The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . triot army in the Kevolulion, and was taken prisiraer andconfined in the notorions prison shijt, from wliicli lie effectedhis escape. Mr. Mnndyspaternal great-grand-father, Samnel ilundy,married a Miss Barron,of Virginia. His pater-nal grandfather. HenryMumly, li\-ed in Iiscala-way, N. J., and marriedrinebe Ayers (born iniletuchen, N. J.); he wasPresident of the old Es-sex and ^fiddlesex Tnrn-pike, and subsequentlybecame a Director in theNew Jersey TJailroadand TransportationCompany. Mr. Mundysfather, Henry E. ^fundy,Avas born in 1812. Inc


The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . triot army in the Kevolulion, and was taken prisiraer andconfined in the notorions prison shijt, from wliicli lie effectedhis escape. Mr. Mnndyspaternal great-grand-father, Samnel ilundy,married a Miss Barron,of Virginia. His pater-nal grandfather. HenryMumly, li\-ed in Iiscala-way, N. J., and marriedrinebe Ayers (born iniletuchen, N. J.); he wasPresident of the old Es-sex and ^fiddlesex Tnrn-pike, and subsequentlybecame a Director in theNew Jersey TJailroadand TransportationCompany. Mr. Mundysfather, Henry E. ^fundy,Avas born in 1812. Inconjunction with Tim-othy B. Crowell he laid the first railway to haul onl \essels from the Iassaic i;i\crat Newark, and also A\as a liiiildei- of scssels, one of w liich, abark, gained notoriety by engaging in the slave 1850 he sold out and removed to Kaliway on a removed to Newark again in 1860. He had five sons whogrew to manhoods estate: J. Crowell, Henry II., William B.,Joseph S., and G. Warren. All the brothers live in Newark. HENKY E. MUNDV. 302 THE PASSAIC VALLEY except G. Warren, Avho resides on the eastern sliore of Mary-land, where he has been veiy prominent in politics. HenryH. has served for seven years as Alderman from the TenthWard of Newark. J. Crowell Mundy received his education at Rahway, He has been a mason and builder all his life, and is oneof the leading citizens of Newark in those lines of the structures which he has erected are the exten-sion to the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance building, the New-ark Library building on Park Street, and the factory of theJaenecke Printing Ink Company. He is a Republican in politics, has served for one term asa member of the P>()ard of Freeholders, and since 1894 hasheld the office of General Superintendent of Public Works. He is a member of Damascus Commandery, K. T., ofNorthern Lodge, F. and A. 3M., of Corinthian Council, A. W., of the Northern Republican Club, of the Fir


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