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Sep 14, 1936 Bull picnicEntry/Object ID
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Bull Picnic, BSH AssociationScope and Content
BOARDS ELECT MRS. CRIST TO FAMILY GROUP
Head of Bull Association Finds Many of Kin at Chester Reunion
CHESTER — Mrs. Amy Bull Crist, president of the Bull Family, was elected to honorary membership in the Descendants of Cornelius Board, Inc., at the annual reunion of the latter group at the home of Hudson B. Green here Saturday. Approximately seventy members of the Board family attended the picnic and fourteenth annual reunion and conferred the honor on Mrs. Crist after she had expressed gratitude for having been invited to attend a meeting of an Orange County family comparable in its age and history to that established by William and Sarah Wells Bull. Mrs. Crist expressed surprised at having discovered so many members of her own family also are descendants of Cornelius Board. "I'm also glad to see so many Landon buttons here," said Mrs. Crist. She was applauded vigorously. Harry Bull, of Chester, a former president of the Bull family, also spoke briefly and thanked the group for having invited him to attend. Frank Board, of Ridgewood, N. J., was elected president of the family for the ensuing year. Next year's session, in accordance with the custom of alternating the place of its convention between Orange County and Bergen County, in New Jersey, will be held at the home of the new president. Mr. Green, on whose lawn the picnic tables were erected Saturday, presided at the business meeting as president during the past year. Other officers of the family named Saturday were Charles Bull Knight, of Monroe, vice-president; Frank Durland, of Chester, treasurer, and Mrs. Abba H. Stevens, of Ridgewood, secretary. Joseph E. Board, of Blooming Grove, was re-elected as a trustee of the family association. Mr. Board, who is eighty-three, was the oldest member of the family to attend the reunion Saturday. Nominations were made by a committee headed by Sanford Durland, of Chester. Those to travel the greatest distance to attend the session were Mrs. Earl E. Whitehill and her son, Jan Van Horn Whitehill, of Tampa, Fla., Mrs. Whitehill was formerly Miss Constance VanHorn, of Washingtonville. Letters were received from Willard Coleman and E. M. Reynolds, both of California, in which they expressed their regret at inability to attend the reunion. In a brief history of the family, Frank Durland, historian of the group, described an investigation made by him in an effort to learn
Oldest and Young
Photo Caption These are the oldest and youngest members at the annual reunion at Chester Saturday. Joseph E. Board, early settler in Orange County who engaged in smelting iron in New York State. He is eighty-three, of Blooming Grove and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Board, of Chester.
Lower Fragment whether Cornelius Board was the first man to make iron in this section. Mr. Durland said he believed he discovered the Sterling iron mines near Sterlington in 1730 and started the Sterlington furnace. This occurred in 1736 and later the Board moved to Ringwood and subsequently, but history has not been established in both cases. Mr. Durland also noted that part of the Green house where the meeting was held was believed to be built in 1869 at a cost of $400, the historian asserted. Entertainment consisted of songs and recitations by members of the Miller and a solo by the host's grandson, Arthur Prosser was also given.Relationships
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