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Mr. Eberhardt died March 31, 1901, being survived by his wife, Emeline (Hudson) Eberhardt, and five children: 1. Mrs. Emma Craig. 2. Mrs. Ermonce V. Henry. 3. Frederick L., born February 27, 1868, is the president of the company with which he is connected, and is a member of the Newark Board of Trade. He was appointed a trustee of the Newark Technical School by Woodrow Wilson, and is a member of the Nobles of
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the Mystic Shrine, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is also member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His religious affiliations are with the First Reformed Church on Clinton avenue. He married Louise Boales, of Alton, Illinois, and has children: Ruth, Gordon, and Eleanor. 4. Ulrich Jr., vice-president and treasurer of the company, was born in Newark, February 21, 1872, and was educated in the public schools and the German-English school on Green street. He is a member of the Newark Board of Trade. He married Emma Herzog, of Washington, District of Columbia, and has one adopted son, Harrington Hudson, born in 1910. Mr. Eberhardt is a member of the Masonic order and of the Presbyterian church at Basking Ridge. 5. Henry Ezra, born in Newark, received an education similar to that of his brothers, and this was supple- mented by a special course of two and one-half years at Cornell University. He is secretary of the corporation, is a member of the Clinton avenue Presbyterian Church and of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He married Gertrude Landmesser and has a son, Henry E., Jr., born February 6, 1912.
The news of the death of Mr. Eberhardt was received with profound sorrow not alone by those with whom he was surrounded in his home city, but those who knew him intimately or had had business transactions with him for many years prior to his death were greatly shocked and grieved. Numerous letters of condolence, eulogizing him for his uprightness and business probity, were received from the machinery trade and his customers. everywhere, all agreeing that his death was an irreparable loss to the business community.
GEORGE RIPLEY PINKHAM
George Ripley Pinkham, the widely known educator and writer on pedagogics, was born at Bristol, Vermont, March 12, 1861. His father was the Rov. Nathaniel J. Pinkham, a Baptist minister who spent most of his life in New England, where he held many important charges. His mother was Annie E., daughter of the Rev. Henry J. Ripley, D.D., professor in the Newton (Massachusetts) Theological Institution, and of his wife, Ann O. (Winn) Ripley. George Ripley Pinkham was the third of a family of four boys, William G., Samuel E. and Rev. Henry W. being his brothers. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Thompson, Con- necticut, from which he entered the Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massa- chusetts, in 1880. He was immediately recognized as a student of unusual powers, a reputation which he sustained at Brown University, which he entered after he had completed his course at the Worcester Academy. He received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1887, and immediately accepted the principalship of the High School of Wayland, Massachusetts. While filling that position and the following one as the head of the Partridge Academy at Duxbury, Massachusetts, he found time to study for the A. M. degree which was conferred on him in 1890, by his alma mater, Brown University. On leaving Duxbury in 1891, he returned for a brief time to his native state of Vermont, having been appointed prin- cipal of the High School at Woodstock. He remained there but a year, however, having been asked to fill the chair of Greek and Oratory at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. In 1894 he accepted the appointment to the chair of English Literature in Kenyon College, Ohio, which he resigned to do research work at Harvard University. He passed the year 1895 in Cambridge and then accepted the position of principal of the High and Normal schools of Swanton, Vermont. From 1896 to 1898 he was
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district superintendent of schools in the Princeton district of Massachusetts, but resigned that post for the more congenial duties of head master of the Searles' High School at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1904. Ambitious to pursue his studies further, Mr. Pinkham surren- dered his position in the Searles' High School and spent a year at the University of New York, as a graduate student. At the end of the year 1905 he took up his school work again, this time in Newark, where he has remained ever since as principal of various schools. From 1905-'10 he was principal of the South Street School; during 1910-'11, he was the principal of the Ann Street School. Since 1911 Mr. Pinkham has been at the head of the Lafayette Grammar School. In this school, the oldest in the city, an exceptional work in education is in progress. A department for mental defectives, with two teachers at the head, is one of the admirable features. There is also a roof garden where the exercises of the school can be carried on during the entire year.
While very busy with his work in the Newark public schools, Mr. Pink- ham still found energy and time to continue his graduate work at Columbia University from 1910-1913, when the degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him. Hle has also given a course of lectures on the History of Education before a teachers' class, and found the leisure to do an immense amount of writing on a variety of topics intimately associated with pedagogics. Among the most successful and instructive of his contributions to educational literature may be mentioned: Vocational Education Germane to Culture; Industrial Education; The Mission of the Public School; The Leadership of the School Principal; The Essence of Kindergarten Teaching; How to Teach Reading to the Grades; How to Teach Citizenship to School Pupils.
Interested in everything pertaining to his chosen profession, Mr. Pink- ham is naturally affiliated with many societies with educational aims. He is a member of the National Educational Association, a member of the Com- mittee on School Affairs, of the Board of Trade for 1910, chairman of the Committee on Pedagogy, and a member of the Principals' Association, and he Is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Mr. Pinkham married Bessie Eldridge, daughter of William W. and Martha (Walker) Norton, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
PHILIP A. McGUIRE
Philip A. McGuire was born in Newark, February 26, 1870, son of Peter and Catherine (Casady) McGuire, the latter having been born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1840. Peter McGuire, the son of James and Bridget McGuire, was born in County Cavan, Ireland, in 1840. He was one of a large family of children, the others being: Patrick, John, Thomas,
Hugh and Margaret. Like his father, he was a Catholic and a farmer, but tempted by the promise which America holds out to the young men of other countries, he decided to leave his home in Ireland and emigrate to the United States. He arrived here in 1868, and settled in Newark, where he raised his family of six children-three boys, Philip Aloysius, James J. and Patrick; and three girls-Elizabeth, Helen and Mary.
At the age of sixteen Philip McGuire and one of his brothers started out for themselves in the tailoring business in Newark. Eight years later he opened a tailoring house of his own, and has been so successful that to-day he is at the head of one of the finest tailoring establishments in Newark. Besides his clothing business, Mr. McGuire is president of the Grant Building and Loan Association of Newark. He is also greatly interested in many
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fraternal societies, and is a member of the Elks, Newark Lodge, No. 21; of the Knights of Columbus, Olive Branch, Newark; and is a life member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Newark Lodge, No. 237. He is also a life member of the National Order of Eagles, Newark Lodge, No. 44; of Clan-Na-Gael, of Newark; and is a William Harrigan Associate and a T. A. B. Associate of Newark. Mr. McGuire is a Democrat and is active in political circles. He was elected alderman of the Seventh Ward, Newark, for 1910-12. He is also a member of the Seventh Ward Democratic Club. He is a Catholic, and a member of St. Bridget's Church, Newark.
Mr. McGuire married, January 21, 1902, Mary Elizabeth O'Rourke. Mrs. McGuire is the daughter of John O'Rourke, a leather dresser of New- ark, and of his wife, Mary E. (Conklin) O'Rourke, and was born May 5, 1872. She has one brother, John O'Rourke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire have two children: Philip A., Jr., born September 27, 1907, and Eugene, born September 13, 1909.
ISAAC NEWTON DAVIES JR.
Isaac Newton Davies, Jr., was born in Jersey City, January 17, 1879, the second child of Isaac Newton and Mary Alice (Bugie) Davies. In a family of four children he is the only son, the daughters being Jennie Griffith, Alice Ruth and Frances Louise." Mr. Davies was a large brush manufacturer of New York City. He was deeply interested in the military organizations of his home city, and was first lieutenant in Company A of the Fourth New Jersey Regiment and second lieutenant of the Twenty-second New York. In 1870 he took an active part in suppressing the riots incited by the Orange- men.
Isaac Newton Davies, Jr., received his early education in the public schools of Elizabeth, New Jersey, later supplementing his studies by a course at the Battin High School of that city. Eager to make a place and a name for himself in the world of affairs, he obtained the appointment of secretary for the O. H. Offenheimer Company, of Newark, New Jersey. This position he held from 1896 to 1909, when he engaged in business for himself at No. 156 Commerce street as a manufacturer of leather for the binding of books. Mr. Davies, while still successfully carrying on this business, finds time to be one of the directors of the Four Corners Bullders' and Loan Association.
Mr. Davies early displayed a great interest in military affairs, an interest immediately inherited from his father. He joined Company G of the First New Jersey Infantry, and served during the Spanish-American war. He was mustered out with his regiment November 19, 1898, as a private. June 16, 1900, he was made second lieutenant of Company G, First New Jersey Infantry, and in 1902 promoted to be first lieutenant. So efficient was his work that he was made captain June 30, 1906, and was made adjutant October 30, 1909.
Mr. Davies married Mary Louise, daughter of Joseph L. and Louise Lyde, of Newark, March 1, 1904.
WILLIAM PITT ODELL
William Pitt Odell, a prominent citizen of Newark, actively identified with its progress and welfare, and president of the Roseville Trust Com- pany of that city, is a descendant of a family long seated in England. Burke's "Landed Gentry" describes the ancient arms and crest of the Odell family as follows: Arms: Or, three crescents, gules. Crest: An arm
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embowed in armor, holding a sword, all proper. Motto: "Pro Patria Invictuo."
The Odell family in the United States is descended from William Odell, who is believed to have come to America in 1635, in company with the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, who had been rector of the Parish of Odell, in Bedford- shire, England. Hon. Abraham Odell, a descendant of the immigrant, was an active participant in the Revolutionary War, as was also his brother, who acted first as a mounted guide, and in 1797 was appointed lieutenant- colonel of the New York State Troops. Abraham Odell was a member of the New York Legislature from 1801 to 1805 and from 1807 to 1810.
William Pitt Odell was born in Redfield, Iowa, July 15, 1859, son of Edmund C. and Caroline (McChain). Odell, the former named born October 26, 1814, died 1894, and the latter named born September 5, 1827, died December 3, 1896. His education was acquired in Public School No. 59, and in the College of the City of New York, completing his course there in the year 1875. His first position in business life was as office boy in the employ of H. B. Claflin & Company, one of the most substantial and con- servative business houses in New York City. He performed the tasks allotted to him in such a conscientious and creditable manner that promo- tion was the natural sequence, and in 1882 he was given the cashiership of the company, retaining the office to the present time (1912), the concern in the meantime having assumed gigantic proportions, ranking among the most extensive in the city, the name being changed to The H. B. Claflin Company. Mr. Odell is a member of the Central Presbyterian Church of New York City.
Mr. Odell married, October 11, 1881, Gertrude, daughter of John D. and Mary ( Hennion) Naugle, of Paramus, New Jersey, and granddaughter of David B. and Harriet (Carlock) Naugle. Children: William Harold, born July 28, 1889, died March 8, 1892; Herbert Naugle, born December 29, 1894.
Faithfulness to duty and strict adherence to a fixed purpose in life will do more to advance a man's interests than wealth or advantageous cir- cumstances. The successful men of the day are they who planned their own advancement and have accomplished it in spite of many obstacles and with a certainty that could have been obtained only through their own efforts. Of this class is William Pitt Odell a representative. He is a man of great force of character, indomitable perseverance and will power, enter- prising and progressive in his ideas, conceiving and executing projects in a remarkable manner, and his reputation for public and private integrity is second to none.
CHARLES WELLS LITTLEFIELD .
When, in the course of a few short years, the scope of a business grows from a moderate beginning to an amount of more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, it argues that there must be a very capable leading spirit to control its affairs, and it is of such a man, Charles Wells Littlefield, of Newark, New Jersey, that this sketch treats. Not only has Mr. Little- field proven himself a more than ordinarily capable man of business, but he has also taken an active interest in the public affairs of the community at large in various directions.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, January 11, 1869, a son of Oliver Barren and Annie M. (Smith) Littlefield, he was but seven years of age when his parents took up their residence in the city of Newark. Ilis father
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was engaged in the dairy business for upward of twenty years and died in 1905, having had eight children, of whom Charles Wells was the second.
Mr. Littlefield was educated in the public schools of Newark, having been a pupil at the Hilton school. He was but a young lad when he engaged in business life, becoming the assistant of his father in the dairy business, and, upon the retirement of the latter in 1895, he assumed control of the enterprise. In connection with this he developed a large tract of land, known as the Littlefield tract, making use of this for the enlargement and benefit of his dairy operations. In July, 1906, he branched out into an entirely different line of business, associating himself with his brother, Benjamin H. Littlefield, in the coal and wood business on wholesale and retail sales, and locating at No. 919 Clinton avenue. Under the progressive and up-to-date methods adopted by this firm the trade rapidly increased until, at the present time (1912), it amounts annually to more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The interests of Mr. Littlefield are many and varied, and he is called upon to fill a variety of responsible positions. In 1911 he was elected by the Republican party as alderman to represent the Sixteenth Ward, and has been chosen as a member of various other committees. He is affiliated with many organizations, among them being: Member of the Clinton Hill Improvement Association; treasurer of the Lehigh Building and Loan Association; director of the Sixteenth Ward Building and Loan Association, and of a number of other social and political organizations; member of the Newark Lodge No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; West Side Improvement Association; Harmonia Singing Society, and of the Sixteenth Ward Republican Club.
Mr. Littlefield married, May 22, 1900, Minnie E., daughter of Patrick and Mary (Tormey) Heatherton, and has two children: Anna and Mildred. Popular in social life, he has the power of acquiring friends and the per- sonal magnetism necessary to retain them. He is considered as one of the representative men of the city, and is justly valued by the community as a man in whose hands its interests are well guarded and safe. In argu- ment on any question he is a convincing speaker, and he gives every matter brought to his attention careful and deliberate thought.
FRANK A. STERLING
Frank A. Sterling, who has been for considerably more than a quarter of a century engaged in the tailoring business in the city of Newark, New Jersey, and whose present tailoring establishment is considered the finest in the entire city, is not alone noted for his business acumen and success, but for the active part he takes in all religious and charitable undertak- ings. He is a powerful factor in the philanthropic work of the city, and his influence is widespread and beneficial. He is the son of Frank A. and Aramenta (Scofield) Sterling, the former a native of France, who died in 1861.
Mr. Sterling was born in Newark, January 25, 1854, and after acquir- ing a solid education in the public schools of his native city, learned the art of painting in oils and mural decoration. He followed this line of occu- pation until some years subsequent to his marriage. In 1881 he established himself in the tailoring business, and has been connected with this up to the present time. He has the finest and most exclusive names on the list of his patrons, and everything about his establishment is conducted in a most modern and up-to-date manner. Since May, 1913, Mr. Sterling has been located in the Kinney Building, at Broad and Market streets. He has
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affiliated with all the organizations, local and national, connected with the tailoring business, and is one of the few surviving members of the Old National Exchange. From his earliest years Mr. Sterling was an intense lover of good music, and was still a youth when he took up the serious study of this art. His love for it has never abated, and he has devoted much time to it throughout his life. Not alone for his own pleasure has this study been pursued, but for that of others as well. He has had charge of the choir and all music of the Centenary Methodist Church of Newark for the past thirty years, and in addition has taken an active interest in the Sunday school and in all work connected with this institution. As a member of the Board of Trustees he has rendered inestimable service. The art of painting which he acquired in his earlier years has also not been neglected, as is testified by the beautiful specimens of his work in this direction which are to be seen in his home and in his showrooms. The political affairs of the city have always been given a large share of his attention, but he has never had any desire to hold public office, although repeatedly tendered nominations and appointments. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a past chancellor in the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Sterling married, in 1876, Elizabeth McNaughton, daughter of Edward and Jane McNaughton. Children: 1. Edward M., born February 17, 1818; educated in the Newark High School and the Newark Academy. Taking up the study of advertising in the Page-Davis School of Advertising, he became advertising manager for the Westinghouse Company of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. He is now vice-president of the George L. Dyer Advertising Agency of New York, his special work now being as the expert publicity man for the Westinghouse Electric Company, of Pittsburgh. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Newark; Athletic Club and Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh. Before going to Pitts- burgh he was an active member of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of the State of New York. He married Ethel Ames, granddaughter of the late Judge John Mills, of Newark. They are the parents of Helen Ames and John Mills. 2. Edith R., born in 1880, died at home, unmarried, in 1907.
In addition to being a shrewd and successful man of business, Mr. Sterling is a scholar and a man of wide and diversified reading. As a citizen he has acquired an honorable reputation, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of all with whom he has relations. He is a devoted husband and father, and the hospitable home is the scene of many social gatherings.
ROBERT B. STOUTENBURGH
Prominent among the business men of Newark who have contributed energy and ability of a high order to the development of the city may be counted the name of Robert B. Stoutenburgh. His real estate transactions and projects have shown that faculty of business imagination which is at the back of all large operations of any form of business activity. Not content with the humdrum methods of the conservative real estate man, he has organized schemes that have put his work on a level with business cam- paigns of the first order. One of these plans has been his inauguration of a system of sales taking place weekly at public auction. The first of these took place June 15, 1912, and the wisdom of the step was fully vindicated by the immediate success that attended the venture.
He is a native of the town with which his business career has been identified, having been born there, March 13, 1883, son of Frederick D.
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and Carrie B. (Bartholomew) Stoutenburgh. His boyhood was spent in Newark attending the schools of the town and preparing at the Newark Academy for college. His choice led him to matriculate at Princeton Uni- versity, where he did notably good work, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1906. His first business experience was with a firm engaged in the clothing business, and in this he continued until 1910. In March of that year he made a new departure in engaging in the real estate business and insurance business at Market and Broad streets. This location was changed January, 1912, to an office on the ground floor at No. 9 Clinton street, the business having grown so rapidly as very much to exceed the accommodations of its previous quarters. Its increase in volume was indeed phenomenal for so short a space of time, the work requiring a clerical force of fifteen. Many new methods were inaugurated. Mr. Stoutenburgh's energy being equalled by an unusual fertility of resource. A departure from the usual conduct of the business and its unqualified success has been already noted in the introductory remarks. Mr. Stouten- burgh is president of the Industrial Building Company that has erected the first fireproof modern manufacturing tenant building in Newark. This structure was put up at the corner of Plane and Academy streets; was ten stories and one hundred by one hundred feet front. He is a director in the Newark Trust Company, and is a director and holds official position in the Alliance, Teachers' and South Broad Building and Loan Associations. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Chapter and Com- mandery, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. In political connections Mr.
Stoutenburgh is a Republican. He is extremely public-spirited and no measure ever put forth for the development and improvement of his native town ever fails to gain his indorsement and hearty support. He is a mem- ber of the Automobile Club of America; of the Forest Hill Club, and of the Union Club. In his church affiliations he is a Universalist.
Mr. Stoutenburgh married in 1908, Ethel, daughter of William H. King, of Newark. They have two children: Sylvia and Virginia.
WILLIS S. RICHARDSON
A man of action rather than of words, of business talents and untiring energy, of actual achievements that have advanced the wealth and pros- perity of the community, is a very fair description of Willis S. Richardson, treasurer of the Newark Watch Case Material Company, of Newark, New Jersey.
Born in Berwick, Maine, in 1852, Mr. Richardson is a son of John Richardson, a popular and well-known minister in his day. At the age of seven years he removed with his parents to Amesbury, Massachusetts, where his early education was acquired, and in which town he was graduated from the High School. His first business occupation was in the machinery line, in which he was engaged for a number of years. He removed to New- ark, New Jersey, in 1879, and became identified with the firm of Milne & Jardine, as superintendent of their plant. Shortly after this Mr. Jardine's health failed, and he withdrew from the firm. The business was then incor- porated under the name of the Newark Watch Case Material Company, of which he was one of the organizers. Mr. Richardson was elected to the responsible office of treasurer, a position he has filled with marked ability since that time. Many additions have been made since its organization, and all modern improvements have been installed as soon as it has been demon- strated that they are practicable. Much of the success that has attended
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