and his descendants married into the Holmes, Stout, Bray and other pioneer families.

To James and Eliza Green were born a most excellent family of children, and of these brief mention is to be made. J. O. Green, the only surviving child, a highly educated man, became a physician, and is yet actively engaged in practice in Long Branch. Charles H. is to be referred to hereafter. Lewis C. Green passed his life on the home estate, as did Elwyn S. Green, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the state militia. Walter S. was an early volunteer life saver, after the government life saving service was inaugurated, he became captain of a life-saving crew and was instrumental in making many notable rescues. Elizabeth became the wife of Denise HL Smock.

Charles Haight Green was born on the family estate, and was named for the distinguished Charles Haight, of Freehold, whose brilliant and useful public services at the bar, in the legislature and in congress form an important chapter in the history of the state. He was an intimate friend of James Green, in whose children (childless himself) he took an abiding interest. It is a matter worthy of note that, from his association with the Greens, and from knowledge of coast disasters obtained from them, he derived much of that inspiration which moved him to so zealously and efficiently aid in the establishment of the governmental life saving service while he was serving as a member of Congress.

Inheriting the paternal tastes, Charles H. Green, while caring for his large estate, passed much of his time in sailing and fishing, building his own boats and making his own fishing apparatus. His effort also went out to all that would conduce to the good of those about him, and to succoring those in distress. Particularly were his sympathies enlisted when a vessel came into jeopardy or was cast ashore. After he had rendered his aid upon such occasions (long before the organization of the governmental life saving service) he became impressed with the great necessity for organized effort, and he formed from among his neighbors a volunteer crew at Green's Pond, now Lake Takaneesee, which separates West End from Elberon. Space forbids telling of all the scores of notable rescues made by Captain Green and his men, but one is deserving of special mention, not only in recognition of the act itself, but because of the fact that it was acknowledged in the bestowal of the first gold medal of the Life Saving Benevolent Association of America on the New Jersey Coast, and that the name of his wife was coupled with his own in the inscription: it is believed that in the latter particular the award stands alone in the history of the organization.

The ship "Adonis" was cast ashore March 7th, 1859, off Long Branch, in front of the spot on the Green estate where the United States Life Saving Station now stands. In spite of the raging surf, after a desperate struggle. Captain Charles H. Green and his volunteer crew succeeded in landing all who were aboard, without the loss of a single life. The life savers were encouraged in their mission by the presence of Mrs. Green, who took the shipwrecked men to her home and provided them with food,

dry clothing and all that would aid in their restoration and add to their comfort. For this noble achievement the association previously named presented to Captain and Mrs. Green a massive medal containing sixty dollars worth of fine gold. Upon the obverse it bears a most artistic altorelievo representation of a ship engulfed in high rolling waves, and the name of the association. Upon the reverse is beautifully inscribed the following: "Presented to Charles H. Green and Annie H., his wife, as an acknowledgment of the rescue of the crew of the ship 'Adonis,' wrecked at Long Branch, March, 1859."

When the United States Life Saving Service was instituted. Captain Green was placed in charge of the life saving station and crew, and he rendered splendid service in that capacity until his death, which occurred in 1871.

hi 1856 Captain Green was married to Miss Ann Christopher, of Freehold, daughter of Daniel D. Christopher, a prominent citizen, who served as county clerk. From the year of her marriage until the present time she has resided upon some portion of the Green ancestral estate. During the life of her husband, she was his companion in every meaning of the word, and her aid. sympathy and encouragement went out to him in all his splendidly heroic eifort for the saving of human life, and, so far as woman could, she shared in that effort. Scores of dreadful disasters have been before her eyes, and it has been her fortune to contribute to the saving and succor of hundreds upon hundreds of all sorts and conditions of God's misfortunate children. Pleasure, too, attended the pair. Thev joyed in witnessing the building up of beautiful homes and the coming in of a iarge population about them, on the very ground they had known as almost a wilderness. All who came were their friends and esteemed them for their unaffected gentility and openhearted hospitality, and among those who were delighted to be their guests were President and Mrs. Grant and other notables of their day.

One child was born to Captain and Mrs. Green, a daughter, Ella. She was educated in the Freehold Young Ladies' Seminary, when it was a most excellent institution of learning under Professor Amos Richardson, who to the acquirements of the scholar added the instincts of the real gentleman whose life was a constant benediction upon all about him. She was married November 20. 1890, to Mr. James H. Peters, whose father was of French birth, a member of a famous old family of Normandy, and whose mother was of the old Taylor family of Monmouth county. Mr. Peters was educated in Dresden and was a most scholarly and accomplished gentleman, a fine linguist, having fluent acquaintance with several of the continental tongues, and with all the tastes of the literateur and lover of art. He had prepared himself for the life of a physician, but the scenes of the dissecting room, with their revelations of what would be expected of him in the profession were repulsive to his delicately strung mentalism, and he entered upon a mercantile life at Red Bank, where he conducted a large establishment. Capable of occupying and adorning any position in county or state, he was wholly destitute of ambition for public distinction, and

gave himself to his family and his home. He gathered about him the choicest of books in remarkable number for an individual, and in these he found a never failing source of delight, and he was, besides, an excellent observing traveler. Whether in his home, or in journeyings abroad, his wife, with similar tastes, was ever his delighted and delightful companion, and they never returned without new knowledge and fresh treasures of literature and art. Life was brightest to him when he succumbed to disease, and his death occurred April 13, 1898, at Red Bank, New Jersey. His end had no terrors for him—nothing save the pitiful sorrow of parting from his loved ones. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, a modest, well living Christian.

After the death of Mr. Peters, Mrs. Peters removed to Hollywood, (and the pleasant little village was given its name by her), where she and her mother now reside. Their splendid home is a portion of the Green ancestral estate, and is one of the most ideal homes the writer of these pages has ever visited. The residence is concealed in a small forest of beautiful trees, and the grounds are adorned with all manner of shrub and flower. The home is a veritable mansion of the colonial times, with its spacious outdoor galleries supported by stately Corinthian colonnades. A part of the residence was built two centuries ago the exterior has been renovated to comport with the extensive modern addition built to it, but the interior, with its dignified door and window frames, adorned with Doric friese and cornice, are maintained as they originally were. In this portion of the building courts were held, nearly a hundred years ago. The walls are adorned with beautiful specimens of painting brought from abroad, and a fine enlarged reproduction of the coat-of-arms of the Peters family. There are also many articles of vertu from the old Normandy family chateau, and ornaments from many historic places on the continent. And everywhere are the book treasures gathered by husband and wife during the years of their companionship.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Peters were two children—Mary Taylor, aged nine years, and James H., aged six years, who are receiving their education under a most capable governess, Miss Sarah A. Little, of Red Bank, New Jersey.

V. M. D. MARCY, M. D.

In studying the lives and characters of prominent men we are naturally led to inquire into the secret of their success and the motives that prompted their action. Success is more often a matter of experience and sound judgment and thorough preparation for a life work than it is of genius, however bright. When we trace the career of those whom the world acknowledges as successful and of those who stand highest in public esteem, we find that in almost every case are those who have rise gradually by their own efforts, their diligence and perseverance. These qualities are undoubtedly possessed in a large measure by the gentleman whose name introduces this