AYCRIGG, John Bancker
(1798—1856)
AYCRIGG, John Bancker, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City July 9, 1798; studied medicine; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the medical department of Columbia University), New York City, in 1818 and was admitted to practice in New York; moved to New Jersey and located at Paramus; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-sixth Congress but was not permitted to qualify; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of medicine in Paramus; moved to Passaic, N.J., and died there November 8, 1856; interment in Paramus Church Cemetery, Ridgewood, N.J.
[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present -- Contributed by Anna Newell]

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ELMORE, Mrs. Lucie Ann Morrison
ELMORE, Mrs. Lucie Ann Morrison, temperance reformer, born in Brandonville, Preston county, W. Va., 29th March, 1829. Her father was a Methodist clergyman, and she is an Episcopalian and a radical Woman's Christian Temperance Union woman. She is a pronounced friend of all oppressed people, and especially of the colored race in the United States. She is patriotic in the extreme. Her husband, who served as an officer in the Union Army through the Civil War, died in 1868, and her only child died in infancy. Mrs. Elmore is widely known as a philanthropist. She is an eloquent and convincing speaker on temperance, social purity and the evils of the tobacco habit. She has suffered financial reverses, but she has never given up her charitable work. Her home is in Englewood, N. J. Her chief literary works are her poems, one volume of which has passed through a large edition, and the popular story "Billy's Mother." She has held several important editorial positions, and her poems have been published in the leading magazines. A story now ready for the press is thought to bear in it promise of a great success, as it is the product of a ripe experience and close study of neighborhood influences for good and evil.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)

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LYDECKER, Garrett J., army office; born, Englewood, N.J., Nov. 15, 1843; son of John R. and Elizabeth (Ward) Lydecker; educated in New York public schools, and College of the City of New York; graduated U.S. Military Academy, 1864; major, Mar. 31, 1880; lieutenant colonel, Dec. 14, 1891; colonel, Apr. 3, 1901; advanced to brigadier general and retired by operation of law, Nov. 15, 1907. Breveted captain, Apr. 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in siege of Petersburg, Va. Extensively engaged in river and harbor work at Galveston, Michigan City, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit and at other points. Residence: 160 Campau Avenue.[Source:   The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Copyright, 1908 - Contributed by Christine Walters]