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HISTORY OF HAMMONTON. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Whence Came the Land. — West Jersey and its Settle- 
 ment. — The Bounds of Old Gloucester, Etc. 
 
 It isn't so very long ago, that land was the perogative of 
 kings, and was doled out to feudal lords, friends and retainers 
 in royal fashion, and if the people got it at all it was from 
 the king. Enough of this existed two hundred years ago as 
 to cause Charles the II to give his brother, the Duke of York, 
 a ro^'al charter for the land embracing the present states of 
 New York and New Jersey. In 1664 the Duke deeded to 
 Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, the territory known 
 as Nova Ca^saria, New Jersey, and eleven years later Carteret 
 sold his undivided half of the territory to John Fenwick, in 
 trust for Edward Byllinge. Dissatisfaction was the result of 
 this transfer, and Byllinge made over this possession to his , 
 creditors, putting it in the hands of trustees, of whom Wil- 
 liam Penn was one. The trustees immediately went to work 
 to put the lands of their trust in the market for settlement, 
 the first step being to secure a division of the territor}^ sepa- 
 rating their half from that owned by Lord Berkelej'. The 
 dividing line accordingly agreed upon began at Little Egg 
 Harbor bay, and ran nearly North to a point on the Delaware 
 river just above the forty-first parallel of latitude. The 
 part South and West of this dividing line became the prov- 
 ince of West Jersey, and was divided into one hundred 
 parts, ten of which were assigned to Fenwick, before men- 
 tioned, and ninety parts remained to be sold for the benefit of 
 
4 History of Hammonton. 
 
 the creditors of the said Edward Byllinge. The holders of 
 these uiuety parts in the order of their purchase, became the 
 West Jersey Proprietors, mentioned in the history of this 
 province. 
 
 The plan of peaceable intercourse and understanding with 
 the Indians, adopted by Penn in Pennsylvania, was applied 
 to New Jersey, and although enjoying a land tenure running 
 through deeds from Carteret, and the Duke of York, back to 
 the Royal Charles, there was an honest assumption that King 
 •Charles had granted titles to lauds he did not actually own, 
 and to use a modern expression, was not able to deliver the 
 goods he had couve3'ed, while the native Indians stood in the 
 way by the right of possession. Accordingly Penn and his 
 associate trustees, through accredited agents, proceeded to 
 back up their title from King Charles b}' title from Indian 
 chiefs. As this work was accomplished, settlements began 
 and progressed, colonies taking up land at Salem and Bur- 
 lington, and founding in earnest the province of West Jersey. 
 These first settlers were mostly members of the Society of 
 Friends, and had no trouble in peaceably occupying the soil 
 they had secured. 
 
 County lines were established, and wide extent given to 
 these subdivisions of the West Jersey domain. Salem, 
 Gloucester and Burlington were the first counties established. 
 The county of Gloucester was first laid out in 1677, and em- 
 braced the territory now included in the counties of Camden, 
 Atlantic and Gloucester. 
 
 The present county of Atlantic was not organized until 
 1837, and had been in existence but nineteen years when the 
 new towil of Hammonton received its first impetus. 
 
 To particularly trace the land of which the Hammonton tract 
 was a part, back to its original ownership, would be an inter- 
 esting, although a toilsome task, and exceeding the limits of 
 this little book. Still an intelligent history demands that we 
 examine in brief some of the conveyances and reconveyances 
 through which the soil of our prosperous town has passed. 
 
 In 1748 the West New Jersey Society located 33,078 acres 
 of land, and two years later the same society located 36,241 
 
History of Hammonton. 5- 
 
 acres additional. Tliis land remained idle and unproductive 
 in the hands of the Society until 1713, when a resurvey was 
 made of the two tracts, which were found to contain 78,060 
 acres. Another lapse of years followed, and in 1812 Phineas 
 Bond, attorney of the Society, sold the whole tract to Charles 
 Shoemaker, George Ashbridge, Morris Robinson and John 
 and Joseph Paul, of Philadelphia. This vast possession is 
 described in the original deed of transfer, and in the various 
 instruments by which its divided parts were afterwards con- 
 veyed, as being located in the townships of Great Egg Harbor, 
 Galloway and We^^mouth, in Gloucester county. 
 
 The passage of the land from the West Jersey Society, was 
 the beginning of its settlement, b^^ purchase in various tracts 
 by different owners. In 1805, 13,821 acres of this vast pos- 
 session were sold to William Richards, and in January 1808, 
 Richards sold 654 acres of the above purchase, to William 
 Griffith, Griffith sold his interest in the following August to 
 John R. Coates, and in 1814 this tract was sold by Coates to^ 
 William Coffin. 
 
 August IT, 1743 Mar^^ Kirkbride located 944 acres. This 
 land passed though the hands of the historic Pemberton fam- 
 ily, and in 1804 was deeded to the William Griffith who 
 purchased the 654 acres of the West Jersey Society tract 
 previously mentioned. • The Kirkbride tract was conveyed by 
 Griffith to Benjamin B. Cooper, by him reconve3'ed to Griffith 
 by whom it' was sold in 1808 to John R. Coates, and by him 
 in 1814 to the William Coffin mentioned above. 
 
 These two surveys, containing an aggregate of 1598 acres, 
 comprised the "Old Hammondton" tract. Upon the death of 
 William Coffin in 1844, this property was left by will to John 
 Hammond and Edward Winslow Coffin, sons of the-deceased. 
 
 Of the above two tracts, the 654 acres originally a part of 
 the West Jersey Societ^^'s domain, lay in nearly a square 
 chunk, to the North and East of the present village of Ham- 
 monton, taking in the lake, running to a |)oint nearly where 
 the present park borders on Egg Harbor road, and then 
 running North-west in nearly a straight line. The Kirkbride 
 tract began at the Society's corner near the lake, ran North- 
 west and then South to the old Chew road, crossing the 
 present railroad near the Buzby farm, and following the Chew 
 
6 History of Hammontov. 
 
 road to a point nearly opposite the lower end of the lake, and 
 then to the aforesaid Society's corner, or place of beginning. 
 It may be remarked that the smallest tract cut from the 
 West Jersey Society's 78,000 acres, was a piece of land sold 
 in 1804, and containing 168 and uinet>'-one hundredths acres, 
 to John Horn, George Horn and Stephen Horn, of the town- 
 ship of Galloway, Gloucester county. This is now the old 
 Horn farm near New Columbia, which is still in possession of 
 descendants of the original purchasers. The price paid was 
 a])out $3 per acre. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 ■"Old Hammondton" — Early Traditions — Its Life, Business 
 AND Industries. 
 
 Where tradition leaves off", and actual, authentic history 
 begins, is generally a puzzle in relation to the growth of na- 
 tions and peoples, and what is true on a large scale, also 
 holds good in an effort to get at the first beginnings in Ham- 
 monton. 
 
 Traditionally, it is said, that the first settlement, if one or 
 i;wo cabins may be dignified by that name, in the vicinity of 
 Hammonton, was near where the old Egg Harbor road crosses 
 the head of the lake. It is said that this mythical first settler 
 was a migratory son of Erin, and that he kept a groggery at 
 this most lonesome spot in the wilderness. Such a location 
 might have been fit for a "moonshiner," but could hardly 
 have been a profitable location for a liquor saloon, even at a 
 time when everybod}^ drank. This Irishman's name was 
 Mullen, and it is barely possible that he may have eked out a 
 feeble existence entertaining the few travelers who in those 
 days journeyed from the city to the sea. Had he a wife, chil- 
 dren or other ftimily, tradition saith not, and from whence he 
 came, and whither he went, the guardian spirits of undevel- 
 oped history are equally silent. 
 
 About the time when our countr}- was having its second 
 war with Great Britain, say 1812, William Coffln,whose father 
 was a native of the island of Nantucket, Mass., and who had 
 settled at Green Bank, Burlington county, this State,came to 
 Hammonton under an agreement with John Coates to build 
 and operate a saw mill. Coffin operated the mill for a couple 
 of years, and then purchased it, with the tract of land men- 
 tioned in the last chapter. The mill at the lake, now owned 
 and operated by George W. Elvins, stands upon the site 
 occupied by the mill of the days of Coffin and Coates. 
 
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8 History of Hammonton. 
 
 Those were the days of small things, when a little money- 
 went a good ways, and trade was carried on by barter rather 
 than bank checks. Still the industrious and economical pros- 
 pered, and to this class Mr. Coffin belonged. The saw mil! 
 was his principal industry until 1817, when in company with 
 Jonathan Haines, then in the business at Clementon, Burling- 
 ton county, he commenced the erection of a glass factory. 
 Haines and Coffin continued the business until 1821, when 
 the firm dissolved, Haines moving to Waterford, and starting 
 the glass business at that place. 
 
 The elder Coffin manufactured glass and lumber until 1836, 
 when he leased the works to his son Bodine Coffin, and his 
 son-in-law Andrew K. Hay. The firm of Coffin & Ha}" was 
 dissolved in about two 3^ears, and then William Collin oper- 
 ated the works until his death in 1844. Upon the death of 
 the father the factories and the estate passed to the ownership 
 of John Hammond and Edward Winslow, the sons. In 1846 
 Edward sold his share of the property to hi« brother John. 
 
 The town was named for John Hammond Coffin and was 
 then known as "Hammondton," the "d'' having been drop- 
 ped after the new settlement was begun. 
 
 There is little now at the lake to remind one of the d:i.ys of 
 Coffin. The glass factory was located on what is now the 
 corner of Central and Hammonton avenues, in the middle of 
 W. H. French's blackberry patch. The flattening ovens were 
 situated on the opposite side of the road, near the present 
 residence of Henry Niccolai. What is now called Hammon- 
 ton avenue, was then Waterford road. The old house on the 
 right-hand side of Hammonton avenue, going towards the 
 lake was the old Coffin mansion, the older part of which was 
 built in 1812, and the larger or main part in 182.5, and between 
 it and the lake, was the store, where the Coffin eraploj'ees did 
 their trading. The larger and more pretentious house, on the 
 corner of Pleasant Mills road, was built by Andrew K. Hay,, 
 after he became a rising business man of the region, and be- 
 fore he entered upon his prosperous career at Winslow. 
 
 The glass manufactured bj' the Coffins sought an outlet ta 
 the market by being carted to the forks in the Mullica river 
 one and one-half miles below Pleasant Mills, from which point. 
 
History of Hammonton. 9 
 
 it was carried b}^ water to the New York and Philadelphia 
 markets. 
 
 The lumber for the original Richards mansion at Batsto, 
 was sawed at the Coffin mill, soon after he began its oper- 
 ation. 
 
 "Old Hammondton" was a business and social oasis in the 
 wilderness. When sickness came the doctor was sought in 
 Haddonfield, and it may be that the general healthfulness was 
 due to the fact that the ph^'sician was so far away. 
 The preacher came about once in two weeks, and always le- 
 ceived hospitality and cheer under the Coffin roof. 
 
 Religious services were held in a combined church and 
 school house, which stood back from the old Waterford road 
 and near the Miner Rogers farm. There is an old grave 
 yard th?re now to mark the spot, in which sleep the ashes of 
 sixteen of Hammonton 's early settlers. The oldest grave 
 stone is dated January, 1841, and marks the ^-esting place of 
 Abigail Daniels, and by a strange fatality the last person 
 burried there as late as 1855 was Charles Daniels. In this 
 house the .young members of the Coffin famil}' received the 
 rudiments of their education. Later a new house was built 
 where the present Lake School House stands. 
 
 In 1840 the Coffin glass works were burned, but were im- 
 mediately rebuilt, and he then sent to Massachusetts, and 
 imported a new gang of workmen, the old ones having been 
 discharged for cause, and under suspicion of having set fire 
 to the property. Soon after this a post-office was established, 
 and as a matter of course William Coffin became the first 
 postmaster. 
 
 Communication with the outside world was b}^ stage, which 
 ran from Camden to Leeds' Point every Wednesday and Sat- 
 urday, and made the return trips Thursdays and Mondays. 
 This was the "fast" mail route of the primitive days. Rich- 
 ard Cake was the first stage driver, and after him came 
 William Satt. He was succeeded by Captain Kimble who 
 pulled the "ribbons" over the stage coach team, until the build- 
 ing of the railroad caused the stage and the stage driver to 
 move on to a wilder country. It is said that when anything 
 happened that Capt. Kimble couldn't drive the route, his wife 
 
10 History of Hammonton. 
 
 would mount the box, and apply the lasb with niasculine 
 vigor. 
 
 Some idea may be obtained of the social and family life of 
 the people who worked in the factory at "Old Hammondton," 
 and a glimpse may be had of how the^' lived, b}' noting the 
 store purchases of the workmen. An entr^' from Mr. Cotlin's 
 day book, runs about as follows : 1 quarter of flour; 5 pounds 
 of pork, 1 pound of sugar; 1 plug of tobacco; 1 quart of mo- 
 lasses; 1 quart of rum; and it is averred that this individual 
 entery was duplicated by nearly every head of a fam-ly who 
 worked in the factory. The sameness in quantity of the rum 
 and molasses is singularh' suggestive, and demands no com- 
 ment. 
 
 Our way is not the way of the people of "Old Hammondton;" 
 what was scarcely a hamlet, has become a poi)ulous, prosper- 
 ous ind thrift}^ town, and while we may flatter ourselves that 
 a decade of our time is worth a cycle of that of the older 
 time, still au lionorable fortune Avas made in those daj'S, and 
 happiness and good fellowship abounded "at the lake" in 
 those ante-bellum times. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 Building the New Town — Byrnes and Landis — Early 
 Buying and Settling. 
 
 The years just preceding the war of the rebellion, were 
 marked by new efforts to develop and improve South Jersey. 
 "Within a few j'^ears of each other Elwood, Hammonton and 
 Yineland received their lirst inception, and the effort began, 
 which turned many acres of the Jerse}^ wilderness into fertile 
 fields and blossoming gardens, and infused new moral and 
 intellectual blood into the life of this region, by transplanting 
 families from New England and New York, to become part 
 of the population of the commonwealth of New Jersey. The 
 ''•Yankees" in their coming, both acted, and were acted upon. 
 They brought new ideas and methods, which were appropri- 
 ated by the older towns to their benefit, and as time goes by 
 both natives and new comers in all this section find that in 
 getting better acquainted both are mutually benefitted and 
 blessed. 
 
 In 1856, Richard J. Byrnes, a young banker of the Quaker 
 city, and Charles K. Landis, a young Philadelphia lawyer, 
 formed a copartnership for the purpose of engaging in the 
 real estate, stock and note business. 
 
 Just across the Delaware, and almost so close as to really 
 he considered a suburb of Philadelphia, was the South Jer- 
 sey wilderness. Early in their business career, several tracts 
 of this wilderness, in and adjoining " Old Hammondton," 
 were secured by Messrs. Byrnes and Landis co be disposed 
 of as their judgments might dictate. These tracts of land 
 were owned in part by Charlotte Cushman, the actress, by 
 heirs of the Richards family, the Chew and Cooper fami- 
 lies, and the Peterson family, of whom the Philadelphia 
 publishing firm are members. 
 
 The new proprietors at once began the advertisement and 
 sale of their land, in farms and tracts to suit purchasers. 
 Their headquarters were at the lake in the old Coffin house 
 
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12 History of Hammonton, 
 
 Passengers by the newly built Camden and Atlantic Railroad, 
 left the cars at Da Costa, which was then Hammonton station, 
 and was about two miles below our present depot. 
 
 May 15th, 1857, the first purchase of land was made of the 
 new proprietors, by Matthew Seagrove, of Philadelphia. This 
 purchase included four acres of land, and an old house, a 
 remnant of the old Coffin glass manufacturing property. 
 
 In the summer of the same year, Capt. A. Somerby, fresh 
 from Newbur3 port, Mass., arrived in town, and purchased a 
 piece of land at the foot of what is now Central avenue. 
 Upon it he erected the first house built in the Hammonton 
 of the new time. It is the house at the lake, now owned and 
 occupied by John Myers, Sr. 
 
 All of the first sales of land, and the earl^^ improvements, 
 were made in the vicinity of the lake, and mostly on the 
 Pleasant Mills road. In October, 1857, John Myers bought 
 the farm, and soon built the house on that road, now occupied 
 by his son William. The section on Main Road in the vicin- 
 ity of what is now known as Elvins' corner, was opened up 
 to settlement in the fall of 1857. Capt. Somerby had sold 
 his new house at the lake, and moving up the road purchased 
 the farm now the Ransom nursery, and erected a house upon 
 the same before the end of the year. The Swift farm was 
 taken up by Harry Tucker, a Boston man, and by John W. 
 Champlain, of Duchess count}^, New York. 
 
 Main road along which these settlements were made, was 
 the old stage road from Philadelphia to the sea. It was a 
 crooked thoroughfare winding through the wilderness. The 
 old road wais kept, but was straightened, graded and improA'ed. 
 The other roads about town were surveyed in the Fall of '57 
 and Spring of '58, and opened up as fast as possible. The 
 people came rapidl}', and land was sold with a rush, faster in 
 fact than the roads could be l>uilt to give the purchasers 
 access to their possessions. 
 
 In 1858 what is now Hammonton Station was established, 
 and Bellevue avenue was opened, to become tLe main street 
 of the town. The new town had its ups and downs, especially its 
 downs. The war of the rebellion came on, and some of the 
 men who had staked their all in Jersey to subdue the wilder- 
 
History of Hammonton. 13 
 
 ness, enlisted to help save the country. Discouragement arose, 
 and dark days lowered over the infant settlement. But pluck 
 and perseverance characterized the Hammonton pioneers. 
 They were here to stay, and wisely deciding to bear the ills 
 they had until they could conquer them, instead of fl3'ing to 
 others they knew not of, they sensibly settled down, to 
 achieve that prosperit}' as a fruit growing community, which 
 has so abundantly' crowed their efforts. 
 
 In 1859, the older part of what is now Whiffen Bros.' shoe 
 factory, was erected by the late Capt. C. J. Fay. It stood on 
 Bellevue avenue, between the present site of Fay's drug store, 
 and the Camden & Atlantic railroad. For about five years it 
 did service as a planing mill, and in it Fay's hay, cotton and 
 cider presses were made. From this time on buildings mul- 
 tiplied at what is now the center of the town. John Stewart, 
 of Philadelphia, built the house where Judge B3'rnes resides 
 about this time. In the Spring of 1860, A. J. Delano, from the 
 state of Maine, built a small building where the store of S. E. 
 Brown & Co. now stands. For a couple of years it was used 
 as a hotel. The following year, another Maine Yankee, Eli 
 Hanson, by name, invested in hotel number two, purchasing 
 the lot, now ornamented by Wooley's handsome brick block. 
 This building did hotel service till 1866, when it was pur- 
 chased by Mr. E. J. Woolley, and transformed into a store 
 and dwelling. In a sort of apostolic upper chamber in this 
 building, Mr.^.Woolley's son Dion produced the Hornet, which. 
 in time evoluted into the Atlantic Mirror, of which more fur- 
 ther on. The old house was moved to its present location on 
 Vine street, to make room for the brick block before men- 
 tioned. The building now, and for many years known as 
 Tilton's store, was commenced in 1861, but it came to a stand- 
 still when in an unfinished condition, and remained so until 
 1864, when P. S, Tilton and Pardon Ryan, of Smith's Land- 
 ing, purchased the unfinished structure, completing it, and 
 starting the store which still holds a most prosperous and 
 honorable place in the merchantile life of the town. Mr. 
 Ryan retired from the business in about two years. This 
 building for a number of years was the accommodation post 
 office, when the main office was out at Elvins' corner. 
 
14 History of Hammonton. 
 
 Earl}^ in 1861, Messrs. Landis and Byrnes parted compan}', 
 the partnership existing between them being mutually dis- 
 solved. Mr. Byrnes remained to grow old and ripen with 
 Hammonton, while Mr. Landis went over into Cumberland 
 county, and on the 8th of August in that year stuck the 
 proverbial first stake in what has become far-famed Vineland. 
 He still resides there, but his attention is principally absorbed 
 in looking after Sea Isle City, the successful summer resort 
 he founded on Ludlam's beach. 
 
 Hammonton remained a part of Mullica township until 186(5, 
 when finding that she was old enough to go the journey of 
 life alone, application was made to the Legislature for a charter 
 to permit her to set up in business for herself. The bill grant- 
 ing this privilege was a somewhat voluminous document, and 
 was approved March 5th, 186G. Under its provisions an 
 election was speedily held, the event taking place on the 14th 
 of March. The election was held in Elvins' Hall, corner of 
 Main road and Bellevue avenue, the following officers being 
 elected : Council for two ^^ears, Peter S. Tilton, Thomas 
 Wetherbee, Gerry Valentine ; Council for one year, John C. 
 Bryant, Isaiah Potter, Jesse Thomas. Assessor, George F. 
 Miller, 3 years ; George W. Pressey, 2 years ; A Somerby, 1 
 year; Collector, Geo. Elvins; Town Clerk, E. P. McKean; Jus- 
 tice, Alonzo Potter; Constable, S. W. Gilbert; Poundkeeper, 
 H. T. Pressey ; Overseer of Roads, William A. Elvins; Com- 
 missioners of Appeal, H. P. Crowell, S. M. Cathcart, James 
 Duble; Town Superintendent, D. B. Snow; School Exam- 
 iners, F. R. Brace, Asher Moore; Judge of Election, Asher 
 Moore; Freeholders, William A. Elvins, John C. Bryant. A 
 town tax was voted as follows : Dog tax, $1.50 per head. 
 For town purposes, $1,000. For Schools $3 per scholar. 
 At the first meeting of Council, Thomas S. Wetherbee was 
 elected president, Peter S. Tilton, Councilman-elect, tendered 
 his resignation, which was accepted, and Moses I). DePuy 
 was elected to fill the vacanc3^ A series of conferences or 
 conventions with the township committees of the townships 
 of Mullica and Hamilton, were held lasting into the summer, 
 for the purpose of apportioning the assets and liabilities of 
 the various townships, so that the burdens and benefits should 
 
History of Hammonton. 15 
 
 rest justly upon all. After a time this task was duly accom- 
 plished. 
 
 When Messrs. B3'rnes and Landis took possession of their 
 domain in Jersey, they put in the field as selling agent, Judge 
 Goorge A. Walker, of Philadelphia, and he kept the post 
 office at the lake until 1859, when George H. Brigham, who 
 lived at the corner of Fairview avenue and Main road, was 
 appointed post master, and dispensed the mail matter from 
 his residence. In the fall of the year, the administration of 
 President Buchanan conferred the honors of postmaster at 
 Hammonton upon Capt. C. J. Fay, and the post office was 
 moved to his store near the railroad. He remained in charge 
 of the same until the universal change which the war brought 
 about in the civil service, and in 1862 George Elvins was ap- 
 pointed postmaster, and removed the main office to his store 
 at the corner of Main road and Bellevue avenue. A branch 
 office was kept at Tilton's store, but this was discontinued by 
 the government about 1883. Mr. Elvins was succeeded bv 
 his wife, who served during his term in the Legislature, and 
 he again succeeded to the office, and held it until his time ran 
 out in 1887, when C. F. Osgood, was appointed by President 
 Cleveland, and is now the efficient and respected incumbent 
 of the position. Mr. Elvins fitted up the present cozy and 
 attractive office. A branch office to accommodate the farmers 
 of that region, is kept at Mr. Elvins' store. 
 
 The first man to embark in pear culture in Hammonton, 
 was Henry S. Ferris, on Main road near Walker. He still 
 resides on the property. 
 
 To a woman belongs the honor of building the first store. 
 It was at Old Hammonton, and is still standing, the second 
 building on the right hand side of Pleasant Mills road as you 
 turn at the lake. The owner was Charlotte H. Speakman. 
 
 The first child born in the new settlement was a son of 
 William Hamlyn, who lived at the time on the place now 
 owned and occupied by L. H. Parkhurst. This new comer 
 was presented with a new dress by Judge Byrnes. 
 
 The first blacksmith shop was built and owned by William 
 Stimson, on what is now known as the Almy place on Belle- 
 vue avenue. 
 
16 History of Hammonton. 
 
 In 1859 A. W. Hortou built the first house on Bellevue 
 avenue. It was located where M. L. Jackson's meat market 
 now stands. The house was afterward removed to Grape 
 street, and is now occupied as a residence by Mr. Harrald. 
 
 George Henry put out the first strawberry patch, to raise 
 the berries for the market. It was on the farm at the corner 
 of Fourth street and Bellevue avenue, now occupied by Capt. 
 Swank. 
 
 In 1866, the 3'ear of the town's incorporation, a local cen- 
 sus was taken, and it showed the town to contain 1422 inhab- 
 itants ; Horses, cattle and swine 581 ; number of acres 
 assessed, 19,064 ; number of acres in cultivation, 2,031 ; 
 There were planted in strawberries, 304 acres ; in blackberries 
 212 acres; in cranberries, 40 acres. In the town were 53,000 
 grapevines; 23,906 pear trees; 677 quince, 829 plum, and 
 1,350 cherry trees. Number of dwelling houses, 365; school 
 houses, 4; churches, 2; mills and factories, 4; whole number of 
 buildings, 383. The real estate of the town was valued at 
 $596,319, and the personal property at $169,132. 
 
 On the 6th day of June, 1866 there was a grand strawberry 
 exhibition in town, and among the exhibitors of big berries, 
 were W. F. Bassett, Dr. Bowles, G. W. Pressey, G. Valentine, 
 Capt. Burgess and a host of others not now residents of town. 
 The most interesting feature of the exhibition was the visit of 
 a delegation from the far-famed Farmers' Club of New York. 
 Among the visitors were Solon Robinson, then agricultural 
 editor of the New York Tribune; P. T. Quinn, of Newark, 
 Chas. Downing, of Newburg, N. Y., and a score of other 
 horticulturists, besides the railroad officials who accompanied 
 them. They were driven about town, and feasted upon 
 the fat of the land. Visiting Atlantic Cit3% they returned to 
 spend the night in Hammonton, and in the evening a public 
 meeting was held, at which the visiting dignitaries made 
 speeches to the edification of the Hammontonians. It was a 
 sort of a boom for the town, and the affair was elaborately 
 reported in the Trifiitne, whose agricultural editor, Mr. Robin- 
 son, and editor in chief, Mr. Greeley, were warm friends of 
 Hammonton, Vineland and other fruit growing towns in South 
 Jersey. 
 
^|r^^ V**** *^i^l!g. 
 
 STORE OF P. S. TILTON & SON. 
 
 STOKE OF S. E. lUiOWN cV CO. 
 
RESIDENCE OF D. COLWELL. 
 
 RESIDENCE OF P. H. JACOBS. 
 
History of Hammonton. It 
 
 Returning to the matter of early settlers, it may be men- 
 tioned that during the first 3'ear, (1857) John North, Peter 
 Moran and Joseph Biddle purchased land, as did William 
 Gibbon, James and Thomas Trafford, John Lawrence, Henry 
 S. and Thos. Wetherbee, Henry L. Ferris, who planted the 
 first pear orchard, S. F. Twomey, S. C. Miller, Charles Hig- 
 ginson, M. M. Merrill, E. T. McKean, for several years town 
 clerk, W. Davidson, Henr}^ Tucker, John W. Champion, and 
 Lewis Downs. Benjamin Henshaw came in the fall of 1857^ 
 and lacks only a few days of contesting with Capt. Somerby^ 
 the honor of being the first settler. 
 
 Among the arrivals in 1858, were Ezra and Orin Packard,, 
 Sidney Mood}-, George Taylor, and William Black, the store- 
 keeper. There also came during that year, Thomas Pas- 
 coe, Eri Wells, E, R. Jenkins, John Buckley, Thomas Tib- 
 betts and Robert Putnam, who after having lived in Virginia, 
 for a number of years, has returned to Hammonton. Mr, 
 Putnam erected the house on Pine road now occupied by Mr, 
 Tudor. H. N. Parkhurst, father of L. H. and Merrill, was 
 one of the fifty-eighters. He built part of the house and 
 cleared some of the land of the present L. H. Parkhurst farm. 
 This farm and that of Merrill's adjoining it, are among the 
 best in town. F. Priestly, J. Budd, C. A. Mintzer, E, A. 
 Heston, Henry T. Pressey and C. E. Roberts, came here the 
 same year. Andrew Elvins, lather of Williaaa A. and George 
 arrived in 1858, and erected the store, corner of Main and 
 Bellevue. In it was Elvins' Hall, where the public meetings 
 of the early days were held. George, the present store keeper^ 
 and ex-assemblyman and ex-post-master, and William A, one 
 of our most prosperous farmers, clerked in their father's 
 store. Hiram Crowell was one of the fift3'-eighters, as was 
 Dr. Joseph H. North. Dr. North bought and cleared what 
 is now the Daniel Colwell farm on Fairview avenue. Dr. North 
 started what is now Mr. Colwell's large pear orchard, from 
 which he shipped this j^ear 300 barrels of pears. The Doctor 
 sent all the way to France for some of the trees in this famous 
 orchard. Dr. North still resides here, and although an octo- 
 generian, his interest in Hammonton is as lively as ever. 
 This activity may be shown by stating that within the past 
 
18 History of Hammonton. 
 
 few years he cleared the land and plante.l a peach orchard of 
 4,000 trees. 
 
 In 1859 Mr. Kirkpatrick built the house now owned hy 
 Samuel Anderson, the well-known owner and breeder of grade 
 Aldernej^s. The same year Rev. Asher Moore, father of Rus- 
 sell, of the woolen mill, H. ^V. Loring, Rev. Wm. Passmore, 
 Daniel Baker, A. Ellis and Warren T. Pastor made purchases, 
 L. Monfort, the Middle road pear grower, was among the 
 fift3'-niners. He is the premium pear grower of the town. 
 His crop of Bartletts last year (1888) amounted to over 500 
 barrels. Lewis Hood, Gr. C. Hooker, S. W. Gilbert and A. 
 O. Clark, came this j^ear. Mr. Clark built the block of build- 
 ings just below Second street on Bellevue. He now resides 
 in Yineland. Undertaker Gerry Valentine, late coroner, and 
 for several years a member of the Council, left his Massachu- 
 setts home for Hammonton during 1859. 
 
 Among the arrivals in 1860 we have H. A, Andrews, Alon- 
 zo Potter, H. G. Newton, William F. Trost, Abel Fairchild, 
 Daniel Heller, and P. S, Robbins, T. J. Smith, of the State of 
 Maine, and now one of our largest house owners, came this 
 year, as d^ct George W. Presse}^, the inventor, who built a 
 blacksmith shop on the lot now occupied by C. E. Hall's 
 block, corner of Bellevue and Central avenues. 
 
 Most of the earlv settlers mentioned in the foregoing para- 
 graphs, or members of their families, are still residents of 
 Hammonton. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Hammonton — Its Location, Government, Soil and Climate. 
 Hammonton is the North-east town in Atlantic county, 
 and is situated about thirty miles East by South from the 
 city of Philadelphia, and about equal distance from Atlantic 
 City. It has two competing lines of railroad, the Camden & 
 Atlantic, which is a part of the Pennsylvania system, and the 
 Philadelphia and Atlantic Cit}" Railway, which is operated 
 b}' the Philadelphia and Reading Companj'. These lines are 
 both well equipped, and the railroad accommodation, whether 
 for passenger or freight-traffic is excellent. Besides these 
 two railroads connecting Philadelphia with the seacoast, run- 
 ning on the northern border of the town is the New Jersey 
 Southern Railroad, a direct route from the Delaware bay to 
 New York. This is also operated by the Philadelphia and 
 Reading and gives the town ample outlet for the products of 
 its farms and factories. 
 
 The soil of the town varies. There may be found light sand 
 and sandy loam, while the land bordering on the swamps and 
 streams is more of an alluvial deposit. No one claims for it 
 the depth and natural richness of the lands of the Mississippi 
 Yalley, or the Western prairies. But it is susceptible of a 
 high state of cultivation, and responds quickly to the care 
 and culture of the experienced husbandman. It is wonder- 
 fully well adapted to fruit and truck raising, and has charms 
 to attract the general farmer, as a survey of the many fine 
 farms will prove. 
 
 Considering its nearness to the great centers of population, 
 where live the consumers who make the best markets of the 
 country, and the consequent small cost of transporting the 
 products of the farm to the consumers, with its excellence of 
 
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20 History of Hammonton. 
 
 climate, and it may be claimed that Hammonton has advan- 
 tages comparable if not superior to the great West. 
 
 Providence has favored no one localitj* with all the signs 
 of bounty, or advantages, social, material and educational, 
 biit we claim for our town a full share of all those attractions 
 which make life pleasant and labor ])rofitable. 
 
 Idleness, intemperance, and extravagance tend always and 
 everywhere to failure if not to want, and the misfortunes of 
 trade, speculation and business effort visit at times the best 
 of men and the most favored communities, and we claim no 
 Utopia where none of these misfortunes enter. But the suc- 
 cess which follows earnest effort and honest toil has been, and 
 can be achieved here in as great abundance as in an}' locality 
 in our favored countr}-. 
 
 In about thirty -nine and one half degrees North latitude, 
 Hammonton has a climate as warm, or warmer than Richmond, 
 Va., the temperature being modified by the proximity to the 
 ocean. Nothing can be more complete in the way of climate 
 than the Springs and Falls of South Jersey. That intermedi- 
 ate period of freezing and thawing, and universal mud, which 
 follows early Autumn and precedes early Spring in more 
 northern latitudes, is here unknown. A few days at most 
 removes all traces of Winter, and we at once pass from what 
 Winter we haA^e, to the time of balmy breezes, opening buds 
 and singing birds. Cold weather, yes, of course, we have it,, 
 but it does not last long, and the prolonged season of being 
 frozen up and snowed in is here unknown. The summer 
 heat is tempered by the ocean breezes which fan away that 
 oppressive sultryness which belongs to more inland places. 
 
 The climate is conducive to health. People get sick, and 
 die here as they do every where else. But all other things 
 being equal, and the tendency of our climate is to health. 
 Malaria has never been known to originate in this climate, 
 and the diseases which prevail are either such as were brought 
 here from other localities, or are traceable to flagrant care- 
 lessness, or the ])lain work of a hereditary taint. Lying 
 within the Isothermal liiie, the region of South Jersey, has 
 special claims to consideration as a healthy locality, and 
 
HlSTCKT OF HAW Mvrr.v, 21 
 
 among all the towns in this locality. ELammonton takes 
 tiie lead in the showing of her vital statistics. The last 
 Annual Report of the State Board of Health gires the death 
 rate of Hanunonton as 14 to the thousand for the last rear. 
 This is quite a considerable less than any town appearing 
 under a like head. 
 
 The people who settled the town of Hammonton came 
 largely from Xew England, which feet appears in the town 
 government, which is patterned after the Xew England plan. 
 
 The government of the town is vested in a Town Council, 
 composed of six members, three of whom are elected annually. 
 It is their business to audit and order paid all bills against 
 the town for services rendered. They also have legislative 
 powers, and may from time to time pass ordinances for the 
 government of the town, and the regulation of its afi&irs. 
 
 The Council for 1S?9, as determined by the last town meet- 
 ing, was composed of the following gentlemen: T. B. Drown. 
 President, and William Bemshouse. Charles Woodnutt. C. S. 
 ^ewcomb, L. Beverage and I). ColwelL The other town 
 oflBc-ers for 18S8 are as follows: Town Clerk, A. J. Smith: 
 Collector. O. E. Hoyt: Assessors. H. J. Monfort. D. Col- 
 weU. D. F. Lawson: Chosen Freeholder. M. L. Jackson: 
 Constables, Geoige Bemshouse, Charles M. ScuULn: Town 
 MaishaL Jesse Fairchild: Justices of the Peace. John Atkin- 
 son. Maj. C. yL Jordan: Overseer of Highways. W. H. Bur- 
 gess: Overseer of Poor. Georare Bemshouse : Judge of Elee-' 
 tion. J. C. Anderson: Inspectors. EL E. Bowles. M. D.. J. T. 
 French ; Commissioner of AppeaL George W. Pressey. E. 
 R. Sproul. M. L. Jackson : Poxmd Keeper. Alex. Aitfcen. 
 
 There are in the town one hundred and fifty miles of streets 
 and roads, so that the overseer has wort to do. and holds a 
 very responsiWe position. The appropriation for roads for 
 ISS^* was $2.(»00. and considering the amount of surfece over 
 which the money has to be spent, and the roads are in good 
 eoiiditi<^ The main roads in the &rming district are g^i- 
 erally in fine condition, being well graded. There is room, 
 however, for improvement in most of the streets and side- 
 walks in the village. 
 
22 History of Hammonton. 
 
 In the town, and ubout a mile from the center, is a fine 
 sheet of fresh water, about a mile long. It is formed by dam- 
 ming a small stream, and is fed by innumerable springs. It 
 affords fine opportunity for boating and bathing in Summer^ 
 and for skating in Winter, wLen the weather is cold enough 
 to form ice of sufficient thickness. Adjoining the lake is a 
 natural groA^e, and twenty acres of land called the park. 
 This is the propert}' of the town, and is free of access to all 
 residents and visitors, affording in connection with the lake,. 
 a fine opportunity for picnics, public gatherings and pleasure 
 parties. The town has onl}' recently come into possession of 
 the propert}'. When improved it will make an attractive resort. 
 Sanitarians and physicians well know the health-giving 
 character of the climate of South Jerse}' . Its pine forests, 
 help to charge an atmosphere? already remarkabl}' free from 
 the germs of disease, with extra health-giving power. In 
 Atlantic county the acres of these forest lands are as eight 
 to one compared with the cultivated land, and a consequent 
 large opportunity for further settlement, without injuriously 
 denuding her })ine forests. 
 
 The town has an excellent system of graded schools, with 
 a central Grammar and High school, all of which are manned 
 by eflScient teachers, who stand high in the ranks of their 
 calling. The high school course includes the ordinary Eng- 
 lish branches, and the Natural Sciences, History, Algebra 
 and Geometr3^ For the current year, the teachers are W. B. 
 Matthews, Principal, and the following associate teachers: 
 Annie L. Weston, Susie L. Moore, Nellie D. Fogg, Grace U. 
 North, Clara E. Cavileer, Carrie L. Carhart, Minnie Newcomb 
 Sara Crowell. 
 
 At the last school meeting held in March of this year, an ad- 
 dition was ordered to one of the buildings, to accommodate 
 another school, and provide for the town's increasing school 
 population, so that next year there will be an addition of one 
 to the list of school teachers. 
 
 P. H. Jacobs, S. E. Brown, and C. S. Newcomb are tlie 
 school board, to whom the voters assigned the work of di- 
 rectino; the schools. 
 
History of Hammonton. 23 
 
 By provisions of tlie town Charter, the Council has control 
 of the streets and sidewalks, and of the moral and material 
 interests of the town, and by ordinances regulates, prohibits 
 or licenses public games, and entertainments, provides for 
 lighting the streets, defines nuisances, and fixes the punish- 
 ment for the same. The question involved in the sale of in- 
 toxicating liquors, is determined by the Council, instead of 
 being referred to the Court of Common Pleas, as in the ordi- 
 nary townships of the State. The sale of intoxicating liquor 
 in any shape or form, except for mechanical or medical pur- 
 poses, is prohibited in Hammonton by town ordinances, and 
 the law is as well enforced as most of the statutes relating 
 to crimes and misdemeanors. 
 
 The sentiment in the town against license is very strong^ 
 and an unlooked for change will have to come to the people 
 of the town if Hammonton ever has a licensed hotel, saloon 
 or groggery for the sale of intoxicants. The no license ex- 
 periment has proved itself thoroughly successful, and an im- 
 portant factor in developing the moral and material prosper- 
 ity of the town. As a policy, by making it easy to do right, 
 and hard to do wrong, it has saved the young men of Ham- 
 monton to themselves, their families and their friends, in- 
 stead of tempting them to the waj^ which leads down to death, 
 through the legall}' and publicly endorsed drinking saloon. 
 
CHAPTER Y. 
 
 Hammontonton Churches and Religious Societies, their 
 History, Growth and Development. 
 
 baptist. 
 The Baptist denomination early occupied and cultivated 
 the spiritual vineyard in Hammonton. Meetings for public 
 worship were first held in private houses, and in 1859 the 
 •church organization was formed. For a time meetings were 
 iheld in the hall over Elvins' store. In 1862 the in'ant church 
 called to the pastorate Rev. Thomas Davis, and under the 
 ministrations of this worthy shei)herd the flock grew and 
 multiplied, and reached the point where the building of a 
 church edifice was ventured. The building was located on 
 Bellevue avenue, just above the Methodist parsonage. Aug- 
 ast 16th, 1863, the new house was first opened for public ser- 
 vice. About this time Rev. Dr. Kempton, a successful and 
 eloquent preacher from Philadelphia, settled in Hammonton, 
 on account of the health of his family. His services were 
 solicited, and freely given. He served the church faithfull}-, 
 ■without fee or reward, for several years. Under the pastor- 
 ate of Dr. Kempton, the church grew and prospered. Fail- 
 ing health compelled the doctor to give up his laboi of love 
 in Hammonton, and the work passed into other hands. In 
 January, 1887, Rev. C. M. Ogdcn, the present pastor, was 
 •called to minister to the Baptist church and people. He 
 is a native of Cumberland count}', this State. In 1885 the 
 house of worship was moved from its former site to the 
 present location corner of Third and Vine streets. Since 
 then the meinl)ership has nearly doubled. The church main- 
 tains a flourishing Sunday School, of which Moses Stockwell 
 
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History of Hammonton. 25 
 
 is the Superintendent. It does its full share of missionar}-, 
 benevolent and church work. 
 
 CATHOLIC. 
 
 The oldest historic church was the last to have a name and 
 habitation in town. Catholic services were first held in Ham- 
 monton in 1881, in the house of the late Lawrence W. Cog- 
 ley , Rev. Joseph Esser, D. D., of Egg Harbor City, offlcating. 
 Attendance rapidly increasing, services were held in what is 
 now Black's Hall. 
 
 The inconveniences of this arrangement were so many and 
 so great, that pastor and people were constrained to make an 
 earnest effort to build a place of worship, A handsome lot, 
 of nearly an acre, on Third street was presented by Judge 
 Barnes, and with the consent of the Bishop the work of 
 building a church was begun. The foundation of a stone 
 church was begun in 1884, by George Bowers and his son, 
 Louis, who donated their labor. Owing to the untimely 
 death of Father Esser, the woi*k was temporarily- suspended 
 until the Summer of 188G, when the contract to complete the 
 church was given to William Bernshouse, by Rev. A. Van 
 Kiel, the successor of Father Esser. In November of die 
 same 3'ear, the corner stone, the gift of Mr. Bernshouse, was 
 laid, and the first Mass celebrated in the new church, St. 
 Joseph's, on Passion Sunday, during the Lenten season of 
 1887. The church was substantially aided by additional 
 gifts from Mr. Bernshouse, Judge Barnes, and donations from 
 George Elvins, C. F. Osgood, and others. Henry Schulz, an 
 artist of Hammonton, formerly of Germany, lately presented 
 the church with fourteen large pictures, entitled the "Way of 
 the Cross," and painted 113' him from paintings by Klein, of 
 Austria. 
 
 EPISCOPAL. 
 
 In the summer of 1858, Bishop Odenheimer was stopping 
 at the lake, and the matter of a Protestant FJpiscopal Church 
 was there talked for the first time, and a lot on Central ave- 
 nue for a church was donated by Messrs B3-rnes and Landis, 
 but the fffatter there rested, nothing practical coming from it. 
 The present St. Marks parish was organized January 16th, 
 
26 History of Hammonton. 
 
 1870, by Rev. William Stewart, of King's College, Windsor, 
 Nova Scotia. The first ofllcers were: George Andrews, Sen- 
 ior Warden, Harmon A. Tremper, Junior Warden, and the 
 following vestrymen: William Hartshorn, George Johnson, 
 H. S. Seeley, H. L. Poyer and R. J. Byrnes. The corner 
 stone of the church was laid October 23rd, 1870, by Bishop 
 Odenheimer, and the same day he administered the rite of 
 confirmation for the first time in the parish, five persons 
 being confirmed. Rev. William Passmore donated the land 
 upon which the church is located, and was helpful in many 
 ways in organizing and carrying on the work of the parish. 
 The first service was held in the new building May 21st, 1871, 
 Rev. W. V. Beavers, of Philadelphia, officiating. The church 
 had a number of diflTerent pastors after the death of Mr, 
 Stewart in 1871, and in 1874 the parish was placed under the 
 charge of the Missionary Convention of Burlington. Rev. 
 George McClellan Fisk was made rector of the parish and 
 served until 1876. During his incumbency the church was 
 admitted to the Convocation of the Diocese of New Jersey, 
 and H. A. Tremper and J. E. Watkis were the first lay depu- 
 ties rei)resenting the parish in convention. The rectors fol- 
 lowing Mr. Fisk, were Rev. Thomas B. Gordon, Rev. J. Gib- 
 bons Gantt, Rev. 0. S. Prescott, Rev. G. R. Underbill, who 
 came in September, 1881 and was succeeded by Rev. Lewis 
 K, Lewis and he in turn by Rev. William C. Starr. In Oc- 
 tober, 1885 he resigned, and in Januar}^, 1887, Rev. G. R. Un- 
 derhill, the present rector was recalled. The parish has a 
 Sunday School and an active Ladies' Aid Society. The par- 
 ish is financially and spiritually prosperous, and during the 
 past year has built and completed a handsome new rectory at 
 a cost of about $2,000. 
 
 METHODIST. 
 
 The followers of Wesley were the first to perfect a religious 
 organization in Hammonton. As early as 1857, Rev. Dr. 
 Johnson, then preaching at Waterford and Winslow, began 
 preaching in the school house at Old Hammonton, at the lake, 
 and in the Spring of 1858, Rev. A. Palmer organized a class 
 composed of the following persons : Henry L. Ferris, Har- 
 
History of Hammonton. 27 
 
 riet L. Ferris, Thomas Trnfford, Hannah Trafford, George 
 Elvins, Annie Elvins, Charles E. Roberts, James Trafford, 
 George Henry and a few others. The infant society was at- 
 tached to the Winslow and Waterford Circuit, and the 
 preacher came every other Sunday afternoon. Meetings 
 were held in Elvins' Hall. George Elvins was the society's 
 first licensed exhorter. The church building was not erected 
 until 1866, and only the first floor was furnished, and the 
 audience-room was completed in 1879. In 1885 the parson- 
 age was built, and furnished, mostly by the Ladies' Aid So- 
 ciety. The church has been blest temporally in various ways, 
 and spiritually in three marked revivals. One in 1868-9, one 
 in 1878-9, and one in 1885-6. In these revivals about one 
 hundred and thirty persons were added to the church mem- 
 bership. The following pastors have ministered to the 
 church since its organization: Revs. Dr. Johnson, A. Palmer, 
 C. H. Kirkbride, J. H. Stockton, A. Getmire, J. B. Turpin, 
 A. Owen, A. R. Jones, H. Warner, J. White, M. Depuy, W. 
 S. McCowan, S. G. Hiler, J. Joraloman, E. Post, J. A. Jones, 
 P. Provost, J. F. Morrill, E. C. Hults, L. M. Atkinson, H. J. 
 Zelley, and C. S. Lawrence, the present pastor. Attached to 
 the church is a large Sunday School, of which W. R. Tilton 
 is Superintendent. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN. 
 
 Presbyterianism was first established in Hammonton as a 
 local mission station, but as early as 1861 a church was or- 
 ganized by Rev. F, R. Brace, the present Superintendent of 
 Camden county, assisted by Rev. Allen H. Brown, the 
 efficient missionary of the West Jersey Presbytery. The in- 
 fant church started out with but nine members, Alonzo Pot- 
 ter, and Morris Sutherland were the first elders chosen. 
 Services were held in what is now Black's Hall, and after the 
 erection of the Baptist church the Presb3'terians held one 
 service each Sabbath in that building, until 1866 when the 
 church edifice was completed. The new church was built on 
 a lot adjoining the present residence of D. L. Potter, and 
 when the church moved into the new house, it had a member- 
 ship of thirty-four souls. In 1878 the building was moved 
 to its present location. Many of the members of this church 
 
28 History of Hammonton. | 
 
 were of Congregational fellowship before they came to Ham- j 
 monton, and the church has quite a cosmopolitan character • 
 in a small way. The following is the list of ministers who ' 
 have served the church since its organization: F. II. Brace 1 
 from 1861 to 1867; D.W. Pratt from 1867 to 1871; F. G. [ 
 Austin, from September 1871 to September 1872; William i 
 Baldwin from '74 to '75; E. M. Kellogg from '75 to '79; A. S. ' 
 Yaughan from '79 to 81; E. E. Rogers from '81 to '84; M. J. '■ 
 Mewhinne}^ from '84 to '86, The present pastor is Rev. H, 
 R. Rundall, who was installed in 1886. The church is pros- ! 
 perous, and has a large Sunday School, of which Z. U. Mat- i 
 
 thews is Superintendent. j 
 
 I 
 
 SPIRITUALISTS. ' 
 
 As early as 1858, the believers in the "Harmonial Philoso- 
 phy" held meetings iu Hammonton, most of the time the res- 
 idence of J. B. Lake, on Bellevue Avenue, being the place ■ 
 where the believers and investigators congregated. Meetings I 
 were subsequently' held, for the purpose of organization, in i 
 what is now known as the Ellis or laundry building, then 
 owned by Dr. Ira Nevins. The organization was finally per- ' 
 fected by electing H. N. Parkhurst, president of the Society, ; 
 with other offices to perfect the organization. In August, j 
 1886, the Society [was incorported under the laws of the State, ; 
 and officers elected as follows: H. N. Parkhurst, President; ; 
 J. 0. Ransom, Vice President; Russell Ellis, Secretar3^ The 
 society was named the Progressive Spiritualist Association. 
 The meetings becoming too large for the hall, it was decided 
 in 1867 to erect a building for the use of the Association, and 
 in accordance therewith Union Hall was built, and dedicated i 
 on Thanksgiving day of that year. Meetings are held every j 
 Sunday, with speaking either by home talent or traveling j 
 lecturers and mediums. The hall is about the only place of j 
 public entertainment in the place, and is held in almost night- 1 
 ly requisition for that purpose. Some of the most highly 
 respected citizens of the town are members of the Associa- j 
 tion. The present president of the Society' is Merrill Park- \ 
 hurst. 
 
History of Hammonton. 29 
 
 universalist. 
 Liberal Christianity has a foothold in Hammonton in the 
 TJniversalist and Unitarian Society. Among the early set- 
 tlers of the town was Rev. Asher Moore, a TJniversalist 
 preacher, who began as early as 1858 to preach the doctrines 
 of his faith in the school house at Old Hammonton. Nothing 
 was done towards organization until some years later, when 
 in 1864 the Universalist Social Circle was organized, the first 
 meeting being at the house of Mrs. H. T. Pressey, December 
 1st, of that 3'ear. The object of the Circle was the equip- 
 ment of the Sunday School. Meetings for preaching were 
 held at various times and places, and in 1873 the Social Cir- 
 cle took shares in the Hammonton Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciation, with the view of securing a fund with which to build 
 a church. In 186*1 the Society purchased the lot upon which 
 the church now stands, and the friends patiently bided the 
 time when a church building should adorn their lot. In 1876 
 Rev. Moses Ballou, well known and much beloved wherever 
 the Universalist name was spoken, was engaged to preach 
 here, being then a resident of Atco. He came eveiy two 
 weeks, and services were held in Union Hall. The preaching 
 of "Father "Ballou cemmented the hearts of theliberal people, 
 and opened their hands, for the building of the church edifice 
 which was completed and dedicated in 1887. It is the hand- 
 somest church edifice in the town. Mr. Ballou preached here 
 until 1878, when failing health compelled him to resign. Rev. 
 Asher Moore, the present pastor, came to the church in 1885. 
 Although of the same name as the first pastor, we believe the 
 two advocates of Universal salvation were not relatives. Mr. 
 Moore is a venerable preacher now in his eightieth year, who 
 will soon complete a half century of service as a preacher of 
 the liberal gospel. 
 
CHAPTER YI. 
 
 Co-operation in Hammonton — The Fruit Growers' Union — 
 Fruit Growers' Association — Building and Loan As- 
 sociations — People's Bank. 
 
 It is less than half a centiuy ago since the question of co- 
 operation took such a distinct shape from the mooted one of 
 communism as to receive practical attention. Communism 
 seeks the surrender of the idea of individual gain and pros- 
 perity for the good of the mass, while co-operation aims at 
 the combination of strength and effort, in order that greater 
 benefit ma^^ come to the individual. This form of co-opera- 
 tion hns reached a higher grade of success in England and on 
 the continent of Europe than in this country. Across the 
 water the co-operative effort has three forms of expression, 
 known as societies of consumption, societies of distribution 
 and societies of credit. The first named are stores, carried 
 on as a means of distributing goods to the members, of guar- 
 anteed quality, at a uniform price, and dividing the profits 
 among the patrons and share holders. Tlie cooperative 
 stores have reached a high state of perfection in England; 
 and it is estimated that nearly every town in the United 
 Kingdom has its store of this kind. The societies of distri- 
 bution are combinations of craftsmen for the manufacture and 
 marketing of the products of their skill. These societies are 
 more numerous and successful in France than any where 
 else. The societies of credit are simply co-operative banks, 
 and the centre of their operations is Germany. 
 
 In this countiy the co-operative store has been a success 
 rather as an exception than a rule. These stores have been 
 started in many towns, to flourish for a brief season and then 
 decay. The causes of the failures have generally been two 
 
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History of Hammonton. 31 
 
 fold: first the business incapacit}^ of the managers, or their 
 dishonest3^, much more often the former than the hatter. The 
 political method has prevailed to a large extent in selecting 
 managers. Favoritism has characterised the selection, men 
 being chosen who were "popular," rather than for their man- 
 aging qualities. Our building and loan associations answer 
 to the European societies of credit, and are the most success- 
 ful form of co-operation in this countr}^, those in Philadelphia 
 alone representing a capital of $100,000,000. 
 
 Some of the most successful co-operrtive societies in this 
 country, ma}' be found in Hammonton. The first on the list 
 
 is the 
 
 Fruit Growers' Union, 
 
 first organized in 1867 as a society for distribution. Its pur- 
 pose was to combine the fruit growers of the town into an 
 organization for mutual helpfulness, and to market the farm 
 products of its members at the least possible cost, receiving 
 for the same the greatest possible return. B}^ thus uniting, 
 it was found that rebates were secured on freight rates, and 
 percentages from the commission merchants. From these 
 items the small expenses incident to running the society were 
 paid. At the end of the first year, a dividend of $261.67 was 
 paid after meeting all obligations; the second year, there was 
 a profit of $200, and this sum has annually been increasing. 
 In 1888 the amount saved to the members was a little over- 
 $9,000. 
 
 In 1884, the society took a new departure, was incorporated 
 under t^ie laws of the State, and became also a society of con- 
 sumption, by engaging in the store business, to the extent of 
 handling fertilizers and other necessary articles used by the 
 farmers. But thisliranch of the business grew on the socie- 
 ty's hands, and soon a general store Avas opened. It now 
 owns three acres of land, with store building and other struc- 
 tures valued at over $7,000. Last year the cash sales 
 amounted to $81,000, the net profit on which was $5,000. Its 
 goods in stock are inventoried at $15,000. There is no debt 
 on any of its real estate, and the society's net assets over all 
 liabilities, are $26,165. A dividend of six pej- cent, is paid to 
 stockholders, and a dividend of five per cent, on store pur- 
 
32 History of Hammonton. 
 
 chases is paid all members, and hnlf that amount to non-mem- 
 bers. The expenses of conducting the business of the society 
 are only 4.8 per cent, on the business, or less than one half of 
 that of the next best co-operative concern in the United 
 States. The Secretary of the society, and the efficient man- 
 ager of the store business, is Z. TJ. Matthews, and the Ship- 
 ping Agent, Charles Woodnutt. The other officers are as 
 follows: President, E. K. Spoul; Directors, L. H. Parkhurst, 
 Charles Albright, Thomas Rogers, Charles Woodnutt, M. 
 Parkhurst, H. J. Monfort, W. F. Trost, Z. U. Matthews. 
 Auditors, A. J. Smith, D. Colwell, L. Monfort. 
 Fruit Growers' Association. 
 
 In 1880 a number of the members of the Fruit Growers' 
 Union withdrew, and organized the Fruit Growers' Assso- 
 ciation, which has steadily grown in membership and busi- 
 ness transactions. The Association gives all of its attention 
 and energies to the shipment and marketing of the products 
 of its members, and claims to have secured a better service 
 and more satisfactory returns for shippers, than any other 
 society. Pretty much every farmer in town belongs to either 
 the Union or Association, so that there is scarcely an individ- 
 ual shipper of fruit in the whole place; all the farmers 
 seeking the strength which comes from a union of effort in 
 the marketing of their crops. 
 
 The Association has been industrious in seeking and adopt- 
 ing improved methods for marketing fruit. They claim to 
 have first demonstrated the success of using refrigerator cars 
 for shipping berries to distant points. During the eight years 
 it has been in business, the losses sustained by members 
 through commission merchants will not exceed ten dollars. 
 John Scullin is the Association's agent, and the following 
 is its list of officers : President, W. A. Elvins; Vice Pres- 
 ident, Hon. Geo. Elvins; Treasurer, J. W. Lysinger; Sec- 
 retary, B. Crawley; Asst. Secretary, W. H. Doucet. Direc- 
 tors — D. L. Potter, Hon. Geo. Elvins, Saml. Anderson, Har- 
 vey Beach, R. H. Anderson, Levi G. Horn, Chas. E. Roberts, 
 Chas. Wescoat, Saml. L. Forman, J. W. Butterton, E. Cor- 
 dery, Wm. Ehrke. 
 
FRUIT GROWER'S UNION STORE. 
 
 C. E. HALL'S BLOCK. 
 
ELA3I STOCKVVELL'S STOKE. 
 
 GEO. ELVIN'S STORE. 
 
History of Hammonton. 33 
 
 One of the means of growth in Hammonton, and especially 
 in the line of building, is its two building and loan associa- 
 tions. In affording the man of small means with the oppor- 
 tunit}^ of pajdng for a house in monthly installments, as he 
 pays rent, they afford a healthy stimulus to the workingman 
 to become a householder, and the owner of his own home. 
 Last year the new buildings erected in Hammonton aggre- 
 gated fully $50,000 in value, and they were many of them 
 erected through the aid offered by these associations. 
 Hammonton Loan and Building Association 
 was orgar.ized in 18Y1, R. J. Byrnes being the first President 
 and A. J. Smith the first Secretary. During the past 3'ear its 
 "long loans" amounted to $40,098, and its "short loans" to 
 $11,647. It has the best record of any like association in the 
 State for the short time in which it has paid off its shares. 
 The present officers of the association are R. J. Byrnes, Pres- 
 ident; Gr. F. Saxton, Treasurer; W. R. Tilton, Secretaiy. Di- 
 rectors, T. J. Smith, A. J. Smith, D. C. Herbert, S. E. Brown, 
 Albert Adams, G. Yalentine, W. Bernshouse, T. B. Drown, 
 D. S. Cunningham. 
 
 Workingmen's^ Loan and Building Association 
 organized January 3rd, 1877, has had a ver}' prosperous ca- 
 reer. Dr. Edward North was the first President, and A. C. 
 Wetherbee the first Secretary. Its present number of shares 
 is 2,213, with a par value of $128,285. Its loans the past j-ear 
 amounted to $39,657. The expenses of the Association have 
 been conducted at the small cost of one per cent, to the mem- 
 bers, and not a dollar has been lost, a loan compromised or 
 a mortgage foreclosed. They sell members $200 on each 
 share of stock, no bonus being required. The present offi- 
 cers are, President, M. L. Jackson; Secretary, J. C. Anderson; 
 Treasurer, William Black. Directors, George Elvins, C. F. 
 Osgood, D. M. Ballard, J. T. French, D. F. Lawson, A. W. 
 Cochran. 
 
 The People's Bank. 
 
 This is one of the most helpful institutions to the business 
 interests of the place in town. The credit of originating the 
 
34 History of Hammonton. 
 
 bright idea which resulted in its establishment, belongs to 
 Edward Whiffen, of the firm of Whiffen Bros. & Co., shoe 
 manufactures. With the co-operation of M. L. Jackson, John 
 C- Anderson, B. Crawley, W. A. Miller and others, Mr. Whif- 
 fen succeeded in obtaining a charter, and an organization was 
 perfected on March 12th, 1887. The capital stock is $50,000, 
 of which $20,000 are paid. It is a bank of deposit and dis- 
 count, and not of issue, but pays a dividend to stock holders 
 equal to National Banks of like class. It has one of the most 
 approved burglar and fire proof safes, with time lock, and is 
 otherwise provided Avith the regulations and appurtenances 
 which insure safetj' to depositors. The bank has correspon- 
 dents in New York and Pliiladelphia, and the accommoda- 
 tions which it is able to grant are equal to those offered by any 
 bank of like standing in the countr3\ Since its organization 
 it has discounted about 2,000 notes. The officers of the bank 
 are, President, R. J. Byrnes; Vice President, M. L. Jackson; 
 Cashier, W. R. Tilton. Directors — R. J. Byrnes, M. L. Jack- 
 sou, Geo. Elvins, E. Stockwell, Z. U. Matthews, D. Colwell, 
 Edw. Whiffen, J. C. Browning, A. J. Smith, C. F. Osgood, 
 D. L. Potter, G. P. Saxton and P. S. Tilton. 
 
CHAPTER YII. 
 
 The Secret and Civic Societies of the Toavn, their His- 
 tory, Growth and Officers. 
 
 MASONS. 
 
 The Masonic order, the oldest of the secret societies, and 
 the one which dates its origin back to the daj-s of Solomon, 
 was esti^ Wished in Hammontoa fourteen years ago. Among 
 the old Masons who had taken the mystic rites before coming 
 to Hammonton, were E. D. Redman, Dr. H. E. Bowles, C. P. 
 Hill, S. Draper, I. W. Warner, C. P. Wescoat, J. H. Jones, 
 Geo. W. Rich, and Orrin Packard. These became the char- 
 ter members of the M. B. Taylor Lodge, which Avas instituted 
 Eebruarj- 19th, 1875. The growth of the lodge has been 
 healthy, and its condition is satisfactory in every way. It 
 numbers about fort}'' members, most of our business men 
 having been initiated into its mysteries. The communica- 
 tions are on the second and fourth Friday nights of each 
 month. The -following are the principal "officers : W. M., 
 Charles Woodnutt ; S. W., Dr. J. A. Waas ; J. W., Wm. 
 Haney ; S. D!, A. W. Cochran; J. D., C. M. Cook; Sec, H. 
 E. Bowles; Treas., H. Poyer, 
 
 Odd Fellows. 
 Winslow Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., is one of the oldest lodges in 
 the State, and was oi'ganized in the village <5f Winslow, in 
 1846. Since the decline of that glass manufacturing town, 
 the active members of the lodge being mostly Hammonton- 
 ians, it was moved to this place last Fall. It is one of the 
 richest lodges in Xew Jersey, having about $4,000 in its 
 treasury, and has paid out in benefits since its organization 
 the magnificent sum of $20,000. They have the most commo- 
 dious lodge room in town, and are in a very flourishing cou- 
 
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36 History of Hammonton. 
 
 dition. The officers for the current term are as follows : N. 
 G., H. P. Hill ; y. G., W. fl. Bernshouse ; Sec, Geo. King ; 
 Treas., M. L. Jackson. 
 
 Red Men. 
 ■ Shaumunkin Tribe, No. 87, Improved Order of Red Men, 
 was established Oct. 26, 1886, a team from Pequod Tribe of 
 Atlantic City performing the ceremonies. The order has 
 grown ver}^ rapidly, the membership numbering considerably 
 over one hundred. Their hall was neatly furnished at a cost 
 of $250, and they have a snug sum at interest, besides their 
 well filled wampum belt. Connected with the tribe, is a 
 Chieftain's League, the highest degree of the Red Men's or- 
 der. The following are the present officers : Prophet, Dr. 
 T. G. Bieling; Sachem, W. F. Maloney; Sr. Sagamore, J. 
 Lear; Chief of Records, George Potter, Asst. Chief of Rec- 
 ords, H. P. Blythe; Keeper of Wampum, W. H. Burgess. 
 The Grand Army Post. 
 A Post of the G. A. R. was organized in Hammonton in 
 1868, but its life was short, and in about a year it had ceased 
 to exist. D. A. Russell Post, No. 68, was organized May 8th 
 1882, and has had a prosperous existence. Its first officers 
 were, L. H. Parkhurst, Com.; C. F. Osgood, Senior Yice 
 Com.; Jason St. John, Jr. Vice Com.; H. J. Monfort, Officer 
 of the Day ; B. F. Henshaw, Officer of the Guard; 0. E. Moore 
 Quartermaster; Dr. H. E. Bowles, Surgeon; 0. E. Ho3't, 
 Chaplain; William Rutherford, Adjutant. During its exis- 
 tence over a hundred members have been mustered in, and 
 it now has about half a hundred members in good standing. 
 But four deaths have occurred since the Post was established, 
 and one of them being Gen. Herman Biggs, who died from 
 wounds received in the service. Much has been done in the 
 way of furnishing relief to needy and disabled comrades. 
 The present officers are: Com., Maj. C. M. Jordan; S. V. 
 Com., E. L. Cauffman; Jr. Y. Com., T. B. Drown; Adjutant, 
 P. H. Jacobs; Surgeon, Dr. H. E. Bowles; Chaplain, W. H. 
 Bradbury; Officer of the Day, H. J. Monfort; Officer of the 
 Guard, George Bernshouse; Quartermaster, J. Atkinson; 0. 
 G., W. Jones; I. G.,J. Bakeley. 
 
History of Hammonton. 37 
 
 Women's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 A local Union of this most efficient temperance organiza- 
 tion now doing work in this country, was organized in Ham- 
 monton, the sixteenth day of last October. There was a 
 large attendance of the ladies of the town, and a commendable 
 interest was manifested, A delegation from the Atlantic 
 City Union assisted in the organization, and officers were 
 elected as follows : President, Mrs. H. R. Randall; Corres- 
 ponding Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Browning; Recording Secre- 
 tary, Miss Minnie Newcomb; Treasurer, Mrs. C. S. Lawrence, 
 and one Yice President from each church and religious or- 
 ganization in town. The Union meets every two weeks, and 
 already exercises a wholesome influence upon the public sen- 
 timent of the town. In connection with the Union is a Lo}^- 
 al Temperance Legion, of which Mrs. I. Y. Allender is super- 
 intendent. About one hundred and fifty boys and girls are 
 enrolled as members, and have taken the pledge to abstain 
 from profanity and the use of tobacco and intoxicants. 
 
 Iron Hall. 
 
 Local Branch, Xo. 221, was instituted Feb. 27, 1885, with 
 fifteen charter members. The officers Avere: Trustees, Dr. E. 
 North, M. L. Jackson, and William Haney. Other officers : 
 Past Chief Justice, John Scullin; Chief Justice, Dr. E. 
 North; Yice Justice, M. L. Jackson; Accountant, J, R. Ma- 
 loney; Treasurer, J. T. French. Since its organization it 
 has had 114 assessments, and paid in sick benefits $2,325. 
 The present number of members is forty-five. The present 
 officers: Past Chief Justice, H. L. Irons; Chief Justice, John 
 Walther; Yice Justice, M. L. Jackson ; Accountant, A. B. 
 Davis; Cashier, J. T. French. Has a reserve fund in the 
 Local Branch of $790.84. Ladies Sisterhood Branch, No^ 
 669, was organized Feb. 20, 1888. Officers: Past Chief Jus- 
 tice, Mrs. Geo. Potter; Chief Jiistice, Mrs. L. Beverage; Yice 
 Justice, Mrs. W. A. Hood; Accountant, Mrs. E. L. Whitmore; 
 Cashier, Mrs. J. T. French. 
 
 Sons of Yeterans. 
 
 Gen. D. A. Russell Camp, No. 25, was established April 25, 
 1888, with W. Cunningham, Captain; F. T. Drake, First Lieu- 
 
38 History of Hammonton. 
 
 tenant, and AV. St. John, Second Lieutenant. The present 
 officers are: Captain, F. T. Drake; First Lieutenant, W, St. 
 John; Second Lieutenant, Cliarles Parkhurst. The camp 
 has twent^-tliree members. A Sons of Veterans' Cornet 
 Band was organized in December, 1888. It numbers sixteen 
 pieces. Band Master, W. Cunningham. 
 Knights of Labor. 
 
 The AVorkingmen's Beneficial Association of the Knights 
 of Labor, No. 1480, was organized in Hammonton, on the 
 17th of March, 1880, with J. S. Thaj-er as Master Workman. 
 The Society pajs funeral and sick benefits, and now has 130 
 members in good standing. This order has done good work 
 in inculcating temperance ideas, and habits of economy and 
 thrift, and the result is that many of the members own their 
 own houses. It has exercised a conciliatory influence, and 
 has been the means of preventing a number of strikes. 
 Hammonton Volunteer Fire Company. 
 
 The Town has an organized fire company composed of a 
 goodl}" number of prominent citizens of the town. It has 
 about fift}^ members. The company has a two stoiy building, 
 with a hall on the second floor. They also have a fire engine, 
 a hook and ladder truck, and a reasonable quantity of hose. 
 The water supply is from cisterns. The officers are as fol- 
 ows: President, Wra. Bernshouse. Trustees, J. W. Myers, 
 J. M. Austin, W. DePuy. Marshal, H. P. Blythe; Foreman, 
 George King; Assistant Foreman, Frank Thomas. 
 Sons of Temperance. 
 
 Atlantic Division No. 18, was first organized July 7, 1862. 
 Since that time it has been disbanded and reorganized 
 a number of times, repeatedly rising, PhcBuix-like, from its 
 ashes. D. L. Potter and Russell Moore have been the bul- 
 warks of the Division in sunshine and in storm. The pres- 
 ent officers are : W. P.. Samaria Bernshouse; W. A., Mamie 
 Wood; R. S., N. D. Page; A. R. S., Annie Herbert; F. S., 
 George Bassett; Treasurer, R. Moore; Chaplain, Mrs. Hines; 
 Conductor, Maude Jacobs; A. Con., Hannah Mick; I, S., 
 Hattie Smith; 0. S. Mrs. D. L. Potter. 
 
CHAPTER YTII. 
 
 Farmers. Business and Professional Men and other Prom- 
 inent Citizens of Hammonton. 
 Richard J. Byrnes 
 was born in Pennsylvania in 1830, his ancestors being old 
 time residents of the city of Brotherlj^ Love, His step-father, 
 whose name he bears, was an Irish gentleman, who was in the 
 employ of Stephen Girard for many years, and assisted in 
 surveying the grounds now occupied by the college which 
 bears tlie name of Philadelphia's great merchant prince and 
 philanthropist. When ten years of age Richard went to 
 work in Merriew and Thompson's printing office in Carter's 
 Allej^ where the Pennsyliania Freemav^ an abolition paper 
 edited by the poet John G. Whittier, was printed. A year 
 in the printing office, and the boy was sent to a private school 
 the idea being to fit him for orders in the church. This plan 
 was not carried out, and young Byrnes graduated from the 
 Central High School, and subsequentl}' entered the law office 
 of C. O. Robinson. After the death of Mr. Robinson, he 
 served two years with the silk importing house of Davis & 
 Thatcher, and then secured a position in the Mechanics' 
 Bank. He was the youngest bank clerk in the city, but his 
 promotions were rapid, until he occupied various responsible 
 positions about the institution. Having spare time on his 
 hands he engaged in stock and real estate ventures, and was 
 successful. In his youth Judge Bj-rnes was quite an athlete, 
 and as a member of the Schuylkill Barge. Club rowed in a 
 number of winning races. He met with Chas. K. Landis in 
 1854, and in 1859 left the bank to enter the real estate and 
 brokerage business, and formed a partnership with Mr. Lan- 
 dis. At the breaking out of the war he assisted in forming a 
 coiQpany of cavalr}', which he intended to join,, had not his 
 
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40 
 
 History of Hammonton. 
 
 interests in Hammonton prevented. Judge Byrnes is one of 
 the Lay Judges of tlie Court of Common Pleas of Atlantic 
 County, a position to which he has been three times success- 
 ively reappointed. He is connected with various enterprises 
 in Hammonton, as will be seen by consulting the pages of 
 this history. 
 
 .-»^' 
 
 George W. Pressey. 
 Mr. Pressey is a native of the State of Maine, and was born 
 in Waterville, in 1825. His father was a carriage manufac- 
 turer, and by the time the 3'oung man was eighteen, he had 
 learned carriage building in all its branches. He earlj^ gave 
 signs of an inventive genius, man}- useful tools having been 
 invented by him. He invented the first apple paring ma- 
 chine, and a carriage spring, known as "Pi'essey and Far- 
 num's lever spring," a wagon attachment which in its day 
 was deservedl}' popular. Mr. Pressey came to Hammonton 
 in 1860. In 1867 he invented the "Pioneer Stump Puller," 
 which had a wide use all over the United States. Other in- 
 ventions which followed were the "Pressey Folding Umbrel- 
 la," a ventilating stove, and a snath fastener for scythes. But 
 
History of Hammonton. 41 
 
 the inventions whieli have made him best known are the 
 American Star Bicycle, and his incubators and brooders for 
 the artificial hatchino- and raisins: of chickens. The Ham- 
 monton Incubator and the Pressey Brooder have extensive 
 sale and use among poultry men. Mr. Pressey, and 
 his daughters Misses Emma and Anna, are extensively en- 
 gaged in raising chickens, and have reduced the business to 
 a science. They raised and marketed last year about five 
 thousand. 
 
 John Murdoch, 
 the shoe manufacturer and dealer, is a native of Scotland, and 
 was bern "on the banks of Ayr," Dec. 31, 1839. His parents 
 came to this country in 1842; they lived at Bussleton, the 
 suburb of Philadelphia, for a year, when they settled at Wey- 
 mouth in this county. There young Murdoch lived until 
 1857, working in a sawmill. Subsequently he worked on a 
 farm at May's Landing, and then learned the trade of a 
 shoemaker. He followed various callings until 1872, when 
 he settled in Elwood, working at his trade. Mr. Murdoch 
 came to Hammonton in 1874, and worked for Elvins and 
 Darling in the old Main road factory. After that he worked 
 for Rogers and then for Osgood & Co., and in 1884 began 
 business for himself His business has steadily increased 
 both in the store and manufacturing departments, and he 
 rejoices in a reasonable prosperit3^ 
 
 GrEORGE ElVINS. 
 
 Came to Hammonton from Philadelphia in the fall of 1858. 
 The store building, Main road and Bellevue was erected, and 
 the business carried on' under the name, A. Elvins & Sons. 
 After a few years the father withdrew from the business, and 
 the store was carried on by P^lvins Brothers. William con- 
 tinued in the firm but a short time when he withdrew, and 
 engaged in business in Philadelphia. George then succeeded 
 to the business, which he has carried on ever since. He was 
 a member of the Legislature of 1881, and postmaster most 
 of the time, when not in the Legislature, during the Repub- 
 lican party's control of the government. Mr. Elvins is one of 
 
History op Hammonton. 42 
 
 our most successful business men. He is a prominent mem- 
 ber of the M. E. Church. 
 
 M. L. Jackson. 
 
 The subject of this sketcla was born in Hartland, Somer- 
 sett count}', Maine, Sept. 25, 1846. In the spring of 1868 he 
 came to Hammonton, and the first work he did in town was 
 to swing a grub hoe, turfing the cranberr}- bog now operated 
 b}'^ H. E. Andrews. He stopped in Hammonton a year, and 
 in that time taught school six months near Green Bank. 
 Mr. Jackson then took a trij) west, going as far as Iowa. In 
 the spring of 1870 he drifted back to Maine where the sum- 
 mer Avas spent. But when he came to take an account of his 
 stock of traveling experience he made up his mind that Ham- 
 monton was about the best place he had seen, and in the fall 
 of that j-ear he returned to this place. In the spring of 1871 
 he formed a partnership with Benjamin H. Bowles, a brother 
 of Dr. H. E. Bowles, and engaged in the meat and provision 
 business. The firm opened store in a small building where ra3''s 
 drug store now stands. They bought the lot corner of Bel- 
 levue and Second, and in the fall of 1872 built a part of the 
 present market. Mr. Bowles left the firm in 1874. Mr. 
 Jackson now has a finely equipped market, with engine and 
 steam kettle, and does a large business. He is Hammonton's 
 member of the Board of Freeholders, is one of the Directors 
 of the People's Bank, a member of the Board of Commission- 
 ers of Appeals, and is prominently connected with various 
 civic and beneficial societies in tlie town. 
 Z. U. Mattheavs. 
 
 Mr. Matthews is a native of Oswell, Bradford count}'', 
 Penna. In 1865 he came to Hammonton, and settled on a 
 farm on Middle road, then known as the Shoemaker place. 
 He also rented a farm at Winslow, and the same summer 
 bought fiA^e acres where his present residence now stands. 
 After residing here for five j-ears he went to Dutchess coun- 
 t}^, New York, where he remained for two 3 ears. Returning 
 to Hammonton he built a house on his propert}'. When he 
 came here he was in poor health, and without means. But 
 he had pluck and perseverance and kept right at it, being 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 43 
 
 determined to make a success. He purchased more land, un- 
 til he now owns his home farm of eight acres, and two other 
 places of twelve and twenty acres each. About 1877 he took 
 the position of Secretary of the Fruit Growers' Union, then 
 simpl3^ a distributing company. In this capacit}^ he served 
 the Union for three years without salary. After the reor- 
 ganization he had charge of manufacturing fertilizer, and has 
 always been the purchasing agent of the Union. In 1882 he 
 was made manager of the Union Store, which position he 
 still holds. Under his direction the business has become a 
 great success. 
 
 J. M. Peebles, M. D. 
 The subject of this sketch, J. M. Peebles, M. *D., was born 
 in Whitingham, Windham County, Yt., March 23rd, 1822. 
 Early developing a liking for school and books, he began 
 teaching before 17 3'ears of age; and later he taught a high 
 school in Broome County, N. Y. Self-reliant, he prepared 
 himself for college in the Oxford Academy, Chenango Coun- 
 ty, N. Y., but did not take the collegiate course for lack of 
 funds. At the age of twent}' he began the study of medicine 
 with Dr. 0. Martin, now of Worcester, Massachusetts, but a 
 little later turned his attention to theological subjects, and 
 
44 History of IIammonton. 
 
 later still to the study of mesinerism, psychology, and psy- 
 chic forces. 
 
 The Doctor, an energetic self-made man, is the writer of 
 numerous pamphlets, and author of nearly a dozen books, 
 such as "Travels Around the World," "Seers of the Ages," 
 "Buddhism and Christianit}^ Face to Face," "Our Homes 
 and our Employments Hereafter," etc. At present he writes 
 for the Medical Brief, lledical Review, and two or three 
 health journals. During his two journeys of travels arouud 
 the world, he devoted much attention to the magic of India, 
 the occult forces so prevalent in Ce3'lon, Siam and China, and 
 to leprosy and the leper hospitals of the Oriental countries. 
 The doctor graduated from the Philadelphia Universit}', and 
 is registered in the city of Philadelphia as a practicing phy- 
 sician, and also in New Jersey. 
 
 In 1868 Dr. Peebles accompanied and participated in the 
 deliberations of the "Northwest Congressional Indian Peace 
 Commission," appointed by Congress, and constituted of 
 Gens. Harney, Sherman, Sheridan, Sanborn and Col. Tappan. 
 
 In 18G9, he was appointed by Gen. Grant United States 
 Consul to Trebizonde, Asiatic Turkej-*, returning he visited 
 Smj^rna, Ephesus and Rome. 
 
 In 1881 he was appointed, "Representative abroad" by the 
 National Arbitration League of the United States of America, 
 to meet the "International Peace Congress of Europe,"' 
 in the interests of arbitration as against war. He continues 
 to work with tongue and pen against war; against the inflic- 
 tion of capital punishyient; against vaccination; against class 
 medical legislation; against intemperance; and in favor of 
 womans' suffrage and her full equality with man. And 
 though Dr. Peebles is a Fellow of the American Academy, 
 Jacksonville, 111., Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, New 
 Orleans, La., Fellow of the Anthropological, and Psychologi- 
 cal Societies of London, FelloAv of the Academy of Arts and 
 Sciences, Naples, Italy, and of other learned 
 societies, he is a very plain and unassuming man, 
 quietly attendi-ng to his own affairs, and found, when 
 not traveling, nor pruning his vines or fruit trees, in his li- 
 
History of Hammonton. 45 
 
 brary, a choice collection of scA'eral thousand volumes. 
 
 Though at present traveling and lecturing Winters, upon 
 Phj'^siology, Hj'giene and Health, in opera houses, churches 
 and before the State, formal Schools, of Pennsylvania, he 
 finds time to lecture more or less to the students of the 
 American Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in which 
 college he is Professor of Pathology, Physical and Mental 
 Hj'giene. He is proprietor of the H:-mmonton Atlantic Mir- 
 ror^ a weekl}^, edited by H. W. Wilbur, and proprietor and 
 editor of the Golden Door of Hope and Temple of Health, a 
 monthh\ Dr. Peebles and his excellent family, have been 
 residents of Hammonton for some twenty years. 
 
 Elam Stockwell, 
 was born in Allegany County, New York, in 1838, and 
 came to Hammonton in January, 1867. Mr. Stockwell settled 
 on the farm on Main road now owned by D. Campanella. 
 For some time he ran a wagon to Pleasant Mills and Batsto, 
 and peddled groceries. In 1872 he opened a store ,in his 
 house at the farm, and in 1876 came down town and built a 
 small store Bellevue and Third street, on the present loca- 
 tion. The store was 32x22, with small residence attached. 
 In 1883 he built an addition to the residence, and fitted up 
 the old residence for a dry goods department to the store. 
 Three 3-ears later he built a large addition to his store, and a 
 feed depot two stories high 40x72 feet, put up a windmill for 
 grinding corn, and made other improvements. His business 
 has steadily' increased, and he now sells in addition to his 
 regular stock, large numbers of organs and sewing machines. 
 Mr. Stockwell is one of the directors of the People's Bank, 
 and a leading member of the Baptist church. 
 D. C. Herbert. 
 
 Mr, Herbert came to this countrj- from Oxford, England, in 
 1867, and settled at Newtonville this county, about six miles 
 from Hammonton. In 1870 he moved to this village, and 
 worked in Rogers and Wood's Shoe Factory, and at the end 
 of four years started a shop of his own where he did custom 
 work and repairing. Several years after he bought E. L. 
 Lo veil's shoe store, and carried on the same. In 1882 he 
 
46 History of Hammonton. 
 
 purchased a lot and erected a wooden building where hi s 
 
 present store is located. This building was subsequently 
 
 burned down, and his present neat brick store was erectel to 
 
 take its place. 
 
 J. D. Fairciiilix 
 
 The parents of Mr. Fairchild came to Hammonton from 
 Courthmd country, New York, and he came with them. They 
 settled on a farm on Central Avenue, and the year following 
 Mr. F. enlisted in the army and served until the close of the 
 war. After the war he studied dentistry, and practised his 
 profession in Connecticut. In 1868 he married Nellie, a 
 daughter of the late Capt. C. J. Fay, and the}^ went back to 
 Connecticut, and remained until 1876, when they returned to 
 Hammonton, Mr. Fairchild becoming manager of Capt. 
 Fay's Centennial Store, just opened. In 1880 he pur- 
 chased the property on Bellevue, and began the keeping of a 
 grocer}^ store. The property has been lately improved , by 
 extensive additions. Mr. Fairchild has been Town Marshal 
 for a term of 3'ears. 
 
 C. E. Hall, 
 
 Came to Hammonton in December, 1865, from Rockland^ 
 Maine, and tried farming on Pine road. Learned the trade 
 of a tinsmith of A. G. Clark, and about the year 1876 bought 
 Mr. Clark's interest in the hardware business, and rented the 
 store now occupied by Wm. Mannice. He carried on his 
 business in this location for about five years, when he pur- 
 chased what was then known as the Darwin property, corner 
 of Bellevue and Central. The building on the lot was a rather 
 ungainly five-roomed tenement, which Mr. Hall rebuilt and 
 transformed, and arranged as a store and dwelling. In 1887 
 Mr. Hall purchased a lot on Bellevue adjoining his other 
 propert}', and erected a two stor}- building, which was fitted 
 up as the furniture and hardware department of the store. 
 Mr. Hall's business has constantly increased, and his block, 
 a cut of which appears in this book, is one of the best busi- 
 ness sites in town. 
 
 William Haney. 
 
 Mr. Haney became a Hammontoniau in 1879, coming here 
 from Haddonfield. He opened a barber shop, buying out 
 
History of Hammonton. 47 
 
 Joseph Coast, who was located in a building on the lot now 
 occupied by Miss Newton's stove. In 1884 he bought a lot, 
 and erected his present shop and residence. Mr. Haney has 
 one of the best equipped barber shops in South Jersey. 
 
 L. W. COGLEY. 
 
 Arrived in Hammonton from Tro}^ N. Y. in October, 1866, 
 and bought a fruit farm on Middle road, now owned by Mr, Gil- 
 lingham. In 18T0 he opened a harness shop in a building 
 which stood where Jackson's meat market is now located. 
 He then moved to a small building on the present site of 
 Simon's bakery, and in 1881 put up a frame building where 
 the present shop is located. He died in 1883, and since 
 that time the business has been carried on by his widow. 
 The shop was burned down in the fall of 1886, and the pres- 
 ent brick store was built by Mrs. Cogle}'. 
 C. M. Cook. 
 
 Among the youngest of onr business men is Mr. Cook, 
 who came to Hammonton in 1886. He engaged in the jewel- 
 ry business in a part of Cochran's store, but his trade became 
 too large for the location, and Mr. Cochi-an built the present 
 store for him, which he occupied in 1887. Mi-. Cook is a 
 graduate of a New York school of optics, and makes a spec- 
 iality of fitting glasses to diseased and defective e5^es. Mr. 
 Cook has as his assistant in his growing business, A. J. Pot- 
 ter. 
 
 A.,W. Cochran. 
 
 Mr. Cochran came to Hammonton from Camden, this 
 State in 1879. After graduating from the College of Phar- 
 mac}', he opened a drug store in the rooms now occupied by 
 W. F. Bassett & Son in the Rutherford building. In 1882 
 he purchased the lot corner Second and Bellevue, and the 
 following year built the store and residence which he now 
 occupies. In the fall of last year he built an addition to and 
 otherwise improved the building. 
 
 Samuel Anderson, Sr. 
 
 Is a native of Philadelphia where he was born in 1822. 
 Reaching his majority he engaged in business in that city 
 for some years. He moved to Hammonton in March, 1860^ 
 
48 History of Hammonton. 
 
 and bought the farm on Middle road now occupied b}' liim. 
 In August 1877 he began the flour and feed business, at the 
 present location corner Bellevue and Second. The business 
 has always been under the management of his son, John C. 
 
 Anderson. 
 
 N. D. Page. 
 
 In 1887 Mr. Page, just arrived in Hammonton from St. 
 Lawrence county. New York, opened his photograph gallery^ 
 
 in the Rutherford building. He is a first-class operator and j 
 
 his excellent work has brought him a good business from I 
 
 Hammonton and the surrounding country. In fact Mr. ; 
 
 Page's pictures will compare favorably^ with those made by | 
 
 city artists. The cuts which illustrate this history-, were j 
 
 made from photographs taken by Mr. Page. j 
 William Rutherford. 
 
 Mr. Rutherford fought in the war of the rebellion, and 
 
 after that unpleasantness lived in Bath, New York, from | 
 
 which place he came to Hammonton in 1872. He purchased j 
 
 the lot on Bellevue, where his present building stands. At ■ 
 
 that time the lot was planted to grape vines, and these were j 
 cleared off and the building erected. Mr. Rutherford is an 
 
 earnest believer in the future greatness of Hammonton. ! 
 W. D. Packer. 
 
 Mr. Packer was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1819. He 
 
 began business by keeping a temperance hotel. Spent about ' 
 
 ten years in Providence, R. L, and in 1865 came to Hammon- < 
 
 ton. For two years he led the life of a farmer, and in 1S67 j 
 
 opened the restaurant at the present stand. In 1869 Mr. , 
 
 Packer started the first bakery^ in this section, and experi- j 
 
 enced all the struggles incident to a new calling in a new ! 
 
 town. I 
 
 C. P. Hill. i 
 
 Mr. Hill used to be a Yankee tin peddler, making his trips ' 
 
 through Western Vermont and Eastern New York. In 1865 ■ 
 
 he moved from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to Hammonton. In ; 
 
 1868 he left the town, and after visiting several places, and ' 
 
 finding none equal to Hammonton, he returned in 1872, and ; 
 the following year opened the restaurant on Bellevue avenue. 
 
RESIDENCE OF JUDGE BYRNES. 
 
 J. c. 1!K()\v.\im;"s r.KooDixc; house. 
 
History of Hammonton. 49 
 
 His son Herbert succeeded to the business in 1.884, and Mr. 
 Hill lias since given his attention to working up a trade for 
 commission houses in New York, Boston and Philadelphja. 
 
 C. J. Fay. 
 The late Captain Fay was born near Lexington, Mass., in 
 1809, and followed the sea until 1845, when he opened a large 
 hotel in Maine. In 1859 he came to Hammonton, and pur- 
 chased the entire block of land running from the Camden & 
 Atlantic Railroad to Third Street, down to Pleasant, and 
 much of the land on the opposite side of Bellevue. He built 
 a pare of the old building. In this he manufactured his pa- 
 tent hay press. He also opened a variety store. About 
 18*10 he sold out to his son George W., who now carries on 
 the drug business. Capt, Fay died m 1880. He was ai> ex- 
 tensive inventor and manufacturer of patented articles, hav- 
 ing invented hay presses, a folding saw horse, etc. Some of 
 these articles are now manufactured by Capt. Fay's son in 
 Camden. 
 
 Elliot J. Woolley. 
 Elliot J. Woolley, who in 1888 erected the first double 
 three story brick block in Hammonton, came here in the fall 
 of 18G6. He was born in Westminster, Yt., April 15th, 1824; 
 during his infancy his parents moved to Watertown, N. Y. 
 In 1845 he married Eleanor P. Pa}^, and shortly after remov- 
 ed to Windsor, Yt., where they spent two years and then 
 located in Wisconsin, going thense back to Watertown, N. Y., 
 and from there to Washington, Iowa in 1854, where he en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of portable steam engines and saw 
 mill machinery. He then learned the watchmaking business 
 under one of the most competent workmen in the West. At- 
 tracted East through an advertisement of Hammonton pub- 
 lished in the New York Herald, he came here and purchased 
 the property then known as the Penobscot House, the only 
 hotel in the town. After making necessary alterations he 
 occupied the place as*a store and dwelling until the spring of 
 1888 when the old building was removed to Yine Street, and 
 replaced by a handsome brick block which was completed 
 
50 History of Hammonton. 
 
 October 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Woolley are occupying a portion^ 
 of the new building as a store and dwelling. 
 
 John T. French. 
 
 The proprietor of the Hammonton Paint Works, was born 
 in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 2nd, 1851. 
 In l<Sf)7, having learned his trade, he began his career as a 
 journeyman painter, which he followed for a number of years. 
 In 1877 Mr. French came to Hammonton, and wielded the 
 brush successfully until 1883, when he began the manufac- 
 ture of prepared paints. The products of the Hammonton 
 Paint Works are so popular at home that more than two 
 hundred houses in the town have been painted with French's 
 paint. The sale for his various brands of i)aintis constantly 
 increasing, and they have found their way to different parts 
 of the country. Mr. French has a large store in Atlantic 
 City at No. 2202 Atlantic Avenue, from which he sells large 
 quantities of his goods. The Paint Works are one of the 
 recognized institutions of Hammonton, of which our people 
 are deservedly proud. Mr. French's mother died when he 
 was a mere lad, since which time he has fought his way alone 
 in the world. For several years previous to learning his- 
 trade he worked on a farm, some of the time in Camden 
 county this State. 
 
 Andrew J. King. 
 
 Was born Dec, 1828, in Wilton, five miles north of Sara- 
 toga Springs, N. Y. Taught a district school when sixteen 
 in his native town. Attended the State Normal School at- 
 Albany in 1847-8. Married July 4, 1848. Was admitted to- 
 the bar of New York when twenty-one at Saratoga Springs. 
 Practiced law there till 1852 when he moved to Illinois. 
 Practiced law there 10 years, when health failing he moved 
 with his family — wife and two children — across the plains 
 with his own teams to California, in 1862. Though admitted 
 to the bar his health never permitted him to practice his 
 profession there. After remaining in Napa City about three- 
 years, he returned, by the way of Panama, to New York and 
 the home of his father, who was then old and infirm and 
 
History of Hammonton. 51 
 
 needed his care. On his father's decease, he purchased the 
 old homestead, and remained there some three years; but the 
 climate proved too severe, and he was comjjelled to seek a 
 milder climate. Hearing of the healthfulness of Hammonton 
 he visited it in the fall of 1868, with a view of securing a 
 home for the Winter and returning to the old homestead in 
 the Spring. Arriving at Hammonton in the evening, he 
 looked around the next day, and the day after he purchased 
 in two or three hours after seeing it the premises he now lives 
 upon, and never returned to the old homestead to live. In 
 1871, he lost his left arm by falling under the cars and getting 
 it run over. Here his health improved, and he has been able 
 to practice his profession since 1874. 
 
 William F. Bassett. 
 Mr. Bassett is a native of Ashfield, Mass., where he was 
 born in 1825. For a number of years he led a farmer's life, 
 and also acted the practical part of a Yankee school teacher. 
 In 1862 he moved to Yineland, then in its infancy. He 
 started the first store in that town, and for a year kept the 
 post office in his store. In the spring of 1864, Mr. Bassett 
 came to Hammonton, locating where he now lives on Belle- 
 vue avenue. In 1868 he started in the nursery business, 
 which calling he has followed ever since. Mr. Bassett intro- 
 duced the Agriculturist strawberry into this vicinity, paying 
 a fabulous price for one thousand plants. He is the senior 
 member of the firm of Wm. F. Bassett & Sons, seedsmen, 
 nurserymen and florists. 
 
 John Scullin, 
 The agent of the Fruit Growers' Association, was born in 
 Utica, N. Y. in 1825, and while he was a boy his parents 
 moved to Colchester, Yt. He worked on a farm during his 
 boyhood, and followed mercantile life for some years until 
 he came to Hammonton in 1867. Arriving here he bought 
 the place on Basin road where he now resides. At that time 
 there was practically nothing but a wilderness in that part of 
 the town. He now owns his home farm of thirty acres, and 
 two other farms besides. Mr. Scullin is the most successful 
 
52 History of Hammonton. 
 
 raiser of apples in Hamraonton, his heavily loaded orchard 
 of perfect fruit ^/as a sight to behold last Fall. 
 Edwin R. Sproul, 
 
 Mr. Sproul was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1830, but his 
 parents moved to New York while he was a small child, and 
 there he grew to manhood and lived and labored until 1876, 
 when he moved to Hammonton. For ten years he was in 
 the government employ, with headquarters in New York. 
 His farm on Basin Road was then in a wild state, and al- 
 though without previous experience as a farmer, Mr. Sproul 
 set himself vigorously at the task of making the wilderness 
 blossom as the rose. He now has a fine farm, and one of our 
 handsomest rural residences. He was president of the Park 
 Association one 3'ear, was a director of the Association until 
 the town purchased the park ; a member of the Board of 
 Freeholders two j^ears, and director of that body for one 
 3'ear. Mr. Sproul is serving his second term as President of 
 the Fruit Grower's Union, and is also one of the Commis- 
 sioners ot Appeal of the town. 
 
 L. Beverage. 
 
 Councilman Beverage was born in North Haven, Maine, 
 in 1842. He followed the sea, coasting, and in 1864 enlisted 
 in the navy. At the close of the war he returned to his home 
 and former occupation. In 1868 he moved to Jerse}'', set- 
 tling at Elwood, and living the life of a sailor as in Maine. 
 He finally learned shoe making, and in 1883 came to Ham- 
 monton, since which time he has worked in Osgood & Co.'s 
 factory. Was appointed a member of Council last Fall to 
 fill vacancy caused by death of St. Paul Seeley, and was re- 
 elected at the Spring election in 1889. 
 A. J, Smith. 
 
 Our present Town Clerk was born in Steuben, Washington 
 Co., Maine, in 1845; came to Hammonton when 15 years of 
 age. Learned the mason's trade under his father. In 1865 
 he was employed as the agent here of the Camden & Atlan- 
 tic Rail Road serving in that position about three years. 
 His predecessors in that office were Jos. Miller, from Maine, 
 
History of Hammonton. 53 
 
 Lewis Evans, our present County Clerk, and Wm. Brace, 
 brother of F. R. Brace, of Camden County, and his successor 
 was Russel Moore who held the position for fifteen or sixteen 
 years. Mr, Smith i-esigned his position as railroad agent to 
 enter the firm of T. J. Smith & Son, lumber dealers, continu- 
 ing in that business until 1875. Since that time has been in 
 the real estate and conveyancing business, working occasion- 
 ally at his trade. Was Secretary of the Hammonton Loan 
 and Building Association for thirteen years, and is at present 
 a director in the same, and also of the People's Bank and the 
 Hammonton Cranberry Association. Has held the position 
 of Town Clerk for eleven years. Has been a candidate for 
 Sheriff and County Clerk of Atlantic County, on the Prohi- 
 bition ticket. . 
 
 C. F. Osgood & Co. 
 Cyrus F. Osgood, senior member of the above firm, was 
 born at Auburn, Maine, Sept. 10, 1841. At the age of twenty 
 he went to L3ain, Mass., the great shoe manufacturing me 
 tropolis, and soon after his arrival, enlisted in the 4th Massa 
 chusetts Heavy Artillery, under Col. King, of Boston. At 
 the close of the war, Mr. Osgood returned to Lynn, and 
 learned the business of shoe manufacturing, and in 1870cr.me 
 to Philadelphia. The year following found him in Elwood, 
 as superintendent of a factory in that village. In 1872 he 
 came to Hammonton, and in company with Calvin Johnson, 
 began the manufacture of shoes, in the DePuy building. Af- 
 ter a year, Mr. Osgood bought out Johnson, and took in T, 
 B. Tilton and William Black, and the firm did business as 
 Osgood, Black and Tilton. At the end of a year and a half 
 Mr. Osgood withdrew, and formed a partnership with Ex- 
 Sheriff E. D. Redman. The firm of Osgood and Redman 
 conducted their business in a part of the building now occu- 
 pied b}^ John Murdoch, for about six months, and then 
 moved to the bviilding occupied by Whiflen Bros. & Co. 
 Another 3'ear and a half passed, when Mr. Osgood sold his 
 interest to Henry Poyer. Mr. Osgood is the present Post- 
 master of Hammonton. He is a firm believer in the maxim 
 
54 History of Hammonton. 
 
 that everlastingly keeping at it brings success. William J. 
 Smith, the junior member of the firm, was born in Milibridge 
 Maine, in 1855, and came to Hammonton with his parents in 
 1860, learned the shoe manufacturing business of C. P. Os- 
 good, and entered the firm in 1878. 
 
 Whiffen Bros. & Co. 
 
 This firm of shoe manufacturers is composed of Jesse, 
 Harr}', and Edward Whiffen. and David S. Cunningham. 
 The brothers are natives of Christ Church, Hampshire, Eng- 
 land, where Jesse was born in 1840, Harry in 1843 and Ed- 
 ward in 1845. They learned the business of shoe manufac- 
 turing in the old country, and all came to America in 1872, 
 and located in New Yorlv. In about a year they went to 
 Philadelphia, and l)egan the manufacture of shoes in that 
 city. In 1884 the Whiffens bought the shoe manufacturing 
 business of T. B. Tilton in this place. Edward Whiften is 
 the originator and joint inventor of the Whitl'en-Lake lasting 
 machine, an ingenious device tor quickly and neatly lasting 
 shoes. David S. Cunningham, the junior member of the firm, 
 was born in Philadelphia in 1858, and in 1863 became a resi- 
 dent of Vineland, his jxirents having moved to that place. 
 In 1879 he beg.an work for Whiffen Bros, in their Philadel- 
 phia factory, and in 1883 was taken into the firm, and in 1884 
 came to Hammonton to take charge of the factory here. 
 William Mannice. 
 
 He is a native of Philadelphia, and became a resident of 
 Hammonton in 1870. Learned shoe making of Osgood, 
 Black S: Co., and after that followed his trade, working for 
 Os;:ood & Co. for a number of years. January, 1888 in com- 
 pany with John Galigne, opened a shoe store, connected with 
 which was a repairing and order department. In July, 1888, 
 Mr. Galigne withdrew from the firm and in the Fall Mr. Man- 
 nice put in additional machinery, and since then has given 
 his attention almost exclusivel}' to manufacturing. 
 Justin S. Thayer. 
 
 Mr. Thayer is a, native of New Hampshire, and was born in 
 Richmond that state in 1844. He came to Hammonton in 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 55 
 
 1800, and in 1861 went back to New Hampshire, and brought 
 •back his parents. In the fall of the latter 3'ear he enlisted in 
 the army, and after four years' service returned to Hammon- 
 ton and learned the carpenter's trade of his father, one of the 
 old fashioned practical mechanics. He began business for 
 himself !is a contractor and builder in 1880, and has met with 
 -good success. Mr. Thayer during 1888, erected buildings in 
 town and made repairs to the value of $22,000. 
 P. H. Jacobs. 
 Mr. Jacobs was born in Richmond, Va., April 24, 1841. 
 He lived with his grandfjither, on a slave plantation until 
 the war broke out, when espousing the cause of the Union, 
 he enlisted and served three years in the United States 
 army, as hospital steward, commissiary sergeant and quarter 
 master sergeant. When the war closed 
 he took lip his residence in Philadelphia, 
 and was foreman of the book department 
 of the Lisenrings printing house, and 
 was also for a time foreman of Morrell 
 Brothers' establishment. Was offered 
 the position of editor of Farmers'' Mag- 
 azine, Parkesburg, Pa., and afterwards 
 of the agricultural department of Phila- 
 delphia Record. Was selected to edit 
 the Povltry Keeper, and afterwards, in 
 connection with Mr. A. H. Potts, purchased it. At present 
 is editor of Poultry Keeper, Farmers'' Magazine, and agri- 
 cultural department of the Philadelphia Record. Has charge 
 of poultr}' department of Farm and Fireside. Springfield, 
 O., American Rural Home, Rochester, N. Y., Mirror and 
 Farmer, Manchester, N. H., and a regular contributor to 
 American Agriculturist, Rural New Yorker and Philadel- 
 phia Weekly Press. Has resided in Hammonton about ten 
 years, and has largely used the above papers to advertise 
 our town. 
 
 A. H. Simons. 
 Mr. Simons was born in Gettysburg, Pa., in 1860, and 
 when three years of age his parents moved to Hammonton. 
 
50 History of Hammonton. 
 
 April 24, 1886, with S. E. Brown, started the bakery business. 
 Mr. Brown soon sold his interest to J. C. Browning. Mr. 
 Browning remained in the firm a short time when Mr. Simons 
 succeeded to the business. In : bout three months after this 
 event his bakery was burned down, but in about lour weeks 
 he had anotlier oven up ready for business. Upon the com- 
 pletion of Black's block he established himself there which 
 has since been his location. 
 
 D. F. Lawson. 
 
 Mr. Lawson is the surviving member of the firm of Jones 
 & Lawson, Mr. Jones having died in the Spring of 1 888. The 
 firm was established in 1884. Since that time as contractors 
 and builders the^^have put up buildings in town valued at $50,- 
 000. Last year Mr. Lawson's business ammounted to about 
 $15,000. 
 
 Andrews & Roberts. 
 
 Henry E. Andrews, senior member of the firm, was born 
 in Medford, Burlington county, in 1839. Enlisted in the 
 arm}^ in 1861, and served four years. In 1869 became super- 
 intendent of the Hammonton Cranberry Meadows, which po- 
 sition he held for fifteen years. Came to Hammonton in 
 1884. He still carries on the cranberry business. The firm 
 was formed in Feb., 1889, when they bought O. E. Moore's 
 stand, and opened a grocery and provision store. Frank E. 
 Roberts, the firm's junior member, was born in Portland, Me., 
 in 1858. At the age of seventeen entered the store of George 
 Elvins, and remained in his emplo}' until February of this 
 year. 
 
 J. 0. Ransom. 
 
 The Main Road Nurseryman, was born in Plymouth, Chen- 
 ango county. New York, in 1818. At the age of fifteen, his 
 father moved to Chautauqua county, and a year later young 
 Ransom entered a dr^^ goods store in Jamestown as clerk. In 
 1837 he started on a trip West and South, and went as far as 
 New Orleans. He clerked and taught school for about two 
 years in the Red River country. But his health broke down, 
 and he started for his father's house in York State, riding the 
 
History of Hammonton. 5T- 
 
 whole distance of 1,600 miles on horse-back. In the Spring of 
 1840 he opened a general store in Smyrna, New York, where he 
 remained for twenty-three years. His health again failing,, 
 he came to Hammonton in 1866, and was greatly benefitted 
 by the climate, and now enjoys good health for a man over 
 seventy years of age. Has been in the nurser}^ business here 
 for over twenty years. 
 
 Curtis S. Newcomb. 
 Mr. Newcomb was born in Courtland county. New York^ 
 in 1843. Was mostly engaged in farming and stock raising 
 until he came to Hammonton in 1874, and settled on the farm 
 he now owns on Middle road. In 1888 was elected school 
 trustee, and also member of the Town Council, and re-elected 
 to the latter position in 1889. Mr. Newcomb deals exten- 
 sively in butter, shipping it from York state, and selling it to- 
 the trade. Has sold over seven tons since Ifist September. 
 
 Peter S. Tilton. 
 
 Was born in Bakersville, Atlantic County, N, J^ in 1823, 
 Was a farmer for several years, and in 1864 came to Ham- 
 monton, and opened a general store. Mr. Tilton took his son 
 Wilber R. in the firm, which is now P. S. Tilton & Son. Wil- 
 ber R. is the cashier of the People's Bank, holds oth°r respon- 
 sible positions, and is a young man very highly esteemed by 
 the people of the town. 
 
 S. E. Brown. 
 
 Samuel E. Brown, of S. E. Brown & Co., was born in El- 
 mira. New York. Came to Hammonton with his parents in 
 1865, and worked on his father's farm. Was operator at 
 Hammonton station on the Philadelphia and Atlantic Citj^ 
 Railway for about seven years. Has been a member of the 
 school board since 1,883. Began the hardware business in 
 August, 1886. 
 
 Charles Woodnutt." 
 Mr. Woodnutt, is one of the members of the Town Coun- 
 cil. Was born in Salem, N. J., Jan. 14th, 1836. By profes- 
 sion he is a dentist, which calling he followed for twelve 
 
58 History of Hammonton. 
 
 3'ears. Mr. Woodnutt w:is prominent in the Grange move- 
 ment when it first started some seventeen 3'ears ago, at which 
 time he was a resident of Cumberland count}'. He came to 
 Hammonton in the spring of 1883. Is one of the directors 
 of the Fruit Growers' Union. 
 
 BIOGKArHICAL NOTES. 
 
 John Atkinson was born in Philadelphia, but has been a 
 resident of New Jersey mo^t of the time since 1837. He 
 came to Hammonton in 1875. Has been a justice of the 
 peace for fifteen ^-ears, and a Hammonton justice since 1885. 
 Is also a commissioner of deeds. Served for three years in 
 the army during the rebellion. 
 
 Mrs. D. Arlitz came to Hammonton in 1885, and soon after 
 moved their Philadelphia store to this place, locating in Fay's 
 building. In November, 1888, moved to one of the commo- 
 dious stores in Woolle^-'s brick block. 
 
 A. A. Butler moved from Marlton in the Spring of 1888, 
 and opened a barbershop corner of Bellevue and Third street, 
 and now has an attractive shaving saloon. 
 
 Miss C. E. Newton began the millinery business in what 
 is now the bank building in 1886. In a few months her in- 
 creasing business compelled har to seek larger quarters, when 
 she moved to her present location in Black's brickblock. 
 
 H. M. Trowbridge was born in West Chester County, New 
 York, in 1857, and came to Hammonton with his parents in 
 1874. The store he now keeps was opened bj-^ his father J. 
 L. Trowbridge in 1875. 
 
 W. H. French, who keeps the Lake View Nursery, was 
 born in Hallowell, Maine, in 184:9. Came to Hammonton in 
 1880, and in 1881 embarked in the nursery business, and has 
 met with gratif3'ing success. 
 
 W. H. Burgess, our Road Superintendent, was born at 
 Yinal Haven, Maine, in 1853. Came to Hammonton in 1862. 
 In 1877 visited nearly all the "Western States and decided to 
 make his home in Hammonton. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 The Newspaper, Farming, Poultry and Manufacturing 
 Interests of Hammonton. 
 The first newspaper publication in Hammonton, was the 
 Hammonton Farriier, which was issued by Judge Byrnes, as 
 a monthly, for about four years. It was devoted largely to 
 a, record of sales and improvements of real estate. The paper 
 was discontinued upon the establishment of a weekly paper 
 in town. 
 
 South Jersey Republican. 
 The Republican was first issued at Absecon, August 15, 
 1863, with D. B. Snow as editor. It appeared regularly in 
 that town until February, 1866, and on the third of that 
 month the plant having been transferred to Hammonton, its 
 issue of that date was dated and printed here. We believe 
 the plant of the paper was purchased by some of the citizens 
 of the place, and at the end of the year, Mr. Snow had done 
 so well he was given a bill of sale of the plant in fee simple. 
 February 26th, 1870, Mr. Snow sold the paper to J. S. Cor- 
 dery, who had been associated with him in conducting the 
 paper. Mr. Corder^- continued in the business until November, 
 1872, when he sold it to Dr, H. E. Bowles. The Doctor was 
 an old time printer as well as a medical practitioner, a native 
 of Western New York. He had served in the army. The 
 Doctor remained in the journalistic harness until 1880, when 
 he sold his paper to Orville E. Hoyt, the present proprietor. 
 Dr. Bowles is still a resident of Hammonton, and is the Cor- 
 oner of the count}-. Mr. Hoyt is a native of Mauch Chunk, 
 Penna. Entered the army in 1864, and came to Hammonton 
 in 1865, and in 1870 went to Michigan, and was foreman of 
 the Ypsilanti Commercial^ and from 1876 to 1880 published 
 the Dexter Ledder in that State when he returned to Ham- 
 
60 History of Hammonton. 
 
 monton to take charge of the Republican as above stated. 
 He has been collector and treasurer of the town for some 
 years. The Republican is a five column quarto, subscription 
 price $1.25 a year. The Republican office has a job printing 
 department connected with it. 
 
 In the fall of 1878, Gren. Joseph Barbiere, of Tennessee, 
 who served in the confederate army, started the Hammonton 
 Times. It had a short career, when it was moved to Atlan- 
 tic City, and was the beginning of the Times now published 
 at that place. 
 
 The Atlantic Mirror. 
 
 The Mirror was started in 18Y9 as The Hornet, an amateur 
 sheet, about the size of a sheet of note paper, by Dion E. 
 Woolley. It grew with its growth and strengthened with its 
 strength, contending with opposition and predjudice. In 
 1882 it was sold to A. H. Whitmore, b}^ whom its name was 
 changed to the Atlantic County Mirror. It was also enlarged 
 and advanced on the road of journalistic progress. Mr. 
 Whitmore sold the paper in 1887 to G. A. Crichet, who drop- 
 ped the County from its name, and left it as the Atlantic 
 Mirror as it now stands. In June 1888 the paper and plant 
 were purchased by Dr. J. M. Peebles, and H. W. Wilbur was 
 selected as its editorial manager. W. B. Hand, a native of 
 Cumberland county, was secured to attend to the canvassing, ; 
 news gathering and outside business. We may honestl}' and 
 modestW remark that the paper has been improved in various 
 ways, and its patronage increased during the year. Messrs 
 Wilbur and Hand operate a large book and job printing office 
 with steam power, in connection with the Mirror, although 
 it is not a part of the plant. The Mirror is independent in 
 politics, and is furnished at $1 a year. 
 
 The Poultry Guide and Friend 
 is the first poultry journal ever printed in Hammonton. It 
 was started in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1880, by its present 
 proprietor, Michael K. Boyer. In 1886 J. Frank Mancha, of 
 the Claremont (Va.) colony, held out inducements to Mr. 
 Boyer to remove it to that place, where it flourished until 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 61 
 
 May, 1888, when sickness compelled the publisher to get 
 back North. Hammonton being a very prominent poultry 
 town he chose this location, and ever since it has been pub- 
 lished here. Mr. Boyer reports his success here as simply 
 phenomenal, having more than tripled both his subscription 
 and advertising patronage. The paper is devoted to poultr}' 
 and pets, issued monthly, and only 25 cents a 3^ear. Outside 
 of the editing of his paper, Mr Boyer is on the editorial staff 
 
 MiCHAKL K. Boyer. 
 of the Texas Farm and Ranch and Germantown Telegraphy 
 and engaged as a specialist on the American Agriculturist, 
 Farm and Home, Godeifs Lady^s Book, and other publica- 
 tions. He is at present establishing an experimental farm 
 for poultry and pets, using both the natural and artificial 
 styles of incubation with his fowls. 
 
 Mr. Boyer is a young man yet, born in Reading, Pa., July 
 14th, 1858, making him not quite 31 yeai-s of age. Ever 
 since his residence here he has been working hard for the 
 advancement of our town's interests, and is becoming a valua- 
 ble citizen. The Poultry Guide and Friend is printed at the 
 office of the Atlantic Mirror. 
 
62 History of Hammonton. 
 
 Shoe Manufacturing. 
 
 The business of manufacturing shoes has been an important 
 industry in Hammonton for a number of years. Various es- 
 tablishments of the kind have existed here since the business 
 was first begun, and a number of ill advised experiments 
 failed and went their way. The business is now upon the 
 bed rock, substantial men being engaged in it, and their en- 
 terprise is a credit to the town, and a source of profit and 
 prosperity to them. 
 
 Whiffen Bros. & Co., started a branch of their Philadelphia 
 factor}' here in 1884, and the following year their entire man- 
 ufacturing interests were transferred to this jilace. Their 
 factory is well fitted out with all the most approved shoe 
 making machinery, and has a capacity of 500 adult and 300 
 infants', children's and misses' shoes a day. Thej'' have an 
 office and salesroom at 136 Market street, Philadelphia. 
 
 The firm of C. F. Osgood & Co., was formed in 1878, and 
 consisted of C. F. Osgood, W. J. Smith and C. Small. They 
 began business over Fay's drug store. In 1881 C. Small sold 
 his interest to J. B. Small, who remained in the firm until 
 1884, when he withdrew, leaving Messrs. Osgood and Smith 
 as the sole proprietors. In 1885 the commodious new factory 
 was erected and occupied. Osgood & Co., have been doing 
 a constantly increasing business, and have one of the best 
 arranged and equipped shoe factories in New Jersey. When 
 working a full force they are able to turn out 1,800 pairs of 
 adults' and 300 pairs of children's shoes a day. 
 
 Fruit Growing and Farming. 
 '^' The adaptability of the soil and climate of Hammonton for 
 the raising of all kinds of fruit, has been demonstrated by 
 more than a quarter of a century of successful efibrt on that 
 line, and now the annual product of fruit is simply prodi- 
 gious. Last year the town's blackberry crop picked and 
 marketed amounted to 2,500,000 quarts; of strawberries we 
 marketed 700,000 quar':s, and of raspberries upwards of 300.- 
 000 quarts, and of grapes, 100,000 pounds. There are in 
 town 833 acres of cranberry bogs in bearing, last year's crop 
 
History of Hammonton. 63 
 
 of which amounted to 100,000 bushels. The pear crop ag- 
 gregated over 5,000 bushels, and of this fruit many large 
 orchards have not yet reached fall bearing. There was paid 
 to berry pickers alone last year, by the farmers of Hammon- 
 ton, in the neighborhood of $50,000, for simply picking the 
 berry croj) from the vines and bushes. 
 
 The farmers of the place, as a class, enjoy reasonable pros- 
 perity, and while all have not proved successful in grabbing 
 the nimble sixpence to their heart's content, the "ne'r-do- 
 wells" are a small minority. Many of the farmers came here 
 with nothing, and in commencing heroically shouldered 
 debt, and have conquered success from threatened disaster. 
 
 Z. TJ. Matthews, from his small farm, reports having cleared 
 last year, the snug sum of $1,000. 
 
 D. Colwell, whose pear crop amounted last year to about 
 300 barrels, a net income of $1,000. Mr. Colwell came here 
 twenty-one years ago, and at that time his farm was heavily 
 mortgaged. That has all been i)aid off, and money in the 
 treasury. Mr. Colwell is a member of the Town Council. 
 He came from Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 L. Monfort came here in 1859, and in 1806 took up his 
 present farm from the stump. To get started he had to 
 mortgage his place. He has fifteen acres in pears. The 
 mortgage was paid off long ago, and has money invested. 
 The buildings on his farm are first-class. His pear crop net- 
 ted him $1,500 last year, and he believes it will continue to 
 pay him six per cent, on the value of his farm, over and 
 above expenses, and support of family. 
 
 W. A. Elvins netted last year about $3,000 on twenty-five 
 acres of blackberries, and ten of strawberries. 
 
 D. Campanella is an Italian, and owns 130 acres. Eleven 
 years ago, as he puts it, he began with "nothing and an old 
 horse." He now owns his farm, with good buildings, clear 
 of debt, and is yearly making money. 
 
 The above are not unusual examples of thrift and prosperity, 
 as many others may be found, but we do not pretend that 
 money can be made without hard work and good management. 
 
64 , History of Hammonton. 
 
 We simply claim that Hammonton offers p:ood advantages 
 for the industrious and capable to get along in the world. 
 Our Poultry Interests. 
 
 During the past few j'ears, the raising of chicken s for 
 ''broilers" to tickle the palates of the epicures of the large 
 cities and fashionable resorts, has become a profitable indus- 
 try', and Hammonton has achieved a national reputation as 
 the largest "broiler" town in the country. 
 
 The raising of these broilers has revolutionized the chicken 
 business, as the setting hen as the hatcher and brooder of 
 chickens has been superseded by the artificial process. Un- 
 der the modern plan, chicken raising has been reduced to a 
 science, and. that it contains ample return for labor, skill and 
 profit invested, has been amply demonstrated in Hammon- 
 ton. 
 
 The modern process involves hatching the chicks in incu- 
 bators by means of artificial heat, applied in various ways. 
 Of the making of incubators there seems to be no end, and 
 almost every conceivable kind is in use here. In the single 
 machines the heat is derived from a lamp, and it is claimed 
 that these machines, properl}' attended, will produce a chick- 
 en from ever}- fertile egg. When hatched the chickens are 
 cared for in brooders, also artificially wai'med, and the suc- 
 cess of the business may be said to largely lie in the skill 
 with which the chicks are cared for and fed, after being con- 
 signed to the care of these artificial mothers. 
 
 There are about twenty-five persons in town, more or less 
 extensively engaged in raising broilers for the market, their 
 capacity ranging from a, few hundred, to several thousand 
 during the season. Harry M. Phillips, who is the largest 
 broiler raiser, has a mammoth establishment, his brooder 
 house being 300 feet long, with a capacity of 7,000 chicks. 
 Mr. Phillips' establishment is fitted up with all the ingenious 
 devices and improvements which a successful experience has 
 demonstrated as necessary to the l)usiness. J. C. Browning 
 is also a large producer of broilers. Both he and Mr. Phil- 
 lips heat their large establishments from steam boilers. Other 
 
RESIDENCE OF M. L. JACKSON. 
 
 WOOLLEY'S BLOCK. 
 
History of Hammonton. 65 
 
 large broiler raisers are C. E. Howe, G. W. Pressey, James 
 Seel^', Cliadwick & Berr}, Henry Niccoali, Frank Hopping, 
 Mr. Edsall, R. G. White, A. M. Millan, George Swank, Capt. 
 Rickard. 
 
 The market for broilers begins the first of Jannary, and 
 closes the last of June, so that most of the work is done 
 when the other farm interests do not press themselves for 
 attention. It is believed that a fair estimate will place Ham- 
 monton 's production of broilers for the.3'earat 25,000, , and 
 the price brought, while varying, it is thought will average in 
 the neighborhood of Y5 cents each for the season. The mar- 
 ket is quite fastidious, and not a little fickle in its demands, 
 requiring the chicks when divested of their feathers to weigh 
 from a pound and a half, to two pounds each, the profit being- 
 larger on a larare than a small chicken. 
 
 The broiler business is a source of profit to those who are 
 successful in it, but it is a business requiring work, patience 
 and watchfulness, to bring the best returns. Not every per- 
 son engaging in it makes a success, and those who do find 
 their results proportioned to the capital invested, and the in- 
 telligent attention given the business. The location and cli- 
 mate of Hammonton, with the fact that here may be had an 
 associated experience, makes the success much more certain, 
 than new and isolated experiments ai*e likely to prove else- 
 where. 
 
 CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS. 
 
 Edwin Jones, the butcher was born in Delaware Count}', 
 Pa., and came to Hammonton in 18T8, buying the farm which 
 he now owns. Began butchering in 1886, and opened his 
 market in June, 1888. 
 
 William Black was born in Booth Bay, Maine, in 1821). 
 For some time he carried on the drug business in Augusta. 
 First settled in Hammonton on Fairview avenue. Was 
 elected a director of the Philadelphia & Atlantic City Rail- 
 wa}^ in 1885, and only recently resigned on account of poor 
 health. He first opened his store at the present stand of S. 
 E. Brown it Co. Was also engaged in the shoe business, 
 
fi6 History of Hammonton. 
 
 and in 1878 bought out A. G. Clark at his present stand. 
 lie has held nearly all the offices in town during his residence 
 here, and was treasurer of Workingmen's Loan and Building 
 Association for over eight years. 
 
 George F. Saxton, was born in Williston, Vt., in 1827, 
 where he followed farming until 18(55, when he came to Ham- 
 monton, buying the place on Central avenue where he now 
 resides. In 1869 he opened a coal yard, which business he 
 has followed ever since. 
 
 John Walther is a native of Germany, and was horn in 
 1849. Came to America in 1853 with his parents, who set- 
 tled at Lumberton, N. J. Learned the blacksmith's trade, 
 and in 1879 came to Hammonton, and opened a shop where 
 the carriage factory now stands. Howard L. Irons was born 
 at New Egypt, this State in 1851. His parents moved to 
 Toms River in 1800, and there he learned the wheelwright's 
 trade. Came to Hammonton in 1884, worked for Alex. Ait- 
 ken about a year, and in 1885 the firm of Walther & Irons 
 was formed. 
 
 Among the manufacturing industries of Hammonton, may 
 be mentioned the woollen mills operated by Messrs. Evans 
 and Moore. The}' manufacture flannel cloth of a standard 
 grade, which finds ready sale in the mining districts of Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 C. E. Fowler, at the lake, has a well equipped machine shop. 
 He manufactures the Hammonton Incubator and Pressey 
 Brooder. In connection with his brother Horace, of Phila- 
 delphia, he has nearly completed an original baker, which 
 takes the raw dough and prepares and bakes it automatically. 
 
 T. B. Drown was born in Kennebunk, Me., and learned the 
 carpenter's trade in Boston. Worked at his trade in that 
 city until he can:e to Hammnionton in 1806. Worked at his 
 trade here, and for a time in Camden, and in 1881 returned 
 here and built his present residence. In 1884 was made 
 foreman of Bernshouse's mill. Was elected a member of 
 Council in 1885, and has been chairman of that body for two 
 
History of Hammonton. 67 
 
 years. Served in the war, and is a member of the Grand 
 Army Post. 
 
 Major C. M. Jordan was born in Roxbury, Mass. in 1834. 
 Most of his life was spent in business in Boston and vicinity. 
 Was five years postmaster at Somerville, Mass., and for fif- 
 teen years was emplo3'^ed in the Boston post office. On the 
 breaking out of the war he enlisted, and was major of the 
 First Massachusetts Regiment. Served three years and 
 four months, and was mustered out in very poor health. 
 Came to Hammonton in 188(>. Is justice of the peace, com- 
 missioner of deeds, and is engaged in the auctioneer and real 
 estate business. 
 
 Among our successful farmers is P. H. Brown, a native of 
 Steuben county, New York. Previous to 1863 Mr. Brown 
 spent most of his time teaching in New York state and Hl- 
 inois. Shortly ?ifter the war broke out he left his profession 
 in Hlinois on account of poor health, and came to Hammon- 
 ton. In 1865 he moved here with his family, and settled on 
 the farnt, corner of Basin and Main roads, where he engaged 
 successfully in fruit raising until 1884, when he sold, came 
 into the village and built his present handsome residence. 
 Shortly after this he purcha«ed 120 acres of wild land about 
 two and one-half miles south-east of the village. He has 
 cleared sixty-four acres, and has fine peach and pear orchards 
 and large blacklierry, raspberry and strawberry fields, and 
 withal a very fine farm. Mr. Brown is nearly seventy years 
 of age, and has lots of faith in the capabilities of our soil and 
 the excellence of our climate. 
 
 Wm. Bernsh'ouse, the proprietor of the steam planing mill 
 aud sash and blind factory, was born in Fathinga, Prussia, 
 March 30th, 1884, and landed in New York, August 12th, 
 1837. His father was a cal)inet maker, and soon moved to 
 Philadelphia where he worked at his trade tor some time. In 
 September, 1848, moved to New Germany, about three miles 
 from this place, and William chopped wood for the Winslow 
 Glass Works. After two years went to Philadelphia, and 
 
(i8 
 
 History of Hammonton. 
 
 worked in Burgess' glass factory. In March, 1852, apprenticed 
 himself to learn the carpenter's trade. Started business for 
 himself in 1855, after having served his time as an appren- 
 tice. In 1864 and '(55 followed the butcher business, and 
 supplied Hammonton, Winslow and New Germany with 
 meat. Bought the mill propert}' November 13th, 1875, and 
 has carried on the same ever since. Has built hotels, facto- 
 ries, farm buildings and fine residences throughout New Jer- 
 se}^, Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
 
 Col. Daniel Stone, who 
 is represented in the ad- 
 joining cut, is a native of 
 New York state, and is 
 forty -seven years old. He 
 spent some time in the 
 great west, where he now 
 has real estate interests. 
 For some time he was gen- 
 eral field manager of the 
 Claremont, Ya., Colon}', 
 '■-:_. and in August of last 
 :\jyear came to Hammon- 
 ton to act as gelling 
 agent for Judge B^'rnes. 
 Since coming here the 
 Colonel has sold several farms and a good manv town lots. 
 
 Corrections. — On page 10, top line, for A. W. Horton, 
 read A. W. Harlow. 
 
 On page 21 for D. Colwell, one of the Assessors, read 
 Willimn Colwell. 
 
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE DR. SNOWDEN. 
 
 A. II. SIMONS' BAKERY. MISS 0. E. NEWTON'S STORE. 
 
History of Hammonton. 1 
 
 «<WM. BERNSH0USE'8>> 
 
 Steam Planing (Dill, 
 
 DOOR, SASH &BLIKI) FACTORY, 
 
 ALL KINDS CF 
 
 Lumber,IVIill Work,WindowGlass, 
 
 BRICK3LIME3CEMENT3PLASTER3LATH3HAIR3&C. 
 
 We Manufacture 
 
 BERRY CRATES AND CHESTS 
 
 OF ALL KINDS. ALSO 
 
 -^PENNSYLVANIA HEMLOCKS- 
 
 At bottom prices. We manufacture our own 
 
 Your patronage solicited. Satisfaction Guaran- 
 teed. 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 WM.RBASSETT&SONa 
 
 Florists mb Seedsmm 
 
 Deal ill the best goods in their line at reasonable p rices 
 With a decided love for their bnsiness, and a good botanical 
 educati'on, thej' combine an acquaintance ■with the Seed 
 Trade, and an experience with Fruits and Plants which qual- 
 ifies them to secure and recommend the best to their custom- 
 ers. 
 
 Consult your interest by conferring ivith them before placivrj 
 your orders. 
 
 ARE YOU INSURED? 
 
 \^ If not insured ad- 
 dress, 
 
 : y,peiLLiPS 
 
 |p^^'' ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 
 
 V' REFERENCES: 
 
 Residents of Ham- 
 * monton who have had 
 V losses by fire or light- 
 ning. 345 policies 
 ^ now in force in Ham- 
 , monton. 
 
 -Correspondence Solicited. - 
 
History of Hammontox, 3 
 
 ^. Hj^ fe 
 
 < 
 
 
 \^ Bellevae and Central Aves. 
 
 THE HiDEJ^IDimrO 
 
 Hardware and House Furoistiiog Store 
 
 IN HAMMONTON. 
 
 Fiirniture, Cliamber SniteSy, 
 Carpets, Matting, Bed Springs, 
 JVIattresses, Oil Cloth, Rugs, 
 
 and everything for the proper 
 furnishing of the home or of- 
 fice. 
 
 Cook and Parlor Stoves, Ran- 
 ges, Portable Furnaces, Stove 
 Pipe, Carpenter Tools, Build, 
 ers' Supplies, Farming Imple- 
 ments, and all articles to be 
 found in a well conducted hard- 
 ware establishment. 
 
 Special attention given the manufacture of Tanks for Hot Water Incubators, Heat- 
 ing Pipes for Brooder Houses. Pipes for tiie Hammonton Incubators always irs 
 stock. Tin Roofing and Jobbing of all knids promptly and efficiently done. Our suc- 
 cess is due to the fact that we furnish only Reliable Goods and Reliable Work at Hon- 
 est Prices. Estimates cherfuUy given. 
 
 C- E- HALL, 
 
 Oor. Bellevue and Central Avenue. Hammonton, N. J. 
 
History of IIammonton. 
 
 HRIfllVIOflTO}! IflCUBflTOll 
 
 150 and 300 Eggs. Price $15.00 and $25.00. 
 
 Mm 
 
 Siiiii' I 
 
 PATENTED OCT. SOtla, ISSo. 
 
 Price Complete with Seven Day Stove, $8.00, 
 
 liiiiiressG,W,PRESS[Y,llammonton,ll,J. 
 
 PATENTEE AND MANUF'R. CIRCULARS FREE. 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 The above is a partial view of the Store of 
 
 S. E. BfiOWN & CO., 
 
 and is the old reliable 
 
 Jiardware arid pnrniture 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 The first floor of main building is devoted to Hardware and its 
 bii^nches, and the smaller first floor front and second floors to 
 Furniture, Carpets, etc. Their policy of doing business is 
 
 GOODGOODS & FAIR PRICES. 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 e. j. woolley, 
 
 W atchmaker and J eweler . 
 
 Watches, Cloc'is, Jq^qIt^, SiBver^are, Specta- 
 cles and Optical Goods. Stationery, School 
 Books, Blank Books, Musical In- 
 strunsents and To^s. 
 
 BELLEVUE AVE?\!UE, H.' MMOe^TON. NEW JERSEY. 
 
 J^®°'A11 the Popular Weekly and Monthly Publications on hand. 
 
 jTd. fairchild' 
 
 Dealer in 
 
 
 Country Produce, etc. The place where you get one hundred cents 
 on the dollar and sixteen ounces to the pound. Largest stock, low- 
 •est prices, prompt attention, full value. T/ie best place in tozvn to 
 tiade. fi^^A full line of violin, banjo and guitar strings in stock. 
 
 HAB3M©KTI)K, K„ S, 
 
 For coughs, COLDS, 
 
 And kindred uihnents the nse of 
 
 GreseeDt Goagh GoFdlal 
 
 Is marvelously eftective. Scores in Hammmonton can and do testify 
 to its eficacy. Prepared and sold by 
 
 A. W. Cochran, Ph.G., PHARMACIST, Hammonton, N- J. 
 
History of Hammonton, 7 
 
 WILLIAM D. PACKER 
 
 may still be found at the old stand dispensing 
 Baked fresh eveiy morning the year 'ronnd. Dealer in 
 
 CHOICE FRUITS & CONFECTIONS 
 
 N. D. PAGE, 
 
 Photograpbie Artist 
 
 HAMMONTON, N. J. 
 
 Yiews of residences, large out of doors groui:)s, fine cabi- 
 net portraits and pictures of all kinds. 
 
 Stereoscopic views of all points of interest in Hammonton 
 and vicinity, including views of the Lake, etc. A good idea 
 of the tow^n can be gained from them. 
 
 Single views 25 cents each ; 1 dozen assorted $2.00. Sent 
 by mail on receipt of price. 
 
 W. A. ELVINS, Jr., 
 
 Delivery of United States Express to all parts of 
 of the town. 
 
 Cor. Egg Harbor Koad and Yine Street. 
 
 Hammontois^, IS'ew Jersey. 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 AND 
 
 <So-oper6itive (§)ociety, 
 
 [LIMITEE,] 
 
 Store, t HI. Gof. 01. H- 1 Ave. <S 13th St. 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 GEJ\^ERAL MERCHAJ^DISE 
 
 Flour, Feed, 
 
 Chicken Supplies of all kinds. 
 
 A general assortment of 
 
 -FARM IMPLEMENTS- 
 
 Agents for Bird's Sulky Cultivators and the South Bend 
 Bissel Plows. A large stock of GROCERIES, of the best 
 quality. A full stock of HARDWARE and WOODEN- 
 WARE. Stoves and Ranges of the best patterns. Tin- 
 ware, Agate Ware and Crockery \\'are. 
 
 DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS. 
 
 Gents' and Ladies' Underwear. CLOTHING to fit all sizes 
 and ages. We make a specialty of Pants. FURNITURE. 
 Chairs, Rockers, Tables, Stands, Bed Room Suits, Toilet 
 Sets, Mattings and Carpets. We are agents for the Adams 
 and Westlake 
 
 l^y® ri^^ /T^ r<s^ '\^T yg^v c®z^ (M:m 
 
 The very best in^the market. All goods not found as repre- 
 sented can be returned and exchanged or money refunded. 
 
 EVERY PURCHASER SHARES IN THE PROFITS 
 
History of Hammonton. 
 
 W. H. BERNSHOUSE, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 Best Grade Lehigh Coal 
 
 YARD OPPOSITE THE MILL. 
 
 MONTHLY COMMENT. 
 
 THE NEWEST THING IN LITERATURE. 
 
 First Number will be out about May 7th, 1889. 
 
 Sixteen pages. Contains a Digest of the 
 Month's News, Opinions and Comments liy 
 the Leading Newspapers of all shades of 
 opinion, the poetry of the month, and origi- 
 nal reviews and comments. 
 
 Send for sample copy. Just what every 
 busy man and woman needs, in the briefest 
 way to get a record ot the world's doings, and 
 the current comment of the month. Issued 
 the first of each month, at low price ot M cts. 
 a year. Begin with the first uumher. 
 
 Address MONTHLY COMMENT, Hammonton, N. J. 
 
 'Nowhere else can you get so many facts and opinions 
 for tlie small outlay of one cent a month. 
 
 A specialty. The latest styles and best assortment. Particular attention to trim- 
 ming to suit the style and complexion of wearer. Hats and bonnets colored and 
 pressed over if desired. Infant's and children's mull caps handsome and cheap. A 
 complete line of ladies' and children's underwear. A complete stock of hosiery ; no- 
 thing lacking in this line. Rushing, cuffs, collars, kid and silk gloves, Swiss and 
 Hamburg edgings, all kinds of notions, dress linings, trimmings and buttons. Mate- 
 rials of all kinds fcr fancy work. Perfumery, stationery, fancy soaps, etc. New goods 
 every week, and don't forget that I take orders for any goods not kept in stock. V'ou 
 can save money by buying or ordering goods of 
 
 CORA E. NEVS^TON. 
 
10 History of Hammontox. 
 
 THE HWONTOH 
 
 mm 
 
 is a pure Linseed Oil Paint composed of the purest Materials 
 and Pioments known. A thoroughly 
 
 PRACTICAL PAINT 
 
 and sold at the lowest possible price. You talce no chances 
 in buying the Hammonton Paint. 
 
 HU.YDREDS of BUILDL^'GS 
 
 have been painted with the Hammonton Paint, and every 
 gallon guaranteed to wear as long as any known paint un- 
 der like conditions. 
 
 JOHNT,FREN<]H,Profr, 
 
 FACTORY : 
 
 Ha,z:cLz:cLor:Lto3nL, 3Sr. T. 
 
 stcdh:e3, 
 
 2202 Atlantic Ave., Atlantic City. 
 
 SEND FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES. 
 
History of Hammonton. 11 
 
 STRONG & GREEN 
 
 CYCLE CO., 
 
 707 ilFeh street, Philadelphia, Penna. 
 
 Bicycles, Tricycles and Sundries. 
 
 The largest retail store in America. Every first-class make of bi- 
 cycle kept in stock. Purchasers taught to ride ft'ee of charge. Call 
 and see, or send for catalogue. 
 
 JOHN ATKINSON, 
 
 "Justice of the Peace-- 
 
 AND COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS. 
 Hammonfon, New Jersey. 
 
 J. S. THAYER, 
 
 i^fcMtect, Conti'actoi' and BuildEf, 
 
 HAMMONTON, N. J. 
 
 I have a large variety of new and original designs on hand, 
 which I respectfully invite all to examine before purchasing 
 plans elsewhere. 
 
 All work guaranteed, and best of references furnished. I re- 
 spectfully solicit your patronage. 
 
12 
 
 History of Hammonton. 
 
 lv£. L. T-^CI^S03iT, 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 
 FRESH MEATS. 
 
 The Best Shamong Veal & Lamb 
 
 In Season. We make a Specialt}' of 
 
 Jersey Cured Hams, Shoulders, 
 Pork, Lard, 
 
 CANNED COODS, VEGETABLES, ETC. 
 
 Watehes, pFeneh and flmepiean Clocks, ; 
 
 SILVERWARE AND FINE JEWELRY. 
 
 I 
 Also a comi)lete line of 
 
 SPECTACLES & EYEGLASSES 
 
 Our improved facilities for testing and fitting th-^ eyes en- 
 able us to guarantee satisfaction in this department. 
 
 REPAIRING CAREFULLY & PROMPTLY DONE. 
 
 Corner Bellevue Avenue and Second Street. ! 
 
History of Hammonton. 13 
 
 Hammontou Iiand Office. 
 
 Opened in 1857 by R. J. BYRNES. 
 
 FOH SilliE.-Improved pF^it Fa^ms, 
 
 with suitable buildings. Land planted in all fruits for market, 
 at $i,ooo and upwards. 
 
 POULTRY FARMS, well located. 
 
 FRUIT & POULTRY LANDS, at 30 dollars per acre. 
 
 TOWN LOTS, at 50 dollars and upwards. 
 
 A tract of suitable land has been recently survey- 
 ed into five acre farms foi' fruit and poultry, which 
 will be sold at $150 each, on the installment plan, 
 by paying $5 each month, without interest. 1,500 
 lots, pieces or parcels of land, have beet\ sold from 
 this of^ce, and the titles have been examined by the 
 best lawyers of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New 
 York without discovering any defect. 
 
 Land buyers should on arriving at Hammonton, 
 call at once at R. J. Byrnes' office, where all the 
 original maps, plans and surveys can be seen, and 
 all information can be had as to titles, conveyancing, 
 etc., and every facility will be given to examine the 
 the land and property free,! thereby saving time, 
 trouble and expense. Address or apply to 
 
 R. J. BYRNES, Founder. 
 Col. Dan'l Stone, Selling Manager. 
 
14 History of Hammonton. 
 
 L. W. COGLEY, 
 
 plarness, ^adlery andTi^mnl^ ^tope, 
 
 BELLEVUE AVENUE, HAMMONTON, N. J, 
 
 A large assortment of Machine and Hand Made Harness, double and 
 single always on hand, from |S up. Riding saddles, bridles, blank- 
 ets, horse sheets and dusters, whips, brushes, harness and wagon 
 oils, soaps, etc. Leather and rope halters, trunks and valieses. Or- 
 ders and repairing prcimjitly at lowest city prices. 
 
 t4ERM/iN FlEDiiR, 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in 
 
 Tremper Block. All orders promptly attended to. Factory 
 No. 86, 1st District of New Jerse}-. A full assortment of 
 
 OOIsTIFElCTIOTsrEIR'Y", 
 HammontoTi New Jersy^ 
 
 jToTransom, 
 
 Grower and dealer in all kinds of 
 
 Fruit Trees, Vines, Evergreens, 
 
 HEDGE AND LAWN PLANTS, SHADE TREES, &c. 
 
 Hammonton, 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 W^M- MANlSlCE, 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 Ladles', Misses and Children's- 
 
 F"f MR SMORB. 
 
 HAMMONTON, N. J. 
 
History of Hammonton. 15 
 
 P. S. TILTON & SON, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 General 
 
 ISerehandise, 
 
 HAM1I®KT©K3 M. Jo 
 Corner of Belleinie and E^^ Harbor Road. 
 
 Valley £venue Egg parm. 
 
 Eggs from R. C. B. Leghorns, P. Rocks, W. C. 
 
 B. Polish, W. R. C. Leghorns. 
 Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
 
 ^W. IBL. HI. BI^.^3DBTJK"Z", 
 Grape and Valley Ave. Hammonton, N. J. 
 
 JOHD maMD'O^H, 
 
 Manufacturer and Dealer in 
 
 BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS. 
 
 A M SdpbIj of Eiililier Goofls lie Year Roiil. 
 
16 
 
 IIlSTOHY OF IIaMMONTON. 
 
 A. H. SIMONS'S 
 
 BAK E RY I 
 
 Manufacturer of 
 
 Dealer in 
 
 Goiifectioiiery, J^ruits, ]N[uts,"Etc. 
 
 Picnics and Festivals supplied at short notice, at special rates. 
 
1 J..^ 
 
 • ■•.,.. 
 
 C. F. OSGOOD & CO^S SHOE FACTORY, 
 
 PEOPLE'S BANK BUILDING. 
 
History of Hammonton. IT 
 
 SEEDS. 
 
 One hundred and five years ago David Landreth commenced the business of 
 raising Garden Seeds for sale, and was the first in this country to pursue it on 
 a systematic plan. His efforts eminently successful — secured public confidence, 
 and established for his produce a reputation unapproached by the other seeds 
 sold in America. The concern thus founded has passed to the third gener- 
 ation, and the present proprietois of Bloomdale, with whom it has been a lead- 
 ing object to perpetuate the professional reputation of the founder. The estab- 
 lishment continued on principles laid down by its founder has been gradually 
 enlarged, increasing with the growing wants of the country, and continues to 
 be by far the most extensive in the Union, supplying a large share of the de- 
 mand of the United States, and exporting to Europe, Asia, Africa, West In- 
 dies, South and Central America, Mexico and Oceanica. Catalogue published 
 in seven different languages. Our new catalogue for 18S9, containing descrip- 
 tive lists of novelties and standard sorts, with 72 photograph illustrations of 
 choice vegetables, with culture instructions and recipes for preparation and 
 cooking. Sent free to all applicants. 
 
 XD- Xja^riLd-retltL d^ SorrLS, 
 
 IMPLEMENT AND SEED WAREHOUSE, 
 
 21 ai 23 So. Siitli St, or Delaware Ave. aiil Arch St, 
 
 PHILADELPHIA- 
 
 The well-known Hat Store of 204 Market Street, Philadelphia, has 
 been removed to 241 MARKET STREET. We have a larger stock 
 of Hats, Caps and Umbrellas than ever, all new and warranted to 
 give satisfaction. The best and latest styles in Silk, Fur, Derbys, 
 Soft Fur, Cloth and Straw. Bottom Prices. 
 
 Everybody bivited to to call and see our store and goods. 
 
 SILAS BETTS. 
 
 W. H. FRENCH. Proprietor. 
 
 All kinds of Fruit and'gOrnamental trees, Shrubs, Roses, 
 Vines, etc. ' J3aker Seedling Pach a specialty. This is a nat- 
 ural peach, reproducing itself from pit; free stone, flesh yel- 
 low, and quality superior to ano peach we have ever grown. 
 Send for testimonials. 
 
 Central and Hammontoi^ Avenues, Hammonton, N. J, 
 
18 History of IIammonton. 
 
 Contractor -:- and -:■ Builder, 
 
 hammoNton, N. J. 
 
 PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS M ESTIMATES ftrnisliefl. 
 
 JOBBING- Promptly Attended to. 
 
 Thankful for your past patronage, I would re- 
 spectfully solicit a continuance of the same. 
 ID. W. I_.^WS0S\ 
 
 Contractor and Builder, 
 
 Hj^IVUMONION, N. J. 
 
 Having a large variety of new and beautiful designs for modern cottages and other 
 buildings, I respectfully invite all who contemplate building to call and examine the 
 same before purchasing plans elsewhere. 
 
 Plans, specifications and estimates furnished on application. Practical drawing done 
 in a neat and careful manner, at reasonable rates. I respectfully solicit a share of 
 your patronage. 
 
 W. B. MURPHY, 
 
 Liverf, Sale, Exchange Ooding Stable, 
 
 Cor. I2TH 5t. & R. R. Ave., Hammonton, K.J. 
 
 Buss to meet all trains, and will deliver passengers to all parts of town within one- 
 half mile of station, for ten cents each. 
 Dog Carts, Phaetons, and Saddle Horses. Bran new outfit at the old stable. 
 
History of Hammonton. 19 
 
 HAMMONTON HOTEL 
 
 House newly repaired ajid enlarged. Aeconimodation for perma- 
 nent and transient guests. Splendid accommodation for Summer 
 bo.irders. Terms Reasonable. No paitis will be spared to make the 
 house pleasa7it a?id attractive for the guests. 
 
 JESSE TREATj Prap^r. 
 
 OPPOSITE THE DEPOT. 
 
 Hammonton, N. J. Wholesale dealer in 
 
 ^ov*h State Swttei*^ 
 
 MAPLE SUGAR & SYRUP, POTATOES & APPLES. 
 
 Cn 1 1 1 1 I Shipping Agent for houses in Philadelphia, 
 I Fl nil I I New York, Boston, etc., for forwarding Fruit, 
 'Produce, etc., Hammonton, N. J. Shipping 
 cards and stencils furnished on application. 
 
 ^^ ^^ .__. ,_. Our many years' experi- 
 
 iVfl n I GT^ce has given us a knovvl- 
 
 I II U I ^ edge of the different collieries, 
 I "I I I ^^ I I and we keep for sale only 
 
 V/V/XJlJ-At THE BEST. 
 
 Orders promptly tilled, whether for 
 100 pounds, a ton era carload. Othce and yard on Railroad 
 avenue, corner of Orchard street. Orders may be left at the 
 store of P. S. Tilton & Son. 
 
 G. F. SAXTON. 
 
20 History op Hammonton. 
 
 ANDREW^S & ROBERTS, 
 
 Successors to O. E. Moore, headquarters for i 
 
 i 
 
 fish, Goantry Prodaee, | 
 
 FOREIGN & DOMESTIC FRUIT, ' 
 
 Creamery and York State Butter^ \ 
 Canned Gocds^ Cheese^ Etc. ( 
 
 Call and see us at the "Little" Store 'round the 
 corner. Delivery wagon to all parts of town. 
 
 The People's Bank, 
 
 H:j^.is^:vno:N"TOisr, isr. cr. ' 
 
 Capital|(authorized) . . . $50,000 
 OapitaK(paid in) .... $20,000 ' 
 Surplus'' $2,500 ; 
 
 R. J. BYRNES, President. ! 
 
 M. L. JACKSON, Vice President. W. R. TILTON, Cashier \ 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 R. J. Byrnes, M. L. Jackson, Geo. Elvins,E. Stock- 
 well, Z. U. Matthews, D. Colwell, J. C. Anderson, I 
 J. C. Browning, A. J. Smith, C. F. Osgood, D. L. ! 
 Potter, G. F. Saxton, P. S. Tilton, 
 
 g:;;^Diseount Days: Tuesday and Friday Evenings.^:^^ 
 
History of Hammon'ton. 21 
 
 WALTHER S( IRO^S, 
 
 Manufacturers of 
 
 WAGONS -km CM!1LAGES, 
 
 Repairing and General Jobbing done neatly and Promptly. 
 
 a specialty. New Farm Wagons; without a rival in quality 
 or price. Come and see. 
 
 Painting and Trimming 
 
 DONE BY 
 
 JOSEPH I. TAYLOR. 
 
 ELAM STOCKW^ELL, 
 
 Dealer In 
 
 Groceries, Prisons, Feed, Di} Goods, &Ci 
 
 SEWING MACHINES AND ORGANS. 
 
 Rammonton, JVew Jersey. 
 
 D. C. HERBERT, 
 
 Dealer in all kinds of 
 
 Custom Work and Repairing Neatly Executed. 
 BELLEVUE AVENUE, HAMMONTON, N. J. 
 
22 
 
 History of Hammonton. 
 
 Returns Made Every Monday. Sales Reported Daily 
 
 T. E. WESCOAT & CO., 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 333 North Water St., Philada, i 
 
 Reference — Consolidation National Bank and Trade in Gen e/-al. 
 
History op Hammonton. 23 
 
 Has the most complete line of 
 
 to be found in town, which she is sellina; at prices which will 
 surprise you all. Children's Trimmed Hats from 50 cents up, 
 and Ladies' Trimmed Hats from $1 up. Hats of all kinds 
 trimmed in the latest styles at bottom prices. In addition 
 we carry a full line of 
 
 Novelties, Fancy Goods, Notions, 
 
 Trimmings, Hosier3\ and a very large stock of 
 
 which we propose to sell below city prices. Orders taken for goods 
 not in stock. fi^^No charge for trimming hats. 
 
 MRS. D. ARLITZ. 
 
 Heal Estate & Insaranee. 
 
 FARMS AND TOWN LOTS 
 
 For sale. Estates cared for. 
 
 Insurance on all kinds of property. 
 
 Farms for Poultrymen a specialty, as we are prac- 
 tical poultrymen. 
 
 All kinds of property sold at auction. 
 
 Maj. C. M. Jordan & Co, 
 
24 
 
 History of ITammonton. 
 
 W. F. MALONEY, 
 
 Mvery & Boarding Stables. 
 
 New Clean Staile. 
 
 Horses and Carriages 
 
 ^ to hire. Carriages to 
 
 '""'(j^j meet all trains. All 
 
 C kinds of carting done at 
 
 short notice. 
 
 ^^^^^Stables opposite Camden and Atlantic Depot. 
 
 The Walmer House — Winter Scene, 
 H. E. Thayer, Piiop'r. 
 

 
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