Judge Caleb Andruss

From "The History of Essex and Hudson Counties" :

Caleb H. Andruss was born in Newark, N. J., in 1800, and was the eldest son of Gen. Isaac Andruss, of that place. In 1820 he was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and soon after entered, as a student-at- law, the office of Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, at Newark. In 1823, having been admitted to the bar, he began the practice of his profession in his native place. In 1842 he was appointed a police justice, a position which he held for many years. He was also judge of the Court of Common Pleas, the duties of which office he discharged with so much satisfaction that at the expiration of his term every lawyer of the city signed a petition for his reappointment. Mr. Andruss was well versed in the law, and was held in high esteem by the members of the legal profession. He fell a victim to the cholera August 26, 1854, one of his grandchildren lying dead in the house at the time, and, what rendered the event still more sad, his estimable widow died of the same disease on the following day.