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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 77
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 77
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In April, 1873, Rev. A. II. Lewis was elected pas- tor. A parsonage in the village was purchased and remodeled at a cost of about three thousand dollars. Mr. Lewis resigned May 4, 1876. lle was an at- tractive speaker, and was very affable in his manners.
Rev. David H. Davis was settled in May, 1876, and left for the China mission Nov. 1, 1879.
Rev. Theodore L. Gardner took the pastoral charge of the church Dec. 1, 1879, and is still the popular and successful minister.
About the year 1827 a Sabbath-school was organ- ized, and has continued uninterruptedly.
In 1811 the Marlboro Church, just over the line in Salem County, was organized from members of the ' and built the house now owned by Mrs. McBride, one Shiloh Church. Other small colonies have gone west and helped to organize churches of the denom- ination.
Harmony Methodist Episcopal Church. - In the winter of 1857-58 the Methodist Church at Alloways-
town, Salem Co., under charge of Rev. John W. Me- Dougall, were having extra meetings, and nine per- sons from this neighborhood went up to attend thea. became interested, and were converted. A cla-s was formed at Harmony, and Mr. MeDougall, assisted by Mr. Nelson, a local preacher from Alloway-town, preached in the Harmony school-house once a week. Measures were at once taken to build a meeting- house. and on Sept. 14, 1858, a contract was made with Walter S. Gotl' to build a house, thirty-six by fifty feet, before December 25th next, for the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. It be- came an appointment of Salem Circuit, composed of Allowaystown and Nazareth (Watson's Corner) Churches in Salem County, and Roadstown and
this church in Cumberland. In 1859 the ministers ou this circuit were John 1. Carson and Willis Reeves ; in 1860, Carson and William Barnhart. In 18GI it became a station. This charch has always been connected with another church in the services of a pastor, the most of the time with Roadstown.
The ministers who have served the church since it was made a station are: 1861-02, William Stockton ; 1SGS, Charles Kirkbride ; 1864, David H. Schock : 1865-06, Samnel C. Chattin ; 1867, L. O. Manchester ; 1868, J. T. Woolston; 1869, Charles W. Car-on ; 1870, William Pittinger; 1871-73, Jomm S. Gaskill ; 1874-75, Nomer J. Wright; 1876-77, James Meyers ; 1875-79, William A. Lilley; 1880, Levi Ilerr; 1881. C. M. Brittain (expelled in May ) ; remainder of 1851, W. S. Ludlow; 1882, William E. Blackistou; 1883, John B. Whitton. This church is situated in the country, there being no village within several miles, and therefore has no chance to make a rapid growth, but it does well the work found for it to do, and gives the preaching of the word to those who otherwise would seldom hear it.
JONATHAN BOWEN was born in- the township of Hopewell in the year 1737, and was the son of Jona- than Bowen, who died in 1782, at the age of sixty- eight years. He belonged to a numerous family, several of whom emigrated from Swansea, in Gla- morganshire, Wales, to Massachusetts in 1662, with their pastor, the Rev. John Miles. Jonathan Bowen, the elder, was the son of Dan Bowen, who died in 1729, and he was the son of Samuel Bowen, who came to Cohansey from Swansea, Mass., and died about a month before his son Dan. Two others were named Richard and Hezekiah Bowen. They were Baptists, and as such obnoxious to the original Puri- tan settlers of New England.
Jonathan Bowen, the elder, re-ided at Bowentown, of his descendants. Ile had several children. One of them, named David, was appointed sheriff of the county by the royal Governor in 1775, but was super- seded in 1776 by Joel Fithian, elected under the pro- visions of the new Constitution by the people. He
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built the brick house occupied by John S. Holmes, and owned the farm.
The families of Bowen in the county became very numerous. Seth Bowen, son of Dr. Elijah, Sr., and cousin of Jonathan, the elder, was a lieutenant of artillery in the Revolutionary army.
Jonathan Bowen, Jr., appears to have been a man of great respectability and worth. He was elected a member of the convention that adopted the new Constitution of New Jersey in 1776, and also in the sumne year a member of Assembly. He was subst- quently elected to the Assembly seven times, his last service being in 1800. About the commencement of the Revolution he removed to Bridgeton, and became the owner of the property on the west side of the Cohansey, from the Mason line twenty rods south of the bridge to the Ireland Mill property, his west line to Muddy Kun, since called Jeddy's Pond. running along the top of the hill and north of that run, ex- tending west of the Ireland Mill road. His dwelling- house, one of the first erected in the vicinity, long since taken down, stood a few rods northeast of the house lately occupied by E. Collin Woodruff. Ile built the stone house standing on the west side of Atlantic Street, about half-way between Commerce and Broad, and occupied it at his death in IS04.
lle had several children,-two sons, Smith and Daniel, and two daughters, who both married Bacons. He left most of hi- Bridgeton property to his son Smith, born in 1763, who, with Ebenezer Seeley and James Lee, the owners of the land on the east side of the creek, built the dam, now called Tumbling. dam, about 1810, and then sold the property on the west side to Benjamin and David Reeves, who estab- lished the iron-work .. During the war of 1812-15 he owned and occupied the hotel, now Davis'.
The valuable farm at Bowentown, containing more than two hundred acres, was left to his son Daniel, and became the property of his granddaughter, Mrs. McBride, and her sister, Mrs. Souder, now owned by Robert J. Buck.
JOHN BURGIN, born Nov. 30, 1735, was descended from a family of considerable importance in England, the castle of whose head the Earl of Dunbar called Burgin Castle, is situate in the county of Norfolk, a few miles from the town of Great Yarmouth. His coat of arms, a sword and key crossed, with the motio " Sub Spr," has been kept in the American branch of the family. The first emigrant to this country was named John Burgin, who in 1651 mar- sied Mary Winthrop Dudley, of Massachusetts, and came from that province to New Jersey.
John Burgin (3d) had only the education afforded by the country schools of his day, and was by oecu- pation a farmer. He married Elizabeth Abel, dangh- ter of Col. George Abel, and resided most of his mar- ried life on a large and productive farin, situate on the east side of the main road from Road-town to Philadelphia, about a mile north of Shiloh, a part of lution. He had sons, -- Lewis (father of Ehner), Aza
which now belongs to B. F. Elmer, and is still known as the Burgin farm. In 1784 he was elected a mem- ber of the Legislature of New Jersey, and, with the exception of one year, was re-elected every subse- quent year during his life. He died in 1793, and judging from the inventory of his effects made by his executors, amounting to fourteen hundred and twenty- nine pounds, equal to three thousand seven hundred and eighty six dollars, was prosperous in his business.
He had eight children, and was accustomed to say to his friends who complained of the burden of a large family that he considered every child born to him of the value of one hundred pounds.
ELNATHAN D.WVIS was born at Shiloh in the year 1,35, and was the son of Rev. Jonathan Davis, one of the original constituents and first pastor of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church at that place, and was a grandson of Elnathan Davis, who settled at Trenton about the close of the seventeenth century. The family came from Wales to Massachusetts in 1662, in company with Bowen, Bacon, Barratt, and others, some of whose descendants settled in thi- county.
The subject of this notice in May, 1757, married Susanna Bond, of a family originally Friends. He lived on a farm about half a mile southeast of Shiloh, lately owned by his grandson, Dickerson D. Shep- pard, and followed the business of a surveyor. He held the appointment of a deputy of the surveyor- general, was a man of remarkable sagacity, and, con- sidering the imperfections of the instruments in use at the time, his surveys were made with great accu- racy, and are easily followed by those who have sue- ceeded him. He had the largest business of any contemporary surveyor.
About the year 1795 he was employed to survey two large tracts of land, comprising a considerable part of the best portion of Fairfield township, settled by New Englanders nearly a hundred years before, and now occupied and claimed by the descendants, for which suit had been brought by the English pro- prietors.
Ile died in 1502; had ten children, many of whose descendants are living in the county.
AZARIAH MORE, son of Jacob More, was born in Upper Hopewell town-hip in 1789. He was a weaver by trade, and by strict attention to business secured a competency. During the Revolutionary war he was an ardent Whig, and early enlisted in the army. Azariah never married. He lived to a serene okl age on the homestead he had worked to earn. The ac- counts that are recorded of him give him an excellent character. He was a justice of the peace, and was well known in his day and generation as a man of sound judgment. He was remarked for his kindness and benevolence. He died Sept. 6, 1818, in his eighty-third year, and is buried in the Presbyterian churchyard at Greenwich. John, his brother, who died Feb. 22, 1800, was also in the army of the Revo-
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riah ( father of Hon. Robert More), and the late Elder ciples, and local campaigns were occasions of great Jobn More, grandfather of John More Tyler, of Company F, Third New Jersey Volunteers, who was killed in the war for the Union. Besides the latter there were three other great-grandsons of John More (1st) who volunteered in the service of the United States doring the Rebellion, viz. : one from Ohio, one from Iowa, and one from Pennsylvania, the latter dying in the service.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ARCHIBALD MINCH.
Henry and Adam Minch, or Mensch, brothers, sailed from Amsterdam, Holland, between the years 1750 and 1755, and landed in Philadelphia. Henry settled near Lancaster. Pa., and Adam, together with Barbara Kerns, who sailed in the same vessel with him, had their services purchased by John Miller, of Pittsgrove, Salem Co. They were married about the year 1757, and in 1768 purchased a farm of one hun- dred acres in Cumberland County. Their children were Andrew, Susanna, Peter, and Benjamin. Ben- jamin Minch married Hannah Miller, granddaughter of John Miller, and had children, -Elizabeth, Mary (who died in youth), Margaret, Benjamin, Archi- bald, Phoebe, Michael, Benjamin (2d), Richard, and Adam.
Benjamin Minch spent his life in farming employ- ments, and also conducted a saw-mill. His death occurred in 1832, on the homestead. His son Archi- bald was born Sept. 20, 1797, and when a lad at- tended the schools which were accessible from his home. Farming occupations presented many attrac- tions to the youth of that period, who had been sur- rounded with all the accompaniments of country life, and Mr. Minch aided in the cultivation of the home- stead farm until twenty-four years of age. He then became the owner of a tract of land in Hopewell township, of the same county, upon which he settled in 1521, and remained until his death, in 18\2. He married, March 4, 1823, Ruth, daughter of Lewis Moore, of Hopewell, whose death occurred soon after. He married again, Nov. 17, 1825, Nancy, daughter of Peter Minch, brother of his father. Their children are Mary E., born Nov. 5, 1826; Robert, whose birth occurred Feb. 16, 1823, and his death, Dec. 22, 1832; and Francis B., born Sept. 14, 1833.
Mr. Minch was a practical farmer, though the latter years of his life were spent in retirement from active labor. He was one of the charter members and the last survivor among the carly stockholders of the Cumberland National Bank, organized in 1816. He maintained for years extensive business connections, and established a reputation for sagacity and correct judgment. His carly Whig sympathies found ex- pression in the indorsement of Republican prin-
interest to him. He was for successive terms free- holder of his township, and for twenty years its col- lector, as also for year- a member of the township committee, and for fifty-one years collector of the Holmes Banking Company. In his religions views Mr. Minch was a supporter of the worship of the Presbyterian Church. His death occurred on the homestead farm in Hopewell, May 7, 1882, in hi- eighty-fifth year.
LEWIS BACON.
The Bacon family was first represented in America by three brothers, who emigrated from England, one of whom wa's the ancestor of the grandfather of Mr. Bacon, who resided in Greenwich township, and mar- ried a Miss Smith, of Salem County. Their children were Abel, Daniel, William, and three daughters. Ilis son William was born in Greenwich township', where his life was devoted to labor on the land now owned by his son Lewis. He was united in marriage to Mary Hand Bowen, of Bridgeton, and had chil- dren,-William, Mary, Lewis, Jane, Phoebe, Margaret, Sarah, and three who died in youth. Mr. Bacon ad- hered to the platform of the Whig party until the formation of the Republican party, when he indorsed its principles, though not an active worker in its ranks. His death occurred at the homestead, on at- I taining the age of sixty-four years. His son Lewis was born Feb. 8, 1811, at the paternal home in Green- wich township. where he remained for a period of thirty years. He enjoyed during his boyhood the best advantages offered at the schools of the neigh- borhood, and early became associated with his father in the conduct of his farm. He was married in 1840 to Miss Sarah Watson Miller, daughter of Ebenezer Miller, of Greenwich township. Their children are two daughters,-Louisa, who is deceased, and Cath- erine, wife of William R. Knight. Ou his marriage Mr. Bacon removed to a farm in the same township, one and a half miles distant from the homestead, and remained for several years, after which he became a resident of Bowentown, his present home. He has devoted his energies wholly to the improvement of his landed property, and never actively interested himself in the political issues of the day, though in politics formerly a Whig, and later a Republican.
Mr. Bacon affiliates with the Baptist denomination, and is a member and trustee of the Baptist Church of Roadstown, Cumberland Co.
HON. ISAIAH W. RICHMAN.
Henry Richman, the father of Isaiah, was an en- terprising farmer in Pittsgrove township, and married Sarah Mulford, to whom were born children,-Har- Inan, Elizabeth (Mrs. Garret Du Bois), Henry, Joseph,
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and Isaiah. Mr. Richman died on the farm in Pitts- grove, in his fifty-ninth year.
Ilis son Isaiah was born May 24. 1823, at the pa- ternal home, where he remained but a brief time. His father having died when the son was but a year old, he removed with his mother to Philadelphia, and be- came an inmate of the home of his step-father, where he remained until ten years of age. He then returned to Pittsgrove, and until eighteen years of age resided with his brother Harmon. Having determined upon a more active and independent career he, in connec- tion with Albert Van Meter, established at Sharps- town, in the same township, a store for the sale of general merchandise, which business was conducted for one year. lle then sold, and soon after opened a similar store, which was successfully continued for a period of eight years, during which time he was ap- pointed postmaster under the Presidency of Franklin Pierce. He married Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Martha Peak, of Sharpstown, and had children,- Morris P., deceased; Charles, now cultivating the farm in Hopewell township formerly occupied by his father; and Lydia. Mrs. Richman having died, he married again Rebecca P., daughter of Ebenezer Wallen, a native of Cumberland County. After rent- ing for a term of two years, Mr. Richman purchased a farm in Hopewell township, and cultivated it until 1882, when he removed to his present home near Bridgeton. He has as a Democrat held nearly all the township offices, and was, in 1855, elected to the State Legislature in a district which, though largely Repub- lican, gave him an exceptional majority. His brother Harmon also served in the same capacity during the session of 1851. Mr. Richman during his term of service was a member of the Committees on Industrial Schools, Sokher-' Home, and others. lle is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the County Agri- cultural Society, and treasurer of the Montecute Canning-Factory, of Hopewell township. Ile is in religion a supporter of the West Presbyterian Churel of Bridgeton.
LORENZO SHARP.
In Cape May County, N. J., lived and died Isaac Sharp, who emigrated from England prior to the year 1750 and became a farmer. A numerons de- scent from this progenitor of the family are scattered over various points in the United States. One son, John Sharp, located in Downe township, Cumber- land Co., where he purchased an extensive tract of land and engaged in farming and also in lumbering. Ilis children were John, Enoch, Eli, Ephraim, Inly, Margaret, Sarah, and Mary, all of whom are deceased, with the single exception of Ephraim, a vigorous old gentleman, who at eighty-three years still superin- t'ends the cultivation of his farm. John, of this num- ber, was born May 2, 1752, in Downe township, where he was an enterprising farmer. He married Catherine Haley, of the same township, daughter of Jacob and
Elizabeth Haley, who were of German parentage. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp had children, -- Lorenzo, Jobu Page. and William H. Mr. Sharp pursned with vigor his daily routine of labor until his death, in 18449, on the farm formerly occupied by his maternal grandfather. Ilis wite died Feb. 4, 1881, having sur- vived until her ninety-sceond year. Their son Lo- renzo was born March 22, 1822, in Downe township, on the homestead near Mauricetown. His boyhood was fraught with the experiences peculiar to the sons of farmers, and the pleasures of youth, as he ap- proached manhood, were exchanged for the daily rou- tine of toil. This activity was, however, rewarded by possession of the farm on the decease of his father. lle was married Feb. 7. 18444, to Miss Jane, daughter of Isaac Peterson, of Mauricetown. Their children are B. Franklin, a farmer, married to Miss Sallie Daniels, of Cumberland County; Elizabeth H. (Mrs. James N. Bateman, of Cedarville) ; John Howard, also a farmer, married to Julia Townsend, of Cape May County, N. J. ; William W., a mechanic, mar- ried to Miss Anna Bates, of Erie, Pa. ; Mary C. (Mrs. Edward S. Holmes, of Bridgeton) ; Alfred S., a black- smith ; Ella Louisa (Mrs. David Ilitehner, of Hope- well); and Jennie. .
In 1870, Mr. Sharp purchased of David Tomlin a valuable farm near Bridgeton, for which he paid one hundred and fifty dollars per acre, and which, by his energy and knowledge of agriculture, has been ren- dered very productive. This continued to be his res- idenee until the fall of 1889, when he removed with his family to Bridgeton. In his political views, Mr. Sharp was formerly a Whig, and became, on the for- mation of the Republican party, one of its earnest supporters. He has served as a member of the town- ship committee of his township, and held other minor offices. The family have for generations espoused the creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church, John, his father, having been a member of the church of that denomination at Haleyville, and held numerous important offices during his connection with it. Lo- renzo, his son, became a member of this church in 1838, and soon after superintendent of its Sunday- school. He was later one of the stewards of the church at Mauricetown, and is now a member of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Bridgeton, and has been a steward since his identification with it.
ISRAEL WOODRUFF.
The ancestors of Mr. Woodruff are on the paternal side English, while French blood flows through the veins of the family on the maternal side. His father, David Woodruff, was born in 1748, in Cumberland County. Hopewell was his life-long residence, where he early followed his trade of tailor, and later became a farmer. He was four times married. By the first and second marriages there were no children. The third wife, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Zebulon
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Woodruff, had a daughter, Phoebe, who became Mrs. William MeNichols, deceased, of Salem County, and a son, Israel, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Wood- ruff married a fourth time, Miss Eunice Davis, and had one son, Uriah D., deceased. Israel Woodruff was born Nov. 9, 1802, in Hopewell township. When three years of age his father removed to the farm at present occupied by his son, where his early years were spent. After limited advantages of education he devoted himself to farm labor, and his father being an invalid, the care and responsibility of its success- ful management devolved upon him. Before attain- ing the age of twenty the property became his by gift from his father. Mr. Woodruff was married, in 1822, to Rachel S., daughter of William Reeves, of Salem County. Their children are A. Smith, Isaac D., Elizabeth T. (Mrs. William English), and William R. The Woodruff' family have always been strongly Whig in their proelivities, and Mr. Woodruff is now an exponent of the principles of the Republican party, though with no taste for office, which honor he has always declined. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff, their daughter and sons are all members of the West Presbyterian Church of Bridgeton.
JOHN T. DAVIS.
The progenitor of the Davis family in New Jersey was John, who emigrated from Wales to America, and settled on Long Island. He later removed to Salem County, where he resided until his death. In the direct line of descent was Jonathan, great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, whose son El- nathan settled in Trenton, and subsequently removed to Shiloh. He was appointed surveyor-general of South Jersey, and was a member of the commission of six designated to survey and construct the road from Greenwich to Woodbury. Ile married Susanna Bond, and had ten children,-Jonathan, Jacob, Eb- enezer, Jedediah, Samuel B., Jeremiah, Elnathan, and three daughters. He died and was buried in Shiloh, December, 1802, in his sixty-seventh year. Ebenczer was born May 7, 1763, and married Mar- garet, daughter of James Tomlinson, formerly of Pennsylvania. Their children were John T., James, Marin, Jane, and Ebenezer. Mr. Davis was by pro- l'ession a land surveyor, aud resided upon a small farm in Hopewell township. His death occurred March 13, 1827. His son, John T., was born June 4, 1791, in the latter township, and after a limited time in school, at the early age of ten years learned to follow the plow. Since that time, with hardly an interval of rest, he labored assiduously upon the . farm until his seventy-fifth year. In 1865 he re- moved to the village of Shiloh, and having aban- doned active participation in the cares and employ- ments of the farm, retired to the rest and comfort which his industry had won for him.
Mr. Davis, at the age of nineteen, became a teacher and followed this vocation stecessfully for four year .. He was also an instructor in vocal musie, and for thirty years chorister of the church.
Ile was married. March 12, 1812, to Beulah, daugh- ter of Jonathan Davis, and had children .- Emeline, Ami, Louisa, Margaret, Elhannon W., Margaret T., and Amanda H. Mrs. Davis died April 20, 1865, and he married again Miss Melita Robinson, whose death occurred Feb. 17, 1875. On the death of his second wife he married And Maria West, his present wife. Mr. Davis is a Republican, having formerly been a Whig. He has held several minor offices. and also been an officer of militia. Both he and Mr -. Davis are members of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church at Shiloh, of which he was for fourteen years-a trustee and treasurer for the same period.
THEODORE F. DANZENBAKER.
Lewis Danzenbaker, the great-grandfather of the subject of this biography, was born in Germany, and settled in Freasburg, now in Salem County, on his emigration to America, in 1772 or 1773, where he pur- sued farming occupations. Ile had three sons- Lewis, Henry, and George-and three daughters. Lewis, the grandfather of Theodore F., was born in 1789, and died Feb. 15, 1855. lle married Christi- ana, daughter of Michael and Susanna Minch John- son, and had six children,-Michael, Daniel, l'eter, Susanna, George, and Christiana. By a second marriage, to Mrs. Sarah Pierson Dare, widow of Charles Dare, he had one daughter, Sarah, who be- came the wife of John L. Bitters. Peter Danzen- baker was born June 15, 1815, in Ilopewell town- ship. and married May 21, 1837, Martha West. Their children are Charles, who died in youth, and Theo- dore Frelinghuysen, who was born in Hopewell town- ship, April 1, 1847, and in his youth attended the Union Academy at Shiloh until sixteen years of age, when he became a pupil of the Business College of Bryant & Stratton, of Philadelphia, from which he graduated and received his diploma March 17, 1865. He then engaged as book-keeper with the cloth house of Oliver T. Terry, of Philadelphia, and two years later became salesman for Thomas Sheehan & Brother in the same business. ITis health not having proved robust he returned to his home and began the culture of strawberries and onions in Hopewell township. On the 26th of November, 1873, he married Miss . Edith B., daughter of Asa and Rebecca. Colson, of Woodbury, Gloucester Co., and at this time assumed the name of Theodore F. D. Baker, which change was made as a matter of convenience in business. Their children are Charles, born March 1, 1875; Jo- seph Sidney, whose birth occurred Feb. 28, 1877 ; and Edith, born Aug. 7, 1879.
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