The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 18

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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ANEWAY, GEORGE J., A. M., M. D., Physician, of New Brunswick, is a native of Philadelphia. His parents were Rev. Jacob Janeway, a Presby- terian minister, of Philadelphia, and Martha (Leiper) Janeway, of Pennsylvania. He received his preliminary education at the select schools in Philadelphia, and in the year 1826 entered the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student. He also prosecuted his studies in the office of Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, who was at that time Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the university. Having completed his university course, he went in 1831 to Paris, where he remained a year, com- pleting his medical studies in the best schools of that city. Returning to this country he commenced professional prac- tice in New York city. He remained there until 1847, when he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he has since resided. He has devoted himself untiringly and with eminent success to the practice of his profession, and has attained in it a high and acknowledged position. He is no less esteemed as a citizen than as a professional man, and during 1871 and 1872 he served as Mayor of the city.

ANEWAY, JACOB J., Manufacturer, of New Brunswick, was born in Middlesex county, New Jersey, March 15th, 1840. He is the son of Dr. George J. Janeway, an old and prominent physi- cian of New Brunswick, and of Martha M. (Smith) Janeway. He received his preliminary education at select schools in New Brunswick, and entered Rutgers College in the year 1855. He remained in that institution during a period of four years, and after leaving it he entered the service of the Sheffield Brothers, druggists, of New York, as Superintendent of their oil warehouse, in Jersey City. About a year later the warehouse was de- stroyed by fire, and he returned to New Brunswick. In July, 1862, he entered the Union army for the suppression of the rebellion. He organized a company of infantry in New Brunswick, of which he was made Captain. He, with his company, was attached to the 14th Regiment of New Jersey Infantry. The regiment was on detached service in Maryland for some time, and subsequently joined the Army of the Potomac, at Harper's Ferry. When General Grant took command of the Army of the Potomac the 14th was transferred to the 6th Army Corps, under command of Gen- eral Sedgwick, and served through the war. In the fall of 1864 Captain Janeway was commissioned Major, after

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the death of the gallant Major Vredenbergh, and one week later he received his commission as Lieutenant-Colonel, and he was brevetted Colonel for bravery at the battle of Petersburg, just previous to the surrender of General Lee. At the close of the war he returned to New Brunswick, and there entered the service of his uncle, H. L. Janeway, as Superintendent of the paper-mills there. He continued to act in this capacity until 1872, when he formed the partner- ship now existing, of Janeway & Carpenter, for the manu- facture in all its branches of paper-hangings, which business he has successfully prosecuted ever since. Through an invention of Colonel Janeway's, patented December 15th, 1874, the company are enabled to produce the specialty in paper- hangings known as the " French drawn stripe." By

this invention the labor previously done by liand is now accomplished by machinery, and this kind of work, which had previously been almost excluded from market on account of the expense attending hand-work, is produced at a profit. He was married, in November, 1871, to Eliza Harrington, daughter of Henry L. Harrington, of Phila- delphia.

OBERTS, REV. WILLIAM CHARLES, D. D., was born, September 23d, 1832, at Galltmai (May's Grove), near Aberystwith, in Cardigan- shire, South Wales. His father, Charles Roberts, was a well-to-do farmer, of the class usually known there as "country esquires." He was a man of more than ordinary education and general intelli- gence, having spent some years in college, at Welshpool, with the view of becoming a clergyman of the Established Church of England. For reasons satisfactory to himself he refused to receive holy orders, married and settled down as a farmer. He held a number of important offices in the shire, and bore the cognomen of Counsellor, on account of his extensive knowledge of law. According to what seems to be a well-founded tradition, the mother of the subject of this sketch belonged to the Welsh branch of the well-known Jonathan Edwards family of this country. She had the name of possessing in an eminent degree the strong quali- ties of mind and heart common to all the branches of her family. After spending some years in a little school near his father's house, William Charles was sent to Evan's Academy, in town, well known in that section of the prin- cipality for the ability of its teachers and the thoroughness of its training. It was an institution modelled after the celebrated Eton and Rugby schools, in England. Owing to the failure in business of relatives, for whom Mr. Roberts had become an indorser, he was so embarrassed that he was compelled to leave his beautiful home. Rather than to accept his altered condition among his old friends, he resolved to come to this country for eight or ten years, landing in New York on the 28th of June, 1849. In less than a week after his arrival on these shores himself, wife |ing church, it was deemed advisable to colonize and occupy

and two children were carried away by the cholera that was then raging in the city, leaving behind in a strange country six orphan children, of whom William was the eldest. In- stead of returning home to Wales at the urgent solicitation of relatives and friends, the surviving members of the family decided to spend some time in the United States, two or three of the oldest seeking some temporary employment to supplement the little income left them by their parents. In the providence of God William was led to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in September, 1849, where he entered the leather establishment of Mulford Brothers. After seeing his way clear to make his home in this country, he entered the school of Rev. David H. Pierson, with the view of carrying out his original intention before leaving Wales of becoming a lawyer or minister of the gospel. In the fall of 1852 he entered the sophomore class in Princeton Col- lege, and graduated with honors in 1855. At the close of the final examination he accepted the appointment of tutor in Delaware College, where he discharged the duties of an absent professor. He then commenced the study of law, under Judge Patton, in Pennsylvania, acting at the same time as a private tutor to his children. Convinced that it was his duty to become a minister of the gospel, he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, and remained there through the whole course, graduating in 1858. Before leaving the seminary he had accepted a unanimous call to succeed the Rev. Stephen R. Wynkoop, as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware. He was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of New Castle in June, 1858. Whilst at Wilmington Mr. Roberts was mar- ried to Mary Louise, the only daughter of E. B. Fuller, Esq., of Trenton, New Jersey, for many years a well-known banker in Natchez, Mississippi. He was appointed by the Synod of Philadelphia one of the Trustees of Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania. In the autumn of 1861 he accepted a unanimous call to fill the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio, rendered vacant by the declining health and old age of the Rev. James Hoge, D. D. There he acted as Chaplain of the State Senate ; a member of a committee in the room of Dr. Iloge to found a college, which eventuated in Wooster University, and the Moderator of the Synod of Ohio, in October, 1864. On account of the ill health of Mrs. Roberts, he was advised by the best physicians of the place to leave Columbus, and seek a settlement on the sea-board, somewhere between New Vork and Washington. He accepted a call to become a co-pastor with the Rev. Dr. Magie, of the Second Presby- terian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was installed there by the Presbytery of Passaic, in December, IS64. In consequence of the rapid growth of the city and the great demand for pews in the Second Church, repeated proposi- tions were made to enlarge the old edifice, but they did not meet the views of the majority of the congregation. As the people could not agree on a plan for enlarging the exist.

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the inviting field then opening for a Presbyterian church | County Medical Society, and President of the Masonic north of the New Jersey Central Railroad. Ninety-three Hall Association. He was married in 1863 to Anna E., daughter of David L. Barton, of New York. members of the Second Church, and seven from other churches out of town, were organized, January 31st, 1866, into what is called the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. They gave a unanimous call to the Rev. Wil- liam C. Roberts, then pastor of the mother congregation. AN ANTWERP, JAMES, Dentist, of New Bruns- wick, was born, June 19th, 1835, in the city of New York, and is a son of William and Jane (McCollough) Van Antwerp of that city, where the former was engaged in the hardware business. His mother was a daughter of Colonel William Mccullough, of Asbury, New Jersey. James at first attended a select school in his native city, and subsequently was a pupil for three years in an academy at Port Colden, New Jersey. He was afterwards placed in a school at Hacketts- town, and completed his studies at the celebrated academy of Mr. Vanderveer, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He com- menced the study of dentistry under Drs. Miller & Cook, of Brooklyn, New York, where he became fully acquainted with the qualifications necessary to be attained in that voca- tion. He selected New Brunswick as his future field, and for four years was associated with Dr. A. D. Newell, since which time he has practised his profession alone. He was marricd, November Ist, 1865, to Phebe R. Stout, daughter of_ Lewis Stout, of New Brunswick, who died March 6th, 1871. He was again married, April 29th, 1874, to Catharine, daughter of William W. Cannon, and grand- daughter of James Spencer Cannon, deceased, formerly a professor in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick. By advice of prominent members of Presbytery, he accepted the call, and was installed March 7th, 1866. The pros- perity of the church under his pastorate has been very marked. Its roll of members has swelled from one hun- dred to four hundred and seventy-five, exclusive of those taken away by death and removals. They have erected, on the corner of Westminster avenue and Prince street, perhaps the finest church edifice in the State of New Jersey, costing, independent of the large tower, about $175,000, all paid for. They have contributed also to out- side and benevolent objects over $100,000. Mr. Roberts was elected a Trustee of Princeton College in June, 1866; appointed by the first General Assembly of the united church one of the original members of its Board of Home Missions in May, 1869; he was made Chairman of the deputation sent to the Free Church of Scotland for the year 1874 ; a member of the Assembly's committee to consider the propriety of holding a general Presbyterian council ; he was honored with the title of D. D. by Union College,, Schenectady, New York, in June, 1872; he was elected by acclamation the Moderator of the Synod of New Jersey in October, 1875, and appointed a member of the first Pan Presbyterian Council to meet in Edinburgh, July 3d, 1877.

ARKER, P. C., M. D., Physician, of Morris- CKINLAY, WILLIAM, Builder and Real-Estate Operator, of Elizabeth, was born, December 18th, 1814, in Dalmelington, Ayrshire, Scotland, and is a son of Alexander and Mary (McAdam) Mc- Kinlay. His education was received at home, and he subsequently learned the trade of a car- penter. He emigrated to America in the autumn of 1838, and settled in Venango county, Pennsylvania, where he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits and building, and was also engaged in a mercantile business. During the years 1863, 1864 and 1865 he was Postmaster at Stewart's Run, Venango county. In 1866 he removed to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he became interested in real-estate ope- rations, and still continues to reside. He was elected a member of the Assembly in 1872 from Union county. Dur- ing that session he introduced a bill which after a bitter contest became a law. This bill created a comptroller to advance the interests of the city, curtailing expenses and extravagant outlay. He also served during this session as Chairman of the Committee on Stationery. He was re- elected in 1873 and in 1874. During these sessions he was town, was born, 1835, in Oneida county, New York, and is a son of G. W. Barker, a merchant, whose wife was a Miss Coe; both parents being also natives of New York State. He received a thorough academical education, and in 1856 commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. S. G. Wolcott, of Utica, New York, who holds high rank as an eminent surgeon. He likewise attended the regular course of lectures delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York city, from which institution he graduated in March, 1860, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He subsequently became an Assistant Physician at Bellevue Hospital, where he passed a year. In 1861 he commenced the practice of medicine at Cold Spring, Put- nam county, New York, being associated with Dr. T. D. Lente. This copartnership continued until 1868, when it was dissolved. He then removed to Morristown, New Jersey, where he settled, and has since been engaged in the control of an extensive medical practice, and is regarded as one of the leading physicians of that place. He has filled both the office of Vice-President and President of the in both years Chairman of the Committee on Municipal

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Corporations, and in the latter year was a member of the lecture, entitled " Gettysburg," is one of the finest produc- joint Committee on the Treasurer's Account and State tions of its kind, and has been delivered to many large and appreciative audiences. He is President of the Baptist Sun- day School Union of New Jersey, and is an earnest and efficient laborer in that cause. He was married in 1861 to Tamma G. Sackett, of Stanford, Dutchess county, New York. Prisons. He was a delegate to the State Gubernatorial Convention in 1874; and also a delegate in 1876 to a con- vention held in Trenton to choose delegates to the Advi- sory Convention, which met in Philadelphia during that year. He is a Director in the National State Bank of Elizabeth ; also of the Elizabeth Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. He takes an active interest in all public improvements, but, at the same time, believes that in cautious action resides a great safeguard to the public welfare, and that no more improve- ments should be entered into than the times and credit of the city warrant. He was married, March 4th, 1841, to Mary Louisa Abbott, of New York.

ILSON, REV. EDWARD, Pastor of the St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, was born, July 25th, 1820, in the town of Liverpool, England. One of his grandfathers practised law in the city of New York in 1788. He was educated by a private tutor, and also had the advantages of study and school under one of the best Oxford masters. Afterwards he read law and studied military engineering under Generals Pasley and Sandham. In 1840 he came to the United States, where he remained until 1847; during that period he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana in 1846. On his return to England he was for some years a District Superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in the Cornwall and Devon district. For thirteen ycars subsequently he was the Secretary of the Country Towns Mission Society, London, established by David Nasmith, the founder of City and Town Missions. He also edited the monthly magazine of the society during that period, and increased the society's income from $30,000 to $55,000 per annum. He returned to the United States in 1869, and scttled in Metuchen, New Jersey, whence he was called to the pastorate of St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, New Brunswick, and found the congregation la- boring under financial disaster, their church edifice having been seized by the sheriff for debt. By his personal influ- ence and exertions he extricated the building from the clutches of the law and placed the property on a sound basis. He was married to an American lady in IS44, dur- ing his first visit to this country.

ASSAR, REV. THOMAS EDWIN, Clergyman and Pastor of the Flemington Baptist Church, was born, December 3d, 1834, at Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the son of William and Mary ( Hoge- man) Vassar, of that city. There came to the United States from England in 1796, two bro- thers, James and Thomas Vassar ; the former was the father of Matthew Vassar, the founder of Vassar College; while the latter was the father of William Vassar, and grand- father of Rev. T. E. Vassar. The latter, while preparing to enter college in his native place, was prevented from so doing on account of family misfortunes, which threw heavy cares on him as the eldest son. Having early in life de- termined to devote himself to the Gospel ministry, he com- . menced his theological studies with his former pastor, the Rev. Rufus Babcock, D. D., ex-president of Waterville College. When twenty-two years of age, he was ordained a minister of the Baptist church, at Poughkeepsie, and sup- plied the congregation there for one year, declining a call to become its permanent pastor. He commenced pastoral duties, however, at Amenia, Dutchess county, having re- ceived and accepted a call from the society there, and re- moved thither in 1857, and was settled there for eight years. During this period the congregation granted him one year's leave of absence, and this one year he devoted to service in SILLEN, FORREST A., M. D., of Bound Brook, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, March 23d, 1852, his father being Joseph Gillen, a prom- inent merchant of that place. Ile was educated in the common schools, graduating at the Pough- keepsie Iligh School in 1870, after passing with distinction through its various courses of study. Selecting from the professions then presented him that of medicine as his only choice, he entered with avidity upon its study in the field, as Chaplain of the 150th Regiment New York Volunteers. Ilis regiment was mustered into the service in 1862, was attached to the Army of the Potomac till the au- tumn of 1863, and participated in the sevcre campaigns of that command, including the battle of Gettysburg. In 1863 he returned to his charge at Amenia, where he continued until 1865, when he received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Lynn, Massachu- setts. In 1872 he removed to Flemington, New Jersey, the office and under the direction of Dr. Kissam, Police Surgeon, of Brooklyn. In the year and a half spent by him under this practitioner's care he made rapid progress both

. having decided to become the pastor of the congregation in that town, where he still remains. Ilere, as in his former fields of labor, he has been eminently successful. Ilis in the theory and practice of medicine, and was well quali-

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fied in all requisite preparatory knowledge when enrolled the past five years. He has also been a delegate to the as a matriculant in the New York University in 1872. In New Jersey State Medical Society for the same period of time. He is also a member of the Essex Medical Union, and of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine. He is one of the visiting Surgeons to St. Barnabas' Hospital, Newark, and also to the Orange Memorial Hospital. He is a mem- ber of the Medical Advisory Board of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, succeeding the late Dr. Woodhull in that board. He was married, April 30th, 1874, to Esther P., daughter of Alden Sampson, of New York city. this institution he studied three years, graduating from it in Fehruary, 1875, with the rank of third in a class of one hundred and twenty-four. Soon after receiving his degree Dr. Gillen removed to Bound Brook, New Jersey, and com- menced at once his professional duties, associating for some time with Dr. Fields. Since the close of 1875 he has prac- tised alone, and is gathering around him a large clientele. Though a young man he has already acquired reputation as a careful and skilful practitioner, and no other physician in the same locality enjoys to a greater degree the confidence of those for whom he has been called to prescribe. A number of important operations testify to his ability as a surgeon. Dr. Gillen is an earnest student and a practitioner of progressive impulses, and certainly none other, of his age, has brighter professional prospects.

ILMARTHI, FRANK, A. M., M. D., Physician, of East Orange, was born, March 28th, 1841, in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and is a son of The- ophilus W. and Delia A. (Mowry) Wilmarth, both natives of that State, where his father was a manu- facturer of cotton goods. When Frank was. five years old, his parents removed to Oxford, Massachusetts, where he obtained his preliminary education. At about sixteen years of age he was engaged as a teacher of mathe- matics at Rutgers College Grammar School, in New Bruns- wick, thus enabling him to prepare himself at the same time to enter college ; and he continued a teacher for about three years. Having selected medicine as his future profession, he commenced his studies and had attended one course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, when he entered the United States service in 1864, and for three years was engaged in the Surgeon-General's Department, at Washington. During his occupancy of that position he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts, which was conferred upon him by Rutgers College. While a resident of Washington he entered the office of Dr. Thomas Antisell, professor of physiology in the George- town Medical College, and a member of the examining board for surgeons and assistant surgeons of the United States volunteer service. In the spring of 1868 he com- pleted his medical studies, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Shortly after re- ceiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he became House Physician to the Colored Home Hospital. In the autumn of 1869 he located at East Orange, where he has since prac- tised his profession, meeting with good success, and is now in the control of an extensive medical business, taking much interest in all those matters which tend to promote the honor of the medical fraternity. He is a member of the Essex County Medical Society, and has been its reporter for

ULLEN, THOMAS FRANKFORD, M. D., of Camden, was horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 3d, 1822, being the son of Thomas Cullen, a sea-captain, who for many years was en- gaged in the India trade. His father was a na- tive of Trappe, Pennsylvania, and his mother, née Margaret Frankford, was horn near Philadelphia. When quite young, his parents removed to Mount Holly, Burling- ton county, New Jersey, and it was in that town he received his elementary education. In 1839 he returned to Philadel- phia, where, in the office of Dr. Eber Chase, he commenced the study of medicine preparatory to a collegiate course. In 1840 he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1844 graduated with honor. Upon leaving this venerable institution he settled in Newark, Delaware, where he practised with gratifying success until 1847. In 1849 he removed to Camden, New Jersey, where he has ever since resided, and where his pro- fessional duties, which have claimed his constant attention, have secured to him the reputation of being one of the ablest practitioners in the State. He is a leading member of the Camden County Medical Society, a Fellow of the New Jersey State Medical Society, having in 1870 served as its President ; and has labored with ability and success to pro- mote the interests of his profession in his county and State. His practice embraces both medicine and surgery, and in both branches he has achieved distinction. He holds a membership in the Delaware State Medical Society, and has the merit of having been one of the incorporators of the Camden Hospital. His contributions to the science of which he is an exponent have been important, and in num- ber considerable. He was married in 1858 to Elizabeth Stout, of New Jersey.

, EAN, JOHN, Bank President, of Elizabethtown, was born at Ursino, near Elizabethtown, March 27th, 1814. His father was Peter Kean, of the same place, and his mother was one of the Morris family of New York, granddaughter of Louis Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His education was received at Princeton

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The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 18

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher Publication date: 1877 Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 924