While
Roxbury Township is proud of all it's citizens, there are two
outstanding luminaries in our community, men of national recognition,
men who enrich our society by their accomplishments in the higher
spheres of human endeavor. While these men are well known by most,
permit us this short introduction for our younger readers:
Rev. Elijah W. Stoddard, D.D., Pastor of the Succasunna Presbyterian
Church
From 1864 until the present day, a period of forty-eight years, the
Presbyterian Church at Succasunna New Jersey has been privileged to have
been under the Pastoral leadership of The Rev. Elijah W. Stoddard.
During these years of Gospel Ministry, Dr. Stoddard has overseen the
addition of hundreds who were added to the church membership rolls, he
has performed over 460 marriages, and officiated at over 860 funerals.
Even now, though in his ninety-second year, he continues to inspire a
new generation of young Christians as he gives leadership and direction
in the myriad activities of the Succasunna Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe, M. D., Ph. D., Litt. D.,
Internationally Recognized Author
Theodore Wolfe was
born in Roxbury Township in 1843, and received his early education at
the Succasunna Academy. He started his
Professional career as a Medical Assistant in 1861, serving in the Army of the Potomac, where he had
subordinate charge of the field hospital.
A graduate of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, class of 1868, he went on to a distinguished practice in Jersey City. During this period he wrote many monographs and minor treatises upon surgical topics, and was an official member of medical associations of New Jersey and New York. After
weak health forced early retirement from active medical practice, he gave much time to other scientific researches, especially in the
field of ethnology and the study of the Lenape Indians of New Jersey, making many translations of their dialects and traditions, and exhuming numerous implements and weapons.
Lately his chief interest has been a detailed study of the world’s famous authors. For the purpose of this study he has made several sojourns in Europe, and many more in all the other States of the Union, visiting the environments amid which the authors lived and wrote, their habitual resorts, and the scenes they
describe in their books. Much of the edifying results of his lettered travels and researches Dr. Wolfe has recorded in his "Literary Series," some volumes of which have now reached the eighteenth edition.
Since 1890 Dr. Theodore F. Wolfe has owned a cottage at Succasunna, New Jersey, where he remains for a considerable part of each
year, in the interval between his travels |
