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Orton J., son of Henry Hawk and Catharine (Reed) Piatt, was born at Greens- bridge, near Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, November 5, 1865, and is now living in that place, his address being R. F. D. No. I. For his early education he was sent to what is known as the No. 10 Plain school; but when he was only eleven years of age he started out like his father, to make his own living. For the first year he worked on the farm of Samuel Frey, and after that he was employed for some time by Jacob Feit. He then obtained a position with the Morris Canal Company, which he gave up fifteen months later in order to run a gravel train on the Pennsylvania rail- road. After a year of this, he worked on the coal shutes of the Lehigh Valley railroad for three years, and then spent another year in farming. For the following three years he worked with the bridge construction gang of the Lehigh Valley railroad, and then took a position as fireman on the fast train of the Delaware & Hudson railroad, known as the "Boston Flyer." Two years later he lost this position, owing to business de- pression, but soon found another with the Alpha Portland Cement Company, where he began by running one of the Griffin mills. He was quickly promoted to the position of fireman, then to head of the boiler department, and later to the post of night fore- man of the works. Three years later he was promoted to the position of general day foreman, and fiftcen months later he was promoted to his present position of assistant superintendent. Besides his beautiful home, on Hunting avenue, Greensbridge, which he purchased from E. I. Hunt, Mr. Piatt owns a number of desirable building sites in the suburb. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of St. James' (Straw) Luth- eran Church. He is a member of Teedyscung Tribe, No. 17, Improved Order of Red Men, of Phillipsburg.
He married, February 17, 1886. the ceremony being performed by Rev. G. D. Bern- heim, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, Phillipsburg, Elizabeth R., daughter of Henry and Harriet (Rowe) Slight, who was born in Harmony township, Warren county, New Jersey, November 28, 1868. Her grandfather, George Slight, was a native of Warren county, who died as a comparatively young man, leaving a widow and five small children-Henry, Laney, Mary Katharine, William and Frederick. His widow, Elizabeth (Lowe) Slight, died in 1877, aged eighty-seven years. Henry, son of George and Elizabeth (Lowe) Slight, died in 1901, aged about seventy-nine years. He spent most of his life, with the exception of a year or so in Virginia, on the home farm in War- ren county, and he was the inventor of the first grain drill. He married Harriet, daughter of William and Rhoda (Dod) Rowe. Children: Margaret, married George L. Parker, of Phillipsburg; Mary Alice, married William Kashline, of Stewartsville; Elizabeth R., referred to below; William, of Greensbridge, New Jersey; Mathis D., and Caroline, the last two now deceased.
Children of Orton J. and Elizabeth R. (Slight) Piatt : I. Harriet M., born October 4, 1886; married John Haney ; child, Helen M., born in August, 1907. 2. Stella M.,
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born August 28, 1888; married J. Walter Rush; children: Edward O., born August 5, 1905, and Howard L., born July 5, 1907. 3. Frank H., born May 12, 1894. 4. Eliza- beth D., born January 14, 1899. 5. Stewart R., born March 6, 1902, died April 10, 1902. 6. Harry H., born July 1, 1906.
The Wyckoff family, of Warren county, is descended from Claes WYCKOFF Wyckoff, who came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1636, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. In 1656 he was superintendent of the farm of Director Peter Stuyvesant, some of whose descendants are also notable residents of Warren county. His son, Cornelius Preterse Wyckoff, owned one thous- and two hundred acres of land in Hunterdon county, three hundred acres of which, situated near Whitehouse, New Jersey, he gave to his son Simon, whose son, John Wyckoff, moved to Warren county in 1771 and settled at Jackson Valley, together with his son Simon, who is the ancestor of all bearing the name of Wyckoff in Warren county, except the Hon. Martin Wyckoff.
Simon's son, Jacob Wyckoff, born in 1784, inherited the homestead, as did his son, John K. Wyckoff, who married Sarah, daughter of George Perry, and was the father of Jacob, who remained on the old homestead, and of George P. Wyckoff.
George P. Wyckoff was born September 21, 1833, and died in January, 1900. He received a common school education, and was a progressive farmer until the latter part of his life, when he retired with a competence to enjoy the fruits of his long years cf toil. He took deep interest in the welfare of the community, and served many years cn the town committee and as treasurer of the township. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian church, in the work and support of which they took an active part. On December 1, 1859, he married Tamzen, daughter of Cornelius and Margaret (Lomerson) Carhart. Cornelius Carhart was the son of Samuel, and the grandson of Major Cornelius Carhart, of the Continental army. Major Carhart was the son of Robert and the grandson of Thomas Carhart, who arrived at New York on August 25, 1683, holding the appointment of private secretary to Governor Thomas Dongan. He married Mary Lord, daughter of Robert Lord and Rebecca Phillips, whose sister married John Alden, the son of John and Priscilla Alden, rendered famous by Longfellow. The children of George P. and Tamzen Wyckoff are: Jacob K., of whom further; Mary, who married Abraham L. Roseberry, and Edith, who married Wesley Fleming, a sketch of whom appears in this work.
Jacob K. Wyckoff was born at Port Colden, New Jersey, in 1861. He attended the public schools, and his entire career has been devoted to the development of his farm, which is highly productive on account of its being so well managed and taken care of. He has never aspired to public office, but is interested and takes an active part in all mat- ters that perlain to the welfare and advancement of the community in which he resides.
He married Miss Eliza Hann, born in 1862, daughter of John Hann. Their chil- dren are: Elizabeth H., who married Elmer Petty, a milk dealer of Washington, New Jersey ; Edith, and John.
Edward Hayes, the founder of this family, was born in Ireland, and emi- HAYES grated to this country in 1848. He settled in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and married there, in 1850, Hannah Hiland. Among his children was Thomas Henry, referred to below.
Thomas Henry, son of Edward and Hannah Hayes, was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, April 23, 1852, and is now living in Belvidere, Warren county, New Jersey. After receiving his early education in the public schools of Woburn, Massa- chusetts, he engaged his time to learn the shoe leather manufacturing business, and in June, 1873, he left his home for Philadelphia, and in November, the same year, went to
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Stroudsburg, Pennslyvania, and accepted a position with W. R. Bennett & Company, tanners of fine shoe leather. In 1878 he returned to Philadelphia, where he took charge of the leather factory of A. A. Dunk. In 1879 he engaged in business for himself in Camden, New Jersey, and in 1886 he purchased the tannery at Belvidere, Warren county, New Jersey, which he improved and enlarged, and in 1891 employed seventy- six men. He is now president of the Hayes Welting Company, of Belvidere, New Jersey. He was school director of Belvidere, and served one year as clerk of the board of education, in which capacity he was very actively engaged in securing the new school building. In 1909 and 1910 he was mayor of Belvidere. He is a past master of Warren Lodge, No. 13, Free and Accepted Masons, of Belvidere, New Jersey.
He married, in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1874, Ariellah, daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Transue) Albert, of Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. Her father was a manu- facturer of cigars, who afterwards moved to Stroudsburg. Children: Edward A., born in Stroudsburg, now a druggist, living in Newark, New Jersey; William F., now a dentist, living at Stroudsburg; Jesse T., now a traveling salesman for one of the leading drug firms.
(III) Robert, son of James (q. v.) and Rachel (Insley) Blair, lived at BLAIR Hope and Johnsonburg, Warren county, New Jersey. He married Mary, daughter of Isaac and Huldah Cummins (Shaw) Dennis, and granddaugh- ter of Lewis and Mary (Dycr) Dennis. She was the eldest of eight children; her parents were married in 1812, and her mother was an aunt of the late George C. Shaw, of Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey. Children: James, referred to below; Sarah Peake, married Adams, lived in Newton, New Jersey; Rachel, referred to below; Elizabeth, married - Armstrong.
(IV) James, son of Robert and Mary (Dennis) Blair, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, and dicd in Ohio. He removed to Tiffin, Ohio, while his children were comparatively young. The name of his wife is unknown. Among his children was James A. Blair, who became a prominent banker in the states of Ohio, Kansas and Missouri, and in 1890 became a member of the great banking firm of Blair & Company, of Wall street, New York City, of which the late John Insley Blair was president.
(IV) Rachel, daughter of Robert and Mary (Dennis) Blair, was born in Johnson- burg, Warren county, New Jersey, April 17, 1847, and died at Belvidere, Warren county, New Jersey, February 20, 1909. For some time before her death she lived with her sister, Mrs. Adams, at Newton. She received her early education in the public schools of Warren county, and then spent three years in the Blairstown Academy, at Blairs- town, Warren county. The large estate left to her by her father required her close attention, and she had strong sympathies with the Republican party. She was a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church, of Belvidere. She married, in Johnsonburg, Warren county, New Jersey, October 13, 1869, Charles, son of William Armstrong and Martha E. (Roy) Greene, who was born April 13, 1843. His father, William Arm- strong Greene, lived in Greeneville, New Jersey, and was born June 27, 1816. He married. February 24, 1842, Martha E. Roy, who was born April 15, 1819. Their chil- dren were: Charles (Greene), referred to below; George (Greene), born October 4, 1846; Ephraim (Greene), horn November 27, 1851; Martha (Greene). Children of Charles and Rachel ( Blair) Greene: 1. Alice Elizabeth, born October 29, 1872; spent two years at the Blairstown Academy, one year at the Bradford Academy, one year at Helmuth College; now lives at Belvidere, New Jersey. 2. William Armstrong, re- ferred to below. 3. Insley Blair, referred to below. 4. Helen Mary, born December 17, 1883; living at Belvidere, New Jersey; a graduate of Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland; for several years supervisor of the Young Women's Christian Association for the preparatory schools in the states of New York and New Jersey.
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(V) William Armstrong, son of Charles and Rachel (Blair) Greene, was born at Belvidere, Warren county, New Jersey, November 1I, 1874. After spending two years at the Blairstown Academy, he entered St. John's Military Academy, Manlius, New York, and two years later entered the law school of the George Washington Univer- sity, of Georgetown, District of Columbia. He is now a practicing lawyer, with his offices in the Pioneer Building, Seattle, state of Washington. He married, in 1905, Ada Prall. Children : George Prall, born in 1907; Rachel Blair, born in 1908.
(V) Dr. Insley Blair, son of Charles and Rachel (Blair) Greene, was born in Belvidere, Warren county, New Jersey, February 18, 1879. After receiving his Ph. B. degree from Yale University in 1902, he entered the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, and graduated in 1907. During 1907 and 1908 he was interne at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, and since then he has been resident physician of the Seattle Municipal Hospital, Seattle, state of Washington, as well as a practicing physician in that city.
He married Mabel Currer, of Redlands, California. Child: Insley Blair (2), born in 1911.
BARTOW
George M. Bartow, of Roselle, New Jersey, general agent of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey, is a representative of a family of French origin, the name having been spelled Barteau. The founder came to this country with General Lafayette when that hero placed his sword at the service of the struggling colonies in their war for independence. After the conclusion of the conflict, Mr. Barteau settled near Riegelsville, New Jersey, and when General Lafayette visited this country in 1824 some of the family who had served under him had the great pleasure of again meeting their old commander.
(I) Simeon Bartow, probably a son of the immigrant, was a farmer, near Haines- burg, New Jersey, and is buried in Union Brick Cemetery, near Blairstown, New Jersey.
(II) James, son of Simeon Bartow, was born in Hainesburg, New Jersey, and was a carpenter by trade. He married, in 1820, - Snover, and their children were: Isaac; Charles; Andrew J .; Aaron; David C., mentioned below; James; Ruth, and Hazen.
(III) David C., son of James and (Snover) Bartow, long followed the calling of a miller. He married, June 1, 1856, Annie S., daughter of Jabez W. and Theresa (Decker) Shannon, and they were the parents of the following children : George M., mentioned below; John S., born November 7, 1870; and Mary L., born April 16, 1874.
(IV) George M., son of David C. and Annie S. (Shannon) Bartow, was born October 8, 1866, in Marksboro, Warren county, New Jersey, and received his educa- tion at the Lincoln high school, Oskaloosa, Iowa. From 1883 to 1893 he was employed by the United States Express Company at that place and at Keokuk, Iowa. After these ten years of service he returned to his native state and from 1894 to 1910 was engaged in farming at Bridgeville, New Jersey. In the latter year he became general agent for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and has since filled this responsible position in the most thorough manner, satisfactory alike to the company and the travel- ing public. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Bartow married, June 29, 1899, at Bridgeville, New Jersey, Annie S., born at Hope, Warren county, New Jersey, daughter of Quintus and Mary (Flummerfelt) Shuler. Mr. and Mrs. Bartow have no children.
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William Gardner, the first of the line here under consideration, was a GARDNER native of Scotland, from whence he emigrated at an early age to America, locating in Harmony township, Warren county, New Jersey, where he became an extensive landholder, donated the ground on which was erected the old Harmony Church. He was active in the affairs of the community, and was honor- ed and respected by all. He married, and among his children was a son William, of whom see forward.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Gardner, was born in Harmony township, Warren county, New Jersey, where he resided and where he performed his duties as a citizen in a highly creditable manner. He married and among his children was a son James (see forward).
(III) James, son of William (2) Gardner, was born in Harmony township, War- ren county, New Jersey, and there followed the occupation of farming, which under his competent management proved highly successful. He was an active worker in the First Presbyterian Church, of Harmony. In 1857 he removed to Belvidere, New Jer- sey, where his death occurred in 1883. He married, and among his children was a son George I. (see forward).
(IV) George I., son of James Gardner, was born in Harmony township, Warren county, New Jersey, January 8, 1842. He obtained a practical education in the schools of the neighborhood, and at the age of seventeen began his active career at farming, which line of work he continued until twenty-one years of age, when he removed to Belvidere and embarked in the lumber business, also contracting for buildings, in which he achieved a large degree of success, the result of honorable methods, straightforward dealing and close application. He gave his political allegiance to the candidates of the Democratic party, and in community affairs took an active and leading part. He mar- ried Maria, daughter of Samuel Williams, of Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1863. Children : Charles, Elizabeth, Mrs. Samuel Bedford, Samuel W. (see for- ward), and Henrietta.
(V) Samuel W., son of George I. Gardner, was born at Belvidere, New Jersey, August 8, 1872. He graduated from the Belvidere schools in his fifteenth year, after which he engaged in business with his father, becoming thoroughly familiar with all branches of the work, and in 1891 was admitted to partnership, the firm name being changed to that of S. W. Gardner & Company, which still continues. He is one of the public-spirited men of the community, contributing his share toward the general prosperity. He is an adherent of the principles of the Democratic party, and in 1893 was elected a member of the city council, in which body he performed his duty con- scientiously and faithfully. He is a member of Warren Lodge, No. 13, Free and Ac- cepted Masons ; Royal Arch Masons, of Washington, New Jersey ; DeMolay Command- ery, No. 6, Knights Templar, of Washington; Improved Order of Red Men.
He married, May 29, 1895, Carrie Shield.
(V) Dr. Thomas Barber, son of Robert Kennedy (q. v.) and Mary
BARBER (Stroh) Barber, was born May 11, 1868, at Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He received a practical education in the public schools of Phillips- burg, and later attended Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated, after which he entered the University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving therefrom the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1898. He is now practicing his profession in Phillipsburg, and has built up an extensive and profitable practice, and is highly regarded by his fellow practitioners, also his patients. He is now holding membership in the State Medical Society, Warren County Medical Society, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. Barber is unmarried.
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REAGLE Charles H. Reagle, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Belvi- dere, New Jersey, was born May. 14, 1878, in Portland, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Milo P. and Mary A. (Hiestand) Reagle, and grand- son of William Reagle, a pioneer lumberman and justice of the peace of Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. Milo P. Reagle, at present superintendent of the schools of Boonton, New Jersey, was for twenty-five years principal of the Hokendauqua schools, where his son Charles H. received his education, graduating from the high school of that place in 1894. In 1899 he received from Muhlenberg College the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College being the alma mater of his father, who had prepared for matriculation by a full course in the Millersville State Normal College of Pennsylvania. Charles H. Reagle, after graduating from Muhlen- burg College, took a special course in school lecture work at Columbia University.
Mr. Reagle began his career as a teacher by taking charge of a country school at Emans, in the Lehigh Valley, but his ability and faithfulness speedily won for him the recognition of a call to the vice-principalship of the Stroudsburg schools. He next accepted the principalship of school No. 6 at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, going from there to Roselle, and in 1909 coming to Belvidere to assume his present position which he has since filled to the perfect satisfaction of the students and the general public.
Mr. Reagle married, June 24, 1902, at Stroudsburg, Laura M., daughter of Arthur B. Staples, one of the leading business men, and mayor of the city.
Adam Hitzel, father of the founder of his name in New Jersey, and
HITZEL the grandfather of Henry Hitzel, of Phillipsburg, was born August 10, 1792, and died a comparatively young man, leaving a widow with a large family. His wife, Magdalena, was born April 7, 1798, died July 24, 1868. Chil- dren: Adam, born July 28, 1821; Barbara, May 16, 1823; Leonard, January 30, 1825; Magdalena, December 29, 1826; Katharine, April 15, 1828; Frank, July 12, 1832, came to America and served in the civil war; Valentine, February 7, 1834; Gottfried, referred to below; Anna M., born August 11, 1839.
(II) Gottfried, son of Adam and Magdalena Hitzel, was born at Moemlingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, October 24, 1836, died in Easton, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1892. He emigrated to America in 1866, he stayed for a short while at Rondout, Kingston-on-Hudson, New York, but coming to Philadelphia in 1868, he finally settled in Easton. While in Germany, he learned the trade of cooper, and some years before his coming to this country, he had carried on a business for him- self, employing about sixteen hands, and making wine and beer casks. After settling in Easton, he spent the remainder of his life in the employ of the brewers, Glantz and Koebler. He became quite prosperous, invested much of his savings in real estate, and owned at his death a number of valuable pieces of property, besides his residence in South Easton. He married Maria Anna Loebe, born June 23, 1838, died July 23, 1900. Children, the first three born in Germany, the last three in Easton, Pennsylvania: Henry, referred to below; Barbara, born January 17, 1863, married William F. Snyder, of South Easton, Pennsylvania; Anna, June 2, 1864, married Frederick Rossnagle, who is now deceased; Adam G., April 25, 1867, in New York City; John A., November 12, 1870; Charles A., November 12, 1873; Jacob, August 14, 1876.
(III) Henry, son of Gottfried and Maria Anna (Loebe). Hitzel, was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany, March 25, 1861, and is now living in Phillipsburg. He was brought to America by his parents when four years old, and received his education in the public schools of South Easton, Pennsylvania. When he was twelve vears of age, he started to work as a driver on the Lehigh and Delaware Canal. and
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later he worked on the Morris Canal. At fifteen years of age he became a machinist apprentice in the shops of Drinkhouse & Weaver, at Easton, and after serving his three years' time, was made foreman of their shops. Three years later he resigned this position in order to take charge of the installation of the boilers, engines and shafting of the new plant of the Beatty Organ Company, which was then in process of erection at Washington, New Jersey, and after this was done he was retained by that firm as master mechanic until the plant was destroyed by fire. Returning to Easton, about 1882, he entered into partnership with his old master, Mr. Weaver, and the two conducted a general repair shop business for about six months, when he sold out his interest to his partner and took a position in the pattern department of the Phillipsburg Stove and Manufacturing Company, where he remained for about two years. He was after this for about fourteen months in charge of the Underdunk Heating and Ventilating Works, after which he spent a year with the Phillipsburg Manufacturing Company, and eighteen months as chief engineer and roll turner of the American Sheet Iron Company. He then accepted his first position with his present employers, the Alpha Cement Company. Starting as master mechanic for the firm, he was made general manager of the machine shops in the following year, and in 1900 he became general superintendent. When the company purchased the Martin Creek and other plants, these were also put under the charge of Mr. Hitzel, and he was later made authorizing agent for the company with his office at Alpha. It should be noted that many of the important patents for the machinery of cement mills have been invented and patented by Mr. Hitzel. In 1905 he purchased and remodeled the residence at 132 Morris avenue, which is his present home. He also purchased and thoroughly equipped a farm of one hundred and thirty-two acres of land near Asbury, Warren county, New Jersey, and has built himself a summer resi- dence there. He has besides a number of other real estate holdings both in Phillips- burg and Alpha. While living at Alpha, Mr. Hitzel was the principal agent in the building of the little Union Church there, and the pipe organ, the gift of a Philadel- phian, was secured for the church, and mainly through the influence and efforts of Mr. Hitzel. He is a stockholder in the Alpha Cement Company and in the Pulver- izing Mill Company, of Atlanta, Georgia.
He married, August 25, 1881, Georgianna, daughter of John and Catharine (Opdyke) Poulson, who was born June 1, 1861. Children : 1. Catherine, born Septem- ber 13, 1883; graduated from the Phillipsburg high school in 1903, and from the State Normal School at Trenton, June 21, 1905. She was principal of the Shimer schools at Pohatcong township for four years, and is now studying chemistry in an equipped laboratory, given to her by her father. 2. Margaret, born April 4, 1885; graduated from the Phillipsburg high school in 1906, and is now (1910) employed in the millinery establishment of Josephine O'Neil, in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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