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Frank Herbert, son of Peter and Louisa (Hingham) Robinson, was born in Man- chester, England, April 3, 1861, and is now living in Washington, Warren county, New Jersey. He was brought over to this country by his father when he was two years old, and spent his early life in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, and received his education in the public schools and from private tutors. Later he attended the business college at Easton, Pennsylvania. He then became general manager of the company store at Pen Argyl, and after holding this position for seven years he returned, in 1890, to England, where he was made foreman of one of the departments of his grandfather's brass foundry. While there he began the study of veterinary surgery, towards which he had a natural bent, and returning to America in 1895 he entered and graduated from the College of Veterinary Surgeons, at London, Ontario, Canada, and then took up several courses of study. He has kept in touch with the literature and development of his science and is considered one of the highest authorities on the subject in Warren, Sussex and Hunterdon counties. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and a Democrat in politics. He married, April 2, 1884, Anna Z., born October 29, 1860, daughter of Charles and Susan (Arnold) Zulick, at Easton, Pennsylvania. Children : I. Edith M., born April 2, 1888; married Ralph Thomas, a professor in the Phillipsburg high school; one son, Edward W. Thomas. 2. Alberta, born October II, 1891; married Frank B. Bartholomew, principal instructor of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association, at Gloucester, Massachusetts. 3. Ethel Zulick, born December 25, 1892, in England.
SCHUERMANN Frederick A. Schuermann, the founder of this family of his name, was born in Meller, Germany, April 28, about the year 1848, and is now living retired in Washington, Warren county, New Jersey. When he was sixteen years of age, he and his brother, Henry A. Schuer- mann, emigrated to America, and shortly afterwards located in Brooklyn, which place his brother soon left in order to establish himself in St. Louis, Missouri, where he now lives. He had learned the trade of tailor in Germany, but soon after his removal west, gave it up in order to engage in the decorating business, in which he has been very successful. Frederick A. Schuermann went into the restaurant business in Brooklyn, and for many years conducted a very prosperous trade. In 1900 he established him- self in the same business in Jersey City Heights, where he remained until he sold out
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and retired from active business in 1908, and moved to Washington, New Jersey. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and a Democrat in politics. He married, about 1869, Minnie, daughter of Herman 'Drosselmyer, who was born in Germany, all de- ceased, and whose only relative in this country is a brother, Herman Drosselmyer Jr., a diamond setter, living in Jersey City Heights, and three sisters, Amelia Jantzen, Louisa Lang, Henrietta Sievers, all of Brooklyn. Children: 1. Ida, married John Smith, of Brooklyn; children: Minnie, James, Ida and another that died in infancy. 2. Henry A., referred to below.
Henry A., son of Frederick A. and Minnie (Drosselmyer) Schuermann, was born in Brooklyn, New Jersey, October 21, 1870, and is now living in Washington, Warren county, New Jersey. He was christened Henry A., after his uncle, who is now living in St. Louis, but he is better known to every one by the soubriquet "Harry." He re- ceived his education in the Brooklyn public schools, and when he reached the age of fifteen years took up the trade of upholstering, which he followed until his removal to Washington, New Jersey, in 1891. After coming to Washington he worked for four years for James Fitts, and after that with the firm of Spangenburg & Ford for five years more. He then obtained a position with Charles Ammerman, working under him for two years, and then for a short time carrying on the business himself. In 1905 he gave up this business and began to work for himself, manufacturing and selling piano stools and piano supplies. Starting with but very little capital, and his only helpers a woman and a boy, he built up in three years a trade of ten thousand dollars, and in the two succeeding years of eighteen thousand dollars, annually. He purchased (in 1910) the plant of the R. R. R. Woodworking Company, and is now employing about twenty-eight persons, and manufactures and ships goods to England, Germany, Australia, and many other foreign countries, besides supplying an excellent market in the southern states. A few years ago he purchased for his residence the fine property of W. D. Gulick, at 92 West Stewart street, Washington. Mr. Schuermann is a Lutheran in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He is a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 36, Free and Accepted Masons, of Washington, New Jersey, and of Pohatcong Lodge, No. 1701, Royal Arcanum.
He married, May 24, 1892, Mary Frances, daughter of William and Mary C. (Myers) Trome, who was born in Townsbury, Warren county, New Jersey. Her parents are both dead, but among her living brothers and sisters are: Sarah Trome, wife of J. F. Dilley; Savilla Trome, wife of John W. Fox; Annie Trome, wife of William Fritts, and Cora Trome, wife of William Shipman. Children of Henry A. and Mary Frances (Trome) Schuermann: Frederick Trome, born November 28, 1896; Frances Elizabeth, April 18, 1898.
ANDERSON John Anderson, of Lebanon, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, is the first member of this family of whom we have definite information. He is said to have been the son of an emigrant ancestor who came from Scotland and purchased several large tracts of land in Hunterdon county, one of them being known as the Laniger farm, and another as the Tiger farm. John Ander- son was a popular and prominent man in his day, and held the offices of justice of the peace and public crier. He married twice, his second wife, by whom he had no chil- dren, being Anna Anthony.
(II) William, son of John Anderson, owned and operated a great mill at Califon (now Cole's Mills), Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Sometime after his marriage he removed to Indiana, with a part of his family, leaving the older children in New Jersey, and settled near the present town of Anderson, which is said to have received its name from him. He married Elizabeth Castner. Children, so far as known: Daniel C., referred to below; Elizabeth, and Sarah.
(III) Daniel C., son of William and Elizabeth (Castner) Anderson, was born
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near Califon, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, August 30, 1826; died in Lebanon town- ship, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in July, 1910. He is buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Morris county, New Jersey. He owned two adjoining farms, one of one hundred and twenty-six acres, the other of one hundred and thirty acres of land in Lebanon township, on which he lived, and became quite a prominent man politically in his township, serving for several terms as township committeeman. In his younger days he was a Democrat, but later he became a Republican. He was a deacon in the Presbyterian church for many years, and he served as a lieutenant in the old state militia under Colonel Joseph Bonnell. He married Mary, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Beatty) Anthony. Children: Alexander, referred to below; Julia, died aged thirty- five years, married Stewart Anthony; Amanda, married Edward Stephens; Kate, married Luther Davis; Lucy, married Miller Davis; Mary, married Herman Good- liver.
(IV) Alexander, son of Daniel C. and Mary (Anthony) Anderson, was born on the old homestead of one hundred and thirty-seven acres, which had belonged origin- ally to his great-grandfather, John Anderson, in Lebanon township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, September 30, 1851, and is now living in Washington, New Jersey. He received his early education in the public schools of the township, Schooley's Mountain Seminary and the private school kept by Professor Stoutenburg. After this he taught school for a number of years in Woodglen, Lower Valley, Cookstown and Sarepta, after which he obtained a clerkship in the general store at Woodglen, where he re- mained for about three years longer. He then went to California, where he engaged in mining for a couple of years. Coming east again he started as a builder and con- tractor and among other edifices built the Roman Catholic convent, at Convent, Morris county, New Jersey. Several years later he spent twelve years farming. All his life, however, he had been actively interested in surveying, into the mysteries of which he had been initiated by his grandfather, Jacob Anthony, whom he had helped to lay a number of township lines. The knowledge he had thus gained he kept putting to prac- tical use and adding to all through his life, and in 1896 he was employed to lay off the county line between Hunterdon and Morris counties. During his first six years as a farmer he lived on his father's farm, but in 1891 purchased one hundred and fifty acres of land in Hunterdon county for himself from George W. Beatty, and here he remained until 1904, when he moved to Washington, where he opened his offices as a real estate agent, an insurance broker and a surveyor. For the last six years he has also served as city engineer. He is a Democrat in politics, and while in Hunterdon county served as overseer of the poor. He is a member of Mansfield Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, October 5, 1875, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Samuel S. Sawyer, the Presbyterian minister of Schooley's Mountain, Keziah F., daughter of George W. and Elizabeth L. (Fisher) Beatty, who was born on the farm her husband purchased later from his father-in-law, January 24, 1857. Children: I. Russell S., born June 15, 1877; a dairy farmer living near Phillipsburg; married Bertha Fleming; children : Elizabeth and Louisa. 2. Daniel B., born January 29, 1882; married Alice Castner ; lives in East Orange, New Jersey. 3. Cecil R., born May 12, 1887; a real estate and insurance broker in Washington and New York City. 4. A daughter died in infancy.
WOOLVERTON The first member of this family of whom we have definite infor- mation was a Woolverton who died at the age of about seventy- five years. He was a carpenter and also owned about ten or twelve acres of land, and earlier in life had been a miller. He attended tollgate on the old turnpike between Washington and Broadway, and he also headed the wagon trains from his part of Warren county to New Brunswick. In his declining years, being
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quite well-to-do, he sold his interests and purchased a home in Broadway, Warren county, New Jersey. He was a Methodist in religion, and a Democrat in politics. He married Rachel Dickerson. She was an accomplished woman and was at one time leader of the church choir. They were among the liberal contributors of the Broadway church. Mrs. Woolverton survived her husband a few years. Among their children was Richard Green, referred to below.
(II) Richard Green, son of --- and Rachel (Dickerson) Woolverton, married Mary Matilda Huff, born October 21, 1854. Among their children were: Aaron Huff, referred to below; Martha Elizabeth, married David C. Riddle.
(III) Aaron Huff, son of Richard Green and Mary Matilda (Huff) Woolverton, was born at Broadway, October 20, 1858, and is the only living son. He was educated in the public schools of Broadway, and learned with his father the trade of harness maker, which he followed for about six years, until he was twenty-three years old. Then he worked for ten years with the Lehigh Valley railroad, looking after cars transferred from one railroad to another. In 1891 he went into the grocery business, at the corner of Tintall and Harris streets, Phillipsburg, and carried on the business at that place until March 14, 1909, when he moved to Martins Creek, and took charge of a store and postoffice for the Schull estate. July 15, 1909, he returned to his old business, stocking his store anew. Besides his store he has other building lots. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Broadway, and a Democrat in politics, but not an office-seeker. He is a member of Montana Lodge, No. 23, Knights of Pythias, and of the uniform rank, of Phillipsburg.
He married, December 2, 1876, Edith, daughter of Isaiah and Rachel Frost, born in New York City, December 8, 1859; died April 9, 1910. She was a member of the Phillipsburg Methodist Episcopal church, and is buried in the new cemetery, near Tenth street, Easton, Pennsylvania. Children : Florence, born March 30, 1880, mar- ried, July 15, 1902, George Keifer, of Phillipsburg, and have one son, John R., born November 13, 1903; Olive, May 5, 1885, married, June 7, 1905, Lewis O. Stephens, a merchant of Phillipsburg.
The Fleming family, of Scotch-Irish lineage, has been represented in FLEMING New Jersey by six generations. Thomas Fleming, the great-great- grandfather of Wesley Fleming, was one of four sons of Malcolm Fleming, of county Tyrone, Ireland, who came to Bethlehem township, Hunterdon county, in 1751, to seek their fortunes in the new world. Thomas Fleming moved to Cumminstown, now Vienna, New Jersey, in 1783, and became the owner of much prop- crty there, a great deal of which is still in possession of the family.
His son, Thomas Fleming (second), was born October 24, 1753, at Bethlehem, and went with his father to Vienna in 1783. He was an ardent Presbyterian and an elder in the Hackettstown Presbyterian church. He died March 4, 1829, and on his tomb- stone at Great Meadows is this inscription: "Here lies the remains of a soldier of the Revolution, one of the heroic band who, with Washington, crossed the Delaware on the 25th of December, 1776, and conquered the British and Hessians at the battle of Trenton." He married Mary Hays, who was born in 1759, and died in 1838. One of their ten children was Moses H. Fleming, grandfather of Wesley Fleming.
Moses H. Fleming was born October 30, 1797, and married Mercy S. Smith. He was a Democrat, a lifelong resident of Warren county, and followed agricultural pur- suits. His children were : Caroline (Albert), Charles, Irene (Henry), Ellen (Flomer- felt), Achsa Jane (Cook), and Joseph W. C.
Charles Fleming, father of Wesley, was born September 27, 1833, at Danville, New Jersey, near where he has spent all his life as a farmer and dealer in live stock. He has been a lifelong Democrat, and has served several terms as member of the board of chosen freeholders, as assessor, and as town committeeman. He married Margaret
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M. Runyon, daughter of Nelson and Elizabeth ( Hayes) Runyon, both descended from old Warren county families. Their children are: Wesley, Elizabeth G. and Harvey.
Wesley Fleming was born September 6, 1866, one mile from Mountain Lake, in Hope township, and obtained an excellent public school education at the Free Union and Danville schools. At fifteen years of age he entered mercantile life with Jenkins, Buck & Company, at Danville, now Great Meadows, New Jersey. Four years later he was employed by J. H. Vescelius, dealer in dry goods and fancy goods, at Hackettstown, New Jersey, with whom he remained four years, after which he was with W. V. Snyder & Company, of Newark, New Jersey, for two years. At Hancock, New York, he spent one year in the office of the Erie Blue Stone Association, and at Asbury, New Jersey, he served three years as manager of the Musconetcong Grange's general store. This varied experience was an excellent preparation for entering into the furniture and carpet business at Washington, New Jersey, when in 1896 he formed a partnership with C. R. Ford, as Ford & Fleming, and continued the business long carried on by Spangenburg & Ford. In 1903 Mr. Fleming sold out his interest to his partner, and has since been connected with the coal and lumber business of W. D. Gulick.
Mr. Fleming has always been a Democrat, has served four successive terms as a member of the board of education of Washington, of which he has been president for eight years, is a member of the board of health, and the secretary of the board of trade, much of whose efficiency is due to his untiring efforts. He is a member and one of the trustees of Warren Council. No. 16, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, in which he has passed through all the chairs and served as state council representative for two years. He is also a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 42, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Washington Athletic Association. As could be anticipated from his ancestry, he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, of Washington, New Jersey, of which he was a trustee for several years.
On November 9, 1893, Wesley Fleming married Edith Wyckoff, who was born at Port Colden, New Jersey, on March 31, 1868, and was the daughter of George P. Wyckoff and Tamzen Carhart, both of whom are descended from the very earliest American families in New Jersey. The one is a descendant of Peter Claes Wyckoff, who came to New Amsterdam in 1636 and was superintendent of the farm of Peter Stuyvesant in 1653; the other is descended from Thomas Carhart, who arrived in New York, August 25, 1683, as private secretary to the governor of New York, and married Mary, the granddaughter of Thomas Lord, who came to America in 1635. Mary Lord's mother was Rebecca Phillips, the sister of Elizabeth Phillips, who married John Alden Jr., the son of John and Priscilla, celebrated in Longfellow's poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," as "the loveliest maiden of Plymouth."
The only child of Wesley and Edith Fleming is George Wyckoff Fleming, born October 31, 1895, who is now a student in the Washington high school.
George Baylor, the first member of this family of whom we have definite
BAYLOR information, was at one time a resident of Franklin township, Warren county, New Jersey, but moved to the state of New York, and there spent the rest of his life. Among his children was Peter G., referred to below.
(II) Peter G., son of George Baylor, was born April 16, 1790. He owned a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Warren township, which is now in the possession of his grandson, John S. Baylor. Part of this farm had been the home of John Smith, and was afterwards owned by Jacob Weller, from whom Mr. Baylor bought it, and part belonged to his wife. Here he resided the rest of his life, and erected the house which has since been remodeled. He was a Presbyterian in religion. He was a Demo- crat in politics. He married (first) Myers. She died at the age of about twenty-two, and is buried in St. James' Lutheran churchyard. He married (second) Elizabeth Weller, and he and his second wife are buried in Washington cemetery.
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Children, all save the first named by the second marriage: Jacob M., referred to below; Samuel, born November 18, 1819; John, born December 17, 1821, buried in Ohio; George, born March 5, 1824; William, born March 18, 1826, buried in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; Anna, born July 22, 1828.
(III) Jacob M., son of Peter G. and (Myers) Baylor, was born near Asbury, New Jersey, May 22, 1813, and died March 30, 1886. He had a farm of about eighty-four acres, near Asbury. He was an upright man, and a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He is a Democrat in politics. He married Elizabeth D. Rush, who was born October 13, 1813, and died October 23, 1886. A curious coincidence is that husband and wife were both born and both died in the same year. They are buried at Broadway, New Jersey. Children: William R., born November 14, 1832; Peter G., born September 8, 1834; Rachel R., born January 29, 1837; John S., referred to below; Robert L., born March 6, 1841, died September 3, 1850; Lemuel B., born February 15, . 1843; George B., born March 22, 1845, died September 22, 1850; Eleanor C., born June 26, 1847; Jacob P., born August 28, 1849, died September 17, 1850; Ann E., born April 21, 1852; Hannah H., born October 10, 1853; Mary M., born September 8, 1855; Albert M., born June 29, 1859, died October 20, 1866.
(IV) John S., son of Jacob M. and Elizabeth D. (Rush) Baylor, was born on his father's farm, near Asbury, Warren county, New Jersey, April 18, 1839. His early life was spent on the farm. He received a good education in the schools of the township, and afterwards attended a school near Easton, Pennsylvania. Leaving the firm at the age of twenty-two, he entered the employment of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- ern railroad, and was a foreman on a section for this road until he was forty-five years old, when he returned to the homestead farm. In 1905 he removed from there to his present home. He is one of the progressive farmers and honored citizens of the town- ship. He has remodeled the farm dwellings and improved the farm generally; there are now large barn accommodations for stock and for grain. The raising of stock has always interested Mr. Baylor; several years ago he imported from France some blooded Percheron horses. He is a great advocate of good roads and of all other improvements which tend to increase the value of farms. He is also a man of large and good ideas, always ready to help in all things looking to the betterment of the community. He is a Democrat, and has served three terms as township committeeman. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Broadway, and has served as trustee and steward. He is a member of Mansfield Lodge, No. 36, Free and Accepted Masons, of Washing- ton, New Jersey. Besides the farm on which he resides, he has a seventy-acre farm at Stewartsville, and one of eighty acres near Asbury.
Mr. Baylor married, December 6, 1861, Rebecca D., daughter of Barnabas and Sarah C. (Beers) Willever, who was born near Montana, Warren county, New Jersey, June 29, 1840. She is descended on both sides from old German families of Warren county. Barnabas Willever, her father, was born November 30, 1813, and died April 4, 1890. He lived on Scott's Mountain, near Montana, and was a blacksmith. He and all his family were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was born May 19, 1816, and died September II, 1904. Her parents were Jacob Beers, died Janu- ary 21, 1858, and Amy Beers, died February 24, 1823. Mrs. Baylor was the third of seven children, the others being Peter W., born June 6, 1837, died October 22, 1886; Amy B., born August 25, 1838, died September 2, 1874; Jacob H., born February 8, 1845; John F., born August 30, 1847; Huldah B., born October 23, 1849, died May 28, 1864; Maria E., born January 25, 185 -.
Children of John S. and Rebecca D. (Willever) Baylor: I. Sarah E., born Feb- ruary 15, 1863; married George T. Simanton; they reside at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and have two sons, Taylor and John. 2. Barnabas W., born February 21, 1870; mar- ried Elizabeth (Richie) Willever; they reside at Broadway, New Jersey, and have three
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children : Sarah R., Elsie and John B. 3. Bertram E., born June 19, 1873; married Florence Allhouse; they reside on the farm, the son assisting his father in farming. They have one daughter, Lillian May.
The Riddle family in America is of Scotch-Irish origin, although it is
RIDDLE to-day numerous in England and Ireland and Scotland, and scattered all over the United States. The various families of the name in this country have never been traced to a common ancestor, but it is known that there was at least one emigrant ancestor in Philadelphia in colonial days, another if not more in New Jersey, at the same time and that their descendants did good service during the revolu- tion.
(I) Samuel Riddle, the first member of the family at present under consideration of which we have definite information, was, with his brother Richard, among the early settlers of what is now Warren county, New Jersey, where they settled on adjoining farms in the present Washington township. Samuel Riddle married Dorothea Hul- shizer. Children : 1. Eliza, who married and removed to the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois. 2. Jacob, who married and lived at West End, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. 3. Samuel, who married and lived near Stewartsville, New Jersey. 4. William, referred to below. 5. Joanna, married Sylvanus, son of James and Catharine (Case) Cook, referred to elsewhere.
(II) William, son of Samuel and Dorothea (Hulshizer) Riddle, was born on the old homestead about 1800, and after receiving a common school education went to work on the farm. He took a great interest in fruit-growing, and, .purchasing a small farm for himself, specialized in that direction. He was a Democrat in politics, and served in a number of the different township offices. He was a member of the Christian or Campbellite church. He married Sarah Ann, daughter of David and Anna (Madison) Conover, of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, who was born about 1813, and died in November, 1904, aged ninety-one years. She is a lineal descendant of old Wolfert Gerritse Van Kouwenhoven, who emigrated to Rensselaerswyck, about 1630, and whose descendants played such a prominent part in the settlement of New York, Long Island and New Jersey, and did such good service during the revolution. Children : 1. James Clide, married Mercy Warman; children : Mary, Jennie, Annie, George and Charles. 2. Daniel, married Emily Newell; children: William, Edgar, Anna and Della, all liv- ing at Ithaca, New York. 3. Mary, married George Creveling; children: Charles, and Sarah, who married Charles Hawks. 4. David Conover, referred to below. 5: Garret, married (first) Mary M. Smith, and (second) Vietta Saberts; children, one by each wife, and both of whom died in infancy. 6. Jacob, died in childhood. 7. Emma, died in childhood. 8. William, married Amelia Madison; one child: Minnie, now living in Waterloo, New York. 9. John H., of Newark, New Jersey; married Jennie Walker; one child : Laura.
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