Index to Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field

Below is an index to Helen Henderson's book Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field (2003, paperback) I expect this indexing project to be a long-term initiative with periodic updates as I get inspired. Readers will be able to find this resource conveniently linked on this blog's Research Tools page.

Project to date:

Chapter 5: Era of Industry and Resort, (Completed pp 82 - top 103)

INDEX

Activities

• Sports and recreation
• Baseball (103)
• Cliffwood Angels (103)
• Cliffwood Royals (103)
• Women's baseball (103 image)
• Basketball (102) 
• Bocce ball (102)
• Bowling (101)
• Handball (101) 
• Miniature golf (101)
• Shuffleboard (102)
• Skeeball (101)
• Swimming (92, 93, 93 image caption, 94 image caption, 101, 101 image caption)
• Tennis (101, 102)

Animals and Fish

• Bottlenose dolphin (94)
• Pilot whale (95)
• Shark (92 - 94)

Attire

• Skirts, women (90)

 Businesses (by type)

• Bakery (90)
• Basket manufacturers (83)
• Beach access, bathhouses, lockers (Cliffwood Beach) (101, 101 image caption)
• Boardwalk and attractions (101, 101 image)
• Box manufacturers (84)
• Brick manufacturers (82, 83 image, 93, 94)
• Buffing machine and supplies manufacturers (85) 
• Casino (101 image caption)
• Chemical manufacturers (84 image, 85)
• Country club (Cliffwood Beach) (101)
• Crate manufacturers (83, 84)
• Electroplating machine and supplies manufacturers (85)
• Energy companies (82)
• Factories, general (96)
• Fruit business (83, 84, 92)
• Harness maker (90)
• Hospitality industry (hotels, inns, etc) (85)
• Insurance
• Life insurance (94)
• Law offices (91) (see also Lawyer under People (roles))
• Manure for fuel (see Energy)
• Match manufacturers (82)
• Munitions
• Shell-loading depot (97)
• Newspaper business (92)
• Piano manufacturers (84, 85)
• Piano plate manufacturers (84)
• Real estate agencies, developers (100)
• Swimming pools
• Cliffwood Beach, salt water pool (101)
• Telegraph service (88, 90)
• Telephone service (83, 86, 88, 89)
• Telephone pole manufacturers (83)
• Tile manufacturers (85)

Companies (by name)

• Aberdeen Inn (89)
• Frank Anderson Basket Factory (83, 99)
• Antisell Piano Company (84 photo caption)
• Atlantic Tile Manufacturing Company (85, 86, 86 image)
• Bell Telephone Company (88)
• Burlew basket factory (84)
• Burlew and MacElvaine basket factory (84)
• Bernard Campbell and Company (82) 
• Cartan and Company (88)
• Casino (101 image caption)
• Cat 'n Fiddle (101, 101 image caption)
• Cliffwood Brick Company (82)
• Colonial Match, factory in Matawan (82)
• Craigen Brick Company, Cliffwood (104)
• Diamond Match Company, New York (82)
• Farry's Brick Yard (83 image) 
• John H Farry's hotel (92 image caption)
• Geran basket factory (83-4)
• T A Gillispie and Company (97)
• Hanson-Van Winkle-Munning (84 photo caption, 85)
• Kennedy's hotel (85)
• Lenox Brick Company (82)
• Levitt Manufacturing Company (99)
• London and Lancashire Indemnity (94)
• Mahoney's grocery (91) 
• Matawan Bank (91)
• Matawan Improvement Company (84 photo caption, 85)
• Matawan Steel and Iron Company, aka Matawan Iron and Steel Company (84, 99)
• Matawan Tile Company (85)
• Monmouth Woodworking Company (83)
• Morrisey and Walker Inc, Real Estate Agency (100)
• Mosaic Tile Company(86)
• Munning Loeb Company (84 photo caption, 85)
• Oschwald Brick Company (82)
• Old Homestead Hotel (photo 93)
• Progressive Art Tile Company (85)
• Ryan's Garage (104)
• Shock's tobacco store (91)
• Frank A. Slater's Drug Store (89, 91)
• Standard Shade Company (84 image, 85)
• Synthetic Chemical Company (85)
• Tile Products Company (85)
• Wason piano factory (85)
• Wickham Company of New Jersey (84)

Demographics (Crime, Health, Mortality, Nationalities, Races)

• African Americans
• Arson (91)
• Death rate (92)
• Drowning (93 image caption)
• Germans (94 image)
• Immigration (94 image caption)
• Influenza epidemic (98)
• Mischief, youth, et al (96)
• Pneumonia (98)
• Polio (92)
• Population, statistics, trends (82)
• Quarantine for contagious disease (92)
• Scarlet fever (92)
• Urbanization (82)
• Women, notable (85, 89 - 90)

Environment

• Pollution
• Noise pollution (95)

Events

• Beauty pageants (102 image caption)
• Brickyard accidents (83 photo caption)
• Cornerstone ceremonies (87)
• Development
• Cliffwood (100)
• Cliffwood Beach (86, 100)
• Strathmore
• Disputes
• Methodist church bell briefly converted to town clock, tolling hourly, prompting complaints, litigation, silencing of bell, 1917 (95)
• Explosions
• Munitions depot at Morgan (97 - 98, 99)
• Fires (99)
• Matawan business district fire of 1901 (90 - 91, photo caption 91, 98)
• Second Baptist Church fire of 1908 (87)
• Piano factory fire of 1916 (85)
• Foundry fire of 1919 (84 - 85)
• Hindenburg disaster of 1937 (99)
• Great Depression (86 photo caption)
• Holidays
• Armistice Day (97, 97 image caption)
• Memorial Day (97 image caption)
• Mortgage burning ceremonies (87)
• Parades
• Baby parades (102 image, 102 image caption)
• Matawan founding anniversary parades (102 image, 102 image caption)
• Runaway horse or mule team (83 photo caption)
• Shark attack at Matawan Creek, 1916 (92 - 95, image caption 93)
• Sporting events (see Activities for recreational sports)
• Swimming, competitive (101)
• Strawberry festival (90) 
• War
• War, financial support for
• Liberty Loan drive (96)
• United War drive (96)
• Victory Loan drive (96)
• War, sending off the troops and receiving them back (96)
• Wars
• Civil War, US (96)
• Korean War (97)
• Persian Gulf War (97)
• Spanish-American War (90)
• Vietnam War (97)
• World War I (96, 99)
• World War II (85, 97, 97 image caption)

Institutions

• American Legion and Auxiliary (96 - 97, 97 image)
• Donated "The Spirit of the American Doughboy" statue to Matawan Borough; installed at Memorial Park (96, 97, 97 image) 
• Donated elm trees to Matawan Borough; planted at Memorial Park (97)
• American Mechanics (89)
• Arlington Club (89)
• Baptists
• Baptists worship at Middletown Point (67)
• Berean Baptist Church (see Second Baptist Church)
• First Baptist Church, Keyport (67)
• First Baptist Church, Matawan (67 - 68, 86)
• Mount Moriah Baptist Church (102)
• Old First Baptist Church, Middletown (67)
• Providence Baptist Church, Cliffwood Beach (102)
• Second Baptist Church, Matawan (86)
• Brownies (see Girl Scouts) 
• Catholics, Roman
• St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (90, 96)
• Hibernians donated stained glass window to St Joseph's in memorial to John James Furey, KIA WWI (96)
• Cliffwood Angels (baseball) (103)
• Cliffwood Civic Association (100) 
• Cliffwood Royals Social and Athletic Club (103)
• Domino Club (89)
• Episcopalians
• Trinity Episcopal Church (71 - 72)
• Fire Companies
• Aberdeen Township Hose and Chemical Company, formerly Oak Shades Fire Co #1 (99)
• Cliffwood Volunteer Fire Company No 1 (103, 104)
• Eagle Hose Company, Keyport (104)
• Freneau Independent Fire Company (99)
• Hook and Ladder Company #1 (92 image caption) 
• Michael E Haley Hose Company, aka M E Haley Company (98 - 99, 98 image)
• Oak Shades Fire Company #1, later became Aberdeen Twp Hose and Chem Co (99)
• Washington Engine #1 (92 image caption)
• Governmental Organizations
• Board of Fire Commissioners (104, image)
• Girl Scouts (90)
• Hibernians, Royal Order of (96)
• Donated stained glass window to St Joseph's in memorial to John James Furey, KIA WWI (96)
• Hospitals
• Monmouth Memorial Hospital (93)
• St Peter's Hospital (94)
• Masons (89)
• Matawan and Freneau Euchre Club (89)
• Methodists (Methodist Episcopal (- 1939), Methodist Church (1939 - 1968), United Methodist Church (1968 - ) (AME Zion)
• Cliffwood Community Methodist Church (70 - 71)
• Matawan United Methodist Church at Aberdeen (95 image, 134 - 135, 140, 155)
• Chancel rail, several paintings, and Brown memorial bell relocated from Main Street to the new building on Atlantic Avenue (95 image caption)
• Matawan Methodist Episcopal Church (68 - 70, 71, 91, 94, 95, 95 image caption, 134 - 135)
• Memorial stained glass window honoring Stanley Fisher (94, 95 image caption)
• Memorial bell honoring Catherine J (Bennem) Brown (95, 95 image caption)
• Memorial stained glass window honoring US Army and Navy soldiers serving in WWI (96) 
• St James AME Zion Church (73)
• St Mark's AME Zion Church (102)
• Union AME Zion Church (102)
• National Guard
• First Squad Cavalry National Guard (96)
• National Guard, Red Bank (98)
• Odd Fellows, Loyal Order of (LOOF) (89)
• Pastime Social Club (89)
• Patriotic Order Sons of America (89)
• Patrons of Husbandry (89)
• Presbyterians
• First Presbyterian Church of Matawan (66 - 67, 67 image, 89, 96) 
• Presbyterians worship at Middletown Point (66)
• Presbyterians worship at Mount Pleasant (66 - 67)
• Red Men (89)
• Reformed Church (96)
• Royal Arcanum (89)
• Schools
• Cliffwood Elementary School (100)
• Matawan-Aberdeen School District (100)
• Matawan High School (100)
• Rutgers University (101)
• Scientific Four Domino Club (89)
• United Auto Mechanics, Junior Order of (97)
• Donated flag pole and flag to Matawan Borough; erected in Memorial Park (97)
• Unknown institutions
• Donated two weeping willow trees to Matawan Borough; planted in Memorial Park in connection with George Washington's 200th birthday celebration (97)
•  Donated a firemen memorial to Matawan Borough; erected in Memorial Park in honor of local fire fighters. (97)
• Donated to Matawan Borough a black granite memorial wall with names of all borough residents who served in the military from WWII to the Persian Gulf War; erected in Memorial Park. (97)
• Women's Club of Matawan (89 - 90, 97)
• Donated a sundial to Matawan Borough; erected in Memorial Park in memory of Elizabeth S (Clark) Clegg, who served overseas during WWI. (97)

Music, Musical Instruments, and Related

• Church bells (95, 95 image caption, 96)
• Church choirs (94)
• Keyport Silver Band (96)
• Town clock (95)

People (names)

• Barker, Charles E (86, 86 image)
• Barker, Edward (86) 
• Bedle, William G (89) 
• Bennem, Catherine J (95)
• Bogardus, O O (96)
• Bolte, Harry (84)
• Brown, Catherine J (Bennem) (95)
• Brown, Edward I (95)
• Bryan, William J (90) 
• Bublin, George (96) 
• Burgess, Rev B B (102)
• Burlew, Herbert (84)
• Burlew, Red (93)
• Carney, James (96)
• Cartan, Rensselaer (88) 
• Clark, Elizabeth S (97)
• Clarke, Henry L (100)
• Clegg, Elizabeth S (Clark) (97) 
• Close, Charles E (98)
• Conover, Judson (82)
• Cottrell, Thomas, Captain (94)
• Craigen, George (104)
• Deckert, John G. (105 image)
• Dexter, Charles S (96)
• Donnell, Genevieve (89, 90) 
• Dunn, Joseph (93, 94)
• Dunn, Michael (93, 94)
• Eggleston, Sidney B. (84)
• Eskesen, Bennet (85)
• Farry, John H. (92 image caption)
• Fernicola, Richard Dr. (92)
• Fisher, Stanley Watson (93 - 94)
• Furey, John James (96)
• Geran, Henry (83-4)
• Gittens, Herbert (86, 86 image)
• Gorsline, Ralph (94)
• Haley, John (98)
• Haley, Michael E (98)
• Hourihan, Jerry (93)
• Hourihan, John (96)
• Kahn, Hannah (85)
• Kahn, Harry (85)
• Kearney, Thomas E (99)
• Keller, George F (92)
• Kennedy, William A (98) 
• Kojac, George (101)
• Lloyd, F Howard (89)
• MacElvaine, Elwood (84)
• Mathiasen, Karl (85)
• Morrisey, Charles W (100)
• Mulsoff, John (92, 99)
• Neidlinger, Charles A (92)
• Raffa, Frank (104)
• Raffa, Mary (104)
• Regan (104)
• Slater, Frank A., Rev. (86, 91)
• Reynolds, George C Dr. (93)
• Reynolds, T B, Rev (96)
• Ryan, Thomas (104)
• Smith, Rev and Mrs (102)
• Stern, Beatrice (90)
• Stevenson, Adlai E, III (90)
• Stillwell, Lester (92 - 94)
• Stoll, -- Mr (90)
• Stryker, Charles R (99)
• Taylor, Mrs F T (90)
• Terhune, John (95)
• Thress, Robert (94)
• Van Brackle, Elwood (89, 98)
• Van Wickle, Mrs Daniel E (89) 
• Vansant, Charles E (92)
• Viquesney, E M (97 image caption)
• Walker, Edwaren, Hon. (95)
• Walker, Samuel W (100)
• Walling, Harry (89)
• Walling, Tucker (92)
• Washington, George (97)
• Weissmuller, Johnny (101)
• Whitlock, John (88, image)
• Wortham, Rev Edward (102)
• Wyckoff, -- (94) 
• Zimmerman, Heinie (103, image)

People (roles)

• Actor/Actress (101)
• Assessor, Matawan Township (92)
• Barber (92)
• Brickyard Superintendent (94)
• Captain (local boat) (94)
• Chancellor, State of NJ (95)
• Chief of Police (92) 
• Dry Cleaner (93) 
• Fire Chief (99)
• Fire Fighters (85, 95)
• Gypsy (90) 
• Health Inspector (92)
• Hello girl (see Switchboard operator)
• Insurance Agent (94)
• Lawyer (89, 90)
• Mayor
• Mayor (Keyport) (96)
• Minister (89)
• National Guardsmen (98)
• Nurse (90)
• Olympian (101)
• Physician (89, 93)
• Policemen (92) (see also Chief of Police)
• President of the US (90)
• Romanian gypsies (see Gypsy) 
• Sculptor (97 image caption)
• Soldiers, US
• Killed in Action (KIA) (96)
• Stationmaster, Cliffwood railroad station (105 image)
• Switchboard operator (89)
• Teacher (90)
• Truant officer (88 image)
• Vice President of the US (90)

Places (NJ)

• Aberdeen Township (formerly Matawan Township)
• Cliffwood (82, 93, 94 image, 100, 101, 102, 103) 
• Cliffwood Beach (86, 94 image caption, 95, 100, 101, 101 image, 102 image caption)
• Strathmore (86)
• Asbury Park (90)
• Atlantic City (95)
• Bay Head (88)
• Bayshore (Raritan Bay) (88)
• Creeks
• Matawan Creek (92, 93, 94, 95)
• Beach Haven (92)
• Freehold (87)
• Groves
• Shady groves of Cliffwood (94 image)
• Keyport (85, 87, 87 image caption, 88, 89, 96, 98, 99)
• Lakehurst (99)
• Lakes
• Lake Lefferts
• Lake Matawan
• Lakes (Matawan area) (93 image caption)
• Long Branch (93, 100)
• Matawan
• Freneau (84, 87, 87 image caption, 88, 89)
• Oak Shades (90)
• Monmouth County (83, 85)
• Monuments, Statues, and Memorials (see associated Institutions)
• Morgan (97 - 98)
• New Brunswick (94)
• New Jersey (82, 87, 92)
• Newark (90)
• Ocean Grove (90)
• Old Bridge
• Cliffwood Beach (Old Bridge) (100)
• Laurence Harbor (100)
• Parks
• Green Acres (101)
• Memorial Park, Matawan (96, 97, 97 image)
• Recreational park at Cliffwood Beach (101)
• Red Bank (98)
• Spring Lake (92)
• Waterfront additions
• Wyckoff dock (Matawan) (94)
• Brickyard docks (Matawan) (93)
• Jetties and bulkheads (Cliffwood Beach) (101)

Places (Outside NJ)

• Arizona, US (90)
• Boston, MA (87)
• Brooklyn, NY (82)
• Europe (96)
• Florida, US (82) 
• Germany (96)
• Nebraska, US (90)
• New Mexico, US (90)
• New York, US (92)
• New York City, NY (82, 88, 93, 100)
• Oklahoma, US (90)
• Rocky Mountains, US (82)
• Spain, Europe (90)
• Springfield, OH (84)
• Titusville, PA (82) 
• Zanesville, OH (86)

Places (Buildings) (see also Companies and Institutions)

• The Chase building (89)
• Borough Hall (Matawan Borough) (92 image caption, 96)
• Crossing at Aberdeen, The (86)
• Fire houses
• Cliffwood Volunteer Fire Co No 1 (104)
• Michael E Haley Company (98 - 99)
• Midway Hose Company (99)
• Oak Shades Fire Company #1 (99 - 100)
• Thomas Kearney's workshop, Keyport (99)
• Knickerbocker Lodge (90)
• Loyal Order of Odd Fellows (LOOF) Hall (91 image)
  
• Masonic lodge (90, image caption 91)
• Odd Fellows Hall (see Loyal Order of Odd Fellows (LOOF) Hall)
• Opera house, brick (91)
  
• Park Hall, Asbury Park (90)
• Pirate ship (100 - 101)
• Public buildings (98)
• School buildings (98)
• 7-Eleven, Cliffwood Beach (Old Bridge) (100 - 101)
• Skating rink, abandoned (87)
  
• Telegraph station (88)
• Township Hall (Matawan Township) (91, 92 image)
• The Walling building (89)
• Washington Hall (90)
  

Politics

• Democratic Party (90)
• Presidential elections, US (90)
• Prohibition Party (90)
• Republican Party (90)
• Silver Republicans (90)

Products, Things

• Apples (83, 84)
• Berries (83, 84)
• Conover Oyster Shell Lime (83)
• Electrification (87) (see also Energy under Businesses, by type)
• Harikan Art Products (85) 
• Original Lakewood Tomato Crate (83)
• Peaches (83, 92)
• Raspberries (84)
• Strawberries (84)
• Telephone service (see Businesses, by type)
• Tomatoes (83, 84)

Publications (Books, Magazines, Newspapers, etc)

• Behr Collection (Aberdeen Township Historical Commission) (94 image caption)
• Industrial Directory of New Jersey (Trenton, 1915: Bureau of Industrial Statistics, NJ Department of Labor) (82, 89)
• The Matawan Journal  (84, 96, 99, 100)
• Matawan Memories (90)
• Notes on the Early History of Matawan, NJ, by Rensselaer Cartan (88)
• Twelve Days of Terror, by Dr Richard Fernicola (92)

Streets (Matawan or Aberdeen, unless indicated)(see also Transportation>Roads)

• 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York City (82)
• 34th Street, Manhattan, New York City (82)
• Amboy Avenue (100)
• Angels Street (103)
• Atlantic Avenue (83, 91, 92 image caption, 95 image caption, 99) 
• Bayview Avenue (102)
• Broad Street (99)
• Center Avenue (103)
• Church Street (84, 84 image, 92, 99)
• Cliffwood Avenue (100)
• Delaware Avenue (102)
• Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City (82)
• Fountain Avenue (87) 
• Gerard Street (100)
• Greenwood Drive, Cliffwood Beach (Old Bridge) (101)
• Jackson Street (87, 89)
• Lloyd Road (100)
• Lower Main Street (91, 99, 100)
• Main Street (87 image, 88, 89, 90, 91, 95 image caption, 97 image caption, 99) 
• Maple Place, Keyport, previously known as Mott Street (99)
• Mott Street, Keyport, later known as Maple Place, Keyport (99)
• Orchard Street (87)
• Raritan Boulevard, Cliffwood Beach (Old Bridge)
• Route 35 (100, 104)
• Shore Concourse (100)
• Spring Street (86)
• Sutphin Avenue (84)
• Suydam Place (91) 
• Washington Street (99)

Tools, Weapons, and Equipment

• Dynamite (94)
• Fire Alarm, Fire Bell, Fire Siren (95 - 96, 104)
• Firefighting Equipment
• Cistern (95)
• Communications equipment (104)
• Vehicles (98, 98 image, 100, 103-104)
• Rifle(s) (94)

Transportation

• Automobiles (88 image, 96, 98)
• Firefighting vehicles (see Tools, Weapons, and Equipment)
• Horse-drawn vehicles (87, 90)(see also Trolley, Wagon)
• Medical emergency transportation (93, 98) 
• Motorcycle (99)
• Passenger stations (83 photo caption, 85)
• Railroad
• Box cars (85)
• Commuter train service (85)
• Locomotive (99)
• Passenger train service (see Commuter train service)
• Railroad, news communicated by (94)
• Railroad companies
• Central Jersey Railroad (87)
• New York and Long Branch Railroad (NY & LB RR) (83 photo caption)
• Railroad companies, unnamed (87)
• Railroad tracks (84, 85, 87, 88)
• Train stations
• Cliffwood train station (105 image)
• Hazlet train station (83 photo caption)
• Matawan train station (83 photo caption, 87, 87 image caption, 88, 89, 93, 96, 99)
• Roads (see also Streets)
• Keyport Plank Road (87)
• Traffic Control
• First traffic light in Matawan Twp (100)
• Transportation (87-88, 94) (see also Water transportation)
• Trolley
• Trolley companies (87, 96)
• Electrified car trolley companies (87)
• Horse-drawn car trolley companies (87)
• Jersey Central Traction Company (87, 88)
• Keyport and Matawan Street Railway (87)
• Trolley service (86, 87, 87 image, 88, 88 image caption)
• Troop trains (96)
• Wagon, covered (90)
• Water transportation
• Use of local creeks (93 image caption)