History of Shrewsbury, (Monmouth County) New Jersey United States of America

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John Eatton Le conte, naturalist, was born near Shrewsbury, N.J., Feb. 22, 1784; son of John Eatton and Jane (Sloan) Le Conte. He studied botany with his brother Lewis in New York city, entered Columbia college, but was obliged to leave before his course was completed on account of a severe illness from which he never fully recovered. He entered the army as assistant topographical engineer with the rank of captain, and during the war of 1812 he placed the city of Savannah under defence from the ingress of the enemy; and was subsequently charged With the survey of the Savannah river, and of the harbors of the cities of New York and Portsmouth, N.H. He was brevetted major for faithful service, April 18, 1828, and resigned from the army, Aug. 20, 1831. He was married, July 22, 1821, to Mary Anne Hampton Lawrence. He was a fellow of the Linn?an society of London, and of several other learned societies in England and France; and vice-president of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He made an extensive collection of American insects and plants illustrating many of them in water color. He is the author of several papers on mammals, reptiles, batrachians, and crustacea. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 21, 1860.

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

Lewis Le conte, naturalist, was born near Shrewsbury, N.J., Aug. 4, 1782; son of John Eatton and Jane (Sloan) Le Conte, and grandson of Pierre and Valerin (Eatton) Le Conte the first ancestor in America, Guillaume Le Conte, a French Huguenot, emigrated in 1698 and settled first in New Rochelle and afterward in New York city. In New Rochelle he was married, Feb. 16, 1701, to Marguerite, daughter of Pierre Joyeulx de Vallean of Martinique. Lewis Le Conte wan graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1799, and studied medicine with Dr. David Hosack. He removed to Georgia and took charge of the family estate "Woodmanston," Liberty county. He established a botanical garden and a chemical laboratory on his plantation and devoted his spare time to scientific pursuits. Mr. Le Conte published nothing, but gave the product of his researches to the contemporary botanists of South Carolina. He also interested himself in mathematics, devoting much attention to magic squares. He was married, Jan. 30, 1812, to Ann Quarterman, a descendant from the English Puritan colony that settled in Midway, afterward named Liberty county, Georgia, because it was the first settlement in Georgia to raise the flag of independence in the Revolutionary war. While dressing a wound for a member of his family, poison was taken into his system from which he died, at "Woodmanston," Ga., Jan. 9, 1838.

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