CLASS OF 1869 
 
 Rutgers College 
 
 HISTORY TO 1916 
 
CLASS OF 1869 
 
 Rutgers College 
 
 HISTORY TO 1916 
 
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 MARTIN BAHLER 
 
 East Orange, N. J. 
 
 SON of Rev. Pierre Benjamin Bahler, minister in the Reformed Church 
 in the Netherlands, and Harriet Charlotte Sames. Ancestors of grand- 
 father came from Italy. One married Miss d'Espar, of illustrious ancestry 
 in the French nobility. Father studied theology at Lausanne, Switzerland 
 and was minister of a Walloon (southern French-speaking Belgian) church 
 in Holland. Of this union, (Benjamin and Harriet), were born Louis H., 
 Rutgers '61; Pierre G. M., Rutgers 1868; and Martin Bahler '69; the latter 
 in Breda, the historic city of sieges and treaties, August 29, 1846, in the year 
 of the discovery of the planet Neptune. Lived in the famous cities of Breda; 
 Nymegen (home of Charlemagne) in Gelderland; Meppel; in Drenthe, at 
 Hellendoorn; and in Deventer (from which place came the ancestors of at 
 least four generations in Rutgers College) in Overijssel and in America at 
 Albany, N. Y. Educated at a French preparatory school and had one year 
 in the gymnasium (or high grade school) in the Netherlands. In Albany 
 was two years and a half in the Boys' Academy. In childhood, remembers 
 falling down stairs when eighteen months' old; being vaccinated when two 
 years old; and falling into the water four or five times. Entered Rutgers 
 College in the Junior class. Passed in Greek, without further examination 
 by Dr. Cooper, on showing the mss. of his Greek oration written in Albany. 
 While in the Albany Academy, took the "Principal's Prize" in English Com- 
 position; also gold medal for same, awarded by the Beck Literary Society; 
 and by the Young Men's Association for Fourth of July Essay. In college, 
 took second honor and two prizes — for classics and for mathematics. At- 
 tended the summer session of Lausanne University, in Switzerland, in 1902. 
 For three consecutive years had charge of instruction in French, at the sum- 
 mer sessions of the College of Middlebury, Vt. Since leaving college, lived 
 in Newark about five years, at Summit, N. J., about seven years, and the rest 
 of the time in Orange and East Orange, N. J., engaged in teaching. Since 
 1900, head of the French Department at the East Orange High School. Re- 
 ceived degrees of A.B. and Phi Beta Kappa in 1869 and A.M. in 1872. Elder, 
 and leader of music, in Arlington Avenue Presbyterian church. In politics, 
 Independent, but "always for Teddy." Recreation, mountain climbing- in 
 the Adirondacks. Climbed Mount Marcy (5344 feet) about a dozen times. 
 Married October 16, 1879, at Belleville, N. J., to Miss Annie Leslie, daughter 
 of Henry L. Cadmus. Of this union were born Adrian Leslie, June 20, 1883, 
 and Elsie Margarita (Mrs. B. H. Hutchinson), March 22nd, 1888. Has in 
 type-script a work on French-English Homographs. J. H. 
 
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 A class mate of Martin Bahler is glad to express his appreciation of the 
 cultured father of the three sons who were graduated from Rutgers College, 
 who, as he remembers, was a sunny old gentleman, of progressive orthodoxy 
 and eager to read all of the writings of President James McCosh. In college 
 rivalries — "emulation without envy" — we considered Martin Bahler the leader 
 of the class (despite a certain flattening of vowels) in linguistic achievements. 
 He not only took the prize in the classics, but he had no competitor. The 
 three brothers (two now deceased) were fine specimens of Netherlands culture. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 EDGAR BERGEN 
 Died April 24, 1896. 
 
 SON of Jeremiah Bergen, farmer, at Flatlands, N. Y., and Jane Ann Lott. 
 A descendant of Hans Hansen Bergen. Born at Flatlands, Long Island, 
 N. Y., January 22, 1848. Lived there until entering college. Prepared at 
 Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, Long Island. First honor in college and 
 valedictorian of his class. Phi Beta Kappa. Graduated with A.B. A.M. 
 Rutgers 1872. Fraternity, Chi Phi. Studied law in the office of Gen. Philip 
 S. Crooke, Brooklyn, N. Y. Admitted to bar, 1872. Residences since leaving 
 college, Flatlands, until 1879; Flatbush, from 1879 to 1896. Justice of the 
 Peace at one time at Flatlands. Elder for a time in the Flatbush Reformed 
 Church, also Sunday School Superintendent in the Sunday School of said 
 church for' five years. Member of the Flatlands, and then of the Flatbush 
 Reformed churches. United with church at age of 14. A diligent student 
 of the Bible. Republican. One of the most highly respected members of 
 the bar in Brooklyn, and for several years before his death his practice was 
 very large. Married,. in Fish-Kill Village, N. Y., September 12th, 1877, Ger- 
 trude E. Mathewson. Children: Jeremiah Bergen, born September, 1878; 
 Edgar Bergen, jr., born 1883, died April, 1888; Gertrude Lott Bergen, born 
 November 26, 1891, a graduate of Vassar, 1915. Relatives among Rutgers 
 alumni: Samuel Woodbridge Bergen, 1867, cousin. Rev. Samuel M. Wood- 
 bridge, D.D., LL.D., a graduate of N. Y. U. and Professor in the Theological 
 Seminary at New Brunswick, was an uncle by marriage, having married Mr. 
 Bergen's father's sister. G. W. L. 
 
 ROBERT DOIG 
 Died June 16th, 1892. 
 
 BORN of James Doig, iron-worker and builder, who came from Scotland, 
 when young, to better his condition and prospered. His mother was 
 Margaret Knox, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, whose mother came to America, 
 on the death of her husband, in order to afford opportunities for her three 
 little children, who grew up and became persons of influence, the son, Dr. 
 Knox, being a widely known physician in Richmond, Va. Born in New York 
 City July 11th, 1842, Robert lived there under private instruction. His 
 
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 mother was a deeply religious woman and encouraged him to study for the 
 ministry, and showed her warm sympathy with him during his collegiate 
 and theological course. Graduated from New Brunswick Seminary in June 
 1872, and on December 9th, 1872, at Berne, N. Y., was licensed and ordained, 
 entering upon the pastorate of the Reformed Church in that place. Was 
 in charge, also, of the first Reformed church at Beaverdam, in the classis of 
 Schoharie. Faithful not only in pastoral and preaching services, but in pro- 
 tracted meetings — after one of which he caught the cold which laid the foun- 
 dation of the malady, of which he eventually died, after suffering for eight 
 years or more. He held the pastorate of the Reformed Church of Scotia, 
 N. Y., from 1885 to 1892. He was Stated Clerk of the Classis of Schoharie, 
 from 1877 to 1885. In politics, Republican. On October 23rd, 1872, he 
 married at Griggstown, N. J., Adelaide L. Garretson, daughter of Stephen 
 Garretson and of this union, four children were born: Stephen Garretson, 
 Arthur Knox, Myra C, and Edith G. He wrote the history of the town of 
 Berne, Albany Co., N. Y., and a number of articles on local history in the 
 daily papers and on church events in several periodicals. Robert Doig was 
 always a cheerful, pleasant, student companion with only occasional fits of 
 depression, conscientious and diligent in the ministry. He was a kind father 
 and husband and beloved by the people whom he served in the gospel. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 THEODORE DOUGLAS FRAZEE 
 Died August 25th, 1900. 
 
 SON of Sylvester Frazee and Ann Symonds Brown. Born at Rahway, 
 N. J., December 1st, 1838. Before entering college lived twelve years 
 at Watkins, N. Y. Student and preacher while in college. Graduated in 
 June, 1869. He competed for the English composition prize and for the logic, 
 clear statement and strong discussion should, perhaps, have won the prize, 
 which was awarded to his classmate "Curio." Was a member of the Alpha 
 Beta Phi fraternity. Entered the Newark Conference of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church in 1863, after the three years course of study prescribed by 
 the Conference. His pastorates were at Dunellen, N. J., New Dovy, N. J., 
 Milford, Pa., High Bridge, Wortendike, Areola, and Branchville, N. J., Middle 
 Smithfield, Pa., Belvidere, Oxford, and Washington, and Anderson, N. J., 
 Rockland Lake, N. Y., Port Morris, N. J., and Woodrow Church, Rossville, 
 S. I., his last charge, from 1897 to 1900. Was in the active ministry from 
 1865, excepting the years 1883, and from 1885 to 1892, when supernumerary 
 relations were taken, on account of ill health. In politics, Republican. Mar- 
 ried, June 30th, 1875, at Dunellen, N. J., Mary Frances Morgan, daughter 
 of Charles C. and Lucy A. Morgan. Of this union was born Florence Augusta, 
 June 30th, 1876, who married, April 9th, 1901, Mr. Joseph Seguinne Decker. 
 For ten years he was engaged in literary work, as editor of the magazine called 
 The Cabinet and Review, published at Newark, N. J., from 1886 to 1892, 
 and The Hudson Valley Bulletin, issued irregularly, from 1893 to 1897, He 
 
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 wrote and published a book called The Farmer's Niece, 1892. In 1874 he 
 built the new M. E. Church edifice, at Highbridge, N. J., and in 1879 the 
 new brick M. E. church building at Branchville, N. J. His fine humanity, 
 earnestness, sincerity and brotherly feeling was a moral tonic to the class 
 of '69, Older than most of us, his influence upon us all was like that of a 
 kind, unselfish older brother. His name is an honor to the class. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS 
 Glen Place, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 
 SON of John Limeburner Griffis, merchant navigator in many seas, 1816- 
 1838; coal merchant, 1839-1873; retired 1873-1879; in New Brunswick 
 1836-1841; and Anna Maria Hess. John L. Griffis was descended from the 
 Welsh Grifuids, of the ninth century, mentioned in the Book of St. Chad. 
 Captain John Griffis, born in England in 1756, was opposed to the policy 
 of King George, came to America after the Revolutionary War and 
 carried the American flag around the world. He was one of eight generations 
 of Welsh Devonshire men who followed the sea. Dying April 2, 1807, he was 
 buried within a few feet of Benjamin Franklin. His wife, Hannah Eyre, 
 was descended from the Eyres of the family founded by a soldier from Rouen, 
 France, who came in the army of William the Conqueror and was knighted 
 on the field of Senlac or Hastings, A.D. 1068. Her ancestor, George Eyre, 
 came to Burlington, N. Y., in 1727 and married Miss Mary Smith. Their 
 three sons were Free Quakers; two of them, John and Benjamin holding com- 
 missions as colonels in the Pennsylvania Line. John Limeburner Griffis was 
 married in Philadelphia to Anna Maria Hess, April 11, 1837. Her ancestors 
 were German Swiss, who came from Zurich, Switzerland, in the following of 
 William Penn. Settled on Barren Hill, near Valley Forge, Pa., her father, often 
 seeing Washington, Lafayette, and after the Revolutionary, making his 
 home in Philadelphia, where she was born, April 5, 1812, and educated in 
 English. Of the union of John and Maria Griffis were born seven children, 
 six of whom reached adult life. As a bride, attended the commencement 
 of Rutgers College, determining that her son, if choosing a professional life, 
 should be there educated. William Elliot Griffis, second son and fourth child, 
 was born at 7:30, on Sunday morning. Residence, before entering college, 
 Philadelphia, except short summer sojourns in the country, trips to Balti- 
 more and Washington, and three months' service in the 44th Pennsylvania 
 Regiment in the Gettysburg campaign, in 1863. Dames' School, 1848-'50, 
 Public Schools 1850-1860. Prepared for college, 1864-'65, under a private 
 tutor in Philadelphia. Remembers two incidents in babyhood also confirmed 
 by maternal testimony; Kossuth; the famous Butchers and Craftsmen's spec- 
 tacular parades; the volunteer fire demartpent; Know Nothing and Roman 
 Catholic riots; the launch of the U. S. S. S. Susquehanna (Com. Perry's 
 flagship in Japan); Commodore Charles Stewart, or "Old Ironsides"; the 
 return of the soldiers from Mexican War; the first Japanese Embassy; and 
 
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 met many famous people at his father's house and in public. Silver medal 
 Sophomore oration. Junior Prize Essay. Prizes (Senior) for Natural Science, 
 and for English Composition. A.B., A.M., L.H.D., Rutgers (1900). D.D., 
 Union, 1884. Librarian of Philoclean Society. Received also a Philoclean 
 prize. Editor of the first Targum (broad side) January, 1869. With R. C. 
 Pruyn, projected and founded the Monthly Targum, and, declining editorship, 
 was voluminous contributor of notes, articles, verses, editorials, etc., 1869-'70. 
 Subscribed for first football. Was one of the first teachers of the Japanese 
 students in New Brunswick in 1866, and active in urging them to athletic 
 habits. Kept a boat and often on the river. In first game of football. In 
 Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1866-1869. Phi Beta Kappa. Reformed Church 
 Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, 1869-1870. Union Theological Semin- 
 ary 1876 and 1877. In Japan was a founding member of the Asiatic Society 
 of Japan, and of the Mei Roku Sha, or Literary Society of eminent Japanese 
 in Tokio, both societies still flourishing. Began in 1873, active agitation 
 publicly and to influence Congress to return the $750,000 indemnity unjustly 
 extorted from Japan (in 1863) which was done in 1883; and for the peaceful 
 opening of Korea by treaty, which was done in the same year. In Schenectady 
 N. Y., licensed May 15, 1877. Ordained May 31, 1877. Member of Reformed 
 Church, 1861-1886. Ministry, 1877-1886. In Congregational body, 1886- 
 1916+ . Residences since leaving college: Fukui, Echizen, Japan, 1871-'72; 
 Tokio, 1872-74; Philadelphia, 1875; New York, 1875-77; Schenectady, 
 N. Y., 1877-'86; Boston, Mass., 1886-'93; Ithaca, N. Y., 1893-1916+. In 
 Europe nine times, 1869-1913, for study, investigation, travel and (eight 
 times) on preaching tours, in the large cities of Great Britain and the Nether- 
 lands, also in Paris and Belfast, Ireland. Connected with as member or officer 
 of various literary, charitable, and patriotic societies, 1877-1893; President 
 and founder of the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, N. Y.; 
 President of the Central Congregational Club, Syracuse, N. Y., 1895; Mem- 
 ber of the A. B. C. F. M.; chosen member of the World's Congresses Auxiliary 
 to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, on Historical Liter- 
 ature, on Folk-lore and Missions. Chairman of the Congress of Comparative 
 Religion, St. Louis, in 1903. Made honorary member of the Asiatic Societies 
 of Japan and Korea, and of the Literary and Scientific Societies of Leyden, 
 Middelburg. Leeuwarden in the Netherlands. Church connection: Re- 
 formed (Dutch) Church in America, 1860-1886; Congregational, 1886-1916 + . 
 Started with others (and was elder of) First Union Christian church in Tokio. 
 Democrat at first. Republican 1865-1916 + . Inclined to be Independent in 
 local elections. Avocation, pedestrianism, change of occupation, altruistic 
 service, European travel. Have "done" on foot nearly every mountain group 
 in Eastern United States north of Virginia, and several in Switzerland and 
 Japan. Married (1), June 17, 1879, at Schenectady, N. Y., Katharine Lyra 
 Stanton, graduate of Vassar 77, daughter of Professor Benjamin Stanton, 
 Latin Department of Union College, and Catharine P. Coffin; (2), June 28, 
 1900, at Pulaski, N. Y., Sarah Frances King, Vassar '90, daughter of Don 
 King and Mary Gridley Baker, of Pulaski, N. Y. Both wives of English 
 
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 ancestry. Children: Lillian Eyre Griffis, born in Schenectady, Dec. 31, 1883, 
 graduate of Vassar College; Stanton Griffis, born May 2, 1887, in Boston, 
 graduate and prize winner of Cornell University; John Elliot Griffis, born 
 in Boston, January 26, 1893, student of art. Has owned over ten thousand 
 books. Collected his first library in college which he took to Japan and gave 
 away there; large Dutch library given to Hope College, and several special 
 collections, including one on the Pilgrim Fathers and his entire Chinese and 
 Japanese library to Cornell University. Has several unpublished manuscripts. 
 Has written forty-one books, mostly for peace and good will among nations 
 and peoples, but in the total for forty years, in the ups and downs of author- 
 ship never made one dollar's profit above expenses. Has lectured over two 
 thousand times. 
 
 "I count among my highest achievements under God — service for my 
 country in the 44th Penna. Regt. at 19 years of age. the introduction into 
 Japan of technical schools, thus honoring manual labor; the influence of 
 my special studies as to the part played by Holland in the making of the 
 American nation; the instilling of correct notions as to Japanese civilization; 
 the erection of 17 historical tablets, in Schenectady, Ithaca, and the Nether- 
 lands. Reverencing historic truth as highly as religious truth, or any other 
 sort or phase of truth, I have tried to do justice to the influence of the Dutch 
 Republic on the formation of the American commonwealth (ignored by most 
 American histriographers) ; to help Orientals and Occidentals to understand 
 and appreciate each other, to do absolute justice in my writings to men of 
 every creed, color, race, and civilization; to be a Christian and to serve my 
 fellowmen. March 4, 1916." Data given and what is here quoted and written 
 on the 50th anniversary of entrance as pioneer educator in Fukui, Echizen, 
 Interior Japan. G. W. L. 
 
 JOHN HART 
 
 Neshanic, N. J. 
 
 SON of William R. Hart and Mary Robb. Father a farmer, in early life 
 a teacher and later holder of small political offices. Descended on paternal 
 side from Friends, who came over with William Penn and settled in Bucks 
 County, near Philadelphia. Born in Warminster township, July 17, 1843. 
 Home at Jacksonville, Bucks Co., Pa., Post Office — Richborough. Educated 
 in the local common schools, both at home and for four years in Montgomery 
 County, and in the Rutgers College Grammar School, 1864 and 1865. Lived 
 the simple life of a farmer's son. Took full course in college and received 
 degrees A.B. and A.M. Treasurer of the class. In the Delta Upsilon fra- 
 ternity and in Peithessophian Literary Society. In New Brunswick Theo- 
 logical Seminary 1869-'72. Licensed to preach by the Classis of Philadelphia, 
 May 29, 1872. Ordained to the gospel ministry by the North Classis of Long 
 
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 Island, in the Locust Valley Reformed Church, near Oyster Bay, L. I., July 
 2, 1872, and served this church as pastor until 1875. Accepted call to the 
 Reformed Church of Neshanic, N. J., in 1875, and has since served this con- 
 gregation. Membership from the first in the Reformed Church. Non-partisan, 
 but has voted oftenest with the Democratic party. Recreation — gardening 
 and care of parsonage lot. Married, October 23, 1873, at Locust Valley, N. Y., 
 to Miss Anna F. Underhill, daughter of Judge Henry B. Underhill of San 
 Francisco, Calif., the Right-of-Way Attorney for the Southern Pacific Rail- 
 road, and Harriette T. Fish. Of this union were born Henry Underhill Hart, 
 September 15, 1873, who died of pneumonia, January 25, 1911; William 
 Reese Hart, August 31, 1877, pastor of Reformed Church in Jersey City, 
 N. J., and Helen Raymond Hart (Mrs. Howard S. Giese) of Upper Mont- 
 clair, N. J., born July 7, 1886. The two sons, as above, alumni of Rutgers 
 College, Henry U., 1895, W. R., 1889. Has contributed articles to the local 
 journals and The Christian Intelligencer. At three score and ten, in a pastor- 
 ate already 42 years extended, is working vigorously. Successor of Rev. 
 Gabriel Ludlow (D.D. by Rutgers College 1860), who was ordained and in- 
 stalled over the Neshanic Church September 5, 1821, dying in 1878; who 
 had succeeded Rev. Richmond Smith installed in 1785 and lived until 1820. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 CHARLES LUMAN KNAPP 
 Lowville, N. Y. 
 
 SON of Charles Martin Knapp, farmer, and Alzada Shull. Born at Harris- 
 burg, Lewis Co., N. Y., July 4, 1847. Residences before entering college, 
 Harrisburg and Lowville, N. Y. Prepared at Lowville Academy, Rutgers 
 College Grammar School, and at Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. Y. Grad- 
 uated at Rutgers with A.B. Class president Junior year, and president of 
 combined classical and scientific classes during Senior year. Senior editor 
 of The Targum. Fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Read law in office of 
 Judge Henry E. Turner, Lewis Co., N. Y., and graduated at Hamilton College 
 Law School. Admitted to New York bar in 1872. Elected to the New York 
 State Senate in 1886 and 1887. Appointed by President Harrison, Consul 
 General to Montreal in 1889 and served until September 1893, when he re- 
 turned to Lowville and resumed the practice of law. Elected as a Republican 
 to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill vacancy caused by the death of Albert 
 D. Shaw. Re-elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty- 
 first Congresses, and served from Dec. 2, 1901, to March 3, 1911. After that 
 resumed the practice of law in Lowville again, and is still practicing there. 
 Not a member, but attends the Presbyterian church. A Republican in politics. 
 Married, June 26, 1887, at Oneida Castle, N. Y., Sarah, daughter of Hon. 
 Daniel G. Dorrance. No children. See Congressional Directory, Washington 
 1913, and Who's Who in America, 1914-1915. G. W. L. 
 
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 GEORGE WARNE LABAW 
 
 Preakness, N. J. 
 
 SON of John Chamberlain Labaw, merchant and farmer, at Harlingen, 
 New Jersey, and Mary Warne, a descendant of Thomas Warne, one of the 
 twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey. Born February 29, 1848, near Clinton, 
 New Jersey. Other residences before entering college: Sergeantsville, Jer- 
 sey City, and Harlingen, all in New Jersey. Entered Rutgers College Grammar 
 School March 1, 1864, and Rutgers College, September, 1865. Sophomore 
 orator. Delta Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. Third honor. Graduated with 
 A.B., A.M. Rutgers, 1872. After graduation spent nearly a year in Illinois, 
 mostly in teaching — four months, November-March, at Warrensville, DuPage 
 Co., and three months, April-June, 1870, at Dunton, now Arlington Heights, 
 Cook Co. Entered New Brunswick Theological Seminary 1870, and grad- 
 uated in 1873, having spent first summer's vacation at Whiting, Maine, doing 
 mission work under the auspices' of the Maine Missionary Society of the Con- 
 gregational Church, and the second summer at Cooper, Maine, both in Wash- 
 ington County. Licensed by Classis of Philadelphia, at Harlingen, N. J., 
 May 27, 1873, and dismissed to the Classis of Saratoga. Ordained June 18, 
 1873, by the Classis of Saratoga, at Northumberland, N. Y., and installed 
 pastor over the Reformed Churches of Northumberland and Fort Miller. 
 Resigned, July, 1874. Served the Reformed church mission at Ridgewood, 
 N. J., for about three months in summer and fall of 1874. Pastor Reformed 
 Church of Blue Mountain, near Saugerties, N. Y., November, 1874-October, 
 1882; Colt's Neck, N. J., 1882-9; Preakness, N. J., 1889 to date. Stated 
 Clerk Classis of Passaic, R. C. A., 1898 to date. Member Board of Super- 
 intendents Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, 1908-1913. Member 
 General Synod's Committee on Necrology, 1907-1912. Republican. Pub- 
 lished: Several articles in various publications; Centennial Discourse at 
 Preakness, 1901, in Paterson Morning Call, Nov. 2 L 1901; Preakness and the 
 Preakness Reformed Church. A History, 1695-1902, with Genealogical Notes, 
 the Records of the Church, and Tombstone Inscriptions, 1902, 344 pages; 
 a Genealogy of the Warne Family in America, Principally the Descendants 
 of Thomas Warne, born 1652, died 1722, one of the Twenty-four Proprietors 
 of East Jersey, 1911, 701 pages. Aided also in compiling this pamphlet. 
 Avocation, gardening and genealogy. Married, November 25, 1874, Catherine 
 Beekman Mosher, daughter of Lewis H. Mosher, M.D., of Millstone and 
 Griggstown, N. J. No children. W. E. G. 
 
 EDWARD LODEWICK 
 Died September 14, 1909. 
 
 SON of Henry Casper Lodewick, farmer, and Sarah Van Sinderin. His 
 great grandfather was the Rev. Ulpianus van Sinderin, born in the Nether- 
 lands and minister of Reformed Churches at Brooklyn, Flatlands, Bushwick, 
 New Utrecht, and Flatbush, 1746-'84, and at Gravesend, 1747-'65. Emeritus, 
 
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 1784. Born at Schodack, N. Y., February 25, 1846, and after living at home 
 received his preparatory studies at Chittenango in the family of Rev. James 
 R. Talmage, at the Albany Academy, and at the New Brunswick Grammar 
 School. United with the church at the age of twelve and often assisted his 
 pastor. Was in college four years. Graduated from Rutgers in 1869, and 
 from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1872. He was licensed 
 at East Greenbush, N. Y., and ordained at St. Johnsville, N. Y., serving 
 there as pastor from 1872 till 1875, and at Park Ridge, Pascack, N. J., twenty- 
 nine years, when his health failed and he moved to Bound Brook. In politics, 
 Republican. He married, on April 16th, 1873, Miss Mary Elizabeth Mettler, 
 daughter of Wilson Mettler and Elizabeth G. Nevius. He enjoyed a successful 
 ministry, putting his best thought into every sermon and excelling as a pastor 
 but was never in good health. His widow erected a memorial tablet in the 
 Pascack church and endowed in her husband's name a prize to the best preacher 
 in the Senior class of the Seminary. 
 
 ROBERT CLARENCE PRUYN 
 60 State Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 CON of Robert Hewson Pruyn, LL.Di of the class of 1833, lawyer, banker, 
 ^ adjutant-general of the State of New York, Minister of the United States 
 to Japan (1861-1865), and Jane Ann Lansing. Born at Albany, N. Y., October 
 23rd, 1847. Lived at Albany, N. Y., and Yedo, now Tokio, Japan. Edu- 
 cated at the Wrightson's school and the New York State Normal School in 
 Albany, and under private tutors. Had a remarkable early experience of 
 travel and residence in Japan. Entered Rutgers College during the second 
 term of the Sophomore year and greatly interested his classmate, Griffis, in 
 Japan and the Japanese. He proposed that the enterprise of The Targum, 
 or monthly (now weekly) newspaper of the College be started and was with 
 his classmate co-founder of this periodical. In the Delta Phi fraternity. Has 
 resided in Albany and was a manufacturer until 1885, since which time he 
 has been president of the National Commercial Bank. Is director in several 
 corporations and member of several Clubs, in Albany and New York, being 
 one of the foremost citizens at the State capital. Member of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church. In politics, Republican. Married at Albany, October 
 22nd, 1873, to Anna W. Williams, daughter of Chauncey Piatt Williams and 
 Martha Hough of Albany, N. Y. Children: Edward Lansing, Ruth Williams 
 (now Mrs. David M. Goodrich), Robert Dunton, and Freerick. His father 
 was Robert H. Pruyn, of the class of 1833, who was also trustee of Rutgers 
 College from 1853 to 1882, a donor to the library and a generous friend to 
 students. W. E. G. 
 
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 EDWARD DWIGHT SHEPARD 
 Died January 13, 1912. 
 
 SON of Blanchard Shepard, business man and president of the First National 
 Bank of Hudson, N. Y., and Mary Warren Mellen. Born at New Or- 
 leans, La., April 10th, 1849. Lived at New Orleans and at Hudson, N. Y. 
 Attended school in Hudson and at the Grammar School in New Brunswick. 
 He graduated in the class of 1869. Was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity. 
 He engaged in the banking business and was head of the firm of E. D. Shepard 
 & Co. of New York City, which did a large business in bonds. The firm was 
 very successful until 1909, when apparently, through the extravagance of 
 the junior partners who were left in control, the firm was forced into bank- 
 ruptcy. He lived for some years in Brooklyn, but later years at South Orange, 
 N. J. His church connections were the Reformed Church in Hudson, N. Y., 
 the First Presbyterian Church, South Orange, N. J., and the Madison Avenue 
 Presbyterian Church, New York City, at the time of his death. In politics, 
 Independent Republican. He was married at South Orange, N. J., June 
 3rd, 1879, to Miss Ellen Wright Newton, daughter of Frederick W. Newton, 
 and Nancy Caryl Gibson, of South Orange. Of this union was born Frederick 
 Newton at South Orange, February 24th, 1881, who died January 6, 1915. 
 
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 NICHOLAS TERHUNE 
 Died January 22, 1892. 
 
 SON of John N. Terhune, at one time Lay Judge of Passaic County, N. J., 
 and Sophia Merselis. Born in Paterson, N. J., August 2, 1847, and lived 
 there until he entered college. Prepared in the public schools of Paterson, 
 and in Garret Hopper's private school, of same city. Graduated at Rutgers 
 with A.B., A.M. Rutgers 1872. Fraternity, Zeta Psi. Residences since leav- 
 ing college, Paterson and Passaic. Occupation, pharmacist at Passaic. Church, 
 connection, First Reformed Church, Passaic. Married, October 15, 1874, 
 Jennie 0. Kipp, daughter of John P. Kipp, and Jane Paulison. Children: 
 Harold N. Terhune, born May 14, 1881; Irving N. Terhune, born July 20, 
 1885. . G. W. L. 
 
 MOTT BEDELL VAIL 
 
 New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 SON of Edward S. Vail, lawyer, practicing in New York and New Jersey, 
 A.B. Rutgers 1839, and A.M., and Kate Bedell. Great grandfather, 
 Col. Daniel Bedell of Hempstead, N. Y., fought in War of 1812, at head of 
 his regiment. Paternal grandfather, Hon. David W. Vail, was a member 
 of the New Jersey Legislature for two terms, and mayor of New Brunswick 
 in 1840. Born at New Brunswick, April 21, 1851. Residences before entering 
 college, New Brunswick, St. Louis, Mo., Newark, N. J., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Prepared under Dr. Gustavus Fischer, school and tutor. Graduated with 
 
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 A.B., A.M. Rutgers, 1872. Fourth honor. Philosophical oration. Phi Beta 
 Kappa. President Peithessophian Literary Society. Class president Senior 
 year. Athletic honor. Eight-oared boat race against town in 1868. Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Columbia University Law School, New York 
 City, May 1871, being under age. Admitted to New York bar, 1872. Li- 
 censed to practice by Supreme Court of New Jersey November 6, 1879. Resi- 
 dences since leaving college: Camden, N. J., and Philadelphia, two years 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., nine years New Brunswick, N. J. Entered the Government 
 Civil Service Law Department, New York City, in 1886, and remained until 
 1911, when sight failed and he left. Practiced law in New Brunswick for a 
 few years. LL.B. Columbia Law School, 187L Church connection, Episcopal. 
 Vestryman in Christ Church, New Brunswick, 1882-3, also in St. John's 
 Church, New Brunswick, after 1908. Avocation, reading. Owns 1,000 books, 
 estimated. Married, October 23, 1882, in St. George's Church, Hanover 
 Square, London, England, Frances Herbert, daughter of Hon. Charles Morgan 
 Herbert. Private Secretary of Gov. Olden, 1861, Major on Staff and Military 
 Secretary of Gov. Marcus L. Ward, and District Attorney of Middlesex Co., 
 N. J., 1871. Relatives among Rutgers alumni: Theodore F. Vail, 1851, New 
 York City; Hon. T. R. Westbrook, 1838, Judge Supreme Court, Kingston, 
 N. Y.; Hon. Charles M. Herbert, 1857, New Brunswick, and H. M. Herbert, 
 Sound Brook, N. J. G. W. L. 
 
 JOHN TALMAGE VAN CLEEF 
 Room 202, Commonwealth Building, Trenton, N. J. 
 
 CON of Rev. Paul Duryea Van Cleef, D.D., pastor during fifty-five years 
 ^ of the Wayne Street Reformed Church of Jersey City, N. J., and Cata 
 lina Underdonk. Born at Coxsackie, N. Y., July 9, 1849. Came with his 
 father to Jersey City and received his preparation for college at Hasbrouck's 
 Grammar School in Mercer Street, Jersey City. Entered Rutgers College 
 in 1865, took the Myron W. Smith first prize in Sophomore oratory. Presi- 
 dent of the class in 1868. In Zeta Psi fraternity. Appointed by the class to 
 deliver the Master's oration, in 1872. Studied law in Jersey City in office 
 of Washington B. Williams, Jersey City. Admitted as attorney in 1872, 
 as Counsellor and Master in Chancery in 1875. Lived in Jersey City until 
 1884, then at Lowville, N. J., from 1880 to 1894, from which time he has 
 made Trenton his home. In 1873, formed with Abraham Van Horn (of Rut- 
 gers, class of 1870, died 1905) under the firm name of Van Cleef & Van Horn. 
 Was twice elected alderman from the Sixth Ward. Served ten years as Secre- 
 tary of the Board of Finance and Taxation. In 1884 was tendered the posi- 
 tion of Secretary of the State Board of Railway Assessors, serving in this 
 capacity for ten years. In 1887 appointed as aide de camp on the personal 
 staff of Governor Robert L. Green, serving for three years, with the rank of 
 Colonel. Held the same office and honors, for a like time, 1890-1893, and 
 later on the staff of Governor George T. Werts. In 1894 resumed the prac- 
 
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 tice of law and is still active in his profession. Church connection, Presby- 
 terian. Has written poems and satires on political events, published from 
 time to time in the Trenton State Gazette and Trenton Times and Advertiser 
 under the nom de plume of "Vee Cee," and now being compiled for publica- 
 tion. Among relatives educated at Rutgers College are James Van Cleef, 
 son of Peter Van Cleef, and Elliot Van Cleef, '98. Married, September 11, 
 1873, to Mary Emma Jones, daughter of Wesley W. Jones^ of Rahway, N. J. 
 Of this union two children were born: Catalina, July 1st, 1875, and Walter 
 T., September 24, 1876, who died in August, 1908. W. E. G. 
 
CLASSICAL NON-GRADUATES 
 
 JOHN G. BERDAN 
 Died April 23, 1878. 
 
 SON of Garrabrant V. H. Berdan, farmer, and Ellen Sip. Born at Fair 
 Lawn, N. J., February 3, 1846. Residences before entering college, Fair 
 Lawn. Prepared in the Public School there and at Kinsella's Private School 
 in Paterson. Was in college nearly four years. Residences since leaving 
 college, Dundee Lake for about seven years, and then Fair Lawn. Druggist. 
 Church connection, Reformed Church of Passaic, N. J. Married at Dundee 
 Lake, November 30, 1870, Clara Jane Van Riper, daughter of Cornelius 
 Van Riper and Catherine Messelis. Son, Cornelius Van Riper Berdan, born 
 May, 30, 1872. G. W. L. 
 
 JOHN ARTHUR BLISH 
 Died October 21, 1914. 
 
 SON of Samuel Blish. Born at Northport, Maine, June 3, 1849. Pre- 
 paratory education at New Brunswick Grammar School. After leaving 
 Rutgers College, lived in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charlestown, W. Va., and New 
 Brunswick, N. J. Associated as architect with Mr. George H. Parsell, and 
 later with Mr. Alexander Merchant of New Brunswick, N. J. Married, 
 March 13, 1874, to Miss Jane E. Brown, of New York City, leaving two 
 daughters and one son. J. H. 
 
 EDWARD WARREN CLARK 
 Died June 5, 1907. 
 
 SON of Rev. Rufus Wheelwright Clark, D.D., and Eliza Walton, his wife. 
 Dr. Clark was pastor of Congregational churches at Portsmouth, N. H., 
 East Boston, Mass., Brooklyn, N. Y., and of the First Reformed Church, 
 Albany, N. Y. and author of numerous books and pamphlets. Mrs. Clark 
 was a woman of fine intellectual power and social grace. Born at Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., January 27, 1849, lived at home and prepared in the schools 
 until he entered Rutgers College. An accident in boyhood, which severely 
 injured his eyes, requiring several surgical operations, handicapped Mr. Clark 
 all his life, greatly hindering, in both direction and results, a man of other- 
 wise notable energy. After leaving college, he traveled with his classmate 
 Griffis, in Northern Europe (through Switzerland together on foot). Studied 
 theology during two years in the Ecole de Theologie, at Geneva, under Dr. 
 Merle d'Aubigne, and later at the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia. 
 Through the application, in 1871, of Count Katsu Awa and the authorities 
 
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 at Shidzuoka, made to his classmate Griffis, then at Fukui, an invitation 
 was sent to him to come out to Japan. After two years at Shidzuoka, 1871- 
 1873, he taught chemistry and physics in the Imperial University 1873-'75, 
 returning home by way of Asia and Europe. Had the honor, in 1874, of lec- 
 turing before the Court and the full Imperial Household in the Mikado's 
 palace, the Emperor thanking him personally and bestowing various tokens 
 in the form of art works. Ordained to the diaconate in Holy Trinity Church, 
 New York, January 1880, and to the priesthood in Holy Trinity Church, 
 Philadelphia, June 1881. Held pastoral charges at the Church of the Epiph- 
 any, Philadelphia, Pa., Church of the Ascension, Wakefield, R. I., and St. 
 Peters by the Sea, Narragansett Pier, R. I. His later homes were at Talla- 
 hassee, Fla., Columbia, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn. His uncle was Bishop 
 Thomas March Clark, D.D., of Rhode Island. In politics, Republican. He 
 was a great pedestrian, climber of mountains and fond of horseback riding. 
 In 1878, he married Miss Louise McCullough of Stephen's Point, Wis. Of 
 this union were born Edith Louise, September 2, 1880; Edward Warren, 
 February 17, 1882; Naomi Walton and Ruth Lawton, twins, March 16, 1884; 
 Henry McCullough, February 26, 1887; Robert Ernest, January 10, 1889; 
 Lucius Leman, January 24, 1891; Marjorie Wellington, July 1, 1896. In 
 1916, these were all living except two; two were married and there were three 
 grandchildren. Fletcher Clark, class of 1873, was his younger brother. Author 
 of "Life and Adventure in Japan"; "From Hong Kong to the Himalayas"; 
 "Kats Awa: the Bismarck of Japan," and many letters in the Evangelist, 
 N. Y. Evening Post, etc., from Japan. Thrice he accompanied parties of 
 tourists around the world for the Clark Tourist Company of New York. In 
 1904-'05, he was active in raising a fund for the widows and orphans made 
 by the Russo-Japanese war. A delightful companion in travel, an interesting 
 man and an eager and persevering student and ready for fresh enterprises, 
 but seemingly erratic and changeful — all, it is believed, from the fearful 
 nervous strain, suffered all his life, from eye-trouble. W. E. G. 
 
 EBENEZER PLATT JOHNSON 
 Died August 17, 1914. 
 
 SON of Rev. John Gray Johnson, who was pastor of the Reformed Dutch 
 Churches at Glenham and Upper Red Hook, N. Y. ; Graduate of Rut- 
 gers College, 1836, and of the New Brunswick Seminary in 1839. Pastor 
 at Red Hook from 1846 to 1870, and of Mary Gildersleeve Piatt. Born at 
 Upper Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N. Y., May 9th, 1849. Grew up in his 
 father's home and also lived some years with his maternal grandfather, Eben- 
 ezer Piatt of New York City, while attending the University Grammar School. 
 He was two years in Rutgers College and then going to Williams College was 
 graduated in 1869. After college, studied law with his uncle, the Hon. Thomas 
 Nelson, 55 Liberty Street, New York, in which city he lived until his decease. 
 Held degrees of A.B. and LL.B. (Williams). Was a member of Rev. Dr. 
 
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 Booths's Presbyterian Church, University Place and 10th Street. He was 
 a member of the Morris Club at Mott Haven and spent his leisure hours in 
 sculling on the Harlem River and in later life managed sail boats skilfully. 
 He was married, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bloomingdale-on-Hudson, 
 September 21st, 1871, to Mary Dorsey Disosway, youngest daughter of Cor- 
 nelius Ryerss Disosway, a lawyer of New York City, from which time he 
 practiced law in New York. The children of this union were Norman Gilder- 
 sleeve, born June 22nd, 1872; Elsie Wilkins, born August 4, 1874; and Ellen 
 Gray, born December 3, 1876, of which three, Norman survives, with three 
 children. W. E. G. 
 
 PARSHALL D. NICOLS 
 
 Died June 16, 1906. 
 
 SON of Barber Nicols and Lucy Parshall. Was born in Toronto, Canada, 
 March 8th, 1845. Studied at the Lockport High School and for a time 
 was a member of the classical section of the class of '69. He lived for a few 
 years in New York City. Then removing to Pittsburg, he identified himself 
 with the real estate business in that city. He founded the P. D. Nicols Real 
 Estate Co. and was connected with the Land Trust Company. His church 
 connection was first, with the Second Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg, Pa., 
 and then with the Second Presbyterian Church at Sewickley, Pa. He was 
 married at Sewickley, Pa., December 24th, 1874, to Miss Elizabeth A. Mc- 
 Laughlin, daughter of John and Mary Carson McLaughlin. Of this union 
 were born Audley Dean, September 21, 1875; Mabel Louise, February 25, 
 1877; Alice Clyde, March 9, 1879; Verner, July 10, 1881; Lowell Warden, 
 May 23, 1886; and Virginia, May 22, 1888, the latter deceased. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 GEORGE WHITFIELD ROBINSON 
 395 Westervelt Avenue, New Brighton, S. I., N. Y. 
 
 SON of James C. Robinson, manufacturer, many years elder in the Re- 
 formed (Dutch) Church, Middletown, N. J., born in Baltimore, Md., 
 and Susan Taylor, born in New York City. Born at Middletown, N. J., 
 March 14, 1845. Residences before entering college, Middletown, N. J., and 
 Tottenville, N. Y. Prepared in Tottenville Public School and had private 
 instruction. Graduated Public School 25 New York City, 1864. In college 
 two years. Fraternity, Delta Upsilon. Lawyer. Admitted to bar, 1879. 
 Residences since leaving college: Tottenville, S. I., 1868-'70; Mariners' 
 Harbor, S. L, 1871—; Tompkinsville, S. I., 1878—; Rosebank, S. I., 1880—; 
 West New Brighton, 1905—; Tompkinsville, 1913—. Principal Tottenville, 
 P. S., 1868-70; Mariners' Harbor, P. S., 1871-6; City Island, 1877; Tomp- 
 kinsville, 1878-9; Stapleton, Superintendent Public Schools, 1880-'90; Rose- 
 bank, 1890-4. Politics, Independent Democrat. Married, Tottenville, N. Y., 
 April 19, 1870, Mary Gellette Ellis, daughter of Abram Ellis, Sheriff of Rich- 
 
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 mond County, and Alice Murray. Children: George Bertram Robinson, 
 born November 21, 1871; Eleanor Robinson, born May 10, 1874, deceased; 
 Walter Eliot Robinson, born April 8, 1876, deceased; Susan Alice Robinson, 
 born July 12, 1879; Ralph Mortimer Robinson, born May 29, 1882. After 
 1896 entire time devoted to law practice. 1909-13 spent most of time in West- 
 ern States — Colorado, Nevada, California, — interested in mines. Inherited 
 mines of his brother William Isaac Robinson, a "Forty-niner." G. W. L. 
 
 WILLIAM LITTLE TERHUNE 
 Died January 5, 1869. 
 
 SON of William Letson Terhune, (Rutgers A.B. 1835, A.M. 1838, born 
 May 16, 1815; died December 27, 1907; Elder in Matawan Presby- 
 terian Church for 60 years), and Margaret Little. Great grandfather, Abra- 
 ham Terhune, was First Lieutenant in Captain Van Deventer's Regiment, 
 N. J. militia during the Revolutionary War. William Little, his grandfather, 
 on his mother's side, started the first school and the first bank in Matawan. 
 Born, Matawan, N. J., February 15, 1848. Matawan his only place of resi- 
 dence, except during a part of his preparatory course, and during his college 
 days, he made his home with his grandfather, Judge John Terhune, of New 
 Brunswick. Prepared in the schools of Matawan and in the private school 
 of Doctor, later Professor Gustavus Fischer, in New Brunswick. In college 
 nearly four years, until his death, during the holiday vacation of his Senior 
 year. The faculty of the college, his class, and the fraternity to which he 
 belonged were well represented at the funeral in the Presbyterian Church of 
 Matawan on January 8. Dr. Campbell, also at the request of the faculty, 
 preached a very touching memorial discourse in the College Chapel January 
 17. Junior orator. Fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Intended to study 
 law. Relatives among alumni of Rutgers: William Letson Terhune, 1835, 
 father; Rev. Edward Payson Terhune, D.D., 1850, uncle; Howard D. Ter- 
 hune, 1878, uncle; John Terhune, 1879, brother; Professor Henry Veghte, 
 1877, a distant cousin. Other information: Three brothers and one sister 
 living: James L. Terhune, for many years cashier of the First National Bank 
 of Red Bank, N. J.; John Terhune, Vice President First National Bank of 
 Long Branch, N. J.; Henry S. Terhune, Judge of the Court of Errors and 
 Appeals of the State of New Jersey; and Miss Margaret Little Terhune, 
 residing in Matawan. Ancestors were French Huguenots, who went to Hol- 
 land, married there, and, in 1640, came to Long Island, and then to New 
 Jersey. Parents celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary in the same house 
 in which, on October 10, 1843, they were married. A remarkable feature of 
 the affair, the best man, Hon. Henry Stafford Little, the bride's brother, 
 and Mrs. Dumont Frelinghuysen, of Somerville, N. J., the bridesmaid, were 
 both living at the time and were invited to the anniversary. See personal 
 and obituary notices in The Targum of January and February, 1869, and 
 pamphlet containing President W. H. Campbell's memorial sermon, Targum 
 editorial and fraternity resolutions. G. W. L. W. E. G. 
 
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 JACOB CRAIG VAN BLARCOM 
 Died August 24, 1908. 
 
 SON of Jacob Van Riper Van Blarcom, farmer and merchant, who also 
 served two terms in the New Jersey State Legislature, and Euphemia 
 Maria Dixon. His first parental American ancestor was John Van Blarcom, 
 who came from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1621, and settled in New Jersey; 
 he married Magdaleentje Thennis, and from them the line descends through 
 their son Gylbert and his wife Elena Lacomba; their son Jans and his wife, 
 Vrouwtjen Kip; their son Hendricks, and his wife Annatje VanWinkel; 
 their son Johannis and his wife Antje Jacobusse; their son Brant and his 
 wife Getty Van Riper, who were the grandparents of Jacob C. Van Blarcom. 
 Hendrick, or Heindrick Van Blarcom, his great great grandfather, was a Cap- 
 tain in the Second Regiment, Essex Co., N. J., Continental Troops during the 
 Revolutionary War. Brant Van Blarcom, his grandfather, was the first 
 mayor of Paterson, N. J. Born at Warren Point, in Bergen County, across 
 the river from Paterson, June 1, 1849. Lived there and in Paterson before 
 entering college. Prepared in the public schools and in the private school of 
 Samuel Hosford of Paterson, and in some preparatory school of Jersey City. 
 Was in college one year. Zeta Psi fraternity. In 1866 went to St. Louis, 
 Mo., where he spent the rest of his life. He entered there the employ of Peter- 
 sonj Hanthorn & Co., wholesale saddlery, hardware, and leather merchants, 
 and so quickly did he master the details of the business that during the epi- 
 demic of cholera in the fall of the same year, he was sent out to take the place 
 of a traveling salesman who refused to go into the fever stricken cities of the 
 South. His progress thenceforth was rapid, and in 1870, despite his youth, 
 he was invested with the power of attorney to liquidate all the business of 
 the firm and close up its affairs. Subsequently he was appointed head ac- 
 countant of the National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis; at age of 28 cashier, 
 then Vice-President, and in 1905 President. He assisted in organizing the 
 Missouri Edison Company, and the Missouri Electric Light and Power Com- 
 pany of St. Louis, and was interested with Clay Pierce and other St. Louis 
 capitalists in the Mexico Central Railway. Later he assisted in financing 
 the Tennessee Central Railway, of which he was President until a short time 
 before his death. He was also Vice-President of the Burlington Elevator 
 Co., and a director in the St. Louis Car Wheel Co., the St. Louis Portland 
 Cement Co., and the Phoenix National Bank of New York, as well as Presi- 
 dent of the St. Louis Clearing House and a member of the Merchants' Ex- 
 change. He was also treasurer of the committee who raised funds in St. Louis 
 for the San Francisco earthquake sufferers in 1906. A member of the Sons 
 of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Holland Society of New 
 York, the New York and Union Club of New York, the Adirondack Club, 
 and the St. Louis Commercial, Log Cabin, Cuivre Hunting and Noonday 
 Clubs of St. Louis. Avocation, shooting and fishing. Married in Chicago, 
 111., January 19, 1871, Mary Fairfax, daughter of James M. Gamble, of 
 Bloomington, 111., and Mary Walker Hodge. He died at his summer home, 
 
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 Class of 1869 
 
 Little Moose Lake, in the Adirondacks, near Old Forge, N. Y. Children: 
 Leslie Craig Van Blarcom, born January 12, 1873; Frederick Van Blarcom, 
 born June 20, 1885. Jacob C. Van Blarcom was 12th in descent from Hon. 
 Nicasius de Sille, who was pensionary of the city of Amsterdam, and was 
 one of the ambassadors to Queen Elizabeth of England, and afterwards am- 
 bassador to Denmark and to Germany. He was also 10th in descent from 
 Hon. Nicasius de Sille, who was First Counsellor to Peter Stuyvessant, at 
 that time Director General of New Netherland. G. W. L. 
 
SCIENTIFIC SECTION 
 
 NATHANAEL BOARD 
 Died March 22, 1900. 
 
 ASSISTANT to Engineer of Public Parks of New York City. M.Sc. 
 (Rutgers 1872). 
 Persistent efforts to obtain further data unavailing. W. E. G. 
 
 SIMEON EASTLAKE BUCKNELL 
 Died June 20, 1903. 
 
 SON of Samuel Rooker Bucknell, man of business, and Lydia Stokes East- 
 lake. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., May 16, 1850. Life before entering 
 college, at Marlton, N. J., Haddonfield, N. J., New York City, and New 
 Brunswick, N. J. Educated mostly at Grammar School No. 35, in Thirteenth 
 Street, New York City, under Principal Hunter, 1863-1866; his earlier years 
 having been spent in country schools of New Jersey. Was graduated from 
 Rutgers College in 1869. Won second prize for essay. Elected member of 
 the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Studied medicine and was graduated from 
 the St. Louis Medical College 1875. Resided in Indianapolis, Ind., 1869-70, 
 St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis (across the river). In surgical and medical 
 practice. Two years at Shipman, nine years at New Douglas, and at Al- 
 hambra, until his decease; in all, twenty-five years. For a time, was civil 
 engineer at Indianapolis and at St. Louis. Degree of M.Sc. (Rutgers, 1872), 
 A.M. (Rutgers, 1878); M.D. (St. Louis Medical College, 1875). In church 
 connection, Baptist. In politics, Republican. Was married at O'Fallon, 111., 
 in August 1873, to Marion A. Cochrane, daughter of James M. Cochrane 
 and Jane Philbrook Cochrane, his wife. Of this union were born Nellie Lydia 
 (Hale), June 25, 1874; Samuel Kazlitt Ackerman, January 6, 1876; Eliza- 
 beth (Stewart), December 11, 1877; Marion Augusta (McKittrick), April 
 1, 1879; Anna Maria (McKittrick), February 24, 1881; Inez Acola, No- 
 vember 22, 1888, (died December, 1888). He contributed many articles to 
 medical journals, from 1875 to 1890. Wrote a number of serial stories, for 
 the Central Christian Advocate, from 1885 to 1895. Charitable to a fault, 
 he was noted for philanthropy, specially in caring for the sick poor. He was, 
 at different times, president, secretary or treasurer of the Madison County 
 Medical Society. 
 
 Data furnished by Samuel K. A. Bucknell, his brother, Haddon Heights, 
 N. J.; and Samuel K. A. Bucknell, his son, National Stock Yards, 111. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
 HOLMES VAN MATER DENNIS 
 Freehold, N. J. 
 
 SON of Jesse Appleton Dennis, A.M., lawyer, and Catherine Van Mater. 
 Descended from (1) Thomas Dennis (1638-1706) of Ipswich, Mass., a 
 soldier in King Philip's War; (2) John Dennis (1683-1757) of Ipswich, Mass.. 
 
22 Class of 1869 
 
 an Ensign and Lieutenant in Ipswich Foot Company; (3) Rev. John Dennis 
 (1708-1773), a graduate of Harvard College in 1730; (4) Arthur Dennis 
 (1745-1825), a soldier and Sergeant in the Revolutionary War; Rev. Rodney 
 Gove Dennis (1791-1865), a graduate of Bodowin College in 1816, and of 
 Andover Theological Seminary in 1819; (6) Jesse Appleton Dennis (1824- 
 1854) Amherst College, 1842, A.M. degree from Rutgers College in 1845. 
 Born near Holmdel, N. J., April 11, 1849. Residences before entering col- 
 lege, Monmouth County, N. J.; Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Darien, Ga. Prepared 
 in public schools and Freehold Institute, Freehold, N. J. Graduated at Rut- 
 gers with B.Sc. Residences since graduation, New York City, 1870-'77; 
 Newtown, L. I., 1877-'81; Freehold, N. J., 1881-1916. Civil Engineer, (re- 
 tired); farmer, (retired); President Freehold Gas Light Company; Presi- 
 dent Monmouth County Farmers' Exchange; Director Central National 
 Bank of Freehold, N. J. M.Sc. Rutgers, 1872. Church connection, Dutch 
 Reformed. Democrat. Avocation, motoring and golf. First, married 
 Eugenia C. Baird, December 26, 1871; second, married Caroline E. Baird, 
 September 6, 1876; first and second wives were sisters, and daughters of 
 David Baird and Anne E. Conover. Son, Holmes Van Mater Dennis, jr., 
 born in New York City, February 5, 1873. Relatives among Rutgers alumni: 
 James Appleton Dennis, '45, father; Holmes V. M. Dennis, jr., '94, son; 
 William A. Van Mater, '69, first cousin; Daniel Van Mater '73, first cousin; 
 Joseph A. Van Mater '80, first cousin; Henry G. Cook '98, second cousin. 
 
 G. W. L. 
 
 JOSHUA DOUGHTY, JR. 
 
 Somerville, N. J. 
 
 SON of Joshua Doughty, merchant, Somerville, N. J., and State Senator, 
 and Susan M. Southard. Doughty and Ludlow ancestors in Revolu- 
 tionary War. Wm. L. Dayton, Minister to France, was of his family. Samuel 
 L. Southard, U. S. Senator and Secretary of Navy also of his family. Gov- 
 enor Ludlow, of New Jersey was a cousin of his father. Born at Somerville, 
 N. J., February 28, 1844. Residences before entering college, Somerville, 
 except while at school at Lawrenceville, N. J. Schools, Somerville until 
 1864, Lawrenceville until 1866. Graduated at Rutgers with B.S. Prize in 
 Minerology. M.Sc, Rutgers 1872. Residence since leaving college, Somer- 
 ville only. Licensed pharmacist while proprietor of drug store. Practical 
 engineering ever since graduation. Borough Engineer of Bound Brook, Somer- 
 ville and Paritan. Acting Engineer also for Flemington. County Engineer 
 of Somerset Co., N. J., since 1886. Officer in lodge and chapter in Free 
 Masonery. Also in lodge of Redmen. Attendant at Episcopal church. Demo- 
 crat. Married, 1878, Phillipsburg, N. J., Lillian M. Teel, daughter of Lewis 
 M. Teel. Relatives among Rutgers alumni, the Daytons and Ludlows. 
 Writings: Articles on road surveys and road construction, published in State 
 Road Reports, Trenton, N. J. G. W. L. 
 
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 J. RIDGWAY FELL 
 Trenton, N. J. 
 
 SON of Henry R. Fell, contracting, and Rachel Woolverton. Father's 
 family came over with William Penn. Mother's family in time of Rev- 
 olution, located in Hunterdon Co., N. J., and several of them took part in 
 that war. Born in Bucks Co., Pa., August 29, 1846. Residences before en- 
 tering college, Bucks Co., Pa., Baltimore, Md., and Trenton, N. J. Pre- 
 pared in private school 1861-4 in winter months only, — balance of time worked 
 at trade. In Model School, Trenton, 1864-6 the same. Served apprentice- 
 ship as machinist. Class President of Scientific Section, 1866-7, and again 
 in 1868-9, also Secretary of combined class 1868-9. Graduated with B.Sc, 
 M.Sc. Rutgers, 1872. Residences since leaving college: Pennsylvania, 6 
 years, New York, 2 years, New Jersey. Engineering on various railroads, 
 1869-1881. Superintendent Lykens Valley Coal Co., and Summit Branch 
 Collieries, 1881-6. Various engineering work, 1886-92. Engineer City of 
 Trenton, 1892-4. Engineering and contracting, railroads, trolley roads, 
 sewers, etc. 1894-1911. In 1911 elected City Commissioner. Department 
 Streets and Public Improvements. Constructed Filtration Plant, 30,000,000 
 gallons' capacity for the city. 1915, re-elected City Commissioner. Past 
 Master of Masons. Church connection, Friends (known as Quakers). In 
 Philadelphia, Pa., February 15, 1877, married Laura Miller, daughter of 
 William and Rachel Miller. Children: J. Henry Fell, born September 5, 
 1878; Frank Fell, born April 12, 1880; Reba Fell, born February 10, 1886; 
 Scott Miller Fell, born October 10, 1887; C. Dawson Fell, born June 8, 1890. 
 Relatives among alumni, Scott Miller Fell, son, 1911. G. W. L. 
 
 EDWARD SEALY 
 
 369 Washington Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 OON of John Sealy, manufacturer, and Lydia Tuttle. Born at Newark, 
 ^ N. J., January 3rd, 1850, lived in Newark and at Madison, N. J., pre- 
 paring for Rutgers College in the public schools of the former city until 1860, 
 at Madison Academy until 1863, and at Newark Academy until 1867. In 
 college won first prize for scientific thesis, was on The Targum board of edi- 
 tors, and was president of the Scientific Literary Society. Member of the 
 Philoclean Literary Society. Attended the College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons in New York City, and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, grad- 
 uating in 1884, and lived in Newark to date, as practicing physician and sur- 
 geon, and in attendance at the Hospital for Women and Children for diseases 
 of the throat, and at the charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, all in Newark. 
 Has been Vice-President of the Board of Governors of the Hospital for Women 
 and Children to date, and also member of the Board of Trustees, from 1910 
 to date, of the Neward Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in Newark, N. J. 
 Received degree of B.S. and M.Sc. from Rutgers College, 1869. Church 
 connection, First Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J. In politics, Republi- 
 can. Author of Chronic Inversion of the Uterus, in Journal of Ocstetrics, 
 1909, Win. Wood & Co. J. H. 
 
24 Class of 1869 
 
 AUGUSTUS VAN DER VEER 
 Died April 9, 1902. 
 
 SON of Isaac Van der Veer, farmer, Rocky Hill, N. J., and Mary Skillman. 
 Born at Rocky Hill, June 4, 1850. Residence before entering college, 
 Rocky Hill. Prepared at Rocky Hill and at Princeton Preparatory School. 
 Phi Beta Kappa. Graduated at Rutgers with B.Sc. M.Sc, Rutgers, 1872. 
 Residences after leaving college, Rocky Hill, 5 years, 1869-74; Somerville, 
 N. J., 7 years^ 1874-81; Buffalo, N.*Y., one year, 1882; Trenton, N. J., 1884; 
 Somerville, 1884-1902. Civil Engineer with D. L. & W., and Pennsylvania 
 railroads. Deputy County Clerk, Somerville, N. J., 18 years. Member 
 First Reformed Church, Somerville. Deacon there. Democrat. Married, 
 June 15, 1882, Somerville, N. J., Evelyn M. Gaston, daughter of Hugh M. 
 Gaston, Esq., and Frances M. Prevost. Children: Hugh Gaston Van der 
 Veer, born March 21, 1883; Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Van der Veer, born April 
 20, 1884. Relatives among Rutgers alumni: George V. Van der Veer, 1879, 
 brother. "Quiet and unostentatious in his life, gentle and kindly to all, never 
 turning away from any who called upon him for help or sympathy." 
 
 G. W. L. 
 
 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS VAN MATER 
 Belford, N. J. 
 
 SON of Gilbert H. Van Mater, farmer, at Holmdel, N. J., and Sarah 
 Holmes. Born at Holmdel, N. J., January 9, 1849. Residence before 
 entering college, Holmdel. Prepared at Woodhull School, Freehold, N. J., 
 and at Glenwood Institute, Matawan, N. J. Graduated with B.Sc, M.Sc. 
 Rutgers, 1872. Residences since leaving college, in Monmouth County until 
 1878, then in Virginia for three years, and since then back to original place. 
 Previous to 1883 was engaged in farming, engineering and surveying. From 
 1883 to 1906 (23 years continuously), First Assistant Engineer, then Engineer 
 Main of Way on N. J. Southern Division, C. R. R. of N. J. Since 1906, en- 
 gineering and surveying railroad, county, and private work. Church con- 
 nection, Reformed Church in America. Republican. Avocation, all good 
 sports. Relatives among Rutgers laumni: Holmes V. M. Dennis, '69, cousin; 
 Holmes V. M. Dennis, jr., '94, cousin once removed; Joseph A. Van Mater 
 '94, cousin. G. W. L. 
 
 ABRAM DE HART VOORHEES 
 Died January 16, 1911. 
 
 SON of John Schenck Voorhees, farmer, and Sarah Van Doren. Born at 
 Three Mile Run, N. J., March 25, 1848. Prepared for college at Claver- 
 ack, N. Y. Was awarded the degree of M.Sc. by Rutgers College, in 1872. 
 Church connection, Reformed, Franklin Park, N. J. After graduation, re- 
 mained on the ancestral home throughout his life. Unmarried. Among 
 Rutgers alumni were his brothers, the late Judge Peter Voorhees, class of 
 1873, and the late John S. Voorhees, Prosecutor, class of 1876. J. H. 
 
SCIENTIFIC NON-GRADUATES 
 
 SYMMES BERGEN 
 No. 588 Chestnut Avenue, Trenton, N. J. 
 
 SON of John Stryker Bergen, farmer and fruit grower, and Catherine 
 Amanda Hunt, of Dutch ancestry, who settled at Holland, N. J., and 
 after whom the county and the place received their names. Born at Prince- 
 ton, N. J., August 9, 1849. "A husky farmer's boy, attended the village 
 district school," and received further education at Clark Boarding School, 
 Cranbury, N. J., for three years and at the Schenck Preparatory School at 
 Princeton, N. J., for three years. Was three years in Rutgers College. In 
 the Rutgers Scientific Literary Society. Since leaving college spent twenty- 
 two years-as farmer, near Princeton, N. J., and twenty-five years at Trenton, 
 N. J., with the American Steel and Wire Company, manufacturers of steel 
 and wire rope and a subsidiary of the United Stated Steel Corporation. In 
 church connection, trustee in the Dutch Neck Reformed Church for ten 
 years; trustee of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, Trenton, N. J., for 
 nine years and ruling elder in the same, for fifteen years. A life-long Sunday 
 School teacher. For five years president of the local Y. M. C. A., and work- 
 ing among young people and in charitable organizations. In politics Republi- 
 can. In college days an enthusiastic baseball player. Married, December 
 12, 1872, at Cranbury, N. J., to Miss Margaret A. Duncan, daughter of An- 
 drew J. Duncan of same place and graduate of the Steubenville (0.) Young 
 Ladies' Seminary. No children. George Hutchinson, class of 1898, cousin. 
 Successful farmer, a reliable accountant, steadfast in business and ever active 
 in behalf of his fellow men. W. E. G. 
 
 SPENCER HOUGHTON CONE 
 Larchmont, N. Y. 
 
 SON of Spencer Cone and Josephine Maitland. Born in New York City, 
 November 23rd, 1881. Descended from Colonel Joab Houghton and 
 Major General Spencer of the New Jersey Line, in the War of the Revolution, 
 and Rev. Spencer Houghton Cone, D.D., who was born at Princeton, N. J. 
 Educated in the College of New Jersey, Dr. Cone became in turn actor, edi- 
 tor, soldier in the War of 1812 t and preacher. Ordained to the Baptist min- 
 istry in 1815, he was pastor at Alexandria, Va. (1816-1823), Oliver St. Church, 
 New York (1823-1841); First Baptist Church, (1841-1855); an able pulpit 
 orator and President of the American Bible Society and of the American 
 Bible Union, he was an advocate for a new version of the Bible. "Memoir" 
 by his son, Spencer Wallace Cone. S. H. Cone of '69, lived in New York 
 and at New Brunswick and Larchmont, N. Y. Educated in the public schools 
 and Rutgers Grammar School under Dr. dispell. Was two years in Rut- 
 gers College. In Zeta Psi fraternity. Has lived since in Larchmont, N. Y. 
 
26 Class of 1869 
 
 In the theatrical profession. In politics a Democrat. Married, March 15, 
 1895, to Miss Mary Stewart, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Of this union were born 
 Kathlyn Anna Cone, December 11, 1895; Spencer Houghton Cone, jr., June 
 14, 1905. Constantly active in business since graduation. J. H. 
 
 HENRY CLAY FREESE 
 Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. 
 
 SON of Jacob R. Freese, M.D., College of Philadelphia, Assistant Adjutant 
 General of New Jersey State militia from August 24, 1861, acting as such 
 on the staff of Generals Hentzelman and Joseph Hooker, and editor for many 
 years of The Gazette, Trenton, N. J., and Lily S. Swayze, formerly of Warren 
 County, N. J. Forefathers came from Friesland, the most northern province 
 of the Netherlands. Born September 28, 1848, in Warren County, N. J., 
 and named after Henry Clay, from whom a personal letter was received. Lived 
 at Bloomington, 111., and at Trenton, N. J. Educated in the schools of these 
 places, and was one year in Princeton College. Moved from New Jersey 
 to Philadelphia in 1851, to Bloomington, 111. in 1855; to Cincinnati for one 
 year and back to New Jersey in 1858. Diligent while in Rutgers College, 
 improving every hour, with no interest in "outside festivities." Visited west- 
 tern Europe in 1867, meeting kinsfolk in Friesland. From 1868 to 1871, in 
 Chicago, in the wholesale lumber business. From 1871 to 1878, in Trenton, 
 N. J., and at Hays, Kansas to date. "In real estate business and in United 
 States pension and land work, from 1882 to date. Editor of the Free Press, 
 the oldest newspaper in Ellis County, Kansas, thirty-one years, from Sep- 
 tember 1882 to 1913. Now, a retired business man. In politics, but never 
 asked or held office. Never joined societies or church, as a newspaper man 
 must be independent of all entanglements so as to be free to comment on 
 the wolves in these. But a warm friend and advocate of everybody else 
 'jinin' Family of parents Episcopalian. Family here all Pres- 
 byterian Formerly Republican. Then with the famous Al- 
 liance and People's Party to break from the rings in both parties. Then In- 
 dependent, intelligent enough to pick my men from the list of candidates. 
 Avocation or sport (hobby), none Love every- 
 body Friend to everybody. Known as 'Daddy Freese' in 
 
 my own town, but attend strictly to my own affairs within myself." Mar- 
 ried at Trenton, N. J., December 25, 1872 T in the Presbyterian Church, 
 Miss L. Amelia Howell, of Sussex County, N. J., student in the State Nor- 
 mal School of Trenton, N. J., daughter of R. H. Howell, for years keeper 
 of the New Jersey State Prison. Of this union, six children were born, two 
 dying in infancy. The others are Lily S., born June, 1875; Lauretta H., 
 born in 1877, in New Jersey, and both married, living respectively in 
 Memphis, Tenn., and at Lemoore, Calif.; Alice L., born in Kansas, 1881, 
 single, lives at home; John H., born in Kansas, married, living in Los 
 Angeles, Calif. W. E. G. 
 
Scientific Non-Graduates 27 
 
 CORNELIUS WYCKOFF GARRETSON 
 Dead. Persistent attempts to locate kin or relatives unavailing. 
 
 HENRY C. HOPPER 
 Persistent attempts to locate unavailing. 
 
 GEORGE DENMAN MEEKER 
 Died November 22, 1896. 
 
 SON of Josiah Meeker, merchant, and Cathrine Freighly Byram, was born 
 at Succasuna, New Jersey, March 31, 1849. Childhood spent in his 
 native town. Prepared for college in the Mendham Academy. Was one 
 year in Rutgers College. Lived later at Morristown, N. J.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
 Boonton, Dover and South Orange, N. J., and in New York City. Was 
 bookkeeper in the First National Bank, at Morristown, N. J. After serving 
 three different banking firms in New York, became Cashier of the National 
 Bank of Dover for twelve years. Cashier of the National City Bank of New 
 York for three years and until the time of his decease. In religion a Pres- 
 byterian, and always active in church and Sunday school work. In politics, 
 Republican. Married October 13, 1875, to Miss Cornelia M. Able, daughter 
 of John S. Able, Boonton, N. J. Of this union were born Mary Cornelia, 
 April 21, 1877; George Maxwell, January 3, 1882, and Marion Able, Febru- 
 ary 15, 1889. Mr. Edward J. Meeker of the class of 1896 was a relative. 
 Mr. Meker gave close attention, most of his life, to business and was a val- 
 ued member of society until his death, November 22, 1896. W. E. G. 
 
 DUMONT FRELINGHUYSEN MERCER 
 Died January 19, 1882. 
 
 SON of Wm. Theodore Mercer, physician, and Gertrude Frelinghuysen 
 Mercer. Born at Newark, New Jersey, January 23rd, 1850, lived in 
 Newark and prepared for college at the Newark Academy. Was a year or 
 more in Rutgers College, and returned to Newark in which city and in New 
 York he was engaged until his decease. In church connection, Episcopal. 
 In politics, Republican. Among relatives in Rutgers College were his brother 
 Archibald Mercer, of the class of 1868, and students from the Frelinghuysen, 
 Nevius, Elmendorf and Vroom families. W. E. G. 
 
 MARVIN REUBEN MERCHANT 
 Dead. Persistent attempts to locate kin or relatives unavailing. 
 
 THOMAS M. MURRAY 
 Died November 24, 1907. 
 
 SON of John Murray, of Delhi, N. Y., contractor, making a specialty of 
 bridge building, and Ellen Middlenum. Born at Delhi, June 18, 1847. 
 Delhi only place of residence before entering college. Prepared in district 
 schools of Delaware Co., N. Y., and in Delaware Academy at Delhi, grad- 
 
28 Class of 1869 
 
 uating therefrom at age of fifteen. In 1866 entered Rutgers Scientific School, 
 and remained in College until January, 1869. In June, 1868, he won the 
 tub race across the Raritan River at New Brunswick, being the only one who 
 was successful in getting across the river, using wooden paddles. Residences 
 since leaving college: Paterson, Newark, Highland Park 1891-7, Plainfield 
 1897-1901, New Brunswick 1901 until death, — all in New Jersey. After 
 he left college he went into business with his father and his uncle, Dr. David 
 Murray, Professor in Rutgers College. In the manufacture of brick at or 
 near Singac, N. J., about four miles from Paterson. For a time also he was 
 in the real estate and auction business in New York City. In 1879 he became 
 a contractor for the building of docks and bridges. In 1888 he became as- 
 sociated with the Thomson-Houston Co., of Boston, in electrical contract 
 work, and in 1889 formed a co-partnership with J. D. Murray in the build- 
 ing and equipping of electrical railroads. He built trolley lines in Paterson, 
 N. J., in Bridgeport, Conn., and elsewhere. He was Superintendent of Con- 
 struction of the New Brunswick Trolley System, and aided largely in se- 
 curing the necessary capital for that enterprise. Church connection, Presby- 
 terian, but not a member. A Republican in politics. A lover of fine horses. 
 Married, in March 2, 1869, in the First Presbyterian Church at New Bruns- 
 wick, Helen W. Wyckoff, daughter of Peter N. Wyckoff and Emma H. Price. 
 Children: Florence, deceased, married Joel B. Harvey; Emma, married 
 Robert B. Strong; Ellen, married Rev. Jesse L. Durfee. Relatives among 
 Rutgers alumni: David Murray, 1873, of Delhi, N. Y., first cousin; Asher 
 Murray, 1879, of Delhi, first cousin; Norbury C. Murray, 1906, of East 
 Orange, second cousin; Rev. Jesse F. Durfee, 1910, son-in-law. Mr. Mur- 
 ray's great achievement was the success he made of his railroad contract 
 work, and especially his success in the establishment of the New Brunswick 
 trolley system. When a student in Delaware Academy, just before the break- 
 ing out of the Civil War, some Southern students there decided to tear down 
 the Stars and Stripes waving over the school. Mr. Murray and others learn- 
 ing of the plan, in their patriotism, resolved to thwart it. In the excitement 
 of the scuffle that ensued our young hero jumped off a high embankment 
 into the Delhi Creek and broke his right ankle, obliging him to use crutches 
 a year or so. After leaving school, and working for his father a couple of 
 years, he resolved to take a higher education and sought to enter West Point 
 Military Academy. Through his uncle, Prof. David Murray, of New Bruns- 
 wick, and Judge William Murray of Delhi, with the aid of Senator Roscoe 
 Conkling, he secured the appointment and passed his examinations, doing 
 exceptionally well in mathematics, but physically could not qualify, because 
 of his injured ankle, which was enlarged. 
 
 G. W. L. 
 
Scientific Non-Graduates 29 
 
 ROBERT HENDERSON ROBERTSON 
 331 Madison Avenue, New York City. 
 
 SON of Archibald Robertson and Elizabeth Henderson, the former of Scot- 
 tish parentage in New York, and the latter born in Perthshire, Scotland. 
 Born at Philadelphia, Pa., April 29, 1849. Educated in the schools of Phil- 
 adelphia — three or four years at the Gregory School and three years at the 
 Fitz-Hugh School. One year in Edinburgh, Scotland. Spent two years in 
 Rutgers College, in the Scientific Course and had the degree of B.A. con- 
 ferred in 1913, and A.M. in 1916. Was stroke of College boat crew, in 1868. 
 Member of the Delta Phi fraternity. Studied architecture in offices of George 
 B. Post, Henry Sims, and Edward Potter in New York City, from 1868 to 
 1872. Member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and later of Brick 
 Presbyterian Church. In politics, Republican. Recreation, golf, shooting 
 and fishing. Married, April 29th, 1873, to Miss Charlotte Markoe, daughter 
 of Dr. Thomas Markoe of New York City. Since leaving college has lived 
 in New York City in practice of his profession until 1914, when he retired. 
 Has one son, Thomas Markoe Robertson, born January 10, 1879. 
 
 J. H. 
 
 GEORGE CLARENCE TOWLE 
 
 417 George Street, New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 "DORN of Henry Towle, merchant, and Justina Funtman, at New Bruns- 
 ■*-' wick, September 22nd, 1849,. and has lived in New Brunswick and at 
 Highland Park, N. J. Received four years' education at private schools 
 and in the Grammar School. He played on the college baseball team against 
 Princeton, while at Rutgers Preparatory School. Was three years in college. 
 Charter member of the "Chi Phi fraternity." After college life lived at New- 
 ard, N. J., one year; Marseilles, 111., four years; Elizabeth, N. J., three years; 
 and ever since lived at Metuchen, N. J., where he now resides — Office 417 
 George St., New Brunswick, N. J. Has been a merchant and is now in the 
 real estate and insurance business. In politics, Republican. Married at 
 Cole's Creek, Pa., November 11th, 1889, to Clare R. Fritz, his first wife; 
 and at New Brunswick, N. J., March 3rd, 1915, to Anna Eastborn, his sec- 
 ond wife. His children are Marguerite J., born August 19, 1890; M. Sydnie, 
 November 24th, 1893; Clare F., October 18th, 1896; Annie K., May 31st, 
 1899; George C, jr., December 6th, 1900. One daughter married to L. B. 
 Van Dyke, August 19, 1913, who has two children. Among the alumni of 
 Rutgers College are his relatives, Charles T. Cowenhoven, 1862; C. S. See, 
 1867; L. K. Van Dyke, 1911, and C. T. Cowenhoven, jr., 1900. 
 
 W. E. G. 
 
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