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UBBARD, WILLIAM II., M. D., of Red Bank, was born in Middletown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, September 30th, 1812. His parents were Elias and Nellie ( Hendrickson) Hubbard. both natives of the same county. The lad ob- tained his education at the paid schools and acad- emies of his native county, and at a fitting age, having manifested a taste for the medical profession, he began to read medicine under the direction of his uncle, Jacobus Hubbard, a practitioner at Tinton Falls, in the same county. With this preceptor he prosecuted his studies until 1834, in which year he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. Commencing practice in con- nection with his preceptor, he, after twelve months, suc- ceeded him, and continued to pursue the duties of his pro- fession in the locality for a period of twenty-two years. In 1856, being solicited by citizens of the towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend, Flatbush and Flatlands, Long Island, to take the place of two eminently successful practitioners, Drs. Duboice and Crane, who had lost their lives in the discharge of their duty during the epidemic then raging so fatally, he
field of labor six years. During that period he had access to the various public institutions of Kings county, viz. : the hospital, almshouse, lunatic asylum, and prison ; and became intimately associated with the physicians and surgeons con- nected therewith. In 1862 he transferred his labors to his native county, settling in the village of Red Bank on July 8th, of that year. In this place he has since remained, and has built up an excellent practice. A well-read and careful practitioner, he enjoys the respect and esteem of his profes- sional brethren. He is a member of the Monmouth County Medical Society, and served as its President in 1856. On October 20th, 1836, he was married to Ellen Cook, of Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county, New Jersey.
UBBARD, DR. CHARLES, Dentist, of Red Bank, son of Dr. William H. Hubbard, whose sketch appears above, was born at Tinton Falls. His education was received at Holmdel Academy, under the instruction of N. II. Whyckoff and Thompson, A. M., and at Monmouth School, under the tuition of Professor W. W. Woodhull. In 1858 he began to study the principles of dentistry, and devoted three years and a half to practical studies under the care of Dr. J. B. Brown, of Brooklyn. After passing the neces- sary examination, he opened his office at Red Bank, where he has since practised his profession, and has met with much success, being considered by members of his profes- sion and his patrons entitled to a position in the front rank of practitioners of dentistry.
ACKEY, WILLIAM M., Lawyer, was born, March 6th, 1837, in Oxford township, Warren county, New Jersey, his father being John Mackey, Esq., a descendant of one of the oldest of the county families. He was prepared for college under private tutors and entered the sophomore class at Princeton in 1858. In 1861 he graduated, his class includ- ing J. R. Emery, Esq., now of the New Jersey bar, the now Rev. J. M. Ludlow, Rev. John De Witt, and others not less well known, and for a short time was engaged in teach- ing. Deciding upon the study of law, he was entered in the office of the late J. M. Sherrerd, Esq., at Belvidere, from whence he passed to that of Judge Scudder, at Trenton. Ile was admitted to the bar in November, 1864, and at once established himself at Belvidere, rapidly acquiring an extensive practice. This of late years has been greatly ex- tended, and ranges through all the courts of the State. He is a member of the Democratic party, but has never made a business of politics. Previous to the passage of the present school law, he was Superintendent of Schools for Belvidere,
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and in 1873-74 he was Mayor of that city. He has been for many years a consistent member of the Presbyterian church. He was first married, in 1864, to Catherine Keyser, daughter of George Keyser, of Oxford, New Jersey.
CCLELLAND, REV. ALEXANDER, D. D., Professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature in the Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey, late of that place, was born in Schenec- tady, New York, and was a graduate of the Schenectady Union College. He was for several years pastor of the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church, New York city, and while there was conspicuous among the local preachers for his learning, uprightness, and elo- quence. He subsequently held a professorship in Dickin- son College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During the last nine- teen years of his life, however, he was connected with the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, as Professor of Biblical and Oriental Literature. He was a pious and scholarly gentleman, well versed in Eastern lore, and an ardent Christian guide and spiritual exhorter. He died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 19th, 1864, aged sixty-nine years.
ERSELES, HON. JACOB M., ex-State Senator of New Jersey, late of South Bergen, New Jersey, was for three years an active and prominent mcm- ber of the Legislature, for three terms officiated as Sheriff of Hudson county, and was the pioneer in establishing various stage and city railroad lines in that section. He was a man of extended practical views and prompt in the furtherance and culmination of selected projects. He assisted substantially in the development of the various interests centring and growing in Hudson county, and was identified with the growth and increase of that section of New Jersey. Ile died of paralysis, at South Bergen, New Jersey, January 2d, 1865.
CUDDER, JOHN, M. D., Missionary, late of Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, but at an early day re- moved with his parents to Frechold, where he acquired his preliminary education. Ile was graduated in 1811, and in December, 1819, went to Tillipally as a missionary physician. He was subse- quently ordained, however, and during the ensuing sixteen years labored zealously at the station of Pandeteripo, in Ceylon. In 1836 he, with Mr. Winslow, was sent to the city of Madras, where it was purposed to use a religious
press in the Tamul language. From 1843 to 1847 he was in the United States, promoting the cause of missions by visiting the various charges, everywhere addressing congre- gations and Sabbath schools with the most impressive ardor and earnestness. He was educated in the Dutch Reformed Church, of which he was the pioneer missionary, aud throughout his long and useful life remained one of its most devoted sons. His appeal to the youth of America in be- half of the heathen was published in 1846 ; also, a tract, en- titled " Provision for Passing over Jordan," excited much favorable comment throughout the country, and in religious circles abroad. By his wife, Harriet Scudder, he had four- teen children, of whom seven sons and two daughters sur- vived him. Six of the sons devoted themselves to foreign missions, three of whom were, at the time of his death, in India, at Arcot, seventy miles from Madras. He was an exhorter of persuasive powers, firm in the right, and of in- domitable perseverance in the path selected as the true one, and the great good accomplished by him in his lifetime is still thriving, and daily bearing fresh fruit. IIe died at Wynberg, January 13th, 1855, aged sixty-one years.
LENKER, LOUIS, Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers, late of New Jersey, was born in the city of Worms, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, where, in his youth, he was apprenticed to learn the trade of jeweller. Upon attaining his majority, however, he enlisted in the Bavarian Legion, which was organized to accompany the newly elected king, Otho, to Greece. From a private he rose to the rank of Sergeant, and when the legion was dis- banded in 1837, he received with his discharge the higher rank of Lieutenant. He then returned to Worms, whence, after a brief stay, he went to Munich in order to attend medical lectures, with the view of becoming professor of medicine. IIe afterwards abandoned this intention, how- ever, and entered into commercial pursuits. In 1849 he became a leading member of the revolutionary government in his native city, and having been appointed Commander of the National Guards, took an active and zealous part in the popular movements of that period. After the repression of this revolutionary outburst, he retired to Switzerland, and being ordered to leave the country, embarked at Havre for the United States, and settled on a farm in Rockland county, New York. Subsequently he removed to New York city, where he continued engaged in mercantile affairs until 1861. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion, he raised and organized the 8th Regimeut of New York Volunteers, with which he marched to Washington, having been com- missioned its Colonel, May 13th, 1861. After being en- camped for some time on Meridian IIill, the regiment was incorporated with others into a brigade, of which he was appointed commander. The brigade was then attached to
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General McDowell's army, as a portion of Colonel Myles's Fifth Division. During the battle of Bull Run this division acted as a reserve, and for his services at that time he was commissioned a Brigadier General, August 9th, 1861. He then remained with the Army of the Potomac, command- ing a division until the commencement of the Yorktown campaign, when he was ordered to western Virginia. June 8th, 1862, he was an active participant in the battle of Cross Keys, but was shortly after relieved of the command, and succeeded by General Sigcl. He was subsequently ordered to Washington, where he remained for some time, and, March 31st, 1863, was mustered out of service. He died in New Jersey, where he was widely known and re- spected, October 3Ist, 1863, aged fifty-one years.
MITH, HON. ISAAC, Professor, Judge and Member of Congress, late of New Jersey, was a graduate of Princeton College, in 1755, and acted in that institution in the capacity of tutor. From 1795 to 1797 he was a representative in Congress from New Jersey, and in the latter year was appointed by President Washington a Commis- sioner to treat with the tribe of Seneca Indians. IIe was also a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. He was a man of polished attainments, of profound judicial learning, and of unassailable rectitude.
and no preparations were made for departure; and when, in the early spring, his father said that they had better wait another year, he determined to take the matter into his own hands. Ilis brother William, two years his senior and his confidant in all his plans, readily fell into his views, and without acquainting their father with their intentions they made their arrangements for the voyage. They had saved enough from their wages to pay their passage, and every- thing seemed to work in favor of their undertaking. They left Liverpool, in a sailing vessel, April 4th, 1842, and on the 10th of the following May they landed in New York. Philadelphia was fixed upon as their first location, but as they chanced to remember that one Robert Sumner, a friend of their father's, was living in Paterson, New Jersey, they determined to see him before adopting any definite plans. The morning after their arrival in America they went out to Paterson, found Sumner, and were cordially re- ceived by him. But he was unable to put them in the way of gaining employment, and they concluded to follow out their original intention, and proceed to Philadelphia. As their stock of cash was not large, they left such things as they could not conveniently carry with their friend, and started to make the journey on foot. The parting advice that they received was to take any sort of work that they could get : for at this period, so soon after the financial panic of 1837, business of every sort was utterly stagnated. On arriving at Trenton they encountered Joshua Wright, a member of the Society of Friends, who was favorably im- pressed by the younger brother's appearance, and offered him employment upon the farm of his (Wright's) brother- in-law, William Lee. Upon this farm, some three miles out of Trenton, he remained for eighteen months, a warm attachment, which has increased with each since-passing year, springing up between him and the Lee family. Manu- facturing prospects having meanwhile-under the protective tariff of 1842-materially improved, and his tastes leaning strongly towards mechanical employment, he determined in the fall of 1843 to leave the farm. It was much against the wishes of his employer, as well as against his own feelings, that he carried this resolution into execution; but he felt that in living a farm life he was doing an injustice to him- self, and that it was his duty to engage in some employment wherein he would have an opportunity to rise. IIe soon obtained a position in a manufactory of prints, where he re- mained for upwards of a year, and where, by working over- time, he averaged eight and a half working days per week. At the end of the year he was offered a much better place in an adjacent cotton mill, the superintendent of which was acquainted with his ability and skill, and this position he held until he entered upon the especial line of manufacture in which he has been so eminently successful. In the early part of 1845 (February 17th) he had married Elizabeth Aspden, an excellent woman, who proved a trusty coun- sellor in all his future undertakings. A year later he pur-
XTON, ADAM, Cracker Manufacturer, of Trenton, the son of William and Mary (Turner) Exton, was born in Euxton, Barth, Lancashire, Eng- Iand, July 5th, 1823. His education was ob- tained under circumstances of the utmost diffi- culty : at eight years of age he was placed at work in a cotton mill, and his only opportunities of learn- ing were at a Sunday-school and at night-schools. The small fee demanded at the latter he paid with earnings gained by working over-time at the mill, his regular wages being given, intact, to his parents. IIis progress was as rapid as his exertions were earnest, and the limited range of study at his command was utilized to the best advantage. Ilis reading was directed mainly to books of travel, and especially to those treating of travel in the United States. Everything relating to America had to him the deepest interest, and before he was sixteen years old his determina- tion was fixed to emigrate from England to this country so soon as his savings should be sufficient to pay his passage. In 1841 his object seemed in a fair way of being attained, as his father promised him and his brother William, who was also desirous of coming to America, that if they would wait until the following spring he would emigrate with his entire family to the United States. But winter wore away chased a tract of land 50 feet front by 150 feet deep, upon
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which he erected a pair of frame houses, and in the winter |election to numerous offices of trust and honor. For many of 1846, in one of these houses, he started a bread, cake years he was a member and was prominent in the trans- actions of the City Councils, serving as Chairman of the Highway Committee; since its organization he has been connected with the Trenton Board of Trade, and in 1876 he was elected by the stockholders of the Trenton Horse Railway Company to be President of that corporation. In short, his brilliant business career-a career due entirely to his indomitable industry and perseverance-is fitly crowned by the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. and cracker bakery. He had associated with him at the outset of this enterprise his wife's brother, Richard Aspden ; but Mr. Aspden died within a twelvemonth, and he was left to carry on the business alone. This he did with in- finite energy, particularly directing his attention to the de- velopment of his cracker trade, and such was his success that in 1850 he found it advisable to drop all other branches of his business and confine himself to cracker-making alone. At this time he conceived the idea of constructing a ma- chine that would mould crackers better than the work could be done by hand, and pursuing his investigations in this direction he not only succeeded in inventing a mould- OWELL, DAVID, LL. D., Judge, late of Provi- dence, Rhode Island, was born in New Jersey, and graduated at Princeton College, 1766. Re- moving to Rhode Island, he was appointed Pro- fessor of Mathematics, and afterward of Law, in the University of that place. Devoting himself to the practice of the law at Providence, he was subse- quently chosen to fill the position of Judge of the Supreme Court. He was also a member of the old Congress, and in 1812 was appointed District Judge for Rhode Island, which office he sustained till his death, in 1824, aged seventy-seven years. He was a jurist of excellent attain- ments; upright in his relations with the general community; scholarly in the wider and better acceptation of the term ; and one well provided with knowledge, not only of a gen- eral, but also of a positive and scientific nature. ing machine entirely satisfactory in all its workings, but also one not less satisfactory for rolling and docking. Upon both he took out letters patent in 1861, and by the vastly increased productive power thus given to his establishment he was able to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the trade. In 1866 he took out letters patent upon two other machines, the one for making fancy crackers, the other for making scroll biscuit, the two more than trebling his ca- pacity of output in these departments. Various inventions of a labor-saving character have since been patented and put into use, and as it now stands the manufactory-a large building, covering a lot 150 feet square-is one of the most completely furnished of its class in the country. The Ex- ton crackers are almost universally known, and the high degree of excellence to which their manufacture has been carried has been certified to by awards of the juries of nu- merous competitive- exhibitions-the award of the judges of the Centennial Exhibition being among the number. The annual out-put ranges from $150,000 to $200,000, and the market supplied extends over a very large portion of ROWN, HARVEY, Brevet Major-General United States Army, of New Jersey, was born in Rox- bury, New Jersey, in 1795, and in 1818 gradu- ated from West Point. Entering the artillery branch of the service, he became First Lieutenant of the 4th Artillery, August 23d, 1821. April Ioth, 1835, he was promoted to the rank of Captain ; Janu- ary 9th, 1851, he was made Major in the 2d Artillery, and subsequently rose successively to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the 4th Artillery, April 28th, 1861; to a Colonelcy in the 5th Artillery, May 14th, 1861 ; and on the following Sep- tember 2Sth was tendered the position of Brigadier General of United States Volunteers. August Ist, 1863, he finally retired from the service. He won the brevets of Major, November 21st, 1836, for " gallantry and general effi- ciency" during the progress of the Florida war; of Lieu- tenant-Colonel for valuable service rendered at Contreras, August 20th; and Colonel, for gallantry at the gate of Belen, city of Mexico, September 13th, 1847-being also engaged at Monterey, Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo. Ile was engaged in the repulse of the rebel attack on Santa Rosa Island, Florida, October 9th, 1861, and was brevetted the globe. In 1872, in evidence of his appreciation of the faithful service that had long been rendered to him by his brother John, and by his son-in-law William H. Brockaw, Mr. Exton admitted them as partners into his business, al- lowing to each a one-quarter share. From each he took notes of hand representing the full amount of capital thus bestowed, charging on these seven per cent. per annum in- terest, and allowing the profit above this rate to dissipate the principal. Under this arrangement the firm-name was changed to its present style, Adam Exton & Co. Having thoroughly identified himself with his adopted country, Mr. Exton has for years taken a warm interest in its welfarc, and especially has his public spirit been shown in forward- ing all schemes for the improvement of the city of Trenton. The erection of the fine Washington market-house may be cited as a notable instance in which his means and influ- ence were used for the publie good; and this is only one of many similar schemes in which he has been prominently engaged. Naturally, he is held in high esteem by the people of Trenton ; and this feeling, combined with the high respect entertaincd for his business ability, has led to his
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Brigadier-General United States army, November 23d, 1861, for gallantry in the engagement between Fort Pickens and the rebel batteries, November 22d, 23d. August 2d, 1866, he was brevetted Major-General United States army for his efficient services in suppressing the memorable and outrageous riots in New York city of July 12-16, 1863, on which occasion he won enviable distinction as a loyal citi- zen and a fearless yet careful soldier.
UDLOW, REV. JOHN, D. D., LL. D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Ecclesiastical IIistory, late of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Aquackanonk, New Jersey, December 13th, 1793, and graduated from the Union College in 1814. His grandfather, Richard Ludlow, was an officer in the revolutionary army. After pursuing for some time a course of legal studies, he entered the New Brunswick Theological School. During one year lie acted in the capacity of tutor at Union College, and upon the completion of his preparatory studies in 1817, became pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick. In ISIS he was appointed Professor of Biblical Literature, and from 1823 to 1834 officiated as pastor of the church in Albany, New York. From 1834 to 1852 he filled the posi- tion of Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and in the latter year took the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He died at Philadelphia, Penn. sylvania, September 8th, 1857, distinguished for his pro- found learning as a theological student, and his rare quali- ties as an educator and spiritual counsellor.
OTY, LOCKWOOD L., Colonel, Lawyer, late of Jersey City, New Jersey, was born at Groveland, New York, May 15th, 1827. His early years were spent in his native village, and, upon attain- ing his twenty-first year, he entered a law office in Geneseo, New York, where he entered upon a course of legal studies. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion he became actively engaged in procuring enlistments, and acted in the capacity of Military Secretary for Governor Fen- ton. He also founded the State Military Bureau at Albany, New York, which collected the history of the volunteer regiments, and provided for the care of the sick and wounded. In 1871 he received from President Grant the appointment of Pension Agent of New York city, which position he held until prolonged ill health compelled his resignation but a few weeks previous to his death. He was an earnest and intrepid worker in the defence of the Union, and possessed unusual and excellent administrative abilities. He died in Jersey City, aged forty-six years.
OD, ALBERT B., D. D., Professor of Mathemat- ics, late of Princeton, New Jersey, was born in Mendham, in the same State. After pursuing with diligence the usual course of studies at Princeton, he graduated from that institution in 1822, and in 1829 was chosen Professor. Ilis method of teaching was both original and notably effective, and as exponent and demonstrator he was equalled by but few. He was also an eloquent preacher, and a writer of considerable merit. He died at Princeton, New Jersey, November 20th, 1845, aged forty years.
EILSON, COLONEL JOHN, Revolutionary Offi- cer, and Member of the Continental Congress, late of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was born in that place, or near it, March 11th, 1745. He was educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and after- ward, from 1769 to 1775, was engaged in mercan- tile pursuits in his native town. In 1775 he raised and organized a company of patriot volunteers; August 31st, of the same year, he was appointed Colonel of a regiment of minute-men ; and until September 18th, 1780, continued actively engaged in repelling British inroads, and in fur- thering the cause to which he was ardently attached. He was then appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General for New Jersey. Early in 1777 he planned and successfully exe- cuted the surprise of a British post at Bennett's Island. In 1778 and 1779 he was a zealous and influential member of the Continental Congress; and in the New Jersey Conven- tion to ratify the Federal Constitution, he distinguished himself as an energetic and efficient supporter of the impor- tant measures then held under discussion. He died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 3d, 1833.
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