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Fred. S. Taggart; secretary, Walter I. Neafie. Elections are now held semi-annually. The club meets on the first and third Thursday nights of each month.
THE WESTFIED CLUB.
This club was organized in December, 1893, when the old Union League and the Athletic Club united. About this time Mr. Henry C. Sargeant, one of our generous and public-spirited citizens, built a hand- some club house, on Elm street, at a cost of about twenty thousand dollars, including grounds. It was erected for the Westfield Athletic Club and was occupied by them from October, 1892, to December, 1893, when the two clubs above named were merged into one, under the name of The Westfield Club. It is not only a beautiful and commodious structure, but has all the accessories of the modern club house,-whist, pool and billiard tables, bowling alley, shooting gallery, reading room, and large hall, capable of seating five hundred persons. All rooms are heated by steam and lighted by electricity. The club's constitution prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors anywhere upon its grounds. Its membership numbers about one hundred and twenty-five; its admission fee is five dollars, and the annual dues fifteen dollars.
The club was organized with the following officers: Henry C. Sargeant, president ; Chester M. Smith, vice-president ; George W. Peek, recording secretary ; Frank S. Smith, corresponding secretary ; Isaac Seeley, treasurer. Trustees : John Glück, John J. Coger, C. H. Bishop, T. D. Bushnell. The presidents to date are as follows: Henry C. Sargeant, November, 1893, to April, 1894 ; C. H. Bishop, April, 1894, to April, 1895 ; Harry E. Knight, April, 1895, to April, 1897 ; Joseph R. Connoly, April, 1897.
WESTFIELD WATER SUPPLY.
In 1892 the question of water-works, or a water supply for West- field, was under discussion. Many cesspools were continually overflow- ing, the board of health was constantly annoyed, wells were rapidly becoming poisoned and condemned, and the public health jeopardized. The Union Water Company of Elizabeth, in 1893, urged our township committee to contract for sixty hydrants at an annual rental of one thousand five hundred dollars. Mr. A. E. Pearsall, of the Standard, headed a vigorous opposition, claiming that the people desired and should own their own water plant. Public meetings were held by the people in firm protest, and at last the question was submitted to the legal voters at a special election, in the following form : "Shall your township committee contract for water, or bond the township to build a water plant?" As a result the vote stood about four to one in favor of the township owning its own plant. But, notwithstanding this popular vote, the township committee totally ignored the wish of the people, and entering into contract with the Union Water Company,
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WESTFIELD CLUB HOUSE
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in 1894 paid them, out of the public money, $279.16 ; in 1895, $389.84 ; in 1896, $525 ; in 1897, $568.76. It is impossible to ascertain the facts, but it is estimated that private parties are paying for their water supply, from $5,000 to $8,000 annually.
THE SEWER QUESTION.
The question of proper sewerage followed hard upon the heels of the water supply ; in fact had often been discussed simultaneously. Active agitation began in 1894. Petitions were circulated among owners of real estate, but nothing positively done until the election of Charles G. Endicott on the town committee, March 16, 1895. As the new commitee was about to proceed with the contracts for a sewer, an injunction was served upon them by residents of the northern end of the township, now known as Mountainside Borough. The reasons for such injunction are specifically named elsewhere under the proper heading, "The Borough of Mountainside." When the injunction was raised bonds were issued and ground was broken for the new sewer, in June, 1895, in front of the Union County Standard. The sewer farm is located about two miles from the village in the southern part of the township and cost ten thousand dollars.
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
The Suburban Electric Light Company of Elizabeth, began to light our streets in 1893. For the year ending February 15, 1894, our town- ship paid this company $472.80 ; in 1895, $1,847.57 ; in 1896, $2,335.42 ; in 1897, $2,445.33. It is estimated that the sums paid by private parties for lighting their own dwellings aggregate $10,000.
On the left of the picture shown on the succeeding page is located the First National Bank of Westfield, which was erected in 1892-3, and cost twenty-nine thon- sand five hundred dollars. Its loans and discounts amount to over one hun- dred thousand dollars. Its officers are as follows: Alfred D. Cook, president; directors : Charles G. Endicott, Joseph B. Harrison and Hiram L. Fink. On the right is the Pierson & Gilby store, which was burned out, and HOME OF AUNT PHEBE ROSS is now superseded by a fine brick structure. Further down, upon the right, where now (1897) is the market of Mr. Benjamin Woodruff, once stood the little house of "Aunt Phebe " Ross, as seen in this picture. Pleasant, affable and
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"newsy," and ou pleasant days always at the open door, or keeping open house, with no enemies, she was indeed one of the popular char- acters of Westfield. Aunt Phebe died in 1882, at the advanced age of ninety-five. .
THE BOROUGH OF MOUNTAINSIDE
became a borough at a special election held Tuesday, September 24, 1895, at the Locust Grove school house. The history of its formation is as follows:
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At a mass meeting of the taxpayers and voters of the northern part of Westfield township, Union county, New Jersey, held July 16, 1895, at the Locust Grove school house, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The township of Westfield contains an area of about twelve square miles, in the southern half of which the village of Westfield, containing less than two square miles, is situated, and
Whereas, The northern section of the township has been for years and is now taxed for the maintenance of a fire department and the lighting of streets in the village, and
Whereas, There has never been a public light, and the fire department has never served in the northern part of the township, and
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Whereas, The township committee have now begun to construct a sewer in the village, for the cost of which they propose to bond the township, and
Whereas, The Westfield village fire department, the Westfield village street lights, the Westfield village sewer and other Westfield village improvements never have been and never can be of any advantage to us whatever, and
Il'hereas, The township committee have turned a deaf ear to our strenuous protests against the injustice of compelling us to pay for improvements in a village remote from our section, therefore be it
Resolved, That we sanction and approve the action of the self-constituted commit- tee who have thus far had the matter in charge and who now report favorably upon the feasibility and constitutionality of a separate government for ourselves.
Resolved, That we proceed, according to the statute made and provided, to organ- ize a borough in the northern part of Westfield township, to contain not more than four square miles, to include Locust Grove, Branch Mills and Baltusrol, said borough to be known as the borough of Mountainside; and further be it
Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed, representing Locust Grove, Branch Mills and Baltusrol, to carry these resolutions into effect.
A committee of three was appointed, viz. : William Miller, Charles Badgley and Joseph W. Cory, representing respectively Branch Mills, Baltusrol and Locust Grove.
WILLIAM SCHOONOVER, Chairman.
JOSEPH W. CORY, Secretary.
The committee appointed at the meeting of July 16th took steps, as directed, to carry these resolutions into effect. Under the direction of counsel an accurate description of the proposed borough of Mountain- side was made, and the requisite signatures were obtained to a petition for an election to determine whether the proposed borough should be incorporated. This petition was granted, and the day set for the election.
Following are the names of freeholders who petitioned for the proposed borough of Mountainside, and they represent more than half the realty within its limits:
Charles Badgley, John M. Badgley, Mary G. Balderston, Theodore A. Ball, Car- roll Ph. Bassett, F. N. Brown, Jane E. Burtis, George W. Chandler, R. O. Rupert, Nicholas Crocheron, Joseph W. Cory, Anna Darby, Elston Darby, Levi J. Darby, William Darby, Mrs. J. Livingston Dewey, Jessie Anderson Dorval, Emeline Dunham, James K. P. Dunham, George W. French, Lizzie C. French, Winfield S. French, Christian Fritz, T. St. John Gaffney, E. J. Granger, Jacob Hamilton, Charles H. Holmes, H. J. Holmes, Sr., James B. Holmes, J. C. Howells, Sr., George C. Kerr, John Klopf, A. J. Knoll, George B. Long, Emily Lloyd, Roderick MacLaurin, M. J. MacMurray, Silas W. Mar- sters, William Miller, Anna E. O'Connors, Benjamin Osborn, A. M. Parkhurst, Martha Parkhurst, exec., Timothy Phelan, John C. Perine, Lizzie Perine, Louis S. Robbins, Charles W. Roff, Eliza J. Roll, John B. Roll, John B. Roll, ex , S. Augusta Roll, Mrs. William Senior, George C. Seibert, Jacob Speizer, William Shipman, Julia E. Schoon- oven, William Schoonover, Mrs. Sarah C. West, Benjamin L. Wilcox, Phebe E. Wilcox.
The petition was granted, and September 24, 1895, was the day set for the election.
The result of said election was entirely in favor of the borough, only four votes opposed. Joseph W. Cory, the energetic prime mover and soul of the whole movement, was naturally made the first mayor. The
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first board of councilmen were: Charles Badgley, Charles Foster, John B. Roll, William Schoonover, Theodore A. Ball and Louis S. Robbins; collector, William B. Stiles; assessor, Nicholas Crocheron, Jr.
WESTFIELD CURIOS. [COLLECTED BY REV. N. W. CADWELL.]
(Vide numbers in accompanying pictures for explanation.) I, Chair made by Abraham Clark, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
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now owned by Freeholder Addison S. Clark; 2, Chair once owned by Rev. Benjamin Woodruff, pastor of Westfield church, 1759-1803, said to have been brought from England by his father and given to his son, when married; 3, Cane once owned by "Captain Billy" Clark, of Revolutionary fame, made from section of old Sugar House, New York city, where he was confined as prisoner of war; 4, Hickory cane, with miniature cider-barrel handle, owned by Henry Littell, of Willow Grove, and carried by his father, Gershom Littell, Sr., in the "old
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hickory and cider-barrel" campaign of Benjamin Harrison, 1840; 5, Flag carried in same campaign; 6, Old gun found near the body of a dead soldier at Ash swamp, after the skirmish with troops under Lord Corn- wallis; 7, Originial Township Records of Westfield, 1794-1845; 8, Foot stove often used in the old Presbyterian church; 9, Warming pan; 10, Pewter plates and andirons, once owned by the Foster family, very old; II, First minutes of the Presbyterian General Assembly, once owned by Rev. Edwin Downer-(vide his picture and biography); 12, Holland musket, length six feet three inches-over one hundred and fifty years old; 13, Sword brought from the Nishni-Novogorod fair, Russia; 14, Cavalry carbine, with side hammer and automatic percus- sion device; 15, Sword of sword fish-fine specimen, length three feet six inches; 16, Flax hetchell, once owned by the Hetfield family, 1687; 17, Hetfield cane, very old; 18, Sword, once carried by Captain Edwards in the Revolutionary struggle; 19, Horse pistol, 1845; 20, Hawk, shot near Westfield; 21, A counterfeit two-dollar bill of Septem- ber 4, 1813, on the City Bank of New York, passed by the Westfield township committee, and affidavit taken April 9, 1818; 22, Records of Presbyterian church since 1759; 23, Family rocker of Addison S. Clark, very old.
NOTES.
The Baptist church of Scotch Plains (organized 1747) gave to Brown University her first president, the Rev. James Manning, D. D. This congregation also formed the nucleus of the first Baptist church of New York city. In 1725 we find the first frame building was erected in Plainfield, which was surrounded by a few scattered log huts and Indian wigwams. A scrap of poetry from one of the very old Plain- field settlers reads as follows:
" When first my father settled here 'Twas then a frontier line ; The panther's scream filled night with fear, And bears preyed on the swine."
A famous old well once stood on the south corner of the Presby- terian lawn. Another well, with long sweep, stood near Aaron Ball's blacksmith shop. This shop was located on the upper side of Broad street, at the intersection of Prospect. Prospect street was opened up later by Mr. James R. Ferris and John Q. Dudley. Another black- smith shop once stood on Mountain avenue, about where Highland avenue intersects, kept by Erastus Miller. The Sound "betwixt Jersey and Staten Island was frozen in January, 1685, so that carts and horses went upon it." It was frozen again in the hard winter of 1780. Johnstone says that in the same year, 1685, wolves were prevalent in winter and rattlesnakes in summer. He also states: "There is a Flee by the salt marshes most troublesome in Summer, but is not in the uplands." The first bakery or "bake shop" was kept by a man
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named Roder, in a little house back of the Marsh (Gilby) barn, near the old cemetery. Todd's store, now occupied by the bicycle company of W. B. Elliott, once stood between the Cooper and Harvey residences, on Broad street. In this building John Drake once kept a store. Tradition says that the reason why Central and Mountain avenues are so crooked is that, originally, when this section was heavily wooded and marshy, these streets formed first an Indian trail and then a cow path.
CHURCHES ORGANIZED.
Westfield,-Presbyterian, 1727; Methodist, March 27, 1851 ; Baptist, December, 1865; Episcopal, July 2, 1867; Roman Catholic, September 2, 1872; Congregational, 1880; New York Avenue Baptist (colored,) 1890.
Cranford,-Presbyterian, 1851; Methodist (mission,) 1857; Epis- copal, April 18, 1872; Roman Catholic, 1876.
Scotch Plains,-Baptist, August 5, 1747; Methodist (mission,) 1867; church, 1872; Episcopal, about 1881.
TOWNSHIPS SET OFF.
Springfield, May 27, 1793; New Providence, annexed to above, February 4, 1794; Westfield, January 27, 1794; Rahway, February 27, 1804, (incorporated March 12, 1858); Union, November 23, 1808; Plainfield, March 4, 1847, (incorporated, 1869); Clark, 1864; Summit, 1869; Cranford, March 14, 1871; Fanwood, 1877.
NATURAL FEATURES.
Westfield is bounded on the northwest by what is called the Blue Ridge, Westfield or Orange mountains. The country is generally high and undulating, capable of easy drainage. In the heavy freshet of 1887, when many bridges were washed away; when Parkhurst's mill dam and others were swept out; when Cranford, Elizabeth, Rah- way and Plainfield were in part under water; when many lives were in jeopardy, and the county lost thousands of dollars, Westfield was so high above the general flood that Ira C. Lambert, just beginning a milk route, named his business the "Mount Ararat Dairy."
The following are the elevations above tide-water at stations on the line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, measuring at track level : Elizabeth, thirty-one feet; Roselle, eighty feet; Cranford, seventy-four feet; Westfield, one hundred and thirty feet; Plainfield, one hundred and thirteen feet; Bound Brook, thirty-five feet.
WESTFIELD'S CHRONOLOGY FOR TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS.
1609, September 6th. This tract was discovered by John Cole- man and four others under Henry Hudson. "Coleman was slain the same day on his return, by the treacherous arrow of a native, and his
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body was buried on Sandy Hook, at a place still known as Coleman's Point."
1610-30, trading in furs by the East India Trading Company.
1640, expedition fitted out against the Indians on the Raritan. Some of the chiefs were so "maltreated and abused that retaliatory measures were resorted to against the settlers on Staten Island, who were killed, and their plantations broken up."
1643, February 23d, massacre of the Indians by the Mohawks, and by Kieft, the director general.
1651, this tract, "purchased from the Indians by Augustus Harman, probably of Dutch descent." These Indians were the Lenni-Lenape, of the Delaware tribe, and vassals to the powerful Iroquois. (Vide the Treaty, Philadelphia, 1742.)
1655, after the terrible massacre on the night of September 15th, the Dutch effect a final settlement with the Indians.
1664, this section granted to the Elizabethtown Associates by Governor Nicholls.
1668, first general assembly of New Jersey convened at Elizabeth- town and constituted May 26th. 1684, serious litigation over the Green Brook (Scotch Plains) purchase. This trouble involved other landed interests which were not fully adjusted until 1757, or about seventy-five years. 1699, the country opened up by blazed trees across Crane's ford (Cranford) "toward the setting sun," (Plain fields). 1720, the parish settled (Presbyterian). 1727, the log church already built a short distance east of the residence of Benjamin Pierson (see picture of house under "One Horn").
1730, Rev. Nathaniel Hubbel already installed. He was born about 1700, graduated at Yale, 1723, ordained as early as 1727. He resided at Rahway several years, after leaving Westfield, and died at Lebanon, Hunterdon county, 1760. At the beat of a large drum on Sabbath morning the people assembled for public worship.
1734, November 5th, forty acres of land deeded to the church.
1735, log church vacated for the first frame building, located imme- diately in front of the present edifice. 1745, Rev. Nathaniel Hubbel resigns. 1750, Rev. John Grant installed. Born in 1716, graduated at Yale in 1741, in same class with Governor Livingston and the Rev. Drs. Hopkins, Buel, Sproat and Welles. Ordained by the Presbytery of New York, September, 1746. "He died, much lamented, Septem- ber 16, 1753, aged thirty-seven years,"-buried in old cemetery.
1759, March 14th, Rev. Benjamin Woodruff installed. Son of Alderman Samuel Woodruff, of Elizabeth, a prominent merchant and citizen. Born in 1733, and ordained by the presbytery of New York, March 14, 1759. Graduated from Princeton College in 1753. 1764-5, 1777, revivals; eighty-two unite in 1785; thirty-four in 1786. In 1762, March 6th, his wife, Mary, dies, aged twenty-seven. They were
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Rev. Alexander McKelvey Rev Seth Williston
Rev James Huntling Rev. E.B Edgar D.D
Rev. Wm. H. Gill. D. D. Rev. Edwin Holt
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married in 1758. Daughter Mary dies September 14, 1782, aged twenty-three.
1788, January 16th, the church elect their first board of trustees under act of incorporation.
1794, Westfield township set off.
1803, April 3d, death of Rev. Woodruff. Remains buried under the present church, and marble tablet now seen in the vestibule. Dur- ing his ministry three hundred and ninety-eight persons made profes- sion of religion, about eleven hundred were baptized, and seven hundred and fifty-two couples married. (See his chair under Westfield curios). 1803, second frame building erected, cost $6,000.
1805, October 24th, Rev. Thomas Picton installed. Came from Wales.
1808, Revival; eighty-seven unite.
18II, parsonage rebuilt.
1818, Rev. Picton resigns. Became professor at West Point, and later a teacher of a select school of high reputation in New York city. Died at residence of his son-in-law, Edwin Stevens, Hoboken, New Jersey, February 6, 1861, aged eighty-five.
1819, June 20th, Rev. Alexander G. Frazer installed; sixty-nine unite the same year.
1825, revival; one hundred and thirteen unite. Resigned 1826; died 1858. Two hundred and fifty-three unite with the church. "He was an earnest and impassioned preacher."
1827, November 13th, Rev. Edwin Holt installed-(see picture in group).
1830, Rev. Holt resigns. He was born April 17, 1805, in New London, Connecticut. Graduated from Columbia College in 1821, and from Auburn Theological Seminary in 1826. Settled here and at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; West Presbyterian church, New York city; Greenland, New Hampshire, and Madison, Indiana. Died July 2, 1854.
1830-31, Rev. Seth Williston, D. D., stated supply (see picture). Born April 4, 1770. Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1791. Licensed October 7, 1794. Settled at Lisle, New York, Congregational church, October 19, 1803. Settled at Durham, New York, Presbyterian church, July 4, 1810. Dismissed, 1828. Edited about twenty books, pam- phlets and tracts. Died at Guilford Centre, New York, March 2, 1851. When dying he said: "I want no eulogy, Mr. Hoyt; if I am a saint, I am a very little one." His name is found in Dr. Spragues " Annals of the American Pulpit."
1832, March 6th, Rev. James M. Huntting installed (see picture). Revivals; 1832, seventy-nine unite; 1840, eighty-one unite; 1843, fifty-eight unite. Three hundred and forty-nine added to the church during his successful pastorate.
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The cut below represents "Dominie Huntting's Gig" aud old white horse, once most familiar objects in Westfield. After Mr. Hunt- ting's death this gig was purchased by C. A. Leveridge, and this pho- tograph was taken from a pen sketch executed by him. Mr. Huntting was installed March 6, 1832, and resigned in October, 1849. He died at Jamaica, Long Island.
1850, April 23d, Rev. Edward B. Edgar, D.D., installed. Born De- cember 21, 1816, in New York city, and graduated from Princeton College, 1835. Licensed, 1840. Spent two years as an evangelist, five months as stated supply at Baltimore, Maryland; then settled at Mount Hope, New York, until he came to Westfield, April 23, 1850. Dr. Edgar resigned in November, 1873, and died January 10, 1890, at Plainfield, New Jersey. (Vide picture.)
1850, The Methodist church of Westfield was organized. Church built 1851; cost, thirty-five hundred dollars.
1851, Presbyterian church of Craneville (Cranford) organized, taking thirty members from Westfield.
1854, Presbyterian lecture room, Westfield, built; cost, eleven hundred dollars.
1862, March 26th, third Presbyterian church edifice dedicated free of debt; cost, twelve thousand dollars. Rev. George Potts, D. D., preached the sermon. After a most successful ministry, Dr. Edgar resigned in No- "DOMINIE HUNTTING'S GIG " vember, 1873, immediately removed to Plainfield, New Jersey, and died there at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Israel C. Pierson, January 10, 1890. His honored remains rest in Fairview cemetery.
1866, the Baptist church organized ; building dedicated September 5, 1867 ; cost six thousand five hundred dollars. They have had the following pastors : Rev. Joseph Greaves, 1876; Charles A. Harris; E. H. Bronson, 1880 ; Stephen F. Massett, 1883 ; J. K. Folwell, 1885 ; John G. Dyer, 1892 ; George A. Francis, 1896; New York Baptist chapel (colored) erected January, 1890.
1867, Grace Protestant Episcopal church organized. Corner stone of the church laid July 3, 1874. Rectors as follows: Philemon E. Coe, Harris C. Rush, Thomas E. Drumm, William Heaks (minister in charge), Alfred R. Taylor, Joseph B. Jennings. During the two years' litigation with Mr. Jennings they have worshiped in Etta hall. They now (August, 1897,) re-enter their former house of worship, and the Rev.
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Charles Fiske, the present rector, was installed in November, 1897. 1868, January 13th, Fairview Cemetery Association organized. Cemetery dedicated September 24th.
1869, Methodist parsonage built; enlarged 1871 ; and in 1873 a larger Methodist Episcopal church was built, at a cost of about twenty thousand dollars. List of pastors : T. T. Campfield, William H. Nelson, James Harris, Joseph H. James, J. O. Winner, B. O. Parvin, S. T. Moore, J. Kowins, Jacob F. Dodd, J. 'Corvins, R. B. Collins, Theodore D. Frazee, Garrett R. Vanhorne, Thomas E. Everitt, John Davis, C. S. Ryman, Elihu Grant, J. J. Reed, Henry M. Simpson, John I. Boswell, Alexander Craig, Thomas H. Smith, Warren L. Hoagland, George W. Smith, James A. Owen, Wesley Martin, and William H. Ruth. In 1888 a Methodist chapel was erected at Locust Grove.
1872, September 2d, Roman Catholic church of the Holy Trinity organized. Rectors : Fathers Kinnard, Connerly, Morris, Mitchell, Daniels, Buerghman, Weighart, Berghman, P. S. Dagrault, Augustine Eberhard, William J. Wiseman, D. D., and Joseph Smith.
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