. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... oys the distinction of being one of the com-paratively few members of the Supreme Coun-cil, Sovereign (irand Inspectors (leneral, ofthe Scottish Rite Masons, which thus makeshim a thirty-third degree Mason. He is alsoan Odd Fellow. .Adam Reber Sloan married (first) Novem-ber 7, 1889, Minnie L., daughter of John Mary (Sutton) Wyle, of PhiladelphiaPennsylvania. Their children are: i. DorothyWyle, now a student at the New Jersey StateNormal School. 2. Lucy Emily, now attend-ing the public school in Atco, Camden Je


. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... oys the distinction of being one of the com-paratively few members of the Supreme Coun-cil, Sovereign (irand Inspectors (leneral, ofthe Scottish Rite Masons, which thus makeshim a thirty-third degree Mason. He is alsoan Odd Fellow. .Adam Reber Sloan married (first) Novem-ber 7, 1889, Minnie L., daughter of John Mary (Sutton) Wyle, of PhiladelphiaPennsylvania. Their children are: i. DorothyWyle, now a student at the New Jersey StateNormal School. 2. Lucy Emily, now attend-ing the public school in Atco, Camden Jersey. Minnie L. (Wyle) Sloan diedSeptember 2. 1893, and Mr. Sloan married(second) December 18, 1900, Elizabeth On her wedding day she was commis-sioned by the governor of New Jersey as acommissioner of deeds and a notary public. Benjamin Githens, of Ihiladel-CiITHENS i)hia. is one of the most suc-cessful merchants and finan-ciers of that city, and his family has beenidentified with New Jersey for many genera-tions. It is unfortunate, howevei, that there. Z/der>/af?>nf ^:^(7/iefi STATE OF NEW JERSEY. 613 are but few records except those of intermar-riages witli ]:)ruiiiinent and influential branchesof the old historic families of the colonies onthe Delaware, and the absence of birth anddeath records and of wills and deeds make thetask of tracing the genealogy of any given linean extremely difficult one. (I) Clayton (iithens, father of BenjaminGithens, was born in the southern part of NewJersey, where he married Sarah \\ ear Mun-roe, whose father came to this coimtry fromScotland. He lived at Juliustown, Burlingtoncounty, where their children were born. (H) Benjamin, son of Clayton and SarahVV. (Munroe) Githens, was born in Julius-town, and there received his early edu-cation and the training which enabled him tobecome in later life, after he had come toPhiladelphia, the successful business manwhich he now is, in Burlington county. Formany years he has been the sen


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