The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-11
GOV. GREENS FUNERAL
Many Prominent Men Attend
the Impressive Services
at Elizabeth.
Special to the Jersey City Meas.

ELIZABETH, May II, 1895.-The fun
eral of Vice Chancellor and Ex-Governor
Robert Stockton Green took place at
noon yesterday. Throughout the city dur
ing the morning, and especially Turing
the hour of service, there was a prevail
ing solemnity that evidenced the wide
spread sorrow the death of this dis
tinguished citizen has occasioned. The
flags were still foated at half-mast from
school houses and other public buildings,
the courts n public Offices were closed,
and while the obsequies were taking place
the curtains of many of the stores on the
principal streets were draw out of re-
spect.
AT IL o'clock a brief service for the
family and immediate friends was held at
the residence, d. Glazebrook and Dean
Hoffman being the clergymen who con-
Quoted the services, which were simple
and affecting. The funeral cortege ar
riveS at st. Johns Episcopal Church
promptly for the service. which began at
IL o'clock.
The church was thronged. The family
Inc friends occupied several pews at the
right of the main aisle nearest the chan
eel, and in the south half of the same sec
ton were seated the representatives OF
the Sons of the American Revolution,
Society of Colonial Wars. the Cincinnati
Society and the New Jersey Historical
Society. There were large delegations OF
all these organizations.
On the left of the main aisle, in order
named, were seated the pail bearers and
members of the Supreme and Chancery
Courts, Court of Errors and Appeals and
Courts of Common Pleas. In the same
section were the State officers n Mayor
Rankin, city officials and members of the
City Council.
Washington Lodge, No. SO, F. and A.
NJ, were accorded a position of honor,
and occupied ten pews in front on the
left. There accompanied the lodge a
number of the grand officers of the State
and officers and representatives of other
lodges. The grand jurors also attended
in a body, and were assigned seats behind
Washington Lodge. In the centre section
pews were reserved for the attending Ban
associations, most of the counties being
BORNE INTO THE CHURCH.
The casket was borne from the hearse
into the church by the ASSISTANTS of Under
taker Ogden. There were sixteen d Pail
Governor George T. Werts, Clarence
A. Seward, Of New York: Attorney-Gen.
eral John P; Stockton, ex-Goyernor
1COlSS - udlo mat SOAAA -
Pherson, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy William McAdoo, ex-Secretary OF
the Navy George M. Robson, General
Cameron, Joh Fox, of New, York: Ben
jamin F. Lee, Clerk Of the Supreme
Court. James +. ENGLISH, James r
1 Wright, and nd T Thomas aor1 i. KIN Kinney, Of
Newark
There was only, the impressive and
g gHau'i Rev. hp Otis 4. Glasebrook, D. D.,
and Dean Hoffman. of New York, con-
Quoted the ceremonies. In the pro
c~ession of clergymen meeting, the body
chancel during the service, were Rev.
F. Marion McAllister, D. d.. Rev. H. H.
9Tberly, Rev Henry Hale ne sMlee epegi, Rev snd
Rev. Mr.. Simpson, of Plainfield..
The body reposed in a black cloth-cov-
cred casket, on which was a profusion OF
roses. lilies and palm leaves, and at the
chancel there were many beautiful floral
pieces, among them an elegant cross, a
tribute from the Joel Parker Association
The body was met in the vest!bule by
the clergymen and bearers and the
physicians, DR.. James S. Green and Vic
The music was rendered by g full
of the burial service and the hymns
Great raeh J ed agda a M. E. EN- n. Nelson was
the ~organist. 49,
WHO WE'RE PRESENT.
Among those present ~were:-State Sec
rotary Henry C. Kelsey, Comptroller W
S. Hancock, Clerk Of Chancery s. M
Dickinson. Vice-Chancellors Bird, Pit
ney and Emery, Justices of the Supreme
Court William J. Magic, Jonathan Dixon
Alfred Reed. Charles G.. Garretson, Jot
H. Lippincott, Judges of Court of Err
rors Gottfried krueger Abraham e
brar:an Morris r. Hamilton. Hon. Johr
Kean, Hon. Foster M. VOORHEES,, Judge
| Joseph Cross. Senator Richard S. Kuhl
Senator William D Daily, Congressman
| r. Wayne Parker, ex-senator Fred c
Marsh, F. Wolcott Jackson, Judges j
Kearney Rice, Robert S. Woodruff. Johr
Hopper, Thos. F. Mccormick, j. Williams
Crane. ex-Mayor William Chamberlain
of Railway; ex-State Comptroller e. A
| Anderson, ex-State Treasurer John J
Toffey, Mayor Wanser, of Jersey City
| Cortlandt Parker, Jr.. Gen. James F
Rushing, of Trenton; United States Com
missioner John Whitehead, President o.
| the Society of Sons of American Revo
luton; General E. Burd Grubb, Con
gresham Charles N. Fowler, Hon. j. W
Yates, of Plainfeld: ex-Surrogate Ad
/! Olson S. Clark. County Clerk Howard
| County Collector E. M. Wood, Mayo
Rankin. Comptroller carlton. Pr: Mack
| ell, and many other city, county ant
The interment takes place. at Green
wood Cemetery, and the family. ant
/ friends departed with the body il
| special cars on the Pennsylvania Rail
| road IN train leaving this city at IL
| o'clock this afternoon.