Essex County NJ Archives Biographies.....Albert Emmet HEDDEN, 1841 - 1915
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

HEDDEN, Albert Emmet,
Artistic Wood Worker.

  Albert Emmet Hedden, son of Samuel Sayre and Mary Ann (Cochran) Hedden, was
born on his father's homestead, Hedden placs. then known as the old road to
Orange, May 4, 1841, and died in March, 1915. He attended the district school up
to the age of sixteen years, afterward Bryant & Stratton's College at
Indianapolis, Indiana, from which he was graduated. He then served a four years'
apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade with Meeker & Hedden, at Newark, with
whom he was associated as a journeyman three years, then foreman, and later as
superintendent of the entire plant, his entire association with the Hedden
Company, which has been described at length in the preceding paragraphs,
extending over a period of more than fifty-five years.

  From early childhood he had been a close student and lover of nature, studying
the woods and fields, and became an expert in the judgment of timber. He made a
study of the various kinds of woods for their comparative values for building
purposes, and had an especial admiration for the higher grades of woods for
interior decoration, his knowledge being valued as an expert in the matter of
veneers and all kinds of precious woods. His taste was refined, and he designed,
and had made up many exquisite hand-carved pieces of furniture, which showed the
true artist's appreciation both in the design and in the selection of the woods
of which they were fashioned. Favorites with him were mahogany and native apple.
He was constantly consulted by leading architects, as an authority to be relied
on as to the proper woods and timber to be utilized in order to obtain the best
results, not alone as to safety and durability, but so as to obtain the best
possible artistic effects. He was also rated as an authority on birds and
plants, and in his later years made a study of ferns, gathering and cultivating
numerous varieties. All of his time not demanded by his business duties was
devoted to nature study in many directions. He collected butterflies and
beetles; spent a great deal of time in the woods and fields, gathering and
"sliding" plants and flowers; was a constant reader on these subjects, and in
close touch with the best authorities on them.

  In political matters Mr. Hedden preferred to form his opinions independently,
and when they were formed, he had the courage of his convictions. His religious
affiliation was with the Roseville Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he
served as a steward for a number of years. His home was on Hedden place, East
Orange, where he had erected a fine residence in 1875. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity, having first joined St. Albans Lodge, No. 68, Free and
Accepted Masons, later became a charter member of Hope Lodge, of East Orange,
from which he was demitted and joined Northern Lodge, No. 25, of Newark. He was
a member of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Newark, in whose interests he
was active.

  Mr. Hedden married (first) Harriet Garland, daughter of Robert and Jeannette
(Thompson) Young, the former a hat finisher. He married (second) March 18, 1875,
Mary E. Rittenhouse, born May 5, 1840, died August 9, 1905, a daughter of Abner
and Frances (Snyder) Rittenhouse, the former a cooper and farmer. Only child by
the first marriage: Robert Emmet; children by second marriage: Anna Mary, born
April 19, 1876; Mabel, born August 20, 1877; married Harry Peck Havell, and has
children: Harriet Mabel, born July 30, 1912, and Robert Emmet, born May 2, 1914;
Albert Hermann, born July 23, 1881, is an engineer and a designer of iron work
for buildings; married, June 17, 1908, Daisy D. Hunt, and has: Elizabeth Ann,
born May 10, 1912, and Albert Emmet, born May 22, 1915.


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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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