James Patterson, his eldest son, was one of the most conspicuous figures of his time in Monmouth county—a man of sterling honesty and integrity and indomitable will. He was successful in business, and left a large landed estate. He was a lieutenant in Captain Daniel Schanck's regiment, in the war of 1812. He was a member and director of the board of chosen freeholders for seventeen years, and was elected to the state council in 1846, and chosen vice-president. He was the first member of the New Jersey legislature who opposed the exclusive privileges that had been given the old Camden & Amboy Railroad monopoly, and he opposed extending their charter for thirty years; he commenced the fight that ended in a general railroad law. He died at the age of seventy-three.

His son John was graduated from Princeton, studied law with Daniel B. Ryall and was admitted to the bar in 1847. When Monmouth county was divided and the county of Ocean created, Ocean county had no lawyer within her borders. He was appointed the public prosecutor, and was a fine advocate, and a leading young lawer at the Monmouth county bar. He took a severe cold and lost his voice. He was afterward elected county clerk of Monmouth county, and died at the age of thirty-seven.

The second son, John H. Patterson, of Red Bank, was among the pioneers to California, and he cast his first vote in that state for John Biegler for governor. He returned to the old home in 1857. In i860 he married Margaret Douglas Pringle, of New York, and moved to the old homestead that had been occupied so long by his ancestors, and engaged in the oyster business. In 1868 he was elected sheriff in Monmouth county. In 1872 he was nominated for congress, his competitors being Hon. Miles Ross and the late governor, Robert S. Greene; he was defeated in the Greeley campaign. He was appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms of the forty-fourth Congress, and was elected doorkeeper of the House of Representatives after Fitzhugh of Texas was deposed. After his term of office expired he came back to his farm, built a wharf, and chartered a steamboat which ran between Patterson's Landing and New York, and was thus interested in the lime and oyster business. In 1886 he was nominated by Governor Abbott to the wardenship of the New Jersey state prison, and was confirmed by the senate; this all occurred without his knowledge, and he did not know anything about the appointment until the governor's messenger handed him the appointment. He served for ten years and was retired in 1896. Since then he has been interested in farming and the real estate, lime and ice business.

Dr. James H. Patterson was graduated from the medical department of Columbia College, New York, in 1855, commenced the practice of his profession in Shrewsbury, and had a large business, when he was elected clerk of Monmouth county. He served seven and a half years, and died in the middle of his second term, at the age of fifty-seven years. His brother Ewing was appointed to fill out his term.

Charles G. A. Patterson was graduated from Madison University at Hamilton, New York, in 1859. He afterwards entered the law school at Albany, graduating in 1861, and studied law with Church & Abbott in New York; he died in 1865.

C. Ewing Patterson, the sixth brother, was graduated from the Columbia Law School. He acted as deputy sheriff during the incumbency of his brother. He then located at Long Branch and spent three years in New Mexico, and on his return was appointed chief clerk in the clerk's office. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Long Branch. He has been police judge for four years and counsellor for the freeholders for seven.

Samuel H. Patterson was a member of the board of chosen freeholders for a number of years and assessor of Middlesex township, and died at the age of forty-four years. Of his daughters, one, Rebecca, married William H. Hendrickson, who represented his county nine years in the senate; Hannah married John H. Hopping, a successful farmer in Middletown; Margaret married Joseph C. Applegate; and Lydia, the youngest, married Samuel H. Frost, an old commission merchant of New York.

JOHN ENRIGHT.

John Enright, who ranks as one of the most popular educators of New Jersey, was born at Coltsneck. New Jersey, April 28. 1852. He was reared to farm life, in which his boyhood was spent under the most careful training of his parents both from precept and example. The habits of frugality and industry, incident to the farm life of his day, precluded his attendance upon school after nine years of age, except during the winter months, yet with such advantages he had made such progress that in 1869 he was able to enter the State Normal School at Trenton, from which he was graduated in 1871. His aptitude for study and books in earlier boyhood had pointed towards a probable choice of teaching as a profession. The choice had now crystalized and was ready for execution. Soon after graduation he was engaged to take the Orchard school in the town of Freehold. He was successful from the start, introduced normal methods into the Freehold school, and in a short time was so overcrowded with pupils that a private house was used as an annex, and an assistant teacher engaged. I

The stimulus given to education and more advanced methods, led to the erection of a new building for school purposes at a cost of $20,000, of which Mr. Enright was the unanimous choice of the board of trustees as the principal. He thus organized and established a course of study and started the first graded school in Monmouth county. The school starting in 1875 with two hundred and twenty-five pupils and five teachers, within a decade's time reached six hundred pupils and fourteen teachers; became exceptionally popular, attracting an extraordinary patronage of nonresident pupils and maintaining a standard of study unsurpassed in any of the schools of the state.

In 1891 Professor Enright served as president of the State Teachers Association. In 1894 he became county superintendent of schools. From 1873 until this appointment he served continuously on the examining board