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On the 4th of October, 1870, Dr. Cooper was married, in Phila- delphia, to Emma S. Knause, who was born in Locust Valley. Lehigh county, and in her childhood days removed to Philadelphia, where she was educated in the public schools. Her parents were George and Caro- line (Jacoby) Knause, the former a merchant of Philadelphia. To Dr. and Mrs. Cooper have been born eight children. William Henry, born July 6, 1871, in South Bethlehem, is an alumnus of Muhlenberg Col- lege, 1891, and of Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. 1894. lle was interne in the Homeopathic Hospital of Pittsburg, and is now a practicing physician at Oakmont. Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He married Harriet Bettis, of Titusville, Pennsylvania. Frederick Eu- gene, born October 16. 1876, in South Bethlehem, was graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1896. and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Pennsylvania, in 1899. Ile is now pastor of St. Mark's church. at South Bethlehem. He married Rosa M. Richards, of Allen- town. Pennsylvania. Caroline Jacoby, born August 3. 1878, is a gradu- ate of the high schools of Allentown, and is now cashier and book- keeper for E. Keller & Sons, jewelers of Allentown. Emma Malinda, born March 6. 1880. in South Bethlehem. is a graduate of the high school of Allentown, and is now teaching in the public schools there. Sarah Alice. born May 9. 1883. in South Bethlehem, is a graduate of the Allentown high school, and is at home. Anna Rebecca, born De- cember 19. 1886, in Muhlenberg College, is a student in the high school at Allentown. Two other children, Charles Jacob and Mary Catherine. died in childhood.
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GENERAL FRANK REEDER.
The penning of the narrative which follows comes to the writer as a pleasant task, for he was a comrade-in-arms with General Frank Reeder in the Civil war operations on the Mississippi river, and was also intimately acquainted with the history of the illustrious sire of General Reeder. Governor Andrew H. Reeder.
The Reeder family was of early appearance in America, and was planted by John Reeder, who came from England previous to 1636 and settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636, and at Newtown. Long Island, in 1652. His son. John, located in Ewing, New Jersey, and married Hannah, daughter of Jeremiah Burroughs. Their son Isaac purchased a farm upon which he lived, and which is yet in the possession of his descendants. By his second marriage, with Joanna Hunt, Isaac Reeder became the father of John, who married Hannah Marchand, whose family name afterwards appears as Mershon. Of the latter marriage was born Absalom Reeder, who made his home in Easton, Pennsylvania, where (October 16, 1788) he married Chris- tiana Smith, and they became the parents of Governor Andrew II. Reeder, who bore so mighty a part in the preservation of Kansas to freedom.
Andrew Horatio Reeder was born at Easton, Pennsylvania. July 12. 1807. Beginning his education in the public schools of his native place, he graduated with honor from the Lawrenceville (New Jersey) Academy. He read law under the preceptorship of Hon. Peter Ihrie. a distinguished attorney of Easton, and on attaining his majority was admitted to the bar of Northampton county, Pennsylvania. He took high rank in his profession and was for some years associated in prac-
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tice with Henry Green (afterwards chief justice of Pennsylvania) in the law firm of Reeder & Green.
Governor Reeder's fame, however, rests upon his splendid serv- ices in behalf of free soil and free speech in the crucial days preceding the Civil war. From his early days a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, he took a deep interest in political affairs, and his masterly ora- tory soon brought him into favorable notice. In 1854 President Pierce appointed him the first governor of the territory of Kansas, and he at once sprang into world-wide notice. The conflict for the possession of Kansas between the two conflicting classes of emigrants, the free-soil- ers from the east and the slavery extensionists from the south, is a thrilling chapter in itself. There is only space here to epitomize the part taken by Governor Reeder. At the first election, the free-soilers were driven from the polls by the pro-slaverites, who went through the farce of electing a legislature. A demand was made upon Governor Reeder to sign the certificate of the members so chosen, and, on his declining so to do. he was informed: "We will give you fifteen minutes to sign. resign, resign or be hanged." His stern integrity and unflinching courage was shown in his instant reply: "Gentlemen, I need no fifteen minutes. My mind is made up. I shall hang." His holiness saved him for the time. Soon afterwards, came a congressional committee of investigation, to whom Governor Reeder fearlessly exposed the acts and plans of the border-ruffians. The president removed Gov- ernor Reeder, appointing in his stead ex-Governor Shannon, of Ohio, who at once avowed himself an ally of the slavery party. Thereupon the free-soilers protested against Whitfield, fraudulently elected as a delegate in congress, and elected Reeder. This would necessitate a contest before that body, to determine between the two, and the border- ruffians determined to solve the difficulty by putting Reeder out of
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the way. He evaded an armed regiment of the misereants, and made his way by night to Kansas City, where friends concealed him for two weeks, feeding him secretly, while his enemies picketed every road and guarded the steamboat landing in order to effect his capture. Finally. in the disguise of an Irish laborer. he made his way to a point down river where, by pre-arrangement, he was taken aboard a steamboat and ultimately reached Alton. Illinois. On his way home he stopped in Chicago, Detroit and other cities, in cach of which he made eloquent appeals to the lovers of freedom, who, in response, flocked to Kansas by thousands, as actual home-makers, and who, at the first fair election. adopted a free-state constitution and created a free state. Among those who were thus influenced by Governor Reeder were many Philadelphia and Chester county people, among them Colonel Kersey Coates. Col- onel Coates became one of those who made of Kansas City, Missouri. a great mercantile center, and he placed in his palatial hotel there, the Crates House, in tribute to his friend. a splendid oil portrait of Gov- ernor Reeder, from a photograph made after his reaching Chicago. representing him in a hickory shirt, blue overalls, heavy brogans and douch hat, with pick and axe, and smoking a short clay pipe-the dis guise in which he had made his escape.
At Easton, Governor Reeder resumed the practice of law, and con- tinned therein until his death. July 5. 1864. In 1860, in the national Republican convention which nominated Lincoln, Governor Reeder was third in the list of candidates for the vice presidential nomination. At the outbreak of the Civil war President Lincoln tendered him a commission as brigadier general, but he declined. feeling his inability to undergo the rigors of campaigning. He was married. September 13. 1831. to Miss Fredericka Amelia Hutter, a daughter of Colonel Chris- tian Jacob Hutter. She was a woman of as marked character as him-
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self. and with Spartan courage endured her mental anguish while her husband was imperiled in Kansas. During the Civil war period she labored incessantly and efficiently as president of the Easton Sanitary Aid Society. She was the mother of five children :
1. Ida Titus, born May 27. 1837, became the wife of William Wal- lace Marsh, a lawyer of Schooley's Mountain. New Jersey. 2. George Marchand Reeder, born October 26. 1839. during the Civil war was captain in the First Regiment Kansas Infantry Volunteers, was after- wards editor and publisher of the Easton Daily Express, and died De- cember 12, 1884. 3. Emma Hutter, born March 25, 1841, and died May 12, 1865, married ( May 14. 1861) J. Charles Ferriday. of Con- cordia Parish, Louisiana. 4. Howard James Reeder, born Decem- ber 11. 1843, graduated from Princeton College in 1863, and subse- quently from the Harvard Law School. During the Civil war he was a lieutenant in the First Regiment United States Infantry, and captain in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment. Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He was judge of the court of common pleas, third judicial dis- trict of Pennsylvania, in 1881. 1882 and from 1884 to 1894. and judge of the superior court of Pennsylvama from 1895 until his death. De- cember 28. 1898. He was married May 26, 1867. to Helen Burke, of Easton.
5. Frank Reeder, youngest son of Governor Andrew H. and Fred- ericka ( Ilutter) Reeder, was born in Easton, May 22, 1845. He was educated in the Lawrenceville ( New Jersey) Academy, the Edgehill School at Princeton, New Jersey, and at Princeton College, which he entered in 1860 in the sophomore class. In 1862, at the age of seven- teen years, he patriotically responded to Lincoln's call for troops and enlisted as a private in the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. In October of the same year he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and
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Seventy-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was soon pro- moted to the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant, and subsequently served as acting assistant adjutant general to General Peck and Gen- eral Vogdes, and participated with the Tenth and Eighteenth Army Corps in the campaigns in eastern Virginia and North Carolina, and in the operations against Charleston, South Carolina. On the expira- tion of his term of service he recruited a company for the Nineteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, of which he was commissioned cap- tain. in October. 1863. During a portion of his service he served as judge advocate on the staff of General Grierson. and as acting assist- ant adjutant general of the seventh Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps. He participated in numerous stirring campaigns and noted battles, and with conspicuous gallantry. His command acted in the operations in the vicinity of Vicksburg. Mississippi, and then moved west of the Mississippi river, where it fought the army of General Sterling Price at Marion, Greensboro, Pilot Knob. Osage and Big Blue River. It followed the rebel General Hood into Tennessee. and made repeated charges upon his flank while he was reaching toward Nashville and in the desperate two days' battle at that place, in which General Hood's army was hopelessly disorganized. Captain Reeder had three horses shot under him. In the battle of Hollow Tree Gap, near Franklin. he was wounded. For his gallant conduct in these affairs he was brev- etted major and lieutenant colonel by authority of the secretary of war, his commissions bearing the presidential signature. January 26, 1865, he was relieved from staff duty. having been commissioned lieu- tenant colonel, and by virtue of his rank he assumed command of his regiment. In February, 1865. he embarked his regiment at Eastport. Tennessee. and participated in the siege of Mobile. After the surrender of General Dick Taylor, he was ordered to the Red river to operate
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against General Kirby Smith. Following the surrender of the Con- federate forces in Texas, the Civil war now being ended, Colonel Reeder was stationed on the line of the Rio Grande with the army of observation placed there to aid in the defeat of the French purpose to establish in Mexico a monarchy under Maximilian. This crisis was soon passed. and Colonel Reeder brought his regiment to Philadelphia. where it was mustered out of service, June 13, 1866.
With this brilliant military record. and being risen from the ranks to the command of a regiment. Colonel Reeder was now but a month beyond the legal age of manhood. To complete his military record. although out of chronological sequence. it may be here noted that his soldierly qualities led to his appointment. in 1874. as brigadier general in the Pennsylvania National Guard, and he was assigned to the com- mand of the Fifth Brigade. Second Division. In 1877 he performed excellent service in quelling the riots in Reading, and he was singularly efficient at Harrisburg in the following year.
On his return to civil life at the close of the rebellion, General Reeder entered upon the study of law at Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and was engaged in his profession in New York city until 1860, when he returned to Easton and became law partner of his brother. Hon. Howard J. Reeder, and has since been busily occupied in his profession, in which he has gained an honorable distinction. lle has been called to various important positions, and was secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1898. a member of General Hasting's cabinet from 1895 to 1897, a delegate at large to the American national Republican convention in 1896, chair- man of the Republican state committee during the years 1899-1900- 1901, and in 1900 was appointed a commissioner of banking, resign-
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ing from that position in May, 1903. A Republican in politics, he is an acknowledged leader in party affairs and wields a potent influence.
General Reeder was married, at Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1868, to Miss Grace E. Thompson, a native of that city, born June 17. 1848. Three children have been born to this union : AAndrew Ho- ratio, born September 9. 1869, a graduate of Lafayette College, class of 1890. for several years was engaged in civil engineering in West Virginia, but is now employed in the fuel and mine department of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in British Columbia; he married Esther Eckard, a daughter of Dr. Leighton Eckard, and they are the parents of two children-Andrew H. and Elizabeth Bayard Reeder. Frank born May 4. 1880, graduated from Lafayette College in the class of 1901. Douglass Wyman, born .August 25. 1883. is a student in La- fayette College, class of 1905.
JAMES W. MOORE, M. D.
Dr James W. Moore, of Easton, Pennsylvania. is the seventh in line of descent from the Rev. John Moore, a native of England, whose birth occurred between the years 1620 and 1625. Subsequently he was a resident of Southampton, Hempstead and Newton. Long Island. May 30, 1644, he was a representative in the matter of the union of Southampton with the colony of Hartford; in October, 1644, was ap- pointed to collect subscriptions for students at Harvard College, of which he was probably a graduate, and also served as deputy for Southampton to negotiate a union with the New England colonies ; in 1646 he attended a meeting of the general court of Massachusetts, and acted on a com- mittee: between the years 16446 and 1649 was permitted to preach in New England: March 9, 1649, became a full freeman; from 1049
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to 1651 was the second minister of Hempstead: September 25, 1651. he writes a letter to the magistrates in Holland from Hempstead: in 1652 was the first minister of Middleburg, afterward Newton. Long Island: April 12, 1656, transacted the Indian purchase, the purchase money being £2: and on January 22. 1657. was presented with the title to the town house by the inhabitants of Newton in a public meeting. lle married Margaret Howell, who was baptized in England in 1622. (laughter of Edward Howell, one of the original ."Undertakers" who settled Southhampton. Long Island. Edward Howell was born in Marsh Gibbon. Buckinghamshire. England. in 1600. He came to America in 1639, was made freeman of Boston that year, removed to Lynn. where he had a grant of five hundred acres, was a magistrate from 1640 to 1653. a member of the colonial legislature at Hartford. Connecticut, from 1647 to 1653. and was probably a leader in the settlement of Southampton, the first English settlement in the state of New York. The Rev. John Moore died June 17. 1657.
Captain Samuel Moore, son of the Rev. John and Margaret (Howell) Moore, was born probably at Southampton. Long Island. between the years 1645 and 1651. He was granted a tract of land at Newton in 1662; became a freeholder on December 4. 1666; a constable in 1675: an overseer between 1677 and 1678. also between 1681 and 1683: appointed to choose delegates to assembly in New York : com- missioner of town court from 1684 to 1685. 1686. 1687. 1688 to 1690: on the committee to extend town limits in 1684: supervisor during the years 1684 to 1687. and from that year to 1691 ; on Dongan's Charter. in 1686. received the rank of lieutenant ; was appointed delegate to the convention at New York: prominent in Leisler's insurrection, and was commissioned captain of Newton militia on February 19, 1690. He
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married Mary Reed, born in 1651, died in Newton on May 4, 1738. His death occurred in the same town on July 25. 1717.
Justice Nathaniel Moore, son of Captain Samuel and Mary ( Reed) Moore, was born in Newton. Long Island, March 14. 1687. He re- moved from Long Island to New Jersey in 1708. and during that year he and Thomas Reed. John Cornwall and John Mott purchased thirteen hundred acres of land where Pennington. New Jersey, now stands. He was a trustee of the Pennington church from 1725 to 1726, trustee of parsonage and Latin school funds in 1731. a justice of the peace in 1725. and was appointed lieutenant in the New Jersey militia. De- cember 1. 1713. he married Joanna Prudden, born December 16. 1692. daughter of the Rev. John Prudden, born in Milford. Connecticut. November 9. 1645. died December 11. 1725: Mr. Prudden was a grad- uate of Harvard, principal of Roxbury Grammar School. pastor of Jamaica. Long Island. in 1670. deputy to colonial assembly of New York in 1689, and third pastor of First Church of Newark, New Jersey. in 1692. Rev. John Prudden was a son of the Rev. Peter Prudden. born 1601, died in 1656: was one of the founders of the colony of New Haven, settled at Milford. Connecticut, in 1639. and was ap- pointed judge in 1641 : in 1637 he married Joanna Boyse, of Wethers- field, Connecticut. Nathaniel Moore died at Hopewell. New Jersey. September 6. 1759; he was survived by his wife, who passed away in 1768.
Captain John Moore, son of Nathaniel and Joanna ( Prudden) Moore, was born March 8. 1715. at Hopewell, New Jersey. He served in Colonel Samuel Hunt's regiment in the French and Indian war. He married Keziah Phillips, daughter of Theophilus Phillips, of Maiden- head. New Jersey, and Elizabeth Betts, of Newton. Long Island, great- great-granddaughter of the Rev. George Phillips, born in 1593. died in
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1644, first pastor of Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1630, and great- granddaughter of Captain Richard Betts, born in 1613, died in 1713. of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1648, and Newton, Long Island. Captain Moore died at Hopewell, September 3. 1768.
Sammel Moore, son of Captain John and Keziah ( Phillips) Moore, was born in Hopewell, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1745. He served as a minute-man in the Revolutionary war, and subsequently was a member of Captain John Mott's company. First Regiment, Hun- terdon county, New Jersey. He removed to Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and his death occurred in that city on March 9, 1799. September 27, 1781. he married Sarah Green, born February 22, 1760, died Janu- ary 15, 1829. a daughter of Richard Green, who married Phebe Moore (4), a daughter of Nathaniel (3), granddaughter of Captain Samuel (2). and great-granddaughter of the Rev. John (1).
Samuel Moore, son of Samuel and Sarah (Green) Moore, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1794, and died there on June 18. 1883. He was educated in the schools of Philadelphia, and later served as second sergeant in the First Company, First Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteer Riflemen, in the war of 1812-14; was one of the editors and proprietors of the Spirit of Pennsylvania; in 1824 ac- companied the Easton Guards, of which he had been ensign, to Phila- delphia to take part in the reception to General Lafayette: was editor of the Belvidere, New Jersey, Apollo in 1830: clerk of the court of over and terminer from 1836 to 1839: clerk of the court of general quarter sessions of the peace under Governor Ritner, member of the firm of Mott, Schober & Company, of Philadelphia and Easton, im- porters of china, etc., from 1839 to 1851, and retired from office in 1857: was a member of the Easton town council in 1853; justice from 1859 to 1874; chief burgess during 1860-1863, and active in all enter-
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prises and benevolent work in his town. He married. November 27. 1832. Elizabeth Barnes Wamsley, born September 20, 1811, died March 12, 1895, a native of Mansfield, Warren county, New Jersey ; the cere- mony was performed by the Rev. James Castner.
James Wamsley, father of Elizabeth Barnes ( Wamsley) Moore, was born in Ireland. September 29, 1770, died either in 1863 or 1865: he married Sarah Mott Potts, born May 23. 1792, in Kingwood, New Jersey, died May 26, 1883. daughter of Joseph Potts, who married Sarah Mott in June. 1781. granddaughter of John Potts. and Mercy King, great-granddaughter of Thomas Potts. Jr., born in 1713. died in 1731. and Susanna, of Bristol township. Philadelphia county. great-great-granddaughter of "Thomas Potts. Sr .. the Quaker Preacher." whom William Penn called "honest Thomas Potts."
Sarah Mott was the daughter of Solomon Mott, of New York and Kingwood. New Jersey, and Elizabeth Emley, granddaughter of Gershon Mott, born in Hempstead. Long Island, removed to New Hempstead. New York, died in 1759, and his wife Ruth, a great-grand- daughter of Charles Mott. born in Hempstead in 1676. died in 1740, the great-great-granddaughter of Adam Mott, of Essex. England. born in 1619, died in 1686. and his wife Elizabeth Redman, whom he mar- ried in 1667.
Mercy King. born June 4, 1738. in Kingwood. New Jersey, was the daughter of William King. born April 1, 1714. in Kingwood, New Jersey, and his wife Abigail Doughty, whom he married in 1737, the granddaughter of Joseph King, senior elder and overseer, born in Flush- ing. Long Island, in 1684, died in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, De- cember 10, 1761. and his wife Marcia Nicholson, and the great-grand- daughter of Harmanus King, who left England to escape religious per- secution and went to Holland, from thence emigrated to America in
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1676, died in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1727, and his wife Mary.
Elizabeth Emley was the daughter of John Emley, Sr., born in 1691, died in 1761, member of the colonial assembly, and his wife Sarah Lawrence, the granddaughter of William Emley, Sr., born in Nottingham, England. He was one of the three commissioners to act in behalf of the West Jersey Society, arrived in New York in 1677 in the Kent, returned to England, and came to America again in 1678 in the Shield. He purchased land of the Indians, was a member of the general assembly, member of governor's council, and died in 1704. The Emleys were Friends.
Abigail Doughty, born in 1716, was a daughter of Jacob Doughty. of Flushing, Long Island, who removed to New Jersey, was a member of the general assembly, judge of the court of common pleas of Bur- lington county, assistant judge of common pleas of Huterdon county. . "minister among Friends," and his wife Amy Whitehead, the grand- daughter of Elias Doughty, born in 1635. died in 1690, a justice of Queens county, Long Island, and his wife Sarah, the great-grand- daughter of the Rev. Francis Doughty, born in Bristol,' England vicar of Sadbury, settled at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1639, from which place he was driven by persecution and sought refuge in Rhode Island; in 1641 he removed to Long Island, and was the prede- cessor of the Rev. John Moore at Hempstead. He preached to the English in the church within Fort Amsterdam. In 1648 or 1649 he departed for the Virginias. His wife was Bridget Stone, a sister of Governor Stone, of Maryland.
Marcia Nicholson was the daughter of George Nicholson, born in England, who came to New Jersey in 1677, and his wife Hannah, who was prominent in the Society of Friends.
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Amy Whitehead. born in 1676, died in 1742, was the daughter of Major Daniel Whitehead. of Newton, Long Island, born in 1646, died in 1704, justice of Queens county, member of assembly and county treasurer, and Abigail Stevenson, granddaughter of Daniel Whythead died in 1668, aged sixty-five, magistrate of Hempstead, patentee of Newton, first puchaser of Horseneck from the Indians, overseer of New- ton, and his wife Jeannie Skidmore.
Lucy Stout, died in 1732, was a granddaughter of Richard Stout, died in 1705, who was on Long Island as early as 1643, two years later was a patentee of Gravesend, in 1664 a patentee in New Jersey, and a member of the general assembly of New Jersey.
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