History of Madison, (Morris County) New Jersey United States of America

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George Richard Crooks, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1822. He was graduated at Dickinson college in 1840; was assistant in the grammar school of Dickinson college, 1841-43; principal, 1843-45; and adjunct professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson college, 1846-47. He then officiated as pastor of various M.E. churches in the Philadelphia conference, 1848-57; in the New York east conference, 1857-76; and in the New York conference, 1876-81. He was editor of the New York Methodist, 1860-75, and professor of historical theology in Drew theological seminary, 1881-97. He was married, July 10, 1846, to Susan Frances, daughter of John Emory, M.E. bishop. He received from Dickinson college the degree of D.D. in 1857 and that of LL.D. in 1873. He is the author of First Book in Latin (1846); First Book in Greek (1847); Butler's Analogy with analysis of the work, notes, index and life of Butler (1852); Latin-English Lexicon with Professor Ichem (1858); Life of the Rev. Dr. John McClintock (1876); Sermons of Bishop Matthew Simpson edited from Shorthand Reports (1885); Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson (1890); and The History of the Christian Church (1898). He was also joint editor with Bishop Hurst of Theological Encyclopcedia and Methodology (1884). He died at Madison, N.J., Feb. 20, 1897.

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

John Miley, educator, was born in Butler county, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1814. He was graduated at Augusta college, Kentucky, A.B., 1884, A.M., 1837, and entered the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1838. He was married to Olive C. Patterson of Batavia, Ohio, who died in 1874. He was pastor at Batavia and Cincinnati, 1838-39; at Hamilton, 1840; at Chillicothe, 1841-42; at Columbus, 1843-44; at Zanesville, 1845-46; of Wesley Chapel, Cincinnati, 1847; was professor at Wesley Female college, 1848-49, and pastor of Morris Chapel, Cincinnati, 1850-51. He then went to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was pastor of the Pacific Street church, 1852-53; the South Second Street church, 1854-55; and the Sands Street church, 1856-57; and he was stationed at Danbury, Conn., 1858-59; at the Forsyth Street church, New York city, 1860-61; at Bridgeport and New Rochelle, N.Y., 1862-95; at Trinity church, Newburgh, N.Y., 1866-68; at Sing Sing, 1869-71; at St. Paul's, Peekskill, 1872-73, and in 1873 became professor of systematic theology in Drew Theological seminary, Madison, N.J. He was a member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1864, 1872, 1876, 1888 and 1892; of the Centennial Methodist conference in 1884, where he presented a paper on the work of the Christmas Conference of 1784, and was a fraternal delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1887. He received the degree of D.D. in 1858 and LL.D. in 1881 from Ohio Wesleyan university. He is the author of The Atonement in Christ (1879); Systematic Theology (2 vols., 1892-94), and contributions to church periodicals. He died at Madison, N.J., Dec. 18, 1896.

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

Phoebe Ann Sayre Osborne, educator, was born in Madison, N.J., March 14, 1812; daughter of Baxter and Elizabeth (Kitchell) Sayre; granddaughter of Deacon Ephraim Sayre (born 1746) and of Aaron Kitchell , and a descendant of Thomas Sayre, born in Bedfordshire, England, 1597, a Puritan refugee to America about 1635, and of Robert Kitchell, born in England in 1604, and prominent in the Guilford settlement in Connecticut, 1639. Phoebe Osborne was well educated and in 1828, with her sister, Elizabeth Kitchell, born in 1814, removed to New York city, where they devoted their time and liberal means to charitable work. The sisters founded and became teachers in the charity mission known as the "Ragged school," established at Five Points in 1830, and conducted with marked success. In 1836 they were prominent in inducing the city council to open public schools, Number 1 for boys and Number 2 for girls, the first public schools in the city, and they were engaged as the first teachers, Phoebe teaching the boys and her sister Elizabeth the girls. Phoebe continued to teach until 1835, when she was married to Milo Osborne of Lenox, Mass. and devoted herself to domestic life. In 1873 she removed to Chicago, Ill., where she died, Jan. 20, 1897.

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