Old Kingston Photographs
Several years ago I met the grandson of the builder of 9 Euclid Av, he was burying his mother’s ashes, in Kingston’s Presbyterian Cemetery. After leaving cemetery, he drove to Euclid Av just looking from his car. I was working outside and asked if he needed help, so we met and exchanged email adrs.
Rick Houck lives in Delaware & has been having some health issues… but he occasionally sends emails. His GF Ernest Stout was a local builder; he built 9 Euclid for his in-laws… the Okesons. 60 years later, Marcia and I bought 9 Euclid from the Okeson’s daughters. Rick used to visit his maternal greatgrandparents at 9 Euclid and had fond memories there.
Yesterday Rick sent 3 pictures relating to Stouts & Okesons. I offer them below, in the same resolution offered to me… w/o any cropping or enhancement.
1st, the Okeson farm on Ridge Rd. I wasn’t aware of this, but appears Charles & Elizabeth(?) Okeson, were quite successful farmers… the house is so nice! Rick offered, It's on the heavily treed section near Rt 1 & it was his GreatGrandfather Okeson's farm. Rick’s GM Bethenia Stout grew up there, as well as Viola… the Okeson’s two daughters.
2nd pix 9 Euclid ca.WW-II (I’ve dated the rear of the car… left edge of pix, a 1940 Plymouth). Rick explicitly said, it was their “retirement” home, built 1914. Viola never married, she lived there 60 years… first with her parents… then by herself (tho she did have boarder there, at least at one period of time).
In the pix you can already see a few missing slates on the roof. The roof ‘died’ because steel nails (not copper!) were used during WW-I. When one nail-pair rusts out the slate slides down… then slates below fail.
When we bought Euclid, there were dozens of missing slates, with resulting leaks! Having a new roof put on was the first thing we had done -I deemed continuing damage was killing the house. (I ‘hated’ throwing away all that red Vermont slate but didn’t have luxury of time to dwell on, eg, carefully stripping all the slate, using what was left that was good on front, & doing rear in asphalt shingles. [sigh]
The 3rd is the Stout house on Main St, right behind 9 Euclid. This appears to be the present “Kingston Wellness” building. I presume (but don’t know), the Stouts ran their business from this house.
Jeremy Pollack
<div style="text-align:left;"><strong>Village Group One</strong></div>
<p>Kingston Village Group Photograph</p>
Date Unknown
Scanned Image from Photograph
<h1>Bob Brian Photograph Archive</h1>
Photograph scans of personal collection pertaining to Kingston school
1950 and 1971
cd archive in KHSNJ Library
Bob Brian
CD medium, png scan conversions with contact sheet.
<h1>Chuck Egner Photo Collection</h1>
Photographs of construction of Kingston Post Office
Circa 1969
CD, high quality indexed digital scans
Photographs and accompanying letter
<h1>Conference on Horseback</h1>
Video of Kingston, New Jersey strategic significance during Revolutionary War and a portrait of George Washington's visit to Kingston, New Jersey
personal DVD in KHSNJ archives
NJTV
2015
George Luck
DVD media and online at: <a href="https://archive.org/details/Conferenceonhorseback" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://archive.org/details/Conferenceonhorseback</a>
<h1>FAMILY ANCESTRY DAY</h1>
Historical Program for Little Rocky Hill A.M.E. Church
Family reunion and historical recollections
April 6, 2019
original program letter size scanned 300dpi pdf
<h1>Feldman Family</h1>
<p>Feldman Family, owners of Feldman's Store. Currently Enoterra. Prior: Winepress and King's Inn</p>
<h2>Samuel and Rose Feldman</h2>
<h3>Steven Feldman</h3>
Steven Feldman
Photograph
Family Photograph
<h1>Feldman Oral History</h1>
Oral History of Feldman's General Store.
Oral History of Feldman's General Store, with references to photographs and documents presented to Kingston Historical Society of New Jersey
Steven Feldman with George Luck, Robert von Zumbusch, and Doug Kiovsky
2016, January
George Luck, Robert von Zumbusch, and Doug Kiovsky
web reference to accompanied audio files and images; <a title="Feldman Oral History" href="https://archive.org/details/FELDMAN_2016" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/FELDMAN_2016</a>
<h1>Kingston Flood 1971</h1>
Kingston Canal Flooding 1971
<h1>Kingston Historian Collection</h1>
Newsletters from 1998-2019
1998 -2019
pdf archive and hard copy on file