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RICHARDS Robert Haynes Richards, president of the American Saw Mill Machinery Company, of Hackettstown, is at the head of one of the largest concerns of the kind in the state. The company was organ- ized in 1903, being an outgrowth of an export business of wood-working machinery established in New York in 1898. About eight acres of land were purchased and buildings erected, the main one being seventy-five by thirty feet. There was also a foundry, one hundred and ninety by sixty-five feet, and an office building, seventy- five by thirty-five feet. A power plant, fifty by forty feet, was established in another building. The company employ on an average about one hundred and twenty-five hands, having a weekly pay-roll of about seventeen hundred dollars. Their output is very large, shipments being made not only to different parts of the United States.
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but to Canada, Central and South America, and Australia. Portable and station- ary saw mills of all sizes are the principal articles manufactured. The officers of the company are: Robert Haynes Richards, president; M. L. Fletcher, treasurer; and W. E. Swanger, secretary.
CARHART Robert Carhart, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, lived in Sussex county, New Jersey, until after
the revolution, when his family removed to Hunterdon county. He is a descendant of Thomas Carhart, who emigrated from Cornwall, England, about 1650, and married Mary, daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Phillips) Lord, and set- tled in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
(II) William, son of Robert Carhart, of Sussex and Hunterdon counties, New Jersey, was a cabinetmaker by trade; afterward he engaged in the manufacture of sashes, doors and blinds. He married Willempje -. Among their children was Robert Blair, referred to below.
(III) Robert Blair, son of William and Willempje Carhart, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, May 27, 1836. He learned the trade of a printer, and spent ten years in the office of the Belvidere Apollo. Then he went into the painting and paperhanging business, which he has followed ever since. In 1868 he came to Phil- lipsburg, where he established his present store. He is one of the most honored citizens of Phillipsburg, and has been prominent in the political affairs of Warren county, having been twice elected to the office on the Democratic ticket, and serving altogether six years. He is a Presbyterian in religion; a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the United Workmen. He married, Decem- ber 31, 1857, Catharine, daughter of John M. and Anne G. (Stires) Bryan, who was born at Port Murry, Warren county, February 12, 1837. Children: Edward, born November 9, 1858, died December 24, 1892; William E., born April 12, 1860, died in 1869; Henry O., referred to below; Robert, born January 4, 1866, died at the age of two and one-half years; John E., born March 9, 1869, died December 24, 1875; Bart- lett B., born April 23, 1874, married Ella Phillips, two children, Beatrice and Henry; Luella, born May 23, 1877, married Willard Hildebrant.
(IV) Dr. Henry O. Carhart, son of Robert Blair and Catharine (Bryan) Car- hart, was born at Belvidere, New Jersey, June 13, 1863. When he was but four years old, his parents moved to Phillipsburg. After attending the public schools, he entered Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1886 with the degree of M. D., and the following year practicing under Dr. John H. Griffith. In 1888 he came to Blairstown, where he has built up a large practice and is without doubt the leading physician of the town, and a very popular man. He is past master of Blairstown Lodge, No. 165, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Baldwin Chapter, No. 17, Royal Arch Masons, of Newton, New Jersey; of De Molay Com- mandery, of Washington; of Blairstown Lodge, Independent Order Odd Fellows; of the Knights of Pythia's Lodge, being surgeon of the uniform rank of that order; he is a past sachem of Kittatinny Tribe, of Blairstown, and a member of Marksboro Council of the Royal Arcanum. Dr. Carhart is a Democrat in politics, and in 1894 was elected collector of Blairstown, and was reelected for a three years' term in 1897. He was appointed county collector to complete the unexpired term of ex-Sheriff Mackey, and has twice since been elected for three-year terms. He holds this position at the present time. For the past fifteen years Dr. Carhart has resided at the corner `of Main and Bridge streets.
He married, July 7, 1908, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Jean Gray, who died January 3, 1909, after less than six months of wedded life. Mrs. Carhart was born June 1, 1873, in Glasgow, Scotland. Her father came to this country alone, being
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joined here a few years later by his wife and daughter. They settled in Paterson, New Jersey, this daughter being then only eight years old. She was a woman of more than the ordinary type, and well educated. She was trained as a nurse, having taken the three years' course at the Lying-in-Hospital in Philadelphia.
John Cole, the first member of this family of whom we have definite COLE information, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, about 1790. He may - have been a son of the John Cole who died there in 1810. He was a farmer. Among his children was a son, Benjamin Parkhurst, referred to below.
(II) Benjamin Parkhurst, son of John Cole, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, March 20, 1820, died in January, 1899. By occupation he was a blacksmith. He married Eustasia Clawson, who was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in March, 1820. Two children, now dead, besides Robert Anson, referred to below.
(III) Robert Anson, son of Benjamin Parkhurst and Eustasia (Clawson) Cole, was born in Hackettstown, Warren county, New Jersey, March 18, 1846, and is now living in that town. He received his education in the Hackettstown public school and in Pennington Seminary, Pennington, New Jersey, and then entered the general store of Jacob C. Allen, in Hackettstown, in March, 1863, as clerk. January 1, 1864, he entered the Hackettstown National Bank as a clerk, and in the following March was appointed teller. January 1, 1873, he was appointed cashier of the bank, and March 19, 1877, he was elected a director. April 1, 1906, he severed his connection with the Hackettstown National Bank, and with a number of others organized the People's National Bank of Hackettstown, of which he was elected the president. The bank was opened for business, October 1, 1906. Mr. Cole wa's elected treasurer of the Hackettstown Building and Loan Association, and still holds the office. In September, 1891, he was elected treasurer of the Union Cemetery Association of Hackettstown, and in April, 1899, he was elected treasurer of the Methodist Epis- copal church of Hackettstown. Both of these offices he still holds. He is a Repub- lican in politics, and a member of the Hackettstown Club.
He married, October 29, 1872, Athalia J. Hamilton, who was born near Hack- ettstown. No children.
STOCKTON The first person bearing the Stockton name to come to this coun-
try was Rev. Jonas Stockton, M. A., who with his son Timothy, then aged fourteen years, emigrated to Virginia in the ship "Bona Nova," in 1620. He was for many years incumbent of the parishes of Elizabeth City and Bermuda Hundred, and became the founder of a numerous family of descendants many of whom have become distinguished. His cousin Prudence, daughter of Rev. John Stockton, rector of Alchester and Kingholt, married, June 18, 1612, Edward Holyoke, of Tamworth, later of Lynn, Massachusetts, and became the foundress of the Holyoke family in America. The next Stockton to emigrate was, according to Hotten's "Lists," Thomas Stockton, "aged twenty-one," who sailed from London for Boston in the ship "True Love," September 16, 1635. Of him nothing more is known. In 1649, a Richard Stockton witnessed a deed in Charlestown, Massachu- setts, but whether he was the same as the founder of the family at present under consideration is still a mooted question. Richard Stockton, the founder of the New Jersey family of his name is named as one of the original patentees of the town of Flushing, Long Island, in Dongan's charter. He appears to have been a prominent man, being rated among the rather well-to-do citizens of the place, taking a promi- nent part in the controversies between the town and Governor Peter Stuyvesant on religious matters, holding the lientenancy of the Flushing Horse Guards and declin- ing, with the consent of Governor Nicolls, an election to the same position in the
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Foot Guards. Between 1670 and 1680, he became converted to the tenets of the Society of Friends and, selling his Long Island property, he removed to Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, where he purchased twelve hundred acres of land from George Hutchinson. Here he lived until his death, between January 25, 1705-06, and October 10, 1707, the dates of the executing and filing of his will. He married Abigail , who survived him, being alive April 14, 1714, and who, there is some reason to suppose, may have been his second wife. Children, all probably born in New England or on Long Island: Richard, referred to below; John, born in 1674, died March 29, 1747, married (first) Mary Leeds, and (second) Ann (Ken- dall) Ogborn, widow; Job, died in 1732, married Anna Petty; Abigail, died in De- cember, 1726, married, as second wife, Richard Ridgway Sr .; Mary, married (first) Thomas Shinn, (second) Silas) Crispin, and (third) Richard Ridgway Jr., being the second wife of all three husbands; Sarah, married (first), September 21, 1693, Ben- jamin Jones, and (second), in February, 1706-07, William Venicombe; Hannah, died before July, 1710, married Philip Phillips, of Maidenhead, their daughter Abigail married John Stockton (III), referred to below; Elizabeth, born in 1680, married, December 2, 1703, William Budd Jr.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) and probably Abigail Stockton, died in Piscataway, Middlesex county, New Jersey, between June 25 and August 15, 1709. He went from Flushing to Springfield with his father, but after his marriage removed to Piscataway. Later he bought the famous fifty-five hundred acres of land on which the town and university of Princeton now stand, but the assertion that he lived there is apparently without foundation and there is considerable evidence against it. In 1705, he was commissioned by Lord Cornbury, ensign of the militia company of Springfield and Northampton townships, under Colonel Richard Ellison, and in June, 1909, he became one of the trustees of the Stony Brook Friends' meet- inghouse. He married, at Chesterfield monthly meeting, November 8, 1691, Susanna, daughter of Robert and Ann Witham, of Whitby, Yorkshire, England, and widow of Thomas Robinson, of Crosswicks, who was born in Whitby, November 29, 1668, and died April 30, 1749. After her second husband's death, she married (third) Judge Thomas Leonard, of Princeton. Children, all born in Piscataway: Richard, born April 2, 1693, died in March, 1760, married Hester Smith, of Jamaica, Long Island; Samuel, born February 12, 1694-95, died in 1739, married (first) Amy Doughty and (second) Rachel Stout, one child, Richard Witham, was the famous "tory major" and founder of the Nova Scotia branch of the family, and another, Ann, married Rev. Andrew Hunter, Sr., father of the distinguished revolutionary chap- lain; Joseph, born May 5, 1697, died 1770, married Elizabeth Doughty; Robert, born April 3, 1699, died in 1744-45, married (first) , and (second) Rebecca Phillips; John, referred to below; Thomas, born about 1703, became non compos mentis, and was the ward of his Uncle Job.
(III) John, son of Richard (2) and Susanna (Witham-Robinson) Stockton, was born in Piscataway, August 10, 1701, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1757. He built and lived in the famous Stockton mansion in Princeton, still standing and named by the wife of his son, Richard Stockton, Signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, "Morven." He married, February 21, 1729, Abigail, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Stockton) Phillips of Maidenhead, who was born October 9, 1708, and was her husband's first cousin. Children: Richard, ("The Signer"), born October I, 1730, died February 28, 1781, married Annis, daughter of Elias (3) and Catharine (Williams) Boudinot and sister to Hon. Elias Boudinot (4), the patriot; Sarah, born June 29, 1732, died in 1736; John, born August 4, 1734, died in 1736; Hannah, born July 21, 1736, died October 28, 1808, married Hon. Elias Boudinot (4), mentioned above; Abigail, born November 13, 1738, married Captain Samuel Pintard; Susanna, born
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January 2, 1742, married Louis Pintard; John, born February 22, 1744; married Mary (Hibbits) Nelson, widow; Philip, referred to below; Rebecca, born July 5, 1748, mar- ried Rev. William Tennent Jr .; Samuel Witham, born February 4, 1751, died June 26, 1795, married Catharine, daughter of Colonel John and Esther (Bowes) Cox, see (VIII) below.
(IV) Rev. Philip, son of John and Abigail (Phillips) Stockton, was born at Princeton, New Jersey, July 11, 1746, and died there January 12, 1792. He married, April 13, 1767, Catharine, daughter of Robert and Mary (Noble) Cumming and sister to the revolutionary general John Noble Cumming, of Newark. She was born April 6, 1748. Children: John, born January 24, 1768, died September 21, 1838, married Jane Van Schaick of Albany, New York; Robert Cumming, born February 25, 1770, died March 3, 1770; Lucius Witham, referred to below; Elias Boudinot, born June 4, 1773, died August 15, 1798, unmarried; Susanna, born September 23, 1776; Maria, born April 20, 1779, died June 27, 1808, unmarried; William Tennant, born December 17, 1782, died August 24, 1823, married, December 22, 1805, Anna Williamson; Rich- ard C., born July 24, 1788, died November 2, 1837, married, May 12, 1814, Eliza Potts, daughter of Colonel John and Margaret Robyis (Chamberlaine) Hughes, their daughter Katharine, married, as second wife, Lucius Witham Stockton (VI), referred to below. The "C" in this name does not as some assert stand for "Cumming," but is simply a distinguishing letter.
(V) Lucius Witham (1), son of Rev. Philip and Catharine (Cumming) Stock- ton, was born in Flemington, Somerset county, New Jersey, May 26, 1771, and died there in 1808. He married, December 16, 1795, Eliza Augusta, daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Wells) Coxe, of Sidney, New Jersey, who was born August 18, 1775. She was a great-granddaughter of Dr. Daniel Coxe, the distinguished proprietor of West Jersey. Children: Charles Coxe, born October 2, 1796, removed to Ken- tucky; Rebecca Augusta, born February 13, 1798, married, September 21, 1818, Major Richard Lewis Howell, son of the distinguished Governor of New Jersey; Lucius Witham (2), referred to below; Philip Augustus, born November 6, 1802, died May 30, 1876, married (first) in 1831, Sarah, daughter of General Zachary Cantey, of South Carolina, and (second), December 3, 1840, Mary Remington, Howard Stockton, of Boston, his son by his second wife, married Mary Mason, granddaughter of Hon. Jeremiah Mason and of Amos Lawrence, of Massachusetts, who is a distant cousin of Caroline (Abbott) Stockton, wife of Rev. Elias Boudinot Stockton (VIII), referred to below.
(VI) Lucius Witham (2), son of Lucius Witham (1) and Eliza Augusta (Coxe) Stockton, was born in Flemington, New Jersey, September 1, 1799, and died in Union- town, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1844. He was president of the National Road Company, which built and controlled the road from Washington, District of Columbia, via Cumberland, Uniontown, Wheeling, West Virginia and Columbus to the . Mississippi at St. Louis, Missouri, and the church of the Protestant Episcopal parish at Uniontown was built by him. He married (first), November 24, 1824, Rebecca Moore, who was born August 27, 1805, and (second), August 15, 1837, Katharine, daughter of Richard C. and Eliza Potts (Hughes) Stockton, his first cousin, who was born near Havre de Grace, Maryland, November 8, 1816, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1901. Children, all born at "Ben Lomond," Uniontown, Pennsylvania; six by first marriage: Richard C., died in infancy ; Daniel Moore, mar- ried and left a daughter who was adopted by her aunt Mrs. McKennan, referred to below ; Lucius Witham (3), born November 3, 1829, died May 13, 1896, married Ellen Wishart; Margaret Moore, married Dr. Thomas McKennan, of Washington, Penn- sylvania; Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Rebecca Moore, married Captain Alexander Wish- art, U. S. A .; Richard C., referred to below; James Hughes, died in infancy; Elias
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Boudinot, died young and unmarried; Henrietta Maria, married Charles Lewis Leiper, brevet brigadier-general of Pennsylvania cavalry in the civil war.
(VII) Richard C., son of Lucius Witham (2) and Katharine (Stockton) Stock- ton, was born at "Ben Lomond," Uniontown, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1839, and died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 30, 1884. After graduating from St. James' Col- lege, Hagerstown, Maryland, he accepted the chair of classics in St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. At the outbreak of the civil war, his sympathies being with the south, he enlisted and served as quartermaster-sergeant in the Army of the Tennessee, in Mississippi and Alabama, under General Joseph E. Johnston, and took part in the battle of Salem and in the defense of Vicksburg. After the close of the war he mar- ried and settled in Baltimore. He married, July 10, 1865, Harriet Serena Chesnut, daughter of William Joshua (2) and Harriet Serena (Chesnut) Grant, of "Mulberry," Kershaw county, South Carolina, who is now living in East Orange, New Jersey. Her maternal grandmother, Mary (Cox) Chesnut, was the daughter of Colonel John and Esther (Bowes) Cox, of "Bloomsbury," near Trenton, New Jersey, and sister to Mrs. Samuel Witham Stockton, referred to above, and to Mrs. John Stevens, of Hoboken; Mrs. Francis Barton, of Philadelphia; Mrs. John Redman Coxe, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Horace Binney, of Philadelphia. Her maternal uncle, General James Chesnut Jr., was senator from South Carolina at the outbreak of the civil war and was the first southern senator to resign his seat after the election of President Lincoln. During the war he served as aide on the staff of General Beauregard, and accompanying Major Wigfall to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter, he gave the signal for the firing of the first gun, by dropping his handkerchief into the bay as the boat returned to the shore. Children : Lucius Witham, born June 1, 1866, died June 13, 1868; Elias Boudi- not, referred to below; James Chesnut, born in Baltimore, August 12, 1869, married, August 11, 1908, Jessie Ann, daughter of William and Ann (Jones) Potter, of Chester, England, and Manitoba, Canada.
(VIII) Rev. Elias Boudinot, son of Richard C. and Harriet Serena Chesnut (Grant) Stockton, was born at "Bloomsbury," Camden, South Carolina, February 4, 1868, and is now living in East Orange, New Jersey. He was educated in the private schools of Mr. William Martin and of Major Wilburn B. Hall, in Baltimore, and at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, after which he taught classics and English philology in the high school of Quebec, Canada, and in Kemper Hall, Davenport, Iowa. He entered the General Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1893, and received his S. T. B., as one of the first six men of his class, 1897, in 1898. He was made deacon, June 13, 1897, by Rt. Rev. Ellison Capers, D. D., Bishop of South Carolina, acting for the Bishop of New York, in St. Chrysostom's Chapel, Trinity parish, New York City, and was ordained priest, December 21, 1897, by Rt. Rev. John Hazen White, D. D., then Bishop of Indiana, now Bishop of Michigan City, in Grace Church, Detroit, Michigan. His ministerial labors have been mainly of a missionary character in various parts of the east and middle west and as chaplain of different hospitals, sanatoria, prisons and schools. For many years he has been a student of family and local history, and he has made many contributions thereto, especially with regard to the old colonial New Jersey, Philadelphia and Dutch, Huguenot and Quaker families. He is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the Holland Society of New York, of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, and of several others. He married, in Goshen, Indiana, June 26, 1899, Caroline, daughter of William Wallace and Susan Burleigh (Rand) Abbott, who was born December 1, 1863, and is a descendant of George Abbott, of Rowley and Andover, Massachusetts, and of Richard Abbott, Lord Mayor of London, brother to George Abbott, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of Charles I. Child: Mary Lewis, born, Winooski, Vermont, August 31, 1900, died, Goshen, Indiana, February 21, 1902.
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REESE Dr. Jacob Reese, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was almost certainly a descendant of George Rees or Reese, whose children emigrated from Wales to Philadelphia, about 1700. Two of these children, David and Charles, settled in Eastern Pennsylvania, another in Dela- ware, and still a third in North Carolina. Dr. Jacob Reese was probably a grandson of David or Charles. Besides being a doctor, Jacob Reese was a tailor, and about 1787 removed from Easton, Pennsylvania, to Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, where in conjunction with Philip Saeger, he bought a considerable tract of land lying along George street (now South Main street) and extending to the Delaware river. Mr. Reese lived in a log house that stood on the lot now occupied by the Phillipsburg Hotel. In this house his son Jeremiah was born in 1797. He afterwards moved to the house in Hanover street, where he died, and in addition owned property, which includ- ed Mount Parnassus, then called Reese's Rock. His wife's name is unknown. Chil- dren: Philip; Jeremiah, born 1797; Thomas, referred to below; Mary; Jacob (2) ; Hiram.
(II) Thomas, son of Dr. Jacob Reese, was born in the old log house on South Main street, Phillipsburg. He was a farmer, carriage maker and blacksmith, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Cline. Children : Adam Ramsey, referred to below; Jeremiah; Jacob; William; Elizabeth; Christian; John ; Louisa ; Thomas.
(III) Adam Ramsey, son of Thomas and (Cline) Reese, was born in Phil- lipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, where his family lived for several generations, and where he died in June, 1897. His business was that of a manufacturer of farm machinery, and he was not only a man of excellent ability but he was also an inventive genius and many of the patents which made the fortune of the McCormick Harvester Company were the product of his brain. Among these was the first self-raking har- vester. He was a Republican in politics and the founder of the First Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg. He married Rachel, daughter of Thomas Arnold, of Easton, Pennsylvania, who died in 1884. Children: James Mitchell, referred to below; Alice, married William Ashmore; Adam R .; Lewis H.
(IV) Dr. James Mitchell Reese, son of Adam Ramsey and Rachel (Arnold) Reese, was born in Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, July 27, 1858, and is now living in that city. He received his early education in the public schools and after graduating from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, he began the study of medi- cine under Dr. J. F. Shepherd, of Phillipsburg. He then attended the course at the Bellevue Hospital College, New York City, and after his graduation in 1883 returned to Phillipsburg and opened his office there, where he built up a practice second to none in the city. During the administration of President Harrison, he was for four years one of the pension examining surgeons for the fourth congressional district. He is a member of the Warren County Medical Society, of which he has been president, and a member of the Lehigh Medical Association, and of the New Jersey State Medical Society. He has for many years been the Phillipsburg surgeon of the Pennsylvania and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroads, and the Lehigh Valley and Central - Railroad of New Jersey. He has been a member of the board of education of Phillips- burg since 1884, and president of the board for ten years. He is now president of the Phillipsburg board of trade. For several years he was a member of the Warren county Republican committee. He is medical examiner of the A. Q. U. M. and has passed all chairs of the Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Uniform Rank. For three years he was captain of Ortygia Division, after that colonel of the Second Regiment of the Knights of Pythias of New Jersey, and then in February, 1896, became brigadier- general of the New Jersey Brigade of the Uniform Rank. He is a member of Dela- ware Lodge, No. 52, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Jersey; of Eagle Chapter, No.
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