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By Don Morfe

Sgt. John P. Beech Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — Sgt. John P. Beech — Reported missing

Born May 1, 1844, in Staffordshire, England. Beech emigrated to Boston in 1848. In 1856, he moved to Trenton and found a job with City Pottery, at the corner of Perry and Carroll Streets. Beech joined Co. B, 4th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry . . . — — Map (db m4464) HM

2 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — James Taylor — Reported missing

Born May 16, 1810 in Staffordshire, England. Taylor came to the United States in 1829 and settled for a time in Jersey City. He worked in the potteries of Troy, Indiana; Orrsville, Kentucky; Cincinnati, Ohio, and East Liverpool, Ohio, to . . . — — Map (db m4465) HM

3 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — John O. Raum — Reported missing

Born 1824, in Mill Hill, now a part of Trenton. In 1854, he was the first, with Jesse M. Clark and Randolph H. Moore, to publish a city directory that included all the names, addresses and occupations of the people of Trenton. He was . . . — — Map (db m4466) HM

4 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — William Potts Sherman — Reported missing

Born 1807, in Trenton. He was the editor of the New Jersey State Gazette early in his career. Later a member and president of the Common Council, he served the short term as mayor of Trenton – April 6 to 9, 1855 – filling the vacated seat of . . . — — Map (db m4542) HM

5 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — Charles Hewitt — Reported missing

Born Dec. 18, 1824, in New York City. Early in life he was principal and teacher of mathematics at the grammar school of Columbia College. He left Columbia in 1845 to join the Cooper Iron Works in Trenton. Responsible for various inventions . . . — — Map (db m4467) HM

6 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — Dr. John Manners — Reported missing

Born April 8, 1786, in Hunterdon County, N.J. A graduate of the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), he studied at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department (1812) under Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of . . . — — Map (db m4468) HM

7 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — William R. McKean — Reported missing

Born 1803. Active in area business and politics, he was part-owner of VanCleve & McKean Iron Manufacturing Co., which eventually became the Trenton Locomotive and machine Manufacturing Co. (at South Broad St. and Hamilton Ave.), the first to . . . — — Map (db m4469) HM

8 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — Capt. James Olden Paxson — Reported missing

Born 1835 in Trenton. He was the son of Stacy A. Paxson, a former New Jersey state treasurer. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined Company D, 48th New York Infantry Volunteers (Die-No-Mores), which was made up of men from Trenton, and . . . — — Map (db m4470) HM

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9 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — Ira Wells Wood — Reported missing

Born June 19, 1856, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He graduated third in the class of 1877 at Princeton University. He served on the Trenton Board of Education (1894-1896); Trenton Common Council (1896-1900); Trenton Board of Trade (1896-1900); New . . . — — Map (db m4471) HM

10 ► New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton, Ewing and Carroll — William Young — Reported missing

Born Dec. 5, 1801, in Longnor, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1842, but remained only for a short time before returning to his native England, where he started a pottery. When it failed to produce a profit by 1848, . . . — — Map (db m4472) HM