The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-04-14

pany, in 1855; the fourth child was the
Presbyterian Church IN the village of
Whippany, which was organized in 1888
with forty members who withdrew from
Hanover Church.
In 1855 the church moved to its pres
ent site. The new building was shingled,
not clapboarded, placed with its side to
the street, and was provided with two
doors, one at the side and the other at the
end During the Revolutionary War, it
was used as a smallpox hospital, and at
one time the American officers stalled
their horses in the square pews along the
sides. Many soldiers were buried in the
churchyard in trenches. DIR. Green, the
pastor, was physician as well as min
lister, and was often in consultation with
Washington in regard to the health of
the army.
The old building which did such SER
vice in Revolutionary days was torn
down in 1885, and a new edifice, the one
now in use, was placed little to the
north of the old site.
This venerable church gave twelve of
her sons to the ministry, among whom
were DIR. Ashbel Green, for ten years
president of Princeton College, and DIR.
Jonathan b. Condit, for twenty three
years professor of Sacred Rhetoric and
Pastoral Theology in Lane and Auburn
Theological seminaries. Eleven of her
daughters became the wives of ministers.
AT the beginning of the present pas
torate the elders were venerable body
of men, who had served for generation.
Elder Joseph Kitchell of Hanover
Neck was one of the escort of Lafayette
from Newark through Hanover to Nor
ristown. Elder Moses d. Ward, father
of the late Elias S. Ward and DIR. Leslie
d. Ward, vice president of the Pruden-
tial Insurance Company, was a man of
parts. Elder James Woodruff wrote a
series of historical articles concerning the
region, published twenty years ago in the
Morristown Jerseyqraan, which were high
ly valued by the late Edmund Halsey.
Joseph .. Hedges and John Kitchell
were useful men. Each of the five lived
to be over eighty years of age. During
their forty years of service together in
the eldership not one unkind word was
ever said to mar their fellowship.
Tho past thirty years have been pros
porous Two hundred and seventy-one
persons have been added to the church
on confession of faith, an average of
nine a year. The membership has in
creased IrOm lou 10 over OUU, QOtWlLu-
standing deaths and removals. The
gifts to beneticence have been about
$34, 000 Two fine chapels have been
built, costing nearly $4,000 each. The
church and Sunday schools have taken
great interest in the Freedmen, assisting
in educating the Rev. E. w. Williams
for work among his people, helping to
build a church for him at Abbeville,
s. c., and contributing largely for the
erection of the Ferguson Academy"
which was named after the pastor. The
academy, which was valued by its trus
tees at $4,000, was transferred to the
Freedmen's Board in 1891.
The ladies of Hanover Church have
maintained a Bible reader and teacher
in Canton, China, for twenty seven years
and have also contributed annually fol
long period for the support of the
church and school of the late Rev. A. M
Penland of Beech, NJ C.
The parish boundary includes Hanover
Hanover Neck, West Livingston, and
the recently constituted borough of Flor
ham Park. In each Of the last three, 8
chapel is located for the convenience Of
the district, in which Sabbath School and
prayer meeting are held, and in each the
pastor breaches in turn.
Few things are more pleasing in this