CATTELL FAMILY GENEALOGY - Salem County NJ Information located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~njsalem/ On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in 2007 Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF FENWICK'S COLONY; Bridgeton, N.J., by Thomas Shourds; pub. by George F. Nixon, 1876 pages 61 CATTELL FAMILY William Cattell, it is generally thought, came from Shrewsbury, East Jersey, and settled at Salem about the year 1747. His occupation was that of a merchant. He and his wife had two children, as recorded in the month meeting books of Salem. Elijah, the son of William and Ann Cattell, was born 27th of 7th month 1751. Mary Cattell, daughter of the same parents, was born 24th of 9th month 1757. Elijah, it appears, was a clerk for his father until the latter's death; their place of business was at the corner of Market and Broadway street. After the death of Elijah's father (William Cattell), Elijah Cattell and William Parrott entered into partnership. During the war of the American Revolution, Elijah left the Society of Friends, of which he was born a member, and took an active part against the mother country; he was considered as ardent a patriot as there was in the town of Salem. He married Hannah Ware, she being a descendant of one of the oldest families of the Colony. There were four children-- Ann, Margaret, Thomas W., and Maria Cattell. Ann Cattell, the eldest (dau of Elijah) married William Mulford, a native of Greenwich, at that time a resident of Salem; they had several children [see Mulford family]. Margaret, daughter of Elijah & Hannah W. Cattell, married David WIlliams, of Salem; they had issue--Robert, Anna, and Sarah Williams. Maria, the youngest daughter of Elijah and Hannah W. Cattell, never married. Thomas Ware Cattell, son of Elijah and Hannah W. Cattell, was born in 1790. He possessed an amiable disposition and an uncommon active mind; was above ordinary men in mathematics. His fellow citizens of Salem had full confidence in his integrity and ability as a calculator, therefore he was elected Assessor of Taxes, which office he held for upwards of twenty years. He was engaged in the mercantile business, nearly all of his long and useful life; was a partner at one time with his brother-in-law, William Mulford, a good business man, on Market street. Afterward, he and the late Clement Acton kept a hardware store and lumber yard for many years. Thomas, after the firm dissolved, confined himself exclusively to the hardware store, and so continued until near the close of his life. His death occurred in 1867, being seventy-seven years old. He was a great loss to the public, as well as to his immediate family; also to the Presbyterian church of which he had been, the latter part of his life, an active and consistent member. Thomas, when a young man, married Kesiah, the daughter of Alexander and Esther Gilmore, of Lower Penn's Neck. She died several years before her husband. They had seven children--Alexander G., Elijah, Esther, Thomas, Sarah, William and Samuel Cattell. Alexander Gilmore Cattell, the eldest son of Thomas and Keziah Cattell, was born in 2d month, 1816. He had been a merchant from early life, first in his native town of Salem, afterwards he and his brother, Elijah Cattell, went into the grain business on Delaware avenue, in the city of Philadelphia. They at once took a leading part in that especial trade in that city. Alexander in early life, took an active part in the public affairs in his native county and State, being affable, and pleasing in his address, which he inherited from his father, also a ready debator in public assemblies. These qualifications son made him conspicuous. When the inhabitants of the State of New Jersey believed the time had come to have a new Constitution, Alexander G. Cattell, though a young man, was chosen one of the members of the Convention to frame a new one, so as to submit it to the voters of the State for their adoption, or rejection. He at once became an active member from the southern section of the State. He brought forward a section in which he was anxious to be incorporated in the new Constitution, and abvocated it with much ability. That was the biennial session of the State Legislature, but it was rejected by the Convention. If it had become a part of the Constitution, it would have been a great savings to the State in a pecuniary way, besides a great deal of useless legislating. He was subsequently elected a member of the State Legislature, and afterwards chosen a member of the United States Senate, in which he served one term. During the latter part of it his health gve way, but upon becoming convalescent, he was sent by the United States Government on an important mission to England, respecting the finances of the country. After he removed to Philadelphia, he took an active part in the commercial affairs of that city; was one of the first that originated the Corn Exchange Bank, and was elected President of that institution. He married when young, Eliza Gilmore, a lady of refinement, daughter of Samuel Gilmore, of Lower Penn's Neck; she being his cousin; she has been deceased three or four years, leaving no issue. Alexander and Elijah Cattell have each built handsome residences in Merchantville, Camden County, where they reside. Elijah Cattell, second son of Thomas W. and Keziah Cattell, married Catherine Hardy of Philadelphia; they have three children--Margaret, Alexander and Edward Cattell; his occcupation I have already mentioned in his brother Alexander's history. Esther, the oldest daughter of Thomas and Kesiah Cattell, married Joseph Fithian, M.D., a resident of Woodbury, Gloucester county. He is a native of Cumberland county; they have two daughters--Josephine and Sallie Fithian. Thomas Cattell, the third son of Thomas W. and Kesiah Cattell, married Anna Ashburner; they have several children--Jane, Hetty, Mary, Lillie, Sallie, Willie, and Fannie Cattell. Thomas Cattell Jr. as likewise all of Thomas W. Cattell's children, had the talent they inherited from the Cattell and Gilmore families, that of acquiring school learning readily; far superior to the majority of students. He is one of the Professors of Lincoln University, located in Chester county, Pa. Sarah Cattell, the second daughter of Thomas and Kesiah Cattell, married Henry B. Ware, of Salem, son of Bacon and Anna J. Rumsey Ware. Henry was educated at West Point. AFter he was through with his studies was elected Clerk of Salem Bank; continued in that office until his uncle George Rumsey's death; he was then elected Cashier, in the place of his uncle, which office he filled with credit until his physical health became very much impaired and he resigned, but was continued one of the Directors until his death. Henry and his wife, Sallie Cattell Ware, had three children--Anna, Thomas and Alexander Ware. Sallie, his widow, is still living and holds the office of Postmistress at Salem at the present time. William Cattell, the fourth son of Thomas W. and Kesiah Cattell, married Lizzie McKeen; they have two children--James and Harry Cattell. William holds the important office of President of Lafayette COllege at Easton, Pa. Samuel, the youngest son of Thomas and Kesiah Cattell, married Henrietta Malliard; they have ten children--William, Thomas, Samuel, Kesiah, Elijah, Henrietta, Barron, Josephine, Joseph and Frank Cattell. (end)