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street, a location which was found far more suited to their requirements. In 1876 Mr. Steines organized the firm of Steines, Rupp & Holler, and when Mr. Holler was compelled by illness to withdraw from the firm at the end of six months, the business was continued under the firm name of Steines & Rupp, which, upon the withdrawal of Mr. Rupp in 1881, was again changed, this time the name of the firm being Steines & Traud. At this period a large foundry and machine shop were erected at the corner of East Ferry and Main streets. Mr. Steines withdrew from this partnership in 1885 and engaged in the coal business, with which he has been closely identified since that time.
The interest displayed by Mr. Steines in the public welfare of the com- munity has always been of the highest order, and he has spared neither his time nor his money when a question arose of bettering municipal conditions. This has been appreciated by his fellow citizens, and he has been honored by election to the office of alderman as a representative of the Democratic party. As a member of the Board of Trade of Newark his opinion is highly respected and carries weight.
The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Steines are of a very high order. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Pioneer Society, Orpheus and other Ger- man singing societies, Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Benevolent Legion. In the last-named organization he has been honored with the state presidency. He was superior officer of this society for six years and has been re-elected (1912). He was the first German state president and also the first German supreme representative of the state. Mr. Steines is decidedly popular in the social life of the city of Newark, and the large and successful enterprise with which he is connected is a representative one of its kind.
Mr. Steines was married in St. Benedict's Church, in Newark, 1875, to Barbara, daughter of Adam and Theresa Kuhn. They had ten children, of, whom the following named are now living: Christian A., married Maria Schilling; Rev. P. Gabriel, a priest of the Order of St. Benedict; Henry J., a bookkeeper in East Newark, is married; Annie Marguerite, Amelia Clara, and Clara M. Francis.
SAMUEL CLARK
The city of Newark, New Jersey, is apparently the center of manu -. facturing interests of great importance, and prominent among these is the Day-Clark Company, manufacturing jewelers, of which Samuel Clark, whose name heads this sketch, is the able president and leading spirit. In con- nection with this concern he has displayed remarkable executive ability, combined with thorough practical knowledge for a long time, and has been closely identified with a variety of other business interests to their general advantage.
(I) John Clark, great-great-grandfather of the Samuel Clark men- tioned above, served as a private during the Revolutionary War.
(II) Samuel, son of John Clark, was a man of influence in his day. He served as justice of the peace, and was highly respected as an elder in the Presbyterian church. He had children: Daniel, Eunice, David, Stephen, Polly, Libbie, Abraham and Martha.
(III) Daniel, son of Samuel Clark, was born in New Providence, New Jersey, where he married Sally Wilcox. Children: William, Levy, Samuel, David, Stephen, Jane, Eliza, Sarah and Mary.
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(IV) Samuel, son of Daniel and Sally (Wilcox) Clark, was born in New Providence, New Jersey, October 30, 1809, and received as good an education as was generally accorded a farmer's son in that section and at that time. He became a school teacher in his native town and served as a tax collector there about 1836. After studying at the Medical College in Louisville, Kentucky, he was graduated from that institution in 1842. Hav- ing decided that a commercial line of business was more to his taste than a professional life, he engaged in the paint and varnish business in Newark, New Jersey, in 1849, and was identified with it until 1857. He was a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church, and his political affiliations were first with the Whig party, to which he adhered until the birth of the Republican party, when he joined its ranks. He married Mary, daughter of David and Huldah (Bonnell) Noe, and granddaughter of John and Mary (Ayres) Noe, and of Nathaniel Bonnell, who served as captain during the Revolutionary War. John Noe, born in 1757, died 1828, came from Wood- bridge and resided at Sterling Valley; he served as a private in the Revolu- tionary War. Samuel Clark and his wife had children: Arthur Perry, born May 22, 1844; Samuel, see forward; Jennie Noe, born September 9, 1849, and Huldah Noe, born June 11, 1851.
(V) Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary (Noe) Clark, was born at Summit, New Jersey, September 9, 1846, and was about two years of age when his parents removed to Newark, so that practically his whole life has been spent in the latter city. At a suitable age he was sent to the public schools, and was graduated from the Third Ward Grammar School in 1858. He was apprenticed to learn the jewelers' trade as it was taught at that time-refining, alloying, designing, making, finishing, etc .- called in the present day (1913) the old-line apprenticeship, which, in plain words, means learning the trade practically in every detail from the initial stages, and not in specialized branches as is done in the present day. Prior to learning this trade, Mr. Clark had held two positions-in 1858 with a Mr. Welsh, an architect, and in 1859, as clerk with Henry Price, an optician. His other positions were all connected with the jewelry trade, and were as follows: Roswell Davis, jewelry store, 1860; Enos Richardson & Company, manu- facturing jewelers, 1861; J. D. & C. L. Nesler, until 1868; Stein & Redway, and Alling Brothers, as journeyman jeweler until 1876. In this year the present business was organized under the firm name of Day & Clark, Mr. Clark having associated himself with Mr. Day in a business partnership. The business was conducted in a practical and successful manner, the high standard of the goods they manufactured producing a steady and consistent increase in the annual output. From time to time it was found imperative to increase their working capacity in every direction, and, in 1908, the firm was incorporated under the laws of the state of New Jersey as the Day- Clark Company, with Samuel Clark as president; Franklin Day, vice- president; Walter S. Campbell, secretary; Irving G. Day, treasurer. From the time of its organization until the present time this company has made a specialty of manufacturing fourteen-carat jewelry, and have gained a wide- spread reputation for the quality of their goods. Mr. Clark is also president of the Bath Portland Cement Company, which is the only company in that line of business that has its headquarters in Newark. He is vice-president of the Manufacturing Jewelers' Association, of Newark. He has no official connection with any bank, but has had an account at the Merchants' National Bank for the past thirty-five years. His political affiliations are with the Progressive Republican party, but he has never held public position. IIe is
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a member of the board of managers of the Roseville Athletic Association, president of the Artists' Club of Newark, member of the Sons of Tem- perance of New Jersey, second vice-president of the Bureau of Associated Charities, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He and his family are members of the South Park Presbyterian Church, in which he serves as elder and clerk.
Mr. Clark married in Newark, March 16, 1886, Jennie Finley Delano, born in Newark, November 23, 1859. Mrs. Clark is a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, of Mayflower fame, through the marriage of their daughter, Mary, to Dr. Thomas Delano, a son of Philip Delano, who came to this country in the ship, "Fortune," in 1621. Mrs. Clark, who is a Daughter of the American Revolution, and also a Dame, is also a lineal descendant of Robert Treat, Jasper Crane and Samuel Swain, who were among the founders of the city of Newark. The father of Mrs. Clark, Albert Delano, was secretary of the Rosendale Lime and Cement Company. Hle held no public office, but served three years during the Civil War as hospital steward for the Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Mr. Delano married Margaret Anton Finley, and had children: Jennie Finley, mentioned above; Frank Elmer and Bertie. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have had children: 1. Wilson Delano, born December 29, 1886. Educated in the public schools of Newark, he was graduated from the Barringer High School, and then became a student at Cornell University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1909. The following year he entered the business of which his father is the president. He married, January 21, 1912, Frances Bill, of Eureka, California, who was graduated from Cornell Uni- versity in 1910. They have a child, John Delano, born November 23, 1912. 2. Dorothy Noe, born October 27, 1889, educated in the city public schools, like her brother, and was graduated from Wellesley College in 1911. She is the secretary of the Junior Department of the Young Women's Christian Association of Newark. 3. Samuel Albert, born June 4, 1892. Attended the public schools of Newark and the Newark Academy, and was graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in 1911. He holds the position of stone expert in the Day-Clark Company.
Samuel Clark is a man of serious aims, and his artistic taste and skill has enabled the firm of which he is the official head to weather many storms to which other firms succumbed. He is a man of broad and liberal ideas, and his stern integrity has been recognized in the business world. He com- bines an extraordinary genius for administration with indomitable perse- verance, and his self-reliance has never failed him. Genial, yet dignified, in his manner, he has won the affection as well as the respect of those with whom he has relations in the business and the social world.
PERCY B. TAYLOR
In no branch of professional work have such forward strides been made within the last decade as in that of mechanical engineering. With the increasing demands made upon the ability of engineers their power to cope with the growing difficulties of mechanical construction appears to have more than kept pace. The intricate and exact calculations which are con- nected with this field are, to the layman, problems which are apparently incapable of solution. And yet, we take these things as a matter of course dozens of times in the course of a single day. We turn on the steam, or the hot water, with never a thought of the thousands of feet of piping
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necessary to furnish these conveniences and comforts in even a single one of the huge office buildings which are now so numerous. In installing a system of this kind (and this is by no means one of the most difficult feats of mechanical engineering), the bearing that this piece of work will have upon every other portion of the building must never for a moment be left out of consideration, and the calculations with reference to weight of material, and many other details, are most intricate; yet these matters are carried to a successful finish every day. Percy B. Taylor, who is regarded as one of the foremost consulting engineers of the city of Newark, is of English descent, having come to this country in 1872, and made his home in Newark.
Percy B. Taylor was born in Manchester, England, in 1865. He was in his eighth year when he came to the United States, and, upon his arrival in the city of Newark, New Jersey, went to the public schools. From his earliest years he had shown a decided bent for mechanical work of all sorts. It was but natural, therefore, that he should decide to make a study of mechanical engineering, which he pursued during the evening hours, while his days were spent in the actual practice of the knowledge he was so rapidly acquiring. He has now (1913) been engaged in his professional work for a period of twenty years, and has made an unqualified success of every part of it. In addition to his large and extensive private practice, he is a consulting engineer. He has filled a large number of important con- tracts for the Board of Education, having had the laying out of about twenty-five heating and ventilating systems for the public schools of New- ark. He has also done work for the schools of Madison, Plainfield, Irvington, Kearny and other towns, as far off as Pennsylvania. He is also consulting engineer for a large number of important business houses. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of Orange Lodge, No. 11, Free and Accepted Masons. He is sagacious and practical, and in his social intercourse has won the esteem as well as affection of a large circle of friends.
Mr. Taylor married Emma, daughter of Hatfield Hopper, and they have children: Marjorie and Kenneth.
JAMES EDWARD BLACKMORE
In recent years there has been nothing which has had such an educa- tional value, or has afforded so much entertainment, as the motion pictures which are now shown in almost every corner of the civilized world. The man to whom the credit for this invention is due and who has achieved a reputation for his skill as an artist, is James Edward Blackmore, of Newark, New Jersey, who is descended from a well-known English family.
His father, William Blackmore, was born in Turo, Cornwall, England, in 1817, and married Julia Elizabeth Stevens, who was born in London, England, in 1832. They came to America in 1858, and after living in New York City for about two years removed to London, Ontario, Canada, and in 1863 to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he died in May, 1871, while she survived him until September, 1898, and died in Newark, New Jersey. Their children were: William Henry, James Richard, John Thomas, Joseph Josiah, Richard Stevens, James Edward, Robert Hamilton, Lewis Harold, George Coleman, Martha Elizabeth and Lawrence Rendle, six of whom are still living.
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James Edward Blackmore was born in London, Ontario, Canada, Sep- tember 24, 1860, and married, in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, February 11, 1879, Harriet Parker (a daughter of James and Margaret Kinney Parker), who was born in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, April 27, 1859. Mr. Black- more's early education was acquired in the public schools of Toronto, and when his father died, in 1871, he obtained employment in the press room of the Daily Telegraph, of that city. After devoting two years to the printing business he entered the employ of W. B. Capon, at Barrie, Ontario, to learn fresco painting, but was obliged two years later to give up the work on account of poor health. In 1875 he entered the Toronto School of Art, from which institution he graduated with high honor in 1878. IIe continued his art studies for a time in local studios, and then went abroad, where he studied under noted artists in Paris and London. Upon his return to this country in 1881 he became professor of free hand drawing in the Mechanics' Institute at St. Thomas, Ontario, and also opened his first studio there. While engaged in this double line of work his evenings were occupied by the strenuous work of a business college course. In 1884 he moved to Michigan and took up the study of chemistry at Ann Arbor, and in 1885 opened a studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
While successful in his artistic career, he had an inventive mind, and as his talents naturally turned in that direction he opened a laboratory in connection with his studio at Grand Rapids. Shortly after the dry plate came into use he turned his attention to the subject of instantaneous photography and its development. In 1888 he invented the detective hand camera, also the century camera stand which is now so extensively used. He constructed a circle carriage with which a continuous number of his snap-shot pictures were automatically shown by stereopticon, thus producing a motion picture. The plates, however, proved unsatisfactory, and while continuing his experiments he engaged in the manufacture of snap-shot cameras and numerous photographic appliances. When the transparent film was introduced by the Eastman Company, he was enabled to construct a moving picture machine that would reproduce a continuous series of pictures on a canvas screen, but the destruction of his factory by fire in 1889 crippled him financially and prevented him from perfecting his inven- tion. In 1890 he removed to Newark, New Jersey, and endeavored to interest capitalists in the formation of a stock company to utilize his inven- tions, but was unsuccessful, and then devoted himself largely to his art. In 1892 he received letters patent for the first moving picture machine ever invented; in 1894 he was granted additional patents on moving picture machines, and in 1895 and 1897 patents were granted to him for flash- light apparatus.
As a mark of recognition for his invention of the moving picture machine and for his work in art, he was, in 1890, created an honorary member of the Academy of Arts, Science and Inventions, at Paris; in 1893 was made honorary president of the Academy of Inventors, and in the same year was presented with a diploma of honor by the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Brussels, Belgium, and enrolled as an honorary member of the academy. His paintings have been exhibited for many years at Paris, and their merit recognized in every art centre of the world.
In 1893, while upholding his studio, he engaged in business as a dealer in photographic and art supplies, locating at No. 25 Academy street, in Newark. The business soon outgrew its limits, and in 1900 he purchased property at No. 60 Academy street, upon which he erected a six-story
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structure. Six years later he found that still larger quarters were required, and purchased the abutting property, Nos. 59-61 Bank street, thus giving him a continuous wareroom extending through the entire block, in addi- tion to which he has a branch at No. 264 Bank street for the picture framing department. His knowledge of chemistry, especially as applied to photography and kindred arts, causing his advice to be frequently sought by professionals as well as by amateurs, has been a most important factor in promoting his business success.
In 1897 he became a member of Newark Lodge, No. 7, Free and Accepted Masons, and has ever since taken a deep interest in the Masonic institution, advancing through the various degrees of the order. He served as master of Newark Lodge in 1902-'03, presented to it his painting, "King Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem," and is cheerfully contributing his knowl- edge of art to promote the work of its historical committee; and has served in various stations and on committees in the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. He is a member of Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons, in which he has occupied minor offices, and to it he presented a painting symbolical of that order; is a member of Kane Council, No, 2, Royal and Select Masters, in which he served as master, and also as grand master of the Grand Council of New Jersey; is a member of Damascus Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, in which he has held official positions; is a member of the New Jersey Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, having held various official positions for a number of years; is a member of Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; is a member of the Past Masters' Association of Essex County, and has served as its president; and is a member of the Artists', Craftsman's and Union clubs of Newark.
Mr. Blackmore gives his whole soul to whatever he undertakes, and has ever before him the purest ideals of art. As a citizen he has always sustained the character of a true, upright man, one who has been an honor to the land of his birth as well as that of his adoption, and an able exponent of the age, in his efforts toward progress and development.
WILLIAM VON KATZLER
William von Katzler was born in Prussia, in 1852. His father was at that time captain in the Prussian army. He was educated for a military career, entered the Prussian army in the spring of 1870, and served through the Franco-Prussian War, where he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. In 1873 he left the army, and soon after came to this country. Immediately after his arrival he went West and spent the follow- ing years until 1879 in the West, particularly in Colorado and New Mexico, mining and prospecting. Tired of that life, he turned eastward and became a newspaper man, working on German papers as a reporter in St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee. In December, 1882, he took the position of city editor of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung of Newark, New Jersey, a position which he retained until he became assistant editor in 1904. In 1905 he was appointed a member of the Assessment Commission by Mayor Henry M. Doremus, which office he retained for the term of three years. Since 1913 he has been the editor of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung of Newark, New Jersey.
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WILLIAM HENRY FREDERICK FIEDLER
It is a pleasure to chronicle the history of a man whose life has been one of honor and usefulness, as is the case with William H. F. Fiedler, of Newark, a man of strong mentality, a public-spirited citizen, staunch in his advocacy of progressive measures, and an ardent supporter of all enter- prises calculated to benefit the community and his fellow citizens.
William H. F. Fiedler was born in New York City, August 25, 1847, son of Christian F. and Elizabeth J. (Moeller) Fiedler, natives of Ger- many, both of whom are now deceased. His parents removed to Newark, New Jersey, in 1849, and made their permanent home in that city. William H. F. Fiedler attended the Morton Street Public School, from which he graduated, and pursued advanced studies In the High School of Newark, of which he was a pupil for several years. He was apprenticed to learn the trade of hat finisher, and upon his coming of age he accepted a position as clerk in a hat store, in which capacity he acquired an experience that proved valuable to him in the conduct of his own business, which he estab- lished four years later, and which proved to be a successful enterprise. Mr. Fiedler is now (1913) associated in business with his two sons, under the style of the Fiedler Corporation, one of the leading real estate and insurance concerns in the city of Newark.
A staunch Democrat in his political opinions and affiliations, Mr. Fiedler has also won hosts of friends in the ranks of his political opponents, owing to the zeal and fidelity with which he applied his entire personal attention to all of the duties imposed upon him in the various positions he was called upon to fill. He has actively participated in nine campaigns of his party, having been defeated but twice, and has rendered valuable service. He was elected as an alderman of the Sixth Ward in 1876, and in the following year was elected a member of the Assembly, and he was the first one that ever made a practical move toward abolishing the unfair competition of "convict labor." He succeeded in having a law enacted prohibiting the manufacture of hats in Stato's prison, and had a similar bill relating to the manufacture of boots and shoes passed in the House of Assembly, but failed in the Senate by one vote, ten senators voting in the affirmative, while eleven voted in the negative. The following year Mr. Fiedler was re-elected as alderman in October, and as member of Assembly in November. He won a splendid record in these positions for his deter- mined opposition to a number of unjust demands presented by corpora- tions and monopolies, his voice and vote on numerous occasions preventing the passage of ordinances and laws that would have been detrimental to the interests of the people. In the summer of 1879 there was quite an issue raised on the strict enforcement of the laws prohibiting the sale of liquor, etc., on Sunday, and in the fall campaign Mr. Macknet was nominated for mayor by the Republican party, with the understanding that if elected the law was to be enforced to the letter. Mr. Fiedler was the candidate on the Democratic ticket for the same office, and was indorsed by the liberal German-Americans throughout the city. While no pledge was asked or given, it was understood that Mr. Fiedler, if elected, would have the law construed in a liberal manner. He was elected to the office .by a larger majority than had ever been given to a candidate for the same position, and as mayor he was the presiding officer of the board of trustees of the City Home, Board of Health and the Newark Aqueduct Board. Ile inau- gurated many reforms and improved business methods in all of these
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