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Notes for Oliver Spencer HALSTED

DESCENDANTS
OF
REBECCA OGDEN, 1729-1806,
AND
CALEB HALSTED, 1721-1784.
NOTE. -- Persons receiving this are reguested to make in it
such corrections
and additions as they think proper and return it to W. Ogden
Wheeler, Sharon,
Conn, or to E. D. Halsey, Morristown, N. J.
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He graduated at Nassau Hall, Class of 1810. He was a member of the State
Legislature of New Jersey, Surrogate of Essex County, Mayor of Newark and
Chancellor of the State of New Jersey from 1845 through 1852.
See p. 237 of "The Ogden Family in America", by William O. Wheeler (1907).

Children of 144 Oliver Spencer Halsted and Mary Clark

Hatfield. She was b. 1795, and d. 1866, aged 74; was the

dau. of Abigail Clark and Morris Hatfield. Abigail Clark was

the dau. of John Clark and Sarah Badgley, and John Clark was

son of Hon. Abraham Clark, the Signer. Oliver Spencer

Halsted was b. at Elizabethtown 1793; d. at Lyons Farms,N.

J., 1877; grad. Nassau Hall, 1810; studied law with Gov.

Aaron Ogden; member of the legislature; surrogate of Essex

Co.; mayor (1840) of Newark; member of constitutional

convention 1844; chancellor of New Jersey 1845-52. (Eliz.

Tomb. 1991.)

313.--Caleb, b. May 14, 1816; d. Oct. 12, 1827, in the 12th
year

of his age; was killed by falling from and being
dragged by

a horse of his Uncle George. (Eliz. Tomb. 1981.)

314.--Sarah Pope, b. Aug. 17, 1817; d. Dec. 28, 1889, at
Elizabeth;

m. Judge Oliver Marlborough Spencer of Cincinnati,

who was son of Rev. Oliver Spencer; had 5 chil.

315.--Oliver Spencer, b. Sept., 1818; grad. Princeton 1838; d.

1871; m. Adela Meeker; had 10 chil.

316.--George Blight,b. at Elizabethton Mar. 17, 1820; grad.
at Nassau

Hall 1839; studied law; was in U. S. service from Apr.

16, 1861, secretary to flag officers S. H. Stringham
and L.

M. Goldsborough; resigned Nov. 9, 1861; Nov. 11, 1861,

joined U. S. Vols. as Lieut. and aid-de-camp to Gen.
Philip

Kearney; April, 1862, prom. Capt. and A. A. Gen. and

served as such with 1st, 19th and 5th corps until disch.

March 12, 1866; was captured at Cedar Mt. Aug. 9, 1862,

and imprisoned in Libby Prison; wounded in battle of

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White Oak road, Va., Mar.31, 1865; was present at
McLean

house Apr. 9, 1865, at Lee's surrender; has resided

in Minnetonka, Minnesota, since 1876.

317.--Willis Pope, b. at Huntsville, Ala., 1822; d. Aug. 31,
1823,

and is buried at Chillicothe, Ohio.

318.--Robert Morris, b. Jan. 31, 1824, at Elizabeth, N. J.;
d. 1853

of yellow fever on voyage from Rio Janeiro to N. Y. on

Bark Griffin, of which he was captain; unm.

319.--Abel Hatfield, b. at Elizabeth July 3, 1825; d. April
22,

1873, from injuries received by being run over by a
street

car; unm.

320.--Isaac Williamson, b. at Elizabeth Dec. 31, 1826; d.
Nov.

24, 1828. (Eliz.Tomb. No. 198.)

321.--Caleb, 2d, b. at E. Town June 1, 1828; d. in 2d year.

322.--Mary Louise, b. at Newark, N. J., Nov. 23, 1829; m.
William

H. Porter; 8 chil.

323.--Julia, b. at Newark, Mar. 13, 1831; m. John Chadwick;

had 1 dau., Julia Hatfield (Halsted?) and 1 son,
Frank,who

d. young.

324.--Frank William, b. at Newark Jan. 31, 1833; was (ensign,

etc.) in U. S. Navy 1861-65; was drowned in Lake
Minnetonka,

Minn., June 24, 1876; unm.

325.--Henrietta Spencer, b. at Newark, N. J., May 14, 1834;
d. in

infancy.

326.--Henrietta Spencer, 2d, b. at Newark Sept. 12, 1837; m.
Maj.

Charles G. Smith of Staten Island. He was an officer in

war 1861-5, in 45th N. Y. Vols. They had 2 chil: Julia

and Frank, twins, who d. in infancy. Mrs. Smith resides

at Princeton, N. J.

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Oliver Spencer Halsted
HALSTED, Oliver Spencer, jurist, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 22 September, 1792; died in Lyons Farms, New Jersey, 29 August, 1877. He was graduated at Princeton in 1810, studied law in the Litchfield law school and in his native town, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and settled in Newark, New Jersey In 1820 he removed to Huntsville, Alabama, and devoted two years and a half to the practice of law. He returned to Elizabeth in 1823, and in 1827 was elected to the legislature. He was appointed surrogate of Essex county in 1828, was again elected to the legislature in 1834, and in 1840 became mayor of Newark. In 1844 he was a member of the convention for the revision of the constitution of the state. In February, 1845, he was appointed chancellor under the new constitution, and became ex-officio president of the court of errors and appeals. His term of office expired in February, 1852, and he then gave all his time to the pursuit and application of his life-long studies in philology, he published, beside several legal works, "The Theology of the Bible" (Newark, 1866): and "The Book called Job" (1875).--His son, Oliver Spencer, lawyer, born in Elizabeth, N.I., in 1827; died in Newark, New Jersey, 9 July, 1871. He was known as "Pet" Halsted. He was active in politics during the war, and was a warm friend of General Philip Kearny and President Lincoln. His address, persistency, and assurance made him potent in Washington during the war and for a year or two afterward in regard to appointments and removals, especially in New Jersey.--His son, George Bruce, mathematician, born in "Newark, New Jersey, 25 November, 1853, was graduated at Princeton in 1875, held fellowships there and in Johns Hopkins, where he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1879, and then studied in Berlin, Germany. He became instructor in post-graduate mathematics in Princeton, and afterward accepted the chair of mathematics in the University of Texas, which he still holds (1887). He was the first to give the received treatment of solid angles, originated "Halsted's prismoidal formula," and has published " Metrical Geometry" (3d ed., Boston, 1883); "Elements of Geometry" (New York, 1885); and a "Bibliography of Hyper-Space and Non-Euclidean Geometry" (Baltimore), besides papers in scientific journals.
Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM
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Oil portrait supposedly in Court of Chancery, State House, Trenton, NJ.
Another at the New Britain Museum in Connecticut c. 1820.

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