History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2, Part 60

Author: Cushing, Thomas, b. 1821. cn; Sheppard, Charles E. joint author
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 920


USA > New Jersey > Salem County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 60
USA > New Jersey > Gloucester County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 60
USA > New Jersey > Cumberland County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 60


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In 1815, Mr. Stratton married Hannah Buck, one of the daughters of Jo-eph Buck, deceased, and in the course of the succeeding two or three years built the brick house, still standing, on the north side of Commerce, a little below Bank Street, and afterwards, as his family increased considerably, enlarged it.


Hle occupied a large adjoining lot, with a barn, stables, and carriage-house, on Bank Street, where the Methodist Episcopal Church now stands, Mrs. Stratton died in 1854, and Mr. Stratton, very sud- denly, in 1862. They were members of the Presby- terian Church. Several of their children died in- fants; one daughter died at the age of twenty-two, and a son at the age of twenty-nine. Their sou Alexander continned a mercantile business in the old stand, resided in the family mansion, and died, un- married, in the year 1873, at the age of fifty-six years.


Three sons and two daughters are living. Charles P. Stratton graduated at Princeton in 1848, studied law, resides in Camden, and is presiding judge of the Camden courts. Hle married Clara Cooper, of Tren- ton, aud has several children. George resides in Bridgeton, and is unmarried. Eleanor is not mar- ried. Sophia N. married Charles E. Buck, resides in Wilmington, Del., and has two children.


Joseph Buck Stratton, oldest child of Nathan L. Stratton, was carefully educated. After a prepara- tory training at the school in Lawrenceville he en- tered Princeton College, and took his first degree in 1833, receiving in due course the degree of A.M., and in 1856 the honorary degree of D.D. He studied law two years with Judge L. Q. C. Elmer, finished his cour-e in Philadelphia, with John Sergeant, and was then admitted to the bar there, and commenced business as a lawyer. While thus employed he be- came a member of Rev. Dr. Boardman's church, and determined to engage in preaching the gospel. He then entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, and during two years of his study there was a tutor in the college. Having finished the usual course of study, he was licensed to preach, received a call to become the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Natchez, and was ordained and installed in 1813. for thirty-two years he has been the faithful and ac- ceptable minister of one of the most important Pres- byterian Churches in the South, and is justly ranked among the ablest preachers of the gospel in the country. Some years since he was created a Doctor of Divinity. He has beeu twice married, and has two sons, one of whom is an architect in New York, and the other is in a banker's office in Natchez.


JAMES HI. TRENCHARD, son of Hon. John Trench- ard, of Fairton, and Eleanor, his wife, was born May 20, 1811, and died Feb. 27, 1877, after a severe illness of about ten days' duration. He went into the mer- town3. During this time there were only fron ten , cantile busines, soon after his marriage, having pur-' to fifteen stores in the town, and some of those were i chased the interest of his father-in-law, the late sinall affairs. Mr. Back and Mr. Stratton accumu- Judge Barrett, which he continued for a time, until lated considerable property.


his removal to Centreville in the fall of 1839, where he entered largely into general store and milliug business and the lumber trade. In early life he was for a while under Rev. Dr. George Junkin, at Easton, l'a. He had a liking for mathematics, and soon began surveying, this branch increasing in intricate cases and in great land trials. In the fall of 1818


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he was elected to the Assembly on the Whig ticket, representing Salem County in that body during the ensuing session. He was very popular in his own neighborhood, receiving the votes of many in the township of opposite polities purely from personal consideration. He refused to run a second time ; the corruptions of the lobby and the questionable chiar- acter of much of the public and private legislation as then and since directed had no charms for one of his honest, frank, and independent nature.


Mr. Trenchard was very frequently called upon at this point to find old surveys, to settle disputes as to title, and to act as commissioner. Although engaged in surveying whenever needed, he did not give his whole attention to this profession until he moved to Bridgeton, in the spring of 1863. IFere once located, associated with his son, the firm of J. II. & W. B. Trenchard, surveyors, has been the principal one in that branch in this section of the State ever since. No person in New Jersey has done more practical surveying, or tramped more miles in all weathers and under all conditions than had the subject of this sketch. He had had many valuable papers in his possession at various times, relating to the lands in the lower counties of the State, so that he became thoroughly conversant with the titles, butts and bounds, courses and di-tances of, and all other mat- ters relating to the real estate of Lower Jersey. Ile always carefully preserved copies of maps of all sur- veys he made, and was thus greatly useful to persons seeking information in regard to landed property.


Mr. Trenchard possessed natural kindness of heart, and was generous in his impulses, which rallied around him earnest and abiding friends. He was a kind husband and indulgent parent. He was emi- nently public-spirited, being ever the advocate of all public improvements. Not the least of his merits was his ardent and unflinching patriotism. He was city surveyor at the time of his death, which position he had long held. As such he established the pres- ent grade of our streets. At the time of his death he was serving his second term as councilman from the Second Ward. He was president of the original Water Company of Bridgeton, which was the fore- runner in the movement to secure the present City Water-Works.


He left a widow, three sons, and two daughters, all now living. His children are all married except one daughter. William B. succeeded his father as city surveyor, and has an extensive business otherwise in his profession. James W. is cashier of the recently- established National Bank of Bridgeton.


JAMES D. WESTCOTT was born in Bridgeton, Jan. 26, 1775, and the son of John Westcott, who resided at that time in a small house built of the county brownstone, on the south side of the road from the bridge to Fairfield, now the southeast corner of Com- merce and Pearl Streets, which was afterwards owned and for a long time occupied by Mark Riley. He be-


longed to the Fairfield family of Westeott, now very numerous, early settlers of that place, but whose origin and genealogy is not known, and came to thi- place before 1773, and taught a school, giving special attention to mathematics and the business of survey . ing and navigation.


John Westcott was the first lieutenant of the west- eru company of New Jersey artillery in the Revolu- tion, was promoted to be captain-lieutenant and then captain, and took part in the battles at Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.


After the war, and perhaps during its progres -. John Westcott appears to have lived in Philadelphi ... and his son James was educated at the university there, and with his brother was placed as an appren- tice to learn the art of printing. In 1794, James came to Bridgeton and established a newspaper ealled the Argus, which was continued nearly or quite two years. While residing here he married Amy Harris Hampton, daughter of Dr. John T. Hampton, of Cedarville, a sister of the late Dr. Isaac II. Hamp- ton, of Bridgeton. Soon after he removed to Washı- ington, and carried on the business of printing with a partner, under the firm of Westcott & Co. In 180; they published a full report of the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, in three octavo volumes.


In the year 1810, Mr. Westcott purchased of Ben- jamin Chew, of Philadelphia, the attorney and agent of the English proprietors, two surveys of land, cov- ering a large part of Fairfield, made in 1686 for Bel- lers, one of the original proprietors of West Jersey, one of which extended from the east branch of the Cohansey, at Fairton, to Back Creek, and the other included Jones' I-land. He moved on to a good farm situate on Jones' Island, which he cultivated several years, and then removed to Bridgeton, having re- ceived the appointment of collector of the port in place of Ebenezer Elmer, who resigned. This place he held about five years. He continued to reside here until he received the appointment of Secretary of State, in 1839, from the joint meeting of the Leg- islature of New Jersey, then having a majority of ad- herents of Jackson, when he removed to Trenton ; and being reappointed, he held that office ten years.


In 1816, Mr. Westcott was elected a member of the Assembly as a Democrat. In 1820 he was elected to the Legislative Council on a Union ticket, and again in 1821. JIe was, during most of his residence ir Bridgeton, presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas and a justice of the peace, and was an active business man of great intelligence aod capacity. Shortly after he came to the place he purchased the I house and property next below the Broad Street bridge, since owned and enlarged by John Buck, and resided there until he went to Trenton, He is the first person of the county who is known to have eul- tivated and used the tomato as an article of food.


Hle died in Trenton in 1841, his wife surviving until 1819.


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Jarob Kienzle


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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


FRANCIS GILBERT BREWSTER.


The family are of English extraction, and trace their descent from Elder Brewster, who sailed for America in the "Mayflower" in 1620. Francis Gil- bert, a lineal descendant, and the father of the sub- jeet of this biography, was born in Deerfield, and | Erbsteten, and had children,-Goetleib, Christian, married Miss Mary Gibbon Seeley, of Bridgeton. Jacob, Louis, Louisa, Paulina, Frederick, Ferdi- mand, Barbara, William, Fredericka, Karl, Caroline, Johanes, Christian (2d). The death of Mrs. Kienzle occurred at the house of her son, in Bridgeton, in her eighty-first year. They had children,-Robert Gibbon, Francis Gil- bert, Charles Henry, and George. Dr. Brewster early became an exponent of the science of medicine, aud followed his profession in Salem. Ill health causing him to relinquish active practice, he retired to Bridgeton and opened the earliest drug-store in the city. He was an influential citizen, and engaged in many public enterprises. He was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton, and foremost in all good works, continuing to exercise a salutary influence in the community until his death, in 1827. Francis Gilbert, his son, was born Feb. 10, 1809, in Bridgeton, the scene of his lifetime labors. The Bridgeton Academy afforded him opportunities of . and having settled in Philadelphia, continued in the education, and the early death of his father made him, at the age of eighteen. his successor in busi- ness.


He was married, Feb. 17, 1830, to Miss Ruth Thompson Riley, daughter of Mark and Abigail Il. Riley. Their children are Mary Gibbon (who mar- ried Dr. Edward M. Porter), Edwin Francis, and Elizabeth Reeves. Mr. Brewster continued in active business for many years, and during this period iden- tified himself with many enterprises tending to ad- vance the interests of the community. He main- tained extensive business connections, in all of which he established a character for integrity and fairness, while his judgment and sound common sense were proverbial. Mr. Brewster was a member of the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton, and served as 1 elder from its organization until his decease. Ile was a cordial promoter of all religious and philan- i thropic schemes. The Cumberland County Bible Society found in him an efficient treasurer and co- worker. He was in politics early a Whig, and later a Republican, though choosing candidates for office with regard to their fitness, irrespective of party.


Mr. Brewster's life was ended Aug. 6, 185G, at the early age of forty-eight, after a brief illness. He was greatly esteemed for the many virtues exemplified in his character, and his death universally deplored.


Mrs. Schwarderer), Louisa (who was Mrs. Gall), John Jacob, and Christian. Mr. Kienzle died in 1840. His son, John Jacob, was born May 1, 1793, in the town above mentioned, where his early life was spent. Here he followed farming employments until 1847, when he removed to Erbsteten, an adjoining town, and continued the same vocation until his death, in 1860. He married Christianna Krauter, of


Jacob Kienzle was born Jan. 29, 1830, in Kirshen- harthof, Würtemberg, and until his fourteenth year was a pupil at the public school. He was then ap- prenticed to a tanner in the adjoining town of Win- nenden, and on completing his term of service re- ceived a diploma for proficiency in his trade. lle repaired to Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and later into the interior, at both of which points he followed his vocation of tanner. In 1849 he emigrated to America, leather business until 1853, when he migrated to California and engaged in mining enterprises. He also, in connection with his brother Louis, conducted a bakery at Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne Co., remaining thus engaged until 1856. In 1857 he removed to Bridgeton and purchased the tannery which he has since conducted.


In connection with it he has introduced the manu- facture of soap, which is conducted on an extensive scale. He was married, Sept. 15, 1857, to Caroline R., daughter of Leonard Groetzinger, of l'hiladelphia. Their children are Annie S. (Mrs. Ludy), William J., Jacob (deceased), Henry C., Franklin F., Minnie (deceased), and Oscar J. Mrs. Kienzle's death on- curred March 30, 1882. Mr. Kienzle is in politics a Democrat, and has ever manifested a deep interest in public affairs. He has for successive terins been a member of the City Council, and was in 1878 a can- didate for member of Assembly, being defeated after a close contest and a flattering vote in his favor. Hc has been also frequently a candidate to State and County Conventions. He is one of the directors of the Bridgeton National Bank, and affords aid and encour- agement to all worthy public enterprises. He is an active Mason, a member of the Evening Star Lodge, No. 39, of Brearley Chapter, No. 6, of which he is Past High Priest, and of Olivet Commandery, No. 10.


Mr. Kienzle assisted in the organization of the German Lutheran Church of Bridgeton, in 1869, and is now one of its elders.


JACOB KIENZLE.


Mr. Kienzle is of German extraction, and during hi- early life resided in Kirshenharthof, Würtemberg, Germany, where his grandfather, Goetleib, was born. CAPT. LEIIMAN BLEW. The latter married a Miss Wuest, of the same town, George Blew, the grandfather of Capt. Blew, emi- to whom were born children,-Barbara (who became ; grated from Germany during the Revolutionary war,


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in which he took part, and at its close settled in Deerfield township upon land he purchased. He had children,-Abijah, William, and Nellie, who became Mrs. Moore. William was born in Deerfield town- ship, and served with credit in the war of 1812 as captain. He devoted his life to farming employments, and married Judith, daughter of Benjamin Ingersoll, of Atlantic County. Their children were George, born Jan. 2, 1804, who died June 16, 1836, in his thirty-third year; Furman, born March 14, 1806; Priscilla, who became Mrs. Lippincott, and whose . birth occurred March 20, 1808; Lehman; Emily, who was Mrs. Ackley, and was born March 17, 1813; Eleanor, wife of Capt. Enoch Brooks, born March 1, 1815; David W., born Dec. 23, 1817; William, born March 4, 1819; Rebecca, who became Mrs. Tracy. born March 21, 1821 ; and Harriet, born Sept. 8, 1823, and who died Nov. 12, 1838, in her fifteenth year. Capt. Blew was an Old-Line Whig in politics, and in later years a Republican, having been the incumbent of numerous offices in the township. He removed to Bridgeton before his death, which occurred at the home of his son Lehman. The latter was born Feb.| 3, 1810, in Deerfield, but removed with his father to Bridgeton when a lad, where his childhood was passed. HIe carly acquired a taste for a scafaring life, and having left school at an early age became funiliar during short cruises with a sailor's life. At the age of eighteen he took command of a sloop belonging to Robert S. Buck, of Bridgeton, sailing from the latter place to Philadelphia, and from that time for years continued both to build and sail vessels. Ifc soon after embarked in the coasting trade, and sailed around much territory, including the United States and the West Indies. This wa- continued until 1865, when he took command of a steamer plying between Bridgeton and Philadelphia, his residence during an interval of twenty years having been at Maurice River, in the same county. Capt. Blew has, within the period of his active career, been much engaged in the building of vessels, in many of which he has an interest. An accident in 1875 deprived him of an arm, since which time he has been devoted to the management of his private business and the cultiva- tion of his farm.


During the existence of the Whig party the cap- tain was one of the most earnest adherents to its principles. He joined at a later day the Republican ranks, and though not one of its active workers, has represented the Third Ward of Bridgeton in the board of frechoblers.


Capt. Blew has been thrice married, first to Miss Sarah Langley, daughter of John Langley, who died June 3, 1852, aged forty-one years. They had one daughter, Sarah L., wife of Capt. II. B. Lake, who was born Nov. 9, 1850. Capt. Blew's second wife was Ann Caroline Seran, daughter of Samuel and Anice Seran, who was born Dec. 11, 1824, and died Oct. 21, 1854, in her thirtieth year. Their daughter Caro-


line was born Jan. 28, 1854, and married Allient Fogg, of Camden, N. J. The third and present wite of Capt. Blew is Lydia A., daughter of John N. Spence, whose birth occurred Jan. 19, 1820, who ... children are Emma D., born Feb. 27, 1861, and mar- ried to George W. MePherson, of Trenton, and Mary Lee, who died Dec. 10, 1872, in her fifth year. Capt. Blew and his wife are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Bridgeton, of which the former is steward and class-leader.


CAPT. SAMUEL PERRY.


Tradition chronicles the fact that Dan, the grand. father of Capt. Perry, emigrated from England and settled in Salem County, where he probably engaged in the cultivation of a farm. He had eight sons, one of whom, Samuel, born May 11, 1779, located in Salem County, and afterwards removed to Cumber- land County, where he followed agricultural pursuits. lle married Mrs. Rachel Simkins, formerly a Mi -- Mills, born Dec. 29, 1778, and had children,-Mary (who was Mrs. Stimson), Sarah (who became Mr -. Ayars), Rachel Letitia (who was Mrs. Maul), Han- nah, and a son Samuel. Three of this number sur- vive. Mr. Perry died at Ireland's Mills, near Bridge- ton, Dec. 24, 1845, in his sixty-third year, and his wife, Sept. 1, 1831, in her fifty-eighth year. Their son Samuel was born March 20, 1817, in Greenwich. Cumberland Co., and early removed to Bridgeton, where his youth was passed. A private school af- forded opportunities for education until his fourteenth year, when he became a member of the family of hi- brother-in-law, and aided in the cultivation of his farm. IFere he remained until eighteen years of age, when a spirit of independence prompted him to seek other fields of usefulness. Sloops were then sailing almost daily from Bridgeton to Philadelphia, upon one of which he sought an engagement, which con- tinned for two years. Ile then followed coasting, first on small vessels running to New York, and later to the Southern ports and the West Indies. He sub- sequently embarked in the coal-carrying trade in the Eastern States. The captain from 1817 until 1872 commanded a vessel, and in the latter year retired from the active pursuit of his voention, though still retaining an interest in sailing-vessels and tug-boats.


Though practically a gentleman of leisure, he find- both healthful exercise and much pleasure in the culture of flowers, in which he is eminently suc- cessful. He in politics indorses the platform of the Republican party, though neither a strong party ad- herent nor an office-seeker. He is a supporter of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Perry i- a member. Capt. Perry was married on the Sth of July, 1869, to Miss Sarah W. Fithian, granddaughter of William Fithian, of Greenwich, who marric.l Mary Clark, and had children,-Charles, Richard, Samnel, Enoch, Sidney, and Ruth. Richard Fithian


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married Ann E., daughter of Charles B. Fithian, who i. the wife of the subject of this sketch. David, of this number, was born Aug. 28, 1780, on hned six sous and two daughters, of whom Sarah W. the homestead in Bridgeton, where his life was de- voted to the cultivation of his lanil. He was an ar- dent Whig in his political predilections, and later a Republican, though not actively engaged in the party WILLIAM DARE. issues of the day, and with no taste for office. He was united in marriage March 2, 1509, to Miss Re- becca Fithian, daughter of Jonathan Fithian, of Deerfield, who was born May 28, 1791, and died Sept. 3, 1839, and had children,-Jane E. (Mrs. E. E. Sheppard), Enoch F. (deceased), Sarah (Mrs. B. F. Garrison, deceased), William, Ephraim (who died in youth), Mary HI. (Mrs. W. J. Banks, deceased). Eph- raim B. (died in youth), Robert H., and Elizabeth R. (died in youth). The death of Mr. Dare occurred April 13, 1863, in his eighty-third year. Ilis son William was born Sept. 16, 1817, at the homestead in Bridgeton. Until his twenty-first year the de- mands of the farm were varied by such advantages of education a- the country afforded. After a Western education aod a fine penman, and became one of the , tour he returned for two years to the farm, and in


The progenitor of the Dare family in South Jersey was Capt. William Dare, who emigrated from the county of Dorset or Somerset, in the south of England, at an early date, and in 1682 built the " Blue Anchor" tavern in Philadelphia, the headquarters of William Penn on the occasion of his landing. He afterwards removed to what is now Cumberland County, and Ang. 3, 1655, he bought one hundred aeres of land in Pack Neck, Fairfield township, and March 19, 1696, he had surveyed for him one hundred acres of cedar swamp on Lebanon Branch, about five miles east of Bridgeton. He is called " matiner" in some of the early convey ances, and doubtless obtained his title of "captain" in a seafaring life. He was a man of good leading men in this community. Ile was appointed sheritl' of Salem County by Governor Cornhury, Dec. 9, 1703, and reappointed Sept. 13, 1704. He was also appointed ranger for Salem County in 1704, captain of company of militia in 1706, and a justice of Salem County Court in 1707, and was reappointed as justice in 1708 and 1710. Hle was a large Jand-owner, among his purchases being two hundred aeres of land at Autuxit (as the region around what is now Newport was then called), where he finally settled, and died there in 1720. He left a widow, Constant Dare, and children, -William (2d), Benoni (see notice of James Dare), Elizabeth, Constant, Sarah, and Robert.


William (2d), son of above, in 1510 bought one hundred acres, part of the Indian Fields tract, about a mile east of Bridgeton (but within the city limits), where he settled. This property remained in the family for five generations until about 1867. He owned large tracts of land and cedar swamp, which he left to his children. lle died in 1749, and left a . widow, Elizabeth, and children, -William (3d), John, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Sarah.


William (3d), son of above, lived on the homestead at Indian Fields, where he died in January or Febru- ary, 1760. His first wife's name was Freelove, by whom he had children, -Mary, William (4th), Levi, Abigail, Freelove, Rachel, and Jonathan. He mar- ried a second wife, Hannah, by whom he left one daughter, Amey.


William (4th), son of above, born Sept. 6, 1736, on the home-tead, where his life was spent, was the grandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He married, Dec. 21, 1768, Miss Elizabeth Rose, who was born Aug. 27, 1744, and died July 9, 1810. IIe died May 26, 1811. They had children,-William (5th), Levi, Ephraim, Jonathan, David, Lemuel, and Eliza- Leth 1 :.


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15411 purchased the Bridgeton and Cape Island stage- line, which includel a contract for carrying the United States mail for three years. At the expiration of this contract, in Is41. he embarked in the manu- facture of lime, at Bridgeton, which was continued until the spring of 1857. In August of the same year he established the firm of Riley & Dare for the sale of fertilizers and farin products, which afterwards became Dare & Mulford. The business was con- tinued until 1977, when he devoted his attention more particularly to the management of his lands and his vessel interests, in which he has been largely en- gaged. In 1877 the Bridgeton water-works were con- structed, Mr. Dare having, as president of the Council, superintended their progress. The political sympa- thies of the subject of this sketch are with the Re- publican party. He has served for three years as collector of Bridgeton township, and nine years as a member of the City Council of Bridgeton, five years of which he was its presiding officer, and was for fif- teen years a member of the township committee prior to the incorporation of the city. Mr. Dare is an active Odd-Fellow, and a member of Cumberland Lodge, No. 35, J. O. O. F. He is also a member of Good Intent Encampment, No. 15, I. O. O. F., of which he has been for thirty-four years treasurer. He is a trus- tce of the First Baptist Church of the city, of which both he and Mrs. Dare are members, and was among the largest contributors to the erection of the South Jersey Institute in that city. Mr. Dare was married June 16, 1846, to Sarab, daughter of Jehn Cleaver, of Port Penn, Del., who died Oct. 18, 1852. He was again married Jan. 31, 1854, to Elizabeth S. Flanagin, daughter of James Flanagin, of Greenwich. By each marriage were two children, all of whom are deceased.




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