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For many years Mr. Lippman has been actively identified with public affairs, in the administration of which he has displayed the same sterling qualities exemplified in his business life. From 1885 to 1889 he acted as clerk of the Board of Elections for Second District, Sixth Ward; in 1886-87 was journal clerk for Legislature of New Jersey; from 1886 to 1891 was justice of the peace, re-elected in the latter year and served until 1896, re-elected again and served continuously until 1906; appointed assistant assessor in December, 1890, served until June, 1895; made clerk of Essex County Board of Election in September, 1895, and served until August, 1908. From 1884 to 1908 he was elected as a delegate, representing the Republican party, to every city, county and State convention, and for seven- teen consecutive years was the reading secretary of every convention held in Newark and Essex County, he being the only man in the city of Newark to serve in a like capacity for so long a period. During Louis Aronson's run for mayor in 1912, Mr. Lippman acted as chairman of the committee at the primaries and during the campaign. Mr. Lippman is a stockholder in the Progress, Sixteenth Ward, Savings, Merchants', Avon Hill, and Amalgamated Building and Loan Associations, and director in the Savings, Sixteenth Ward, Avon, and Amalgamated Building and Loan Associations. He is a member of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, affiliating with Northern Lodge, No. 25; Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; New Jersey Consistory; Salaam Temple, of Newark; also a member of Ezekiel Lodge, B'nai B'rith; of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Progress Club, the Mountain Ridge Country Club, member and director of the Beth Israel Hospital, and the only living charter member of the Republican Indian League, and a member of the Sixteenth Ward Republican Club.
Mr. Lippman married May Rosenstein, January 19, 1892, and they have one daughter, Lenore, born May 15, 1895.
ERNEST F. KEER
Ernest F. Keer is a well-known German-American citizen. Ile is the youngest son of Julius and Josephine Keer, late of the city of Newark. They resided in Newark since the '40s. He was born in Newark November 1, 1870.
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Mr. Keer became a student in the New York University and graduated in 1892, receiving a degree of LL. B. After having graduated, he studied law with the firm of McCarter, Williamson & McCarter, this city. He was admitted as an attorney in 1893, and in 1896 as a counsellor. Since that date he has successfully practiced law in Essex County and has a substantial clientele due entirely to his ability and conscientious efforts in behalf of the causes he represents. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club and of the Newark Board of Trade. He has been a member of many societies, lodges and other organizations, but, due to the time required for his practice, he has, from time to time, resigned from many of them.
Mr. Keer always practiced the principles now represented by the new Progressive party, and like every man who is known throughout the com- munity for reliability and honesty of purpose, as well as talents of high degree, he possesses great influence both in public and private life.
BARTHOLOMEW F. MONAGHAN
The history of a State as well as that of a nation is chiefly the chronicles of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society, whether in the broad sphere of public labors or in the more circum- scribed, but not less worthy and valuable, of individual activity, through which the general good is ever promoted. There is both propriety and satisfaction in giving even a cursory review of the life of a man who has really achieved, and when this achievement lies in the field of education, it has been a matter of vital importance to the community in which it has occurred, and perhaps to the entire world, for the influence exerted along these lines is one of the most widespread. Bartholomew F. Monaghan, of Newark, New Jersey, is one of those men who have had the gratification of being able to use this influence, and in his capacity as principal of the West Side School, his benefit to the city has been an extensive one. He is of Irish descent, his parents, Patrick and Honora Monaghan, being natives of County Sligo, Ireland.
Bartholomew F. Monaghan was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 9, 1873, and received his education entirely in his native country. He was graduated from the Morton Street Public School in June, 1889, and then attended the Newark High School. He matriculated at Rutgers College in September, 1892, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences in 1896. Shortly after his graduation from Rutgers College he was appointed vice-principal of Morton Street School, and in September, 1899, to a similar position in the South Market Street School. Advanced to the position of principal of the Hawkins Street School in September, 1900, he was trans- ferred to the principalship of the West Side School on February 1, 1912, and has filled that office since that time.
Mr. Monaghan married, September 5, 1900, Sarah J., daughter of Francis and Sarah Filer, of East Hampton, Long Island. They have one child, Barth F., born January 28, 1903.
MYRON W. MORSE
The city of Newark, New Jersey, has shown a remarkable . growth and development during recent years, and among those who have been largely instrumental in furthering this desirable state of affairs the name of Myron W. Morse takes a prominent place.
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Mr. Morse was born in Newark, and is a grand nephew of Professor Morse, of telegraph fame. He has undoubtedly inherited many of the valuable traits which have characterized the earlier generations of his family, and has known how to utilize them to the best advantage. He acquired his early education in the public schools of his native city, but was obliged to enter practical business life when he was still a young lad. His first brsiness position was as a clerk in the employ of William H. Lorton, of Orange, New Jersey, with whom he remained two years. At this time he secured a scholarship at the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Newark, at that time the only business college in the city, and entered upon his studies there, making a specialty of penmanship, arithmetic and commercial law. The last mentioned study possessed a peculiar fascination for him, and his complete mastery of it has been of inestimable benefit to him through- out his business career. He was seventeen years of age at the time of his graduation from the business college, and had no difficulty in finding a suitable position. He entered the employ of William Turner & Company, stamped tin ware manufacturers, as bookkeeper, but at the expiration of one year he had a favorable offer from Charles M. Decker, wholesale and retail grocer, at Brick Church, New Jersey, and remained there several years. Ilis next position was with Carter, Sloan & Company, at that time the largest jewelry manufacturers in the entire United States, and after five years spent with this firm, Mr. Morse, in 1888, started in business independently. He had given the subject due consideration for a long period of time, and concluded that the best field for his operations was in the outskirts of the city. He accordingly opened a real estate office in the North End, known as the Eighth Ward, and the wisdom of his choice of a location has been amply demonstrated. At the present time (1913) it takes but ten minutes to get from this locality to the business center of the city, at Broad and Market streets. Mr. Morse succeeded in convincing many prominent resi- dents of the city of the desirability of this section as a residential quarter, and the development of the city in that direction is largely owing to his personal efforts. He showed his originality by the adoption of a trade mark, which is to be found on his cards and stationery, consisting of an oblong field with oblique bars of red, white and blue. This was a novel device for this line of business and naturally attracted considerable attention. He has identified himself closely with the interests of his clients and customers, and conducts all operations with as much care as if they were for his individual benefit. This is fully recognized by those who have had dealings with him, and his reputation as an honest and honorable business man has spread far and wide. He has recently opened a second office on the second floor at No. 740 Broad street, which location is opposite the Postoffice, and in the center of the banking interests. In addition to his real estate operations Mr. Morse is a notary public and a commissioner of deeds, and the various branches are mutually helpful to each other. As an active member of the Newark Board of Trade, Mr. Morse has great influence, and is at present a member of the membership committee of that body. He is also an active . factor as a member of several building and loan associations, and in charit- able and religious work his is a well-known name and figure. For many years he has been a member of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, having served as secretary of the Sunday School for nine and one-half years, also as president of the Epworth League. Mr. Morse has earned the esteem
· and confidence of the business world as a man whose word is as good as his bond, and in social life his many sterling qualities have gained for him at least an equal number of sincero friends.
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JOHN MORRISON
One of the successful merchants of the past generation in the city of Newark, New Jersey, was John Morrison, a citizen to whose generosity and philanthropic zeal much that is best in the higher life of the city is justly due. His time and his means were ever freely given to the public weal and he was a citizen who ranked with the best of his fellows. Liberal without being radical, he was many years in advance of his time, and when death overtook him at the early age of forty-nine years there was probably no man in the town who wielded a greater influence for good and who was more generally beloved. It is the example of such men as this that lights the torch of human charity and hands it down to future generations.
His father, John Morrison, Sr., was descended from old English stock, and was the owner of a large flour mill in Liverpool, England. Stories of the great business opportunities in the United States attracted his attention, and he came to this country and established a large mill on Staten Island. Later, in connection with this enterprise, he purchased an extensive wheat farm near Utica, New York, and died in the latter place. His widow, who was left with three small children, survived his loss by only two years. He married Ann Herbert, and their children were: John, the subject of this sketch; Ann, born in 1815; Jane, 1818.
John Morrison was born in Liverpool, England, 1812, and died in Newark, 1861. It is largely owing to his innate desires that he acquired his fine education. His native ability was very great, and his ambition and fine taste gained for him a culture that few men attain with all the laborious training of the schools. He was possessed of a keen business sense as well, and a shrewd perception of character that was invaluable and no doubt contributed largely to his success. He was as indefatigable in his training as a student as later he was assiduous in his attention to his business duties. Thoroughness, devotion to work, and an unshakable integrity, furnished the keynotes to his business character, the other side of which showed the broad-minded Christian gentleman, with charity and sympathy for all classes, creeds and conditions, and the possessor of a culture as wide as his charity. In the mathematical field he took an especially high rank, and was considered, by those competent to judge, the best mathematician of which the State of New Jersey could boast at that time. Problems from all over the world were sent to him for solution, and he was ever willing and ready to solve them. At one time Princeton College tendered him a profes- sorship, but he could not reconcile the small salary attached to the position with the needs of his growing family, and declined the honor.
His first business venture was as a flour merchant, his headquarters being in Maiden Lane, New York City. He abandoned this in order to asso- ciate himself in a partnership with T. B. Peddie, in the manufacture of trunks in Newark, with a retail establishment in Chambers street, New York City. Being of a decidedly mechanical turn of mind as well as mathe- matical, Mr. Morrison invented many ingenious contrivances for the improve- ment of the wares his firm manufactured, and a number of others which facilitated and lessened the cost of manufacture. From the time his business interests took him to Newark, he thoroughly identified himself with that city, and threw himself with characteristic ardor into all the movements of a charitable and philanthropic nature. He was a peculiarly devout and ardent churchman, and for a period of twenty years served as one of the wardens of Trinity Church. His wife was an efficient helper in all his
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charities; and he left behind him a beloved memory, that of a high-minded and noble business man, loyal to every duty as a citizen and man.
Mr. Morrison married, at Waterville, New York, 1834, Caroline, born in New York City, August, 1812, daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Fowler) Ogden, and sister of Deborah and Mary Ogden. Children: John Ogden, deceased; Charles D., deceased; Caroline Louise, deceased; William Henry, deceased; Mary; Edward; Anna Monroe, of whom further; and George.
Anna Monroe Morrison was married to Truman H. Aldrich, at Trinity Church, Newark, in May, 1870. Mr. Aldrich was born in Palmyra, New York, October 17, 1848. Ile was educated in the public schools, the Military Academy, West Chester, Pennsylvania; and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, graduating M. E. in 1869. He practiced in New York and New Jersey in 1869-71, was in the banking business in Selma, Alabama, in 1871-73, and since then has been engaged in coal mining and geological work. He was a candidate for Congress (indorsed by People's party) in 1894; his opponent was seated, but after a successful contest he was seated near the close of the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. He is now in the mining business in Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Aldrich died April 13, 1913. Children of Truman H. and Anna Monroe (Morrison) Aldrich: Georgie W., now Mrs. John W. Herron, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Truman H. Aldrich, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama; Morrison and Anna M., both deceased; and Marie A. Aldrich, of Washington, D. C.
The Ogden family, from which Mrs. Caroline (Ogden) Morrison was descended, is of ancient English origin, the name having been derived from the old Saxon oak-dean, or oak valley. The first American ancestor was John Ogden, referred to usually as "the Pilgrim," born in Hampshire, England, September 19, 1609; died in May, 1682. He arrived at Southampton, Long Island, in 1640, and was a leading man among the settlers who founded the town. He became greatly interested in whaling, Southampton being one of the chief centers of that industry, which was a very important branch of the trade of the country before the introduction of petroleum. He repre- sented Southampton in the General Court. In 1664 he removed to New Jersey and bought of the Indians a tract of land at Elizabethtown one month before the patent was granted to the English Governor. He filled the office of Deputy Governor of the province, having been appointed to the post by Philip Carteret, the Proprietary Governor. John Ogden left five sons and one daughter, and a remarkable number of their descendants have attained eminence in the legal profession, several having taken a large part in the framing of colony and State constitutions. Many became judges of the Supreme Court, and three became Governors of New Jersey. In various records of the State of New York the activities of the Ogden family have received honorable mention. At the time of the Revolutionary War, John Ogden, a great-grandson of John Ogden, the Pilgrim, owned and operated a mill on the Whippany river, near Morristown, and there he made flour and his wife baked bread for the hungry soldiers of the patriot army stationed in the vicinity.
Mr. Morrison was a particularly fine example of undeviating devotion to duty. Calm and deliberate, he never engaged in any undertaking, whether of a private or public character, without due and careful consideration; then, his plans being well and clearly formed, he strode forward without hesitation to the goal he had set for himself. The earnest spirit which marked the commencement of his business career was characteristic of him throughout his life.
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TONY PETTE
Of the many classes of foreigners who have come to the shores of the United States, there is none which has won a more richly deserved reputation for industry, frugality and perseverance than the natives of Italy. In spite of the numerous hardships with which many of them have had to contend, they have remained the same cheerful, contented people that they were when they first came. When the smallest opportunity to advance has been offered to them, they have eagerly seized it and made the best use of it. This has notably been the case with Mr. Tony Pette, the well-known jeweler of Newark, New Jersey.
Gennero Pette, father of the Mr. Pette of this review, was born in Italy, in 1828, and was a mill owner and a superintendent of mills in his native country until he emigrated to America in 1903. He made his home in the city of Newark, where he is now living in retirement after a long life of usefulness. He married Rosa Barbato, and had children: Andrew, employed as a mason in Newark; Maria Theresa, married Noviello, a lumber merchant of Newark; and Tony.
Tony Pette was born in the town of Novero Superiore, province of Salerno, Italy, May 25, 1875. He acquired his education in the public schools of his native country, in which he was a pupil until he had attained the age of ten years. He then came to the United States in the steamer "California," the voyage lasting eighteen days, and was landed in the city of New York. He immediately went on to Newark, New Jersey, where he found a suitable position in the factory of Mr. Roswald, a manufacturer of pocketbooks, on Magazine street. He remained with this concern for a period of seven years, his diligence and faithful attention to his duties being recognized by those in authority by advancement from grade to grade, until he had attained the position of foreman of one of the departments. After a considerable length of time in this responsible position, he had amassed a sufficient capital to warrant his establishing himself in business independently, and he accord- ingly opened a jewelry store at No. 12 Ferry street, where he was so successful that in 1909 he removed to No. 43 Ferry street, at which place his business is still located. His stock in trade consists of a most complete line of jewelry, including a fine line of diamonds, and his business in the repairing of watches and jewelry of all kinds is a considerable one. He also handles all kinds of musical instruments, and has a very considerable patronage in this field. He has gained a reputation for excellence of workmanship in all the lines he handles.
Mr. Pette married, September 4, 1904, Giulea, daughter of James and Carmelia Salamme. He served for twenty-two months in the Italian army, as a member of the Twenty-second Regiment of Infantry. He is of fine personal appearance, with expressive dark eyes and a very attractive manner. He is held in high esteem by all with whom he has had business dealings and is in the true sense of the word a selfmade man.
BRUNO REICHELT
Bruno Reichelt, the capable and efficient head of the Patent Bureau Reichelt, civil and mechanical engineer and patent attorney, with well- equipped and modern offices in Newark, is one of the three sons of a well-known mining engineer of Saxony, Germany.
Bruno Reichelt was educated in the technical schools of Dresden, Germany, receiving a thorough preparation for an active career. He received
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his certificate to practice as a patent and trademark lawyer in the year 1885, from the city of Dresden, Saxony, and since 1903 has been actively engaged in his line of work in Newark. He established the firm of Patent Bureau Reichelt in connection with his brother's firm, The International Patent Bureau, C. Fr. Reichelt, 247 Friedrich Strasse, at Berlin, Germany. They have direct agents in Adelaide, Athens, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bukarest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Christiania, Helsingforz, Cairo, Calcutta, Con- stantinople, Copenhagen, Lisbon, London, Luxemburg, Madrid, Ottawa, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rome, Stockholm, Tokio, Washington, Wien, Zurich, etc. They secure patents, make a specialty of securing trademarks, make drawings for patents, working drawings for machinery and selling patents, and are in connection with the largest manufacturers in Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and in fact all over the globe, thus making it an international concern, with a world-wide reputation. The brothers work together harmoniously, exchanging work and introducing inventions to maufacturers in behalf of their clients. The other brother, E. E. Reichelt, recently deceased, was head of the firm, International Patent and Technical Bureau Reichelt, at Dresden, Saxony, No. 21 Koenig Albert Strasse. The Patent Bureau Reichelt is responsible and trustworthy, has the best of bank references, and is therefore worthy of the extensive patronage accorded it, which is both representative and remunerative.
Mr. Reichelt married, in Germany, Martha E. Frencel, born in Germany, and they are the parents of three children-Er Vera, Alex, Norman.
JOSEPH F. PAPSCOE
One of the most energetic and enterprising business men of the city of Newark, New Jersey, is to be found in the person of Joseph F. Papscoe, who is rapidly earning his laurels also in connection with the public affairs of the community. He is the son of George and Susanna Papscoe, and was born in Newark, June 27, 1885. His education was a thorough and practical one, consisting of attendance at St. Mary's Parochial School, St. Benedict's College, and a considerable time spent at the New York Law School, but he left the latter institution before graduation.
He was very young when he commenced his business career, but with his practical, up-to-date ideas, his executive ability, and an inborn talent for managing affairs of importance, he soon gained, and retained, an excel- lent patronage, which has been consistently growing since that time. The real estate field is the one to which he has chiefly devoted his energies, and with this he is an expert title examiner. He also represents in a business capacity the Poured Cement House Corporation, William J. Axt Company, the Stirling Corporation, the M. A. P. Realty Company, and the American Assurance Association.
In 1907 Mr. Papscoe was honored by election as school commissioner to represent the Third Ward, but for various reasons he declined to hold office. He was elected Democratic representative in the Assembly in 1912, an office he is holding at the present time. His fraternal connections are numerous, among them being: St. Mary's Catholic Alumni, St. Benedict's Alumni, Knights of Columbus, Gottfried Krueger Association, Third Ward Democratic Association, and the Jacob Haussling Democratic Club. Mr. Papscoe is a forcible speaker, and in political meetings, at which he is a frequent attendant, he is always listened to with a pleasing and flattering attention which it not often granted so young a man.
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JAMES PATRICK ROGERS
One of the youngest public men in the city of Newark, New Jersey, is Alderman James Patrick Rogers, who has already made his mark in the political arena of the city, and of whom great things may be confidently expected in the future, judging from his past record. He is the son of Terence T. Rogers, born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, October 14, 1854, and who came to America at the age of nineteen years. He settled at Newark, entered the employ of the Central Stamping Company, with which he was associated for a period of thirty-two years, having been, at the time of his retirement in 1907, foreman in the concern for many years. He married Katherine A., daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Mulrooney, and they had children: John T., an attorney of Newark; Francis J., a plumber of the same city; Matthew S., a Newark contractor; James Patrick, men- tioned above; Mary Elizabeth, married Darcy F. Van Volkenberg, lieutenant of the Newark Fire Department; and Helen L., who was graduated from the Newark Business College.
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