The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . , ]i]rnest, Florence,and Sarah M. FEANOIS MARION TICHENOE, of Newark, N. J., law-yer and well known citizen, was born in that city on the20th of December, 1840, being the son of James H. andLydia Tuttle (Nuttman) Tichenor. His paternal grand-parents were James and Abigail (Hedden) Tichenor; hismaternal grandparents were Isaac and Ruth (Cooley) Nutt-man. He is a great-grandson in a collateral paternalbranch of David Hedden, a brother of Joseph Hedden, who fell a martyr to hiscountrys cause in theRevolutionary War. paternal an-c


The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . , ]i]rnest, Florence,and Sarah M. FEANOIS MARION TICHENOE, of Newark, N. J., law-yer and well known citizen, was born in that city on the20th of December, 1840, being the son of James H. andLydia Tuttle (Nuttman) Tichenor. His paternal grand-parents were James and Abigail (Hedden) Tichenor; hismaternal grandparents were Isaac and Ruth (Cooley) Nutt-man. He is a great-grandson in a collateral paternalbranch of David Hedden, a brother of Joseph Hedden, who fell a martyr to hiscountrys cause in theRevolutionary War. paternal an-cestors were among thefirst settlers of Newark,coming there in l(i6€from Milford, Conn. Onhis mothers side he isa descendant of theRev. John Pruden, thesecond pastor of theFirst PresbyterianChurch of Newark, suc-ceeding Rev. AbrahamPierson. Mr. Tichenor receivedhis education in hisnative city, read lawthere with David , and was ad-mitted to practice as an attorney in June, 1866, and as acounsellor in June, 1869. He has always pursued his pro-. FRANCIS M. TICHENOR. BIOGRAPHTCAti 119 fessioii in Xc\v;ii-k, ;ui(l enjoys ii liij^h i-eputatiou at tlie bar. He was a mciuhcr of the Newark IJoiird of I](lucati(m iu1S()8 and 1S(>!>. and has served on llie Hoard of Street andWater (oniniissioiiers and as a Trnstee of the Newark Tech-nical SchooL lie is a prominent member and Trustee oftlie New Jersey Historical Society, being for many yearspast especially adive iu all its meetings and foremost insecuring for that association its present eomnuxlious anddtdiglilful building. lie is Iresideut of the lioard of Pro-prietors of the iOasteru Division of New Jersey and a Fel-low of the American Geographical Society. Mr. Tichenor was married, in 187!), to Elizabeth Freling-huysen Cornell, daughter of Dr. John Friliughuysen Cor-nell, of New York. Mrs. Tichenor is a descendant of Gen-eral Frederick Freliughuvs<n. FRFDIOinCK T. FKELINGnUYSEN, , born inMillstone, Somerset County


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