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and of Teedyuscung Tribe, No. 17, Improved Order of Red Men. He is a Methodist in religion.
He married, May 15, 1879, Sophia M., daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Harbus) Miller, who was born in New York City, July 5, 1858. Children: 1. Carrie Bessie, born March 1, 1880. 2. Lillian May, born September 19, 1882. 3. William Hoff, born February 3, 1887; graduated from public and high schools of Phillipsburg; is con- nected with the Genuine Bangor Slate Company, of Easton, Pennsylvania. 4. Russell Stanley, referred to below. 5. Charles Bowlby, born August 15, 1897.
(II) Russell Stanley, son of Charles Bowlby and Sophia M. (Miller) Sharp, was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, June 29, 1890, and is now living in Phillipsburg. He graduated from the public and high schools of Phillipsburg, and is now bookkeeper in the office of the furniture firm of Spence & Company.
MUTCHLER Valentine Mutchler, founder of this family, came in 1752 with his brother John from the valley of the Rhine in Germany, and settled in Warren county, New Jersey. They took tracts of land in what was later the village of Marble Hill, but the place is now known as the Mellick farm. Valentine Mutchler was a stonemason and farmer. He was an upright. conscientious man, one fitted to contribute to the upbuilding of a nation. He married Caroline Stone- bach. Among their children was Valentine, referred to below.
(II) Valentine (2), son of Valentine (1) and Caroline (Stonebach) Mutchler, was born in Warren county, New Jersey. He served an apprenticeship in stonemasonry and afterward pursued that trade in connection with farming a large tract of land. His wife's name is not known; he married about 1795. Children: I. John, born in 1798; died October 4, 1844; married Margaret Mellick; two of his descendants, father and son, have served in the United States congress from Pennsylvania. 2. Saniuel, referred to below. 3. Mary. 4. George W. 5. Elizabeth.
(III) Samuel, son of Valentine (2) Mutchler, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, November 1, 1799. He married (first) Elizabeth, surname unknown. who was born July 10, 1795, and (second) Sarah, surname unknown, who was born February 6, 1807. Children, three by first marriage : John, born May 27, 1821; George, referred to below; Mary, November 29, 1826; Valentine, February 9, 1828; Sarah Ann. March 22, 1829; Elizabeth, November 8, 1830; Isaiah, April 30, 1833; Andrew J., January 16, 1835; Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1835: William Walp, September 21, 1837, died May 5, 1862; Charles Wesley, April 21, 1842; Samuel Bradford, February 26, 1843; Johnson Howell, May 15, 1845; Emma, November 13, 1846; Emmeline, February 14, 1848. Eight of these children served in the civil war: William Walp was killed in action at Williamsburg, Virginia; Valentine reached the rank of major; Andrew J. and Charles Wesley that of first lieutenant.
(IV) George, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mutchler, was born April 22, 1824. He married Cornelia Baker. Among their children was William Newton, referred to below.
(V) William Newton, son of George and Cornelia ( Baker) Mutchler. was born at Uniontown, Warren county. New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools. and then learned the trade of wheelwright, which he followed twelve years. After this he was for sixteen years a farmer in Harmony. In 1899 he removed to Phillips- burg and entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and also conducted a news-stand; nine years later he sold out his business and accepted a position in the Phillipsburg National Bank, with which institution he is now connected. At his first coming to Phillipsburg, Mr. Mutchler purchased his present home at Delaware Park. He is one of the most respected and prominent citizens of Phillipsburg. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served two terms as county freeholder. 1888 and 1889; he is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, May 14, 1874,
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Arabella, daughter of John and Mary (Hemlen) Amey, who was born at Harmony, New Jersey, September 20, 1854. Children : Charles W. V., born April 24, 1875, now deceased; George Howell, referred to below; William N., September 5, 1879; John J., June 22, 1881; Grover Cleveland, November 15, 1884; Bertha S., October 25, 1887; Mar- garetta A., May 26, 1890; Joseph B. A., March 13, 1892; Stella May, January 27, 1894; Franklin D., May 12, 1896; Nellie Florence, August 30, 1897; Stanley S., May 11, 1900; Allen, deceased.
(VI) George Howell, son of William Newton and Arabella (Amey) Mutchler, was born at Harmony, Warren county, New Jersey, May 26, 1877. He was educated in the public schools. Taking up telegraphy, he had charge for several years of the Western Union telegraph office at Phillipsburg. For twelve years he was a general salesman in the employment of James J. Doyle, a cigar manufacturer of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He built up a large trade for his employer, both in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, and greatly to the regret of the company, Mr. Mutchler resigned this position in the fall of 1910 to fill the office of clerk of Warren county, to which office he- had been elected, November 8, by a notable majority. Mr. Mutchler is one of Phillips- burg's most honored citizens, but expects shortly to move to Belvidere. He is a Demo- crat and an active worker in politics. He is a member of Delaware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phillipsburg; the Knights of Pythias; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Phillipsburg, and the Tall Cedars, of Phillipsburg. He married Harriett A. Trexler, of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Franklin T. Atwood, superintendent of Warren county schools, came
ATWOOD to Warren county in 1881, and for three years thereafter was vice- principal of Hackettstown schools. From 1884 to 1899 he was principal of the Oxford schools. Both these positions he filled with the ability born of natural fitness for the work and of long experience, an exceptional equipment, which led him ultimately to a wider field of usefulness. In 1899 he entered upon the work of the superintendency cf county schools, the satisfactory results which he obtains and his manner of securing them meeting with merited recognition, and causing him to con- tinue his labors to the present time. Mr. Atwood is now the oldest educator in Warren county.
McMURTRIE The late George King McMurtrie, a well-known citizen of Belvi- dere, was descended from ancestors who were among the first set- tlers of that place. Joseph McMurtrie, the founder of the family, was born in Dalmelington, Ayrshire, Scotland, and his children, James, Hannah, Rob- ert, Hervey, Thomas and Joseph, emigrated to the American colonies. They purchased of John Alford a large tract of land on the east side of Request creek, containing twelve hundred and fifty acres. This was deeded, May 5, 1753, to Joseph McMurtrie, who made his will June 21, 1761, and died in May, 1762. He was the father of the following children : John. Abraham, mentioned below; Joseph, James, Agnes, Mary.
. (II) Abraham, son of Joseph McMurtrie, was born July 10, 1741; died September 5, 1819. He married Amelia Barton, born January 18, 1744; died February 11, 1834. Their son James is mentioned below.
(III) James, son of Abraham and Amelia ( Barton) McMurtrie, was born March 10, 1774; died in March. 1836. He married Elizabeth Smith, born February 1, 17 -; died August 10, 1843. They were the parents of a son Abraham, mentioned below.
(IV) Abraham (2), son of James and Elizabeth (Smith) McMurtrie, was born March 23, 1806; died March 23, 1882. He married Almira, born March 5, 1812. daugh- ter of Isaac and Rachel Smith, who lived two miles and a half this side of Newton. Their children were: James; Elizabeth, born August 8, 1848, married William D. Godley; George King, mentioned helow; William, born March 15, 1851; Abraham, born
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May 28, 1852, died October 17, 1909. The mother of these children died February 11, 1876.
(V) George King, son of Abraham (2) and Almira (Smith) McMurtrie, was born March 10, 1850, and was a highly-respected citizen of Belvidere, identified with the various interests of the family in that place, including the farm, the flouring mill, the sawmill and other sources of revenue. The flouring mill was erected in 1878, and yields about one hundred barrels of flour daily.
George King McMurtrie married, July 21, 1872, Delphine Harris, and their chil- dren were: Almira, born Angust 12, 1873, married, in April, 1897, Van Deusen Rick- ert, and they have three children: Thomas Henry, Van Deusen and Helen; Elizabeth G., July 4, 1876; George King, June 1, 1878; Helen D., November 23, 1884, died May 2, 1885. Mr. McMurtrie died November 5, 1904.
Henry W. Fanst, of the well-known firni of Faust Brothers, druggists,
FAUST of Belvidere, is of German descent. His grandfather, John Faust, was a farmer of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania. He was the father of two sons and one daughter : Alvin D., Owen William, mentioned below; Matilda.
(II) Owen William, son of John Faust, resided on his farm in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, with the exception of three years, during which he held the office of sheriff and lived in Allentown. He married Mary Koch, whose father followed the calling of a blacksmith, and their children were: Rosa, married Daniel Wilser; Emma, wife of Griffith Rabenold, died in 1907; Ruth, wife of Milton Rabenold; Frank J., married Emeline Werner, had three sons; Clara, wife of Jeremiah Rabenold; Henry W., mentioned below; Morris S., of the firm of Faust Brothers, born March 24, 1861, married Sarah Cutsler, of Oxford, New Jersey; Tillie, wife of Albert Moyer, a farmer of Lehigh county, has one son Howard, a baker in Allentown; Cora, wife of Morris Repp, has two children, Raymond and Wayne. Owen William Faust, the father, died in July, 1891, in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, aged about sixty-six years. His widow died in 1903, aged seventy-three years.
(III) Henry W., son of Owen William and Mary (Koch) Fanst, was born March 23, 1858, and received his education in Allentown, as did his brother, Morris S., grad- uating in the high school. They both attended the New York College of Pharmacy, Morris S. completing the course in 1887 and Henry W. in 1890. In 1883 they opened a store on Water street, the enterprise proving so successful that in the course of fifteen or twenty years they felt justified in opening another, at the same time continuing the first one. The firm now conducts a flourishing business in both stores. The brothers are members of the Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Warren Lodge, No. 13, Free and Accepted Masons, of which they are both past masters. They are members also.of Covenant Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which they are both past grands. Henry W. Faust has been for the last fifteen years secretary of this lodge, and his brother held the rank of past district deputy in the Masonic fraternity. They belong to the Temple Chapter and DeMolay Commandery, Washington, and are also members of several other organizations. The brothers are closely associated with the religions interests of Belvidere. Henry W. Faust is a member of the Second Presby- terian Church, in which he holds the office of ruling elder. Morris S. Faust is a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church, serving on the board of trustees. Both the brothers are useful and respected citizens and as such are excelled by none in the community.
Henry W. Faust married Alice White, and they have one son, Raymond W., who graduated in June, 1911, from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, completing a course in chemical engineering.
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CRAIG Le Roy Craig, clerk of the Warren County National Bank, of Belvidere, is descended from Scotch-Irish ancestry. The family was founded in this country at an early period and is a very numerous one, the descendants of the immigrant ancestor having greatly multiplied.
(I) Thomas Craig, grandfather of Le Roy Craig, died at a comparatively early age, leaving a widow who became the wife of his brother Robert. The children were: Robert, Milton J., Swayzie, Thomas, mentioned below; John.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (1) Craig, is engaged in business in Buttzville. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being past master of his lodge. In politics he is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Aminda Swazie, and three children were born to them, of whom the only one now living is Le Roy, mentioned below.
(III) Le Roy, son of Thomas (2) and Aminda (Swazie) Craig, was educated for a business career and is now ably filling the position of cashier in the National Bank of Belvidere. He is a useful and public-spirited citizen and is highly respected by the entire community.
JOHNSTON Whitfield C. Johnston, a well-known citizen of Belvidere, is a repre- sentative of one of the old families of that place. He is a grandson of Levi Johnston, whose father emigrated from Holland and settled in New Jersey. Levi Johnston married Lena, daughter of Adam Wandling, who was the father of a large family and a man of vigorous body and mind. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston had five children: Levi, mentioned below; Nelson; Elias; George, and Sam- uel. All these sons were among the early residents of Belvidere. Nelson died in Washington and Samuel passed his latter days in Hackettstown.
(II) Levi (2), son of Levi (1) and Lena (Wandling) Johnston, was born Janu- ary 7, 1807, and was the proprietor of a store in Belvidere. He was a member of the town council and was prominently identified with public affairs. Although a member of no church he contributed five hundred dollars to the fund for building the Presby- terian house of worship, and was always active in work, having for its object the wel- fare of the community. About 1845 he purchased the Johnston farm and built the house now owned by his son. At that time land was more valuable than it is now, as is shown by the fact that for a single four-acre lot Mr. Johnston paid the sum of one thousand dollars. The family subsequently donated part of this old homestead to the Cemetery Association. Mr. Nelson Easton had a store next to that of Mr. Johnston and Mr. Adrian Lott was also engaged in business in the town at that time. John M. Sherrerd, at one time surrogate of the county, Phineas B. Kennedy, a lawyer, and Dr. Byington were other prominent men of the place. Mr. Johnston married, October 3, 1843, Margaret Wandling, born July 19, 1818, and their children were: Caroline, born September, 1844; Whitfield C., mentioned below; Margaret W., born September 5, 1847; Mary A., married, August 15, 1876, J. J. Cockrell; Levi; Roderick, who died young.
(III) Whitfield C., son of Levi (2) and Margaret (Wandling) Johnston, was born January 28, 1846, and married, May 20, 1869, Mary C. Cole. They had one child, Lena, who died at the age of twelve years. Mrs. Johnston has since died and Mr. Johnston is now living alone at the old homestead with strangers in charge of the house. Notwithstanding his sixty-five years he is in perfect health, having never known a day's illness.
Daniel Meade Perry, born in Tioga county, New York, June 25, 1843, en-
PERRY listed September 22, 1861, for three years or during the war of the rebel- lion. He was promoted to third sergeant, and assigned to Company E, Seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, Second Brigade, First Division, First
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Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battle of Rappahannock Station, Virginia, August 22-24, 1862; the battle of Warrenton, Sulphur Springs, Vir- ginia, August 26, 1862, and was acting first lieutenant at the battle of Groveton (second battle of Bull Run) August 28, 1862, where he received a severe gunshot wound in the left thigh. He remained on the battlefield, a prisoner, until September 5th, without food or medical attention, when he was removed under a flag of truce to Georgetown College Hospital, Georgetown, District of Columbia, from which he was discharged on account of total disability, the result of said wound, January 31, 1863.
He was educated at the Cortland Academy, Cortland, New York, and was grad- uated from the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, July 2, 1864, and is by profession an accountant. January 28, 1868, he removed to New Jersey. He mar- ried, September 12, 1871, Rachel Blair Kelsey, cousin of Henry C. Kelsey, late secre- tary of state of New Jersey, and grandniece of the late John I. Blair. of Blairstown. New Jersey. He is a member of the following societies: Patriotic Order Sons of America; Liberty Council, No. 15, Order United American Mechanics; Pohatcong Council, No. 1177, Royal Arcanum, of which he was secretary eleven years; Mans- field Lodge, No. 36, A. F. and A. M .; Temple Chapter, No. 12, Royal Arch Masons; DeMolay Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar; American Automobile Association; Associated Automobile Clubs of New Jersey, and the first president of the Warren County Automobile Club; past commander of John F. Reynold's Post, No. 66, Grand Army of the Republic, and late aide-de-camp on the staff of the commander- in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church.
Although a lover of harmless sports, he never favors games of chance, believing : "Les jeux de hasard, quelque médiocres qu'ils paraissent, sont toujours cheres et dangereux." Politically he is a Republican, having voted for all the Republican candi- dates for president from Abraham Lincoln to William H. Taft; but in local politics votes for the best man-the man who will represent the people, regardless of all polit- ical cliques and tricks.
He was a bookkeeper for the Oxford Iron Company, Oxford, New Jersey, from 1868 to 1887; visited England on a tour for his health in the summer of 1886, and after a vacation of one year engaged with the Needham Piano & Organ Company, Washing- ton, New Jersey, and remained in their employ until January 25, 1905, when he retired from business. His residence is 128 Belvidere avenue, Washington, New Jersey. He has one daughter, Leola Blair.
He is the tenth generation from the Rev. John Perry, rector of Farnborough, England, near the Cathedral of Winchester, died there in 1621. The same year his son John was apprenticed to the Guild of Cloth-workers in London, and became free of the company and a citizen of London in 1628. His son John, also a cloth-worker, after the great fire in London in 1666, came to this country and settled in Watertown, Massa- chusetts. He was born in 1613. His son John married, December 13, 1667, Sarah Clay, died October II, 1730, and had children: 1. John, born October I, died November 8, 1668. 2. John, born March 3, 1670; married, July 19, 1693, Sarah Price; she died a widow, October II, 1730; had John, born March 2, 1695-6, married Deborah , in Lexington ; had children : i. John P., born December 19, 1720; ii. Thomas, December 19, 1722, married Abigail ; iii. Joseph, October 3, 1,24; iv. Millicent, May 10, 1726: v-vi. Ebenezer and Jonathan, twins, born July 17, 1728; vii. Thaddeus, December 26, 1730; viii. Abigail, August 16, 1735; ix. James, June 30, 1737.
John Perry (see above), born December 19, 1720, settled in Egremont, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1759, as shown by the following taken from the records in the recorder's office in Great Barrington, Massachusetts :
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The Record of John Perry's Land, Spetr. ye 21st 1764.
This is John Perry's survey, surveyed April ye 17th day, A. D. 1759, viz. Begin- ning at the North-west corner bounded North on Highway, and West on Highway, South on Samuel Young and East on John Hollenbeck.
Surveyed by me, John Williams, Surveyor.
Jonah Westover ) Comm'tee to lay Josiah Loomis J out land
Imployed by John Pop-kne-hon-nuk, etc., Indians and owners of Stockbridge, County of Hampshire, and Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England.
John Perry, of Egremont, married Jerusha - -- , and had thirteen children, the eleventh of whom was Peter, born November 22, 1769, died February 27, 1845. Peter married, 1798, Jane Surdam, born January 18, 1774, died June 29, 1845, daughter of Tunis Surdam, of Salisbury, Connecticut, granddaughter of Lawrence Surdamn, born June 23, 1703, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and great-granddaughter of Teunis Pietersz and Margaretta Lawrence, of Dutchess county, New York, who assumed the name of Surdam, and were Hollanders.
Peter Perry removed from Egremont, Massachusetts, to Cincinnatus (now Mara- then), New York, in 1802, and had children: Norman, born October 22, 1800, died March 10, 1874; Luther, May 3, 1804, died July 1, 1865; Eleanor, July 3, 1807, died June 3, 1885; Jane, June 1, 1811, died August 7, 1895; Gurdon, January 16, 1817, died Janu- ary 13, 1863. Peter Perry removed to Richford, New York, in 1821, where he spent his days. His son Luther married, 1828, Maria Quimby, of Caroline, New York, born October 1, 1810, daughter of Joseph Quimby and Margaret Creighton Quimby ; had children : Alonzo, born March 23, 1830; Samuel F., April 18, 1835; Francis G., October 13, 1840; Daniel Meade, June 25, 1843; Edwin A., February 20, 1846. All of the brothers here named, except Francis G., served in the civil war, 1861-65.
Rachel Blair Kelsey, born in Blairstown, New Jersey, November 4, 1846; married, September 12, 1871, Daniel Meade Perry, born June 25, 1843. Her childhood was spent in Huntsville and on the old farm in Greenville, Sussex county, New Jersey. She was educated at the Belvidere Seminary, Belvidere, New Jersey. Her great-grandfather was John Kelsey, of Newton township, Sussex county; his will, dated 6th January, probated :8th March, 1809, names wife Martha and ten children, one of whom, Henry .C., of Sparta, Sussex county, New Jersey, married Hannah Hankinsen; had children : Jchn, Mary, Aaron H., Charles (born 1818, died 1854), Martha, Elizabeth, William, Ellen.
Charles Kelsey (above), born 1818; married Mary Ann Titman, of Bridgeville, born December 24, 1824; had children: Rachel Blair, born November 4, 1846, married, September 12, 1871, Daniel Meade Perry; Sarah B., born August 7, 1852; Charles, born May 12, 1854, died September 5, 1854.
Charles Kelsey was a merchant. He kept a general store in Blairstown, New Jersey, and a few years later one in Huntwell, Sussex county, where, owing to fail- ing health. he was compelled to relinquish the mercantile business. He then removed to lis farm in Green township, Sussex county, where he spent his days. His wife's (Mary Ann Titman) paternal line: Lodewich Titman, of Bridgeville, died 1772, mar- ried Mary -; child: George, born 1726, married Elizabeth Chitara, child : George, born March 4, 1754, died September 4, 1796, married Lena Albright, child: George, born 1777, died October 13, 1813, married, September 5, 1798, Agnes Morgan, born 1772, died July 15, 1842, child : Benjamin, born January 17, 1800, died January 5, 1841, married, February 10, 1820, Mary Blair, born October 24, 1798, died July 30, 1840, chil- dren : James B., George, John B., Mary Ann, born December 24, 1824, died January 6, 1907, married Charles Kelsey, mentioned above, born 1818. The maternal line of Mary Ann Titman : John Blair, of Scott's Mountain, Harmony township, settled there
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in 1760-65, born 1714, died 1798, married Mary Hazlett, probably a sister of Hon. Will- iam Hazlett, of Lebanon township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey; children: John, Samuel, William, Robert, James, born August 5, 1769, died 1816, married Rachel Insley, daughter of Christopher Insley, died 1782, and Catherine (Kline) Insley, of Greenwich township, now Harmony. Catherine (Kline) Insley was the daughter of Philip Kline, who purchased six hundred acres in Harmony and settled there about 1760. James Blair, above mentioned, and Rachel (Insley) Blair had children: Mary, born October 24, 1798, died July 30, 1840, married, February 10, 1820, Benjamin Tit- man; James; Samuel; John I .; Robert; William; Jacob M .; Catherine; Elizabeth.
Rachel Blair Kelsey, granddaughter of Benjamin and Mary (Blair) Titman, was named for and by her great-grandmother, Rachel (Insley) Blair.
Jacob Vosler, the founder of the family at present under consideration, VOSLER emigrated from Germany to Schoharie, New York, and afterwards re- moved to Somerset county, New Jersey, where he signed the Articles of Faith of the New Germantown Church, May 13. 1767. He married Margaret (or Feggy), daughter of Lucas and Mary Teeple, of Bedminster. Children, so far as known: Luke, married Ann, daughter of John and Mary Smith; Jacob, referred to below.
(II) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) and Margaret (Teeple) Vosler, lived in that part of Somerset which is now Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and subsequently received a pension. He married Sarah Cast- ner. Children : Catharine; Jacob, referred to below; Delana; Peter; Catrina; Phebe; George; a daughter, married James Duffy.
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