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Harry Camp Hedden, son of James Smith, Hedden, was born in Newark, April 18, 1860. His education was received in the public schools of the city, his graduation from the High School taking place in 1876. He then took a two years' course of study in the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, leaving which he went to Syracuse (New York) University, and worked for three years. For seven years after he left college in 1882 he taught school at Livingston, and at Madison, New Jersey. In 1889 he left the profession of teaching to enter into an association with his father in the wholesale grocer business, the firm name being Hedden & Company, located in Newark. In 1891 he became associated with the Plate Glass Insurance Company and was their special agent for five years, becoming later superintendent of agencies, a position which he held for five years. In 1902 he was elected to the responsible position which he now holds of trust secretary of the company. His residence is in West Orange Valley, on Mt. Pleasant avenue. He and his family attend the St. Cloud Presby- terian Church, his wife, who had been a member of the North Orange Baptist Church, having joined the St. Cloud Church in 1900 by letter. In his political convictions, Mr. Hedden is a Republican, and has served his party as a delegate to its various conventions, and has also been a member of the school board for the town of West Orange. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 11, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the New Jersey Automo- bile Club.
He married, at West Orange, New Jersey, December 23, 1885, Lillian Electa, born August 10, 1865, daughter of William Nathan and Phebe Ann (Underhill) Williams. Mr. Williams was a man holding a prominent official position in West Orange. Their children are: 1. Elma Williams, born April 12, 1887. 2. Lillian Electa, born May 27, 1889, died April 4, 1892. 3. Phebe Ethel, born October 22, 1893. 4. Julia Bertha, born October 20, 1894.
HUGH M. HART, M.D.
Dr. Hugh M. Hart is noted not alone in the city of Newark, New Jersey, but throughout the entire State for his professional ability, and as a direct result of this has been honored by several public appointments, the one he is filling at the present time (1913) being that of surgeon to the Fire Department of the city. His father was Joseph Hart, a native of Scotland, who died in 1907. He had come to Newark with the Clarks, and was for many years superintendent of the Clark Thread Works.
Dr. Hart was born in Newark, October 10, 1872, and at a suitable age became a pupil of the public schools. He was graduated from the Newark Academy in 1890, then matriculated at the College of Physicians and
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Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, and was graduated from this institution in 1894 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. One year was then spent in the Jersey City Hospital as resident physician, and after a further year spent at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, he returned to Newark and there established himself as a general medical practitioner. It was no long time before his professional ability became recognized in a wide circle and he acquired a very satisfactory practice. He was appointed district city physician in 1896, and served in this responsible capacity until 1904, being senior in rank in point of service when he resigned from this office in order to accept his appointment as surgeon to the Newark Fire Department, an office he is holding at the present time. From 1900 until 1902 he was in charge of the City Isolation Hospital. The greater portion of his time is devoted to his departmental duties, but his private practice is also a very lucrative one, and he enjoys the confidence and personal esteem of all his patients. He has never taken an active part in the political affairs of the community, the demands made upon his time precluding his doing so, but he takes the rational interest of a good citizen in all that concerns the welfare of the city, and gives his support to the Democratic party. His religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church. He holds membership in the alumni associations of the Newark Academy and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Colum- bia University; in the Essex County, State and American Medical societies; Northern Lodge, No. 25, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Improved Order of Heptasophs.
Dr. Hart married Mary S., daughter of ex-Mayor Doremus, and they have one daughter, Gertrude Doremus. His home, at No. 300 Mount Prospect avenue, Newark, is commodious, and a model of elegance and refinement, and the geniality and warm-hearted hospitality of Dr. Hart and his wife make it the gathering place of a large circle of friends. Dr. Hart holds the opinion that a physician has never completed his studies, and the greater portion of his leisure time is spent in the reading of professional works.
PHILIP J. BOWERS
Shakespeare has said: "To paint the lily, to gild refined gold, to add another color to the rainbow is wasteful and ridiculous excess." In the case of the firm of the standing of Messrs. Philip J. Bowers & Company, of Newark, no necessity exists for "painting the lily, etc.," and yet obvious facts have frequently to be repeated in order that worthy achievements may not be overlooked by busy people.
This firm has done so many things in a large way and has done them so well that repetition is but the scant justice accorded by an onlooker. The deals consummated by the concern have in general been of a character to awaken the spirit of emulation among other large dealers in real estate and the resultant benefit has extended in directions not by any means taken into account by the originators of the movement.
Philip J. Bowers & Company have thus done an immense amount of indirect good for which, though well merited, they have doubtless received but little credit. While the firm has been engaged in innumerable indi- vidual transactions during its uniformly successful career, attention is caught by the boldness and capacity with which many of the larger trans- actions have been handled.
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Not many years ago the section of East Orange that lay just over the line from Newark and north from Main street was practically a barren waste. Philip J. Bowers & Company first recognized its possibilities as a two-family and apartment-house district. That no doubt at all existed regarding this point, the firm coolly proceeded to erect, after cutting two streets (Eighteenth and Nineteenth) through the property, forty-nine two- family houses. As the houses averaged in value about $6,500 each, it is easy to figure that close to $300,000 was involved in this development. The next step taken was the erection of four six-family brick apartment houses in Eaton place, between Seventeenth and Nineteenth streets, at a total cost of $100,000. It is worthy of note that every one of these apart- ments was sold before completion.
A move was then made a few blocks down to the Roseville section, where in due time three more six-family brick apartments were constructed and promptly sold. These latter represented an investment of something like $65,000. This section looked good to the firm. They figured that $140,000 would make quite a respectable showing if invested on Seventh avenue, between Third and Fourth streets; in fact, the proposition was to cover the entire block with apartments. The work was not long delayed and soon there arose five handsome six-family apartment houses that proved both an ornament and a convenience to the neighborhood.
Seeking other neighborhoods to conquer in the onward march of progress, the firm went further up-town in East Orange and concluded that the vicinity of Brick Church Station of the Lackawanna railroad offered advantages for a certain sort of operations. The entire block on Harrison street, between Ivanhoe terrace and Webster place, was chosen as an available spot to erect an ultra modern series of apartments, each contain- ing suites for eight families. Nothing similar had previously been visible in East Orange, and the firm had the satisfaction of knowing that they had established a new kind of record for that place. The aggregate value of the properties reached the sum of $150,000, the apartments being con- cededly the finest in East Orange.
East Orange Park tract is the latest and most conspicuous development undertaken, and bids fair to eclipse anything heretofore accomplished by the firm. Furthermore, nothing in the line of residential development in East Orange can in the future be placed in comparison with it, for the simple reason that when Messrs. Philip J. Bowers & Company secured the tract it proved to be the only large piece of land available for first-class residential purposes that could be found in the whole city of East Orange. The location of the tract is perfect. It is all high ground and is the center of a beautifully built-up neighborhood. Nearby is the handsome Carnegie Library building, while the Franklin School, one of the handsomest and best-equipped buildings in East Orange, is but a few minutes' walk from the remotest section of the tract. A most valuable and charming feature is the proximity of the Essex County Park to East Orange tract. Nature's beauties are on all sides, and to nature has been added the art of man. Railroad stations and trolleys are both convenient, leaving nothing to be desired from the standpoint of transit facilities.
The operations of Philip J. Bowers & Company have extended to Mont- clair, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Belleville, Nutley, East Orange, Orange, West Orange and Irvington. Large tracts have been bought and developed in each of these places. Besides all these largo interests, Philip J. Bowers & Company are the largest real estate operators in Newark, and have very extensive holdings on both Broad and Market streets.
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JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM
Joseph Fulford Folsom, Presbyterian clergyman and a man of many- sided ability and activity, is a direct descendant of the Puritan, John Folsom, of Hingham, England, who came with his family to America on the ship "Diligent," landing at Boston, August 10, 1638. He is also a direct descendant of Major John Fulford, who was in command of the defences at Annapolis, Maryland, during the Revolutionary War. Ile is the pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, South, of Newark.
Mr. Folsom was born in Bloomfield, Essex county, New Jersey, and throughout his minority lived in his native town, where he received his common school education. After leaving high school he was engaged in office work in the city of New York for a few years. A part of 1885 was spent in Fargo, Dakota, where he had secured a position in the real estate office of a distant kinsman. He then took up a course of theological study under the preceptorship of his pastor, Rev. Henry W. Ballantine, D.D., of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, later entering the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he was graduated in 1892. He was ordained and installed as pastor of the Pound Ridge Pres- byterian Church, Westchester county, New York, June 21, 1892, and served in this pastorate for a period of three years. His next charge was the Knox Presbyterian Church of Kearny, Hudson county, New Jersey, where he was installed, July 8, 1895, and where he remained until his removal by the Presbytery of Newark to Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, in order to take ministerial charge of an unorganized field in the Clinton Hill section of the city. Here he commenced his duties, November 21, 1904, in a commodious chapel previously erected by the committee of Presbyterial church extension, and on February 15, 1906, the congregation was organ- ized as the Clinton Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Folsom was unanimously elected the first pastor. In 1912, with a membership of over five hundred, this church entered into an agreement whereby it was merged with the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, and became the Collegiate Third Church, South. Under the agreement the chapel was enlarged for Sunday school and social work, and a handsome new church edifice exclusively for religious services was erected. In 1897 Mr. Folsom was moderator of the Presbytery of Newark.
In 1895 Mr. Folsom was elected the first chaplain-general of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and served two years; being re-elected to the same office in 1907, he served another two years. Hle is also a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1904 he was elected recording secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, which office he is still holding at the present (191,3) time. In 1909 he was appointed librarian of this society, and when the office was made elective in 1912, he was chosen to fill it. For a number of years he has been greatly interested in the State and local history of New Jersey. He made original researches for material on the folk lore of the State, and wrote a number of articles on witchcraft, omens, magic and illusions. He was a pioneer in writing articles on old houses and their traditions. He has written many articles on colonial history, biography and bibliography. '
Mr. Folsom called general attention to the services of Daniel Bray and other New Jersey patriots who, in 1776, at great peril and discomfort to themselves, brought down the Delaware the boats needed for Wash-
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ington's attack on Trenton, and wrote the "Ballad of Daniel Bray." This poem, printed in the "Patriotic Poems of New Jersey," compiled by W. C. Armstrong, was also published as a broadside by the Free Public Library of Newark, and is a favorite piece for school declamation. In connection with his work for the New Jersey Historical Society, Mr. Folsom conducts a department on historical matters in the Newark Evening News, familiarly known as the column by the "Lorist." He is a member and director of the Carteret Book Club, and has been engaged to write a history of Philip Carteret, the first Governor of New Jersey, to be published by the club. He is also engaged in writing a second volume of the history of the Washington Association of New Jersey.
In the poetical field, Mr. Folsom has also done occasional work, his contributions having appeared in The Independent and other publications, but more frequently in the daily press. Poems suitable to special occasions have frequently come from his pen. At the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Washington at Newark, 1912, he read "The Horseman Wash- ington," which he had composed for this event. His poem on the Lincoln statue appears in the volume entitled "The Newark Lincoln," compiled by John Cotton Dana.
In 1912 Mr. Folsom edited the local history entitled "Bloomfield, Old and New," published in connection with the celebration of the centennial of the incorporation of Bloomfield, his native town. He is the author of the first three chapters of the book. Mr. Folsom issued a pamphlet in 1913 called "New Jersey's Part in the Revolution," which contains a paper previously read on several occasions, notably at the Old Barracks, Trenton, and printed in the "Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society." He is also the author of the chapter on the history of the churches in the "History of Newark," edited by Frank J. Urquhart. Among the fraternities of which he is a member are the Delta Upsilon, the Masonic and the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Folsom married, 1892, Isabel Markham Kirk. They have had three children: , Joseph Kirk (Rutgers College, 1913), Isabel and Evelyn Fulford. His worth to the community is highly estimated, and the county numbers him among her most valued citizens. Respected in public life, esteemed by his friends, he commands the confidence of all with whom he is brought into contact.
THE BARLOW FOUNDRY COMPANY
At No. 28 Orange street, Newark, in a little by-way, half hidden behind the great factory where a world-known article of commerce is produced, stands an old foundry with a history. It is the home of the , Barlow Foundry Company, of which Arthur E. Barlow is the present head, and which under various names and managements has carried on a business in this venerable spot for eighty-seven years. It is not alone in this fact, however, though this is distinction enough, that its interest lies, but even more in its having been the scene of Seth Boyden's historic success in the manufacture of malleable iron. Indeed, the story of its early years amounts to the history of the beginning of that industry in the United States, for it was here that all the early malleable iron founders came to learn the art of decarbonizing castings. Since the days when the old foundry occupied a part of the lot back of Boyden's house, the same business has continued there, albeit under many names, and has always held an important position
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in the trade. Of late years, under the influence of a successful management and the great industrial development of the present, this business has grown so greatly that it has long felt cramped in the old quarters, and before long, the historic site will be abandoned for a more spacious modern plant, which is being erected in the southern part of the city at Railroad avenue, Hunter and Alpine streets and Avenue A, and comprises the full block. The property is along the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, and has a siding from the freight branch of the Pennsylvania. The buildings are of brick, steel and concrete, with tile roof, and therefore practically fireproof, and will be equipped with modern and efficient machinery. As it stands to-day, there is comparatively little of the original building left, and a section of the old wall, still doing duty in the newer structure, alone maintains its place. In a busy concern, growing from. such small begin- nings, many changes are of necessity made, and the present buildings do not present the imposing front of the modern factory, planned with a knowledge of its ultimate needs, but rather the appearance of those structures which have grown in response to ever-changing conditions, a character which, if less valued by the practical inmate, is at least prized by the artist as picturesque.
It was in 1826 that Seth Boyden began here the production of malle- able castings, but he continued in business only nine years, when he was bought out in 1835 by the Boston Malleable Cast Iron and Steel Company, which also bought out his brother, Otis Boyden, who had established the Crockett Foundry in Newark. This early consolidation was not successful and failed about two years later, when the foundry passed into the hands of Condit & Bolles, under whose management it remained until 1843. Since that time the office stationery has borne the following names: Daniel Condit, 1843-1858; Condit & Barlow, 1858-1862; Condit, Barlow & Shove, 1862-1866; Barlow & Shove, 1866-1870; J. H. Barlow, 1870-1879; Barlow & Condit, 1879-1882; Barlow, Condit & Morris, 1882-1895; Morris & Bar- low, 1895-1899; and since 1899 that of the present owner, Arthur E. Barlow, a son of the J. H. Barlow, whose name figures so prominently in the firm from 1858 on. From 1899 to 1907 the concern bore Arthur E. Bar- low's personal name, and from the latter date it has been known as the Barlow Foundry Company, with Arthur E. Barlow at its head.
When the history of the malleable iron industry in this country comes to be written, the names of three men will stand out the most prominently, three men who have spent active years in, and given their services to this foundry. They are the names of Seth Boyden, J. H. Barlow and William G. Morris. Of these Mr. Barlow played the least conspicuous part, as his energies were devoted to the office and not to the technical end of the business. Mr. Morris practically grew up in the environment of the plant, and later, as the head of the business, was regarded by some as the highest authority, and by all as among the highest, in the art of malleable iron -. making and the manufacture of light castings. He had gained his knowl- edge in the most direct manner, for, besides his own first-hand experience in the foundry, he was the son of a foundry man who had had his training and served his apprenticeship under Seth Boyden himself. His death occurred in 1898 while attending a meeting of the Philadelphia Foundry- men's Association.
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JOHN THOMAS SIMPSON
John Thomas Simpson is numbered among the leading representative and successful men of Newark, and is widely known as an architect, a master of fireproof construction, and also as an inventor of various notable devices used in the construction of fireproof buildings.
Mr. Simpson was born on a farm near Kittanning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, October 20, 1870, son of William and Elizabeth Gray Simp- son. His education was obtained in the public schools of his native town, where, after completing his studies, he was apprenticed to the carpenter trade, which he followed for five and a half years. Having decided to become an architect, he saved the necessary funds for a college education, which he deemed essential for his future success. He then became a student in the Lehigh University, in the class of 1896, in architecture and engineer- ing. The death of his father prevented his finishing his course at Lehigh, and he later took a special course in architecture at the Pratt Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Brooklyn, New York, thus supplementing his previous studies.
After leaving college he practiced for one year at Kittanning, Pennsyl- vania, and then entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company at Pittsburgh, in order to obtain practical knowledge in structural steel work, so largely used in modern buildings. He later became associated with the Columbian Fireproofing Company, one of the early companies handling reinforced concrete work, and after a service of a year and a half with that company he entered the employ of P. Gallagher, a general contractor of New York City. During his service with Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Simpson erected a number of public school buildings. His next position was with the Terry & Tench Construction Company, erectors of steel structures, participating in the construction of the Williamsburg bridge. After a year's labor in the practical construction of steel work, he went with the Hay Foundry and Iron Works of Newark, serving as chief engineer for seven years, during which time the American Concrete-Steel Company was formed to promote an invention of Mr. Simpson's for the construction of reinforced concrete buildings, and he became treasurer of this company. After serving in that capacity for three years he was elected president, which office he filled for seven years. He was always a believer in. the permanent advantages of such structures, and many of the fireproof indus- trial buildings and schools in and about Newark are the result of his work.
On January 1, 1913, Mr. Simpson resigned the presidency of the American Concrete-Steel Company and opened an office to devote his entire time to architectural and engineering work, specializing in fireproof con- struction. The disastrous fire at Collingwood, Ohio, where one hundred and sixty-five school children lost their lives, was the means of directing his attention to the dangerous condition of school buildings. That such a catastrophe could be averted without increasing the cost of a building was the firm belief of Mr. Simpson, and the numerous fireproof school buildings erected by him is a proof of the correctness of his judgment. He has a number of inventions to his credit, most of them being devices used in the construction of fireproof buildings.
Mr. Simpson has gained repute for himself that comes to few men .of his age, and from the beginning he displayed great aptitude for his work, thus winning success and reputation. He is a man of marked intellectual strength and congenial nature, public-spirited, and can be depended upon
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to contribute and co-operate in any movement tending to advance the general interests or promote the material welfare of the community at large. He is a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 48, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jersey City; the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engi- neers' Club, the Aero Club of America, the Lehigh University Club of New York, and the Down Town Club and the Board of Trade of Newark.
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Mr. Simpson was married in Warren, Ohio, January 19, 1898, to Alice Wiles, daughter of Richard and Margaret Wiles, of that place. His chil- dren are: Marshall Shoemaker, born July 12, 1900; Mabel Wiles, born August 13, 1903, and Alice Drew, born May 18, 1913.
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