The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 54

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

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commissioners for carrying out this project, in which he| took a warm and active part. Considerable progress was made in the work when the rival project of a canal on the Kentucky shore was started, which met with more general favor. This caused the abandonment of the Indiana canal, and the canal on the Kentucky shore was constructed, thus removing one of the most serious obstructions to the naviga- tion of the upper Ohio. The construction of a canal from the Ohio river, at Cincinnati, to Lake Erie, at Toledo, Ohio, thus affording water communication between the commerce of the lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, was an- other matter that enlisted his warmest support. Under an act of Congress, making a large grant of public land in aid of this project, considerable progress was made in the work, when it was found that certain conditions and restrictions in the original grant were such as to greatly embarrass, if not to defeat, the completion of the work, which greatly Ianguished and was about to be abandoned. Judge Burnet, on taking his place in the Senate, secured the appointment of a committee of the Senate to take into consideration the modification of the original grant so as to remove its ob- jectionable features, and appearing before the committee in behalf of the measure. His representations were so effective that he was requested by the committee to draw up a re- port embodying the principal facts in support of the claim, and also a bill to carry it into effect. The committee pre- sented the report and bill, with a recommendation that it should pass. It did pass both Houses and became a law during the session, and without doubt secured the comple- tion of the canal. In the Senate he was the friend and associate of Adams, Clay and Webster, and was especially the friend and admirer of the latter, with whom he occupied a desk in the Senate chamber. When General Haynes, of South Carolina, made his celebrated speech on nullification, which elicited Mr. Webster's more celebrated reply, Mr. Webster was absent from the Senate, and it was remarked that in his reply he answered General Haynes' points seria- tim, as if he had been present and heard them. Judge Barnet, who heard Ilaynes' speech, took full notes of it and gave them to Mr. Webster, who was thus prepared to make his reply as if personally present. No one was more delighted with Mr. Webster's unanswerable rejoinder than the amateur reporter who had assisted to call it forth. With the close of his term in the Senate his public career ended. In full vigor of mind and body, with brilliant prospects of political preferment before him if he would but seek it, he chose rather to spend the remainder of his days as a private citizen. He was not ambitious of place ; he was driven to accept office from a sense of duty, and not by ambition. As soon as the duty was discharged he returned to private life. In the year 1837, at the request of a friend, he wrote a series of letters detailing at some length such facts and inci- dents relating to the early settlement of the Northwestern Territory as were within his recollection and were con- sidered worth preserving. These letters were laid before

the Historical Society of Ohio, and ordered to be printed among the transactions of that institution. A few years later, at the solicitation of many personal friends, he reviscd and enlarged these letters and put them in a form more con- venient for publication, and in 1847 published his "Notes on the Northwestern Territory," which is a very valuable contribution to the history of this region. Ile was married on the second day of January, 1800, at Marietta, Ohio, to Rebecca Wallace, daughter of the Rcv. Matthew Wallace, a Presbyterian clergyman, with whom he lived in wedlock fifty-three years, and who outlived him fourteen years. By her he had eleven children, five of whom arrived at matu- rity and survived him at his death. In appearance he was rather above medium height, erect in form, with animated countenance and piercing eyes. ITi .: manners were digni- fied and courteous to all. Reared in the school of Wash- ington and Hamilton, he had the manners of that age. His colloquial powers were uncommonly fine. He expressed himself in ordinary conversation with the precision, energy, and polish of an accomplished orator. His opinions were clear, sharply defined, and held with great tenacity. His friendships were ardent and lasting. Time or outward changes made with him no difference. He who once won his friendship, unless proved to be unworthy, enjoyed it for life. It is related of him that when Aaron Burr was in Cincinnati seeking to enlist in his trcasonable designs as many prominent persons as possible, he sought an interview with Judge Burnet, who, although unaware of Burr's de- signs, yet peremptorily refused to receive him, giving as his reason that he would never shake the hand of the murderer of Hamilton, his father's friend and his own. In morality and integrity he was above suspicion both in his public career and in private life. He was a firm believer in the truth of Christianity and the inspiration of the Bible; and although a Presbyterian both from conviction and prefer- ence, he was far removed from anything like sectarian bigotry. Ministers of all denominations were at all times welcome and honored guests in his house. On the 10th of May, 1853, in his eighty-fourth year, with his mind still vigorous, his memory still unimpaired, and his bodily vigor such as to give promise of still more advanced old age, he died at his home in Cincinnati, of acute disease, after a comparatively short illness.

ENT, JOSEPH CIIARLES, of Phillipsburg, Iron Manufacturer, was born in Chenango county, New York. He is the son of William St. George Kent, a merchant of Chenango, who came to this country from England. When he was still a boy, his father removed to New York city, where the son was educated at St. Luke's Classical School, then under charge of Professor Patterson. After leaving school he was for some time employed in the office of Mr. Seabury

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Brewster, a retired merchant of wealth, with extensive in- terests in real estate and stocks demanding his attention. Subsequently he studied chemistry with Mr. George Jeffries, during his stay with whom he was called upon by his friend, Mr. A. S. Hewitt, to go. to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to assist in superintending the manufacture of iron at the Cooper Iron Works, named in honor of Peter Cooper, one of the principal members of the Trenton Iron Company, which set up the establishment. Accepting this call, he went to Phillipsburg in 1848, the year in which the furnace was completed, and became the Assistant Superintendent, successfully applying his knowledge of chemistry to the mixing of ores and the general manufacture of iron. On the resignation of the General Superintendent, Dr. G. G. Palmer, in 1853, he was chosen to succeed him, and has since filled the place, although in 1867 the works changed hands and name, being purchased by a Philadelphia com- pany, and named Andover Iron Company, after one of the principal mines. Since his connection with the works they have been greatly enlarged, their present capacity being 35,000 tons yearly ; at the same time they have kept fully up with all the modern improvements. The ores used are mainly magnetites from Morris county, New Jersey, and the iron is of very superior quality. Ascribing to these ad- vantages their proper influence, great credit is, nevertheless, due to him for the fact that the works have been running steadily through all the recent dull period, when so many establishments in other places have been forced to close ; and this credit the fact itself, indeed, speaking plainly of skill, intelligence and fidelity in . the management, renders in no equivocal way. In politics he is a Republican, and an earnest supporter of the principles of the party. As a man and a citizen he is universally esteemed, He married Frances B. Banks, of Pennsylvania.

DENHEIMER, WILLIAM IIENRY, D. D., Bishop of Northern New Jersey, was born in Philadelphia, August 11th, 1817. IIe graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and at the General Theological Seminary of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church, in New York, in 1838. In the same year he entered Holy Orders, being ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1841 he received Priest's Orders, and was instituted Rector of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. He subsequently became, in 1859, Bishop of New Jersey. On the division of the diocese, in 1874, he elected to take charge of Northern New Jersey, and established his residence at Newark. Soon after he took a voyage to Europe for the benefit of his health, which had become very much impaired. In- decd, he is now (1877) quite an invalid, owing to fracture of the patella of both knees. He is the author of numerous works, of which the following are chief: "The Origin and

Compilation of the Prayer-Book," 1841; "The Devout Churchman's Companion," 1841 ; " The True Catholic no Romanist," 1842; " Thoughts on Immersion," 1843; " The Young Churchman's Catechism," 1844; " Ringelburgius on Study ; " " Bishop White's Opinions," 1846; " Essay on Canon Law," 1847; " The Clergyman's Assistant in Reading the Liturgy," 1847 ; "The Private Prayer-Book," 1851 ; "Jerusalem and its Vicinity; " a series of familiar lectures (eight) on the sacred localities connected with the week before the resurrection, 1855. In this last work he gives the results of his meditations among the holy places during a visit to Jerusalem in 1851-52. It is a most valu- able book, and deeply interesting to the devout Christian, Bishop Odenheimer has confirmed, during the seventeen years since his consecration, 17,277 persons,

ARRON FAMILY, Woodbridge. Among the earliest settlers in New Jersey was Ellis Barron, one of a party of English emigrants reaching this country about 1690. Making his home at Wood- bridge (now in Middlesex county) he married a daughter of Ephraim Andrews, and from this union the present large family is descended. In 1714 Mr, Barron, according to the early records, agreed to build a church for the settlers for one hundred pounds. The con- tract was broken after he had expended eighty pounds on stones and timber (see " Dally's History "). Ephraim An- drews was included in 1673 among the original freeholders to whom the patent for the town was granted in 1670; he served in 1679-81, and again in 1693, as an officer of the township court, and was a Deputy to the General Assembly in 1687. Both founders of the Barron line in this country were therefore intimately associated with the early history of the New Jersey colony. Samuel, the only male child issue of this marriage, of whose birth record exists, was born in Woodbridge in 1711. He seems to have received a good education for that early day, the public school facili- ties of the town being quite remarkable, the second school of the kind established in the State being provided for here ; the first was at Newark. Inheriting a considerable property from his father, he showed great cnergy and enterprise in adding to it. He raised a large family, handsomely pro- viding for all his children, In 1774, as shown by the town records, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee of Freeholders, He died at Woodbridge in ISO1, and in his will-a long and curious document-after disposing of two farms, three houses, a tan-yard and buildings thereof, cer- tain freehold rights, etc., he bequeaths his four slaves- Benjamin, Brister, Sharper and Cornelius. Woodbridge seems, indeed, to have been rather a slave-holding place, for, nine years later, 230 slaves are included in a census of the town, and even so recently as 1840 there were seven slaves owned within the township limits, while one was in

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the possession of the Barron family so late as 1859, sup- | Barron did not live to see the decline of his native town ; ported by them in his old age as the law of the State re- the " Sessions Book " of the old Woodbridge church says, " Deacon Barron died July 4th, 1831, greatly lamented as a citizen and a useful member of the church." Ile married Fanny, daughter of Thomas Brown, of Woodbridge, an ex- cellent woman, who survived him by more than a quarter of a century, her death occurring in October, 1857, in her ninety- second year. Ten children were the issue of this marriage : Samuel, Thomas, John, Rebecca, Joseph, Fanny, Johannah, Christian, Mary and Jane. (1) Samuel married Rebecca White, having issue, Harvey and Maria ; Harvey married and left one son, Harvey ; Maria died single; Samuel died in his twenty-seventh year. (2) Thomas, the founder of the Barron Library at Woodbridge, was born June 10th, 1790, dying unmarried, August 31st, 1875. (3) John was born October 18th, 1792; he married, June 16th, 1824, Mary, daughter of Colonel Richard Conner, of Staten Island, hav- ing issue, Frances M., John C., and Maria L. Frances married John HI. Campbell, and is now living, a widow, at Woodbridge; John C. married Harriet M., daughter of Rev. Albert Williams, of San Francisco, California, and is now living in New York; Maria married Charles D. Fredericks, Esq., of New York. (4) Rebecca died in early life. (5) Joseph married Charity, daughter of Abel Clarkson, Esq., having issue three children, only one of whom, Joseph, is now living. (6) Frances married twice : first to H. Woodruff, second to I. S. Jaques, having by her second husband several children. She is now a widow. (7) Johannalı married Dr. Charles Young, dying without issue. (8) Christian died in early life. (9) Mary, now dead, married Jared Woodhull, having issue one child, now married to James P. Edgar, and resident at Wood- bridge. (10) Jane married Josiah Doremus, of Newark, New Jersey, dying without issue. In the town of Wood- bridge, the real estate granted with freehold rights to Ellis Barron nearly two hundred years ago, still remains in the possession of his descendants. The Episcopal rectory, pur- chased from the executors of the late Samuel Barron, has the original walls of Holland brick as when built and occu- pied by the first Samuel Barron in the early part of the eighteenth century, the first house built of brick in New Jersey. The fine old seat now known as the Barron homestead, and owned by Dr. John C. Barron, was the property of Joseph Barron, the grandfather of the present owner. The mansion was erected and the grounds laid out by him about 1800. The Barron Library, a handsome memorial building of Belleville brown stone, appropriately stands upon a corner of this property, having been built from an endowment fund of $50,000 bequeathed by the late Thomas Barron. In this and many other directions the influence of the Barron family upon the town and neighbor- hood of Woodbridge has always been beneficial, being steadily cast in favor of the development of its resources and the advancement of the social condition of its popu- quired. Samuel Barron was twice married; by his first wife, Elizabeth, he had three sons and two daughters- Ellis (commissioned a Captain in the Ist Middlesex Regi- ment of the Continental army, January 10th, 1776), Mary, John and Samuel. By his second wife, Johannah, he had one son, Joseph. Ellis married Sarah Stone ; Mary married Jonathan Clawson (the grandparents of the late well-known Judge Clawson, of Staten island) ; John mar- ried Nancy Coddington (having issue, Samuel and John E., late prominent citizens of Woodbridge, and Johanna, now living) ; Samuel studied medicine, and to complete his studies sailed for Europe in the " very fine East Indiaman, Grand Duke of Russia," as stated by him in a letter to his father, dated, "Off Sandy Hook, September 3d, 1780." He never returned. It is thought that he lost his life in the English service on the Mediterranean, Joseph remained in Woodbridge and became one of its most prominent citizens, a deacon in the church and a man stirring in business affairs. In his generation Woodbridge was one of the most important towns in east New Jersey. Standing upon the old king's road between Philadelphia and New York, the Elm Tree Inn was a famous stopping-place, and Wood- bridge was honored by the reflected glory of its excellent hostelrie. Washington-that most persistent sleeper, the rival of the seven of Ephesus-is reported to have slept there on his way to New York to be inaugurated President. Concerning several of the early Presidents, and various dis- tinguished statesmen and soldiers, a similar legend obtains ; and it is matter of undoubted historic fact, that President Adams, on his way to Washington to take the oath of office, did, indeed, pass a night beneath the rustling branches of the great elm tree. As a means of increasing and facilitat- ing travel, the king's road was turnpiked, and among the prime movers in this enterprise, as well as one of the original incorporators, and subsequently President and Treasurer of the Woodbridge Turnpike Company, was Jo- seph Barron. Turnpike building was then as active an in- terest as canal building was some few years later, or as railroad building is now, and in various works of this char- acter he invested very considerable sums of money. Toward the close of his career he was prominent in urging before and getting passed by the New York Legislature a bill providing for the erection of a bridge across Staten Iland Sound at Blazing Star, and although the bill was de- feated in the New Jersey Legislature, there is no doubt but that the bridge would have been built, had not railways come into existence, and a specific scheme for laying a line of metals from Jersey City to New Brunswick rendered the bridge project of none effect. But the invention of rail- ways did something more than kill the bridge at Blazing Star ; it distracted the line of travel that for so long had flowed past the Elm Tree Inn, and left Woodbridge village stranded far beyond the high water mark of travel. Joseph | lation.

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ARRON, THOMAS, second son of Joseph and desire ever was to avoid offices of every sort. In 1827, Fanny (Brown) Barron, was born in Wood. bridge, June 10th, 1790. Receiving a common- school education, he became at the age of four- teen years a clerk in his father's store, and rapidly developed a prodigious aptitude for busi- ness. In a very short time he was intrusted by his father with commissions to buy and sell in New York, and in the execution of his trusts his sagacity and youth frequently ex- cited the favorable comment of the merchants with whom he dealt. When nineteen years old he was admitted as a partner into his father's business, continuing as such during the ensuing five years. At the beginning of this period he was fired by a desire to fit out a trading boat on the head- waters of the Mississippi and trade down to New Orleans; and although, at the urgent solicitation of his parents, he abandoned this scheme, it is worthy of note, inasmuch as it points to the fact that even then his regard was fixed upon the commercial possibilities of the Southwest. For a man of his mercantile ability, the narrow range of a country store was, of course, far too limited; and although he gave over his trading project, his eventual departure from Wood- bridge to one or other of the great commercial centres was a patent necessity. In 1814, being then twenty-four years old, he took up his abode in New York. After being for a short time a partner in the house of J. C. Marsh & Co., he entered the firm of Laing & Randolph, then one of the lead- ing houses in the West India trade. He made two voyages to the West Indies, and it is probable that these tended to strengthen his belief in the business opportunities then af- forded by the Southwest. Be this as it may, in the spring of 1817 (or 1818) he dissolved his connection with Laing & Randolph, formed a partnership with J. I. Coddington, and embarked, in the fall of the same year, in business in New Orleans. The success of the firm fully justified his highest expectations, and was mainly due to his own individual sagacity and foresight ; realizing this fact, at the end of five years he purchased, for $50,000, his partner's interest, and thereafter conducted the business singly and to his single profit. The house of Thomas Barron & Co. became, during the twenty years of its existence, one of the best known and most highly respected in the entire southern country. Its agencies extended from Georgia and Florida to the head- waters of the Mississippi, and thence south again to Texas, and its representatives were in London, Liverpool and New York. It was the boast of the head of the house that he had never refused to pay a just debt, and that never, during his entire business career, had one of his notes gone to pro- test. In the business community he was regarded as a man of exceptional quickness of perception and of rarely sound judgment, and he was constantly solicited to accept posi- tions of public trust and honor. These, almost uniformly, he declined. In New Orleans he was a Director of the Louisiana branch of the United States Bank, and later, in New York, he accepted a few corporation offices ; but his

having amassed a handsome competence, he withdrew from active business life, delegating the greater portion of the conduct of the firm to his jumor partners, and spending his summers in the North. A few years later he entirely sev- ered his business connections, and thereafter led a quiet, honorable life, devoted to unostentatious philanthropy, to study, and to his favorite sport of fishing. For a man of his originally limited education and subsequent mercantile habit of life, the extent and character of the studiotis tenden- cies which he developed in later years were quite remarka- ble. History, geography and natural history were for many years his favorite fields of research, but during the last decade of his life these were to a great extent supplanted by astronomy ; during this period the books which he most constantly read were the works of Herschel and Humboldt. Outside of professedly scientific circles, there were few men better read than was he, and few were better able to ar- range and utilize their mental acquisitions. Naturally his disposition towards subjects of this nature brought him into contact with the reading and thinking men of the day, and led to his election to membership in various of the learned societies. For many years he was a member of the New York Historical Society, being during the latter portion of his life one of the oldest seven members who, under the so- ciety's constitution, nominate the candidates for office. He was also a Fellow of the American Geographical Society and of the American Museum of Natural History, a corre- sponding member of the New Jersey Historical Society, etc. Although rarely writing for publication, he was a volumi- nous writer for his own entertainment and edification. For upwards of thirty years he kept a daily journal, and beside this, numerous commonplace books, in which he noted, with comments, matters or events which seemed to him par- ticularly interesting. His thorough business training was manifested in his keeping, almost to the day of his death, his private accounts in a full set of double entry books. Perhaps in no better way can a comprehensive presentment of his character be given than by reproducing bodily the following letter (written under date of New York, Septem- ber 2d, 1875) to Dr. John C. Barron, by William Pitt Palmer, Esq. : " It is with the sincerest regret that my state of health and the imperative commands of my physician pre- vent a detail of such reminiscences of your late uncle as the excellence of his character calls for from one of his oldest friends. A wise moralist has said that the life of the hum- blest person, truthfully written, would be interesting to every thoughtful reader ; how much more so, then, must be the memoir of one so truly noble as was your venerable uncle ! I have known many able and honored men, but few whom I have loved with ever growing affection. Your uncle was one of these rare few, and while I live his mem- ory will live in my heart with the dearest of its lost idols. Our acquaintance began in 1835, not long after his return from New Orleans, whither he had gone, a mere youth,

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early in the present century; where he had remained, greeting, and feel the warm pressure of his friendly hand, without once returning to his northern home, until he had was like a benediction. The charm of his character was its evident sincerity. You always knew that his interest in any person or cause was of the heart. The gentle honest eyes made that clear at a glance. I think his temper was naturally quick and strong, but I never saw him for a mo- ment mastered by it. A cheerful serenity was his habitual manifestation, no matter how disturbing were the circum- stances which tested its equability. When the box containing the chief securities of his large fortune had been stolen from the custody of his aged friend, the only impatience I saw him manifest was not so much on account of the lost treasure as of his friend's shamefaced hesitation in disclosing the alarming news to him. And when, after long months of costly detective searches and the friendly offices of his old correspondents, Messrs. Baring Brothers, of London, the lo-t box was finally restored to him with its hundreds of thousands uninjured, save by the elements to which the robbers had been obliged to expose them in their hurried evasions at home and abroad, his chief gratification seemed to be not the recovery of the treasure, but the kind remem- brance and unsolicited interest of the friends beyond the sea, whom he had never seen. Not that he did not justly value the recovery of the stolen property, but that he recognized in those efforts the higher and nobler value of human friendship and integrity. As the traits of your uncle's character rise before my failing sight, I feel truly grateful that memory has made them a part of my very being. His bodily presence for so many years was a blessing that even death cannot take from me. It made the world lighter to my eyes for forty years, and though it be now withdrawn forever, the charms of its twilight beauty will go with me to the end of my days. The manes of such a man as he are not alone to abide where his mortal relics are laid to rest ; but as living mem- ories their real dwelling place is in the human hearts made grateful for the teachings, the examples, and the loving- kindnesses of the dear oncs they are never more to see on earth. But we will not, my dear friend, despair of again seeing that beloved face in some happier sphere, clothed with immortality and beaming with tenderest welcome. In that fond hope I remain ever, faithfully yours." Thomas Barron died August 31st, 1875, but the good that he did lives after him. His will was munificent in its bequests : to the New York Historical Society, $10,000; to the New Jersey Historical Society, $5,000, and his portrait hy Durand; to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Juvenile Asylum, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, American Female Guardian Society, and Home for the Friendless, $5,000 each, and for the foundation of a public library in his native town of Woodbridge, $50,000. This last and most generous bequest has assured a worthy monument to the donor, his most enduring as well as most fitting memorial being the Barron Library. As has been already stated, the library building stands upon a portion of the old Barron property, and is not less an ornament than won the modest fortune which satisfied his largest wishes. By his quiet persistence in the path of duty and honor, the young stranger gained the respect and confidence alike of merchants and planters in that strange community of alien litbits and alien languages, often visited by pestilence and always liable to scenes of violence and bloodshed. Under all the circumstances of time and place his courage and per- severance were simply wonderful, and justly merited the success which a citizen to the manor born could hardly have expected, however favored by nature or local advantages. Returning to New York he took a large house on St. John's Park, mainly to gratify, as was said, an art-loving friend, whose pictured treasures required a breadth of mural ac- commodation quite beyond their owner's means to supply. Ilere the two friends lived for some time, and when the friendly partnership came to an end, your uncle hought the modest houses in Walker street, near Broadway, in one of which he resided for many years, until his final removal to Washington Place, where you subsequently became his chosen companion. From our earliest acquaintance in 1835, your uncle was accustomed to visit our office almost daily, where he met congenial friends whose intercourse was like that of hrothers. He almost always came to my desk for a little friendly chat about business or other matters in which he felt a personal interest. If I knew of any one needing assistance, he took it as a favor to be informed of the case and be allowed to share in its alleviation. He took a very great interest in the late civil war from its inception. The firing on Sumpter shocked him exceedingly, for no man loved his country more dearly or more clearly saw the in- evitable horrors to follow the dreadful collision. Knowing the Southern people well, and the vast means and the stern patriotism of the North, he never doubted the final issue of the contest. He was very earnest in his support of the Sanitary Commission, and when General Grant told the country he could end the war with less expense of blood and treasure if he could have another prompt reinforcement of the armies, your uncle made instant inquiry where re- cruits could possibly be had, and despatched two to head- quarters at a heavy cost. Long after, when an agent of the State offered to reimburse a part of the expense, he refused to listen to the proposal, feeling amply repaid with the con- sciousness that he had but done his duty. He had already contributed largely towards the equipment and comfort of several New York regiments. Since the close of the dreadful struggle he has largely aided the Military Post Library Association in the effort to furnish the frontier gar- risons of our scattered soldiers with reading matter most appropriate to their mental and moral needs. I had only to suggest some object worthy of his charitable regard, to enlist his prompt and generous action. There was a daily beauty in his life through all the years of our long acquaintance. To see him anywhere, at home or abroad, to listen to his kindly

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The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 54

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