1870-80s NJ STATE SENATOR ASSEMBLYMAN MAYOR RED BANK DURYEE DOCUMENT SIGNED 1884

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GEORGE SHARPE DURYEE
(1850 – 1896)
DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF THE NEW JERSEY STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (STATE ASSEMBLY) REPRESENTING ESSEX COUNTY 1877-1879,
CLERK OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY APPOINTED BY NJ GOVERNOR LUDLOW and LEON ABBETT 1881-1886,
STATE BANK AND INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
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PROMINENT NJ LAWYER and COUNSELOR WITH THE PRESTIGIOUS FIRM OF McCARTER & KEENE OF NEWARK, NJ.
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HERE’S AN
1884
AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED (ENDORSED) BY DURYEE ON THE VERSO OF A BANK CHECK MADE OUT BY
JOHN STILLWELL APPLEGATE
(1837-1916)
INFLUENTIAL 1880s NJ STATE SENATOR, RED BANK, NJ MAYOR, LAWYER, BANKER, CIVIL WAR RECRUITER and AUTHOR, GENEALOGIST and PRESIDENT OF THE MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
THE CHECK IS DRAWN OFF OF JOHN S. APPLEGATE’S ACCOUNT AT THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF RED BANK (
NOTE
: APPLEGATE WAS ALSO PRESIDENT OF THIS BANK), PAYING DURYEE .73, DATED AT RED BANK, NJ, JUNE 7
th
1884
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The document measures 7¾” x 3” and is in VF condition.
PROVENANCE:
This document came out of the John S. Applegate Red Bank, NJ Estate.
John Applegate was a prominent State Senator and notable 19th century lawyer who did much legal work in connection with the Railroads and telegraph Companies.
He worked with Civil War General T. T. Eckert in railroad/telegraph company litigation.
He also wrote a rare book about his friend Colonel Arrowsmith who was killed in action at Gettysburg in 1893 Titled: “
REMINISCENCES AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ARROWSMITH OF NEW JERSEY, LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS”
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George Sharpe Duryee
Birth
15 Jul 1860
(1850)
Death
28 Oct 1896 (aged 36)
Burial
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Plot
Section E, Lot 60
Sources: Manual of the State of New Jersey, 1883; Find A Grave
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
JOHN S. APPLEGATE
John Stillwell Applegate, LL.D
., son of Joseph Stillwell and Ann (Bray) Applegate, was bom at the home farm in Middletown township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, August 6, 1837, and died at his home in Red Bank, New Jersey, November 10, 1916. He obtained a good preparatory education in county schools of note, and then entered Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1858. Forty-six years later, 1904, Colgate bestowed upon her son the honorary degree of LL.D. Choosing the law as his profession, he studied under the direction of the eminent William L. Dayton, (Attorney-General of New Jersey) for a time, and in November, 1861, was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and in February, 1865, as a counsellor.
The farm in Middletown township was the family home until 1857, when Joseph S. Applegate built his residence in Red Bank, and moved therein, the son, John S., beginning law practice there immediately after his admission to the bar in November, 1861. He practiced alone until 1875, then for five years was associated with Henry M. Nevius, who later was a circuit court judge. From 1884 until 1901 he was in law partnership with Frederick W. Hope, and from 1901 until his passing in 1916, he practiced with his son, John S. (2), as John S. Applegate & Son, 84-88 Broad Street. Red Bank. He was in turn admitted to all State courts, to the Circuit and District Federal courts, and was connected with many of the celebrated cases tried in the Monmouth courts during the more than half a century he was in active practice. His practice had always been large and he won a most honorable rank in the profession he loved.
In the business life of his community, Mr. Applegate was also a conspicuous figure. He was one of the incorporators of the New York and Atlantic Highlands Railroad, and President of the RR Company until its taking over by the Central Railway, of New Jersey; was President of the first Building and Loan Association of the shore district of Monmouth County, 1871-1875; President of the Red Bank Gas Light Company, 1872; a Founder and President of the Second National Bank of Red Bank from its organization in 1875 until his resignation in 1886, his share in the upbuilding of these now important corporations being their very life blood.
A Republican in polices, Mr. Applegate from 1862 when he was elected school superintendent of Shrewsbury township, took a very active part in public affairs. He was three times reelected school superintendent.
During the Civil War he was a member of the Governor's Light Guard, and aided in recruiting and in the vigorous prosecution of the war.
He was made a special deputy of the Union League of America, and formed a number of chapters in various parts of New Jersey. In 1865 he was a member of the Republican State Central Committee, and in 1870, when Red Bank was incorporated, he was elected a member of the first Municipal Council, and in 1871 was elected President of the Council.
In 1881 he was elected State Senator from Monmouth County, New Jersey the 1
st
Republican to win that honor, carrying that then stronghold of Democracy by one thousand votes. Among the bills he introduced, championed and fought to successful issue was one requiring the public printing of the State to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, a bill fought by the newspapers, who had formerly held it in return for party service. He was also the father of the bill allowing smaller towns and villages to construct and maintain water works, and under that act Red Bank established the first city water system. Senator Applegate becoming, in 1884, a member of the first Board of Water Commissioners ever appointed in the city.
Senator Applegate was President of the Monmouth County Bar Association; a member of the New Jersey Bar Association; a member of the American Bar Association; a trustee of the Monmouth Battle Monument Association: a member of the board of managers of the New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution; a charter member and trustee of the Monmouth County Historical Association; a member of Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; honorary member of the One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and deeply interested in these organizations.
In religious faith he was a Baptist and served the First Church of Red Bank as President of its board of trustees for many years. In 1880 he delivered the annual Alumni address at Colgate University, and in 1893 he published a memorial volume commemorating the life and services of George Arrowsmith, who was killed-in-action at the Civil War battle of Gettysburg, and whose memory is perpetuated by Arrowsmith Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Red Bank.
He was made supreme court commissioner in 1865, and a special master in chancery in 1885. He was a member of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, and one of the men who could always be depended on to lead or forward any pressing movement.
John S. Applegate married, October 5, 1865, Deborah Catherine Allen, daughter of Charles Gordon and Catherine (Trafford) Allen, granddaughter of James and Mary (Gordon) Allen, of Scotch-English ancestry. Charles Gordon Allen, born in Middletown township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, August 4, 1800, died in Red Bank, March 31, 1885. He was an olden time merchant and vessel owner, the builder of the steamers, "Golden Gate" and "Ocean Wave," which plied between Red Bank and New York. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Applegate were the parents of three children: Annie, a graduate of Vassar, 1891, wife of Professor Charles H. A. Wager, of Oberlin College; John Stillwell (2), of further mention; Katherine Trafford, a graduate of Vassar, 1897, wife of Francis J. Donald, and a resident of Broughty Ferry, Scotland.
Source:
History of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1664-1920
(1922)
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