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Rev Ezra Blake Lake
Birth 	28 Dec 1833
Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
Death 	7 Aug 1900 (aged 66)
Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey, USA
Burial 	
Salem Cemetery
Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA
Memorial ID 	13846421 · View Source

Rev. Ezra Lake was the driving force who in conjunction with his brothers
(Revs. S. Wesley and James E) and father (Simon) purchased Peck's Beach
from the Somers family to make a Christian temperance seaside resort know
as Ocean City, NJ. He was the superintendent of the Ocean City Association,
organizing an electric company, electric railroad company, and a sewer and
water company. He also invented a roller windowshade, a seawagon to enter the
surf and rescue stranded passengers and crew of ships, and was working on a
friction-less, oil-less bearing at the time of his death. He was elected as
the NJ delegate to the Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference held
in Chicago in March, 1900 and was a delegate to the Prohibition National
Convention. The N.Y. Times reported that he contracted bilious dysentery,
possibly while at the Seaville Camp Meeting Association of which he was
president.

The son of Simon and Sarah nee Blake Lake, he married Alice E Core on
01JUL1854, the daughter of Rev John & Susanna Core of Port Republic. He was
briefly married to his second wife, Martha Henderson nee Corson (widow of
John Chattin Corson)following the death of Alice.

[from the book "A Genealogy of the Lake Family - Adams & Lake"]

Family Members
Parents

    Simon Lake
    1813–1881

    Sarah Blake Lake
    1810–1865

Spouses

    Alice E. Lake
    1836–1890

    Martha H Borden Corson
    1843–1929 (m. 1890)

Siblings

    James Edward Lake
    1845–1925

    John Christopher Lake
    1847–1938

Children

    Susan C Lake
    unknown–1859

    Rosella A. Lake
    1855–1857

    Arletta C. Lake
    1856–1857

    Charles B. Lake
    1862–1862

    Simon J. Lake
    1865–1866

    Rebecca Lake
    1868–1868

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