CIVIL WAR NEW JERSEY SLAVERY ABOLITIONIST JUDGE PARKER/KEASBEY DOCUMENT SIGNED

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CORTLANDT PARKER

(1818 - 1907)

ONEOF THE FOREMOST 19th CENTURY JURISTS OF NEW JERSEY,

CIVILWAR REPUBLICAN SLAVERY ABOLITIONIST

CIVILWAR ERA ESSEX COUNTY, NJ PROSECUTOR APPOINTED BY NJ GOVERNOR NEWELL

Parkerserved with a commission appointed to settle the Delaware boundary dispute, andwas appointed by President Grant to preside over the hearing of theTilden-Hayes controversy in New Orleans. He refused to serve as Ambassador toRussia, offered him by President Hayes, as well as Minister at Vienna, offeredto him by President Arthur! He also refused two Judgeships – one on the NewJersey Supreme bench and the other to preside over the Court of Alabama Claims.

-AND-

ANTHONY Q. KEASBEY

(1824 – 1895)

UNITEDSTATES ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN,JOHNSON and GRANT 1861-1886

LAWPARTNER WITH CORTLANDT PARKER!

-AND-

THOMAS V. ARROWSMITH

(1815-1883)

NEW JERSEY CIVIL WAR CAPTAIN fromMONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY IN THE 8th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY,

NJ STEAMBOAT CAPTAIN,

JUDGE/MASTER IN CHANCERY IN THE NJCOURTS

BROTHER of KIA COLONEL GEORGEARROWSMITH – KILLED IN ACTION BY A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEAD AT THE BATTLE ofGETTYSBURG!

HERE’s A DOCUMENTSIGNED BY PARKER, KEASBEY and ARROWSMITH -

A 4pp. Indenturedocument describing the sale of beachfront property in Ocean Township, MonmouthCounty, New Jersey on Ocean Avenue between Anthony Q. Keasbey, Daniel Dodd andWilliam H. Draper. The document is datedJuly 27, 1876.

The Document is also signed by DANIEL DODD (1817-1895), a Newark, NJ lawyer, Banker, Corporate Executive and City Alderman, who was later indicted for mismanagement of the Newark Savings Institution in 1885!

The Document measures 8½”x 14” and is in very fine condition.

ARARE ADDITION TO ANY NEW JERSEY POLITICAL and JUDICIAL HISTORY AUTOGRAPH,MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION.

Biographies and Obituary of the Honorable

Cortlandt Parker

CortlandtParker DeadFamous Jersey Jurist Refused Many High Federal AppointmentsCortlandt Parker,89 years old, one of the foremost jurist of New Jersey, whose father, JamesParker, was also a noted New Jersey legislator and public man, died on Mondaynight at his home, 586 Broad Street, Newark.When he retired a few years ago, Mr. Parker was the oldest practitioner at theNew Jersey bar and one of the most famous. He was connected with many publicquestions affecting both New Jersey and the Nation.Cortlandt Parker was born in 1818 at Perth Amboy, New Jersey\'s capital inRevolutionary days. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 1836 at the age of18. Some of his classmates were Associate Justice Joseph P. Bradley of theUnited States Supreme Court, FrederickT. Frelinghuysen, United States Senator from NewJersey and Secretary of State under President Arthur, and WilliamA. Newell, Governor of New Jersey from 1857 to 1860. Hestudied law with Theodore Frelinghuysen, an uncle of his classmate, in Newark,and was admitted to the bar in 1839.At 21 he plunged into politics and worked stoutly for the men and the party hefavored. He was an ardent Whig then. Young, he had to fight hard to make somepreliminary successes in the law, but succeeded through being a good\"mixer.\" He got the jovial parker manner from his father.In 1844 TheodoreFrelinghuysen, his old preceptor, was a running mate with HenryClay on the Whig ticket, and Mr. Parker stumped the State for this Presidentialticket. He felt deeply on the slave question, and, dissatisfied with theposition of the Whigs, joined the Republican Party, and the abolitionist cause.He was a staunch Republican from that time until his death.He was Public Prosecutor of Essex County from 1857 to 1867. He served with acommission appointed to settle the Delaware boundary dispute; was appointed byPresident Grant to preside over the hearing of the Tilden-Hayes controversy inNew Orleans; declined to serve as Minister to Russia, which position wasoffered him by President Hayes; declined to serve as Minister at Vienna, whichwas offered to him by President Arthur, and refused two Judgeships – one on theNew Jersey Supreme bench and the other to preside over the Court of AlabamaClaims.Mr. Parker was a member of the American, New Jersey, and Essex County BarAssociations, of each of which he was President. Many of his public addresseswere published.He leaves six sons, two daughters, and a grandson, Malcolm Campbell, amidshipman in the navy. The sons are Congressman R. Wayne Parker, James Parker,Cortlandt Parker, Jr., Charles W. Parker, Chauncey D. Parker, and Robert M.Parker. The daughters are Mrs. W. D. Beekman of New York and Mrs. Henry Parkmanof Boston. Mrs. Parker died last January, after nearly sixty years of marriedlife.~ The New York Times, Weds., 31 Jul Parker, son of Hon. JamesParker, was born at Perth Amboy, June 1818. At the age of fourteen he had madeall the progress in his studies that was requisite in order to enter thefreshmen class in Rutgers College, New Jersey, where the examinations in thosedays were proverbially rigid. In this institution he remained four years, andat their expiration in 1836, was graduated with the first honor, and deliveredthe valedictory address. Among his classmates were Joseph P. Bradley, now ajustice of the United States Supreme Court; Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,Secretary of State of the United States; and William A. Newell, formerlyGovernor of New Jersey. Soon after leaving college he entered, as astudent-at-law, the office of Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, then a practitionerin Newark, N.J., and, on the retirement of Mr. Frelinghuysen from theprofession, continued his studies, under the direction of the distinguishedAmzi Armstrong, until September, 1839, when he was admitted to the bar. Newarkat that time, as at present, seemed to offer the greatest inducements tobeginners in the legal profession, and here Mr. Parker established himself inpractice, and here he still remains. . . Mr. Parker has never sought office,and has held but one public position, that of prosecutor of the pleas of EssexCounty, upon which he entered in 1857, and from which he retired in 1867. . .It may be added, although somewhat out of place, and nearly forgotten, that Mr.Parker receive, years ago, the degree of LL.D., from his Alma Mater, RutgersCollege, as well as from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton.
~ History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Compiled by William H.Shaw, Vol. I, publ. 1884, pgs. Parker, son of JamesParker, was born in Perth Amboy, in 1818. He graduated at Rutgers College in1836, read law with Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, and was admitted to the bar in1839. He began practice in Newark, being associated with Joseph P. Bradley,afterward justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Frederick F.Frelinghuysen, later United State Senator and Secretary of state. In 1857Governor Newell appointed him prosecutor for Essex county, a position he filledfor ten years, and was the only public office he ever accepted. He wasgenerally acknowledged for many years to be the head, and at his death was theoldest and most distinguished active representative of the New Jersey bar. Hedeclined nominations to Congress, a judgeship in a court to adjust the AlabamaClaims, and the ambassadorships to Russia and Austria. In connection with ChiefJustice Beasley and Judge Depue of the Supreme Court, he revised the laws ofthe State. He receive the degree of Doctor of Laws from Princeton Universityand Rutgers College, and was president of the American Bar Association forseveral years. He was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal Church,and was one of their most trusted and active legal advisers. His sons are:Major-General James Parker, of the United States army; Congressman R. WayneParker; Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker; Chauncey and Cortlandt Parker.
~ History of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Vol. I, publ. 1921, pgs. 235-236.

Biography of the Honorable

Anthony Q. Keasbey

KEASBEY Anthony Q.,Prominent New Jersey lawyer and jurist, was born in Salem, N.J., March 1, 1824.

His great-grandfather Edward Keasbey, was an activeand prominent man in public affairs while New Jersey was still a colony, aswell as after it became a state. In the colonial general assembly herepresented the counties of Salem and Cumberland from 1763 to 1769, and was adeputy for Salem in the provincial congress which assembled at Trenton in 1775.Of the council of safety he was also a member in 1778.

His son, Anthony Keasbey, was scarcely less prominent, filling among otherpublic positions, that of a representative of Salem county in the generalassembly of the state from 1798 to 1801. His father was Edward Q. Keasbey, aphysician and surgeon eminent in his profession. He was appointed a judge ofthe court of common pleas of Salem county in 1840, and in 1844 he was chosen apresidential elector, and gave his vote for Henry Clay.

The son, Anthony Q. Keasbey, was at an early age prepared to enter uponhis collegiate studies. In 1843 he was graduated from Yale college, and soonafter became a student at law in the office of Francis L. McCulloch in hisnative town. He finished his studies in Newark, N.J., and in October, 1846,having been admitted to the bar, he resumed his residence in Salem, where heentered upon the practice of his profession, and where he pursued it until1852, when he removed to Newark.

In 1855 he entered into partnership with Cortlandt Parker, and thatrelation continued for more than twenty years.

In April, 1861, he received from President Lincoln the appointment of U.S.attorney for the district of New Jersey, and in 1865 was reappointed. It wasdiscovered, however, after the death of Mr. Lincoln, that the commission hadnot been signed, and Mr. Keasbey was thereupon appointed by President Johnsonuntil the next session of the senate, when, in 1866, he was regularly commissionedfor another term of four years.

In 1870 he was reappoiuted by President Grant, and again in 1874. In 1879the office was once more accorded to him for a term of four years. He thus heldthis important position continuously from the spring of 1861 to that of 1886, aperiod of unbroken incumbency longer than that of any other U.S. districtattorney in the Union.

In 1876 the partnership which had so long existed between Mr. Keasbey andMr. Parker was dissolved, and Mr. Keasbey associated with himself his two sons,Edward Q. and George, under the firm name of A.Q. Keasbey & Sons.

Keasbey was a man of literary attainments, as well as of professionallearning, adding to distinguished legal abilities and acquirements the cultureand taste of the scholar. He has made several valuable contributions to thepamphlet and periodical literature of the day, and without seeking reputationas a poet, has written and privately printed for the gratification of friendsmany very beautiful verses.\"

Writings

Anthony Q. Keasbey, From the Hudson to the St. Johns (Newark, NewJersey: Newark Daily Advertiser, 1874)

Source: The NationalCyclopaedia of American Biography 361 (J.T. White Co., 1893, vol. 3)

OBITUARY OF DANIEL DODD

Ex-Alderman Daniel Doddof Newark, N.J., descendant of Daniel Dodd, who settled in Branford, Conn., in1616, Died yesterday at Newark (June 24, 1895). He was born in Orange, NJ on Jan.15, 1817. He was graduated from the University of New York in 1835, andafterward practiced law. In later years he was a Republican candidate forMayor, and was Secretary of the New Jersey Insurance Company and President ofthe Newark Savings Institution and Newark Gaslight Company. He died at Newark,NJ on June 24, 1895, and is buried in Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, Essex County,NJ

OBITUARY of Capt. ThomasV. Arrowsmith
This article was published in The Matawan Journal, Matawan, N.J., Saturday,February 24, 1883. Vol. XIV

Not a town alone, but the whole country, last week lost one of its mostgenial, and upright public men, in the person of Capt. Thomas V. Arrowsmith,who died on Friday evening, Feb. 16, at his home in Freehold.

He was born in the township of Middletown, at what was know asArrowsmith\'s Mills, on the 12th of September, 1815. His father died when he wasbut 6 months old, and his mother when he was but a very little child and he wasreared there after by Mrs. Rynear Suydam, of Matawan, his aunt.

On November 22, 1837, he married Miss Elizabeth Walling, a sister of thelate Alfred Walling, of Keyport, fatherof the present Judge Walling.
He began his business life in the store of I. K. Lippincott, in Keyport, andafter his marriage opened a store at Centreville, about 5 miles from Keyport,on the road to Middletown.

He began his experiences in connection with steam boating in 1846, asclerk to Capt Weeks, and was afterward captain of the Coffee, John Hart,Cingarora, Wilson Small, Keyport, T.P. Way, T.V. Arrowsmith, D.R. Martin andfinally the Matteawan.

[He served as a Private in the 8th PA Cavalry, and wassubsequently appointed as a Lt. then Bvt Captain in the Field and Staff.]

In 1868 he entered the canvass for County Clerk received the nominationand was elected by a large majority. He served that term with fidelity; was reelected in 1873, and on the expiration of his second term was re-nominated inspite of a determined opposition in 1878, and elected by his personalpopularity, though the rest of the ticket was defeated.

In May 1880, he was taken with a fit while at dinner, and has had severalrecurrences of these attacks, breaking down an otherwise strong constitution,until at last, two months ago he was compelled to resign his office as CountyClerk in favor of his son Joseph.

The direct and final cause of death was Bright\'s disease of thekidneys.The funeral took place at 11 o\'clock on Tuesday morning at his lateresidence.

A very large number from Keyport and Matawan, and this vicinity, went upon the 8:33 and 9:30 trains. The services were in charge of Rev. G.C. Maddock,of the Freehold M.E. Church, who after an opening prayer by Rev F.A. Slater, ofMatawan, delivered a very appropriate discourse. He was followed by Rev. J.E.Adams, now of Camden, but formerly pastor of the Freehold M.E. Church, who madea finished address and pronounced a most beautiful eulogy upon the life andmoral character of the deceased whom he had know him for the past 11 years.

The funeral was a marked one for the presence of so many prominent menfrom every part of the county and from a distance. The services over, theremains were borne to the hearse by the following pall bearers: F. VanGieson,John Hoff, John R. Perrine, Wm. H. Hendrickson, A.R. Throckmorton, Alfred Walters.

The funeral corege then proceeded to the depot of the F. & N.Y.Railway, where the 12:00 train was taken for Keyport. Here the remains wereborne to Green Grove cemetery, where the casket was opened to allow manyfriends, who could not go to Freehold, to take leave of an esteemed friend.Then the ashes to ashes was pronounced, and Capt. Arrowsmith was left to hislone chamber of earth.

PENNSYLVANIA
8TH CAVALRY
(89TH Infantry)

Eighth Cavalry.-Cols., David McM. Gregg, Pennock Huey, E. G. Chorman, William A. Corrie Lieut.-Cols., A. E. Griffiths, Samuel Wilson, William A. Corrie, Robert Oldham; Majs., Albert J. Enos, Pennock Huey, William H. Forrest, Peter Keenan, William A. Corrie, Joseph W. Wistar, Robert McCool, Robert Oldham, Benjamin A. Phifer. It was at first intended to equip this regiment-the 89th of the line-as a rifle regiment, but it was afterwards changed to a cavalry organization. It was recruited in Philadelphia and in Lycoming, Bucks and Schuylkill counties, and was. mustered into the U. S. service from July 23, to Sept. 17, 1861, at Philadelphia, for a three years, term. It left the state for Washington on Oct. 4, where it was brigaded with the 3rd Pa. cavalry and spent the winter in tie vicinity of the capital in the performance of various routine duties. On Jan. 17, 1862, the vacancy caused by the retirement of Coil Chorman was filled by the appointment of Capt. David McM. Gregg, of the 6th U. S. cavalry, an experienced officer and a graduate of West Point. In the Peninsular campaign the brigade was enlarged by the addition of the 1st regular cavalry and was attached to the 4th corps. It shared in a light skirmish at New Kent Court House and soon after participated in a severe skirmish near Garnett\'s house, where it suffered its first losses. It was present at the battle of Fair Oaks and active at Malvern hill. During this campaign companies D, A and B were detached from the regiment on special duties. Upon its arrival at Harrison\'s landing, Col. Gregg assumed the command of a cavalry brigade which included the 8th, which was employed in heavy picket duties. It moved with Pleasonton\'s brigade to Yorktown, serving as rear-guard, but returned to Alexandria just after the second Bull Run battle. On Sept. 4, it was sent to Freedom hill, encountering the enemy there, at Sugar Loaf Mountain and Darnestown. On the 12th it entered Frederick and drove out the rear-guard of the enemy\'s cavalry, securing a number of prisoners. It then moved on a reconnoissance to Gettysburg, captured about 50 more prisoners, and thence marched to the battle-field of Antietam, skirmishing on the Sharpsburg pike on the day after the general engagement. It remained encamped at Sharpsburg for a time, had a sharp engagement with the enemy at Charlestown; and on Oct. 26, as a part of Pleasonton\'s cavalry, led the advance of the army into Virginia, being engaged in rapid succession with heavy losses at Philomont, Upperville, Aldie, Barbour\'s cross-roads, Ashby\'s. gap, Chester gap, Orleans Amissville and Hazel river. It was next assigned to picket duty at the fords of the Rapidan and Rappahannock, and while in the vicinity of Leeds, a squadron under Capt. Wilson, was captured after a spirited resistance. It moved to Fredericksburg on the night before the battle and had one squadron engaged on the following day. When Gen. Bayard fell, Col. Gregg was ordered to assume command of the division and was officially notified on the field of his promotion to brigadier-general. Maj. Huey succeeded to the command of the regiment on June 17, 1862. The regiment now returned to Falmouth and was employed in scout and picket duty along the Rappahannock, going into winter quarters at Acquia creek about the middle of Feb., 1863. While here it was assigned to Col. Devin\'s brigade of Pleasonton\'s division, comprising the 8th and 17th Pa. and 6th N. Y. cavalry. On April 21, it embarked upon the Chancellorsville campaign and in the first day\'s fighting at Chancellorsville suffered heavily in killed, wounded and horses. On May 2nd, it made one of the most gallant charges in the war, winning for itself the following commendation from Gen. Pleasonton: \"The distinguished gallantry of the 8th Pa. regiment, in charging the head of the enemy\'s column, advancing on the 11th corps, on the evening of the 2nd inst., has excited the highest admiration. * * * The gallant McVikar, the generous chivalric Keenan, with 15O killed and wounded from your small numbers, attest the terrible earnestness that animated the midnight conflict of the second of May.\" After the battle, it moved to Potomac creek and on the 14th to Acquia creek and Falmouth, being engaged in picket duties until the Gettysburg campaign. It was in action at New Market,.losing 15 killed and wounded, and as part of the 2nd brigade, 2nd cavalry division, it moved on the 30th to Westminster, thence to Hanover Junction and on July 4, to Emmitsburg, where it joined the command of Gen. Kilpatrick, crossed South mountain and assisted in the capture of 250 wagons and 600 prisoners of the enemy\'s wagon train. During the next few days it was engaged in constant skirmishing in the vicinity of Boonesboro and Jones\' cross-roads. Returning to Virginia, it was engaged in guard and picket duty on the Manassas railroad and at Thoroughfare gap, and in August it became a part of the 1st brigade commanded by Gen. J. Irvin Gregg. In the campaign which followed, the regiment was heavily engaged at Sulphur springs, and was again in action two days later at Bristoe Station. In the advance to Mine Run it was sharply engaged at New Hope Church and on its return went into winter quarters at Bealeton Station. During the winter it engaged in the raids into the Luray valley and through Chester gap. Most of the men reenlisted at this time and were given veteran furloughs by battalions. Upon the opening of the Wilderness campaign the 8th participated in the various movements and battles of Sheridan\'s corps, losing about 100 men on the Richmond raid, 25 at Haw\'s shop, and 35 at Trevilian Station. At St. Mary\'s Church, Gregg\'s division was attacked by superior numbers, and the 8th again lost heavily, Col. Huey and Capt. Piggott being captured and some 40 men being killed, wounded or missing. On July 1, it crossed the James with its division, moved to Blackwater, and was engaged on picket duty until the 26th, on the Jerusalem plank road. It then crossed the Appomattox and the James; was in action at Malvern hill, and again on the Charles City road. About two weeks later it was again engaged at Charles City road and in August was in action the whole day at Yellow tavern where Lieut.-Col. Wilson was among the wounded, and the command devolved on Maj. Wistar. The regiment was now reduced to about 200 men fit for duty. At Reams\' station, on Aug. 23, Maj. Wistar was among the wounded and the command devolved on Capt. Alex. McCallum, all its field officers having been killed, wounded or captured. It participated in the cavalry operations during the siege of Petersburg and in the spring of 1865, moved with Sheridan to Five Forks, participating in a brilliant campaign which resulted in the surrender of Lee, after which the 8th was ordered to Lynchburg and consolidated with the 16th Pa. cavalry on July 24. It was finally mustered out with that organization on Aug. 11, 1865, at Richmond.Source: The Union Army, vol. 1

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