History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 79

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224


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He was united in marriage in 1858 to Hannah, daughter of Joseph P. and Clarissa (Davis) Allen, of Shiloh, Cumberland Co., N. J. Their children are Frank A. and Edward G.


HENRY GOULD LATIMER.


His paternal grandfather, Barzilla, was a jeweler by trade and resided at Wethersfield, Conn., but died at Eastbury, in the same State. His father, Samuel, was prepared for college, but led a business life, and was a druggist at Cromwell, in the same State, and died in Eastbury in 1812. His mother, Anna Stock- ing, died about 1865 at the advanced age of eighty- seven years. The children of Samuel and Anna Latimer were Albert S., drowned in Lake Cham- plain ; Henry Gould; William, who was in business in Newberne, N. C., died in Hartford, Conn., and was buried at Cromwell; Mary Ann, living in Cromwell; Horace W., of Boston; Zebulon was in business with William in Wilmington, and died in New York in November, 1881.


Henry Gould Latimer, a resident of Plainfield since the spring of 1847, and one of its oldest resi- dents in 1882, was born at Eastbury, Conn., May 2, 1800. At the age of fourteen he began learning the shoemaker's trade, and in 1816 went with his em- ployer to Petersburg, Va., where, on account of the ill treatment of his employer, he remained only a short time, and by arrangement with the captain worked for his passage on board a vessel sailing to New York. Here he was left with only four dollars, but he had a willing heart and ready hands, with a fixed determination to do something for himself. Re- turning to Connecticut he finished learning his trade of shoemaking. For two years before reaching his majority he was employed at his trade a part of the time, and a part of the time he was employed by his grandfather Stocking on the Connecticut River fish- ing, where he owned a quarter-right, and also for a short time went to school at Hartford. In 1821 he went to North Carolina as the agent of William Nott, and sold goods through the country for about eight months, and for one year afterward was also in his


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employ. In 1823 he began business for himself, and sold goods through the country in the same State for two years, and then opened a store at 25 Chapel Hill, of that State. After a few months' business there in 1826 he established business with his brother William at Newberne, N. C., and after three years in 1830 took into the partnership another brother Horace, under the firm-name of H. W. Latimer & Co. They con- tinued a successful mercantile business there until 1836, when Mr. Latimer retired from trade and spent the following ten years in Ohio. He came to Plain- field in the spring of 1847, as before stated, and has resided here since, being mostly engaged in the care of his property. He purchased the old bank prop- erty of Moses Y. Beach, and upon its site built his present residence.


Mr. Latimer is of a retiring disposition, never sought public place, is a man of correct habits, good judgment, practical ideas, and by his judicious man- agement has secured a competency. In early life he learned the necessary lessons of economy and self- reliance as the main levers to wealth, and his life is only one of the many examples in this country of men who in boyhood faced with resolution and a pur- pose in life the obstacles incident to straitened cir- cumstances.


Mr. Latimer is interested in the local improvements of Plainfield, and has been a large contributor to its varied enterprises, and although he has passed four- score years, both mentally and physically he is well preserved. His wife, Sarah Mitchell, a native of Chatham County, N. C., was born in 1816. They have no children, yet Mr. Latimer has assisted others to start out in life.


JACOB KIRKNER.


Mr. Kirkner is the son of Casper and Elizabeth Kirkner, who were of German parentage. He was born June 21, 1839, in Bridgeport, Conn. At the age of three years he removed to Flushing, L. I., and de- voted his boyhood to study at the public school. Having been at the age of sixteen deprived by death of his father, he began a career of independence, and secured a position as teacher in the public schools of New York and Brooklyn. This calling was pursued successfully for a period of five years, when, having determined upon a more active business life, he en- tered the Bank of New York as check clerk, and ulti- mately hecame paying teller of the Fourth National Bank of New York.


He was married April 15, 1862, to Miss Annie E., daughter of William P. Moss, of New York. Their children are George M., May S., Carrie E., J. Casper, Jolın W., and Charles L., deceased.


Mr. Kirkner's health having been impaired by close application to business, he left the bank and engaged as a broker in gold and stock operations. He became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and is


still actively interested in banking and a general brokerage business, in which he has been eminently successful.


He removed to Plainfield in 1863, which has since been his place of residence.


His early professional labors naturally rendered the subject of education one of unusual interest to him, and caused his appointment in 1869 as one of the Board of Education of the city of Plainfield, of which he was the efficient secretary until 1881. Dr. Charles H. Stillman, one of the ablest exponents of the ad- mirable school system of the State, was president of the board, and Mr. Kirkner his able and judicious coadjutor. On the death of Dr. Stillman he became his successor, and still fills the office. His experience as an instructor enabled him to exercise much prac- tical wisdom in the administration of his duties, and to successfully continue the measures of his prede- cessor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirkner are members of the Congregational Church of Plainfield, of which the former is a trustee. He donated the land on the corner of Seventh Street and Madison Avenue for the chapel now in process of erection.


Mr. Kirkner may properly he mentioned as a marked example of success, which is the result not so much of early or fortunate surroundings as of the self- reliance, energy, and a steadfast devotion to the prin- ciples he espoused at the beginning of his career.


JOB MALE


was born in Somersetshire, England, Aug. 24, 1808. His father, Ambrose Male, by his first marriage to Anna Coxe had children,-James, Betsey, Simon, Sally, now residing at Colborne, Canada, Job, and Ambrose. By a second marriage he had children,- Simeon, John, who died at Colborne in January, 1882, James, William, and Susanna, who resides in Erie County, Pa.


The father, with his first children, second wife, and two eldest children by his second marriage, emigrated to America, landing at New York in May, 1816.


Job Male, then a lad of eight years, went into the busy world to care for himself, and is first found at- tending the toll-gate over the Hackensack River, and for one and a half years served as clerk in the store of Asa Wright, at Hoboken, N. J. In November, 1819, he removed with his parents to Cobourg, Canada, where they resided until their decease, his father dying about 1861, at the age of eighty.


After remaining there for eight years, Job returned to Jersey City, where he worked at his trade as a carpenter until 1836, when he established business there for himself, and carried it on as a contractor and builder until 1845. Mr. Male was naturally of an ingenious turn of mind, and drew most of the plans for the buildings which he constructed. He then purchased a farm of sixty acres at Scotch Plains, Union Co., N. J., where he removed, and there resided


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for five years. Returning, he resided in New York and Brooklyn until 1853, when he again settled in Jersey City, and for six years was in the employ of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Com- pany, building docks, piers, and reclaiming the river front, which included all east of Hudson Street lying between Essex and Wayne Streets. He planned and built the old circular roof depot for the company, which was five hundred feet in length and one hnn- dred feet wide, and was located where the Pennsyl- vania Railroad depot now is, many substantial blocks for business, his own residence, and a block of twelve stores on ground which he leased from the company for twenty years, lying on the north side of Montgomery Street, between the Pennsylvania Ferry and Hudson Street, which he sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1879. He has also built for the Jersey Associates docks and piers for the accommodation of their Cunard steamers on the Jersey City side of the river, and after removing to Plainfield he constructed for this company a pier five hundred feet long, and widened it.


In May, 1866, Mr. Male and his wife, Maria Glaze, made a tour of Europe, and visited the leading cities and places of interest on the continent, and attended the Paris Exposition. Mrs. Male was a daughter of William Glaze, a glass manufacturer of Jersey City, and was born in Staffordshire, England, April 13, 1803. Returning from Europe in July, 1867, after spending a few months at Yonkers and in New York, Mr. Male settled in Plainfield, N. J., then a small village, where he purchased, in connection with Evan Jones, some twenty-four acres of land in the suburbs of the village, laid it out ioto village lots and streets, and has erected thereon some twenty substantial resi- dences of fine architectural design, drawing the plans for all of them himself. These residences, with their surroundings, make up a most desirable part of the city of Plainfield, and form a part of his estate in 1882, except two, which he has sold. Since his resi- dence in Plainfield, Mr. Male has perhaps contributed as largely to building up and beautifying the city as any other man, and has been liberal of his means in all worthy enterprises tending to its prosperity. While a resident of Jersey City he was a member of its Board of Education for several years, a member of the City Council, was a director of the Hudson County Bank for twenty years following its organiza- tion, and president of it for several years. He was an advocate for the incorporation of Plainfield as a city, and was its first chief magistrate for two years. Although he received a limited education from books during his boyhood, he is a man of practical business ideas, possesses strong force of character, and may be safely classed among the self-made, enterprising business men of the times.


He gave the ground upon which the hospital was erected, and is a worthy supporter of church, school, and kindred interests.


His life has been almost wholly devoted to business pursuits, and is one of the many striking examples in this country of what industry, self-reliance, and judicious management can accomplish towards se- curing a fair competency, and at the same time fulfill the full dnty of a respectable, honorable, and useful citizen.


WILLIAM McDOWELL CORIELL.


The Coriells in New Jersey are descendants of three brothers,-Elias, Emmanuel, and David,-who emi- grated from the island of Corsica in 1663, and were of the French-Huguenot stock. One branch of the family settled at Lambertville, N. J. Coryell's Ferry was famous as the place of Washington's crossing of the Delaware in the time of the Revolution.


His paternal great-grandfather, David, born Dec. 19, 1735, married Elizabeth Whitehead, who was born June 19, 1737, and bore him children,-Elisha, Rachel, David, Alice, grandmother of Chancellor Runyon, of Newark ; Samuel, Elizabeth, Susannah, grand mother of Judge Runyon, of Plainfield ; Isaac, father of Dr. Coriell, of New Market; and Abraham.


Elisha Coriell, grandfather of our subject, first re- sided at New Market, and subsequently at Dunellen, Middlesex Co., and his farm of two hundred acres was a part of the present site of the village of Dnn- ellen. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and received a pension after its close. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook for many years, and at the time of his death. His wife, Mary, daughter of Luke Covert, bore him children,-Ephraim, father of our subject ; Elizabeth, wife of Zachariah Pound, of Dunellen ; Anne, wife of David Laforge, Newtown; Sally, unmarried; Har- riet, wife of David Vankirk, resides in Somerville, N. J., and is eighty-four years old; and David, who resided on the homestead property until his death. By a second marriage to Nancy Dunn, Elisha Coriell had children,-Eunice Maria, wife of Isaac Van Nos- trand; Caroline, wife of Ralph Conover.


Ephraim Coriell, born Nov. 21, 1790, was killed by accident near Bonnd Brook by the cars on the rail- road, Sept. 7, 1857. He obtained a part of the home- stead at Dunellen by purchase and by inheritance, where he spent his life as a farmer. He was formerly a member of the Presbyterian Church at Bonnd Brook, and was one of the founders of the First Pres- byterian Church of Plainfield, and one of its ruling elders. He was also one of the founders of the Cres- cent Avenue Presbyterian Church of Plainfield, and one of its ruling elders until his death. Ephraim Coriell was a representative man of his township, and served several years on the board of chosen freehold- ers. His wife, Sally, born Aug. 11, 1791, whom he married Dec. 26, 1811, died April 2, 1873. She was a daughter of Levi and Sarah Lenox, of Plainfield.


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Levi Lenox was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died Dec. 24, 1828, aged about eighty years, and his wife, Sarah, died Feb. 25, 1837, aged eighty-five years.


The children of Ephraim and Sally Coriell are Levi L., born Sept. 5, 1812, died young; William McDowell, born Dec. 19, 1815; and Abraham, born June 27, 1819, is an ex-member of the State Legisla- tnre from Somerset County, N. J., and resides near Dunellen.


William McDowell Coriell 'received the common advantages of a district school education during his boyhood, and at the age of seventeen began learning the hatters' trade with Van Nostrand & Conover, be- fore mentioned, hat manufacturers at what is now Evona, in Plainfield township.


After reaching his majority, having completed his trade, he spent a few years at home, and without pecuniary assistance, bnt with a resolve to do some- thing for himself, he worked for a few years as a journeyman at his trade. In 1844, with five others as partners, with small capital, he began hat manufac- tnring at the factory formerly occupied by Van Nos- trand & Conover, which continned for only one year.


In 1846 he bought the same factory, and there manufactured hats until 1849, when he built his present manufactory near the railroad, where he has continued business since. His business has increased annually, and from the manufacture of thirty dozen full stiff-napped hats per week at the beginning he now turns out upwards of one hundred dozen per week of fine soft fur hats.


In 1842 he settled on the homestead formerly owned by his grandfather Lenox, upon which in 1856 he built his present substantial residence, which is near his manufactory.


Mr. Coriell was formerly a director and stockholder in the old Union County Bank of Plainfield ; was one of the founders of the First National Bank, which took the place.of the other, and has been a director since its organization; is one of the directors of the Washington Fire Insurance Company of Plainfield, a member of the Common Council for several years after the in- corporation of Plainfield as a city, and he was one of the founders of the Crescent Avenne Presbyterian Church, and succeeded his father as one of its rnling elders in 1858. He married Oct. 20, 1840, Eliza C., daughter of Benjamin Runyon, of Plainfield, who was born March 8, 1819, and died Jan. 2, 1881. Their children are William Henry, Ephraim, born Dec. 16, 1842, died April 5, 1875, leaving two sons, Ray- mond and Ephraim, Benjamin Franklin, a partner with his father in the hat business; and Levi and David, who died young.


CHAPTER XLIX. TOWNSHIP OF WESTFIELD.


Original Boundaries .- The Legislature of New Jersey on the 27th of January, 1794, enacted that all that part of the township of Elizabethtown lying within the following lines, to wit: Beginning at the line of the county of Middlesex, where the North and West Branches of Rahway River meet and form a junction ; from thence running up the North Branch of Rahway River to the month of Nomahiggins Branch, it being the southeast corner of the township of Springfield ; from thence running with the line of Springfield aforesaid in a course north forty-nine de- grees west to the top of the mountain; from thence on the course to the East Branch of Green Brook ; thence down said branch and Green Brook to the line that divides the connties of Essex and Middlesex ; thence along the line of Middlesex to the place of beginning, should be set off from the township of Elizabethtown and " made a separate township, to be called by the name of the township of Westfield."


The above, copied from township records of West- field, 1794, is signed by David Osborn, town clerk.


Plainfield, formerly the southwest extremity of the township of Westfield, was set off into a township in the year 1847. Cranford, formerly the southeasterly extremity of the township, was set off into a town- ship in the year 1870. Fanwood (Scotch Plains), formerly the southwesterly extremity of the township, was set off into a township in the year 1877.


Natural Features .- The northwesterly portion of this township is bounded by the Blue Ridge, called the Westfield Mountains, to the line of Green Brook. The southern part is level or gently undulating. There are no very considerable elevations, except the Short Hills. The soil is chiefly a stiff clay loam and red shale to the southward, with many of the drift rock and red sandstone lying loosely upon its surface. The soil changes somewhat to a gravelly loam on the bor- ders of Clark and Cranford townships. There are many large drift bowlders deposited all along the Springfield road in the valley of the Blue Hills, and when broken up are in demand for building purposes. They are mostly a granite intermixed with horn- blende and the red sandstone. This township is well watered, and has many facilities for manufacturing.


Organization .- Westfield frontier included in 1699 all back of the Elizabethtown borough, being part of Piscataway, in Middlesex Connty, New Providence, then called Turkey, Plainfield, Scotch Plains, West- field township, which included Cranford, Clark, and parts of Rahway townships. It took its name, it is said, from the fields west of Elizabethtown, and went by the name of the Westfields.1


1 It has been stated that the settlement of Westfield dates back to the last year (1699) of the seventeenth century. It was the result of what was called " The Clinker Lot Division." Almost immediately after that


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It remained part of the borough of Elizabethtown until the 27th January, 1794, when it was set off by an act of the Legislature.


At this time there was but one religious organiza- tion in the village, about fourteen houses, one store, one blacksmith-shop, one tavern, and one school- house. It had been in substantially this condition for nearly or quite a century, there was absolutely no growth or increase whatever; the erection of new buildings barely kept pace with the natural decay and dilapidation ; the erection of a new barn or house formned an era in the history of the town. The com- munity were tillers of the soil, and improved their lands, cutting and clearing this large township of its heavy timber, and now in this century a beautiful village bedecks the plain, and cultivated fields, farm- houses, fine residences, and numerous groves of ver- dant trees are spread around in pleasing profusion.


Civil List .- At the first annual meeting of West- field township, held on Monday, the 14th day of April, 1794, the first town officers were elected. Daniel Marsh, Esq., acted as moderator of the meeting.1 The following have been town officers since that date :


TOWN CLERKS.


David Osborn, 1794-1822.


Jonathan Osborn, Jr., 1823-37.


Dennis Coles, 1838.


Samnel D. Ball, 1860.


Cornelins Boice, 1839-40.


Stewart K. Clark, 1861-66.


Frazee Coles, 1841.


George Squire, 1867-69.


Robert Audereou, 1842-44, 1846.


Matthias Clark, Jr., 1870.


Samuel R. Stevenson, 1845.


Isaac H. Pierson, 1847-48.


Samuel T. Clark, 1849-51, 1853.


Charles R. Clark, 1874-80.


Luther M. Whitaker, 1881.


CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS.


Capt. Benjamin Laing, 1794-95. Ephraim Marsh, Esq., 1794-95.


Capt. Recompense Stanley, 1796- Zachariah Webster, 1839-42, 1844. 1800.


Col. Moses Jaques, 1796-1803.


Ezra Darby, 1801-4.


Charles Clark, 1804-7, 1814.


Joha B. Osborn, 1805-7.


John Squire, 1806-14, 1817.


Joseph Quimby, 1808-13, 1815-17.


Willinai Clark, 1811.


John Wilson, 1815-16, 1822-24.


David Osborn, 1818.


Jonathan Woodruff, 1818-25, 1827- 29.


Dennia Coles, 1819-21, 1825-28.


Frazee Coles, 1826, 1830, 1832, 1815. Francis E. Moore, 1872-74.


James Fraizer, 1829.


C. W. L. Martin, 1875-77.


John S. Irving, 1878.


James L. Miller, 1879-80.


Stephen S. Mapes, 1881.


diviaion emigration from the older parts of the town of Elizabeth began to set towards the interior, especially to the territory lying between the Rahway River on the east aud the Diountain on the west. It was not, however, natil 1720 that the settlers became immerona enough to con- stitate a distinct community.


1 Westfield Township Records, p. 2.


ASSESSORS.


Jaines Roes, Esq., 1794-1805.


Capt. Benjamin Laing, 1794-99. Cul. Mo-es Jaques, 1794.


Peter Trembly, Esq., 1795-97.


David Ross, 1798, 1803. Ezra Darby, 1800-4. Jolın B. Osborne, 1805. James Ross, Jr., 1806-19. William Hand, 1806-9. Samuel B. Miller, 1810-14.


Jonathan Miller, 1814-29. Dennis Coles, 1815-30, 1832.


Gideon Ross, 1820-28, 1830, 1832.


John High, Jr., 1829, 1831.


James Frazee, 1831.


Anthony L. Frazee, 1833-36.


Jonathan Woodruff, 1833, 1837- 38. John M. Clark, 1834-36, 1838, 1840, 1843, 1846-47.


Elias Ruayau, 1837-38.


John M. Clark, 1849-51, 1853-54,


1856.


Justin Manning, 1839.


Eljas Kirk patrick, 1840-44.


Andrew H. Clark, 1841-42.


Isaac TI. Piersoti, 1845.


Daniel W. Ayres, 1845.


S. llaities, 1846. William H. Clark, 1848.


Satanel Lee, 1852-57.


Jouathaa Cory, Jr., 1858.


Simeno Frazee, 1859-60.


Zophar Hatfield, 1861-62.


William C. Stanbery, 1865-67, 1870- 71.


J. W. R. Bennit, 1868. Jobu H. Martine, 1869. Joseph G. Hansoa, 1873.


E. D. Cbamberlin, 1874-76.


Joseph S. Clark, 1877-78.


J. M. C. Marsh, 1863-64, 1879-81.


COLLECTORS.


Ephraim Marsh, Esq .. 1794-99. Capt. Recompense Stanbery, 1794- 99. Peter Trembly, Esq., 1794.


Joseph Staubery, 1795.


Samuel Winauts, 1796-1802.


Caleb Maxill, 1800-2, 1805-16.


Azariah Clark, 1800-4. 1806-7, 1809, 1813-14.


John B. Osborn, 1803-4.


Jonathan Squire, 1803.


William Baker, 1805


Jonathan Woodruff, 1808, 1810-12. 1815-16.


Aaron M. Osborn, 1817-26.


Frazee Coles, 1817.


Caleb M. Littell, 1818-25.


Israel R. Coriell, 1826-28.


Daniel Shotwell, 1822, 1828-32.


Charles March, Jr., 1829-36, 1841- 44, 1846-47.


Jacob Thora, 1831, 1833-36, 1844- 46.


Henry Baker, 1837-38. John M. Hand, 1837-39.


Eli March, 1839-40.


Martin Runyan, 1840-42.


Elisha Ranyan, 1843.


Fragre Lee, 1845. William Clark, Jr , 1818.


David W. Clark, 1849-51. David Miller, 1852-54, 1863-64.


Zopbar Hatfield, 1855-57.


Stewart E. Clark, 1858-59.


Joseph S Derby, 1860. Wm C. Staubery, 1861-62.


J. M. C. Marsb. 1865-69. Isaac Littell, 1870.


Frank F. Baker, 1871.


Philemon E. Coe, 1872-73.


W.W. Connerly, appointed by Town Committee to fill Mr Coe's an- expired term.


George Squire, 1874-77.


Isaac F. Scudder, 1878. W. W. Couperly, 1879-81.


TOWN COMMITTEE.


Ezra Darby, 1794-95, 1798. Ezra Crane, 1813, 1815-16.


Capt. Charles Clark, 1794-1814.


Recompense Stanbery, 1814-21.


Frazee Coles, 1815


Daniel Marsh, Esq., 1795-1801.


William Marsh, 1822-24.


Ezra Darby, 1796-1804.


Ierael R. Curiell, 1825.


Daniel Shotwell, 1825-26, 1837-38.


Henry Baker, 1826-28, 1840.


Ira F. Randolph, 1826.


Ephraim Marsh, 1801. James Brown, 1801.


Abner Miller, 1826, 1830. Samuel B. Miller, 1820-29.


Ralph Marsh, 1802.


Jesse Dolbeir, 1802.


John Tucker, 1803.


John Squire, 1803-5.


James Ross, 1804, 1817-21.


Davi. Osboru, 1804.


Jonathan Woodruff, 1805. Azariah Clark, 1805,


John Darby, Jr, 1805, 1807-12.


Joseph Quiaby, 1806, 1822-24.


Joseph Sayre, 1806.


Melvin Parse, 1806-1831.


Jonathan Woodruff, 1807-25, 1827- 28, 1847-48.


Jonathan Meeker, 1806.


John Wilson, 1807-14, 1816, 1822- 24. Samuel B. Miller, 1807-27.


Benjamin Cory, 1808-21, 1829.


38, 1846-48, 1858.


Andrew Il. Clark, 1829, 1831-36, 1844, 1858. Ephraim Clark, 1830, 1832, 1837.


Nathan Vail, 1830. Elijah Shotwell, 1830-32.


John M. Clark, 1831.


Isaac French, 1831-36. Ezekiel Ludlum, 1832. John Layton, 1833, 1846.


Jotham Frasee, 1833-36.


Ebenezar Connett, 1834-36.


John J. Cook, 1834-36.


Martin Rnayan, 1837-40.


Ira F. Randolph, 1830.


John Deumaa, 1831, 1833-34.


Jolın Layton, 1831-36.




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