Those by the first wife scattered to different parts of the country, while those of the second wife remained in Bergen County, inheriting all their mother's property, which was considerable. The eleventh of these children, Gerrit Newkirk (2d gen.), born at Bergen November 18, 1696, married September 5, 1730, Catrina, daughter of Hendrick Kuyper (Cooper). She died September 12, 1751. He died April 23, 1785. Their children of the third generation were four: Catrina, Janneke, Matthew, and Henry. Matthew (3d gen.) married Caroline, daughter of Arent Toers. He died July 10, 1811, leaving three children: Garret M., Aaron, and Henry.

Garret M. Newkirk (4th gen.), born at Bergen April 9, 1766, died August 28, 1832, married Polly Ackerman. They had six children: Catharine, Margaret, Sally, Sally, Henry, and Garret.

Garret G. Newkirk (5th gen.), born at Bergen October 17, 1808, married (1) October 25, 1828, Rachel, daughter of Halmigh Van Houten. She died December 1, 1835. He married (2) Jane Fowler, widow of Abram Tice. She died October 6, 1849. He married (3) September 6, 1851, Eliza Ann Beatty, daughter of George E. Beatty, born in 1820. His children by three wives were: two by first wife, ten by second wife, and four by third wife. One of these children is the subject of this sketch.

James S. Newkirk (6th gen.) inherited all the sturdy characteristics of his race and early displayed those intellectual qualities which have since won for him so much distinction in the affairs of life. He was educated in the common schools, at Columbian Academy, and at District School No. 1 in the Town of Bergen. He commenced his business career as clerk in the grocery store of Jacob Van Winkle, of Bergen Square, in 1865. Five years later, or in 1870, he entered the Provident Institution for Savings in Jersey City, with which he has ever since been actively identified, having filled important positions in all the departments up to and including the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, which he now holds.

Mr. Newkirk has not, however, aspired to public or political office, having devoted himself almost exclusively to business affairs. For five years he was a member of the Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J. He is a member of the Jersey City and Union League Clubs, of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Junior Order United American Mechanics.

Mr. Newkirk's first wife, Mary Elizabeth Terhune, died in 1878. In 1881 he married Annabella Meeker Randall, and they have four children of the seventh generation.

ALBERT Z. BOGERT, of River Edge, Bergen County, is descended from one of the oldest families in New Jersey. His first American ancestor, Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, came to America from Holland with his wife, Geesie Williams, a few years prior to 1661. He bought and settled on a village plot in Flatbush, L. I., which he subsequently sold to one Peter Jansen. In 1677 he was one of the patentees of the Flatbush patent. He resided at Flatbush until his death, about 1684. His children were Wyntie, John Cornelise, Classie, Roloff, Maritie, and Peter, all of whom, except Wyntie, eventually removed to Hackensack, N. J. His son Jan Cornelius (2) married Angenitie Strycker, and resided at New Lots, L. I., until 1694. when he sold his farm there and with several others purchased a large tract of land southeast of Hackensack. His numerous descendants have spread over the County of Bergen, and have exerted an important and

wholesome influence in shaping the affairs of the county, having been prominent in business, in the professions, and in all the walks of life, honored and respected for those noble virtues which characterize the Dutch, and energetic and enterprising in promoting every worthy object. Albert Z. Bogert, the subject of this sketch, is of the eighth generation from Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, the emigrant above named. His parents were Albert James Bogert and Catherine Aletta Zabriskie. His grandparents were John and Catharine Zabriskie Bogert and Albert G. and Sally Annie (Winters) Zabriskie. Mr. Bogert was born in Spring Valley, Bergen County, N. J., on the 14th of November, 1864. He received his education in the Bergen County schools, which he left at the age of nineteen to assist his father on the farm, where he remained five years. 1888 he settled permanently in River Edge and bought a half interest with P. V. B. Demarest in a large coal, lumber, and grocery business. A year later Mr. Demarest sold his interest to John H. Banta and the business was continued by Messrs. Bogert and Banta until 1892, when Mr. Banta died. Since that time Mr. Bogert has successfully continued it alone.

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Mr. Bogert's activity, enterprise, and influence in the community stamp him as one of the leading citizens, while his success in business has won for him a high reputation. He is a member of the Borough Council of the Borough of Riverside and of the Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, and active in various other capacities. In March, 1900, he was elected a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from Midland Township.

His wife, Anna Van Wagner, who was also descended from an old Holland Dutch family of New Jersey, died in 1892, leaving two children, James Gordon Bogert, born in 1888, and John W. Bogert, born in 1891.

JOHN J. BOGERT, the miller of Harrington Park, is a descendant in the ninth generation from Cornelis Jans Bougaert, the emigrant (see sketch on page 132). Stephen Bogert, of the seventh generation, son of Guilliam Bogert and Maria Banta, was born in 1753, married Sophia Alyea, and left issue a son, Jacobus (James) Bogert, of the eighth generation.

Jacobus Bogert (8) was born January 24, 1788, died March 6, 1871, married Jane Meyers, who was born February 13, 1794, and died May 7, 1873. They had several children of the ninth generation, among whom were John J., James, and Stephen.

Of these John J. (9), the eldest, married Margaret, daughter of John R. Blawvelt and Leah Demarest. Their issue, of the tenth generation were four children: Jane, Leah Ann, Elma, and John J., the latter being the subject of this sketch. John J. Bogert once raised a horse which he sold to Robert Bonner, of New York City, for $10,000.

John J. Bogert (10) was born December 6, 1846, at Harrington Park, N. J., where he still resides. He was educated in the Bergen County schools, which he left at the age of eighteen to engage in the milling business and in farming with his father. Upon his father's death in 1892 he took charge of the entire business and has since conducted it with marked success. During his active life he has wielded an important and wholesome influence in all local affairs.

Mr. Bogert married Hester Jemima Ackerman, and has four children: Eugene, Walter, Clyde A., and Mary L.

EDWIN BERKLEY YOUNG, a leading and successful real estate and insurance man of Union Hill, is descended from a distinguished family of United Empire royalists. The Youngs made the first settlement in Athol, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, at East Lake. Some historians claim they were the first settlers in that county. Certain it is they went there when the country was a forest, unbroken and practically unpenetrated by man, and out of the wilderness carved for themselves and their families a home which still remains in the possession of their descendants. Colonel Henry Young, born in Jamaica, Long Island, in 1737, was

the second son of six children of an English gunsmith, who came there from Nottingham at an early age, and who founded a family which has spread over this country and Canada. Some of his posterity still live on Long Island. Henry joined the British army when a young man, served with distinction for six years in the French and Indian wars under Generals Amherst and Abercrombie, and with the English participated in the battle of Bennington and in no less than seventeen other engagements against the continentals. For gallant services at Bennington he received an ensigncy in the King's Royal." His title of Colonel, by which he was popularly known, was conferred upon him by provincial appointment. At the

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close of the American Revolution he retired on half pay, and received a grant of 3,000 acres of land for himself and other tracts for various members of his family. His first residence in Canada was at Cataraqui. With a brother officer he set out in a canoe in 1783 and selected a site at East Lake in the Town of Athol. Thither he brought his family in the fall of 1784. He died there in his eighty-fourth year, leaving numerous descendants, many of whom became conspicuous in civil and official affairs. His four daughters. Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Sarah, married East Lake settlers and lived to be over eighty years of age. Of his two sons, Henry and Daniel, the former settled on the homestead, and as a soldier in the English army died at Kingston of cholera during the War of 1812. Richard Young, son of Henry, Sr., was a farmer in Athol, and married Nancy Van Vlackren, now spelled Van Vlack. Their son, William Henry Young, served in the Ontario militia during the Fenian raid, and is now a retired farmer living in Picton, Canada. He is a cousin of the Rev. George Young, D.D., President of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of Ontario. He married Sarah Jane Clark, daughter of Enoch Dorland Clark and Nancy Smith, of Ontario, who, like the Van Vlackrens, were descended from Holland Dutch stock. The family have long taken a leading part in the agricultural and military affairs of Ontario, and have always borne high reputations for honor and integrity.

Edwin B. Young, eldest son of William Henry Young and Sarah Jane Clark, was born in Athol Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1860. He attended the public schools and remained on the homestead until he reached the age of twenty-one, when, having received a good education, he came to New York City. His capital consisted of three or four dollars in money, a robust constitution, and indomitable pluck and courage. For a few months he was employed in various capacities. Becoming superintendent of the Grove Church Cemetery at New Durham, Hudson County, N. J., he took up his residence in the Town of Union, and has ever since been identified with its best interests. During the past nine years he has also been extensively interested in real estate in the town, and in 1896 he opened a general real estate and insurance office at 433 Bergenline Avenue, which he still conducts, and to which he devotes his entire attention, having resigned the superintendency of the Grove Church Cemetery in January, 1899. In addition to this he has lately established a mercantile collection agency, the first one of the kind on Union Hill.

Mr. Young has achieved marked success in real estate operations, and by untiring devotion to business has won the confidence and respect of the entire community. He is a genial, companionable, public spirited man, deeply interested in the general welfare, and always ready to respond to the demands of good citizenship. Progressive in all that the word implies, he has been active and influential in the advancement of the town, a liberal contributor to its growth and moral improvements, and ever alert in increasing its useful institutions. He was Secretary of the old Literary Society of the Town of Union, and later became one of the prime movers in organizing the Free Reading Room and Library Association, of which he was for many years Treasurer, and of which he was an original Director. It may be safely said that he was a founder and the chief organizer of this association, which succeeded the old Literary Society. Later a special act of the Legislature enabled the Town of Union, and other towns in the State, to levy a tax for the support of such institutions, and this association

has since been maintained by the public as a free library. In all of these movements Mr. Young was active and influential, and to him is due in a large degree the establishment of this institution. He is an ardent Democrat, a Justice of the Peace, and a prominent member of various fraternal and social organizations, including Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of New Jersey, of which he was for four years the Worshipful Master. He is also a member of the Scottish Rite bodies, 32°, of New York City, of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Masonic fraternity, and of the Royal Arcanum. In September, 1899, he was elected Most Worthy Grand Patron of the Order of the Eastern Star of New Jersey, and in the spring of 1900 he was one of the organizers of the Past Masters' Association of Hudson County, of which he was elected the first President.

Mr. Young's brother, George Alfred Young, was born May 14, 1869, came to New Jersey when seventeen, and is now head bookkeeper for the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution of West Hoboken. He is a member and Worshipful Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M.

Mr. Young was married October 10, 1883, to Henrietta Bell, daughter of Henry and Ellen (Westerfield) Bell, of the Town of Union. Her father was born near Liverpool, England, while her mother was descended from an old Holland Dutch family. They have three sons: Edwin Henry, Ralph Percy, and Herbert Eldred.

ROBERT CAMPBELL DIXON, JR., one of the leading architects of Union Hill and Eastern New Jersey, is of English and Scotch parentage, being the son of Robert and Margaret (Campbell) Dixon and a grandson of Robert Dixon, Sr., and Hannah Lawson. His maternal grandparents were John and Isabel (Anderson) Campbell. His father was born in Nicholforest, Cumberland, England, and his mother in Perthshire, Scotland. Some of his ancestors were prominently engaged in the East India service, others filled important positions of trust, one branch had a representative in the English Parliament in the person of Sir Wilfred Lawson, and others occupied posts in the Church of England. The Dixon and Lawson families have been for generations conspicuous in civil, military, governmental, and professional affairs, contributing to their respective communities a wholesome influence, and achieving for themselves distinction as men of learning and ability.

Mr. Dixon was born in New York City on the 15th of May, 1857. He attended the public schools of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., until he reached the age of about fourteen, and afterward pursued his studies in private schools, developing a naturally strong and brilliant intellect, and laying the foundation for an honorable career. He completed his literary education at Riverview Military Academy and finished with a business course, graduating from Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie. A large part of his early education was intended to fit him for a military career, but he turned his attention to architecture, and in the early part of 1876 entered the office of D. & J. Jardine, architects, of New York City, as a student. He continued with them a little over four years, after which he was for a brief period in the office of J. C. Cady & Co. In 1883, having received important work in competition, Mr. Dixon engaged in business for himself as a practical architect, and has ever since been devoted to his profession, achieving marked success and a notable reputation. He has had an office in New York City for about fourteen years, and many important public and private buildings have been erected from his designs. The town hall, the Palma and Columbia