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chusetts, at the time of the general dispersion from Boston in 1635. In 1660 Elder John Prince was appointed magistrate of Hull by the general court, and on the 15th of February, 1671, was selected to decide the controversy between Rich- ard Stubbs and Samuel Baker. On the 2d of Oc- tober, 1673, Joseph Howe, of Boston, deeded to Elder Prince his estate in trust for his wife, Eliza- beth Bunn, of Hull, under the conditions of the marriage contract. According to the first family historian, Rev. Thomas Prince, all of the seven sons of Elder Prince followed the sea. In the Massachusetts archives from 1687 to 1700 are found numerous records of clearances and ar- rivals of Captain Job Prince, of the ship "James," of Boston ; Captain Thomas Prince, of the "Dol- phin ;" Captain Samuel Prince, of the sloop "Gryal," and "Little Otis ;" while Captain Joseph and Captain Isaac Prince were in the naval serv- ice. In 1637 Elder Prince married Alice Honor, who died in 1668, and about 1670 he married Anna Barston, widow of William Barston, of Scituate, Massachusetts. In his last will, dated August 16, 1676, Elder Prince names the follow- ing children : John, Joseph, Elizabeth, the wife of Josiah Loring; Martha, the wife of Christopher Wheaton ; Job, Samuel, Isaac, and Thomas.
John Prince, the eldest son of Elder Prince, was married in 1672 to Rebecca, daughter of George and Rebecca (Phippery) Vickerow, of Hull. She was a cousin of the wife of his brother, Job Frince-Rebecca Phippery of Bos- ton. His children were: Joseph, born in 1673; John, November 1, 1685 ; Rebecca, who was born in 1687, and became the wife of Joseph Benson, of Hull, Massachusetts; and Experience, born January II, 1689. John Prince, the second son, was the progenitor of the branch of the family on Long Island. He had two sons, Samuel and Robert. The latter married Mary Burgess, and their children were: Mary, the wife of David Phillips ; William, who married Ann Thorn ; Elizabeth, the wife of Arthur Burgess ; Samuel, who was born in the city of New York, and mar- ried Ruth Carman; Robert, who died young ; Susannah, the wife of a Mr. Montrose, or Montross.
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Samuel Prince, born May 20, 1728, was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary war. He married Ruth Carman, April 24, 1751, and they had nine chil- dren : Robert, Elizabeth, James, Mary, Samuel, Samuel (2), Elizabeth (2), Margaret, and Su- sannah. Prince street in New York city was named in honor of this Samuel Prince, who owned a considerable tract of land there. From Robert Prince is descended the Wintringham family of Long Island, and from Mary Prince is descended the Winter family.
Samuel Prince, Jr., born May 29, 1762, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was taken pris- oner by the British, and sent to the prison in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was exchanged, and afterward became a merchant and importer of Leghorn and millinery goods on William street, between Fulton and John streets, in New York. He died May 23, 1835, and was buried in the Cypress Cemetery, Williamsburg, Long Island. On the 15th of November, 1785, in New York city, he married Mary Norwood, who was born September 14, 1768, and was a daughter of To- bias Norwood. The Norwoods were largely allied to the old Dutch families of New York, including the Van Clyft, Van Clyf and Van Cleeft (as the name is variously spelled) and the Kool or Cool families. Mrs. Prince died April 15, 1845, and was buried in the Moravian ceme- tery at Staten Island. Their children were Mary, born August 8, 1786; Samuel, born July 20, 1788; William Augustus, born November 24, 1790; Elizabeth, born December 2, 1792; Sarah ( Ist), born June 20, 1794; Sarah (2d), born March 4, 1796; Robert, born January 20, 1798; Mar- garet, born November 20, 1800; Benjamin, born July 27, 1803 ; Harriet, born November 22, 1805 ; Edward, born June 6, 1807 ; an infant boy, born February 27, 1809; and George Washington, born in 1811. The will of Samuel Prince, Jr., is recorded in the hall of records of New York city.
Robert Prince, father of Abraham C. Prince, was born January 20, 1798, in New York city. In early life he practiced dentistry, and after- ward became an attorney at law, while still later he engaged in the upholstering business and in the manufacture of paint. He was the first man-
ufacturer of metallic paint in the United States, the article being known on the market as Prince's metallic paint, or mineral brown. The ore from which this paint was made was discovered by him in Carbon county, Pennsylvania, where a plant was erccted by him in 1857 for the manufacture of paint, and the business has been carried on con- tinuously since by its founder or his sons. In his political views, Robert Prince was originally a Whig, and afterward a Republican. His relig- ious faith was that of the Moravian church, and he became one of the founders of the congrega- tion of that denomination in Brooklyn. He mar- ried Antoinette Cargill, who was born October 18, 1816, in New York city, a daughter of Abra- ham and Antoinette Cargill. The children of Robert and Antoinette Prince are as follows : David, born September 5, 1836, died April 19, 1903, marricd Frances A. Commins ; Mary M., born December 12, 1838; Samuel, born April 18, 1840, died in October, 1855; Robert, born De- cember 6, 1841, died February 14, 1881 ; Abra- ham C., born September 8, 1844, married Eliza- beth Frances Lovejoy; Antoinette, born Sep- tember 19, 1846; James Grant, born September 9, 1849, died in 1882 ; Adelaide B., born October 21, 1851, died in 1856; and Alfred, born August 9, 1854.
Abraham Cargill Prince pursued his early education in the public schools of Brooklyn, and of New York city. He was just eighteen years of age when, in September, 1862, he enlisted in the First New York Mounted Rifles for three years or during the war of the rebellion, and at Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, he was honorably discharged. Following his military service he engaged in business in New York city as a coal dealer, opening an office in Waverly Place. There he remained until the spring of 1869, when he removed to Carbon county, Pennsylvania, and became connected with his father in the manu-
facture of paint, and also of concrete building blocks and hydraulic cement. On the 21st of September, 1886, he took up his abode in Bethle- hem, Pennsylvania, where he continued to manu- facture Prince's mineral brown and oxides of iron. In April, 1879, he organized a stock com-
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pany for the purpose of carrying on the business, was chosen its president and has since continued in that capacity and as its active manager. The manufacturing plant is at Bowman's, and a store in New York city is maintained for the sale and distribution of the product. Mr. Prince is a man of marked business ability and enterprise, who has directed his efforts in several lines of act- ivity with good success. For many years he has been a director in the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk. He is also connected with the board of trade of Bethlehem.
Mr. Prince has been an influential factor in various movements for general progress and im- provement. While living in Carbon county, Pennsylvania, he served as a school director, and has also been a director of the Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem for many years. He has for seven years been a trustee of the Moravian Theological College of Bethlehem, and is deeply interested in the cause of education and its ad- vancement. He is a member of the financial board of the Moravian church of Bethlehem, in which he has long held membership. His politi- cal support has been given to the Republican party without interruption since he attained his majority, and socially he is connected with J. K. Taylor Fost, No. 181, G. A. R., of Bethlehem.
Mr. Prince was married, in Brooklyn, New York, October 23, 1867, to Elizabeth Frances Lovejoy, a daughter of Henry and Melinda Crosby (Wheeler) Lovejoy. She is a great- granddaughter of Major Abiel Abbott, of Wilton, New Hampshire. About 1851 her father re- moved to New York city, where he was engaged. in electrotyping and stereotyping for many years under the firm name of Lovejoy, Son & Company, carrying on an extensive business. He was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire. Mrs. Prince was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York. Fred Lovejoy Prince, the eldest child of this marriage, was born in Jersey City, New Jer- sey, September 20, 1868, and died September 24, 1869. Alice Prince, born in Carbon county, Penn- sylvania, January 26, 1874, was educated at the Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem. Persis Lovejoy Prince, born at Millport, Carbon county,
Pennsylvania, October 2, 1876, died at that place March 10, 1886. Antoinette M. Prince, born at Millport, Carbon county, May 5, 1881, was edu- cated in the Moravian parochial school at Bethle- hem, and at "The Castle," in Tarrytown, New York. Melinda Crosby, born at Millport, Fenn- sylvania, October 9, 1883, was educated in the Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem and in Smith College of Massachusetts. Florence Louise Prince, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Noven- ber 23, 1886, was educated in the Moravian paro- chial school.
WILLIAM CLAY MIDDAUGH, D. D. S., engaged in the practice of dentistry in Easton, belongs to one of the old families of Northampton county. His paternal great-grandfather was Thomas Middaugh, who resided in lower Mount Bethel township, where occurred the birth of William B. Middaugh, the grandfather. He was educated in the common schools, and afterward followed farming in order to provide for his fam- ily. Robert A. Middaugh, son of William B. Middaugh, and father of Dr. Middaugh, was born in Lower Mount Bethel, September 12, 1845, and after attending the public schools near his home pursued a course of study in a business college of New York city, and in Dr. Grant's school at Easton, Pennsylvania. On completing his education he entered the book store of William Maxwell in Easton, where he was employed as clerk, and next became clerk to the superinten- dent in the service of the Warren Foundry & Ma- chine Company. He afterward went upon the road as representative of Austin Nichols & Co., wholesale grocers, of New York and when sev- eral years had thus passed he returned to Easton and accepted the agency for the Climax DuPont & Hazard Powder Company, which he is now representing, having built up an extensive busi- ness. Fraternally he is a Mason, and politically a Democrat, while in religious faith he and his family are Presbyterians. He was married, in 1870, to Miss Ella Mutchler, a daughter of George Mutchler, who was steward of the county home of Northampton county. Their children are Dr. William Clay Middaugh, and Sarah R.,
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the wife of Charles S. Howell, by whom she has one son, Robert M.
Dr. William Clay Middaugh was born in Eas- ton, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1871, and after pursuing a public school course, graduating in the Easton high school, class of 1890, entered Lafay- ette College. He next matriculated in the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania and following his graduation in 1892 located in Eas- ton and opened an office and practiced for eleven years in the Clemons Building, 433 Northampton street. In May, 1903, he moved to the First Na- tional Bank Building, where he has since con- ducted a practice. He belongs to the Edward T. Darby Dental Society, is a charter member and first vice president of the Lehigh Valley Dental Society, is a member of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, and is corresponding secretary of the Susquehanna Dental Society. Socially he is connected with the Pomfret Club of Easton, with the Ancient Order of Heptasophs, and the Royal Arcanum. Dr. Middaugh and his family at- tend the services of the St. Paul's Lutheran church in Easton.
He was married, in 1892, to Miss Caroline L. Sigman, a daughter of William Sigman, a resi- dent of Easton, Pennsylvania, and they have one son, Carl S.
GEORGE P. ADAMSON, a partner of the Baker and Adamson Chemical Company of Eas- ton, was born in Philadelphia, August 24, 1863. He pursued his early education in the public. schools, after which he entered Eastburn's Acad- emy in Philadelphia, then to Blair's Hall, in Blairstown, New Jersey, preparatory to college. He entered Lafayette College in the year 1880, taking a chemical course under Dr. Edward Hart, and graduating in ยท1884.
He continued in Easton, forming a partnership with John T. Baker, under the firm name of Baker & Adamson. This was incorporated in 1896 for one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, under the title of the Baker & Adamson Chemical Company. Employment is furnished to fifty men, and the products of the company, being of the highest grade, are the standard in the
United States of chemically pure chemicals, and find a ready sale not only on the market of the new world but also in the old world.
George P. Adamson was married to Miss Elizabeth Abel, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and they have a daughter, Dorothy. Mr. Adamson is a member of the Pomfret Club, the Country Club. the Chemists' Club of New York City, the Amer- ican Chemical Society, the Society of Industrial Chemistry, and the Electro-Chemical Society.
GEORGE RUSSELL KING, a capitalist of Easton, represents one of the old families of New Jersey. His grandfather, George King, was born in Hope, that state, pursued his education there and afterward learned and followed the trade of a tinsmith, devoting his entire life to that industry. He married and among his children was Theo- dore F. King, whose birth occurred at the ok.1 home place in New Jersey in 1847. He was in- debted to the common-school system of his native city for early educational privileges he enjoyed and he continued his studies at Hackettstown, New Jersey. In 1871 he came to Easton, and en- tered upon the study of dentistry under the late Dr. Sign. In 1879 he opened an office and began practice alone, continuing a representative of the profession in Easton up to the time of his death, which occurred in October, 1903. He it was who introduced the painless system of extracting teeth in Easton. He held membership with various social and fraternal organizations including the Ivanhoe, the Jacksonian Club, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, the Royal Arcanum, the Ancient Order of Heptasophs, and the Masonic fraternity; in which he attained the Knight Templar degree. In politics he was a Democrat, and he served as a member of the board of health for a number of years, and also as a member of the school board. In 1879 he married Elizabeth Couge, of South Easton, who died in 1892. They had two sons, George R. and Jacob F., and the latter born in 1886, is now attending school.
George Russell King was educated in private schools of Easton, and afterward assisted his father in the conduct of various business enter- prises and the supervision of investments. He
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inherited the major part of his father's extensive estate, and is now living a retired life. In his home city he is popular, and his co-operation is always given to any public cause that has for its object the benefit and substantial improvement of his city. He was married, in December, 1902, to Miss Nellie Thume, a daughter of John F. Thume, a merchant of Easton.
WILLIAM MARSH MICHLER, an archi- tect of Easton, was born in that city March 21, 1868. For more than a century and a half the family has been established in the new world, the progenitor in America being Bishop J. Wolf- gang Michler, who was born October 25, 1720, at Leuchtingen, Wertemberg, Germany, and emi- grated to America in 1743, landing at Savannah:, Georgia. He proceeded thence to Salem, North Carolina, being one of a company of Moravian missionaries. In the same ship, John Wesley, the father of Methodism in America, crossed the Atlantic. Bishop Michler located among the In- dians and began the work of teaching the gospel according to the doctrines of his denomination He afterward resided successively at Bethlehem, Naz- areth and Labanon, Pennsylvania, his last days being spent in Lebanon.
His son, Nathaniel Michler, was a resident of Jacobsburg, Bushkill township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, during his early life, and while there living was elected and served as jus- tice of the peace. Subsequently he became a teacher of Latin in Nazareth Hall, at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, and later, by appointment of Gov- ernor Snyder, filled the office of register of wills and recorder of deeds for Northampton county. He was also clerk of the orphans' court for many years, and at one time was elected a member of the electoral college. His son, Peter S. Michler, the grandfather of William M. Michler, was born in Pennsylvania, and through many years of his business career was a merchant of Easton. He also figured prominently in financial circles in that city as president of the First National Bank through a long period, was first president of the Thomas Iron Company and was connected with it for a long time. He was largely instrumental
in developing the coal industry of the Upper Le- high Valley, and his business affairs contributed to the material improvement of his portion of the state. His death occurred in Easton. His wife was a descendant of John Hart, one of the signers. of the Declaration of Independence. They had three sons who were soldiers in the Union army during the Civil war, one becoming a general, while a second was surgeon of a division, and the youngest was captain of a cavalry company.
William Marsh Michler, who belonged to a family of seven children, pursued his early educa- tion in the public schools of Easton, and subse- quently matriculated in the college of that city taught by Professor Lerch, prior to entering Lafayette College, in which he pursued a course in civil engineering, being graduated from the latter institution in 1893. He next entered the architectural department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and completed a four years course, receiving the degree of Bach- elor of Science in Architecture, whereby he was well qualified to enter upon the active work of the profession, of which he is now a representative. Immediately after his graduation he opened an office in Easton, where he has since been engaged, and among the notable buildings which he has designed are the Drake Building, G. B. Linder- man's residence, Alvin Markle's residence, S. R. Bush's residence, and William J. Kubler's resi- dence. Probably the most important structure in: Easton that stands as a monument to his profes- sional skill is the beautiful home of Herman Simons, which is perhaps the finest private resi- dence in the state.
In his political views Mr. Michler is a Repub- lican, and socially he is identified with several fra- ternities, and with the Pomfret Club of Easton. He and his family attend the services of the Epis- copal church. In 1899 he was married to Miss. Matilda Runkle Bacon, a daughter of John Bacon, of Easton, and they have three children, John Francis, Emilie Bacon, and Margaret Henry.
NEWTON A. JOHNSON, of Easton, was born February 19, 1839, on the old family estate in Virginia. There lived his father, Samuel N.
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Johnson, who spent his entire life in the Old Dominion. He was educated there and became a gentleman planter, having vast realty posses- sions. He married a Miss Walker, of Virginia, and among their children was Newton A. John- son, who in the public schools near his home, ac- quired a knowledge of the elementary branches of learning, and afterward became a student in a school in Illinois.
Subsequently Newton A. Johnson attended the State University of Indiana, and entered upon his business career as proprietor of a drug store in Illinois, where he remained for nineteen years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Texas, where he followed a similar pursuit for four years. In 1882 he came to Easton, where he established his present business-the manufacture of the Knickerbocker brace. He is not the in- ventor of the brace, but watched its development and purchased the device from the inventor, had it patented, and has since engaged in its manu- facture. The business done by the company has now reached extensive proportions, thousands of braces being shipped annually to all parts of the world. The brace has the endorsement of all the leading physicians as being the most conducive to the health of women and children, and the sales of the house have reached a large annual figure. In the conduct of his enterprise Mr. John- son has shown marked business ability and execu- tive force, and his judgment is regarded as so sound and reliable that his advice is often sought by leading men of Easton. Mr. Johnson gives his political allegiance to the Democracy, and socially is connected with the Pomfret Club of Easton. He and his family attend the Fresbyter- ian church.
He was married in 1886 to Miss Julia A. Lit- tle, a daughter of George B. Little, who is living retired in Illinois. Their children are George S. and Woodbridge O. Johnson. The latter mar- ried a Mr. Parker, and they have two children, Ruth J. and Julia D.
HON. CHARLES BRODHEAD is a rep- resentative of a family that has been distinguished in connection with the colonization and improve-
ment of the western hemisphere from the time of early settlement in the state of New York. Later generations of the family became prominent in the development of Pennsylvania, and Hon. Charles. Brodhead has borne a most active and prominent part in the work of progress and the upbuilding of the Lehigh valley so that his life record forms an integral chapter in its history, and no enumeration of the men who have con- tributed to the welfare and advancement of the state in the nineteenth century would be com- plete without mention of his name and achieve- ments.
Daniel Brodhead, the founder of the family in America, was a captain in the English grenadiers, and came to the new world in the reign of King Charles II with the expedition of Colonel Rich- ard Nicolls, which effected the capture of New York (then called New Amsterdam) from the Dutch, in 1664. The Dutch dependencies on the Hudson river, including Esopus, Schenectady and Fort Orange (now Albany), were also sur- rendered to the British, and Captain Daniel Brod- head was assigned with his company of grena- diers to maintain peace and order at Esopus, with the title of "Captain-General of the Esopus", as the Dutch inhabitants were then called. He mar- ried Ann Tye, but it is not positively known whether she accompanied him on the expedition' to America, or whether she subsequently joined him in Esopus. Among their several children were three sons-Daniel, Charles and Richard. The first named, Daniel, named for himself, was born in 1661, and died July 24, 1690. Charles, born in 1663, was probably named in honor of the King of England, while Richard (born in 1666, died in 1758), was named for the commander of the ex- pedition, and these names continue in the family to the present.
Captain Brodhead, it appears, made his head- quarters at Marbletown, a village near the Hud- son, where he dispensed justice with a fair and imparial hand to his Dutch neighbors as well as his English followers. He died July 14, 1667. His widow, who survived him for many years, built in 1697 a residence for herself and children, and it remained in possession of her descendants
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until 1890. Owing to the long retention of the property in the family a large number of deeds and papers were treasured there, and were re- cently secured by Lucas Brodhead, of Spring Station, Kentucky, who has had many of them copied and photographed and thus distributed among the members of the family. Among other papers was a pass given by the town authorities of Marbletown, Ulster county, New York, to Daniel Brodhead, a grandson of the founder of the family, who was probably the first Brodhead to visit Pennsylvania. The document reads as follows :
"Ulster in the Province of New York.
Mattys Jansen, Major Johannes Hardenbergh and Captain John Rutsen, Justices of the Peace for the County of Ulster, assigned,
"To all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern, greeting: Whereas, Daniel Brod- head, son of Captain Charles Brodhead, hath a purpose to Travell out of this Province of New York into the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania :
"These are to certifie that the said Daniel Brodhead hath been known unto us from the time of his nativity to this day, and during all the sd time has held himselfe as a True and Faithful Subject of our Sovereigne Lord King George and his predecessors, and is of honest and good fame, name, credit and reputation, and we desire he may be greeted accordingly.
"Given under our hands and seals in Kingston, this 12th day of September, in the fifth year of His Majesty's reign Anno Domino, 1718.
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