History of Bloomfield, (Essex County) New Jersey United States of America

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Amzi Dodd, jurist, was born in Bloomfield, N.J., March 2, 1823; son of Dr. Joseph S. and Maria (Grover) Dodd, grandson of Gen. John Dodd and a lineal descendant of Daniel Dod, who emigrated from England to Bradford, Conn., in 1646 and died in 1665. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey as the first honor man in 1841; taught school; studied law, and was licensed as an attorney in 1848. He associated himself with Frederick T. Frelinghuysen of Newark, N.J., in the practice of his profession, and was clerk of the common council of Newark, 1850-53. He was the unsuccessful candidate of the newly formed Republican party for representative in the 35th congress in 1856, was elected to the state assembly in 1863 and the same year became mathematician of the Mutual benefit life insurance company as successor to Joseph P. Bradley, afterward associate justice of the U.S. supreme court. In 1871 he was appointed by Governor Randolph vice-chancellor of the state, serving 1872-75, and in 1872 by Governor Parker a special judge of the court of errors and appeals. He was reappointed by Governor McClellan in 1878 and resigned in 1882. He was a member of the riparian commission, 1875-87; a manager of the New Jersey soldiers' home from 1876 by appointment of the supreme court of the state; again vice-chancellor, 1881-82, and president of the Mutual benefit life insurance company from 1882. He was married in 1852 to Jane, daughter of William France.

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

Moses Woodruff Dodd, publisher, was born in Bloomfield, N.J., Nov. 11, 1813. He was graduated at Princeton college in 1837. From 1839 to 1869 be conducted a publishing business in New York city, which was the foundation of the house known afterward as Dodd, Mead & Co. He died in New York city, April 8, 1899.

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

George Duffield, clergyman, was born at Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 12, 1818, son of the Rev. George and Isabella Graham (Bethune) Duffield. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, and at Union theological seminary in 1840, being ordained a Presbyterian clergyman, Dec. 27, 1840. He was pastor in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1840-47; Bloomfield, N.J., 1847-52, Philadelphia, Pa., 1852-61; Adrian, Mich., 1861-65; Saginaw City, Mich., 1869-77; Lansing, Mich., 1877-80, and resided without charge in Detroit, Mich., 1884-87. He removed to Bloomfield N.J., in 1887 and remained there until his death. Knox college conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1871. He wrote the hymns: Blest Saviour, Thee I Love (1851); Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus (1858); and many others. He died at Bloomfield, N.J., July 6, 1888.

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

John Steinfort Kedney, educator, was born in Bloomfield, N.J., Feb. 12, 1819; son of Henry S. and Marin R. (Algood) Kedney. His great2 grandfather, John Kedney, emigrated from the Island of Barbadoes about 1650, and settled in Albany, N.Y. His great grandfather, John Kedney, moved to New Jersey and settled at Bloomfield. His grandfather, John Kedney, was a partisan captain during the Revolution. His father removed to New York city and engaged in the mercantile business. John S. Kedney was prepared for college at the Mount Pleasant academy, Sing Sing, N.Y. In 1835 he entered the law office of James W. Gerard, New York city, but after a year and a half went to Union college, where he was graduated in 1838; then entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, in New York city, where he was graduated in 1841. He was ordained deacon in September, 1841, by the Rt. Rev. B.T. Onderdonk, of New York, and priest by the Rt. Rev. L. S. Ives, in Lincolnton, N.C., July, 1843, and held various pastorates in North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina, until 1871, when he accepted the professorship of divinity in the Seabury Divinity school, Faribault, Minn. Union and Trinity conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1841 and 1856 respectively, and Hobart and Racine that of D.D. in 1872. Dr. Kedney was a deputy to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1874, 1889 and 1892, and a member of the special commission appointed by the convention of 1892 to revise and publish the standard edition of the Book of Common Prayer. He is the author of: Catawba River and other Poems (1855); The Beautiful and the Sublime (1880); Hegel's ?sthetics, a critical exposition (1885); Christian Doctrine Harmonized (1889); Mens Christi (1891); Problems in Ethics (1900).

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