Middlesex County

Biographies 1664-1920
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History of Middlesex County, New Jersey 1664- 1920
Volume II 1921 : Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc. New York and Chicago
Transcribed by: Martha A Crosley Graham – Pages 3-99
Updated: 12 April 2012
Submitted by Martha A Crosley Graham

JOHN P WALL The name Wall is a corruption of De Val, and it was introduced into Ireland by the Normans in 1169. The bearers of this name settled in the South of Ireland and held estates in Waterford and Cork. The family seat was in Coolnamuck, Waterford. The estates were sold in 1852 under the Encumbered Estates Act and are now held by the Ormond Buttlers. The name is still carried in the original form by the Spanish and French descendants of the family. In some cases it is written Del Val, notably in that of the Spanish family of Cardinal Merry del Val, secretary to the late Pope Pius X., and his brother, Senor Alfonso del Val, the present Spanish Ambassador, London. They are descended from the Waterford family of Wal, and this eventually was Latinized into its present form. The Ambassador's father, Don Rafael Merry del Val, was for some years secretary to the Spanish Embassy in London. Other notable members of this family were: Colonel Joseph Wall, Governor of Goree in Africa, 1779.-1792, son of Garrett Wall; John Wall, a physician, who contributed to the establishment of the porcelain manufactory in Worcester, England. The Walls of New Jersey are all descendants of this family.
The name was introduced into Spain by Richard Wall, born in Waterford, Ireland, 1693, died in Granada, 1778. He entered the. Spanish navy while still a youth, and rose to the rank of major-general. He served as private agent of Spain in Aix La Chapelle; was Minister to the Court of St. James, and later Minister of Foreign Affairs to Ferdinand VI. and Charles III. It is to his antiquarian zeal that the world is indebted for the preservation of the Alhambra. His father was a colonel in the army of James II., and had two brothers, one of them being the father of Garret Wall, of further mention.

Garret Wall was born in 1710, and died in 1768. He married – [This space is blank] Cleary, who died in 1779. Their son, James, is of further mention.

James Wall was born in 1764, and died in 1806. He was an officer of the United Irishmen, and very active in the stirring days of 1798. He was somewhat of a political figure in his time, and his services were much in demand as an orator. He married, in 1794, Mary Brouders, born in 1769, died in 1809. Children: Patrick, of further mention ; Garret, born 1799, died 1842; Ellen, born i8ol, died 1851 ; William, born 18os, died 1869.

Patrick Wall was born in 1796. He was a contractor for army clothing in London during the Crimean War. He returned to Ireland, where he died in the year 1879, and was buried in the family plot in Glanworth. He married, 1825, Hanora Keleher, born 1797, died 1881, daughter. of Michael and Mary (Birmingham) Keleher, who were married in 1796. Michael Keleher was born in 1768, and died in 1841; his wife was born in 1770, and died in 1800. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Wall: 1 Mary, born 1826, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1904; married, 1853, Jeremiah Coleman, London, England. 2. Ellen, born 1828, died 1834. 3. Margaret, born 1831; last heard from in 1854, when she was living in Brooklyn, New York, where she married John Sattier. 4. James, born 1833, died in London, England, 1916; married, 1864, Ellen Courtney. 5. Michael, of further mention. 6. John, born 1838; went to Italy as secretary to one of the British representatives at Rome during the Papal War; a letter received from him stated that he was wounded and after that all efforts to locate him failed. 7. Patrick, born 1840, died in London, England, '1913 ; married, 1866, Hanora Greene, sister to Susanna Greene, who died in London, England, 1912, leaving among their surviving children the Rev. John J. Wall, Rev. William Greene Wall, of London, also Sister Mary Abycia of the Assumption Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Michael Wall was born December 2, 1836, and died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 7, 1911. He was educated in London, England. On June 12, 1870, he settled in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was engaged in the tailoring business until he retired in 1897. He married, May 1, 1866, Susanna Greene, daughter of George and Mary (Hennessy) Greene, who were married in 1838. George Greene was born in 1811, and died July 7, 1886; he was postmaster and revenue collector in Glanworth for fifty-one years; his wife was born in 1819, and died in 1883. Susanna (Greene) Wall received her education in the Black Rock Convent and the Dublin University of Teachers, after which she became the principal of the Glanworth public schools. Michael and. Susanna (Greene) Wall were the parents of nine children : 1. Hanna, born 1869, died aged four months. 2. Susanna, born 1873, died aged five months. 3. Annie, born 1876, died aged eleven months. 4. Michael, born 1881, died aged six months. 5. John P., of further mention. 6. Mary T., of New Brunswick, New Jersey. 7. Nora M., of New Brunswick, New Jersey ; married, December 26, 1912, John F. Nevius, . of Deans, New Jersey, where he died August 26, 1920. 8. James M., of New Brunswick, New Jersey ; married, January 7, 1902, Emma Wright, daughter of William and Fannie (Breese) Wright; the latter named died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 26, 1911; their children were: James Clifford, and George Greene; 9. Margaret C.
John P. Wall, a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is the author of the following .works: "When the British Held New Brunswick," "New Brunswick During the War of 1812," "How New Brunswick Became the County Seat," "Before' the Railroad Came to Town," "When County Sheriffs Were Hangmen," "New Brunswick's Navy in the Revolution," "New Brunswick at the Critical Period of the Revolution," "The Floods of the Raritan," "When the Irish Came to America," "The Settlement and Progress of the Catholic Church at New Brunswick, N. J.," "A History of Clerical Garments," "The Boys of '98," and several other articles of more or less note. He compiled the history of New Brunswick in the World War, and was at one time associate editor of the "Sartorial Art Journal" in New York. Mr. Wall is reputed to have one of the finest private libraries of Americana in New Jersey, and is considered an authority on local history. He was chairman of the committee on arrangements to welcome home the soldiers from the Spanish-American War. It was under his direction that the early records of the Common Council were copied for the New Brunswick Historical Society.
Mr. Wall married, January 15, 1903, Elizabeth Hope Macom, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Harding) Macom, who were married August 12, 1866. Samuel Macom was born September 29, 1841, died December 9, 1889; his wife was born August 1, 1844. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wall : Evelyn Macom and Elizabeth Victoria.
 
REV. WILLIAM HENRY STEELE DEMAREST, D. D.
...was born in Hudson, New York, May 12, 1863. He is the son of the Rev. David D. Demarest, D. D., LL. D., for thirty-three years Professor of Pastoral Theology and Sacret Rhetoric in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. His mother was Catharine L. Demarest, daughter of James Schureman Nevins, Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. President Demarest is the first alumnus of Rutgers College to become its president. Ancestrally, his connection with the college is almost co-extensive with its history. He has himself been a trustee since 1899, and was secretary of the board from 1904 until 1906. His father was a trustee of the college from 1858 until his death, in 1898, and secretary of the board from 1866. His maternal grandfather was a trustee from 1825 until 1858, and secretary from 1825 until 1830. His great-grandfather, the Rev. Henry Polhemus, was trustee from 1800 until 1816, and his great-great-grandfather, the Hon. John Schureman, was a trustee from 1782 until 1795.
The boyhood and young manhood of William H. S. Demarest were spent in New Brunswick. He graduated from the grammar school in 1879, and from the college as the first honor man of the class of 1883. After teaching in the grammar school for two years, he entered the Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1888. Being licensed to preach by the Classis of New Brunswick and ordained by the Classis of Orange, he had successful pastorates in the Reformed churches of Walden, New York, 1888.1e07), and Catskill, New York, (1897-19ot). The General Synod of 1901 elected him Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He thus returned to the service of the institution to which his father gave the best years of his life. Dr. Demarest continued in his professorship for five years. During the last of these years he was also acting president of Rutgers College. The trustees elected him president of the college, February 8, 1906, and he was inaugurated, June 20, 1906, in the presence of the largest assembly of alumni and friends which has ever attended a college function at New Brunswick. Rutgers conferred upon him' the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1901, and the University of New York gave the same degree in 1916. He also received the degree of LL. D. from Columbia University in 1910, from Union College in 19t1, and from the University of Pittsburgh in 1912. In 1909 he served as president of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America.
The first ten years of President Demarest's administration have been marked by a very vigorous life in the old college. The adjustment of the relations with the State, accomplished before the end of Dr. Scott's administration, has borne fruit in largely increased appropriations. The Neilson Campus which adjoins the Queen's Campus became the property of the college through the liberality of Mr. James Neilson, of New Brunswick. Upon it two large buildings have been erected, the Engineering building and the Chemistry building. Several smaller pieces of property, including five residences adjoining the Neilson Campus, have been acquired by purchase, so that nearly all the property between the Queen's Campus and the Theological Seminary is in the hands of the college. Upon part of this a new dormitory has been erected at a cost of about $125,000, by the late John Howard Ford, of New York City, a trustee of :he college. A large extension of the Robert F. Ballantine Gymnasium, which contains a fully-equipped swimming pool, costing more than $30,000, has been erected, Mrs. Robert F. Ballantine giving $27,000 for this purpose. An Entomology building has also been acquired. The college has enlarged its land holdings by an extensive tract comprising two blocks on the western side of College avenue, and by lots on George street, extending from the Neilson Athletic Field to the New Buccleuch Park. Upon the latter four residences have been erected, which are occupied as dormitories by the Rutgers Preparatory School. The strip of land between George Street and the canal, and extending westward 'from a point near Seminary place nearly 'to the end of College avenue, has become college property. The College farm has been greatly enlarged so that it nod includes nearly 35o acres of land. On it has been erected a handsome Agricultural building by a State appropriation of $100,000. The Short Course building, the Poultry Administration building, greenhouses, dairy barn and other buildings have also been added.
The progress along educational lines in these ten years has not fallen behind that along' property lines. The faculty has increased considerably in numbers. Short courses in agriculture during the winter months and a summer session have been established. The number of . students in the regular courses has doubled. Several industrial fellowships for graduate students have been founded and new lecture courses inaugurated, The loyalty of the Alumni has been strengthened by the founding of several new local Alumni associations, and the ancient interest of the Reformed church in the college, founded by its ministers and elders, has been fostered. The outlook for Rutgers was never before so promising as in the year of its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
 
AUSTIN SCOTT, PH. D., LL. D.
...was born in Maumee, near Toledo, Ohio, August to, 1848. He graduated from Yale College with the degree of A. B., in 1869. After a year of post-graduate study at the University of Michigan, he received the degree of A. M. He then studied three years at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving his Ph. D. from the latter university in 1873. During the same years he was engaged with Mr. George Bancroft in the preparation of the tenth volume of his "History of the United States." He also carried dispatches to General Washington which contained the decision of Emperor William, as arbitrator, between Great Britain and the United States, in regard to the northwestern boundary. Dr. Scott was instructor in German at the University of Michigan (1873-75). He collected and arranged materials for Bancroft's "History of the Constitution of the United States" (1875-82), at the same time acting as associate in history at Johns Hopkins University. He there organized a seminar of American History, and conducted it from 1876 until 1882.
In 1883 Dr. Scott was made Professor of History, Political Economy and Constitutional Law, at Rutgers. On November 25, 189o, he was elected president of the college, and was inaugurated February 4, 189L He conducted its affairs with great ability and devotion for fifteen years, until January 1906, when his desire to devote a larger part of his time and abilities to the work of teaching and writing led him to relinquish the duties of the executive. During his administration, the College Extension Department was organized and successfully carried on, the teaching of the English Bible was' introduced into the curriculum, and in other respects the educational side of the college was enlarged. On the property side, the improvement during these years was very marked. • Two of the handsomest college buildings were erected. Mr. Robert F. Ballantine, of Newark, for many years a trustee of the college, was the generous donor of a well-equipped gymnasium, and Mr. Ralph Voorhees gave the college a new library. The ground for both of these buildings was the gift of Mr. James Neilson. Van Nest Hall was improved, chiefly by the liberality of Mrs. Ann Bussing, of New York. The house adjoining the preparatory school was purchased and put into use for the younger scholars. The campus was also greatly improved and beautified. By the generosity of Mr. James Neilson, the students have the use of the Neilson Athletic Field.
It was from Dr. Scott's initiative that the Alumni Endowment Fund was begun in the.first year of his administration, a fund which not only promises ever increasing advantage to the college treasury, but which binds a large number of loyal alumni to their alma mater. Large additions were also made in this period to the general endowments of the institution by the liberality of Mr. Robert Schell, Miss Helen M. Gould, Mr: Peter Donald, and others. By no means the least of Dr. Scott's accomplishments were the adjustment of the long-standing account with the State, and the passage of a new law governing. the State appropriations to the college.
Since his resignation as president, in 1906, Dr. Scott has continued to perform the duties of the Voorhees Professorship of History and Political Science with eminent success. The degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon him by Princeton in 1891, and by Rutgers in 1914.
 
JOHN HOWARD RAVEN, A. M., D. D.
The active work of the ministry claimed Dr. Raven, hut for twenty-seven years he has filled the chair of Old Testament Languages and Exegesis at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Raven ranks high as a theologian and has filled and is still filling important engagements. He is a son of Anton Adolph and Gertrude (Oatman) Raven, his father born in Curacao, the largest of the Dutch West India Islands, September 3o, 1833, died in Caldwell, New Jersey, January 15, 1919. Anton A. Raven was president of the Atlantic Insurance Company, of New York City, and a man of influence in the business world. He married Gertrude Oatman, born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 15, 1840, died in Brooklyn, New York, March 7, 1914.
John Howard Raven was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 3, 1870, and after private school study entered the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, finishing with the class of 1887. He spent the next four years at Rutgers College, whence he was graduated A. B., 1891; A. M., 1894. Choosing the profession of a minister of the gospel, he prepared at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there completed his studies in Divinity, class of 1894. In 1899 Rutgers College conferred the honorary degree, D. D., and in 1902-03 Dr. Raven pursued special courses of study at the University of Berlin. He was licensed to preach by the South Classis of Long Island of the Reformed Church in America, in 1894, and the same year was ordained by the Classis of New Brunswick pastor of the Reformed church at Metuchen, New Jersey, a charge he faithfully fulfilled for five years.
During the years 1898-99 he was acting professor of Old Testament Languages and and Exegesis, and in 1899 he resigned his pastorate and has since most ably filled the same chair as a full faculty member. During the years 1910-13 he was lecturer on the English Bible at Rutgers College, and he is the author of many works, including the following: "Old Testament Introduction, General and Special," 1906; "Essentials of Hebrew Grammar," 1908; "Biblical Hermeneutics," 1910. He is also the compiler of a "General Catalogue of Rutgers College, 17661916," having previously, 1909, completed an edition of same; and "Biographical Record of New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1784-1911." He is vice-president of the educational body of the Reformed Church in America ; was president of the Zeta Psi fraternity of North America, in 1912; member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a trustee of Rutgers College. He is biographer of the Rutgers Alumni Association, and of the Alumni Association of the Seminary, and chairman of the committee on Necrology, of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of America. He is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the American Geographical Society. His clubs are the University, Interchurch Clergy, Zeta Psi of New York City, Middlesex Country and the Rutgers of New Brimswick. His religious affiliation is with the Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick.
Dr. Raven married, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 29, 1894, Elizabeth Grier Strong, born in West Troy, New York, daughter of Rev. Selah W. and Eleanor H. (Van Deurson) Strong. Dr. and Mrs. Raven are the parents of a son, Anton Adolph, born October 26, 1895, now an instructor in English at Dartmouth College; he married Winifred Storrs Perkins, of Hartford, Connecticut. The Raven home is at No. 185 College avenue, New Brunswick.
EMIL STREMLAU.
The brightest minds and the most gifted sons of the nations have ever been called into the circle of the law, and contact with other minds, equally brilliant, have sharpened the naturally keen intellect. lawyer of ability rises above the ranks of the many, and attains a position among the few who achieve professional prominence. A position of this kind may be predicted for Emil Stremlau, an able young lawyer of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Charles Stremlau, father of Emil Stremlau, was born in Alsace Lorraine and died in Meriden, Connecticut, at the age of fifty. He came to America with his wife, Pauline (Lange) Stremlau, and settled in Meriden. They were the parents of nine children; Hulda, now residing in New York City; Edith, wife of Frank Koch, of Arlington, New Jersey; Julius, a director of prohibition for the State of Connecticut, and a resident of Meriden ; Charles, a cigar manufacturer of Meriden ; William, of New Brunswick, New Jersey ; Augusta, wife of Henry Kreh ; Fred, chief clerk, in the freight department at New London, Connecticut; Emil, the subject of this review ; Olga, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut.
Emil Stremlau, son of Charles and Pauline (Lange) Stremlau, was born in Meriden, Connecticut, April 3, 1887. He was educated in the Meriden grammar schools, the Concordia Preparatory School from which he was graduated in 1901, Yale Law School, and New York Law School, from which latter institution he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908. He was admitted to practice law at the State bar of New Jersey in 1909, and opened an office in Arlington, New Jersey, in 1909, two years later establishing himself in the practice of his profession at his present location in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In the presentation of a case Mr. Stremlau's manner and language, being quiet and yet forceful, are singularly effective. The papers which he prepares are exceptionally strong and present the matter under consideration in a manner which admits no dispute. He has a comprehensive grasp of all questions that come before him, and is particularly fitted for his chosen work.
As a citizen with high ideas of good government, Mr. Stremlau stands in the front rank. Always a staunch Republican, he has never been conspicuously associated with the affairs of the organization, though taking a keen and helpful interest in every project having for its end the betterment of conditions in his community. During the World War he was secretary of the legal advisory board of Perth Amboy, and in August, 1919, he enlisted in the United States army, and was stationed at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Like many busy men he has a hobby, which is out-door sports, he being particularly fond of 'hunting and fishing, and in order to satisfy these desires he holds membership in the Raritan Yacht Club and the Perth Amboy Gun Club. Mr. Stremlau is also a member of the local Young Men's Christian Association, and twice a week he attends the gymnasium connected with this organization. In religious belief he is a Lutheran.
Mr. Stremlau married, January 17, 1912, Violet Margaret Cameron, a daughter of John Cameron, chief clerk with the Trageser Steel Company, and Margaret Cameron, both residents of Arlington, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Stremlau have no children.
In the ,comparatively short space of eleven years Mr. Stremlau has advanced himself to his present position. That the much longer period that is yet to come will be one of still greater achievement there can be no reasonable doubt, for the past is a guarantee for the future. 
 
MULFORD DAY VALENTINE
The history of the M. D. Valentine & Brother Company is one of successful business management, the enterprise, executive ability and strong business acumen of the Members of the company achieving a wonderful result in placing the products of the company in the markets of the United States and at the same time establishing a considerable export business. Fire brick and drain tile, the company's chief products, were given a new importance in the business world, and the name of Valentine became widely known. As senior member of the firm, Mulford Day Valentine was brought prominently into notice and became known as a capable financier and a man of sterling integrity.
Mulford Day Valentine, son of James and Catherine (Ackerman) Valentine, was born' in Woodbridge, New Jersey, October 26, 1843, and died in Syracuse, New York, July 4, 1911. He attended school until 'eighteen years of age, then enlisted in the Twenty-eighth Regular New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front. He .enlisted for a term of nine months, but he was not mustered out of the service until July I, 1863, his record one of soldierly efficiency and hard campaigning with the Army of the Potomac. The army service was followed by a course of training at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, preparatory to accepting position as bookkeeper with the important paper house, L. T. Valentine & Company. Two years, 1864-66, were spent with that house then, deeming the time opportune, he formed a ..partnership with his brother, J. R. Valentine, and under the firm name, M. D. Valentine & Brother, he established the manufacture of clay products.
The firm at first made a commodity now unheard of—bath brick, used for cleaning and scouring purposes. This product later became an unprofitable article of manufacture,. and in 1867 M. D. Valentine & Brother began the manufacture of 'drain tile, and in 1868 added in a small way the manufacture of fire brick, an industry they developed to the highest degree of productiveness. The company owned their own clay banks and operated two plants, one at Woodbridge, the other at Valentine Station in Raritan township, Middlesex county, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. A large force of men were employed at these plants all the year round, and their output was shipped to all parts of the United States, to Cuba, South America and to European ports. Year by year the business of the company increased and Valentine Brothers took rank among the foremost fire brick manufacturers. M. D. Valentine was considered an authority on clay and clay products, and his decisions on matters affecting the clay industry carried great weight. The firm bore an unassailable reputation for business integrity and reliability, while the business quality and executive ability of both partners won them the respect of the commercial world in which they moved. M. D. Valentine was of unusually fine business quality, sagacious, energetic, sound of judgment and clear of vision, and the partnership, M. D. Valentine & Brother, which existed for more than forty years was only terminated by the death of the senior partner, Mulford Day Valentine.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Valentine was offered high honors by his party, but steadfastly declined, although his voice was a potent one in party councils. He repeatedly declined the nomination for State senator and congressman, believing he could best serve his people and their interests by devoting himself to his business which meant so much to a large number of employees, while as a worker in ranks he could serve with equal value to his party. Though retired from active participation in the business through failing health for a year prior to his passing, he was not confined to his residence, and in the latter part of June left his home in Woodbridge to visit his daughter, Mrs. Henry. W. Duguid, of Syracuse, New York, and at her home he was suddenly stricken and passed away.

Mr. Valentine married, September 3, 1867, Rachel V. Camp, of Ocean county, New Jersey, who survives him, her residence at No. 151 Green street, Woodbridge, New Jersey. The only daughter of Mulford D. and Rachel V. (Camp) Valentine is Grace, who married Henry W. Duguid and has a daughter Isabel. An only son, Eugene, died in 1877.

This brief review of the life of Mr. Valentine reveals a man of strong business quality and deep, earnest nature. In disposition he was genial . and kindly, courteous and considerate, a man who made many friends and always retained them. He was buried in Alpine Cemetery, the funeral services being held from his home in Woodbridge, the services in charge of Rev. W. C. O'Donnell, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Rev. George Dougherty, pastor of St. Paul's Church, Newark, a former pastor of the Woodbridge church. Thus passed a valuable man, well worthy of the high esteem in which he was held.
 
GEORGE COOPER INGLING.
Since the inception of his business career, George Cooper Ingling has been identified with the newspaper business, and as editor of the "New Brunswick Times" since 1915 he holds .a recognized place among the representative business men of 'New Brunswick. His interest in all that concerns the community's welfare is deep and sincere, and. wherever substantial aid will further public progress it is .freely given.
George Cooper Ingling was born in Freehold, New Jersey, April 12, 1874, the son of the late William Henry and Elizabeth (Weeks) Ingling. His father was manager for Monmouth County Farmers' Exchange, which disposed of over $1,000,000 worth of potatoes and other produce for Monmouth county farmers in eastern, western and southern markets. The boy George attended the Freehold Institute, from which he was graduated in 1892, when he immediately became engaged in the newspaper business. His first employment was with William F. Richardson on the Monmouth County Press Exchange, which furnished news to Monmouth county newspapers and to the New York and Philadelphia daily papers from Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth county. In 1896 he secured a position as reporter on the "New Brunswick Times," which was being issued as a daily paper at that time. In 1916 it became the "Sunday Times." In 1915, in recognition of the ability Mr. Ingling had already shown, he was made editor of the paper, and on January 13, 1921, he completed his twenty-fifth year in the service of one paper.
In politics Mr. Ingling is independent of party restriction in casting his vote, and although he maintains a deep interest in public issues, he keeps strictly aloof from political circles. He affiliates with the Young Men's Christian Association, and in religion is a Methodist, attending St. James' Methodist Church, New Brunswick, where he has served as trustee, president of the Epworth League, and superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Ingling's hobby is athletics, and until war interfered he was president of the Inter-Church Quoit League, which was conducted for three years and in which teams from ten churches, representing men over twenty-five and those under that age, participated in indoor quoits.
On April 16, 1895, Mr. Ingling was united in marriage with Gertrude Frelinghuysen Scott, daughter of John Charles and Gertrude (Fisher) Scott, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ingling are the parents of three children : George Warren, born February 26, 1896, served in the World War with the 311th Machine Gun Battalion, 79th Division, in St. Mihiel and the Argonne Forest battles; he received his honorable discharge from the service in 1919; Donald Thurston, born March to, 1898; and Elizabeth Cooper, born April 3, 1901.
 
WILLIAM STULTS DEY Coming to South Amboy with his parents when only six months old, William Stults Dey has lived in that city all his life.
Born in Cranbury, New Jersey, July 22, 1869, William Stults Dey is the son of Asa and Eliza (Paterson) Dey. Ma Dey was born in Cranbury, New Jersey, in 1837, but in his young manhood he came to South Amboy, where he was engaged as foreman of carpenters at the Pennsylvania Railroad docks at South Amboy, being occupied in this work during the rest of his life. He died in South Amboy, in 1905, aged sixty-eight years. In politics he was a Republican. Mrs. Eliza (Paterson) Dey was also born in Cranbury, but died in South Amboy at the age of sixty-five years. She was the mother of four children, only two of whom are now living: Lewis, a resident of New York City, connected with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad as foreman of carpenters; and William Shifts, of further mention.,
William Stults Dey obtained his education in the public schools of South Amboy, afterward starting upon a business career. When eighteen years of age he entered the Pennsylvania Railroad shops at South Amboy as a machinist's apprentice, and after learning his trade still continued in the employ of the company. After spending five years in their service he was transferred to the cold storage department at South Amboy, New Jersey, remaining there until 191r, at which time he became master mechanic of the New York & Long Branch Railroad, a position he is still filling.
Connected with various interests in the city, Mr. Dey is much interested in its public institutions; he is a director of the South Amboy Trust Company, and director of the present board of freeholders; for seven years he was one of the freeholders of Middlesex county. Mr. Dey has taken a very active part in the conduct of city affairs, having represented his ward in the Common Council for six years and after that being elected mayor of the city, holding the office for two terms of two years each.
Equally active in• fraternal circles, William Stults Dey is a member of the local lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, having been master of it for four years; he is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Order of Red Men, and the Order of United American Mechanics. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church of South Amboy.
William Stults Dey married, in South Amboy, Martha Jane Rue, born in. that place, the daughter of Alfred and Lydia (Reed) Rue. Three children have been born of this marriage: Leo Alfred, deceased. 2. Gerald Paterson, aged twenty-two, a student in the dental college in Philadelphia. 3. Marjorie Stevens, sixteen years old. Mr. and Mrs. William Stults Dey reside at No. 305 Main street, South Amboy.
 
CHARLES CHAUNCEY HOMMANN, judge of the District Court of Perth Amboy, lawyer, business man, and one of the prominent citizens of Middlesex county, New Jersey, was born at Green Bay, Wisconsin, May 25, 1851. He is a member of a family that was founded in • the United States by John C. Hommann, who came to this country from Saxony and settled in Philadelphia, where he followed the profession of music teacher for a number of years and eventually died. He married in London, Constantia Herbert, and among their children was William Hommann, the father of the Mr. Hommann of this sketch. William Hornmann was a clergyman of the Episcopal church and was rector of the church at Green Bay, Wisconsin, and later at Newtown, Pennsylvania.
He married Fidelia Smith, and they were the parents of Charles Chauncey Hommann.
Judge Hommann was but four years of age when his parents removed to Newtown, Pennsylvania, and it was there that his education was received at the local public schools. As he grew to an age to choose a career, the young man took up the study of civil engineering, and followed that profession with notable success until 1903. In the meantime, however, he had also made a study of the law and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in November, 1880. For a number of years he carried on both professions simultaneously and also took an active part in public affairs. Since 1903 he has devoted himself to the practice of the law, a profession for which he is especially fitted by his natural talents and the character of his mind, his power of close application and hard work, no less than his fidelity and unswerving loyalty to every trust. Judge Hommann is a Democrat in politics and has participated prominently in the life of the city and county where he resides, having held a number of responsible offices in the gift of his fellow-citizens. He was elected a member of the Board of Freeholders in 1894, and has also served as city surveyor, city clerk, superintendent of the public schools and as city attorney. It was in the year 1915 that he was elected to his present office of judge of the District Court of Perth Amboy, a post in which he has added greatly to the reputation already gained by him in his legal practice as a learned jurist and as a just and impartial man. There is hardly an aspect of the city's life in which Judge Hommann is not conspicuous; he is associated with the management of the Perth Amboy Trust Company, and has served in the Essex Troop of Cavalry, New Jersey National Guard, and the New Jersey Militia Reserve. He is also a member of a number of fraternal orders and clubs, among which should be named, the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity; Raritan Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Lodge No. 6, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the New Jersey Historical Society; the New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the Colonial Country Club; the Suburban Golf Club; the Seniors Golf Association; the East Jersey Club; and the Raritan Yacht Club. Judge Hommann is greatly attached to all forms of wholesome outdoor sport and is, especially, an enthusiastic golfer, devoting much of his leisure time to that delightful game. In his religious belief Judge Hommann is an Episcopalian and attends with the members of his family the church of that denomination at Perth Amboy.
Judge Hommann has been twice married. His first wife, with whom he was united May, 1886, was Bessie A. E. Elliott Higgins, a daughter of Gardner Elliott and Ann (Bryant) Higgins, her death occurring in November, 1899. He married (second) Alice Paterson Boggs, a daughter of John Lawrence and Cornelia (Paterson) Boggs. One son, Charles Chauncey Hommann, Jr., born April 17, 1887, is now connected with the advertising department of Collier's Magazine. He married, June, 1916, Elsie C. Smith, of Lee, Massachusetts, by whom he has had one child, a daughter, Constantia, born June 22, 1917.
 
WILLIAM CLIFFORD JAQUES for many years has been a prominent politician in New Brunswick, New Jersey, holding offices in city, county and State at different periods. He is very well known, with a large circle of friends who rally to support him on election day whenever zr he is a candidate.
New Brunswick is Mr. Jaques' native city, he having been born there March 20, 1857, and it is also the birthplace of his father and mother, Samuel and Abbie E. (Timmins) Jaques. Samuel Jaques in his early life was a ship carpenter by trade, but after a few years spent in that line of work he became a baker and continued as such for the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1887, at the age of fifty-six years. Mrs. Abbie E. (Timmins) Jaques lived in New Brunswick all her life and died there in 1917, aged eighty-five years. She was the mother of ten children, of whom only two arc now living: John L., a resident of Riverside, New Jersey ; and William Clifford, of further mention.
Attending the public schools in the city of his birth until he reached the age of thirteen years, William C. Jaques then entered the furniture store of I. S. Manning & Son on Burnett street. Remaining there for three years, he left it to assist his father in the bakery business located at the corner of Hazard and John streets. After a few years Mr. Jaques gave this up and became a fireman on board a steamboat plying between New Brunswick and New York City. For a time he followed this occupation, but in 1887 engaged in the liquor business on Peace street, afterward moving to Dennis street, and this he carried on until the government prohibited the sale of alcoholic drinks.
Always active in politics, Mr. Jaques was elected an alderman on the Democratic ticket from the Third Ward in New Brunswick, holding office for eight years. He was twice elected alderman-at-large, and was also a member of the State Assembly for the years 1890 and 1891. At another time Mr. Jaques was a member of the Board of Freeholders of Middlesex county for a year and a half. In 1886 he was appointed, for two years, chief of the city's fire department. In 1919 Mr. Jaques was elected to the position of commissioner of public safety, his term of office continuing until 1923. In fraternal circles, Mr. Jaques is as active as in political affairs; he is a member of Goodwill Council, American Mechanics; the Knights of Pythias; the Order of Golden Eagles, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, all of New Brunswick.
In New Brunswick, October 12, 1873, William Clifford Jaques was married to Charlotte L. Ryno, a native of that city. She was the daughter of John and Rachael (Labone) Ryno, both lifelong residents of New Brunswick ; they are now deceased. -Mr. and Mrs. Jaques had eight children, of whom only three are now living; they are as follows:
Samuel, deceased. 2. John L., living in New Brunswick. 3. Harvey, deceased. 4. William C., deceased. 5. Milton R., a resident of New Brunswick. 6. Edna, deceased. 7. Sarah, deceased. 8. Florantine, the wife of C. N. Myer, of Middlesex county, New Jersey.
 
FOUNTAIN BURLEW.—Having enjoyed many advantages in the way of education and training, Dr. Fountain Burlew is well equipped for the profession he has taken up, that of dentistry; his offices are very conveniently located, being in the South Amboy Trust Company building at No. 116 North Broadway.
Fountain Burlew was born in Cliffwood, New Jersey, a suburb of Matawan, on October 16, 1896, and lived there until nine years of age, when his parents, Herbert H. and Louise (Meinzer) Burlew, moved to Matawan. The elder Mr. Burlew is a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, but is now a resident of Freneau, New Jersey, another suburb of Matawan. He is engaged in the wholesale produce commission business in New York City. To Mr. and Mrs. :Ierbert H. Burlew four children were born : x. Conover H., a dentist located at 168 Smith street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. 2. Frederick, a lawyer of Matawan. 3. Fountain, of whom further. 4. Herbert, who died in infancy.
Attending the public schools of Matawan, Fountain Burlew graduated from the Matawan High School in 1913 and at once became a student at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, remaining there for three years (1913-1916), then entering the dental school of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1919. Going to Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Burlew started in practice, but after one year spent there he came to South Amboy, and October 1, 1920, opened his office at the present location.
During the time that our country was engaged in the World War with Germany, Dr. Burlew enlisted and was assigned to the Medical Enlisted Reserve Corps. While attending college, Dr. Burlew became a member of one of the Greek letter fraternities there Xi Psi Phi. In the way of recreation his favorite pastime is driving an automobile. Dr. Burlew is connected with the Presbyterian church of Matawan, New Jersey.
 
WILLIAM CHARLES WILSON.—During the thirty years Mayor William C. Wilson has resided in Perth Amboy, he has played an important part in the development of the city, and has not yet completed what he believes to be his civic duty. The advancement and growth of Perth Amboy, have always meant much to him, and among his plans for municipal improvements may be.cited : A new railroad station, the abolition of grade crossings, development of the sewer system ; water front development, including a new city dock and additional ferry lines connecting the city with Staten Island; extension of the present municipal lighting system, erection of a city ice plant, and development of social features as to tend to develop public spirit and increase interest in the city of Perth Amboy. This would include concerts in parks during the summer months; provision for skating and other sports during the winter; beautifying the city by planting shade trees, and continuing the development of park system as fast as conditions would warrant. This is an ambitious program, but entirely feasible, and the mayor is heart and soul in the movement for a "better Perth Amboy."
William Charles Wilson of New Jersey, was born in Port Monmouth, Monmouth county, New Jersey, September 17, 1872, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson. Thomas Wilson was born in 1850, was a farmer by occupation and prominent in the affairs of the community in which he resided, serving for a number of years on the Middletown township Board of Education, for nine years president of the board. He died in 1908. His widow still survives him. They were the parents of four children: Charlotte; Eunice, deceased; Ethel, and William C.
William C. Wilson was educated in the public schools of Middletown township, Monmouth county, and worked on the home farm until he attained the age of seventeen years. He then came to Perth Amboy and was employed as a mason in the construction of the C. Pardee works. He worked his way up, filling various positions in the building business until 1911, when he became a contractor and builder, forming a partnership with J. C. Fowler. In 1916 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Wilson continuing the business alone under firm name, W. C. Wilson, General Contractor. He has contracted for and erected many buildings in Perth Amboy, a number of which are for factory and school purposes.
Mr. Wilson is a Republican in politics and has always taken an active part in local affairs. In 1912 he was elected to the Board of Aldermen and served on the board for the next eight years; and in 192o, was elected mayor of Perth Amboy by a substantial majority, succeeding , Frank Dorsey, and taking office January 1, 1921. Mayor Wilson has always been the friend of the working man and has ever been to the fore when the interests of the wage-earner were at stake. During the many years he was employed as superintendent for a contracting concern, and later in that business for himself, he had an opportunity to work with, supervise and study men ; this has given hint a knowledge of conditions that few in the city possess.
In religion, Mayor Wilson is true to the Swedenborgian faith, in which he was baptized in New York City. He married, July 25, 1900, Wilhelmina Koster, daughter of William and Wilhelmina Koster, of Perth Amboy. Their children are: William, Elliott and Robert.
 
LESLIE PHILIP JOHNSON, one of the most prominent and influential citizens of New Brunswick, is a native of this city, his birth having occurred here February zo, 1871. Mr. Johnson has always been active in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, her worthiest and most vital interests being inseparably associated with his name and personality.
Alfred B. Johnson, father of Leslie Philip Johnson, was born January 16, am in Wales. At the age of nine years he came to Canada with his parents, and at the age of sixteen years came to the United States and immediately located in New Brunswick, where he has continued to reside ever since. For thirty-five years previous to his retirement from active business life, he was identified with the Norfolk & New Brunswick Hosiery Company of New Brunswick. • He married Eliza Ann Phillhower, of New Jersey, who died June 20, tgo8, at the age of sixty-nine years; she was a member of one of the old Colonial families, her antecedents having fought in the War, of the Revolution. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were born three children: Frederick Robert, g resident of New Brunswick; Katherine, who married Elmore DeWitt, residents of Jersey City; Leslie Philip, of further mention.
The education of Leslie Philip Johnson was obtained in the public schools of his native place and at the New Jersey Business College in Newark, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1886, subsequently securing a position with the Ninth National Bank of New York City, where he remained until he resigned in 1901. During this time he also conducted a wholesale and retail bicycle and sundry business at No. 113 Albany street, New Brunswick, and was also secretary of the Phoenix Art Metal Company here. When he resigned from the bank he was made president of the Phoenix Art Metal Company, which was later sold to the American Can Company. Mr. Johnson then joined the New York Consolidated Stock Exchange and continued for thirteen years, and in 1914 sold his seat. In 1903 he was elected president of the Perfection Jar Closier Company, of Philadelphia, which office he held until 1906. In 1912 Mr. Johnson purchased a farm just outside of New Brunswick which he had under cultivation and where he resided for two years. During the World War he was identified with the United States government, having charge of shipping material from the Wright, Martin plant, and in January, 1920, accepted his present position in which he has charge of the property records of the International Motor Company which is located in New Brunswick.
Mr. Johnson is also keenly interested and very active in the public life of New Brunswick, and is looked upon as a factor of importance in the political life of the community. A Republican in politics, he served his party as alderman from 1899 until 1902, and was elected a member of the City Water Commission, serving from 1905 until 1908. He also served on the Board of Education for one term. In the course of his busy career he has found time to affiliate himself with some of the prominent fraternal organizations of the city, among them being the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics; the Free and Accepted Masons, Union Lodge, No. 16; Scott Chapter, No. 4; Palestine Commandery, No. 18; Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New York City. He attends the Dutch Reformed church of New Brunswick.
On August 17, 1892, Leslie Philip Johnson was united in marriage with Cathaline V. Berdine, a member of one of the old New Brunswick families. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the parents of two children : z. Alfred B., born August 2, 1893; served in the United States army during the World War, and now resides in Philadelphia ; married, July, 1920, Ruth Knapp. of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. 2. George Leslie, born April 1, 1904 ; member of class of 1923, New Brunswick High School.
Leslie Philip Johnson may well be called one of the most prominent business men of New Brunswick, New Jersey, for such he is in the highest sense. He is known and admired for his successes, and is much sought for in advisory capacity, his opinions being ever received with the careful attention paid those whose judgment has been vindicated by the tests of time and whose business record shows nothing but honorable achievement. He resides at No. 93 Bayard street, New Brunswick.

HENRY GRIFFITH PARKER.—In one of the most prominent positions of trust in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and closely identified with many of the public interests of the city, is Henry Griffith Parker, president of the National Bank of New Jersey.
Mr. Parker was born in New Brunswick, on September 2, /866, and is descended from an English family of manufacturing interests. His father, William Parker, was born in England, and came to this country in early life, settling in Connecticut; he was connected throughout the greater part of his career with the Norfolk & New Brunswick Hosiery Company. His death occurred in 1876. He married Ann G. Griffith, who also is now deceased.
Gaining his early education in the public schools of his native city, Henry G. Parker was graduated from the New Brunswick High School, and at once plunged into the work in which he was to achieve distinction. Beginning in the great banking institutions of New York City, he remained there until /892, then, at twenty-six years of age, he returned to New Brunswick, and entered the National Bank of New Jersey, in the capacity of paying teller. In January, 1894, less than two years later, he was made cashier of this bank, and fourteen years thereafter, in /908, was made president, which office he still holds. During his long tenure of this position, the affairs of the institution have been administrated with the most commendable foresight and discretion. Mr. Parker now commands the sincere esteem of the people of New Brunswick, and also of banking circles throughout the State of New Jersey.
Outside his immediate interests in the National Bank of New Jersey, Mr. Parker has been called upon to give to many public and benevolent enterprises the benefit of his experience. His response to appeals of this character is always more than generous. Besides being identified with many of the important manufacturing corporations of the city in the capacity of director, he has served continuously on the New Brunswick Board of Education for the past fifteen years, for five years acting as president, but at the end of this period declined re-appointment to that office. He is on the executive committee of the New Brunswick Savings Institute. He was chairman of the executive committee on the First and Second Liberty Loan drives, which carried this city to such a high record. Mr. Parker was the first president of the New Brunswick Board of Trade. He is an ex-president of the New Jersey Bankers' Association, and has for seven years been a member of the executive committee of the American Bankers' Association.
Mr. Parker is a trustee of Rutgers College, which institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.- He is a member of the Union Club of New York City; the New Brunswick Country Club; and a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a member of Christ Episcopal Church, of which he has been vestryman for years.
On October 12, /896, in New Brunswick, Mr. Parker married Alice Florence, daughter of John and Julia (Vick) Florence, and they have one son, Henry Griffith, Jr., who was born August 8, /898, and is a member of the class of '21 at Rutgers.

WILLIAM FRANK PARKER, as cashier of the National Bank of New Jersey, at New Brunswick, is well known to the business world of this city. As an individual, with many personal interests outside the responsible position which he is so ably filling, Mr. Parker's history forms a part of the hitherto unwritten annals of Middlesex county.
William F. Parker, son of William and Ann G. (Griffith) Parker (q. v.), was born in New Brunswick, September 19, 1873. He was reared in the traditions of this section, and educated in the institutions of his native State. He graduated from the New Brunswick High School in the class of 1891, and from Rutgers College in 1895.
Mr. Parker entered upon his career in the manufacturing establishment of his stepfather, Alfred March, this plant manufacturing a line of fine underwear. He remained in this connection for seven years. At the end of that time, his ability being recognized by the people of the city, he was elected to the responsible office of city collector of New Brunswick. This was in 19o4, and at the two following elections, in 1906 and 1908, was reelected. Following three terms of service in this capacity, Mr. Parker entered the National Bank of New Jersey, in New Brunswick, as clerk. He was soon promoted to the position of assistant cashier, and finally, in 1915, was made cashier of this institution. He has since seeved continuously in this capacity, winning the respect and confidence of the banking world.
Mr. Parker is connected with various public activities. He is a trustee of the New Brunswick Board of Trade; trustee and treasurer of the Free Public Library, of this city ; trustee of the Red Cross, and was its treasurer for two years. He is a leader in every public movement which has for its object the welfare of the public, and is a prominent member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a member of the Masonic order, and his college fraternity is the CM Phi, of Rutgers.
William Frank Parker married, April 27, 1911, in Plainfield, New Jersey, Nelle Garrettson Van Zandt, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Van Zandt, of Somerville, New Jersey. Her father is deceased, and her mother is now living in Plainfield. Mr. Parker's personal tastes carry him into the great out-doors, and his particular delight is in long cross-country hikes.
 
JOHN EDWARD TOOLAN, one of the most energetic and successful of the younger generation of lawyers of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where his office is located at No. 174 Smith street, is of Irish descent and parentage, his father, John Toolan, having come from that country as a young man. The elder Mr. Toolan located in South Amboy, New Jersey, where he found employment at the coal docks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and worked there for upwards of thirty-five years.. Mr. Toolan is active today, and at present holds the responsible post of bridge tender for the county of Middlesex. John Toolan married Elizabeth McGuirk, a native of South Amboy, and they became the parents of eight children, as follows: John, deceased in infancy ; Peter, also deceased ; Thomas, who was killed In action at St. Mihiel, France, during the World War; Mary, who resides with her parents; Bernard, who resides with his parents; John Edward, with whose career we are especially concerned; Theresa, who became the wife of Joseph Hammond, of Roselle, New Jersey; and Gertrude, who resides with her parents.
John Edward Toolan was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, June 23, 1894. He attended local public schools, graduating from the high school with the class of 1912. He early conceived the ambition to follow a professional career, and with this end in view entered the Law School connected with Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1916 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar and immediately afterward began the practice of law in the office of Thomas Brown, of Perth Amboy. Shortly afterwards he opened an office of his own and since that time has practiced alone. He has already made an enviable reputation for himself among his professional colleagues, both on account of his able handling of the litigation entrusted to him and because of the high sense of professional ethics and etiquette he invariably displays. He also enjoys a wide, general popularity, and his practice is rapidly growing in size and importance. Mr. Toolan has always been keenly attached to athletics of all kinds and especially to track athletics. He has also interested himself in local affairs and politics, and in 1919 was a candidate for the General Assembly of the State on the Democratic ticket. On January 25, 1921, he was appointed assistant prosecutor of Middlesex county. Mr. Toolan was quick to respond to his country's call at the time that the United States entered the great World War raging in Europe, and for eighteen months served with the 74th Regiment, United States Infantry, and won in that time his commission as second lieutenant. He was at various camps in the United States, the major portion of his time being at Camp Devens, Massachusetts. Mr. Toolan is a Roman Catholic in religious faith and attends the Church of St. Mary in Perth Amboy. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
 
HUGH BOYD.—A lifetime spent in journalism, during which he made his way from an apprenticeship in mechanical capacity to newspaper direction and ownership, is the record of business activity of Hugh Boyd. New Brunswick has known him for nearly half a century, and here he is widely known as president, part owner, and senior editor of the daily "Home News" and the Sunday "Times." The "Home News," with which he has been identified since 1879, occupies the daily field alone, in New Brunswick, having distanced contemporary journals (including three daily papers, the "Times," "Predonian" and "Press"), and having increased in circulation and influence until it holds a position of uncontested supremacy. The name of Boyd has been connected with it in executive relation during the period that witnessed this sturdy development, and Mr. Boyd has constantly made it his chief interest.
Hugh Boyd was born in Bangor, Ireland, October 31, 1849, and upon the completion of his general education in the public schools of his birthplace and Belfast he entered the office of the Belfast "News-Letter," where he served a seven-years apprenticeship in the printing trade. As a young man of twenty-three years he came to the United States, and after three months spent in New York City came to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he has since made his home. This was in 1872, and he at once entered the composing room of the New Brunswick "Daily Times," remaining with that paper for eight years and in that time becoming first foreman and then city editor. One of Mr. Boyd's associates in the editorial force of the "Times" was Haley Fiske, now president of the Metropolitan Insurance Company of New York.
In 1879 Mr. Boyd purchased the "Home News," and since that time has devoted himself to its upbuilding into a modern, representative newspaper. How well he has succeeded with his associates in accomplishing this aim, the facts show, for the "Home News" proved its superior right of entry into New Brunswick homes, survived any competition that arose, and is today a prosperous, vigorous enterprise, an accepted institution of the city. Its columns have always been open to clean news and to the expression of honest, sincere opinions, and it has been a strong factor in support of good government and civic morality.
Mr. Boyd is a believer in Republican principles, but has always maintained independence in political action. He has served the Young Men's Christian Association of the city as director, and the First Baptist Church as trustee. No enterprise of public improvement or progress has lacked his support, and in many such endeavors it has been his privilege to take a leading part. For many years Mr. Boyd found a large share of his exercise and out-of-door recreation in horseback riding, in which he indulged regularly at his New Brunswick home in summer and in winter in Southern California. More recently he has been a convert to automobiling, and his cars provide him with his open-air recreation. Several summers have been spent by Mr. Boyd and family in traveling in Europe, his last trip being in 1914.
Mr. Boyd married (first) May II, 1872, Alice Hickey, who died in New Brunswick, February 6, 1914. Mr. Boyd married (second) in 1918, Emily D. Voorhees, who died June ts, 1920. Children, all of the first marriage : z. Arthur H., associated with his father; married, in 1918, Sophie Felice Belwin. 2. William B., a broker of New York City; vice-president of the Home News Publishing Company; married in 1912, Ruth O'Day, and they have three children : Hugh, Kathleen, and Ruth. 3. Elmer B., assistant editor and treasurer of the "Home News." 4. Alice, deceased.
Regularly at his desk, from which he has seldom been absent except at vacation periods, Mr. Boyd today shapes the policy of the journal of which he has been so long the head. He has held the confidence and regard of his fellow-citizens through observance of the strictest Journalistic ethics, and in the conduct of his paper he has been as just as he has been fearless, as considerate as he has been fair. The best interests of his city he has served faithfully and well, and to his work deserved appreciation is given.

IRVNG HOAGLAND.—The name of a man who has been so long and so conspicuously before the public as has Mr. Hoagland is sure to be greeted with instant recognition by his fellow-citizens of New Brunswick and the surrounding country. A career of twenty-sevetx years at the bar and two years' service in the State Legislature have made him a factor of importance in both the legal circles and the political life of his community.
Mr. Hoagland's family is Holland Dutch on both the paternal and maternal sides. His father, John Calvin Hoagland, was sixth in descent from Christoffel Hooglandt, who emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam prior to 1655, and who as merchant and alderman, owned and occupied until his death in 1684, the property now southeast corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane. In 1727 Christopher, son of Christoffel, purchased a tract of land near Griggstown, to which he removed and which has never since been out of the Hoagland family.
His mother, Mary (Voorhees) Hoagland, was daughter of Peter A. Voorhees, assemblyman and sheriff of Somerset county, and who was eighth in descent from Stephen Coerte Van Voorhees, who emigrated from Holland hi 1660 and settled at Flatlands, Long Island, and who became prominent in the early affairs of New Amsterdam. Peter A. Voorhees married Maria Suydam, whose emigrant ancestor, Hendrick Riker Suydam, came from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1663. Through this branch of -the family Mr. Hoagland inherited the family homestead at Franklin Park, where he was born July 24, 1869, and now resides, and which has been in his family continuously from 1728.
Until his twelfth year, Irving Hoagland attended the local school of his native place and from there passed to Rutgers Grammar School, graduating in i886; he then entered Rutgers College, from which he graduated in 1890, and thereafter entered the office of Prosecutor John S. Voorhees, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1903. He graduated with honor from the New York Law School, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in New Brunswick since that time, having his office in the building of the National Bank of New Jersey. He is secretary and director of the Interwoven Stocking Company, one of New Jersey's leading industries.
In the sphere of politics, Mr. Hoagland was active for a number of years, and in 1905 and 1906 he occupied a seat in the Assembly as a representative of Somerset county. He belongs to the University Club of New York, and the Delta Phi fraternity, and is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Franklin Park.
During the recent World War, Mr. Hoagland served as chairman of the exemption boa.d of Somerset county, subordinating every other interest to this patriotic work and devoting to it almost his entire time.
While making law, and not agriculture, his life work, an inherited fondness for rural pursuits and the environment of the countryside has led him to find rest and recreation in the management of the homestead farm and in the congenial out-of-door life connected therewith. Loyal in this particular to his family traditions, Mr. Hoagland has also proved his fidelity to them by disinterested public service and honorable devotion to his chosen profession.

REV. HERBERT PARRISH, B. A., M. A.—Since 1915, Rev. Herbert Parrish came to New Brunswick in response to a call from Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, and as rector of that parish, he has become well known and appreciated in the city. He is a son of Judge Isaac H. and Caroline (Cook) Parrish, his father an eminent jurist and judge of the Superior Court of the State of Michigan.
Herbert Parrish was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 13, 1868. After completing preparatory study in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor public schools, he entered Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, whence he was graduated B. A., class of 1891; M. A., class of 1894. He pursued post-graduate courses at New York University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University, studied divinity, and was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal church. Since ordination he has served as rector of the Church of the Advent, San Fr:incisco, California ; rector of St. Luke's, Baltimore, Maryland, and rector of Christ Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey, his present parish.
Rev. Herbert Parrish married, in Baltimore, June 21, 191 r, Mary Sarah Russell Mayo, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Mayo.
 
HARRY SIDNEY MEDINETS, one of the successful lawyers of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, holds a prominent place both on account of the ability shown by him in his profession and because of the excellent reputation he has universally established for' fair dealing and a high sense of personal honor. Mr. Medinets was born February 22, 1893, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a son of Abraham and Esther (Corser) Medinets, both natives of Russia, from which country they came to the United States about forty years ago, settling first in New York City. The elder Mr. Medinets engaged in the wholesale produce business and made a notable success, especially in Perth Amboy, where he was the pioneer in his line, as he was also one of the earliest Jewish settlers in the city. He is now retired from active business life and makes his home in Perth Amboy with his wife. They were the parents of four children, as follows: Theresa, who became the wife of Max Semer, and is now deceased ; Elizabeth, who became the wife of William T. Cohn, of Perth Amboy ; Samuel, who resides in South Amboy, where he is engaged in business as a hardware merchant ; Harry Sidney, with whose career we are here especially concerned.
The childhood of Harry Sidney Medinets was principally passed in Perth Amboy, to which place his parents removed from New Brunswick when he was but one year old, and there he attended the local public schools as far as the sixth grade. He then accompanied his parents to Tottenville, Staten Island, and continued his schooling at that place, graduating from the grammar school and later the high-school. He also studied for one year at the high school in South Amboy, where he completed his preparation for college, He was ambitious to follow a professional career, and accordingly entered the New 'York Law School, where he pursued his legal studies until his graduation with the class of 19r3. Returning to New Jersey he took the bar examinations and was admitted to the State bar, July 7, 1914. He at once established himself in his profession in Perth Amboy and has remained in practice here since that time, being now regarded as one of the leaders of the local bar. He was admitted to practice before the higher courts of the State, June 14, 1918, with the title of counsellor-at-law and master in chancery. Mr. Medinets is the possessor of an unusual literary gift, and from his schoolboy days has done considerable writing on various subjects. He was editor of "The Message," the school paper of the South Amboy High School, and has been publisher and editor of the local and State Young Men's Hebrew Association magazines. He is a prominent figure in social and fraternal circles in Perth Amboy, and is a member of a number of important orders and clubs. He is especially well known in Masonic circles and is affiliated with Mt. Zion Lodge, No. 135, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Raritan Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Tall Cedars of Lebanon, No. 216; and Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Besides these Masonic bodies he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Foresters of America, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Westminster Cadets, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Men's Hebrew Association, and the B'Nei Zion Camp, No. 20. As a youth, Mr. Medinets was a notable athlete, being for two years the holder of the standing broad jump of the public schools of Richmond borough, New York, and has always been keenly fond of all out-door sports and pastimes.
Harry Sidney Medinets was united in marriage, December 27, 1914, at Bayonne, New Jersey, with Lenore Garsson, a native of New York City, born March 10, 1893, a daughter of Morris and Anna (Epstein) Garsson, who now make their home in Perth Amboy. Mr. Garsson is the local representative of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, and is an authority on Hebrew literature, and himself an author of note. Mr. and Mrs. Medinets are the parents of one child, Adelle Josephine, born April 3, 1916.
 
INGFRED T. MADSEN.—Perhaps the largest hardware store in Middlesex county is that of the Perth Amboy Hardware Company, at Perth Amboy, a business founded in 1909 by Ingfred T. Madsen, who since 1915 has given it his entire personal attention. Mr. Madsen is a native son of Perth Amboy, but he moved to New York for business reasons, and in 1915 the same forces impelled his return to the place of his birth.
Mr. Madsen is a son of Laurids Madsen, born in Denmark, in 1844, who at the age of twenty came to the United States and. located In Perth Amboy, where he died, February 14, 1920. He was interested in the manufacture of terra cotta. His wife, Helene (Sorenson) Madsen, born in Denmark, yet survives him, residing in Perth Amboy. Dr. M. P. Madsen, of Hastings, New York, and Ingfred T. Madsen, are the only living children, the eldest dying in infancy.
Ingfred T. Madsen was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, July 7, 1879, and there completed a public school education, with graduation from high school, class of 1897. During his last three years in high school, he had established a profitable newspaper route, which he continued for a time after leaving school. In September, 1897, he accepted a position with Peck, Stow & Wilcox, hardware manufacturers, of New York City, remaining with that firm until 1911, beginning as office man and becoming manager. In 1911 he began business for himself as a manufacturer's agent, and in that line developed a good business, covering the Eastern coast States. He had, in 1909, founded a business in Perth Amboy under the name and firm style, The Perth Amboy Hardware Company, and in 1915 that company had so increased in importance that Mr. Madsen moved to Perth Amboy to give to its affairs his entire time. He has devoted his business life to the sale of hardware, and is an authority on all questions pertaining thereto. The business is large and well managed, consequently is prosperous and profitable.
In 1917, Mr. Madsen was elected a director of the Perth Amboy Chamber of Commerce, and in 1918-19-2o was chosen president. He was chairman of the War Savings Committee, and very helpful in all war activities. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Benevolent and. Protective Order of Elks, Royal Arcanum, East Jersey and Raritan Yacht clubs, of Perth Amboy, the Colonia Country Club, and the Hardware Club of New York City. His favorite recreation is golf.
Mr. Madsen married, in Rohrsburg, Pennsylvania, September 27, 191o, Lela M. Shultz, born there, daughter of John H. and Dorothy (Henrie) Shultz. Mr. and Mrs. Madsen are the parents of three children : Dorothy H., J. Edward, and Mary Elizabeth.
 
GEORGE DUNHAM RUNYON, who for nearly two decades has been associated with the "Evening News" of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and is now one of the proprietors of that journal, is a native of the town of New Brunswick, and a member of one of the oldest and most widely spread families of the State. The Runyon family was founded here in 1665 by one Vincent Rognion or Runyon, one of the French Huguenots who was obliged to flee the persecutions in his native land after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled in Elizabethport, New Jersey. He is buried in Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants are now resident in many parts of the State, many of them occupying positions of prominence and influence in their respective communities.
George Dunham Runyon was born February 7, 1855, a son of John and Amelia (Oram) Runyon, lifelong residents of New Brunswick, where the former carried on a business as ship carpenter for many years, and died at the age of sixty-seven. His first wife, Amelia (Oram) Runyon, died when she was but twenty-six years old, and she and her husband were the parents of three children, as follous: George Dunham, with whom we are here especially concerned ; Cornelia, deceased and John, also deceased. John Runyon married (second) -, and they were the parents of seven children, as follows: Amelia, who resides in New Brunswick; a child that died in infancy; W. Parker, mentioned at length elsewhere in this work; Frank, who resides in New Brunswick ; John, also of New Brunswick; Mary Fannie, who died at the age of twenty-two years; and Theodore, of New Brunswick.
The childhood of George Dunham Runyon was passed at his father's home in New Brunswick, and he there received his early education, attending local schools for this purpose, and he later entered the Bryant & Stratton Business School of Newark, from which he was graduated with the class of 1873. Upon completing his studies he entered his father's ship repairing yard, and at the age of twenty-two was working at this trade there. Eventually, being of an enterprising character, he came to Perth Amboy and opened a similar establishment of his own, founding with John H. Phillips the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company, and they met with notable success from the outset. For ten years they continued to carry on this enterprise, and then Mr. Runyon entered the lumber business in Perth Amboy, in which for ten years more he was similarly successful. It was in the year 1901 that Mr. Runyon made the vital change that took him from the field of industry and launched him upon his newspaper career in which he has continued ever since. In that year he became associated with the "Evening News," of which he eventually became one of the three proprietors and of which he is now the treasurer. This paper, under his exceedingly able financial management, has thriven greatly and is now one of the most influential periodicals of Middlesex county and a potent factor in local politics and the field of general thought. Mr. Runyon is a Democrat in politics, and has himself played a prominent part in public affairs in Perth Amboy. He has held a number of elective offices, has been a member of the School Commission, and represented the First Ward on the Board of Aldermen. He is also well known in social and fraternal circles in the city, and has been a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics for forty years, being one of its charter members, and a member of the local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association for a long period.
George Dunham Runyon was united in marriage, April 29, 1879, in New Brunswick, with Melvenia Lewis, like himself a native of that city, and a daughter of William and Sarah (Voorhees) Lewis, old and highly respected residents there for many years and now both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Runyon are the parents of six children, as follows: Lewis Parker, who now resides in Buhl, Idaho, where he is engaged in the grocery business; Cornelia, who died at the age of four and a half years; Harry H., who makes his home at Boise City, where he.is established as a successful merchant; Helen, a graduate trained nurse at Boise City, Idaho; Ruth, wife of Charles B. Oakford, Merchantville, New Jersey; and Vincent, who saw active service during the World War in France as a member of the 13th Balloon Company. Mr. Runyon and the members of his family are Methodists in their religious belief and those residing in Perth Amboy attend the Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church of that city, of which he has been the treasurer for above thirty-five years.

OSCAR OGILIVE BARR, M. E., B. S.—Professor Barr, now superintendent of schools of South Amboy, New Jersey, has been connected with the public schools of the State of New Jersey for many years, probably no man in the State having had so wide and varied a connection. As a teacher of elementary and high schools, he gained that close practical knowledge of school economy which distinguishes him and aids him in his work as county superintendent of schools in South Jersey, and as city superintendent in the two cities he has served. He is still a young man, with many years of professional usefulness before him, and if the past be taken as a criterion, he will go far in his profession.
Professor Barr is a son of John William and Louisa (Lombard) Barr, both deceased, his father a veteran of the Civil War. John W. Barr served the Union cause as a volunteer under four different enlistments, covering the four years of war, as follows : First lieutenant of Company B, loth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861; second lieutenant of Company K, 127th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, 1862; captain of Company H, 39th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, 1863 ; private of Company B, 16th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry, 1865.
Oscar 0. Barr was born in the State of Pennsylvania, September 2, 1875. He is a graduate of Pine Grove High School, West Chester Normal School, Lafayette College, class of 1966, and of the Teachers' College, Columbia University, receiving the degree M. E. and B. S. His life has been devoted to the cause of education, and he has taught in all grades of the public schools. He served the county of Cape May, New Jersey, as superintendent of public instruction, and performed the same service for the county of Salem, New :ersey. He has also been city superintendent of schools for the city of Salem, New Jersey, and since March 15th has been city superintendent of schools at South Amboy, New Jersey. This record of continuous service in high and responsible positions determines the value of Professor Barr's services to the cause of education, and testifies loudly to the estimation in which he is held in these widely separated communities.
During the Spanish-American War, Professor Barr was a corporal of Company G, 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and saw service in Porto Rico, West Indies. He is a member of the Council of Education, State of New Jersey; New York Schoolmasters' Club; National Educational Association; New Jersey State Teachers' Association; the Protestant Episcopal church ; and Alpha Chi Rho, a college fraternity.
Mr. Barr married, at Cape May, New Jersey, October 2, 1906, Marie Moore, daughter of Charles and Ella N. Moore. Their only child, Ella Louise Barr, was born February 24, 1908.
 
REV. CORDIE JACOB CULP, PH. D.—For two decades Dr. Culp has been a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, beginning pastoral work in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, in two. Although settled over a leading church in the neighboring city of New Jersey for many years, his connection with the New Brunswick and the First Presbyterian

Church did not begin until 1918, when he accepted their call and was settled over that church. He is a son of Calvin Beatty and Martha Jane (Dance) Culp, who at the time of the birth of their son were living in Jefferson county, Ohio, his father engaged in farming.
Cordie Jacob Culp was born in Wintersville, Jefferson county, Ohio, September 8, 1872. He began his education in the rural public schools, and later became a student in Richmond (Ohio) College, whence he was graduated, class of 1895. He taught in the public schools, 1895-96, entered Princeton Seminary in 1897, and was graduated from that institution, class of 19oo. He pursued post-graduate courses in Princeton University in 1902, receiving the degree of M. A. with the class of that year. In 1914 he received the degree of Ph. D. from New York University, also at the finish of post-graduate courses. After graduation from Princeton Seminary in 19oo, he was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church, and for four years, 1900-04, was pastor of Fairview Presbyterian Church, Glenmoore, Pennsylvania. In 1904 he accepted a call from Bound Brook, New Jersey, and until 1918 was pastor of the Presbyterian church there. In 1918 he came to the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there remains (May, 1921).
During the World War, Dr. Culp was in the service of the Young Men's Christian Association, and for six months was director of religious work at Wissahickon Barracks, the Naval Reserve Camp at Cape May, New Jersey. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic order, •New Brunswick County Club, New Brunswick Rotary Club, and the Rutgers Club. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Dr. Culp married, in Richmond, Ohio, June 27, 19oo, Florence M. Burns, daughter of John Wesley and Mary Virginia (McElroy) Burns.
 
MARTIN STOETZEL MEINZER, M. D.—Any history of the medical profession of Middlesex county, New Jersey, would be incomplete without the name of Dr. Martin Stoetzel Meinzer, who for the past fourteen years has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Perth Amboy. In devoting himself almost exclusively to surgery, he has won the confidence and esteem of his professional brethren by the satisfactory results gained in this particular branch of the profession.
Louis Frederick Meinzer, father of Dr. Meinzer, was born in New York City, and died in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in April, 1919, at the age of seventy-eight years. For a period of fifty years he was proprietor of the. general store there, which is still run under his name and conducted by his son Augustus L. Mr. Meinzer married, in 1861, Amelia Stoetzel, and they were the parents of three children: Augustus Louis, who lives in the old homestead at South Amboy, and has succeeded his father in the proprietorship of the general store ; Louis Frederick, a dentist of South Amboy ; and Martin Stoetzel, mentioned below.
Martin Stoetzel Meinzer was born in South Amboy, April 22, 1878, and attended the schools there until he was sixteen years old, when he entered New Brunswick Preparatory School, from which he was •graduated in 1897; he then matriculated at Rutgers College, and in 1901 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from this institution. Having already decided upon making the practice of medicine, his life-work, he entered the medical department of Columbia University, New York City, and in 1905, was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Rutgers College later conferred the degree of Master of Science. After spending a year as interne in the Orange Memorial Hospital, Dr. Meinzer began general practice in Perth Amboy, March 19, 1906, and very soon, by reason of taste and natural aptitude, directed the greater part.of his attention to surgery, gradually eliminating the medical element. Success has attended his efforts and he is now in possession of a large and ever increasing clientele. In addition to his private practice Dr. Meinzer was city physician from 19o7-1916, school physician from 1907-1915, and physician for the Board of Health from 1916-1918. He is a member of the New Jersey State Medical Association, the Middlesex County Medical Society, and the American Medical Society, and has held the offices of president and secretary in the county 'society.
A good citizen, Dr. Meinzer never refuses to aid and cooperate in any cause or movement which in his Judgment makes for progress or reform in any department of the city's life. With the financial institutions of the city he is also prominently connected, being a director of the. Perth Amboy Trust Company, secretary of the Maple Realty Company, and president of Perth Amboy Business College. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religion an Episcopalian. Dr. Meinzer is also a member of the East Jersey Club, and affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
On July 6, 1906, Dr. Meinzer was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Smock, and they are the parents of one child, Helen Susan, born June 22, 1912. The family home is at No. 42 Market street, and office at No. 284 Madison avenue, Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
 
JAMES ALEXANDER EDGAR—A good example of the successful business man and man-of-affairs who •has risen through his own efforts to a position of prominence in the community is James Alexander Edgar. For the past sixteen years he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business in New Brunswick, and during this time has been a recognized authority in all that vitally concerns the welfare and progress of this city.
James Alexander Edgar was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, January 28, 1870, the son of Joseph Edgar and Annie Eliza (McCollum) Edgar. Joseph Edgar was born• in the north of Ireland, and during his early manhood taught school'in his native place, after which he emigated to this country and for many years was engaged in the wholesale and retail meat business. The education of James Alexander Edgar was obtained in the public schools of New York City and of Red Bank, New Jersey. At the age of sixteen he entered upon his business career, engaging in various branches until 1894, when he secured a position as agent for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, later becoming assistant superintendent of the company. In 1902 he was appointed manager of the Colonial Insurance Company, and two years later became manager of the ordinance department for the Prudential Insurance Company, remaining with this latter organization until establishing himself in the real estate and insurance business in 1904, which stands today a monument to his tireless energy, his progressive spirit, tempered with the wisdom of conservatism, and his farsighted aggressive methods of procedure.
Mr. Edgar has always been loyal in his support of measures calculated to benefit the city and to promote its rapid and substantial development. He was a director in the Young Men's Christian Association from 1902 to 1912, and at present, a member of the Board of Trade. In 1912 he allied himself with the Progressive party, being a warm admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. From 1913 to 1916 he was chairman for the Middlesex county organization of the Progressive party. He was elected assemblyman on the Republican ticket for Middlesex county in 1916, and reelected in 1917. During his first term, he was chairman of the ways and means committee, member of committees on claims and pensions, riparian rights, and joint committee on school for deaf mutes; second term, chairman of committee on incidental expenses, member of committees on commerce and navigation, education and stationery, and joint committees. on New Jersey State Reformatory, and School for Deaf Mutes. He was active in promoting good legislation, always in the interest of his constituents. He had the pleasure of speaking and voting for the local option bill placed on the New Jersey statute books during the session of 1917, and has always been a strong advocate of prohibition. He is a member of the Middlesex County Republican Committee.
Mr. Edgar became a member of the Board of Education of Highland Park, New Jersey, in 1913, and served this board as president from 1914 to 1916. He was one of the organizers of the Highland Park Building and Loan Association in 1908, and has served as director and secretary of the board ever since. In 1892, Mr. Edgar enlisted in the Second Brigade Signal Corps of the National Guard of New Jersey, and was honorably discharged from the service in 1897, having attained the rank of corporal.
He is a member of Palestine Lodge, No. Free and Accepted Masons; Craftsmen's Club; Tall Cedars of Lebanon; New Brunswick's Sportsmen's Club; Rotary Club of New Brunswick, as well as being a member of the Associated Automobile Clubs of New Jersey and of the American Automobile Association. His religious affiliations are with the Highland Park Reformed Church, in which he holds the office of elder.
On October 28, 1897, Mr. Edgar was united in marriage with Bertha Bodle Hoffman, daughter of Jeremiah King and Margaretta (Ramsey) Hoffman, of Clinton, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar are the parents of a son, Joseph Hoffman, born August 20, 1898, who is a graduate of Rutgers College, class of 1918, and is now (1921) a senior in Yale University Law School, and business manager of the "Yale Law Journal." The family home is located at No. 202 Grant avenue, Highland Park, New Jersey.
 
ADOLPH CLAYTON CLARK, as manager of the Raritan Copper Works, holds one of the most important executive positions in the State of New Jersey. The field covered by this large corporation includes practically all of the United States and many foreign countries, and makes it one of the most important concerns in the city of Perth Aniboy, New Jersey.
The Clark family is an old one of Rindge, New Hampshire, where Mr. Clark's father, Adolphus Clark, was born. He manufactured mineral water machinery, and conducted factories in Boston, Massachusetts, and in London, England. He died in Chicago, in 1918, in the eighty- seventh year of his age. He married Marie Antoinette Jewett, of Newport, New Hampshire, who died in Chicago in the eighty-third year of her age, within one week of the date of her husband's death. They had six children, the eldest having died in infancy. Those now living are: Adolph Clayton ; Mabel, wife of Dr. L. K. Beck, of San Antonio, Texas; F. Percy, of East Chicago, Indiana ; Florence Louise, wife of W. G. Speck, of Sidcup, England ; and Cecil J., of Chicago, Illinois.
Adolph Clayton Clark was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 19, 1866. He was taken to England when a baby, as the elder Clark's business required his .extended residence there, and his little family accompanied him. The boy, Adolph C., was eighteen years of age when he returned to America. He had enjoyed the best of educational advantages in England and on the continent, and upon returning to America went to Rhode Island and attended a business college in Providence for one year. Before becoming identified with the Raritan Copper Works, Mr. Clark was with the Pawtucket Hair Cloth Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for four years. He then served four years with the large shoe manufacturing firm of Thomas White & Sons, of Boston, Massachusetts. From there Mr. Clark went with the New England Electrolytic Copper Company of Central Falls, Rhode Island, where he remained eight years, becoming its assistant superintendent. This last position defined Mr. Clark's life work and interests, and when the company moved its works front Central Falls to Perth Amboy, becoming the Raritan Copper Works, he came with them as assistant superintendent. This was in 19o1, and in 1905 he became superintendent, and in 1918 manager of the plant. The story of such scatter might fill volumes; the outline is quickly stated; but Mr. Clark's position in the business world is thereby clearly revealed.
Mr. Clark is president of the Middlesex County Vocational schools, and vice-president of the Perth Amboy Board of Education. He is also an officer or director of the following organizations: The Raritan Trust Company, Perth Amboy; City Hospital; Spring Lake Hospital; the Young Men's Christian Association; the American Red Cross ; and the Bathing and Tennis Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey. He is a member of the American Society of Mining Engineers; the 'Whitehall Club of New York; the East Jersey Club; and the Bathing and Tennis Club of Spring Lake, New Jersey. He takes delight in all out-of-door sports, and is particularly interested in swimming.
Mr. Clark married (first) in Pawtucket, May 27, 1896, Mary Edith Carpenter, who died in 1904. They had three children; Harold Norman ; Dorothy E., and Adolph Clayton (2). On June 27, 1906, Mr. Clark married (second) Frances Matthews Bates, of Binghamton, New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miles J. Matthews, who lived for many years in that city. The family is Episcopalian, and they are members of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Clark is a vestryman.
 
WILLIAM NORTHEY JONES.—The Church of God stands as a symbol of human faith, gracing the common pathway. So in the records of the community the names of the clergy stand as exponents of the higher phases of human history. The Rev. William Northey Jones, rector of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, is a representative clergyman of that denomination, whose life is filled with beneficent activities. He is a son of John Winslow and Adelaide E. (Doldt) Jones, his father being a manufacturer, and at one time a member of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland.
Rev. Mr. Jones was born May 27, 1866, in Portland, Maine. Following his elementary education, he entered St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1878. He was graduated from that institution in 1884. He then entered Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, from which he was graduated in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered upon a post-graduate course at the General Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1891. In that same year Trinity College conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Later he took a special course at Keble College, Oxford University, England. This splendid preparation for his chosen vocation served to make him an unusually forceful speaker. He entered at once • upon a field of missionary labor in Montana, where he remained for two years. In 1893 he was called to the pastorate of St. Paul's Church, Evansville, Indiana, where he served for four years. In 1898 he became the rector of Grace Church, Manchester, New Hampshire, where he remained for seven years. He was next rector of Christ Church, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. for a period of nine years. In 1914 he was called to St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy, which 'parish is still under his 'charge. He has won the esteem not only of his congregation, but of the public generally, and the church has enjoyed a period of uniform prosperity, both spiritpal and material, during his rectorship.
Rev. Mr. Jones has repeatedly been called to serve upon ecclesiastical missions and in bodies assembled to consider the problems of the church. He was examining chaplain for the Diocese of Indiana from 1893 to 1897. He was a member of the Board of Missions of New Hamp• shire from 1899 to 1904. He has served as deputy to the General Convention at three different times. In 1908 he was made delegate to the Pan Anglican Congress in London, England. From 1908 to 1914 he was president of the Board of Religious Education in the Diocese of Harrisburg.
Rev. Mr. Jones has also given generously of his time and energies to worthy secular objects. He was for seven years trustee of the Public Library of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and since 1915 he has been president of the board of trustees of the Middlesex County, New Jersey, Home for the Aged. His college fraternity is Psi Upsilon; and he is a member of the Knights Templar, also a Scottish Rite Mason, the thirty-second degree. For many years he was prelate of the Commandery of Knights Templar. He is now past most wise master of the Rose Croix Knights, and chaplain of the blue lodge. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Colonial Wars, a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a member of the Colonial Country Club.
Rev. Mr. Jones married, October 11, 1894, in Brooklyn, New York, Carrie Louise Clark, daughter of Edwin Allen and Ann E. (Michaels) Clark. Their four children are as follows: 1. Allen Northey, who was graduated from Trinity College with the degree of Master of Arts ; valedictorian, class of 1917, and served as a machine gunner for twenty-two months in France. 2. Sarah Mildred, who was graduated from Wellesley College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1921. 3. Theodore Winslow. .4. Eleanor Carolyn.
OLAF JACOB MORGENSON, city comptroller, is one of the representative citizens of Perth Amboy. Since coming to this community in 1895 he has espoused and given his earnest support to all movements calculated to advance the welfare of the city.
James Morgenson, father of Olaf Jacob Morgenson, was born in Denmark, October 24, 1846, and came to this country at the age of twenty-four years, settling in Kansas, he being one of the first six farmers to settle in that locality. He married Christine Olsen, and they are both living on the farm in Kansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Morgenson have been horn six children : Olaf Jacob, mentioned below; Louis H., a resident of Escalon, California; Dora, wife of the Rev. C. M. Olsen, of Denmark, Wisconsin ; Julius C., of Lincoln, Kansas; Adolph F., of Vesper, Kansas ; Helma, deceased.
Olaf Jacob Morgenson was born in Lincoln county, Kansas, January 21, 1872.' He obtained his education in the public schools of Lincoln and the normal department of Elkhorn College, Elkhorn, Iowa. Immediately after graduating he took the State examinations, and in 1895 secured his State teacher's certificate, and subsequently became assistant principal of the Lincoln public schools, after which he taught three years in Elkhorn College, Elkhorn, Iowa, and then came to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. where for twelve years he had charge of the accounting department in Trainor's Business College, and hab specialized in this particular occupation of accountancy ever since. In July, 1920, Mr. Morgenson, together with a number of other representative business men of Perth Amboy, founded the Perth Amboy Business College, Mr. Morgenson being made advisory principal. In 1916 he was made superintendent of the South Amboy Terra Cotta Company, which position he held until the factory was closed on account of the war in October, 1918, at which time he entered the employ of the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation in New Brunswick, first in the cost department and later in the auditing department in winding up the affairs of the corporation. On January I, 1917, he was appointed comptroller and reappointed, January I, 1920. He is a member of the Perth Amboy Chamber of Commerce, and in religion is a Lutheran.
On June 19, 1895, Mr. Morgenson was united in marriage with Laura E. Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Morgenson are the parents of five children: Leland, born June 12, 1896, is production manager of the Underground Cable Company ; Edgar 0., born December 12, 1898, is a student of electrical engineering at Pratt Institute, class of 1921; Wilson L., born June 24, 1909; Margaret E., born August 19, 1911; Donald R., born October 27, 1913.
 
CHARLES W. SEDAM was born September 10, 1855, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Ryke R. and Anne Elizabeth (Cheeseman). Sedam. The family name was formerly spelled Suydam and is found in the ancient Holland records. This branch of the family began spelling the name Sedam in 1757. Ryke R. Sedam was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 5, 1820, and died here April 20. 1897. He was a building contractor for many years, and in politics was a staunch Republican. Mrs. Sedam was born October 5, 1825, and died in New Brunswick, May 5, 1890.
The education of Charles W. Sedam was obtained in the public schools of New Brunswick. For twenty-four years he was connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and since 1894 has been justice of the peace in his native place. In politics Mr. Sedam is a Republican, keenly alive to his responsibilities as a citizen, and taking an active interest in public affairs. In religion he is a Presbyterian and for ten years was librarian of the primary department of the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is a devout member.
Mr. Sedam married, February 3, 1880, Amelia M. Hudnut, who was born at Princeton, New Jersey, June 26, 1851, the daughter of Alexander M. and Sarah (Davis) Hudnut. Mrs. Sedam passed away at New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 27, 1920. To Mr. and Mrs. Sedam were born• five children: Amelia M., born January I, 1881; Charles W., Jr., born December 17, 1881 ; Fannie P., born January 24, 1884, died in infancy ; Walter C., a sketch of whom follows; Frank B., born February 9, 1890, died in infancy.
Mr. Sedam's hobby is automobiting. A man of most engaging personality, true to his friendships, honest and impeccable in all the relations of life, be is highly respected and honored in the community. He is of a reserved nature and avoids ostentation in all things, finding happiness in the essentials.


WALTER COOPER SEDAM.—Advancement in any of the learned professions is generally the result of individual merit, application and skill. When these are combined with ambition and a fixed determination to achieve success, the desired result is inevitable. Walter Cooper Sedam, although young in years, has achieved this enviable reputation in the legal profession and is numbered among the successful attorneys of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Walter Cooper Sedam was born October 12, 1887, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, the son of Charles W. and Amelia M. (Hudnut) Sedam (q. v.). He received the elementary portion of his education in the public schools of his native place and then entered Rutgers College, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had in the meantime determined to adopt the law as a profession and, accordingly, matriculated at the New York Law School of New York City. After completing the prescribed course, he graduated with the class of 1911 and won the degree of Bachelor of Laws, subsequently entering first the office of Judge Peter F. Daly and later becoming associated with Senator W. E. Florance. On January 1, 1914, he opened offices at No. 40 Paterson street, in this city, and this has remained his headquarters ever since. He has built up an excellent practice, and has handled many important cases up to the 'present time, proving himself to be a most efficient and conscientious attorney.
Besides his legal practice, Mr. Sedam has interested himself in the conduct of public affairs in the community, and has become prominent in the local organization of the Republican party. In 1913 he was a candidate on the Republican ticket for the General Assembly. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and secretary of the Middlesex County Bar Association for the past four years. He fraternizes with the Chi Phi fraternity of Rutgers College and also with the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity of New York. In religion Mr. Sedam is a Presbyterian and attends the First church of that denomination at New Brunswick.
On May 9, 192o, Mr. Sedam was united in marriage with Olga Dorothea Venino, daughter of Albert and Emily (Schumacher) Venino. Mr. Venino now resides in Orange, New Jersey, at the age of eighty-three years, and was the first maker of wax used for wax flowers in the United States. He was born at Kaiserslautern, in Rhenish Bavaria.
 
EDWARD WALDRON HICKS.—In view of the fact that he has been thirty years a member of the New Brunswick bar, and during ten of 'those years occupied a seat on the bench of the District Court, Mr. Hicks stands in no need of an introduction to his neighbors and fellow-citizens, Two years' service in the Legislature, and a year's tenure of the office of city attorney, further combine to render him a "man of mark" in his community.
John Hicks, grandfather of Edward Waldron Hicks, was a representative of an old New Brunswick family, and for .many years was engaged in business as a butcher in his home town. The old Hicks homestead was situated on Burnet street, and was owned by Mr. Hicks, having been purchased by him from Commodore Vanderbilt. It is still in a good state of preservation.
Joseph Dunn Hicks, son of John Hicks, was born in New Brunswick, and during nearly all of his active life was associated with the Norfolk & New Brunswick Hosiery Company. He married Christiana Baisler, a native of New York State, and they became the parents of three sons: William Kent, who died at the age of sixteen ; Frederick S., died in infancy; and Edward Waldron, mentioned below. Mr. Hicks died May 25, 1919, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, and his widow is still living in New Brunswick.
Edward Waldron Hicks, son of Joseph Dunn and Christiana (Baisler) Hicks, was born November 19, 1868, in New Brunswick, and attended the New Brunswick High School, afterward studying law tinder the preceptorship of John S. Voorhees. In February, 1890, he was admitted to the bar, and at first practiced alone. Later Mr. Hicks became a partner in the firm of Voorhees, Booraem & Hicks, and the association was maintained until the organization of the firm of Florance & Hicks. This remained unchanged until 1901, when Mr. Hicks was appointed judge of the District Court, an office which he retained until 1911. Judge Hicks proved himself admirably fitted for the discharge of the important duties devolving upon him, and the manner in which he met his onerous responsibilities and solved the legal problems constantly submitted to him received the unqualified approval of all fairminded citizens. Since his retirement from the bench, Mr. Hicks has practiced alone, having his office in the National Bank building.
As a young man, Mr. Hicks became active in the political life of his community, always on the side of the Republicans. In 1895 and 1896 he represented his party in the Legislature, proving himself a faithful advocate and supporter of the rights of his constituents. In 1906 he served most impartially and efficiently as city attorney. He is a special Master in Chancery and a Supreme Court Commissioner.
The professional organizations in which Mr. Hicks is enrolled are the County and State Bar associations. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution, affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is the president of the Neer Brunswick Council of Boy Scouts of America. If he has a hobby, it is the game of golf, and he belongs to the Golf Club and the Boat Club. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
During the recent World War, Mr. Hicks served as chairman of the executive committee of the first Red Cross drive, He was also a member of the executive committee on the Liberty Loan campaign, and the Home Defense League, and served as an assistant to the Legal Advisory Board.
Mr. Hicks married, October 16, 1901, at Metuchen, Helen A. Mallory, born in Ohio, daughter of Robert L. and Ida (Baker) Mallory, who then lived in Metuchen, Mr. Mallory an agent and notary. Mrs. Mallory , is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are the parents of two sons: Douglas Mallory, born July 28, 1902, a student at Rutgers College, class of 1923; and Malcolm Baisler, born December is, 1903, in same college, class of 1924. One child died in infancy.
Throughout the twenty-five years and upward during which Mr. Hicks has helped to make the legal and political history of his county, he has shown himself to be a skillful and sagacious practitioner, a just and learned judge, and an able and disinterested political leader, a man of complex personality, versatile talents and high-minded ambitions.
 
CHARLES L. STEUERWALD, a prominent business man of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he is engaged in the real estate and insurance lines, and a citizen influential in well nigh every department of the community's life, was born in South Amboy, March I, 1879. He is a son of Charles and Emma L. (Herzog) Steuerwald, the Tormer a native of Germany, born in the year 1852, came to the United States as a boy and located in Keyport, New Jersey. Later he removed to South Amboy, engaged in the hotel business and met with notable success and from which he retired in 1912. He is now living in South Amboy, a highly respected citizen, He has been for many years a member of the fish and game commission of New Jersey from Middlesex county, and takes an active part in public life. The elder Mrs. Steuerwald was born in Matawan, New Jersey, and now resides with her husband in South Amboy. They are the parents of tour children, as follows: A child who died in infancy; Ada Henrietta, who became the wife of Christian F. Straub, of South Amboy; Charles L., with whom we are here especially concerned; Peter A. J., who is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and resides in South Amboy.
The childhood of Charles L. Steuerwald was passed in South Amboy, and lie has always remained associated with the affairs of that city, although his business headquarters are now located in the larger neighboring community, where he also takes an active part. He attended the South Amboy public schools, and upon completing his general education there entered the Coleman Business College in Newark, New Jersey, in order to take a commercial course. He graduated from the latter institution with the class of 189s, and immediately afterwards secured a position with the great wholesale dry goods house of H. B. Claflin Company of New York City. He made himself of great value to his employers, and rose to the rank of assistant general salesman during the time that he continued in their employ. Upon leaving the Claflin Company, Mr. Steuerwald went to Peekskill, New York, and engaged in a manufacturing enterprise in which he was successful and which he carried on for some time, but was compelled to sell out on account of poor health. After regaining his health, two years later, he accepted the position of superintendent and manager of the Gas Company in South Amboy. This position he held until the company was sold to the Public Service Corporation in 1910, when he resigned and entered business in Perth Amboy. Four years later he established himself in his present line, dealing in real estate, insurance and mortgage loans, with offices in the Savings Bank building at No. 208 Smith street. His organization was incorporated in the year 1915 under the name of Charles L. Steuerwald, Incorporated, with himself as president and treasurer. Since that time he has developed a very large and remunerative business, which is one of the most important of its kind in the city. Mr. Steuerwald is a man of broad-minded, public spirit, and has always been a conspicuous figure in the general life of the community. He has established the South Amboy Trust Company, of which he is vice-president ; the Woodbridge National Bank, of which he is a stockholder; the Investors' and Owners' Building and Loan Association of South Amboy; and a New Building and Loan Association of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He is a Republican in politics, and though he has never sought public office for himself he is always ready to help the right man for the right place. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Young Men's Christian Association, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Raritan Yacht Club, East Jersey Club, and is devoted to many forms of outdoor sports and pastimes. At the present time, in connection with others, he is organizing a golf club in Woodbridge, New Jersey. In religious belief he is an Episcopalian and attends Christ Church of that denomination in South Amboy.
Charles L. Steuerwald was united in marriage, February 18, 1903, at the Reformed Church Manse (home of Bertha (Booraem) Lockwood, sister of Mrs. Charles L. Steuerwald), East Millstone, New Jersey, with Ethel Jeane Booraem, of South River, New Jersey, a daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Amelia (Barkelew) Booraem, who now reside in South Amboy, the former being at the present time (1921) eighty-four years of age.
 
REV. WILLIAM FREDERICK BARNY.—In the Province of Alsace, now restored to France, Rev. William Frederick Barny, for fifteen years the beloved pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Church, Milltown, New Jersey, was born November 15, 1862. He was the son of Jacob F. and Wilhelmina (Tschopp) Barny. He spent the first nineteen years of his life in Alsace, there obtaining a good education. He came to the United States, May 1881, and here completed his education with graduation from the German Theological Seminary in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and on August 16, 1893, was ordained a clergyman of the German Reformed church. His first pastorate was at Naumburg, New York, and there he served most acceptably. He was called to St. Paul's Reformed Church, Milltown, in April, 1905. For almost sixteen years he ministered to the spiritual well being of the Milltown church and drew close to the hearts of his people. He was an eloquent pulpit orator, sound in his theology, and with a heart filled with love for every man. He was greatly beloved by his own church and extremely popular with the people of Milltown, regardless of sect or creed. His heart was in his work and never was there a truer, more loyal soldier of the Cross than Rev. William F. Barny, who died in Milltown, December 27, 1920.
Rev. William F. Barny married, in Ridgefield Park, Bergen county, New Jersey, June 28, 1893, Emetic Rech, born July 6, 1870, daughter of John and Caroline (Reinheimer) Rech, her parents coming from Germany to the United States in 1871. One child was born to Rev. and Mrs. Barny, Gertrude, born April to, 1[896, married Walter R. Smith, and resides in Milltown. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of a son, Richard, born in Milltown. Mrs. Barny survives her husband and resides with her sister, Mrs. Tukey, in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.
 
IRA CONDIT MOORE.—With a long life of usefulness behind him, and still actively engaged in daily business, Ira Condit Moore is one of the interesting figures in the business life of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Edward C. Moore, Mr. Moore's father, was'a prominent figure in the political history of Newton, Sussex county, New jersey. A merchant in Newton, he served as State Senator, and also at different times held such offices as committeeman and freeholder. In early life he was postmaster for a considerable length of time. He married Catherine Price.
Ira Condit Moore was born August 27, 1852, in Newton, New Jersey. He received his early education in the private schools of that town, then took a course in the Newton Collegiate Institute. Planning a business career, he supplemented this training with a complete course at the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York. He began his business along the same line that he has always followed, that of boots and shoes. He has been in different branches of this business, first as retail shoe merchant in Newton, later as treasurer of the Sussex Shoe Company, Inc., of the same city, manufacturing largely boys' and girls' shoes. This factory was also in Newton. At present Mr. Moore is president and treasurer of the I. C. Moore Company, Inc. This is ote of the principal retail boot and shoe stores in Perth Amboy, and w:
established in 1903 by Mr. Moore.
Outside of his business interests, Mr: Moore has always actively participated in the public responsibilities of the town in which he was located. He was a member of the Board of Education of Newton for seven years prior to his removal to Perth Amboy. He was president of the Perth Amboy Board of Trade for one year, and on retiring from that office assisted in the organization of the present Chamber of Commerce. He is now an honorary member of that body. He is a member of the Presbyterian church ; was a trustee of the Newton Presbyterian Church and treasurer for several years. When business and public responsibilities result in the inevitable weariness attendant upon all concentrated effort, Mr. Moore finds delight and recreation in fishing.
Mr. Moore married (first) September II, 1879, in Newton, New Jersey, Kittie D. Shepherd, daughter of Levi and Nancy (Decker) Shepherd, who died October 19, 1898. By her he had six children: Helen, Frank Shepherd, Catherine Price, Ethel Winfred, now deceased ; Ira Condit, and Florence. Mr. Moore married (second) Alice C. Henderson, daughter of James and Belle (Duryea) Henderson, who died in February, 19!!.

HARRY W. WEIDA,.vice-president and manager of the India Rubber Company of New Brunswick, has since the inception of his business career, been identified with the rubber industry, and since coming to this community in 1914 has become conspicuously identified with the development of the most vital interests of New Brunswick.
Harry W. Weida was born at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, December 23, 188o, the son of Francis and Marietta (Walb) Weida. After finishing his studies in the grammar school of his native place, he spent two years in a business college and then went to Akron, Ohio, where for three years he was employed by the American Hard Rubber Company, subsequently working successively for the next seventeen years for the following concerns: The B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio; American Hard Rubber Company ; Diamond Rubber Company ; B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, as manager of the hard rubber department, and at the end of two years he came to New Brunswick, New Jersey, and accepted his present position as vice-president and manager of the India Rubber Company, manufacturers of hard rubber goods, this organization being a subsidiary of the United States Rubber Company. He has bent his energies to administrative direction and executive control, and under his guidance the business has rapidly developed along substantial lines, constituting an important element in the commercial activity of New Brunswick.
Mr. Weida began his public career as a member of the Borough Council of Highland Park, New Jersey, and in 1920 was elected president of this body. He is well known in Masonic circles, and is a member of Palestine Lodge, No. III, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Scott Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; Scott Council, No. 1, Royal and Select Masters; Temple Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar; and Salaam Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His clubs are the Old Colony of New York City, and the Union, Country and Craftsmen's of New Brunswick. His religious affiliation was with the Evangelical church of Akron, Ohio, during his residence there, but on his arrival in New Brunswick he became an attendant of the Reformed church of Highland Park.
Harry W. Weida married, December 3, 1903, Lydia Ellen Yockey, daughter of Phillip and Amanda (Bittner) Yockey, of Akron, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Weida are the parents of two children : Francis, born September 17, 1904, deceased; Elizabeth M., born May 21, 1909.
 
ADRIAN LYON, of Perth Amboy, lawyer, was born in the village of Pluckemin, Somerset county, New Jersey, July 25, 1869, a son of William L. and Ursula (Sebring) Lyon. The name of Henry Lyon, one of his direct forbears, was the eighth on the agreement of the New Milford settlers of June 16, 1667, on which Robert Treat was the first, and he was the first treasurer of the town of Newark.
Adrian Lyon was educated in the public schools, and qualified for the practice of law in the New York Law School, graduating from there in 1894 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1892, made a counsellor in 1895, and opened an office in Perth Amboy. Mr. Lyon's public activities are almost coincident with his professional work. H., was superintendent of the schools in Perth Amboy in 1894-95, and in the latter named year became city attorney. He served in the New Jersey House of Assembly, sessions of 1900-01. In the latter named year Governor Voorhees appointed him judge of the local District Court, and in 1909 he was appointed by Governor Fort law judge of Middlesex county to fill the unexpired term of Theodore B. Booraem. Since January, 1913, he has served as referee in bankruptcy for the District of Middlesex county. He has one of the most extensive law and private libraries in the county. Since 1899 he has °MI president of the Perth Amboy Savings Institution ; since 1893 registrar, and a member of the Board of East Jersey Proprietors.
Mr. Lyon has been closely identified with the Progressive movement of recent years in the National Republican party. The political controversies of the day made him a delegate from the Third Congressional District to the National Republican Convention in Chicago that renominated President Taft, and to the National Progressive Convention, held two months later, in Chicago also, that put Theodore Roosevelt in nomination against him. Retaining his alliance with the Progressive party, he was a delegate also to the National Progressive Convention of 1916. He has also been conspicuous in Young Men's Christian Association circles ; he served as president of the State Young Men's Christian Association; he was largely instrumental in the founding, and became the first president of the Perth Amboy Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Lyon is a member and vice-president of the New Jersey State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, admitted because his great-great-grandfather, on his father's mother's side, Captain James Hill, was of the Sussex county militia in that struggle. He was president of the New Jersey Bankers' Association in 191o. He is a member of the Masonic order, affiliating with lodge, chapter, commandery, and Salaam Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the East Jersey Club and Raritan Yacht Club of Perth Amboy. For over twenty years Judge Lyon has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Perth Amboy.
Judge Lyon married, in Athenia, New Jersey, May 8, 1895, Cornelia Post, daughter of John C. and Catherine E. Post, of Athenia. Child, Howard S., born 1896.
 
JAY B. FRANKE.—Exacting responsibility requiring the greatest skill is that share in the civic welfare which falls to the lot of Jay B. Franke.
The Franke family is of German origin, but this branch of the family has been in America for a great many years, Mr. Franke's great-grandfather having been born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Mr. Franke's father, Ludlow G. Franke, was born in New York City, and lived there the greater part of his life. He was a boss painter, and followed that trade as long as he lived. He married Adelia G. Ford, who was born in Perth Amboy, and survives him, living now in the city of her birth.
They were the parents of two children: Jay B., whose name appears at the head of this sketch, and Sue G., who is a teacher in the public schools of Perth Amboy. Mr. Franke died in Perth Amboy in 1900.
Jay B. Franke was born in Perth Amboy, August 21, 1886. There he received his education in the excellent public schools, acquiring a thorough grounding in all the practical branches. At the age of fifteen years he entered the employ of the American Smelting and Refining Company, working in their electrical department, He remained in their employ for four years, during which time he mastered the intricate details of electrical construction. After that he constructed two electric lighting plants in Monmouth county, New Jersey, of which he subsequently had charge for two years. Returning to Perth Amboy, he was appointed by the Board of Aldermen of that city to his present position in September, 1911. This comprises the work of city electrician and the superintendency of the Municipal Electric Lighting plant.
Mr. Frank has a host of friends in this city, and is connected with various social organizations. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Raritan Yacht Club, the local Fire Department, a charter member of the Electrical Workers' Union, and is a member of the International Association of Municipal Electricians. He is an active, genial man, and takes his relaxation in motoring.
Mr. Franke married, January 7, 1909, in Englishtown, New Jersey, Essie Hyers Moore, daughter of John C. and Mary (Hankinson) Moore. She was born in Lakewood, New Jersey. Her father died in Freehold, New Jersey, in 1918; and her mother is now a resident of Freehold.
 
JOHN WYCKOFF METTLER.—Although never a resident of Middlesex county, John Wyckoff Mettler has been associated with New Brunswick through his school and college days and through the position which he now holds as head of the Interwoven Stocking Company.
The Mettler family came to this country with the early settlers from Holland, in 1685, and through marriage the members of this family are allied with the Wyckoff and Howell families, the Wyckoffs coming from Holland in 1632, the same year that the Howells arrived from Wales and settled in Southampton, Long Island. Mr. Mettler is the son of William E. Mettler, lumber merchant of New Brunswick, and grandson of Enoch Mettler, who was for many years a prominent grain merchant in New York City—an early member of the Produce Exchange of that city. His mother, Gertrude Van Pelt (Howell) Mettler, is a daughter of Lewis T. Howell, who was born in Middlesex county, New Jersey, in 1820, and who died in 1900, and who was for many years one of the leading manufacturers of New Brunswick, and later, for twenty years, president of the National Bank of New Jersey. Lewis T. Howell married Joanna M. Wyckoff, only child of John Van Cleef Wyckoff, a descendant of one of the early Dutch settlers of the Wyckoff family at East Millstone, New Jersey, where the family has resided since 1689 upon the same property which is now the summer home of our subject. Mr.
Mr. Mettler graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School in 1895, from Rutgers College in 1899, and from the New York Law School in 1901, and in the same year he was admitted to the New York bar, where he practiced law for two years. In 1903 he entered the manufacturing business as treasurer of the Kilbourn Knitting Machine Company of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and two years later—in 1905—organized the Interwoven Stocking Company, which has since become an industry of considerable size and international standing as manufacturers of interwoven hosiery. He is a director in the Interwoven Stocking Company, the Interwoven Mills, Inc., the Tubize Artificial Silk Company of America, the National Bank of New Jersey, and other corporations, and is a trustee of Rutgers College. He is a member of the Delta Phi fraternity of Rutgers College, the University Club and the Riding Club of New York City, the Union Club and Country Club of New Brunswick, New Jersey; a member of the Reformed Dutch Church of East Millstone, New Jersey. He lives at No. 205 West Fifty-seventh street, New York City, and at East Millstone, New Jersey.
On June 5, 1909, Mr. Mettler was married in New York City to Helen Fleischmann, of that city, and has two children—a daughter, Helen, born September 5, 1910, and a son, John Wyckoff, Jr., born March 20, 1915.
Mr. Mettler is interested in collecting works of art and has a notable collection of early English, Italian and American furniture.
 
THOMAS HOLCOMBE METTLER, son of William E. and Gertrude Van Pelt (Howell) Mettler, and brother of John W. Mettler, was born in East Millstone, New Jersey, March 29, 1886. He attended private schools of Millstone and Rutgers Preparatory School, finishing in 1904. He then entered Princeton University, receiving his A. B., class of 1908. Deciding upon a legal profession, he prepared at the New York Law School, whence he was graduated LL. B., class of Ica!. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and at once began the practice of his profession in the city of Newark, New Jersey, continuing for two years. In 1913 he was admitted to the New York State bar, where he practiced until 1917, when he withdrew from law practice and entered the hosiery business, forming a connection with the Interwoven Stocking Company, of New Brunswick, of which he is a director, and is connected with the sales department.
Mr. Mettler, during the period of war between the United States and Germany, 1917-18, was food administrator for Middlesex county, and while his service in that field was particularly valuable, he was helpful in other ways in supporting his country's cause. He is a member of the Reformed church of East Millstone, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, the Princeton Club of New York City, the Princeton Campus Club, the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, member and treasurer of the Holstein-Friesian Cooperative Association of New Jersey, and president of the New Brunswick branch of the Dairymen's League. Mr. Mettler is unmarried, and resides with his mother at the East Millstone farm, which he manages. His special farm interest is in the breeding of pure-blood cattle, his choice for the dairy farm the Holstein breed.
 
MAJOR HAROLD VAN BLARCOM, for so young a man, has lived a most useful life, with enough adventure and change of scene in it to make it far from dull; now he is well established in a congenial profession, that of doctor of dental surgery, with offices at No. 419 George street, New Brunswick, where he has a rapidly growing patronage.
Harold Van Blarcom is the son of Cornelius Henry Van Blarcom, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1845, his death occurring in Montgomery, New York, in October, 1908, at the age of sixty-three. In his youth, he was a manufacturer in Paterson, New Jersey, and Middletown, New York, but after he was fifty years of age he studied law and passed the bar in both New Jersey and New York, being licensed to practice 'in both states, and maintaining an office in Paterson up to the time of his death. His wife was Fanny Josephine Ward, a native of Montgomery and for many years a resident there. She now lives in Paterson. There were five children in the Van Blarcom family: 1. Katherine, deceased. 2. Wessels, living in Paterson, and cashier of the Second National Bank there. 3. Frederick W., a prominent lawyer of Paterson and well known as a politician. 4. Mary, the wife of Henry. Bonner, of Detroit, Michigan ; he is superintendent of the Ford service stations of the United States. 5. Harold, of whom further.
Though born in Montgomery, New York, October 17, 1887, Harold Van Blarcom spent his boyhood in Paterson, New Jersey, his family going there to reside shortly after his birth. He attended the Paterson grammar school and later the high school, graduating from the former in 1903, and, after a four years' course, from the latter school in June, 1907. He immediately became enrolled as a student at the Philadelphia Dental College, from which institution he graduated in 1910. The next two years of his life were spent in Clovis, New Mexico, where he practiced his profession, but he returned East in 1912 and locating in South River, New Jersey, opened an office there. During Dr. Van Blarcom's residence in South River, he took an active part in the affairs of the town, being a member of the Board of Health, and a candidate on the Republican ticket for the office of councilman.
At this time, 1917, the United States became involved in the World War and Dr. Van Blarcom immediately joined the service. His war record is one of which any man may well be proud, for he not only. saw active service in France, but carries the marks of shrapnel wounds at the present time. Dr. Van Blarcom received a commission as first lieutenant in. June, 1917, during his stay at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Alabama, with the 29th Division. Lieutenant Van Blarcom was sent to France, taking part in the first Argonne battle, being gassed at this time. • At the second Argonne battle he received two schrapnel wounds, one in the side and another in the leg. After spending six months in France, he was returned to the United States in December, 1919, and was sent to the United States General Hospital No. 9, at Lakewood, New Jersey, where he remained for six months longer. In June, 1918, Lieutenant Van Blarcom was promoted to the rank of captain, and in October, 1919, he received his commission as major.
Major Van Blarcom is a member of the Society of American Officers of the Great War, and also of the American Legion. In addition to these he is greatly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, being a member of and a constant worker in that body, and also is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is an attendant of the Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick. In Masonry he is a member of Union Lodge, No. 19, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of the National, State and County Dental associations.
At South River, August 18, 1917, Harold Van Blarcom married E. Viola Price, a resident of that place, and she also was born there. Her parents are both dead. There are no children of this marriage. They reside at No. 261 Powers street, New Brunswick.
Several centuries ago the Van Blarcom family had its origin in Holland, the town where they lived being called Blarkom. In 162o five brothers of that name left the paternal roof and set sail for America. After many months and numerous perils they landed at a spot where now stands the city of Hoboken ; so was founded by them and several other Holland emigrants the Dutch settlement that for years existed in that part of New Jersey, and the names of many of the leading citizens are distinctly Dutch to this day, Bergen county being their stronghold. As late as the middle of the last century the quaint Dutch customs were observed by many of the descendants of these settlers.
 
JOHN STROUD TURNER, having arrived at the age of manhood in his native land, came to the United States in 1881 hoping to find a broader industrial field. Seventeen years later he established the J. S. Turner White Metal Company in New Brunswick, of which he is the head.
Born in Liverpool, England, November 18, 1859, John Stroud Turner was the son of Henry and Ann (Stroud) Turner, both of whom were born and died in Liverpool. Henry Turner was a foundryman there, following that trade until his death which occurred in 1895. He and his wife had seven children, all of whom are now deceased except one son. John Stroud Turner.
Attending the public schools of Liverpool until he was fourteen years old, and Liverpool Institute, John Stroud Turner became an apprentice in the foundry business, continuing as such for seven years, remaining in the same line after he had learned the trade. He then came to this country, arriving here May 24, 1881, locating for a short time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whete he worked at his trade. Then Mr. Turner went to Brooklyn, New York, and entered the employ of William Taylor, remaining only a short time, then went to New Brunswick in April, 1882, to take a position in the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company, where he remained for sixteen years, fourteen of which he served as foreman. At that time Mr: Turner went into the manufacturing business in his own name, founding the J. S. Turner White Metal Company for the manufacture of collapsible tubes and white metal goods. The plant is located at Nos. 220-222 Raritan avenue in the Highland Park section of New Brunswick. In 1916 it became an incorporated concern, and now their products are shipped abroad in addition to finding a market in this country.
Mr. Turner is a member of the Board of Trade of New Brunswick; the New Jersey State Board of Trade; the Young Men's Christian Association, in which he is greatly interested ; Palestine Lodge, No. i t Free and Accepted Masons; Scott Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; Highland Park Building and Loan Company, of which he is vice-president; the New Brunswick Boat Club, Craftsmen's Club, Old Colony Club of New York City, and is a communicant and vestryman of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, New Brunswick.
In October, 1884, John Stroud Turner was united in marriage with Sarah Jane Myers in New Brunswick, that being also her birthplace. She is the daughter of C. P. and Jane (Stewart) Myers, resident.; of New Brunswick, where they were also born and where they died. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have four children, all living, namely: 1. Henry James, residing in Camden, New Jersey; married Ethel M. Lott, of Philadelphia; one child, Ethel May. 2. George S., resides at No. 334 South Third avenue, New Brunswick ; married Miss S. B. Austin, and they have two children, Ruth and George E. 3. Helen, wife of Henry L. Van Mater; they reside at No. 216 South Third avenue, New Brunswick ; one child, John S. 4. John E. The family residence is at No. 218 Raritan avenue, Highland Park.
 
RUSSELL ELLSWORTH WATSON.—The name we have just written will receive, as that of one of the well known members of the New Brunswick bar, instant recognition from a majority of his fellow-citizens. During the recent conflict of nations, Mr. Watson was at the front in war activities, and in the club circles of his home city he is a prominent figure.
Frank Ellsworth Watson, father of Russell Ellsworth Watson, was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is now a resident of New Brunswick, and a.manufacturcr of wallpaper colors and oil paints. He married Sarah Elizabeth Painter, born at Glen Gardner, New Jersey, and they are the parents of the following children : Russell Ellsworth, mentioned below; Parker L.; Franklin Lamar, whose biography follows in this work ; and A. Dudley, also represented in this work by a biography following. All these, with the exception of Parker L., are residents of New Brunswick.
Russell Ellsworth Watson, son of Frank Ellswotth and Sarah Elizabeth (Painter) Watson, was born October 8, 1885, in New Brunswick, and in 1902 graduated from the New Brunswick High School. The same year he entered Rutgers College. remaining until 1905. He was fitted for his profession at the New York Law School, receiving, in 1907, the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In February, 1909, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney, and in 1912 was admitted as counsellor.In entering upon the practice of his profession, Mr. Watson was associated with Theodore B. Booraem, the connection remaining unbroken until 1912, when it was dissolved by Mr. Booraem's death. Mr. Watson then practiced alone, having his offices at Nos. 41-43 Paterson street, until September, 1920, when R. E. and A. D. Watson formed a partnership, practicing under that heading. Mr. Watson has proved himself possessed of the qualifications requisite for success at the bar, his record showing, with the lapse of every year, additional evidence of this incontrovertible fact.
In the political life of his community Mr. Watson has, for many years, borne an active part. From 1908 to 1911 he served as probation officer of Middlesex county, and from 1911 to 1912 he was assistant prosecutor for the county. In 1916 his fellow-citizens of Highland Park summoned him to serve them in the highest municipal office in their gift, retaining him in it, by reelection, until 1920. During the recent World War Mr. Watson was patriotically active, serving as fuel administrator for both Middlesex and Somerset counties. He is a director of the Building and Loan Association.
The fraternal connections of Mr. Watson include affiliation with the Masonic order, being a member of Palestine Lodge, No. nr, Free and Accepted Masons; Scott Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; and Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and the Chi Psi fraternity. He belongs to the Union Club, the East Jersey Club of Perth Amboy, and the New Brunswick Country Club. He and his family are members of the First Reformed Church.
Mr. Watson married, March 24, 1909, in Newark, New Jersey, Beulah Fraleigh Fingarr, daughter of Montgomery and Helena (Fraleigh) Fingarr. Mr. Fingarr served in the Civil War, and his death, which occurred in 1883, was the result of injuries received while in service. His widow now resides with her daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Watson are the parents of the following children : Russell Ellsworth, Jr., born September 2, I911 ; Malcolm D., born September nr, 1913; Jean, born August 9, 1916; and Sarah Elizabeth, born December 28, 1917.
By his own unaided efforts, Mr. Watson has achieved marked professional success, and his fellow-citizens have paid him the tribute of calling him to serve them in offices of exceptional responsibility. Everything indicates that the future holds for him greater advancement in his work and a summons to larger and more complicated trusts.
 
FRANKLIN LAMAR WATSON.—Among the younger business men of New Brunswick, always remarkable for enterprise and aggressiveness, no one could fail to number Mr. Watson, who is now associated with the Packard Motor Car Company, one of the best known concerns of its kind to be found in the United States. Mr. Watson has an honorable record of military service in the recent World War, and is well known in the social circles of New Brunswick no less than in the sphere of her business activities.
Franklin Lamar Watson was born November 22, 1891, in New Brunswick, and is a son of Frank Ellsworth and Sarah Elizabeth (Painter) Watson (q. v.), and a brother of Russell Ellsworth and A. Dudley Watson (q. v.). The early education of Franklin Lamar Watson was received in the public schools of his native city, whence he passed to the New Brunswick High School, graduating from that institution with the class of 1909.
Becoming one of the official stenographers of the Essex county courts, Mr. Watson held that position until June, 1917, when he resigned, having been among the first to respond to the call for volunteers issued upon the entrance of the United States into the greatest war in history. In May, 1917, Mr. Watson enlisted as sergeant, first-class, in the Quartermasters' Reserve Corps of the army, and in December, 1917, was transferred to the air service. After graduating from the School of Military Aeronautics at Texas University, he took training in flying at Park Field, Tennessee. He was afterward commissioned second lieutenant and appointed assistant post adjutant and assistant judge advocate. In March, 1919, he was discharged. On returning to New Brunswick, Mr. Watson associated himself with the Packard Motor Car Company, securing a position in the passenger transportation department.
The clubs in which Mr. Watson holds membership are the Union Club of New Brunswick, the Aero Club of America, and the Air Service Clubs Association. He affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Franklin Lamar Watson has proved his metal, both as soldier and business man, for in both capacities he has rendered faithful and valuable service.
 
ASHER DUDLEY WATSON.—Desplte the fact that less than four years have elapsed since his admission to the bar, Mr. Watson's name, as a member of the profession, has already become favorably familiar to a large number of his fellow-citizens of New Brunswick. It is also familiar as that of one of those who during the late war rendered military service in France.
Asher Dudley Watson was born December 6, 1893, in New Brunswick, and is a son of Frank Ellsworth and Sarah Elizabeth (Painter) Watson (q. v.), and a brother of Russell Ellsworth and Franklin Lamar Watson (q. v.). In 1911 Asher Dudley Watson graduated from the New Brunswick High School, and in 1915 he received his degree from Rutgers College. His legal studies were pursued under the guidance of his brother, Russell Ellsworth Watson, and he also attended the New York Law School. In January, 1917, he was admitted to the bar.
Entering upon the practice of his professicn in association with his brother, Russell Ellsworth Watson, the young lawyer began his career under the most favorable auspices, but, almost at its inception, it suffered an interruption. The United States, taking her place among the contending nations, called her loyal sons to take up arms in her behalf, and among the first to respond was Asher Dudley Watson. Entering the service in September, 1917, as a member of Headquarters Company, 311th Infantry, 78th Division, he arrived in France, June I, 1918. On May to, 1919, he left, having participated in the battles of St. Mihiel offensive and the Meuse-Argonne offensive. On May 3o, 1919, he was honorably discharged.
In politics Mr. Watson is a Republican, and he is a member of the County Bar Association, and Rutgers Alumni Association. His religious membership is in the First Reformed Church.
Since his return from overseas, Mr. Watson has resumed the practice of his profession and is now steadily engaged in building up a reputation on the sure foundation of ability, knowledge and devotion to duty. In June, 192o, he was made a counsellor, and in the fall of 1924. he and his brother, Russell Ellsworth, formed the legal partnership of R. E. & A. D. Watson, counsellors at law, with offices at Nos. 41-43 Paterson street.
 
HENRY WILLIAM SCHRIMPF.--This is the name of a man who is not only one of the best known citizens of Perth Amboy, but who has built up for himself a reputation far exceeding the limits of his own community. It is ;seedless to say that Mr. Schrimpf is the founder of the firm of 'H. W. Schrimpf & Company, engineers, or that he is one of the most respected and popular men within the boundaries of the community.
Adam Schrimpf, father of Henry W. Schrimpf, was born in Germany, came to this country when a lad, and located in Newark, New Jersey. He was a farmer and later became a wine merchant, and died at the age of fifty-nine years. He married Mary Bensman, and they were the parents of six children: Carrie, wife of Fred Buclhart, of Newark; Henry William, mentioned below; Adam, of Perth Amboy, a foreman for his brother Henry W.; Emma, died in infancy; Emma, wife of Fred Geisicker, of Newark, New Jersey; John, died at the age of five years.
Henry William Schrimpf was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 3, 1876. His education was begun in the primary department of the school adjacent to his home, whence he passed successively to the grammar and high schools, terminating his studies at the age of sixteen, when he began an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, subsequently becoming foreman of a building concern there, and later accepting the position of foreman of Goller Iron Works, and then being made superintendent of iron construction. In t9o9 he came to Perth Amboy and established himself in his present business with office and works on Lewis street and Second street. Mr. Schrimpf gives the works and workmen his personal supervision, and in addition is gifted with extraordinary business ability and skill in the management of affairs. Among the many contracts for the erection of structural steel work may be mentioned : The entire steel construction of Greek Catholic church ; several large factory buildings for Raritan Copper Works; Standard Underground Cable Works ; Cheeseborough Manufacturing Company ; R. & H. Chemical Company ; also erected the Convery Place Bridge and also several bridges for the State, the last being one of the most important contracts taken by him.
An independent in politics, Mr. Schrimpf votes for the man, regardless of party label. He affiliates with Americus Lodge, No. 83, Free and Accepted Masons; Royal Arch Masons, Chapter No. 41 ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 784; and with the Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of H. J. Michaels' Pleasure Club, Raritan Yacht Club, and the Young Men's Christian Association. In religion he is a Presbyterian.
On May 14, 1899, Henry William Schrimpf was united in marriage with Josephine Miller, a daughter of the late Charles and Josephine Miller, old residents of Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Schrimpf are the parents of four children: Herbert Charles, associated with his father in business ; Charles Adam, deceased ; Elsie ; Henry William, Jr.
The business life of Mr. Schrimpf is one of rugged honesty, and intolerance of shams and makeshifts are among his marked characteristics. His innate love of justice ar.d fair dealing have won for him the confidence and esteem of his associates, and of all with whom he has business relations, while by those under his charge he is regarded not only as a just and honorable man, but as a personal friend and counsellor.
 
ARMAND PIERE DAIRE, at seventy-three years of age, senior member of the firm of Daire & Son, No. ao Bayard street, New Brunswick, continues active in carriage building, a business with which he has been identified in various capacities for the greater part of his life. Mr. Daire's life history from boyhood reads like a romance, and from an interesting autobiography prepared by him at the urgent requests of his family the following facts are taken, though in the transposition the intimate personal touch which gives it much of its charm is of necessity lost. Beginning with his boyhood in the old New Orleans of before the war, carrying through his runaway enlistment in the Union army during the Civil War and his army campaigning, depicting his connection with the stage and the French theatre in the United States and the provinces, outlining his business vicissitudes and successes, and concluding with a tribute of appreciation to a dutiful and loving family, it is an absorbing narrative, a document which his family will treasure beyond price as the years pass.
Mr. Daire's father, a young lawyer at the time of his marriage, was of Spanish-French descent, his parents small plantation owners of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He went to California two years after the birth of his son, joining the gold rush of 1849, accumulated a competence in his profession and in buying and selling of claims, and met hk death in the loss of the vessel in which he was making the homeward voyage. the "Belle Assise."
His mother, a native of France, Alexandrine Rose Maison, was the daughter of a Napoleonic soldier who was later given the position of customs' collector at the Octroi gate of Paris. She was reared by her grandparents, gardeners in the nursery of the king during the reign of Louis Philip, and was educated in a Sisters' school, graduating when fifteen or sixteen years of age, and then completing a two years' course in the Conservatory of Music of Paris, where her contralto voice of magnificent strength and tone was trained. She entered an opera troupe, playing in the provinces of France, and soon afterward was married to an actor named Eshevelle, to whom she bore a daughter, Mary. The husband and father died in about a year, and the mother continued her musical career in France and the United States. Her second marriage was her last. Armand Piere Daire was born of this marriage, and after Mr. Daire's death in shipwreck Mrs. Daire remained on the stage until the strain of her profession became too great for her advancing years, when she retired, teaching French during her last years.
Armand Piere Daire was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 17, 1847. His mother's musical engagements made a permanent home an impossibility, and he was placed in the care of a Madam Petite, he and his sister later entering the home of his godmother, Madame Alfred, four or five years being spent between the two places. The mother accepting an engagement with the Italian Opera Company of New York, the little family made the journey up the Mississippi river, the children being left with a family named Sage, old friends, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Sage took Armand P. and his sister Mary on the road in an unsuccessful juvenile dramatic company, after which they joined their mother in New York. Subsequently, Armand P. Daire was apprenticed to learn to make samples for wallpaper and carpets in New York, then to a hatter in Philadelphia, later entering the Five Points Rouse of Industry. After a trip to Cuba with his mother's opera company, he was for a time a student in a school maintained by a French couple, Mr. and Mrs. Racheski, and then became indentured to Walter Piotrowski, who had recently married his sister Mary, in the carriage painting trade. His brother-in-law and his sister were always his true and loyal friends, never failing to offer assistance when needed, ever quick with sympathy and understanding. Work in the printing office of a French newspaper, a tour with an opera company in which he played small parts. through the French West Indies, and another period in the employ of Walter Piotrowski followed. The Civil War had been in progress a year and Mr. Daire had made two unsuccessful efforts to enlist, when, without informing his sister and her husband of his intention, he presented himself as of the required age and enlisted under the name of Eugene Dupont, August 11, 1862, as a private in Company It toth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. An act of Congress legalizing this action, which was resorted to by so many patriotic youths unable to obtain parental consent to enlistment, causes him to be entered' in the records of the War Department as "Armand P. Daire, alias Eugene Dupont, 145th and 123rd United States Volunteers." The 145th was sent to Washington, then crossed to Virginia, where it was attached to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, commanded by General Slocum. He was in much of the important action of the war, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dallas' Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta, afterward marching with Sherman to the sea, in the siege of Savannah. After the three days' fighting at Gettysburg the 145th Regiment was so decimated' that General Slocum ordered its consolidation with the other New York regiments. Mr. Daire's company was joined with Company H, 123rd Regiment, and he was honorably discharged from the service as a member of that unit in June, 1865.
After leaving the army he made his home for a time with his sister Mary, and, realizing his lack of English education, although he was better versed in French, he took a short course in Payne's Writing Academy on the Bowery, studying penmanship, spelling, and arithmetic. He afterward returned to the stage for a time, playing in eastern cities and in Canada, working between theatrical seasons with his brother-in-law at the painting trade and always finding work and welcome there when a theatrical venture had failed. Finally he decided to give up his histrionic' ambitions and to sever his connections with the theatre, and made arrangements with his brother-in-law to learn every department of the carriage painting trade, a course to which he adhered so closely that he became a finished and expert mechanic. He gained additional experience in several other New York shops and then purchased a carriage painting business in Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey. He married while living in Newton. The panic of 1873 wrecked his business and brought him into financial difficulties, from which, in the course of time, he extricated himself. He followed his trade in New York City, Newark, New Jersey, New Haven, Connecticut, Trenton, New Jersey, St. Louis, Missouri, finally locating in New Brunswick, New Jersey, his present home.
For several years Mr. Daire had contributed articles on technical subjects to "The Hub," a trade journal devoted to the interests of the carriage building business, and had been well paid for his writings. He had gained a wide reputation and acquaintance in the trade through this work, and the many offers of positions tendered, combined with his own independence and strong sense of right, explain his numerous business changes. He traveled for a time through New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, as the representative of "The Hub,' and then for five or six years was on the road for the Valentine Varnish Company and other leading varnish manufacturing concerns.
In 1896 Mr. Daire opened a small carriage repair shop on Somerset street, New Brunswick, where he was joined by his son, Charles M., upon the completion of the younger Daire's schooling. Afterward, for a year, both were employed by Mr. Weeks, of Freehold, New Jersey, then with A. L. Mundy, of New Brunswick, Mr. Daire serving as manager. When Mr. Mundy sold his enterprise to Geer & Demott, Mr. Daire and his son undertook the management of the painting department under the firm name of Daire & Son, and when, about a year later Geer & Demott went into bankruptcy, Mr. Daire, as trustee, settled the affairs of the firm. Following this he and his son broadened their operations to include all departments of carriage repairing and building, as well as auto repairing, and they pursue these lines at the present time, a well-known, dependable firm of established reputation.
Mr. Daire is a Roman Catholic in religious faith, although his religious views are broad and tolerant. In politics he is a Democrat in national affairs, and in local matters is independent, his judgments based on the merits of men rather than of party. In New Brunswick he has been justice of the peace, and in the borough of Highland Park councilman, member of the Board of Education, and member of the Board of Health, of which he has been twice elected president. He holds membership in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Armand Piere Daire married Almira Haffner, and to them six children were born. Two, Raphael and Gertrude, died in infancy, and those surviving are: Francis, a graduate of Princeton College, a journalist of Newark, New Jersey; Charles M., his father's business partner; Mary, married George Tailby ; and Eleanor, who married Walter B. Archibald.
 
HAROLD S. FLANAGAN, D. D. S.—As a practicing dentist, Dr.
Flanagan has located among the friends of a life time, for New Brunswick is the city of his birth and there his home has always been. He is a son of a long time merchant and a well known citizen of New Brunswick, whose store is a New Brunswick landmark.
John P. Flanagan was born in Ireland, in 1845, and died December 24, 1916, son of Martin and Mary (Kavanaugh) Flanagan. He was educated in his native Parish of Dover, and at the age of eleven years, in 1856, came to the United States, finding a home in New York City, where he became a bookkeeper. He resided there until July, 1861, when he enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war. After receiving an honorable discharge from the army, he located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he opened a grocery store and continued in successful business at the same location for thirty-four years. He' took a prominent part in public affairs, was a member of the State Board of Prisonsa889-1894, and a member of the Middlesex County Board of Excise. He married, in 1873, Mary Coine, who died December 10, 1914, and they were the parents of eight children : John, Anna, James, Mary, deceased ; William, Edward, Loretta, and Harold S., of further mention. The family were members of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Harold S. Flanagan, son of John P. and Mary (Coine) Flanagan, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 7, 1892, and in 1909 was graduated from the New Brunswick High School. He later entered the New York College of Dentistry, whence, in irsots, he was graduated D. D. S. He has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in New Brunswick, at No. 335 George street, where he is building up a good practice.
During the World 'War Mr. Flanagan saw service with the 58th Infantry, 4th Division, and was commissioned first lieutenant in the Dental Corps, in June, 1917. On May 5, 1918, he sailed for the other side, and on May 18th his ship was torpedoed and destroyers were compelled to come to the rescue, landing the troops at Dover, England, the same day. Mr. Flanagan was in active service at the Aisne-Marne battle from July 16 to August 1, in which action he was wounded, July 19, 1918; he was at St. Mihiel from September 12 to September 16, and Meuse-Argonne from September 26 to October 27. He received one citation. He was promoted to captain March 15, 1919, and was honorably discharged August 23, 1919.
 
FREDERICK F. RICHARDSON, one of the younger generation of attorneys of Middlesex county, holds a prominent place. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 28, 1893, the son of William and Mary (Flowers) Richardson. William Richardson is assistant postmaster at New Brunswick. To Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have been born five children Warren, deceased ; Edith ; Frederick F., the subject of this review ; Harry ; and Elizabeth.
Frederick F. Richardson completed the grammar school courses in New Brunswick, then entered high school, finishing with graduation in 1911. During the four years at this institution, he was prominent in the athletic life, being manager of the football team for two years, manager of the baseball team, also holding other offices, as follows : Editor-in-chief of the "Advocate ;" president of his class during his sophomore year; and president of the debating society. In September, 1911, he entered the New Jersey Law School and was graduated in 1915, admitted to the bar that same year, and then immediately commenced the practice of his chosen profession in his native place, where he still continues.
Mr. Richardson is a staunch Republican in politics, has given much time to the public affairs of this region, holding the position of county counsel for the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders, and also president of the New Brunswick Republican Club. He affiliates with the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the New Brunswick Boat Club. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and attends the Sacred Heart Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mr. Richardson married, August 18, 1920, Helen M. Taylor, of Hoboken, New Jersey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winant Taylor. They reside at No. 116 South Third avenue, Highland Park, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
 
WILLIAM PERRY BRADLEY.—In the executive office of the Raritan Copper Works, William Perry Bradley fills a position of hroad responsibility. The Bradley family is an old and honored one in Northumberlandshire, England. As long ago as 1740 the founder of this branch of the family in America came, with a company of sturdy pioneers, and settled in Maryland, at Mardela Springs.
Perry Weatherly Bradley, father, of William P. Bradley, was born in Mardela Springs, Maryland. He was for many years engaged in the retail shoe business. He died in Salisbury; Maryland, at the age of seventy-six years. He married Mary Deshiell, of Salisbury, and took up his residence there. Of their seven children, William Perry is the only one now living.
William Perry Bradley was born in Salisbury, Maryland, March 20, 1856. He received his early education in the public schools of that quiet old town, then took a course at the Salisbury Academy, an institution well known for the excellence of its curriculum, from which he was graduated at the age of nineteen years. After his graduation he accepted a position on the printing force of the local paper, where he remained until 188o, when he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he was associated with the Times Printing House. He was with Williani Mann for a time, but later returned to the Times Company. Upon his return he acted as manager and filled that position successfully until 1890, when he went to the Ketterlinus Printing House as manager. Here he remained for two years. His next change led him into a different line of work, as he became interested in the copper business in Rhode Island. There he remained until 1899, when he came to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Here he entered the offices of the Raritan Copper Works, first as foreman of the shipping department, and later was promoted to the position of chief clerk and cashier. He has held this position ever since, his fine executive ability and capacity for thoroughness making him particularly fitted for work of this nature.
Mr. Bradley, while never a politician, has always accepted his share of public responsibility when sought to that end. He has served as trustee of the Public Library here for five years; was president of the Board of Education for two years; and served on the Harbor Board for three years.
Mr. Bradley holds high offices in several fraternal organizations. He is past councilor of the Junior Order of American Mechanics; is a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle; has been past grand chief of the local Eagles, and is at present district grand chief of that order; and is also a member of the Woodmen of the World, in which order he is past consul commander; and is now clerk of Perth Amboy Camp, No. 19.
Mr. Bradley married, in Salisbury, Maryland, December. t8, 1876, *Julia Belle Bedell, daughter of James H. and Sarah (Wilson) Bedell. Mrs. Bradley was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents both died in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. William Perry and Julia Belle (Bedell) Bradley are the parents of five children, of whom all are Hying: Bertha Marian, the wife of M. J. Hurley, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Marie Frances; William Perry, Jr., a resident of Perth Amboy, employed as a clerk with the Raritan Copper Works; Sadie Bedell, the wife of John C. Bergen, of New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Genevieve, the wife of E. A. Frost, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are prominent in the social life of the city.
 

ALFRED S. MARCH.—For two decades, 19oo-1920, Alfred S. March has been a member of the New i.rsey bar, practicing in New Brunswick, Middlesex county. He is a son of Joseph H. March, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 25, i844, and was a merchant of New Brunswick, New Jersey, dying in 1916. In 1861, at the age of sixteen, Joseph H. March volunteered for service in the Union army in Connecticut, where he was living, and later enlisted with Battery B, 1st Regiment, United States Artillery. He was in numerous battles, wounded at Olustee, Florida, captured by the enemy at Reams Station, Virginia, and for several months confined as a prisoner at And,4rsonvile. He married Josephine E. Stanley.
Alfred S. March was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey March 4, 1876. He graduated from the New Brunswick High School in 1894, and in 1896 began the study of law in the office of Van Cleef, Daly & Woodbridge, of the Middlesex bar. After the dissolution of that firm, Mr. March continued under the preceptorship of James H. Van Cleef, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in the February term, 19oo, and later as a counsellor. He began practice in New Brunswick in the office of Hon. Robert Adrian, and subsequently in 1907 associated with Freeman Woodbridge under the firm name of Woodbridge & March. In 1911 the firm was dissolved, and since that time Mr. March has practiced individually. He is a Special Master in Che.ncery, Supreme Court commissioner, a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Middlesex County Bar Association.
A Republican in politics, Mr. March is one of the leaders of his party in Middlesex county, having been State Committeeman for four years. and in 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the New Brunswick Board of Aldermen. He was township counsel for Woodbridge; a member and secretary of the Advisory Water Commission of New Brunswick, and in 1909 declined his election as City attorney. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners by Governor Edge, a position he resigned in March, 1920, after having served about three years. He is a trustee of the New Brunswick Free Library, director of St. Peter's Hospital, and a member of the Board of Trade, Public Schools Alumni Association, Union Club, Rotary Club, Craftsmen's Club, Young Men's Christian Association, First Presbyterian Church and Men's League of that church; Lodge No. 324, B. P. 0. E.; Palestine Lodge, No. t, F. and A. M.; Scott Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M.; Scott Council, No. 1, R. and S. M.; Temple Commandery, No. t8, K. T.; Salaam Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S.; New Brunswick Lodge, I. 0. O. F.; and New Brunswick Lodge, W. 0. W.
Mr. March married, November 9, 1905, Anna Elizabeth Parsell, daughter of George K. and Imogene B. Parsell. Mrs. March is a member of the Jersey Blue Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. March are the parents of two children: Robert Parsell, born September 3, /907; and Jean Stanley, born February to, 1910.


WILLIAM E. RAMSAY, prominent physician and surgeon of Perth Amboy, and one of the most widely known citizens in the State of New Jersey, is a native of Prince Edward Island, born November 11, 1866. His parents, Hugh and Sarah Longworth (Lawson) Ramsay, were also natives of that island, where his grandparents were among the early settlers, coming from Scotland. His father was engaged in shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island, and later in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he died in i9 .
After preparing for college in the Boston High School, Dr. Ramsay engaged in the study of pharmacy and was the youngest registered pharmacist in the State of New Jersey, having passed his examination when only fifteen years old. Dr. Ramsay matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia College in New York, and was graduated in 1888 with the degree of M. D. Later, upon the recommendation of Columbia College to Johns Hopkins University, he was appointed physician-in-charge of the Baltimore City Insane Hospital, during which time the State Lunacy Commission reported to the governor of Maryland that never before had the institution been found in such a good condition or the patients more humanely treated. Soon after, Dr. Ramsay came to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he at once obtained a select and large patronage, along the lines of medical legal work, besides an extensive private practice. He is the author of a number of valuable scientific works.
Dr. Ramsay was health officer of the port of Perth Amboy from 1894 to 1898. During the cholera scare in 1893 he was a special inspector of the United States Marine Hospital Service. In 1906 he was visiting surgeon of the Perth Amboy City Hospital. Dr. Ramsay served three terms in the State Assembly and while a member of that body was instrumental in having passed a number of laws tending to better sanitation in the State, among which may be cited the law prohibiting the common drinking cup. In 1912 he was elected to the State Senate, in which he served with distinction for the ensuing three years, holding membership on many of the most important committees of the Senate arid initiating many legislative enactments of profound worth to the Commonwealth of New Jersey.
In 1915 he resigned from the Senate to accept the position of State Water Supply Commissioner. In the same year he was appointed surgeon of the Perth Amboy division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad. He is also plant physician for a number of large industries in Perth Amboy and vicinity.
Dr. Ramsay is an enthusiastic supporter of Federal aid for State roads, as well as for agricultural protection, and is interested in deeper waterways and for the proposed Cross State Ship Canal as a means to reduce the cost of living by additional and cheaper transportation. He has always been a contender for individual liberty, respect for the law and the protection of the home. In 1920 Dr. Ramsay ran, for Congress on the Democratic ticket, but went down with others on the ticket to defeat in the Republican landslide of that year.
Dr. Ramsay is a member of the Middlesex County District Medical Society, of which he was president in 1904; the New Jersey State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association, the Medico-Surgical Society of New York, being elected president of this society in 1913; the Conference Board of Physicians in Industry; Raritan Lodge, No. 61, Free and Accepted Masons; and Perth Amboy Lodge, No. 784, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1899, Dr. Ramsay married Marie E. Scott Hall, daughter of William Scott Hall, of Perth Amboy.
 
CLIFFORD IRVING VOORHEES.—Among those members of the New Jersey bar who during the last decade have come notably to the front, Mr. Voorhees, who is a representative of the legal fraternity of New Brunswick, must be numbered as one of the leaders. He is also actively interested in civic affairs, and is well known in the club circles and social life of his home community, New York City, and Princeton, New Jersey.
The Voorhees family, one of the oldest in New Jersey, has been prominent in its annals during the Colonial, Revolutionary and National Periods of our history. The name, with the prefix Van, is the Anglicized form of three Hollandish words, van voor Hees, meaning from before the town of Hees, a small community in the Province of Drenthe, which was the native home of the family.
(I) Albert van voor Hees, the first ancestor of record, was of the neighborhood of Hees, and was the father of nine children.
(II) Coerte Alberts van voor Hees, son of Albert von voor Hees, lived in Holland, and had a family of seven children.
(III) Steven Coerte van voor Hees, son of Coerte Alberts van voor Hees, was born in or near Hees, and in April, i66o, sailed in the ship "Bontekoe" (Spotted Cow), Captain Pieter Lucassen, master, with his wife and eight children. Arriving in the Province of New Netherland, he settled on Long Island, purchasing land in the town of Amersfoort en Bergen, now Flatlands. In 1664 he was one of the magistrates of that place, and his name appears in 1667 on a patent, and in 1675 and 1683 on the assessment rolls. By his first wife, whose name is lost, he had five sons and five daughters, all born in Holland. The two who did not accompany him to America emigrated subsequently. In 1677 he and his second wife were members of the Dutch Reformed church of Flatlands. He died in Flatlands, February 16, 1684.
(IV) Lucas Stevense van voor Hees, son of Steven Coerte van voor flees, was born about 1650, in Holland, and in 1675 his name appears on the assessment rolls of Flatlands. In 1680 he was a magistrate. His membership in the Dutch Reformed church of Flatlands is recorded in 1677, and in 1711 he was one of its elders. He married (first) in Holland, Catharine Hansen Van Noorstrand, and (second) January 26, 1689, Jannetje Minnes, daughter of Minne Johannis and Rensie Faddens. In 1703, he married (third) Catharine Van Dyck. He had issue by his first and second marriages and probably by the third, his children numbering sixteen, eight sons and as many daughters. His death occurred in 1713.
(V) Abraham Lucasse van voor Hees, son of Lucas Stevense and Jannetje Minnes (Faddens) van voor Hees, was born in Flatlands, and removed, soon after his marriage, to South Middlebush, Somerset county, New Jersey, where he purchased, in 1726, of Jacques Cortelyou, a farm of three hundred acres on which the remainder of his life was spent. He married Neeltje, daughter of Jacques Cortelyou, of New Utrecht, Long Island, and they were the parents of three sons and four daughters.
(VI) Abraham Voorhees, son of Abraham Lucasse and Neeltje (Cortelyou) van voor Hees, lived and died near Six Mile Run, Somerset county, New Jersey. He was twice married, the name of his first wife being Geertie and that of the second Marie. He was the father of six sons and three daughters.
(VII) Lucas Voorhees, son of Abraham and Geertie Voorhees, was born May 2, 1753, near Six Mile Run, New Jersey, and .lived at Rocky Hill, in the same county. He married, November 16, 1775, Johanna Dumont, and they became the parents of four sons and three daughters. Lucas Voorhees died August 24, 1812, at his home at Rocky Hill.
(VIII) Isaac Lucas Voorhees, son of Lucas and Johanna (Dumont) Voorhees, was born March 22, 1793, at Rocky Hill, New Jersey, and for the greater part of his life resided near Six Mile Run. He married, June 5, 1813, Abigail, daughter of Isaac Isaacse Voorhees, and six sons and seven daughters were born to him. The death of Mr. Voorhees occurred October 26, 1867, near Six Mile Run.
(IX) Abraham (2) Voorhees, son of Isaac Lucas and Abigail (Voorhees) Voorhees, was born September 18, 1817, near Six Mile Run, New Jersey, and in early life went to. New Brunswick, where he engaged in the jewelry business, which he subsequently abandoned for banking and finance. For this sphere of action he was especially fitted and in it he soon rose to prominence. He was president of the old State Bank of New Brunswick, and his connection with the banking and financial interests of the city was productive of lasting results of great benefit to the community. Mr. Voorhees was a public-spirited and highly esteemed citizen, and was a member of the First Presbyterian church, in which he held the office of life elder and for twenty-nine years served as suprintendent of the Sunday school. He. married (first) September 19, 1842, Jane, daughter of Jesse and Margaret P. (Russell) Jarvis, and two children were born to them: 1. Willard Penfield. 2. Laura Virginia, died in infancy. Mrs. Voorhees died April 8, 1875, and Mr. Voorhees married (second) Martha J., daughter of John and Martha (Bell) Van Nostrand. The children of this marriage were: 1. Howard Crosby, whose biography may be found on another page of this work. 2. Florence Eliot, died July 16, 191o; married John J. Voorhees, Jr., of the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company; they have one child, Florence Eliot, born October 17, 1go8. 3. Marion R., wife of Edgar J. Buttenbeim, of Yonkers, New York; they have five children: Martha, Barbara, Donald, Curtis, and Constance. 4. Clifford Irving, mentioned below. Mr. Voorhees died in New Brunswick, June 9, 1892, and his widow passed away in that city, February 9, 1909.
(X) Clifford Irving Voorhees, son of Abraham (2) and Martha J. (Van Nostrand) Voorhees, was born August 4, 1884, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1902 he graduated from the Lawrenceville' School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. In June, 1906, he received from Princeton University the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was fitted for his profession at the New York Law School, New York City, graduating in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He also studied in the office of his brother, the late Justice Willard P. Voorhees, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and in June, 1909, was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and, three years later, as a counsellor. Since that time Mr. Voorhees has been engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city, specializing in corporation law and the settlement of estates. He is at the present time counsel for a number of estates in New Jersey and for several of the largest industrial plants in Middlesex county.
During the World War, in 1918, he served as associate director of and counsel to the Department of Personnel, of the American Red Cross, at Washington, D. C.
In politics Mr. Voorhees is a Republican, and, despite the exacting demands of his profession has found time to testify to his public spirit by serving on the Board of Education. He is a member of the University Club of New York; the Ivy Club of Princeton University ; the Nassau Club of Princeton ; the Princeton Club of New York ; the Union Club of New.Brunswick; and the New Brunswick Country Club, of which he is a governor. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick; a director of the New Brunswick Trust Company; a trustee of the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home; and a member of the Alumni Council of Lawrenceville School.
On April 3, 1915, Mr. Voorhees married Adelaide Bailey Parker, daughter of Francis Eyre and Henrietta Macaulay Parker (Stromberg), of New York and New Brunswick, the former deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Voorhees have three children: Frances Macaulay, born January 30, 1916; Willard Penfield, born January 21, 1918; and Clifford Irving, Jr., born February 20, 1921. The family home, "Rose Bank," is at Landing Lane, New Brunswick.
Both as a lawyer and a citizen Mr. Voorhees has been true to the honorable traditions of his ancestry, and his record is worthily incorporated in the history of the family..
 
BENJAMIN WILLIAM ERICKSON.—The Erickson family has been a part of the social and business life of Middlesex county, New Jersey, for so many years that the associations and interests of the various members of it are all centered in this, their home section of the State.
Born in Stelton, New Jersey, December 9, 1882, Benjamin William Erickson was the son of Charles and Sabina Erickson, the former having been a farmer in this locality for many years. Both of his parents are now deceased. After finishing the course of study at the Stelton public. school, young Erickson entered the Highland Park school, graduating in June, 1896. He then became a pupil in the Livingston Avenue High School of New Brunswick, where he took a course in commercial branches, from which he graduated in June, 1897. In September, 1897, Benjamin William Erickson started upon his business career by obtaining a position as office boy in the Consolidated Fruit Jar Company of Brunswick. For twenty-three years Mr. Erickson has been connected with this company, having been advanced step by step, being elected a director of it, and in May, 1918, was made secretary and treasurer of this widely known corporation on Water street.
Making his home in the Highland Park section, Mr. Erickson has been very active in the public work of the borough. In politics he is a Republican, and having been elected to the office of councilman on that ticket he took his seat, January 1917, holding the position until his term ended, January 1, 1921. Mr. Erickson has been a member of the Board of Education of Highland Park since 1913, and has served as president of the board from 1916 to 192o. The work of the Young Men's Christian Association has greatly interested Mr. Erickson, and in addition to being a member of it, he is also on the board of directors. He is very enthusiastic upon the subject of fishing and hunting, out-of-doors sports appealing particularly to. him. He is also affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
At Middlebush, New Jersey, October 3o, 1907, Benjamin William Erickson was married to Charlotte E. Wilson, daughter of C. Asher and Cornelia J. Wilson. Three children have been born of this union: 1. Cornelia S., born April 28, 1909. 2. Helen G., born November 7, 1911. 3. Margaret, born May 13, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Erickson with their children reside at No. 27 North Seventh avenue, Highland Park.
 
FRANK DORSEY, former mayor of Perth Amboy, and for many years one of the most conspicuous figures in the public and business life of the community over which he presided as chief magistrate, is a native of the city, born August 24, 1879. He is a member of a family that is prominent in the general life of the place. His grandfather, Thomas Dorsey, came from Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania many years ago. One of the sons of Thomas Dorsey was Edward Joseph Dorsey, who was born in the town of Gordon, Pennsylvania, and .came as a young man to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and resided here for forty years, up to the time of his death, January 24, 1917. For thirty-seven years he was supervisor of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at this point and had charge of one hundred and eighty-seven miles of the main line of the railroad. He married Isabella Dunham, a member of an old Perth Amboy family, where her birth occurred, and who survives him. Edward Joseph and Isabella (Dunham) Dorsey were the parents of five children, as follows: Thomas Edward, who resides-in Perth Amboy and is associated with Mayor Dorsey in the large coal. and ice interests of the place; Frank, with whose career we are here especially concerned; Charles H., general agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Perth Amboy; John Walter, who is now engaged in the plumbing business in Perth Amboy, married Bessie Bain ; and Isabella, a teacher in the Perth Amboy public schools.
The childhood of Frank Dorsey was passed in his native city, where as a boy he attended the local public schools for a time. He was extremely ambitious to become established in business, however, and at the age of twelve left his studies and became a delivery boy for one of the local butchers. His father was connected with the Lehigh Valley Railroad at that time, and he next secured a position as messenger boy for that corporation and continued to serve in that capacity for about three years. At the close of the three years he went to Newark, New Jersey, and attended the Newark Business College, where he took a four-year commercial course, upon the completion of Which he became associated with his father and brother in a coal business established by the former in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This concern prospered highly and is now known as the Dorsey-Knowles Coal Company, Mr. Dorsey being its president. Mr. Dorsey has also become associated with a number of large commercial concerns in Perth Amboy and elsewhere, and is a member of the firm of E. J. Dorsey & Sons, dealers in coal and ice in Perth Amboy, and president of the Dorsey-Decker Ice Company of Staten Island. He is also president of the E. J. Dorsey & Sons Investment Company, prominent dealers in real state; vice-president of the Perth Amboy Trust Company, and a director and one of the organizers of the City National Bank of Perth Amboy.
Mr. Dorsey has always been keenly interested in public affairs, and for a number of years has been prominent in the ranks of the Democratic party in this section of the State. He was elected mayor of Perth Amboy in 1918 on his party's ticket, and gave the city an efficient and businesslike administration which won the approval of all classes of citizens. He is prominent in social, fraternal and club circles in Perth Amboy, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, serving for a number o years as trustee of the order, and for the past nine years has been past master in Townley, New Jersey, and a member of the East Jersey Club. He has always been strongly attracted to athletic sports and finds particular pleasure in good boxing.
Frank Dorsey was united in marriage, April 2o, 1907, with Ethel Gillis, a native of Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, and a daughter of Simeon and Myra (Ball) Gillis, old and highly respected residents of that place and now both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey are the parents of one child, Frank Gillis, born December 20, 1908.
 
C. RAYMOND LYONS, one of the successful young attorneys of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a man who has already made a name for himself in the public life of this region, is a native of this community, born December 25, 0194. His entire career has been interwoven with the interests of his birthplace, and to the advancement and maintenance of those interests he is ever steadfastly loyal.
James Joseph Lyons, father of C. Raymond Lyons, was born in Ireland, near the city of Dublin, and lived there until he was six years of age, when he was brought by his parents to this country. Upon landing in New York City, they came direct to New Brunswick, where James Joseph Lyons has since resided, and it is here that he has carried on a successful contracting business for many years. He married Catherine Feeney, who died in New Brunswick, in 1916, at the age of sixty-one years. To Mr. and Mrs. Lyons have been born eleven children, of whom six are still living: Luke J., a member of the New Brunswick police force; James A., a contractor of New Brunswick; Mary C., wife of John A. Price, of South Amboy; Ellen M.; C. Raymond, of further mention; and Monica.
The elementary education of C. Raymond Lyons was obtained in the private and parochial schools of his native place. He graduated from St. Peter's High School in 1913, and the same year attended summer courses at Rutgers College, then entered Fordham University, New York City, from which he was graduated June 14, 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The following November, he was admitted to practice law at the bar of Middlesex county. During the time Mr. Lyons was at law school, he studied with Edmund A. Hayes and Chester R. Holman of New Brunswick,• and could not have chosen a better environment, both men being noted for their maintenance of the profession's highest ideals and traditions. Upon being admitted to practice, Mr. Lyons formed a partnership with Frederick F. Richardson, mentioned elsewhere in this work, under the firm name of Richardson & Lyons, and since beginning practice has built up for himself an enviable reputation.
In 1918 Mr. Lyons enlisted in the United States Marines, and after completing the necessary course of training at Paris Island, South Carolina, was assigned to the Marine barracks at Dover, New Jersey, where he was awaiting overseas orders when the armistice was signed. •A Republican in politics, he takes a keen interest in the activities of his party, and in 1919 was elected to the General Assembly to represent Middlesex county, and again in 19zo. In 1919 his majority was forty, and in 1920 he carried by close to 13,000 He is a member of several fraternal organizations, among them being: The Loyal Order of Moose, of which he is the New Jersey State secretary; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Improved Order of Red Men; the Knights of Columbus; the Ancient Order of Hibernian; the New Brunswick Sportsmen's Club; and the American Legion. His law fraternity in Delta Theta Phi. Mr. Lyons is a member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. He is unmarried.

 
DAVID COMBS ENGLISH - Among the veteran physicians of Middlesex county none stands higher than the one whose name we have just written and who can now look back upon more than half a century of successful practice in New • Brunswick. In addition to his professional activities, Dr. English has always borne a leading part in church work and in educational and philanthropic enterprises.
David Combs (1 ) English, father of David Combs (a) English, of New Brunswick, was a physician at Middletown Point, New Jersey, and later practiced in New Brunswick. The family settled in Monmouth county about two hundred years ago, Englishtown having been named from the family, and one of the founders of the old Tennent Church. He married Henrietta Green. In the latter years of his life, Dr. English was the proprietor of a drug store in New Brunswick, relinquishing, to a great extent, his practice as a physician.
Dr. David Combs (a) English, son of David Combs (1 ) and Henrietta (Green) English, was born March 2, 1842, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and received his education in public schools and in Mack's and Hamilton's private schools. After taking a preparatory course. at Rut-gees College, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, graduating in 1868 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In association with Dr. Clifford Morrogh, Dr. English began practice in New Brunswick, but at the end of two or three years opened an office for himself in the same place, advancing, as time went on, to the position of acknowledged leadership which he has so long occupied.
Since 1868 Dr. English has been a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey and for several years served as chairman of its standing committee; in 189$ he was elected vice-president, and in 1898 became president; for the last fourteen years he has been editor of its Monthly Journal. 'Since 1868 he has been a member of the Middlesex County Medical Society, having served for forty-five years as its treasurer and having at one time held the office of president. Dr. English was elected the first honorary member of the Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey. He represented the State Society twice at the Pan-American Medical Congress; also at the meeting of the American Medical president of it, and for many years ex-president and honorary member of its executive council.
Dr. English married, September 14, 187o, in New Brunswick, Susan Cary Blake, daughter of the Hon. Harrison and Susan Brett (Cary) Blake, who were double second cousins and descendants of John and Priscilla Alden in four direct lines. Dr. and Mrs. English are the parents of one son: Grenfell Harrison Blake English, born December 31, 1872; he has been supervisor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, fifteen years, at present of the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) division.
The career of Dr. English as a physician has been rich in results, which were the fruit of his long and ripe, experience. Over and above this he has aided greatly in the advancement and maintenance of the literary' and scientific interests of the profession to which he has given his lifelong devotion. His name will be • inscribed with honor in the medical annals of Middlesex county. He has contributed to this History the admirable chapter on "The Medical Fraternity."
 
HARRY EVERETT COMINGS, secretary and treasurer of the Raritan Trust Company, holds a prominent place in the younger circles of business men of Perth Amboy., owes his success wholly to his own efforts and may thus be considred justified in a certain pride in his achievements.
George Taylor Comings, father of Harry Everett Comings, was born in Petersburg, New Jersey, May 23, 1841, and died in Perth Amboy, February 12, tgoi. He was a farmer for many years, and later established himself in the livery business. He served on the Board of Freeholders of Middlesex county for several terms, and always took a keen interest in politics. He married Sarah Cory, and to them were born eight children: Virgil, deceased; Ella C.; Worthington G., assistant collector of revenue at Perth Amboy; Robert M., a resident of East Orange, New Jersey; Frank C., letter carrier of Perth Amboy; George R., clerk with the B. A. Paving Company of Perth Amboy; Walter W., broker in Washington, D. C.; Harry Everett, of further mention.
Harry Everett Comings was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He received his elementary education in the public schools of his native place, later completing a course in Trainer's Business College. His first employment was with the Lehigh Valley Railroad as freight clerk, where he remained four years, and then was promoted to ticket agent of the passenger department. Three years later he became teller of the Raritan Trust Company, in which capacity he served for two years, when he was promoted to the position of assistant treasurer, and on January z, 192o, was appointed secretary and treasurer of the company, which offices he still holds at the present time. Mr. Comings is also secretary and director of the Perth Amboy Building and Loan Association.
During the World War, he took an active part in the Liberty Loan drives, and served as auditor for the United War Work Campaign. He affiliates with Prudence Lodge, No. zoo, Free and Accepted Masons; Amboy Chapter, No. 41, Royal Arch Masons; and Valley of Jersey City Lodge, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. He is also a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, of Perth Amboy. He is particularly interested in boys and spends a large portion of his spare time during the summer at the Young Men's Christian Association Jersey Boys' Camp in Wawayanda. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and has ever taken an active part in the affairs of the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is a member, having been librarian and secretary of the Sunday school for many years, and president of the Christian Endeavor Society for several terms. He is now a deacon in the church. Mr. Comings is unmarried.
 
CHARLES EDWARD TINDELL.—Since his admission to the New Jersey bar in 1897, Mr. Tindell has been active in both professional and public life, his achievement in both having been most satisfactory. He has many outside interests, but is first and last the lawyer and advocate, a profession to which he gave careful preparation. He is the son of Edward and Annie (Dunn) Tindell. Edward Tindell was a prominent coal dealer for thirty-six years in New Brunswick and now lives there retired. He has always been very active in the affairs of the community, having served in the following positions : Secretary of the Second People's Building Loan Association; clerk of the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders; member of the New Brunswick Board of Education ; and member of the Board of Health. To Mr. and Mrs. 'Tindell were born four children: Charles Edward, of further mention; Minnie A.; George R., an accountant in Chicago, Illinois; Alfred S., an accountant at Highland Park, New Jersey.
Charles Edward Tindell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, ' December 2, 1872, and completed grammar and high school education there, after which he matriculated at Rutgers College, from which he was graduated in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Four years later, in 1897, he was admitted to the New Jersey State bar as attorney, and three years later was made counsellor. He is a member of the Middlesex County Bar Association.
For many years Mr. Tindell has been prominent in the political life of the community, having held the following offices: Clerk of Middlesex County Grand Jury; alderman; member of the Board of Education; city attorney ; and is now, 1920, serving as city recorder. He affiliates with Union Lodge, No. 19, Free and Accepted Masons; Scott Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; and with Delta chapter of Chi Phi fraternity. His club is the Brunswick. In religion he is a Methodist and attends St. James' Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Tindell is unmarried.
Charles Edward Tindell has been connected with many important cases in his profession, and is both learned in the law and skillful in its application to the cause at hand, and is held in the highest regard by the brethren of his profession.
 
AUGUSTE JACQUES ROSSI, numbered among the practical men of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, men who have achieved noteworthy results along constructive lines, is the son of James Camille and Caroline A. (Frame) Rossi, the former a native of Paris, France, and the latter of
New York City. James C. Rossi came to the United States in 0159, when but sixteen years of age, and located in Kansas where he carried on his profession of mining and civil engineer for a number of years. In 1881 he came to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and there made his home until his death, January 21, 1914, when about seventy-one years of age. He is survived by his wife, who continues to reside in Perth Amboy. They were the parents of seven children, as follows: Auguste Jacques, of further mention; Louis Mansfield, a sketch of whom follows; Charles, of Perth Amboy; Mabelle, the wife of William S. Higgins, of Chatham, New Jersey; and three children who died in youth.
Auguste Jacques Rossi was born in Flushing, Long Island, July 26, 1875. He lived there until he attained the age of six years, when his parents came to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He received his early education at Miss Gertrude Smith's private school, then later attended the Dr. Pingry school in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His education was completed by a thorough technical course in the Columbia College School of Mines, from which he was graduated in 1896. He then entered upon the work of civil engineering in Perth Amboy. Following a period of work in the immediate vicinity, Mr. Rossi did construction work all over the East, handling many important projects at different points. Later he became associated with the Raritan Hollow and Porus Brick Company. Then his work broadened, and he was called to many different sections throughout Canada and the Middle West, where large construction operations were in progress. On January I, 1920, he • formed his present business connection with the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company. During the recent World War, Mr. Rossi had charge of much special experimental work in connection with the use of high explosives and the loading of shells. He has served the city as alderman from the First Ward.
Mr. Rossi married, in Perth Amboy, Mildred L. Allen, daughter of Charles L. Allen. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Mr. Allen died there, and Mrs. S. J. Allen, Mrs. Rossi's mother, now makes her home with her daughter's family. Mr. and Mrs. Rossi are the parents of six children, four of whom are living. Their children are: Phyllis, Fred, Helene, deceased; Auguste Jacques, deceased; Inez and Mildred.
Personally, Mr. Rossi is preeminently an outdoor man, fond of sports and all open air pursuits. He has a keen eye for good sailing craft, and takes the greatest delight in an occasional fishing trip.
 
LOUIS MANSFIELD ROSSI, one of the successful citizens of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he is manager of the General Bakelite Company; and has long been prominent in business circles as an industrial chemist, was born August 3, 1877, in Flushing, Long Island. He is a son of James Camille and Caroline A. (Frame) Rossi (q. v.).
Louis Mansfield Rossi passed the greater part of his childhood in Perth Amboy, to which place his parents removed when he was but four years of age, and as a little boy attended the private school of Miss Gertrude Smith, where he gained his elementary education. Later he became a pupil at the Pingry School of Elizabeth, New Jersey, and there was prepared for college. In early youth he had taken a keen interest in chemistry and other scientific studies, and after graduation from the latter institution in 1895 entered the School of Mines of Columbia University and was graduated from there with the class of 1899 as a mining engineer. Even before completing his education he had earned his first money during vacations acting as a surveyor for C. C. Hommann, at that time city surveyor of Perth Amboy. After his graduation, however, he secured a permanent position with the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company and remained with that concern one year. His next connection was wall' the National Fireproofing Company, which continued for a similar period, when he undertook the task of building the plant of the Perth Amboy Chemical Works. Upon the completion of the plant he remained with the same concern as manager, his connection with it continuing from 1903 to 1908. In the latter year he was employed by the Roessler & Hanslacher Chemical Company in research work, and continued to be thus occupied for about two years. It was in the year 1910 that the General Bakelite Company was incorporated in Perth Amboy, and Mr. Rossi was asked to become its general manager, a position which he accepted and which he has continuously held ever since. This concern has flourished greatly up to the present time, and its growth has been due in no small measure to the capable conduct of its affairs by Mr. Rossi, who has displayed a remarkable talent for organization and executive work and an unusual degree of good business judgments Mr. Rossi has also taken an active part in the development of the Raritan Trust Company of Perth Amboy, and is a director of that flourishing financial institution. He is a conspicuous figure in the general life of the community, and is a member of a large number of organizations of both a public and private. character. During the five years between 1910 and 19I5 he was a member of the local Board of Education, and is now affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of 'Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the American Society for Testing Materials, the American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Electro Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry, the East Jersey Club, the Colonia Country Club, and the Perth Amboy Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a firector. In his religious belief he is a Roman Catholic and attends St. Mary's Church of that denomination in Perth Amboy. Mr. Rossi 114s always been fond of out-door athletic sports, and during his youth took particular pleasure in boating. Of recent years this has been to a large extent superseded by golf, of which he is at present an enthusiastic devotee.
Louis Mansfield Rossi was united in marriage, June 8, 1907, at Perth Amboy, with Agnes Geraldine Langan, a native of that place, born April a, 1879, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Archer) Langan, both of whom are now deceased. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rossi, as follows: Margaret Archer, born May 13, 1908, and Thomas Langan, born December 11, 1910.


PETER CHRISTIAN OLSEN, numbered among the citizens of Perth Amboy who have reached a position of influence in the business life of the community, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 17, 1884 the son of Lauritz and Ane Marie Olsen. In 1891 he came to this country with his parents and three brothers, the family settling in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he received a public school education. He has always manifested a keen practical interest in everything tending to the civic development and progress of the city of his adoption. Mr. Olsen is treasurer and general manager of the South Amboy Terra Cotta Company since 1904. From the time of his connection with this corporation he has been a potent factor in its development into a national factor in the terra cotta industry. He is a director and vice-president of the Perth Amboy Trust Company, treasurer of the Mathol Investment Company, and president of the National Terra Cotta Society. Mr. Olsen has served as chairman of the Perth Amboy Harbor Commission two terms. During the World War he was attached to the toluol division, high explosives section, ordnance department, of the United States army. At the conclusion of the war he was commissioned captain in the United States Army Reserve Corps. Mr. Olsen is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, American Ceramic Society, and the Raritan Yacht Club of Perth Amboy, which organization he has served as commodore for two terms.
On November 3, 1911, Mr. Olsen was united in marriage with Frances Laura Burke, daughter of Charles and Harriet (Reed) Burke, of Naples, New York. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen reside at No. 69 Water street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Business address is No. Iso Nassau street, New York.
 
BERTRAM B. SMITH, numbered among the best known dentists of New Brunswick, New Jersey, has made for himself a position of prominence in his chosen profession. Though not a native of New Brunswick, Dr. Smith has resided here since 1906, and has become thoroughly identified with her leading interests.
John Christian Smith, father of Bertram B. Smith, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1851, on the old homestead which was originally purchased by his grandfather then He spent his entire life on the farm, and died there, September. 9, 1917. He married Linda M. Mellinger, whose Grandfather Galloway served. as a colonel in the Revolutionary War. Her father, Dr. David Mellinger, was one of the most prominent physicians in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he had practiced many years, and died at the age of ninety-seven years. He was a Republican in politics, and was active in public life. Dr. Mellinger was a friend of Abraham Lincoln, and was invited by Mr. Lincoln to accompany him on one of his speaking campaigns. Linda M. (Mellinger) Smith died January 27, 1917.
To John C. and Linda M. (Mellinger) Smith seven children were born: Elsie M., wife of Dr. G. C. McBrude, of Newark, New Jersey; Bessie C., wife of W. H. Kelly, of East Orange, New Jersey; Lucy, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Arthur D., a dentist in East Orange, New Jersey; Bertram B., of further mention; Jennie M., wife of Harrison Nolt, a farmer of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; Phoebe M., wife of Harry Metcalf, of Newark, New Jersey.
John Christian Smith's grandfather, also John Christian Smith by name, and a German by birth, came to this country and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, while five of his brothers settled in Virginia. He was one of the founders of the United Brethren church of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Bertram B. Smith, son of John Christian and Linda M. (Mellinger) Smith, was born on the old homestead in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1884. He attended the public schools of his native place, after which he worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when, having decided to adopt the profession of dentistry for his life's career, he studied in Newark, New Jersey, later coming to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he began to practice his profession, October 3, 1906. In 1915, having previously matriculated at Maryland University, he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.
On August is, 1917, Dr. Smith was commissioned first lieutenant in the United States army and spent eleven months in France. He was honorably discharged from the service, July 29, 1919. In politics Dr. Smith is a Republican, giving to the affairs of this organization the interest demanded of every good citizen. He affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. In his religious belief he is an Episcopalian.
Dr. Smith married, September 2, 1911, Edythe A. Sevenair, daughter of the late Charles and Sarah (Outcault) Sevenair, of Milltown, New Jersey. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have no children. They reside at No. 41 Lincoln avenue, Highland Park. Dr. Smith's offices are located at No. 115 Albany street, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
 
SAMUEL EAKIN SHULL.—Among the representative citizens of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, there is none better known than Samuel Eakin Shull, the distinguished scholar and educator, who has for a quarter of a century served as the efficient superintendent of the schools of that city. Mr. Shull comes of a good old Pennsylvania family and was born in that State, January 26, 1859, in the town of Martins Creek. He is a son of Elias and Margaret (Eakin) Shull, the former a prosperous farmer of Martins Creek, where he came to be a prominent figure in the local public life and at one time represented his district in the State Legislature.
The childhood of Mr. Shull was spent at his native place, where as a 1;14 he attended the local public schools and received his elementary education. He later became a student of the State Normal School at Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and still later studied in the Blairstown Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey. After completing his preparation for college at the last named institution, he marticulated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, where he took the classical course and was graduated in the year 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1908 his alma 'miter conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in recognition of his eminent services in the cause of education. Immediately after graduation from Lafayette College, Mr. Shull entered the profession which has since formed his life's work and for three years taught in the country schools of his native State and of Alabama. At the end of that time he was appointed superintendent of the schools of South Easton, Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity for a period of fourteen years. In the meantime Mr. Shull had made an enviable reputation both as an educator of talent and ability and a practical administrator, and in 1895 was appointed to his present post of superintendent of the Perth Amboy, New Jersey, schools. Since then he has devoted himself with the most indefatigable energy and singleness of mind to the development and improvement of the institutions under his care, and it has been almost entirely due to his good judgment and skill that they have increased so greatly in size, efficiency and scope of usefulness. His active and effective interest in the welfare of the youth of Perth Amboy has never flagged, and his services in their behalf well merited the general recognition they have received. Another manner in which he has contributed to the same result has been through the influence he has exerted upon the. city Public Library in the capacity of trustee, for this institution has also benefited highly from his learning and good judgment and become in the last few years a potent factor in raising the educational and cultural standard of the community. Mr. Shull was also a member of the board of governors of the Perth Amboy City Hospital, and there also added materially to the debt which is owed him by the community. Mr. Shull is a conspicuous figure in the social and fraternal life of Perth Amboy, and is a member of Raritan Lodge, No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and of Columbia Lodge, No. 139, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and has served as noble grand in the latter organization. He and his family are Presbyterian in religious belief and attend the First Church of that denomination at Perth Amboy. '
Samuel Eakin Shull was united in marriage, August 23, 1884, in Easton, Pennsylvania, with Laura Catherine Houck, a daughter of Amos and Louisa (Meyers) Houck, highly esteemed residents of 'that city. Mr. and Mrs. Shull are the parents of two children, as follows : John Vergil, born September 3, 1885, and Margaret Lucretia, born March 18, 1902.
 
JAMES LAWRENCE BRAIDWOOD.—Combining utility and art in his attractive Gift and Art Shop on Smith street, Perth Amboy, James Lawrence Braidwood turns out many interesting bits of work to beautify the homes of the city.
The Braidwood family is of Scottish origin ; and Mr. Braidwood's father, John Braidwood, was born in Scotland, September 14, 1824. He came to America alone in 1849, and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, obtaining employment as a block cutter. Later, for a period of ten years, he lived in Chicago, Illinois. He then changed his place of residence to New Jersey and located in New Brunswick, where he died, December 12, 1897, having passed his seventy-third year. He married Jane Lawrence, who was also born in Scotland. She died in Chicago. They were the parents of two children, of whom John D. Braidwood, now retired, and living in California, is the elder. He has two children.
James Lawrence Braidwood was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 18, 1862. Going with his parents to Chicago, in 1869, he received the greater portion of his education in the public schools of that city. Returning to the East in 1879, the family took up their residence in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the young man went to work for Janeway & Company, manufacturers of wall papers. Here he remained for sixteen years, becoming thoroughly familiar with the business, and incidentally learning considerable about those allied lines of business which cover the field of interior decoration. In association with his •father, Mr. Braidwood started in the block cutting business in New Brunswick, in the Home News building, but followed this only for three years. He then came to Perth Amboy and opened a picture store, making a specialty of framing. Being an excellent craftsman, and possessing fine and discriminating taste, he has made a success of the business from the first. The modest beginning was made in 1907. Now Braidwood's .Gift and Art Shop, at No. s Smith street, !s a delightful spot to visit, and specimens of its work are on the walls of the finest homes and public buildings in this section. Mr. Braidwood has been a member of the Knights of Pythias for a great many years, and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
Mr. Braidwood married, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sarah A. Wood, daughter of James and Mary (Stevens) Wood. Her father was bbrn in Ireland, and her mother in England. Both are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Braidwood are the parents of three children, all living: Chester A., born September 27, 1885; Ernest S., born February z6, 1887; Leslie L., born September 13, 1896. Chester A. and Leslie L. are residents of Perth Amboy, and the latter is engaged in the upholstering business; Ernest S. lives in Somerville, New Jersey. All are married. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
 
ANTHONY GRUESSNER, M D.—Anthony Gruessner is the possessor of a combination of racial characteristics; on his father's side he is of Hungarian ancestry, partaking largely of the Teutonic strain, while from his mother's side he inherits Jewish blood, she being of Hebrew extraction.
Jacob John Gruessner, father of Anthony Gruessner, was born in Hungary, in 1849, but in after years he came to America, locating in New York City, where he died, in 1905. His wife was Serena Adler, born also in Hungary, in 11849. She is still living, and resides in Schenectady. In this family there were eight children: Armand; Bella; Anna; Anthony, of whom further; Albert; Regina; Alexander, a sketch of whom follows; and Nicholas. While living in Hungary, Jacob John Gruessner had been the proprietor of a wine-producing business and continued in the same line after emigrating to the United States.
Anthony Gruessner, son of Jacob John and Serena (Adler) Gruessner, was born October 9, 188o, in GylingyOs, County of Heves, Hungary. He attended the public school there for four years, then entered the convent school, taking four years' training in the gymnasium attached to it. Shortly after this his family migrated to this country, and taking up their residence in New York City, the young man had the advantage of four years' further tuition in the high school, following that with one year at Paine's Business College, in New York City. Mr. Gruessner's next step forward was to become a student at the medical school of the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, from which, after four years of constant application, he graduated as Doctor of Medicine. After graduation he spent three years in hospital work as interne. The doctor gives special attention to surgery, in which he excels.
During the World War Dr. Gruessner volunteered for service and was made a captain in the medical corps. His term of service was front August, 1917, to January, 1919, and was confined to the United States, as he did not have the opportunity of going abroad.
Dr. Gruessner is connected with many organizations in New Brunswick; in the way of business, with the People's National Bank, and in social relations with New Brunswick Lodge, No. 324, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His connection with military societies is quite extensive, being a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States of America; the Society of American Officers of the World War; and of the American Legion. Dr. Gruessner is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Science, of the County and State Medical societies, and of the American Medical Association.
Though Dr. Gruessner's father was in religious faith a Roman Catholic, and his mother of Hebraic origin, he has become affiliated with the Magyar Reformed Church of New Brunswick. Dr. Gruessner is unmarried ; he maintains an office at No. 153 Somerset street.
 
ALEXANDER GRUESSNER.—Many of the patrons of Walker Brothers' Hotel, at No. 4 French street, New Brunswick, have frequently commented upon the well equipped drug store which occupies a portion of the ground floor of that building. The owner of this pharmacy is Alexander Gruessner, and he asserts with pride that it is the best in Middlesex county, taking great care to keep it up to a high standard.
Alexander Gruessner, son of John Jacob and Serena (Adler) Gruessner (q. v.), is a native of Hungary, though he has never known any other country but America as a home, being brought here while still an infant. He was born in Hungary, October 9, 1886. He received a good education in the public schools of New York City, and at eighteen years of age took a course in business training at a business college. After this he entered the employ of the General Electric Company, of Schenectady, New York, remaining with them for five years. Mr. Gruessner left this concern to accept a position in a drug store in the same city. Finding this a congenial occupation, he studied pharmacy, and two years later, in 1911, he obtained a license to conduct business in the State of New Jersey. He settled in New Brunswick, opening a store at No. 16 French street, later removing to No. 143 Albany street. The business continued to prosper and he determined, to open up a store in a larger field, so he secured the present location, at No. 4 French street, in August, 1920. The store has a space of 23x120 feet, modern in every particular, where everything in the drug line is dispensed.
Out-door sports and athletics generally are favorite pastimes with Mr. Gruessner, but if he has a hobby it is tennis, and when business permits he may frequently be found upon the courts. He is also interested in fraternal matters, being a member of the local lodge of Free Masons, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
In New Brunswick, February 23, 1913, Alexander Gruessner and Esther Schwartz were united in matrimony. Miss Schwartz, daughter of Herman and Malvina Schwartz, was born in New Brunswick, and has always resided there, her father being a cigar manufacturer of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Gruessner have one child, Mildred Pauline, born April 15, 1917. The family residence is at No. 129 Codwise avenue.
 
MERRITT JOSEPH McALINDEN, junior member of the firm of Kelly & McAlinden, dealers in plumbers' supplies at No. 74 Smith street, Perth Amboy, has since coming to this city identified himself with her business interests, and as a good citizen as well as an able business man he is ever ready to cooperate in the philanthropic enterprises of his adopted city.
Merritt McAlinden, father of Merritt J. McAlinden, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and died in Buffalo, New York, June 30, 1906. In 1868 he moved to the latter city and there became the superintendent of Hall & Sons' brick factory, which position he was holding at the time of his death. He married Bridget Hendrick, who died in Buffalo, -New York, May 24, 1914. They were the parents of six children : Merritt J., of further mention ; John W., Katherine, Evelyn, Ethel, Florence.
Merritt Joseph McAlinden was born in Buffalo, New York, December 18, 1880, the son of Merritt and Bridget (Hendrick) McAlinden. After graduating from the Buffalo Central High School in 1898, he was engaged in the lumber business for a while, and in 1906 came to Perth Amboy to succeed his uncle in the firm of Kelly & McAlinden, dealers in plumbers' supplies, in which capacity he has since been engaged. Mr. McAlinden is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church of Perth Amboy. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Raritan Yacht Club. His hobby is boating. Merritt Joseph McAlinden might well be called one of the prominent business men of Perth Amboy. Such he is in the highest sense, for as a business man he has established an unassailable reputation for fair dealing, and his record speaks for itself with a distinctness not to be misunderstood. Mr. McAlinden married, September 1, 1920, Ethel Holman, of Hopewell, New Jersey.
 
CHARLES SPENCER THOMPSON, D. V. S.—As a veterinary surgeon, Dr. Thompson is well established in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and prior to his locating there he had practiced in Rahway, not far from his present field of activity. He is a son of Robert and Henrietta Isabelle (Noble) Thompson, his father born in New York State, his mother in Newark, New Jersey. Both parents are deceased, Mr. Thompson dying in New Windsor, New York; Mrs. Thompson in Rahway, New Jersey. They were the parents of one child, Charles S.
Charles S. Thompson was born in New Windsor, New York, March 30, 1883, but when he -was an infant his family moved their home to Newark, New Jersey, where he was educated in the public schools. After high school graduation he entered the veterinary department of the University of New York, and thence was graduated D. V. S., class of 1904. He began professional practice in Newark,•but remained for a short time only, finding a more desirable location in Rahway, where he continued in successful practice for ten years. In 1915 he located in Perth Amboy, his present home and office at No. 8i Market street. He is also health officer of the city. He is an Independent in politics, and a man highly regarded by his many friends and patrons. He is fond of all wholesome out-of-doors sports, hunting and fishing his particular pleasures. He is a member of the Masonic order, an honorary member of the fire department, and affiliates with the First Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Thompson married, in Rahway, New Jersey, October 20, 1908, Harriet Mansfield Crowell, born in Rahway, daughter of Harvey Dayton and Emily (Baker) Crowell, both deceased, her mother passing away in December, 1918. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of two children ; Virginia, born April 2, 1910; and Robert Wallace, born September 23, 1914.

RICHARD F. WHITE, a prominent figure in the public life of Perth Amboy, is serving in the capacity of postmaster. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 8, 1872, the son of Patrick and Mary White, of Perth Amboy. His father was the founder of a large foundry in Perth Amboy, and died here in 1916; the company is now known as Patrick White & Sons.
Richard F. White attended the public schools of Perth Amboy, and after attending a business college entered his father's foundry in Perth Amboy, during which time he learned every phase of the business. In 1907 he was appointed collector of revenue of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and in this way was naturally drawn into the field of public life, but fulfilled the duties of his incumbency .so ably that in 1916 he was appointed to his present position of postmaster, and later received a second commission. from President Wilson: In politics he is a staunch Demo-cat, and takes a keen Interest in civic affairs.- He is .a man of strict integrity and great firmness of purpose, and a tireless worker. He affiliates with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Perth Amboy Lodge, No. 784, and is past exalted ruler of the order; San Salvador Council, Knights of Columbus, Division No. 229, of which he is past grand knight ; and with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 3. He is also a member of the. Democratic Club of Perth Amboy, the Raritan Yacht Club, and the New. jersey Association of Postmasters. In religion he is a Roman Catholic and is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. .
Mr. White married Mary McClusky, a native of Perth Amboy, and resides at No: 18 Market street, Perth Amboy.
Richard F: White is a public-spirited citizen and keenly interested in everything pertaining to the progress of his native city.
 
ABEL HANSEN, owner of the great Fords Porcelain Works of Metuchen, New. Jersey, the largest establishment of its kind in the world, and one of the most influential citizens of Middlesex county, is a 'native of Denmark, his birth having occurred in the city of Copenhagen, August 7, 1863. He is a son of Hans C. and Marie (Thotnsen) Hansen. lifelong residents of Denmark, where the former was engaged in agricultural pursuits and still" resides, although he has reached the venerable age of eighty-eight years. The elder Mr. and Mrs. Hansen were the parents of seven sons as follows : Thomas, Jeppe, Anton, - Christian, -Abel with'. whose career we are especially concerned; • Marius, and Morris. Of this family all the members with the exception of the Mr. Hansen of this sketch have remained in their native land and are today residents of Denmark.
The childhood of Abel Hansen was passed at his father's home in Copenhagen, arid it was there that he received his education, attending the local public schools for the purpose. He was graduated - from the Copenhagen High School with the class of 0479, and then served 'for three years in the Danish:army, rising. in that time to the rank of sergeant. The young man then . set about learning the manufacture and baking of clay, in which he soon became a proficient worker. For nine. Years he worked continuously at the trade in Esberg, Denmark, and • then, having perfected himself in all its details, came to the United States and located in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he secured employment with the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Company. After two and a half years spent with that concern he was offered a better position' with the Standard Terra Cotta Works of the same city and remained.there for some sixteen years. In the meantime, by dint of economy and constant industry, Mr. Hansen had amassed a sufficient capital to make it possible. for him to engage in business on his own account, and accordingly in the year 1906 he established the Fords. Porcelain Work's in -Perth Amboy; of which he has remained at the head ever since. The new enterprise. met with notable success from the outset, and from, that time to the present the business has grown and prospered, addition after addition being added to the original plant until today it is the largest Porcelain Washtray Works in the world. The great growth of the concern and its present prosperity under the management of Mr. Hansen has been due entirely to his expert knowledge of the art of making porcelain and to his unusual talent for business affairs and his organizing genius. He has never departed from the high standard of business ethics which he originally set himself, and today his reputation for fair and honest dealing and for the quality of his wares and the service he accords his patrons have given him a reputation second to no industrial house of the entire region. Mr. Hansen, besides the conduct of his Jwn great business, has participated most actively in the general business and commercial life of the community in which he has elected to make his home, and he is at the present time prominently associated with several of the most important financial institution's in Perth Amboy. He is president of Fords National Bank, vice-president of the Raritan Trust Company, treasurer of the Perth Amboy Building and Loan Association, and president of the People's Building and Loan Association, all of Perth Amboy. He is president of the New Jersey Clay Workers' Association, and a member of the local lodges of the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of some thirty other organizations, fraternal and otherwise. His clubs arc the New York Athletic, the Raritan Yacht, and the East Jersey. He has also been exceedingly active in public affairs, and for a time was a member of the Excise Board of Perth Amboy. During the World War he took part in various activities necessitated by the great struggle, and served as food administrator of this district.
Abel Hansen was united in marriage, December 21, 180, in Perth Amboy, with Caroline Broderson,. of that city. They are the parents of four children, as follows: Harry, a graduate of Rutgers College, who met his death while serving his country in the late war; Etna, now a student in Smith College; Lynda, also a student in Smith College; and Irving, now attending the Rutgers Preparatory School.
 
FREDERICK BARNETT KILMER, director of the Scientific Laboratories of Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, was born in- Chapinville, Connecticut, December i s, 1851, the son of Charles and Mary Ann (Langdon) Kilmer. Charlee Kilmer was a lay preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years.
The elementary education of the boy Frederick B. was obtained in the public schools of Binghamton, New York, after which he entered Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pennsylvania, subsequently entering the New York College of Pharmacy. He also took special courses in chemistry at Columbia, Yale and Rutgers, and also a special course • under Hoffman. In igeo the degree of Master in Pharmacy was conferred by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. His early. practical experience in the drug business was gained at Binghamton, New York ; Plymouth, Pennsylvania ; and Morristown, New Jersey ; after which he came to New Brunswick and until i899 owned and managed a drug store on his own account. That year he severed his private business connections and became director of the Scientific Laboratories of Johnson & Johnson, where he has since continued.
Medicinal plant cultivation has been a favorite study with him, and his horticultural as well as chemical studies have added materially to the knowledge of ginger, kola, papaw, belladonna and other plants. He was one of the earliest advocates of the first aid movement, and is the author of Johnson's Standard First Aid Manual, In politics he is a Republican, and as president of the New Brunswick Roird of Health, advisor of the New Jersey State Board of Health, and as a member of the American Public Health Association, he has been able to Put into practice many plans for the solution of water and milk supply problems. Dr. Kilmer holds membership professionally in many scientific associations: British Society of Chemical Industry; Royal Society of Arts, London ; North British Academy of Arts ; New Brunswick Historical Society; New Brunswick Scientific Society; American Chemical Society; American Institute Chemical Engineers; American Public Health Association ; vice-president of the American Drug Manufacturer's Association; American Pharmaceutical Association; Society of Economic Biologists of England; the Institute Arzenmittelhere of Braunschweig; Societe Quimica Agricola of Buenos Ayers; and the Institute of Jamaica. His clubs are the Chemists' of New York City and the Union of New Brunswick. In religion he affiliates with Christ Episcopal Church, of which he is a vestryman, and is also a member of the standing committee of the Diocese of New Jersey.
On December 25, 1874 Frederick Barnett Kilmer was united in marriage at Sunbury, Pennsylvania, with Annie E. Kilburn, daughter of Anda and Ellen (Smith) Kilburn. To them were born the following children: Anda Frederick, January 12, 1873, deceased; Ellen Annie, September 12, 1875, deceased; Charles Willoughby, March 17, 188o, deceased; Alfred Joyce, December 6, 1886, killed in action during the World War, July 3o, 1918.
 
WILLIAM LONDON, M. D.—Among the younger generation of physicians of Middlesex county is William London, who, although having been in private practice but a short time, has already made a name for himself as a specialist in children's diseases. Not only has he won the regard of his brethren of the profession, but he is also gaining the confidence of a large clientele as well.
William London was born in Newark, New Jersey, December 27, 1896, the son of Solomon Bernard and Bertha (Featherman) London. His father was born in New York City and is now engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Perth Amboy. Dr. London received his preparatory education in the public schools of Perth Amboy. Then followed one year of pre-medical course at New York University, after which he matriculated at the Medical College of the university and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating in 1918 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After serving one year on the house staff of Gouverneur Hospital, New York City, he became resident physician of the Pediatric Service of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital until 1920, when equipped with the experience gathered in hospital work, he came to his present location, No. 256 State street, Perth Amboy, where he has since remained, limiting his practice to the diseases of infants and children, and carving out for himself a place in the front rank of the county's younger physicians and surgeons.
On January t, 1920, Dr. London was appointed attending physician to the out-patient department, pediatric service, of the Nursery and Child's Hospital of New York City, attending physician to the Perth Amboy Baby Keep-Well Station, Department of Child Hygiene of State of New Jersey ; attending physician to the Perth Amboy Day Nursery; appointed a member of the auxiliary staff of the Perth Amboy City Hospital, March, 1921. He is a member of the Zeta Beta Tau intercollegiate fraternity, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the Middlesex County Medical Society, the American Child Hygiene Association, Middlesex County Professional Guild, and the New York University Alumni Association. During the World War he was appointed first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States army. His hobby is swimming. Dr. London is unmarried.
 
DANIEL W. CLAYTON.- On November 8, 1911, when the citizens of Middlesex county elected Daniel W. Clayton to the office of surrogate they chose a man whom all knew to be the right man in the right place. Fitted for the position by nine years spent in the surrogate's office as deputy under Surrogate Peter F. Daly, Mr. Clayton's record needed no exploitation, as nearly every man in Middlesex county could speak, from personal experience, of his efficient work, courteous manner and sympathetic treatment of every case which he was called upon to meet.
Born September 4, 1858, upon his father's farm, the old Maple Lawn homestead of .the Clayton family, situated at Prospect Plains in Monroe township, Middlesex county, New Jersey, Daniel W. Clayton spent all the early years of his life, assisting his father in the work of the farm and in acquiring an education in the old Church public school during the months between harvest time and the planting season.
Upon reaching the age of twenty-two years, Mr. Clayton gave up farming and started out to seek employment in some other line of business. His first position was as salesman in D. C. Perrine's general store at Freehold, New Jersey, later becoming bookkeeper and cashier. He next became a salesman in the dress goods department of Edward Ridley & Sons, dry goods dealers on Grand street, New York. After gaining considerable experience there, Mr. Clayton came back to Middlesex county, New Jersey, settling in South Ambo.: and opening a general store in partnership with a Mr. Hulitt, the firm being known as Clayton & Hulitt. While engaged in this business the death of the elder Mr. Clayton necessitated the return of his son to his birthplace, and rather than permit the old Maple Lawn homestead to pass into the hands of strangers Daniel W. Clayton gave up his career and again became a tiller of the soil. The house was built by the elder Mr. Clayton just after his marriage and he lived there all his life. He was born January TO, 1826, and died March 1, 1884, at Maple Lawn homestead. In his early youth he had learned the carpenter's trade, but abandoned it to take up farming. The ancestry of the Clayton family is supposed to be Scotch, two brothers of that name having come to this country from Scotland on the "Mayflower."
While residing at Maple Lawn, Mr. Clayton took an active interest in political affairs, being a member of the Democratic party. For fourteen years he served as clerk on the Board of Education, that being the first board chosen in Monroe township, part of that time being also clerk of the Board of Freeholders, serving on both boards. He afterward became deputy surrogate. In 191 I, when Daniel W. Clayton was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the office of surrogate, he was elected by a majority of fifteen hundred, being reelected in November, 1916, when the Republicans carried the county by .two thousand. In his official capacity he has always extended to those in search of information such assistance as lay within his power, and from one end of the county to the other it is nothing unusual to hear the people say "Go to Daniel Clayton and he will tell you."
Mr. Clayton is a director of the First National Bank of Cranbury, New Jersey. He is also a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, being president of the board of trustees of the church. In fraternal affairs, Mr. Clayton is as actively interested as he is in politics. He is a past master of Apollo Lodge, No. t56, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cranbury, New Jersey, and a past councillor of Cranbury Council, No. 6o, Junior Order of United American Mechanics ; also past deputy State councillor. For many years Mr. Clayton has taken a leading part in all educational matters in his section of the State; he was one of the founders of the Middlesex County School Board Association and has been the treasurer of it since its organization. Mr. Clayton and the• various members of his family all reside in and around Cranbury, New Jersey.
On November 17, 1885, Daniel W. Clayton married Katie J. Applegate, the daughter of Abijah and Sarah J. Applegate, of New York City. Two children have been born of this marriage: I. Bertram S., proprietor of a hay, grain arid produce company at Cranbury. 2. Arthur A., a farmer, living at Staple Lawn homestead in Monroe township.