Essex County NJ Archives Biographies.....Bruen Hayes CONGAR, 1796 - 1868
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

CONGAR, Bruen Hayes,
Representative Citizen.

  Many years ago Mr. Congar trod the streets of Newark, a quiet man whose life
was spent in the management of his own private estate and within the sacred
precincts of his home. He came of the oldest and most prominent Newark families,
each of his names, Bruen, Hayes, and Congar, being family names well-known and
highly honored. Few will now recall him except those of his own family who
remain, or perhaps an old member of the First Presbyterian Church, who will
remember his regular attendance and deep interest in that church and its work.
His father, Samuel Congar, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, serving in
a Newark company of New Jersey troops. His mother, Hannah (Hayes) Congar, was of
a leading Newark family, daughter of Major Samuel Hayes, who was active and
vigilant during the trying times of the Revolutionary War.

  Bruen Hayes Congar was born at the Broad street residence of his parents in
Newark, New Jersey, December 10, 1796, died in his native city, March 2, 1868,
in the seventy-second year of his age. He attended school in the old White
school house which stood for many years at the junction of Broad (now Clinton
avenue) and Washington streets in the lower part of the town. He was all his
life a student and a reader, gaining from literature and observation a wide
store of useful knowledge. In youth he learned the silver plater's trade which
he followed for some years, engaging later in other pursuits, but was obliged by
ill health to retire from active business for several years. He was a man of
quiet, retiring tastes and disposition, sought not political preferment,
although he held several local offices. He was an ardent Whig and a warm admirer
of Henry Clay, who was his favorite public character. After the formation of the
Republican party he gave that organziation his support, was a strong union man
and aided the cause all he could during the Civil War. In his younger years he
was deeply interested in the militia organiations of Newark and the State,
enlisted as a private, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and later was
elected captain. He became a member of the First Presbyterian Church early in
life, and was very careful in his observance of his church duties. He was an
earnest Christian and lived his religion every day. He was a good man and left
behind him an untarnished name. Mr. Congar married, March 24, 1822, Eliza
Tichenor, born February 6, 1799, died November 18, 1882, daughter of James and
Abigail (Hedden) Tichenor, both of old and highly respected Newark families. She
bore him two daughters: Phoebe Ann Pierson, died in 1836, aged seven years, and
Anna Elizabeth, who is the last survivor of her family, and to the memory of her
honored father and gentle mother brings this tribute of love and respect from
across the years that have separated them.


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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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