William Peddie In 1818 the Bank of Canada was started by a few wealthy individuals, who were dissatisfied with the directorship of the Bank of Montreal. Thomas H. Turner was President, and Robert Armour, Cashier. There was not room for two banks, however, and the influence of its rival was too powerful, so it died in a few years, and fell into the hands of two firms-H. Gates & Co. and William Peddie & Co., who wound up its affairs without any loss to the stockholders. Many persons have a belief that such an institution as the "Bank of Canada" never excited, so for their better convincement the following business notice has been clipped the Canadian Courant of May 13, 1820: www.education.mcgill.ca/profs/cartwright/rawdon/mt
May 07, ship William Ashton, Armstrong, 08 April, Newcastle, to H. Gowan & Co. ..... L. Guy and Mr. John Carter, to W. Peddie / general cargo ...www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1827a.htm -
The Star Tuesday 28th Feb. 1899
Passengers by the steamer Gothic, for London, must proceed to Wellington by the steamer Rotomahana, s.s., 901 tons, Manning, this evening. Union Steamship Company, agents. Feb. 28th for Wellington: Passengers include: Messrs Pottinger and family, Rutherford(2), Garsia. Misses Green, Garsia, Wilding and Smith. The direct liner leaves the northern port on Thursday.
THE SAME? Mr T B Peddie /Wellington Steerage <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/g
Peddie ...An examination of the records and registers in Prince street, Edinburgh, Scotland, reveal some interesting facts concerning the Peddie family whose descendants are many and prominent in the United States. The records show that they are an ancient Scottish family who were formerly called McDougald; that they rebelled against state authority; that they possessed a claim to noble blood and had a coat-of-arms granted them, and other interesting facts. Tradition says the name was changed to Peddie to avoid banishment from Scotland for their rebellious acts against the laws that oppressed them. In the United States a notable member of the family was Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, whose monument in the city of Newark, New Jersey, is Peddie Memorial Baptist Church on Broad street, one of the most magnificent churches in that city. Another prominent representative of the family is Rev. John Peddie, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These families trace from the same ancestry as the Peddies of Montgomery county, New York. The family was founded in the Mohawk Valley after the revolution and the first settlement made in the town of Perth, Fulton county, where the Scotch emigrants sought the rough and heavily timbered lands rather than the meadow land along the streams that attracted the Dutch to the town of Palatine, Montgomery county. Amid the surroundings more in keeping with the soil and conditions of the land they had left the Scotch emigrants throve and prospered and left a posterity that are the hardy, substantial citizens of that locality. Among the emigrants to Perth was William Peddie, the founder.
(I) William Peddie was born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1767. He grew up in his native shire, where he married Nelly McIntyre, of an old Perth county family. Shortly after their marriage they joined the tide of emigration that was even then beginning to flow to the United States, whose independence recently gained was the talk and wonder of the whole Eastern world. They came on a slow sailing vessel with other Scotch emigrants and settled in Fulton county, New York, where they named their home in the New World - Perth - after the Scotch home they had left. William and his wife possessed those admirable Scotch traits, industry and frugality, therefore it is not strange that they soon had a home on a cleared farm to which each year a new field was added, literally "wrested from the wilderness." They lived to be old people and to see their three sons and two daughters settled in homes of their own. Children:
James, studied law after a boy and youthful manhood passed on the farm. He became a well-known and prosperous lawyer of Palmyra, New York, where he died unmarried in 1892, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Duncan, who left the farm and settled in New York City, where he was superintendent of the Crystal Palace during the exhibition held there and afterwards. He married and left a daughter Lizzie, now married.
Eliza, born as early as 1820; married William Fisher, and died without issue.
Helen, died unmarried, at the age of eighty-nine years.
Daniel, see forward.
(II) Daniel, son of William Peddie, was born on the Perth homestead farm in Fulton county, in 1822, died in April, 1896, is buried with others of the family in Perth cemetery. He was of the same industrious, thrifty habits as his ancestors and was known as a good and just man. He followed the soil all his years and accumulated a goodly estate. He married (first) Mary Barker, daughter of parents who were members of the Society of Friends who had made a settlement of members of that faith at Granville. Mary Barker was reared to the faith and always dressed "plain," until the day of her marriage, when she laid aside the outward garb of her religion, but the admirable traits of the Quaker character were always hers. She died at the early age of twenty-nine, in 1866. Children:
Dr. William J., see forward.
Ella Jeannette, born in 1860; married George Nash, of the leather firm of Lynk & Nash, Albany, New York; child, Lydia, wife of Francis Hollister, an electrician of Schenectady, New York.
Charles, born in 1868; graduate pharmacist of Glens Falls, New York, member of the drug firm of Leggett & Peddie; married Jeannette MacFarland; child, Roy.
Daniel Peddie married (second) Mary F. Lent, who survives him. Children of second marriage:
Edgar L., a sketch of whom follows.
Sydney Fisher, born 1871; foreman of a knitting mill department in Amsterdam; married Freelove Sprung, of Amsterdam; children: Edgar C., Roy, Gladys and Ethel.
Honey Marvin, born December 24, 1874; married Sarah Welch, of Waterville, New York.
(III) Dr. William J., eldest son of Daniel and Mary (Barker) Peddie, was born January 7, 1858. He was reared on the farm in Perth, where he remained until after the death of his mother and his father's second marriage. He was ambitious and desired to become a physician. He entered Amsterdam Academy, where he completed his academical studies. He made the acquaintance of Dr. Albert Vander Veer, of Albany, who, learning the boy's ambition and limited means, became very much interested in him. He gave him an introduction to Hon. Webster Wagner, then state senator, who was so impressed with his earnestness and determination to win his profession that he stood security for his education at the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in March, 1882. He never forgot the kindness of Senator Wagner, whom he reimbursed for the money expended on his education, and always retained as his friend. On the advice of Dr. Vander Veer, Dr. Peddie located his office in Fultonville, where he began his wonderfully successful professional career that continues to the present day. His skill is well known to a large clientele.
Dr. Peddie married (first) in Albany, New York, April 26, 1883, Ella Gardner, born in 1864, died November 13, 1885. He married (second) in Perth Center, New York, Carrie McIntyre, born in Perth, October, 1868, daughter of John D. and Sarah (Ferguson) McIntyre, born in Perth, of Scotch ancestors who settled in the county one hundred and fifty years ago, with the first Scotch settlers from Perth. The McIntyre family have always been represented in the county, where they are prominent and numerous. Carrie McIntyre was educated at Amsterdam and later at Utica Academy, taking special courses in music. Dr. and Mrs. Peddie are prominent in the social and public life of the village, where he has always taken a special interest in local affairs. He has served as village president and member for several years of the board of education. He is a member of the American Medical Association; the State Medical Society, and the Amsterdam Medical Club. He has been United States pension examiner for sixteen years, and for several years coroner of Montgomery county. He is a Republican politically. He is past master of Fultonville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; member of Johnstown Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lenton Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Fonda Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Red Men.
Child of first wife: Burton G., graduate of Troy Business College and an expert machinist, residing in Cohoes, New York, married Catherine Lent, and has a son, Lewis W. Children of second wife:
Jay McIntyre, born December 12, 1887, graduate of the Business College, now department city clerk of Gloversville, New York;
Edith, born June 26, 1889, married, September 22, 1910, Jessie R. Rickard, of Schenectady, of the firm of J. Rickard & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in sporting goods, Schenectady;
Harold C., born 1891, died at the age of four years;
Donald D., born June, 1897.
(III) Edgar Lent, son of Daniel and Mary F. (Lent) Peddle, was born in Broadalbin, Fulton county, New York, December 21, 1869. He was educated in the public schools, and after completing his education was taken into his father's store, where he remained for three years; then was employed in a knitting mill for four years, followed by a year in the Gloversville Glove Factory and two years in the Amsterdam Knitting Mills. He finally settled in Cohoes, where he entered the employ of the Victor Mills Company, where he is foreman of a department. Since coming to Cohoes he has been active in the Republican party organization; and in 1900 was elected alderman from the sixth ward. His course in council received the endorsement of his ward and he was four times re-elected, serving eight years. In 1909 he was elected from the sixth ward as their representative on the board of supervisors. He was chosen leader of the first district, sixth ward, in 1905, at the primary elections, and still continues the choice of his district. He served in the common council of Cohoes with great ability, and was chairman of the committee on streets for seven years and member of the finance, poor, lamps and gas, sidewalks and parks committees. He attends the Presbyterian church, but is not actively connected with it. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Cascade Hose Company, No. 3, and the East Side Social Club. Mr. Peddie married, May 14, 1895, Mary Ledwith, born in Crescent, Saratoga county, New York, daughter of Michael and Katherine (Kane) Ledwith, natives of Ireland. Michael Ledwith was engaged in the stone quarry business with his father, resigning to enter the employ of the state in canal work; he was an active Republican; he died June 23, 1908. Children of Edgar Lent and Mary (Ledwith) Peddie: Alma H. and Alice M.
RE: Baptist church in Newark
PEDDIE, Thomas Baldwin, (1808-1889)became a manufacturer of trunks, suitcases and the like in that city. We had trunks that he had sold in his family farm attic when we were growing up ...they had the name Peddie stamped on them and were great to organize with as they had a removeable tray (February 12, 1808 - February 16, 1889) was a Republican member of New Jersey General Assembly from 1864-1865; Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1866 to 1869 and U.S. Congressman from New Jersey's 6th district from 1877 to 1879. from New Jersey; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, February 11, 1808; attended elementary schools; immigrated to the United States in 1833 and settled in Newark, N.J.; engaged in the manufacture of traveling bags and trunks; member of the State house of assembly in 1864 and 1865; mayor of Newark 1866-1869; served as president of the Newark Board of Trade in 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate in 1878 for renomination; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; vice president of the Essex County National Bank and president of the Security Savings Bank of Newark; died in Newark, N.J., February 16, 1889; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. who was a saddlemaker when he emigrated from Scotland to Newark NJ
Peddie, C.B. & Co.
Makers of trunks, bags, dress suit cases and fine leather goods
689 Broad St. Newark. NJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baldwin_Peddie ....He was born on February 12, 1808 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a Baptist exhorter, working at trunk-making during the week and preaching on Sundays. His father died in 1832, leaving in moderate circumstances his wife and six children, whose support then depended mainly upon Thomas. Seeing little chance in Scotland of earning a living for so many dependent ones, and hearing of America as the land of opportunity, he emigrated in 1833, and, after studying the advantages offered by several towns, concluded to make Newark, New Jersey his home. For two years he worked at the bench in a saddlery establishment, and then began, in a basement on Broad Street, to manufacture trunks, not having, as he said, enough money to pay for the iron on his first trunk. When he died, his factory and warehouses covered nearly a block, his employees were numbered in the hundreds, and his name stood at the head of this branch of industry in the United States.Besides giving close attention to his great business, He was always active in public affairs. He was a member of the Assembly in 1863 and 1864, mayor of the city for four years from 1866, and a member of the Forty Fifth Congress. He helped to found the Essex National Bank, and was its vice president; he founded the Security Savings Bank, and has been its only president; he was president of the Board of Trade, manager of various city institutions, and director in insurance companies and charitable organizations. No man was busier than he; none more faithful to every duty; none more esteemed by the citizens of Newark.The money for the Newark First Baptist Church was given by Peddie. H. J. Latham wrote: He said to me, Now, don't mention my name in this service, but pass me by. After the service was over, we walked down Broad Street together, and he said to me, I don't think that you or any of the others quite understand me in this gift. How so? I asked. He replied, Think of it, I came to this city a poor young man. See where I am now! Look at my happy home! Think how many friends I have. Everything I've touched has seemed to prosper. Now, I believe that all this prosperity has come to me from God, and I owe all my religious convictions to the fellowship I have enjoyed all these years in the First Baptist Church. Then pausing and turning abruptly to me he said with great emphasis, I am building this church simply to express my gratitude to God.[edit] Patent This invention has for its object to improve the construction of trunks, valises, portmanteaus, pellesiers, traveling bags, etc., so as to adapt them to receive and carry a portfolio in such a way that while carrying it safely, it may be conveniently removed when required for use. U.S. Patent 98,104 (1870). [edit] Death He died in Newark, New Jersey on February 16, 1889 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark.[edit] Legacy The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey and the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey are named after him.
Mayor Thomas Baldwin Peddie was a Scottish born manufacturer of leather goods. Enlarging his fortune during the Civil War by making knapsacks for the Union Army, Peddie then turned to the public good, gave $25,000 to a female seminary in Hightstown (later named for him), and served two terms as mayor of Newark 1866-1869 and one term as US Congressman 1877-79. In the 1880s Peddie gave the money for this church. Peddie's vision was that his church building would function as more than a place of worship. In his bequest he advised that the church be "open to every great meeting of a proper kind that people desire to hold, and should be dedicated to religion, to education and to the social purposes for the good of all the people." He died at the time of its completion.
First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church was first organized on June 6, 1801, by a small group of believers seeking to open a place of worship in the town of Newark, with the name of "First Baptist Church of Newark." On the first day of organization, several new believers were baptized in the beautiful Passaic River, and on the next day, June 7, 1801, the Lord's Day, the entire membership of fourteen sat down at the communion table for the first time as a church. Services were held in the White School house, located on South Broad Street and the junction of Clinton Avenue and Spruce Street. In February of 1802, Elder Charles Lahatt was unanimously called to be the first pastor. The first meeting house, only 35 by 45 feet, was dedicated to God on August 1805.By the grace and mercy of God, the church grew not only in numbers but also in its commitment to mission. The present building was dedicated to God in 1890 by the generous gift of Thomas B. Peddie, who served two terms as Mayor of Newark and was later elected to Congress, representing the sixth district of New Jersey. His vision was that the church building should be "open to every great meeting of a proper kind that people desire to hold, and should be dedicated to religion, to education and to the social purposes for the good of all the people." Peddie's vision of the church "for the good of all the people" continued to be realized when eight Chinese Christians were baptized in 1923. The demographics in Newark changed drastically during the past century, and the church responded to this change by warmly welcoming people of all ethnicity and nationality. Today, we have become an international church with people representing over twenty nations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the West Indies. On our International Sunday in 2004, we celebrated God's gift of diversity with the reading of Scripture in ten languages, the music and dance of Africa, and the feast of delicious food from many nations.With the leadership of our twenty-seventh pastor Rev. Felix P. Tingson, we desire to become a faithful church that announces in small yet hopeful ways the coming of God's kingdom. It is our prayer that we grow in strength and maturity, not to take pride in our successes, but to glorify God and to care for His people, especially the weak, the poor, the lost, and the marginalized
http://www.peddiechurch.org/Articles/Path_to_Multi
Comment: "Multicultural" and "interracial," though not synonyms, are kindred terms. For a church to achieve either can help to achieve the other.
[edit] References
H. J. Latham; God in Business (1887)
Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Political graveyard info for Thomas Baldwin Peddie
Preceded by Theodore Runyon Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1866-1869 Succeeded by..Frederick W. Ricord
Preceded by..Frederick H. Teese U.S. Representative, New Jersey 6th District
1877-1879 Succeeded by John L. Blake
CBC Television Series 1952 to 1982, Dan-DixJack Sampson and Ron Meraska were the directors, and David Peddie produced. .... Quebec and Montreal settlements at the end of the seventeenth century, ...www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html Does anyone know him if you do if he is who my cuz Norris talked to he might know at lot still being in Canada ? ~PJ Peddie
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May 07, ship William Ashton, Armstrong, 08 April, Newcastle, to H. Gowan & Co. ..... L. Guy and Mr. John Carter, to W. Peddie / general cargo ...www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1827a.htm -
The Star Tuesday 28th Feb. 1899
Passengers by the steamer Gothic, for London, must proceed to Wellington by the steamer Rotomahana, s.s., 901 tons, Manning, this evening. Union Steamship Company, agents. Feb. 28th for Wellington: Passengers include: Messrs Pottinger and family, Rutherford(2), Garsia. Misses Green, Garsia, Wilding and Smith. The direct liner leaves the northern port on Thursday.
THE SAME? Mr T B Peddie /Wellington Steerage <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/g
Peddie ...An examination of the records and registers in Prince street, Edinburgh, Scotland, reveal some interesting facts concerning the Peddie family whose descendants are many and prominent in the United States. The records show that they are an ancient Scottish family who were formerly called McDougald; that they rebelled against state authority; that they possessed a claim to noble blood and had a coat-of-arms granted them, and other interesting facts. Tradition says the name was changed to Peddie to avoid banishment from Scotland for their rebellious acts against the laws that oppressed them. In the United States a notable member of the family was Hon. Thomas B. Peddie, whose monument in the city of Newark, New Jersey, is Peddie Memorial Baptist Church on Broad street, one of the most magnificent churches in that city. Another prominent representative of the family is Rev. John Peddie, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These families trace from the same ancestry as the Peddies of Montgomery county, New York. The family was founded in the Mohawk Valley after the revolution and the first settlement made in the town of Perth, Fulton county, where the Scotch emigrants sought the rough and heavily timbered lands rather than the meadow land along the streams that attracted the Dutch to the town of Palatine, Montgomery county. Amid the surroundings more in keeping with the soil and conditions of the land they had left the Scotch emigrants throve and prospered and left a posterity that are the hardy, substantial citizens of that locality. Among the emigrants to Perth was William Peddie, the founder.
(I) William Peddie was born in Perthshire, Scotland, about 1767. He grew up in his native shire, where he married Nelly McIntyre, of an old Perth county family. Shortly after their marriage they joined the tide of emigration that was even then beginning to flow to the United States, whose independence recently gained was the talk and wonder of the whole Eastern world. They came on a slow sailing vessel with other Scotch emigrants and settled in Fulton county, New York, where they named their home in the New World - Perth - after the Scotch home they had left. William and his wife possessed those admirable Scotch traits, industry and frugality, therefore it is not strange that they soon had a home on a cleared farm to which each year a new field was added, literally "wrested from the wilderness." They lived to be old people and to see their three sons and two daughters settled in homes of their own. Children:
James, studied law after a boy and youthful manhood passed on the farm. He became a well-known and prosperous lawyer of Palmyra, New York, where he died unmarried in 1892, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Duncan, who left the farm and settled in New York City, where he was superintendent of the Crystal Palace during the exhibition held there and afterwards. He married and left a daughter Lizzie, now married.
Eliza, born as early as 1820; married William Fisher, and died without issue.
Helen, died unmarried, at the age of eighty-nine years.
Daniel, see forward.
(II) Daniel, son of William Peddie, was born on the Perth homestead farm in Fulton county, in 1822, died in April, 1896, is buried with others of the family in Perth cemetery. He was of the same industrious, thrifty habits as his ancestors and was known as a good and just man. He followed the soil all his years and accumulated a goodly estate. He married (first) Mary Barker, daughter of parents who were members of the Society of Friends who had made a settlement of members of that faith at Granville. Mary Barker was reared to the faith and always dressed "plain," until the day of her marriage, when she laid aside the outward garb of her religion, but the admirable traits of the Quaker character were always hers. She died at the early age of twenty-nine, in 1866. Children:
Dr. William J., see forward.
Ella Jeannette, born in 1860; married George Nash, of the leather firm of Lynk & Nash, Albany, New York; child, Lydia, wife of Francis Hollister, an electrician of Schenectady, New York.
Charles, born in 1868; graduate pharmacist of Glens Falls, New York, member of the drug firm of Leggett & Peddie; married Jeannette MacFarland; child, Roy.
Daniel Peddie married (second) Mary F. Lent, who survives him. Children of second marriage:
Edgar L., a sketch of whom follows.
Sydney Fisher, born 1871; foreman of a knitting mill department in Amsterdam; married Freelove Sprung, of Amsterdam; children: Edgar C., Roy, Gladys and Ethel.
Honey Marvin, born December 24, 1874; married Sarah Welch, of Waterville, New York.
(III) Dr. William J., eldest son of Daniel and Mary (Barker) Peddie, was born January 7, 1858. He was reared on the farm in Perth, where he remained until after the death of his mother and his father's second marriage. He was ambitious and desired to become a physician. He entered Amsterdam Academy, where he completed his academical studies. He made the acquaintance of Dr. Albert Vander Veer, of Albany, who, learning the boy's ambition and limited means, became very much interested in him. He gave him an introduction to Hon. Webster Wagner, then state senator, who was so impressed with his earnestness and determination to win his profession that he stood security for his education at the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in March, 1882. He never forgot the kindness of Senator Wagner, whom he reimbursed for the money expended on his education, and always retained as his friend. On the advice of Dr. Vander Veer, Dr. Peddie located his office in Fultonville, where he began his wonderfully successful professional career that continues to the present day. His skill is well known to a large clientele.
Dr. Peddie married (first) in Albany, New York, April 26, 1883, Ella Gardner, born in 1864, died November 13, 1885. He married (second) in Perth Center, New York, Carrie McIntyre, born in Perth, October, 1868, daughter of John D. and Sarah (Ferguson) McIntyre, born in Perth, of Scotch ancestors who settled in the county one hundred and fifty years ago, with the first Scotch settlers from Perth. The McIntyre family have always been represented in the county, where they are prominent and numerous. Carrie McIntyre was educated at Amsterdam and later at Utica Academy, taking special courses in music. Dr. and Mrs. Peddie are prominent in the social and public life of the village, where he has always taken a special interest in local affairs. He has served as village president and member for several years of the board of education. He is a member of the American Medical Association; the State Medical Society, and the Amsterdam Medical Club. He has been United States pension examiner for sixteen years, and for several years coroner of Montgomery county. He is a Republican politically. He is past master of Fultonville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; member of Johnstown Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lenton Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Fonda Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Red Men.
Child of first wife: Burton G., graduate of Troy Business College and an expert machinist, residing in Cohoes, New York, married Catherine Lent, and has a son, Lewis W. Children of second wife:
Jay McIntyre, born December 12, 1887, graduate of the Business College, now department city clerk of Gloversville, New York;
Edith, born June 26, 1889, married, September 22, 1910, Jessie R. Rickard, of Schenectady, of the firm of J. Rickard & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in sporting goods, Schenectady;
Harold C., born 1891, died at the age of four years;
Donald D., born June, 1897.
(III) Edgar Lent, son of Daniel and Mary F. (Lent) Peddle, was born in Broadalbin, Fulton county, New York, December 21, 1869. He was educated in the public schools, and after completing his education was taken into his father's store, where he remained for three years; then was employed in a knitting mill for four years, followed by a year in the Gloversville Glove Factory and two years in the Amsterdam Knitting Mills. He finally settled in Cohoes, where he entered the employ of the Victor Mills Company, where he is foreman of a department. Since coming to Cohoes he has been active in the Republican party organization; and in 1900 was elected alderman from the sixth ward. His course in council received the endorsement of his ward and he was four times re-elected, serving eight years. In 1909 he was elected from the sixth ward as their representative on the board of supervisors. He was chosen leader of the first district, sixth ward, in 1905, at the primary elections, and still continues the choice of his district. He served in the common council of Cohoes with great ability, and was chairman of the committee on streets for seven years and member of the finance, poor, lamps and gas, sidewalks and parks committees. He attends the Presbyterian church, but is not actively connected with it. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Cascade Hose Company, No. 3, and the East Side Social Club. Mr. Peddie married, May 14, 1895, Mary Ledwith, born in Crescent, Saratoga county, New York, daughter of Michael and Katherine (Kane) Ledwith, natives of Ireland. Michael Ledwith was engaged in the stone quarry business with his father, resigning to enter the employ of the state in canal work; he was an active Republican; he died June 23, 1908. Children of Edgar Lent and Mary (Ledwith) Peddie: Alma H. and Alice M.
RE: Baptist church in Newark
PEDDIE, Thomas Baldwin, (1808-1889)became a manufacturer of trunks, suitcases and the like in that city. We had trunks that he had sold in his family farm attic when we were growing up ...they had the name Peddie stamped on them and were great to organize with as they had a removeable tray (February 12, 1808 - February 16, 1889) was a Republican member of New Jersey General Assembly from 1864-1865; Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1866 to 1869 and U.S. Congressman from New Jersey's 6th district from 1877 to 1879. from New Jersey; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, February 11, 1808; attended elementary schools; immigrated to the United States in 1833 and settled in Newark, N.J.; engaged in the manufacture of traveling bags and trunks; member of the State house of assembly in 1864 and 1865; mayor of Newark 1866-1869; served as president of the Newark Board of Trade in 1873; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate in 1878 for renomination; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; vice president of the Essex County National Bank and president of the Security Savings Bank of Newark; died in Newark, N.J., February 16, 1889; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. who was a saddlemaker when he emigrated from Scotland to Newark NJ
Peddie, C.B. & Co.
Makers of trunks, bags, dress suit cases and fine leather goods
689 Broad St. Newark. NJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Baldwin_Peddie ....He was born on February 12, 1808 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a Baptist exhorter, working at trunk-making during the week and preaching on Sundays. His father died in 1832, leaving in moderate circumstances his wife and six children, whose support then depended mainly upon Thomas. Seeing little chance in Scotland of earning a living for so many dependent ones, and hearing of America as the land of opportunity, he emigrated in 1833, and, after studying the advantages offered by several towns, concluded to make Newark, New Jersey his home. For two years he worked at the bench in a saddlery establishment, and then began, in a basement on Broad Street, to manufacture trunks, not having, as he said, enough money to pay for the iron on his first trunk. When he died, his factory and warehouses covered nearly a block, his employees were numbered in the hundreds, and his name stood at the head of this branch of industry in the United States.Besides giving close attention to his great business, He was always active in public affairs. He was a member of the Assembly in 1863 and 1864, mayor of the city for four years from 1866, and a member of the Forty Fifth Congress. He helped to found the Essex National Bank, and was its vice president; he founded the Security Savings Bank, and has been its only president; he was president of the Board of Trade, manager of various city institutions, and director in insurance companies and charitable organizations. No man was busier than he; none more faithful to every duty; none more esteemed by the citizens of Newark.The money for the Newark First Baptist Church was given by Peddie. H. J. Latham wrote: He said to me, Now, don't mention my name in this service, but pass me by. After the service was over, we walked down Broad Street together, and he said to me, I don't think that you or any of the others quite understand me in this gift. How so? I asked. He replied, Think of it, I came to this city a poor young man. See where I am now! Look at my happy home! Think how many friends I have. Everything I've touched has seemed to prosper. Now, I believe that all this prosperity has come to me from God, and I owe all my religious convictions to the fellowship I have enjoyed all these years in the First Baptist Church. Then pausing and turning abruptly to me he said with great emphasis, I am building this church simply to express my gratitude to God.[edit] Patent This invention has for its object to improve the construction of trunks, valises, portmanteaus, pellesiers, traveling bags, etc., so as to adapt them to receive and carry a portfolio in such a way that while carrying it safely, it may be conveniently removed when required for use. U.S. Patent 98,104 (1870). [edit] Death He died in Newark, New Jersey on February 16, 1889 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark.[edit] Legacy The Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey and the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey are named after him.
Mayor Thomas Baldwin Peddie was a Scottish born manufacturer of leather goods. Enlarging his fortune during the Civil War by making knapsacks for the Union Army, Peddie then turned to the public good, gave $25,000 to a female seminary in Hightstown (later named for him), and served two terms as mayor of Newark 1866-1869 and one term as US Congressman 1877-79. In the 1880s Peddie gave the money for this church. Peddie's vision was that his church building would function as more than a place of worship. In his bequest he advised that the church be "open to every great meeting of a proper kind that people desire to hold, and should be dedicated to religion, to education and to the social purposes for the good of all the people." He died at the time of its completion.
First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church was first organized on June 6, 1801, by a small group of believers seeking to open a place of worship in the town of Newark, with the name of "First Baptist Church of Newark." On the first day of organization, several new believers were baptized in the beautiful Passaic River, and on the next day, June 7, 1801, the Lord's Day, the entire membership of fourteen sat down at the communion table for the first time as a church. Services were held in the White School house, located on South Broad Street and the junction of Clinton Avenue and Spruce Street. In February of 1802, Elder Charles Lahatt was unanimously called to be the first pastor. The first meeting house, only 35 by 45 feet, was dedicated to God on August 1805.By the grace and mercy of God, the church grew not only in numbers but also in its commitment to mission. The present building was dedicated to God in 1890 by the generous gift of Thomas B. Peddie, who served two terms as Mayor of Newark and was later elected to Congress, representing the sixth district of New Jersey. His vision was that the church building should be "open to every great meeting of a proper kind that people desire to hold, and should be dedicated to religion, to education and to the social purposes for the good of all the people." Peddie's vision of the church "for the good of all the people" continued to be realized when eight Chinese Christians were baptized in 1923. The demographics in Newark changed drastically during the past century, and the church responded to this change by warmly welcoming people of all ethnicity and nationality. Today, we have become an international church with people representing over twenty nations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and the West Indies. On our International Sunday in 2004, we celebrated God's gift of diversity with the reading of Scripture in ten languages, the music and dance of Africa, and the feast of delicious food from many nations.With the leadership of our twenty-seventh pastor Rev. Felix P. Tingson, we desire to become a faithful church that announces in small yet hopeful ways the coming of God's kingdom. It is our prayer that we grow in strength and maturity, not to take pride in our successes, but to glorify God and to care for His people, especially the weak, the poor, the lost, and the marginalized
http://www.peddiechurch.org/Articles/Path_to_Multi
Comment: "Multicultural" and "interracial," though not synonyms, are kindred terms. For a church to achieve either can help to achieve the other.
[edit] References
H. J. Latham; God in Business (1887)
Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Political graveyard info for Thomas Baldwin Peddie
Preceded by Theodore Runyon Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
1866-1869 Succeeded by..Frederick W. Ricord
Preceded by..Frederick H. Teese U.S. Representative, New Jersey 6th District
1877-1879 Succeeded by John L. Blake
CBC Television Series 1952 to 1982, Dan-DixJack Sampson and Ron Meraska were the directors, and David Peddie produced. .... Quebec and Montreal settlements at the end of the seventeenth century, ...www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html Does anyone know him if you do if he is who my cuz Norris talked to he might know at lot still being in Canada ? ~PJ Peddie
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