NJ SENATOR POLITICIAN CAMDEN SHERIFF GLOUCESTER TATEM LAND DOCUMENT SIGNED 1860!

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Here’s a Document Signed by Camden County Politician
WILLIAM PENISTON TATEM
(1822 - 1896)
19
th
CENTURY
REPUBLICAN PARTY POLITICIAN IN CAMDEN and GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY,
CIVIL WAR ERA
3-
TERM NEW JERSEY STATE SENATOR,
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR FOR NEW JERSEY’S SOUTHERN DISTRICT, APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT U.S. GRANT 1870-1885,
ANTEBELLUM SHERIFF OF GLOUCESTER COUNTY 1853-1856
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PROMINENT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY EXECUTIVE and EXPERT – PRESIDENT OF THE CAMDEN FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION.
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HERE's A CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY LAND DEED FOR
8½
ACRES OF LAND IN WATERFORD TOWNSHIP SIGNED BY TATEM ON THE FRONT PANEL AS COUNTY CLERK, DATED JUNE 15
th
, 1860.
THE DOCUMENT BEARS OTHER ENDORSEMENTS, INCLUDING
JOHN CLEMENT
(1818-1894)
MASTER OF THE CHANCERY COURT, NOTED CARTOGRAPHER and CAMDEN/GLOUCESTER Co. HISTORIAN and PUBLISHED AUTHOR.
The document measures 11” x 18” and is in very fine condition.
A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY POLITICAL HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION.
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE WILLIAM P. TATEM
William Peniston Tatem,
Business Man, Public Official.
William P. Tatem
was born at the old Tatem homestead at Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, on May 28, 1822, and seventy-four years later, August 20, 1896, he ended his useful life at Collingswood, Camden County. New Jersey.
He came from an old New Jersey family, well known in Gloucester County and South Jersey, and in his own life maintained the high standards and best traditions of his race. He obtained a good education, and for several years taught school in his native county, but later engaged in the insurance business in Camden, New Jersey, where for thirty-five years he was a director of the Camden Fire Insurance Association and for twelve years its president. He was a good business man, a capable executive and an authority in the insurance world in which he moved. Mr. Tatem was a son of Joseph and Mary Tatem, and the old homestead in Woodbury is yet owned in the family.
Mr. Tatem was always deeply interested in politics and an ardent supporter of the Republican Party. He held many positions of honor and trust, through the favor of the voters of Woodbury and Gloucester County, and each office held but increased his hold upon public confidence. While he held many minor offices, he also filled places of county and district importance.
He was but thirty-two years of age when elected Sheriff of Gloucester County, and so satisfactory was his administration of the duties of that office that later he was called to represent his district in the New Jersey State Senate. In that body he became well known throughout the State for his devotion to the interests of the people, for his able work upon the floor of the Senate and his untiring labors in the committees upon which he was placed.
At the expiration of his term he was reelected, and repeating the successes of his first term, his constituents returned him for a third term, which he likewise served with honor and fidelity.
While he was a straight party man and always stood firmly by his principles, he was not unfair or blindly partisan, and retired from every office he ever held with the confidence and respect of the people he served irrespective of party affiliation.
In 1868 Senator Tatem was appointed Internal Revenue Collector for a New Jersey District by President Grant, an office he filled most satisfactorily to the government and to those whose business came within the scope of his authority until the first administration of President Cleveland, when he resigned and retired from public life.
From 1854, when elected sheriff, until his retirement in 1885, his life was lived in the fierce light of publicity and much of that period was one of heated political feeling when party spirit ran high, but he held inviolate a strict sense of public honor and never was there a stain upon his public record.
In private and business life he adhered to the same high ideals and left to his descendants an honored name. He was one of the organizers of the Haddonfield Presbyterian Church, and was a Trustee of the church until his death. Within a square of his old home at Collingswood a ,000 Presbyterian church has been erected, being on a part of the old homestead ground.
Mr. Tatem married, in 1849, Achsah White Frazer, of near Bordentown, Burlington county, New Jersey, and this life was an ideal one. Mrs. Tatem's death occurred six years prior to her husband's. Four children were born of their union: Joseph E., deceased; William P., Jr., died in infancy; Mary L., deceased; Henry R., resides in Collingswood, New Jersey, where he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business; was the town's first mayor, acted as postmaster for ten years, and served two terms in the New Jersey Legislature.
Extracted from: “
MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY
” Vol III 1917
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