, lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment New Jersey militia, and Sept. 19, 1862, he was commissioned captain of Company F, Twenty-seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, and served in the Army of the Potomac, in the depart- ment of Kentucky, at the draft rendezvous, and at Jeffersonville, Ind., in command of the United States arsenal. At the close of the war, he was on the staff of Gen. Brisbin.
Capt. Bailey is an enterprising, thoroughgoing business man. He has added to the homestead prop- erty and now owns some seven hundred aeres, and was largely interested from 1868 to 1872 in the milk and creamery business. He is a director of the State Line Railway Company, and built and owns the tele- graph-line extending from Glenwood to Pine Island, now operated by the Western Union. Ile is post- master at Glenwood, a commissioner of deeds for Sus- sex County, succeeded his father as trustee of the Baptist Church there, and has been secretary of the cemetery board since its organization. In 1862 he built a parsonage for the Baptist Church at Glenwood, which the society enjoys at a small cost. In 1878, ('apt. Bailey was nominated for member of Assembly, but on account of the minority of his party ( Repub- lican ) he was defeated. He is a man well informed in matters of local and State legislation, and alive to the best interests of the community where he resides.
In 1879, Capt. Bailey organized the "Sussex Bat- tery," consisting of twenty men, and two bronze twelve-pounders, one of which was purchased from the United States government, the other from the
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Park Association, it being one of the one hundred donated by the government for a memorial statue to Gen. Meade. This battery was organized to celebrate the centennial of the battle of Minisink in 1879; the second service was at the Grand Army encampment at Skillman, N. J., in 1879; its third service was at the unveiling of the soldiers' monument at Middletown, N. Y., the same year ; the fourth, at the reception of Gen. Kilpatrick at Franklin, N. J .; the fifth, the Fourth-of-July salutes in 1880; the sixth, at the Grand Army encampment at Bordentown, N. J., in 1880; and the seventh was at the reception of Senator Blaine and Col. Ingersoll at Deckertown, in the fall of 1880. On all these occasions the Sussex Battery fired every salute.
Capt. Bailey's wife, Anne Elizabeth, is an only daughter of Peter J. and Delia (Ryerson) Brown, and granddaughter of Nicholas Ryerson, of Glenwood. She was born at Paterson, N. J., April 1, 1841. Their children are Matthew Grant, Anne Delia, Sarah May, and Bessie Munson.
HENRY B. DE KAY.
The family of De Kay in Sussex County are of French extraction, as the name implies. Thomas De Kay, the progenitor of the family here, married, May 28, 1723, Christiana Duncan, a lady of Scotch origin, who was born Feb. 2, 1707. He traded some sixty acres of land where a part of New York City now is for twelve hundred acres in Vernon township, Sus- sex Co., N. J., and in 1724 settled on this property. ITis first encampment was on a certain knoll, which is upon the farm now owned by the subject of this sketch, when he then expressed a desire that he should be buried on that spot, which was done at the time of his death, Jan. 1, 1758. His wife died Sept. 6, 1784.
Thomas, grandson of Thomas De Kay, the first settler, was born March 16, 1759, and married Hannah Blain, who bore him children as follows: Charles ; Polly, wife of Charles Williams, of Warwick, N. Y .; Sally, wife of Joseph Edsall, of Vernon ; Hannah, wife of John Sly; Maj. Thomas B .; Julia, wife of Ross Winans ; Fanny, wife of David Hynard ; Cath- erine, wife of Henry W. McCamly ; and William.
He was a Democrat, and served as a justice of the peace for many years. He was a man of strong force of character and possessed of good executive ability. He died March 16, 1830; his wife, March 1, 1848, aged eighty-five years.
Maj. Thomas B., son of Thomas De Kay, was born Feb. 26, 1792, had a practical education, and spent his life as a farmer. He was one of the directors of the Warwick Valley Railroad, was a member of the Episcopal Church, and aided largely in the erection of the church edifice there. He belonged to the old Whig party, and subsequently to the Republican party. Hle died Sept. 3, 1863. His first wife was Clarissa Sharp, whom he married Nov. 26, 1814, by
whom he had children,-Thomas S. ; Hannah A., wife of John Cowdry ; Elizabeth, wife of Edward De Kay ; Mary, wife of John Baird ; and Clarissa, wife of Sam- uel C. Welling. Mrs. De Kay died Feb. 15, 1828.
His second wife was Sarah E., daughter of Capt. John Cowdry, of New York, whom he married March 12, 1829, and who survives in 1881.
The children of this marriage are Frances A., wife of William M. Winans, of London, England; Sarah A. and Emma C., died in infancy ; Sarah A., wife of Hon. B. H. Truesdale; William T., died young ; Henry B .; Christiana ; Willie C., died young ; and Julia M.
Henry B., son of Maj. Thomas B. De Kay, was born in Vernon township, Sept. 23, 1840. His early education from books was received at the Warwick Institute and Bloomfield Grammar-School. In his boyhood he became inured to the work of the farm, and he has followed agricultural pursuits through life. He ranks among the representative men of his township, is interested in all that pertains to its pros- perity, and although not a member of any church, he is a contributor to the Episcopal Church at Vernon, and one of its officers.
For seventeen years he has been a director of the Warwick Valley Railroad, besides taking an active part in many other public enterprises.
His wife is Harriet E., daughter of Hammond and Sarah Ann (Wisner) Sly, whom he married Dec. 24, 1862, at Elmira, N. Y. She was a grauddaughter of Jeffry Wisner, a prominent and influential citizen of Warwick. Her great-grandfather, Lebbeus Ham- mond, was taken prisoner at the massacre of Wy- omning, but, having obtained the confidence of the Indians, escaped. The children of Mr. and Mrs. De Kay are Geraldine, Thomas Wallace, and Julia Frances.
GABRIEL HOUSTON.
His father, Thomas Houston, settled in Middletown, N. Y., in early life, and was an active and zealous member of the Presbyterian Church of that place, in which he officiated as elder. His wife was Sarah Faulkender, who bore him the following children, viz .: Ann, wife of Henry Denton, of Denton, N. Y .; Harriet, wife of Judge John Booth; Catharine, wife of David Corwin; Gabriel; Adeline, wife of Rev. Gabriel Corwin, now of Cape May; Philinda; Jane, wife of Henry O. Bronson, of Jackson, Mich .; James F .; Franklin; and Nelson.
Gabriel Houston was born May 25, 1798, near Mid- dletown. He remained at home until his marriage to Susan Ann Owen, when he settled at Glenwood, N. J., on the homestead of his father-in-law, Isaac Owen, which was formerly the property of Isaac Owen's father, Ebenezer Owen, containing one hun- dred and eighty acres of land. On this property he lived the remainder of his life, and died Jan. 22, 1864. Hle accumulated other property, was a rep- resentative farmer, and a good business man. He
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was a stockholder in the Chester Bank at Chester, Orange Co., N. Y., and owned the old homestead of his father, originally consisting of some three hun- dred acres, which property is still in the family, and has always been known as an excellent stock-farm. Ile was well informed on the current topics of his times, and a man whose counsel was often sought by his fellow-citizens.
Although not a member of any church, he was in- terested in the propagation of morality and religious teachings, and gave the ground upon which the Meth- odist church was erected. He was friendly and gen- erous with all denominations that applied to him for assistance.
In politics he was a Democrat, but never sought political place. In early life he obtained a practical education, was plain and unassuming in his ways, and was always willing to sacrifice his own for the comfort and happiness of others.
His children are Sally Ann, married Festus Vail, of Warwick, N. Y .; Abigail Jane; Isaac Owen; Thomas Erminda, died young; Gabriel Wisner; IIenry Owen; Elizabeth W., died young; James Nel- son, Elizabeth and Susan, died young ; Susan, wife of Thomas Pickens, of Ulster Co., N. Y .; Philip ; and Mary O.
PETER J. BROWN.
Ilis father, John Brown, was born in Hertfordshire, England, about 1774, and came to America in 1801. His life was spent mostly in Paterson, N. J., after coming to this country, where he was a prominent and influential merchant. He was a member of the First Baptist Church there, and died about 1854. His wife, Ann Jackson, was a native of Lancashire, England, and emigrated to America in 1803; was married to Mr. Brown in 1815, and bore him the fol- lowing children : John J., Peter J., Jane H. (wife of HI. J. Van Emburgh, of Paterson, N. J.), Mary A. (wife of William Hunter, of New York City), Thomas C., James M., Joseph B., and George G. The mother of these children was a devoted t'hristian woman, a member of the same church as her husband, and died in 1864, aged eighty year -.
Peter J., son of John Brown, was born in the city of New York, April 14, 1819. His early life was spent in Paterson, where he received a good practical education. He was employed as a clerk in his father's store for many years before reaching his majority ; was for four years a clerk in the store of J. W. Dorset, in Paterson and New York, and after a couple more years' clerkship for his father, in company with his brother, John J. Brown, -necceded to the mercantile business of his father, in Paterson, which he carried on until 1851, and sold out the business.
For two years following he spent his time traveling, a part of which time he was in California. Return- ing, he purchased and settled upon two hundred and ninety acres of productive land at Glenwood, Sussex
Co., where he has carried on succes fully agricultural pursuits and dairying since. This property was known as the Nicholas Ryerson farm. For sixteen years he has carried on the creamery business in connection
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with Capt. Daniel Bailey. He gives considerable attention to stock-raising, both of Alderney cattle and Berkshire swine.
Since Mr. Brown's residence at Glenwood he has done much to enthuse enterprise and a spirit of prog- ress into the community, and is ranked among the active and thoroughgoing business men of his town- ship and county. He takes advantage of every new and useful improvement to lessen labor, and owned and worked the first mowing - machine in Vernon. IIe is one of the stockholders of the Pine Island Rail- road. He was formerly a Whig, but upon the organ- ization of the Republican party became identified with its principles. He married1, Oct. 23, 1839, Delia, daughter of Nicholas and Ann ( Farber) Ryerson, by whom he has two children,-Ann Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Daniel Bailey, of Glenwood, and Munson R., who married a daughter of William II. Houston, of Florida, N. Y.
Nicholas Ryer-on had nine children,-viz., Eliza- beth, wife of Amos Munson, of Deckertown, N. J .; John N .; Ann, wife of George W. Houston, of Mid- dletown, N. Y .; Peter N .; Catharine, wife of Evi Martin; Delia; Nicholas; Abigail, wife of J. T. Walling, of Amity, N. Y .; Jane, wife of A. F. Wal- ling, of Hampton, N. Y. Nicholas Ryerson was a
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member of the Methodist Church, a prominent farmer, and died in 1865, aged eighty-six. His wife was also a member of the same church, and died in 1868, aged eighty-four. Both died at Amos Munson's, in Deckertown.
JACOB MARTIN.
His grandfather, Azariah Martin, born in Middle- sex Co., N. J., was there married and reared a part of his family. He removed to Vernon township, where he purchased in 1774 land upon which he set- tled,-the property now being owned by his grandson Jacob, the subject of this sketch. He became a large real estate owner, and possessed some nine hundred acres at his death. He served in the Revolutionary war. His children were seven, who grew to manhood and womanhood.
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