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(IV) Sylvanus, son of James (2) and Catharine (Case) Cook, was born in Sussex (now Warren) county, New Jersey, about 1810, and died there in 1894, aged eighty-four years. He is buried at Asbury, New Jersey. He received his education in the common schools and learned the trade of carpenter. He is said to have been a man of very kind disposition, and very devoted to his home and his family. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Methodist in religion. He married (first) Joanna, daughter of Samuel and Dorothea (Hulshizer) Riddle, and (second) Mary Young. Children, four by first marriage: William, died in childhood; James, died in child- hood; Margaret, born in 1840, died in 1868, unmarried; Philip Case, referred to
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below; Catharine, died in infancy; Matilda; Stephen, living in Kansas City, Mis- souri; George B., living in Broadway, Warren county, New Jersey.
(V) Philip Case, son of Sylvanus and Joanna (Riddle) Cook, was born at New Village, Warren (then Sussex) county, New Jersey, October 4, 1843, and is now living in Broadway, Warren county, New Jersey. After receiving his education in the school at New Village, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith at the age of twenty- one. Fourteen years later, he went to Bath, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, where he took up farming for a short time, but returned to his blacksmith trade, and after running a shop for a year in Broadway, he removed to Stewartsville, where he plied his trade for two years more. His health, however, broke down and he return- ed to Broadway, and made his home there, entering the employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, where he remained for eleven years. He is a Democrat in politics, and has taken quite an active part in local affairs. He has served at various times in the election boards, has been assessor of the township for over ten years, and at present (1910) is s'erving his sixth year as township clerk, and his twenty-sixth year as justice of the peace. He enlisted as private in the Eighth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, during the civil war, October 2, 1862. He was mustered in the following October 20, and received his honorable dis- charge July 30, 1865. Most of his time was spent in active service and he was pres- ent at the battles of Spottsylvania, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and many other engagements. He was wounded several times, once quite seriously, at. the battle of Spottsylvania. At Chancellorsville, he was taken prisoner but was discharged six weeks later and returned to his regiment, in which he was the youngest man, and was popularly known as "the boy soldier." At Chancellorsville also, when the color sergeant of the regiment was killed, Mr. Cook picked up the colors and car- ried them for the greater part of the day. He has been a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 36, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Jersey, for over thirty years, and for over twenty years he has been a trustee of the Methodist church. He married, December 4, 1869, Mary E., daughter of Andrew and Sarah Ann (Kniper) Crutz, of Harmony township, Warren county, New Jersey, who was born there, February 2, 1848. Her father was born February 4, 1820, and died in 1866, and her mother was born February 12, 1829, and died December 4, 1904. Her brothers and sisters are: William Crutz, of Philadelphia; Hannah Crutz, of Northampton county, Pennsyl- vania; Jessie Crutz, of Red Rock, Oklahoma; and Reuben Crutz, of Broadway, New Jersey. Child of Philip Case and Mary E. (Crutz) Cook: George L. Cook, born July 23, 1900.
MAJOR Conrad Major, the first member of this family, of whom we have definite
information, died about 1850, aged about forty-five years. He was a farmer in Montana, New Jersey, having a farm of about one hundred acres. He and his wife were members of the Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church, and are buried in the churchyard. He married Elizabeth Miller, who lived to the age of about eighty-five. Children: James D., referred to below; Emma, mar- ried Stanford Silverthorn, settled at Rochester, Michigan, where they are farmers.
(II) James D., son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Miller) Major, was born at Mon- tana, New Jersey, February 29, 1845, and died in December, 1890. When he was eighteen years old he began teaching and he taught school at Spruce Run, Brass Castle, Cornish, Bowers, and Port Colden, which was his last position. His home most of his life, was at Cornish, near Oxford, New Jersey. He was one of the officials of the Summerfield Methodist Episcopal Church, and took a genuine interest in its affairs. A headstone marks his resting place in the churchyard. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Louisa, daughter of John and Sophia Biglow, who
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was born in Germany, November 13, 1845. Her parents came to America, when she was about three years old and settled at Cornish. Mr. Biglow followed the trade of tailor all his life. He died at the age of about eighty years, and his wife at about eighty-three. They had three children, Frederick, Christiana and Louisa. Children of James D. and Louisa (Biglow) Major: Floyd, referred to below; Clara, died at the age of three years; Raymond, married Phebe Mayer, and resides in Washington, where Mr. Major has been for some years chief engineer of the electric light plant; Delbert, married Ida Burd, and has children, Verna and Raymond, now residing at Washington, where Mr. Major is with his brother in the hardware store; Agnes May, married in 1910, Walter Pittinger, of Oxford, and resides at Cornish. Mrs. Pittenger is a graduate of Oxford high school and has taught for four years in school number 3, at Oxford and the Bowers school.
(III) Floyd, son of James D. and Louisa (Biglow) Major, was born in Ro- chester, Michigan, June 24, 1873. He was but fifteen months old when his parents returned to their former home at Oxford, New Jersey. His boyhood days were spent on the farm and he attended the public schools at Brass Castle, Bowers and Port Colden. Then he became a clerk in the hardware store of James Johnson, at Washington, and after twelve years, having acquired a general knowledge of the hardware business he was made manager, April 1, 1905. He started in the hardware business for himself with a new and complete line of goods, in the Weller building, and in November, 1909, he moved to his present store at 22 East Washington avenue, formerly occupied by A. W. Creveling. In February, 1911, Mr. Major purchased the A. W. Creveling building in which his business is located. This building is the largest business block in Washington, two hundred and fifty by thirty-five, and comprises three stories, all of which are occupied by Mr. Major in his business. Mr. Major has one of the largest and best stocked hardware stores in northern New Jersey; he carries a $15,000 stock, and his goods are new, of the highest quality, and up-to-date in every respect. Besides hardware, he carries a full line of farming implements, cement, plaster, fencing of all kinds, as well as harness supplies. Mr. Major is a stockholder and director of the Washington Gas Company; a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 42, Independent Order, Odd Fellows, and of the Senior Order of United American Mechanics, Liberty Council, No. 15. He is a member of the Presbyterian church of Washington. He married, at Washington, June 23, 1897, Alice, daughter of George and Ellen (Beers) Garson. Child: Ila S., born in Washington, November 28, 1898.
HAYWARD Edwin M. Hayward, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in Middletown, New York, but has now lived over thirty years in Hackettstown, during which time he has been engaged in the manufacture of carriages and road wagons. He has built up a good business, having at times employed as many as thirty-five men. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a well-respected man. He is a Republican in politics. He married Ella M. Batson. Children: Mar- vin D., married Florence Van Atta, and had children, Ruth, Clifford and Helen; Frank W., married Mabel Cole; Lewis B., married Mary Norgarrd, had one daughter, Mabel; Theodore Kenny, referred to below; Edna, married Thomas Thunsted, had one daughter, Nora; Leila.
Theodore Kenny, son of Edwin M. and Ella M. (Batson) Hayward, was born . at Hackettstown, September 19, 1880. He graduated from the Hackettstown high school in the class of 1898 and from the Collegiate and Commercial Institute in 1902. After that he studied three years in the University of Pennsylvania, and then took up his profession of dentistry, having received the degree of D. D. S. He passed one
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year in the dental parlors of Dr. T. S. Dunning, at Paterson, New Jersey; and in 1907 he came to Washington, taking the practice of Dr. F. B. Farrow. In 1909 he purchased his present residence at No. 15 Broad street, Washington, which he has remodeled and in which he has fitted one of the best dental offices in Northern New Jersey, and has a large practice. Dr. Hayward is a member of the New Jersey State Dental Society and of the Tri-County Dental Society. He is a Republican in politics; and a Presbyterian in religion. Dr. Hayward married, October 15, 1907, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. W. H. and Mary (Church) Doty, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the Paterson high school. Dr. Doty is a veteran of the civil war. He is one of the leading veterinary surgeons of the state and has practiced his profession in Paterson for many years. Mrs. Hayward is one of seven children, the others being: Emma, married Samuel Thurston; Martha, married Frank Manson; Sarah; Mae, married W. S. Giles; Edith, married W. W. Cole; and William.
BOYER George Boyer, who was born in Durham, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1776, and died in Warren county, New Jersey, is the first member of this family of whom we have definite information. He was the son of Michael Boyer, who emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania, settled in Durham, and died there. Immediately after his marriage George Boyer removed to Warren county and settled on two hundred acres in the township of Lopatcong, which he had purchased from John Welsh, or his heirs. Here he spent the remainder of his life. He married March 1, 1800, Anna Maclin, who was born December 23, 1779, and died April 6, 1865. Children : Michael, referred to below; David W .; Catharine, married Charles Shimer.
(II) Michael, son of George and Anna (Maclin) Boyer, was born in Lopatcong township, Warren county, New Jersey, March 26, 1804, and died in Belvidere, in the same county, September 10, 1869. He lived in the homestead with his father until 1840, when he purchased one hundred and fifty acres for himself in Oxford township, on which he made his home for some years, when he removed to Uniontown, thence, April 1, 1869, to Belvidere, where he died September following. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and had served as elder in the Oxford church. He was a Democrat in politics and served for several years on the township committee. He married Naomi, born October 1, 1802, and died March 14, 1883, in Belvidere, daughter of John and Mary Howell, of Phillipsburg. Children: John H., referred to below; Thomas, married Elizabeth Titman; Mary, died aged nineteen years; George, married Ellen Anderson; Savilla, born July 19, 1836, married (first), John W. Cline, referred to elsewhere; Ann C., married John M. Anderson; Emeline, married Joseph Iliff.
(III) John Howell, son of Michael and Naomi (Howell) Boyer, was born in Lopatcong township, Warren county, New Jersey, January 21, 1827, and died August 27, 1876. He purchased the homestead in Lopatcong township which his grandfather had purchased in 1800, and here he remained until he removed to Stewartsville, where he died. He married, February 18, 1847, Sarah Hunt, daughter of John and Ruth (Hunt) Cline, who was born February 24, 1825, and died July 10, 1906. Her parents are referred to elsewhere. Children: I. Child, died in infancy. 2. John Cline, re- ferred to below. 3. Anna E., married Caleb Cline, who died June 22, 1899. She has now been living in Stewartsville since April 1, 1875.
(IV) John Cline, son of John Howell and Sarah Hunt (Cline) Boyer, was born on the old homestead in Lopatcong township, Warren county, New Jersey, August 3, 1850, and is now living in Stewartsville. He remained on the farm near Stewarts- ville until 1888, when he built his present fine residence in Stewartsville. He has pur- chased several large tracts of real estate, one of them being the old Kline-Rosebury farm of one hundred and eight acres. He is interested in the Warren Foundry Com- pany of Phillipsburg, and in the Thomas Iron Company of Hokendauqua, Lehigh
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county, Pennsylvania. He is also a stockholder of the Phillipsburg National Bank, the First National Bank of Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He is a member of the Bethlehem Lodge, No. 140, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey, of Warren Lodge, No. 53, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past master of Lodge No. 128 of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. He is a member of Stewartsville Grange, No. 121, has served as president, and at present is secretary of that body. He has been trustee and treasurer of the Presbyterian Church at Stewartsville for over thirty-three years and one of its most liberal supporters. In politics he is an inde- pendent Republican. He married (first), November 10, 1875, Sarah Ann, daughter of John and Catharine (Lake) Fritts, who was born November 29, 1843, and died August 19, 1909, and (second), January 22, 1907, Jennie H., daughter of Azariah and Anna (Fair) Frey. No children by either marriage.
CARHART Thomas Carhart, the founder of the family of his name in New
Jersey, was the son of Anthony Carhart, of Cornwall, England, where he was born about 1650. He died in Woodbridge, New Jersey, between March 16 and 26, 1696, the dates of the execution and proving of his will. He arrived in New York City from England, August 25, 1683, coming over to this country as the private secretary of William Dongan, the English governor-general of the provinces of New York and the Jerseys. About the time of his marriage he re- moved to Staten Island, New York, where he lived until within a year of his death, when he settled in Woodbridge, Middlesex county, New Jersey. He married, in No- vember, 1691, Mary, daughter of Robert and Rebecca ( Phillips) Lord, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 13, 1668. Her maternal grandfather was Major William Phillips, of Saco, Maine, and Boston, Massachusetts. She married (second) after her first husband's death, and probably as his second wife, Thomas Warne, of Perth Amboy, who apparently survived her and died May 15, 1722. Children of Thomas and Mary (Lord) Carhart: I. John, born about 1692; married, October 23, 1716, Annie -; removed to Rye, Westchester county, New York, where some of his descendants still live. 2. Robert, referred to below. 3. William, born about 1695; married Phebe - -; removed with his brother, Robert, to Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he died and left descendants.
(II) Robert, son of Thomas and Mary (Lord) Carhart, was born on Staten Island, New York, about 1693 or 1694, and died February 12, 1745, at Matawan, Monmouth county, New Jersey. He married Mary Catharine - , who was born about 1696, and died August 10, 1737, aged forty-one years. Children: Mary, born July 24, 1726; Anne, born August 10, 1727; Cornelius, referred to below; Lydia, born August 30, 1732; Samuel, born June 22, 1737, died December 26, 1809, married Eliza- beth -, and has to-day many descendants in Monmouth county and elsewhere.
(III) Cornelius, son of Robert and Mary Catharine Carhart, was born in Mata- wan, Monmouth county, New Jersey, September 6, 1729, and died in what is now Warren county, New Jersey, June 3, 1810. He is buried in Mansfield cemetery, near Washington, New Jersey. In 1753 he purchased eighty acres of land in what is now a part of the town of Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, which remained in the possession of his descendants until 1880. He served during the revolutionary war in the Third Hunterdon County Regiment, being captain in 1778 and promoted major in 1781. He married, in 1754, Willemptje Coleman. Children: Mary, born in Janu- ary, 1756, married Robert McShane, of Perryville; Sarah, born in February, 1758, married John Dusenberry, of Sussex county, New Jersey; Robert, referred to below; Charles, born January 3, 1763, died in Virginia, married Mary E., daughter of Jacob Dunham; Cornelius, born October 5, 1765, died December 6, 1818, married Sarah,
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daughter of Jacob Dunham; Lydia, born October 28, 1769, married James Bowlby, and removed to Virginia; Willemptje, born April 15, 1771, married Benjamin Lacy, of Washington, Warren county, New Jersey; Phebe, born in February, 1774, married John Coleman, of Sussex county, New Jersey; Samuel, born January 28, 1777, died April 24, 1852, married (first) Annie - , and (second)
(IV) Robert, son of Cornelius and Willemptje (Coleman) Carhart, was born in Mansfield township, Sussex (now Warren county), New Jersey, August 17, 1760, and died in Hampton, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, May 1, 1834. He served during the revolutionary war as a private in the Second Hunterdon County Regiment, and after peace was declared purchased a farm in Hampton on which he settled. He is buried in the Mansfield cemetery, near Washington, New Jersey. The name of his wife is unknown. Children: Charles, referred to below; Samuel, born March 31, 1802, died in 1869, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married Mary Mond; William P., born in 1799, died July 12, 1863, lived at New Hampton and left three children; Mary, married - Sigman; Lydia, married - Phillips, of Port Murray.
(V) Charles, son of Robert Carhart, was born at Hampton, New Jersey, July II, 1786. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and after his removal to Harmony he set up also an undertaking establishment, which he managed in addition to his farm and other work. He was a Presbyterian, and noted for his consistent practice of his religion. He married, May 17, 1817, Rebecca Allshouse, who was born February 9, 1800. Children : John, referred to below; Elizabeth, born in 1820, married Anthony Oberly; Jacob, born in 1823, died unmarried; Thomas F., born in 1828, married Louisa Castera; Lydia, born April II, 1831, married Levi Raub; Caroline, born in 1833, died in 1836; Susanna, born May 23, 1837, married Jacob Kline.
(VI) John, son of Charles and Rebecca (Allshouse) Carhart, was born at Har- mony, Warren county, New Jersey, December 11, 1818, and died there, April 12, 1870. He learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed till his death, residing on and managing also a small farm of sixteen acres, which has now becoine the property of Mrs. Charles Carhart. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Valentine and Rebecca Metz, who was born in Harmony, New Jersey, May 20, 1820. Children: William M., referred to below ; Charles, of Harmony, New Jersey, now deceased, and Albert, of Greensbridge, Warren county, New Jersey.
(VII) William M., son of John and Elizabeth (Metz) Carhart, was born in Harmony, Warren county, New Jersey, August 19, 1844, and died at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, in July, 1910. He received his early education in the district school at Harmony, after which he graduated from the Hackettstown Seminary and then went to the Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, New York. Returning home he served his apprenticeship as carpenter under his father, and after working with him for several years accepted a position in the boat-yards of the Morris Canal Company at Phillips- burg, where he was general foreman of the company for over twenty-five years, until the works were finally shut down. After this he worked for eight years at his trade of carpentering, and in the spring of 1910, when the Morris Canal Company resumed operations at their Phillipsburg boat-yards, he went back to his old position of general foreman. Mr. Carhart was one of the most esteemed men in Phillipsburg, where he lived for more than thirty-seven years before his death. Shortly after going to Phillipsburg he purchased the property at 172 Chambers street, and here he resided for nineteen years, at the end of which time he sold the place and purchased the property at 79 Lewis street, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He also purchased the property at 117 Summit avenue, which is now in the possession of his widow, but never lived there. He was a Democrat in politics, and served in the town council for twelve years. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and was a member of
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the building committee of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, on Chambers street. In August, 1864, Mr. Carhart enlisted in the United States navy and served till the close of the civil war on the "Mohican." He was a member of the Knights of Pythias .of Phillipsburg. He had no liking for club life, but found his greatest enjoyment in his home among his family, with whom when not working he spent the greater part of his time. He was a stockholder in the Phillipsburg Water Company.
He married, August 15, 1864, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Oliver Badgley, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Roxbury, New Jersey, Mary E., daughter of George K. and Joanna (Vliet) Lomasson, who was born at Oxford, New Jersey, May 21, 1846. She is a granddaughter of Major Jesse Vliet. Children : I. Jennie M., born February 8, 1867; married. Henry Meyers, of Phillipsburg; chil- dren: Bessie E .; Bertha, married Oliver Keiffer; Myrtle W .; Grace P .; Russel. 2. Jessie C., born December 2, 1869; died February 2, 1909; married, February 22, 1793, Robert H. Weller, who was born November 30, 1864, and died April 15, 1900; no children; Mrs. Weller, who was a woman of great artistic ability, studied photography in the studio of John Lee, at Phillipsburg, and five years later embarked in business for herself, opening a portable gallery on Chambers street, where she met with great suc- cess, and her business prospered to such an extent that in three years she had pur- chased, erected the building herself, and equipped the most modern studio in the city. Later she established a branch gallery at Clinton, New Jersey, and another one at Freemansburg, Pennsylvania. After her death, the business was inherited by her sister, Alice M., referred to below. 3. Charles F., born March 8, 1875, living with his mother and sister, at 79 Lewis street, Phillipsburg; a carpenter, employed by the Vulcanite Cement Company. 4. Henry R., born October 9, 1877, living at Phillips- burg; married Mary Clymer; children: William C .; Helen I .; Mildred R., and Henry R. 5. Alice M., referred to below.
(VIII) Alice M., daughter of William M. and Mary E. (Lomasson) Carhart, was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, July 7, 1880, and is now living there at 79 Lewis street. She is a woman of remarkable business ability, which, coupled with her excellent education and remarkable artistic temperament, well fitted her to become the heir of her sister's photographic business, which she has been managing for the last three years. She has built up the largest business of the kind in the county, which is second to none, not only in volume of business, but also in the quality of workmanship and the artistic merit of her product, and her studio is noted even outside of the state as the finest and neatest to be found outside of Philadelphia or New York City.
WILLISTON Dr. Alma L. Williston, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, is the daughter of Bradford F. Lapham, of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, and the wife of the Rev. Francis S. Williston, of Phillipsburg.
(I) Calvin Lapham, her grandfather, was born in England, and having emi- grated to Duxbury, Massachusetts, he later removed to St. John, New Brunswick, and afterwards to Nova Scotia, dying at Granville Ferry in that province, aged about forty-five years. By trade he was a ship-builder and connected with the cabinet de- partment of that business. He married Jane Cooper Lane, who survived him and returned to St. John, New Brunswick, where she died at the age of seventy-six years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children: Bradford F., re- ferred to below; Calvin; William; Matilda; Mary.
(II) Bradford F., son of Calvin and Jane Cooper (Lane) Lapham, was born in St. John, New Brunswick, March 1, 1819, died at Lower Newcastle, New Brunswick, in 1888, aged sixty-nine years. He was educated in private schools in the province of New Brunswick and was a fish dealer connected with the salmon trade. He married
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Eliza, daughter of John and Margaret (Reynolds) Coates, who was born in Char- lotte, Maine, and died in Lower Newcastle, New Brunswick, at the age of seventy- eight years. Her mother was born in England, and her father was a farmer in Char- lotte, Maine, where he died at the age of seventy-five years. Their children were: John R .; Frank; Adoniram; Sarah; Maria; Sophia; Harriet; Loretta; Mary; Eliza, referred to above. Children of Bradford F. and Eliza (Coates) Lapham: Alma, referred to below; Eda, married Wallace Troop, of Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia; Eva, married Claudius Clarke, of Brooklyn, Long Island; Margaret; Edwin; Mabel; Ella. The last four died unmarried.
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