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(II) Thomas Morris, son of Morris and Elizabeth (Eaton) Larned, was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, December 8, 1814, and died there December 21, 1908. He was a farmer, a Universalist, a "Black Republican," and served several times as one of the selectmen of the town. He also held a lieutenant's commission in a militia organiza- tion known as the "Dudley Rifles." He married, in Thompson, Connecticut, Lucy Holmes, who was born there June 27, 1816, and died in Dudley, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 30, 1904. Her father was a farmer, a 'blacksmith, and a country squire or justice, and a Baptist in religion. He lived to be about ninety years old. Mrs. Larned taught a country school until her wedding. Children: I. Lucy Maria, born June 2, 1840. 2. Elizabeth Eaton, born August 29, 1841. 3. Susan Jane, born Novem- ber 8, 1842. 4. Thomas Morris, born May 19, 1845. 5. Stephen Holmes, referred to below. 6. Abbie Georgianna, born January 31, 1852. 7. James Edward, born August 20, 1854.
(III) Stephen Holmes, son of Thomas Morris and Lucy (Holmes) Larned, was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, July 10, 1847, and is now living in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He received his early education in the public schools of Dudley, and after preparing for college in Nichols Academy in the same town, graduated from Am- herst in 1869. During the fall of 1869 and spring of 1870 he worked for the Slater Woolen Company, of Webster, Massachusetts, and then secured a position with N. A. Lombard & Company, of Worcester, with whom he remained for three years, resign- ing his place in order to accept a much better one with the hardware manufacturing firm of Sargent & Company, in the same city. He remained for fifteen years, until 1887, when he removed to Phillipsburg and began his work as general manager of the Standard Silk Company, a position he has now held for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. Larned has always voted the Republican ticket on national questions, and generally in state and local affairs, but he does not care for and has never sought nor held any office. He was a member of the Pomfret Club of Easton, Pennsylvania, for a few years, but club life being distasteful to him he resigned. While living in New England he was a Congregationalist, but he has now affiliated himself with the Presbyterian church in Phillipsburg. He married (first) in Amherst, Massachusetts, July 20, 1871, Hattie, daughter of William and Electa (Stetson) Newhall Boltwood, of Amherst, Massa- chusetts, who died May 27, 1872. He married (second) in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 5, 1876, Susan Maria, daughter of Rev. Joel Sumner Everett, of Montpelier,
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Vermont. Her father, after graduating from Amherst College and Andover Theo- logical Seminary, went out as a missionary to Turkey and died there, March 8, 1856. Her mother was educated at the Morrison and Abbot academies in Andover, Massa- chusetts, and going to Turkey, also as a missionary, died there, December 27, 1854. Their children, all born in Constantinople were: i. Mary Seraphina Everett. ii. Elea- nor Melvina Everett. iii. Sumner Haynes Everett. iv. Susan Maria Everett. v. Elizabeth March Everett. Children of Stephen Holmes and Susan Maria (Everett) Larned: I. Margaret, born June 28, 1884; educated in the Phillipsburg schools until 1898, graduated from the high school of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1901, and from Mount Holyoke College in 1905, she married, April 7, 1908, Bayard Gelston Eckard, of Easton, Pennsylvania; one child: Margaret Bayard, born, July 5, 1909. 2. Helen, born September 2, 1887; died August 9, 1888. 3. Ruth, born September 17, 1889; graduated from the Phillipsburg high school in 1906, from Blair Hall, Blairstown, New Jersey, in 1907, and from Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School in 1909; since then she has been a teacher at Davenport Home, Bath, New York. 4. Amy, twin with Ruth, born September 17, 1889, graduated with her sister from the Phillipsburg high school in 1906, and from Blair Hall in 1907; then took a two years' course in Mount Holyoke College, and is now teaching at Hope Farm, Verbank, Dutchess county, New York. 5. Dorothy Everett, born November 28, 1896; now liv- ing at home, under special instruction.
BRASEFIELD Bartholomew Brasefield, the great-grandfather of Dr. Edgar Norman Brasefield, of Phillipsburg, emigrated from England with his family to West Virginia, where he was among the first of those who engaged in coal mining. He married, in England, Sarah Simpson.
(II) Emanuel, son of Bartholomew and Sarah (Simpson) Brasefield, was born in Burnham, England, and brought over to this country by his father when he was eight years old. When he grew up he became a mechanical and locomotive engineer. He married Ruth A., daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Marsh. Children : I. William Francis Joel. 2. Bethune James, referred to below. 3. Phebe Ann. . 4. Sarah Elizabeth. 5. Emma Jane, married Henry Kuebler, Ph. D., of Shamokin, Penn- sylvania. 6. Emanuel Marxh. 7. Alfred. 8. Laura. .
(III) Bethune James, son of Emanuel and Ruth A. (Marsh) Brasefield, was born at Mill Creek, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1844, and is now liv- ing in South Easton, Pennsylvania. He was educated for a mechanical engineer, and has all his life been in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, having been for many years the foreman of their machine shops at Easton. During the civil war he served as a corporal in the One Hundred and Fifty-Third Regiment Penn- sylvania State Militia. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and a Republican in politics, and at one time was a member of the city council of Easton, where he has been living since 1868. He married, January 7, 1869, Augusta Susan, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Kantner) Dengler, who was born in Cresson, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1847. Children: 1. Harvey D., born July 15, 1870, now principal of the public school at Berkeley, California. 2. Stanley E., born October 2, 1873; formerly professor of mathematics at Lafayette College, now at Cornell College, Ithaca, New York. 3. Bertram Clifton, born June 24, 1875; died in December, 1893. 4. Edgar Norman, referred to below. 5. Lister Newton, born April 13, 1884; formerly secretary of the Y. M. C. A., at Easton, Pennsylvania, now secretary of the same at Berkeley, California.
(IV) Dr. Edgar Norman, son of Bethune James and Augusta Susan (Dengler) Brasefield, was born at Easton, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1877, and is now living in Phillipsburg. After graduating from the public schools of Easton, in 1894, he entered
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the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio, taking his degree of Ph. D. and B. S. from that institution in 1899. He then took the courses in New York University and in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and received his M. D. degree in 1904. Coming to Phillipsburg immediately after this, he opened his office at 203 Chambers street, where he soon built up for himself a good practice which has now become the best in the city. He is a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 139, I. O. O. F., of Easton, Pennsylvania; of Chapter, No. 1372, Fraternal Order of Eagles, of Phillipsburg; of Chapter, No. 395, B. P. O. E., of Phillipsburg; and of the Warren County, New Jersey State, and American medical societies. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church in Easton. He is unmarried.
VAN BILLIARD John Van Billiard, of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, is the first member of this family of whom we have definite in- formation. He was the son of Henry Van Billiard, who emi- grated from Holland and settled near Seidersville, in Northampton county. His son, John, was born in Lower Saucon, Northampton county, and settled in Freemansburg, in the same county. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Lutheran church. He married Hannah Children: I. Oliver, referred to below. 2. Jemima. 3. Jerome. 4. Martin. 5. Monroe.
(II) Oliver, son of John and Hannah Van Billiard, was born in Butztown, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1844, and is now living in Phillips- burg, New Jersey. He received a common school education until he was fourteen, when he began working in a brickyard for a wage of twelve cents a day. From 1865 to 1872 he found employment as a day laborer, but in the last-named year he obtained a position as school teacher, which he held for fourteen years, when he was chosen a justice of the peace for Hunterdon county, New Jersey. In 1895 he removed to Phillipsburg, in the following year he was elected one of the justices of the peace for that town, and has served in that office ever since. He is a Republican in politics. When the civil war broke out he enlisted and served in Company B, Forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, under General Philip Sheridan, in the Nineteenth Army Corps, being present at the battle of the Wilderness, at Cedar Creek, and during the raid in the Shenandoah Valley. He is a member of Califon Castle, No. 32, Knights of the Golden Eagle, of New Jersey, and has held all the offices. He was district grand chief for three years, and during his term organized the castles of Annandale, Whitehouse, Lambertville, and Washington, New Jersey. He married, in Easton, Pennsylvania, Mary A., daughter of James Anderson, of Lower Valley, New Jersey. Children : George, Irena Force, Elizabeth Morrell, Wellington, John and James.
John A. Fisher, the founder in America of the family at present under
FISHER consideration, was born at Carlsruhe, Germany, in 1822, and died in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, in 1905. About 1851 he settled at Littleyork, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where he purchased a farm of about forty acres, which he worked until the beginning of the civil war, when he sold it and removed to Phillipsburg, where he enlisted in a company being recruited from Easton, Pennsyl- vania. He served for the last three years of the war in the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment. After returning home he received employment first in the Warren Foundry Company, and later with the Cooper Furnace Company, with the latter of which he remained until he retired. He was a Democrat in politics, and served as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Red Men. In religion he was a Lutheran. He married, about 1855, Caroline S., daughter of Michael Fredericks, who was born at Carlsruhe, Germany, emigrated to this country with her sister about 1855, and died February 1I, 1906. Children: I.
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Lewis Adam, referred to below. 2. William H., living at Phillipsburg. 3. Minnie, married Joseph Weiner. 4. John F., living at Phillipsburg. 5. Anna Elizabeth, mar- ried Daniel Ziegler.
(II) Lewis Adam, son of John A. and Caroline S. (Fredericks) Fisher, was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, June 7, 1861, and is now living in that town. He received his education in the Phillipsburg public schools and in a private seminary in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in 1871 went to work in the pipe department of the Warren Foundry Company. About four years later he went to Philadelphia as a baker's and confectioner's apprentice and worked for ten years for different firms, among them being that of Croft & Wilbur. About 1886 he returned to Phillipsburg and opened a bakery on Mercer street, which he conducted for ten years, when he sold out, buying seventy-five acres of land, and turned his attention to farming, espe- cially to fruit growing. Ten years later he returned to Phillipsburg again, and took up his present occupation of steward of Lodge No. 395, B. P. O. E. Besides his present residence at 76 Summit street, which he built in 1898, Mr. Fisher has erected and owns about ten other houses. He was at one time interested in the Phalaux Silk Mills of Phillipsburg, and he is at present in charge of the Elks' retreats at Musconet- cong and at Lake Hopatcong. He is exalted ruler of the B. P. O. E. of Phillipsburg, a member of Lodge No. 124, I. O. O. F. of Phillipsburg, of Erie No. 1372, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and of Teedyescung Tribe, No. 17, Improved Order of Red Men of America, the exempt firemen. He is a Democrat in politics, has served in several local offices, and served in the town council in 1895 and 1896. He is the senior partner of the well-known firm of Fisher & Barnes, musical comedians, who have traveled all over the United States. He has much musical talent of high order, plays many in- struments himself, and has played for many years in the bands of Phillipsburg and Easton, besides being the organizer of the Bloomsbury band. His three great amuse- ments are hunting, fishing, and music; and his favorite instruments are those of the wood-wind class. He married (first), June 22, 1885, Margaret S., daughter of Joseph and Martha (Welliver) Coll, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey. He married (second), June 20, 1907, Mrs. Dorothy Shafer, of Philadelphia. Only one child, which was by the first marriage died in infancy.
Jacob Creveling, the first member of this family of whom we have CREVELING definite information, died January 27, 1897. The Creveling family is of Dutch origin. Johannas and Catharine Creveling married in Holland, and were among the earliest descendants of the Musconetcong valley. The family in New Jersey is notable for the number of physicians who have sprung from it. Jacob Creveling grew to manhood in Asbury, New Jersey, where he carried on a mill for some years. In 1866 he moved to Phillipsburg, and there managed a flour and feed business until his death. He was an earnest Methodist, truly interested in the welfare of his church, and a liberal contributor to that end. In the Democratic party he held a high place, and filled among other offices those of coroner, assessor, overseer of the poor, and school commissioner. He was actively interested in all measures which he deemed conducive to the welfare of the community. In both public and private life he was a man of integrity, just, kind and charitable; he was a true Christian gentleman and a fit example for others. He married Charity, daughter of George Lunger, died April 8, 1891. Her father was at one time sheriff of Hunterdon county. Children : William E., of Jersey City; George L., of Phillipsburg; Charles F., referred to below.
(II) Charles F., son of Jacob and Charity (Lunger) Creveling, was born in Asbury, New Jersey, September 10, 1862. He attended the common schools and the high school, from which he graduated in the classical course in 1882. His study of
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medicine was commenced with Dr. Joseph Flavel Sheppard, of Phillipsburg, and later attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in New York City, from which he grad- uated with the degree of M. D., March 14, 1887. He practiced in Phillipsburg for two years, and then moved to Reaville, Hunterdon county. In 1895 a partial breakdown in health compelled him to give up his work for a few months. He has been again a resident and practicing physician of Phillipsburg since May of the following year, and has served as city physician as he had done during 1887 and 1888 also. Dr. Crevel- ing's ability and skill are undoubted, he is a constant student, keeping himself in touch with the latest methods and discoveries. Besides this, he has those other neces- sary qualifications, sympathy and zeal for his profession. He is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Red Men and of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and in each of these orders he has held various offices and he has been medical exam- iner, in 1887 and 1888, for several fraternal organizations. He married, September 7, 1887, Julia E., daughter of Henry Wagner, of New York.
YEISLEY Nicholas Yeisley, is the first member of this family of whom we have definite information. Among his children are George Adam, referred to below.
(II) George Adam, son of Nicholas Yeisley, was born in Williams township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, near Easton, October 11, 1815. His occupation was that of a trucker. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He married Susanna Hartzell. Children: Jeremiah, referred to below; Thomas; Simon; Sarah Christiana; Charles Harris.
(III) Jeremiah, son of George Adam and Susanna (Hartzell) Yeisley, was born in Williams township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1843, and died in Phillipsburg, October 18, 1890. He began to teach school in Cedarville, Williams township, in 1860. In 1862 he enlisted in the Pennsylvania militia and went to Harris- burg, but did not go into active service. The same year he came to New Jersey and took the position of school teacher at Uniontown, and in the fall of 1864 he accepted a position as teacher in the public school in Lopatcong township, No. 10 Plane, Greens- bridge, New Jersey, which position he held until his death. He was also assessor of the township and census enumerator. He was at first a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Harmony, New Jersey, and afterwards joined the Wesley Meth- odist Episcopal Church at Phillipsburg. He was a Democrat in politics. He married, February 20, 1864, Mary Ellen, daughter of Lawrence and Anna Maria (Farning) Metz, who was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, September 29, 1842. Her father was the son of Peter and Anna M. Metz, born April 18, 1819, at Speicherz, in the local government of Brueckenau, kingdom of Bavaria, and died in Phillipsburg, New Jer- sey, January 22, 1892. He came to America in 1839 and applied for naturalization August 13, 1844. He was a farmer in Lopatcong township for many years, and after- ward was engaged in the milk business until about four years of his death. He mar- ried, October 4, 1840, a daughter of John George and Catharine Farning, who was born July 29, 1817, also in Bavaria, in Vhanuran, local government of Weihers, and died in Phillipsburg. October 13, 1899. She came to America in the same year her husband came, in 1839. Children of Jeremiah and Mary Ellen (Metz) Yeisley : George Lawrence, born August 29, 1864; Albert Metz, referred to below; William Henry, born April 7, 1873, died March 20, 1875.
(IV) Albert Metz, son of Jeremiah and Mary Ellen (Metz) Yeisley, was born at Uniontown, Lopatcong township, September 18, 1868. He attended the public schools of Uniontown until 1882. Removing to Phillipsburg, he attended the public schools there for the next three years, and from 1885 to 1888 he attended the Easton Academy. In October, 1889, he accepted a position as shipping clerk with the superin-
Jeremiah Geisler
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tendent of bridges and buildings of the Lehigh Valley railroad at Phillipsburg; and July 1, 1891, he became a transfer clerk in the freight office at Phillipsburg, of the same railroad. In July, 1904, he was promoted to the position of cashier in the same office, and a year later to that of chief clerk. October 17, 1905, he was made agent at Kennedy, Alphia and Phillipsburg, which is his present position. He favors the principles of the Republican party. He is treasurer of Camp No. 64, P. O. S. A., and of U. S. Grant Commandery, No. 45; a member of North End Castle, No. 27, Knights of the Golden Eagles; and of Camp No. 28, P. O. of A .; captain-general of Clarmont Commandery, No. 62, Knights of Malta; and a member of Camp No. 14545, Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the New Jersey and Lehigh Division Club of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at Easton; of the American Railway Association of Freight Agents, which is connected with all railroads in the United States, and secretary of the local branch of the Triple City. He is a member of the First Meth- odist Episcopal church, Main street, Phillipsburg, and treasurer of R. B. Lockwood Chapter, No. 587, of the Methodist Brotherhood.
ANEWALT Stephen Anewalt, grandfather of Ellsworth Quincy Anewalt, of Phillipsburg, was a well-to-do farmer of Northampton county, Penn- sylvania. In his later years, after retiring from active life, he re- moved .to West Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was a Lutheran in religion, and a Re- publican in politics, in the latter of which he took a keen and active interest. He was also noted for his horses, especially his drivers of which he is said to have had some of the best in the county. He married Sarah Kleppinger. Children: Peter S., re- ferred to below; Anna, married Frank Young; Elizabeth, married Henry Lapp; Ellen, married Benjamin Kunz; Eli S., of Allentown, Pennsylvania; Monroe, now living in Ohio.
(II) Peter S., son of Stephen and Sarah (Kleppinger) Anewalt, was born in East Allen township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1891, when he retired from active life and removed to Catasauqua, Lehigh county, Penn- sylvania, where he now (1910) resides. He is a very successful farmer, and owns two fine farms, one of a hundred and forty acres in Northampton county, and another of sixty-seven acres. in Lehigh county. He is a Republican and takes considerable interest in political affairs. In religion he is a Lutheran. He married Mary Alice, daughter of Thomas E. and Naomi ( Brenig) Hartzell. Children: Ellsworth Quincy, referred to below; Vincent S., died young; Claude, died young; Quintus P .; Naomi S .; Marian, died aged thirteen years; Clarence; Floyd; Alonzo, died aged three years.
(III) Ellsworth Quincy, son of Peter S. and Mary Alice (Hartzell) Anewalt, was born at Nazareth, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1873, and is now living in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He attended the public school at Hecktown, Lower Nazareth township, Northampton county, and after this graduated from the high school at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, in 1889. He spent his early life until he was sixteen on his father's farm, and then obtained a clerkship in the drug store of Walter S. Freeman, with whom he remained for two and a half years. He then went to Philadelphia, where after working for one year for the wholesale drug firm of Smith, Kline, French & Company, he took the course at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1895. He next spent four years managing the drug store of H. P. R. Llandy, of Madera, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, and then, in September, 1898, he came to Phillipsburg, bought up the business of his old employer, Walter S. Freeman, corner Main and Market streets, and has been in busi- ness there ever since. He is a Republican in politics, and a Presbyterian in religion. He is a member of the Phillipsburg board of trade, of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Jersey, and of Montana Lodge, No. 23, Knights of
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Pythias. He married, December 14, 1898, Elizabeth Freda, daughter of John and Mary (Jones) Maurice. Children : Ellsworth Maurice, born November 8, 1899; Donald Jackson, July 20, 1901; Nelson Clifford, November 20, 1904.
GRIFFITH John Griffith, the first member of this family of whom we have defi- nite information, was born November 19, 1736, died August 23, 1805. He was a resident of Rahway, in 1776. The Griffith family is of Welsh origin. A large number of its American members, including this John and two at least of his descendants have been physicians; others have been lawyers. One of the American Griffiths was among the signers of the Declaration of Independence. John Griffith was one of the incorporators of the Medical Society of New Jersey, which is the oldest organization of this kind in the United States. He succeeded to the practice of his brother-in-law, Dr. Stephen Camp. Dr. Griffith married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Camp. Children: Thomas, born in 1765, died in December, 1799; William, referred to below; John; Nathaniel; Lydia, married Abraham Clark; another daughter.
(II) William, son of John and Elizabeth (Camp) Griffith, was born in 1766, died June 7, 1826. He was a lawyer of high eminence and had a large practice, being greatly reputed as an advocate. He also wrote a number of excellent legal and his- torical works. He was an active opponent of slavery. He was, in 1820, a prominent member of the house of assembly, active in the revision of the state laws made in that year. Other positions held by him were those of United States circuit court judge, and at the very end of his life clerk of the supreme court of the United States. It has been said of him that he stood at the head of the bar. Among his children was James V., referred to below.
(III) James V., son of William Griffith, died in 1883. He was a farmer of Mon- mouth county. He married Sarah P. Woolley, of English and Dutch descent. Among their ten children were: Martha; Sarah; Jacob; Hattie, married Charles Atwood; Clara, married Bruce Gordon ; William A .; James Percival; John Henry, referred to below.
(IV) John Henry, son of James V. and Sarah P. (Woolley) Griffith, was born at Waln's Mills, Monmouth county, New Jersey, July 3, 1842. Although spending much of his time in early life in assisting his father in the management of the farm, he attended the common schools, the New Jersey Classical and Scientific Institute, Hightstown, and Pennington Seminary. After teaching school successfully for seven years, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Charles Bartolette, of Milford, New Jersey, in 1866; after his death he continued his studies, at the same place, with Dr. George T. Ribble. In the winters of 1866-67, 1867-68, he attended lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. March 12, 1870, he graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. From 1870 he has continuously resided in Phillipsburg, where he soon acquired an excellent practice. He succeeded Dr. John- son as reporter in the district medical society and has been a delegate to the state medical society. Dr. Griffith has kept in touch with the leading men of his profession, and was city physician in 1871. Despite his large practice he has been a public-spirited citizen in lines outside of his profession. Every local enterprise and every proposed new industry enlists his influence and he has devoted much thought and work to causes which he has deemed worthy. He was in 1880 one of the committee who wrote the history of the medical men of Warren county and devoted considerable efforts to preserving the memories of sons of the earlier and later physicians. Local history is to him a matter of great interest. He has been for years a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and is an authority on state history. His private library in- cludes the records of sixteen out of the twenty-one counties in this state, beside much
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