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the operations of this corporation has been directly due to the remarkable foresight and business acumen of Mr. Richardson, and his careful admin- istration of its financial affairs.
Mr. Richardson married, September 30, 1880, Nellie M. Jones, of Lynn, Massachusetts, and they have children: 1. Carrie S., who married E. C. Van Dyke, of Newark, who is one of the editors of the Wall Street Journal in New York City. 2. Alice M., who married Alfred P. Mayhew Jr., who is connected with the National State Bank of Newark. Mrs. Richardson's death occurred January 16, 1907, and in May, 1911, Mr. Richardson married Mrs. D. J. Cummings, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
A number of other business enterprises have the benefit of the services of Mr. Richardson. He is a member of the Newark Board of Trade, secre- tary and treasurer of the Newall Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, and treasurer of the Victor Sash Chain Company, of Newark. He is a man who is always intensely in earnest, and this power of concentration enables him to accomplish a mass of work which would swamp one less adapted to a strenuous life. He combines an extraordinary genius for administration with an intuitive mind. He is broad in his views and entertains generous ideals. He and his family are held in high esteem in the best circles of Newark, where they are liberal and genial entertainers.
JOHN NEHEMIAH TAYLOR
One of the leading men in the jewelry trade in Newark, New Jersey, is John Nehemiah Taylor. He has not alone been prominently identified with the particular field of manufacture in which he is engaged, but his efforts in behalf of the advancement of religious and philanthropic projects have tended greatly to improve the condition of such affairs in the city. He is descended from a family which has lived in the United States since the last half of the eighteenth century, and which has included. well-known business men in all generations.
(I) Nehemiah Taylor, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to this country with several brothers from England, in the eighteenth cen- tury. They settled in various sections of the country, Nehemiah selecting as his home Springfield, New Jersey. There he engaged in agricultural pur- suits, which was the general custom of those days, and the home which he erected is still to be found on the Morris turnpike road, near where the Lackawanna railroad crosses it. He, his wife and a number of their descendants are buried in the Methodist Episcopal Church cemetery. Among his children were: Aaron, Benjamin, Caleb, Jotham and John N.
(II) John N., youngest son of Nehemiah Taylor, was born in Spring- field, New Jersey, June 25, 1812, and died in Newark, New Jersey, November 8, 1856. In middle life, he added the initial N to his given name of John, to distinguish himself from others of the same section of the country who also bore the name of John Taylor. He was engaged in business as a mer- chant tailor in Morristown, New Jersey, for many years, removing to Newark, New Jersey, about 1854, two years prior to his demise. He married Sarah Mead Comstock, of an old Connecticut family. They had children: 1. Sarah Jane, married Elias Sanders, of Morristown, New Jersey, and had children: George E., who was twice married; Elizabeth, who never mar- ried; Emma, married Charles Naylor. 2. James W., now living in Mill- brook, New York, married Amanda Atwood, and had children: Frank, a resident of Waterbury, Connecticut; Lulu, married Elijah Russell, of Mill- brook, New York, and has three children. 3. William II., married Lydia
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Morgan, of Fremont, Ohio. 4. Margaret S., married the Rev. R. F. Elsden, and has children: Robert Edward, of Housatonic, Massachusetts; Paul, of Waverly, Ohio. 5. Lucy Jane, married Henry R. Williams, of Newark, and has children: J. Harry, Irving Wilbur, Elwood M., Howard C. and Sarah Lucy. 6. John Nehemiah, see forward. 7. Charles Edward, who married and has one daughter.
(III) John Nehemiah, third son and sixth child of John N. and Sarah Mead (Comstock) Taylor, was born in Whippany, Morris county, New Jer- sey, December 17, 1847. Having acquired a sound, practical education in the public schools of Newark, he was apprenticed to learn the jeweler's trade. From 1871 to 1879 he was a traveling salesman, and during this period he represented several jewelry manufacturing concerns. In 1879 he became identified with Krementz & Company, manufacturing jewelers, and in 1894 he became a member of the firm, these relations remaining unchanged until the voluntary retirement of Mr. Taylor from active busi- ness life in 1906. He had intended that this retirement should be a permanent one, but, giving in to the earnest representations which were made to him, he again entered the business arena, in association with George H. Wright, his son-in-law, and Archibald Rutherford. In January, 1909, he organized the corporation of Taylor & Company, of which he was elected the president, an office he is filling with a remarkable degree of executive ability and success at the present time (1913). In the manu- facture of jewelry this company has a foremost place and has been the means of introducing many novelties in this field of industry. Their manu- facturing plant is equipped in the most modern manner, and the comfort of their numerous employees is looked after in the most thorough manner. The business activities of Mr. Taylor have been of so important and engross- ing a nature that he has never aspired to holding public office of any kind, but he has always cast his vote at the elections as a good citizen, and has given his stanch support to the principles of the Republican party. His
religious affiliations were formerly with the Methodist Protestant church, later with the Methodist Episcopal church, and he has held official position in both institutions. ITis affiliation with other organizations consists of membership in the Philadelphia Jewelers' Club, Boston Jewelers' Club, Baltusrol Country Club of Short Hills, New Jersey, and he was formerly president of the Brotherhood of Traveling Jewelers.
Mr. Taylor married, January 31, 1872, Margaret V., born in Newark, July 14, 1851, daughter of James Compton and Hester V. ( Westervelt) Tingley, and had a daughter, Adelaide V., married, April 27, 1901, George Ilill Wright, now associated with her father, who had been for fourteen years an employee and director of Unger Brothers, silversmiths, and then became the secretary and treasurer of Taylor & Company, mentioned above. Mr. Taylor is possessed of rare singleness of purpose and integrity of nature which have made of him a business man to be reckoned with. Throughout his long and eventful business career he has maintained a fidelity to prin- ciple and an earnestness of endeavor which are well worthy of imitation. The success which he has now achieved is not alone that of wealth and social standing, but he has won the confidence of his business associates and the respect and esteem of the entire community.
MAURICE HI. WELSH
A man of many-sided activities is Maurice II. Welsh, who has been prominently identified with the business life of Newark, New Jersey, for many
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years, has attracted creditable attention as a politician, and has gained note as an inventor.
Morris Welsh, his father, was associated with the Sunday Call in the early history of that well known paper, and rendered notable service to his country by serving throughout the Civil War. He was a member of the First and Second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, was actively engaged in the majority of the important battles of that memorable strife, and was but once wounded. He is still living in Newark. He married Beatrice McGuire, a native of Ireland, and they had children: Mamie, deceased; Margaret, married James Walker, of Newark; Susan; Rose, who married Frank Hill, of Newark; Sadie, married Charles Patz, of Newark, and Maurice H.
Maurice H. Welsh was born in Newark, January 1, 1881, and was educated at St. Bridget's Parochial School. This excellent training was supplemented by a course with the Scranton Correspondence School, and he was thus well equipped for a business career. His first position was with the Western Union Telegraph Company as a messenger, a position from which he resigned at the expiration of one year in order to engage with the General Electric Company of Harrison, remaining with this con- cern for a period of seven years. He then, 1899, established himself in business in association with Walter Goodchild, of New York, the firm name being Goodchild & Welsh, electric lamp manufacturers. Mr. Welsh has been identified with this business continuously since that time with the exception of one year, when he was in the employ of the Public Service Commission. Mr. Welsh is also a stockholder and superintendent of the Standard Electric Lamp Company, of No. 67 Hamilton street, Newark. As an inventor, the name of Welsh is known far and wide. One of the inven- tions of Mr. Welsh is a special electric lamp, and there are a number of other electric devices, which have all met with popular favor. He is con- nected with a number of social and political associations, among which may be mentioned: Trustee of the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club; president of the Vailsburg Athletic Association; director of the William Kuebler Association; member of the St. Patrick's AlHance.
Mr. Welsh married in November, 1904, Antoinetta, daughter of John and Rose (Schwitzer) Groel, and has had children: Marie, Maurice Jr., and Richard. In matters that concern the public welfare of the com- munity, Mr. Welsh has always taken a deep and beneficial interest. That his efforts in such matters have been appreciated is evinced by the fact that, in 1911, Mr. Welsh was elected Republican alderman from the Thir- teenth ward, with a plurality of one hundred and twenty-four votes, the total number cast being one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. He has thus been enabled to advance the interests of the city greatly, and his original ideas found ready acceptance. Serious in his aims and broad- minded in his views, whatever measure he introduced would be for the advantage of his fellow citizens. He is shrewd and far-seeing in his judg- ment of men and their motives, and the same ability which has advanced him in his business career has characterized his public life.
JAMES EDWARD DOUGAN
The industrial education with which the name of James Edward Dougan is associated is a very modern development of the educational idea. The old idea of school was of a place where a certain amount of knowledge of Latin, Greek, literature and history put a pupil into a position of readi- ness for the colleges, where the same branches pursued in a broader way
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led the young man up to the gates of the learned professions. In the in- creasing stress that has been laid in our modern times upon utility, and upon the practical rather than the learned man, the demand of the body of the citizen youth of the country has been for an education which shall be direct, efficient, unwasteful of time, and hence industrial. This demand has in the past two decades called into existence philanthropic industrial schools, and still later the idea was taken up by the boards of education of various cities, and the result has been the widespread system of industrial schools grafted upon the public school system. These have taken in a very large measure the place of the old method of apprenticeship, and have replaced it with something more efficient and less wasteful of the young man's time.
Foremost among those who have upheld and carried into concrete realization these ideals of industrial education stands James Edward Dougan, principal of the Boys' Industrial School, of Newark, New Jersey, and him- self not only a theoretical teacher but a trained and skillful worker along industrial lines-a man who has the faculty of transmuting into a system of wise teaching the varied experience he has gained by other than school training.
A native of Canada, James Edward Dougan was born at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, November 6, 1880. He is the son of William Thomas and Elizabeth A. (Lear) Dougan, his mother having been the daughter of James and Maria (Williams) Lear. She was born in 1860, and is still living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. James Lear is a descendant of the old British King Lear, upon whose tragic story Shakespeare founded his famous play. James Lear was a soldier in the British army, later becoming a seaman in the navy. He took an active part in the engagements of the Crimean War, later losing his life whilst on duty at sea.
The special trend of mind in James E. Dougan towards things pertain- ing to the crafts is probably a direct inheritance from his father, William Thomas Dougan, who was a skilled binder and a prominent member of the Bookbinders' Union. William T. Dougan was born October 9, 1859, and at an early age was apprenticed to the bookbinding trade at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 1883 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and worked at his trade there until 1897, when his work having received recognition he was made the foreman of the bindery department of the Boston Public Library. Ho was a conspicuous member of the societies of the craft, and wrote many valuable contributions to the literature on the subject, and in the interest of the union to which he belonged. His death occurred in 1902. The children of William T. and Elizabeth A. (Lear) Dougan are: William Francis; Harry Joseph; James E., of whom further; Alice Maud, and John Thomas.
Brought up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where his parents then resided, the early education of James E. Dougan was acquired in the public schools of the place. His academic studies at an end, he was entered as an apprentice to a cabinetmaker in Cambridge. His work even as a very young man was thorough and conscientious, and it soon began to reap its reward. Before long he became the foreman for the Tyler Chapman Wood- working Company of Boston, Massachusetts. New honors came to him when he was called to do special work at Harvard University, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A characteristic of the man from his earliest days was his faculty of extracting from a piece of manual work all it had of philosophical lessons, and this ability, coupled with an ex- haustless patience, soon carried him out of the class of those who gain from
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and put him into the class of those who give to the world. About this time he had become so marked a man that he was called to become the director of manual training at Piqua, Ohio, where he remained for three years. In September of the year 1910 he removed to Newark, where he became a member of the faculty of the Boys' Industrial School, of that city, later being promoted to its principalship.
This school had been opened as an experiment in industrial education in April of 1910, under the name of the Warren Street Elementary Industrial School. It had been equipped with a wood working shop, a metal working shop, and a drawing room. This was in the old Wickliffe Street School building, which had been used as an annex to the Warren Street School. It was close to the Warren street building, which could be used for classrooms and other purposes.
There were two instructors and it was attended by forty boys who had been selected on the recommendation of principals from a still larger num- ber picked from the different schools of the city. Half of the time was devoted to shop work and drawing, and in order that the theoretical studies should not be neglected the daily session was lengthened. It was later recommended that the school be reorganized completely and that the shops be better equipped. In September, 1910, there were about 100 boys in the school, this being the time when Mr. Dougan joined its force of teachers. The hundred boys were divided into four sections of twenty- five each, who were taught by two male teachers, both perfectly qualified by training and experience, and by two female teachers especially qualified for work with boys. The graduating class in June, 1911, was composed of twenty boys. Three of these went to the High School, and positions were found for the other seventeen. In September, 1911, printing, electric wiring, electric construction and foundry work were added to the courses already taught. The school had at that time seven instructors and about one hun- dred and fifty boys. In December, 1911, the former name of the school was changed by the Board of Education to that under which it now goes, the Boys' Industrial School. This brief sketch of the school into which Mr. Dougan has put his characteristic force and sagacity, has been given since it is no longer an experiment, but one of the agents working silently but surely towards the development of the highest interests of the town.
During the Spanish-American War Mr. Dougan responded to the call to arms and enlisted as a member of Troop K, Eighth Regiment of United States Cavalry. As a result of the hardships of that time he was invalided home. He was a member of the Massachusetts militia from 1898 to 1907, serving first as a private and then as an orderly to the commanding officer of the company and latterly promoted to the rank of post quartermaster sergeant. He is a member of the Society of Spanish War Veterans.
In 1907 Mr. Dougan married Frances T., daughter of Thomas Vail, of North Abington, Massachusetts.
BENJAMIN E. JARVIS
Benjamin E. Jarvis, head of the well-known pattern shops located at 113 Mechanic street, Newark, New Jersey, has shown executive ability of an unusually high order of merit. It is due to his personal and untiring efforts that the concern of which he is the head has attained its present status, and they have been called upon to execute some of the most difficult pieces of work in this line of industry. The father of Mr. Jarvis, Ebenezer 'T. Jarvis, came to Newark in 1870. and formerly operated a planing mill in
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that city. He now holds a responsible position with the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company, being stationed at Newark.
Benjamin E. Jarvis was born in Haverstraw, New York, July 30, 1868. He was scarcely more than an infant when his parents took up their resi- dence in the city of Newark, and practically his whole life has been spent there. After obtaining his early education in the Lafayette Street School, he became a pupil in the Newark Technical High School, and in later life has supplemented this excellent foundation by earnest technical reading. At the close of his school life he was apprenticed for a period of four years to George A. Byles, and remained in the employ of Mr. Byles three years after his apprenticeship had expired. In 1898 he founded the business of which he is still the head and leading spirit, and which he has always managed independently. It is the largest concern of its kind in Newark, employing between fifteen and twenty men throughout the year. They manufacture all varieties of light and intricate patterns, both in metal and wood. Among these are the various parts for gasoline and mining machin- ery, etc. A large portion of his orders consists of pattern-making for inventors, in which his plant has obtained a justly deserved reputation. The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Jarvis are with the Junior Order of Amer- ican Mechanics, and he is a member of the Newark Board of Trade and the Greater Newark Committee. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. By far the greater portion of his time is necessarily devoted to the calls of business, and he has but little to spare for active participation in political matters. However, he takes the natural interest of a good citizen in munici- pal affairs, but has never aspired to holding office. Throughout his career he has had the respect and confidence of all with whom he has dealings. It has been one of his pleasures to start others on the road to success which he has so brilliantly traveled, and many a young man, now successfully rising in the business life of the city, owes his first upward step to the guidance and substantial help given by Mr. Jarvis.
Mr. Jarvis married February 2, 1898, Isabella M. Dunlap, of Newark. They have no children.
GEORGE P. HOERNER
Among the important industries at the present time in the city of Newark, New Jersey, is the plant of the Hamburg Pearl Button Company, of which George P. Hoerner is the treasurer.
Charles L. Hoerner, his father, was a native of Germany, from which country he came to America in 1848. He was actively engaged in business as a cabinet maker, in which he was very successful, until his death in 1894. He married in Germany, Gertrude Christman, also born in that country, died in Newark, February 12, 1912.
George P. Hoerner was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1857, and acquired his education in the public schools of his native city. This was finely and practically supplemented by attendance at a business college, upon leaving which he entered into a business engagement with Hayes Brothers, manufacturing jewelers, with whom he was associated in various capacities until 1896, a period of sixteen years. He then formed a con- nection with the Hamburg Pearl Button Company, which has been in uninterrupted force since that time.
Mr. Hoerner married in 1882, Sadie Hamburg, of Newark, and they have been blessed with three children: Gertrude L., Edna C., and Walter R. The business ability of Mr. Iloerner has been recognized by election to
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membership in the Newark Board of Trade. In political matters he is a staunch Republican, but does not hesitate to express independent opinions, when conditions appear to warrant them. He has many friends in the social as well as the business world, and his warm sympathy and ready assistance have helped many a less fortunate man over dangerous places.
MICHAEL T. BAUDERMANN, JR.
There is no trade in which, in recent years, so many improvements have been made as in that of plumbing and heating, and it is the one on which the health of the community depends in a great measure. Active and careful attention to all details of this branch of constructive work is an essential fact. Among those engaged in this occupation in the city of Newark, New Jersey, whose work, whether the contract involved was a large or small one, has given entire satisfaction in every instance, is M. T. Baudermann, Jr., plumbing and heating contractor, whose place of business is at No. 159 William street. He has been established in business for him- self for a number of years, and has gained the confidence of all who have had dealings with him.
Mr. M. T. Baudermann, Jr., was born in Newark, June 13, 1874, his parents having also been natives of this city, where his father was suc- cessfully engaged in harness making for many years. Mr. M. T. Bauder- mann, Jr., was a pupil at St. Mary's School, and his education was supple- mented by a thorough course at Coleman's Business College; he is also a graduate of the Public Drawing School. When he entered upon his business career, his first position was with the W. P. Dunn Company, No. 42 Mechanic street, Newark, with whom he remained for a period of twelve years. During this time he had an opportunity of becoming thoroughly master of all the details of the plumbing and heating business, both theore- tically and practically. In 1902 he established the business of which he is still the head, and located it in the heart of the city, No. 159 William street. Mr. M. T. Baudermann, Jr., gives every contract his personal atten- tion, irrespective of the fact whether it is a large or a small one, and a guarantee of satisfaction is given with all his work. Estimates are furnished on application, and numerous contracts have been awarded him. For a considerable length of time he has been connected with the Kinney & West Building and Loan Association, and is now serving as one of its directors.
Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, Br. Baudermann, as a thoroughly patriotic American, was one of the first to volunteer his ser- vices in defence of the rights of his country, and served for a period of eight months, being mustered out in November, 1898. He is a member of Camp Mitchell Post, No. 13, Spanish American War Veterans, of Newark, New Jersey. His counsel is of great influence in trade circles, and he is a member of the Master Plumbers' Association of Newark, New Jersey, and is the financial secretary of this august body. His fraternal membership is with the St. Leo Society, and he is a devout member of the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
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