History of Cedarville, (Cumberland County) New Jersey United States of America

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Ephraim Bateman, senator, was born at Cedarville, N.J., in 1770. He studied and practised medicine in his native town, and for a number of years served in the state senate. He was elected a representative to the 14th Congress on the Democratic ticket, and was re-elected to the 15th, 16th, and 17th congresses. On Dec. 7, 1826, having received an equal number of votes with Theodore Frelinghuysen in the election for United States senator to fill the vacancy left by the death of Senator McIlvaine, Mr. Bateman made himself senator, his position as president of the council of the state legislature giving him the casting vote. The incident caused much discussion, but the senate afterwards declared his action to be perfectly legal..He died at Cedarville, N.J., Jan. 29, 1829.

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

Theodore Sutton Parvin, educator, was born in Cedarville, N.J., Jan. 15, 1817; son of Josiah and Lydia (Harris) Parvin. Josiah Parvin served as an aide to General Origen in the war of 1812, and his father was a Revolutionary soldier. Theodore Parvin removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, with his parents in 1829, was graduated at Woodward college in 1836, and at the Cincinnati Law school in 1837. He began practice in Burlington, Iowa, in 1838, and was private secretary to Gov. Robert Lucas and territorial librarian, purchasing the first books that formed the nucleus of the Iowa state library with an appropriation of $5,000 made by congress. He was district attorney for the middle district of Iowa, 1839-41. He removed to Muscatine in 1840; was secretary of the legislative council, 1840-41; probate judge 1841-47, and clerk of the U.S. district court, 1846-56. He was county judge, 1848-50; register of the state land office, 1857-59; librarian and curator of the Iowa State university, 1858-70; professor of natural history, 1860-70, and professor of political economy there, 1867-70. In 1844 be founded the Iowa Masonic library, and was its first librarian, the building being erected in 1884. He was secretary of the Iowa State Historical society, 1864-66; organizer of the Iowa State Teachers' association in 1854, and its president in 1867; president of the school board of Muscatine in 1855, and later of the school board of Iowa City. He was also a founder of the state library society in 1890, and its president, 1892-94, and a member of the Pioneer Law Makers' association. He was married, May 17, 1843, to Agnes, daughter of George and Nancy (Barton) McCully of Muscatine, Iowa. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Miami university in 1861, and that of LL.D. from the Iowa State university in 1894. He edited the Historical Annals of Iowa, the Annals of Iowa Masonry, the Western Freemason (1859-60): the Evergreen (1871-72), and the Transactions of the Knights Templar (1871-86). He is the author of: The Newspaper Press of Iowa, 1836-46; History of Iowa (1877); History of Templary in the United States (1877); History of the Early Schools of Iowa, 1830-59 (1889).

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