Notes for Lewis Evans CLARK

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Notes for Lewis Evans CLARK

See this family 1880 Plainfield, New Jersey.
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Clayton, W. Woodford, History of Union and Middlesex Counties. p. 108-118:
HON. CORNELIUS BOICE [picture], who for thirty-five years was identified with the various interests of Plainfield, and was the first permanently-settled lawyer there, was born at Green Brook, in Somerset County, N.J., Feb. 4, 1808. He was the son of
David Boice and Elizabeth Covert, who resided at Green Brook, were farmers, and reared a family of two sons and four daughters. The other son, David Patterson Boice, died in Plainfield in August, 1880. David Boice died at the age of eighty-two, and his
wife at the age of ninety-five years.
Cornelius Boice received during his minority a good English and classical education, and became fully conversant with surveying. He studied law with Judge James S. Nevius, a prominent lawyer of New Brunswick, N.J, was admitted to practice as an
attorney in 1829, and as counselor in 1832. Immediately after his admission as an attorney he settled in the practice of big profession at Plainfield, where he remained in continuous practice until his death, which occurred Sept. 6, 1864.
The same year of his settling in Plainfield, on November 25th, he married Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of Abraham and Anna (Lenox) Cadmus, who resided near Plainfield, and carried on a farm and mill property. Her only brother, Andrew A. Cadmus, succeeded
to the homestead property, where he resided until his death. Her only sister is Rachel Cadmus, unmarried. Her father died Feb. 20, 1845, aged seventy-two years, and her mother died Jan. 24, 1862, aged over eighty years. Her maternal grandfather, Levi
Lenox, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died at his residence, where William McD. Coriell now resides, in Plainfield, Dec. 24, 1828, aged about eighty years. The children of Cornelius and Sarah Ann Boice are Anna E., wife of Lewis E. Clark,
a justice of the peace of Plainfield; Frances M., wife of John J. Bell, Of New York; Sarah Azelia, wife of Joseph B. Coward, a lawyer of Plainfield; Cornelia, wife of George S. Underhill, of New York; Mary E., wife of Robert C. Cook, a lumber and coal
merchant of Plainfield; Cornelius C., a druggist of New York; and Emma Hoyt, wife of Willard H. Young, of Philadelphia.
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