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HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST
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GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORIC-BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
WILLIAM NELSON, EDITOR,
AUTHOR OF "TIIE INDIANS OF NEW JERSEY." ETC.:
EDITOR OF TIIE "NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES."
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. III.
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
1902
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.rts. His wife, who bore the
member of the supreme lodge. Since 1898 he has been a member of Capt. Conover
iah, Georgia, was married in
Post, G. A. R., No. 63, of Freehold.
s education and after A son of Mr. Green was a member of Company G, Second Regiment, New
putting Jersey Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American war.
nce business, establishing an
•t, where he is now en Mr. Green resides in a beautiful and commodious residence in the town of
gaged Freehold, where he has lived for the past ten years.
t real estate transfers while •
etter informed. He is also •
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companies, and writes con-
:ally increasing his income. ,11
ny of Canada, New CHARLES H.• LUM. - i i
Jersey, ,i'
as to make it produce theu'
One of Ud Bank's prosperous farmers is Charles H. Lum. the subject of this - l
iss Adelia Cooper, a daugh- brief sketch. He resides on part of what is well known in that section as the "Grover
eir children are Sue, Anna Homestead." and while the house was built in 1730, it is in a fine state of preservation,
and is one of the picturesque landmarks of the place, being situated on the road
ed with the Royal Arcanum
Bridge; in his political views leading from Red Bank to Lincroft.
Abridge township, Middle- Mr. Lunt was born in Sandusky, Ohio, on August 2, 1853, the son of Henry B. i,
and Louisa R. Lum. When our subject was thirteen yeare of age, in the year 1866;
tterested in everything per-
his parents removed to New Jersey, and in 1877 purchased part of the old homestead,
containing fifty acres. While in the west Mr. Henry B. Lum, the father of our sub= I
ject, was engaged as a nurseryman. In early life he taught school, and during the , '
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gold fever in California was on the Pacific coast, where he very successfully engaged !1'
in the bakery trade. He twice entered the matrimonial state, his first wife dying
in 1863, his second wife in 1892; he, himself, passed away in 1895.
• 't Charles H. Lum was reared.and educated in the public schools of Ohio. He
morn on a farm in upper
#, early evinced a strong tendency for agricultural pursuits, in which he has been
the son of Hugh Green-.
in the township of Free closely interested all his life. In 1882 he went to Florida, where he bought a tract ,
:yin years of age and for of land covering Soo acres; here he remained for eight years, giving his attention
to the cultivation of cocoanuts and various other fruits and vegetables. During his
y the family expenses; it
brief stay in that country, he became so popular that he received the appointment
of the family of children.
of county superintendent of schools and was further honored by being made super-
and at twelve years of age ti
!ars he worked in the old . visor of registration, as well as other offices of minor importance. He returned
n•Green,as a lad and later to New Jersey in 1890.
mounding country, either His marriage to Effie, daughter of James C. and Rachel (Smith) Grover, oc-
Ie with chisel and mallet r curred on September 24. 1886; their only child is Annie L., who was born Septem-
ber 19, I88.
eft his employer and en- r
Mrs. Effie Lum is the great-granddaughter of James Grover, to whom the Grover
t was discharged in three f' estate descended from an uncle, another James, on condition that he marry at the
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age of eighteen years; this stipulation was complied with, his wife being a Miss I
An effort was then made 'i
the army service. The Deborah, at the time of her marriage sixteen years of age. She was the daughter of 11
-n ned to Mrlborough and -`. William Voorhees. Their family consisted of twelve children, nine of whom arrived
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at maturity and occupied honorable positions in society.
y C. Crawford, of Free- James, the first owner of this extensive property, received a grant of 600 acres
Ellanora, who married4-1
:' from King James II. On this land he built the house (in 1730) now occupied by his
Then Glrrettson; Addie, great-great-grandniece, Mrs. Lum. 4
James C. Grover,the father of Mrs. Lum, is the grandson of the aforesaid James,
n Storey; Atm G., who
and great-grand-nephew to the original James, who was, it is scarcely necessary to say,
her.James C. Crawford,
a native of England. Mr. Grover was born in Princeton, New Jersey, but spent many
of the Dutch Reformed
:nights of Golden Eagle years of his life on the old homestead. He finally purchased 120 aores Of the
original tract, which he cultivated to a high state of perfection. He was a man
hief of the lodge, and a
." of more than ordinary intelligence. having spent his early years in teaching, and was I
peculiarly endowed with noble principles and high minded conceptions of life, which
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no doubt were ingrafted into his nature through the blood of his Quaker ancestry.
His family consisted of ten children, namely, Deborah S., Emily. Joseph (deceased),
Charles (deceased), Alice, Anna (deceased), J. Stillwell, Cornelia, Minnie (de-
ceased) and Effie. Mr. Grover was born December 2. 1816, and died February 22,
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1873. His wife was born October 25, 1825, dying on February 8. 'Sgt. They were
members of the Baptist church, to which denomination Mr. and Mrs. Lum also belong.
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EDMUND THROCKMORTON WOOLLEY. - �' �;?: •
Edmund Throckmorton Woolley, justice of the peace of Monmouth county, x .�
was born in Shrewsbury township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, July 18, 1825.
His parents were Joseph and Hannah (Williams) Woolley, natives of Monmouth
county, and descendants of the early Quaker settlers of New Jersey. Joseph Woolley
was a leading agriculturist of Shrewsbury township, a stalwart Whig and subse •
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quently a Republican, a consistent member of the Society of Friends, as was his
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wife, to whom he was married in the old Quaker Meeting House at Shrewsbury
'about 182o; be died in 1872, his wife in 1878. Of their children but two survive,
namely: Edmund T. Woolley; and Elizabeth H., widow of Hubbard Dennis, who
was for many years a harness maker at Eatontown, Monmouth county.
E. T. Woolley received his initial schooling at Shrewsbury, this being supple-
mented by attendance at the Friends' School. \Vesttown, Pennsylvania. After four _• •
years' association in mechanical pursuits with an uncle, Robert Wardell, in a gen-
eral store at Eatontown. he entered the service of the New
Jersey Southern Rail-
road Company, with which he continued to be identified in various capacities for a
period of twenty years. During nine years of this time he was foreman for the
company at Sandy Hook; was then Adams Express Company's agent and baggage
master in the steamer service connected with the road. Following this and up to
1888 he was in the exclusive employ of the Adams Express Company as train mes-
senger. In the last mentioned year he was installed by the Adams Express Com-
pany as clerk in.their Red Bank office, where he remained until 1893, then resign-
ing to assume the duties of justice of the peace, to which office he had been elected
by the Republican party in 1886. He was re-elected to the same office in 'got.
Mr. Woolley has filled all of the large offices of the Knights of Pythias and is
a member of the grand lodge of the state of New Jersey. He was married April 3.
1848, to Palmyra, daughter of the late Thomas Riddle, an early packet captain of
New Jersey. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Woolley nine survive.
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JAMES J. FLYNN.
One of the prominent and reliable business citizens of Perth Amboy. New Jersey,
is James J. Flynn. undertaker and embalmer. He is a native of Middlesex county,
and was born in Perth Amboy. in 1871, and was a son of Patrick and Elizabeth
Flynn. �C�
Mr. Flynn acquired a good common school education in the schools of his native
borough and after finishing the coarse learned the trade of tinsmith, following it
for eight years and becoming thoroughly proficient. At the expiration of thii period
he became connected with the undertaking business in the establishment of Thomas