Horace T. Brumley

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Horace T. Brumley

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

In any compilation concerning the life histories of those who have lived in Morris county, New Jersey, there is signal propriety in according a memoir of the late Horace T. BRUMLEY, of Hanover township. Upon his record in the business world, and as a man among men, there has never been cast the slightest shadow of wrong. His father, Joseph BRUMLEY, was a farmer in Montville, Connecticut.

Horace T. BRUMLEY was born in Montville, New London county, Connecticut, died in Hanover township, Morris county, New Jersey, April 23, 1910. He was educated in the schools of New London, Connecticut, and at the age of sixteen years obtained a clerkship in the Howard Savings Bank, of Newark, New Jersey, with which institution his entire business career was identified most closely. He was advanced consecutively and steadily, until at the time of his death he had been for a number of years at the head of this institution as its president. Throughout his entire business career he was looked upon as a model of integrity and honor, never making an engagement of promise whose provisions he did not fulfill, and standing as an exemplification of what may be accomplished by determination and resolute force in a man of intrinsic ability and strength of character – a character dominated by the highest principles. He was a director of the National Newark Bank, treasurer of the Fairmount cemetery, vice president of the Newark Provident Loan Association and director in the American Insurance Company. Politically he was a Republican, and he was a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Mr. BRUMLEY married, in 1878, Irene, born in Newark, daughter of Robert J. BALDWIN, and they had children: Mary C., married Arthur Bates PAULMIER, of Madison, and has children: Horace Brumley and Arthur BATES Jr.; Joan D, married William O. COOPER, now of Maplewood; Helen, married Warren H. BALDWIN, of Boonton and has twins: Edward Estle and Irene.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)