Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 18 Jan 1918 Joseph R. Newton motored here from Woodbury Monday to see Joe Predmore who is seriously sick at home. Miss Amelia Stephenson was a Lakewood visitor recently. Dick Grant was at Toms River Monday. A. Rauman is out again after a few days illness. A number of houses where pipes were frozen are once again getting water. C. M. Conrad visited Trenton Wednesday. C.B. Corliss was home a few days this week. Capt. Henry Smith attended a smoker Monday evening in New York. The storm Tuesday morning did a lot of damage. A lot of cellars were flooded. The wind ripped up the roof of the Abe Fort house and the rain damaged bedrooms and dining room. Roseby Crane is spending some time in New York. Mrs. Anderson Bugbee has been quite sick, but now is convalescent. Frank S. Ellis and wife of Toms River are visiting her daughter, Mrs. Herbert Cranmer. Mrs. J.C. Bennett and son, Charles, spent Saturday at Toms River. Roscoe Conkling was a Satruday visitor at Toms

New Jersey Courier 3 Jan 1919 Gordon Ridgeway and wife are home for the holidays Fred Stephenson and family spent last Wednesday with his mother and sister. Naomi Maloney of Long Branch is visiting Miss Elizabeth Reeves. Mrs. Kate Falkinburgh and son Alton having spent some time with her daughter, Mrs. W. Bailey, at Barnegat City, returned home Thursday. Anderson Pharo of Bayonne spent Sunday with his brother Job and wife. Augustus Tolbert, wife and son Martin; Harry W. Tolbert and wife, motored to Hanover farms on Friday. John Cox and wife were Friday visitors at Philadelphia. Senator D.G. Conrad was a Saturday visitor from Philadelphia. Prof. Brown and wife spent the holidays at her home in Pennsylvania. Roseby Crane and brother of New York spent a few days home with their mother last week. Those who attended the Tall Cedars last Thursday night at Tuckerton were: A.W. Kelly, R.G. Collins, L. Simmerman, Dr. H. Conover, J.C. Bennett, A.H. Tolbert, C.H. Brandt, L. Abramowitz,

New Jersey Courier 19 Dec 1878: Capt. Joseph Townsend is a happy grandfather. Not that he has not been so before, but this time there is a difference, you know. Why not call it Joseph? Pitman Anderson drives a handsome sporting team of blacks. Mr. Samuel Ridgway is recovering slowly from his severe illness.

New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900: The Township Committee were in session on Friday last settling general township business. The Daughters of Liberty held a reception to the sister lodges in this vicinity on Tuesday evening, Nov. 13th. Delegates from New Gretna, Waretown and Toms River were present.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 NOV 1930 Mr. and Mrs. JWm. Holloway and daughters were callers in Manahawkin Sunday. Roy Cox of Barnegat was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Harbolt of Jobstown spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Arch Parker and friend of Parkertown were in town Wednesday. S.C. Haverley of Plainfield has been spending a few days with George Cranmer. Wm. Berry of Beach Haven was in town Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ridgeway of Barnegat were recent callers in town. Mrs. Sallie Penn, Marion and Dorothy Penn, of Waretown, were Friday afternoon callers on Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Wm. and Jack Wescott of Camden were in town Tuesday. Howard Wainwright of Waretown was in town Tuesday. Hill Corlis was in Sim Place Saturday. Mrs. Rogers of Bayville was a visitor in town Wednesday. H. King of Beach Haven was in town Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Genone and children of Chatsworth, were in town Sunday. Ellsworth Harris, Tracey Hitchner and Everett Hitchn

New Jersey Courier 21 Nov 1930 November 19--Addison Abramowitz entertained a few of his friends in honor of his fifteenth birthday on Tuesday evening, November 19. Those present were: Ernest Cramer, Martin Tolbert, William Gaskill, Kenneth Erwin, Lloyd Chadwick, Veldren Lewis, Howard Conover, Arthur Birdsall, Robert Griffin, William Aghjan, Marvin Cramer. An enjoyable evening was spent by all followed by refreshments.

New Jersey Courier 15 Nov 1918 Roscoe Conkling was in town Tuesday. J. Fields of New York was a Monday visitor. Mrs. Kate Falkinburgh and son Alton are visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. Bailey, at Barnegat City. Mrs. Tillie Steer of Philadelphia spent the week end with Mrs. Sallie Exel. Miss Martha Throckmorton has been spending a few days with Mrs. Harry Van Note. Mrs. Forrest Carter has been entertaining her mother. Mrs. A.J. Bugbee spent a few days with her mother in Camden this week. The First National Bank has erected a new flag pole alongside the bank, with all of the colors flying. Barnegat had a great celebration on Tuesday over the great victory. They had a parade by school children. Red Cross and all the prominent citizens of the town turned out in the grand march. After marching all through the town they stopped in front of the bank where a few addressess were made by Prof. W. Brown of the high school, Mrs. Sarah Hernburgh, J. Horace Sprague and Henry A. Tolbert, which

from the New Jersey Courier, 25 Oct 1918 John Calvin Bowers, a well known resident of Barnegat, died at his home in that town of Bright's disease on Tuesday morning, Oct 22. He was prominently known all along the shore. In the 70s as a young man he was clerk for the late John Aumack in the store now owned by E.H. Berry, next to the bank, Water Street, Toms River. Later he moved to Forked River, where he married the daughter of David Stout Parker. From Forked River he went to the city and spent some years, and had been living for the past few years at Barnegat.

New Jersey Courier 16 Oct 1916 Mrs. E.A. Lamson attended the WCTU convention in Barnegat on Thursday last. Capt. and Mrs. H.A. Smith and granddaughter of Barnegat spent Wednesday with Capt. and Mrs. S.Lamson. Nellie Giberson was an over Sunday guest of Mrs. C. Van Vorst at Ship Bottom. Mrs. Levi Cranmer and son, Hiram, visited Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Delatush in Red Bank on Sunday last. We are sorry to report Mrs. Madeline Salmons in very poor health. She is under the care of Dr. Bunnell. Leonard Giberson is employed in John Wannamaker's store for the winter. Walter Perrine was in town for the week end. Marvin Cranmer is over from Ship Bottom visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Cranmer. Mott Cranmer returned to his business in Philadelphia on Monday after a serious attack of illness. Miss Jennie Cranmer was a guest of Mrs. W.s. Cranmer on Monday afternoon.

New Jersey Courier 5 Jun 1879: Mr. H.G. Gulick is building an addition to his house, corner of Bay St, and Railroad Ave. Mr. Jno . J. Jones, contractor and builder, has the contract.

New Jersey Courier 3 Jun 1866: Barnegat is a pretty neat and thrifty village, handsomely laid out, streets running very regularly and nice pretty white cottages. Barnegat is somewhat noted as the residence of web footed individuals, who delight in following the water, and who possess a very creditable amount of public spirit. There is a Quaker Meetinghouse, also a Methodist one, in which nightly meetings are now held. There are two fine stores, kept by Gulick and Robbins and Bodine and Predmore. Gulick is one of your wide awake men, and always on the alert so much so, that the Freeholders made him County Collector. The business of the place is principally called on by these two stores, three hotels, billiard saloon, millinery shop, and a fancy goods and confectionery store and a post office. Blacksmiths and wheelwrights abound as well as a barber, and Sam the Sadler.

New Jersey Courier 22 May 1879: Capt. George Warner returned home on Saturday evening, suffering from a severe stab in the leg inflicted by one of the crew during a row amongst the sailors on shipboard which he was endeavoring to quell

New Jersey Courier 20 Apr 1917: Now that flags are seen flying from every available place it should be remembered that to fly your flag between sunset is considered disrespectful and even more so thatn not to display it at all. If you have real feeling for your flag, put it under cover at sunset. Last week a party of secret servicemen visited the farm of Moritz Groepler at Beach View to look over the place to verify the report that they had a wireless station and were supplying news to Germans and were working against the U.S. in various ways. They found nothing whatever and were satisfied it was the work of some busy body who wanted to circulate reports for pure malicious purposes. Mr. Groepler has been an American citizen for many years and is as loyal as any of us, as this is his country by choice and we need have no fear of him or his sons as they have always been good citizens in every way. We should be careful about starting rumors in these critical times, as ...[indecipherable

From out of the past: a pictorial history of Barnegat, NJ : The first early settlers here were English families from Long Island and had settled in Middletown and Elizabethtown. Among those was William Cranmer, formerly of Long Island where he was listed as a freeholder in 1670 and later named as one of the original settler at Elizabethtown, NJ. Subsequently with his brother Josiah, he took up lands near Forked River and Cedar Creek. Then they settled near New Egypt. This land they traded for land and privileges between Manahawkin and West Creek at a point later known as Cranmertown. From there William removed to a point "near Waretown" which point became Barnegat. Other early settlers were William Cranmer's son Levi Cranmer, Timothy Ridgway, Stephen and Nathan Birdsall, Ebbenezer Collins and others. Then came whalers from Long Island, Rhode Island, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard. They followed the whales into the area and were .soon coming to the mainland s to establ