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"In regard to the match patent by Louis V. Aronson, which patent is dated October 26, 1897, the number of which is 592,227, I beg to state that during the progress of this invention and application for patent, I carefully examined, as chemist, the various steps described therein, and have carefully considered it both commercially and chemically. My conclusions are that the process of manufacture is a simple one, the product a superior one, and the patent a broad and complete one, and can, therefore, recommend it fully and well to you. If properly placed on the market, I feel convinced that it will make a great success, as the article certainly fills a long-felt want and has not any of the objectionable features of the wind-matches heretofore placed on the market.
"(Signed) MARTIN E. WALSTEIN."
In the investigations conducted for the purpose of improving this wind- match, Mr. Aronson discovered the method for making a non-phosphorous match. This had been the goal of endeavor for chemical investigators in the industrial world for a long time, the necessity for that ingredient boing the cause of that dreaded discaso known in the match-making industry as "phossy Jaw." The Belgian government had offered a prize of 50,000 francs, or $10,000, in a competition open to the whole world. This offer had stirred up scientists and chemists to redouble their efforts to produce such a match, and many came very near to eliminating this poisonous phosphorous from the match. The prize was, however, awarded to Mr. Aronson, he being adjudged the only one to produce an absolutely non-phosphorous match, and to have complied entirely with the conditions of the contest. This triumph for American production is hoped will in time secure a generous reward to the discoverer, since negotiations are in progress with some of the largest manufacturers in the world for the rights for its production and sale.
In 1895 Mr. Aronson brought his family to Newark and they have resided there ever since. He was for a number of years a member of the Seventy-first Regiment National Guard of New York, discharging his duties in that organization with the exemplary fidelity and thoroughness which marks the man. He is a charter member of Columbia Lodge, No. 176, Free and Accepted Masons; of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Kano
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Council, Royal and Select Masters; has taken the thirty-second degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Newark Lodge, No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of Washington Lodge, No. 31, Knights of Pythias; of the Progress Club, and of the Manufacturers' Com- mittee of the Board of Trade. A social club was organized in December, 1900, and out of compliment to Mr. Aronson was named the Louis V. Aron- son Business Men's Association, in recognition of his generous interest and activity in furthering the welfare of his associates and friends.
Among the honors which have been paid Mr. Aronson, not the least was the concession granted the Art Metal Works by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, to have the exclusive right to produce their wares on the grounds of the exposition. This was without doubt an unusual recog- nition of the high standard of their output.
Mr. Aronson married, January 6, 1891, Gertrude, daughter of Joseph and Teresa Deutsch, residents of New York City. They have three children: Alex, born March 25, 1892; Helen, born January 26, 1894; and Bella, born February 26, 1897.
Mr. Aronson and his wife are members of the congregation of Temple B'nai Abraham, and are active and generous supporters of all the charitable works and societies fostered by the congregation. In politics Mr. Aronson is an Independent, caring more to put into office the man best suited to it, than to follow the lead of a party dogma. A conspicuous example of success carned by his own talents and industry, as a citizen he is no less worthy of the esteem and respect that he has won. No good cause for the betterment of the unfortunate but receives his generous support, and the community has in him an exemplar of all the virtues of a good citizen.
WALLACE MCILVAINE SCUDDER
A man of extended and varied training, Wallace McIlvaine Scudder occupies in his community a position of wide and well-deserved influence. As a journalist and an editor he exercises a great power for good among his fellow townsmen. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, December 26, 1853, and is the son of the late Hon. Edward Wallace Scudder, justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and of Mary Louisa (Drake) Scudder, daughter of the Hon. George King Drake, who, also, was one of the justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. His family is of the best old American stock, tracing back to Thomas Scudder, who is recorded as belonging to the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635. Another ancestor was Richard Scudder, who settled in Scudder's Falls in 1700, a place on the Delaware river about four miles above Trenton.
Like many other men who have made a success of journalism, Mr. Scudder's education was originally directed along different lines. Far from this being a disadvantage it often has proved of the greatest positive benefit, furnishing a man with the breadth and wide outlook hard to get when study is pursued along one definite line. Mr. Scudder was prepared for college at the Trenton State Model School, and, feeling a strong leaning towards technical studies, went to Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and took the course in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1873, with the degree of M. E. After leaving college he was employed for a short period at the plant of the Phoenix Iron Company and New Jersey Steel and Iron Company at Trenton. Not altogether satisfied with engineering as a
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profession, he now began the study of the law, induced partly by the advice of his father. During the year 1876 he attended the lectures of the Harvard Law School, continuing his legal work in the office of Garret D. W. Vroom, of Trenton, and with Vice-Chancellor John R. Emery, of Newark, being admitted to the bar as an attorney in February, 1878, and as a counsellor in the same term of 1881.
Though his mental qualifications and the family connection pointed to a highly successful and honorable career as a lawyer, Mr. Scudder did not long continue the practice of his profession. Journalistic work had begun to appeal to him with irresistible force, and he soon put his unexpended energies into newspaper enterprise. In September, 1883, he started the Newark Evening News, and soon was so successful that the paper became one of the most widely circulated and influential journals of the State of New Jersey. All the credit of its success is to be attributed to Mr. Scudder, who, as the informing and controlling spirit, has made it the mouthpiece of a wise, forceful and beneficient public servant.
Like other men of ability and energy, Mr. Scudder's activities are not confined to the interests of his own profession, but fare afield to other lines of work. He is a director of the Essex County National Bank, and of the Security Savings Institution. He served the city of Newark during the years 1881-83 as a member of the Board of Education. He is the vice-president of the New Jersey Historical Society, and is a member of the Essex Club, the Essex County Country Club, the Baltusrol Golf Club, the Newark Athletic Club, the North End Club, and of several other social organizations. He was formerly a vestrymen of Trinity Church, Newark, and is now in the same office at St. James' Church.
Mr. Scudder married (first) October 27, 1880, Ida, daughter of the late James A. Quinby, of Newark. She died in 1903, leaving two children: Wallace and Antoinette Quinby. In 1906 Mr. Scudder married (second) Gertrude, daughter of the Rev. Orlando Witherspoon.
EVAN D. EDWARDS
There is probably no work that a man can do that is more useful to the community and State than to train the on-coming generations to a sense of their responsibility as individuals and as citizens of a social order. This work of the educator has far-reaching results and they are in direct propor- tion to the weight, balance, and wholesomeness of the man's own personal- ity. The honor that is accorded a great teacher, a forceful and inspiring leader, is a matter of mere justice, and just such a meed and a recognition of service is an account of the life of Evan D. Edwards, principal of the Alexander Street School, Newark, who for years has done a valuable work in his neighborhood, and one that has not been hid under a bushel.' -
An account of the man is almost necessarily an account of the school into whose upbuilding and into the strengthening of whose influence he has poured the best energies of his life. Evan D. Edwards comes of Welsh ancestry, his progenitors having come to this country in 1840. He was born in Marcy, Oneida County, New York, August 3, 1863. After an early experience in the district school of the neighborhood and at Whitestown Seminary he took a five years' course at the high school at Holland Patent. At its close his principal recommended him to the district commissioner for appointment as a teacher in one of the old-fashioned ungraded schools. Here he taught one year, when he accepted a position offered in the office
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of the Utica Herald as a reviewer and proof-reader. Ellis H. Roberts, after- ward Treasurer of the United States, was the proprietor of the paper at the time, and here Mr. Edwards remained for a year. At the end of that time he came to Newark with a view of studying medicine with two brothers who were physicians with a good practice. Here, at the suggestion of a friend, Mr. Edwards received the appointment as teacher in an ungraded school at North Caldwell, New Jersey, working under Superintendent Davis, of Bloomfield. Four years of work under this able and discerning man were sufficient to show his superior the stuff of which he was made. About this time Mr. Davis offered him the principalship of the Alexander Street School, urging him, though it was an unpromising post, to take it and grow up with the school. Mr. Edwards agreed to accept the position, and he has now been for twenty-four years the principal of the school. Previous to this appointment Mr. Edwards had taken examinations under the New Jersey State Department of Schools at Trenton, and had received a certificate of the first grade.
The Alexander Street School to which Mr. Edwards now went had · originally been a small wooden structure of two stories, with the upper one unfinished, the two rooms on the lower floor being sufficient for the accom- modation of the pupils. This house had been built on farm lands. In 1890 Mr. Edwards became the principal of the school, and the upper story was put into a condition to accommodate pupils. The teaching staff consisted of two other teachers besides himself. The building stood in the borough of Vailsburg, and was rented by the people of South Orange. In the year 1876 the borough became part of Newark and the school came under the jurisdiction of that city. The first teacher of the old school had been a man named Halstead. He was followed by a Miss Morris, with an assistant, and these in turn were replaced by a Miss Hebberd and Miss Sherman. After them, Mr. Edwards was put in charge, and a new era began for the school. In 1898 it was found that the building was too small to accommo- date the increasing number of pupils, and a brick annex containing four rooms was added. 'Two years after, a brick addition of four more class rooms was built, and later a kindergarten annex of one large room was constructed. This gave the school twelve class rooms, but in 1903 the rooms had become so crowded that the Board of Education deter- mined to erect a modern and thoroughly up-to-date school building on the site of the old structure. The old wooden frame was sold for the sum of $85, and was removed to Brookdale avenue, where it was recently sold for $5,000 in order that a new street might be opened there. The designing of the new building was put into the hands of Hurd & Sutton, a firm of architects, who arranged for sixteen class rooms in the main structure. The kindergarten annex was remodeled for manual training purposes. The new building is thoroughly equipped as a grammar school, with a kinder- garten, manual training rooms, a kitchen, and a large assembly room. There are in the reorganized school sixteen teachers in addition to the principal. Even with all the additional room, the building soon became too small for the large number of pupils that flocked there to be enrolled. It thus became necessary to form half day classes. Upon the completion of the new Lincoln School, at Richelieu Terrace, in 1908, five classes were transferred to that school. The Lincoln Street School now sends its pupils from the seventh grade to the Alexander Street School, and they graduate from that school. Since Mr. Edwards came to take charge of the school the number of pupils has increased from 95 to a roll of 748, exclusive of
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those sent to the Lincoln Street School. In this account of the growth of the school from modest beginnings, and in the replacing of the old frame structure by modern and well-equipped buildings, an internal and more vital development may be read between the lines. For this inner and more important growth is the real strength of the school, and has placed it among the chief influences for good in the city.
Absorbed in the work and the problems of his profession and the interests of the community, Mr. Edwards does not ally himself with many social or fraternal organizations. He is, however, a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.
Hle married Katherine, daughter of William H. Elwell, of Salisbury Center, New York. They have three children: Lois, Helen, and Blanche.
CHARLES FREDERICK KRAEMER
Charles Frederick Kraemer, who for nearly two decades has been prominent in the professional, public and political life of Eastern New Jersey, was born in Port Jervis, New York, November 16, 1868. His father, Charles Kraemer, who was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, February 18, 1837, came to America in 1853. He was a tailor by occupation and located in Newark.
When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted, June 1, 1861, in Company A, Twentieth Regiment, New York Volunteers, for two years. Upon the expira- tion of his term of service he re-enlisted, September 1, 1863, in Company C, Ninety-fifth Regiment New York Volunteers. During his military career he took part in the following battles: Fredericksburg, Antietam, Seven Days' Fight, Mine Run, Weldon Road, the Wilderness, Petersburg, and Spottsylvania Court House. He was promoted on the battlefield to be corporal and sergeant. In front of Petersburg, in August, 1864, he was captured with his regiment and was sent to Libby Prison, on Belle Island, and finally was imprisoned for seven months in Salisbury Prison, North Carolina, where he endured great suffering. He was honorably discharged from service, June 19, 1865, in Annapolis, after having served under Gen- erals Mcclellan, Grant, Sherman, Burnside and Warren. After the war he became a member of Hexamer Post, No. 34, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1872. Ile served in that organization as quartermaster for thirty-six years, and was also elected in turn as junior vice-commander and senior vice-commander. He married, in 1867, Mathilda Renz, daughter of Carl and Elizabeth Renz, of Brooklyn, New York.
Charles F. Kraemer was brought to Newark by his parents in 1870, and was educated in the Green Street German Academy, the Fourth Ward Public School, and the Newark High School. He entered Columbia College in New York City in 1884, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia College in 1886, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1890, the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine being conferred upon him. His professional life was begun in the Roosevelt and Bellevue Hospitals, where he served upon the hospital staff .. Returning to Newark in 1891, he entered upon the general practice of medicine, and in 1893 established a wholesale and retail drug business, in which he continued for the ensuing seven years. In 1900 he became identified with the German Mutual Fire Insurance Company as vice-president of the corporation, and was also life insurance commissioner for several New York companies. In 1901 he established the firm of S. Leschziner & Company, dealers and
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operators in real estate. From the date of this organization to 1909 this firm has conducted and been identified with every large real estate develop- ment in the city of Newark. It has been the pioneer in the building of apartment houses in that city, among its most conspicuous operations in this direction having been the La Grange, the Cecil, the Congress, the Century office building, the Wiss building, and the general development of the Clinton Hill section.
Politically devoted to the Democratic principles, Dr. Kraemer has iden- tified himself with the Democratic party since his graduation from college in 1890. He was early elected a member of the Essex County Democratic Committee from the Fourth Ward of Newark, and has ever since repre- sented in that body the Fourth Ward, the Seventh Ward, or the Eighth Ward. He served as a member of the executive and campaign committees, and for several years was a treasurer of the county committee, in which position he conducted its affairs during several presidential campaigns. In 1890 he was elected, by an overwhelming majority, School Commissioner from the Fourth Ward of Newark, and during his encumbency in that office served on several important committees. In 1904 he was nominated for the Assembly, and two years later he was nominated for Congress from the Seventh Congressional District, against Richard Wayne Parker, the Repub- lican nominee. Although he was not elected in the ensuing campaign, he succeeded in almost wiping out the nominal Republican majority. Concern- ing the results of that campaign, the Newark Evening News, of November 7, 1906, made the following declaration:
"Comment among the leaders of both parties to-day gave precedence to the phenomenal run of Dr. Kraemer, who, in one of the strongest Repub- lican Congressional districts, which a year ago gave Mr. Parker the generous plurality of more than 11,000, succeeded in reducing that number to a few hundred, Dr. Kraemer having beaten Mr. Parker, in his home town, West Orange, by eighty votes. With the complete tabulations the votes stood: For Parker, 16,443; for Kraemer, 16,123. It was generally conceded that the many marked ballots which were not counted would have sent the doctor to Congress, if a re-count had taken place."
In 1907 he was nominated for county clerk of Essex upon the guber- natorial ticket with Frank S. Katzenbach, but was not elected. In the social and fraternal life of Newark, he has been particularly conspicuous, being a member of most of the prominent fraternal, benevolent, civic and political organizations. Ilis membership includes Schiller Lodge, No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons; the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry; Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Newark Lodge, No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Lucerne Lodge, No. 181, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; American Lodge, No. 143, Knights of Pythias; Foresters of America; Independent Order of Foresters; Order of German-Americans; Sons of Veterans; Board of Trade; Newark Turn Verein; the All Down Bowling Club; the Joel Parker Association; Jefferson Club; North End Club; Gottfried Krueger Association; Leni Lenape; New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club; Road Horse Association; Green Street School Alumni, and the Columbia College Alumni. He is president of the Fourth Ward Improvement Association and the Bradley Beach Improvement Association; vice-president of the Eighth Ward Improvement Association; and treasurer of the Federal Building and Loan Association and Loeb Realty and Construction Company; also presi- dent of the Investors' Mortgage Loan Company.
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Mr. Kraemer married, October 18, 1893, Freda Seitz Meyer. Mrs. Kraemer is well known in musical circles, being a soloist of marked ability. She also devotes much time to charitable organizations and missionary work. Two daughters have been born of this marriage, Freda and Emma Kraemer.
MAULBETSCH & WHITTEMORE
What can be done to further the growth of a business from a small beginning to one of national importance is excellently illustrated in the case of Maulbetsch & Whittemore Company, Incorporated, manufacturers of cases for musical instruments, in the city of Newark, New Jersey.
The two men who established this firm-John Maulbetsch and George D. Whittemore-were accomplished mechanics when they started the busi- ness in 1886, in Market street, but they had very little capital, and but one employee to assist them. The excellent quality of their wares soon found proper appreciation, and their small shop was soon inadequate to fill all the orders that came to them. In 1888 they removed to a larger building in Railroad avenue, and at the expiration of eleven years (1899) removed to 154-156 Summit street. It was during this time (in 1902) that the business was incorporated as the Maulbetsch & Whittemore Company, with the following officers: George D. Whittemore, president; George Maul- betsch, vice-president; John Maulbetsch, secretary, and Richard L. Whitte- more, treasurer. After five years the business was again removed to its present location. The factory building is a commodious brick structure which was planned and erected especially for their needs, and is equipped with all the most modern machinery and appliances of all kinds to facilitate their manufacture. They occupy the entire building, including a well- equipped basement, these together furnishing a floor space of more than thirteen thousand square feet. They furnish employment to between forty and fifty expert workmen. Their trade mark is a "G" clef with a bull's head, and this is recognized everywhere as an emblem of merit by dealers in instruments and cases, and the M. & W. goods are so well known that there is no need of traveling salesmen, their carefully compiled catalogues giving all necessary information.
John Maulbetsch, who up to his death in 1912 was treasurer and senior member of the firm, was born in Giengen-am-Brenz, Germany, March 9, 1846. In his native country he had learned the trade of harness-making, and was occupied with it for some time after his arrival in this country in 1871. He was in military service in Germany for a period of four years, and took an active part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In political matters he was an ardent Republican, and he gave his active support to the interests of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Maulbetsch married Fredericka Gebhardt, of Germany, and they had children: John, residing in Geneva, Switzerland; Annie, married Haas, of Brooklyn, New York; George and Frederick.
George, son of John and Fredericka (Gebhardt) Maulbetsch, was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 28, 1878. His carly education was acquired in a German school, and he then became a pupil at the Newark High School, from which he was graduated in 1893 after a thorough train- ing in the commercial department. Immediately after completing his educa- tion he became an assistant to his father in the business of which mention has been made above, and, upon the death of his father in 1912, took his placo in the affairs of the firm, becoming treasurer of the company. In
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political matters he is a Republican, like his father, and he is a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 39, Free and Accepted Masons, the Scottish Rite, and Salaam Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
George D. Whittemore, president of the Maulbetsch & Whittemore Company, was born in Newark, April 17, 1846. He is a descendant of one of the oldest families of the State of New Jersey, his paternal great-grand- father having settled in the State when he removed there from Guilford, Connecticut, prior to the War of the Revolution. He was one of that body of men who actually built the old First Presbyterian Church, and who gave of their time and personal labor as well as of their means to further this purpose.
James Whittemore, grandfather, was a man whose good deeds were not soon forgotten. He conducted a shoeshop in which many apprentices learned their trade, and he not alone taught them carefully but assisted those who were deserving of it in their later careers.
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