Eldorado Earls

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Eldorado Earls

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

While trade and industries are an essential part of the prosperity of a country, the real foundation of all good fortune is the preservation of its agricultural interests, and the men engaged in work of this kind are the men who are the bulwarks of a nation. Prominent among the farmers of his section of the country is Eldorado EARLS, of Whippany, Morris county, New Jersey, who represents a family which has been resident in the State for some generations. The father of Eldorado EARLS, John W. EARLS, was born in Morris county, and was a farmer all his life. For many years he resided in Rockaway township, and his death occurred in Newark, New Jersey, at the age of seventy years. He married Jane VANDERHOOF, and became the father of eight children. Eldorado EARLS was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1855, and acquired his education in the public schools of that section. Later he removed to Newark, where he engaged in the kindling wood business for a time, then in the express business, with which he was occupied until his removal in 1898 to Whippany, Morris county. He purchased a farm of seventy acres on which he is engaged in general farming and also stock raising, making a decided success of both branches. He has made and is still making many improvements upon his property, which is now one of the finest of its size in the county. While he has never aspired to public office, he takes a deep interest in all public affairs which concern the welfare of the community, and gives his consistent support to the Republican party. Mr. EARLS married (first) Mary MORGAN, now deceased, and had children: Earnest L.; Olive, married George LITTLE, and has one child, Vernon. He married (second) Mrs. Louise KNIGHT. There are no children by the second marriage.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)