The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 63

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

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AILEY, GAMALIEL, M. D., Proprietor and Editor of the National Era, Abolition Advo- cate, late of Washington, District of Columbia, was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, December 3d, 1807. Removing to Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, at the age of nine years, he there entered upon a course of medical studies when he had finished his earlier school education, and in 1828 received his degree of M. D. He then sailed to China as physician of a ship, afterward beginning his career as editor on the Meth- odist Protestant, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1831 he re- moved to Cincinnati, and in that city acted as physician to the Cholcra Hospital during the prevalence of the epi- demic. In 1836, in connection with J. G. Birncy, he con- ducted the first anti-slavery newspaper in the West, the Cincinnati Philanthropist. Upon two occasions their print- ing-office was attacked hy a riotous mob of malicious per- sons, the press tossed into the Ohio river, and the books and papers burned. In 1837 he became sole editor of the Philanthropist, the organ of the Liberal party, and was a principal leader in the presidential canvass in 1840. In the following year his press was again destroyed by a mob, which, after doing much wilful harm, was dispersed by the

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military. January Ist, 1847, he began to edit, at the cap- ital, the National Era, a newspaper of decided anti-slavery principles. In 1848, a mob, for three consecutive days, be- sieged his office. "Addressing the multitude in a speech remarkable for its coolness and its independent spirit, the mob, that had proposed to tar and feather him, was dis- armed by his eloquence." In the Era was originally published " Uncle Tom's Cabin." He died, June 5th, 1859, on board the outgoing steamer "Arago."

ATEMAN, DR. EPHRAIM, Member of Con- gress, and United States Senator, late of Cum- berland, New Jersey, was born there, in 1770. While serving as a mechanic's apprentice, he devoted his spare hours to the study of medicine, and rapidly acquired a large and varied store of medical knowledge. Subsequently he won distinction in the profession as a skilful physician, and hecame widely known through his many successes secured under adverse circumstances. For many years, also, he was an active member of the New Jersey State Legislature ; from 1815 to 1823 was in Congress; and from 1826 to 1829 served ably as United States Senator. He was a public-spirited and liberal citizen ; upright in all the relations of life, public and private; and ever zealous in the cause of his State and country. He died in Cumberland, New Jersey, January 29th, 1829,

OOD, REV. JAMES, D. D., an eminent Presbyte- rian Clergyman, Teacher, and Author, late of Hightstown, New Jersey, was a native of New York State, and graduated at Princeton Theologi- cal Seminary. After preaching for a time in Amsterdam, New York, he was appointed Agent of the Board of Education for the West. He was subse- quently for many years Professor of Church History in the Indiana Theological Seminary, and upon his resignation became principal of an academy for boys, in New Albany, Indiana. His next appointment was that of Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education at Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania. He was afterward elected to the Presidency of IIanover College, in the same State, which position he re- signed, however, in 1866, that he might become principal of the Van Rensselaer Institute, at Hightstown, New Jersey. The primary object of this institution was the education of the children of missionaries. He had entered upon the discharge of his new and important duties with great zeal and energy, and was making vigorous efforts toward a com- plete endowment, when stricken down by death. He was the author of an able work entitled " Old and New Theol- ogy," setting forth the reasons which led to the division of the Presbyterian Church, He published also an interesting

volume known as "A Call to the Ministry," and several other treatises, essays, pamphlets, and sermons, bearing on moral, theological, and kindred subjects ; all of which con- tain sterling food for thought, and much matter of a valuable and suggestive nature. He died at Hightstown, New Jer- sey, April 7th, 1867, aged sixty-seven years.

VANS, AUGUSTUS O., Journalist and Politician, late of Hoboken, New Jersey, was born in Bing- hampton, New York, in 1831. While in his twentieth year he moved to Brooklyn, there find- ing employment in a subordinate capacity on the New York Tribune, and finally as reporter of the New Jersey News. Finding his residence in Brooklyn inconvenient, he removed to Hoboken, New Jersey, and soon after took charge of the Hudson County Democrat, of which he retained the proprietorship until March, 1873. For one or two years he occupied the position of City Clerk of Hoboken ; in 1855 was elected to the Assembly of New Jersey, and again elected in 1866, when he was chosen as Speaker of the House. He died in Hoboken, New Jersey, September 28th, 1873, aged forty-two years.

¿RISCOM, JOHN, LL. D., Physician and Chemist, late of Burlington, New Jersey, died there Feb- ruary 26th, 1852, aged seventy-seven years. He presided for some time as Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in New York Institute, where he was admired and respected for his pro- found acquirements and his rare technical abilities. In addition to his attainments as physician and scientist, he possessed a varied store of literary knowledge, and was himself a writer of no mean calibre. In 1823 he published "A Year in Europe in 1818-1819," 2 vols .; and at a later date, "A Discourse on Character and Education." His criticisms and judgments concerning the current literature of his day were the offspring of a ripe and keenly discrimi- nating perceptive power, and by those who knew his worth, were accepted as guides wholly reliable and trustworthy.

INNICKSON, HON. THOMAS, Judge, and Mem- ber of the First Congress, late of Salem county, New Jersey, was born in that place, and there received a classical education and mercantile training. He served in the revolutionary war at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, in the capac- ity of Captain, performing gallant and efficient service.' For many years he was an honored member of the Council and Assembly of New Jersey, and the Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. During the progress of the Revo- lution he was a vigilant correspondent of the Committee of

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Safety; and a Representative in the First Congress, after the adoption of the Constitution, from 1789 to 1791, and again from 1797 to 1799. In the fourth Presidential election, 1801, he was one of the Electors from New Jersey. IIis name is honorably associated with the history of his State, and he occupies in its annals a proud place as soldier and as statesman.

OYDEN, SETH, Inventor, Leather Manufacturer, etc., late of Middleville, New Jersey, was born in Foxborough, Massachusetts, November 17th, 1788. In 1813 he engaged in the leather manufacturing business in Newark, New Jersey, and invented a machine for splitting leather. In 1819 he began the manufacture of patent leather, and in 1826 made the first malleable iron. He subsequently perfected the first locomotive with the driving-rod outside the wheel; pro- duced the first daguerreotype in America ; invented the pro- cess of making spelter; discovered the art of making Russian sheet-iron; and patented a hat-body doming machine used in all the hat manufactories in the United States. After passing through a life and career of peculiar usefulness to his fellow-beings, he died at an advanced age, in Middleville, New Jersey, March 31st, 1870. He was a man of singular fertility of invention in mechanical matters, and was richly endowed with resources in all things relating to the practical side of science and mechanics. His mind was constantly occupied in endeavoring to produce the maximum of results with the minimum of means; and he was only completely happy when engaged in essays and experiments tending to illustrate the power and value of a fresh method or new idea.

OGGS, CHARLES STUART, Rear-Admiral United States Navy, of Brunswick, New Jersey, was born in Brunswick, New Jersey, January 28th, 1810, the nephew of Captain James Lawrence. He entered the navy, November Ist, 1826; and September 6th, 1837, was promoted to a lieuten- ancy. During the progress of the war with Mexico he was on the " Princeton," of Commodore Conner's squadron ; was present at the siege of Vera Cruz, and commanded the boat expedition which destroyed the " Truxton " after her surrender to the Mexicans. September 14th, 1855, he was made Commander, and assigned by the Secretary of the Navy .J the United States mail steamer " Illinois," which he com- manded during the ensuing three years. He afterward filled the position of Light-House Inspector for California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. In 1861, at the out- break of the Southern rebellion, he was ordered to the gun- boat " Varuna," of Farragut's Gulf Squadron; and in the assault on the Mississippi forts, destroyed six of the Confed- erate gunboats, finally losing his own vessel, however, after

setting his antagonist in flames and driving her ashore. He then 'returned to Washington as bearer of despatches ; was ordered to the command of the new sloop-of-war " Juniata ; " and July 16th, 1862, was promoted to the rank of Captain. July 25th, 1866, he became Commodore, com- manding the steamer " De Soto," of the North Atlantic Squadron, during the years 1867-1868. He became Rear- Admiral in July, 1870, a high rank deservedly attained through his gallantry and ability in action.

ARD, JOHN, Physician, late of Hyde Park, New York, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, Feb- ruary Ist, 1716, and was of a family which had been driven from France in consequence of the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Peter Bard, his father, a merchant, came to Maryland in 1703, but soon moved to New Jersey, where he acted for many years as a Privy-Councillor, and second Judge of the Su- preme Court. He received the rudiments of a classical education at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was for seven years a surgeon's apprentice in that city, and there also began a lasting friendship with Dr. Franklin. In 1746 he established himself in New York, and rapidly won a lead- ing rank among the practitioners of the city and its environs. In 1750 he assisted Dr. Middleton in the first recorded dissection in America. In 1759 he was appointed to take measures to prevent the spread of ship-fever, and selected Bedloe's Island for a hospital, of which he took charge. In 1778 he withdrew from the city; but, at the close of the war, resumed practice there, and in 1788 became first Pres- ident of the New York Medical Society. In 1795, during the prevalence at New York of the yellow-fever epidemic, he remained at his post, and made himself eminently useful in a trying and perilous time. In May, 1798, he relinquished his professional labors, and sought the tranquillity of private life. At his decease he left an essay on malignant pleurisy, and also several valuable papers relating to the cause and phases of yellow-fever, which were finally published in the "American Medical Register." He died at Hyde Park, New York, March 30th, 1800.

INLEY, ROBERT, D. D., Presbyterian Divine and Philanthropist, late of Athens, Georgia, was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1772; grad- uated from the New Jersey College in 1787; and in 1817 had conferred on him by that institution the degree of D. D. James Finley, his father, came from Scotland to this country in 1769. From 1793 to 1817 he was connected with the New Jersey College as tutor, or Trustee ; and, June 16th, 1795, was ordained pastor at Basking Ridge. Ile originated the plan of colonizing emancipated blacks in Africa, and was instrumental in

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forming the constitution and in organizing the Colonization Society. In July, 1817, he was installed President of Franklin College, in Athens, Georgia, where he died, Oc- tober 3d, 1817. During his lifetime he published various sermons, and several excellent papers relating to the me- thods and results of colonization, in which he was ever warmly and generously interested.

OLDEN, EDGAR, M. D., Newark, New Jersey, was born in 1838 at Hingham, Massachusetts. He is the son of Asa H. and Annie L. Holden, his father being a manufacturer of malleable and cast-iron cannon. In 1847 he entered the Hing- ham Academy ; in 1852 James Hunting's Board- ing School, at Jamaica, Long Island ; was Assistant Teacher in the Rev. J. Pingry's Boarding and College School in 1855; graduated at Princeton College in 1859, receiving the degree of A. M. in 1862; and in 1861 graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In the latter year he was commissioned a Surgeon in the United States navy, by Abraham Lincoln. In 1862 he became a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society; of the Essex District Medical Society, and of the New York So- ciety for the Advancement of Science; and in 1864 a mem- ber of the American Medical Association. In the same year he was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon in the United States army. In 1865 he was made a Medical Ad- viser of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and in 1869 President of the Board of Advisers. He visited foreign countries in 1871, and in 1873 was Clinical Physi- cian to St. Michael's Hospital. In 1870 he visited the prin- cipal cities and health resorts of the United States. In 1873 he received the Stevens Triennial Prize from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In 1874 he was Consulting Surgeon to St. Barnabas Hospital. In 1875 he became a member of the New York Laryngological So- ciety, receiving in the same year the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton College. He was also a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the International Medi- cal Congress held in that year. His contributions to litera- ture, medical and popular, have been frequent and of a high order, his medical papers embracing : "A Singular Case of Sloughing, with Loss of the entire Scapula, with Recovery," read before the Essex Medical Union, 1861 ; " Certain Dis- eases of Men of War," published in the American Journal of Medical Science, 1864; "Antecedent Diseases in Cases of IIeart Disease and Apoplexy," published in the same journal, 1864; " Cancer and Tubercle : their Relations," pamphlet ; " Nitrous Oxide and its Relations," published in the American Journal of Medical Science ; " Ostracism for Consumption," published in the same journal and in pamphlet form ; " Successful Treatment of Asthma," in the same journal ; " Vaginal and Vulval Varices," published in

the New York Medical Record ; " Relations of Cardiac Pathology to the Sphygmograph," read before the New York State Medical Society, and published as a pamphlet ; "Anomalies of Cardiac Pathology," American Journal of Medical Science ; "The Sphygmograph," for which the Stevens Triennial Prize was awarded by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, published in book form, and " Influence of Certain Occupations," American Journal of Medical Science ; while of his popular papers we may mention : "Cruise of the Passaic; " " Chapter on the Coolie Trade," and " Cruise of the Sassacus," published in Harper's Magazine ; " Journal of Iron-Clad Cruisers ; " " The Three Chimneys," published in The Chimney Corner, and " Our Pedestrian Tour," all illustrated in pen and ink. He married in 1861 Kate Hedder, daughter of Jotham Hedder, of East Orange, and afterwards Helen Stewart, daughter of Mr. John Binger, of Orange.

UCKER, COLONEL ISAAC M., Lawyer, late of Newark, New Jersey, was a resident of that city, a leading member of the legal profession, and a man of much influence throughout the State. In 1856 he was a member of the State Republican Executive Committee. " He was a true patriot, and his services to his regiment were most valuable." He was killed in the battle of Gaines' Mill, shot by the enemy while being borne wounded from the field, June 27th, 1862.

ARKLEY, ALBERT WATSON, late of Camden, was born in Leacock, Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, October 25th, 1825, and died September 25th, 1875. His early life was passed principally in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and he received his education at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsyl- vania. He moved to Camden in 1846, and was first em- ployed in the counting-house of J. W. & J. F. Starr. He remained with this firm about two years, when he accepted a clerkship in the State Bank, and held that position till 1854, when he was appointed assignee of the estate of W. W. Fleming, of Atsion. In the settlement of this large estate, which he managed most successfully, he laid the foundation of his future business career, and became widely known in Camden and Burlington counties for those gentle- manly courtesies which distinguished his conduct in after life, and drew about him a corps of true and admiring friends. He next interested himself in procuring a charter for a new bank in Camden, which he succeeded in doing through the aid of influential friends at Trenton. When the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank (now First National) commenced business, he was elected President, in which

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capacity he served for some time. He shortly afterward be- came deeply interested in the affairs of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company, of which he was an efficient Director. Here he was recognized as a man of ability, and was intrusted with many delicate transactions, and from that time till the united roads were leased by the Pennsyl- vania company, he divided his labors between Trenton and Washington to prevent legislation antagonistic to that com- pany. At Washington, by his genial manners and kindly nature, he became one of the most influential and popular men at the national capital, and during the war gave many a New Jersey soldier occasion to remember him with grati- tude for leaves of absence, extensions of furloughs, and for grateful delicacies while sick or wounded in the hospitals, This patriotic work was continued, without ostentation and almost unknown, except to the recipients of his favors, until the close of the war. His interest in the New Jersey roads continued till the time of his death. He was also a large stockholder in the Camden & Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Company. At a very early day he saw the value and capa- bilities of that corporation and became interested in it, and it is in a measure due to his efforts that this ferry has im- proved so greatly and increased its facilities for travel to such an extent, and also that the ferries of Camden have within the past few years made such great progress. He was a very benevolent man, and seemed to take delight in conferring favors on other people, and at each Christmas which has elapsed since his death more than one poor family has missed its accustomed turkey, and more than one coal bin and flour barrel have lacked replenishing from the same cause. He attended the First Presbyterian Church, of Cam- den, and took great interest in its prosperity, and it is largely owing to his exertions that the present edifice was erected. State and party lines seemed to offer no barriers to Mr. Markley's friendships; they were coextensive with the country, and few men in New Jersey were better known than he, or could number so extended a list of friends. The President, the cabinet, senators and members of Congress, governors of States and State officers, all esteemed him for his social and gentlemanly qualities, and these gave him a commanding position, which he used most unselfishly. In proof of this, it may be stated that notwithstanding all the patronage at his command he never held any office, except that of a bank and railroad official.

ANDOLPH, JOSEPH FITZ, Judge, an eminent jurist of New Jersey, late of Jersey City, was born in Freehold, Monmouth county, in 1803. After obtaining an ordinary school education, he entered upon the study of law, and in 1825 was admitted to the bar. For some years he acted as State's Attorney for the county ; was a representative in Congress from 1837 to 1843; was a member of the conven-

tion which framed the State Constitution in 1844, and in 1845 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for seven years, after which he resumed the practice of his profession at Trenton. Ile was a member of the Peace Congress in 1861. He was a jurist of consummate ability, and, through wide and varied experience and close reading, had acquired a remarkable fund of legal lore, and also knowledge in abundance of worldly and literary mat- ters distinct from his profession. He died in Jersey City, March 19th, 1873.

AN NEST, PETER, REV., Methodist Itinerant Minister, late of Pemberton, New Jersey ; died there, September 17th, 1850. For a period ex- tending over fifty-four years he was widely known as a zealous and untiring itinerant preacher and exhorter ; and during this extended space of time was instrumental in producing many enthusiastic revivals, and in advancing with fearless ardor the interests of Chris- tianity and his church.

RAZEE, JOHN, Sculptor and Architect, late of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was born in Rah- way, New Jersey, July 18th, 1790, and in early life was actively employed as a stone-cutter, and also as a farmer. Upon removing to New York he rapidly acquired distinction through the beauty and high finish of his monuments, tablets and ornamental mantels, and also the delicacy of his lettering. Turning his attention to sculpture, he produced a mural tablet and bust of John Welles, for St. Paul's Church, a most elabo- rate and artistically finished piece of work, which attracted much attention. In 1834, at the request of the trustees of the Boston Athenaeum, he modeled a series of busts of eminent men in that city, which now adorn its library ; they were of Webster, Bowditch, Prescott, Story, J. Lowell, and T. H. Perkins. He also produced heads of John Marshall, Jackson, Lafayette, De Witt Clinton, Jay, Bishop Hobart, Dr. Milnor, and Dr. Stearns. He was also archi- tect of the New York Custom House, in which he was an officer for some time. He died at New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, March 3d, 1852.

ACCULLOCH, GEORGE P., was born in Bombay, India, in December, 1775. The son of a Scotch officer in the East India service, he lost both parents in his childhood, and at the age of five years was taken from India to Edinburgh, where under the care of his grandmother he completed his education at the University of Edinburgh, having as his instructor in mathematics the illustrious Professor Jolin

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Playfair, and as his preceptor in Latin the scarcely less famous Dr. Adams, whose Latin Grammar still survives in our colleges and schools. On the completion of his education, he left Edinburgh for London, where he em- barked in mercantile pursuits, becoming the head of an extensive house connected with the East India trade, his partner being Francis Law, grandson of John Law, the cele- brated financier, and brother of James Alexander Bernard Law, Count de Lauriston, and favorite aide-de-camp of Napoleon. Shortly after the close of the French Revolu- tion, he spent a year in Paris, where his intimacy with the Count de Lauriston, and his familiarity with the Continen- tal languages, speaking fluently, as he did, French, German, Spanish and Italian, brought him into daily contact with the leading men of those eventful times, and afterwards led to his selection by the London merchants for the conduct of some very important and delicate negotiations in Holland during the Napoleonic wars, in the discharge of which task he passed as a German through Napoleon's army without exciting a suspicion of his nationality or his mission. In 1802 he went as the confidential agent of the directors of the East India Company to the city of Madrid, where he passed the winter in conducting several mercantile negotia- tions of great delicacy. At this time, young, accomplished, able, a man of the world, versed alike in business and in affairs, he occupied a noble vantage-ground for a career in either commerce or diplomacy, but the unsettled state of Europe clouding for the time his business prospects in Lon- don, and his health being impaired, he resolved to emigrate to this country, a resolution he executed in 1806, reaching New York, with his wife, Martha Louisa Edwina Sander- son, having married in 1800, and two children, in July of the former year. Coming to New Jersey in search of a quiet home, he found the object of his search in Morris- town, where he built the house in which he lived for all the long remainder of his life, and in which he died, surrounded from first to last by his family, and by

" that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends."

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The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 63

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