Memorial cyclopedia of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 57

Author: Ogden, Mary Depue
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Newark, N.J. : Memorial History Company
Number of Pages: 980


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He married a Miss Lewis, and they were the parents of five children. He died at Lowell, Illinois, October 22, 1839.


COX, Samuel Hanson,


Clergyman, Educator.


Samuel Hanson Cox was born at Rah- way, New Jersey, August 25, 1793, son of James and Elizabeth (Shepard) Cox, grand- son of Isaac and Susan ( Hanson) Cox, great-grandson of Samuel Hanson, planter, of Delaware, and a descendant of Sir Rich- ard Cox, of England. His father died in 1801, and his mother, with her five children, returned to the home of her girlhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Samuel H. Cox attended school at West- town, near Philadelphia, until 1811, when he entered Bloomfield Academy, New Jer- sey. He afterward studied law in the office of William Halsey, of Newark. Here he organized a volunteer corps of riflemen, who


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served at intervals during the War of 1812. The corps included young men from the best families of New Jersey. He had been born and reared a Quaker, but withdrew from the Society of Friends and joined the Presbyterian church. After a course in the- ology under Dr. James Richards and Dr. James P. Wilson, he was licensed to preach ; and on July 1I, 1817, was ordained pastor of a church at Mendham, New Jersey, where after a successful ministry of more than three years he accepted a call to the Spring Street Presbyterian Church of New York in 1821, removing to the Laight Street church in 1825, where his congregation was made up of wealthy residents of the neigh- borhood. He was one of the founders of the University of the City of New York, and a member of the board of trustees, 1830-35, 1837-38, and with the Rev. Dr. Charles P. McIlvaine was appointed to open the course of instruction with a series of lectures, 1831-32. He was a sufferer from the epidemic of cholera in 1832, but re- fused to leave his post of duty until greatly impaired health forced him to make a voy- age to Europe in 1833. He attended the anniversary in London of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and made a notable speech before that body. On this visit he defended his country against the assaults made by the anti-slavery advocates; but what he heard so wrought upon his mind that upon his return to New York he preach- ed an anti-slavery sermon which was severely criticised. In the controversy in his own church ( Presbyterian) he took a con- servative course, and tried to avert a di- vision on the question of slavery. On other matters of church policy he championed the new-school, while on the question of order and discipline he maintained the old- school tenets. In 1834 he was elected to the chair of Pastoral Theology in the Au- burn (New York) Theological Seminary, resigning in 1837 to accept the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York. He was president of the board


of directors of the Union Theological Sem- inary, New York City, 1840-41. He made his second visit to Europe in 1846, and at- tended the Evangelical alliance in London. In 1846 he was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. Fail- ing health compelled him to resign his pas- toral charge in 1854 and he made his home on a property at Owego, New York, pur- chased through the liberality of his parish- ioners. He was president of Ingham Uni- versity, a school for girls at Le Roy, New York, 1856-63, and a resident of New York City, 1863-69. In 1869 he removed to Bronxville, New York, where he spent the remainder of his life in retirement. The College of New Jersey conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. A. in 1818; Wil- liams gave him that of D. D. in 1825, and Marietta College that of LL.D. in 1855.


He published: "Quakerism not Chris- tianity" (1833) ; "The Ministry of Need" (1835) ; "Memoirs of Evarts, Cornelius Wisner-Introduction" (1835) ; "Thepneus- tor" (1842) ; "Bower's History of the Popes, with Constitution" (1847) ; "Inter- views, Memorable and Useful" (1853) ; and numerous sermons and addresses. He was married, April 7, 1817, to Abiah Hyde Cleveland, of Norwich, Connecticut, and in 1870 to Anna Bacon, of Hartford, Connecti- cut. He died at Bronxville, New York, October 2, 1880.


BROWN, Harvey,


Officer in Mexican and Civil Wars.


Harvey Brown was born at Rahway, New Jersey, in 1795. After a preliminary education in the schools of his native town, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, and was gradu- ated from that institution, July 24, 1818, being commissioned second lieutenant of light artillery.


He served in garrison at Boston, Massa- chusetts, and at New London, Connecticut, and later was placed on commissary duty


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at St. Augustine, Florida. and was also aide- GIFFORD, Archer, de-camp to Major-General Brown. In 1821, when the army was reorganized, he was made second lieutenant of the First Artil- lery, and on August 23 was promoted to first lieutenant. In 1831 he was given the brevet rank of captain for ten years' faith- ful service. He served in the Florida war, in camp in the vicinity of Trenton, New Jersey, on the northern frontier, on garri- son duty, and was present at the principal engagements during the war with Mexico, receiving, for gallantry in the battle of Con- treras, the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel. In September, 1847, he was brevetted colonel for services at the Gate of Belen, City of Mexico, and from 1849 to 1851 he had command of the general depot for re- cruits at Fort Columbus, New York harbor. In January, 1851, he was promoted to major of the Second Artillery, and in 1852 was on duty in Florida, remaining there until 1857, and from then until the Civil War he was on garrison and other duty. In April, 1861, at the beginning of hostilities between the North and South, he was pro- moted to lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Artillery. The following year he was made colonel, and in September declined a pro- motion to the rank of brigadier-general, re- ceiving this rank by brevet, however, a few months later. He was engaged in the re- pulse of the Confederate attack on Santa Rosa Island, Florida, October 9, and in the bombardment of Fort Pickens, November 22-23, 1861, and January 1, 1862. As a military commander in New York City, he was active in suppressing the draft riots of 1863. He retired from active service, August 1, 1863, and the following day was breveted major-general in the regular army. From June 29, 1864, to November 9, 1866. he was in waiting orders, and then served as superintendent of the recruiting service until April 5. 1867. General Brown died in Clifton, Staten Island, New York, March 31, 1874.


Lawyer, Author.


Archer Gifford, for many years one of the prominent and representative citizens of Newark, contributing in large degree to the welfare and development of the section wherein he resided, was born in Newark, in 1706, son of Captain John Gifford, an old settler of Newark, New Jersey.


He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 18144. Entering soon after as a student the law office of Elias Van Arsdale, Esq., he there pursued his studies until 1818, when he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Gifford made a valuable con- tribution to the legal literature of New Jersey in his "Digest of the Statutory and Constitutional Constructions, etc., with an Index to the Statutes at Large." The work shows a vast amount of labor and painstaking. Although nowise an office-seeker, he was in 1836 appointed by President Jackson to the position of Collector of Customs for the port of New- ark, New Jersey, which office he held for twelve years, In 1843 he was elected a member of the common council. For many years he was a prominent member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and made numerous valuable contributions to its col- lections. Of Trinity Church he was for more than twenty years senior warden. and his interest in religious matters is shown by a work written and published by him, entitled "Unison of the Liturgy."


During the greater part of his life he was a man of robust health, and seemed to en- joy nothing better than a walk from New- ark to Trenton, a distance of fifty miles. which he often accomplished in going to and from the sessions of the Supreme Court. The evening before his death he supped cheerfully with his family, and re- tired as usual ; but early the next morning. May 13, 1859, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, he passed away. Among the res-


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olutions passed at a meeting of the Essex county bar, held immediately after his death, we find the following: "Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Gifford this bar has lost one of its most upright, honora- ble and respected members,-one who to great learning in his own profession added large and varied attainments in other branches of literature and science, and to great probity of character and exactness in business transactions added singular kind- ness of heart and the courteous manners of a gentleman in all his relations."


HODGE, Charles,


Clergyman, Educator, Author.


Charles Hodge, D. D., LL.D., was born in Philadelphia, December 28, 1797, son of the distinguished Dr. Hugh Hodge, surgeon in the Revolution, and eminent for his pro- fessional abilities.


Dr. Charles Hodge's early education was received in Philadelphia, and in 1810 with his elder brother, Hugh Lenox, he was sent to Somerville Academy, New Jersey. In the spring of 1812 Hugh entered Princeton and Charles entered the Princeton Academy. He entered college in the autumn of 1812 as a sophomore, and was graduated valedic- torian of his class in 1815. In November of the following year he entered the Prince- ton Theological Seminary, being graduated in 1819. During the winter of 1819-20 he preached at the Falls of Schuylkill, at the Philadelphia Arsenal and at Woodbury, New Jersey. In May, 1820, he was ap- pointed assistant instructor in Oriental Lan- guages at Princeton Seminary, a position he retained for two years. He was ordained November 28, 1821. In May, 1822, the general assembly elected him to the chair of Biblical Literature in the Seminary, and in May, 1840, transferred him to the chair of Exegetical and Didactic Theology, which he occupied until his death in 1878. In 1846 he was moderator of the general as- sembly. In addition to his professional


work he founded, and until 1868 edited, the "Biblical Repertory" or "Princeton Re- view," which under varying names has been issued to the present time, principally as the organ of the Princeton Theological Sem- inary. Dr. Hodge's most brilliant writing was done for the "Review" where he was compelled to defend the old school divinity of the seminary against the advanced move- ments of the day. He is said to have writ- ten nearly one-third of the contents of the forty-three volumes of the "Review" which appeared during his editorial connection with it.


In order to complete his preparation for the great life work which lay before him on his election to the chair of Oriental and Biblical Literature, in 1822, he was sent abroad by friends in 1825 to pursue a course of study in the universities of Halle, Berlin and Paris, returning to America in 1828. In Europe he made the acquaintance of many of the leading theologians of the day, and laid the foundations for the wide per- sonal friendships with foreign scholars which he was to enjoy during the remainder of his lifetime. On April 24, 1872, half a cen- tury after he was made a professor in the seminary, his friends and pupils commem- orated the event by a jubilee gathering which in some respects has had no equal in Ameri- can academic history. Honor was paid him from all parts of the world. He lived in Princeton for seventy years, and died June 19, 1878, in the eighty-first year of his age. He is buried in Princeton cemetery.


Dr. Hodge was a close student and a superbly equipped scholar. The lameness from which he suffered proved perhaps a veiled blessing in that it compelled him to find his recreation amid his books. As a theological author he enjoyed a foremost reputation, won partly by his work in the "Biblical Repertory" or "Princeton Re- view." Assisted by a brilliant corps of fellow writers he placed the "Review" in prominence among the leading quarterlies of the age; it became a great formative


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power in the theology of the Presbyterian church and its career is part of the literary history of the country. Dr. Hodge edited the "Review" from 1825 to 1868, and his massive learning, coupled with the logic clearness and force of his style, won for him his position as a leader in Orthodox Presby- terian thought. But his reputation does not rest on his editorial work alone. His "Commentary on the Epistle to the Ro- mans" issued first in 1835 and again in 1866 enlarged and revised, has been ac- counted one of the most masterly commen- taries in existence, while his "Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in America" (1840) , his "Way of Life" (1841), his "Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians" (1856), his "Commentary on First Corinthians" (1857), and on "Sec- ond Corinthians" (1859). and his great "Systematic Theology" (1871-1873) are monuments to his scholarship, his simple piety and his literary vigor. His "Syste- matic Theology" is the great work of his life. It has been republished in Scotland and was translated in Germany and is uni- versally held in highest esteem as the best exposition of the system of Calvinistic doc- trine known as Princeton Theology. His last book "What is Darwinism?" appeared in 1874. His articles in the "Review" have been gathered into volumes as "Princeton Essays" (1857), and "Hodge's Discussions on Church Polity" (1878), and have taken permanent place in theological literature.


As a preacher, Dr. Hodge was hardly popular save with a specialized academic audience, his manner being unemotional in the extreme and his sermons being always closely read. But as a teacher and a man he was as endeared to his pupils and friends by his simplicity and modest personality as he was revered for his learning. At his jubilee in 1872, when an entire afternoon was taken up with laudatory addresses from representative men and institutions from the world over, his only comment was "I heard it all as of some other man."


In his home he was an affectionate father, sympathetic guide and charming host. A fine conversationalist, he abounded in humor and anecdote and was a master in the art of listening. Although his academic relations largely compelled him to appear a contro- versialist in public, yet his personal sym- pathies went beyond the narrow confines of Sect. It has been well said that he gave his sympathy to all good agencies. Historically in the Presbyterian church he is ranked rather as a defender of the traditional Cal- vinistic theology than as a constructive or progressive force. He received the degree of D. D. from Rutgers College in 1834 and that of LL.D. from Washington and Jeffer- son College in 1864. He was a trustee of Princeton University from 1850 until his death.


He married (first) June 17, 1822, Sarah Bache, daughter of William and Catherine (Wistar) Bache. Catherine Bache was a sister of Dr. Caspar Wistar, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania. William Bache was a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Mrs. Sarah (Bache) Hodge died December 25, 1849, aged fifty-one. On July 8, 1852, Dr. Hodge married (second) Mary Hunter Stockton, died February 28, 1880, widow of Lieutenant Samuel Witham Stockton, United States navy. She was a daughter of the Rev. Andrew Hunter (Princeton, 1772), professor at Princeton and chaplain of the navy yard at Washing- ton. D. C.


Dr. Hodge's children by his first wife were: I. Archibald Alexander, born July 18, 1823. 2. Mary, born August 31, 1825. married, 1848, Dr. William M. Scott, pro- fessor at Centre College, Kentucky, who died 1861. 3. Casper Wistar, born Febru- ary 21, 1830. 4. Charles, born March 22. 1832, died 1876, graduate of Princeton, 1852, a physician, M. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1855. 5. John. born 1834, of South Amboy, New Jersey. 6. Catherine Bache, born August 31, 1836, married Dr. McGill. 7. Francis Blanchard, born Octo-


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ber 24, 1838, died May 13, 1905, a graduate of Princeton, 1859, minister at Wilkes-Barre and trustee of Princeton University, mar- ried Mary Alexander, daughter of Profes- sor Stephen Alexander, of Princeton. 8. Sarah, born 1840, married Colonel Samuel Witham Stockton, of Princeton.


RYALL, Daniel Bailey,


Lawyer, Legislator, Congressman.


Daniel Bailey Ryall, one of the most dis- tinguished and highly regarded lawyers who ever practiced in the courts of Mon- month county, was a native of New Jer- sey, born in the city of Trenton, January 30, 1798, son of Thomas and Rebecca Ryall.


He was educated in his native city, in the public schools and an academy, and at an early age took up the study of the law under the office preceptorship of Hon. Garret D. Wall, at that time the leader of his profession in the state. He was a most diligent student, and profited to the utmost by the profound legal learning of his pre- ceptor. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in September, 1820, and in the same year located at Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth county, and en- tered upon the practice of his profession. He brought to his tasks a well balanced mind, a thorough knowledge of practice, sound practical common sense, integrity of character, habits of application, and in-


domitable energy. He soon acquired a . erence to his death, the Hon. Joel Parker


lucrative practice, and retained it for thir- ty-five years, when he retired from active labor, leaving the profession with a most enviable record. He had really loved his profession for its own sake ; moreover, he was not only loyal to his clients, but be- came engrossed in the causes committed to him, as though they were his own per- sonal concern. He was absolutely free from jealousy of professional rivals. If, in the course of an exciting trial, an angry word or an unguarded expression inter-


rupted the amicable relations between him- self and a contesting practitioner, he was the first to renew the friendly greeting with a smile, a pleasant word, and the out- stretched hand. He was genial in his inter- course with his professional brethren, and was especially friendly with his younger associates, delighting to relate to them incidents illustrating the characters of the learned and eloquent counsel with whom he had been associated in his earlier years.


Mr. Ryall was called to fill important po- sitions in both the State and national councils. He was for several successive years a member of the New Jersey legis- lature, and during his service held the of- fice of speaker of the Assembly. Subse- quently he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, and he discharged the duties of that position honorably and with marked ability.


He married, September 18, 1822, Rachel Bray Lloyd, daughter of Caleb and Mar- tha A. Lloyd ; she died July 1, 1825, leav- ing two children,-Caleb Lloyd and Wil- liam Scudder. Mr. Ryall married (second) Juliet Phillips Scudder, daughter of Joseph and Maria Scudder ; she died February 8, 1852; their children were: Louisa Scudder, Edward Hunt, William Scudder, Thomas Wall and Philip Johnston.


Mr. Ryall died at Freehold, December 17, 1864. At a meeting of the Monmouth county bar, called to take action with ref- delivered a heartfelt panegyric, in course of which he said :


You all know what fears of failure, what anxiety for success, agitate the mind of the young advocate when about passing the ordeal of his first case in court. I well remember my emotions as I took my seat for the first time at this table, and found that Mr. Ryall, the oldest member of the bar, was the oposing counsel. Principles of law applicable to the case, and almost every fact upon which I had relied upon


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for a favorable decision, fled from my memory. But there was no attempt on his part to take advantage of my agitation and inexperience. On the contrary, a certain kindness of tone and manner was mani- fested that soon restored confidence. After- wards he took occasion to speak kind words of encouragement, so grateful to ambitious youth just entering the thres- hold of active life. The circumstance im- pressed me deeply, and when, in subse- quent years, doubt and despondency occa- sionally arose, memory reverted to those cheering words, which had perhaps been forgotten by the friend who spoke them ; and now that I am here, after the lapse of more than twenty years, to join with you in mourning his departure, that scene and those words come to my mind as vividly as if they were the events of yesterday.


COREY, Ashbel Wheelock,


Lawyer, Man of Enterprise.


Ashbel Wheelock Corey, an eminent and successful member of the legal fraternity, was a native of Caldwell, Essex county, New Jersey, born February 12, 1798. His father was from Connecticut, and his mother was Lydia (Harrison) Corey, of Caldwell.


He applied himself at a very early age to reading and study, showing a remarkable aptitude for mathematics. His earnest de- sire to improve his mind attracted the atten- tion of the pastor of the church which his parents attended, the Rev. Stephen R. Grover, who afforded him every encourage- ment, and even became his instructor in the Greek and Latin languages, in both of which he made considerable advances. In time he became a student in the office of Hon. Silas Whitehead, clerk of the county of Essex, and, having read law during the prescribed term, applied for examination and was admitted to the bar in February, 1826. He then established himself as a practi- tioner in Newark, New Jersey, and soon, by


reason of his remarkable intelligence and energy, gained a high reputation as a law- yer. In the spring of 1827 he became asso- ciated in practice with the late John P. Jackson, a partnership which continued for a short time. Mr. Corey took a great in- terest in securing the charter of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Com- pany, and, as soon as that charter had been granted by the Legislature in 1832, he took an active part as one of the commissioners in obtaining subscriptions to the capital stock. This was accomplished by May 3rd of the same year, and on the fourth of the following month he was elected one of the board of directors of that corporation. His great activity did not allow him to be a mere looker-on in this enterprise. Although as early as September, 1834, regular trips were made upon the road between Newark and New York, yet the "Bergen Cut" was not completed until January, 1838. The rapid furtherance of this work seemed to absorb all the time and attention of Mr. Corey, and he left nothing undone to bring this important undertaking to a speedy and successful termination. Scarcely a day passed that he was not upon the ground hastening the operations by his advice and presence. It is supposed that in this way he laid the foundation of the disease under which he suffered during the latter years of his life. Hoping that a Southern climate might re- store his health, with his family he spent two successive winters in the West Indies, but with no good results, and he finally died of consumption, May 9, 1839.


He was fond of agriculture, and upon his settlement in Newark purchased some farms in fine locations which upon the growth of the city were occupied by some of the most elegant buildings in the State. In 1827 he married Anna Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Caleb W. Bruen, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, the elder daughter, Anna Elizabeth, became the wife of George T. Baldwin, of Newark, New Jersey.


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GOBLE, Dr. J. G.,


Physician, Enterprising Citizen.


Dr. J. G. Goble, who was a distinguished and skillful physician, and who was also a firm friend of public-school education, do- ing all in his power to give popularity to the cause and to elevate the standard of learning, was a native of Newark, New Jersey, born November 13, 1799, the son of Luther Goble. His father having des- tined him for one of the learned profes- sions, great pains were taken with his early education, and when properly prepared he was sent to Hamilton College, from which institution he was graduated in 1819. Soon after he entered, as a student, the office of Dr. Isaac Pierson, of Orange, New Jersey, and subsequently became a pupil of Dr. David Hosack, of New York. His degree of M. D. was received from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of that city, where, while a student, he distinguished himself as a member of the Medico-Chirur- gical Society.


Soon after graduation, Dr. Goble began the practice of medicine in his native town, and rapidly acquired the reputation of a skillful and successful physician. For several years he filled the office of resident physician of Newark, a position which at that time imposed upon him the duties and responsibilities at present shared by the health physician, the district physicians, and the jail physician. During his medical career Dr. Goble was warmly attached to his profession, and left nothing undone which could add to its dignity and useful- ness. He was a prominent and active mem- ber and officer of the District Medical So- ciety of Essex County, the meetings of which he not only attended with great reg- ularity, but which he always sought to ren- der pleasant and profitable. To the State Medical Society he was repeatedly sent as a delegate, and of that body he was succes- sively a member of the standing committee, corresponding secretary, vice-president,




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