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Mr. Baudermann married, June 29, 1904, Louisa A. Weber, of Newark, and they have children: Winfield S., Gerard, Elsie and Paul. Mr. Bauder- mann is strong, direct and straightforward in his business methods, and of indomitable perseverance in any thing he undertakes. His self-reliance never fails him and he has the courage of his convictions.
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HENRY C. BEACH
The real estate business in a city which, like Newark, has grown very rapidly of recent years is one which affords scope for the activities of many able men, and prominent among the names of these is that of Henry C. Beach. It is a field where the business imagination and executive ability are called constantly into play, and that perhaps is the reason why so many men who have won their spurs in other lines of activity find them- selves turning to it as they reach the maturity of their powers.
Henry C. Beach was born in Newark, October 13, 1866, and is the son of Abraham and Julia (Fox) Beach, the father being a native of New Jersey, and the mother of Connecticut. His grandfather, Abraham Beach, was the warden of the Essex county jail and one of the pioneer settlers in that part of the country. His son, the present Abraham Beach, after having been identified with the jewelry manufacturing business for a num- ber of years, is now retired from active life. The latter part of his business career he served in the industrial department of the Prudential Life Issur- ance Company in the capacity of superintendent.
Henry C. Beach was educated in the public schools of Newark, passing through the high school as well. At the age of sixteen he entered upon an apprenticeship to the jewelry business. This was followed by a period when he engaged in the cigar trade, manufacturing, jobbing, etc. About this time his attention had been called to the possibilities in the rapid development of Newark for the real estate man, and in 1899 he seriously engaged in this line of work. A remarkable success has attended his efforts and he has won an excellent reputation in the community for business acumen and good judgment. For the last dozen years he has been kept very busy buying, selling, and exchanging, his operations including homes of a high class, apartment houses, and business sites.
lle married, in 1891, Gertrude L., daughter of Louis and Sarah M. (Libby) Jennings, the latter being descended from an old New England family of Wolfborough, New Hampshire. They have five children: Ray- mond HI .; Helen; Henry C., Jr .; Kathryn Rummell, and Donald.
CHARLES GRANT TITSWORTHI
Charles Grant Titsworth is a native of the city of Newark, which is and always has been his home with the exception of a few years spent in the West. Ile was born June 14, 1860, son of Judge Caleb Sheppard Titsworth and Frances Caroline (Grant) Titsworth, both of fine old representative families. Although the son of an able and distinguished father, Mr. Tits- worth has won recognition for himself through his own ability, both in his profession and by his well directed efforts in the interests of the public welfare.
After finishing a course at the Newark Academy, he entered Princeton University and was graduated from there with honors in 1881. His special law training was obtained in the Law School of Columbia University, from which he was graduated in 1884. He was admitted that same year to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney. Until 1886 he was a member of the law firm with his father, but this connection was severed by the death of the latter. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar as a counsellor and about this time became associated in a partnership with Edward M. Colie, but this partnership only lasted two years owing to Mr. Titsworth's health failing. With a view to recuperating he removed to Denver, Colorado, and continued the practice of law In that city until 1896. It was during his residence
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in Denver that Mr. Titsworth became interested in matters pertaining to municipal reform, and he was nominated by his political friends for the office of city supervisor. Although defeated, he received a larger vote than any other member of his party, and at the subsequent election, as chairman of the Reform Committee, he did splendid work for his party, resulting in their obtaining several of the most important offices, which were formerly held by their opponents.
Upon his return to Newark, he again became a partner of Edward M. Colie, and the partnership also included the present Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze. In 1899 he became associated with the Fidelity Trust Company, as title officer, and at the present time (1913) is still ably filling that position.
Mr. Titsworth has held important public offices and has always used his position with a view to the advancement and improvement of the com- munity rather than as a gratification of private ambition. He was a mem- ber of the Board of Trade in 1903 and it was largely as a result of his efforts at this time that the Newark Shade Tree Commission was ultimately pro- moted. This commission has control of the shade trees of the public places within the city limits. Mr. Titsworth was a member of the first commission by appointment of Mayor Henry M. Doremus, and also for a period acted as secretary of the organization, being an active leader in the initial labors of the project. He was president of the commission for four years and during this time more than 10,000 trees were planted. The commission has control of the city parks of Newark and the benefit thereto is very obvious, making Newark the pioneer city in this plan of beautifying municipal property.
Mr. Titsworth has not confined his public spirited efforts to one direc- tion. In charitable matters his motto is "Help him to help himself," and this really practical idea resulted in his organizing a free employment bureau during the panic of 1907, the affairs of which were managed by a com- mittee, he being chosen chairman of same, and in a very short time more than three hundred and fifty men were placed in positions and therefore saved from becoming objects of charity, and the consequent benefit to the city was very great. Mr. Titsworth is also one of the directors of the Associated Bureau of Charities, and has served as chairman of the com- mittee, composed of delegates from a number of charitable organizations, which was appointed for the purpose of distributing milk to the infant poor of the city. The crusade against the "Great White Plague" (tuberculosis) has received great aid and endorsement from Mr. Titsworth both in the city of Newark and throughout the State of New Jersey. He is also trustee of and counsel for the Job Haines Home for Aged People. He is a Presbyterian in religious belief and has been trustee of the First Presbyterian Church for many years, and also serves that body as elder; he was superintendent of the Sunday School from 1902 to 1907.
Mr. Titsworth married, June 4, 1901, Elizabeth Linen, daughter of the late Ichabod W. Dawson, of Newark. Mrs. Titsworth died in 1911. They had children: Mary Linen, deceased; Charlotte Grant; Randolph, deceased; Grant.
EDWARD GEORGE KEMPF
Edward George Kempf, a prosperous civil engineer, of Newark, New Jersey, was born in that city, March 16, 1868. . He is a son of Christian F. and Emma A. Kempf.
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Christian F. Kempf was born in Stuttgart, Germany, August 8, 1840, and was educated in the public schools of his native city. At an early age he chose and mastered the jeweler's trade, at which vocation he worked in Stuttgart for several years. In the year 1860 he came to America and settled in Newark, New Jersey, where he engaged in the manufacture of jewelry until his death, which occurred on May 27, 1880. He was married, January 1, 1865, to Emma A. Schoenheit, daughter of Christian and Johanna Schoenheit, natives of Koenigseh, Saxony. Five children were born to them: Offielia Eliza, Edward George, Emma Marie, Louisa Mathilda, and Charles Robert.
Edward George Kempf was educated in the schools of his native city, and in 1887, he took up the profession of surveying and civil engineering with a prominent firm in that city. He remained in the employ of that firm for thirteen years and during that time had extensive practice in various lines of engineering. In 1900 he became surveyor for the Fidelity Trust Company, of Newark, which position he held until 1902. He then opened an office for himself at No. 164 Market street, Newark, New Jersey, and has engaged in general engineering work to date.
Mr. Kempf has met with marked success in his profession and is considered one of the most efficient and reliable engineers of his city. He has won a wide circle of friends. He takes a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the upbuilding of his city. For several years he has been a member of the Newark Board of Trade in which he has taken an active part.
Mr. Kempf was married, May 24, 1893, to Margaret A. Ackerman, daughter of David G. and Adelaide V. Ackerman of Newark. They have one child, Spencer Edward, born February 25, 1894.
CHARLES PIERCE TAYLOR
The story of the life of Charles Pierce Taylor, an engineer of wide repute in Newark, and at present the president of that city's Board of Education, is one of steady and persistent effort towards worthy ambitions, and of the success which step by step has been won by his industry and talents. Occupying a recognized and enviable position among the well- known citizens of Newark, he might point with pride to the fact that ho has gained this place owing to no favor or mere accident, but to his own native ability and good judgment, and to the wise foresight by which he carefully fitted himself for the work towards which his inclination directed him. High ideals have been coupled in him with that force of character and that tenacity of purpose which inevitably bring forth fruit in a well merited success.
Of the old English stock which so largely colonized the eastern portion of Virginia, the Taylor family, like many others of that breed, possessed in full measure the Saxon staying power. That quality in the race has made English the language of the North American continent, and has put under Anglo-Saxon domination the most valuable regions of the new world. The same quality in the individual singles him out and sets him in a position of respect and influence in any community in which he may live.
The grandfather of Charles P. Taylor was Henry Henderson Taylor, a farmer of Virginia, and a man of weight and influence in his county. His son, Oliver Henderson Taylor, was born in November, 1836, and having no taste for agricultural pursuits early in life entered into business. After some years of experience he became engaged in the manufacture of shoes.
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During the Civil War period he was in sympathy with the Union cause, and at that time he took the oath of allegiance in support of the govern- ment, He is still (1913) living at the age of seventy-five. Oliver Henderson Taylor married twice. His first wife was Mary White, and of this marriage there were born six children, Lynn F., Rowland (deceased), Llewellyn, Gertrude, Oscar Henderson (deceased), and Charles Pierce, whose biography is the subject of the present narrative. The second wife of Oliver Henderson Taylor was Alice Aydlotte, and of this union there were also born seven children, John S., Oliver H. Jr., Lois, Beulah, Moody and Wallace.
Charles P. Taylor was born in Virginia, September 16, 1872, and his early education was gained in the public schools of his native State. He was later sent to private schools in Baltimore, and there gained something of the polish and urbanity that characterize the man, and which is the boast of the cultivated society of that aristocratic city. He was a boy of a wise patience and of an unconquerable ambition. Determining to go to work, he obtained while still a young boy a position in a confectionery store. Though this was not at all in the direction of his ambitions and inclinations, he accepted it with, cheerfulness and worked here with faithful- ness and loyalty for a year. At the end of that time, opportunity opened her doors to him, and he was able to enter upon an apprenticeship with the Southern Electrical Company. In this employ he remained for eight years, accumulating an invaluable fund of knowledge of the subject and of experience in the various fields of electrical engineering. In this time the many qualifications of the young man did not escape the notice of his superiors, and his enthusiasm and untiring energy reaped their reward in his promotion step by step to more and more responsible positions. He left this company to enter that of the General Electrical Company, for which he did some important construction work during a period of two years. At the end of that time he was sent to Lexington, Virginia, where for a years he had charge of the installation of a large electrical plant. His reputation was now steadily and rapidly increasing, and he was becoming known as an engineer with whom promise and performance went hand in hand. His next large commission was from the town of Buenavista, Vir- ginia, he being placed in charge of the installation of its municipal plant, a piece of work upon which he spent a year. This completed, he returned to Baltimore, Maryland, and there and in Delaware installed important electrical plants. While he was in Delaware he organized the Delaware Electrical Company and during the two years and a half of his sojourn in that State he served as its manager.
In 1900 Mr. Taylor moved to Newark, New Jersey, and this city he has made ever since then his residence. Here he has won and maintained by his abilities and his absolute integrity a high position not only with the engineering fraternity but also with the public at large. In 1910 he bought out the old Beaver Construction Company and effected an entire reorganiza- tion under the name of the Beaver Engineering Company, the firm con- tinuing the work of its predecessor and winning wide recognition as one of undisputed efficiency.
Two years before this, in 1908, Mr. Taylor had been appointed a member of the Board of Education of Newark by the Mayor, this board being the first small Board of Education in the city of Newark to be created under a new law reducing the membership to nine, for the administration of its educational affairs. This appointment was for two years. At the end of that time he was reappointed, this time for a term of three years. Hlis untiring devotion and his good judgment in the administration of school
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affairs made him a marked man among his associates, and when, in May, 1911, a vacancy in the vice-presidency was caused by the resignation of Mr. Tomkins, Mr. Taylor was elected to fill the position for the unexpired term. At the close of the year he was re-elected, and upon the retirement of Mr. Taafe, in February, 1913, he succeeded to the presidency, which office he is now ably filling.
In politics Mr. Taylor holds with the principles of the Democratic party. He is a member of Roseville Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and belongs also to the Electrical Workers' Union. He is a member of the Union Club, and is a director in the Stratford Building and Loan Association, and a member of the Newark Board of Trade.
Mr. Taylor married Hattie C., daughter of William and Amanda ( Hudson) Quinn, of Virginia. Her father was a prominent educator and a leader in many movements towards the furtherance of education in the State. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate army and served with gallantry, receiving a severe wound which was ultimately the cause of his death. For a number of years after the war he held the position of county clerk, the ill health superinduced by his wound latterly obliging him to give up the post and seek treatment in the Soldiers' Home in Richmond, Virginia. During his sojourn here he died.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taylor have two children, Margaret Ellen, born in 1898, and Oliver Pierce, born in 1899.
WILLIAM F. HAAS
W. F. Haas, superintendent of the Newark branch of the Pure Oil Company of Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1873. He was the son of Frederick and Rosa Haas. Frederick Haas, of the Police Reserves of Philadelphia, died in 1876 and his widow had the good fortune to later place her son at Girard College, Philadelphia, where he received an excellent education. He graduated from Girard College in 1891 and removed with his mother to Newark where he entered the Newark Business College. While still attending the Business College he sought and found employment with the Pure Oil Company of East Newark. So efficient did he prove that on April 15, 1910, although still under thirty years of age, he was appointed superintendent of the large plant of the Oil Company at Newark. The Pure Oil Company, founded originally by Penn- sylvania farmers who had found oil on their land, is an independent con- cern, incorporated under the laws of New Jersey and having main offices at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The oil refinery is situated at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. The president of the Pure Oil Company is Michael Murphy, of Boston, Massachusetts; vice-president, E. H. Jennings, of Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania; secretary and treasurer, N. H. Weber, of Philadelphia. Under the able direction of Superintendent Haas the Newark branch of this company has been doing an increasingly large volume of business.
Mr. Haas is a member of the Board of Trade of Essex and Hudson counties and of the Newark Credit Association. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America; the Redmen of Philadelphia; Newark Lodge, No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Commer- cial Club of Newark.
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CHARLES MANDRED LUM
Charles Mandred Lum, whose public spirit has furthered every interest of his native town, was born March 9, 1860, in Chatham, Morris county, New Jersey. He is a descendant of Rev. Abraham Pierson, Obadiah Bruen, and many of the first settlers of Newark.
Having taken the usual preparatory education in public and private schools, he entered Columbia College, New York City, from which institution he graduated with honors in 1881, and is president of his class. His stand- ing entitled him to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His legal studies then progressed in the office of Guild & Lum in Newark, where he read for three years. In 1884 he was admitted as attorney to the bar of New Jersey, and as counselor five years later. At the date of his final admission, February, 1889, he became a partner in the firm which is now known as Lum, Tamblyn & Colyer, the personnel of the firm members having changed. Their offices are in the Firemen's Insurance Building, Newark, and they conduct many of the most important cases that are brought before the Courts of New Jersey. Mr. Lum is more interested in the smooth working of the details of office work, the study of legal principles to be applied, and the general practice of a counselor. Many estates and corpora- tions show their preference for his integrity and ability as a lawyer by retaining him to look after their interests.
The little town of Chatham has greatly benefited by his residence there. His sane advice and personal partiality for the place have produced improve- ment in many directions. He is much interested in the Chatham Free Public Library, of which he has been its first and only president. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Essex Club of Newark, vice-president of the Canoe Brook Country Club, and a trustee of the Wash- ington Association of New Jersey. His literary tastes and enjoyment of abstruse subjects induced him to become trustee and vice-president of the New Jersey Historical Society. The many important questions which have tested the statesmen of our country during the past fifty years have received his consideration, and his patriotic sentiments are well known. He has been a devoted supporter of the party which has ruled during the majority of those years and has kept the best interests of the commonwealth before his eyes.
HIe married, October 4, 1894, Elizabeth. S., daughter of Jacob H. and Sarah H. (Swinnerton) Kirkpatrick, of Chatham. They have one child, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick.
CARL AUGUST GIESE
Carl August Giese was born January 7, 1861, on Washington street, Newark, and has resided there all his life. His early and only education was received in the old Green Street German and English School. His father, Albion Giese, and his mother, Doris (Stohman) Giese, were both born in Germany where they married and came to this country in 1851. They are now deceased. He entered the employ of P. Ballantine & Sons in 1882, beginning with a clerkship and advancing gradually to superintendent, the position he now holds. Hle is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and has always affiliated with various German societies of the city.
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PHINEAS JONES
In every community there are men who, in addition to the proud distinc- tion of being self-made, may also claim the honor that comes to a member of a family upon whose shoulders for generations the burdens and responsi- bilities of the growing republic have been laid. It is no little merit for a man to have risen by his own unaided efforts out of comparative poverty into the possession of a fortune and the power to benefit and influence large numbers of his fellow citizens, but he may be pardoned if he points with just pride to a stalwart ancestry, who have done their share in forwarding the development of their country. This nation, unlike the older ones of Europe, has been in process of making, and the men who came here in the early days and took their part in the shaping of the new state, and passed on these patriotic obligations to their descendants, showed themselves thereby men of unusual calibre, and furnish an explanation for the virility and force that marks their present representatives.
Of such a stock of intrepid men came Phineas Jones, the second of the name, who made for himself a prominent position as a manufacturer and man of affairs not only in Newark, the city of his adoption, but also in the larger community of the State itself. The Jones family, of which he was a member, may be traced back to the days of the Protector Cromwell, the earliest American ancestor, Josiah Jones, from whom Phineas Jones was the fifth in descent, having been born in 1643. They intermarried with the well-known New England families of Woodward, Bancroft, Metcalf, Stone and Whipple. One of the ancestors of Phineas Jones, on the maternal side, was Jonathan Phillips, who came to America with Governor Winthrop.
Phineas Jones, who was identified with the manufacturing interests of Newark, was the son of another Phineas Jones, a patriot who had taken part in the Revolutionary War. This first Phineas had come from Charlton to Spencer, Massachusetts, in 1786, and had there cultivated a large farm, becoming as well the proprietor of a hotel. These road houses were, in the days of the stage coach, important places of rendezvous and served not only as places of rest and refreshment, but as clearing houses for public opinion and a forum for debate upon every political question of the day. This first Phineas Jones was a man of great force of character, a leader of opinion for the whole country side, and a representative in the State senate.
With such surroundings and such a background, Phineas Jones, the second, was born April 18, 1820, in Spencer, Massachusetts, his mother having been Hannah (Phillips) Jones. His early education was that of the country boy at the district school of the neighborhood, being later sent to the academy at Leicester, a school which was also attended by the famous educator, Charles W. Eliot, ex-president of Harvard University. Of a keen, eager and active mind, he graduated with credit at the end of his course, and returned home to take charge of his father's farm, the latter being now advanced in years and unable to assume the entire responsibility of the place. It is a testimony to the high sense of duty that marked the man's after career, that he remained in this, to him, uncongenial work, until after his father's death in 1850. Thrown now upon his own resources he obtained a position as teacher in his native town, and as an outside avocation took up the practice of surveying in his leisure time. Neither of these occupations were sufficient to satisfy the ambition or the abounding energy of the young man, and in order to gain experience in business, he established a large country store in Spencer. This store became the centre for the discussion of all political questions of the day, much in the same
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