The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 20

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

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tary and General Agent. But having his mind set upon the pastoral office he declined these appointments. He was ordained pastor of the churches of Wilkesbarre and Kings- ton, November 4th, 1829, and formally installed. He re- mained in the Wyoming valley about three years and a half, and built up the congregations there, meanwhile re- ceiving and declining a call to act as General Agent of the American Tract Society for the Valley of the Mississippi. In May, 1833, he received a call to become pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and after some little time accepted the same-urged as he was hy his ministerial brethren. He was duly installed, July 23d, 1833. He was the immediate successor of the Rev. Dr. John McDowell, who had been its settled pastor for nearly the twenty-nine previous years. He remained here for nearly twenty-eight years as a faithful minister, and though frequently solicited by other churches to become their pastor invariably declined. Three several times was he tendered the pastorate of the Park Street Church, in Boston, and three times he replied in the negative. From the North and the South, the East and the West, came calls, hut to all he unhesitatingly replied, No. His ecclesi- astical relations were, first, as a member of the Susquehanna Presbytery, and, secondly, as being connected with the Presbytery of Elizabeth ; and he was never absent from any of their meetings, except when ahroad, and on one occasion in 1860. He was from 1830 to 1860 a member of the New Jersey Synod, and never missed a single meeting; after a few years' attendance in this body he was elected Moder- ator. In 1849, in the twentieth year of his ministry, he was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly. He was a faithful, laborious, painstaking presbyter ; one who was an earnest, though not an eloquent preacher; and a dignified, learned and catholic-spirited man. He gave a warm sup- port to the national societies for the circulation of the Bible and tracts, and earnestly labored in their behalf. Ile was also a noted lecturer, and delivered these in all parts of the Union. He was foremost in everything that tended to advance the welfare of the people. He took great interest in the cause of common school education in the State of New Jersey; and his exertions were felt in the Legislature and in the distant counties. He was among the founders of the New Jersey Ilistorical Society, and at his own re- quest the meeting was ealled which gave birth to that organization. He also helped to establish the Lyceum and the Orphan Asylum, in his own eity. Twice he went abroad and revisited his native island, and also made an extended tour on the continent of Europe. He was celebrated as the author of certain letters addressed to Bishop Hughes, of New York, over the signature of " Kirwan." The first scries appcarcd weekly, commencing February 6th, and terminating May 8th, 1847. When completed they were published in book form, and over 100,000 copics were sold, besides being translated into the German language. His

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second series of similar letters were begun October 2d, George E. Voorhess, under the firm-name of Voorhess & 1847, and were likewise addressed to Bishop Hughes, ex- Marsh, hardware merchants, and this partnership continued until 1870, when he disposed of his interests in the estab- lishment. For some time prior to this last-named date he had been a director of the National Iron Bank, formerly a State institution, but which had been established under the national system, May 4th, 1865, with a capital of $100,000. He was elected the President of this institution, January 12th, 1869, and in order to devote his whole time to the interests of the bank, relinquished his business, as above stated, in 1870. The capital stock of the bank, on and after January Ist, 1872, was increased to $200,000, and is at present in a sound and prosperous condition. He is also a director in and Vice-President of the Morris Aqueduct Company; and one of the original incorporators and direc- tors of the Masonic Hall Association, and filled the position of its Treasurer for three years. Upon the organization of the Washington Association, of New Jersey, which has for its object the care and control of the building known as " Washington's Head-quarters," at Morristown, New Jer- sey, he was chosen one of the Executive Committee of that body. He was a member of the Whig party up to the time of its disintegration ; and has since acted with the Republi- cans. He was married, 1855, to Mary E., daughter of William P. Dayton, a highly respected merchant of New York city, who died in that same year. cept the two last, which were addressed to the Roman Catholic people. As Bishop Hughes replied in a series of six letters, addressed to " Dear Reader," Dr. Murray re- joined in a single letter, answering the six of his antago- nist, and ended the controversy. His next essay against the church of his fathers was in a series of letters addressed to the late Chief-Justice Taney, and contained the result of his observations and studies while in the city of Rome, and were published in a volume in 1852, entitled, " Romanism at Home." He also published " Parish and other Pencil- lings ; " " Men and Things as I Saw them in Europe; " " The Happy Home; " " Preachers and Preaching." A posthumous work, containing sermons which he had never delivered, entitled, "A Dying Legacy to the People of My Beloved Charge," and containing discourses "on the un- seen and eternal," was issued in the summer of 1861. He was a most pleasant, cheerful companion, his conversation abounding in genial humor, with occasional flashes of wit that enlivened the circle around him. Ile was liberal to all who called themselves Christians, and especially to those from whom he separated in youth. When one of his brethren remonstrated with him in having subscribed and donated funds for the building of a Roman Catholic church in Elizabeth, he replied that he desired to show his kindly feelings towards those whose faith he opposed. He was alike respected by all his fellow-townsmen, and his death was profoundly felt by all classes in the city of his adop- tion. He was married, in January, 1830, to Eliza J., daughter of the Rev. Morgan John Rhees, a native of Wales, and a Baptist minister, and was the father of ten children, six of whom preceded him to the grave. He died in Elizabeth, February 4th, 1861.

ARSH, HAMPTON O., President of the National Iron Bank, of Morristown, New Jersey, was born, July 23d, 1831, in Mendham, Morris county, and is the son of John and Caroline ( Hudson) Marsh, both of whom are natives of New Jersey; his father is a carriage builder in Mendham. He re- ceived a rudimentary education in his native town, and when thirteen years old became a pupil in the Flushing Institute, near Madison, New Jersey, where he remained about one year. Returning home he became a clerk in a mercantile store, and in 1849 went to Morristown, where he filled a similar position for three years. In 1852, having attained his majority, he returned to Mendham, where he became engaged in the manufacture of carriages on his own account, and which he continued until 1859. He then re- moved to Morristown and embarked in the lumber business in connection with different parties, constituting two firms, up to the year 1867, when he associated himself with

ITCHELL, HENRY, M. D., Physician, of Jersey City, was born, August 6th, 1845, in Norwich, Chenango county, New York. His father, Dr. Henry Mitchell, was a native of Connecticut and a nephew of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and settled in Chenango county, New York, in 1806. He was a classical scholar of high attainments, a graduate of Yale College, and a man of rare skill and accurate judgment in his profession. In 1827 he was chosen a member of the New York State Legislature, and in 1832 he represented his district in Congress. He was a member of the New York State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. His wife was Mary Bellamy, of Catskill, New York. Their son, Henry, received his early education in the public schools of Chenango county, and later attended the Catskill Academy and the Phillips Exeter Academy. It was decided that, like his father, he should enter the medical profession. Accordingly, on leaving school, he commenced a preliminary course of medical study in the office of Dr. H. K. Bellows, of Norwich, New York. Having accomplished his preparatory reading he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, continuing his private studies under the direction of Professor James R. Wood, of New York city. He graduated in medicine and surgery in October, 1866. Having received his diploma he re-

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turned to his home in Norwich, New York, and there | the highest interests of his profession, and the fruit of this entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1869 lie devotion is a reputation which secures esteem wherever he is known. His practice is a very large one, and his patrons are among the most influential citizens of the section in which he resides. He was married, on June 8th, 1876, to Maria B. Coudrey, of New Rochelle, New York. held the office of Coroner for Chenango County. He was appointed, September Ist, 1868, Surgeon of the 103d Regi- ment New York State National Guard, and this position he continued to hold until 1870, when he removed to New Jersey and established himself in Jersey City. There he entered upon the practice of his profession and with an energy and skill that won success. He served for three years as Visiting Physician to St. Francis' Hospital, in Jersey City, and is at present one of the Visiting Physicians to the Hudson County Church Hospital. He is a member of the District Medical Society for Hudson County, and has held official position in that organization during four years. He is also a member of the American Medical Association. He was married, in 1866, to Elizabeth M. Roberts, daughter of Rev. William Roberts, D. D., of New York city.

OOKE, HENRY G., A. M., M. D., of Holmdel, was born in that township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, February 3d, 1836. His father, Robert W. Cooke, M. D., was a native of Sussex county, and his mother, whose maiden name was Susan Gansevoort, was born at Albany, New York. He was educated in a select school near his home, and in 1850 entered Rutgers College, from which he gradu- ated in 1853, receiving his degree of A. M. from that insti- tution. Immediately after he commenced reading medicine with his father, an eminent practitioner; but within a few months was installed a student in the office of the celebrated Willard Parker, of New York, Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of that city. Having completed his preparatory studies, Dr. Cooke became a matriculant in this institution, and in 1857 graduated from it, receiving his degree of M. D. He associated at once in practice with his father, at Holmdel, and soon secured a fine reputation for faithfulness and ability. In 1862 he entered the Union service as Surgeon of the 29th New Jersey Volunteers, and remained with this organization for nine months, when he returned to Holmdel, where he has since been engaged in professional duties, making the old homestead his residence. His father died in 1867, and he succeeded to the large practice which the former had en- joyed for a long period. Dr. Cooke is now prominently identified with the leading medical associations. In 1859 he was President of the Monmouth County Medical Society. In 1868 he was a delegate to the American Medical Asso- ciation, which convened at New York. He has frequently represented the profession in his county in the State society. He is now a member of the New Jersey Academy of Medi- cine, and acts as Medical Examiner for a number of Icad- ing insurance companies. He has always been devoted to

ORROGH, CLIFFORD T., M. D., Physician, of New Brunswick, is a native of Ireland, having been born in county Cork, August Ist, 1821. IIis father, John Morrogh, was a gentleman of culture and means, and his mother, Mary (Plowden) Morrogh, was a daughter of Francis Plowden-, Esq., the English historian. Clifford Morrogh received his early education at the well-known select school of Porter & Hamlin, in Cork. In the year 1836 he removed to America, and finished his studies in the city of New York. For a period of four years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York; but he had determined on entering the medical profession, and with that purpose he entered, as a student, the office of Dr. John H. Whittaker, who was at that time Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of New York. Having concluded his course of preparatory reading he attended the regular course of lectures at the university, and graduated from that institution in March, 1847. During his attendance at the university he was chosen by Professor Whittaker to be Demonstrator of Anat- omy in his private school, at which there was an attendance of about 200 scholars. In March, 1847, immediately after his graduation, he commenced the practice of his profession in association with his brother, Archibald C. Morrogh, M. D., an eminent practitioner in New York city. IIe re- mained with his brother in New York until the fall of 1847, when he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he commenced to practise independently, and where he has ever since resided. In 1869 and 1870 he went to Europe and spent several months abroad, visiting all the principal hospitals of Italy, England and France, spending most of his time in the latter country. He made another visit to Europe in the year 1873, but this trip was undertaken mainly on account of his health. He has been a delegate to the State Medical Society on various occasions. His army experience, during the war of the rebellion, was brief, but valuable. Immediately after the battle of the Wilder- ness, and in response to the call of Governor Oklen for medical aid, he went to the front, and during a period of three weeks rendered most efficient service there. Ilis standing in his profession is very high, and as a surgcon, particularly, he enjoys a wide and enviable reputation. He has been twice married. In June, 1850, he was married to Mrs. Mary Richmond, who died in the spring of 1871. In the fall of 1872 he married for his second wife Cornelia Perry, of Troy, New York.

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ARISON, CORNELIUS W., M. D., Principal of, and Professor of Natural Science in, the Academy of Science and Art at Ringoes, New Jersey, was born, January 10th, 1837, in Delaware township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He received a rudimentary education in the public school nearest to his father's farm. At the age of seventeen he began to spend his leisure hours in reading such books treating of science as came within his reach. In the early part of the eighteenth year of his age he purchased Bul- lion's " Latin Grammar " and " Latin Reader ; " and, un- aided by an instructor, during the following spring and summer, while at the plow-tail through the day, he made himself acquainted with the declension of Latin nouns and adjectives, and with the conjugation of Latin verbs, and during the evenings tried his skill at translation. In Oc- tober of 1855 he became an attendant at the Pennsylvania College of Medicine. In the spring of 1856 he commenced a classical course of study at the Flemington High School, then under the principalship of Rev. Jonathan D. Merrill, A. M. He matriculated at the University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in September, 1857, and in September, 1860, was engaged as Teacher of Mathematics and Natural Science in the High School at Flemington, New Jersey. In June, 1861, he became Principal of this institution. In October of the same year he matriculated at the Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, New York, and was graduated M. D. by this institution, January 20th, 1863. He settled at Ringoes, New Jersey, as a physician and teacher, in February, 1863. The seminary at Ringoes was the result of his interest in educational matters in that vicinity. In that institution he was associated with his brother, Rev. A. B. Larison, M. D., who acted as Principal and Instructor in the Languages, while he himself was the Teacher of Natural Science. Upon the death of his brother, A. B. Larison, the principalship of the seminary devolved upon him, and this position he held until September, 1874, con- tinuing still as Teacher of Natural Science. In August, 1874, he was appointed Professor of Natural Science in the University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. This position he accepted, and entered upon its duties, September 10th, 1874. Owing to the death of his partner, C. M. Lee, M. D., which occurred in June, 1875, he resigned his position in the university and returned to Ringoes to take charge of his practice again. He has been steadily engaged in the practice of medicine since he first settled at Ringoes, and has the control of a lucrative and extensive business, it being one of the largest in the county. In June, 1876, he was appointed Professor of Zoology in the University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. As his duties there would not require his constant attendance, and he could remain at home in his practice much of the time, he accepted the po- sition. He has also organized at Ringoes a seminary, or, more strictly speaking, a school, termed the Academy of Science and Art, and which has cvery promise of success.

This school was organized to afford an opportunity for a practical education in those departments of science and art that most directly bear upon the rounds of every-day life. The instruction given is of the most practical character, and imparted in the most practical manner; the pupil being con- stantly required to reduce whatever is taught directly to practice, and to show how it relates to the things of the present. Every facility is given for proper and careful in- struction in the different branches taught; and the imple- ments used for imparting a knowledge of the various sciences are of the most perfect and costly character. Especially is this the case in the study of physical geo- graphy, where a globe sixty-one inches in diameter, with an uneven surface, shows the ridges, peaks, plains, plateaus, excavations and depressions of the earth's surface, and ex- hibits in a striking manner the relative altitude of such ridges, peaks, plains, plateaus, etc. Politically he is a Democrat ; and religiously a Baptist. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Gershom C. Sergeant, of Flemington, New Jersey, March 25th, 1863. She was one of the first graduates of the New Jersey State Normal School, her diploma bearing date June, 1859.

ORD, REV. EDWARD, Clergyman, and Pastor of the Reformed Church of Metuchen, was born, March 29th, 1821, at Danby, New York, and is a son of Chester W. and B. (Kingsbury) Lord. His father was a native of Salisbury, Connecti- cut, while his mother was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He received a thorough classical education, and was a student at Williams College, Massachu- setts, where he graduated in 1843. Having determined to devote his life to the gospel ministry, he commenced his studies at the theological seminary at Auburn, New York, from which institution he graduated in 1846. He subse- quently was ordained and settled over a Presbyterian con- gregation at Romulus, New York, where he ministered acceptably until 1851, when he received and accepted a call to become the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Fulton, New York. He labored there for fourteen years. During this period his congregation granted him one year's leave of absence, when he accepted the chaplaincy of the IIoth Regiment of New York Volunteers, in August, 1862. The command, after remaining in camp at Baltimore for instruction, which occupied some two months, was sent to New Orleans, reaching that city at the time that General Banks assumed command of the Department of the Gulf. He accompanied the regiment in its march through western Louisiana, and was present during the entire siege of Port Hudson. He was honorably discharged from the service at the expiration of the year, for which period his leave of absence from his congregation extended; and he accord- ingly returned to Fulton. In 1865 he became pastor of the

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church at Adams, New York, where he remained until the | phia under the watchful care of his eldest brother, Stacy B. spring of 1870, when he removed to Metuchen, New Jersey, where he has since resided, as pastor of the Reformed Church. During the thirty years of his clerical life he has been constantly and actively engaged in building up the congregations among whom. he has labored, and he has ever felt that he has not labored in vain, as the churches grew and prospered under his ministrations. He was mar- ried, in August, 1846, to Mary J. Sanders, of Williamstown, Massachusetts.

ONKLING, EDWARD PAYSON, Lawyer, of Flemington, was born, 1846, in Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey, and is a son of the Rev. C. S. Conkling, a well-known and highly respected clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, who was for several years Superintendent of the Public Schools of Hunterdon County. The family is of English lineage, and is a branch of the Conkling family of New York. Edward obtained his preliminary education at Car- versville, Pennsylvania; and in 1864 entered the sophomore class of Lafayette College, Easton, in the same State, and graduated therefrom with the class of 1867, receiving the third honor. After leaving college he taught for a short time at the Susquehanna Institute; and in 1868 entered the office of George A. Allen, of Flemington, to prosecute his legal studies. He remained under the preceptorship of that eminent practitioner until 1871, when he was admitted to practise. For two years he was associated with Hon. John T. Bird, constituting the firm of Bird & Conkling. In 1873 this copartnership was dissolved, and he has since practised alone. He has won for himself a reputation and a practice, during this short period, second to few in the county; and the bar of Hunterdon county is justly re- garded as the first in the State. He is a prominent member of the Democratie party, to which he renders efficient service in every political canvass, being an eloquent and logical orator. He is highly esteemed not only by his professional brethren, but by his fellow-townsmen. He is a director of the Flemington National Bank. He was married, 1871, to Jennie Key, of Hunterdon county.

ISPHAM, CHARLES, Retired Merchant, of Mount Holly, New Jersey, and son of John and Margaret Bispham, was born at that place, De- cember 2d, 1798, in the house where he now resides, and where his father also was born. The homestead has been in the possession of the fam- ily about one hundred and forty ycars. Having the mis- fortune to lose his father when he was but twelve years of age, Charles Bispham was placed in a school in Philadel.

Bispham, the partner of that noble and Christian gentleman, Samuel Archer, the firm being extensively engaged in the China and India trade. Into the counting-house of this firm he was received on reaching his sixteenth year. Here he remained until he was twenty-one, though his brother lived but two years after his admission. At this time he commenced business on his own account as a super-cargo, making numerous voyages to India, China, Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso, Lima, and various other ports on the Pacifie coast. He afterwards entered into association with Mr. Joseph Archer, the son of his brother's partner, in Phila- delphia, but the enterprise not proving as profitable as was anticipated, an agreement was made between them that Mr. Archer should join the house of Messrs. Wetmore & Co., Canton, and Mr. Bispham that of Messrs. Alsop & Co., Valparaiso, and that at the expiration of ten years they should make an equal division of the profits. The agree- ment was carried out, and the division of profits made on their return to the United States, in the latter part of the year 1840. Since that time Mr. Bispham has resided in Mount Holly, employing himself in the improvement of his native town by building, farming, etc. He has always been the President of its railroad, and he is a director in nearly all the institutions of the place. He built a cottage at Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1845, where the family reside dur- ing the warm months of summer,

ARD, GEORGE S., M. D., of Newark, was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, November 11th, 1827. His parents were Bethuel and Rhoda (Freeman) Ward, both natives of the same State. His edu- cation was obtained at the Bloomfield Academy, an old-established and well-known institution of learning, where he acquired a thorough preliminary train- ing preparatory to entering college. A prolonged and al- most fatal attack of fever, engendered by the nursing of a brother, prevented him from carrying out his design of entering college. Selecting the medical profession, he placed himself under the tuition of the late Dr. John F. Ward, of Newark (a brother), and an eminent and successful practitioner for many years. Matriculating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, he took there a thorough course, and graduated in the spring of 1849. Locating himself in Newark, he immediately commenced his labors, and by his devotion to his profession has suc- ceeded in building up an extensive and lucrative practice ; enjoying the respect of the profession at large as also the esteem and confidence of the community with which he has been identified for more than a quarter of a century. He has for the past twenty years been the Attending Physician to the City Almshouse, performing efficiently the duties of this office to the entire satisfaction of all. He is a member

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The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 20

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