Essex County NJ Archives Biographies.....Chauncy Haven BEASLEY, 1857 - 1913
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

BEASLEY, Chauncy Haven,
Lawyer, Jurist.

  Chauncy Haven Beasley, only son of Chief Justice Mercer Beasley and his second
wife, Catherine Ann (Haven) Beasley, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, July 4,
1857, and died in South Orange, New Jersey, September 4, 1913.

  He acquired an excellent preparatory education as a student of Trenton Academy
and the State Model Academy, then matriculated in Princeton University,
graduating therefrom in the class of 1880. During his course there he was leader
of the College Glee Club, one of the founders of the Ivy Club and a member of
Zeta Psi fraternity. He studied law under the excellent preceptorship of his
father, also in the office of J. G. Shipman, of Belvidere, New Jersey, and was
admitted to the bar in 1883. He served as attorney for the board of freeholders
of Warren county, in 1883, and as counsellor in 1886. he was engaged in the
active practice of his profession in Belvidere until 1888, when he was appointed
judge of the District Court in Trenton, serving in that capacity until 1892,
after which he returned to his former vocation, establishing an office in the
city of Trenton, continuing until 1900, in which year he formed a partnership
with the present Chancellor Walker in Trenton. In 1904 he was employed as
counsel for the New Jersey Street Railway Company, afterwards merged into the
Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, from which he resigned in 1911, and
from that time until his death, in 1913, he gave his attention to his chosen
profession, with offices in Newark. His excellent character, scholarly
attainments and marked ability in his profession commanded the respect and
admiration of the bench and bar. He gave his political allegiance to the
Democratic party. He was nominated for Congress in the year 1884, after a close
campaign, but was defeated by a small margin. He was appointed aide on Governor
Abbott's staff, with the rank of major, thus affiliating himself with the
Seventh Regiment, New Jersey National Guard. During his residence in Trenton,
Judge Beasley was a member of Trinity Episcopal and Christ churches, and during
his residence in South Orange was connected with the Church of the Holy
Communion. He was a member of Ashlar Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, in
Trenton, Sons of the Revolution, and the Trenton Golf Club.

  Judge Beasley married in Trenton, New Jersey, January 10, 1880, Jessie
Fleming, born in Rye, New York, April 14, 1863, daughter of Frederick Nichols
and Ellen Douglas (Haven) Fleming, of New York. Children: Catherine Ann, born
November 23, 1880; Charles Fenton Mercer, July 8, 1882; John Jeffries, August
18, 1884; Emilie Haven, April 18, 1887; Mary Stockton, November 19, 1889; and
Chauncy Haven, Jr., May 27, 1893.


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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN

VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK,  NEW JERSEY
1917


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