History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . years a consistent member, he was fora long time a trustee, and subsequently a deacon and rulingelder, holding the latter office at the time of his demise, onFeb. 5, 1SS2. He was a life-member of the American BibleSociety, and active in the affairs of the Home for Aged Women,Elizabeth, of which his wife was one of the founders. He wasalso a liberal contributor to the various other worthy objects ofhis day, and his life, though quiet and unostentatious, waswell-rounded and consistent
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . years a consistent member, he was fora long time a trustee, and subsequently a deacon and rulingelder, holding the latter office at the time of his demise, onFeb. 5, 1SS2. He was a life-member of the American BibleSociety, and active in the affairs of the Home for Aged Women,Elizabeth, of which his wife was one of the founders. He wasalso a liberal contributor to the various other worthy objects ofhis day, and his life, though quiet and unostentatious, waswell-rounded and consistent to the close. Mr. Tucker married Miss Hannah E. Bell, rlaughter of JohnBell, of Monmouth County, N. J., who survives him, togetherwith his two children, viz.: Cornelia J., wife of Frank Cory,of Elizabeth, and William B. Tucker, Jr. The latter wasmarried in 1SC9 to Miss Mary Tucker Smylie. daughter ofJames M. Smylie, of Paterson, N. J., and a descendant ofanother branch of the Tucker family. In their children, six innumber, are therefore merged two branches of the familysjiringing from one common The Ogden faraily is one of the oldest in Union County, andhas been represented by many of the most distinguished menof the State. John Ogden, the ancestor of the family in , was one of the original patentees of Elizabethtown, andan influential and popular citizen. He resided at Stamford,Conn., in 1641, within a year after its settlement. Early in1614. in company with others, he removed to Hempstead, L. I.,of which he was one of the patentees. He was made a freemanof Southampton. March 31, 1650, and was chosen by the GeneralCourt, at Hartford, Conn., one of the magistrates of the colonyin 1656, 1657, and 1658. He subsequently held other offices ofdistinction in the colony. Later still he became one of theoriginal Associates of the Elizabethtown patent, and withhis five sons, John, Jonathan, David, Joseph, and Benjamin,he was among the first to remove to the new purc
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