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pany A, Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry, who served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged; and Silas, Caroline, Minerva, Jane, and Ida and Emma (twins).
Amos H. Van Horn attended school at Danville, N. J., and at an early age engaged in the furniture business with his father. In 1860 he embarked in business on his own ac- count, as a member of the firm of Van Horn & Holt, which, however, was dissolved upon the breaking out of the war in the following year. Soon afterward he opened a store alone, and, though laboring under adverse circumstances, was able by pluck, courage, and excellent workmanship to win a substantial degree of success. From the beginning of the Rebellion he had cherished strong patriotic senti- ments, and in view of its prolongation he yielded to a sense of duty and enlisted in Company A, Twenty-sixth New Jer- sey Regiment, leaving a boy in charge of his store, which he subsequently sold out. After the return of his regiment in June, 1863, he again engaged in the furniture business, in which he has continued to the present time. His trade has experienced steady development, and he is now at the head of a large and popular wholesale and retail furniture estab- lislnnent, for which he has erected extensive and commo- dions buildings. He is one of the most respected merchants of Newark.
He is a member of Lincoln Post, No. 11, Grand Army of the Republic, of the Newark Board of Trade, of the Lincoln Republican Club of Roseville, and of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
He was married, May 8, 1872, to Miss Emma Clark Wilcox (born in 1842), daughter of James Clark and Hulda Wilcox.
JOSEPH P. BRADLEY, the distinguished jurist, was a lineal descendant of Francis Bradley, who settled in Con- nectient, first at Bradford, near New Haven, and, in 1660, at Fairfield. Francis married Ruth, daughter of John Bar- low, and died in 1689. John Bradley, the eldest son of Francis, had a son Joseph, born in 1701, who, in 1724, mar-
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ried Olive, daughter of Samuel Hubbell, Jr. Their son, Joseph Bradley, married Martha Bates, and, in 1791, moved to Albany County, N. Y., settling on the some- what famous Helder- berg Mountain, where the historie anti-rent riots occurred in after years. Their second son Joseph had a son, Joseph Bradley, 30, who married Mary Wheeler, and their son, Philo, and his wife, Mercy Gar- diner, were the parents of the subject of this memoir.
Joseph P. Bradley was born on a farm in Berne, Albany County. N. Y., March 14, 1813, and received only a com- JOSEPH P. BRADLEY. mon school education. Being the eldest in a family of twelve children, he was early put to work, and from almost childhood divided his atten- tion between the farm and the schools of the neighborhood. When fifteen he began teaching, by which occupation he supported himself while preparing for college. He early manifested the true instincts of a scholar and became espe. cially proficient in mathematics. This last feature in his mental make up was the crowning characteristic of his long and eventful life. He was graduated from Rutgers College with honor in 1836, having, during his collegiate course. conducted an academical school at Millstone, N. J. Shortly afterward he began the study of law with Archer Gifford, then the Collector of Customs at Newark, and also acted as that gentleman's inspector. He was admitted to the bar in 1839, commenced active practice in Newark, and for a time was also the legislative correspondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser. He soon rose to prominence as a lawyer
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and advocate, and became counsel and afterward a Director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company and later the leading counsel and an influential Director of the United Canal and Railway Company of New Jersey. These posi- tions, combined with his great natural ability, gave him a large, varied, and lucrative practice, and within a few years he was recognized as one of the most eminent lawyers of the State. There were few cases of importance in which he did not appear.
In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. In 1858 Governor Newell nominated him successively with five others to the State Senate for the office of Chancellor, and in 1862 he was a candidate for Congress. On March 21, 1870, President Grant appointed him an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to succeed John A. Campbell, of Alabama, who had resigned in 1861. the place having been vacant for nine years. Justice Bradley was assigned to the Southern Circuit, comprising Georgia, Flor- ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and was the only Northerner who had filled the post. In the face of great obstacles he entered upon his long and honorable judi- cial career, and made one of the most conspicuous records in the history of our Federal courts. He was not only placed in a section where Federal law had for years been odious, but in a position which required a knowledge of the civil law of Louisiana, the semi-Spanish law of Texas, and the law of admiralty jurisdiction, as well as a thorough under- standing of the common and equity legal principles. Jus- tice Bradley had become learned in the latter in New Jer- sey; with characteristic energy he applied himself to the former and soon mastered all the principles involved in these various codes. He met the task most completely and satisfactorily, and in Louisiana and Texas was especially ad- mired.
Justice Bradley took part in the settlement of two of the most disturbing questions which ever agitated the people of the country; one was the constitutionality of the law of Congress making Treasury notes legal tender. This had been before the Supreme Court for argument and counsel had been heard; it was again re-argued before a full bench and
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Mr. Bradley delivered the opinion. The other was the con- troversy decided by the Electoral Commission of 1877, of which he was made a member by Congress, and which seated R. B. Hayes in the presidential chair. The part he took in rendering opinions on these questions has been the subject of considerable adverse comment, but it has since become an established and recognized fact that he acted from the highest and purest motives, and could not, in the face of the evidence submitted, have done otherwise than he did. Subsequently history has entirely vindicated his opinions and given him that credit which was justly his due.
He was one of the foundation members, an organizer, and the first Recording Secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, and contributed several papers to its publications, taking an active interest in it until his death. He was not of high stature, nor remarkable for personal presence, but his countenance expressed habitual thought. He was genial, unassuming, kind hearted, and secretly charitable. His love of kindred was intense. He was a great mathe- matician, a great linguist, a great Bible scholar, a great jurist and judge, of distinguished scholarship in history, science, and art, and renowned in everything for thorough- ness and exactitude. He honored his native State and the State of his adoption, and he honored still more the New Jersey bar.
Justice Bradley was married, October 23, 1844, to Mary, youngest daughter of Chief Justice Hornblower, of this State. Their children were Mary Burnet, Caroline. Joseph Hornblower and Harriette ( both deceased), William II. (now dead), Charles, and JJoseph Richard (also deceased). Jus- tice Bradley died January 22, 1892.
CHARLES BRADLEY, of Newark, is the son of Justice Joseph P. Bradley, the distinguished jurist, and Mary Horn- blower, daughter of JJoseph C. Hornblower, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, whose father, Josiah Hornblower, was the builder of the first steam engine in America. On his father's side he is a grandson of Philo
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Bradley, a great-grandson of Joseph Bradley, 3d, a great- great-grandson of Joseph Bradley, 2d, and a great-great- great-grandson of John Bradley, whose father, Francis Bradley, settled in Fairfield, Conn., in 1660.
Mr. Bradley has been a lifelong resident of Newark, N. J., where he was born August 31, 1857. He was educated at the Newark Academy, at the New Brunswick Preparatory School, and at Rutgers College, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1876. Sub- sequently he took a course at the Columbia CHARLES BRADLEY. Law School, Washing- ton, D. C. He spent one and one-half years in the service of the New York custom House and four years in the counting room of H. V. Butler & Co., wholesale paper dealers, of New York City. Since 1883 he has been Secretary of P. Ballantine & Sons, brewers, of Newark. He is a man of acknowledged business ability as well as of marked professional attainments, and a worthy representative of a distinguished race. He is a Trustee of the New Jersey Historical Society, President of the Alumni Association of Rutgers College, and a Director of the New- ark City National Bank, of the Essex Passenger Railway Company, and of the Newark Library Association, and is identified with other organizations. He also holds member- ship in the Essex Club, the Essex County Country Club, the University Club of New York, the University Club of New- ark, the Morristown Field Club, and the Morris County Golf Club.
In public life Mr. Bradley has achieved the same distinc-
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tion which he has won in business affairs. He was a dele- gate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896, and is now serving his third term as State Director of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Companies, hav- ing been elected to that position by the Legislature in 1899, 1900, and 1901. In every capacity he has faithfully and efficiently discharged his duties and won for himself an honorable reputation.
Mr. Bradley was married, April 12, 1882, to Julie E. Bal- Jantine, daughter of Robert F. Ballantine, of Newark, and has four children : Charles Burnet, Robert B., Anne Brown, and Francis Barlow.
EDGAR HOLDEN, M.D., of Newark, N. JJ., was born in Hingham, Mass., in November, 1838, his parents being Asa H. and Ann Lovisa Holden. Dr. Holden's father was a manufacturer. His grandfather was one of the original members of the Order of the Cincinnati, His first ancestor in this country was Justinian Holden, who came over in 1632, in the ship " Elizabeth."
He received his preparatory education at llingham Acad- emy and at James Hunting's Boarding School at Jamaica, 1. 1., and in 1855 he was an assistant teacher in the Rev. J. F. Pingry's Boarding School. He entered Princeton College in the sophomore year, and was graduated from that institution in 1859, receiving from his alma mater the degree of Master of Arts in 1862 and that of Doctor of Philosophy in 1872. In 1861 he was graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, and in the same year was commissioned a surgeon in the United States Navy by President Lincoln. He was com- missioned assistant surgeon in the United States Army in 1865.
Dr. Holden is one of the oldest and most respected mem- bers of the medical profession in Newark. Since 1865 he has held the position of medical adviser of the Mutual Bene- fit Life Insurance Company of that city. He is a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society from the Essex
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Medical District, of the Military Society of the Loyal Legion, and of the Order of the Cincinnati.
In 1861 he was married to Catharine Hedden, daughter of Jotham Hedden, of East Orange, N. J. In 1873 he married Helen Stewart, daughter of John Burgess, of Orange.
BLOOMFIELD L. MILLER, of Newark, N. J., was born in that city December 31, 1849, being the son of Elias New- ton Miller, of Newark, and Sarah Maria (Coates) Miller, who was born in Charleston, S. C. His paternal grand- parents were Jonathan and Electa (Ward) Miller, of New- ark. His maternal grandparents were Joseph S. Coates, of Philadelphia, and Eliza (Scott) Coates, of Charleston, S. C.
He was educated at the Newark Academy and Rutgers College, and after com- pleting his studies en- tered the mathematical department of the Mu- tual Benefit Life Insur- ance Company of New- ark. He was appointed actuary of the company in 1871, being at that time only twenty-one years old, a position in which he continued un- til 1882. He was then appointed mathemati- cian of the company, and has continued as such until the present time. Since 1894 Mr. Miller has also been one of the directors and Sec- BLOOMFIELD L. MILLER. ond Vice-President of the company. He is a charter member of the Acturial So- ciety of America and was its President from 1897 to 1899. and is a member of the Essex Club of Newark and of the Essex County Country Club of Orange.
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Mr. Miller was married, November 5, 1879, to JJennie Og- den, who died August 24, 1880, leaving one child, Jennie Ogden Miller.
JOHN JACKSON HUBBELL, one of the leaders of the Essex County bar, is the son of Algernon Sidney Hubbell and Julia A. Jackson, a grandson of Wolcott Hubbell, and a great-grandson of Matthew Hubbell, who removed from Woodbury, Conn., to Lanesboro, Mass., abont 1765. The family is of good old English stock, having come to the Connecticut Colony in early days, Wolcott Hubbell was a minuteman during the War of the Revolution, fought at the battle of Bennington, guarded some prisoners in the old house after the battle, and took an active part in promot- ing the cause of right and liberty. He was subsequently a member of the Massachusetts Senate and Judge of the County Court for many years.
Algernon Sidney Hub- bell, the youngest of ten children, was born in Lanesboro, Berkshire County, Mass., Novem- ber 22, 1799. He left home at the age of four- teen, resided for some JOHN J. HUBBELL. years in the family of his brother-in-law, Jeremiah Tracy, a prominent merchant of Troy, N. Y., and there attended the academy and read law with Judge Buell. Returning to Lanesboro, he was admit- ted to the Massachusetts bar in 1824, and continued the practice of the law there until 1836, being associated as part- ner with Hon. George N. Briggs, afterward Governor of the
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State. In 1834 he married Miss Julia A. Jackson, of New Jersey, and after serving a term in the Massachusetts Legis- lature he removed to Newark, N. J., where he became a partner of his brother-in-law, John P. Jackson, and after- ward a member of the firm of Armstrong & Hubbell.
He took an active part in promoting the best interests of the city and State, assisting at an early date in organizing the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, the Firemen's Insurance Company, and the Newark Library. The latter had its birth in his office, and he also wrote its charter. In 1846-48 he served in the Legislature, and in 1873 he was ap- pointed by the Governor one of the commissioners to revise the constitution of the State. He was also for years one of the School Committee and a Trustee of the Newark Academy, a leading member of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, and for fifteen years President of its Board of Trustees. In appearance and presence Mr. Hnb- bell was a rare specimen of the courtly gentleman of the old school. Never in public nor private did he forget those exquisite courtesies which mark good birth and breeding. Modest, yet self-respecting, he held his opinions firmly, and always gave abundant proof of study and acquaintance with every important event, whether in church or State. His wife died in 1889. He died April 18, 1891, being at that time the oldest member of the Newark bar. His wife's grandfather, Adrian Van der Linde, was an adjutant in the Revolutionary Army.
John Jackson Hubbell was born in Newark, June 16, 1853, was educated at the Newark Academy and Princeton University, and received a thorough preparation for a pro- fessional life. He read law with his distinguished father and at the University of Leipsic, and obtained the degree of LL.B. from Columbia College Law School. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney at the February term, 1877, and as a counsellor at the same term three years later, and in September, 1896, was admitted to practice be- fore the United States Supreme Court.
Since his admission Mr. Hubbell has successfully followed' his profession in his native city, where he occupies a high place among the leading members of the bar. He has done
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considerable literary work, including magazine articles on travel in Europe, an article on the celebrated Passion Play of Ober-Ammergau for the Newark Daily Advertiser in 1880, and an address on the Battle of Red Bank before the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which organization he is a prominent and active member, and of which he has been Registrar for many years.
AARON PECK CONDIT is a lineal descendant of John Cunditt, who was first known in this country in 1678. In 1689 and 1691 he became the purchaser of two tracts of land in Newark, N. J. He was, in all probability, of Nor- mau descent, but, according to a family tradition, came to America from Wales. Of the truth of this tradition there is no certain evidence. The name spelled Conduitt was known in England early in the sixteenth century. Sir John Conduitt married niece of Sir Isaac Now- ton, and, at the death of that distinguished man, succeeded to a very im- portant office held by him under the English government. le was born in 1659 and died in 1739. The John Cun- ditt who settled in Newark was the first of the name known in America. He was the ancestor of one of the largest, most respect- able, and best known families of the United States. This family has ramified itself into ov- AARON P. CONDIT. ery State of the Union, and has given to the republic statesmen, judges, lawyers, divines, and business men, who have added honor to the
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name and benefited the communities where they have been located. It has so grown in Ohio that a flourishing town in that State has been called by the family name, and, on a regularly appointed day, its representatives, in large num- bers, have there held annual reunions. The main charac- teristics of these people have been a sturdy independence, excellent judgment, sound common sense, downright integ- rity, and adherence to truth and righteousness. These char- acteristics have descended from father to son and are still possessed by those now bearing the name. A strong reli- gious bias has been manifested by them in all their genera- tions, and this has been demonstrated by their custom of giving to their children, in so many instances, names de- rived from the Bible.
There were originally several methods of spelling the patronymic-Cunditt, Cundit, Condit, Conduit, Cunduitt, and Condiet. There are now, however, only two modes used- Condit and Condict. The branch which went to Mor- ris County, New Jersey, and settled there, retain the letter c in the last syllable; all others discard it.
Aaron Peck Condit is the sixth lineal descendant from John Cunditt, first known in this country as a resident of Newark, through his son Peter, who was the first one in America to write the name with a c. The genealogy is thus traced back to the original John Cunditt:
Aaron Peck Condit6 was the son of Samuel Condit5, born March 22, 1798, died October 22, 1864, and Phoebe Peck, his wife, daughter of James Peck. Samuel Condit5 was the son of Samuel Condit+, born Angust 16, 1761, died August 31, 1822, and Hannah Harrison, his wife, daughter of Icha- bod Harrison. Samuel Condit4 was the son of Daniel Con- dit3, born December 27, 1723, died November 11, 1785, and Ruth, daughter of Gershom Williams. Daniel Condit3 was the son of Samuel Condit2, born December 6, 1696, died July 18, 1777, and Mary Dodd, born November 8, 1698, died May 25, 1755. Samuel Condit? was the son of Peter Condit1, died in 1714, and Mary, daughter of Samuel Harrison. Peter Condit1, or Cunditt, was the son of the original John Cun- ditt. Two of these ancestors were patriot soldiers in the Revolution. A tradition, confirmed somewhat by records,
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claims that Samuel Condit? was the first white man who purchased from the Indians any land lying between the Orange Mountains.
Aaron P. Condit was born December 17, 1839, at Orange, Essex County, N. J. Until he was fifteen years of age he attended the public schools at East Orange. He then con- tinned his studies under Rev. David II. Pierson, a distin- guished teacher, who for many years conducted a seminary at Elizabeth. He remained three years with Mr. Pierson, under most delightful circumstances, as Mrs. Pierson was his cousin.
After remaining for four years with his father, on the farm, he moved to Fremont. Ohio, and formed a partnership with his brother, Samuel D. Condit, and carried on a dry goods business under the name of Condit Brothers. Four years later William W. Brant, of Belleville, N. J., was ad- mitted to the firm. Shortly after this Mr. Condit returned to New Jersey because of ill health. At this time he be- came resident buyer for the store in the West, his brother having retired from the business. He also carried on a dry goods business in Mansfield, Ohio, under the name of A. P. Condit & Co. The store was in charge of Captain A. 11. Condit, formerly of Morristown, N. J. In 1875 he re- tired from the dry goods trade, and for the last twenty-five years has been a dealer and broker in the real estate busi- ness in Newark, N. J.
Mr. Condit has been connected with the Republican party since its birth. At the present time he is a member of the Common Council of the Borough of Florham Park, which was a part of Chatham Township, Morris County. He is also on the Republican Committee of that borough. He was made a Master Mason in Brainard Lodge, No. 336, of Fremont, Ohio, and became a Royal Arch Mason in Fre- mont Chapter, No. 64, of Fremont. He was made a Knight Templar in Toledo Commandery, No. 7, of Toledo, Ohio. He is also a member of the New Jersey Historical Society and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution of New Jersey. In 1881 he was transferred to the First Presby- terian Church of Madison, N. J., where he has since been a regular attendant. For nine years he has been one of the
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trustees and for the past four years President of this board.
In 1861 he was married to Sarah Antoinette, daughter of Joseph C. Ward, of Hanover, N. J. Of his five children two died in infancy. Those still living are Henrietta W., Charles B., and Mrs. Chester C. Brown.
TIMOTHY MERRITT WARD, of Newark, was born in Northampton, Mass., September 15, 1842. He is a direct descendant in the eighth generation of William Ward (1), born in 1596, died in 1687, who came from England in 1639 and lived in Sudbury and Marlboro, Mass. William's eldest child, John Ward (2), of Sudbury and Newton, was born in 1626 and died in 1708. His seventh child, William Ward (3), of Newton, was born in 1664, and his eldest child, John Ward (4), of Newton and Grafton, was born in 1690 and died in 1747. Daniel Ward (5), eighth child of John (4), was born in 1732 and died in 1812, having lived in Coleraine, Con- way, Ashfield, and Buckland. He married Hannah Harroon. He was a private in Lien- tenant Ephraim Jen- nings's company of Col- onel David Field's regi- ment in 1777. Ilis sec- ond child. John Ward (6), of Buckland, was born in 1760 and died in TIMOTHY M. WARD. 1846, having been a pri- vate in Captain Dins- more's company, Colonel Woodbridge's regiment, in 1777, in the Revolutionary War. He married, first, February 24, 1784, Rachel Spinny, and, second, March 21, 1792, Lois Cranston. Their ninth child, Windsor Ward (7), of Buck-
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land, born in 1811, died in 1855, was ordained as a minister in the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and held pastorates in Northampton, Buckland, Pel- ham, Chicopee Falls, Blandford, Ware, Webster, and Town- send, in Massachusetts, and at Coventry, Norwich, and Willimantic. in Connectient. He married, October 14, 1832. Lydia Harvey, born in 1810, died in 1886, daughter of Enos Harvey, and had four sons and one daughter, all the sons becoming soldiers in the Civil War. Alanson Harvey Ward (8), born in Coventry, Conn., in 1834, was a captain in the Union Army in the Rebellion in 1862-65, and now resides in Newark, N. J. Edwin Fletcher Ward (S), the second son, born in Norwich, Conn., in 1836, was a surgeon in the Union Army, serving from 1861 to 1865. lle is now a resident of New York City. The daughter, Sarah Jane Ward (8), was born in Willimantic, Conn., in 1839, and now lives in New- ark. Timothy Merritt Ward (8), the third son and fourth child, is the subject of this article. Amasa Dwight Ward (S), the youngest child, was born in Buckland, Mass .. in 1844, became a resident of New York City, and died in 1890. He was a hospital steward in the Civil War, serving from 1861 to 1865.
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