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At the end of that period of service he was made chief engineer of the board of street and water commissioners of Newark, being the first incumbent to hold that position, which was created in June, 1905, and which he still retains, his services in this connection proving of great public value. As engineer and superintendent of the water department of Newark, the most important duty performed by Mr. Sher- rerd was the supervision of carrying out the contract between the city and the East Jersey Water Company, by which the new water supply for the city of Newark was acquired, the total cost being $6,000,000; and in the settlement of this contract, in 1900, the city was successful in establishing its claims, not only for the Canistear reservoir, the possession of which was disputed by the company, but in gaining sev- eral other concessions in connection with said settlement, the most important of which was the transfer of the right to divert the entire flow of the Pequannock in- stead of the same being limited to 50,000,000 gallons per day, as contemplated under the original contract; in all of this Mr. Sherrerd figured as a potential factor. The operation of the entire plant previous to 1900 had been under the control of the East Jersey Water Company and since that date the entire operation has been under the control of the water department of the board of street and water commissioners, and consequently under Mr. Sherrerd's supervision.
Next in importance to the settlement of the water contract in this branch of the city government during Mr. Sherrerd's administration of affairs was the construc- tion, under his supervision, of Cedar Grove reservoir, tunnel and pipe line, which, with its great connecting mains to the city reservoirs, cost $1,950,000. The con- struction of this reservoir completed the water supply plant of the city of Newark, which can now justly claim to possess the best and most complete plant of any city of its size in the country. The auxiliary high pressure fire system was also installed
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during Mr. Sherrerd's incumbency of the position of engineer and superintendent of the department of water. This addition to the fire fighting facilities of the city is supplied by gravity with water from the new Cedar Grove reservoir, giving an adequate fire service pressure on the hydrants. The system, as first installed, includ- ed only Broad and Market streets, but it is being gradually extended throughout the central part of the city. Since Mr. Sherrerd has been in charge of all the engi- neering work of the board of street and water commissioners this division of the board's work has been a department by itself, and all the engineering work of the department of water and of streets and sewer construction has been brought into harmonious relations. During the past two years nearly twice as much paving and sewer work was undertaken as in any similar period of the city's history.
Mr. Sherrerd has been connected with many of the engineering projects in the eastern part of New Jersey since locating in Newark, and, in addition to being con- sulting engineer for several private companies at different times during recent years, he is consulting engineer to the state water supply commission recently created by the legislature, and has charge of the water matters of the entire state of New Jersey. He is also giving a good deal of time to the study of the Passaic river pollution question, is a member of the committee representing the city of Newark in the consideration of the proposed trunk sewer with the city of Paterson, and is one of the consulting engineers for the Passaic Valley sewerage commissioners. He has been a special consulting engineer in connection with various large projects and undertakings, one of which necessitated a trip to Brazil, South America, as repre- sentative for some large financial interests relative to the development of the re- sources of a portion of that country, making special investigations in regard to water supply and harbor improvements for its larger cities. He has also been called as an expert in most of the water cases which have engrossed the attention of the New Jersey courts during the last few years. Mr. Sherrerd is past president of the American Water Works Association, the American Society of Municipal Improve- ments, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute General Alumni. He is a past director of the board of direction of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a member of the New England Water Works Association, the American Society for the Testing of Materials, the New Jersey State Reclamation and Drainage A's- sociation, the New Jersey Sanitary Association, the Engineers' Club, and the Theta Delta Chi Club, of New York City, the Essex Club, of Newark, and the Union Club, of that city. Mr. Sherrerd is a constant student of the problems that confront him in his official work, and he has become a recognized authority on all appertaining to water works and allied matters. He has reached an eminence in his chosen profes- sion that stands as evidence of his high ability and his achievements in the past pre- sent a record of which he may well feel proud.
Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Daniel Fiske, the first member of this FISK family of whom we have definite information, was Lord of the Manor of Stadhough, parish of Laxfield, county Suffolk, England. He was born prior to 1399, and died in February, 1464. He married (first) Susanna Smyth, and (second) Katharine .- - His son, William Fiske, died about 1504, married Joan Lynne, of Norfolk. Simon, son of William and Joan (Lynne) Fiske, died in June, 1538; his wife, Elizabeth, died in Halseworth, in June, 1558. Their son, Simon (2) Fiske, died in 1505, leaving a number of young children, among whom was Robert Fiske, who was born about 1525, died in 1600, and married Sybil (Gould) Barber. His daughter, Elizabeth, was the mother of John Locke, the distinguished English philosopher, who wrote the "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." His son, William Fiske, born in 1566, in Laxfield, died in Ditchingham, Norfolk, England, in 1623, married (first) Anna, daughter .of Walter Anstye, and (second) Alice
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His daughter, Hannah, was the mother of Rev. Mathias Candler, author of the cele- brated "Candler Manuscript," now in the British Museum. His son, Nathaniel, married Alice (Hend or Henel) Leman. Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) and Alice (Hend-Leman) Fiske, was born in Weybred, county Suffolk, England, and according to the family tradition died during the voyage to America. He married Dorothy, daughter of John Symonds, of Wendham.
(I) Nathan, son of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Symonds) Fiske, was born in Eng- land, about 1615, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, June 21, 1667. He was ad- mitted freeman of Watertown, May 10, 1643, and chosen selectman 1673. He mar- ried Susanna Children: Nathan, referred to below; John, born August 25, 1647; David, April 29, 1650; Nathaniel, July 12, 1653, married Mary (Warren) Child; Sarah, 1656, married, September 3, 1673, Abraham Gale.
(II) Lieutenant Nathan (2), son of Nathan (1) and Susanna Fiske, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 17, 1642, died there October 11, 1694. He was selectman in 1684-88-91. He married Elizabeth Fry, who died May 15, 1696. Chil- dren: Nathan, born February 9, 1665, died October 9, 1668; Elizabeth, January 19, 1667, died 1740, married, January 16, 1693, James Ball; Martha, January 12, 1670, married, March 13, 1694, Edward Park; Nathan, January 3, 1672, died January 26, 1741, married (first), October 14, 1696, Sarah Coolidge, (second) Hannah (Coolidge) Smith; Susanna, April 7, 1674, died April 28, 1752, unmarried; Abigail, February 18, 1675, married, August 15, 1695, John Mixer; William, December 5, 1677, died same year; William, referred to below; Anna, died July 13, 1683.
(III) William, son of Lieutenant Nathan (2) and Elizabeth (Fry) Fiske, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, November 10, 1678, and died in Willington, Con- necticut, November 8, 1750. He married Eunice, born 1686, daughter of Stephen Jennings, of Framingham, Massachusetts. She married again, January 3, 1754, Will- iam Johnson, of Willington, Connecticut. Children of William and Eunice (Jen- nings) Fiske: William, born April 20, 1709, married (first), January 23, 1729, -
-, (second), March 6, 1744, Eunice Whitney; Hannah, April 20, 1712, married, July 14, 1730, Jeremiah Powers; Stephen, referred to below; Nathan, born February 13, 1722, married, February 14, 1743, Eleanor Whitney.
(IV) Stephen, son of William and Eunice (Jennings) Fiske (the first member of this branch to drop the final "e" from his surname), was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, or Willington, Connecticut, September 14, 1714, and died in Green- wich, Massachusetts, October 20, 1764. He was town clerk of Willington, Connecti- cut, 1744-53, and town clerk of Greenwich, Massachusetts, 1758-63. He married (first), at Willington, Connecticut, August 5, 1742, Prudence Farley, (second), June 26, 1758, Anna (Bradish) Green, of Hardwick, Massachusetts. Children, four by first marriage: Prudence, born September 4, 1745; Olive, August 4, 1747; Mary, October 22, 1749; Rufus, referred to below; Stephen, April 7, 1759, died December 13, 1848, married, May 1, 1788, Esther Clark; James, October 4, 1763, died November 17, 1844, a revolutionary soldier, and member of the United States congress, mar- ried, April 27, 1786, Priscilla West; Hannah, born 1764.
(V) Lieutenant Rufus, son of Stephen and Prudence (Farley) Fisk, was born in Willington, Connecticut, March 28, 1752, died in Stafford, Connecticut, December 2, 1813. He resided in Willington nearly all his life, and was a leading and promi- nent citizen of that town. He served in the revolutionary war as a corporal, and later was a representative to the general court for some years. He served in the Long Island campaign, in the White Plains campaign with Colonel Parsons' regi- ment, and with Colonel Latimer's regiment at the battle of Stillwater and at the capture of Burgoyne. He was for nine years a member of the Connecticut legisla- ture. He married Dorcas Gleason. Children: Stephen, born January 8, 1786, died
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September 29, 1821, married Lucy Chandler; Rufus, referred to below; Dorcas; Hannah; Eli, born May 27, 1795, removed to New York state; Polly.
(VI) Rufus (2), son of Lieutenant Rufus (1) and Dorcas (Gleason) Fisk, was born in Stafford, Connecticut, February 10, 1774, died at Willington, Connecticut, Sep- 1ember 22, 1848. He lived at New Bethel, Connecticut, and was a farmer, a freethinker, and a Democrat. He married Irene, born March 24, 1779, died August 31, 1861, in Will- ington, danghter of Elizier Scripture. Children: John, born February 9, 1799, died July 25, 1884, married, March 14, 1820, Anna Osborn Stillman; Rufus, born 1801, died by accidental drowning, June 19, 1819; Loving, born 1802, died in 1862; Ark, born June, 1804, married a son of Edward Fiske, of Springfield, Massachusetts; Leander, born 1806; Ira, born September, 1808, died February, 1877; Marvin, born 1811, died November, 1841; Lucins Hanks, born June, 1813, died April 1, 1874, mar- ried, September 25, 1839, Elizabeth Eldridge; James M., born July 15, 1815, died December, 1843, married, July 19, 1835, Mary Ann Hinman; Dr. Marcus Lyon, born December 16, 1817, died April 2, 1883, married (first), December 5, 1845, Frances Ann Tinker, (second), May 14, 1856, Emeline Lucretia (Frazier) Frazier; Lodica, born Angust, 1819, died May, 1820; Rufus, referred to below; Horace, born July, 1826, died November, 1841; Irene, married Converse; Lavinia, married (first)
Tibballs, (second) Moore.
(VII) Rufus (3), son of Rufus (2) and Irene (Scripture) Fisk, was born at Staf- ford Springs, Connecticut, June, 1824, and died in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1851. He was a farmer and a worker in the woolen mills and iron works of the place in which he lived, and at the time of his death was engaged in the book business. Like his father, he was a freethinker as to religion, but a regular attendant at the Universalist church. In politics he was a Jeffersonian Democrat. He married, in Willington, Con- necticut, in 1843, Julia, born there, July 4, 1820, daughter of John and Catharine (Wil- son) Leidy, of Easton, Northampton county, Pennsylvania. Her father was a descend- ant of Jacob Leidy, who came from Germany and arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Adventure, of Rotterdam, October 2, 1727. Her ancestors were prominent in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, and served in the Revolutionary war. Her mother was born in Warren county, New Jersey, and was a descendant of one of the earliest of the Scotch-Irish settlers in the Wyoming Valley. She survived her husband and married again. Children, the first two born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut: Maryett, bern 1841 ; Marcus M., born in Willington, Connecticut, 1844; William H., referred to below; Rufus L., born in Easton, 1851.
(VIII) William H., son of Rufus (3) and Julia (Leidy) Fisk, was born in Staf- ford Springs, Connecticut, June 6, 1846, and is now living in Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey. He received his education in the public schools of Easton, Penn- sylvania, and Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and in 1856 began to make his own way in the world, working with his brother and stepfather as boatman on the Morris canal. When the civil war broke out, his brother, Marcus M. Fisk, enlisted in the Ninth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and in 1862 went to Washington, D. C., where he found em- ployment until the close of the war in the quartermaster's department. He returned home in July, 1865, and obtained employment as an iron pipe worker with the Warren Foundry Company. This position he held until June, 1872, when he opened up a book and stationery store in the second ward of Phillipsburg, which he has suc- cessfully and prosperously conducted ever since. Mr. Fisk is quite a musical genius, and despite the fact that his training is entirely due to his own unaided efforts, he has made for himself an enviable reputation in the musical field, having in 1868 organized the first orchestra and brass band in Phillipsburg, and in 1873 organized a second band. Of all of these he was the leader from their organization until 1894. During the civil war Mr. Fisk served about six months in Company E, Second Regiment District of
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Columbia Volunteers, under Captain Tompkins. The regiment, which was composed entirely of United States government employees, was actively engaged in repelling the attack made on Washington in July, 1864, by General Jubal E. Early. Mr. Fisk has been a member of the American Mechanics, of the Odd Fellows, and of the Patriotic Order Sons of America. At present he is a member of the Elks. He is not a member of any religious denomination, but says, "I belong to God's church, the whole world." He is a stockholder of the Second National Bank of Phillipsburg. He married, in Phillipsburg, in 1866, Nancy, born in Tinicum, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1847, daughter of Patrick and Sarah McBride. Her brothers were John, Jacob, William, George, Jacob, Joseph and Christian McBride, she being the only daughter. Children : I. Edwin L., born November 3, 1877, died 1900; married Catharine Sillman; child : William H. He graduated from the Phillipsburg high school and at the time of his death was a clerk in the office of the Warren Foundry Company. 2. Mariette, born 1870, died 1877. 3. Ella May, born August, 1870, graduated from the Phillipsburg high school, and then became a school teacher. She married Madison L. Elliott, of North Carolina; child: Bernice Elliott.
John Firth, the founder of the family of his name in Phillipsburg, was FIRTH born in Attercliff, Yorkshire, England, June 15, 1820, and died in Phil- lipsburg, New Jersey, May 21, 1870. He was the son of Rowland and Ann (Kay) Firth, and was one of a family of six sons and one daughter. Two of the sons, John and Thomas, and the daughter Sophia, emigrated to America. Thomas settled in Ohio, August, 1862, and is now living in Akron, where his sister died a short while ago.
John Firth started to tend sheep when five years of age, and two years later became a cotton spinner's apprentice. When fourteen years old, he became an apprentice of the Woodside Iron Works, where the latter moulded the columns for the Crystal Palace in London. Becoming an active Chartist he got into difficulties with the civil authori- ties, and after being arrested eleven times and imprisoned three times, he decided to come to the United States, and with his wife and three eldest children, he landed at Castle Garden, May 27, 1851.
For a time he worked as a moulder in New York City, and purchasing a lot, built himself a home in Fordham. In June, 1857, he removed to Phillipsburg, and took charge of the pipe manufacturing plant of the Woodside Machine Company, associating with himself, as office manager, Mr. John Ingham. Seven years later the Warren Foundry & Machine Company took possession of the plant, and Mr. Firth and Mr. Ingham were made joint superintendents, a position the former held until his death. He was a strong temperance advocate, an Independent in politics, a promoter of the first two building and loan associations in Phillipsburg, and became the owner of con- siderable real estate. He was a member of Belvidere Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons of Delaware, and of Division No. 28, of the Sons of Temperance. He mar- ried, about 1845, Mary, daughter of - and Fanny (Bloom) Yardley, who was born at Brierly Hill, county Stafford, England, December 10, 1824, and died in Phillipsburg, January 10, 1892. She and her husband attended the Methodist church. Children: I. Sarah, born May 27, 1847; died August 15, 1885; married James I. Lake. 2. Elizabeth, born December 10, 1848; married F. G. D. Holmes. 3. Rowland, referred to below. 4. Mary, died in infancy. 5. Rachel A., born July 26, 1854; died in June, 1893; married Walter Myers. 6. John Thomas, born April 2, 1856. 7. Joseph Henry, referred to below. 8. Lucy B., died in infancy. 9. Frederick William, born August 8, 1864. 10. Alice B., born October 18, 1866, married A. A. Bowhay. 11. George Nelson, born Feb- ruary 23, 1868, married, October 10, 1895, at Phillipsburg, Elizabeth M., daughter of
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ex-Senator Moon; children : Dorothy Jane, born January 25, 1897; James Edmond, March 13, 1899; Mary Elizabeth, May 10, 1901.
(II) Rowland, son of John and Mary (Yardley) Firth, was born at Brierly Hill, county Stafford, England, September 10, 1850, and is now living in Phillipsburg. For his education he was sent to the public schools of Fordham and Phillipsburg, and later, after attending a private school at Easton, Pennsylvania, he became a private pupil of Professor Edwards. He then took up civil engineering and mechanical drawing, study- ing under Mr. Miller, of Upper Harmony.
April 1, 1868, he entered the shops of the Warren Foundry and Machine Company, as an apprentice, and having served his three years' time, he went west, working at his trade in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Omaha and North Plank, Nebraska; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Evanston, Wyoming; Leadville, Colo- rado, and Anaconda, Montana. In February, 1887, he returned home and became engi- neer for the People's Water Company of Phillipsburg, retaining this position for nine years. October 16, 1895, together with John Poulson and C. M. Smith, he started a general foundry business, manufacturing principally castings for cement mills. Later, Mr. Firth and his son bought up the interests of the other two partners and, changing the firm name to Rowland Firth and Sons, entered on the successful and prosperous career that has been his ever since. Mr. Firth was one of the incorporators of the Manchline-Firth Silk Company; he is a Democrat in politics and has served as mayor of Phillipsburg, 1898-99, and as county clerk for five years from 1900. He married, July 20, 1873, in Omaha, Nebraska, Nancy Jane, daughter of James A. and Hannah (Sipperly) Tooker, who was born in Gloversville, New York, March 28, 1856, died Jan- uary 18, 1911, and is a descendant of Henry Van Dyke and other Revolutionary soldiers. Children: I. Charles S., born July 18, 1874; married, November 5, 1896, Stella Cuella Willaer; children: Rowland Van 'Dyke, Charles S., Jr., Frederick Will- iam. He is junior partner with his father in the foundry. 2. John Ingham, born No- vember 1, 1876, married, November 29, 1905, Mary, daughter of Robert and Anna (Burns) Bowers, of Oxford, New Jersey. He was deputy county clerk for five years under his father and Charles Hoagland, and is now assistant cashier of the Second National Bank of Phillipsburg. 3. Rowland, born September 18, 1880; married, July 14, 1905, Lottie Fackenthal; children : Robert F. and Frances H. 4. Mary A., born No- vember 30, 1882, married John M. Lee, claim agent. 5. Frederick, born March 4, 1887, died March 20, 1900. 6. Sarah, born November 1, 1888; married, September 10, 1909, Walter C. Smith, chemist United Metals Company, Hammond, Indiana. 7. Jane, born May 26, 1891.
(II) Joseph Henry, son of John and Mary (Yardley) Firth, was born in Phillips- burg, New Jersey, February 22, 1859, and is now living in that place, having been iden- tified with the development of the town during his whole life. In this he has played quite a prominent part. At one time he was chief of the fire department, and by his efforts succeeded in having the Gamewell fire alarm system adopted by the town. He took an active part in raising the funds to erect the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and at its unveiling, May 10, 1906, was chairman of the executive committee. He was educated in the public schools of Phillipsburg, and when eighteen years old started to learn the trade of machinist. Shortly afterwards he went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained for about ten months, and then returned home, and after plying his trade for five years became foreman of the Warren Foundry and Machine Company. In August, 1895, he resigned his position and embarked in the hotel business, establishing the Madison Square Hotel in Phillipsburg. He enjoyed a large patronage from the traveling public and the venture was most successful financially, but the business was not a congenial one to Mr. Firth, who consequently leased the property and turned his. attention to farming and the manufacturing of cement. Mr. Firth is considered the
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most popular man in Warren county, and many tales are told of his labors for the good of the city and his acts of kindness and liberality. One of his practices is to visit fre- quently the camps of tramps near the city, in order to inspect and intimidate their members and to identify if possible those who are wanted by the authorities as crimi- nals. He is devoted to children, and on one occasion, coming upon a little Polish girl, crying because the heated pavements burned her feet, he picked her up in his arms and carried her all the way home. He is a Democrat in politics, and was elected member of the board of freeholders in 1884, but after serving one term moved out of his ward. In 1889 he was chosen councilman, served eleven years, and then resigned and moved to Greenwich township. The following year he was elected township committeeman, but after serving one year returned to Phillipsburg. In 1904 he was elected mayor of Phillipsburg, and after two years' service was re-elected in 1906. In 1905 he was elected to the New Jersey assembly by a plurality of 632 over the Republican candidate, and was re-elected the following year by a plurality of 342. During his first termn'he served on the committees on labor and industries, unfinished business, the Soldiers' Home, and treasurer's accounts. During his second term he was chairman of the committees on appropriations, the sanitorium for tuberculous diseases, and was a member of the committees on municipal corporations, the Soldiers' Home and the State hospitals. In 1907 he was chosen by the Democrats for speaker of the house, but declined to accept the honor. After his service in the assembly he was reelected mayor of Phillipsburg and a member of the assembly at the same election in 1907, on the Independent ticket, and is now serving his fourth term in that office. He married, June 26, 1880, Margaret Ann, daughter of John and Ann (Lloyd) Lewis, who was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, February 10, 1860. Her father, a brother of Albert Lloyd, of Phillipsburg, was a prom- inent man in Portsmouth, enlisted and was wounded in the civil war, and died shortly afterwards. Child: Elizabeth Alice, referred to below.
(III) Elizabeth Firth, only child of Joseph H. and Margaret A. (Lewis) Firth, was born April II, 1882, in Phillipsburg. If Warren county and Phillipsburg are indebted to England for John Firth, that debt has been amply repaid; in return for the industry and good citizenship of John Firth, Warren county and Phillipsburg have given London and England one of the most accomplished singers and actresses that has appeared on the English stage in recent years. Miss Firth is best known in Phil- lipsburg as "Jimmie" Firth, a name her father bestowed upon her at a very early age. It is a fitting tribute to the affection existing between father and daughter, that Miss Elizabeth, now at the height of her stage success, prefers that nickname, and by that name she is known in theatrical circles, especially among her intimate friends. As a school girl, Elizabeth Firth stands out vividly in the memories of her fellow-towns- men. Having completed the second course of study in the Phillipsburg public schools, she graduated from Phillipsburg high school in the class of 1900. While still in school, having inherited the vocal ability with which the Firth family is so splendidly endowed, and aided and encouraged by her mother, a lady of the most cultivated tastes, Miss Firth became the soprano soloist in the choir of the First Presbyterian Church, Phil- lipsburg, and later accepted a similar position in an Easton, Pennsylvania, church. At that time she became a pupil at the New York Conservatory of Music, under Mrs. Henrietta Tarbox Darling. At a concert given in the Waldorf-Astoria her rich voice attracted the attention of Madam Belle Cole, a leading London musical directress, now deceased. It was at that time Miss Firth entered upon her first theatrical engagement in the company of Miss Viola Allen in "The Eternal City," assuming a small part, but having charge of the solo and choir work in Mascagni's music, used behind the scenes. Then followed a brief engagement in the musical comedy "The Sultan of Sulu," when an offer from Madam Cole induced the young singer to undertake an English concert tour under her direction in June, 1903. She completed a successful tour and was about
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