SAMUEL BARRON
BREWSTER, eldest son of George and Eliza Case (Barron)
Brewster, was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Mar. 28, 1872, and
was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Mar. 28, 1872, and was educated
in the public schools of that town. After serving as a
mercantile clerk for three yeas, he entered in June, 1898, the grain
business, as a member of the firm Cutter & Brewster.
About 1905 he bought his partner's interest and continued alone,
under the firm name S. B. Brewster, until 1909. He then
admitted his brother, George Frederick Brewster to a
partnership. The business is wholesale and retail dealing in
grain, feed, pultry supplies, hay, straw, and kindred lines.
The original warehouse location, opposite the Pennsylvania Railroad
freight station, was sold to the Woodbridge Lumber Company in 1916,
when the Brewster Company moved into the new building which they had
erected at the intersection of Main street and the Pennsylvania
railroad. This new building, forty feet front and one hundred
sixty feet deep, includes warehosue, office and elevator.
Samuel Barron Brewster is a director of the
First National Bank of Woodbridge, a trustee of hte First
Presbyterian church, a trustee of the Barron Library, member of hte
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, and the Junior
Order United American Mechanics.
Mr. Brewster married, Nov. 22, 1899, Ada
Louise Wagner, daughter of Jacob Wagner, of Plainfield,
New Jersey.
Samuel Barron Brewster is descended both on his
father's and mother's side from old settlers in Woodbridge township.
He is the seventh in descent form Nathaniel Brewster, born at
Plymouth about 1620. This ancestor was graduated from the
first class of Harvard in 1642. For over thirty years he was
pastor of a church at Brookhaven, Long Island. From here, his
descendants moved to New Windsor, New York. His
great-grandson, Timothy Brewster, came to Woodbridge in 1779,
and bought a farm consisting of a large tract of land bordering on
Staten Island Sound. This land he bequeathed to his son,
George Young Brewster.
George Young Brewster had four sons and two
daughters. His son, Ezra Mundy Brewster, born in 1823,
occupied his property until his death in 1896, when his son,
Henry D. Brewster, inherited the property. In 1847 he
married Letitia V. Brokaw, to whom were born three children:
Elizabeth, Henry D., and William. Other children
of George Young Brewster were: Catherine, born
in 1821; Walter, born in 1824, married Rachel Coddington;
Sarah Elizabeth, born in 1826, married Henry N. Demarest
in 1845, and their children were: William David, Charles, and
Walter; Albert,b orn in 1830; and George.
George Brewster, a son of George Young Brewster,
married Eliza Case Barron in 1863, and their children are:
Sadie Barron; Amy Stewart, who married Benjamin Lander
McNulty, Apr. 28, 1896, and to whom have been born two children:
Barron Lander, and Carrell Stewart; Louise; Samuel Barron;
and George Frederick, who married Lillian Schatz, of
Newark, Sept. 24, 1914.
Eliza Case (Barron) Brewster is descended form
Ellis Barron, who came to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1640,
from the county of Waterford, Ireland, where the family were known
as the Barons of Burnchurch. A grandson of this first Ellis
Barron, also named Ellis Barron, came to Woodbridge about
1690. Samuel Barron, father of Eliza Case Barron,
was a great-grandson of this Ellis Barron.
Samuel Barron was born in 1801 in the Episcopal
Rectory in Woodbridge. This old brick house was built by his
grandfather, the first Samuel Barron, about 1750. It is
said to be the first house built of brick in New Jersey.
Though in business in Mobile for some twenty years, Samuel Barron
spent most of his life in the old town, Woodbridge, where he
purchased a farm, and where he died in 1870. The old homestead
has recently been torn down. Tisdale Terrace and Grove
avenue are streets which were originally a part of the old farm.
He married, in 1839, Eliza Ann, daughter of Isaac S.
Jaques, of Woodbridge. This lady, born in 1817, is the
oldest resident of the township. The children of this union
were: Eliza Case, who became the wife of George Brewster,
and Sarah Romaine, who married, in 1871, William Henry
Cutter, son of Hampton Cutter, who owned valuable clay
mines; the children of this union were: Hampton, and Laura
Lucas. Sarah Romaine (Barron) Cutter died Nov. 1, 1911.
William Henry Cutter died Sept. 27, 1918.
Other descendants of Ellis Barron:
Deacon Joseph Barron, grandson of Ellis Barron,
was a deacon and pillar of the old Presbyterian church when the
present church edifice was erected in 1803. In 1800 her
erected old Barron homestead on Rahway avenue,
Woodbridge, now occupied by Ernest Boynton.
Thomas Barron, son of Deacon Joseph
Barron, was born in Woodbridge in 1790, and died in
New York in 1875, unmarried. He was the founder of the
Barron Library, completed in 1877. This is a fine memorial
building of Belleville brownstone, which very appropriately stands
upon a corner of the property which was long known as the Barron
homestead.
John Barron, another son of Deacon Joseph Barron,
was born in Woodbridge in 1792. He married Mary
Conner, of Staten Island. Children of this union were:
1. Francis M., born in 1833, married John Henry
Campbell. 2. John C., born in 1837, married in
1869, Harriot Williams; their children were: Thomas,
Mary, Carlisle Norris, and John Conner.
3. Maria Louise, born in 1830, married in 1857, Charles D.
Fredericks; their children are: Alfred DeForest;
Louise Barron, who married Price Warick;
Gertrude Virginia, married William Stewart;
parents of two children: Katherine and Gertrude; and
Barron.
Johanna Barron, born in
Woodbridge, in 1802, was a great-grand-daughter of the first
Ellis Barron. She married Samuel Warner and
had three children: Joseph; John; and Johanna, who
married Captain Sladden.
John Ellis Barron, born in
Woodbridge, in 1806, was another great-grandson of the first
Ellis Barron to settle in Woodbridge. He married Mary
Potter and their children were: Sarah Ann, who
married William Finley; and Julia Potter,
now living in Brooklyn.
Source: History of Middlesex Co., N. J. - 1664 - 1920 - Vol. II
- Publ. by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. - New York and
Chicago - 1921 - Page 131 |
