The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-17

Mrs. MacaltiOner, the mother of Joseph
Macaltioner, lived there.
Crossing the stream of water near the
lumber yard, the land to the house now
occupied by Joseph MacaItioner, was va
cant of dwellings, but to the rear where
now stand the lumber Sheds was the old
saw mill, then carried on by VIM. G.. Bro
gan, and the Perseverance Steam Flour
Mill, which he started about that time
We remember the hand-bills posted up
throughout the neighborhood, announcing
the opening of the mill, headed, Our name
is our motto" The mill did not succeed.
and both it and the saw-lnill fell into dis
use On the south bank of the run, near
the street, Paul Cobb carried on the black
smith business. The large house on the
corner of Mill street was then occupied by
DR.. Daniel Mead now living i'll Florida.
On the opposite corner of the Main street
the house now owned by the Presbyterian
church, was tenanted by Amos Cawman.
1t has since been greatly changed.
Returning up the street on that side, there
were no buildings between the Cawman
house and Michael Null's dwelling on the
hill Further up, the house where Thomas
Lippincott lives, and the house adjoining,
now the NJ. Z. Parsonage, were completed
at the time of which we write, or very
shortly thereafter. The houses from
there to the corner of New street were the
dwelling now occupied by Rev. G. Kahn,
where Miss Annie Baker, now the wife Of
Mr. Kahn carried on the millinery business;
the house of S. II. Weatherby then occu-
pied by c. c. Loudenslager; and the three
story house of VIM. II. Reed, where Clark
Pierce then lived.
On the corner of New street was the resi-
,f( no RI IA; - or
and tenanted by G.. Waterman the baker.
The Presbyterian church was then new
building with tall steeple which after
ward became unsafe and was taken down.
Next it on the north, where Isabella Meal
listers house now stands, was the residence
of Joseph Turner, father of our merchant
of the same name, afterwards torn down
to make room for its more convenient sue
cessor; then Richard F. Turner's residence
since greatly enlarged and improved, and
now occupied by his widow, and the house
where Lewis B. Wright lives then the
home of F. W. Armstrong, since en-
tirely re-modeled. The residence of E. A.
Massey was then, or near that time, occu-
pied by Joseph NJ. Iredell.
On New street the houses then standing
were the double house on the corner of
Willow street and the one adjoining, the
house owned by c. f. Croft, the double
house opposite and the houses of Furman
While and Harrison Snellbaker. Allen Il
Loudenslager, in connection with their
hardware business dealt in lumber, and
their yard was ON this street on the lots
now occupied by the dwellings where Mrs.
Eliza Hughes and r. S. Pedrick reside.
Willow street was the same as now; and
the back street as We now recollect it had
tha hnYlcaS standing tayapylt the
double houses built within a few years by
Levi virgins and John Hanes, and the
residence of Thomas Green. Thomas Ruff
then carried on shoemaking in small shop
at the extreme end of the street where he
remained until he built his neat and conve-
nient place of business on the Main street
next McAllister's Hail. He still resides
where he did at the time this narrative re-
fers to- On the street leading out to the
NJ. Z. parsonage there was only one house,
that now occupied by Mrs. Mary r. Har-
ker, widow of William S. Harker, whom
we remember as choirister of the NJ. E.
Church, and who fell at Gettysburg, fight
ing for his country. His remains lie in the
Methodist cemetery i'll Newtown. \ letter
from one of his officers to the writer's fam
lily, written about the time of the battle,
speaks of him as brave christian sol
der"
The street leading over the milldam by
Clark's Mill and crossing the main street
to what is now Webster's Mill. as we
recollect it, had from the mill dam to the
corner of Main street, only four houses, one
dwelling stood near the mill and was wash
ed away in the summer of 1868 by the over
flowing of the mill pond, caused by heavy
rain which did great damage. The house
now occupied by Charles B. Clark was then
standing. but il has been greatly altered
for the better The small story -and-a-half
house on the same side half way to the
main street. and the residence of Samuel
A. While We're the only other dwellings
standing The mill was run by Theodore
and Jonathan Webster under the firm
name of Webster & Bro. The house on
the corner where Henry S. Wright now
lives was then occupied by William M.
Cawley, and near it on Main street stood
his office until 1862, when it was moved
up town on Smith Bowen's lot and an adj,
dition built to it, thewhole now being the
office occupied by NJ. ID. Dickinson, Esq.
Mr.. Cawley was a surveyor and convey
ANGER, skillful in his profession and proba-
bly, more familiar than any other man in
the neighborhood with the titles and
boundaries of the lands in Pilesgrove and
the ADJOINING TOWNSHIPS. ne subsequently
married (his second marriage) and remov-
ed to the upper part of the town where his
widow Mrs E. B. Cawley, now resides.
Next the Cawley property Howell Is.
Huffman lived in the house now occupied
by his widow Susan L. Huffman. He car
ried on the wheelwright business in shop
which stood ON the lot between his house
and Samuel Nixon's, and which at his
death several years later was moved fur
Their down the street and is now occupied
by J. w. Otinger. Next was the dwelling
now occupied by Eliza Best which at that
time was a store and dwelling, and James
Best, since deceased, there kept store for
number of years. There were then no
other buildings on that side the street to
the millpond. On the other side next the
millpond the coy little home of Edward
Snellbaker was then standing, but the
name of the occupant we do not reeollect.
The mill pond at this place was where the
ordinance of baptism was usually admins
tered to converts of the Baptist church,
and it was common thing during the re-
vival season to see the bridge and street
thronged on Sunday morning with spec
tators as the candidates We're one by one
led down to the water and buried i'll bap
tism" with the solemn rites of the church,
while the inspiring hymns sung by the
worshippers on the bank rang out sweetly
ON the frosty air.
The two DWELLINGS, on this side