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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re: The Kingwood Cookbook (Lookups)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:51:10 EDT

Dear List Members,
I have in my possession a copy of The Kingwood Cookbook, third
edition, compiled by a committe of The Ladies'Aid Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Kingwood, N.J.[Hunterdon Ct.], 1920.
The recipes were submitted by individuals who are named at the end of
each recipe. There is also advertising in the book by local
merchants[Kingwood Township and vicinity, including Flemington,
Frenchtown,Milford, Lambertville].
Names mentioned in the book are Sara Sherman, Mrs. Wm. Cowdrick, Mrs.
Wm. Kirk, Mrs. Chester Fisher, Mrs Harvey Kugler, Mrs. Joseph Keller, Mrs.
Jennie Bodine, Mrs. Edward Vanselous, Mrs. Frank E. Fisher, Mrs. Grim, Mrs.
H.B. Buckman, Mrs. A.M. Stout, Sarah C. Shaw, Mrs. D.E. Higgins, Blanche
White, Mrs. Wm. Emery, Mrs. Susie Backer, Mrs. Geo. W. Kugler, Mrs. C.A.
Butterfoss, Ruth C. Johnson, Mrs. Charles R. Hill, Mrs. R.V. Megronigle, Mrs.
Lucy McCabe, Susie Cullen, Mrs. Thos. Harris, Mrs. Mahlon Strimple, Mrs. W.W.
Johnson, Mrs. J. Wm. Fisher, Mrs. Theo. P. Walker, Mrs. P.S. Emmons, Mrs.
T.L. Kugler, Mrs. Elizabeth Heath, Mary A. Keyser, Mrs. Edw. B. VanHorn, Mrs.
Wm. Cowdrick, Mrs. Hugh Kerr, Mrs. Wm. R.S. Cook, Mrs. Wm. Kugler, Mrs.
Lizzie Emmons, Mrs. Frank Niece, Mrs. George Hartpence, Mrs. Addie Hager,
Hannah, R. Wood, May S. Emmons, Mrs. N.W. Knechel, Mrs. M. Jane Hammar, Mrs.
W.S. Hewitt[ note: this lady's maiden name was Emma R. Sherman], Mrs. Della
Vanselous, Mrs. Rufus Matthews, Hattie Smith, Mrs. Wesley Brady, Ruth Niece,
Mrs. Geo. Marshall [note: maiden name Kate (Katherine?) Sherman], Lillie
Vanselous, Mrs. Geo. Hammar, Mrs. Wm. Mahon, Mrs. F.L. Metcalf, Mrs. Calvin
G. Strimple, Mrs. F.V.D. Fisher, Mrs. George Kitchen, Mrs. H.P.Shaw, Ruth
Niece, Mrs. Nora Stout, Mrs. James Butterfoss, Mrs. Abel Kerr, Mrs. Harry
Burket, Mrs. Spencer Dilts, Mrs. Lequear, Mrs. Ulmer, Mrs. Lucretia Barcroft,
Mrs. W. Sanford, Mrs. Chester A. Bellis, Mrs. Percy Niece, Mrs. George Dilts,
Mrs. Charles Opdyke, Mrs. Charles Myers, Mr. C.M.W. Lee, Mrs. D.C. Conner,
Mrs. Israel P. Huffman, Mrs. Jos. Niece, Mrs. Wm. Cook, Mrs. Gershom
Vanselous, Mrs. Brady, Mrs. L.B. Matthews, Mrs. Geo. W. Bird, Maria Cherry,
Mrs. Laura S. Emmons, Mrs. D.A. Hamaker, Annie N. Heller, Mrs. Ellen
Vanselous, Mrs. Theo Piell, Mildren[possible typo in book] M. Johnson, Mrs.
Charles Marshall, Mrs. Geo. B. Emmons, Tillie Ullmer, Mrs. C.B. Emery, Mrs.
J. Wilfred Ashcroft, Mrs. David Cline, Mrs. Theo Cullen, Mrs. John Mohr, Mrs.
Cliver, Mrs. Spencer Dilts, Dorothy Kerr, Mrs. Eliza Salter, Gertrude Fauss,
Mrs. Israel Ulmer, Margaret A. Knechel, Mrs. S.B. Emmons, Addie K. Niece,
Mrs. Lucy McCabe, Mrs. Alvin D. Kerr, Mrs. Thos. Harris, Mrs. A.M. Stout,
Carrie W. Bodine, Mrs. I.M. Keyser, Mrs. J.E. Patterson, Mary E. King, Hanna
M. VanHorn, Mrs. Lester Sherman, Mrs. Cora Oblinger, Rev. Wm. Mahon, Mrs.
Elva Wood, Harvey A. Johnson (Washington's Crossing, N.J.), Mrs. Wm. Emery.
Some of the advertisers mentioned are: M.F. Sherman, Geo. W. Eddy,
Cornelius S. Hoff, Dr. Wm. S. Hewitt, Mrs. M.F. Bellis, J.J. Sinclair, G.H.
Lennard, R.T. Heath, Jos.H.Stull, Chas. Allem, S. Chester Opdyke and others.
If anyone identifies any of these people as being theirs and wants the
recipes as part of their family history, or is interested in any of the
advertisers, contact me, and I will send you the recipes or the wording of
the advertisement.

Sincerely,
Kay Hourigan Larsen (Descended from the Sherman, Akers, Caffey, Holcombe,
Naylor, Rittenhouse, Emmons lines of Hunterdon Ct.)

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