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iographical, genealogical and descriptive history of the 1stCongressional
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ISAAC DERRICKSON
Upon a farm in Logan Township, Gloucester county, Isaac Derrickson is successfully carrying on
agricultural pursuits. He was born in Repaupo, August 13, 1836 and is a son of Thomas and Louisa
(McIlvain) Derrickson, the former a native of Logan Township, and the latter of Harrison township
Gloucester county. Isaac and Mary (Holden) Derrickson, the paternal grandparents of our subject, were
both of Swedish lineage, the latter being a daughter of a Swedish minister. The grandparents had a
family of eight children, namely: Andrew, who went to Indiana when twenty-four years of age, and
had a son, James M., who is now in Wyoming while his daughter Hannah is the wife of James Fisher
and lives in Minnesota; Thomas, the father of our subject; Ann, the wife of Job Key, of Logan
township; Mary, the wife of James Lodge, of Paulsboro, New Jersey; Sarah, the wife of Joseph
Eldridge, of Deptford, New Jersey; Samuel, who was a leading citizen and public speaker of note,
residing near Paulsboro, New Jersey, where he died at the age of thirty-eight years, while his wife,
who was formerly Miss Miller, with their family resides in Paulsboro; Martha, deceased; and John,
who was formerly a practicing physician of Warren Connecticut, but is now deceased.
Thomas Derrickson, the father of the subject, died in 1877, at the age of sixty-eight years abd his
wife passed away in 1843, at the age of thirty years. Their children were Isaac: Anna, the deceased
wife of Alfred Locke, who is living at Port Richmond Staten Island, New York, and has two children,
Harry and Georgiana: Parker, who died in Camden, New Jersey; Arthur who is living with his brother
Isaac and married Elizabeth Locke by whom he has four children: Fanny, who died in childhood; Kate,
the wife of Harry Locke, of Staten Island; Louisa, who became the wife of Andrew Cook, of Pennsville,
New Jersey, and died at the age of twenty-five years.
Isaac Derrickson was educated in the public schools of his native town, also at a select school in
Swedesboro, and at Pennington Seminary. He assisted his father on the farm until he was twenty-one
years of age, when he began teaching school. He had charge of the Repaupo school for eighteen years
and also taught in schools of Red Bank Center Square and Union for one year in Pleasantville, Cumberland
county. Altogether he devoted about twenty-five years to educational work, his labors in that line
ending in 1889. During that time he also engaged to some extent in farming, fishing and marketing.
He purchased his present farm in 1880 and has since greatly improved its buildings and its general
condition.
On the 4th of July , 1857, Mr. Derrickson was united in marriage to Miss Ann Elizabeth
Homan, daughter of William Homan, of Logan township, and to them have been born four children: Ella,
the wife of Andrew Parker, a blacksmith of Pedricktown, New Jersey, by whom she has four children:
Isaac Herbert: Ralph; Verna, deceased and Orville. Mary Louisa; Anna L., the wife of Henry H.
Shoemaker, and insurance agent of Philadelphia, by whom she has four children: Bertha: Ethel, deceased,
Laura and Flora who complete this family.
Mr. Derrickson and his family are member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Repaupo, with which
he has been identified since 1848. He has held all the church offices, is now a trustee and steward
and was also a local preacher of more than ordinary ability. He is a past grand of Greenwich Lodge,
No. 5, I.O.O.F., of Paulsboro, and a past master of Swedesboro Lodge., P.H., of which his family are
all members. In politics he is a Democrat and has served as a member of the school board of Logan
township twenty years, and has held other minor offices. He is now a member of the township
committee and is one of the prominent and highly esteemed citizens of the community, enjoying
the warm regard of all who know him, for his life has been an honorable and upright one.
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