Ocean County , NJ History

From New Jersey Courier 28 Sep 1870: Alexander Conklin has presented a silver communion service of five pieces to the Methodist Church at Bricksburg. Rev. Mr. Ogborn preached at the Methodist Church, Toms River, Sunday night and received a collection of $21 for the aid of the M.E. Church at Bricksburg. Lewis, Blackman, and Co. have sold their extensive business to F.M. Marston Kelsey and Blackman have purchased the lumber yard of Fuller and Noble, at Bricksburg. A December 11th article describes their business: "Mr. B informed us that he had got through with middle men and was purchasing quite largely direct of the Manufacturers of Canadian lumber at Burlington, VT. By so doing he was saving quite largely and giving his customer the benefit thereof." Perkins and Townsend have sold out their hardware store to a party who design to open a crockery and hardware store. Moses Bachrach has got a splendid stock of Fall and Winter dry goods in his store The Bricksburg Manufact...

New Jersey Mirror 28 Sep 1938 Anthony Rose, 40, a Portuguese, employed at Whitesbog, died in the Camp Dix Hospital on Sunday from a dose of poison taken to end his life. It is reported that he was despondent because of the estrangement of his wife. Troopers from Columbus barracks, passing through the bogs, discovered Rose when they made a search of his house, after seeing a number of persons gathered outside. Rose was found unconscious on his bed. Two bottles that had contained poison were found on the floor. The man died soon after being admitted to the hospital. Coroner John N. Swartz, of Palmyra, issued a certificate of suicide.

From the New Jersey Courier 28 Sep 1905 Mr. Crabbe made a trip to New York this week. Mr. Porter has returned to this place. Dr. Jones gave us a call last Monday. Howard Lee was over to Toms River on Saturday last. Bennie Havens has been on the sick list but is slowly recovering. Samuel Estlow and family are visiting relatives in Waretown. Mr. Richmond of Forked River was here Friday, with a load of fruit and vegetables. Mrs. Crabbe and family drove from Toms River on Wednesday. Messrs. Crabbe and Porter are continually making improvements in their Double Trouble property. Quite an exciting time here last Tuesday night when one of the iron gray horses deliberately walked out of the barn and gave the men quite a long chase before he would allow them to catch him. N. Herbert spent Saturday evening in Toms River.

New Jersey Courier 27 Sep 1900: The following officers were elected recently by the Y.W.C.T.U.; Miss Lida STEWART, President; Miss Allie DAYTON, first vice president; Miss Mary KELLEY, second vice president; Miss Maggie COWPERTHWAITE, third vice president; Miss Annie GASKILL, recording secretary; Mrs. Mary KELLEY, corresponding secretary; Miss Ada F. TREWIN, treasurer; Miss Aetna ANDREWS, organist. Miss Lettie CROSBY, daughter of editor CROSBY of the Beacon, has entered Temple College, Philadelphia. Miss CROSBY is an expert compositor and used frequently to set up most of the type of the Beacon. A Republican club is among the latest ideas here. Another thing talked of is that the Tuckerton delegation may bring the Pohatcong band up to Toms River on convention day. Rev. E.M. VAN NOTE and wife have been visiting in Long Branch; and Rev. W.S. LUDLOW and wife at Swedesboro. Judge BEITLER of Philadelphia was a recent guest of H.W.SAPP, accompanied by his wife and daughter. There seems...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 27 SEP 1866 A few days since we visited this locality, which is well known for it's fertility, and fine soil. Accompanied by Mr. John H. Irons, one of the most thorough farmers in thsi vicinity, we commenced observations and taking notes at Mr. Irons' Sarghum Mill. Here is a fine establishment erected for the purpose of enabling farmers to raise their own molasses. We were shown samples of Sorghum Syrup, perfectly free from any rank taste, whatever, and fully equal to the best syrups offered in market. We also saw on Mr. Iron's farm 35 acres of peach blow potatoes averaging 100 bushels to the acres, where six years ago a dense forest grew. Six years ago, he had but eight acres cleared, and under cultivation. To-day, he has 175 acres of beautiful land grubbed, stumped, and nicely covered with grain, corn, potatoes, sorghum, fruit, and grass. This undertaking was deemed by many as a hazardous one, but they knew not their man. Mr. Iron's farm to-day is ...

New Jersey Courier 27 Sep 1900 Last Thursday night the young people of this place gave a surprise party in honor of Miss Amelia Bagley, which was also a farewell party in honor of Harry WILBERT, who sails Oct. 1st for Cuba, where he intends to spend the winter. SeaSide Park will miss Mr. WILBUR [*note difference in spelling], as he is very popular. Wallace M. NIXON returned to Pemberton last Tuesday, having closed the station at Berkeley Arms for the season of 1900. School opened last Monday with Roland BRITTON of Bayville as teacher. "I never can forget you," seems to be the latest saying among the young people here. I wonder why. Electric lights will be taken off the 25th of this month, the yacht club house closes at the same time.

New Jersey Courier 27 Sep 1900 Last Thursday night the young people of this place gave a surprise party in honor of Miss Amelia Bagley, which was also a farewell party in honor of Harry WILBERT, who sails Oct. 1st for Cuba, where he intends to spend the winter. SeaSide Park will miss Mr. WILBUR [*note difference in spelling], as he is very popular. Wallace M. NIXON returned to Pemberton last Tuesday, having closed the station at Berkeley Arms for the season of 1900. School opened last Monday with Roland BRITTON of Bayville as teacher. "I never can forget you," seems to be the latest saying among the young people here. I wonder why. Electric lights will be taken off the 25th of this month, the yacht club house closes at the same time.

from the Asbury Park Press 26 Sep 1999 WILLIAM J. CATALINA, 65, of TOMS RIVER, died Friday at Brick Hospital. He was the owner/operator of Cascione Shoe Stores in Toms River, Brick and Forked River for 32 years, retiring five years ago. He was a communicant of St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church, Toms River. Born in Passaic, he lived in Lyndhurst before moving to Toms River 43 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Rose Marie Veneri Catalina three sons, Craig and Steven Catalina, both of Toms River, and Dennis Catalina of Brick a daughter, Lisa June Catalina of Toms River three brothers, Michael Catalina of Oklahoma, Joseph Catalina of Hackettstown and James Catalina of Sussex a sister, Millie Meola of South Toms River and three grandchildren. Visiting will be 2 to 7 p.m. today at Silverton Memorial Funeral Home, 2482 Church Road, Toms River. Friends and relatives should arrive at 8:15 Monday at the funeral home for a funeral. A Mass will follow at 9:15 a.m. Monday at St. Luke's Chur...

from the New Jersey Courier 25 Sep 1892 At Bay Head, September 13, 1892, Margaret, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Brewster, aged 5 months and 3 days. Interment at Elizabeth.

from the New Jersey Courier 25 Sep 1892 At Bay Head, September 13, 1892, Margaret, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Brewster, aged 5 months and 3 days. Interment at Elizabeth.

New Jersey Courier 22 Sep 1939: A heart rending tragedy touched Ocean County homes Tuesday when Albert J. King, aged 36, and father of 3 small children, and Marie Pirozzi, aged 26, of Bergen avenue, Lakewood, were found dead in the rear seat of King's car in the woods near Lacey Road, about five miles West of Forked River. The man and woman were evidently victims of a suicide pact, as the police and Coroner J. Anderson have found no evidence of violence. The terrible discovery was made by William Cranmer of Forked River, who noticed the car in the woods as he drove along Lacey Road Tuesday afternoon. When he returned about 6:30 he again saw the machine and investigated. He found King's body sitting on the side of the rear seat of the car, and Mrs. Pirozzi's body was lying across the seat with her head nestled in his lap. A hose had been taped to the exhaust pipe of the car and pushed through a crack in the floor so as to supply the lethal carbon dioxide gas which broug...

New Jersey Mirror 21 Sep 1865 The wife of William Grooms was drowned in the Rancocas, near Timbuctoo, on Friday morning. Her little daughter fell in the creek, when Mrs. Grooms jumped in to rescue the child, and getting into deep water, her dress became entangled in some bushes, and she was drowned before assistance could be rendered. The child was saved.

New Jersey Mirror 21 Sep 1938: The accidental upsetting of a lamp caused the death of Frank Danley, 75, a retired farmer at his home in Pointville on Saturday night. His body, from which most of the clothing had been burned, was discovered by John Mullen, a neighbor, on Sunday evening, when he investigated, not having seen the aged man during the day. It is believed that the overturned lamp set fire to Danley's clothing and that he was unable to extinguish the flames. The fire burned itself out, damaging the floor slightly. An investigation was made by Coroner Clarence S. Roberts, Jr., of Moorestown, who said death was caused by burns and shock. Danley is survived by a son, Ira, and two brothers, George and Charles, all of Pemberton.

From the New Jersey Courier 21 Sep 1905 The public school opened September 11th, with Leona Applegate as teacher. The bicycle path from Toms River to Double Trouble is about to be completed--all credit to Messrs. Crabbe and Potter. Now we are looking forward to the time (which we hope is near at hand) when the county road will come through. Ralph Shaw has resumed duty after spending a short vacation in Forked River. J. Porter is spending a fortnight in Yonkers, NY. Mr. Foster and son were over town on Friday last. Mrs. John Havens has a little daughter. About fifty pounds of pike have been caught in the Double Trouble pond recently.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 SEP 1918: One of the results of the Toms River fight against booze in the local option election last May showed itself on Monday of this week when George W. Hallock, owner and editor of the New Jersey Tribune of Toms River, appeared in court before Judge Frank Davis of Gloucester county to answer to an indictment for criminal libel against Judge Wm. Howard Jefrey of the Ocean County Courts. In the fight that attempted to drive legalized booze from both Dover and Berkeley townships, the Tribune was the organ of the liquor interests, and printed their arguments. Anyone who had the rashness to oppose the liquor men, could look to receive a flaying in its columns. While Judge Jeffrey made no secret of the fact that personally he was opposed to the liquor trade, as a judge of the court who had to sit in license cases, he held aloof from the combat. That, however was not enough to satisfy the liquor element, whose motto was 'All that are not with us are against us...

New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918 An adjourned meeting of the council was held on Saturday evening. Ordinances covering the building of commercial buildings, regulating the building of outhouses and for the making of the R.R. crossing of the Penna. R.R. at Atlantic Boulevard were up for first reading; all ordinances were approved and ordered published. Each of these ordinances will be a big asset to Beachwood and should have the approval of all Beachwoodites. F. Fay of new York City is currently occupying Miss Gant's cottage on Capstan Avenue for a few weeks. W.Warrow has left for New York City to secure a position. Mrs. Warrow and the two kiddies will join Billy in a few days. The clubhouse will seem rather deserted without "Little Billy" as he certainly helped to make things lively this summer. Dry wells seem to be in order, and it is rather an expensive job to have the wells put down a few feet further. Mr. Smith has moved to his new house on Beachwood Boulevard. Mr...

from the New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918: Word has been received of the death, in England, of Mrs. Maria Cressy Bach, only sister of Mrs. Barzillai F. Hyers. Mrs. Bach died after an illness of only seven hours, brought on through worry and anxiety due to war conditions in England. Mr. and Mrs. Bach formerly resided in New York City.

from the New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918: Word has been received of the death, in England, of Mrs. Maria Cressy Bach, only sister of Mrs. Barzillai F. Hyers. Mrs. Bach died after an illness of only seven hours, brought on through worry and anxiety due to war conditions in England. Mr. and Mrs. Bach formerly resided in New York City.

New Jersey Courier 17 Sep 1903 The trial of CHARLES BENNETT, of Tuckerton, for the murder of MRS. MARY A . DARBY on the morning of Christmas Day, was begun before Justice BENNETT VAN SYCKEL at ten o'clock Monday morning. For the state, Prosecutor BROWN was aided by I.W. CARMICHAEL of Toms River, EDMUND WILSON of Red Bank, and SAMUEL A. PATTERSON of Asbury Park defending Bennett. It took but an hour and fifteen minutes to secure a jury, the defence exhausting its twenty peremptory challenges for cause being allowed the defence by the court, and the State using seven challenges. The jury consists of : J. WESLEY BREWER, electrician, Lakewood WALTER C. HYDE, carpenter, Lakewood WILLIAM T. GIBERSON, lumber dealer, Toms River PETER Y. VEEDER, farmer, Bayville CHARLES WILLIAMS, farmer, Forked River SAMUEL BROCKWAY, farmer, Bayville GEORGE W. ANDERSON, laborer, Point Pleasant CLARENCE HARDY, undertaker, Point Pleasant CHARLES STOUT, farmer, Cedar Creek JOHN W. WHITE, mason, Whit...

New Jersey Courier 14 Sep 1905 FIENDS ASSAIL FORKED RIVER MAN SUNDAY The worst case of atrocious assault known along the shore in years took place on Sunday morning last between twelve and one a.m. at Forked River. George Chamberlain was the man who was maltreated, his face being pounded to jelly and he being fiendishly mutilated. He was taken to Long Branch hospital Monday morning. Chamberlain is a married man of 48 years and has brown up children. He had been working at Barnegat Park. Saturday night he went from his home on the Main s hore road in the upper part of the village down town to pay George Frazee three dollars he owed for rent. He did not see Frazee, and when he left Tate's hotel and pool room shortly after eleven, he was sober and had his little money in his pocket. No one in Forked River village admits seeing Chamberlain after that , except that Adolphus Vaughn heard Chamberlain call, "Doll, Doll, come out here" as he pased Vaughn's house. Vaughn g...

New Jersey Courier 13 Sep 1936 Mrs. Helen Shoemaker, 36, of Jacques Bridge, near Atco, a patient for the past year in the Burlington County Insane Law, at New Lisbon, committed suicide late Sunday afternoon by hanging herself in her room at the institution. Miss Florence Frantz, a nurse, found the woman hanging at about 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Shoemaker had made a noose of a strap, the end being fastened to the top of a screen at the window. Artificial respiration was applied by the nurses for some time. She was finally pronounced dead by Dr. H. E. Longsdorf, asylum physician. Coroner George A. Whomsley, of Burlington, following an investigation, issued a certificate of death by suicide. A husband, Theodore, survives.

Hunterdon Democrat 13 Sep 1887 Another murderer now occupies the jail at Mount Holly, in the cell next to Barclay Peak. He is Thomas Murray, nearly seventy years of age, who shot Abel Broom down in Bass River Township, on the edge of the Pines, on Aug. 23. Broom died from the effect of the wound.

New Jersey Mirror 12 Sep 1888 Married-At Lumberton, September 1, 1888, by W.P. Younker, Justice of the Peace, John Shemeley, and Susan Lewis, both of Timbuctoo.

From New Jersey Mirror 11 Sep 1907 At the session of court held by Judge Horner on Thursday morning application was made by Eckard P. Budd, counsel for Caleb Rogers, for a new date for the trial of his client, Walter Simons and Theodore Wells, charged with the manslaughter of Howard Beebe, at Chairville, in April. This trial was set down to begin today, but Mr. Budd was informed last week that a case in which he is interested in the Ocean county branch of the Supreme Court would be called to-day, and he could not attend both courts. Beyond stating that he was ready and anxious to try the cases Prosecutor Atkinson did not oppose the motion made by Mr. Budd, and after a conference in the matter it was decided to call the case on October 1.

New Jersey Mirror 9 Sep 1885 Married--LODINE--GREEN.--At Timbuctoo, August 26th, 1885, by Rev. R. F. Butler, Joshua Lodine, Jr., of Hainesport, and Temperance Green, of Mount Holly.

New Jersey Courier 9 Sep 1875: BORN at Waretown, Aug 29, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Selah Camburn. Also, Aug 31, a daughter to Capt J.R. Robinson.

Philadelphia Daily News 9 Sep 1983 Lightweight boxer Kenny Bogner has been arrested and charged with one count of burglary for an incident last July in Seaside Heights , N.J., police said. Bogner, of Trenton, was arrested at his home Wednesday, police said, on a fugitive warrant from Seaside Heights , and was released on his own recognizance after being charged. Bogner, 22, ranked fifth by the World Boxing Council and 10th by the World Boxing Association, is scheduled to fight Livingston Bramble in Totowa, N.J., on Sept 24. The winner of that bout is to face World Boxing Association champion Ray Mancini. The boxer was charged in conection with a break-in at a home in Seaside Heights on July 24th. Police chief William Polhemus declined to release details of the burglary, saying it "may jeopardize Bogner's rights." Bogner (18-1-1) was to fight Mancini for the WBA title in South Africa earlier this year before Mancini was forced to pull out with a fractured collarbone.

New Jersey Mirror 6 Sep 1860 A Woodbury correspondent of the True Democrat, under date of August 29th, furnishes the following item of interest: A colored man was shot at Eagle Point farm, last night, in the melon patch of Mr. J. J. Richards, by one of his sons. He had been at the house to receive some wages, and had been given a melon. In going home, he passed through the melon-patch, and was shot, the poor fellow says, while getting over the fence. The whole load entered the small of his back, and made a tremendous hole.--He laid in the field all night, until this morning, when his groans attracted the attention of some of the family. He was brought to Woodbury and left in the jail. The doctor in attendance at once pronounced that he could not live but a short time, and he died in a couple of hours after. An inquest will be held this afternoon. A warrant is out for the arrest of young Richards. It is a bad case--the negro being an old thief, and having been convicted several times.

New Jersey Courier 6 Sep 1929 The high powered cruising sea skiff Audrey, from Bay Head, coming thru the draw on the county bridge last Sunday afternoon, crashed into a rowboat in which were a man and a woman crabbing. The Audrey had aboard her owner, C.A. Nicklas of No. 6 Church Street, New York and Spring Lake, with a party of Spring Lake friends. Her sailing master is Capt. Charles G.I. Gifford They seemed to be in a hurry and had blown repeatedly for the draw to open, while still some distance off. They had just come through the draw when they hit the rowboat. In the small boat were Mr. and Mrs. John G. Duner of New Brunswick, and a dog. Mrs. Duner clung to the wrecked rowboat; the dog was killed and Duner was aided by a sailor who plunged overboard from the San-Cath-Ann, of Allenhurst, which moors at Mantaloking. The San-Cath-Ann crew took both the Duners aboard and ran them ashore at the Dutch's Inn dock. It is understood that Nicklas settled the damages. Dr. Frank Brouwer ...

New Jersey Courier 2 Sep 1875 Theodore and Alfred Budd, it is said, will have one of the largest crops they have ever grown on their bog near Bozarthtown

New Jersey Courier 1 Sep 1937 Westfall Sandlin, 14, who was missing for two days from his home in Camp Dix, was found dead in one of seven sewage disposal tanks on the reservation, at 7.30 on Thursday evening. The tank is 75 feet long and 12 feet in depth. It is believed he fell into the tank accidentally. The boy's father, First Sergt. Matthew Sandlin, of Co. E, 18th Infantry, and Capt. Edward T. O'Neill, provost marshall of the camp, found the body. Coroner George Whomsley, of Burlington, said death was due to accidental drowning. Young Sandlin went to visit friends in Pointville and when he did not return his parents learned the boy had never reached the designation. It was believed he might have gone hitch-hiking when word reached the state police that Clarence Cliver, 15, of Pointville, with whom young Sandlin was friendly, also had disappeared from his home. Cliver later was found at the home of relatives. They had not been togethe