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(III) James Vliet, born July 8, 1844, Albert Glendiner, born September 29, 1849, and Mary Elizabeth, born in September, 1852, children of George and Maria (Horner) Insley, lived with their parents to the end of their days, and continued to reside on the farm until 1909. In that year they purchased their present home in a beautiful suburb of Phillipsburg, Greensbridge. This place is on the old Morris canal, surrounded by beauties of both nature and art, yet is only a ten-minute ride by street car to Phillips- burg or Easton. Their home is a modern dwelling, where they live comfortably, esteemed and beloved by all their acquaintances, but especially noted for their devotion to one another. They are all members of St. James' Lutheran Church. James Vliet Insley is a member of Bethlehem Lodge, No. 140, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey; and Albert Glendiner Insley is a member of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, of Phillipsburg. Their political system is "Vote for the man, not the party."
Henry Anner, of Phillipsburg, is the founder of his family in New Jersey.
ANNER His father was Henry, son of John Anner, of Canton Zurich, Switzerland, and his mother was Susanna (Schlumpf) Anner. He has two brothers, Frederick and Johann, and one sister Selina, all of whom are still living in Switzerland, where his father is a farmer and cabinet-maker.
Henry Anner was born in Baerentsweil, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, March 29, 1862, and received his education in the schools of his native place, spending six years in the public schools, and graduating from the high school after taking the prescribed three years' course. He then began to learn cabinet-making with his father, but a year later became apprenticed to a silk manufacturer in Zurich, with whom he remained five years. He then spent one year mastering the practical manufacturing of silk pro- ducts, and three years more in learning the business of a manufacturer. Coming to America in October, 1886, he entered the employ of R. and H. Simon, the silk manu- facturers of Union Hill, New Jersey. He soon rose to the position of assistant super- intendent of the factory, but after four years resigned his position to accept a better one with Megroz, Pertier, Schlachter & Company, of Jersey City Heights, with whom he remained for a year, when he was offered and accepted the superintendency with the Poidehard Silk Manufacturing Company, of Jersey City. Four years later he became superintendent of the firm of Underhill & Lee, of Watsessing, New Jersey, and fifteen years ago was offered his present position of superintendent of the Standard Silk Company, of Phillipsburg. Shortly after coming to this country, Mr. Anner pur- chased a home in Hoboken, New Jersey, in which he lived for a number of years. In 1898, however, he sold his property and bought his present beautiful residence, at 53 Chambers street, Phillipsburg. While in Switzerland, he saw four years of military
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service. He is a member of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phillipsburg; of Eagle Chapter, No. 30, Royal Arch Masons; of DeMolay Command- ery, No. 6, Knights Templar, of Washington, New Jersey, and of Forest, No. 14, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Warren county, New Jersey. He is also a member of the Pomfret Club, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and of the Warren County Automobile Club. He was one of the first possessors of an automobile in Phillipsburg. He is a member of the German Lutheran church. His father and grandfather belonged to the Zwingli Re- formed church.
He married, in Union Hill, New Jersey, August 20, 1887, Margaretha, daughter of the Rev. Jacob and Margaretha (Schuyder) Bodmer, who was born in Zurich, Swit- zerland, March 14, 1865. She came to America, August 15, 1887, five days before her wedding, and with the exception of her brother Henry, now living in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and her sister, now Mrs. Charles Smith, living in West Hoboken, New Jersey, she is the only member of her family in this country. Her brothers, John and Jacob, and her sister Louise, are still living in Zurich. Children of Henry and Mar- garetha (Bodmer) Anner: I. Margaretha, born July 8, 1888, in Union Hill, New Jersey; was educated in the public and high schools here, and then graduated from a girl's college in Germany; she married Charles Favre, of Neuveville, Switzerland, and has one child, Valentine Margaretha. 2. Henry, born May 10, 1891, in Jersey City Heights, New Jersey; graduated from the public and high schools, and after attending a business college in St. Gallen, Switzerland, entered the Textile School in Philadelphia. 3. Walter, born July 27, 1894, in West Hoboken, New Jersey, and has just graduated from the Phillipsburg high school.
There are several distinct families of this name in New Jersey, and it BRITTON is not easy to identify the records belonging to each family or to recon- cile the conflicting traditions that have come down to the present day. The family at present under consideration, however, appears to trace its origin to William Britton, who emigrated to Pennsylvania, and settled at "Fox Chase," where he died April 16, 1765. His wife Rachel died August 28, 1766.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) and Rachel Britton, died between 1780 and 1789. He married (first) Mary Thomas, born about 1714, died October 14, 1780. He married (second) Sarah - -, who survived him, and died December 29, 1789. Chil- dren : I. William, born about 1738; died July 22, 1783; married Mary Pierson; removed to Lyons Farms, Essex county, New Jersey, and served during the revolution. 2. Jacob, born August 18, 1744; died August 18, 1784; married Elizabeth Van Sickle; removed to the Passaic Valley, New Jersey, and served in the revolution. 3. Joseph, married Eliza- beth Ward; removed first to Morris county, New Jersey, and later to Schenectady, New Jersey ; served in the revolution. 4. John, referred to below.
(III) John, son of William (2) Britton, was born at "Fox Chase," near Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, and removed to Sussex county, New Jersey. He served during the revolution as sergeant and ensign, in Spencer's Pennsylvania regiment. He married (first), June 15, 1772, Phebe, daughter of Benjamin Pettit Jr., she died in 1776; and (second) Martha Gray, who died in July, 1841, aged ninety years. Children: Pettit; Elizabeth ; Thomas; Sarah; Rachel; John ; Hannah; Jacob; Isaac G., referred to below.
(IV) Isaac G., son of John and Martha (Gray) Britton, was born August 12, 1813; died April 29, 1884. He was a lumberman, a millman, a great student, especially of the law, and a man of no little prominence in his community. He married, Febru- ary 10, 1849, Elizabeth Crause, born July 27, 1807. Children : Stacy Johnston, referred to below; Lucinda, born February 10, 1853, died June 7, 1881; married Samuel Hart.
(V) Stacy Johnston, son of Isaac G. and Elizabeth (Crause) Britton, was born at Milford, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, September 19, 1850; died in Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, May 17, 1905. He received his education in the Phillipsburg
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public schools and high school in Easton, Pennsylvania, and then took a special course in a private school in -Belvidere, New Jersey. For a few years he taught school at Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, but when his father moved his family to Belvidere, Mr. Britton obtained a position as clerk in the Belvidere postoffice, which he resigned four years later in order to enter the office of the Appola newspaper, in the composing room, in which he remained for two years, at the same time assisting his father in the latter's coal business. He then came to Phillipsburg and took a position in the freight office, of the Pennsylvania railroad, where he remained for nearly a quarter of a century, until the end of his life. He took great interest in the educational problems of the town, and served for nine years on the board of education, being chairman of the board at the time of his death. In appreciation of his services here an elaborate and beautiful piece of pen work was presented to his widow, by the board. He was a Democrat in politics, and a Methodist in religion. He married, June 4, 1875, Susan, daughter of John and Catharine (Rasley) Zink, who was born at Martins Creek, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1854, whose mother is still living, beloved and cherished by all who come in contact with her. Children: I. Hector R., referred to below. 2. Catharine Zink, horn August 20, 1878; died March 30, 1885, in childhood. 3. Genevieve, April 3, 1882; living in Lincoln, Nebraska. 4. Harry V., March 13, 1884; married Cora Newman; two children: Thomas and Richard. 5. Stacy Johnston, June 18, 1890.
(VI) Hector R., son of Stacy Johnston and Susan (Zink) Britton, was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, July 30, 1876, and is now living there. He was educated in the public schools of Phillipsburg, and at the age of eighteen years entered the employ of the Standard Silk Company, where he learned the trade of a warper. Mr. Britton is a Democrat in politics, and in 1909 was elected to the city council as representative from the second ward. He is a Methodist in religion. He is unmarried.
BEATTY James Beatty, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born about 1761, and died in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, March 18, 1849. According to Dr. Chambers he was either a son or grandson of the James Beatty who died between August 2, 1766, and February 16, 1767, the dates of the execution and proving of his will, and who with his wife Jane emigrated to New Jersey from the North of Ireland, and lived in a log house between Anthony and Little Brook schoolhouse, in Lebanon township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. The will names his children : Alexander, Samuel, James, Isabel, Mary, Esther and Jane.
(II) James Beatty, son or grandson of this emigrant, married Elizabeth Schleicher, who was born November 25, 1772, and died February 10, 1854. Children: Alexander, born February 18, 1792, died in 1874, married Margaret Taylor; Anna, born November 24, 1794, married Frederick, son of Peter Lance; Mary, born January 2, 1797, married Jacob, son of Philip Anthony; John, born in 1799, died in 1834, married Elizabeth Hipp, who died in 1872, aged seventy-five years, one of their children being General Samuel Beatty, of Ohio; Jacob, referred to below; Elizabeth, born in 1804, married John, son of Thomas Waters; James, born in 1807, died in 1878, married (first) Sarah Ann, daughter of Captain Benjamin Fritts, by whom he had three children, two of whom died young, and married (second) Julia Ann Sine, by whom he had four children; George W., born in 1815, married (first) Elizabeth Fisher, and (second) Rachel Thatcher, and was father of Daniel F. Beatty, the organ manufacturer.
(III) Jacob, son of James and Elizabeth (Sleicher) Beatty, was born in 1801, and died in 1871. He married Eva, daughter of Phillip (2) and Mary (Moore) Anthony, who was born in March, 1801, and died in 1888. Her great-grandfather, Paul Anthony, who was probably a native of Strasburg, emigrated to this country, in the brigantine "Perth Amboy," in 1736. So far as is known his only son was Philip Anthony, who
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lived near Newton till after the revolution, and then removed to Penwell, leaving his eldest son, Philip (2), in Sussex county. He married Elizabeth Dewitt. His son, Philip Anthony (2), was born July 21, 1756, and died May 8, 1850. He married, April 5, 1779, Mary Moore, who was born May 22, 1756, and died September 22, 1851. Chil- dren : Paul, born April 3, 1780, died in 1875, married, February 23, 1803, Catharine, daughter of Adam Perry; Elizabeth, married Jacob, son of Daniel Castner; Anna Rosina, born June 6, 1785, married William, son of Peter Lance; Susanna, born May 17, 1790, died young; Jacob, born May 20, 1794, married Mary, daughter of James Beatty, referred to above; and Eva, who married Jacob Beatty, referred to above, and had eleven children.
(IV) Winfield, son of Jacob and Eva (Anthony) Beatty, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, and died in Warren county, New Jersey, aged about forty-four years. He received his education in the common schools and then began life assisting his father on the farm. Shortly after his marriage he purchased for himself a farm of one hundred and six acres of land, in Mansfield township, Warren county, to which he removed. He was a member of the Baptist church, and a Republican in politics. He married Amanda, daughter of Isaac and Caroline (Munn) Hoppler, who died at the age of sixty-six years. She was born in Washington township, Morris county, New Jersey, and both her father's and her mother's family were old residents of the state. Children : Sarah Emma, married Harvey Stephens, of Asbury, New Jersey; Tamzen Amanda, married Thomas W. Apgar, of Brooklyn, New York; William Henry, referred to below; Anna L., died aged two years; and Andrew D., of Newark, New Jersey.
(V) William Henry, son of Winfield and Amanda (Hoppler) Beatty, was born in the homestead in Mansfield township, Warren county, New Jersey, October 25, 1862, and is now living in Alpha, in the same county, where he is postmaster. He received his education in the public schools of Port Murray, New Jersey, and spent his early life on his father's farm, which he left in order to work in the slate quarries and mines. After this he worked for about eighteen months at the trade of marble cutting, which he gave up in order to accept a position with the Warren Paper Mill Company, with which firm he remained for over seven years. He then went into the insurance busi- ness, securing a position with the United States Industrial Insurance Company, and later with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, with the latter of whom he remained for about four years. About 1900 he came to Alpha and obtained a position with the Alpha Cement Company, where he remained for over seven years, and became one of their most trusted employees, most of the time being chief engineer and inspector at various stations. In 1908 he was appointed postmaster of Alpha, being the second incumbent of that office, which owing to the preponderance of the foreign ele- ment in the village is a peculiarly arduous post. Mr. Beatty, however, it is conceded by every one, fills the office not only to the satisfaction of the government, but with great credit to himself. He was elected one of the first councilmen of the newly incorporated town of Alpha, June 22, 1911. He has bought himself one of the finest homes in the place, and is always interested and active in everything that will improve and promote the well-being of the community. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Bloomsbury, New Jersey. He is also a member of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phillipsburg.
He married, May 29, 1886, Mary Jane, daughter of Isaac and Clara C. (Giay) War- man, who was born near Mount Bethel, Warren county, New Jersey, January II, 1868. Both her grandfather, John J. Warman, and his wife, who was a Miss Stamits, belong to old Hunterdon county families. Children: Raymond, Isaac Warman, Amanda, de- ceased; Harvey Stephens, Ellsworth W., Clara, Lulu, Hazel, and Lester.
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WINTER George B. Winter, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, married Elizabeth Case. Among their children was William C., referred to below.
(II) William C., son of George B. and Elizabeth (Case) Winter, was born about 1834; died at Trenton, New Jersey, April 11, 1864. He learned the trade of wheel- wright. In 1864 he enlisted in the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers, but was stricken with spotted fever and died at Camp Perrine, in Trenton. He was a member of St. James' Lutheran Church. He married, October 30, 1858, Sophia, daughter of Peter and Chris- tine (Stocker) Myers, now deceased. Her father was a resident of Pohatcong town- ship for over sixty-three years. For over fifty years he had a blacksmith shop. He and his wife both lived to be over eighty-four years old, and had two children, Sophia and Louisa, both deceased. Child of William C. and Sophia (Myers) Winter: Peter M., referred to below.
(III) Peter M., son of William C. and Sophia (Myers) Winter, was born at Finesville, New Jersey, March 15, 1862; died February 17, IQII. He attended the public schools of Springtown and Carpentersville. At an early age he began farming and he followed this for six years, and the next two years he was weighmaster with the Crane Iron Company. In the fall of 1881 he entered the employment of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, beginning as a wiper in the roundhouse; five years later he was promoted to fireman, and in 1893 to engineer. In 1895 he was given a steady position, and he has run over all the lines out of Phillipsburg. Inasmuch as he was a permanent resident, and had many real estate interests, he did not relish the moving from place to place, which is involved in the life of an engineer, preferring to be with his family and look after his interests, so he left the railroad and accepted a position with the Vulcanite Cement Company, as stationary engineer. Four years later he resigned to take a position as engineer for the Alpha Cement Company, in which he remained for eleven years; he was an expert in his line. He purchased from Charles Scherer his late home in the residential section of Alpha, and made many im- provements in the property. His lot consisted of one and one-half acres; he also had other interests in Alpha. Purchasing the homestead of his mother's family, he re- modeled it, making two fine dwelling houses which he rented. He was a Democrat in politics. Mr. Winter was a member of Echo Lodge, No. 124, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Phillipsburg; Junior Order of American Mechanics, No. 4, of Phillips- burg; Star Council, No. 155, Royal Arcanum; and the Relief Corps.
He married, January 21, 1881, Mary C., daughter of Robert and Mary C. (Cox) Stamets, who was born at Springtown, New Jersey, now deceased. Henry Stamets, father of Robert Stamets, was a native of Springtown, and lived to be ninety-two years old, his wife to the age of about seventy-nine. Robert Stamets was born January 18, 1834; died April 24, 1910. He purchased a farm of seventy-five acres. He was a man held in high estimation, kind, very reserved and faithful in his religion, being a mem- ber in St. James' Lutheran Church. He was a Democrat in politics, but not an office- seeker. Mrs. Robert Stamets was a native of Ireland, who came to this country in childhood, crossing the Atlantic in a sailing boat. She was also a good Christian woman. She died January 31, 1905, at the age of sixty-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stamets had nineteen children, but the only survivor is Mrs. Emma R. Hawk, of Alpha. Children of Peter M. and Mary C. (Stamets) Winter: I. George B., born March 19, 1883; married Clara, daughter of Thomas Stone and Ella Foering ( Patterson) Pursel; they have one child, Ella Pursel, born August 27, 1905. 2. Louisa M., born January 21, 1885; married the Rev. J. E. Shewell; they reside at 'Duluth, Minnesota. 3. William C., born January 5, 1889; married Helen E., daughter of Thomas Stone and Ella Foering (Patterson) Pursel. 4. Blanche M., born October 24, 1893; living at home.
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Samuel Lockhard Albright, the first member of this family of whom ALBRIGHT we have definite information, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania. The Albright family is of German origin. Samnel L. Albright, in early manhood, followed the carpenter's trade; but afterwards turned his attention to farming, and still later to mercantile business. He was a Republican voter from the organization of the party, but never sought office. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church, and held the positions of trustee, elder and superintendent of the Sunday school. He married Mary Ann, daughter of John Abel. Children : John Calvin; George Peter; Morris R., born June 29, 1861, married, October 22, 1892, Margaret Nason; Anna Margaret, married George LaRue; William Hervey, referred to below; Whitfield K .; Josiah Coleman; Catherine Rachel.
William Hervey, son of Samuel Lockhard and Mary Ann (Abel) Albright, grad- uated from the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, in 1899, with the degree of M. D., and is practicing his profession at Alpha, New Jersey.
Jacob Stone, the first member of this family to become identified with STONE Warren county, New Jersey, was the descendant of one of the early set- tlers in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was a stone mason by trade, but about 1800 he removed to Warren county, settled on a farm there, and died forty years later, aged over sixty years. He is buried in the churchyard of St. James' Lutheran Church. He married (first) Elizabeth -- , who is buried beside him, and (second) Mary Hiner. Children, two by first marriage: John, referred to below; Jacob; Cath- arine, Ann, Elizabeth.
(II) John, son of Jacob and Elizabeth Stone, was born in 1812, and died in War- ren county, New Jersey, in 1863. He inherited from his father a farm of one hundred and ten acres, and he lived in the stone house, still standing, which his father had built. He was a Whig in politics, and a member of St. James', better known as the Old Straw Lutheran Church, in the yard of which both he and his wife are buried. He married Mary, daughter of Jacob and Deborah Young. Children, besides four that died in infancy: Elizabeth; Deborah; Jacob J., referred to below; Joseph; David; John O .; Charles; Martha.
(III) Jacob J., son of John and Mary (Young) Stone, was born in Greenwich township, Warren county, New Jersey, November 6, 1839, and is now living in Greens- bridge, a suburb of Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools and spent his boyhood days on his father's farm at Springtown. While still young, he learned and for a few years followed the trade of carriage maker. He then went to Philadelphia and obtained employment with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, working in their car-building shops. He then went into the lime business, and after abont twenty years spent in this occupation he started in to learn the trade of black- smith, about 1880. For ten years he worked at this trade in Still Valley and then re- moved to his present home in Greensbridge. In 1892 he erected his fine residence there, which commands a view of some of the most picturesque and historic sites of the vicinity. Mr. Stone is a Republican in politics and has served as a freeholder for ten years. He is a charter member of Bloomsbury Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and of the Order of American Mechanics. He is a Presbyterian in religion. He married, in 1864, Mary E., daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hulshizer) Osmun, who was born in Milford, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, January 1, 1840. Children: I. Harry E., born Sep- tember 15, 1866; a blacksmith at Greensbridge; a Republican, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Phillipsburg; married Bella Boss. 2. Edward C., born November 29, 1873; died December 26, 1903. 3. Edna Arline, born May 25, 1874; died November 3, 1902; married Henry Curtis, and left two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, who are living with their grandparents.
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Peter Robinson, the founder of this family, was the son of Ralph
ROBINSON Barley Robinson, of Manchester, England, where his son spent his early life and married. In 1863 he emigrated with his family to America, and settling at Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, became very prominent in the slate quarry industry of that place. For several years he acted as superintendent of one of the quarries; and then in company with John I. Blair and John Brown, he opened a new quarry, employing over two hundred men, many of them brought from England for the purpose, and conducting a highly prosperous business. At the time of his death he had amassed a very comfortable estate, which included besides his quarry interests an excellent farm of about two hundred acres. His widow sold the quarry interests after his death to Conrad Miller, of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and is now (1911) living, aged about seventy-two years, in Smithport, England. Mr. Robinson was a communi- cant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a Democrat in politics. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, of Pennsylvania, and a thirty-second degree Mason. He married Louisa, daughter of John Hingham, one of the leading brass founders of Manchester, England, whose large estate is still in the possession of his descendants. Children, all except the first born in America: Frank Herbert, referred to below; Albert; Clarence, deceased; Charles; Louisa; Child, died in infancy. Clarence was buried in England and the unnamed infant is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook- lyn, New York.
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