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No mention of The Bloomer Brothers Elisha & Anderson who lived in Bergen County and sailed sloops on the Hudson river. Also John Crum who was a captain.
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This Genealogical History is amazingly lucid and complete. In some instances, such as the Demarest Family, it covers nine generations of an ancestor. Very valuable. Many portraits of prominent people.
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Page 52 - ... remained in Troy for seven years, then removing to Albany, where he established the firm of Erastus Corning & Co., hardware merchants. He held several local offices in Albany, among them alderman, and mayor (183437), and was also prominently identified with the financial interests of the city. In 1842 he was elected state senator and served three years. He was a representative in the 35th congress. 1857-59; was defeated for the 36th and elected to the 37th congress. He was re-elected to the 38th...
Page 200 - June, 1882, when he was graduated to the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of...
Page 7 - That in the eastern division, the county of Bergen shall begin at Constable's hook, and so run up along the bay and Hudson's river to the partition point between New Jersey and the province of New York ; and so run along the partition line between the provinces, and the division line of the eastern and western division of this province, to Pequaneck river; and so run down the said Pequaneck and Passaick river to the sound ; and so to follow the sound to Constable's hook, where it began.
Page 413 - TO THE WEST ! TO THE WEST ! TO the West.! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil.
Page 371 - Masonic fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the North Reformed Church of Newark, and in all the relations of life has achieved both success and honor.
Page 82 - WE bid thee welcome in the name Of Jesus, our exalted Head ; Come as a servant : so he came, And we receive thee in his stead. 2 Come as a shepherd ; guard and keep This fold from hell, and earth, and sin.; Nourish the lambs, and feed the sheep, The wounded heal, the lost bring in. 3 Come as a teacher, sent from God, Charged his whole...
Page 347 - Society, and a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, the New York State Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the American Medical Association. He was appointed by Governor Griggs one of the managers of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Morris Plains, and is surgeon for the Erie Bailroad.
Page 595 - I received the degree of doctor of medicine from the college of physicians and surgeons, Baltimore (University of Maryland) in 1896.
Page 535 - In the year 1842 he became the founder of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men...
Page 110 - The insignia of the Veterans of the Mexican War. the Military Order of the Loyal Legion...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey |
| Author | Cornelius Burnham Harvey |
| Editor | Cornelius Burnham Harvey |
| Publisher | New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 617 pages |
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