. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . Society. The newspaper literature of the second annual dinner of theSociety, in 1 859, gives us some of the names of people who were activeparticipants: David Gould, president, 48 Essex St; W. L. Dickinson,158 Wayne St; H. C. Dickinson, 234 York St.; A. S. Hatch,treasurer, 52 Grand St.; Joel C. Lane, 45 Grand St.; E. H. Rockwell,secretary, 228 York St.; W. H. Talcott, 61 Grand St.; Samuel 1 79 G
. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . Society. The newspaper literature of the second annual dinner of theSociety, in 1 859, gives us some of the names of people who were activeparticipants: David Gould, president, 48 Essex St; W. L. Dickinson,158 Wayne St; H. C. Dickinson, 234 York St.; A. S. Hatch,treasurer, 52 Grand St.; Joel C. Lane, 45 Grand St.; E. H. Rockwell,secretary, 228 York St.; W. H. Talcott, 61 Grand St.; Samuel 1 79 Grand St.; Harvey Fisk, 254 South 5th St. The New i?, Englanders had plenty else to do in Jersey City for the next few years—and this is one of my reasons for elaborating upon the theme of a New-England Society before the Lincoln Association—and they announcedthat their celebration for 1 865 would be held in Taylors Hotel, andopen to all those residents of Jersey City honored by birth in NewEngland or born of New England parentage. * * * TheirSociety had been honored by the maledictions of secessionists and cop-perheads; now that the principles they stood for had been so signally. W. L. Dickinson and iiis family about 1836.(The boy in short skirts was later president of the Lincoln Association.) vindicated they proposed to resume their annual dinners which had beensuspended since 1860. I can find but a few names mentioned asamong the throng who attended it. Rev. Dr. Parmly, Rev. Dr. Mattison,Rev. John Milton Holmes, Jacob Weart, S. B. Ransom, A. S. Hatchand Miss Sarah Gould were among the speakers. Wm. E. Pearson,J. W. Pangborn, S. B. Ransom and D. S. Gregory, Jr., were on thecommittee that year. The special correspondent of the Times dated a letter from aplace called Bergen, late in I 865, in which the startling news is suggestedthat the Yankees had not only taken Jersey City, but that hilltop 44 stronghold of the Dutch as well. For there was a New EnglandSociety of Bergen
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