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Rev. J. Judson Pierson, the present pastor, began hi- pa-torate Sept. 11, 1881.
Of the above pastors all, except Mr. Whitehead, are still living, and in active service.
The church edifice is located in North Woodbury, is of briek, and built in 1858, at a cost of nine thou- sand dollars. The basement was dedicated by the Rev. Dr. Perkins, Nov. 25, 1858. The parsonage was built in 1877.
The officers of the church in 1883 were Rev. J. Judson Pierson, pastor ; Sunday-school Superintend- ent, M. Ware Scott; Deacons, Arthur L. Terry, J. L. Morgan, C. T. Bennett, H. Hendrickson, E. J. Lloyd, J. F. Shull ; Trustees, E. J. Lloyd, S. D. Dobbs, C. T. Bennett, J. F. Shull, E. Johnson, E. Clayton, and I. L. Davis; Church Clerk and Treasurer, C. T. Ben- nett, D.D.S.
The German Presbyterian Church was organized May 5, 1852, in "Sofleiss Hall," in Woodbury, N. J., by Rev. John W. Bischoff, with the following-named persons as constituent members : Christian Soflei -= , William Soffeiss, Johanna Sofleiss, John Myers, Sally Myers, William Myers, Charles E. Von Stege, Anna Hochmuth, Josephine Hochmuth, Heinrich Fras., Eleazer Schmidt, Gottfried Young, Charles Seeger, Julius Baumgarden, Louis Brandt, Gustoph Pulver, Magdalena Schmidt, Jacob Byerly, Mary Basling- hover, and Case Schaufarle.
A building lot on Lineoln Street was purchased of John C. Tatem. The foundation walls of the church edifice were built, and the corner-stone laid in August, 1883, by Rev. J. W. Bischoff. The church editice, when completed, including lot, is estimated to cost two thousand five hundred dollars.
The membership in October, 1883, was twenty. The elders in 1883 were Christian Sotleiss and John Myers. Trustees, Christian Sofleiss, John Myers, and Heinrich Fraas.
North Woodbury Cemetery .- This small plot of ground is situated in the north part of the city, be- tween Broad Street and the West Jersey Railroad. The following are extracts from some of the in-erip- tions found upon headstones and monuments there :
Brig .- Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell. First Brigade, First Division, Tenth Army Corps, born Sept. 11, 18mm; died from injuries by the full- ing of his horse while in temporary command of the Third Division, Tenth Army Corps, in front of Petersburg, Va., Sept. 14, 1964
Mary Lewis, wife of Joshua B. Howell, born Nov. 22, 1809, died Sept. 7,1852.
Rachael Thomas Lewis, boru April 28, 1783, died Sept. 4, 1849. Henrietta Campbell Weatherby, born Jan. 7, 1815, died May 2. 1850. Otilia Lenmig, died March 20, 1874.
James Roe, born Feb, 26, 1792, died Jan. 22, 1880.
Nathan Cozens, died Dec. 27, 1863, aged 67.
James L. Gibbs, dial July 20. 1860, aged 69.
Eliza L. Gibts, died Jan. 3, 1851, aged 53.
Mary 8. Barber, born Ang. 27, 1612, diedl July 3, 1854.
Isaac L. Davenport, died May 7, 1835, aged 32.
John M. Connelly, died March 29, 1855, aged 68. Sanmel E. Evans, died Feb. 22, 1872, aged 69.
Emeline Evans, died Feb. 19, 1872, aged 53.
Robert K. Matlock, born Jan. 22, 1804, died April 27, 1877.
Rev. Samuel D. Blythe, nearly five years jastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodbury, N. J., born March 27, 1804. died June 23, 1843.
Rev. William Graham, died Dec. 18, 1856, aged 58. He was in the thirty-fourth year of his ministry, and ninth of his pastorate of I're by- terian Church of Woodbury.
Peter Curts, died Oct. 24, 1864, aged +4.
Elizabeth Curts, died Sept. 7, 1857, aged to.
Elizabeth Budd.
Sophia Totulin, wife of James B. Tomlin.
Maria Budd, died Ang. 24, 1851. aged 45.
David Garson, born Feb. 22, 1780, died Dec. 17, 1844.
Sarah Garson, born April 13, 1756, died Aug. 14, 1851.
Robert Roe, died Aug. 18, 1862, aged 79.
Elizabeth Roe, died Feb. 24. 1875, aged $1.
Thomas Budd, died May 13, 1867, aged 59.
Jane C. West Eisenhower, died Jan. : 6. 1:2, aged 19.
Judith G. Smith, died Jan. 25, 1848, aged 21.
Jacob E. Burkett, born Jan. 10, 1:48, died Ang. 7, 1869. Moffitt Mount.
Hannah W. Cade, died Feb. 23, 1863, aged 56.
William G. Phifer Sr., died Sept. 15, 1867, aged 78. Edward Low, died July 5. 1980, aged 51.
Sarah Knight, died Sept. 22, 1854, aged 58.
Isabella Hartley, died March 6, 1:39, aged 57.
Joseph Curts, Sr., born Jnty 22, 1763, died Nov. 1, 1852. Deborah C. Curte, died March 30. 1980, aged 75.
John M. Watson, born March 22, 1790, died July 3, 1878. Sarahı W. Watson, born Jan. 21, 1822, died Sept. 30. 1:60. Jane Chew, born Ang. 12, 1794, died March 13, 1844. Thomas J. Miller, drowned Dec. 12, 1-29, azed 22.
Joshua Matlack, born April 17, 1806, died Ang. 30, 1of2. Amy Matlack, born March 18, 1505, died July 6, 1859. Samuel Wentz, died Sept. 11, 1435, aged 53.
Sarah Wentz, died May 2, 1846, aged 62.
Elizabeth Maffet, born March 11, 1757. died Nov. 27, 1773. Mary Ovens, born Jan. 20, 1814. died April 3, 1834.
Ann A. Aires, died July 3, 1825, aged 25. On her tombstone is the following poetic effusion :
" I have left yon, no more my pale face to see; Prepare Yourselves To Follow me."
Mary P Tatem, born Nov. 10, 1793, diel Nov. 29, 18M. Mary P. Belden, died March !, 1:41, uge4 12.
Jamies Crump, died Jan. 20, 1812, aged 55. Ann Cimup, born April 29, 0.8 1749, died Oct. 15, 1-11.
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Hizabeth Anderson, born Sept. 26, 1763, died Dec. 5, 1794. Ann Hopkins, died Dec. 29, 1850, aged 75.
Dir. George W. Campbell, died Sept 22, 1728, aged 51.
watian Wallace Harris, died October, 1852, aged 26.
Mon'da Harris, died Tth mo 6, 1880, aged 69. She was the wife of 1 :. v. F. D. Harris.
John Tatom, died March 18, 1912, aged 51.
Muy Talemn, died July 21, 185, aged 73.
Ann: Campbell, died Ang. 23, 1832, aged 50.
Julia W. Dickinson Campbell, born June 2, 1822, died March 19, 1855.
John D Smallwood, Forn Ang, 19, 1>35, died Nov. 21, 1865. Nazy Smallwood, bota Dec. 11, 1%13, died June 21, 1874 John C. Smillwood, boro Feb. 16, 1797, died Sept. 18. 1878. Robert M. Smallwood, born Aug. 20, 1827, died Feb. 8, 1656. Wiflien K. Anderson, born Jan. 6, 1841, died Sept. 2. 1878. t lira Sm iltwood Anderson, born Oct. 11, 1838, died March 25, 1867. 3 .- ah B. Anderson, born Oet. 19, 1836, died Dec. 3, 1968. Maglie S. Anderson, born Oct. 11, 1868, died Jan. 4, 1851. W iry Himold, born March 27. 1757, died Sept. 7, 1835. Hizabeth H. Tatem, died July 28, 1sås, aged 46. oliver Davis, died May ., 1533, aged 66. Su-an Davis, died June 5, 1845, aged 73.
INDUSTRIES OF WOODBURY ..
G. G. Green's New Factory.1 -- " One of the hand- somest buildings in the country for the manufacture of proprietary medicines is that of Mr. George G. Green, located in our town. If among all it is not the handsomest, it is certainly the largest devoted ex- clusively to the business, and is exceeded by none in convenience of arrangement and adaptability. The exterior is attractive in its material and finish, and in strict harmony with the interior arrangements.
" We have before referred to the general construction of the building, which is such an ornament and ad- dition to our town, but having accepted an invitation from Mr. Green to inspect the same, we saw much of which it is our pleasure to speak. Before it was in an unfinished condition, now it is so far completed that the entire business is done in its departments.
"On the west side, extending along the entire front, are the private office of Mr. Green and the gen- eral office containing the desks at which the several clerks are engaged. The private office on the south end is set off from the general office, and is complete in its finish and appointments. Richly carpeted and furnished, and brilliantly lighted, it is all that could be desired. The general office presents a busy ap- pearance with its ten or dozen clerks employed in their respective departments of labor, some at their ledgers, others in receiving and shipping orders to and from all parts of the world, and in attending to the import- ant branch of advertising. This room is large, light, and airy, tastily and richly finished in walnut, chest- uut, and oak of exceedingly neat design. It has every appearance of counting- and banking-room combined. On the south end of the wing is built a large fire- proof safe, adequate to the accumulated needs of the business for years to come, and constructed in accord- ance with all the well-established scientific principles to secure safety and strength. Suspended from the ceiling are handsome gas chandeliers, the light being furnished by the vaporization of gasoline by means
of a large machine in the cellar and outside the build- ing. The floor is inlaid with tile, which is partially covered with carpet. Mr. Green's second or general office is in the north end, neatly finished and fur- nished, and, like his private one, so constructed with French plate glass windows that it may be practically thrown into the main room.
"On the second floor are the almanae and printing- rooms. Here the almanacs of 1883 (of which five millions have been ordered and will be circulated gratuitously by the close of the present year) are pre- pared for distribution among dealers over the globe. These almanacs contain maps of each of the States in which they are to circulate, and as the names of thousands of dealers are printed on the last leaf of each almanac, the amount of work may easily be es- timated. Nine printing-presses are kept constantly running. After having thus passed through the press they are boxed, directed, and shipped for distribution. These almanacs are printed in the English, German. French, and Spanish language, and go wherever the medicines find sale, which is everywhere.
"The third floor on the west is divided into two rooms, in which the bottles are washed, cleaned, and made ready to be filled with medicine, and where are stored such articles as are needed in the present dis- tribution of the almanacs,-placards. pa-teboard, etc. "The upper floor is used as a store-room. It ex- tends over both the east and front wings of the building. " The first floor of the east wing is occupied exclu- sively as a packing-room. Large quantities of boxes, hay, and sawdust fill up all the available space, and the facilities are all that are needed in this depart- ment of the business.
" The bottling-room is immediately above, where twenty-eight young ladies are engaged in filling the bottles with medicine. The facilities here are first- class. Rubber hose, fitted with nickel-plated faucets and connected with the reservoirs or tanks of medi- cine in the room above, runs to the centre and sides of the room, where are constructed stands or tables, at which sections of hose terminate. Rows of bottles are ranged on these tables, and the process of filling them at once becomes simple, complete, rapid. and cleanly, the end of the faucets being inserted in the neck of the bottle, and the medicine being allowed to flow until the phial is filled. When filled the botties are sealed with corks, each containing a corkscrew, and afterwards put up in pasteboard boxes of a dozen and half-dozen each, which are subsequently packed in strong wooden boxes.
"The laboratory or compounding-room is on the third floor, east wing, and runs its entire length. Of the business of this room much cannot be said. All the secrets of the establishment are locked up here, especially in one corner, where is partitioned off an apartment to which admission to the public is wholly denied. Applications are frequently made for the | secrets contained in the composition of the medicine,
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but as yet satisfactory answers have not been given. The apparatus for heating the syrups is of Mr. Greeu's own design, and is perfect in its working. Steam is | forced through a pipe into a large copper boiler, the pressure being regulated to suit the needs of the work by means of a valve and blow-off gange. Four immense tanks stand in the centre of the main floor. ; while on the south side are fourteen small reservoirs, all being connected with the room below by means of iron pipes. The capacity of the large tank is eight hundred gallons; that of the smaller ones, ten hundred and fitty galions.
" Between the front and east wings is constructed an elevator, which can be communicated with from the several rooms of the building on the first, second, and third floors. Medicines, materials, ete., are thus dis- : sand dollars. Mr. Green is a firm believer in adver- tributed over the whole building. At present this is worked by hand-power, but it is the intention of Mr. Green to operate it with steam.
" A seven-hundred dollar gas-machine distributes gas over the whole building, giving a light whose ' of his almanacs. brillianey and evenne-s are exceeded only by the student lamp.
"Located on different floors are two water-tanks with a capacity of fifteen hundred gallons each. Connected with these on each floor are iron pipes, to which are attached seetions of rubber hose reaching into the several rooms on the floors, to be used in case of fire or other purposes.
" Mr. Green has also built an engine- and boiler- house on the north side of the factory. In it he has placed an engine of thirty horse-power, which he is using in heating the factory, and will apply to ma- chinery for the operation of the elevator. Pipe and other apparatus run through and are located in every room for the heating of the building. The success of the plan will appear to every one who enters the sey- eral rooms. a pleasant heat being evenly distributed throughout.
" To facilitate business as well as to lighten its trans- actions, speaking-tubes run through the first three stories, accessible to all the rooms and communieat- ing with all parts of the building.
" Forty-four persons are engaged in the building and on the pay-rolls, besides fourteen traveling salesmen, and exclusive of twenty-eight young ladies who are wholly occupied in filling the bottles with medicine. This number does not include the workmen who are employed outside the building by the day. Ten clerks are busily engaged at the de-ks in the count- ing-room, while more than that number of employees are kept constantly busy in the printing-room, run- ning presses for printing dealers' cards on almanacs, wrappers for bottles, directions to accompany the almanacs, etc. A force is engaged solely in making boxes, and the compounding of the medicines occu- pies the whole time and attention of two gentlemen.
"The recent contract entered into with the Messrs. Starr, of Camden, for two miles of three-inch iron
pipe to connect the factory with the reservoir on Dr. Roe's farm, was made with the view of receiving an inexhaustible supply of water for all purposes and at every section of his property. The work is finished ( privileges having already been secured i, and gives a flow of twenty thousand gallons per hour, sufficient for every conceivable need. The elevation of the reservoir above the level of the ground on which the factory is located is ninety-eight feet, a heavy enough descent to give all the pressure required for distribu- tion.
"The amount of business done this year will slightly exceed five hundred thousand dollars, and there are indications already which lead to the belief that the sales the coming year will run over six hundred thou- tising and a liberal use of printers' ink, and he does not expect to have to wait long before having his impresssions confirmed respecting the large benefit- to be derived from the universal and free distribution
" The general oversight and management of the busi- ness are, of course, in the hands of Mr. Green him- self. These require his most assiduous attention. A business of such magnitude, reaching into every quar- ter of the globe, needs his personal attention to many of the little details. When to this eare are added the , trouble and anxiety ineident to his recent building operations, it is most natural that Mr. Green should have his time fully occupied. The making and man- agement of such a character of business have re- quired an executive ability and tact not possessed by the many, and that Mr. Green has conducted, and is still conducting it successfully, is not among the de- batable questions. If, as Col. Sellers says, "there's millions in it," Mr. Green will do his best to get it out, giving that patient toil, industry, and application which are indispensable to success."
Standard Window-Glass Works (Limited) .- These works are located in that portion of the city known locally as North Woodbury. The company that built and that are now operating the works was organized April 20, 1882, and comprise the following- named persons as stockholders: George G. Green, John I. Estell, S. Paul Loudenslager, Benjamin C. Brown, and H. C. Loudenslager.
The first glass-house with the buildings attached for carrying on the business was built in 1882, and in 1883 a second furnace was built a few yards from the first, the whole works costing nearly forty thousand dollars.
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The first officers of the company were George G. Green, chairman ; S. Paul Loudenslager, vice-chair- man ; Jolin I. Estell, general manager and treasurer.
The capacity of the works is fifty-five thousand boxes of glass (all sizes ) per annum, which gives em- ployment to sixty men. The officers for 1883 are the same as for 1882.
Green's Steam Planing-Mill is located on the
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north side of Woodbury Creek, below the turnpike bridge, and was built in 1881 by Harry Tatem, and purchased by George G. Green in 1882. This mill furnishes employment for ten men in the preparation of lumber for building purposes.
The pioneer grist-mill of Woodbury was originally the depot of the Camden and Woodbury Railroad, built in 1838, and in 1850, after the railroad station wa- changed to its present location, William Johns converted the old depot into a steam grist-mill, and built the frame part now attached to the brick. In rear of the station, or brick part of the present mill, was the round-house and blacksmith-shop, a part of which is now occupied by the fruit-canning establishment of Ralston & Bnsby. The mill property is now owned by George G. Green.
The railroad crossed the creek below the turnpike bridge, crossing the lot now occupied by the coal-yard of John I. Estell.
The Woodbury Fruit-Canning House was estab- lished in 1881 by Ralston & Busby, who are doing an extensive business in canning all kinds of fruit, em- ploying a large number of workmen.
One of the pioneer industries of this town was the >eythe-factory of James Matlaek. The old shop was what is now the brick store occupied by I. L. Davis, below Paul's Hotel. In this old shop, and under the instruction of James Matlack, the late Daniel J. Packer learned the trade of seythe-maker, axe-maker, and blacksmith. In 1810, Mr. Packer commenced business on his own account in the shop now occupied by his son, Daniel J. Packer. Here he carried on the business of axe-making, which he made a specialty. Mr. Packer died April 30, 1851, and was succeeded in business by his son, who after a year or two diseon- tinned the manufacture of axes and turned his atten- tion to general blacksmithing and the manufacture of heavy road- and farm-wagons, which he still continues.
The Woodbury Glass-Works Company was in- corporated under the general law of 18$1, with George G. Green as president, I. C. Voorhies as secretary and treasurer, and C. A. Madden, superintendent, with William Connolly, John Runge, Charles F. Marshall, and Belmont Perry constituting the board of managers. The company did well with Mr. Green as president, as he is indomitable in overcoming ob- staeles, having in his own business, started from a small beginning in a little western village, pushed his business to a colossal statns equaled by few and reached as rapidly by none; and who, ever on the alert to benefit and further the interests of this his adopted city, advanced largely of his means, and in so doing secured to the company a fine location and buildings of the most substantial character.
Mr. Voorhies, for a long time superintendent of the We-t Jersey Marl Company, and widely known in the State, a man of qualified integrity in business and social relations, was chosen to have a general supervision of the business.
Mr. C. A. Madden, of Clayton, N. J., a life-long manufacturer of glass and its adjunets, well known in this the " Glass State," was called to supervise the construction of the works and organize the working force. Through his selection of none but sober and industrious mechanics and laborers, we have to chronicle that since the organization not a single day has been lost through drunkenness of the men, and not a more quiet and orderly set of men can be found ; instead of profanity, which is too often the case in factories, there is singing of hymns and innocent songs, with merry laughter, making it a pleasure to associate with or live near them.
The architectural designs were furnished by MIr. Paschal Madara, and were well executed in building.
A tank-furnace was built from the Foster patent, and ran well for a season, but owing to a number of unavoidable accidents it proved a failure. The man- agement studied carefully the defects and causes of the accidents in the tank, and having faith in the plan decided to try a second. which, after long and tedious efforts, was got into working order, but un- happily lasted only a short time. This second failure so discouraged Mr. Madden that he resigned his po- sition and resumed his former occupation as a glass- blower.
Through the determined efforts of Mr. Voorhies to overcome the many annoyances occurring continually from accidents which compelled him to exert himself both mentally and physically beyond what nature had designed for him to endure, it brought him to au untimely grave. He started in this enterprise full of vigor and animation, with bright hopes for a pros- perous future, but alas. all were soon blasted.
After the resignation of Mr. Madden, in December, 1882, Mr. Jacob Pease, originally from Glassboro, born and reared in the business, a blower of no mean rep- utation, and for the past thirteen years superintend- ent of Hagerty Bros. factories, Brooklyn, N. Y., was elected superintendent, and is now filling that posi- tion. In a long and varied experience, he had ae- quired a knowledge of the advantage of the old system on that of pots over the tank for a general line of glassware. Consequently, on Jan. 20, 1883, the tank was taken down to its foundation, and in thirteen days a new pot-furnace of an improved design built, pots sheared, and the blowers at work, a work that was never before equaled. It is due, however, to say that this work was accomplished through the gratui- tous skilled labor performed by a few of the blowers now employed by the company.
After exchanging the new for the old system every- thing worked smoothly, and the company soon re- deemed their early losses, and met with such success that a second factory was built in the summer of 1883, on even later plan-, and having four sets of ovens. thus securing for bottles four days' tempering, which will make them the best in use. The ventilation of the buildings is perfect, and all the tools and imple-
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ments of the latest improved patterns; every facility is offered for shipping to all parts of the world, and, with first-class goods, this new company stand second to no other in this or any other country.
Woodbury in 1883 .- Two hundred years has From no manufacturing establishments one-quarter of a century ago, Woodbury has at present two glass mannfactories, " Woodbury Gla-s-Works," a hollow- ware establishment, built in 1881, " Standard Glass- Works," built in 1882, each of which was enlarged in made about the same impression on Woodbury that one decade would make upon a locality with like fa- cilities in a new country at the present day, for the reason that the pioneers were not of the aggressive sort of people, and the same trait of character has : 1883 to double their original capacity, and Green's run down through the veins of several generations.
From no printing-press at all at the beginning of Her railroad facilities of to-day are all that could be | this century, Woodbury has grown up to the support of three first-class weeklies, the Constitution, a Re- publican organ, the Democrat, a Democratic organ, and the Liberal Press, independent in all things.
From the one place of worship, " Friends' meeting- bouse," there has arisen six others, the Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Episcopal, African. Baptist, and German Presbyterian, of all of which a history will be found in this work.
The old court-house stands as a monument of the last century, almost as good as new, and one that should never feel the blighting touch of the hand of vandalism.
The soldiers' monument, with its many inscriptions,
From the one broad and well-shaded street of ye tells of the brave deeds of Woodbury and Gloucester ancient days she has spread out over a large extent of County's sons, who laid down their lives for a prin- territory, with broad avenues, along the lines of which . ciple. are hundreds of beautiful villas and cottages, the | grounds of which are beautifully ornamented with shrubbery and flowers.
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