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FRANK B. HELLER
The insurance fraternity of the city of Newark, New Jersey, is ably represented by Frank B. Heller, secretary of the firm known as Louis Schlesinger, Inc., whose ability as a business man has been amply demon- strated greatly to the benefit of the city in a variety of enterprises. Mr. Heller was born in Newark, May 12, 1878, son of Henry K. and Amelia (Peal) Heller, the latter a direct descendant of the old Peal family of the state. Ilis father was well known in the business life of New York City and Newark, being an importer of precious stones, and senior partner in the firm of Heller & Bardel.
Frank B. Heller attended the public and high schools of his native city, and was graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1894. Being thus finely equipped for the battle of life by a good education, he at once commenced his business career, and accepted a position with the Merchants' Insurance Company of Newark, with whom he remained for a period of eight years. He came to the conclusion that a business life which gave him more opportunities for being out-of-doors would be more satisfactory, and accordingly formed a connection as traveling salesman
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with the firm of Lebkuecher Company, silversmiths, and was associated with this firm until October 3, 1903, when he became identified with the firm with which he is associated at the present time. They are in the real estate and insurance business, and Mr. Heller has full charge of the insurance department, and under his capable management it has grown to huge proportions. He is also a director of a number of building and loan associations, being treasurer of the Sixteenth Ward Building and Loan Association.
He is a member of the following organizations: Kane Lodge, No. 55, Free and Accepted Masons; Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons; Kane Council, No. 2, Royal and Select Masters; Damascus Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, and the Royal Arcanum. He has earned the esteem of those with whom he has had business relations as a man of integrity and honest, reliable methods, and in the social world he is no less highly valued. He married Catherine Adele Blum, daughter of Mayor Abram Blum, of Nutley, New Jersey, and they have one daughter, Myra Clara, aged six years.
SAMUEL GAISER
Samuel Gaiser, who has for a number of years filled one of the responsi- ble positions in the organization of the Board of Education, is a native of Newark. His formal education began with his attendance at the Webster Street Grammar School, from which he was promoted to the High School in which he entered the Commercial Department. Having received here a thorough training in the branches especially required in business, he left school to enter the office of John C. Blevney, a manufacturer of machinery in Newark. He obtained this position in 1885, and showed at once such a natural aptitude and ability that in a very short time he was entrusted with the general supervision of the shop work, thereby gaining an invaluable amount of information of the subject, and an experience of the details of the practical work which was hardly to be over-estimated. From 1891 to 1895 he was connected with the cabinet manufacturing business which included also painting, paperhanging, printing and stationery.
In 1895 he received the appointment as Assistant Secretary of tho Board of Education, and in 1910 was made the Superintendent of Supplies for the school system. In this capacity he has charge of the purchase of all the supplies and materials required by the schools and the several depart- ments of the Board of Education, besides which he has charge of the neces- sary accounts. A Republican in his political views, Mr. Gaiser is also a member of the Northern Republican Club. He is in his religious affiliations a Presbyterian, being a member of the Fewsmith Memorial Presbyterian Church. IIe
is . Past Grand of Protection Lodge, No. 28, Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Past Master of Roseville Lodge No. 143, Free and Accepted Masons. He has also held office as trustee, and at the present time is serving as treasurer.
Mr. Gaiser married in 1897, Mary Caroline Hopper, of Carthage Land- ing, Dutchess county, New York.
JACOB L. NEWMAN
Jacob L. Newman, lawyer, born in the City of Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, February 13, 1875, son of Meier and Bella (Schwartz) Newman. Graduate of New York University as a Bachelor of Science in 1895, and as a Bachelor of Law in 1897. Admitted to the Bar of New Jersey as an
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attorney-at-law in 1897, and as a counsellor-at-law in 1900. Is a Supreme Court Commissioner appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a special Master in Chancery appointed by the Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. Ile married Flora Stern of Newburgh, New York, June 28, 1905.
While in attendance at the New York University Mr. Newman was elected Founder's Day Orator in his senior year. He is engaged in the general practise of law in Newark, New Jersey, and is a trial lawyer of distinctive ability. Is president of the Lawyers' Club of the Woodrow Wilson League, and a speaker of some note. A notable address by Mr. Newman on the career of Judah P. Benjamin has received extensive publicity and he has delivered many addresses and speeches before societies and public bodies, and has frequently acted as presiding officer of County and State political conventions. Is a member of the Progress Club of Newark, and a trustee of the Lawyers' Club. Is also a member of the Mountain Ridge Country Club and of the Joel Parker Association, and the Board of Trade.
Mr. Newman has been prominently mentioned for the office of Prosecu- tor of the Pleas of Essex County and other public positions of distinction and merit. He appeared before the New Jersey Senate in the year 1912 in the investigation of the charges of bribery against Senator Fitzherbert as counsel for Dr. Ridner, and associate counsel for Senator Fitzherbert.
Mr. Newman is noted for close application to all interests intrusted to his care and for the attention he gives to matters brought before him to further their speedy settlement, and the careful preparation of cases he takes into court for his clients. He is also counsel for numerous corpora- tions and building and loan associations and occupies a suite of offices in the new National State Bank Building, located at 810 Broad Street, and resides at 343 Clifton avenue, Newark, New Jersey.
WILLIAM BUERMANN, M.D.
Among those who have attained distinct prestige in the practice of medicine and surgery in the city of Newark, New Jersey, and whose success has come as the logical sequence of thorough technical information as enforced by natural predilection and that sympathy and tact which are the inevitable concomitants of precedence in the profession, is Dr. William Buermann, who has been in active practice since his graduation.
August Buermann, father of Dr. William Buermann, was born in Satten- hausen, near Goettingen, Germany, November 4, 1842. He is engaged in the manufacture of saddlery hardware, and is president of the August Buer- mann Manufacturing Company, Newark. He is also extensively interested in real estate matters, and was one of the first to develop the Clinton Hill section of Newark. He came to Newark in 1863, and shortly thereafter enlisted as a private in the Ninth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, serving under Major General John M. Schofield. He is one of the directors of the Clinton Trust Company, and his political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of the First German Baptist Church, and is serving as a trustee of that institution. He married, in Newark, New Jersey, April 3, 1868, Margarethe, born in Elpersheim, Wuertemberg, Germany, June 24, 1844, daughter of Michael Koenig, who was the burgomeister of Elpersheim for a period of thirty-three years. They had children: William (see for- ward); August, Jr., Henry, George, Walter, Robert; Marie, who married 11. 11. Schulte; Wilhelmina, who married Dr. G. N. Waite; Louise, who married W. C. Lawrence.
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Dr. William Buermann was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 23, 1875. His preparatory education was acquired in the Miller Street Primary School, the Chestnut Street Grammar School and the Newark High School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1893. He then matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, from which he was graduated in the class of 1896 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once established himself in the practice of his profession, after a year of hospital and clinical work in New York City. The success which has attended his efforts in the cause of suffering humanity has been amply attested by the extent of his practice. He is connected in a professional or other business capacity with a large number of organiza- tions, among them being the following: Vice-president and director of the Clinton Trust Company; ex-president of the Clinton Hill Improvement Asso- ciation; member of the Board of Trade of Newark; St. John's Lodge, No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons; Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; thirty- second degree Mason, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of which he is also medical director; Essex County Forest, T. C. L .; Carteret Tent, Knights of the Maccabees, of which he is medical examiner; Newark City Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, of which he is also medical examiner; Anthony Wayne Council, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; Wednesday Club, American Civic Association, National Geographic Society, Essex County Medical Association, New Jersey State Medical Society, American Medical Association, Newark Medical League, Medical Association of Greater New York, Academy of Northern New Jersey; trustee of the Public Welfare Committee, and trustee and president of the Brotherhood of the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church. He is attending physician at the Bethany Home for the Aged.
Dr. Buermann married, February 19, 1901, at Lorraine, New Jersey, Emma Amelia Bender, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, September 10, 1876. She is the daughter of John C. Bender, a wholesale provision dealer in Roselle Park, New Jersey. He was a freeholder formerly in Union county, and is now a councilman in Roselle Park borough. He married Josephine M. Peters, and they have had children: Josephine Margaret, Julia E., Emma Amelia, Charlotte J., Eva B., Elsie G. and Florence M. Dr. and Mrs. Buer- mann have children: Arthur William, born December 16, 1902, and John Richard, born December 2, 1911.
Dr. Buermann keeps thoroughly in touch with all advances made in the science of medicine and surgery, and it may be justly said of him that he is a leader of the forward movements, being closely analytical in his methods, discriminating and painstaking in his investigations, and ever signally alive to the welfare of his patients. Characteristics of this kind are of the utmost importance in the medical profession, and by means of the exercise of them Dr. Buermann has gained the confidence as well as the affection of his numerous patients.
In conjunction with his interest in the medical profession, Dr. Buer- mann has devoted considerable time to the welfare and betterment of the community in which he resides. He is a staunch advocate for the conserva- tion of health and the prevention of diseases, also for an æsthetic environ- ment and a progressively higher standard of citizenship in a community. These predominant factors have won to the Doctor many friends who have confidence in his integrity and predict for him a future of valued possibilities to his native town.
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ANDREW VAN BLARCOM
Andrew Van Blarcom, one of the rising lawyers of Newark, New Jersey, is a representative in the seventh generation of an old Dutch family which came to America from Blarcom or Blerkum, Holland, from which town the family name is derived. He is a son of Lewis and Mary (Thomson) Van Blarcom, the former, also an attorney, having served with distinction during the Civil War, in the course of which he lost a leg by amputation.
Mr. Van Blarcom was born in Newton, Sussex county, New Jersey, November 12, 1881. He was educated at the Collegiate Institute in his native town, read law with Coult & Howell, was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 1902, and as a counsellor in 1905. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Newark, New Jersey, in 1902, and has resided there since that time. The firm of Raymond, Mountain & Van Blarcom was formed September 1, 1908. January 1, 1910, Mr. Van Blar- com was appointed assistant prosecutor of Essex county.
His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and his religious with the Presbyterian church. He holds membership in the Essex, Lawyers' and Wednesday clubs of Newark.
Mr. Van Blarcom married, May 9, 1906, Sara Streit, daughter of Joseph M. Riker, and they have children: Andrew, Jr., Sarah Hunter and Mary Thomson.
HERBERT BELCHER BALDWIN
Herbert Belcher Baldwin, of Newark, New Jersey, who has been occupy- ing the important and responsible office of chemist of the Department of Public Health of the city, since 1890, is noted for the careful and conscien- tious methods which he has introduced, methods which are rigidly adhered to owing to the force of example set by Mr. Baldwin.
On both sides of his family Mr. Baldwin is of honored descent. He is a direct descendant of Benjamin Baldwin, one of the pioneer settlers of Newark, who came there from Branford, Connecticut, in 1667. Of his descendants, Samuel Baldwin married Mary Meeker, and their son, Samuel Ogden, was the father of the man whose name heads this sketch. This second Samuel was married to Theresa Maria Belcher, who was the daughter of Thomas Belcher who came from England and established the well known rule business which was afterward known as Belcher Brothers. They had children: Herbert Belcher, see forward; Samuel Harbourne, born in 1871, was graduated from the Newark Academy, Princeton University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Josiah Meeker, born in 1874, was graduated from the Newark Academy.
Herbert Belcher Baldwin was born in Newark, October 12, 1864, and was graduated from the Newark Academy in 1881. He afterward became a student at the Cooper Union Laboratory, New York, from which he grad- uated in 1885. In the same year he opened a laboratory for analytical chem- ical work in Newark, making a specialty of sanitary chemistry, and has been eminently successful in this line of work down to the present (1913) time. He served as professor of analytical chemistry in the New Jersey College of Pharmacy from 1900 to 1907; as chemist for the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission in 1896, and later in a similar capacity for the State Sewerage Commission. Mr. Baldwin is a member of numerous scientific organizations, among them being: The American Chemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
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Mr. Baldwin married in Newark, April 30, 1890, Ida Adolphine, daugh- ter of Herman and Adolphine (Balbach) Graf, the former a prosperous manufacturer of shoes and a member of the firm of L. Graf & Brother. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin: Dalton Graf, was graduated from the Newark Academy in 1910, and is now at Dartmouth College, a member of the class of 1914; Helen Belcher, was graduated from the Newark Seminary in 1911, is now at Wellesley College, a member of the class of 1915; Ruth Balbach, formerly a pupil of the Newark Seminary, is now a member of the class of 1914 of the Townsend School.
Mr. Baldwin may well feel proud of the reputation he has already achieved, as he is but at the commencement of the prime of life. His investigations in connection with the sewerage commissions were largely pioneer work in New Jersey, which has since proved of much value. Mr. Baldwin stands high in his profession and is frequently sought in con- sultation by others in a similar line of business. His aid is also often sought by prosecuting officials throughout the state in cases requiring chemical examinations and toxicological analysis in connection with criminal matters.
FREDERICK W. HANNAHS
Frederick W. Hannahs, president of the City Trust Company, and one of the prominent and influential men of Newark, actively connected with the grocery business for the long period of over forty years, was born at Exeter, Otsego county, New York, May 17, 1850, son of William C. and Delia (Cushman) Hannahs, natives of New York state, his father having been a commission merchant in New York City.
Frederick W. Hannahs acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of the neighborhood, and later was a student at the cele- brated Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. His early intention was to follow agriculture, and for a number of years he carried out this plan, removing from the county of Otsego to Somerset county, New Jersey, where he followed farming until 1871. He then removed to Newark, New Jersey, intending to embark in business, and secured a position with the firm of Wilkinson, Gaddis & Company, grocers, with branch stores in Asbury Park, Paterson and Perth Amboy. His first position was as clerk, and he was rapidly advanced to more responsible positions, this fact amply testifying to the confidence reposed in him by his employers. In 1886, when the firm was formed into a stock company, he was admitted to membership, later In the became a director, and in 1906 was appointed vice-president.
these traits added greatly to the success of the enterprise.
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interests necessitated his closest application to them, yet he found time to serve his community in many useful capacities. He was one of the orig- inators of the City Trust Company located at No. 122 Roseville avenue, in which he served first as director, then as member of the executive committee, and in 1907 was elected president, which office he is satis- factorily filling at the present time (1912). In 1897 he was elected presi- dent of the New York State Wholesale Grocers' Association, which office he held for twelve consecutive years. He was one of the original organizers of the National Wholesale Grocers' Association of the United States, organ-
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ized at Buffalo, New York, in 1906; was appointed vice-president of the organization and served in that capacity until June, 1910, and has been a member of its executive board since its organization. He is known in this association by the sobriquet of "The Old War Horse," a title applied to persons who are active and energetic and who carry all things to a success- ful conclusion. In 1872 he became a member of the Roseville Presbyterian Church, in which he has served as director since its organization, and as treasurer of the board of trustees for the greater part of his forty years' connection with the church. Mr. Hannahs is a staunch adherent of the principles of the Republican party.
Mr. Hannahs married, in 1876 Grace T., daughter of the Rev. Stephen L. Mershon, of Middlebush, Somerset county, New Jersey. Children : 1. George C., connected with the municipal department of the Harris Forbes Company, bankers, situated at the corner of William and Pine streets, New York City, since 1907. 2. Laura E.
HENRY CLAY FISH, D. D.
The influence of a beloved and revered pastor remains longer perhaps in a community than that of any other type of man. One of the most benefi- cent of these and one whose saintliness was admitted by all whether or not they were of his flock, was the Rev. Henry Clay Fish, D. D., pastor for many years of the First Baptist Church of Newark. A man of the most unaffected and beautiful piety, his sway over the people of his time was that due to the involuntary homage of the human mind towards an ideal of holiness, and benevolence. The memory of such a man lingers long among those who have even indirectly known him, and leaves a strong if mute appeal for nobler and purer living.
Henry Clay Fish was born in Halifax, Windham county, Vermont, Jan- uary 27, 1820. His parents were the Rev. Samuel and Beersheba (Packer) Fish, the former a man of great sanctity of character and at once a farmer and a preacher. The older Mr. Fish was born October 13, 1788, and was also a native of Halifax. About the time of his son's birth he was ordained and settled as a pastor of the Baptist church of Halifax, though he had for a number of years previously preached continually throughout that region. His ministry in all covered a period of over fifty years, and was marked by signal success. About two hundred members were during that time added to his church, five of whom became ministers, and one a missionary to Burmah. The mother of Henry Clay Fish was in character and lofty aims of the same type of mind as his father. Like his her piety was of an earnest and positive character and this, with her unusual gifts and strength of intellect, made of the home a seedplot for the highest ideals of conduct and of life. It is out of such circles of family influence that the forces flow that make a nation's noblest achievements.
Young Henry Clay Fish was one of a family of eleven children, and his early school advantages were of a limited nature. The atmosphere, how- ever, in which he was brought up was one that fostered ambitions of an intellectual type, and the mental and spiritual energy of the parents was inherited by their children. From his earliest years he had his father's encouragement in his love of learning, and in the High School at Halifax he laid a good foundation and found the paths which he was to follow in the work before him of self-education. His first intention was to fit himself for the profession of teaching, and planning thus for the future he next attended the Academy at Shelburne Falls, an excellent institution in the neighborhood. Here for over a year and a half he 'availed himself of every
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chance for cultivation. It soon became necessary for him to earn the money to pay for his further education, and to this end he secured a position in Rowe, Massachusetts. His next was in Leyden in the same state, teaching there in the winter of 1839. In 1840 he left Vermont for New Jersey to engage in teaching, though he did not expect that he was never again to be a resident of his native state. Here he found work in Madison and was able to carry out his plan to educate himself while teaching others. The school of which he was given charge had been losing ground but under his wise and energetic superintendence it at once gained a fresh accession of influence and favor. In October, 1842, he decided to study for the ministry, and in November of that year was admitted to the Union Theological Semi- nary as a student. While in the Seminary his activities were many and various: he gave Bible lessons to a class of young men whom he had gath- ered in from the streets, he paid frequent visits to Bellevue Hospital and Blackwell's Island to minister to the inmates of the asylums, and he iden- tified himself with all the societies in the Seminary for the furtherance of church work. April 15, 1844, he received the license to preach from the First Baptist Church of New York to which he belonged, Dr. S. H. Cone being the pastor at the time. He was graduated June 25, 1845, and on the day following he was ordained and installed pastor of the Baptist Church at Somerville, New Jersey. He was at this time twenty-five years old, and here he remained for five years, when having received a unanimous call from the First Baptist Church of Newark he left his first charge to undertake the burdens and responsibilities of the larger field. This was a church of three hundred and seventy-eight members, a number that under his ministry was greatly increased, having near the close of his pastorate grown to seven hundred and thirty communicants. In the year 1858 he received the degree of D. D. from the University at Rochester, New York. His work among this Newark congregation was marked by such success that before the end of many years it became necessary to provide larger accommodations. The result was the building of a new and handsome place of worship, costing fifty thousand dollars, which was dedicated May 23, 1858. Towards the close of the Civil War he was drafted into military service on June 1, 1864. But the officers of the church raised the money to provide a substitute to serve the army in his stead, and to this added an increase in the pastor's salary and further presented him with a purse of seven hundred dollars as a "special token of their affectionate regard." During this period ho received urgent calls from churches of the principal cities of the country- Philadelphia, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and New York. Besides these, over- tures were made looking to the presidency of a young university and also to the secretaryship of one of the theological seminaries. These posts of influence might have tempted another man but after careful weighing of his duty Dr. Fish gave his decision to remain with his own people among whom he could see the results of his seventeen years' pastorate, and threw himself renewedly into the work he so much loved.
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