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Frederick I. Stults, Jr., has passed his entire life in South Amboy, where he received his educational discipline in the public schools. After leaving school he was.
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for two years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, after which he became a salesman in the mercantile establishment of the firm of Steiner & Salz, of this village, being thus engaged for a period of two years. Soon afterward he began reading law in the office of A. A. Chambers, devoting his time to technical study under this able preceptor for two years. An ardent and uncompromising Republican in his political proclivities, Mr. Stults early began to take an active interest in public- affairs of a local nature, and in 1899 he was induced to accept the nomination for the office of justice of the peace, being triumphantly elected at the polls for a term of five years, and the proper endorsement at the time being pronounced, since he ran ahead of his ticket. Of his official career the following mention is made in a news- paper article published about the time of his completion of his second year in his- present incumbency : "During his two years in office Justice Stults has done all kinds of business that falls to the lot of a justice of the peace. He has twice performed the marriage ceremony. He has given judgment in two hundred and sixty-eight civil suits. Only two appeals have been taken from his decisions. In one case a jury in the upper court sustained him. In the other, court after court was invoked by the appellant until finally the court of errors and appeals was reached, and there the South Amboy justice was upheld. When he was elected Justice Stults defeated Henry M. Thomas, who had held the office fifteen years."
Mr. Stults holds membership in the Lincoln Club, a political-social organization; in the Lincoln Club and Battery, a local political club; in the volunteer fire depart- ment ; and the Crescent Club, while fraternally he is identified with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, in which he has passed all the official chairs, also rep- resenting his lodge in the state council of the order; and with the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America, enjoying marked popularity in each of these organizations, as does he also in the general business and social circles of his native town. Mr. Stults is a young man of high principles and exemplary habits and well merits the high esteem in which he is held in the community. His knowledge of the law makes him specially capable in the administration of the duties of his office, and his course has been marked by signal justice and impartiality. He has fine literary tastes and appreciation, and in addition to acting as correspondent for various newspapers he has written a number of poems of distinct merit.
On the 13th of May, 1901, Mr. Stults was united in marriage to Miss Emma B. Stratton, who was born in Chili, New York, being the younger daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Thomas R. Stratton, he the late pastor of the Second Methodist Episcopal church in Lockport, New York.
GEORGE C. BENNETT.
George C. Bennett, a sturdy product of the New Jersey coast, was born near Avon on August 5, 1861, the son of Jacob and Margaret Bennett. Such knowledge as he acquired in his boyhood was received at the public schools; these days were spent on his father's farm, where the lad gained physical and mental strength day by day, which amply fitted him for the rigorous life he was to lead in manhood. In 1890 he went to Asbury Park, where he thought there would be a larger demand for oysters, in which business he had decided to embark. He was not mistaken in his theory, for he has found a ready sale among a large patronage for the dainty shell- fish he so successfully raises ; his store is situated at No. 411 Bond street, Asbury Park.
Politically Mr. Bennett is a true Democrat. His fraternal affiliations are with: 27
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Asbury Council, No. 23, Jr. O. U. A. M., and with Corinthian Castle, No. 47, Knights of the Golden' Eagle. He was married October 19, 1879, and his children are: George Lewis, born July 13, 1880; Olena, born January 8, 1883; and Walter J., born March 28, 1886.
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JAMES C. YOUNG.
James C. Young, one of the prominent business men of New Jersey, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1859, a son of George W. Young, the president of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company. James C. Young acquired his early edu- cation in the public schools of Jersey City, and later this was supplemented by a course in Cooper Institute, New York, from which institution he was graduated. Immediately after his graduation he commenced his business career in a real estate office, and later engaged in the real estate business in Jersey City on his own account. Three years ago his father became associated with him in the management of the business, and they purchased three hundred and eighty-five acres of land at what is now known as Deal Beach. It is located within the township of Ocean and the borough of Deal, New Jersey. They have been instrumental in making vast improvements there, such as the laying out of twenty thousand feet of streets, the building of ten thou- sand feet of sewers, and at the present time (1902) they contemplate the construc- tion of water works. They have already disposed of a number of plots, and the Mon- mouth Deal Golf Club and Links are located on one hundred and twelve acres of this tract.
Mr. Young was formerly the president of the Register & Transfer Company, and he acts in the capacity of president of the Continental Investment Company, which owns Deal Park, and he is also the vice-president of the National Realty Com- pany of Jersey City. He has an interest in the American Chicory Company, the Chewing Gum Trust, the American School Company and the Standard Chain Com- pany. Mr. Young has always been an ardent adherent of the Republican party, and he takes an active interest in all political affairs. He was chosen to represent Hud- son county in the Republican state committee. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Cortelyou Club, the Yale Golf Club of Jersey City, the Union League Club of New York and the Jersey City Athletic Club.
Mr. George W. Young, father of James C. Young, is the owner of a beautiful residence, known as Oakwood farm, situated in the tract of land which is owned jointly by father and son. It was formerly the property of the late Thomas Murphy, collector of the port of New York during General Grant's first administration. During his occupancy of it many noted politicians and capitalists were entertained there. When Mr. Young acquired the property he became so much interested in its historical associations that he caused a search to be made of former titles to the land, and as a result now has in his possession a copy of an Indian deed for a large tract of land embracing a considerable portion of his estate. The deed is in the names of three chief sachems of a tribe of Indians who inhabited the country along the sea coast and were probably a branch of the Delawares. It is dated at Long Branch, April 6, 1687, and disposes of a tract of land "lying within the branches of a great pone called by the said Indians Wickapecko and bounded by Thomas Potter and Samuel White on the north side, by the pone on the east, the immediate southmost brooke and branch on the south, and by a line of marked trees on the west, on the Skirts of the Pine Hills, which land above written with the meadow of the two small pones on the south side of the Great Pone Wee." The consideration of the grant was
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"One gun. five Match Coats, one Kettle and two pounds weight of Powder in the hands. of the said Gawin Drummond." Mr. James C. Young resides, in a handsome, commodious residence, which he has erected to suit his tastes and requirements near Deal Station, New Jersey.
CHRISTOPHER HISER.
Christopher Hiser, a soldier of the Civil war and a substantial farmer of Free- hold township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, was born October 14, 1837, in Mid- dlesex county, New Jersey, son of John and Elizabeth (Morris) Hiser. His father was a farmer in Morganilla, Middlesex county, New Jersey, where he was born in 1818. He moved to Marlboro township in 1849 and reared a family of five boys and five girls, two of whom, George and John, are farmers in Monmouth county, and Albert lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Four daughters are married, Mary Elizabeth is now Mrs. John Morris, Irene is Mrs. J. McPett, Anna is Mrs. Dennis Sweeney and Ella is Mrs. Elias Bover.
Christopher Hiser attended the district schools of his native town and grew up to agricultural life upon his father's farm. When the Civil war broke out he responded to the first call for volunteers and was mustered into service September 20, 1861, in Company C, Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, at Bordentown, New Jersey. He went with his regiment to North Carolina, at Roanoke Island, and afterwards to Hilton Head, South Carolina, and was in this service from 1861 to 1864. The first year of his service he was stricken with typhoid fever, but after his recovery returned to his command. In September, 1864, he was mustered out of service, having been with his regiment the entire period from his enlistment, except when laid up in the hospital with a gunshot wound in the right arm, received at Goldsboro, North Caro- lina. Returning to his home in Marlborough township from the war he followed farm- ing until 1878. He then relinquished farm life and engaged in the candy business, which he has conducted ever since, for the first eleven years, from 1878 to 1889, at Jamesburg, New Jersey, and since then at Freehold. He is-a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and has always been a stanch Republican.
In 1867 he was married to Maggie Holmes, who died in 1876. Two children were born to this union, William A., living at East Liverpool, Ohio, surviving. In 1881 he was married to Mary Ella Irving, of Englishtown; three children have been born to them, Loura E., Arthur C., deceased in 1890, and John B. The parents of the present Mrs. Christopher Hiser, on both sides, are natives of Monmouth county.
HUGH S. KINMONTH, M. D.
Hugh S. Kinmonth, M. D., one of the prominent physicians of Asbury Park, New Jersey, is descended from Scotch ancestors, his grandfather, John Kinmonth, having emigrated to this country from Dundee, Scotland in 1823. He married Anti Taylor, and seven children were born to them, namely: Sandy, Hugh, John, Jeanette, Mary, Isabel and Catherine Kinmonth.
Hugh Kinmonth, the second son of John Kinmonth, was the father of the Doctor ; he was born in Scotland in 1803, and accompanied his parents to this country about 1835, locating at Kortright, Delaware county, New York, where he turned his attention to farming. He married Elizabeth Lyle, daughter of David Lyle, of Forrest,
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Scotland, and the following children were born to them: John T., Mary Amelia, deceased, Anna B., David Lyle, deceased, Hugh S., Elizabeth J., Mary Amelia, de- ceased, and William L. Kinmonth. Mrs. Kinmonth died on October 20, 1853, and Mr. Kinmonth took for his second wife Jeanette Lawson; three children were born of this union, namely: Margaret H., Mary R., and James Ena, all of whom are deceased. Mr. Kinmonth passed away on May 30, 1876.
Dr. Hugh S. Kinmonth, third son of Hugh and Elizabeth Kinmonth, was born on January 31, 1848, in Kortright, Delaware county, New York, where he acquired his education and spent the early part of his life. When he attained the age of sixteen years he entered the army during the war of the Rebellion as a bugler, and served for two years in Company I of the Thirteenth New York Cavalry Regiment, and continued in the service until the conflict was ended. Upon his return to his native town he resumed his studies at the Andes Academy in Delaware county, subse- quently being engaged in teaching. He commenced the study of medicine in 1867 with Doctors Fitch and Buckley, of Delhi, New York. He attended the lectures given in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, from which he was graduated in the early part of 1870. He became a resident of Asbury Park in 1872, being the only physician there for quite a period of time. He has been prac- ticing his chosen profession continuously since 1872, and now enjoys a large and lucrative practice.
Dr. Kinmonth was the founder and acted in the capacity of editor for two years of the "Shore Press." He possesses a large amount of real estate in Asbury Park, and naturally is greatly interested in everything that pertains to the advancement and interest of that beautiful seaside resort. Politically he is a Democrat, and although never seeking public office, he was very prominently spoken of for congressional honors in the fall of 1884. Fraternally he is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Hobart, New York.
In 1876 Dr. Kinmonth was united in marriage to M. Adele Kenney, daughter of the Rev. Edward J. Kenney, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Kinmonth was a woman possessing excellent mental abilities, and was prominently identified with literary work. She took an active part in organizing the Ladies' Literary Society of Asbury Park, and was selected as its first president ; she also was a consistent Christian worker in the community. Her death occurred January 31, 1882.
REV. JOSEPH S. CLARK.
Among the prominent and well known citizens of Belford, New Jersey, is Rev. Joseph S. Clark, who not only is a successful and progressive business citizen but is- also the beloved pastor of the Pentecostal church in this village.
The birth of Mr Clark was on August 4, 1865, in Belford, where he has lived a worthy life and is now surrounded by friends who have known him from his earliest years. The greater number of the young men who have grown up on the coast engage in fishing or kindred pursuits, and until 1892 our subject was one of these, leaving it to succeed Mr. J. S. Compton in the lumber, coal, hardware and paint busi- ness. The latter had been a merchant in this village for forty-one years and the business was one that had its foundations laid when the flourishing town was but a hamlet.
During the year 1893 a religious revival took place in Belford and vicinity, many being convinced of the truths of Christianity under the eloquent pleadings of Rev.
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Lippincott, who was an earnest and convincing preacher of the Methodist faith, and : among those who were influenced was our subject, Joseph S. Clark, the immediate result of this conversion being his admittance into the folds of that church as a local preacher and exhorter. Being a man of strong convictions and fearless in thought and action, also being a man of deep thought and reflection, he soon felt the bonds of the Methodist church were too tightly drawn for the full exercise of his belief, therefore he severed his connection with it, as many other good and holy men have done before, and will do again, and joined the Pentecostal church. In this he was ordained minister in June, 1897.
A church building had been begun in the year prior to this and as soon as it was completed Rev. Joseph S. Clark was installed as its pastor, although at that time the congregation had but a few faithful members. Now the congregation numbers one hundred, and the Sunday-school, under his wise and energetic direction, consists of eighty interested children. Mr. Clark has won the love and confidence not only of his own flock but he is highly esteemed through the community.
The fellow citizens of Mr. Clark have honored him at various times with political offices, making him school trustee for a period of six years, and for four years he was highway surveyor. Thoroughly competent and conscientiously exact, he filled these offices with great satisfaction to all concerned.
Mr. Clark was married in June. 1886, to Miss Jessie Lohsen, who was born in Belford, in 1869, the marriage being performed by Rev. J. Guinn, and she was a daughter of M. C. Lohsen, a well known resident. Two children have been born to this union, namely: Effie B. and Harrison M.
JOHN THOMSON.
John Thomson, a leading business man of Avon, New Jersey, active in municipal affairs, and a prominent member of various fraternal organizations, is a native of Scotland, and is an excellent specimen of the rugged manhood of that country, which is as distinguished for its men of great accomplishments as it is for its poets, his- torians and philosophers. The Scotchman who does not, make a model American citizen is a rarity, and it was Scotch-Americans who fought for the union of the states during the Civil war, who have placed, in Edinburgh, side by side with the statute of their great author, David Hume, that of our own great Lincoln; it was not far from where Mr. Thomson was reared, and he came to America in his young manhood, proud to become a citizen of that nation which he had learned to regard so highly.
He was born December 9, 1864, in Lochee, Scotland, son of John and Margaret (MacIntoch) Thomson. In his native town he acquired a common school education and learned the trade of butcher, which he followed until he came to the United States, in May, 1882, when he was eighteen years of age. He located in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he was for a year in the employ of Mr. Sexton, an undertaker. He then spent a year traveling through the southern states, but neither climate nor conditions were suitable to his disposition, and he returned north, locating at Avon, New Jersey. For a time he was employed by a company engaged in street grading in the village. In 1884 he formed a partnership with William P. White, and the two opened a meat market, which they managed for two years, in the meantime having also established another market in Asbury Park. In 1888 his partner retired and Mr. Thomson succeeded to the sole charge of the business in both places. His
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market in Avon is located at Sylvania avenue and Main street, and that in Asbury Park at No. 19 South Main street. His business is among the most useful and ex- tensive at either of these points, his trade extending to the hotels and boarding places 'in both towns.
While 'held in high esteem as a business man, Mr. Thomson is also recognized as an enterprising, progressive citizen of the representative type, and he has long been prominently connected with municipal affairs. He rendered excellent service for the long period of six years as a member of the borough council of Avon, and in 1901 he was elected to the mayoralty of the village for a term"of two years. As a public official, his conduct has been dominated by a public spirit which at once recognizes the demands of progress and the obligations due to the taxpayer in avoidance of ex- travagance, and his service has been approved by his constituency to the fullest degree. In politics he is a Republican, and he is looked to as a leader in the party. He is chief of the Avon fire department, and he is a member of Ocean Lodge, No. 89, F. & A. M., of Belmar, New Jersey; of Monmouth Lodge, No. 107, Knights of Pythias ; and of Tecumseh Tribe, No. 60, Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Thomson was married March 18, 1886, to Miss Olive M. White, daughter of Charles P. and Catherine White, of Avon. The children born to them were: Kathryn, January 7, 1887 ; Charles W., June 4, 1889; Marion, June 17, 1891 ; and Edward Hill McCray, May 9, 1895.
JOHN REID.
Among the loyal sons of Monmouth county who went forth to battle for the Union in the war of the Rebellion was John Reid, and throughout his life he has manifested in the discharge of his duties the same zeal that he displayed when on southern battlefields he followed the stars and stripes to victory. He well deserves mention in this volume among the representative men of New Jersey, and it is with pleasure that we present 'his life record to our readers.
John Reid was born in Jerseyville, Howell township, Monmouth county, on the 29th of May, 1835, and is a son of Peter and Jane Reid, also natives of that city. The father, who also followed the tilling of the soil, died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1846, while his wife passed away in the same city ten years later. The paternal grand- (father of our subject, Thomas Reid, was also 'a native of Jerseyville, Howell town- ship, and there followed agricultural pursuits throughout his entire business career. He was a Revolutionary hero, as was also the maternal grandfather, John Matthews. The district schools of Howell township afforded to our subject his educational privileges, and when a boy he began work on his father's farm near Blue Ball, having ever since been engaged in the tilling of the soil. In 1866 he became the owner of the land on which he now resides, where he is engaged in general farming, and his possessions are a monument to his thrift, the forethought, sound judgment and enter- prise which form the elemental strength of Mr: Reid's character having brought to him a well merited prosperity. In August, 1862, he offered his services to the Union cause, becoming a member of Company D, Fourteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volun- teer Infantry, of which he was appointed second sergeant. He remained with his company until wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, on the Ist of June, 1864, receiv- ing a ball in the right leg, below the knee, and at that engagement he was also taken prisoner. He was incarcerated in Libby, Andersonville and other southern prison pens until June 16, 1865, when with the other . prisoners he was abandoned by the Confederates about ten miles from Jacksonville, Florida, because of the surrender of
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Lee's army and the termination of the war. From that point he made his way to the Union lines.
Mr. Reid was first married in 1858 and by this union had the following children; Mary Jane, Henry, Joseph, Eleanor, Flora and Howard. The wife and mother was . called to the home beyond in 1872, and in May, 1874, Mr. Reid married, Sarah Mat- thews, who is also deceased, passing away in 1893. By his second wife he became the father of three children: Samuel, who was born in 1876; John, born in 1878; and Morris L., born in 1890. For his third wife Mr. Reid chose Ann Baker, their wedding having been celebrated in 1894. Mr. Reid has ever taken an active and commendable interest in the welfare of his locality, and for the past eleven years he served as postmaster at Ardena, He is a charter member of Asbury Park Post, G. A. R., in which he maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades of the blue, while of the Baptist church at Ardena he is also a worthy and zealous member.
JOSEPH E. REED.
Joseph E. Reed, a resident of Oakhurst, New Jersey, and a practical carpenter and builder, well and favorably known throughout that section of the country, was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, on May 16, 1852. He is the son of Lorenzo and Amelia (Scull) Reed.
Our subject was reared and received his early education in his native county, where he also acquired the trade which he has since followed and so thoroughly mastered. It was in 1882 that he took up his residence in Oakhurst, where he pur- chased a plot of ground and erected a house, according to what he wanted his home to be, and certainly it is one in which any man might feel a pardonable pride, The other necessary buildings about the place are all fitted up suitable for their various purposes, the whole presenting a neat and attractive appearance.
As a business man Mr. Reed can be classed with the successful; he has a wide circle of patrons, and his business is constantly on the increase. Socially Mr. Reed is affiliated with the Jr. O. U. A. M., and also is a member of the I. O. R. M.
In 1874 Mr. Reed was joined in marriage to Miss Lizzie, daughter of Joseph and Mary Loveless, of Burlington county. To this minion were born Joseph L., Millissa and Harry W. The death of Mrs. Reed occurred on April 16, 1900, since which time the brightness seems to have gone out of the home for both father and children.
WILLIAM B. PARKER.
William B. Parker, who resides on a farm situated between West Long Branch and Eatontown, is descended from an old and prominent family of Monmouth county. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Parker, was born September 15, 1794, and was en- gaged in following the sea, running between the ports of Red Bank and New York. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Hannah Caster, was born on the 7th of December. 1784, and her ancestors took an active part in the struggle for independence. Their family consisted of the following children : John C., who was born January 30, 1812, diedi in the following year ; John C., the second of the name, was born November 3, 1813; H. B. was born December 6, 1815. died in 1890; Margaret A., born February 20, 1818; William B. was born May 20, 1820; Asher S. was born October 8, 1822; Mary J., born April 25, 1825, died in 1826; Joseph I., born in March, 1827, died in 1838;
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