George B. Atwood

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George B. Atwood

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

A resident of Pompton Plains, Morris county, New Jersey, George B. ATWOOD, the genial hotel proprietor, is recognized as one of the most able business men of the county. His sagacity and foresight enable him to conduct his enterprise successfully, and his indomitable energy and undaunted per severance have won him the prosperity that numbers him among the substantial citizens of the community. He has not alone advanced his individual interests, but has done much towards promoting the general welfare.

His father, George H. ATWOOD was, was the manufacturer of the F. and C. Collar, and spent his entire life in Hackensack, his death occurring about 1902 at the age of sixty-four years. He was first master of Pioneer Lodge, Free and Accepted Mason’s of Hackensack, also member of Palestine Commandery. He married Lucy S. BURT and had six children: Lucy H., George B., Harriet, William, Leland M., Hortense W.

George B. ATWOOD was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1872, and there attended the public schools. After leaving them he became a student at St. John’s Academy, and subsequently matriculated at Princeton University, New Jersey. Upon the completion of this liberal education he engaged in business with his father in the collar manufacturing, remaining for three years and then became an importer of coffee, his office being at No. 82 Front street, New York City, under firm name of A. B. DAVIS & Company. He was identified with this for sixteen years, and in 1910 removed to Pompton Plains, where he purchased a farm of fifty-four acres. He devotes considerable time to the raising of pigs, and raises large crops of alfalfa. As the proprietor of the Mandeville Inn Mr. ATWOOD has gained far more than a merely local reputation. The hotel contains thirty-eight rooms, all furnished regardless of expense, and with superlative good taste has all the most modern improvements, and is fully up-to-date in every particular. Mr. ATWOOD makes a specialty of serving rare delicacies, and the cuisine is said to compare favorably with that of the finest hotels on Broadway, New York. He caters to a private trade exclusively, excluding commercial patronage, and his hotel is the Mecca for numerous automobile parties. It is pronounced by competent authorities to be the only place of its kind in the State of New Jersey. In political adherence Mr. ATWOOD is a Republican, and he has served as a member of the common council of Hackensack.. He is a member of the Hackensack Lodge, No. 658, B. P. O. E. Mr. ATWOOD affiliates with the Episcopal church, and sang at Christ Church, Hackensack; First Presbyterian Church, Newark; and at various other churches. He studied vocal music with TAMARO, Florence MULFORD, - HUNT, and took lessons on the pipe organ with Dudley BUCK and L. Carroll BECKEL. He has given much attention to oratorio work. He is a member of Union League of Hackensack, also Union League of Newark.

Mr. ATWOOD married Laura A. STIRRED, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. They have no children.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)