Identifier: passaicvalleynew02whit (find matches)
Title: The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three centuries..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Whitehead, John, 1819-1905
Subjects: Passaic River Valley (N.J.) -- History Passaic River Valley (N.J.) -- Biography Passaic River Valley (N.J.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New York, The New Jersey genealogical company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fire In-surance Company. Sub-sequently he was elect-ed Secretary and Treas-.urer, and in 1882 he was elected President, which oflice he■resigned in 1887. He reiuained a Director of the companyuntil his death. Mr. Haines lield several other positions of trust and re-sponsibility, and was the execiitor of a number of largeestates for well-known families in Newark. He was a manof quiet and retiring disposition, but well known for hisstrong integrity in business matters. He was for manyyears a Director in the Newark Savings Institutiou and aDirector in the National State Bank. He was one of thefounders and for many years Treasurer of the Home for theFriendless. For a long period he was Treasurer of theEssex County Bible Society, and a life Director in that or-ganization and in the American Tract Society, in both ofwhich he was very much interested, as well as in a numberof other charitable and religious institutions. At his deathhe was one of the oldest members of the Third Presbyterian
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CHARLES S. HAINES. BIOGRAPHICAL 39 (Iniicli, liiuiiii; aliciidcd its services litr ()\er sixty years,lie was M lliiii hcli(\ci- ill I he olil Mosaic law that a mailshould .ui\< , IS.tS. Two daiii;liters sur-vive him: Mrs. A. OniUii FitzGerald and Mrs. Caleb L.Woodrnlf. VAX :\rAKSELTS—MAl(t^.—Th.-re are many tra-ditions re^ardinj; the racial oi-ijiin of this family. A. A.Vosterman van Oven, keeper of the heraldic and neueoloai-cal arcliives of the Xetherhimis, in oiu- of his ))nblicatioiissays: Alth()Uj;h the ancestors of this family known to usand belouginji to the Danish nobility was born at Hamburg,it seems, however, that the family originated from someother place, very likely from Denmark.Several patrician families of this namelived

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