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He was born in Pleasant Meadows , near Swedesboro , Gloucester County, New Jersey . He engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a flour and grain commission merchant in 1847 and later in quarrying and manufacturing slate; served as captain of Company G, Thirty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, from September 3 , 1862 , to June 26 , 1863 ; sheriff of Warren County, New Jersey , from November 13 , 1878 , to November 15 , 1881 . He died in Columbia, New Jersey , and is interred in Trinity Church Cemetery, Swedesboro, N.J.


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