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EDWARD HILER
Originally published in 1900 |
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EDWARD HILER, of Ridgewood, is of Holland Dutch descent. He is
the son of Lewis B. Hiler and a grandson of John and Ruth (Garrignes)
Hiler, all of whom were born near Dover, Morris County, N. J. His mother,
Mary L. (Ball) Hiler, was the daughter of Isaac Ball and a granddaughter
of Jacob Ball, her mother being a Burnett. Her family were residents of
Parsippany, Morris County, N. J. Edward Hiler was born in Danville, Pa., May 27, 1856, and received his education at Rockway, Morris County, N. J. He left school at the age of fifteen and became a clerk in a country store in Rockaway, Morris County. Afterward he was associated with his father in the iron mines near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he remained four years. He then came to New York City, and for twenty years has been actively engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, during eighteen years of which he has been associated with Bacon & Company, 92 and 94 Franklin Street, New York, the last five years as a member of the firm. Mr. Hiler was a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, N. G. N. Y., of Brooklyn, serving a term of enlistment and being honorably discharged. He is a member of the Reformed Church of Ridgewood, where he has resided for nine years. He married Stella T. Eckman and has five children: Mildred, Lewis, Eddy, Evelyn, and Leslie.
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