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The Delongs of New York and Brooklyn : a Hueuenot Family Portrait ; >:v. ^\.J . J • 'r. f ... -1 ^,i.A 't / ^•»V(; ^.--v ^./i V/,/;^r ^ A/' ^ / •v-'/r ;^'':. • 0245066 \ I The DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn A Huguenot Family Portrait The DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn A Huguenot Family Portrait THOMAS A. DeLONG Introduction by Elizabeth L White SASCO ASSOCIATES Southport, Connecticut 1972 Copyright® 1972 by Thomas A. DeLong All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without prior permission in writing from the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Published by Sasco Associates Southport, Connecticut 06490 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-189091 ISBN 0-912980-01 -X First Edition i Printed in the United States of America at Macfarlane & Fraser, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut 06601 Phototypeset and Composed by Vari-Comp, Shelton, Connecticut 06484 the Katharines, Sarahs and Emmas who grace these pages and the essence of many lives. i CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION BY ELIZABETH L. WHITE 9 PREFACE 11 I KINSHIP 15 II ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND FIVE GENERATIONS 19 III A HUGUENOT HEGIRA 23 IV BOWERS TO BROOKLYN 31 V MECHANIC TO MERCHANT 41 VI AN EASTERN DISTRICT DYNASTY 51 VII BROOKLYN 14. SUBURBIA 14 71 VIII PROGENY AD INFINITUM 83 IX CITY SIBLINGS 121 X ARCTIC FEVER 147 XI GEMS AND NOTIONS 171 NOTES 179 BIBLIOGRAPHY 185 INDEX 189 ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOWING PAGE 82 INTRODUCTION During the past years, ancestor-hunting has become a popular armchair sport in the United States. No longer are only the wealthy and socialites interested in their family backgrounds. Instead, men and women of every social condition have become involved in tracking down their family histories. The reasons for this interest in genealogy are many and varied. Some are frankly snobbish — people yearn for luster borrowed from famous ancestors, royalty or commoner, or may wish to prove a connection between themselves and a well-known current figure. Others may be interested in their family background out of curiosity — wanting to know what kind of people they have descended from — farmers, tradesmen, lawyers, soldiers, rich men or poor. Some may wish to prove their right to an inheritance or membership in a society such as the Daughters of the American Revolution. Some may hope to take precautions to avoid burdening their unborn descendants with the consequences of hereditary defects. Yet others may pursue genealogi- cal studies for religious reasons, as do the Latter-day Saints, who may save their ancestors by posthumous baptism into the Mormon faith. And still others, feeling the pressures of our mobile, rootless society, may wish to provide for themselves and their descendants the legacy of a set of roots, a direct link to the past as experienced both by their immediate generations and those who preceded them. Genealogical research can prove itself useful in fulfilling any of these functions, however, worthy or unworthy each of these individual functions may be. But besides the value of the results, there is more than one inherent value in the research itself. Genealogical research has provided a fascinat- ing and rewarding hobby for the leisure time of thousands of people whose ancestors may never have done anything very remarkable. At the same time, this research may very well result in a growing appreciation of the historical and social changes that have been occurring through the centuries. Someone, for instance, tracing his ancestry back from a current generation of to factory workers to professional people , through white-collar workers farmers to indentured immigrant servants to English factory workers to yeoman farmers, is going to have a much clearer grasp of the importance of social mobility and the social changes brought about by the British enclosure laws and the Industrial Revolution, than someone who may only have read a dry treatise on the subject. For the genealogist, there will be a much greater sense of immediacy, a sense that he himself is involved in these events because it is his family that is involved. Thomas DeLong's book discusses more than the dry genealogical facts statistical found in so many family histories. Although it does cover the basic facts of birth, marriage, children's birth, and death dates, it also includes the more enlivening material of record and anecdote which makes for more interesting reading. The careers of several DeLongs, particularly George Washington DeLong and Edith Haggin DeLong of DeLong Ruby fame, are shown in much closer detail, as is fitting, in view of their more publicized contributions to the world. The volume should prove useful, not only to those DeLongs who are closely related to the DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn, but also to genealogists of the future, who will be able to trace not only the DeLongs, but also many of the collateral branches of the family through records of parents or people married to DeLongs. Elizabeth L. White Brooklyn History Librarian Brooklyn Public Library 10 PREFACE The author's interest in a family biography stems from research for a Master's thesison CommanderGeorge Washington DeLong and \heJeannette Expedition. Published data on the explorers life prior to the launching of the Jeannette in 1878 was fragmentary and incomplete. No historian or biographer, including Cmdr. DeLong's widow, had thoroughly researched his early years. I initially tracked down and consulted such contemporary primary sources as newspaper articles, letters, journals and directories for possible untapped information on George W. DeLong. My interest soon spread to include other members of the DeLong family who had moved to New York City from eastern PennsyJvania in the 1820s and '30s. These descendants of early 18th-century Huguenot settlers migrated from an isolated Pennsylvania Dutch farming community to bustling Manhattan, the fastest growing city in the country. In 1845, one of them, Joseph DeLong, moved across the East River to Brooklyn, and before the turn of the century, he and his progeny were one of the largest and best-known families in that city. For more than 75 years, DeLongs were closely associated with social, cultural and religious activities of Brooklyn. This family compendium focuses primarily on Joseph and his descendants, but includes sections on Joseph's Huguenot ancestry, the family of his wife Mary Lopes, and his three brothers — Abraham, Jonathan and Levi — and sister Lydia, all of whom lived in New York or Brooklyn at one time. The narrative also portrays aspects of Brooklyn life in its halcyon days. Although the story of the Jeannette Expedition has been told in a number of books, beginning in 1884 with the explorer's journals. The Voyage of the Jeannette, and later in the fictionalized best-seller of 1938. Hell on Ice, the chapter on Commander DeLong covers new ground, using much material overlooked or published only in part. This includes the autobiography of Emma Wotton DeLong in its original, unabridged version. However, I do not detail the two-and-a-half year Arctic saga of the Jeannette, a story readily available in other accounts and anthologies. A genealogy is never conclusive. New information is continually forthcom- ing and fills in all-too-frequent biographical gaps and omissions. Moreover, mislayed or unobtainable data subsequently is found or becomes available. In the compilation of data on more than 400 individuals, a genealogist could easily consume a lifetime in research without claiming the job's been done. Yet, without concentrated efforts in the 1960s and '70s, much source material would be irretrievably lost. Thus, the author, after a dozen years 11 of probing publications and prodding people, has written this account of the DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn. Unless otherwise noted, he alone accepts responsibility for the accuracy, compilation and interpretation of material. A number of individuals have supplied invaluable data, photographs, and suggestions which have provided the basis for this work. They are Sara DeL. Kellogg, Emma del. Mills, William W. Harman, the late Alice DeL. Kleinpeter, Barbara DeL. Hawkes, Donald S. MacDowell, Maude DeL. Gossage, the late Howard M. Hanf, Dr. Arthur DeL. Philson, Adele M. Diehl, Rosamond N. DeLong, Ann Hatch Briggs, Marian W. Paulmier, Joseph L. Schaefer, Mildred S. Levine, Harold DeL. Conklin, Howard A. and Wallace H. DeLong, Chester A. Siegman, Theodore M. Sastrom, William Haggin Perry, William DeL. Macy, Mary McCormick DeLong, Caroline Heinz Zande, Fred DeL. Moller, Rear Adm. Edward Ellsberg, Mrs. Richard Lounsbery and Elsie England DeLong. For help and information, I wish to thank Dr. Herbert B. Anstaett, executive secretary of The Evangelical and Reform Historical Society, Lan- caster, Pa.; Mae Bowler, supervisor, John Hay Whitney - New York Herald Tribune Newspaper Collection at N.Y.U.; Louise Turpin and Dallas R. Shawkey of the Brooklyn Public Library; the Rev. Francis D. Wallace, stated clerk, Presbytery of New York City; Clarence E. Meek, chief librarian, N.Y. Fire Department, Long Island City; Gerald W. Gillette, research secretary, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia; Neil B. Watson, superintendent of The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn; Robert W. Carroll, secretary, Penn Central Transportation Co.; J. Willard Jesse, Town of Varna, III., historian; Burton Rogers, director. Pine Mountain (Ky.) Settlement School; Samuel Thorne, genealogist of the Veteran Corps of Artillery, State of New York; Edmund A. Stanley, Jr., president of Bowne & Co., New York; Prof. Belov M.I., The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Leningrad; Prof. Stephen B. Gates of the University of Massachusetts; Herman R. Friis, director. Center for Polar Archives, Washington, D.C.; Sohei Hohri, librarian, New York Yacht Club; Margaret R. Finn, vice-president, The First National Bank of Aitoona, Pa.; Ruth Keusseff of the Johns-Manville Research and Engineering Center, Manville, N.J.; Norman Laine, vice-president.
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