Excerpt from Philip Kearny: Soldier and Patriot, an Address Delivered Before the New-Jersey Historical Society
The task before me is a labor of love. Philip Kearny, as a soldier and a patriot: this is my theme - a fit one for the Historical Society of New-Jersey, for the favorites of history are patriots and soldiers. And Philip Kearny was both the splendid soldier and the ardent patriot; and, sprung from New-Jersey blood, nurtured on Jersey soil, leading to the field New-Jersey's first brigade, regarding himself through all the war for the Union as a Jersey soldier, it is fit and right - it is, in fact, our duty - to set forth, justly but fully, the splendid career of this martyr to our cause.
Philip Kearny was born June 2d, 1815. He was the son of Philip Kearny, of Newark, and his wife, Susan Watts, daughter of John Watts, of New-York, founder of the Leake and Watts Orphan Asylum there, and distinguished for wealth and generosity. Through his father his lineage was Irish, and it is not difficult to discern that many salient points of his character were derived from that impulsive, generous, brave, and danger-loving blood. His mother was descended, in part, from Huguenot ancestry. Her lineage was of the De Lanceys, and it is said that both in appearance and character her son very much resembled this branch of his ancestry. They were soldiers by nature. The name is distinguished in the history of chivalry. And nothing can be more striking than the similarity in personal appearance between the subject of this sketch, and at least one of his near relatives on the mother's side, whose face and form are said to be that of the De Lancey family.
General Kearny's father resided in Newark. The simple, reverend-looking old mansion of the family still stands, shaded by magnificent old elms in the environs of that growing city, and as yet in possession of the family, who retain its quaint peculiarities with pious care. But Mrs. Kearny's friends lived in New-York. She often visited them, and during her temporary residence there this her only son was born. But he was nurtured from early childhood in Newark, went to school there, regarded that as his home, established his own costly residence near it, and was to all intents and purposes a Jerseyman.
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