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    1. [NJSUSSEX-L] Bailey EDSALL
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    3. I have asked in the past if anyone had access to the address given by B. B. EDSALL. I finally found the information about the address but still have not read it. >From The FELCONE Collection: "The First Sussex Centennary" containing the addresses of Benjamin B. EDSALL, Esq. and Rev. J. F. TUTTLE. With notes, appendix, &. Newark: Printed at the Daily advertiser office. 1853. 102 pages. The first history of Sussex County. Benjamin Bailey EDSALL (1811-1868) was born at Maspeth, Long Island, and learned the printing trade as a youth. In 1833 he came to Newton, Sussex County, as an assistant to the proprietor of the Sussex Register. Edsall remained with that newspaper all his life, becoming a partner and eventually owner. He was a prominent figure in Newton and in Sussex County. Joseph Farrand TUTTLE (1818-1902) was born in Bloomfield, graduated from Marietta College in 1841, and was licensed to preach in 1844. He was pastor of the church at Rockaway, Morris County, from 1847 until 1862 when he was named president of Wabash College. he retired from the presidency in 1892, and lived in Crawfordsville, Indiana until his death.

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