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

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Biographies:

John Woodruff Conklin, clergyman, was born in Montville, N. J., Dec. 30, 1851; son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth J. (Woodruff) Conklin; and grandson of Stephen and Catherine (Tailor) Conklin, and of Archibald and Catherine (Johnson) Woodruff. His first American ancestor, Ananias Conklin, emigrated from Nottingham, England, about 1636 and settled in Salem, Mass., where he was the first manufacturer of glass in America. He afterward removed to Easthampton, L. I., N.Y. John W. Conklin was prepared for college at the Newark (N. J.) academy and was graduated from Rutgers college in 1871. He entered the .New Brunswick (N. J.) theological seminary of the Reformed church in America and was graduated in 1876. He engaged in preaching, 1876-80; was a missionary in the Arcot mission, India, 1881-90; acting secretary of the Board of foreign missions, 1890-92; and in 1895 he became a teacher in the Bible Normal college at Springfield, Mass. He was married in 1880 to Elizabeth Jane Lindsley. Rutgers college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in course in 1874.

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

Albert Stanburrough Cook, educator, was born at Montville, N. J., March 6, 1853; son of Frederick Weissenfels and Sarah (Barmore) Cook; grandson of Silas Cook; and a descendant of Ellis Cook, who lived at Southampton, L. I., between 1640 and 1650. He was graduated from Rutgers as B.S. in 1872, and was tutor in mathematics there, 1872-73. In 1877 he went to Germany and for a year studied the English language and literature in the universities of G?ttingen and Leipzig. He was associate in English at Johns Hopkins university, 1879-81, and in the latter year again went abroad, studying in London and at Jena, 1881-82. He held the chair of English in the University of California, 1882-89, and was president of the California teachers' association, 1887-88. He was Carew lecturer at Hartford theological school, 1890-91; president of the Modern language association of America, 1897, and professor of English language and literature in Yale university from 1889. He was elected a member of the national committee upon college entrance requirements in English, and did much to elevate the standard of instruction in English throughout California. He received from Rutgers the degrees of M. S. in 1875, M.A. in 1882, and L.H.D. in 1889; from Yale the degree of M.A. in 1889; from the University of Jena the degree of Ph.D. in 1882. He is the author of numerous contributions to periodicals, and published an edition of Sievers's Old English Grammar (1885-87); of Judith, an Old English Epic Fragment (1887-89); of Sidney's Defence of Poesy (1890); of Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America (1896); and of Tennyson's Princess (1897); besides numerous other textbooks.

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