History of Mount Holly, (Burlington County) New Jersey United States of America

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Samuel Miller, clergyman, was born at Princeton, N.J., Jan. 23, 1816; son of the Rev. Samuel and Sarah (Sergeant) Miller. His uncle, Dr. Edward Miller (1760-1812) was, with Drs. Smith and Mitchell, founder of the Medical Repository, New York, 1797, and was professor of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1807. Samuel was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1836; was tutor there, 1835-36; studied law, was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and practised there until 1841, when he ended Princeton Theological seminary. He was graduated in 1844; was ordained evangelist by the presbytery of New Brunswick, Oct. 5, 1844; was stated supply at Mount Holly, N.J., 1845-50, and pastor there, 1850-73; also served as a stated supply at Columbus, 1845-65, and at Tuckerton and Bass River, N.J., 1858-62, and was pastor at Oceanic, 1880-83. He was principal of the West Jersey Collegiate institute at Mount Holly, 1845-57. He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1864, and was a director of the Princeton Theological seminary, 1869-83. His brother, Elihu Spencer (1817-1879), was a well known lawyer, law editor and author in Philadelphia. Dr. Miller published a Report of the Presbyterian Church Case (1840), and Life and Writings of the Rev. Samuel Miller, his father (2 vols., 1869). He died at Mount Holly, N.J., Oct. 12, 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Benjamin Nicholas Martin, educator, was born in Mount Holly, N.J., Oct. 20, 1816; son of John Peter and Isabella (Innes) Martin. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840, and from the New Haven Theological seminary in 1840. He was married, July 1, 1841, to Louisa C., daughter of Daniel Stroebel. She died in April, 1883. He was pastor of the Congregational church, Hadley, Mass., 1842-47; Fourth Presbyterian church, Albany, N.Y., 1850-51; devoted himself to study, 1851-53, and was professor of intellectual philosophy, history and belles-lettres at the University of the City of New York, 1853-83. He was a member of the Evangelical Alliance, the American and Foreign Christian Union, the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and the New York Academy of Science. He received the degrees of S.T.D. from Columbia, 1862, and L.H.D. from the University of the State of New York, 1869. He is the author of: Choice Specimens of American Literature (1871, 2d ed., 1875) and contributions to leading periodicals. He died in New York city, Dec. 26. 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Gamaliel Bailey, abolitionist, was born in Mount Holly, N.J., Dec. 3, 1807. He was graduated in medicine in 1828, served as ship's doctor on a voyage to China and engaged in newspaper work on the Methodist Protestant at Baltimore, Md. He was a hospital surgeon at Cincinnati, Ohio, during the cholera outbreak in 1831, where he became an abolitionist and sympathized with the anti-slavery agitation among the students of Lane seminary, which resulted in the resignation of Lyman Beecher and many students, and the founding of Oberlin college. In 1836 in connection with James G. Birney, he established the Cincinnati Philanthropist, to advocate unconditional emancipation. Of this journal he became chief editor. It was the earliest anti-slavery organ in the west, and was regularly issued every week for seven years, although on three distinct occasions its office was raided by a mob, and its type and material were scattered or destroyed. In 1846 he was selected by the American anti-slavery society to conduct the National Era, a new abolition organ issued in Washington, D.C. In the management of this journal he showed rare editorial ability; and he was zealously seconded by the ablest writers in the anti-slavery ranks, among whom was Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first published in the National Era. The journal attained a wide circulation, and had a prosperous career, though its office was several times threatened with destruction. In 1848 it was for three days besieged by a mob, which was only finally dispersed by the remarkable coolness and address of Mr. Bailey. He died before he could see the consummation of the great agitation he had been largely instrumental in arousing. His death occurred at sea, June 5, 1859.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Frank Parsons, economist, was born at Mt. Holly, N.J., Nov. 14, 1854; son of Edward and Alice B. (Rhees) Parsons; grandson of Richard and Elizabeth (Huchens) Parsons and of John Loxley and Rebecca (McElwee) Rhees, and a descendant of the Rev. Morgan John and Anna (Loxley) Rhees and of Col. Benjamin Loxley, a Revolutionary patriot. He was graduated from Cornell, B.C.E., 1873; engaged in railway engineering, 1873; worked in a rolling mill, 1874; taught a district school, and afterward French, mathematics and drawing in the high school, Southbridge, Mass., 1874-81. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, 1881; was in New Mexico in the railroad business, 1881-84; was employed as chief clerk by a leading Boston law firm, and engaged as a legal text writer for Little, Brown & Co., 1885-97. In 1890 he obtained a lectureship in Boston University Law school, and was a member of the faculty of the Boston Y.M.C.A., lecturing on English literature. He lectured on economics and sociology, and was professor of history and political science in the Kansas Agricultural college, 1897-99, and in 1899 assumed the same chair in Ruskin college, Trenton, Mo. In 1900 he was called to testify on railways before the U.S. senate committee on interstate commerce, and the next year the U.S. Industrial commission sent for him to testify on railways, telegraphs, telephones and municipal monopolies. In 1901-02 he spent about eight months traveling in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium and through the United States, studying railways, co?perative industry, municipal monopolies, government and labor conditions in preparation for works on transportation, co?peration and municipal government. In 1902 he lectured in the leading cities of the west under the auspices of the Chicago University association. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Social Science association and other organizations; became president of the National Public Ownership league and of the National Referendum league; director of the Co-Workers' fraternity, and vice-chairman of the National Non-Partisan Federation for Majority Rule. He is the author of: The World's Best Books (1892); Our Country's Need (1894); The Drift of Our Time (1898); Rational Money (1899); The New Political Economy (1899); The Power of the Ideal (1899); The City for the People (1900 and 1902); Direct Legislation (1900); The Bondage of Cities (1900); Great Movements of the Nineteenth Century (1901); Public Ownership (1902), and many contributions to periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor